Welcome to Our World

We finally made it! After a few finals, a long weekend, and an intense game day, we watched the last of the dorm kids drive slowly out the gate. The dorm was left empty, still echoing the noise of their voices as they packed and rejoiced after their last final. The echoes soon died, but the ransackery remained. Strewn Christmas decorations embellish each room and we are left to prepare for our own celebration. The kids decorated the dorm a few weeks ago in a whirlwind celebration of Christmas.
Decorating for Christmas. Isn't Beth pretty?

...some were better at decorating than others. Right, Asyncrite?

But then the whole thing was interrupted by the super-fun Conga Line.

Now the building is empty and we are starting on the list of projects to be completed before the kids return. We're getting three new students so rooms had to be rearranged. Refrigerators cleaned up. Freezers thawed out. Lesson plans made. A book room to organize. Plus, there are always a million things to fix.

However, even for as busy as we will be, there is an excitement. 2000 years ago a bunch of angels were so excited about what God has done that they couldn't contain themselves. They jumped out in front of a bunch of lowly, ignorant, stinky shepherds and had a big party. Can you imagine the suprise and fear in the hearts of these shepherds? How long do you think the angles stayed? Sometimes I think it only took as long as it takes me to read the two sentences in Luke, and then they disappeared. What if they stayed in the sky for 15 minutes? or an hour? These shepherds might have experienced a live Angel rock concert!

The writer of Ecclesiates notes the uselessness of our existence. "There is nothing new under the sun," he writes. These angels were celebrating just that. No, Solomon, there is finally something new under the sun!