When most folks first come to seminary they enter with very high expectations of participating in a grand and glorious spiritual high. No doubts. No despair. Just higher and higher peaks of power and wonder. No valleys. No problems. Life together should be like belonging to a fabulous family filled with good feelings. No murmuring. No quarreling. Just happiness. Most students and their accompanying families have left behind real jobs that paid real money. They have left homes, friends, and relatives. They have left caring, supporting, compassionate congregations. Something old and familiar has ended. Now they are expecting something new and fabulous to begin. The last thing they expected was to find themselves wandering in an uncomfortable and confusing wilderness filled with more question…