"All things work together for good to them that love God..." -Romans 8:28
All of creation is limitations. It would have been great if we had mental telepathy, for example. But mental telepathy wasn't in the design, so we learned other, more interesting ways to communicate.
In doing so, we discovered that those other ways we learned --to overcome the limitation and express ourselves-- have their own beautiful characteristics. Those beautiful characteristics would have been unimaginable, and completely hidden, if we had been "blessed" with telepathy, and were not limited in this way.
Consider... music, poetry, dance, paintings, and sculpture, as examples of things that would never have been.
Within every limitation there is some new, previously unseen and unknown thing to learn, and learn about. And with the learning, comes the purpose.
I like how the previous attempts (previous takes) become part of the final work. The colors on their outfits for example. But also check out the messed up, and broken props, which can be seen in the backgrounds of each area. Left-overs from previous takes.
Irony alert: Read the lyrics. Does it strike you as odd that a group with such amazingly cool ways to say things, has so little to actually say?
IBM has found that picking up a single carbon-oxide (CO) molecule onto the tip of their AFM (Atomic Force Microscope) allows them to get a much sharper "point" with which to obtain much sharper images of atomic scale entities. This image is simply amazing...
As sinners go, the guy who wrote this song was right up there with the worst of them. Amazing! Salvation... offered, and accepted, and the angels celebrate by giving us one of the best songs ever written. Sometimes it's not hard at all to know what's important to them.
All season they played with class, and esprit de corps. Each man played the role of the star, and each man played the role of supporting the other stars on the team. Imagine, how alien it would have seemed, if someone from the Phillies organization had spit on the field of a city where they were guests. I am thankful for the Phillies, and proud of the culture of teamwork and good sportsmanship they cultivated. I miss it.
It is not a will to do anything, except smoke cigarettes.
Or snort cocaine.
Or have sex with strangers.
Or any one of a hundred possible other: narrow, focused, behaviors.
These are little, shallow, fragmentary, wills.
The will we think of when we think of OUR will is much bigger, much more complex. It includes many intertwined desires, aspirations, goals, and actions.
It is, you could say, a more complete will.
. . . . . . . The small, fragmentary wills are separate and distinct from OUR will.
When they are in control, they deny the big will and control our actions. In other words, when acting according to these fragmentary wills, we often do things that are contrary to OUR will. For example, our will says: "I don't want to smoke", the will-fragment says: "I want to smoke".
When the English translation of the Bible refers to a perfect will, could the word "perfect" be referring to a Greek or Hebrew word that, at least partially, means: "complete"?