Pale Blue Dot

Sometimes we forget how big God is. Or rather we don't want to feel how small we are compared to God. During Chris Tomlin's "Indescribable Tour", a speaker—Louis Giglio— talked about our place in the Universe from God's POV. The thumbnail image on the left inside that ray of light is a speck called the "Pale Blue Dot". That's Earth from four billion miles away taken by Voyager 1.

Carl "Billions and Billions of Stars" Sagan wrote about this on his Reflections on a Mote of Dust.

This, a psalmist's reflection: Psalm 8:3-4.

Images courtesy of Planetary Photojournal.

Next Stop Wonderland

My heart I could not trust
' Cause it lies to me too much
And my mind just couldn't
Understand it all

Sometimes when you pray for something so bad and you get it. Then you don't know what to do with it. Do you ever get that feeling? I think my mind is just trying to process it all...I am sooo ready for it though. I know it will be good if not great. Scary...but exciting!

Stumbling in the dark
Now I need you here to be my vision

You took my heart and you changed it
With your words of life
You took my eyes and you opened them
And gave me sight&mdash (Blind Third Day)

Not So Abundant Tickets

So it has come up in the GRX community that the Indescribable Tour in Palo Alto has been sold out due to the huge response. People I know are looking for ticket(s).

Here are the results of a recent wanted search for "chris tomlin" over at Craigslist:

On one such listing someone wrote this: “I'll pay you more than what you paid!”

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Intervention

This song Intervention by Madonna was playing on my iPod™ today, repeatedly for awhile now. And when I opened my Bible after returning from my lunch swim, God showed me this passage.

"³¹ And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." (Acts 16:31 KJV. NIV vers here.)

Sometimes I can get affected watching moving images or listening to a meaningful song. The images of the hurricane victims felt so surreal, thus removed from my daily experience. I felt disconnected from various news feed and coverages on TV. But somehow listening to Intervention brought some sense of relevance back, made the plights of the people in New Orleans more immediate and here.

In the blink of an eye everything
could change

And I know that love
Will change us forever
And I know that love
Will keep us together
And I know, I know
There is nothing to fear
And I know that love
Will take us away from here

Receiving the "baton" from reading Wuboy, I'm passing it onto: whomever.

Coldplay

My great weekend actually started Thurs.

DTR (Or when is it appropriate to Define The Relationship)

Thursday: Our wonderful Knot2Us small group facilitators unveiled a strategy to tip the unbalanced "singles" scale at GrX by having an all important orange color-coded bonfire night at Pacifica State beach. The location was chosen in order to minimize flirting as it's very difficult to figure out who's who in complete darkness...except for the randomn flickering fire...which in a way could be romantic — but I digress.

We discussed among many important topics such as: Do girls prefer an expensive diamond ring or a down payment for a condo/townhouse/house. The girls offered their insights: Why not an AND. Why does it have to be OR? They were joking, of course. Other important topics were: "How should women say 'No' when they're not interested." That is "How does a guy know his chance with a girl is one in a hundred or one in a million?" Progress was slow but we'll have an update on the "singles" scale with perhaps another round of discussion, where we'll try to answer more than three of the twenty prepared questions...in two hours.

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Stern Grove

Spent most of Sunday in the City &mdash Stern Grove — better than expected. We (Andrea, Louise, Sharline, me) arrived to an overcast-foggy outer Sunset, somewhere between Sloat and 19th Ave.

Sandwiches on a slope hill listening to Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 From The New World. Thanks Andrea! I swore it sounded like Star War's Phantom Menace Duel of The Fates. It was fun being outdoor and listening to classical. Reminded of Disney's Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 and his idea also of a concert film shown in the outdoor.

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