Today’s Thursday Thought speaks for itself.
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To Be InSIGHTful
I ask you to read this story in two ways–literal and symbolic. I think it speaks to the fact we miss a lot by spend so much of our time with closed eyes, figuratively. I believe in eyes wide open, to take in the beauty of our surroundings and the people in it. (Story is from https://www.livin3.com/5-motivational-and-inspiring-short-stories.)
A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted…
“Dad, look the trees are going behind!”
Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed…
Dad, look the clouds are running with us!”
The couple couldn’t resist and said to the old man…
“Why don’t you take your son to a good doctor?” The old man smiled and said…“I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today.”
Have a beautiful, inSIGHTful day!
Our Amazing Universe
A new birth! Not a boy or a girl…a planet! And we’re present at its birth. The first time ever we’ve had this experience. It doesn’t have a real name, just PDS 70b (around a dwarf star, PDS 70).
It’s amazing, breath-taking, and awe-inspiring. Partly because of our ability to see such an event outside our own solar system.
Below is a picture of it. But you can see and learn more by going to https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/02/world/newborn-planet-image-study/index.html.
This is welcome positive news to start the week. It gives me hope that, despite what we humans are doing to each other on Earth, the Universe continues to be fashioned in beautiful, magnificent ways.
The Blessings of Steve Jobs
Remember ten years ago, when life was so much harder? We couldn’t check on the whereabouts of our friends anytime we wanted to, read our Facebook postings or email without turning on our computer, catch up whenever we wanted with a movie or TV show we missed. We had to call people and talk to them rather than texting. If we wanted to prove our point in a conversation we had to wait to go to the library or do a computer search so we could show family and friends that we were right. We had to turn on a radio or other device to play music, use a camera to take pictures, go to our Game Boy to play games.Why, we didn’t even have a personal assistant like Siri.
And we had to carry on conversation at the dinner table.
Granted, not all of these features sprang fully grown into our world. The smart phone, introduced by the Japanese in 1992, had far few features than the modern device.
But what would our world be like if Steve Jobs (or someone like him with the same drive and creativity) had not given birth to the iPhone a decade ago?
Happy 10th birthday, iPhone!
Abortions for Newborns: A Moral Dilemma
Here’s a moral quandary for people who believe in no abortion under any circumstances: fetus in fetu. It happens–in both boys and girls–in 1 of every 500,000 births. It is a fetus within a newborn baby. Some say it’s more of a tumor. But sometimes there’s no question, as in the case of the Hong Kong baby with twins inside her, twins that were 8-10 weeks developed, with arms, legs, spine, ribs, intestines, and an umbilical cord each. (No, this isn’t something from National Inquirer. Read about it in the U.K. Mirror article.) The medical team removed them surgically when the girl was three weeks old.
Was that an abortion? Of course it was. Was it morally right? That’s a knotty question. Should the newborn and her twins have been allowed to die instead?
I’ll leave the answers to people far more intelligent, moral, and spiritual than I am.