Queen of Catan

- I beat my manager at a game of catan... oooo... let the smack begin...

In other news, here are some great thoughts (found in the Bible and/or John Piper's book Don't Waste Your Life )

In response to existential thought...

"How many times can a man look up and not see the sky? There is a sky up there to be seen. You may look up ten thousand times and say you don't see it. But that has absolutely no effect on its objective existance. It is there. And one day you will see it? There is an answer. The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it--or bow to it." (page 17)

"You can't go on 'seeing through' things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden ,too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see." (cs lewis qtd in piper, 2o)

And Jordan and I discovered this verse while forming our philosophy of min for a website we're launching...

"We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves by themselves, they are not wise. We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the field God has assigned to us, a field that reaches even to you... but let him who boasts, boast in the Lord." - First Corinthians 10:12-13, 17

And a cool word from CS Lewis... quidity... the "thingness" of a thing... =)

-Asher