Shout out to my cousin Jennifer who recently reminded me that I had not written on my blog since my birthday in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I didn’t intentionally stop writing here – I just got busy and tired and fell out of the habit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Plus, I didn’t have a particular focus for my writing ever since I threw in the towel on my dissertation work at Christmas. The question which lingered in the aftermath was this: What was the point of my doctoral work if I never get to the degree?<\/p>\n\n\n
I had started my studies under the conviction that it was God’s will that I pursue a Doctor of Ministry through Wesley Biblical Seminary – especially when He arranged for it to be 100% free.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
But then at Christmas this year – four years into the process – I decided that I didn’t care to spend hundreds of hours in a library in order to finish. Especially since I felt like I had gained much already AND I’m too old to waste time.<\/p>\n\n\n
The question then became this: How do I take what I gained as-is and put it to good use for the Kingdom – without writing a formal dissertation?<\/p>\n\n\n
I’m back at the computer tonight because I went for a 5 mile walk this morning. It was a neighborhood stroll that may turn out to be the most profitable walk of my life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
The past 5 months of disjointed thoughts and priorities all came together into a much more cohesive picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Cohesive enough that I now have no excuse to continue dragging my feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I will gladly share more tomorrow after a good night’s sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shout out to my cousin Jennifer who recently reminded me that I had not written on my blog since my birthday in April.\u00a0 I didn’t intentionally stop writing here – I just got busy and tired and fell out of the habit.\u00a0 Plus, I didn’t have a particular focus for my writing ever since I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8908,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions\/8908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}