February 13, 2013

Greek Reader

I just feel so tired to read any more books assigned for class .... so for a change, I'm now reading "A Graded Reader of Biblical Greek" by William D. Mounce. Amazingly, reading this Greek Reader prompts me to pray when I read this in his Preface:

"But what I really hope to see is that, as a result of knowing the text better and of having the tools with which to study it, you will know God better, and that you will not lose sight of the fact that what is really important in this world is not things, but God and neighbor."

dead tired

A friend once pointed out that it's an irony to say "dead tired" because the dead cannot get tired, and the tired is not dead. But that's how I feel now. DEAD and TIRED. My brain is dead. I'm not absorbing what I'm reading ... and I feel tired--physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally.

Physically, perhaps because I did not have a good sleep last night and I woke up a couple of times through the night. The nap at noon alleviated the sleepiness but not the fatigue. Mentally, going through the NT Hermeneutics Seminar in the morning and the NT Colloquium in the afternoon on the same day drained the "juice" from my brain. I guess the endless reading over the week had also added and accumulated and made me feel saturated with too much information. Socially, I attended the 1892 Club kick-off this afternoon and I was the only female in the group, as has always been the case ... yet, I still have to socialize and interact with the all male group. Emotionally, the anxiety over not having decided my research topics, while trying to catch up with readings make me feel so overwhelmed.

Refresh me, O Lord!

February 6, 2013

revisited

revisited my blog after 15 months

research ideas

Thank God for some ideas on how to go about my research on KOG