The Passion
all together good movie, finally makes the suffering and sacrifice of Jesus something of substance. The whole point of Jesus’ Death was not for him to maintain a clean robe and have a smile on his face, he wasn’t whisteling on the cross he went through hell for us and that is what this movie shows. He got what we all deserve and that is just mind boggleing.

School
I like school somedays and other days I don’t. I remember in highschool sitting through long 90 minute classes and then being really relieved when college classes were nice and short. but now every tuesday and thursday I have 2 extended classes, with no break in between. Sure Rempel makes Philosophy fun, and Felch is kind of quirky, But seriously…I can only talk about the chiastic structure of the Odyssey for so long!

Backpacking Devotional
I am still set on this whole backpacking devotional…so far I have a few sketched out ideas (merely prototypes) comparing the bible to a Multitool, “Thy word is a headlamp unto my feet”, not rushing and trying to hit everything on the trail as a guide for life, trusting a topo-map and getting where you need to go, etc. etc. I obviously need some help with this project and don’t know where to completely start, Should I get a backpacking seminarian to help, (would he help, after all seminarians are freaking busy and probably have families of their own…) and I also need my friends who backpack to give stories…maybe it can be like a devotional written by many authors all around the topic of backpacking…oh I don’t know) I could get it published by some GR publisher, sell it in Christian stores as well as outdoor stores, advertise in backpacker magazine and then tour the world backpacking and speaking about such things…(yeah right)…oh yeah and I think that I want to impart backpacking tips as well as spiritual ones…maybe a backpacking checklist and a spiritual checklist. I want really amazing pictures of nature and trails, it just fits in with the whole “Gods Beauty” thing

Atmosphere
The overall atmosphere at 2469 Normandy Drive is recognizably different this semester, Tom studies more and spends more time alone in his room, Raelson is with his girlfriend a lot of the time (even into the wee hours of the night) and I am all over the place to avoid the boredom of a quiet house and to make some cash. I spend a lot more time on campus in computer labs as well as in Boer Bennink. We as a house don’t sit in the living room anymore laughing ourselves silly about the crazy Japanese people on MXC and we don’t really see eachother as often as the olden days…I imagine that will change with the return of brian and the ending of classes…