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December 9, 2005

Today was that day, the day which rolls around only 4 times a year at the most. The day when you take your last exam, turn in your last paper, or read your last book and then your body realizes what day it is and seems to understand that it can now recoup from the stress it has been under for the last 3 months.

I know without a doubt that I will go to bed tonight, probably around 12 or so and will sleep straight on through for the next 10-11 hours – it happens every quarter. It’s like my body has some sort of internal mechanism that just knows it can rest. I am really looking forward to it.

Aside from the thrill of finishing up the quarter, I was also able to get out for a run around the Rose Bowl with a friend. We ran a trail that goes all the way around the Rose Bowl and the golf course just behind the stadium. We ran a section of it that neither of us had been down before. I was amazed to discover that in the middle of this otherwise busy and ugly part of town, there were places of lush green grass, babbling brooks and streams, and an unbelievable view of the mountain range which just so happened to be especially beautifully contrasted with the blue skies on a very clear day. It’s been a very good day.

I had the chance to see Narnia last night with some friends. It was a very good movie. I wish they had made it longer. It seemed as if they were really trying to pull off a Lord of the Rings caliber production, but the fast that it was about an hour shorter than the Lord of the Rings movies left a lot of the plot, dialogue, and characters underdeveloped. Nevertheless, the movie was all-around wonderful. As a side note, the great feeling I had coming out of the movie of, “Thank God for people that are able to creatively convey the beauty of the gospel to people in a way that addresses desires that all people share rather than by being confrontational,” was dashed to smitherines when I returned to my car to find a Ray Comfort cd which promised to unlock the secrets of Narnia to me.

This is why I often hate that I have to tell people I am a Christian, because the majority of the world thinks of Christians as people who have a point to prove and will go to great lengths to prove it, even if it means a complete lack of relationship, a message completely divorced from personality and story, and relegates the gospel to something that needs to be intelectually assented to rather than lived out. For more on these matters please consult my friend and partner in ecclesiological renewal, Mr. Ryan Van Wyk.

But the movie was awesome!

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