February 26, 2004
Life.
My Hugh Hewitt book (”In, But Not Of”) arrived yesterday. Great read. I’m half through with it. Many good ideas. It is subtitled: “A Guide To Christian Ambition and the Desire to Influence the World.” While many of the concepts apply specifically to life as a politician, which Hewitt was for years, the advice is applicable in other vocational avenues.
Last night’s prayer meeting was good. We met at a deacon’s house instead of at the church, so the environment was more comfortable. Good fellowship. Great message from Mark Wakefield.
Tonight we were to have our men’s Promise Keepers’ meeting. No one showed. Dad and I were disappointed, but not incredibly shocked. Apathy and/or busyness is prevalent here, it seems.
Merewai says she will be leaving tomorrow. Her black eye will be faded enough to be out and about without too much embarrassment. I think she’s just too bored here. :-) Mom made up a list of questions for Merewai to answer and put on video. It will be for when Joanna starts to ask questions about her biological parents and who they were and where they were from, etc. Merewai went ahead and did the video today, after working out her answers to the questions all morning. I’m glad she went through with it. We tried to get her to do this a couple times before, but she wasn’t ready. I think her staying here all week and seeing us with Joanna and Joanna with us has been good for her. I think she knows Joanna is loved and is in a good home.
I’ve been reading some great material. I printed off some stuff explaining “postmodernism,” a term I keep hearing but don’t yet comprehend. Some recent exhortations from people I respect has encouraged me to begin formulating a personal mission statement. So I have plenty to keep my mental wheels turning.
Amrish had a conversation with an atheistic friend of his about the origin of the universe. This friend sent him an e-mail, which Amrish forwarded to me to ask how I would reply. So I spent a while this evening working that out. I don’t know much about science, and the guy was throwing around concepts about matter and anti-matter colliding and this causing energy and ultimately a chain reaction which formed the universe. I told Amrish it sounded like science fiction to me, and explained Thomas Aquinas’s third proof of God’s existence, which is found in his “Summa Theologica”, but which I learned of in Summit Ministry’s “Understanding the Times” text. We shall see what the response is, but I can’t help but feel the “in the beginning were matter and anti-matter” explanation only pushes back the origin of the universe and begs the question: “Where did the matter and anti-matter come from?”
Dad and I head in early in the morning, so I’ll be off for now.
Written at 10:02 pm
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February 26th, 2004 at 10:27 pm
That’s really neat that she put the video together. I have a friend here who was adopted and we were talking about it last week. I can’t imagine all the questions and emotions an adoptee must feel!