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I don't know how the photographer got this pic but it's fascinating.
I worked on my sermon more this morning. I had it more or less written yesterday but I didn't feel at all comfortable with it. Words on a half-page. But thinking through it, looking at other passages, tossing it back and forth in my mind left me looking forward to Sunday morning. I'll do more of the same tomorrow, maybe take it for a walk if it's not raining.
I know, I've said it several times, including recently. But the privilege and opportunity of both the preparation and delivery of God's Word is something I count as a great blessing from God.
The lesson for Foundations is just a big bonus. This week will be special fun.
I did a couple of small things at a home in town today, including a toilet repair. Suggestion: every six months or so turn off and then back on the supply valve underneath each of your toilets. Some day your husband may clog that toilet and quick action will be necessary. (Women would never do such an indelicate thing.) Because those valves so rarely get turned it's not surprising that they often get stuck and require a wrench to break loose so they'll turn by hand. But by the time you go to the garage and get a wrench, or a pair of pliers, or - God forbid - a hammer, and get back to the toilet, the damage has been done. Just turning them closed and then open every six months will keep them loose.
Also, the way most of those valves are made they will typically leak some when they are finally closed/opened if they've not been touched forever. They will almost always seal back up, but in the meantime you'll worry that you've got a major plumbing job in your future.
Note: if you try now to turn that valve and it won't budge, even under some moderate (!) pressure with a large pair of pliers or channel locks, STOP. You don't want to break the valve! (If it ain't broke, don't break it.) If it's totally frozen it will require shutting off the water to the house and removing/replacing the valve.
I'm finding it easy to pull for the Lakers.
I watched the F1 practice this morning. The three announcers talked about each having worked a race with Jackie Stewart at some point in the past, and they were all amazed how, while calling a race, he could bring up the smallest details from a race years earlier - "Driver X had a similar problem in Y corner in 1969."
One of the announcers said he typically comes into the booth with reams of paper covered with stats, notes on individual drivers, relevant records, etc. Jackie Stewart arrived in the booth with one empty sheet of paper and a pencil.
Then they explained it. Jackie Stewart has severe dyslexia and therefore has great trouble reading. So he trained himself very early in his life to memorize everything. As a result, he can call up the smallest of details from years back; he naturally commits things to memory, even what seem like insignificant things.
I can tell you from personal experience and from 10 years of teaching that the ability to memorize is, at least in very large part, a learned skill. People who say, "I can't memorize" are saying, "I have let the skill of memorizing atrophy."
I had a freshman student who arrived from central Africa days before the first semester with extremely limited English skills. He'd sit through one of my lectures - delivered at my usual frenetic pace and peppered with colloquialisms - and not take a single note. Almost every noon he'd find me in the cafeteria and ask about something I'd said that morning.
"Mr. MacDonald, sir, (he was extremely polite), this morning you said, '(here he repeats a sentence or two).' What does that mean, please?"
What blew me away is that he would repeat, word for word, exactly what I had said hours earlier. And keep in mind that he didn't understand me; they were meaningless words to him but he could still repeat them perfectly.
Several years later, when he spoke impeccable English, I asked him how he could do that. He explained that growing up in a remote village meant they didn't have paper and pencils at their schools, so they had to memorize their lessons. For him, indeed for all of them, it was no big deal. It was how they lived life.
Maybe one downside of our digital world where we can store everything for easy and immediate retrieval is the loss of the skill of memorization.
"I have hidden your Word in my heart that I might not sin against you" Ps. 119:11
David didn't have a Blackberry.
I worked on my sermon more this morning. I had it more or less written yesterday but I didn't feel at all comfortable with it. Words on a half-page. But thinking through it, looking at other passages, tossing it back and forth in my mind left me looking forward to Sunday morning. I'll do more of the same tomorrow, maybe take it for a walk if it's not raining.I know, I've said it several times, including recently. But the privilege and opportunity of both the preparation and delivery of God's Word is something I count as a great blessing from God.
The lesson for Foundations is just a big bonus. This week will be special fun.
I did a couple of small things at a home in town today, including a toilet repair. Suggestion: every six months or so turn off and then back on the supply valve underneath each of your toilets. Some day your husband may clog that toilet and quick action will be necessary. (Women would never do such an indelicate thing.) Because those valves so rarely get turned it's not surprising that they often get stuck and require a wrench to break loose so they'll turn by hand. But by the time you go to the garage and get a wrench, or a pair of pliers, or - God forbid - a hammer, and get back to the toilet, the damage has been done. Just turning them closed and then open every six months will keep them loose.
Also, the way most of those valves are made they will typically leak some when they are finally closed/opened if they've not been touched forever. They will almost always seal back up, but in the meantime you'll worry that you've got a major plumbing job in your future.
Note: if you try now to turn that valve and it won't budge, even under some moderate (!) pressure with a large pair of pliers or channel locks, STOP. You don't want to break the valve! (If it ain't broke, don't break it.) If it's totally frozen it will require shutting off the water to the house and removing/replacing the valve.
I'm finding it easy to pull for the Lakers.
I watched the F1 practice this morning. The three announcers talked about each having worked a race with Jackie Stewart at some point in the past, and they were all amazed how, while calling a race, he could bring up the smallest details from a race years earlier - "Driver X had a similar problem in Y corner in 1969."
One of the announcers said he typically comes into the booth with reams of paper covered with stats, notes on individual drivers, relevant records, etc. Jackie Stewart arrived in the booth with one empty sheet of paper and a pencil.
Then they explained it. Jackie Stewart has severe dyslexia and therefore has great trouble reading. So he trained himself very early in his life to memorize everything. As a result, he can call up the smallest of details from years back; he naturally commits things to memory, even what seem like insignificant things.
I can tell you from personal experience and from 10 years of teaching that the ability to memorize is, at least in very large part, a learned skill. People who say, "I can't memorize" are saying, "I have let the skill of memorizing atrophy."
I had a freshman student who arrived from central Africa days before the first semester with extremely limited English skills. He'd sit through one of my lectures - delivered at my usual frenetic pace and peppered with colloquialisms - and not take a single note. Almost every noon he'd find me in the cafeteria and ask about something I'd said that morning.
"Mr. MacDonald, sir, (he was extremely polite), this morning you said, '(here he repeats a sentence or two).' What does that mean, please?"
What blew me away is that he would repeat, word for word, exactly what I had said hours earlier. And keep in mind that he didn't understand me; they were meaningless words to him but he could still repeat them perfectly.
Several years later, when he spoke impeccable English, I asked him how he could do that. He explained that growing up in a remote village meant they didn't have paper and pencils at their schools, so they had to memorize their lessons. For him, indeed for all of them, it was no big deal. It was how they lived life.
Maybe one downside of our digital world where we can store everything for easy and immediate retrieval is the loss of the skill of memorization.
"I have hidden your Word in my heart that I might not sin against you" Ps. 119:11
David didn't have a Blackberry.
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About the pic: Photoshop! Using the "clone" tool, it's easy to replace the legs with the background.
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