Thursday, 13 September 2007
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Currently Reading
The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
By Kyriacos C. Markides
see relatedSchool has already started and I'm beginning to feel overwhelmed. I decided not to row this semester. I think that will end up being a good decision, though deeply saddening because I love the people on the team. And classes are looking..crazy busy. But if I work on them steadily I'll be able to handle it. No midterms!! And only a couple big papers.. and two big projects at the end of the semester, so that's looking good. I think that puts me at only 2 finals too.. very nice. Mentoring is going well also.. we have our first dinner together on Sunday and I am quite excited
I'm making ravioli.. with spinach and cheese.. a good combo in my opinion, I only hope it will go over as well as I am planning it to. And I think chocolate mousse will be on the menu as well... I need to use up my lactose free whip cream somehow 
Plus it's phenomenal...In other notes, I am enjoying spending time with friends, it is very good to be around so many friendly faces and people who love communicating with each other. I love being with others who love God and love people and love growing together, it's refreshing. And I had a thought about a week ago that caught me off guard a bit. This is the first year that I have been up here where I have yet to desire to go home. I am supposed to be here. I am becoming more independent.. and I actually don't want to live at home next summer. True, I have thought that last sentence before, but now when I think it, it is without feeling guilty.
Hmm.. so.. Ooh! I'm reading a fantastic book in my sociology of religion class entitled The Mountain of Silence by Kyriacos Markides. Basically it is a conversation between him and a monk in Cyprus about the world today. When I'm reading it I keep thinking that this conversation took place decades ago, but in reality, it was within the last 10 years. It is highly relevant to today, and I love learning about the monastic lifestyle. If I thought I could live a life of getting up at 3:30 every morning and eating only legumes and other vegetables..and perhaps some grain, I would be drawn to that path.. but I fear I am human and enjoy a variety of food and like the outside world. But I have huge respect for those who devote their life soley to Christ and serving others through that. And I find it amazing how much knowledge they have of God. A differnt kind of knowledge too. I'm so used to here where it's all about head knowledge, and then there, in the monasteries, it's knowledge of the heart of God. They know Him intimately, in a way that I can only dream of knowing Him, because I live in the world, where there is school and work and people who aren't necessarily here with the same purpose in mind as me. I would love to visit a monastary (or nunnery) as a haven..a place for rest and restoration, to be refreshed and learn from those who walk with God on a daily basis and aren't concerned with the affairs of the world.
Anyway..that's my $0.02 and what's been going on with me.
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