Archives for February 2007
The number of people in abject poverty today is as great as the population of mankind in 1900.
It would take $40 billion to provide the world with safe drinking water. The US is spending almost $70 billion in research and development of new weapons.
“We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do. Craving, clutching and fussing, we are kept in perpetual unrest.” -Evelyn Underhill
From Dream Awakener:
The human mind is a wonderfully complex organ. Our brains can actually process a group of words, even if they are spelled totally incorrectly. For example, see if you can read the following:
The hmuan mnid is a wndoreullfy cpoemlx oargn. You see? It deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod [...]
Unless you’re an internet geek like me you probably don’t know what that means. See the video on Web2.0 that I posted recently. Basically Web2.0 means the user creates the content. A blog, like this, is Web2.0, but not as much as a community blog with multiple authors. So, what did I do to make [...]
I read the book Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel tonight and some of the stories are so funny I just have to share them. This one is a parable teaching us to be nice to children.
The Old MouseÂ
There was an old mouse who went for a walk every day. The old mouse did not like [...]
When we hear about a sin that shocks us and we can’t imagine how someone could commit that sin, it is hard to process. It is even harder if the person is a Christian, and even more so, a Christian leader. The fact of the matter is: sin is sin. While some [...]