July 2, 2008
On Sunday morning I woke up with a very irritated eye. It was blood red, almost like I had scratched it. I thought maybe there was some sort of particle in my eye and I rubbed it red in my sleep. It didn’t feel like anything was still there so I used some Visine and figured it would get better. Today it was still bad so I went to the doctor thinking maybe I had some new-found allergies. After questioning me and examining my eye the doctor asked, “do you read a lot?” To which I replied, “ahh yes.” It seems that all the reading I have been doing recently caused muscle strain which then caused blood vessels to burst. He gave me drops, told me I had to take a bit of a break in reading and needed to rest my eyes.
Who ever heard of such a thing? It’s not what you want to hear when you are on a reading schedule of 75 pages a day so you can finish course work…hmm, maybe I can get Rich to read to me:)
June 24, 2008
The weather ended up somewhere in the high 70’s today! It is 9:30 on Tuesday evening. Alex’s friend Micah is staying with us while his mom and sisters are away working in a children’s school in Mexico for the next week or so. Rich set up a tent in the backyard for the boys to sleep outside tonight and is now building a fire in the fire pit so they can make smores. It smells like a campfire in my home office right now.
Earlier this afternoon I was working in my home office, trying, trying, trying to get the creative energy to write, write, write!
It was so warm, I opened the window that is over the front yard. Soon I heard the lawn mower going and then some kind of muffled singing? Talking? Yelling? I got up and looked out the window to find Rich, shirt off, mowing the lawn and praying really loud in his prayer language…I wish you could have seen and heard what I was witnessing…I laughed out loud…you would really have to know my husband…I was thinking…this is a great picture of how he is going to age…an eccentric old man praying out loud not even aware that some of the neighbors might think he is out of his mind:)
June 14, 2008
So Rich and I are going to be away tomorrow. At a church on the peninsula. We thought it might be cool to leave a video greeting to be played when we normally welcome folks at VCC. We have this fun little flip video camera with a tripod. So we thought it would only take a few minutes to video ourselves…uhm…it didn’t go so smooth. We wrote a little script and …
We really are not very slick, or technologically savvy…welcome to VCC
June 2, 2008
Theology of the Old Testament, The Prophetic Imagination, Brueggemann
God’s Epic Adventure, Griffin
Sections out of two commentary’s - Exodus
Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative, Knowing the Father Through the Old Testament, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament, Christopher Wright
Women’s Bible Commentary, Carol Newsom and Sharon Ringe
Working on my dissertation and OT Theology…
May 28, 2008
May 23, 2008
It took a lot of effort, but we got him. Rich turned 60 yesterday. On Sunday evening Seth and Laurie threw him a surprise party. They planned it a couple of months ago. They accidentally sent an evite to everyone that was in the office database - so if you got an evite and wondered why…there you go.
So many people knew about the party, nobody slipped and he was totally surprised….(a few people were worried he could have a coronary) we had a brilliant plan to get him to the Vineyard, he thought water was flooding the main room from the kitchen. On the drive there I asked if he thought our insurance would cover it to which he replied (in a very short, grumpy tone) “I don’t know Rose we just have to get there and see”. We pulled into the parking lot, (everyone parked away) there was no sign of 100 people in the main room, he flung open the door to 100 people yelling SURPRISE!!!! Laurie caught the moment….it was a great party…
Happy 60th Rich
May 15, 2008
This afternoon I go to this beautiful place until Saturday afternoon with about 35 women to laugh, cry, take in the beauty, laugh, eat, make space for God and one another…this is one of the highlights of my year. This is the view we have. We stay a few steps away from the beach (some of us will actually stay in a beach house literally on the beach). The scene is Useless Bay on Whidbey Island. The majestic Olympic Mountains are in the background. It is supposed to get in the 80’s the next two days…Perfect
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIKA!
May 12, 2008
April 26, 2008
I am now buried in heading into what I hope is my final year as a doctoral student. I have an enormous amount of writing due as of now. I am way past deadlines and need to take three more courses and write my dissertation between now and June 2009. I may begin using this space to post some of the thoughts I wrestle with…maybe. Part of my time management to get through the next year means very limited blog reading or blog posting (unless it has to do with my project)…
Today Pam Hogeweide tagged me as a subversive blogger.
“subversive bloggers are unsatisfied with the status quo, whether in church, politics, economics or any other power-laden institution, and they are searching for (and blogging about) what is new (or a “return to”) - even though it may be labeled as sacrilege, dangerous, or subversive.”
Thanks Pam…I will never forget the first time I met you:)
Okay, because I cannot spend much time on this I am going to quickly tag 5 bloggers I would consider subversive:
Rachelle Mee-Chapman
Julie Clawson
Kingdom Grace
Jason Evans
Helen Mildenhall
Now back to work!
