Napa

We went to Napa last weekend through San Fransisco, I've never actually been to Napa besides maybe driving through. It was so sunny and green and gorgeous that I'd like to go back and do it justice.

Now I am in the throes of looking for a place to move into somewhere around here, and figuring out whether or not to make a trip back to Ethiopia in May. Decisions like this make me feel just plain tired, I don't know why. I like the continuity of going back to Ethiopia- maybe it will feel like I am still living that life!

There is no Wine

I really like Sundays. Meditative, sort of a marker of time as it goes by, a stillness, especially the afternoon. Our culture in this house always involves some alone time in the afternoon.

I am sitting here with my Almond Latte and the gospel of John, letting myself be amazed at Jesus. Of all things, of all ways to use your Divinity, responding to your mom's little passive agressive comment, "There is no wine." Like He responds, why are you telling me that? And then, lots of wine, and the best wine there is. He is so deep and how will we understand that? Maybe Michael Card is right to say, "He has made them wine because He is longing for a wedding that's yet to come."

Probably the most powerful verse for me in the book of John is at the end, when Jesus answers Peter's question about John's future and says, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me." A personal call, a challenge not to be compared with the destiny of others. Doesn't matter what else is going on, you follow me.