musings with jonah and the buggles.

We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
And you remember the jingles used to go.




Today I celebrate my one year anniversary.

with Boston that is :]


I've done a very poor job of updating this blog. I had hoped that this space would provide a sort of catharsis/documentation of my trials and (mis)adventures as a graduate student in the Hub. Alas, it didn't quite work out that way as my last entry is "post"marked from July of last year. OY.

This past year was so many things:

- Academically DEMANDING.
- Exhausting(cognitively, emotionally, physically)
- Stimulating(intellectually, academically, culturally, socially, and spiritually) but not all at the same time interestingly enough.

I'm not sure if all graduate students feel this way, but I felt like clinic and academics consumed me, chewed me up, swallowed me, regurgitated me, and swallowed me again like some sort of indigestible cud in the mouth of the larger framework of higher learning.

Speaking of being swallowed whole, we're currently learning about the story of Jonah and the whale, or re-learning rather, in the Children's ministry at CityLife. And though I didn't refuse to go to Ninevah (not that Boston is Ninevah in this scenario), como Jonah, I still didn't truly embrace His will in my life. And yet, as passive-aggressive as I am at seeking Him out, He continues to seek me still.

Amazing. His Grace that is.



1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God. 2 He said:
"In my distress I called to the LORD,
and he answered me.
From the depths of the grave I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.
3 You hurled me into the deep,
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers
swept over me.

4 I said, 'I have been banished
from your sight;
yet I will look again
toward your holy temple.'

5 The engulfing waters threatened me,
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.

6 To the roots of the mountains I sank down;
the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you brought my life up from the pit,
O LORD my God.

7 "When my life was ebbing away,
I remembered you, LORD,
and my prayer rose to you,
to your holy temple.

8 "Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.

9 But I, with a song of thanksgiving,
will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
Salvation comes from the LORD."

10 And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Jonah 2:1-10




It's the first of July already and the fourth is already nipping on our heels! Am quite excited to spend it the traditional way: with a picnic and good company.

Have just finished a final so am not quite coherent, but all this to say...


Happy one year Boston. It's been a good one :]

Here's to hoping I'm better about documenting our second year together than I did our first.

<3,

J