Happy Birthday Tony

Happy Birthday Tony Stewart.  Here is a twitpic posted by Stewart Haas Racing on Tony's birthday on May 20, 2010.  Gotta love it.

From The Secret Daily Teachings

From The Secret Daily Teachings
Isn't it great to know that you cannot control your world from the outside? To try and control things on the outside feels impossible because it would take so much work, and in fact it is impossible according to the law of attraction.

To change your world all you have to do is manage your thoughts and feelings on the inside of you, and then your whole world changes.

From The Secret Daily Teachings

From The Secret Daily Teachings
Look for the gifts in everything, especially when you are facing what appears to be a negative situation. Everything that we attract causes us to grow, which means that ultimately everything is for our own good.

Adjusting to a new path and a new direction will require new qualities and strengths, and these qualities are always exactly what we need to acquire in order to accomplish the great things ahead in our life.

Patterns

Just noting that the repeating numbers pattern is continuing.  I know that some people have numbers like 11 11 repeat. Or I hear of a lot of 11 and 22 stuff.  I used to have a lot of 10 10 repeats.  I still get those (an example in a minute), but my stuff is more random which makes me wonder if the universe is just messing with me in general.  I've been having where I look at my mileage on my car...the little one that I reset so that I know when it makes sense to refill gas.  I've been looking just as the numbers are in a pattern...like 121.2 type stuff.  I also keep enter the milage info into an app on my phone.  The last time that I entered the total miles it was 87878...makes you go hmmm.

Today I signed on to check my mail and there was another facebook friend request....I'm not a big fan of facebook....I feel like I'm trapped back in high school world.  That is another subject for another day.  So this girl sends me a friend request.  I really have no idea who she but we have six mutual friends and I know those six people so I guess that I'll go with it...I went back to the email to see what time the request came in so that I don't seem needy or too excited since I don't remember her by adding her too quickly.  Well, here's what my gmail said:10:10 PM (10 hours ago) again...........hmmmm.  

Stewart's New Demographic

I just had to share this picture from a tweet at Stewart Haas Racing. I'm a huge Tony Stewart fan. The tweet said, "Stewart adds a new demographic to his fan base-The Amish. This photo was taken in Birdinhand PA." I was born and raised in or near Amish country in Northern Indiana so I just found this picture to be super cool. 

Language of Elephants and Dolphins

Isn't it ironic that our Christian faith teaches us that we are made in God's image and at the same time we are taught that God loves us unconditionally. Yet as humans we can be so thick and unloving. We clump through life thinking that we know how things works and that we can master our universe...we're in the image of God after all.  But we don't get the important part right...the love part.

One of the examples is the way that we see animals.  We use them for work and for food but we don't view them as God's creatures, or see that we might learn something from them.  I found the following stories so amazing.

First there was a story in The Times that says that dolphins should be considered "non-human persons." The article points out:
Studies into dolphin behaviour have highlighted how similar their communications are to those of humans and that they are brighter than chimpanzees. These have been backed up by anatomical research showing that dolphin brains have many key features associated with high intelligence.

The researchers argue that their work shows it is morally unacceptable to keep such intelligent animals in amusement parks or to kill them for food or by accident when fishing. Some 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die in this way each year.

Then there was a story in National Geographic that mentions how there is a language that elephants use.  Here is a bit from the article: 

Like humans and many other mammals, she explained, the elephants have a wide range of calls and signals for different purposes—to secure their defense, warn others of danger, coordinate group movements, reconcile differences, attract mates, reinforce family bonds, and announce their needs and desires.

Distinctive expressions of joy, anger, sympathy, sexual desire, playfulness, and many other emotions are among their vocal repertoire.

Our world is so amazing that it is sad that we often walk through it without really seeing the details.