A new year

Another year.

It snowed much of the New Year's weekend. Alex worked a 24-hour shift on New Year's day, then a 12-hour shift on the following day, followed by another 24-hour shift on Sunday into Monday. Mount Auburn was closed Sunday when we went, so I went Monday morning. Bright sunshine, made brighter by the snow. Nick is still there, and of course not there.

Sara came for dinner tonight. It was great to see her, and good to have the time together. Her brother Daniel has grown a lot, and she talked about how he is "huggable" now, and how if he keeps growing ... We talked about shoe sizes - Alex pointed out his feet are size 13. Elizabeth said he got his hands from me and his feet from her, and we measured his hands against mine, then mine against Sara's - we agreed Nick's hands were bigger than mine, how he could fold the tops of his fingers down over her fingertips. It's like a knife sometimes.

Dianne Arakawa preached on the first chapter of John yesterday - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. She talked about how John begins at the beginning, how the point is that we are with God, and of God, before we are. I think it's a way of connecting with the unknowable - we don't know where we come from, we don't know where we're going to. We find out, in the end.