it's Tuesday, which means my weekend is over..sigh...So back to the old ball and chain of a career. To be honest, though, I've pretty much got it easy doing what I do for a living. It does help me keep my math skills sharp, and its not physically demanding work, so I can't complain.
Yesterday I was able to help a friend solve a musical mystery that her daughter was given as a school assignment. Who knew that having a head full of what I always thought was useless trivia would come in handy someday? One never knows...
I hope this week at work goes as smoothly as last week. Particularly last Friday night was amazing. My mind was much clearer than normal, so I was able to really make some progress on some old projects that I had neglected due to staffing issues. We should be fully staffed all this week again, also. So hopefully I will continue to stay on top of things.
Well that is about all for now. I'm off to work on my Sunday school lesson for this Sunday. We will discusss Jesus' walking on the water. And Peter's. Remember, if you want to walk on water, the first step is to get out of the boat.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Thursday, July 12, 2007
in loving memory
Yesterday I attended the funeral of my beloved uncle Junior. He was one of my Dad's brothers-in-law. A finer man you could never hope to meet, and a tremendous example of how a Christian should live their life. He lived his life with quiet strength, and total devotion to God, and his family. He and my Aunt Julia were married for 54 years, and in all that time never spent more than a day away from each others side. Only their jobs kept them separated, but only then for just a few hours. After the services yesterday, a group of aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, and sisters gathered in the church's fellowship hall, and just had a tremendous time celebrating his life and reminiscing over things he taught us. I am so wonderfully blessed to have such a close-knit extended family. Although I may be an only child, I have 15 cousins, and they are as dear to me as if they were my brothers and sisters. Uncle Junior, we will miss you very much, but we'll see you again soon. Thanks for showing us how to live and for showing us how to die with dignity. We love you.
btw I was going through some old photos the other day, and I found this one of my old pal Rusty. A very faithful companion was he, and if there is a heaven for pets, I know I will see him there as well.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
SERENITY NOW
I give credit for todays blog post to 2 sources: (1) the Seinfeld tv show and (2) the Serenity Prayer poem that I remember learning as a child in Vacation Bible School. On the Seinfeld episode, Frank Costanza( George's dad), when he would get all stressed out, would recite this phrase that someone had recommended as a stress relieving technique. Actually, he didn't just recite it, he yelled it at the top of his lungs. SERENITY NOW! If you are at all familiar with that show, and his character, you recall that he was frequently stressed out over one thing or another. Anyway, how does this apply to me..Well, I have houseguests this week from out of state. My mom's brother and sister. Now, I realize that technically, these people are my relatives, but I couldn't feel any less related to them if they were from the planet Mars..Neptune..Saturn..or UrAnus...ok, cheap joke ( I always wanted to make a crack about Uranus..In short, WEIRD..So I thought maybe SERENITY NOW! might help. Well it didn't hurt...Then I remembered the Serenity Prayer. Perhaps it is more appropriate..I also learned that there was more to the poem that I had learned way back in VBS. So here it is in its entirety. Maybe ole Frank Costanza should have used this instead;)
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
I hope everyone had a wonderful July 4th
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
I hope everyone had a wonderful July 4th
Sunday, July 1, 2007
copied from fishdontwalk.com
Which Came First? The Chicken or the Egg?
Which came first? Do you think it was a chicken? Or do you think it was an egg?
The answer is............neither! It was not A chicken.....nor was it AN egg......it was two chickens! Don't you know anything about sex? (Don't worry this will be G-Rated).
To make an egg you need a male chicken (rooster) and a female chicken (hen). These chickens need a fully functioning reproductive system. Think...if the theory of evolution is true, the male and female would have to evolve their reproductive systems at the same TIME. Imagine the female is fully evolved, but the male is not. Does she start hen nagging him to "hurry up and evolve, we are going to be dead in a few years?"
For the chicken and the egg you need a 100% functioning male and 100% functioning female. But wait a second! They need a functioning digestive system, nervous system, immune system, skeletal system, muscular system etc.
Here is a major difference between Creation and Evolution - Creationists believe in "instant chickens." Creationists believe a Creator with a lot of power and intelligence instantly made males and females at the same time, and put them at the same place. These instant chickens had functioning eyes, mouths, legs, digestive systems, reproductive systems etc.
Evolutionists believe chickens evolved by a step by step process. They believe their eyes, mouths, digestive system, reproductive system evolved by a step by step process. Think of the details.....how does a reproductive system evolve by a step by step process? And don't forget, it has to evolve as male and female.
HOW WOULD AN EVOLUTIONIST ANSWER THE CHICKEN AND EGG QUESTION?
But the problems for the evolutionist extend further back than just the chickens. If an evolutionist were to answer the chicken and egg question, this is what they would say.
"Billions of years ago, there was nothing. Then from nothing, the origin of ALL matter and energy we have today appeared {this belief violates the First Law of Thermodynamics, which teaches matter and energy is neither created nor destroyed}. Then, for some unknown reason, this matter and energy expanded and filled the Universe with hydrogen and helium gas." {Think, evolutionists think energy moved matter a distance of 15 billion light years...and the energy originated from nothing}.
"So the Universe had a bunch of hydrogen and helium swirling around, and then due to gravity, these gases came together and formed stars! In the interior of these stars had such immense temperature and pressure, fusion occurred and heavier elements such as carbon, oxygen, iron and uranium were formed." {This is a very big "free lunch" for evolutionists; hydrogen + gravity = fusion???).
(Evolutionist still talking) "So then the stars blew up, and they hurled heavy elements out into space. These heavier elements came together because of gravity and formed the earth and our solar system, and by chance the earth formed a moon and began orbiting around the sun."
