What and Where

Well, I didn’t realise just how long it’d been since I last posted… Last year ended up being quite busy. Quite excellent, but busy.

At the end of May, both my husband and I graduated. I successfully defended my thesis on British Particular Baptists and their views on religious liberty in the 17th century and so was able to graduate with my M.A. in Historical Theology, while my husband graduated with his M.Div. Pretty much right after graduation (the Monday after) we returned to NorCal, which is where we’ll be until the end of July.

We did go to Switzerland for a couple of weeks in June — I got to introduce my husband to all my Swiss relatives (who unanimously loved him) and show off the amazing wonderful-ness of my “ancestral” lands (they’re not really all that far removed since my mom is the one who emigrated). We stayed in a little village called Aeschi bei Spiez about 20 or so minutes away from Thun and 30 or so minutes away from Interlaken in the other direction. The region is known as the Berner Oberland, and it is absolutely amazing. Gorgeous green hills nestled under mountains that are wonderfully close (without being too close). Wonderful wide open spaces everywhere you look. Cow bells ringing nearly all around you as the cows munch their grass… Really the perfect spot to wipe away all the stresses of living in a San Diego county metro area for the last three years.

By now we are largely recovered from jet lag, which is nice, and we’re setting our sights forward, to what is coming next. My husband has taken an internship position at Bethel OPC in Wheaton, IL. We’re both excited about the opportunity, even if we’re sad to leave family so far behind. We’re also pretty excited about making the move into the OPC from our current position in the PCA. We have a rough arrival date of the last weekend in July right now, but that might end up being adjusted.

It’s strange imagining life in a few months without papers and exams before me. I deeply loved my time at Westminster. I think it will be years before I can fully recognize the impact that my professors had on me. But papers and exams do get tiring after a while. This is my first time properly out of school and I’m looking forward to the adventures that we’ll be having.

 

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