St. John's

Something Worth Remembering...

Submitted by Rob Donaldson on June 9, 2009 - 9:41pm

The bus promptly departs tomorrow (June 10) at 2:15pm.  The annual 8th grade class trip to Washington DC will be under way.  This year, I will be joining the trip as a parent.  I've heard lots of stories from past attendees.  It's going to be a great time and exciting to see the place where so many important parts of our country's history has occurred.

All of that being said, I've been thinking.  It is great to see the history of our country.  Honorable and trustworthy folks such as Lincoln who set the country on its path and have paid the ultimate sacrifice for what they believed.  Yet, while our country has an incredible and storied past, we each have our own history, our own story.  On this trip there will be some with decades of personal history (like myself) and others not even halfway through their second decade (like my son and his classmates). 

As I was jogging today, my thoughts began to run through all of this talk of history.  Something all humanity has in common; being part of a certain time and place, over and over again.  Put these together and all of a sudden you have "This is Your Life!!" 

What is so amazing for Christians is that we know the God who created all of this.  Better yet, we are known by God.  The God who created time, creation, you, and me.  God is constant, never changing, not constrained by time.  He created it!!  And yet, God chose to enter time in the birth of Jesus for you and for me, to save the world.  It is just so amazing to consider that God would chose to experience and be held captive by time as a man in his creation.  A man born at a certain time, in a certain place.  But don't think for a second that this was random.  "For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly" (Rom. 5:6).  God came into the history of the world through Jesus Christ.  But even more, God came into your history in baptism. 

Baptism begins a new history for believers; a history with God.  This story will last for eternity, when we will join God when Jesus returns to claim us as his own.

ps - I'm going to attempt to blog on the web page and add photos to the gallery during the trip.

Billy Blaze your comments

Submitted by smith67 on April 27, 2010 - 4:23am.

Billy Blaze your comments saying "your country" reveal that you are not an Indian so keep your advice to yourself. This question is posted in Yahoo India for Indians and we don't need your unsolicited advice. Mind your own country. The conversion agenda in India is a ruse to alienate native people from their own culture and history. The Christians and Muslims will be considered natives when they themselves believe that they are natives. What we currently see is India's muslims making up false geneologies to show some Arab ancestry 70-536 pdf in their genes pointing to the fact that they consider their fellow Indians as inferior. Similarly in Goa Christians manufacture some Portugese ancestry to alienate themselves from India. It's not Indians who are alienating them but they are alienating themselves from Indians. And conversion to religions of foreign origin is never unrelated from politics as people who convert lose their bond with the history of the nation. Their heroes are some mythical heroes of foreign origin testking 70-291 who have nothing to do with them or Indian history. Infact in some cases their heroes are the villains of Indian history as evident from the fact that Indian muslims admire Aurangzeb who tortured and executed hundreds of thousands of Indians and in Goa Christians revere a so called saint who was responsible for the inquisition on their own forefathers to convert them to Christianity. So don't give us the nonsense about maintaining secular character when indian pseudo-secularism is nothing but an excuse to rape and plunder India by dividing us further and an excuse for the conversion of more people.
This is evident from testking 70-290 the fact that Islam carved out Pakistan and Bangladesh from India and Christian conversion in Nagaland has raised separatist demands there.
Conversion is not separate from politics in India and we will do everything to maintain India's geographical integrity and sovereignty by working against conversions.
nd India is clearly not independent with people like Ap around that evaluate the worth of an Indian with his ability or inability to speak and write in proper English. She proves that the mental servility to the west of such Indians is still ongoing. 70-270 the has forgotten that India gave the number system, the decimal, trigonometry and innumerable such priceless things to the world and nobody spoke English and everyone was Hindu in India at the time and it was the most affluent nation on Earth with everyone wanting to trade with it and people sailing out for India in search of wealth and fame and ending up discovering America. From Alexander to Christopher Colombus to the British, everyone wanted to come to India.
Pathetic really picking on a typo and ignoring the larger issue. The questioner's intellect is not in question but such attitude surely puts questions on yours, ap.
lol, I just love it when spineless pseudo secularists talk tough. "Walk over my dead body and all". It provides some much needed comic relief here. When have they ever believed in anything but opportunism for money that they will take a stand of life and death over something?
 

All of that being said, I've

Submitted by wiliam on February 12, 2010 - 11:35pm.

All of that being said, I've been thinking.  It is great to see the history of our country.  Honorable and trustworthy folks such as Lincoln who set the country on its path and have paid the ultimate sacrifice for what they believed.  Yet, while our country has an incredible and storied past, we each have our own history, our own story.  On this trip there will be some with decades of personal history (like myself) and others not even halfway through their second decade.

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Rob - Have a great trip!!

Submitted by Dewey Rose on June 10, 2009 - 9:45am.

Rob - Have a great trip!! I'm looking forward to your blogs! DEWEY

Thanks-check out Facebook

Submitted by Rob Donaldson on June 11, 2009 - 9:50pm.

Thanks Dewey. It has been a great trip already after one full day in DC. I'm not able to blog efficiently on this webpage without my computer. So check out tons of pix and comments on by Facebook page. Just add me as a friend if needed and then you can check it all out. I'll add the pix to the image gallery after we get home.

Peace, Rob