Ordinary Time – Luke 8:1-3
Classes have started again, and last week as I was getting my syllabus ready I was feeling ambivalent about going back into the classroom. This is my thirtieth year at Oregon State, and I taught for four years before that in North Carolina, so that’s thirty four years as a professor, and before that I was a teaching assistant at the University of Washington for five years: 39 years.
I’m so blessed to do something I love for a living, and to have this job–what a wonderful life–but I have to admit I was wondering how I was going to feel when I had to put on my school clothes and walk into Moreland and hand out my syllabus again.