Martha and Mary? June 4, 2010

The other day I composed a 2 ½ year plan for returning to full time work. I have been on disability for ten years. I have needed it. Now I think it’s God’s timing that I ease my way back into the workforce.  I volunteer at CARE Packaging. It’s not easy for me. I am [...]

Hope October 24, 2009

I would like to assert that God created a hope-filled universe. This is true according to His Word and this is true according to scientific evidence. My definition of hope is: the possibility for something new and better. We have the hope of heaven, when all things will be made new and, of course, better. [...]

The God Particle September 6, 2009

Some physicists have the job to come up with ideas (or theories) of how the universe works. They use some form of mathematics to express their ideas. Other physicists have the job to find out whether those mathematical equations really fit what happens. I want to write about one scientific theory of how the universe [...]

God’s Creativity: Biospheres are Big Balloons August 22, 2009

I recently read a chapter in a science book which I want to draw from to describe something about God’s creativity. When God created life on earth, He created what scientists call a biosphere. The outermost layer of the earth, along with the surface and the atmosphere, form a sphere filled with organic things like [...]

Seeing Creation August 11, 2009

Neutrinos are tiny particles. Many, many, many neutrinos were released about two seconds after God started creating the universe. (That’s two seconds on the human scale of time.) Those same neutrinos, the ones from so early in the history of the universe, are still hanging around, undisturbed and unchanged. There are about a billion of them for every atom in the universe! But, even though there are so very many [...]

July 28, 2009

People are Flowers, not Snowflakes  This will be a strange blog entry. Hopefully someone will enjoy it. God has shown me that I have approximate rotational symmetry. And so do you.  To have perfect rotational symmetry, an object must look exactly the same even if you rotate (turn) it. Snowflakes are like that; triangles; stars [...]

Too Small June 14, 2009

I would like to write about the smallest things. The smallest of all small things doesn’t exist except as an idea. “Virtual particles” are such things, or any idea of mankind. The next biggest thing is called a photon, which is a particle of light. It exists only in that it leaves a trail behind [...]

Rap from an L May 5, 2009

Yesterday, to get from a bus station to an airport, I rode an elevated train through Chicago. I really, really enjoyed seeing spots which no one visits – lonely rooftops, broken backs of aged buildings, fenced-in patches of littered warehouse yards, walls and windows far beyond human reach…  I saw gang symbols painted in out-of-the way [...]

New Lines November 21, 2008

What words we shall say to invisible hearers would twine us together. Until then this frayed end, this optical nerve with no orb to connect to, screams “Wasted!” turns tail and hies back with vision unburdened. I do not breathe air but sip streams of ink, contours of couches and, lightly, the arc of an [...]

Silence October 12, 2008

i spent a day in silence. how does one write about silence? silence of the heart can be a sad thing. i am sure that there is a silence that is pleasing to God: the silence of a tall tree, the silence of a hand… i have way too many words in me. sometimes that’s terribly painful. [...]