I think that there is nothing more relaxing/ hypnotizing than returning to your home or any familiar environment after separation from that for an extended period of time. I guess that gives you a “heads up” on what I am now calling the house on Boczna in Minsk. Yep, home. I am acutally typing on my own computer this evening. Tonight one of John’s private students connected my computer to the network. I am high about that; so excited! He had such a cute little daughter who came with him over here. She was very polite and quietly munched on a piece of cake throughout the “electronic” procedures until she was overcome by thirst and asked her dad “Prosze, woda do picia”. She was asking for water to drink. When John asked her if she wanted juice or milk, she shook her head and asked for water. She was craving a very basic necessity of life and she was perfectly satisfied with simple fulfillment of that need.
Since I have been on tour for the last three weeks this evening was the first time that I checked several of my buddies blogs. Marko’s, Darrell’s, Jordan’s. You guys build up quite a number of thoughts in three or four weeks’ time. Frankly, I am quite jealous of some of the thinking that you guys are doing right now, Jordan and Darrell. You have got a good thing going writing about your musings and meditations. I was inspired by several of your posts. I think that I must enter into these discussions long distance. One more thing to the list, but maybe it would be good to keep me intellectually alive. Marko, I am so proud of you for completing or nearly completing the CNA program. You look like a real “stud” in those navy scrubs! Sorry to tell you, but I agree with your classmates about the Scooby Doo scrubs being flattering on you. I will catch up with you in the near future.
I think that I must get to murdering the flock of mosquitoes that have invaded our room during the day. I will be hoarse by morning from telling/ yelling them off! They are such beasts!
I have recently been thinking about Jesus’ “insane” life. I am coming to believe that to follow Him made very little sense to all of the people who were looking for a strictly logical Messiah. Think of the verses in John 5 “And my Father Himself has testified that I am true. You have not heard Him ever nor have you seen Him. You do not hold His word in you because the One that He sent you did not accept; You did not trust Him.” THE REAL KICKER. “You search the Scriptures for you think that you will gain eternal life from them, but these Scriptures point/ testify to me.” Jesus is the embodiment of the Word, the Life, the Reality. I search the Scriptures to understand God, but I think that I must study the Scriptures to know God. “To know is to be known.” There is the embodiment of relationship in knowing God. We are trying to reduce God to a “known concept”; that is so much more comfortable.
Night, night!
