Awwww yeah. Lookin' spiffy in my plaid, men's, short-sleeved button down and feelin' dandy. I'm so thankful that my sickness kicked its own bucket over the weekend. I would not have been able to go into work feeling the way I did. Running to the bathroom every five minutes isn't a great way to begin the relationship with my students or my Korean co-teacher.
I'm feeling the exercise bug creepin' - I need to get my legs moving. I've not jogged since Wednesday or so. Eesh.
What else, what else...Oh! I have a stove, finally! My upstairs neighbor and lifesaver, Kajal (she took me to the hospital) is lending me her little electric hot pot thing so that I can stop living solely off of bread, cold sandwiches, fruit and cereal. Not that my diet consists of copious amount of meat, but I do like pasta. Yes, I've missed my pasta. Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.
Oh life. I feel...mediocre today. Not terribly enthusiastic. But not depressed. Just pretty ok.
I had a difficult time falling asleep last night. I think my body got used to sleeping only a few hours at a time and then waking up at 9am. Instead of laying awake and watching my paper cranes dangle in the semi-darkness, I cracked my Bible. I forgot that I meant to start studying the book of John. I almost never read the Gospels, because I associate them with Christmas, or new-believers. I really shouldn't put God in a box.
The first thing that caught my eye was when John the Baptist was confronted about who he was, he denied being Elijah (duh,) the Prophet, and the Christ. Wait a minute: Why are the Prophet and the Christ two different beings?? Does this have to do with Jewish belief, in that they thought Jesus was a prophet? And their Messiah would come later? I'm still slightly baffled.
"Ceremonial washing" is another subject that is mentioned twice within chapters 2 and 3. Jesus turned the water from the ceremonial washing jars into wine. Was this water dirty already? When the master of the banquet samples the wine, he comments on how the best wine was saved for last. The people privy to this miracle seem to hesitate to tell him what kind of water it was...
Maybe these are little, picky things, but they kind of jump off the page at me.
Its contradicting sometimes when you read the old testament and then the new testament when it comes to "wine". If the old testament told us not to drink wine ( Well, each translation puts it differ, which..aggravates me how ignorant some translations are.) why did Jesus turn water into wine. Wine is a very powerful alcohol.. specially then because it was fermented. The Old Testament in Proverbs 31 4-5, read that. Also read it in differ translations. They mean very different things if read carefully. Some of the most wide used translations say its all together wrong to drink alcohol. If taken literally, it meant do not over use alcohol. Its still baffles many why Jesus turned the water into wine and why not just a sweet fruit drink. I believe it was to ease their mind.
ReplyDeleteMichael Etheridge ;)
The sickness "kicked its own bucket"... lol
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