Sept 18, 2009

A fascinating story about Monopoly and World War II.

Some of our readings in school have talked about the trinity. A recent one is from A Call to Personhood and bridges a connection between the theology behind the trinity and what we are called to as humans relating to God and each other. I was thinking as I read that the trinity is really wild. I mean, if I were thinking about who God was, I would never assume him as "three in one". It reminds me of something C.S. Lewis (or Tolkein....) said about the gospel being a "true myth". It's something you could never think of and it's wonderful and true. The trinity is a beautiful mystery.

Monday will mark a full month I've been at Mars Hill. Wow, a full month. It's hard to imagine. All the readings, classes, groups and discussions not just at school but at home, at restaurants and over beer have been wonderful at times and hard at others. In only a month I've had a lot of questions for myself...There is a process at Mars Hill that I'm beginning and if I am changing this rapidly in a month, where will I be in four years?

One of our regular coffee stops before class is at Cherry Street Cafe. They have a couple newspaper/magazines there and I picked up one of them and found an add in there seeking volunteers to test drive this HIV vaccine in Seattle. It didn't detail any sort of compensation just gave a phone number. I called it, passed a phone-screen test and have a physical examination set up for Tuesday at noon. If all goes well, I'll come in for a total of 10 visits over 12 months, getting vaccine shots, blood drawn and tests. I promise it isn't as risky as it sounds. The worst that could happen is getting the flu. And half the volunteers don't get the actual shot anyway so I might be one of those.

Speaking of the flu, there was an outbreak of the Swine strain at a university in Spokane, Washington. It's on the other side of Washington but its still alarming. Hopefully this thing doesn't mutate and we all become zombies. I'd be an awesome zombie.