The First Questions

Here is the beginning of my personal working journal.  Part of my process for getting back in my studies and doing so seriously is to go back to the beginning and move everything to this blog.  Different issues kept popping up with other methods I had tried for keeping up with everything, so here I am.  I tend to keep things private, but I suppose this is meant to be out in the open, so here it is!

Moving things over while I am still recovering from surgery is giving me a chance to reread and reflect over where I am now.  I haven't been on this path with the ADF for long, but I've had some major things happen that make it feel like so much more time has passed.  Due to what I've been through, I am certainly not the same person I was when I started those few short months ago. I can only imagine where I will be in a year!

What follows are my first entries in my journal and my first thoughts.

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Week One
~Why have you chosen to take the first steps on the Dedicant Path?
I am here because I have been searching for a study program that felt truly right for years.  I have touched on others simply because they were all I had easy access too.  This i hunted for and after a bit of time reflecting on it and really giving serious thought, this is it.  THIS is what I have been searching for.

~Is this a step on your path, or will this become the Path itself?
This is a step on what I hope will be a long journey with the ADF.  Each time I look at the further classes and studies, the more excited I am!

~What do you expect to learn?
I expect I will finally learn true Druidry as well as more about myself. This strikes me as a full program that leaves the student with new knowledge about all aspects of the world, including self.

~What would you like to get out of this journey?
Knowledge of the Old Ways made new & of Self

~Do you know where this path will take you?
I strongly believe it will take me to clergyship, but other than that I feel I can't know at this time. I feel that we can only see so much of our future so that we still will learn from each experience and not take things for granted.

~If you have just joined ADF, why have you chosen to work on this immediately?
This work is why i joined.  I did take a little time to sort of dabble, but I think that was more so I could be sure this was right for me.

~Does it look hard or easy?
Deceptively easy on the surface, but I believe that with true study it will be difficult, as it should be.

~Which requirements appear to be difficult to you now, and which appear to be easy?
The easiest I would say are the papers on the sabbats.  I have always enjoyed studying them and will enjoy a paper on each.  The hardest I think are the book reports simply because I have never felt confident in my writing of them.