i don't understand how it's been a month since i've blogged; anyway, today was a chance to slow down and breath again. it was good to be still; it is raining now and i am listening to the sound through the windows.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
It's been a long time
So it's been a while since I wrote anything on here. Partly because I'm busy, partly because I don't feel like I have too much to say; I guess that happens when you're a third year biochem major.
But. It is almost my 21st birthday, and tonight 8 of my best college friends and I are having a MURDER MYSTERY DINNER PARTY and I am so excited. (If you are confused right now, see here: Murder Mystery). Ours is based off of Hamlet and is more along the lines of the "interactive" style as explained on the wikipedia page.
Basically, this is taking our Friday Night "nerd dinners" to a whole new level. :)
Also, I don't have to cook AND I got to choose what we are having for dinner (gourmet mac&cheese, green salad, & apple crisp). I love birthdays.
But. It is almost my 21st birthday, and tonight 8 of my best college friends and I are having a MURDER MYSTERY DINNER PARTY and I am so excited. (If you are confused right now, see here: Murder Mystery). Ours is based off of Hamlet and is more along the lines of the "interactive" style as explained on the wikipedia page.
Basically, this is taking our Friday Night "nerd dinners" to a whole new level. :)
Also, I don't have to cook AND I got to choose what we are having for dinner (gourmet mac&cheese, green salad, & apple crisp). I love birthdays.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
This weekend I:
saw Star Wars: A New Hope for the first time, read The Hunger Games, saw my brother for about 5 minutes, ate lunch with my dad, played Portal for an hour, had my Friday Night Dinner/Discussion, turned in a paper, turned in a lab write up, took an online quiz for Neuro, read a bunch in the Neuroscience textbook, read a bunch of A History of the Jews, slept, ate toast with garlic salt (the quick way to make garlic bread!), slept, slept, did lots of laundry.
that's a pretty good weekend if i do say so myself.
saw Star Wars: A New Hope for the first time, read The Hunger Games, saw my brother for about 5 minutes, ate lunch with my dad, played Portal for an hour, had my Friday Night Dinner/Discussion, turned in a paper, turned in a lab write up, took an online quiz for Neuro, read a bunch in the Neuroscience textbook, read a bunch of A History of the Jews, slept, ate toast with garlic salt (the quick way to make garlic bread!), slept, slept, did lots of laundry.
that's a pretty good weekend if i do say so myself.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
some things I'm thinking about
what does it mean to develop ethics through the framework of friendship?
how does one cultivate a friendship with scripture?
this quote by herbert mccabe: "In one way (at one level), you could say that as knives are for cutting and pens are for writing, people are for living with each other."
what it means to live in a new creation
Psalm 8:
When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
the moon and the stars you set in place—
what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?
Yet you made them only a little lower than God
and crowned them with glory and honor.
how does one cultivate a friendship with scripture?
this quote by herbert mccabe: "In one way (at one level), you could say that as knives are for cutting and pens are for writing, people are for living with each other."
what it means to live in a new creation
Psalm 8:
When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
the moon and the stars you set in place—
what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?
Yet you made them only a little lower than God
and crowned them with glory and honor.
Abraham's entry into israel. the covenant that includes the phrase 'you will be a blessing.'
damascus; beit sahour, jerusalem
gaza
how to be a witness to suffering without being pulled under
my professor, peter dula, spending an easter in baghdad. peter teaching ethics here.
the stutzmans traveling with a new cross-cultural group
going to a sort of baby-blessing-party tonight for a woman from my homegroup
things I am not thinking enough about:
my ochem exam on friday
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Thoughts on Advent; Life is Vast & Wonderful; Thia is home
This past week has been overwhelming: anatomy lab exam (cumulative), biochem presentation prep; finishing ceramics things; Christmas parties, etc., etc.
And on Saturday Thia came back from South Africa. So many stories shared already, so much left to hear.
Today at church we were focused, of course, on advent. On waiting; on what we are waiting for. It was a good morning, and what made it even better was that after the service was over my home group presented me with a basket of food - cookies and an orange and coffee and tea and pretzels - a Christmas present and finals care-package all in one.
