Posted in Life on Feb 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
These are two more pictures I took of the snow that fell on Tucson last week. The first one is looking into Ventana Canyon with the Ventana Canyon Resort at the bottom. The second photo shows a panoramic view of the Catalina mountains with the Ventana canyon on the right side.
Posted in Faith on Feb 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
This is an expanded version of the first article I wrote on this blog: Daniel – A Man of Light, Understanding & Wisdom.
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Dan 12:4 But you, Daniel, keep these words secret and seal the book until the time of the end…
Consider how God tells Daniel to “keep these words secret and seal the [...]
Posted in Faith on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Consider the Copernican Principle, the idea that we do not occupy a privileged position in the universe. As Fred Heeren of First Things says in an article here:
Many regard [the Copernican Principle] as a necessary axiom for the continued success of the scientific enterprise. The practice of science begins, we are [...]
Posted in Faith on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Radio talk-show host Dennis Prager recently wrote a column about some thoughts he had on the subject of love (see here). Two of his points stood out to me:
3. That is one reason the notion of “unconditional love” is foolish. The fact is, we all earn love, and it is a good thing to have [...]
Posted in Life on Feb 26th, 2008 No Comments »
I took these pictures last week after snow fell on the mountains next to Tucson.
Posted in Faith on Feb 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
The New York Times reported last week (see here) that a “new five-year analysis of the nation’s death rates recently released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds increased nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2004, the latest year studied, far outpacing changes in nearly every [...]
Posted in Notes on Feb 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Here another beautiful flower we saw on our trip to Hawaii in December.
Posted in Faith on Feb 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Consider these words from Sarah Pierpont Edwards, wife of Jonathan Edwards, describing an experience she had in Northampton, Massachusetts on a Tuesday night in January of 1742 (from here):
I felt a strong desire to be alone with God, to go with him, without having any one to interrupt the silent and soft communion, which I [...]
Posted in Fiction on Feb 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s the first chapter of a novel I started writing a while back. I would love to hear what others think of it. Thanks!
Artificial Awakening — Chapter 1
I awoke at 5:55 am, Tuesday morning on a crisp November day in a JPL laboratory in Pasadena California. At least that’s what my memory logged at the [...]
Posted in Faith on Feb 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Not many people have heard of the amazing journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions in the New World in the 1530’s. He was part of a fleet of five ships and 600 men who left port in Spain on June 27th, 1527, as a part of a royal expedition intended [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Even though I am a conservative, I happen to like Obama’s message of optimism, hope and working together to solve our problems. Given that I view him the likely winner in the general election in November, I certainly hope that he will hold to his pledge of reaching across the isle to work with conservatives.
Even [...]
Posted in Life on Feb 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Many have grown up believing that Christopher Columbus was vindicated in his discovery of the New World that proved the world was round and not flat. Ships do not fall off the edge of the world as many feared they would, and Columbus proved he was right and they were wrong.
Or did he?
Apparently, we have [...]
Posted in Life on Feb 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I liked the spiral of this tropical plant we saw while in Hawaii.
Posted in Fiction on Feb 8th, 2008 No Comments »
We’ve all heard these verses before:
Matthew 7:4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s [...]
Posted in Business, Faith on Feb 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
In the high-tech industry where I work, innovation is highly valued. Where would an Apple or a Sony or a Google be without innovating totally new products or ways to do things that no one has thought of before (or thought out nearly as well)? In my business, the enemy of innovation is frequently conventional [...]
Posted in Life on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Needless to say, I don’t see this much moss growing every day in Tucson. This photo was taken on our recent trip to Hawaii.
Posted in Politics on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Of the 14.6 million votes cast on the Democratic side of yesterday’s super Tuesday primary, Hillary only won by 53,000 votes, or by only 0.36% (i.e., less than half a percent). Obama is said to have picked up more delegates, but the actual number is not clear yet, perhaps 5 to 14 delegates out of [...]
Posted in Faith on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
As Christians, we are spiritual beings who should be living in God’s Kingdom — a kingdom of grace, peace, love and even the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit.
And yet.
And yet all too often we spend our lives contained inside of a (largely) intellectual world, where we sit politely and listen quietly as the pastor [...]
Posted in Life on Feb 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
Three years ago, I bought my first ever vanity license plate for my car. It reads: “SET FREE”.
Set free from what you ask? Well, primarily set free from being obese, but also set free from credit card debt. Basically, in June of 2003 I weighed in at about 390 pounds. Two years later, eating a [...]
Posted in Faith on Feb 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Psalms 24 is a very well known chapter in the Bible, especially these two verses…
Psalms 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor [...]
