Exloring Life Eternal

This is in response to the news of my sister-in-law's new child.

Perhaps others would find this sort of thing useful in seeking for a way to bless little ones:

A. Use the Scriptures to find a verse appropriate for the name and/or need of the child.

B. Do a little research on the meaning of the child's name & use their given name to give glory to the Lord.

C. If you are familiar with the child's family & the child itself, bless the child in a way appropriate to the specific characteristics of that child.

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Please send blessings on to your sister & family. A couple verses come
to mind come to mind: Micah 6:8 and Micah 7:18-19.
This link has the passages in NIV, Message, CEV, & NKJV if you care to pass along the verses:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Micah%206:8;Micah%207:18-19;&version=31;65;46;50;

May Micah Sebastian indeed be one who brings respect as people come to know through his life & conversation the answer to this question, "Who is like the Lord?"

(see this site for more info on names: http://www.yourdictionary.com/ )
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/v/v0051600.html
http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?terms=Micah+Sebastian&nmd=n&gender=both&operator=or

Why then do most women stop before they have 7 if childbearing often gets better with each one?

Women in Yemen tend to be much more joyful about having kids than some places. Ironically, one worker in Yemen had as a priority
project to get money for a whiteboard to help teach the proper use of birth control to men (if I remember the details correctly) ... an odd approach to church planting. In my mind that ranks as the most interesting conversation I've ever had about missions: How do you grow a church if you are trying to reduce the number of kids who are born?

This is actually an old debate in ecclesiology:
Did Jesus want us to be fruitful & multiply or to serve as eunuchs?

(Obviously my own multiplication is mainly on paper or on a calculator, so please don't take offense. It is a little thing I've thought about at times though. ... I think too much!)

BTW: Do you know what the # 1 income producing export is for Yemen. Yep. People!! Or, more polically correct: labor.

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P.S. My elder brother informed me that their fourth child was more difficult.

Should music be tasteful?

If so, how would praise taste?

http://sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/03/02/music-taste050302.html

This link talks about a lady who could taste music. Interesting cross-over of sensory info.

Perhaps this sort of linkage gives us a hint at the wholistic approach we should have in our worship of the Lord: A sweet smelling aroma!!

If this is true, then our whole lives should be in pursuit of harmony with the Lord that others may sense His presence in our lives. How do we enter His presence? With thanksgiving in our heart & with praise!

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http://sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/03/02/music-taste050302.html
Musician tastes richness of symphony
Last Updated Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:04:26 EST
CBC News
LONDON - A musician who sees colour when she hears music can also "taste" the flavours of tones such as a creamy harmony by Bach, scientists say.

Swiss neuropsychologists recruited Elizabeth Sulston, a 27-year-old professional musician, for a year-long study.

The subject found an octave has no taste. Sulston, who has an average IQ, is a synaesthete – someone who involuntarily experiences a crossover of senses from stimuli.

In this case, she sees colour when she hears a tone. To Sulston, an F sharp looks violet and a C is red.

What makes Sulston's case remarkable is she also perceives a taste corresponding to what she hears.

In Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, researchers said this is the first known case of such a combined perception.

Lutz Jaencke of the University of Zurich and his colleagues tested her gift at identifying tone intervals, the difference between two notes.


In the first part of the experiment, researchers applied different solutions tasting sour, bitter, salty and sweet to her tongue while four musical intervals were presented.

Then the test was repeated, except that words describing the tastes, rather than the tastes themselves, were shown to Sulston before the tone intervals were played.

To Sulston, a minor second is sour, a major third sweet, a fourth tastes like mown grass and a minor sixth like cream.

"Whenever she hears a specific musical interval, she automatically experiences a taste on her tongue that is consistently linked to that particular interval," the scientists wrote in the journal.

She responded with perfect accuracy, and more quickly than five other musician controls who don't have synaesthesia.

Sulston's "application of her synaesthetic sensations in identifying tone intervals – a complex task that requires formal musical training – demonstrates that synaesthesias may be used to solve cognitive problems," they concluded.