The Second Half of TEEM Week

Last night over dinner, my TEEM cohort exchanged notes over how tired we are. This onground intensive is, indeed, intense. We eat breakfast at the hotel, head over to the Synod office meeting space, and we're meeting from 8 until 4 or 5, depending on how long we took for lunch. Lunch is brought in, and we try to be back on task by 1 so that we can be done closer to 4:00.Monday and Tuesday, we learned about Lutheran Liturgy, the way worship is structured. Yesterday was a 1 day workshop to teach us about Lutheran Polity, how the larger church operates--after a morning studying governing structure, we took a deep dive into church constitutions. We finish the week with Old Testament prophets.I feel like I had more energy back in June, but let me remember that I only did the workshop and the last half of the week. Plus, I wasn't in the middle of an onground teaching semester.I've gotten good ideas for my sermon that I'll preach on Sunday, which happened in June too. We've also had good…