Another week already finished?

It is hard to believe that we have already reached the end of this week, because we have quite packed Sundays, Friday night and Saturday is really the end, in all reality Sunday is the first day of the week anyway. We have been looking at the Gospels this week, they are not as straightforward as you might expect. So much of how we read the Bible is through our lenses, rather than the lenses of the culture of that day. I have been trying to read more about the culture of that day, but have not been able to find too much yet. With that being said I also many other books to be reading for an upcoming seminar on heaven/hell next week, a paper that I am going to be doing on poverty and writing a paper about Paul and the Law. This is a busy time, but we're still having a great time along the way. Last night Jazz, one of our housemates, and Tash a Canadian girl from Hungarian heritage had a party here for her birthday, it was a half Indian half Hungarian themed party. We had a large crowd, much Indian cuisine, henna painting, punjabi music and Hungarian decor. Rebecca is in London today and tomorrow to be with a friend, so in her absence I will have to watch some of the NCAA tournament. Can't say that I'm too distraught about watching some roundball, my pick to win it all is Florida by the way, not going too far out on the limb, but why go there if you don't need to? Continue to pray for us, we are learning much, thinking and praying about what God wants us to be giving ourselves to, and we have a considerable amount of time here to grow and build here as well. Talk to you later, mom and dad, don't shovel too much. Good luck to the Fairfield Falcons in the semi-state. later
earl