Mark Buchanan
Mark Buchanan
Mark Buchananis an American physicist and author. He was formerly an editor with the international journal of science Nature, and the popular science magazine New Scientist. He has been a guest columnist for the New York Times, and currently writes a monthly column for the journal Nature Physics...
giants ethical midget
Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
lying doubt answers
Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.
unique rocks fleeing
Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.
soul sickness
Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.
taken expression doubt
Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.
giving golden embrace
Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.
disappointment reflection thinking
The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?
needs alive sabbath
Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
bigger dropping help physically played quarter stronger wore
We played with them for about a quarter and a half, but they were physically bigger and stronger than us. They wore us down and we didn't help things by dropping about 10 passes.
capable goal gonna good league level regain season
I think we're making really good strides. This is gonna be a test, the test, to see if we can play at the level I think we're capable of playing. Our goal going into the season was to try to regain the league championship. If we want to do that, this is a must-win.
aware call contact people registered speak stack sure unable
If we call them and they're unable to communicate, we'll make a stack of those people and have someone contact them who can speak Spanish. We want to make sure everyone's registered and aware of what's going on.
believe responsibility winter
And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.
athletic good playing power team
We're athletic and we have good speed. When you are playing a power team like Ony, you have to have more.
Courage encourages courage.