Seat 23 is occupied...

For the first three or so hours of this delightful 10 hour venture back to Santiago I was living the high life; no one to share the arm rest with!  But then we stopped.

I think this is one of the few down side to Chilean buses.  Unlike when you take to the sky you're never quite sure if you can really get comfortable with the extra blessing of "land."  But honestly I can`t complain.  My arm rest sharer seems like a pretty nice bloke and even with the cute little 5 year old making continuous fart noises across the isle I'm gravy.  I think I've told you before, but if I haven't Chilean "Charter Buses" are where it's at.

I love to read and rarely get 10 free hours in a day to simply read :).  There are very few limitations with this snazzy little kindle we were gifted this past Christmas and I'm pushing it to its limits.  If you're wondering, I'm actually writing this soon to be blog on the kindle!  Even though its tempting to watch Capitan Jack Sparrow and Penelope Cruz search for the next big treasure on the Caribbean Sea, there's just too much good stuff to read.

Oh wait, is it true... yes it is... my short lived neighbor is already getting off the bus!  Back to the double wide.

Ok so to the point.  I have really been overwhelmed with the sublime creativity and depth through which God speaks to us; the Bible, literature, nature, relationships...  Not that I always understand it or agree with what he's saying, but that's just it: He's God and I'm man.  I try to take the lovely right along side with the frustrating.  Pray for me with that.  Seriously.

Translating the 112 page notes on Génesis and then interpreting 15 hours of class was enough as is, but then there was the

• The Hebrew (strong's concordance is Spanish is probably one of my favorite finds right now)
• The literary styles (chiasmo)
• The intricate webs of connections and symbols 

I think I just want to go to seminary right now.

For me it's cool to see His creativity show up in literature.

• Paradise Lost - John Milton giving us a fresh and almost eerie beauty of what it was like before the fall.
• Jesus the Son of Man - Kahlil Gibran creating a ficticious but surreal look into the lives of those around Christ during the first century.
• Erasing Hell - Francis Chan opening up as he always does in a real fresh way to dive into some of the truly difficult questions. (A must read if you haven't already)

Yes I know they're not the Bible, but in one sense or another all things of true beauty and creativity first start with the creator.