We are all spread out in the world, the inhabitants connected to Corgi Hollows...
Two boys "in the field" serving their country.
Someone's driving across North America to get her fill of the mountains. I HOPE she gets her fill, because if she loses her heart to the mountains I'm afraid she will move away from Minnesota. All in good time...
One has been in Wisconsin. One is in Washington. Texas has dear ones.
I just returned from Indiana and my "secret hiding place" there.
Cherie spent a few days with her Iowa grandparents, and then she camped at Frontenac State Park in Minnesota with her dad and our church family.
Ed stays around home. He's working quite a bit and is recovering from his knee replacement surgery still. There is still quite the limp and quite some pain. We go back to Mayo next week for post-op. I'm interested in what they will say about it. It hasn't been as problem free as the last knee replacement.
School is coming soon.
In Indiana I didn't have as much time as I usually have. I didn't get to all the reading I'd hoped for. I did spend time in the pool and hatched the idea for Corgi Hollows History Day. It's actually been cooking for quite awhile in my head, but the time is now right, and I'm excited to have an event that I feel is sorely needed.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
I think that's probably true, as we see so many patterns in human culture and society over the millennia of human civilization. History is important. I think our society is in danger of revisionist history, too, a sanitizing of the horrors human beings are really capable of.
We would all like to believe humans are essentially good. We all know good people, right?
I think we need to look to Scripture for the truth about people in this confusing idea. The Bible says human nature is sinful, and that all die in their sins EXCEPT those who believe on Christ and His sacrifice for our sin.
That is the truth from the Bible, and that assumes human nature is sinful.
Our righteousness is "like filthy rags."
That's not good. God is good. WE are not. We are sinners.
Back to history----It's important to see trends in history and how they suggest themselves in this world with billions of human beings now. When you get a massive population you will see far more trends, and in a readable scale---because of probability and human nature.
Fascinating.
We can study so many things these days, especially how sin manifests in big ways.
A word of warning: This is the "church age," and we have the Holy Spirit protecting us and helping us. When the church is called out by the "Shout" and the trumpet, the Holy Spirit leaves too. The salt and light of societal preservation will be gone.
You know what rot is. It will happen in a societal sense, and it will probably happen quickly. Seven years, probably. (That's Biblical.)
We have no idea how much God is preserving and protecting EACH ONE OF US daily.
There is so much beauty and symmetry in God's creation. It is amazing, and He has placed us in a position of significance. Science shows us that we are at the mean of his entire creation. Central, important. From the end of the Universe to the threads of string theory. God cares about us.
Brushing up on history and its trends and lessons is vitally important. Our technological world has magnified the good, the bad, and the ugly. It's important to stay grounded.
A while back I had a former teacher engage in an exchange about the "thinning of the veil." She is my favorite teacher, to this day, though her spiritual views vary widely from mine. She mentioned a work of literature where the character lived in an essence of spiritual awareness, yet the author intimated it was borderline madness.
Those of us who have lived and experienced the spiritual would argue that we are not mad, but complete.
Humans are essentially spiritual. WE are not just flesh and blood. One need only spend a moment with a corpse to realize this.
WE are soul. I believe we are spiritually dead until we are born again in Jesus Christ. All souls are eternal, but spiritually born again individuals have a relationship with a Spiritual Being who created the Universe.
This transforms the life of one who is born again. It defines the life.
I saw an article about a man from Ireland who wrote out 29 criticisms of Americans. I agreed with most of them. He mentioned that Americans tend to be more religious, and outspoken about religion.
GOOD!
Those of us who are born again want the entire rest of the world to become whole, spiritual beings as God intended along with us!
It's a good thing. It's a VERY good thing.
As a child I had several "thinning of the veil" experiences. I don't know how a rational atheistic scientist would explain them, except to say they were delusions, (which they were not!) The spiritual world is a reality. It interacts with the physical world regularly.
I'm thinking that these dimensions will become only more integrated as time goes on. Denial will be considered a delusion.
As I read the daily headlines and see the delusions of those lost in sin I cannot help it but repeat the same admonition to repent and and follow Christ. This is an invitation to become whole and complete. It is the only way in creation to become well.
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. All these things will be added to you.
This is a promise that has never been broken, and never will be.
