May is coming up. May is usually the busiest month of the year for me. For some strange reason unbeknownst to me, a pattern has been established such that it is the “peak” of the year in terms of my ministerial activity. And after May, things gradually begin to slow down or settle into a more steady rhythm for the rest of the year (albeit not quite so soon as I’m making it sound). And then in December, everything will come to a standstill – or at least, I make sure it does.

I’m now in the midst of preparing two sermons and a course curriculum in Contextual Theology, whilst also trying to find as much time as I can to recuperate as I’ve been rather unwell recently.

To most people, I look more like a “part-time minister” of sorts because of the itinerant nature of my work. So there’s hardly one point of time when I’m seen working for eight straight hours within a single environment. And yet the more I evaluate the magnitude of my work assignments, the more it seems like I have more than a fulltime job – no kidding.

One major thing that’s on the backlog (well, it has actually been on the backlog for several years now!) is my doctoral thesis. The good news is, I’ve recently submitted my fifth chapter, and this leaves me with the final chapter to work on. Even so, I’ve complete about a third of the final chapter. So I have just about two-thirds of the final chapter to work on. I’m very near completion, and yet the goal doesn’t seem quite as near as I’d like it to be in the light of all the various other assignments I have lined up.

May Day! May Day!