Back Under One More Time
I don’t think I will ever tire of witnessing the beauty in these canyons. I’d love to go again but I’m afraid my body isn’t up to the task any more.
Paradigm Blindness
“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father.” Matthew 24:36 NIV No one knows – Theological paradigms are just as resistant to challenge as any other paradigm, perhaps even more so. In the history of science we often find great thinkers making…
Immortality
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” Genesis 3:22 NASB Live forever – “But two horrible fears haunt man steadily, trailing him like an everlasting shadow: the…
It Isn’t et
The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:16-17 NASB The man – I’ve put “the man” in bold to call your…
Loneliness
“At last this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of man.” Genesis 2:23 NASB At last this – Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik wrote, “To understand himself, man must confide in another. Only woman, who is an independent person with her own I-awareness, can liberate the…
John and Jeremiah’s Scribe
Afterwards she appeared on earth and lived with humankind. Baruch 3:37 NRSV She – It’s likely that you’ve never read Baruch (sometimes referred to as 1 Baruch). It’s a book in the Catholic and Greek orthodox Apocrypha, termed deuterocanonical, that is, considered canonical books of the Old Testament by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Assyrian, and others…
Barcelona
Just thought you might like to see where we are today. Barcelona is Gaudi town. Here’s a shot of one of the apartment building with his influence, and two pictures of the famous La Sagrada Familia, one shot years ago when the inside was still under construction and the other now when it’s finished.
Innocence Revisited – Rewind
Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. Galatians 3:24 NASB 1995 Our tutor – It seems that the world of human relationships often strives to regain the feeling of innocence lost long ago in the mistaken choices of growing up. Since so few of us really…
