The Study of Me

On Writing, Studying, Planning, and Me.

A Fresh 37, yes. Spry? No.

I turned 37 last week.

Last night, I was foot racing with my little girls up and down the hill.

Up the hill: I felt strong and fast and wanted to race over and over again.

Down the hill: my freakin’ bones hurt.

This is what they mean by growing old? Hmm.

lookhigh: A ‘Picture Perfect’ Launch Looking like a bright star streaking up into a black sky, a rocket took off before dawn today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying an unmanned capsule filled with food, clothes, and other supplies for astronauts on the international space station. But this robotic cargo ship doesn’t belong to NASA. Instead, it’s owned by a company called SpaceX, which made history by launching the first ever private spacecraft on a mission to the station. SpaceX has a $1.6 billion cargo-delivery contract with NASA, which is turning routine flights to the station over to industry so that the veteran space agency can start to focus on more ambitious exploration efforts. (NPR) Photo: Historic @SpaceX #DragonLaunch to ISS. @NASA on Twitpic

lookhigh:

A ‘Picture Perfect’ Launch

Looking like a bright star streaking up into a black sky, a rocket took off before dawn today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying an unmanned capsule filled with food, clothes, and other supplies for astronauts on the international space station.

But this robotic cargo ship doesn’t belong to NASA. Instead, it’s owned by a company called SpaceX, which made history by launching the first ever private spacecraft on a mission to the station.

SpaceX has a $1.6 billion cargo-delivery contract with NASA, which is turning routine flights to the station over to industry so that the veteran space agency can start to focus on more ambitious exploration efforts. (NPR)

Photo: Historic @SpaceX #DragonLaunch to ISS. @NASA on Twitpic

(via npr)

Dear Modernity, you are going to die. It won’t be at my hands but even still, I won’t celebrate less when you pass on. You did your best and your best wasn’t good enough. You will not be missed. Sincerely, Me.

The space between the mat and the second tap out

My lovely wife calls me ‘Captain Awesome’. She goes way above and beyond to tell the world how awesome I am.

My awesomeness has been tested since my wife is out of commission and has been so for the last few weeks.

I have been doing everything: both mom and dad. In a few weeks time, God has quickly taught me what it means to be gentle, compassionate and nurturing like a mom and let that shape how I am firm and definite I am with the kids.

I was doing pretty well.

Today, not so much.

I felt like crap. Flu-like without the flu. I felt like doing nothing. I didn’t want to be a parent. I didn’t want to serve my wife. I wanted to go to sleep.

I told my wife, “I have no patience with the kids. I can no longer raise my voice. I have no response for any backtalking questions.”

I couldn’t set my mind on God. I couldn’t fathom a theological or doctrinal thought if you put a gun to my head. My mind was so exhausted that I couldn’t profess my faith in God if you asked me.

My rational thought has ran dry. My IQ is shot. My mental capacity is nil.

My body is weak. My spirit felt like it had a tincture of life.

The only thing I could think of is this:

I have no choice to rest on the sweet and tender mercies of my Lord. I can bare no witness. I have nothing.

Smoke This: Son and Spirit Gave Authority to the Father

“… the Father is not superior to the other persons of the Trinity nor does he dominate them. On the contrary, he has given them all that he has in himself and works together with them in everything he does.The authority he possesses is an authority given to him by the other persons of the Godhead, and he exercises that authority in collegiality with them.

Gerald Bray. God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. Crossway Books, 2012. 178-9

I get it.  I don’t get the verses he uses (John 13:3; 14:10-21) to make this point. What immediately popped in my head was Romans 13:1 but to say that the Son and the Spirit gave the authority to God the Father is stretching beyond my exegetical leet skillz.

But speaking of eternity, that makes logical sense.

  1. All authority is from God (Romans 13:1) - therefore we can say, Father had authority, Son had authority, Spirit had authority
  2. In love, Son and Spirit gave all authority to Father - this explains the glad submission to the authority of the Father
  3. Since the Son glorified the Father, the Father glorified the Son - Father is the head of Christ but Christ is Lord and King over all
  4. Since the Son goes to the Father, the Father sends His Spirit and by His Spirit, wields His power—sovereignty and freedom.

It is incredibly work-outable. But I got to dwell, sit, think, pray, ask, write, and scope ont his some more.

Apollo kids live to spit the real.

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