Education & Formation Reflective Essay

Reflective Essay Five (5) page reflective essay about key elements, components, people, events that have contributed most to your education and formation as a Christian.

There was never any question if, whether, or which of the evening leftovers would go into the stew pot. In my eight-person family of origin, everything that wasn't eaten for dinner got absorbed into the big stewpot in the freezer, waiting to be thawed, reheated, and reclaimed at the end of the week. The only real question was how this particular addition would affect the taste and character of the stew when the pot was full. Thinking of this dubious family tradition provides an apt enough metaphor for my education as a Christian through the years -- mixed up and messy, formed in community, experimental, more concerned with input than outcome, while still intensely practical and sustainable at the end of the day (or week, rather).