Imagine a nuclear weapon having an acute existential crisis.
The last few weeks have been an adventure for me. It sounds selfish to me to even SAY that right now.
But Sunday at Bethany Lutheran was the last Sunday before I start back teaching Sunday school, and for a change the Sunday school office actually had a copy of the play I used six years ago teaching about Jonah! That's always a fun story to read and perform; you know, God wants Jonah to preach to the people of Nineveh (and thereby Assyria, for that's the capital) to turn from their sinful ways before He destroys them, and Jonah being freaked out at the prospect runs as far away as he can. BUT God sends a storm to shake up the boat Jonah's on and by casting lots the sailors determine the only way -- and Jonah figures this out himself, in a non-selfish moment -- to save themselves from death is to seemingly cast Jonah to his, by throwing him overboard. Jonah spends three days and nights in the belly of whale, God calls him again to preach to the people of Nineveh. And this time he does; to his surprise, I think, and maybe his disappointment too, they listen and turn from their evil ways.
For the rest of the story please read chapter four of the Old Testament book.
And that's been around for several thousand years.
Since then I've had victories and I've had losses ... And I've learned that it's the losses that require us to be brave.
The latest episode of ABC's retelling of fairy tale and fantasy dependent on Disney's versions of the characters Once Upon A Time "Siege Perilous", not quite so long. Due to our lacking live television the earliest we can watch any episode of any show via Hulu or YouTube or any like service is the day after it's broadcast. Which is what Sarah and I did after I brought the kids home from Grandma and Grandpa's after work while Jeffrey watched something else for he wanted to watch the show with my wife and his mom Martha (note the order; due to her current work schedule, the earliest she can watch OUAT with any of the kids is Wednesday). This season, at least the first half of it, is alternating between a six-week interlude spent in the Camelot of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and the present-day-of-the-show Storybrooke. Our quote above comes from King Arthur while he and Prince Charming retrieve some magic mushroom that lets them speak to Merlin
in a tree. I think. And like most of that bloody show, the more gets solved the more you're left guessing! As for today's title -- come on, you never thought I'd get here did you? -- it comes from something the Steward, a guardian of reality who can fold days in on themselves and make them literally "days missing" averting a worst-case scenario day for humanity, is able to do and has done many times. Presented by Roddenberry, a creative studio helmed by the son of Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek fame, volume one of Days Missing (ISBN 9781932386844) presents five of these worst-case scenarios ranging from an actual Frankenstein experiment to Cortes' conquest of the Aztecs to a planet-wide epidemic and the titular existential crisis, which is experienced by an emerging intelligence ...
Happy Birthday Breanna and the United States Navy, David
But Sunday at Bethany Lutheran was the last Sunday before I start back teaching Sunday school, and for a change the Sunday school office actually had a copy of the play I used six years ago teaching about Jonah! That's always a fun story to read and perform; you know, God wants Jonah to preach to the people of Nineveh (and thereby Assyria, for that's the capital) to turn from their sinful ways before He destroys them, and Jonah being freaked out at the prospect runs as far away as he can. BUT God sends a storm to shake up the boat Jonah's on and by casting lots the sailors determine the only way -- and Jonah figures this out himself, in a non-selfish moment -- to save themselves from death is to seemingly cast Jonah to his, by throwing him overboard. Jonah spends three days and nights in the belly of whale, God calls him again to preach to the people of Nineveh. And this time he does; to his surprise, I think, and maybe his disappointment too, they listen and turn from their evil ways.
For the rest of the story please read chapter four of the Old Testament book.
And that's been around for several thousand years.
Since then I've had victories and I've had losses ... And I've learned that it's the losses that require us to be brave.
The latest episode of ABC's retelling of fairy tale and fantasy dependent on Disney's versions of the characters Once Upon A Time "Siege Perilous", not quite so long. Due to our lacking live television the earliest we can watch any episode of any show via Hulu or YouTube or any like service is the day after it's broadcast. Which is what Sarah and I did after I brought the kids home from Grandma and Grandpa's after work while Jeffrey watched something else for he wanted to watch the show with my wife and his mom Martha (note the order; due to her current work schedule, the earliest she can watch OUAT with any of the kids is Wednesday). This season, at least the first half of it, is alternating between a six-week interlude spent in the Camelot of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and the present-day-of-the-show Storybrooke. Our quote above comes from King Arthur while he and Prince Charming retrieve some magic mushroom that lets them speak to Merlin
in a tree. I think. And like most of that bloody show, the more gets solved the more you're left guessing! As for today's title -- come on, you never thought I'd get here did you? -- it comes from something the Steward, a guardian of reality who can fold days in on themselves and make them literally "days missing" averting a worst-case scenario day for humanity, is able to do and has done many times. Presented by Roddenberry, a creative studio helmed by the son of Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek fame, volume one of Days Missing (ISBN 9781932386844) presents five of these worst-case scenarios ranging from an actual Frankenstein experiment to Cortes' conquest of the Aztecs to a planet-wide epidemic and the titular existential crisis, which is experienced by an emerging intelligence ...
Happy Birthday Breanna and the United States Navy, David
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