About the Blog.....Transitions

Apologies to those of you who have checked periodically and have not found any fresh posts since before Christmas. That is about to change.

Many of you already know that the central Cardoner Office is closing up shop June 30, 2008. The past couple of months have been associated with much transition for our staff, personally and professionally. We stopped posting in part because we were unsure if blogging was the best use of our time during this final six months. We also found it increasingly difficult to blog about Cardoner's vocation themes when so much about our own vocational journies have been so precarious.

But, after much time and reflection, we have decided to start blogging again - and to re-dedicate our blog to transitions. I met with a senior recently who told me that for lent she had given up worrying about what she would do after graduation. How similar is her lenten desire with mine! We are both in transition - no longer fully connected to Creighton and yet nowhere else to start to connect to post-Creighton. Neither of us knows where we will be after our time at Creighton ends. Both of us too are trying to be intentional and to let God draw us ever closer to Him during this tumultuous time.

The thought occured to me that perhaps a blog about transitions might be helpful to more than just this senior and myself. I talked with a faculty colleagues on the phone yesterday who just decided not to return to teaching next year - has already given her notice. She too is facing enormous transitions. Then there are a couple of colleagues I know who are grieving the recent loss of a parent. Transitions. There there is the daughter of a Creighton faculty member whose cancer has re-appeared. Transitions.

It goes on and on really. Most of us, to a greater or lesser degree, feel we are in the midst of a transition of one sort or another. For those of you who feel this more acutely right now, this blog is dedicated to you. We hope that as we try to reflect on the intersection of vocation with transition this next few months, you might find something that resonates with you. As St. Ignatius says in the Spiritual Exercises, take what is useful for you and leave behind whatever hinders your journey!