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I helped with a field trip to the UVa Law School today where students were jurors in “trials.” It was interesting to discuss with them how their decisions were as much about the lawyers presentation as it was with the facts themselves. This raises one concern and one relief. The concern is for those people who go to court with an unskilled attorney. I am relieved that God is, as Romans tells us, a just judge. He sees the facts of who we are and what we do objectively. He deals only in the facts. He knows I am depending solely on the work of Jesus.

Continuing to think about Epiphany, I was seeking inspiration for a post and saw this pic that Joanna took Christmas night in Notre Dame…

I love lighting candles for specific people and offering a prayer for them and then giving that prayer to God with the candle as a symbol of the ‘lastingness’ of prayer… kinda like when the Hebrews used incense as a sweet offering of prayers up to God…

The bringing of light.

Jesus said that he came to bring light to the whole world. He loves the whole world.

Here’s some pix to prove I went: Sweet Anna, me and JOanna sneaking in… this is Christmas day just after we had checked into the hotel… this was sighting one of the Tour de Eiffel… one of about three thousand, six hundred and forty-seven sightings…

This is six days later on New Years Eve at the end of the Champs-Eleysees where there were reportedly 400,000 of us, whew, it was quite cramped! The blue vans in the middle ground brought in police in roit gear…

But it wasn’t the sights, the food or the wonderful (no kidding) cold weather that made this holiday great, it was being with the family. Here we are on the 26th or 27th atop the Arc De Triomphe – you can barely see the Tour de Eiffel just to the right of us above my shoulder…

Merry Christmas!!!

Note: this is one of those diary-esque posts, feel free to travel on to more interesting blog posts elsewhere…

Well, I finished giving exams on Monday… then I graded the essays… ugh… But interspersed with essay reading while at Greenberry’s*, I had many great opportunities to hang out there and at the Tavern and Bodo’s with friends who were home from college. I also bought and began reading unChristian. He is affirming what a bunch of us who work with this generation have been saying for a while…

This afternoon, I get to visit with a group of friends from 1997’s class at their 10 year reunion. Then on Monday night sweet Anna and I head east across the pond (dodging Santa and the sleigh – you did know that he begins in Asia and moves westward, didn’t you?).

If I post (I’m planning to take the HP) in the next week, there will be a picture of the Eiffel Tower… (yes, that is the same guy who designed Nyugati Station in Budapest (just to clarify, it is by far his most momentous design… Nyugati, not the tower)… yes, we are headed for Paris, what AM I thinking? Ok, stop, don’t get political…

that’s it and just in case this post is it for a while…

Merry Christmas

and

Happy New Year (under the Eiffel Tower? then the plane home)

* I remember being in Gby’s one evening grading papers when they were doing this photo shoot… it was about 830pm… one of the times when you don’t have to fight for a table.