I have just managed some bloke-looking. We had a delivery of a few items to the church and when I got everything out of the box one item was not in there. I had looked carefully and taken out all the packaging. I phoned the supplier and gently pointed out that there was an item missing from the delivery.
The person who had packed the delivery was there and was certain that everything had been included. I agreed to look again and, sure enough, there was the missing item at the bottom of the box.
Deja vu. Again! See this previous bloggage for proof.
Reflecting again on the parable I mentioned in that bloggage it seems to me that Jesus could only have told it of a woman who finds a coin she has lost. If it had been a bloke he would still be looking for it – frequently going back to the first place he looked because he was sure it was there.
I am sure that at some point genetic scientists who are trying to decode the human genome and are finding all sorts of genes that are responsible for different things will find that women have a ‘finding’ gene that men do not have. Of course it will have to be a female scientist who finds it for obvious reasons!
Francis Collins was, until recently, heading up the Human Genome Project – an international project to map the human gene pool and reveal what is hidden in our genetic code. He is a follower of Jesus. His excellent book ‘The Language of God’ is a brilliant investigation and testimony of how his faith has informed his science and vice-versa. He sees no conflict between scientific investigation and Christian faith, indeed he finds that science affirms rather than undermines his faith. One of the many things I like about the book is the way that he has successfully integrated his work life and his faith.
How is your faith informing your work? How is your work informing your faith?
Be blessed, be a blessing.
Question: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answers:
CHILD: To get to the other side
PLATO: For the greater good.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.
KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.
CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
HIPPOCRATES: Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas.
ANDERSEN CONSULTING: Deregulation of the chicken’s side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.
MOSES: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the chicken, “Thou shalt cross the road.” And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.
FOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it?
RICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road
MACHIAVELLI: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.
JERRY SEINFELD: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn’t anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway?”
FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES: I have just released the new Chicken 2011, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your cheque book.
OLIVER STONE: The question is not, “Why did the chicken cross the road?”Rather, it is, “Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?”
DARWIN: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads. [this is the tenuous link to the theme]
EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die. In the rain.
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER: it was an instinctive maneuver, the chicken obviously didn’t see the road until he had already started to cross.
COLONEL SANDERS: I missed one?
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