Wisdom For Your Weekend: your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Infographic of the Week
Every Dream in the Bible (And What They Mean), Jeffrey Kranz. Aw, come on Joseph, stop being a dream-hoarder and share some with the rest of us!
Articles of the Week
Join Me At Restored: A Conference for Women, Veronica Greear. “In case you have been chatting in the lobby when they announced it, or haven’t had your reading glasses with you for the bulletin – oops, my mistake, the new “monthly update”- or were prying a kid off your leg in Summit Kids while it scrolled across the screens in the worship center, this really is OUR women’s event.”
The Problem with Easy Technology, Tim Wu, The New Yorker. What would our lives be without our smart phones and other “convenience technologies”? How would we even function? Wu points out that the supposed logic of making everything as easy as possible fails on two counts: 1. It doesn’t actually make life easier. 2. It crowds out the all-important question, “What is life all about, anyway?”
The Dawn of the Designer Babies, Tim Challies. “God does not display himself and his glory only through normalcy, but also through abnormality. God does not display himself only through ability, but also through inability and disability. God does not display himself only through strength, but also through weakness. We do well to end suffering when we are able to. We do well to cure disease and eliminate curable pain. But we dare not step into God’s place as those who will design babies according to our plan rather than his.”
Four Reasons for Addictions, Ed Welch. “So many things in life seem relatively straightforward on our first pass. Later we discover that there is more to it. For example, at first, all deciduous trees seem to look alike—tall and leafy. Gradually though, our eyes can tell the difference between oaks, maples, poplar and ash. Finer discriminations come over time. We could also do the same with fear, anger, bipolar . . . almost any category. And we can do it with addictions.”
On The Lighter Side
“If you say, ‘I laughed so hard I literally pooped my pants,’ there better be actual poop in your actual pants.” I literally died laughing the first time I watched this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ2SHSg5rIY
