Making shirts for Intervarsity week of welcome at the university. Partly for fun and partly so people know who to talk with when they’re cruising around the butterdome.
I had to learn Illustrator to make these… It’s certainly a useful skill in my mind.
Here’s a high quality musing by James Bell the First:
If an intelligent outside observer is required for a waveform to collapse (and thus for anything to exist), how is the entire universe here? Who is the extra-dimensional intelligent outside observer who makes the waveform of the universe collapse into the form that we experience it in? Is there a God?
After a bit of an overwhelming last semester that proved extremely un-conducive to a rigorous training schedule I’m finally getting a chance to easy myself back into it. Short runs right now; partly because it’s minus 25*C outside, partly because it’s stinking slippery out there but mostly because I’m not in any great shape to be throwing down a ten miler every other day!
Getting back into the swimming groove has been tough, I feel like I’m putting in all my mental effort to get an even kick and can’t even keep it symmetric. I just love hitting the pool though, I really missed it.
Last semester taught me something, the opportunity to find time for a 10 workout/week training schedule last summer was an amazing blessing! It was good to be called into a higher level of commitment than I had anticipated with InterVarsity. It was good to have my schedule dictated for me essentially hour by hour. It was good for me to see my run times decay over the course of the Wednesday night XC series. It may have even been alright for me to loose 16 cm of circumference from my thighs.
I really learned that the chance to dictate what I do with my time is a blessing. I feel like this semester has given me a bit more control over those sorts of things. I’m not jumping back into a 10 workout/week schedule until May, but even when I do I’ll have a greater perspective on how lucky I am to be able to hammer down Saskachewan drive at 40 kph.
Quantum Mechanics is honestly the sweetest course I have ever taken in the history of my life. I’m now checking it off on my list of life goals as complete
Now, anybody else in the course right now might be thinking otherwise as we are all finishing up the largest “weekly” assignment of our lives. Mine totals 16 pages. But by struggling through some ridiculous matheMagic to do those complex integrals and expectation values etc. I’ve developed not only a greater interest in the stuff, I’ve really got a much larger respect for the whole deal.
When you start an integral on one page, and hack your way through it on 2 pages, making reference to another 4 pages of previous results for simplification along the way, and arrive at the finish line with an answer of h|bar*(l^2 + a). You really get a grip on how intricately everything fits together. Having started with an expression that was so long I couldn’t even write it on one line (and couldn’t be reduced from there either!) and can develop such an elegant result I’m beginning to get a bit better grip on how perfectly God has this world balanced out. Whether or not the quantum mechanics aspect of the problem characterizes the real world very accurately, the math itself is something that elicits a bit of awe in me. I can’t help but sit here at my desk and be in a good mood even though the clock now shows “12:50″ because I’ve just seen a few of God’s fingerprints.
So it’s nearing three full days of being stuck in my head… here goes
Multiply Your Love Andy Park
Multiply Your love through us
To the lost and the least
Let us be Your healing hands
Your instruments of peace
May our single purpose be
To imitate Your life
Through our simple words and deeds
Let love be multiplied
Multiply Your love through me
To someone in need
Help me Lord to freely give
This grace that I’ve received
Let my single purpose be
To imitate Your life
Through my simple words and deeds
Let love be multiplied
Let us see Your kingdom come
To the poor and broken ones
Let us see a mighty flood
Of justice and mercy, O Jesus
Let love be multiplied
Let love be multiplied
Multiply Your church through us
To the ends of the Earth
Where there’s only barrenness
Let us see new birth
Use us as Your laborers
Working side by side
Let us see your harvest come
Let love be multiplied
After spending Engineering week doing a grand total of zero hours of homework it was only natural to up the ante and take another entire weekend away from Physics and Math to spend time with great people out in God’s creation.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship held its annual winter camp this year at Pioneer Lodge just 15 km from Sundre. Some highligh photos of the weekend made it into this gallery. We were treated to amazing weather and blue skies and starry nights, perfect for having ridiculously large bonfires and sleeping under the stars.
The topic of discussion for the weekend revolved around love. Now if you were to pick a topic for discussion to be as cliche as possible, you might choose to talk about love. If you were going to pick a topic to be as powerful as possible you might also choose to talk about love, it’s not a completely hokey idea. Jesus sums up “The Law” (Torah) and the Prophets (The rest of the old testament) in two sentences. It’s no coincidence that both of those sentences have the instruction to love.
So the teaching was sweet but just being together in a super low stress atmosphere was way better. I’ll go for a 4 km run for 40 minutes anytime, I can’t get enough of being with these people.
Everyone boots their computer, in fact most of us do it more than once a day. Here are two questions for you
I’ve got a friend on a missions project in Darjeeling India as part of a YWAM DTS based out of Brisbane Australia. (If you’re interested in more details check out her Blog). As financial support just wasn’t about to be something I had to offer I did commit to praying for her over this period of time. I’ll admit I didn’t do the greatest job of that while she was in training school but decided that I had to make a conscious effort while she was in the missions field. What I decided to do to ensure that I was praying regularly was to place This Wallpaper on my desktop to serve as a reminder to pray.
God’s call for us to pray is no mystery, we are to be “always in prayer”. The Bible tells us stories of people like Anna who “never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying” Luke 2:37. Paul’s example is similar as described in Philemon 1:4 “I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers.” I asked myself this past week whether or not the time I was spending praying was sufficient and the answer was no. Was I fulfilling the promise I’d made to myself to pray for Janneka while on DTS?… unfortunately No. A simple thing like a desktop certainly does remind me to pray.
If you’ve committed to pray for someone why not put them and their list of prayer requests on your desktop. It will cost you absolutely nothing. It’s a simple way to be reminded to pray every time you’re waiting for your computer to boot.