I know lots of people who are critical of church & have been hurt by churches; I am sometimes one of these people. But I am beginning to see (and to know deep in my bones) the ways in which it is possible to become part of a family (even when your family is far away) through a community of faith. I love Early Church. I feel loved there. My Advent prayer for this afternoon is that as we wait in expectation for a future redemption we do not settle for anything less than striving to live into the Kingdom of God now.
And on Saturday Thia came back from South Africa. So many stories shared already, so much left to hear.
Today at church we were focused, of course, on advent. On waiting; on what we are waiting for. It was a good morning, and what made it even better was that after the service was over my home group presented me with a basket of food - cookies and an orange and coffee and tea and pretzels - a Christmas present and finals care-package all in one.
I know lots of people who are critical of church & have been hurt by churches; I am sometimes one of these people. But I am beginning to see (and to know deep in my bones) the ways in which it is possible to become part of a family (even when your family is far away) through a community of faith. I love Early Church. I feel loved there. My Advent prayer for this afternoon is that as we wait in expectation for a future redemption we do not settle for anything less than striving to live into the Kingdom of God now.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Break is officially over
i'm back to working on biochemistry things. yay.
actually, i am typing this in the analytical chem lab because i really don't want to start making my ascorbate peroxidase reaction buffer. >:|
yesterday when i got back to EMU i had ramen noodles and a poptart for supper...living in an apartment makes me appreciate home more.
actually, i am typing this in the analytical chem lab because i really don't want to start making my ascorbate peroxidase reaction buffer. >:|
yesterday when i got back to EMU i had ramen noodles and a poptart for supper...living in an apartment makes me appreciate home more.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
i'm starting to feel like the only thing i blog about is church
...but i feel like it is more interesting to read about than, say, the hours per week i spend doing organic chemistry or reading paradise lost.
anyway, i was at the early church today and i knew it would be an awesome morning as soon as i stepped through the screen door and heard jason singing Farther Along. (i was completely right. it was an absolutely beautiful church service).
things that i loved this morning:
ron's prayer: help us to hear Your word so that we can be changed.
the paper globes hanging from the ceiling, like multi-colored jellyfish.
an understanding of the necessity of silence - the way that we had time this morning to sit in silence and to greet our neighbors.
the old man with filmy eyes and damp fingers who grabbed my hands when i went to the counter to get coffee.
little children; the boy who played the drum while lucas was singing.
the trisagion remix (love, love, love. holy immortal, have mercy on us).
walking into the service this morning and hearing 'farther along.'
jason praying for oppressed women.
someone prayed for syria during the Prayers of the People.
conversation during lunch with an EMU grad who had taken classes with some of my professors
connections with lessons from my cross-cultural - martin said that we can take risks because we are not afraid of death. he said, i don't want to change what Jesus said, but maybe we can read it like 'You cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven unless you are like an adolescent.'
the thought that our waiting for a future redemption should be something full of hope.
singing 'I bind my heart this tide.' mmm hymns.
all of the men with beards. they make me smile; i think because i feel like i'm stepping back in time or something...
beautiful people all around me.
anyway, i was at the early church today and i knew it would be an awesome morning as soon as i stepped through the screen door and heard jason singing Farther Along. (i was completely right. it was an absolutely beautiful church service).
things that i loved this morning:
ron's prayer: help us to hear Your word so that we can be changed.
the paper globes hanging from the ceiling, like multi-colored jellyfish.
an understanding of the necessity of silence - the way that we had time this morning to sit in silence and to greet our neighbors.
the old man with filmy eyes and damp fingers who grabbed my hands when i went to the counter to get coffee.
little children; the boy who played the drum while lucas was singing.
the trisagion remix (love, love, love. holy immortal, have mercy on us).
walking into the service this morning and hearing 'farther along.'
jason praying for oppressed women.
someone prayed for syria during the Prayers of the People.
conversation during lunch with an EMU grad who had taken classes with some of my professors
connections with lessons from my cross-cultural - martin said that we can take risks because we are not afraid of death. he said, i don't want to change what Jesus said, but maybe we can read it like 'You cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven unless you are like an adolescent.'
the thought that our waiting for a future redemption should be something full of hope.
singing 'I bind my heart this tide.' mmm hymns.
all of the men with beards. they make me smile; i think because i feel like i'm stepping back in time or something...
beautiful people all around me.
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