CHORUS:

Blessed Woman,
Excellent Man,
Redeem for the dull the
Average Way,
That common ungifted
Natures may
Believe that their normal
Vision can
Walk to perfection.

(from Auden’s For the Time Being)

Anyone else remember Cybiko? It ranks as my all-time most disappointing Christmas gift. I begged my parents to get me one. Reflecting on it now, I realize what I really wanted was the add-on, while-supplies-last, mp3 player that came with it. (Mine did not come with said mp3 player.) My Cybiko ended up in a desk drawer almost immediately, collecting dust. Oh well.

Now that the books have all migrated home, I’m trying to be creative with our limited space.

Books lined above the microwave in the kitchen.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer, on what the “mind of Christ” actually is:

The “mind of Christ” refers not merely to Jesus' intellectual quotient or his stock of knowledge but to his habitus: the distinctive pattern of all his intentional acts—desires, hopes, beliefs, volitions, emotions, as well as thoughts. The mind of Christ refers, in a word, to the characteristics pattern of Jesus' judgments—to the way that Jesus processes information and to the product of that process: the embodied wisdom of God. The mind of Christ is the set of moral, intellectual, and spiritual habits or virtues that serve as the mainspring for all the particular things that Jesus does and says.