Monday, May 22, 2006

The Center, oops I mean, Centre of the Universe

The planets in our solar system revolves around our sun, a smallish star. Our solar system is apparently revolving around in a big universe that is expanding. So if it is expanding one could conclude that there is a centre from which it is expanding from. This seems basic enough.

That is not how many people think though. I meet them everyday, people who think that the world, no in fact the universe, revolves around them. These are people that can only see as far as their own needs. Their lives are spent demanding that everyone else in the universe meet those needs.

I wrote these words on May 22, 2006 and saved them as a draft because I was interupted and did not finish the thought. Today, December 13, 2006, I, of course, now have no idea where I was going with this but in order to get back to posting. Here ya go, a half finished thought.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Awesome power


When I get busy blogging gets a back seat. It is not that I don't have things to say cuz I do. I have been thinking about this one for some time. I recently visited a city that had been hit by a cyclone. I thought I would blog about the power of nature.

It seems to me that most people in Australia would say they feel pretty secure in their homes. Not to say that there aren't situations where people are homeless or living in less than desirable conditions because that happens here as everywhere but for the most part, people are secure. But after what I saw there weeks after the storm reminded me of how fragile humans really are. For all our human knowledge, experience, etc. could not stop the storm. Some very big buildings were damaged in amazing ways. Nature itself could not stand up to the strength of the cyclone. The cyclone is a certainly an awesome power.

Just think. God is stronger than that.