On the lighter side . . .

A young Christian went on a mission trip to Mexico and while there fell in love with the food. He got to eat in many of the homes where they did building projects and found one dish he especially liked because it tasted like chicken. He wanted to be able to order it in Spanish when he got back to the states, so he would always ask what it was, and would always get the reply "no pregunta" so he memorized and practiced it. When he arrived back home, he could hardly wait to get to the local Mexican restaurant. When the waiter asked for his order, he proudly said, "No Pregunta!" The waiter looked a little shocked and went away. After a while the manager came to him and said, wouldn't you like to order something? He said, I have already ordered and they haven't brought it yet. The manager called the waiter over and inquired as to why he was not bringing the man his order. The waiter answered, I asked him what he would like to eat and he said "No Pregunta!" The excited customer affirmed his order, looking into the managers puzzled face. The manager replied, No pregunta means "Don't ask" . . .

Have you ever thought about a jigsaw puzzle?

There’s companies that make perfectly good pictures, laminate them on a nice heavy backing, and then cut them up in little pieces. And we buy them like that.
We actually enjoy putting them back together, then we relish in our accomplishment.
How weird is that? I mean, the artistry of taking the photo, or painting the picture or even the craftiness to mount it beautifully to be displayed can be genius! But taking such a work, then getting it especially cut up so you could put it back together? And once together it is usually crumbled up and placed back in the box. If you do leave it together, you mount it, frame it, and decoupage it to look nice in spite of all the little grooves where the pieces connected. Somehow we like the challenge of putting together puzzles, and we want a challenge of definite proportions with definite outcomes. I think they can actually be therapeutic, helping us to sort an connect thoughts, and giving us those small victories that encourage us to keep on striving for solutions to those hard problems in life.

Things that make you go

Hmmm!

A New Twist!

Sometimes I think a mind has to be a little warped itself to come up with something like this! It looks like a versioin of the mohibus strip. Of course, a mobius strip is made of a thin material, like a paper or belt. It has a half twist, making the paper one-sided and single edged! Take a piece of paper and try one. You can find more if you search on modius strip.

Things that make you go HMMM??!

What Do You See?
Is it an arch or is it columns?
Are they square columns or round?
And just where is that soldier standing?
I love things that are more than meets the eye! Life is like that. So much either doesn't make sense, or is much more complex than first glance. C. S. Lewis said that sometimes when we ask God questions about why or how, we don't seem to get an answer because we really aren't asking an answerable question. If I ask you if the columns at the right are round or square, could you answer definitively? Round? Well they look round at the bottom, but follow them to the top? Look a little different up there! Kind of square. Are there 2 or three? Well, looks like three at the bottom, and two at the top? Is the soldier standing between two round columns, or a round one and a square one. These questions are difficult because the picture almost seems to have an extra dimension! I think that is why we have silence from heaven punctuating the end of many of our questions. Somewhere between earth and heaven, something changes, and our question is not answerable. We think we are asking "In heaven, Is the color red the color red or the color blue?" Which we are sure the answer is red, because red is red, not blue. In heaven the question is more like, "Is the color red round or square?" In heaven, I think much of our earthly questions are nonsense. I think the first lesson here is, when we ask a question of God, we shouldn't presume upon the acceptable answers. We should leave the answers open, because it is unlikely that we are even close!