Today in Quantum the professor said that rather than think of waves and particles as existing, think of all things as waves. I explicate and say that at the heart of all things is a wavelike nature, a vibrating essence, the reflection of the Divine Harmony. Things in this fallen world do not vibrate in resonance, instead they try and follow their own tones, their own desires, and this wreaks havoc like an out of tune violin in an orchestra.
The universe is meant to be an eternal symphony, a hymn to the Divine mystery, an exclamation of the Lord's Glory. In the Fall the harmonies and melodies were broken and the world became a cacophony of noise. And as any musician or physicist knows, in order to return to resonance there needs to be a very intense source of resonance. And so into this cacophony the ultimate symphony came down and was incarnate, and His notes, his melodies filled the world and shattered the dissonance and slowly all is returning to the symphony, slowly all will either enter into harmony or be lost forever. In the incarnation the fallen universe suffered an incurable change, a good infection spread into all things living and inanimate, all things began to fall into the brilliantly clear and loud music that is the Holy Trinity. And all that will be will fall into harmony with that joyous tune, or else be lost in nothingness. The teleos of our existence is to enter into harmony with Christ.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
wow....
So the last two or so weeks have been jam packed and insane. So rather than writing a novel we'll do some bullet points again :-).
-I did regular camp the last week of camp, 7-8th. It was an all right week, I had a problem child again who swore and was inappropriate the entire week. He also complained alot.
-I was frustrated with just doing regular camp again, but finally got through it and enjoyed being done. The summer was a hard one.
-After camp I went diving with Goat in the lake which was tons of fun, even though the lake has terrible visibility. We reset some anchors and brought a lawn chair up from the bottom. I've missed diving, it was so wonderful. And afterwards I got a great deal to purchase the equipment, so now I have dive gear! woot!
-My mom and I went up to Vancouver BC for the weekend afterward and ran into a bunch of problems at the border. The Canadian border guards are absolute jerks! They basically wanted documentation about my entire life. Who takes a lease, college transcripts, and copies of bills with them to canada? argh.
-Vancouver was really big and expensive. I was kind of amazed by how much more things cost there. It was very frustrating.
-After Vancouver I moved into my apartment, which is great minus a few things that need to be fixed, and a ghetto fridge.
-Orientation was crazy busy and full of stuff, but it went well, and I got to go the the National Lentil festival and get free chili and go to a beer garden! Woot!
-I am taking a Math Methods Course, Classical Mechanics, and Quantum 1 this semester, and I am getting the feeling that while this will be a really hard semester, it will be alot of fun also.
Oz, from Lutherwood, and I have been talking for a bit online and the phone and we both realized that we liked each other, and so we decided to start dating, albeit the fact that it will have to be long distance. She is really amazing and makes me really happy, and she <3's orange as much as I do....btw I got an orange couch!!
My life is in a crazy state of change currently and I am not sure where things are going or whats up. I'm like an electron in a time dependent perturbation, never knowing where I really am or where I'll end up, but hopefully God will turn off the perturbation soon and show me whats up.
The group of incoming grad students is all guys, but they all seem to be great, I think I'll find some really wonderful friends here. Well I think I will stop now and write more later.
-I did regular camp the last week of camp, 7-8th. It was an all right week, I had a problem child again who swore and was inappropriate the entire week. He also complained alot.
-I was frustrated with just doing regular camp again, but finally got through it and enjoyed being done. The summer was a hard one.
-After camp I went diving with Goat in the lake which was tons of fun, even though the lake has terrible visibility. We reset some anchors and brought a lawn chair up from the bottom. I've missed diving, it was so wonderful. And afterwards I got a great deal to purchase the equipment, so now I have dive gear! woot!
-My mom and I went up to Vancouver BC for the weekend afterward and ran into a bunch of problems at the border. The Canadian border guards are absolute jerks! They basically wanted documentation about my entire life. Who takes a lease, college transcripts, and copies of bills with them to canada? argh.
-Vancouver was really big and expensive. I was kind of amazed by how much more things cost there. It was very frustrating.
-After Vancouver I moved into my apartment, which is great minus a few things that need to be fixed, and a ghetto fridge.
-Orientation was crazy busy and full of stuff, but it went well, and I got to go the the National Lentil festival and get free chili and go to a beer garden! Woot!
-I am taking a Math Methods Course, Classical Mechanics, and Quantum 1 this semester, and I am getting the feeling that while this will be a really hard semester, it will be alot of fun also.
Oz, from Lutherwood, and I have been talking for a bit online and the phone and we both realized that we liked each other, and so we decided to start dating, albeit the fact that it will have to be long distance. She is really amazing and makes me really happy, and she <3's orange as much as I do....btw I got an orange couch!!
My life is in a crazy state of change currently and I am not sure where things are going or whats up. I'm like an electron in a time dependent perturbation, never knowing where I really am or where I'll end up, but hopefully God will turn off the perturbation soon and show me whats up.
