Success!

Iraqi Elections with large turn out!

And, if you read the article, you'll see that that the divisions of the people are acting to make their democracy stronger. Who knew?!?!? The Sunnis want to vote to show everyone they ARE important! Its fantastic!

Hard Times

Not going into a lot of details right now, but I would appreciate prayer. I am dealing with some on going difficulties, and I really have no idea what the outcome will be.

Tracing God's hand in everything is not always easy to do, though I believe it to be something that is truly a constant. Please pray for me, to be granted wisdom beyond myself, to be granted strength and peace in the midst of challenges. Thanks all.

Wise Words on Evolution and Creation

It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and Earth' even if you only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature a name of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he could created one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else; just as many of them live under a sort of illusion that they have read the Origin of Species. ... For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow working miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. ... Yet there runs through all the rationalistic treatment of history this curious and confused idea that difficulty is avoided, or even mystery eliminated, by dwelling on mere delay or on something dilatory in the processes of things.

GK Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

Sactus Abbas Quod Virtus Vita

Hopefully that's correct.

Here's a neat article.

What if...

If this had been a story about an American suggesting that the stories of slavery in the South were mythic and the Blacks should be removed to Africa...I wonder what the reaction would be?

But hating Israel is par for the course in the world today. People get tired of all the movies and speaches that glorify the heroes of WWII and deal with the horrors of the Nazis...they suggest that we'll never actually forget what happened. At this point, more and more it looks less as if we'll forget and more like we'll simply stop believing it was even possible.

A Game

One of my students has a blog with this link on it. It seems like something fun to link too...so here it is.

Left in Chaos

Hillary's self-implosion. And still more...

Undermining our troops.

Ignoring the answers they claim they wanted.

Insisting a growing ecconomy is dying.

So much for the toppling of the Right.

Nature is Natural

Who Knew?