"The early earth was lifeless, but some energy somehow mixed with the matter, and somehow lifeless matter became living. {This violates the Law of Biogenesis which teaches life only comes from life}.
"Now, not only did non living matter come to life, it was also able to metabolize" "(metabolism is taking energy from your surroundings and utilizing it to maintain life, humans eat, plants perform photosynthesis). This first life also was able to reproduce! And it was able to mutate to other organisms! It eventually evolved into a fish-like organism, then into an amphibian, then into a reptile, then eventually.....to a chicken!."
Remember, this answer is not sufficient. For sexual reproduction, evolution has to make a male and a female, at the same time, and at the SAME PLACE. If the male evolves 10 miles away from the female...you won't get any eggs. What do they need to live? Food would have to evolve before the chickens. Water would have to evolve, the right temperature would have to evolve, and so would thousands of other things in order to support life.
What is the best explanation for the chicken and the egg? The Garden of Eden story. The Garden of Eden teaches a supernatural being with intelligence and power to instantly make male and female chickens and put them where there is the right food, temperature, gravity etc.
My belief is that it takes much more faith to believe in Evolution than Creation.
Two important questions to ask regarding the theory of evolution:
Could evolution have happened?
Did evolution happen?
"Could it happen" is a science question. Evolutionists think mutations turned bacteria into chickens. Mutations scramble DNA. Mutations make lung cancer, not lungs. Mutations do not make organs, they degrade organs - so the answer appears to be no, is could not have happened.
"Did evolution happen" is a history question. Since there are no living transitional forms, and the trillions of fossils do not show any transitions, a sound conclusion is it did not happen.
Which Came First? The Chicken or the Egg?
Which came first? Do you think it was a chicken? Or do you think it was an egg?
The answer is............neither! It was not A chicken.....nor was it AN egg......it was two chickens! Don't you know anything about sex? (Don't worry this will be G-Rated).
To make an egg you need a male chicken (rooster) and a female chicken (hen). These chickens need a fully functioning reproductive system. Think...if the theory of evolution is true, the male and female would have to evolve their reproductive systems at the same TIME. Imagine the female is fully evolved, but the male is not. Does she start hen nagging him to "hurry up and evolve, we are going to be dead in a few years?"
For the chicken and the egg you need a 100% functioning male and 100% functioning female. But wait a second! They need a functioning digestive system, nervous system, immune system, skeletal system, muscular system etc.
Here is a major difference between Creation and Evolution - Creationists believe in "instant chickens." Creationists believe a Creator with a lot of power and intelligence instantly made males and females at the same time, and put them at the same place. These instant chickens had functioning eyes, mouths, legs, digestive systems, reproductive systems etc.
Evolutionists believe chickens evolved by a step by step process. They believe their eyes, mouths, digestive system, reproductive system evolved by a step by step process. Think of the details.....how does a reproductive system evolve by a step by step process? And don't forget, it has to evolve as male and female.
HOW WOULD AN EVOLUTIONIST ANSWER THE CHICKEN AND EGG QUESTION?
But the problems for the evolutionist extend further back than just the chickens. If an evolutionist were to answer the chicken and egg question, this is what they would say.
"Billions of years ago, there was nothing. Then from nothing, the origin of ALL matter and energy we have today appeared {this belief violates the First Law of Thermodynamics, which teaches matter and energy is neither created nor destroyed}. Then, for some unknown reason, this matter and energy expanded and filled the Universe with hydrogen and helium gas." {Think, evolutionists think energy moved matter a distance of 15 billion light years...and the energy originated from nothing}.
"So the Universe had a bunch of hydrogen and helium swirling around, and then due to gravity, these gases came together and formed stars! In the interior of these stars had such immense temperature and pressure, fusion occurred and heavier elements such as carbon, oxygen, iron and uranium were formed." {This is a very big "free lunch" for evolutionists; hydrogen + gravity = fusion???).
(Evolutionist still talking) "So then the stars blew up, and they hurled heavy elements out into space. These heavier elements came together because of gravity and formed the earth and our solar system, and by chance the earth formed a moon and began orbiting around the sun."
"The early earth was lifeless, but some energy somehow mixed with the matter, and somehow lifeless matter became living. {This violates the Law of Biogenesis which teaches life only comes from life}.
"Now, not only did non living matter come to life, it was also able to metabolize" "(metabolism is taking energy from your surroundings and utilizing it to maintain life, humans eat, plants perform photosynthesis). This first life also was able to reproduce! And it was able to mutate to other organisms! It eventually evolved into a fish-like organism, then into an amphibian, then into a reptile, then eventually.....to a chicken!."
Remember, this answer is not sufficient. For sexual reproduction, evolution has to make a male and a female, at the same time, and at the SAME PLACE. If the male evolves 10 miles away from the female...you won't get any eggs. What do they need to live? Food would have to evolve before the chickens. Water would have to evolve, the right temperature would have to evolve, and so would thousands of other things in order to support life.
What is the best explanation for the chicken and the egg? The Garden of Eden story. The Garden of Eden teaches a supernatural being with intelligence and power to instantly make male and female chickens and put them where there is the right food, temperature, gravity etc.
My belief is that it takes much more faith to believe in Evolution than Creation.
Two important questions to ask regarding the theory of evolution:
Could evolution have happened?
Did evolution happen?
"Could it happen" is a science question. Evolutionists think mutations turned bacteria into chickens. Mutations scramble DNA. Mutations make lung cancer, not lungs. Mutations do not make organs, they degrade organs - so the answer appears to be no, is could not have happened.
"Did evolution happen" is a history question. Since there are no living transitional forms, and the trillions of fossils do not show any transitions, a sound conclusion is it did not happen.
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