30May08
From time to time, I’ve been lauded for knowing a lot. More often I’m admonished for not knowing anything. It didn’t take much reflection for me to realize that the admonishment was more accurate.
I don’t know much. When what the knowledge that I’ve accumulated is compared to the vast store of potentially knowable information it is so insignificant that it could be called nothing. That bugs me.
I have an insatiable appetite to know. I want to understand how things work. I’d rather be a polymath than a superhero but I don’t know where to start. Why read that rather than this, why study this phenomenon rather than memorize that text? And once I do start what do I do with it all? At some point, the acquisition of facts is not enough. Scripture reveals that if I “can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge” but don’t love I’m nothing.
Somewhere along the line I need Wisdom. Again the Scripture points the way, “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.”
God, grant me wisdom to use my knowledge for Your glory.
29May08
A headline over at io9 caught my eye: Green Explosives Save the World through Sustainable Warfare.
Is it just me or does “Sustainable Warfare” sound undesirable?
19May08
I was laying in bed last night when an interesting realization popped into my head. I was thinking about themes in Scripture and all of a sudden I recognized one that I can’t recall having heard discussed.
That is the way God seems to judge the majority of a wicked population and leave a remnant e.g. the Flood, the Benjaminite Civil War, the Captivity in Babylon, conquest by the Romans and eventually and especially the Narrow Door.
I haven’t figured out the import of this theme but it is something I will be pondering.
16May08
Last night, my sister and I made a 4-layer silver cake.
In the process we used up all of the granulated white sugar, the brown sugar, the powdered sugar, the shortening, the vanilla extract and the milk. We nearly finished off the flour and the eggs.
Today, we need to visit Costco.
05May08
I’ve been sick today but fortunately I’m already beginning to feel better.
03May08
Xenocide – Orson Scott Card
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
The Great Divorce – C. S. Lewis
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Children of the Mind – Orson Scott Card
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
How Shall We Then Live – Francis Shaeffer
At the Back of the North Wind – George MacDonald
Godless – Ann Coulter
Napoleon – Felix Markham
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks – E. Lockhart
How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
