Don’t Waste Your Life

I found this resource today thanks to Challies. The Desiring God website has a bunch of their books available for free download in PDF format. Do yourself a favor and download Don’t Waste Your Life. Here’s a quote:

“God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing,
all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God
by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the
spheres of life. Enjoying and displaying are both crucial. If we try
to display the excellence of God without joy in it, we will display
a shell of hypocrisy and create scorn or legalism. But if we claim
to enjoy his excellence and do not display it for others to see and
admire, we deceive ourselves, because the mark of God enthralled
joy is to overflow and expand by extending itself into
the hearts of others. The wasted life is the life without a passion
for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.”
–John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life

Black and White

Here’s a great post about rendering an issue down to black and white components by Centuri0n that I thought I’d link to on the front page. I’ve shared it over in the fishing hole but its just pretty good reading.

A Kinder Garden

I got some hits yesterday from two searches that caught my eye and I thought I’d share them.

things kids need to know in kindergarten
things for the grown up in the garden

They’re not much different actually. Color and cut, do your work and get rewards…don’t do your work and it’s bad. In the garden you get weeds that choke out the rest of the plants in kindergarten? Well, lets just say there are always disruptive kids.

There are some differences too, don’t get me wrong. Kids can differentiate. The ‘weeds’ in a kinder ‘garden’ can grow into beautiful plants if someone will take the time.

I don’t know. I do totally organic gardening so I don’t think its much different.

My garden is a kinder garden because of it, I think, and I don’t have to worry about chemicals or pesticides or anything like that.

Must go weed.