Try to say that 10 times in a row!
On Friday our youth group will have stryofoam type darts powered by elastics. They pull back viciously and then release. The darts hurl across the gym and strike whatever is in the way.
Now, put up a few black lights. Add color (white) to the darts and you have a dark dart night. Any kids grades 8-12 are invited to join us. The sponsors ideas are still running wild. Could be a night of unexpected fun!!
I was wandering through the house this morning. I looked in our office and saw the light was on. But it wasn’t! The picture below comes from light reflected onto the light shade. The phenomenon was so unusual I immediately grabbed the camera and flashed a picture (without the flash!!).
We are in the midst of planning a move for my parents. Some things are on the way. A possible buying of a house is happening. Moving plans are not yet in place, but a framework is starting to appear.
And so, the end of the month we’re working on a bit of time off (maybe a day or two) to accompany mom and dad to a new abode. And then November 3rd arrives — their 57th anniversary.
Hard to believe 57 years will have passed since they were married. Of course, I’ve only been in on 55 of those years. When I work with our youth group I have to remember that the youth weren’t even alive when I was married, and when my parents were married . . . well that is ancient history. And so, from the perspective of life, we are older and wiser. At least that’s the way I like to write the story! THE END!!
Rob Bell has a video called “Everything is spiritual”. This talk/video is from a tour that he did a year or so ago. We began watching it today in our Family Bible School class. The video starts with an exposition of the first chapter of Genesis.
What an approach! Here is the poetry of Genesis explained as poetry and literature without discounting that this is also history. And then Rob probably gives one of the most succinct explanations of quantum physics and the theory of relativity that I have ever seen/heard. If I’d heard this in high school classes, I might have understood where our world was headed in terms of a shift in scientific method. Instead, I’ve been thirty years trying to understand why the next generation doesn’t think the way I think.
For generations, science and logic told us that everything could be explained and thus, we were in control. We had three points, or five ways or twelve steps.
Then quantum physics and the theory of relativity told us that our observations, our knowledge, of the big and the small seemed to have “unexplainables” — mystery — attached to them. So, now, to regain control, we are making sub-atomic colliders to measure nanoseconds of activity and better telescopes to see the far reaches of space.
As one speaker said recently — “God paints on a bigger canvas than we can see”. When we can’t explain things and we have lost control, God is still in control. And when we think we are in control, God is still in control.
When we begin to grasp that truth in all its wonder we are approaching a true fear of God. Which is the true path to knowledge and wisdom.