Monthly Archives: December 2008

I like the new WordPress dashboard… you blogspot users just have no idea what you’re missing… right Laci? Mark? (oh, yeah, he doesn’t post anymore).

I just heard an amazing talk (given by a Harvard prof) on the developing brain. I learned a great deal about how stress affects the brain’s development and even why we learn the way we do. One thought continued to come to mind during this talk… early childhood development (this conference’s topic) depends on families and communities… depends… families… NOT dvds or computer games… families. “Train up a child…” is a foundational biblical concept that precedes the scientic and socialogical data… the scientific data continues to point us to the truths of life contained in Scripture… but we can find great motivating information as we learn widely and see through our learning how universally God’s truths apply to every field of knowledge…
So families… rearing children… in as stress free a context as is possible is the core scientific message… how? Well, I keep thinking of the Peace that comes from Grace… of the Peace that comes because of reconcilliation between people which comes to fruition as peace comes between humans and God… what we need is peace, Peace from Grace!

while at Stbks grading papers, I observed two things that brought me great sadness about the state of man… the first was a homeless man searching the trash cans all along the street… he would find a container of milk partially emptied and finish it, and another reach into the can he found half of a coke, he took this find and moved to search the next can… the second event involved another man who was being searched and when the police found something in his pockets, he was hand-cuffed… what sadness I saw through the window… what sadness I felt for us… even so, come Lord Jesus… more later from the American capital.

I’m in DC today and tomorrow attending a conference that has early childhood development in the developing world as its topic… it is my hope to learn more about how God’s children need help, how that help is being given, how the givers of that help express that need, and perhaps make a few friends and try to show them Jesus along the way…

to lower my carbon footprint and reduce car related stress, I left the Volvo in the ‘ville and took the train… in the dining car I read some Scripture and was told to be humble… living humbly, now that’s hard, but I’m gonna try to show Him that way… more later

There are a couple things that I need to get off my chest. First, the tragic happenings in India are so, so sad… These atrocities point to a greater injustice across the planet that make me so sad… We now have some limited digital TV capability at the house now and I get to watch more news from different countries and the South African news channel tells the sad, unjust tale that is Africa daily… Then there is the whole Black Friday atrocities on Long Island and in San Diego… What is wrong with these stupid people??????????? TO trample a Wal-Mart worker because of sale prices? and to shoot some one in a Toys-R-Us????? Icontend that 5th Avenue and the network news bear a heavy responsibility for these deaths… they (5th Ave advertising giants who teach people to want, want, buy, buy) and the news media who have created such a culture of fear about the economy which worsens an already bad situation and the our gun laws… ok, now I’m really ranting… sorry… So, on the way to post this rant, I saw two posts at CNN … the first is that Geo. W. Bush says that some people voted for Obama because of him (Bush)… Really? YA THINK???? Good grief, can you state the obvious? AND THEN the just silly… click here …SO we should tie up resourses at the justice department at this time in history when we are taking on recordnational debt to bail out gredy Wall Street bankers and people are trampling workers in store to save 40% on a TV? to devise a college foot ball playoff??????? no, sorry, that’s not silly, its stupid.

What a world we live in… What a mess…

Advent, looking forward to the return of the Lord Jesus…

Please come quickly Lord.

“It’s the most wonderful season of all!” The anticipation of the celebration of Jesus first coming and hope for His second coming!