Mysteries So Bright

I need help!  Here are some ideas for upcoming subjects.  Please write/post what you would like to discuss and think about.

 

• The strange behavior of liquid helium – refuses to stay in the container!
• What are you doing here, Elijah?
• Magnetic dip angle  – metal frames
• What’s up with Quantum Computers?
• And what about Quantum Entanglement (action at a distance with no time delay)?
• The moon and its splendor
• Share about Brahms Requiem and its libretto – so moving to me.
• Rods and cones and seeing color under moonlight.
• Mössbauer effect in nuclear physics – https://www.britannica.com/science/Mossbauer-effect/Applications
• Millikan oil drop experiment
• Atomic structure and energy transitions
• Radiological dating
• experimental error determination
• stellar distances
• Colors (Mr. Land’s demos – the founder/inventer of Polaroid)
• Solids, liquids – states of matter
• Superconductivity, superfluids
• Math: Goldbach Conjecture, Imaginary numbers, Infinity(countable, etc.)
• Music – it’s scale, temperament, harmony
• Bear constellations & new star
• Circular motion
• Details on meteors
• Details on comets
• Here’s a wild idea: write a story of what heaven will be like – seeing the glory, the wonder, the friendships, the great “library” where everything ever written worthwhile has been kept, where the history of man is fully recorded for playback (time travel?); A music library with every song ever written that glorifies the Lord and His creation;  He equips the saints also with an unlimited workshop for new creations; the beauty of a perfect, non-dying world; a river whose waters make glad the city of God – not just a small, trickle, but a vast source of water – not pouring into a dead end of an ocean, but into living pools of clean, clear water for boating, swimming, for enjoyment; a light that is better than sunlight, yet does no damage or cause discomfort;  and on and on….

In my journal, I wrote:

Sept 2, 2020

For several seasons I have been searching for a way to serve the Lord with my conversation limitations (of trying to hear and understand others).  I have “heard” a hint of an answer several times, but haven’t really followed up on the idea – and that is the idea of writing what is in my heart, of what the Lord has taught me in my 70 years or so of walking with Him, off and on. Maybe most of those times should be described as me wandering off the ancient path – as years eaten by the locust.

But even though I lost much to the waste of time, there have been meaningful milestones that the Lord gained in my journey, about which I could write and maybe would help others on the journey of transformation into looking like Jesus. 

I’m not sure how to begin, but most likely it will be mostly wood, hay, and stubble if it is not borne out of prayer.

• Just thought of another story from my earlier years. I was to give a little “organ concert” at the Clarksville Episcopal Church in Habersham County, Georgia. It was a historical wonderful little tracker organ with no pedal ranks. It was in the last days of winter that year (c. 1975) and had gotten very dry. The low humidity caused the organ to develop a non-stop cipher of one pipe – a stuck note. I was experienced enough to know that it was the dry environment causing it to warp the pallet that was supposed to close the air flow to the pipe, and the warp of the pallet valve caused it to leak air. The public had already been invited to hear my demonstration of the organ and the type music written for that type organ. But the note that was “ciphering” would spoil the music.
• So I decided to bring to the church a little humidifier, set it near the intake to the pipe organ air blower intake, left the organ blower to run all night, and came in the next morning to check, and sure enough the cipher had disappeared, and all was well.

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“Hast thou no scar?” Have you met Amy Carmichael? – find her life’s story – she wrote this poem:

Hast thou no scar?
No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear thee sung as mighty in the land;
I hear them hail thy bright, ascendant star.
Hast thou no scar?

Hast thou no wound?
Yet I was wounded by the archers; spent,
Leaned Me against a tree to die; and rent
By ravening beasts that compassed Me, I swooned.
Hast thou no wound?

No wound? No scar?
Yet, as the Master shall the servant be,
And piercèd are the feet that follow Me.
But thine are whole; can he have followed far
Who hast no wound or scar?

The comments about her, at least a shallow scan of those, fail to mention that she was severely handicapped by an accidental fall into a dark pit (basement, maybe, in an abandoned house with no floor to prevent the fall) and most of her life of ministry in India was done from her bed, etc., because of her handicap.

19 July 2025

Long time… 🙂

• Memory of the 2 trips to Grand Canyon, which were separated by several years when I was in my 20’s (1961-1970). Both times were amazing. The 2nd trip, I thought, my feeling of awe would not be as strong as the first time; but I was wrong – the second times was just as amazing as the first. We did both rims on the first triip, and maybe the second one as well. It really fits the awesome description of the creation in Psalm 19 …