Sunday, 15 January 2012

  • Words of Encouragement

    "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience,

    but shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." - C. S. Lewis

     

     

    "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all,

    but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess." - Martin Luther

     

     

    "The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it

    or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick along side it." - D. L. Moody


Thursday, 08 December 2011

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

  • Dr. Miller

    One of my favorite people here, at TTU, is Dr. Miller. He's been my "boss" for 5 of my 6 semesters here. He was also my professor while taking Humanities during my 2nd year here. He's an amazing person and a character all his own. There's no way I can help you "know" him...you just have to experience him on a daily basis, which I have had the delightful, luxury of doing for 2.5 yrs now. He has increased my wisdom, intellect, sense of humor and artistic life by an immeasurable quantity and quality when he shared(s) with me his wisdom, intellect, sense of humor and artistic ability.

    One of the many things which I count myself blessed for...is knowing Dr. Miller. Aside from being my boss and professor...he has been my friend these 2.5 yrs.

    That said, Dr. Miller just walk into my office and said, "I know you're artistic. Do you like poetry?" as he handed me a piece of paper with a cheshire grin on his face. A little small talk was passed as he explained he had just found it and "if I remember correctly" wrote it about 10 yrs ago, for "some unknown reason". Here's the poem:

     

    The Literal Advantage

    Though it's impossible to know everything,

    the literalist knows that everything

    in the Bible is literally true.

     

    No wrestling with mysterious metaphors,

    no wrangling with subtle symbols,

    amphibological allegories, mangled manuscripts,

    laborious languages, and

    translation travesties.

     

    Armed with the

    obvious

    literal

    straight-forward

    plain meaning

    of the words,

    the literalist end where he began,

    reaching conclusions he started with,

    possessed of knowledge that's

    as secure as

    a string tied to air isn't.

     

    With perfect aplomb

    the literalist lets go

    childish things,

    because he can't get to heaven

    unless he becomes like a child.

     

    And he knows that God never sleeps,

    because God awakens to

    The evil deeds of evil men.

     

    Logic need not dawn on the literalist,

    just as the sun needed not to

    dawn on the first days of creation.

     

    How like child's play

    to the grooves of mind and

    to the habits of thought and

    to the furniture of the soul

    to have no need of light.

     

    Just don't tell a literalist.

     

    Let me ask you, as he just did me, "Are you a literalist?"

Thursday, 24 November 2011

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