no excuses, just the way it is
So it is Sunday night and for the first time in a long time I have felt connected in worship, both socially and spiritually on a Sunday morning. What annoys is that I had to experience it without K - washed out and run down.
Tomorrow starts six weeks on ROAC - a necessary evil. At least I don't have to travel to attend. A chance to catch up with old mates, escape from the office and the daily shuffle which can sap the soul.
So Andrew has had a hair cut - quite ironic given my recent jibing.
Nothing profound today, except to say that a nostalgic tour down pop cultural lane tonight with an Aussie Rock retro documentary highlights pride in wanting achievement and recognition in this life. Why do we feel optimistic when faced with a time past, a reflection on missed opportunities? Is it bad? Ambition must be grounded in ensuring that I must decrease and He must increase.
Sunday, October 19, 2003
Friday, October 10, 2003
Little inconveniences and lessons in life
(just lost most of this blog due to FFL - finger fault local - spewin! A lesson in life learnt whilst writing about a lesson in life!!!)
Anyway, as I have already typed!?! - Yesterday I locked my keys in the car at work. I did not realise until it was time to go home. I had finished late as it was so my sense of humour was taking severe hits. I had left the window down about an inch and a half and the keys were in the ignition.
I spent 25 minutes breaking into my car, the frustrating aspect being that it only took me 20 seconds to unlock the car - once I had figured out how to do it.
Tried with a coat hanger to unlock the door, but the locking lever would not flip over. Tried with the coat hanger to remove the keys from the ignition - to no avail, the angle was not quite right.
In effect tried two different solutions using the same method!
However, when it dawned on me to use a ruler to exert more pressure on the door lock, in no time at all I had access. ie, my first solution was successful, but required a different method.
Thus the axiom dawns - when faced with challenges we can either try different solutions with the same method, or different methods to achieve the same solution. Ed De Bono would have had a field day.
Is this profound? or just vague ramblings. Doesn't matter, but next time a framework for problem solving is required at least there is something to think about.
More importantly, there must be a spiritual application somewhere in there. Surely God has simple single solutions to situations that he wants to use us to achieve. Who chooses to be used is up to us. We therefore become his different methods.
What about the issue of omniscience and He being outside of time, knowing the end before the beginning? What about self-determination and free will? Individually we may be a single method but applicable to achieving different solutions that are within His will. Some things need to just be accepted until all will be revealed.
Too deep for a Fri afternoon. Not really, for the simple things in life should not confound us. Want too deep? Try this, the subject of my mental powers and academic attention for the next two weeks, hopefully at the end of which a paper will fall out!?!
Is Information and Technology Superiority relevant in the 21st century battlespace when adversaries adopt 19th and 20th century strategies?
Anyway, as I have already typed!?! - Yesterday I locked my keys in the car at work. I did not realise until it was time to go home. I had finished late as it was so my sense of humour was taking severe hits. I had left the window down about an inch and a half and the keys were in the ignition.
I spent 25 minutes breaking into my car, the frustrating aspect being that it only took me 20 seconds to unlock the car - once I had figured out how to do it.
Tried with a coat hanger to unlock the door, but the locking lever would not flip over. Tried with the coat hanger to remove the keys from the ignition - to no avail, the angle was not quite right.
In effect tried two different solutions using the same method!
However, when it dawned on me to use a ruler to exert more pressure on the door lock, in no time at all I had access. ie, my first solution was successful, but required a different method.
Thus the axiom dawns - when faced with challenges we can either try different solutions with the same method, or different methods to achieve the same solution. Ed De Bono would have had a field day.
Is this profound? or just vague ramblings. Doesn't matter, but next time a framework for problem solving is required at least there is something to think about.
More importantly, there must be a spiritual application somewhere in there. Surely God has simple single solutions to situations that he wants to use us to achieve. Who chooses to be used is up to us. We therefore become his different methods.
What about the issue of omniscience and He being outside of time, knowing the end before the beginning? What about self-determination and free will? Individually we may be a single method but applicable to achieving different solutions that are within His will. Some things need to just be accepted until all will be revealed.
Too deep for a Fri afternoon. Not really, for the simple things in life should not confound us. Want too deep? Try this, the subject of my mental powers and academic attention for the next two weeks, hopefully at the end of which a paper will fall out!?!
Is Information and Technology Superiority relevant in the 21st century battlespace when adversaries adopt 19th and 20th century strategies?
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Message on Sunday was reassuring
Message on Sunday was reassuring - if Christ suffered so much personally, why do we need to be so sensitive to suffering for our faith. Reinforced the maxim "don't take rejection, contention, suffering, persecution for your faith personally" - only then can we love our enemies, for revenge, a sense of justic, personal pride will not stand between us and them, or them and the salvation message.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Power and Passion
I felt all morning like writing, sat down, logged on and my mental capacity has deserted me!
What gives us power and what generates our passion?
Is our passion fuelled by that which enpowers us, or must we be passionate about something before it will provide us with power?
A Christian perspective might lead to the power coming from our passion - we have been told to seek first the kingdom of God, all things can be done through Christ who strengthens us, set our mind on things above. This is where our focus will provide the fight - if our direction and desires are sound, the strength will follow.
So a life empty of passion will suffer from the need to be empowered.
Stand for something or fall for anything.
A two minded man is unstable in all his ways. (A non minded man will likewise suffer).
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Good friends over last night for dinner. Getting late, fading fast, push through for an eternal value lies in meaningful discussion that the desire for sleep would rob me of.
The four year old perspective on the world continues to enlighten my grumpy eyes. It is easy to lose a cheery disposition when you have no presence requiring you to maintain it, apart from yourself and a long suffering spouse. The responsibility of caring for and sharing in a child's life, even for a short while as protector, guide, teacher, is an honour. Thank you Tullie for being a special part of my life.
What gives us power and what generates our passion?
Is our passion fuelled by that which enpowers us, or must we be passionate about something before it will provide us with power?
A Christian perspective might lead to the power coming from our passion - we have been told to seek first the kingdom of God, all things can be done through Christ who strengthens us, set our mind on things above. This is where our focus will provide the fight - if our direction and desires are sound, the strength will follow.
So a life empty of passion will suffer from the need to be empowered.
Stand for something or fall for anything.
A two minded man is unstable in all his ways. (A non minded man will likewise suffer).
****************
Good friends over last night for dinner. Getting late, fading fast, push through for an eternal value lies in meaningful discussion that the desire for sleep would rob me of.
The four year old perspective on the world continues to enlighten my grumpy eyes. It is easy to lose a cheery disposition when you have no presence requiring you to maintain it, apart from yourself and a long suffering spouse. The responsibility of caring for and sharing in a child's life, even for a short while as protector, guide, teacher, is an honour. Thank you Tullie for being a special part of my life.
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