Mmmm....home.

It is super nice to be home after yet another long semester. I do not have to worry about due dates, papers, and exams for another few weeks - beauty. It is also nice to read what I want rather than Old or Middle-English.

Although I am not a huge fan of Winter, I do wish it would snow so it would feel more "Christmasy." But being at home does make it feel enough like Christmas I guess - endless amounts of coffee, tea, beer, and Christmas baking.

My dad and I went for a drive/walk yesterday with our camera's on these old country roads that we can still drive on because they aren't covered in 40 feet of snow. It is funny that I can still find roads that I have never been on. I feel like I know all the country roads here like the back of my hand - apparently not.

One thing that I do miss about Spring/Summer/Fall is the fishing. Ice-fishing can be a good time but I enjoy river fishing so much more.



Merry Christmas, friends.

Exam Week....

My favorite part of this season....exam week.

Late Night Reading by the Fireplace Post....

The fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than the fact that I shall die, and the fact that Jesus Christ rose from the dead is the sole ground of my hope that I, too, shall be raised on the Last Day. Our salvation is "external to ourselves." I find no salvation in my life history, but only in the history of Jesus Christ. Only he who allows himself to be found in Jesus Christ, in his incarnation, his cross, and his resurrection, is with God and God with him.

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together