Dreams Unlocked

I have been going hard for the past 2 weeks and it finally caught up with me. I have been fighting a growing sense of illness this past week. I still dutifully showed up for work everyday. And then last night I woke up at 3 AM, and was unable to get back to sleep. I called the school at like 7 AM and left a message, explaining my predicament. I still went in in the morning, to teach my first two classes and finish up some paper work that NEEDED to be done. At the end of my class, I went to see some students that were leaving the next day. It was pretty sad, w. two Japanese student bursting into tears and hugging me - which was weird because I didn't feel particularly close to these 2 girls. Some pics up top of me in a tie! So, I took most of today off, and will take tomorrow off - a forced sabbath. This is the concequence of not obeying the natural rythym of keeping the Sabbath - your body rebels and forces you to slow down. But... here's the thing, I still keep working. Did so...

My mother's day gift to Felicia: lunch with her mother and daughter WITHOUT Adam. I'm sure she was able to eat all her food before it got cold. I had hoped to relax a bit today - I volunteered at the Roundhouse yesterday and that ate up most of my day. But... I had to finish a report for Church Health and Planting and start on my lesson planning for my first lesson on Tuesday. Still managed to catch the Survivor finale - Yau Man denied!!! What a tragedy - he is one of the best contestants in the history of the show. I finished reading "Living the Sabbath" by Norman Wirzba today. Wirzba is the chair of the philosophy department at Georgetown University. The book is published by Brazos Press , which is quickly becoming one of my favourite publishers due to the high level of content in their books. They published a great book on technology called "Power Failure" a few years ago. The Sabbath book is split into two parts. Part 1 deals with the concept of Sabbat...

If you buy enough books from Amazon, they start e-mailing you recommendations based on books you have previously bought. They've got their work cut out for them when it comes to me. I'm a pretty big sucker for their recommendations. A recent book I bought this way is Living the Sabbath by Norman Wirzba. Here's a sample of the riches within: Creation in Christ inaugurates a fundamentally different ordering of reality from the one we might choose for ourselves. Our ways of ordering, premised as they are on self-promotion and the tools of exploitation and control, inevitably lead to violence and death. The way of Christ, which is the way creation is supossed to be, inaugurates a new kind of reality, no longer dependent or paristic upon violence. It is not as though creation were a different act, something which happened alongside salvation. God's nearness to creation presents salvation as the restoration of creaturely equilibrium and subordinates human reality within the ...