Ephesians 5:25-27

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

It's one thing to treat your wife well; it's another thing to love her; it's a grander idea to love her to the point of hoping to present her Radiant. That's what Jesus intends to do with the church. I've never given any thought as to what it would take to present Val as radiant to Jesus. I'm going to ponder that one for a while. One thing for sure, it takes an excitable love and adoration to accomplish that.

Communicator not

I don't understand it and I don't have a driving desire to. I really dislike the phone and I must apologize to my long distance friends and family. Mark, Terry, Lori, Faye, Bert... I really don't like being that way.

It's not just social calls either. I'll avoid making the simplest calls for any reason. I don't know, it's just bizare.

To Busy or not to Busy

I wonder how many people; how many men are like me. I like to be busy but not too busy. I find that to walk that microscopic line is extremely difficult. Lately, I've begun to catch up with a bunch of things and I found myself last night with nothing 'pressing' to do. It was a very odd feeling that I hadn't had for a while. Oh, I could have pitched in with some housework but I selfishly left that for Val to deal with. So, I sat and read my Sky and Telescope. Actually finished everything I wanted to read in it. I guess I really don't know how to enjoy myself very much... every moment 'has to have' a purpose. I know that's not what I consciously think but it is a subconscious drive.

Inherit the Wind

Watched the older version of Inherit the Wind last night with Spencer Tracy. I bet if I had watched this in my 20s I'd have been incensed at the outrage of how Christians were portrayed. Now older and hopefully wiser, I see things much more clear and less jaded. I now see and know that oppression and fear is generally the rule of religion. That is obvious by looking through Christian and Muslim histories. I am convinced that there is much wisdom in allowing anyone to freely search for the truth. Any oppression of that freedom will cause doom on whatever movement seeks to squelch it. The more I watched the movie the more angry I got with all that is done in the name of Christianity and those clambering to uphold the 'sacred truth of God.' While it is obvious that much of the movie was sensationalized and that much of the portrayed circumstances never happened the point of the movie still stands. Until the day that truth is revealed without encumbrance, all humanity must have the right to search for truth in there own way. Not many will find it but the sanctity of that search must remain unfettered.

Astrophotography

Well, I finally bought a new camera to use in astrophotograpy. I'm setting up a separate blog for that which will be http://astro.nightskypix.com/

For now, here's my first picture: Canis Major