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03:59 pm - For the Sake of the Lesson

It’s amazing how one decision made out of selfishness, or even just bad judgment, can cause others pain and heartache for years and decades to come.

If those who hurt could just forgive us, we could all move on and be at peace. To expect forgiveness is right, not only because we need to be forgiven, but because by desiring forgiveness, it surely means that we now see the wrong we have committed and the pain we have caused. It’s just as important for us to do everything in our power to correct our mistakes. This brings things full circle, and allows us all to grow up and move on together.

If we feel we have done no wrong, we should stand in the shadow of the perfect One, and seek the forgiveness of those who are hurt until we understand them better, and they understand us. We the People are tangled messes who can only be freed by love, and patience was never patience if it is ever given up on.

Unfortunately, unconditional forgiveness is often necessary, because those who hurt us may never have the courage, integrity, and patience to make things right, and because forgiveness shouldn’t have to wait on them to reach its fulfillment. When we can forgive unconditionally, we become the teacher, and the forgiven becomes our student, and the lesson becomes “How God Loves”. We also become God’s student, and the lesson becomes “How I Love You”. And what an amazing classroom that is. You won’t regret attending, not to be the bigger person (such a desire makes you the smaller one, ironically), but to learn the wonderful lesson that God wants to teach you.

It’s not that we should wait for the other to meet us halfway across the bridge before we take even a single step; this is how bridges get old and crumble to pieces before they are ever even used. Rather, both should have the courage to walk all the way across, for the sake of the lesson, for the sake of the One who loved us unconditionally; paying no attention to the action or intent of the other, but looking only to the example that God set, and loving them because He loved us, and He loves them; leaning not to our own understanding, but trusting in Him. This will assure reconciliation every time. This honors the One who died for us so that we could be together in love and peace.

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11:20 pm - Creation came ‘from nothing,’ not God: Stephen Hawking – USATODAY.com

Creation came ‘from nothing,’ not God: Stephen Hawking – USATODAY.com.

“Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing…Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to … set the Universe going.”

This seems to be the quote that this article points to as the nail in the coffin concerning Hawking’s belief in God, or lack thereof. I don’t know whether Hawking believes there is a supreme creator or not, but his quote does not clearly indicate that he does or doesn’t, only that he doesn’t believe that everything had to be set into place directly by that creator.

He points to the law of gravity as an invisible force with the power to invoke order where there is none. But did the law of gravity always exist? Is the law of gravity the supreme creator? The concept of a supreme creator can’t be avoided, bible or any other religious book aside. If gravity is where creation begins, then gravity is the supreme creator. If gravity didn’t always exist, then it was created, and so we are compelled to ask, what created gravity?

I haven’t read any of Stephen Hawking’s works, but I can’t agree with the title of the linked article, as it does not accurately represent what Stephen said in the quote they pulled from him.

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11:20 pm - The Hair Incident

ArtStudio on my iPad. Texture provided by one of Brushes’ excellent…well…brushes :)

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04:01 pm - Ivan on the Edge

Testing the pressure simulation in ArtStudio on my iPad.

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02:02 pm - Morning with Mr. Puddy

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01:07 am - The Stroll

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11:03 am - Out of Line

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11:00 am - Through the Night I Wonder

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10:58 am - Burton Inspired Inkling

If you’re an artist with an iPhone, and you haven’t discovered Inkling yet, you should search for it in the app store. It’s 99 cents, and it’s the most fun I’ve had with iPhone art since I discovered the Brushes app.

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10:24 am - The Land of Make Believe

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