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posted by xscot mcknight | 7:42pm Friday December 30, 2005

Kris and I, along with Laura and Mark and Lukas and Annika, got to Ixtapa after a long delay at O’Hare, a smooth flight, and a long delay here at the airport with our bus (some passengers didn’t get their luggage, which we’ve experienced ourselves so we were all “moans” of a psychologist sort when we heard their story).
Well, who cares about delays? We’re on a vacation and plan to enjoy ourselves. Which I did today: I read a chp in Schmiechen’s book on atonement, and then read bundles of Thomas Sowell’s autobiography. The military chp was too long, but the rest has been great. I finish Sowell tomorrow, and then start Rebecca’s Revival, a wonderful tale of the faith of a woman. I’ll be up at the crack of dawn for some beach-morning prayers and then begin a long day of doing nothing! I”ll try to post some pictures.



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Ted Gossard,

posted December 30, 2005 at 8:20 pm


My kind of day! (as long as there are books) Great for you all to be together just “drinking in” everything.
blessings, Ted



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J-Marie

posted December 30, 2005 at 9:16 pm


What is the rest of the family reading?



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John Frye

posted December 31, 2005 at 7:36 am


Scot,
Are you reading Schmiechen’s SAVING POWER: THEORIES OF THE ATONEMENT AND FORMS OF THE CHURCH?



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Bethie

posted December 31, 2005 at 2:41 pm


Regarding the passengers missing their lugguage….
what a nice way to start the new year….
with “no baggage”!
Happy New Year to All.
Blessings.



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Scot McKnight

posted December 31, 2005 at 6:39 pm


John,
Yep, Saving Power. I read Anselm chp today. Very good, and very much along the line of how I’ve understood Anselm for about four years.
Jean,
Mark (Laura’s husband) is reading Blue Like Jazz.
Laura and Annika (Luke’s wife) and Kari (my niece) are reading novels.
Kris is reading a novel that Oprah picked out; it is about a guy who is putting the pieces of his life together.
Luke has yet to open a book, though he did do The Little Book of Hours today.



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John Frye

posted January 1, 2006 at 9:31 am


Scot and Kris, Mark and Laura, Luke and Annika,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
John & Julie



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