Losing the Plot...just a little.

So I must admit, I am going loopy. I did get out for my first run in 6 weeks on Saturday which was beautiful. Unfortunately one run has not been enough to cure the cabin fever/insanity that has launched itself upon my mind over the last weeks.

Finding solace in music I picked up the new Rosie Thomas cd yesterday and it is very good. Everything I could want from an acoustic album.

Oh, my computer screen died on Friday. So today I'm going to have to get Dell to come fix it....scary.

An essay and a philosophy exam to go this week and then some time off.

I am considering a repeat on the run today.

And thankyou to everyone who have been so supportive in my new venture to open a cookie store. Your comments have been noted.

Life Ambitions

Thankyou all for your kind comments re. my new profile pic.

I am currently working out whether I should open a cookie store post college.

I really want to own/run a cookie store.

I'm serious.

2 things to ask or say

1. Does anyone have my copy of 'Scribbling in the Sand' by Michael Card? .....Can I please have it back now

2. I just got a text from a friend; it simply read

"Your body is a dream turned violent"

he made me laugh.

Gen 4-11

Two very different images of the same event

Here’s the rub

Genesis 3 is one of the most important chapters in the Bible.

But there is always a temptation to study it, to analyze it and to remain distant from it.

To remain distant means that as we come to consider what it means for humanity to have turned from our creator and to have reached for autonomy, we analyze it as mere theory.

In doing so we have the appearance of image one, that is, we look from afar.

But what Genesis 4-11 does for us is force us down to ground zero.

It makes us walk the rubble,

smell the smoke

and feel the tragedy.

These 8 chapters are crafted in such as to guide us through the consequences of human rebellion.

As well as let us in on a surprising response from the creator.

Genesis 4-11

Two very different images of the same event

Image 2:

Ground Zero Hiroshima, August 1945

Nearly every structure within a mile destroyed


Roughly half the population dead or injured

Genesis 4-11

Two very different images of the same event

Image 1

Interim committee established April 1945 by President Harry
Truman charged with recommending the proper use of atomic weapons in wartime.
Or in layman’s terms – how do we use ‘the bomb’.

In the end they decide that the bomb must be deployed swiftly, unannounced and on one of either 4 cities

Niigata
Kyoto
Kokura Arsenal
Hiroshima

Do you know how the final decision was made?

What the weather was doing that particular day.

Quote

Found this as I was researching for my sermon;

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
--Anne Lamott