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Christopher’s excellent blog inspired these ramblings.

What is our modern Tower of Babel? Is it trying to do things ourselves, our way? Is it as Christopher said “our quest for perfection? The perfection is indeed broken. 

The weight of the world is too heavy for me.  That's why Jesus carried it.  I stagger beneath it before I let Him lift it off of my shoulders.  Yet even then I feel it pressing down.  Am I still holding on?

This week is National No TV week.  I told my students yesterday that it would be easy for me, and had them try to guess why.  They had lots of ideas: "you're taking a trip", "you are teaching, and don't have time", "you're a grownup".  But when I told them the truth--we don't have a TV, every one of their faces registered shock.  Then the questions came, "How do you watch American Idol?"  "I don't."  "How do you watch Survivor?"  "I don't."  The questions to me turned into intense discussion of their favorite shows, until I called their attention back to 2nd grade phonics.  Hardly an interesting topic next to the conversation at hand.  And my heart was heavy.

How do you get pictures up on your blogs & stuff?

Hello, this is Christina.  I've never ever done anything like this before so please forgive me if I mess up, but THIS IS COOL!

Technology bore a promise of perfection; the culmination of man's ingenuity.  It was the one thing that we could thoroughly understand and perform; the one thing we could build machines to do for us, perfectly and fast. It was math with 1s and 0s. After all there are fundamentally only three things that can be done with 1s and 0s: NOT, AND, and OR them – but that's not the point here.

The point is the dream. If I can make a machine that can do a thousand of those operations per second I can set it to solving problems that I could never solve; If I know how to solve the problem, the machine is able.

Adam and Cristina Williams will be giving a concert on Saturday evening, May 6, at the Petersburg SDA Church.

There is a difference between having the kingdom within you and being the kingdom yourself. If I am my own kingdom, if the nuances of my brain and personality are all there is to look forward to, an eternal march of what I already am, then shoot me. Where’s the pleasure in knowing that hope is the most hopeless enterprise imaginable? Hope is in change, the irrepressible certainty that tomorrow will be different than today.

It seems to me that if skeptical intelligentsia think that the unearthing of more Gnostic gospels will shatter Christianity as we know it, then they are more deluded than I thought. Even if both strains of gospel accounts are simply “perspectives,” I will choose the accepted four.

Sometimes it is so easy for me to focus on the difficulties in life, and forget how much God has really blessed me. Last night I was so tired, and it was late, and Isaiah wasn't sleeping well, and my house wasn't as clean as I wanted it to be. I felt frustrated and overwhelmed. Christopher and I weren't communicating well. I said outloud, "why is life so hard?" And as I heard myself say that, I also felt a sense of shame wash over me. Of course life is hard, but the problems that I face are so small. I had just finished reading the book "Roots" and realizing the horrors that slaves had to face made me realize how thankful I am to be free, and to have my family with me. I also recently read, "Tortured for His Faith", and that also makes my woes seem insignificant in comparision. It doesn't mean that the little things can't be hard, but I think it is so important to keep things in perspective. I have so much to be thankful for. A loving husband, a beautiful, healthy baby, a close family, good friends, the knowledge and freedom to worship God, a house to live in with plenty of food, the chance to stay at home with my little boy, and the list goes on and on. I don't want to get bogged down in the little things, and forget all of the huge blessings. I pray that I do not forget these things.

do you want people who are within the circle. who are familar with no less days. Or are you just more concerned with getting more users for more ideas and imput?

I've really been excited to get more people on NLD.org... but it's been a challenge. There are several of us working to create more content so it'll be a more interesting place. If we can get more people on and fire up some good discussion we'll be in good stead.

Better yet, we need to get media on here. I talked to Stephanie this evening and encouraged her to sign up. She did. I showed here the song Press On but she's heared it from garbonzo.info and wasn't too excited. What she'd be excited about, she said, would be more songs. I guess that makes sense -- gotta get more of what we've got on here; and a good way to organize it will help a great deal.