In the Shadow of the Moon - Ron Howard

My wife and I just watched the documentary "In the Shadow of the moon". These are some of the testimonies of the astronauts after their flight to the moon. Isn't our God (Jesus) an amazing God?


"I felt that I was literally standing on a plateau somewhere out there in space. A plateau that science and technology had allowed me to get to. But now what I was seeing and even more important what I was feeling at that moment in time, science and technology had no answers for it. Literally no answers because there I was, and there you are, there you were, the Earth dynamic, overwhelming and I felt that the world is just too much purpose, too much logic, we're just too beautiful to have happened by accident. There has to be somebody bigger than you, and bigger than me, and I mean this in a spiritual sense, not in a religious sense, there has to be a creator of the universe who stands above the religions that we ourselves create to govern our lives."
-Gene Cernan (Apollo 10 & 17)

"A friend of ours got us to go to a Bible study at a tennis club and after that weekend I said to Jesus, I said, "I give you my life and if you're real come into my life." And I believe and he did and I sense I had a sense of peace that was hard to describe. It was so dramatic we started sharing our stories. I say my walk on a moon lasted three days and it was a great adventure but my walk with God lasts forever."
-Charlie Duke (Apollo 16)

"We learnt a lot about the moon, but what we really learnt was about the Earth. The fact that from the distance of the moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb, everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the earth itself, all behind your thumb and how insignificant we, really, all are. But then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy living here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself."
-Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 & 13)


(You got to see "Planet Earth" series from BBC.)


Our earth is indeed an amazing creation a handiwork of our Lord Jesus.

The Mystery of Love

"...the mystery of love... no one can figure out who is doing the giving and who the receiving. Real lovers know giving and receiving are hilarious and splendid parados, in which lo the giving becomes receiving and the receiving giving until any efforts to sort it out collapse in merriment or adoration."

- Thomas Howard

When the heart is fat with the love of Jesus

“On the most basic levels, I desire fullness, and fleshly lusts seduce me by attaching themselves to this basic desire. They exploit the empty spaces in me, and they promise that fulness will be mine if I give in to their demands. When my soul sits empty and is aching for something to fill it, such deceptive promises are extremely difficult to resist.

Consequently, the key to mortifying fleshly lusts is to eliminate the emptiness within me and replace it with fullness; and I accomplish this by feasting on the gospel. Indeed, it is in the gospel that I experience a God who glorifies Himself by filling me with His fullness. . . . This is the God of the gospel, a God who is satisfied with nothing less than my experience of fullness in Him! . . .

Indeed, as I perpetually feast on Christ and all His blessings found in the gospel, I find that my hunger for sin diminishes and the lies of lust simply lose their appeal. Hence, to the degree that I am full, I am free. Eyes do not rove, nor do fleshly lusts rule, when the heart is fat with the love of Jesus!”

- Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer for Christians (2008), 45-46

"We must not mind a little suffering for Christ’s sake"

“My dear brother, we must not mind a little suffering for Christ’s sake. When I am getting through a hedge, if my head and shoulders are safely through, I can bear the pricking of my legs. Let us rejoice in the remembrance that our holy Head has surmounted all His suffering and triumphed over death. Let us follow Him patiently; we shall soon be partakers of His victory.”

—Charles Simeon, quoted in John Piper, The Roots of Endurance (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2006), 77

Monsoon

No lightning, no thunder

Just heat and sticky arms

comes as a warning

How I long for you

Probably heat and sticky arms

makes more the yearning

The coolness brought in

Lost heat and sticky arms

Still, dust free morning

Do I look forward to

another heat and sticky arms

knowing the rain would come

Despair of Overcoming Chronic Temptations

“I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptations. It is not serious provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience et cetera doesn’t get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes are in the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing is to lose one’s temper and give it up. It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of his presence.”

- C.S. Lewis, in a letter to Mary Neylan, January 20, 1942

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