3 results for tag: God’s beauty

All Things Beautiful #2 – Ken Williams

"Life Lived and Lessons Learned, All Things Beautiful!” Sky Blue Pink Ken Williams Fifty-four years ago, I asked Nancy Jo, the love of my life, what she meant when she described a sunset radiating the color sky-blue-pink. We were newly married and it took years for me to concede the existence of something that sounded more jocular than any attempt to describe a real color. I asked, “Don’t you get purple when you mix blue and pink?” She insisted that on a sunny day she could see sky-blue-pink, particularly at sunset. But we were at the sunrise of our lives together, and it was too early for me to see beyond our five empirical senses, ...

All Things Beautiful #1 – Ken Williams

"Life Lived and Lessons Learned, All Things Beautiful!” Upstate New York Winter…Beautiful? Ken Williams Winter in upstate New York is cold, gloomy, but beautiful. It was easier to see when I was younger, having more body heat, but still possible. In earlier years the beauty was tobogganing and sledding, cross country skiing, taking my kids downhill skiing and joining others ice fishing, or gathering with others for fun and food. Until recent years I took my grandsons hiking in the woods, teaching them to read animal snow tracks, and following deer trails in the thick. And there is hiking the Bird Song trail in Menden Ponds, including the ...

What Have I Missed? – Ken Williams

One of my hermeneutics professors used the story “Agassiz and the Fish” to teach the principles and skills of interpreting biblical texts. Professor Louis Agassiz’, (1807-73), was a distinguished Harvard professor who taught his students how to ignore biases distracting them from reality, by painstakingly examining and reporting what they observed by daily examining a dead fish. Starting fresh each day, students discovered what they missed the day before. This principle helps me ignore my biases that distract me from the reality of what scripture says. O.K. what about my daily life? What am I missing? Nancy and I live in upstate New ...