Day 33 Part 3 - Trinity College

(Continued from Part Two)

Trinity College was all but deserted, this being both a bank holiday and the start of reading week. The emptiness made it easier for my imagination to populate the familar rooms and corridors with the class of '98.

I saw the college in a strange mixture of familiarity and as I had seen it for the very first time. Very little in the fabric of the place has changed. The stairs creaked in the same way, the oldest doors closed in the same unique fashion, the Oak Chapel still had a distinctive smell.

I found my room in the Carter building, and chatted with the few single students who were still on site.

My walking verse for the day was Hosea 11.3: "It was I who
Taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them." Quite appropriate for a day in which I was thinking so much about my learning and formation for ministry.

"Thank you Lord for what I have learned from you, for setting me among both the gifted and the impoverished, who have all had lessons for me. Amen."