earl in oxford

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Losing steam?

I'm going to guess that some of you think that I have been losing steam on this blog, to some extent you are correct. Life here at KBC has gotten incredibly busy and I have had many deadlines, unfortunately with that process the blog has suffered some. This is not a longterm illness that the blog is facing, more like a head cold that you get in the summer, you know it will go away but wow is it frustrating while you have it. It is not that my creative juices have been zapped by any measure, if anything they have been flowing at a quicker pace than normal, it is just that they have not been flowing into the blog, to you and the blog my deepest apologies. With all of that formality out of the way let me share with you some of what I have been working on lately. This week is Trinity week here at school, this means that we are learning about the Trinity (God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit) from a lecturer named Robin Parry who is the author of a book that I have read called Worshipping Trinity. This week is an interactive week with painting, music, poetry, dance etc... We were asked to put together a holy space about the Son, this entailed taking two parts of rooms and decorating them to help people interact witht the Son, and have an area that they could contemplate about God the Son. I will have pictures of these rooms tomorrow, as I am quite excited about how they worked out, my juices were really flowing on Sunday night. Also as of tonight I am putting the finishing touches on a 10 minute video about the Trinity, we have to do a creative project showing what we have learned, interacted with, thought about the Trinity, so in my best Rob Bell impersonation I have put together a video called "A Beautiful Concert". We are going to watch it as a college on Thursday, I am excited about that, Rebecca has written a monologue that she is going to perform. Also I have been very involved with our Advent themed chapels that have run for the last month on Thursday, this week is the first without a major part to play, I am excited for the short time off. Tonight I host the Songwriters Guild here at my place as we are going to meet with Robin Parry about and chat about encorporating the Trinity more into our songs. Friday night is the annual Christmas party for KBC, also on that date our good friend Kristine Detweiler is coming from Uganda to spend a couple of days, then next week my mom and dad, we and them are very excited. I am learning, enjoying and being stretched through all of this, and now Rebecca wants to check her email, so I am going to sign off. Later
earl

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

just out of curiousity, who is leading the creative activities for trinity week?

4:26 PM  
Blogger earl or rebecca said...

I'm not sure what you mean Ash, the rooms were done by 3 different people, Gaynor did some creative stuff, there were a number of workshops (collage, music, dance, color, jewelry and design) these were done by some students and others from OCC or BCC. It has been a cool week, I wish that we did more creative stuff than we have, maybe we can do more.

9:26 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

sounds cool... i really enjoyed this week during my year!

11:37 AM  

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