On this Terrestrial Ball

Sometimes I wonder why God created humans.  Was He lonely?  No, that would be trying to put human emotions and behaviors onto God.  God is infinite, beyond human understanding. God is eternal.  But think about that.  I mean, how old is God or does He even have an age?  The Bible starts with “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”  But what about before that? And God is one, but also three in one – Father, Son and Holy Spirit ( Trinity is a name ascribed to this description of God).  Kinda blows your mind, processing all that, huh? The simple understanding of God, though – one that we humans can easily understand – is that God is love.  When you think about God this way, everything falls into place – why he created humans, why he is patient with us even though we keep behaving in our self-centered, selfish ways.  It’s all because of love.  About His love for us and that He is love incarnate.  Love is best ex...

I’ve noticed something about the sun.  Besides that it’s hot and, um, bright.  I’ve noticed that the sun is the same no matter where you are on earth.  I was recently in Thailand, then in the United States (on the West Coast).  I was also in Israel some years back, and a couple of times in Belize.  And every time I would watch a sunrise or a sunset; or every time I’d notice the sun during the day, the sun was always the same.  Seems like an obvious kind of observation, right?  Go ahead and say it – “Duh!”   But then consider everything that impacts our view (and perception I might add) of the sun.  A cloudy day.  Hot and cold temperatures.  Dry air and humidity.  A bright blue cloudless sky. The time of day.  There are so many things that influence how we view, feel, perceive, perhaps even interpret, the sun. And yet, it’s the same ball of bright churning gases that we’ve known all our life – warts, solar flares, and ...