Die Buchwalds

Tonight’s RCIA session was A Short Course on Paul. Two word summary: Paul rocks. I mean, really, I knew a lot of the New Testament was his letters to the early Christian communities, but until tonight I’d never seen so much of the good stuff put together in one spot. Talking about all that good stuff sent us in some interesting directions & brought up some wonderful questions and thoughts.
My favorite mini-discussion of the evening was about salvation. Paul talks about salvation as a gift. It was brought up that protestants like to point this out to Catholics and say “See? It’s a gift! You don’t have to earn it!” Paul does, though, also talk about working out our salvation. The presenter explained it as faith, which comes from grace (a gift from God), worked out in love. Another in class made the analogy that yes, it’s a gift, but you can’t just leave it in the box and put it on the shelf. You have to take it out & use it. She looked at it from the perspective of a child receiving a gift… if the child doesn’t use the gift and it sits, still in its packaging, mom will take it back to Wal-Mart.

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2. I don’t like leftovers. My theory is that if there are more people, it will be easier to cook & have less leftover food.

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We here at Casa de Buchwald had been pondering a digital video camera for a few months. Since nobody bought it for us for the holiday, last weekend we ordered one. We tried to buy it at the outlet store near our apartment because I had a gift certificate, but they didn’t have the one we wanted.
As of 5:19 this morning, our Christmas Present is on a FedEx truck in Ohio. With any luck, it’ll arrive by lunch time!

In other news, the Buchwalds are getting new shoes soon because we still have that gift certificate.

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