Today I'm thankful that on a day filled with work and two interviews, when the vending machine for a snack got stuck, it decided to give me two for one.
I'm thankful for housemate bonding in the form of bouldering for my third time ever and my first time at Carleton!
I'm thankful for just enough time in between things to do some grocery shopping to stock up for the time to come.
I'm thankful for the presence of an ice pack already in the freezer when I got home from broomball. In theory I could have just iced my bruisy knees by sitting in the snow for twenty minutes, if it weren't for the damp cold. Also, for the record, it was totally worth it to play two broomball games with different sets of friends.
Today I'm also thankful for an interesting article encouraging us all to work
to understand the Bible in faith as well as social and historical
context. "We should regard engaging in an ethical and theological
critique of what we read in the Bible as an act of profound
faithfulness... For example, if we accept the patriarchy embedded in
biblical texts as normative and God-ordained, we may easily find
justification in the Bible to treat women as second-class citizens..."
God's love is ageless and timeless, and no human being can fully grasp
that, nor can any one of us, no matter what amount or level of study and
pursuit of knowledge, can claim they know and understand everything in
the Bible fully. We must be humble in our quest to know God better and
treat all humans with dignity and respect as we are called to do. I at
least understand that much.
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