I'm FREEEEEEE!
... now what?
Dr. Epstein said, pertaining to the sparse attendance of class today, "The absent are always WRONG!" He was quoting the French, I might add...))
Everyone on campus was in a rush to get out.
Calculus class--we had a quiz, then everyone stormed out as if the building was on fire.
Greek class-- we worked through the sentences within the first twenty minutes, then sat around talking to Dr. Epstein for the rest of class. (Why leave his class early, when there's sure to be something interesting said the minute you're gone?)
I'm going to sleep. All the blooming trees kept me up half the night with allergies. (went to sleep: 11PM. woke up: 3AM. went to sleep:4:30AM. woke up: 6.) Tack was worse. She woke up at 3 and got up at 4:30...
I'm also going to read books. Tack borrowed Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, and Madeleine L'Engle galore from the library last weekend. So far I've read two of the Agatha Christie mysteries. (for your entertainment, I recommend "The Moving Finger." It is intellectually engaging. I do not recommend "The Big Four." It's ridiculous.)
I'm working on "Troubling a Star," by L'Engle. It's about an expedition to Antarctica and the military plots of some fictional country named Vespugia. (...eh?) I like the way she writes her stories.
And I'm going to have some down time. Call and come over. I'll be home. If you do, I predict that we'll bake some new kind of cookies, take an Expotition to the lake, sit around and talk over some good music and a cup of tea, or climb a tree... and if you have something more interesting in mind, we'll do that instead!
I've started a study of the book of Acts, Matthew Henry style. He is a practical and poetic kind of commentator, and the text opens like a flower under his scholarship. For instance: When Henry comments on the reference to Christ's being received to heaven in a cloud, he immediately draws a connection to Christ's office as Mediator--and I'm summarizing here: As the clouds receive the vapors from earth, and bring the dew from heaven, so Christ brings our prayers before the face of God, and reveals the face of God to His children. He manages to be both imaginitive and insightful. And I'm reading him in little chunks to make him last longer. (Unlike L----, I have not the slightest intention of making it through his entire six volumes any time soon... :)
And to close, another Dr. Epstein quote. I'm sorry if I seem like a broken record, but these things bear repeating:
"It's not an incredible fact that God can communicate to men. The real miracle is that when He speaks, He is understood. For instance, when God spoke to Moses at the burning bush: Moses asks, 'When they ask who sent me, what shall I say?' And God says, 'Tell them that I AM sent you.' And Moses says 'OK!'--accepting this completely abstract description of God, just as if he studied transcendentalism every day of the week! God doesn't identify Himself as The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or even as The Creator of the World--He identifies Himself as The One Who Exists--a completely unfamiliar title to Moses--and yet, Moses understands perfectly."
And here I close.
Dr. Epstein said, pertaining to the sparse attendance of class today, "The absent are always WRONG!" He was quoting the French, I might add...))
Everyone on campus was in a rush to get out.
Calculus class--we had a quiz, then everyone stormed out as if the building was on fire.
Greek class-- we worked through the sentences within the first twenty minutes, then sat around talking to Dr. Epstein for the rest of class. (Why leave his class early, when there's sure to be something interesting said the minute you're gone?)
I'm going to sleep. All the blooming trees kept me up half the night with allergies. (went to sleep: 11PM. woke up: 3AM. went to sleep:4:30AM. woke up: 6.) Tack was worse. She woke up at 3 and got up at 4:30...
I'm also going to read books. Tack borrowed Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, and Madeleine L'Engle galore from the library last weekend. So far I've read two of the Agatha Christie mysteries. (for your entertainment, I recommend "The Moving Finger." It is intellectually engaging. I do not recommend "The Big Four." It's ridiculous.)
I'm working on "Troubling a Star," by L'Engle. It's about an expedition to Antarctica and the military plots of some fictional country named Vespugia. (...eh?) I like the way she writes her stories.
And I'm going to have some down time. Call and come over. I'll be home. If you do, I predict that we'll bake some new kind of cookies, take an Expotition to the lake, sit around and talk over some good music and a cup of tea, or climb a tree... and if you have something more interesting in mind, we'll do that instead!
I've started a study of the book of Acts, Matthew Henry style. He is a practical and poetic kind of commentator, and the text opens like a flower under his scholarship. For instance: When Henry comments on the reference to Christ's being received to heaven in a cloud, he immediately draws a connection to Christ's office as Mediator--and I'm summarizing here: As the clouds receive the vapors from earth, and bring the dew from heaven, so Christ brings our prayers before the face of God, and reveals the face of God to His children. He manages to be both imaginitive and insightful. And I'm reading him in little chunks to make him last longer. (Unlike L----, I have not the slightest intention of making it through his entire six volumes any time soon... :)
And to close, another Dr. Epstein quote. I'm sorry if I seem like a broken record, but these things bear repeating:
"It's not an incredible fact that God can communicate to men. The real miracle is that when He speaks, He is understood. For instance, when God spoke to Moses at the burning bush: Moses asks, 'When they ask who sent me, what shall I say?' And God says, 'Tell them that I AM sent you.' And Moses says 'OK!'--accepting this completely abstract description of God, just as if he studied transcendentalism every day of the week! God doesn't identify Himself as The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or even as The Creator of the World--He identifies Himself as The One Who Exists--a completely unfamiliar title to Moses--and yet, Moses understands perfectly."
And here I close.
posted by Unknown at 11:30 AM
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Well, if you are looking for things to do, I'll give a shameless plug and say you can go read the book I wrote :)
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Hey, can you save some of those fun things for after school gets out? Then we can bake cookies together and go to the lake and talk galore. :o)
Have fun reading and sleeping this week!
:-)
I hope you enjoy your break.
I enjoyed "The Moving Finger" as well. :-)
Who is this "L----"? :)
Henry has been a great blessing to me, I don't know how the New Testament things are (since after the gospels apparently his friends compiled notes to finish it) but for the Old Testament, well, it's "incomparable" and I've thoroughly enjoyed getting to understand the rich heritage I have through the Old Testament.
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