Reply #18: Well, I didn't get into law school despite being a paralegal

[liberalhistorian]

for fifteen years (and a damned good one, too!); and I'm taking that as a sign. I'd asked God to choose for me what he wanted me to do with the rest of my life, since I was torn between law school and what I also felt as a call to seminary. It's been very difficult emotionally dealing with not getting into law school, but I believe it's for a reason that I will someday know and when one door is shut, another is opened.

So now I'm really getting serious about looking at seminaries and figuring out how to do it at my age and with my responsibilies (and also living in the sticks, which would make the finances of any seminary particularly tricky). Sioux Falls Seminary is less than two hours away, but it's just waaaay too conservative for me and I just couldn't go there. I doubt I'd even be accepted, since I wouldn't be able to swear to and adhere to its doctrinal pledge requirement.