Enough said

HEY, DON'T PEEK, I'M ON THE POT!

Yes, an original photo from my yard yesterday.

Small

I am small. This is not some sort of self-bashing. This is a fact of creation. God is very big. The universe somewhat smaller and that is pretty big so comparatively I am small. I am however, larger than my friend Bunsen’s 3dz2 orbital density plot (a plot of electrons).
I like being small compared to God though. I thank God that I do not have to worry about planets and their rotations or how life lays dormant in a seed. Being small means I don’t have to go it alone. I can hang around with other small people and let God be God.

Being small allows me, for example, in a theological debate to see that at the beginning of the debate is another small person who desperately wants to bring glory to our great big God. The debate itself indicates there are many small people who want to get it right (knowing what is right to God is possibly not within our reach but we debate in order to get as close to right as we can). And while the debate and my study goes on so that I too might get closer to right, I figure that if God calls into use this small cracked pot to deliver his message then it is probably close enough to right for his purposes at that time.

Graduated!!

No I have not graduated from college yet. My glasses have graduated before I have. While I am tremendously happy to be able to see when I sit at the computer or read and with a nod of my head be able to see out the window into the distance at the same time, the adjustment has not been without struggle. I am embarrassed to say I was car sick the first day and not even in a car. As the weekend progressed, I got the knack of the nod and even was able to lead worship without too much difficulty. The problem now is restricting the nod to vision purposes and not nod too often when in agreement otherwise I simply agree with you but may not be able to see you or your point.

Visual

Happy New Year. Wow, I have lost track of time. I meant to blog long before now. I resolve to do better this year.

A few weeks ago, we played a Playstation 2, Eye toy game. Mirrors is a simple game that requires you to touch the spots in the corners of the television screen. The eye toy is a camera that puts your image on the screen so you see yourself touching the spots. But then the screen turns like a mirror from left to right. Your image on the screen is now like a mirror and in order to touch the spots on the left you raise your right hand. Then the image turns upside down. Now you move your hand down to touch the spots on the top of the screen. Of course the spots are really at the bottom of the image that you see (you see yourself upside down with spots by your legs) so moving down is logical. However, the spots are at the top of the screen so moving up seems to also be logical. The screen also turns you upside down and mirrored left to right.

I knew before this game that I am a visual learner. So I found this game more difficult than my husband who is a logical person. I had to consciously override the signal that my eyes sent to the brain that said the spots are at the top of the screen as opposed to the bottom of the image.

At times to override what I saw, I had to move my body to the left or right and fool my brain into thinking I was responding so that the correct motion could be made. Otherwise, at times I simply could not move my hands because of the conflicting signals.

I was reminded of how difficult Faith can be. Hebrews 11:1 (NRSV) Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Maybe the difficulty is not in the unseen but in the things we see that are in conflict with the unseen?