i have to say, being out of school at this time of year is an interesting experience. I'm trying to figure out what to do with myself at in the pre-christmas season. Usually by now i'd have bought or made all of my christmas pressies (as a part of my studying exercizes... ;)) but this year i'm pretty far behind in the whole christmas swing. On the other hand, i feel strangely prepared for christmas on a spiritual level. Often i don't feel like i can put much more into christmas than present buying, since i'm trying to stuff as much useless information into my head as possible, but i've been able to sit back and contemplate a little more this year, and spend a little more time being irritated by annoying, meaningless christmas songs. Its tragic to me that such a momentous event as our saviour's birth is celebrated by such odd frivolity. I liked Rachel's post about the fact that christmas is actually an R-rated event. There is sex, fear, terror, bloodshed and many other things that make it so much more than the tinsle and glitter.
To completely change direction (i went away and came back...), i got stuck looking at camp pics just now, and am realizing that i've gone the distance from camp... i'm now truly sentimental and everything is falling into the rosy catagory :) If i have to pick an attribute about myself that i like, i think it may be that: somehow I manage to put anything negative really far away, and i have this (admittedly very distorted) happy picture of the way things were. Not that camp was unhappy, you have to understand, it just wasn't all smiles and roses. The pics i was looking at seem to have come from centuries ago already and when i look at them i get all smiley and teary eyed (don't ask me why...?) but i guess its those (now!) carefree days of summer. Its exciting to me that it doesn't end at camp - that i still get to hang with these guys at church and around the city, but its still hard to not get nostalgic about the easyness of friendships and life in the middle of nowhere SK.
Well, seeings as its only 10:50, i think i may go and actually do something about those unmade christmas pressies!
jer 29:11
"for i know the plans i have for you" says the lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."
ct
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Funny, when there's more time to do something, we get less done...
yup.
I completely agree with you about camp. Somehow all those days of sleep deprivation followed by playing the same game and eating the same food week after week in a seemingly endless string of weeks... melts away never to show itself again in the glossy photographs of smiling children and camp crushes. Ah, what a life.
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