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Sunday, January 23, 2005

I'm getting better...

No you're not, you'll be stone cold in a moment...

For the last two weeks that has been my inner dialogue. Just as I thought I was getting over my Christmas cold, I picked up another one that settled into my throat and chest. I spent about a week in denial and trained through it but finally late this last week I had to admit that I was running myself into the ground and I took a break. The only training I did were some light weight sessions with some lows resistance spinning. As a result I think I may have turned the corner. The last 24 hours have been significantly more pleasent than anytime in the last two weeks. So hopefully, I've finally managed to get past this month of annoying illness. I almost feel human again.

GCF Thursday night was amazing. I led it and so I knew what we were going to do and I was still blown away. We were talking about Christ and creation and so we read Genesis 1 and 2. Gary and I started the study by playing the Apollo 8 Christmas broadcast reading of Gen. 1 while projecting images of the earth and moon taken from various space mission including Apollo 8, 11 and the Galileo mission. To hear the words read by astronauts in orbit around the moon looking back at the earth while looking at the images was enormously powerful. It is something I want to do for a Christmas eve worship service some time. The big revelation to me was in looking at the second account of creation from man's point of view in Gen. 2. Eve is created from Adam through a process that prefigures Christ's death and piercing on the cross. Because she is made from him she is his perfect partner and thus they are united and become one flesh. The church, Christ's bride, is also made from Him and is His partner in carrying out His will on this earth. The thing that really occured to me is that in the Eucharist we become "one flesh" with Him by takign His body and blood. Not everyone reading these words will agree with this interpretation and I can understand that but the flash of insight was so powerful and so clear that I can scarcely deny its truth from within the conterxt of Genesis reading. That Eve's creation prefigures the church's is well agreed upon by many Christological scholars. Perhaps the one flesh reference is also a reference as well.

School is underway and going well. No major crises in any of my classes yet. My alg-trig based physics II class only has two students which is so cool. I love teachign classes that small as I spend a lot of time with the students one-on-one. We don't just talk about physics but I can pass along some career advice and wisdom about how to be a more successful student. The students know each other well so they are more willing to ask questions and less afraid of looking dumb. I feel like I've got a good group of physical science students at this point though a few of them are a bit more "tell me what to memorize" than is good for them but I have a feeling that they'll adapt to succeed.

Well, enough for now. Have a great day and thanks for reading.

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