Staying in the Lane

When I was learning to drive, one of my first problems was learning to stay in the lane. First it would be, ‘you’re too close to the gutter!’ Then, ‘you’re too close to the centre!’ 

The instructing person (usually one of my parents) would get progressively more agitated that I wasn’t heeding their warnings. I would be checking each side, thoroughly confused as to what I was doing wrong and how to get it right. 

My first professional instructor was even less helpful. She said, ‘Bronwyn, you look but you don’t see. You listen but you don’t hear.’ Finally, one day I yelled at her: ‘I don’t know what I am meant to be seeing or hearing! Stop telling me that and just tell me something helpful!’

After that I changed driving instructors.

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Anniversaries

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of my baptism.

I was baptised into the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Saturday, 2 March 1991, at my home church in South Korea, the day before we immigrated to the USA.

Every year, I reflect on my journey with God and am amazed at how patient He is with me.  He fills in where I lack and I experience grace over and over again.

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Invisible

When’s the last time you looked up at the stars?

Astronomer Kareem El-Badry created a new plot this week (February 22, 2021) of more than a million pairs of binary stars (double stars orbiting a common centre of gravity).  You can watch the 3D atlas here.

It’s astounding to think about how many stars there are in our sky – let alone our solar system, galaxy, and universe!

We don’t think about them much, because we cannot always see them.

And even when they’re visible, we aren’t always paying attention.  We’re too busy looking down at our phones.  Or driving our cars. Or turning on the lights.

When’s the last time you looked up at the stars?

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