It's supposed to flux between rain and snow all week. The wind was a force to be reckoned with today, especially in any alleyways running East-West (all of them).
Having had a short night of sleep behind me, a full day of classes ahead of me, and more cold weather than this desert-dweller knows what to do with, I decided the day would need to start off with 1) something magnificent, and 2) good, quiet, reflective space. Obviously, chocolate and laughter are the ultimate day-redeemers (sorry for sounding like an inspirational candy wrapper...). If you're not one of the almost 8 million people who have seen this video, watch it. This is how I started my Monday:
I got ready quickly and made the short trek to campus through Seaton Park. I had an hour and fifteen minutes to kill before my first class, so I wandered into a bakery on High Street. I broke my no-dairy rule and bought hot chocolate, because sometimes, weather is just too cold and too miserable to follow rules.
It was delicious. I spent the remaining hour in the King's College Chapel, just sitting, staring at the stained glass, wishing I could read Latin.
I made it to my classes, and even befriended a first-year student in my doctrine class. Reading for that class on Trinity, commentaries on Luke-Acts for another class, and annotating a book for next summer on Incarnation is constant theological whiplash: frustrated with the first, bored with the second, and mind-blown by the third. I'd been nervous about saying things that were out of line with his interpretations during our upcoming discussions, but since most of the other students seem to be sleeping through the lecture, that classroom is in for a tornado of Womanist theology next Friday morning.
After some quality time with a stack of commentaries and introductions to Luke-Acts in the library, I walked home listening to my new favorite:
And when I got here, the first of a few packages from Amazon was waiting at my door! It was almost better than chocolate.
Almost.
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