Happenings

It's a post-snowstorm day here in Boston (as in much of the northeast) and the first biggest storm we've had since December. I thought Boston people wouldn't go into hiding with the snow so much, but they certainly did - which made for a great commute home yesterday - no traffic at all!

Last weekend Katie had a "golden weekend" (two days off in a row - first time since Christmas break, last time until the last weekend in March!). We took advantage of a nice sunny day to drive up the coast through marblehead and into Salem. It was a beautiful day as can be seen by the below pictures taken at Red Rock park.

Sunday, we became members of our church, so I guess that makes us officially "Presbyterians". Who would have thought?

Thursday we had dinner with some people in Katie's program. The husband of the host is a professor at Harvard named Dan Schrag, who studies climate change. He gave a presentation on climate change which was very interesting. A lot to think about, a lot of issues surrounding the topic (scientific, political, sociological).

Time now for me to clean up our apartment a little and do a little grocery shopping so that Katie has the ingredients she needs to cook a carrot cake for friends coming this evening. Her carrot cake is awesome. Mmmmm...

Perichoresis

Good quote towards the end of Tim Keller's new book:

"The inner life of the triune God, however, is utterly different. The life of the Trinity is characterized not be self-centeredness but by mutually self-giving love. When we delight and serve someone else, we enter into a dynamic orbit around him or her, we center on the interests and desires of the other. That creates a dance, particularly if there are three persons, each of whom moves around the other two. So it is, the Bible tells us. Each of the divine persons centers upon the others. None demands that the others revolve around him. Each voluntarily circles the other two, pouring love, delight, and adoration into them. Each person of the Trinity loves, adores, defers to, and rejoices in the others. That creates a dynamic, pulsating dance of joy and love. The early leaders of the Greek church had a word for this - perichoresis." p. 214-5

Within this context we see how creation and man fit into the the bigger picture of God's redemptive plan. This is what we were created for. But in the fall, we lost the dance. But through the sacrifice and self-giving love of Christ we can return to the dance and join into God's "dynamic, pulsating dance of joy and love" in ancticipation of the day when all of creation will be restored. May it be so.

February Update

Been a while since there's been update here on the Boston Buzz, so I thought I'd throw a quick update. Things have been busy here - I (Jon) have been traveling a bit as of recent, spending a lot of time at power plants. It's fun being at the sites, but not so fun being away from home. Katie is staying busy at the hospital. The hospital is packed, rarely any empty beds - this has actually worked out in Katie's favor as far as workload at times since she can't admit new people because no room at the hospital!

Giants. Now that was fun. What a great game. I can't tell you how much fun it was going to work Monday morning, being the only non-New England fan at the office.

That's the quick update from Boston. Hopefully we'll update it more often in the upcoming future!