Thank you, God! Oh.my.heck was it hard! Writing a digest is the absolutely most disciplined type of writing that you can do because you have to read the writings of theologians (which can be pretty difficult some times) and then you have to restate what you read in your own words without using the author’s phrases (unless you attribute them to him but the professors frown on too much of that). Do you know how hard that is to do? Pretty difficult. Then the professor gives you a page limit and you have to write an outline for passages in three books that equal 200 pages but your outline can only be 10 pages! With 12 point font and double spaced (the professors like to torture us).

So, I’ve been busy reading and writing over the last week and squeezing surgery and recovery in there as well. I finally finish reading and writing the outlines only to discover that it’s almost impossible to assemble 3 different outlines in Word 2007. Needless to say I wasn’t a happy camper and wanted to chuck the computer across the room but after messing with it for a half an hour I was able to assemble it all together only to learn that I had 21 pages of outline and it was due tomorrow!
Editing was a real bear because I didn’t want to get rid of too much. You lose coherence and cohesion if you take out too much but page limits are pretty much set in stone and I would probably have lost points if I didn’t edited it down. After awhile you just want to finish so you take out stuff you didn’t want to lose. It becomes easier as you cut:-)
But no rest for the weary because I have to start on the next one tomorrow. I want to get Bavnick out of the way as soon as possible since he is a pain to digest. He almost defeated me this time.