The lack of hummmm

The base was silent today: we lost all power captain.
I am not certain, but it might have to do with the 12 cm of snow we received yesterday.
My room mate and I agreed when we figured out we had no power, we felt like children.
"Do i have to go to school today mom?"
"Just wait and see, we will listen to the radio" I guess that was more for snow days.
Nonetheless, i enjoyed the suspense of waiting for it to come back on,a nd the fear of having to do our work by hand, rather than on the computer.
Scott to the rescue! A collection of us drove 25 minutes to Okotoks, who did not face a power outage. Turns out, about 43,000 people in southern Alberta faced the same kind of dilemma. So we worked in a library all day.
When we came back to the base at 530, we were still out, and so i worked until my laptop lost all power, and proceeded to writing my work by hand. Just as I finished my first hand written chart, the surge returned, and there was much rejoicing.
The outage triggered a sociological interest for me-without power (mainly without computers) people played board games, struggled together to make coffee out of melted snow, and about 10 people were gathered together after supper just talking about traveling, and there was mention of a "work by candle light" party in the evening (on base, everything is a party, flossing, nail clipping, cereal eating...). It made me wonder what electricity has done to face to face interaction. Surely we are more socially networked than ever before via the internet, yet there was something wholesome about this blessing in disguise. Anyways, it just makes me wonder if we have truly benefited from our virtual explosion, and i just had to get on the internet to tell you about it, oh the irony.


Picture: Me running out my laptop juice while sitting at my dresser because i needed the fading sun light.

Jeremiah

1)Thank the LORD i am under God's grace
2)Reminders unique to SBS
3)Working on drawing up Jeremiah
4)Jer 3v1
5)Jer 13 enactment
6)What a colour coded prophet book looks like to me






A theme that i followed while colour coding Jeremiah was how frequently he calls Judah to repent/How God loves his people, yet has to judge their sin. My JEremiah pages are covered in hearts.

For our assignment in class, we did a visual recap on the book...

UPDATE!

Sorry, anyone who reads this, it has been a while...
Here is a general update I made beginning of april

...Last semester was an interesting transition from the good news of Christ in the New Testament to the reason we needed him to come in the first place-the fall of man and the repercussions of sin throughout many generations. Despite God’s gift to the of the Law (an amazing tool that was to develop a unique identity after the Israelites Egyptian slavery) and His patience, miracles and fatherly discipline, mankind continued to prefer the death and destruction of immorality throughout the time of Moses, the Judges, and Kings. The repeated phrase of everyone doing what was right in their own eyes seemingly echoes a mindset that is prevalent in our Western society today, making the history of the Old Testament strangely familiar.
IF ONLY THEY HAD A SAVIOUR…Going through the history of the Old Testament leaves the reader craving the coming of Jesus. The benefits of reading the Law (including Leviticus, a great book!) and the historical account of the OT is that it creates a need that could only be fulfilled by Christ, leaving one to respond to the testimony of Christ with a helpless “Of course! Christ is the absolute solution.” Without the recognition of a need for him, Christ merely becomes a gimmick for another self-serving religion, a good guy with a friendly message. A couple classmates and I concluded that the OT is a meal, and the testimony of Christ the dessert-undeserved, yet given and satisfying.
Another blessing that I have found in this semester is that it makes the hard questions of the New Testament regarding God’s sovereignty in the arena of judgment null-in that one can recognize his righteousness and consistent character as the Judge of sin, that His judgment is not out of hate towards mankind, but rather the crippling grip of sin-the difficulty is that man chooses to pick up sin.
This coming semester we will primarily be looking at the prophets of the Old Testament, which I predict will only create a greater desire for the dessert of Christ. Thankfully, we will top off the semester in June with the gospel of Matthew. Hopefully the base will be running a second DTS starting in April, which will be a welcomed change of atmosphere. Also, it will soon be rodeo season in Alberta, which will serve as relaxing distraction on the weekends. I plan to send another update before the semester is finished, and hope to see some of you while i am out for a wedding in may.
Prayer requests: Continued perseverance to get through this next semester as the weather continues to be more of a distraction. A safe trip out in May. The April DTS. Those who are going on the SBS outreach to Thailand in July.