Post-Exam Fragment

Twenty minutes ago I put a final period at the end of the final exam of my first year at Regent College. Hard to believe that a year can go by so quickly, how time seems to dance by so effortlessly. And how in contrast to this, I seem to plod my way through, sometimes I can put a skip in a step, sometimes the next step demands great effort. It has been a great year and it has been a difficult year. I've never been challenged so much before: intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, relationally. As I sit here and catch my breath, I wonder at how far I've come and at whether I've even really moved at all, whether my struggles this year have really amounted to anything....