Squiz the bench space taken over by bottles of apricots and the start of a cupboard full:
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
More Things to do in Summer
Mrs Bloggs has been busy this summer it is our first bottling (Americans call it canning) season.
Squiz the bench space taken over by bottles of apricots and the start of a cupboard full:
Squiz the bench space taken over by bottles of apricots and the start of a cupboard full:
Saturday, 5 January 2013
To Love Another Person is to See the Face of God!
Go figure this as a dual theme for the summer holidays:
I was given, by my daughter, and am reading a newer translation of Les Miserables.
I also went to see the movie on New Years Day.
The ebook I am reading this summer is The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
Les Mis is on of the most powerful stories written and the musical, and now the movie, opens deep emotions about what it means to rise above one's past, to seek redemption from wrongs and what it means to love.
The God Delusion explains that there is no God, that sins cannot be forgiven and that 'love' is meerly the effect of neurally active chemicals in the brain that evolution has ensured is the mechanism to ensure loyalty to one co-parent!
Go figure!
A great line from the book looks at the 'proofs of God's existance' by Thomas Aquinas one of which states that 'Things in the world, especially living things, look as though they have been designed. Nothing that we know looks designed unless it is designed. Therefore there must be a designer and we call him God.' Dawkins goes on to mention a schoolfriend who, when studying geometry smuggled into a Euclidean proof that 'Triangle ABC looks isosceles, therefore it is isoseles'. Love it! (and that must mean that neurally active chemicals in my brain have reacted favourably to that story.
And then, some of the final lines from Les Mis:
FANTINE
Come with me
Where chains will never bind you
All your grief
At last, at last behind you.
Lord in Heaven,
Look down on him in mercy.
VALJEAN
Forgive me all my trespasses
And take me to your glory.
FANTINE & EPONINE
Take my hand
And lead me to salvation.
Take my love,
For love is everlasting.
VALJEAN, FANTINE & EPONINE
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God.
I also went to see the movie on New Years Day.
The ebook I am reading this summer is The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
Les Mis is on of the most powerful stories written and the musical, and now the movie, opens deep emotions about what it means to rise above one's past, to seek redemption from wrongs and what it means to love.
The God Delusion explains that there is no God, that sins cannot be forgiven and that 'love' is meerly the effect of neurally active chemicals in the brain that evolution has ensured is the mechanism to ensure loyalty to one co-parent!
Go figure!
A great line from the book looks at the 'proofs of God's existance' by Thomas Aquinas one of which states that 'Things in the world, especially living things, look as though they have been designed. Nothing that we know looks designed unless it is designed. Therefore there must be a designer and we call him God.' Dawkins goes on to mention a schoolfriend who, when studying geometry smuggled into a Euclidean proof that 'Triangle ABC looks isosceles, therefore it is isoseles'. Love it! (and that must mean that neurally active chemicals in my brain have reacted favourably to that story.
And then, some of the final lines from Les Mis:
FANTINE
Come with me
Where chains will never bind you
All your grief
At last, at last behind you.
Lord in Heaven,
Look down on him in mercy.
VALJEAN
Forgive me all my trespasses
And take me to your glory.
FANTINE & EPONINE
Take my hand
And lead me to salvation.
Take my love,
For love is everlasting.
VALJEAN, FANTINE & EPONINE
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God.
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