This season of the year is a time when many cliche thoughts roll in for me. Thoughts of new life and stuff. Cogitations deep and pensive that make my lips purse and eyes squint in the brilliance of my own thought and would require a pipe if I held such Holmes-esque trends. Being deep and artsy like this led me to posting "Acacia Sunrise", which bears the essence of spring with the sunrise (new beginning) behind the tree...nauseous yet? Sorry about the sarcasm.
In all reality the only thought that has struck me this morning is how I have not considered the wonder of spring really at all this year. You know what? I would like to see the most brilliant minds in the world work together and make grass. I don't just mean grow grass. I mean MAKE grass from scratch. Line up all the amino acids and figure out how to make the cell division happen in an organized way. Once the scientists get that figured out, I would like to mow it once a week or so. If the grass can handle that, it would be nice if they would let me freeze the grass for a few months and see if it would grow back and propagate through my entire lawn. If the grass survived all that, I would like to ignore the scientists, and say that the grass came together by accident and that they had nothing to do with it....in fact I would tell them that they didn't even exist and that it was irrational to think that they, the makers of this grass, were real.
I don't really care if you believe that it took seven days for creation or if you are an evolutionist...that argument is nigh pointless, but for CRYING OUT LOUD please let your eyes be opened and be in awe that there has to be something bigger than yourself running this whole circus festival! Because at the end of it all, God created...you.
Photographs and random pointers for any who may be interested. To God be the glory.
Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts
Monday, March 26, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
George
George is a brother in Christ that lives near the Ngong hills of Kenya. He lives a life that he would probably call "very sweet". Every morning that my intern group spent in Kenya, he would greet us with a big smile that stuck out as a wonderfully sharp contrast to his dark Kikuyu skin. What reason did he have not to smile? He earned a handsome $10 a day and had a great group of mzungu to laugh at. More importantly I think he knew the importance of a community. Or, shall we say that community was ingrained in him deeply and he knew no different. He had a mindset to not consider himself first, but rather his brothers and sisters in Christ. He was truly confounded when we tried to explain the individualistic and capitalistic mentality that, as far as I can figure it, has been the product (or cause) our country being so successful...at least financially. I will admit that I enjoy the privilege and blessing of having the finances available to have the camera that took this picture, or the laptop to type this blog, or the car to drive to my fiance's apartment, which is less than a mile from my house. However, we have lost something in this our First World culture and I would like to get it back. Except, maybe the only way to get it back is to give something up?
Monday, July 25, 2011
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