I was up during the night, as usual. It is so hard for me to sleep more than just a few hours at a time. I have gotten into this habit over these three years fighting cancer. It started out at first, just not being able to sleep due to stress and anxiety. Now it is not due to the stress, but just habit. It is not uncommon for me to look at the clock and see the hours 2 AM, 3 AM, 4 AM. And I don’t mind it at all. In fact, I have gotten used to it to the point, it seems quite pleasant, and just the way things are now. In fact, it has lead to several very pleasant moments. Last night, there was a storm rolling through, and it was blowing through the house like a tempest. The breeze and wind seemed to swirl around, pick up all of the stale, dull air in the far, deep recesses of the spaces, and roll them on out the nearest window. By the time the storm had passed, the place – the air all inside seemed so clean and fresh. I wanted to thank everybody for the comments regarding my photo show at The First Baptist Church on Sunday. I was so honored by David Pendly who asked me to display my photos for the church! My set of skills, without much of an ability to speak in public, are hard to apply to my “service” to Christ. In fact, I am spending a lot of time on this issue in my thinking. I am wondering how I might serve Christ moor deeply and more often. I have always felt that I was serving Christ by displaying my photos, and advancing my writing into your hands. But I have been so extremely blessed, I just don’t feel like this is enough. I will do whatever I am feel I am being called for. There is no doubt, I belong to Jesus, and I Jonathan Thompson has died in Christ and has been restricted to his service. I am searching for what this “looks like”. I have always been so interested in Nature, and with my technical backgrounds in both geology and physics, I have been thinking about entering the intelligent design debate. Just so you know, I think that some of these scientific theories are the best science has, so I think they are probably correct at least in terms of what is currently out there, but I can also see the holes in the arguments in a great many of the scientists. I feel like I might also be able to help fill in some of the animosity that has developed between Christians and Scientists. I know, my own belief, deep science has lead me to some of the richest, deepest sources of FAITH, that I know of. Of course, the deepest source of my faith comes from Jesus Christ, and the blessings he has bestowed upon me over my life. Science does not contradict God in the least. In fact, science (good science) is material so richly strewn with the miracles of the Creator, only a stone would fail to see it. Anyway, I am just thanking God for my overwhelming blessings this morning, and I hope and pray that you are having a blessed day. Remember to live in faith today, and not fear!! As children of God, we have absolutely nothing to fear what so ever. I just wish I could be more successful in living in faith and not fear more often. It is so hard when we live in a world that ACTUALLY WANTS US TO BE AFRAID ALL OF THE TIME.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:23:15 +0000