slow down, you move too fast

So far this summer, I have traveled around Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota - and maybe Canada (it's questionable exactly what country we were in). My time on campus has been defined by checking long ignored mailboxes, trying to catch friends returning from far away countries and those moving away for first calls & internships, and packing up my apartment.


It is a bit strange to be on campus. It seems slow here. Not that it's bad to run into your professors wearing shorts in the library, or to walk across campus without meeting familiar faces on the sidewalks. It is a different pace to life, though. It seems like everyone is looking for boxes, trying to get rid of furniture and transitioning in other ways. It is the time of year that Distance Learning (DL) students are hanging around campus and incoming students are showing up in the dorms and apartments to dive into summer Greek & Hebrew classes. Lots of mDiv students are doing their Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) units in hospitals and nursing homes.


It is, yet another, extended season of transition around Luther theses days. People are certainly still busy - but there is something different happening to the pace of things this summer. Are you slowing down?