Follow Christ!
Two boys "in the field" serving their country.
Someone's driving across North America to get her fill of the mountains. I HOPE she gets her fill, because if she loses her heart to the mountains I'm afraid she will move away from Minnesota. All in good time...
One has been in Wisconsin. One is in Washington. Texas has dear ones.
I just returned from Indiana and my "secret hiding place" there.
Cherie spent a few days with her Iowa grandparents, and then she camped at Frontenac State Park in Minnesota with her dad and our church family.
Ed stays around home. He's working quite a bit and is recovering from his knee replacement surgery still. There is still quite the limp and quite some pain. We go back to Mayo next week for post-op. I'm interested in what they will say about it. It hasn't been as problem free as the last knee replacement.
School is coming soon.
In Indiana I didn't have as much time as I usually have. I didn't get to all the reading I'd hoped for. I did spend time in the pool and hatched the idea for Corgi Hollows History Day. It's actually been cooking for quite awhile in my head, but the time is now right, and I'm excited to have an event that I feel is sorely needed.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
I think that's probably true, as we see so many patterns in human culture and society over the millennia of human civilization. History is important. I think our society is in danger of revisionist history, too, a sanitizing of the horrors human beings are really capable of.
We would all like to believe humans are essentially good. We all know good people, right?
I think we need to look to Scripture for the truth about people in this confusing idea. The Bible says human nature is sinful, and that all die in their sins EXCEPT those who believe on Christ and His sacrifice for our sin.
That is the truth from the Bible, and that assumes human nature is sinful.
Our righteousness is "like filthy rags."
That's not good. God is good. WE are not. We are sinners.
Back to history----It's important to see trends in history and how they suggest themselves in this world with billions of human beings now. When you get a massive population you will see far more trends, and in a readable scale---because of probability and human nature.
Fascinating.
We can study so many things these days, especially how sin manifests in big ways.
A word of warning: This is the "church age," and we have the Holy Spirit protecting us and helping us. When the church is called out by the "Shout" and the trumpet, the Holy Spirit leaves too. The salt and light of societal preservation will be gone.
You know what rot is. It will happen in a societal sense, and it will probably happen quickly. Seven years, probably. (That's Biblical.)
We have no idea how much God is preserving and protecting EACH ONE OF US daily.
There is so much beauty and symmetry in God's creation. It is amazing, and He has placed us in a position of significance. Science shows us that we are at the mean of his entire creation. Central, important. From the end of the Universe to the threads of string theory. God cares about us.
Brushing up on history and its trends and lessons is vitally important. Our technological world has magnified the good, the bad, and the ugly. It's important to stay grounded.
A while back I had a former teacher engage in an exchange about the "thinning of the veil." She is my favorite teacher, to this day, though her spiritual views vary widely from mine. She mentioned a work of literature where the character lived in an essence of spiritual awareness, yet the author intimated it was borderline madness.
Those of us who have lived and experienced the spiritual would argue that we are not mad, but complete.
Humans are essentially spiritual. WE are not just flesh and blood. One need only spend a moment with a corpse to realize this.
WE are soul. I believe we are spiritually dead until we are born again in Jesus Christ. All souls are eternal, but spiritually born again individuals have a relationship with a Spiritual Being who created the Universe.
This transforms the life of one who is born again. It defines the life.
I saw an article about a man from Ireland who wrote out 29 criticisms of Americans. I agreed with most of them. He mentioned that Americans tend to be more religious, and outspoken about religion.
GOOD!
Those of us who are born again want the entire rest of the world to become whole, spiritual beings as God intended along with us!
It's a good thing. It's a VERY good thing.
As a child I had several "thinning of the veil" experiences. I don't know how a rational atheistic scientist would explain them, except to say they were delusions, (which they were not!) The spiritual world is a reality. It interacts with the physical world regularly.
I'm thinking that these dimensions will become only more integrated as time goes on. Denial will be considered a delusion.
As I read the daily headlines and see the delusions of those lost in sin I cannot help it but repeat the same admonition to repent and and follow Christ. This is an invitation to become whole and complete. It is the only way in creation to become well.
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. All these things will be added to you.
This is a promise that has never been broken, and never will be.
Follow Christ!
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