Greetings to you…
You’ve stumbled across this blog by divine accident… I am in the process of reviving this blog started over a decade ago… Initially, I started the blog because of a continuing education class I took at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. The things I talked about then was tech stuff for education but after the class, I saw possibilities… Then life happened - more than my life bookshelves could handle and some of the “books of life” fell to the floor because of a lack of bookends - to contain life, (spoiler alert: there was just too much of life to contain)… If you desire to know what books of life fell, you are welcomed to peruse previous postings… Life changes.
With this new year I’ve desired to share mainly questions and ramblings in my head - usually Biblical topics, in hopes of sharing dialogue. I’m also toying with the idea of sharing snippets of a novella I wrote during 2020 - but I think everyone wrote something during that dark time. Still, with my introduction into technology back in the day, I’ve been able to write a plethora of notes at anytime, anywhere on my iPhone.
The notes/thoughts below aren’t specifically Biblical in nature but, I started them in 2016 which is as far back as this iPhone goes with my recording of thoughts and where I was - a timestamp would be my blog postings during 2016:
Beginning:
Summer of 2016
Passing Time - Some live their lives in imaging various scenarios. To me this seems like daydreaming. It passes time, but literally time is indeed passing… consider what could have been accomplished in doing rather than dreaming about something. Of course, unless one is imaging possibilities for actual movement forward then the dream is profitable. It becomes a tool for a step to reality.
Sadly, I see too many people stuck in the wheel of going no where - those that are fixated upon sometimes detrimental stuff or worse - lies they tell themselves - and so sink in quicksand.
Here’s one thought that I had for my students:
It’s important to take students out of their comfort zone, so they can learn from mistakes and flat out failures and so encourage them to stretch and reach for something more or even better from within themselves - (raise the bar for themselves, how novel a thought). It’s important to make them think, ask questions - to play out their thoughts and understand that choices have consequences - always.
This last thought comes from March 2017, (It was a thought for a book about my family):
The substance of Clay, is forgiving…
Afterthought:
Some may be wondering why not start a new blog?
Father God always works with a remnant - He waste nothing - not even the bad, the old, out-of-date, the castaways, useless… Father sees amazing potential.
Enough said for now…
Soli Deo Gloria
Nina
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