The group of incoming grad students is all guys, but they all seem to be great, I think I'll find some really wonderful friends here. Well I think I will stop now and write more later.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Zaccheus
So this post is a little bit dated, this actually happened about a month ago, but anyways....I got a new car!! It is an orange 2004 Chevy Cavilier which I have finally decided to name Zaccheus.
I believe it is a good replacement to Nehemiah, although it doesn't have the same storage space, and it is manual everything rather than power, but I am learning to deal and its fun.
It's orange!! Woot!
I believe it is a good replacement to Nehemiah, although it doesn't have the same storage space, and it is manual everything rather than power, but I am learning to deal and its fun.
It's orange!! Woot!
Friday, August 8, 2008
week seven: Sr High Advernture
So I got to go zip lining this week! See the video!
I also got to go white water rafting, which I unfortunately do not have pics for because my camera does not like water like I do. We went on the Skagit River, which has primarily class 1 and 2 rapids, but we did a few class 3's including the Skagitator, which was amazing. It was a good 8 foot wave that almost threw me out of the boat.
I still cannot believe that I am getting paid for this. I basically get to play all day, do adventure, and do crazy stuff that I would pay to do, and rather than paying, I get paid. Nuts!
Then again dealing with the stress of campers and programing, and other staff members is not necessarily the most fun. Scuba, while being extremely awesome was mentally in Ghana this week and that made it very hard on me, because I had to do a lot of extra work. He will physically be there in a few days and I wish him the best.
The campers were really good this week, but of course that means something else has to go wrong to make up for it. Camp tends to have this rule that something has to be bad and going wrong. It can be different things, but every week has to have problems.
Next week I was supposed to be doing a waterski/wakeboard daycamp, which would mean evenings off, but one of the male counselors broke his ankle, and so the need me to replace him so now I have normal camp with 7-8th graders. I feel bad about his ankle and hope he heals well, but I am also cranky because his injury means I have to once again do work outside of my job description. Camp doesn't like to keeping to job descriptions.
Well I am going to go rock climbing, so I will write more later :-)
I also got to go white water rafting, which I unfortunately do not have pics for because my camera does not like water like I do. We went on the Skagit River, which has primarily class 1 and 2 rapids, but we did a few class 3's including the Skagitator, which was amazing. It was a good 8 foot wave that almost threw me out of the boat.
I still cannot believe that I am getting paid for this. I basically get to play all day, do adventure, and do crazy stuff that I would pay to do, and rather than paying, I get paid. Nuts!
Then again dealing with the stress of campers and programing, and other staff members is not necessarily the most fun. Scuba, while being extremely awesome was mentally in Ghana this week and that made it very hard on me, because I had to do a lot of extra work. He will physically be there in a few days and I wish him the best.
The campers were really good this week, but of course that means something else has to go wrong to make up for it. Camp tends to have this rule that something has to be bad and going wrong. It can be different things, but every week has to have problems.
Next week I was supposed to be doing a waterski/wakeboard daycamp, which would mean evenings off, but one of the male counselors broke his ankle, and so the need me to replace him so now I have normal camp with 7-8th graders. I feel bad about his ankle and hope he heals well, but I am also cranky because his injury means I have to once again do work outside of my job description. Camp doesn't like to keeping to job descriptions.
Well I am going to go rock climbing, so I will write more later :-)
Sunday, August 3, 2008
frustrations
So week six was a contract adventure trip, and it was easier than week five, but filled with frustrations, and just exhaustions. Once again I have lots to write and no time to do so. So shortened versions:
-Adult leaders are the most frustrating campers, especially when they encourage bad behavior and try to undermine your authority all week
-Rain and mud suck...I miss thunderstorms
-I am really lonely, OAP keeps me very seperated from the rest of camp so I have very little support and contact, and I am just lonely....sigh
-Christians suck at being christians.....sin really sucks
-Camp makes setting up utilities, paying bills, and doing other things nearly impossible
-I hate the FAFSA
-I hate having no time to write!
-Also I love rock climbing, and I blew a bunch of money on gear. I bought my own rope! Its awesome, but its not good for the pocketbook.
I need to run...sigh.....write more next weekend.
-Adult leaders are the most frustrating campers, especially when they encourage bad behavior and try to undermine your authority all week
-Rain and mud suck...I miss thunderstorms
-I am really lonely, OAP keeps me very seperated from the rest of camp so I have very little support and contact, and I am just lonely....sigh
-Christians suck at being christians.....sin really sucks
-Camp makes setting up utilities, paying bills, and doing other things nearly impossible
-I hate the FAFSA
-I hate having no time to write!
-Also I love rock climbing, and I blew a bunch of money on gear. I bought my own rope! Its awesome, but its not good for the pocketbook.
I need to run...sigh.....write more next weekend.
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