When I was a child my father owned a National Geographic book about… well, I don’t exactly remember. However, I do remember the inside cover painting, one similar to the one below, though linear. It also based its unit of measure on the height of man, a markedly humanistic approach which at least has merit [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Why?!’
Order of Magnitude
Posted in General, God Thoughts, Random thoughts, Science, Why?!, tagged God Thoughts, Random thoughts, Science, Why?! on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Perspective by Comparison
Posted in Creation Articles, General, Random thoughts, Science, Why?!, tagged Creation Articles, Remembering, Science, Why?! on December 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As time passes I seem to have more, not less, on my mind than I can bring to the front burner and cook. I have so many incomplete questions and thoughts that sit on back burners and in warming alcoves that some will spoil before they ever get cooked. Rather than a source of discouragement [...]
Orange Dots
Posted in Beauty, General, God Thoughts, tagged Beauty, God Thoughts, Photos, Random thoughts, Science, Why?! on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
During the collection of insects last semester one of my students collected a moth. After a day in the ziplock there were small round dots in the container. “What are they?” We put them under a microscope and there appeared these translucent moth eggs. They contain an embryo you can see, looking almost like crystals, and [...]
Painful Teacher
Posted in General, Poem, Strength, Sustaining, Why?!, tagged Poems, Strength, Sustaining, Why?! on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Pain is a teacher unlike the rest Mastery through continual test Speaks loud and clear the nerves to molest Difficult friend and unwelcomed guest Told to rejoice through various trials How so when all comfort it defiles Raises high fears deep emotions riles Makes a few steps seem as many miles The answer [...]
Behind Your Questions
Posted in General, God Thoughts, Poem, tagged God Thoughts, Poems, Why?! on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What do you aspire to do? What motivates and drives you through? Is it comfort, security or ease of pain? Power, influence, life in the fast lane? Why do you work hard, or at other times sit idle? Why do you follow rules, but then rear your head without bridle? Are there goals, a plan, [...]
Complementary Effects from One Cause
Posted in Beauty, General, Poem, Strength, Why?!, tagged Beauty, Poems, Why?! on August 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here is an oldie but a …. well you’ll have to decide about that. It certainly isn’t an easy one to get nor was it easy to do. I sometimes get hung up in my own devices poetically. I’m sure the poetry suffers but it’s about the challenge. Hopefully the message does not equally suffer [...]
A Need to Create
Posted in General, Poem, Why?!, tagged Poems, Why?! on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why are we creative? Look around. Consider. To expand your musings read my poem by clicking on A Need to Create . Here is a scene that brings back memories for me and could elicit creativity in most anyone:
Narnia: Looking in
Posted in Beauty, General, Random thoughts, Why?!, tagged Beauty, Random thoughts, Why?! on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
No, the movie wasn’t like the book, and I think some of the original intent was lost by obscuring it in more introspective and mature themes. But taken as a story alone it had merit to rightly excite the imagination on some points. Perhaps some will read the book who would not have otherwise. I [...]
Why I got distracted during the sermon
Posted in General, Random thoughts, Why?!, tagged Random thoughts, Why?! on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Pastor D. was preaching an excellent sermon this morning on unity in the church. I heard most of it loud and clear with the abundant and well placed Scripture references. But I missed the last half of the introduction and the first point because of a thought process set in motion by his thought provoking [...]
Respect
Posted in General, God's Word, Random thoughts, Why?!, tagged Random thoughts, Why?! on February 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Is respect a legitimate exercise and attitude or is it a power grab by one set of people over another? If it is legitimate when should it be exercised? Since all words are suspect in this day of reverse connotations (“He’s the ‘baddest’ dude I ever seen.”) and relativism (“It may mean that to you [...]
Push back the Noise
Posted in General, Random thoughts, Why?!, tagged Random thoughts, Why?! on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is noise? How does it affect us? What can we or should we do about it? What difference does it make? Is it an unavoidable result of modern technology or is the source older? The answers may unnerve (knowledge) and settle (application) you. Check it out by clicking on Noise
Word savvy (part 2)
Posted in General, God's Word, Random thoughts, Why?!, tagged God's Word, Random thoughts, Why?! on January 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A second situation that prompted these thoughts happened last week over a period of nearly a week. One of my nephews drew fire over a blog entry that he had made. The opening salvo regarded whether Christmas has pagan or Christian origins. After 40 comments the discussion was moved over to a forum where two [...]
Word savvy (part 1)
Posted in General, God's Word, Random thoughts, Why?!, tagged God's Word, Random thoughts, Why?! on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was urging one of my sons the other day to read the Word of God regularly. “Why?”, he says, “I know what it says.” But there is a need in all of us to know and do the Word, as James 1:22-25 says, “But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers [...]
Initiative part 2
Posted in General, Why?!, tagged Why?! on November 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
(Maybe that should be Initiator2. Isn’t that how second movies are named? But really this should be part one because it initiated part one which is really part two only I wrote it first. I’d better stop before I get something started.) …Anyway, leinadcaro and I were riding home in the truck one day when [...]
Initiative (part 1b)
Posted in General, Why?!, tagged Why?! on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What drives people to succeed or to even try, and more especially, to keep trying when success appears remote? “The action of taking the first step or move; responsibility for beginning or originating..new ideas or methods; ability to think and act without being urged” (Webster’s New World, 4th edition, 2002) and persisting therein is initiative. [...]
Intiative
Posted in General, Why?!, tagged Why?! on November 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
What drives people to succeed or to even try, and more especially, to keep trying when success appears remote?
Wild Ideas
Posted in General, Why?!, tagged Why?! on September 17, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I’m rereading the book “Wild at Heart” by John Elderidge as part of a men’s group that I hope will become a true band of brothers. That will no doubt take a miraculous work of the Holy Spirit to happen. After our first session I had many ambivalent feelings- some hopeful and positive and some [...]
Verbal Connection
Posted in General, Why?!, tagged Why?! on September 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Allow me to muse for a few moments on a subject far beyond my ability to understand and all the more beyond my ability to explain. So why babble? Though holding no illusions that I can add new insight to the subject I would like to influence you to think deeply and increase your awe [...]
Everyone loves symmetry. As I was reminded as I am participating in a curriculum workshop at William and Mary College this week, “Physicists love symmetry”. Observers of beauty, whether of your beloved’s form or “peak flower” bloom or architecture or tree bole or interior decoration, love symmetry. Music and poetry have popular appeal when there [...]
Why beauty?
Posted in General, tagged Beauty, Outdoors, Why?! on July 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The hues, the colors, the trees and mountains, the vastness and unobstructed view. This is where I see beauty! But why do I see beauty here or at all? Visit again for some views and musing on the purpose and satisfaction of beauty.
