Is the Bible True?

God’s Wife

New York City: It’s a cold day in December. A little boy about 10-year-old was standing before a shoe store on Broadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold. A lady approached the boy and said, “My little fellow, why are you looking so earnestly in that window?”

“I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes,” was the boy’s reply.

The lady took him by the hand and went into the store, and asked the clerk to get a half dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with a towel.

By this time the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy’s feet, she then purchased him a pair of shoes, and tying up the remaining pairs of socks, gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, “No doubt, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable now?”

As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught her by the hand, and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes, answered the question with these words: “Are you God’s wife?”

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Divine Proportion

“Geometry has two great treasures: one is the theorem of Pythagoras;
the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio.
The first we may compare to a measure of gold;
the second we may name a precious jewel.”

– Johannes Kepler [1571-1630]

The order found throughout God’s creation is remarkable. It makes a fascinating study and below are a few links about this most interesting topic.

Phi: The Golden Number

Shapes, Numbers, Patterns, And The Divine Proportion In God’s Creation

Golden Numbers

Real Signs of Intelligence

Ceiling Mural in Smoker’s Lounge

Free Will – what’s love got to do with it?

“‘Suppose there was a king who loved a humble maiden. The king was like no other king. No one dared breathe a word against him, for he had the strength to crush all opponents. And yet this mighty king was melted by love for a humble maiden. How could he declare his love for her? In an odd sort of way, his kingliness tied his hands. If he brought her to the palace and crowned her head with jewels and clothed her body in royal robes, she would surely not resist—no one dared resist him. But would she love him?
She would say she loved him, of course, but would she truly? Or would she live with him in fear, nursing a private grief for the life she had left behind? Would she be happy at his side? How could he know? If he rode to her forest cottage in his royal carriage, with an armed escort waving bright banners, that too would overwhelm her. He did not want a cringing subject. He wanted a lover, an equal. He wanted her to forget that he was a king and she a humble maiden and to let shared love cross the gulf between them. For it is only in love that the unequal can be made equal.’

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Human Trafficking in Cyberspace

Human trafficking has long touched countries around the world, and even pervades our United States. Despite progress made towards eliminating such slavery over the past two hundred years, we now have access to a new world without boundaries. With our vastly increased population the numbers have drastically increased. As the ships of the past transported slaves abroad, the internet highway is exploiting woman and children. This type of abuse is largely facilitated through the very technology that many of us, in contrast, find helpful. The improper use of the internet needs to be regulated to change the course of this trend.

Oh, if I could change my world, contribute a ray of hope, I would hope to inform more people of this horrible plight. I do blog about this and share resources about this cause though it seems not nearly enough. We need a global solution to end this horrid source of human degradation. Freedom is one thing, but the abuse of this sort of “freedom” cannot be tolerated. The law was made to reveal our sinfulness. God has already showed us what is good. With better understanding of the problem and the implementation of a secure internet we might hope to live in a safer world.

“He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8

ARTICLES:

Technology Is a Double-Edged Sword: Illegal Human Trafficking in the Information Age
Inside Story on … Explotation of Children on the Internetvv

Pimps and Predators on the Internet: Globalizing the … Exploitation of Women and Children
PULA Policy Focus: Trafficking, Pornography and Censorship On-line
The exploitation of children: past and present
Policing the Internet
Violence Against Women on the Internet
Policing the Internet – FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
IN THE NEWS:
Police Rescue 167 Children Sold into Sweatshop

The Brick- Kiln Scandal
Fast-Growing China Says Little of Child Slavery’s Role


MY PREVIOUS POSTS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING:

What Color is Slavery?

White Slavery – Sex Trafficking

Free 27,000,000 Slaves

The Discarded Children of China

Mom’s Overture by Anita Renfroe

Mom’s Worth

Caveat: All Mom’s are working Moms.

According to Salary.com my calculated worth as a working Mom is $101,110.

Earning Statement		Our Family
For the year ending: May 2008
Job title	Hourly Rate	Hours worked
Housekeeper $7.99 0 Teacher $10.92 208 Cook $11.09 156 Computer Operator $12.76 416 Laundry Machine Operator $8.20 104 Janitor $8.41 52 Facilities Manager $28.67 52 Chief Executive Officer $56.25 520 Van Driver $13.18 624 Psychologist $30.22 832 Interior Designer $15.28 104 Administrative Assistant $13.81 312 Event Planner $20.84 52 Bookkeeper $13.64 0 General Maintenance Worker $11.76 0 Groundskeeper $10.09 0 Nutritionist $18.62 52 Staff Nurse – RN $22.89 52 Plumber $13.22 0 Logistics Analyst $18.33 0 Total Value Regular Hourly Rate $23.71 2,080 $49,322 Over Time Rate $35.57 1,456 $51,788 $101,110

The folks at Salary.com are nice enough to write me a check.

In reality,  I do not see a penny of it. I do, however, have an excellent retirement plan – it is out of this world and reaps eternal rewards.

Do you want to see “how much” you are worth?   Go to the Mom’s Salary Wizard.

Quoteables

“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quoteables

“Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead.
It is going on all the time.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman