New Years Eve

Well it is New Years Eve and I am sitting in my living room drinking tea with cream. I am actually glad the holidays are over with. I have been here in Tennessee/Kentucky for about 3.5 months and for once I have a wide open schedule. No plans for weekends. Nothing on my schedule. I now have room for a routine. I usually find that if I have regular schedule, I can usually get things done and commit to goals. I need to start getting a social life here, being involved in the Church, working out and hopefully get in shape for an offroad triathelon, and hopefully get some reading in. This while of course catching my favorite TV shows. I will also hope to update my blog once a week, hopefully see more dots on my map as well.

In other news, I saw the Narnia movie. I enjoyed it very much and was impressed with how well they adapted the book. It wasn't overtly religous but still fully spiritual. If there is one thing, I would say it was using Liam Nesson as Aslan's voice. To me, it seemed to be Liam Nesson, not Jesus. I would have picked someone more unknown and with a more something voice.
But another interesting note that I read was that Mr. Lewis never intended this to be an allegory for Jesus's time on earth. Instead his intent was to create a parallel universe and describe how God would interact in that universe. It is like CS is recording the gospel of Narnia. In a sense it shows how little the Church knows about God. Not that that is a unusual thing, it is just shows how big God is and how much human ego and pride gets in the way in our understanding of God. If we all wrote about how God would interact with a new creation, we would all write something different because we all see God differently. Some may be just our different prespectives, but some things maybe just wrong in our perceptions of him. And we all have perceptions of God that are wrong. But we are all human. Understanding God is not a private thing. If we all worked on the story togther and learn from each other. Our relationship with God is supposed to be personal but also communal, not private.

In other news, here is the link of the day.
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