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Feast upon the Word of God

22 March 2009, 11:11 pm by Giggles

Categories: Gospel

Last Sunday I attended two different sacrament meetings (general Sunday meetings of a LDS congregation). In both meetings the topic of the talks was the scriptures and scripture study. I heard five different talks that day about that and joked that it must be a topic I need to hear about.

But it really is a wonderful topic, so today I want to share some of my thoughts on the topic.

The word “scripture” is used to define those writings that are deemed sacred and inspired. They are a record of God’s dealings with His people and his words and teachings given to His people through His prophets. They are truly of great worth. But that’s only if we use them, study them, know them.

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Quilts – A symbol of life and love

21 March 2009, 9:32 am by Giggles

Categories: Family, Gospel, Happy Things, Quilting/Sewing/Knitting/Crafting, Relationships

With all the other holidays I celebrate, you better believe I know about National Quilt Day. So let’s pause a moment and think about quilts.

I frequently tell people that quilting is my therapy. It costs about the same but I have a quilt when I’m finished. I frequently buy the material for a quilt in stages rather than all at once so I can’t know off hand how much a particular quilt cost me. I’m a bit afraid how much I spend on quilting. Although I did end up making money the second year I worked at Hancock (not enough to make up for how much I didn’t make the first year though). Quilting is the hobby that keeps me sane. It also allows a beautiful creative outlet for my math tendencies. I love calculating out how much fabric I need to make this design and have a finished quilt that is that size. Quilts are pretty math.

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Negative Nancy

20 March 2009, 12:06 pm by Giggles

Categories: Education, Venting

There exists in this world people who cannot find anything good in anything, who will be the first to point out the faults of people or things, who will not like anything.

People like them make me seek that much harder to look for the good in everything. I have encountered a few of these people within my educational career, both in classmates and in professors. They make me try to find something to like in the books and articles we read.

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Gravatars

17 March 2009, 11:24 pm by Giggles

Categories: Science & Tech

I’ve added Gravatar support to my blog. So now a fun little image of your choosing will show up next to your comments.

If you already have a gravatar account but there isn’t a fun little image next to your comments, it’s probably because the e-mail address you registered with for this site isn’t the one you set up for your gravatar account. You can log-in and go to the dashboard here and change the email associated with your account here and that will take care of that.

If you don’t have a gravatar account, why not set one up. It’s easy and painless. Unless picking a picture is painful. It’s a way to visually identify yourself on the internet. Me, I went with the black-eyed susan picture I took a couple of years ago that is just about everywhere on this site.

I can’t wait to see what pictures everyone chooses.

Oh, and I’ve also added a smiley toolbar to the comments. Woot! :woot:

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The written word

17 March 2009, 7:20 am by Giggles

Categories: Health, Life, News

I read an article in the BBC recently about the decline of handwriting, “The slow death of handwriting.” With computers becoming even more prevalent, people only write by hand on very rare occasions any more, a grocery list, signing a card, very few other times. They fear that in a few generations, only specialists, old people in libraries, will be able to read the letters we wrote to each other and sent through the mail.

I think it’s the last two paragraphs of the article that I like the best though.

Perhaps the best argument for keeping our pens is that otherwise, in a society that is recorded in more detail than any which came before it, we will leave plenty of data but very little of our personalities behind.

Our descendants may struggle to read our letters, but they’ll never even see most of our texts and e-mails.

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I love to see the temple

15 March 2009, 6:52 pm by Giggles

Categories: Gospel

Throughout history people have built temples to bring them closer to their god and to practice their most sacred rites of worship.

A temple is a building built to God. It is a place where He can dwell on earth and come to teach us of His ways. It is a place where we can worship and participate in sacred rituals that teach and help us remember God.

Temples are built out of devotion and reverence. They are built out of the finest a people can make. When Solomon built his temple, it was built of the finest material and by the most skilled craftsmen. Even the tabernacle of Moses was built with the best material they had at the time. When Nephi built his temple, he too used the finest materials that were available to them (2 Nephi 5:16).

Temples are sacred places. They are holy places. Holy implies being spiritually and morally pure rather than common or profane. They are God’s dwelling place on earth, and as such He can set the standards by which we must be measured before we can enter. In the Psalms it asks, “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?” (Psalms 24:3). And the answer is given in the very next verse, “He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.” The temple is a holy place, and as such, those who wish to enter must be striving for holiness in their lives.

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Happy “National” Pi Day!!

14 March 2009, 9:26 am by Giggles

Categories: Books, Education, Random, Science & Tech

I’ve been planning my Pi Day party for a couple of months now (it’s been on the calendar longer than that though because I knew when it would be). But Congress has gone and made it an official national holiday now. I kind of doubt that it will become a federal holiday with time off work and no mail delivery that day though. Scientific American also reported on the holiday a bit, “Happy 3/14, also known as pi day.”

FamousMathematicians will also be dropping a giant Pi at 1:59pm Eastern and Pacific times if you want to get in on that fun. (get it? 3/14 1:59)

Since it is also Albert Einstein’s 130th birthday, today is also “Talk Like a Physicist Day” (“Talk Like a Pirate Day” isn’t until September).

This year I feel extra prepared because I read a whole book called A History of Pi last year. It really has quite the history. A few years ago I also read a book about quantum physics that touched on some of the work by Einstein and his contemporaries, Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics. Physicists are people too (weird people, but still people), and that book talked a lot about their lives as well as their work.

So tonight we will be celebrating by eating pie and watching the movie IQ, because it features Einstein.

But, that’s not all. Tomorrow is the Ides of March! I do not have any friends named Brutus, or Bruce, so I’m not too worried. But we should celebrate the life of Julius Caesar as well. So there will be Little Caesar pizza and Caesar salads for dinner, before the pie.