Sunday, March 8, 2009

Nouevelles Noticias

Hey everyone, so it looks as though that previous attempt at creative writing seemed to fall into ruin for now. ah well, c'est la vie.

Anyhow, this week I received a message which made me incredible excited and thankful at the same time. Of many qualified and quite capable applicants, I received a full scholarship to Claremont School of Theology to study languages and Christianity. This is truly a blessing and I thank God for what he has provided me thus far in my walk with him. This knowledge came as a bit of a shock to myself, and I am still quite deeply humbled by the weight of this knowledge and what it means for my future academic pursuits. Prasie be to God! (which for those of you who don't know is a very common arabic phrase)

Currently I am taking Arabic 1, French 2, and Spanish 4 donde yo hablo muchisimo, mas de espanol 3. It's all great, all interesting and keeps me focused! My only regret is that I do not have time really to hang out and go running with Daniel at Oxy which I very much enjoyed. Mais, Les temps passe en avance and I am changing to become a guess "more" scholararly?

I really hope to visit some of my freinds in the future. And one day I hope to visit France or Spain again :). When I either have some money to stay there or something.

Another note about my spiritual walk with God,
I have been reading Tich Nah Han recently and it was deeply enlightening and helpful to explain awareness and useful strategies for participating fully in the moment. I have felt this kind of moment detatchment before, and it is quite frankly a beautiful moment from God. I took all of monday to try to enact this sabbath space and it was great.

And I realize too that perhaps my greatest vice is letting myself become absorbed in the movies, tv, and games that so often distract me from inward searching and ruminating. For this week, I will do my best to spend time reading and taking moments to become more fully aware and live out this mindful awareness.

Of course, the idea of a goal is not quite right, but I won't get into that. The idea of planning goals already structures the time I'm supposed to be liberated from and thus the aware moment is not free, but subordiante to the desire to accomplish something. I hope to further come to terms with this kind of teological thinking in the future.

Ok bye for now!
With the sincerist and warmest thoughts! God Bless you friends!
-Tim

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