Lo que será, será

This is a picture of Martin y yo. I was his pet last Wednesday for a home visit. He had a puppy named flash and I decided to be ridiculous and but the leash on my jeans. Then he decided to take me on a walk...through a JUNGLE....and pointed out 15 different trees and listed off their functions like a regular biologist.


I'm going to an HIV/AIDS clinic training session this weekend.

Pretty lucky.

Sister Peggy and her theology of liberation are growing on me. I mean, I liked the whole idea of liberation theology before I came, but just thinking about it and learning the context and the text of it all just makes it that much more tempting to think about and love.

Today in class we had to create a new metaphor about liberation theology, instead of the one we read about - liberation theology is a tree. The poor are the roots, the trunk is the pastoral workers and the branches are the theologians. Not a great metaphor because it places the theologians at the top of the tree. The group I was a part of decided to draw something without distinctions of parts or function. We drew the circulatory system. Thats right, I'm still pre-med. Our logic was that the circulatory system has so many parts, none better than the other, and it's so continuous. It also needs the whole body to function, to help it filter itself, and to feed the body. And even though it's a system, it's not the whole body. Liberation theology, as we learned today, is not trying to be a different sect of theology, but rather an incorporation to all sects. If you don't know what liberation theology is, maybe Google Gustavo Gutierrez.