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Lifelong Learning
Posted in Education, General, Learning, Poems, Random thoughts, Truth, Understanding, Wisdom, tagged Education, Learning, Lifelong Learning, Poems, Truth, Wisdom on April 1, 2019| 1 Comment »
Lifelong learners
Critical thinking skills
College is a must
Learning is for high pursuits
Look the look, play the part
Struggling In How to Proceed
Posted in Experience, Faith, General, Guidance, Poems, Problems, Questioning, Struggling, tagged Faith, Guidance, Patience, Poems, Struggling on February 28, 2019| 1 Comment »
With what are you struggling? Struggling with temptation is a matter of replacing it with something good and godly. I find that Romans 6:11 helps me to focus in times of temptation. Philippians 4:8 helps it to be less of a problem in the first place and less burdensome when happening. But what if the struggle is not a temptation but concerning a desire that you have thought to be a godly ambition? You pursue it, but thus far, to no avail. Patience and acquiescence to God’s will are certainly needed, but as platitudes they do not answer questions about how to proceed. So, here is how I am struggling:
My senses all say no
As do comments and circumstances
Whence comes this great desire
When all else says there are thin chances
To prayer I did devote
This ambition of which I now speak
Much counsel, plans I wrote
And God’s will in this matter I seek
How do I now proceed?
Exercise patience and longer wait?
More scrutiny it need?
Oh my mind and emotional state?
Is it time to give up?
To admit it was not in God’s will?
Accept this empty cup
As good providence rather than ill?
This I know above all
God is good and His will is the best
May stumble but not fall
Be bewildered but finally blest
I will continue on
Trusting God and in His guidance rest
Listening I will hone
Find His direction and pass the test
Density
Posted in General, Learning, Poems, Science, Understanding, Weather and Climate, tagged Density, Earth Science, Nature, Poems, Science, Understanding on February 23, 2019| Leave a Comment »
In my years of teaching Earth Science, I have discovered that one concept seems to tie more physical phenomena together than any other. Frequently it is the cause of what is observed and often it is the connecting thread between interactions of matter and energy. So I thought to give a few examples of why it is so often the correct answer to questions in Earth Science:
Earth Science is all about density
What will go up and what will come down
That convective cell propensity
Uneven heating of the atmosphere
Solar gain and wind and pressure change
Forced aloft forms clouds, sinking air clear
Heat, salt, and wind stir up the oceans
Many upwellings from the great deep
Gyres and thermohalocline motions
Far below the roots of the mountains
Plates form rifts, volcanoes, and trenches
Float on plastic and magma fountains
In the stars war gravity and fusion
Caldera of rarified plasma
Spots and flares in boiling confusion
Thus mass divided by volume seen
In many small and grandiose ways
And from its study much knowledge glean
At Long Last
Posted in General, God Thoughts, Grace, Piety, Poems, Struggling, Work of Jesus, tagged Enabling, Grace, Piety, Poems, Struggles, Work of Jesus on February 3, 2019| Leave a Comment »
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Real Self-Worth
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, God Thoughts, Poems, Self-Worth, Value, tagged Poems, Self-Worth, Value on March 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I have two compulsory periods each year when I must sit still for hours at a time, and a third one was added this year. It is a good time to organize thoughts. Even so, I am surprised at the amount of poetry I have produced in the last year. Though I have not actually counted, there may be more poetry entries than others.
I love to say how God should be glorified in each facet of life and thought. He is a kind and worthy Master. Any value I have comes from Him.
This latest attempt at communicating His worth in poetry was prompted by posters and decorations that are meant to pump people up. Why isn’t it working? Why is depression and suicide at its highest? Here is my take on the subject:
Over fragranced
Over stuffed
Brightly colored
Greatly fluffed
Thus promoted
Self-esteem
So developed
A mere meme
Accomplishment
That is real
Encouragement
The real deal
Truest value
Comes from God
Another view
Fake and odd
In God’s image
We were made
So His brightness
On parade
In the garden
Sin did mar
Need of pardon
Left a scar
Jesus overcame
Sin and death
He took our shame
Gave us breath
These two reasons
Give us hope
Bright new seasons
Help us cope
You have value
Purpose, too
Eternal view
To pursue
Jesus is our
Fragrance sweet
Strength in each hour
Makes complete
Sweetest flowers
Come from this
Shout from towers
Eternal bliss
Brightest colors
Truly blest
End of horrors
Ever rest
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