Wes is 33 today and I just want to say that he is the best husband and father. He works so hard and sacrifices so much for us. He works all day and then comes home and works until bedtime helping with our kids. We are really different from one another but together we make a great pair.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
A Faith for Tragedy and Suffering
It is hard to be forthcoming about certain beliefs because they are rather controversial...
However, I have a problem with the thinking that charges all bad things to the devil and credits God with the good. With all the bad that happens, you would think that God and Satan are having a boxing match and that sometimes God wins and sometimes Satan wins with God promising to knock him out in the final round...
This is not the God I read about in the bible. God sent Jesus to die, not Satan. It was horrible but ultimately His plan from the foundations of the Earth. It was not a plan of Satan that God cleaned up with a reworking of his plans. God is not running behind the devil trying to figure out how to make a good thing out of a bad thing. God is GOD. Nothing that happens is beyond his control or permission.
And there is the question of 'free will" and the part of man in the plans of God. Just look at the details that were in the old testament that detailed things in Jesus' life... The details about His birth, life and death were too critical to leave to human chance and choice. Yeah, those people had a free mind to do as they pleased, but God already knew what they would do before they decided. You can't, I can't and the devil can't surprise God. No one has ever told God what to do or made him panic or worry.
I don't pretend to know the mind of God but it says in Micha:
"I will have MY WAY in the whirl-wind and the storm..."
The devil is a threat and we are to wage war against him for sure. But, trusting the divine God who knows every detail of everyday before we are born, is the essence of LIFE. Read this if you want to know how I feel about that....
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2001/1181_Why_I_Do_Not_Say_God_Did_Not_Cause_the_Calamity_but_HeCan_Use_It_for_Good/
However, I have a problem with the thinking that charges all bad things to the devil and credits God with the good. With all the bad that happens, you would think that God and Satan are having a boxing match and that sometimes God wins and sometimes Satan wins with God promising to knock him out in the final round...
This is not the God I read about in the bible. God sent Jesus to die, not Satan. It was horrible but ultimately His plan from the foundations of the Earth. It was not a plan of Satan that God cleaned up with a reworking of his plans. God is not running behind the devil trying to figure out how to make a good thing out of a bad thing. God is GOD. Nothing that happens is beyond his control or permission.
And there is the question of 'free will" and the part of man in the plans of God. Just look at the details that were in the old testament that detailed things in Jesus' life... The details about His birth, life and death were too critical to leave to human chance and choice. Yeah, those people had a free mind to do as they pleased, but God already knew what they would do before they decided. You can't, I can't and the devil can't surprise God. No one has ever told God what to do or made him panic or worry.
I don't pretend to know the mind of God but it says in Micha:
"I will have MY WAY in the whirl-wind and the storm..."
The devil is a threat and we are to wage war against him for sure. But, trusting the divine God who knows every detail of everyday before we are born, is the essence of LIFE. Read this if you want to know how I feel about that....
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2001/1181_Why_I_Do_Not_Say_God_Did_Not_Cause_the_Calamity_but_HeCan_Use_It_for_Good/
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Kyson's 2nd Birthday Party
Kyson turned 2 the 30th of April but because of many events this is the first chance we had to throw a party...
check out the slide show
or visit my album
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
mensa list FUNNY
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Here are this year's winners. Read them carefully. Each is an artificial word with only one letter altered to form a real word. Some are terrifically innovative:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
10. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's, like, a serious bummer.
11. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
12. Glibido: All talk and no action.
13. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
14. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
15. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
And The #1 Pick:
17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
sorry about the naughty word
Here are this year's winners. Read them carefully. Each is an artificial word with only one letter altered to form a real word. Some are terrifically innovative:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
10. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's, like, a serious bummer.
11. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
12. Glibido: All talk and no action.
13. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
14. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
15. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
And The #1 Pick:
17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
sorry about the naughty word
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