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19000 days. Yes, that’s nineteen thousand days. And that’s a lotta days. But I didn’t just pick a number off the top of my head. No, it’s the approximate number of days I’ve written poetry.Some might say that’s a huge waste of a large number of days.
To those I say, “Ouch. You hurt both my feelings.”
So, the number of days also closely represents the number of poems and songs and short stories. Yes, I’ve written something nearly every one of those days. And there were many times I wrote multiple rhymes in a day.
But I didn’t bring that big number up to brag. I’d like to emphasize how inexhaustible information is. Because it’s non-material. No matter how many words are written. by every writer who ever lived, lives now, or ever will live, we will never be able to use up all the words.
And I’m not a proponent of miracles, when it comes to faith. I don’t look for signs and wonders to point me to the Creator of Heaven and Earth. So, when I talk about the miraculous wonder of our information based existence, I mean it’s a miracle that God allows us this life we willingly destroy.
Or, at the very least, it’s a wonder He still has any patience for any of us. But I believe He does have patience and tender mercy because at least some of us love this gift of Life He gave us.
I pity the fools who place their trust in materialism.
Theirs is a hopeless existence. Because they believe it to be temporary and nihilistic. And in only what their senses tell them.
But that’s just not sensible.
Three years ago, I woke up in the wee hours, and worked on some “rewrites” of some of my writings. And, as I wrote, a few other thoughts popped in. Here’s what I said:
“A materialistic worldview says everything that exists is made up of nothing but matter and energy. But it’s a self-refuting position. Because the thoughts behind that statement are non-material and non-physical.
And that’s good news.
Unless your whole philosophy in life relies on the absence of a Creator God.
Then, non-physical information becomes a thorn in your side. A stumbling block you can’t move out of the way with more anti God rhetoric. And the sad news is, the opponents of God don’t care about evidence. So, their agenda is clear.
Mock and ridicule Christians for believing in “someone or something invisible in the sky.”
Which, of course, we don’t do.
But they don’t care about our intellectualism and scientific knowledge. Only that we believe in the God who is the ultimate standard of right and wrong.
And it’s only 4 a.m. I can only imagine what this new day will bring.”
Then, of course, I finished my morning journal entry with a poem…
This day, I know, will be awesome and so lyrical
‘Cause this life we all live is a such a miracle.
If you choose to be doubtful and satirical,
One sad day you’ll find my faith is quite empirical.
Stay tuned,
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