Musings and Amusing

“I’ll believe it when I see it”

I’m amazed to look back and remember the thoughtless, ignorant statements I used to heartily believe and repeat. I would proudly proclaim to be a thoughtful person, one who was not easily fooled, but I remember how I would hear statements about evolution and the age of the Earth and readily accept them as fact without any question.

Folks repeat statements like “I’ll believe it when I see it” when asked about their beliefs in a Divine Power; however, the same folks will readily lap up statements from scientific journals without question, without seeing, without understanding, and without debate.

If I told you that the device upon which you were reading this article had appeared naturally after millions of years, after time and temperature and earthly elements came together to make the technological marvel before you, without any intervention from an intelligent being, you would say I was mad. Yet, how readily do we believe statements about an explosion (“Big Bang”) creating order and a life-sustaining planet?

Check this out and let me know what you think:  Evolution vs God

Are you open to truth, even if it means you may have to change your mind, your actions, and endure criticism from those who have closed their minds?

patricia grace

 

Musings and Amusing

Prayer meeting

The church I’ve been attending since moving is in transition since the Pastor retired. The transitional Pastor has been warmly and faithfully teaching the Word of God, but recently someone else was called in to lead the Wed night study. He is an older man who formerly Pastored a church himself, and I am really enjoying Bible study under his teaching.

His focus has been on the subject of prayer. Tonight was a great reminder that prayer isn’t all about petition. There should be a regular amount of praise and thanksgiving in our prayers to God. All good things come from Him and He is worthy of all praise.

My prayer time has become my favorite time of day, but lately my mind wanders terribly during my devotions. I’ve had the idea to actually set up a specific time to pray each day, like an appointment. I pray in the mornings, but I’ve not been very disciplined about it. So, I’ll start with a 6am appointment and see how it goes. I’m sure that my puritan brothers and sisters in Christ would be so proud of me *smirk*

As for adding my daily food intake, I added a text widget to the sidebar to use until I come up with something else.[edit: daily diet list is on its own page now]. I am not using the self-hosted WordPress version for this blog, so I’m limited in plugins. I’ll think of another solution soon. If you have some ideas, please share!

Merry Christmas,

patricia