The Past Is Prologue...
This book takes us back to the beginning of time and presents, mainly, the ongoing arguments between religion and science... My faith in God is real. There is no questions in my mind that there is the Great I AM!
Other than that, and as you already know, I do not even know what "Conservatives" are supposed to be as it relates to politics. E.G., I'd never heard of Charlie Kirk until he was...dead... What I mean by that is that, apparently wherever this man was, he was never on any of the news stations I've watched. So, this morning, a video pops up as I was looking for the book trailer for Old Earth.
I was not impressed. There I said it. But, really, folks, when an announcement that somebody is dead, do you immediately go into mourning? Even when you don't know or even of the individual? I don't and never did... Death is a natural event, even though moving toward it is extremely tedious at times... LOL
I can generally quickly form an opinion about somebody I don't know--I watched this video for 10 minutes. And I became sad... Sad that this man who is obviously intelligent has chosen to speak for Trump and Conservatism to our young people. It is clear that there was no early distribution of material of any kind. Questions were asked and answered. In my opinion, by Kirk, snidely. And he did it on purpose, so that "conservative" students would pick up on his attitude toward the speaker who was unprepared, but still very sincere about their opinions... But, totally unprepared for a master manipulator of a speaker...
In any event, I add that, just because the video poked itself into my face on YouTube...
But it does lead to the activities now underway, by this administration, to snidely take over higher education... After all, I had watched this closely since I'd spent the majority of my life on a university campus...
So, as it happens, the main character is a professor now at Yale but had just arrived from Harvard... which led me to enjoy comparing some of the details in Old Earth, with my own life... I remember, in particular, I was in our Physics Department area when one of the vice-presidents and a distinguished professor who was teaching in the department walked by. I was introduced as we passed in the hall and I explained my role in support of the academic program, including in Hodges Hall... I have no idea how we got on the science/religion discussion. Nor do I remember what issues we discussed. From my standpoint, as mentioned above, I was firm in my belief in God... Finally, the professor gave up and we laughed as we parted...
Obviously, it was easy for me to ponder just when my faith had been formed. A thought passed in my mind. I remember a discussion or a moment of reflection when, logically, I had concluded to myself that it made no sense to be waiting for Heaven--I expected it right then, while I was living... At the same time, last night, I thought about this decision, I felt a flash of heat that accompanies my awareness of His presence... A God Incident confirmed as I was reading this book, that I had known from that point on, during my early life, that God lived within me...literally...
It is said that we must come to Christ as a child of God. Perhaps sometime as I would sing this song, I knew it was true--perhaps at 13 when I was baptized. Details like that are really not important, rather it is the awareness that we have the ability to listen, learn, and be guided daily as we open our minds to that option...
Thus, reading this book does not raise the type of questions that somebody like Charlie Kirk would challenge young people with...How old is the earth? To me, it is irrelevant. Do I accept creation or evolution... It is not something that needs to be established as right or wrong, because we are always learning...more... Take for instance, the Bible. how you see it and use it as part of your life is related to how you view God's living today! Either He is alive in you...or not... The Bible does not provide the day upon which a child of God turns and opens her heart to God, does it? It is not recorded for historical purposes there... Because God is NOW... He is living and guiding all of us NOW...
The point of writing this right now is that Old Earth brings us into this type of separation that is being used right now in the United States. Students are brought into one setting for an architectural summer site investigation. Science and Religion are going to be brought forward in moving forward in what happens. Those differences are based upon each individual's relationship with religion; i.e., what they have come to believe is true as opposed to what they believe about his or her relationship with God... There is a difference...
“Time. Time is how we measure our lives. It is the space we inhabit as we figure out the manner in which to fill it. We wear time. We breathe time. We run…” Kavanaugh paused, “we run out of it.”
“Insightful,” Gruber noted. “I prefer to consider Tennessee Williams’s view from The Glass Menagerie. ‘Time is the longest distance between two places.’”
Kavanaugh liked the quote. The longest distance between two places.
“And the job, no the duty you’re inheriting, is to maintain that critical distance between the two places that we guard. Then and now.”
Now is always the point we daily consider...
And what is happening in the United States is unlike any other since the first landing on North America.
However, one of the bases upon which things are being done NOW, is based upon religion. A religion that has, for many, remained stagnant, or even new, as they first come as young people to consider who exactly created the world in which we live. There is one book that has traditionally been used...
Yet through science, books that had been lost or hidden are now available to all of us, which places a much different slant on what is now happening. Even the Pope has spoken and acted on today's world. Many ministers are speaking out against how religion is being skewed...
All that I know is that God Is Alive
And that One Statement of Belief
Affects all that I write, read, and share...
Is Your Mind open to Listen?
Gabby
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