Month: June 2017

Kissing is the most intimate of acts.  To worship God, in one sense, is to engage in the most intimate act of love with our creator.  

Some anthropologists believe that kissing arose from the need to chew food for each other (largely due to tooth decay) and that the partially chewed food was transferred from one person to the other.  As gross as this sounds, this would certainly not be something you would be willing to do with just anyone…probably only your spouse. 

In a way though, it is a kiss that transfers nourishment.  So, worship also nourishes us.  It is also our commitment to give to God all we are.  We put everything we are into the love we express when we kiss God.

The Mission: Today, draw near to God in worship, in love, in joy, in the deepest of intimacy.  Learn the secret of kissing God.

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Mark K.

Today’s reading contrasts the east-west continuum of geography on Earth with the north-sound continuum.  It was important that the temple was oriented East to West.  As sine was removed from the people it was removed from the east end of the temple to the west.  Now because the East-West continuum has no poles, it is infinite.

God removes our sins and places them very far from us…in fact they are infinitiely far from me, as far as the East is from the West.

The Mission: Today, take time to ponder and take in the love of God that removed your winds as far as the East is from the West – and live accordingly.

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Mark K.

In the Bible in a Year devotional that I am reading, the discussion is about the universal longing and emptiness we feel as humans because of the part that God used to play, and needs to play, in our lives.  We have, as it said, a “God shaped hole” in our soul.

Addictions are very powerful distractions from this “hole”.  They mimic the feeling of being filled, happy, content.  But they do not last and they destroy the “temple” of our body.  The draw is amazing though.  On a small scale, consider a nice cold glass of water.  Anyone who has been really thirsty knows how good a cold glass of water can be.  It is instantly satisfying.  Yet despite this very inexpensive (except of course for those who do not have access to clean drinking water) source of refreshment I still find myself drawn to soda, beer, wine, and coffee (lots of coffee!)

When I do have a glass of water it is SO refreshing I wonder why I drink anything else?

A relationship with God is like this.  The different and “exciting” feeling of the substitutes for God’s presence are so attractive.  But when we DO have God close to us, it is like that cold glass of water!  WOW!

This disconnection from God is the profound disconnect from the natural world.  Even within science, the wonder that we see in the natural world is meaningful not only when we see its magnificence, but to understand our part in it as a pinicle of creation.  We are the greatest of all of God’s creations!  (Although, and this may be counter to some Christian teachings, I would not be surprised that we are not God’s ONLY experiment.  It is also possible that some of these experiments worked out a bit better!  What if Adam and Eve did NOT disobey God on another world?  What would that place be like?)

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Mark K.

Today I began work on the first of a number of guidebooks inspired by the ALOTA instructional design method and the iPad 1:1 program.

The first of these is focused on the iPad, “Managing iTune U Courses”

This one is directly related to the Apple Distinguished Educator stuff, so I thought I would start there.  I’m hoping to have a number of them published by the time I go to Houston in July.

Note: Finally got this blog up and running again after some trouble getting acces to the MK Journal site.  Took the wind out of my “Book of Mysteries” reading.  I’ll be doing that again starting tomorrow.

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Mark K