Friday, April 22, 2005
A Prayer
O Lord
Why have you smitten, stricken, and afflicted us?
Why are we in the darkness?
Perhaps, O Lord, we are not worthy.
When we look up where are you to be found.
We call and call but only hear our voices.
Bush is Coming to Calvin
Yesterday morning I passed a friend on the pathway on the way to class—a normal occurrence in my morning routine. This friend though, had something to say to me that was certainly not normal. With a huge, ecstatic grin on his face he said to me, “Peter, have you heard the news? Bush is coming to Calvin! Can you believe it? This is awesome!’ Well, my first reaction was unbelief. I thought that this had to be some sort of hoax or something, because I couldn’t think of any logical reason that the president of the United States of America would just show up at little old Calvin College. When I got back to my room though and read my student news, there it was, an e-mail from Shirley Hoogstra stating that the Bush was in fact coming to Calvin to speak at commencement. Now I was no longer in disbelief, but I sure was angry.
running alarm clocks- lauren
The article I am doing my journal entry on is called Snooze-Button Abusers Could be In for a Race Against Time With the ‘Clocky.’ It was written by Roger Vincent from the Los Angeles Times. It talks about a grad student named Gauri Nanda, who decided that he wanted to make an alarm clock that ran away after you hit the snooze button so that you could not keep hitting it over and over. College students, including himself, will sometimes go for hours repeatedly hitting the snooze button so they don’t have to get out of bed. So he ended up making an alarm clock that was soft and had wheels so that when you hit your snooze button, it would fall off the nightstand and roll to a random place so that when the alarm went off for the second time you would have to get up and find it. It was randomly programmed so that it would go to a different place every time. He is hoping that within a year they will be sold in the stores. I think this was a great idea.
Warm Weather
Did you ever notice that whenever the weather gets warm, people always seems happier? Is it because of the weather or is it just because people are no longer hiding in their rooms, or maybe even both? These past couple weeks the warm weather has finally started to set in and it actually feels like spring after a long drawn out winter.
Did you ever notice siblings?
Did you ever notice the way siblings are treated is often worse than are friends? Siblings are the ones that are bound to us by the intangible steel cable of a family, the ones who will be more likely to stick with us through the rough times and through the fun times. Friends move into and then right on through lives, yet they are the ones that we work at to impress. We have hardly any qualms about reaming a brother out for staying too long in a bathroom or for scratching a CD. Should a friend come and spend an exceptional amount of time in the bathroom or should accidentally scratch a CD, most of the time, the first reaction is to say that it doesn’t matter or not to worry about it.
Did you ever notice the way siblings are treated is often worse than that of pets?
Science fuddles Creation
After at least five thousand years, the quest to discover the origins of humankind has made headway but remains a scientific and religious mystery. The Christian scientist, Charles Hummel, makes his attempt to explain away the misconceptions between the traditional Christian belief and the conventional scientific belief of how the Earth, how the human, and how the universe first formed. Hummel discusses in his book, The Galileo Connection, the interpretation of the creation story in Genesis. Many of the problems in Genesis and modern science, Hummel believes, originate out of how the Bible or the Torah is interpreted. Additionally, Hummel assesses the use of the author’s writing style and its purpose for us today. Personally however, it raises the question that if this part of the Bible is only figurative what other areas are only artistic features. In order to come to an open conclusion; information, logic, and discernment must come together as in Hummel’s theories of interpretation, of purpose, and of Christian belief.
Paitence - Jamie
Did you notice how when people are standing in line, they tap one of their feet or start pacing back and fourth. I do not know about for some, but speaking for myself, this drives me nuts! I can understand if it is a long line and it may be a lengthy wait, but otherwise, why not just stand still? Is all of that moving around really going to make the line move faster? In all reality, it is not.
Seinfeld In my Dorm Room
Seinfeld Episode in my Dorm room
Something happened to my roommate and I that reminded me of a script from the hit comedy series of Seinfeld. The reason why the following was so funny was because it was just about everyday life like the show represented for so many years.