Sab⋅bat⋅i⋅cal: Any Extended Period of Leave from One's Customary Work
My Sabbatical Parameters
My sabbatical was seven weeks in length beginning the last week of September 2007. I spent my first week in Louisville taking an Alban Institute class entitled “Balancing Your Ministry, Renewing Your Life.” The next four weeks were spent in a borrowed RV trailer parked in a secluded place where I could read, pray, and write without interruption. My wife joined me on the weekends, and I traveled to Olivet Nazarene University for their 2 day Fall Holiness Lectures. Otherwise I celebrated silence and solitude. During week six I traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to visit my son and his wife at the University of Alabama and then proceeded to a rented cabin in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee where I finished my time with hikes, reading, and reflection.