Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Vacation Vexations

For the past few days, I have been away on a vacation within my vacation, sightseeing in parts of Taiwan that I haven't been before and some I have many moons ago.  It has also been a vacation, I suppose from my sanity, as I somehow got talked into waking up early to go hiking at 5 am yesterday.  I don't exercise regularly, let alone climb things with summits.  Summits and I don't get see eye to eye.  Perhaps because they're so high up.  And yet, yesterday, I was there hiking away for a good 4 hours.  That's one sixth of my day I could have spent not moving.  And making cracks about the Bible. 
 
Brother:  4 am?  That's before either Jesus or the sun gets up.
 
Mother:  Before Jesus gets up?  "Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep."*
 
Brother:  Pretty sure that's talking about his dad and not Jesus.
 
(earlier, trying to convince our family friend to skip her Bible study the next morning to hang out with us- we have lots of friends who are pastors that need to be convinced away from sermon prep and fasting to hang out with the family)
 
Brother:  What's there to study?  Everything in the Bible is truth, that's all they need to know.
 
Moi: Yeah, if they haven't figured out the Bible at this point, there's probably no saving them.
 
 
 
 
*The quote, my heathen friend(s?), is from Psalm 121, one that should be easily recognizable to my Judeo-Christian friends.  Unless they're bad Judeo-Christians.   

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