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Complementary Thoughts: April 2013
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Finding a balance for science and religion. Thursday, April 18, 2013. I was watching the NOVA series Fabric of the Cosmos. Yeah, I know. Geek alert! But as I watched, trying to wrap my mind around the physics concepts, I realized something I hadn’t considered before. Everything in creation has a reason. In fact, everything not only exists for a reason, it exists for a purpose. Everything in creation is a reflection of God’s attributes. Gravity has always perplexed me. How and why did it come to be? My mo...
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Complementary Thoughts: December 2014
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Finding a balance for science and religion. Sunday, December 21, 2014. I can just hear it…God having a conversation with us. God: Please note that Scripture contains the phrase, “Be Not Afraid” 366 times. God: Don’t you get it? God: Perhaps I’m serious about you not being afraid. Us: Yeah, but what about tomorrow? God: Do not be afraid, I got you covered. Us: But my mortgage is due and my car needs to be fixed and I don’t have the money…. God: Be not afraid. God: I got you covered. It was also a change f...
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Complementary Thoughts: May 2014
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Finding a balance for science and religion. Thursday, May 22, 2014. The Illusion of God. The eternal struggle has always been belief in God. Is there a God, or isn’t there? Are we all here by happenstance? Believers call non-believers doomed and short-sighted, and non-believers call believers simpletons unable to see that science rules. And then I found C. In fact, further on Mr. Silva says that when you see a particular color, that object is EVERY OTHER color besides that one. Makes you want to say, ...
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Complementary Thoughts: May 2013
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Finding a balance for science and religion. Wednesday, May 15, 2013. This week I’m posting the first of a series of ideas of how Nature teaches us about life. You don’t have to be a scientist to see the connections that Nature shares with humanity. In fact, you don’t have to even believe in God to see it. You just have to observe. While our bodies need water to survive, water (as I’ve shown in past posts ( http:/ lorettaoakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/water-is-love.html. Winter is a unique season for trees...
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Complementary Thoughts: April 2015
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Finding a balance for science and religion. Sunday, April 26, 2015. Teaching full time this year has been quite the learning experience for me. It has certainly limited how many posts I’ve been able to manage, filling my writing time instead with lesson plans, curriculum mapping, etc. For sure, but overall, it’s been a blast. And that’s what I hope to share with you. My observations. So let’s dive in. You see I have three kids of my own and I know how this works. Everyone wants the bigger thing…...
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Complementary Thoughts: June 2015
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Finding a balance for science and religion. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Recently one of our pastors mentioned that as Christians are likened to the moon. Our responsibility is to take the light from the sun and reflect it on to the earth. To me it was a beautiful image of how we share in the spreading of God’s love, including the idea that the world is dark and that the sun and moon work together to share the light. From our previous discussions (mostly on water, my favorite topic), we already know that the h...
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Complementary Thoughts: Not Giving In...Giving Over
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Finding a balance for science and religion. Saturday, August 16, 2014. Not Giving In.Giving Over. Science is designed to ask the questions of what and how. But when it comes to the why, it screeches to a halt. It is efficient when you ask questions like: Why do cancer cells grow? However, science is quiet when you ask: Why is there cancer? Why is there disease at all? However, as usual, nature shows us the bigger picture and answers what science can’t. For the last couple years it has produced pears of t...
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Complementary Thoughts: March 2013
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Finding a balance for science and religion. Monday, March 11, 2013. Are You a Grumpy Christian? I find that in today’s world it’s very easy to be grumpy…with the economy, the state of our nation, the state of society, etc. But how we behave reflects how deeply we believe our faith and in turn how others view Christianity in general. To meet us. That’s how much He loves us! And who better to explain to us how much we are loved than the Son? Jesus only told the truth, he never needed to embellish.). The la...
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Complementary Thoughts: Be Not Afraid
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Finding a balance for science and religion. Sunday, December 21, 2014. I can just hear it…God having a conversation with us. God: Please note that Scripture contains the phrase, “Be Not Afraid” 366 times. God: Don’t you get it? God: Perhaps I’m serious about you not being afraid. Us: Yeah, but what about tomorrow? God: Do not be afraid, I got you covered. Us: But my mortgage is due and my car needs to be fixed and I don’t have the money…. God: Be not afraid. God: I got you covered. It was also a change f...
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Complementary Thoughts: June 2013
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Finding a balance for science and religion. Thursday, June 27, 2013. To Prune a Heart. When I was young, I used to watch my dad cut back his beloved rose bushes every spring. I’d be in charge of putting the cut stems into the trash. After we finished the roses we’d go around the yard and trim all his fruit trees. It was a meticulous task and often times I’d watch him carefully consider which branch to trim. He would consider how the tree would grow before he snipped anything. And you know what I learned?