We can split the atom, fly to the moon, scan the eye and sat-nav our way around the world. We can create, design, develop and build. We have an amazing amount of know-how. By why? What is the use of know-how if we don’t have any know-why?
Peter Lewis wrote ‘our data banks are loaded with technical know-how, while our century has become bankrupt of know-why. Even as we solve the problems, we remain our greatest problem. We can control colossal forces but we cannot control ourselves….. Having locked God out of a scientifically determined universe, we now find ourselves lost in a spiritually empty universe: one with no higher purpose and in which life has no ultimate meaning.’
In a time of credit crunch and bank collapses, we need more than know-how.
The know-why is approximately 2000 years old.
Monday 27 October 2008
Sunday 12 October 2008
Necker Island Again
Friends have asked me to post a few more photo's from our amazing holiday, so here they are. Trust they don't cause you to break the 11th Commandment - 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours holiday'!
Monday 6 October 2008
Thank you Virgin Atlantic
For those of you who are regular readers of this blog, you will know why it’s been silent for the last week or more. Roh and I have just returned from the holiday of a lifetime, courtesy of Richard Branson.
Earlier in the year I was the fortunate winner of a Virgin Atlantic frequent flyers draw- and the prize was a week for two on Richard Branson's private island, Necker Island in the Caribbean (the Virgin Islands of course!). It really was the holiday of a lifetime. We were the sole occupants a 3 storey Bali style villa in the middle of the island (see picture). There was sailing, tennis, speed boats, snorkelling- and as much food and drink as you could manage- all for free.
And the beauty was stunning. A tropical island next to a coral reef. I’m not sure the photo’s do justice to it.
And look who Roh found.....
One of the highlights was climbing up to the ‘crows nest’ in the main house at night and looking up at the stars (while drinking champagne!). You could see the Milky Way with the naked eye. The stars were in 3-D, not just a flat sky as we see in the UK. Such amazing beauty. Such incredible creation.
‘When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?’ Psalm 8: 3-4
Earlier in the year I was the fortunate winner of a Virgin Atlantic frequent flyers draw- and the prize was a week for two on Richard Branson's private island, Necker Island in the Caribbean (the Virgin Islands of course!). It really was the holiday of a lifetime. We were the sole occupants a 3 storey Bali style villa in the middle of the island (see picture). There was sailing, tennis, speed boats, snorkelling- and as much food and drink as you could manage- all for free.
And the beauty was stunning. A tropical island next to a coral reef. I’m not sure the photo’s do justice to it.
And look who Roh found.....
One of the highlights was climbing up to the ‘crows nest’ in the main house at night and looking up at the stars (while drinking champagne!). You could see the Milky Way with the naked eye. The stars were in 3-D, not just a flat sky as we see in the UK. Such amazing beauty. Such incredible creation.
‘When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?’ Psalm 8: 3-4
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