At Geeks Who Drink from Right to Left counter clockwise: George, Jessica, Mark, Paul, and me.
Yesterday was the first day I've had off (other than being sick which doesn't count) since October so it was very nice. Paul was a tad loud getting ready so I didn't really sleep in as planned, but instead watched part of the Today Show before getting bored. I then started reviving my long dead blog and decided this challenge would be a good idea.
I read some more of a wonderful book I'm reading by Pope Benedict called Jesus of Nazareth where he is examining parts of the Gospels breaking them down bit by bit. Crazy thing is he says this is his first volume and hopes to live long enough to complete the rest! I'm thinking after only reading 100 pages excitedly there's more?! He's a wonderful author and I'd recommend the read for any Christian as a meaty dig into the life of Jesus especially during Lent as we prepare for Easter. One part he goes into is the temptation of Jesus in the desert for 40 days and how Satan at the second temptation says:
Jesus replied to this by saying:"For he will be given his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone" (from Psalms 91:11)
"You shall not put the Lord your God to the test." (From Deuteronomy 6:16.)Benedict goes on to explain our modern day lesson from this exchange to be the following:
"The issue, then, is the one we have already encountered: God has to submit to experiment. He is "tested," just as products are tested. He must submit to the conditions that we say are necessary if we are to reach certainty....We are dealing here with the vast question as to how we can and cannot know God, how we are related to God and how we can lose him. The arrogance that would make God and object and impose our laboratory conditions upon him is incapable of finding him. For it already implies that we deny God as God by placing ourselves above him, by discarding the whole dimension of love, of interior listening: by no longer acknowledging as real anything but what we can experimentally test and grasp. To think like that is to make oneself God and to do that is to abase not only God, but the world and oneself, too."The beauty of how Benedict breaks down the Gospels makes you pause at moments otherwise cast aside. I don't believe in the above statement Benedict is saying doubt is wrong but rather he is challenging us that not everything can be grasped and tested.
I also cleaned a good deal of our house as it was in desperate need of it. We kind of got lazy this past week and didn't do much as far as cooking or cleaning so I planned out a menu. On tap for dinner was a Greek Salad with chicken and chickpeas. Sounded good in theory as I saw it on my new favorite magazine Martha Stewart: Everyday Food (who knew I'd get into Martha Stewart right? lol) but the chickpeas weren't all that good in the salad and it kind of lacked pizazz.
After dinner it was off to our weekly meeting with our two friends Jessica and Mark for Geeks Who Drink, a trivia game at a local pub. We split our favorite desert there a chocolate fudge brown with ice cream and walnuts while savoring Merlot for Paul and Strawberry beer for myself. The trivia night is composed of 8 rounds of 8 questions each where you work in groups of up to 6 to answer the obscure questions. Round One for example was all about Germany. Did you know Munich is not the second largest city in Germany? Bonus points to whoever can tell me the correct answer! lol ;-)
Our team ended up coming in 1st place which hasn't happened in the past 3 weeks (we've been missing our teammates due to work and writing papers). It was nice to have the Fab Five as we called ourselves together!
Now it's off to exchange pants we bought Saturday with a hole in them already, rent a good movie, eat lunch with July, play at the Apple Store, and get my toe nails done! :-)
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