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Yeshua (The Book of Mysteries – Day 18)

The Hebrew word Yeshua means many things.  It means to rescue, to help, to defend, to preserve, to make free, to attain victory, to bring to safety, to heal, and to save.

Through translations Yeshua became the word Jesus.  In Jewish tradition, God “becomes” our Yeshua.  In Christian tradition, this is literally God becoming Jesus (as was Jesus’ claim, to be fully man and fully God on Earth.)

All of the things that Yeshua (Jesus) means are the true deep needs of humans.  These are the things that we yearn for, work for, create for, etc.  Yet, all of these things are answered with one word (person), Yeshua, or Jesus.  Jesus is the thing that we all long for.

Consider this list of needs.  In Psychology, there is a very popular “Hierarchy of Needs” put forth by Abram Maslow.

If the needs met by Jesus are “help, defend, preserve, free, victory, safety, healing, and salvation” could these two actually be aligned?  Could they be aligned to the approach to faith made by new followers of Jesus?  (That JUST occurred to me!)

For now, Jesus is the answer to ALL the needs we have.  We can approach Jesus in all of these ways to meet all of our needs.  The world is full o distractions that allow us to think that we can meet these needs without him but we remain unfulfilled.  It is never enough to try and do these things ourselves…it will always fall short.  In fact, evil can promote the idea that there are very human and worldly ways to meet these needs and draw us away from God.

Perhaps another writing to contemplate is a combination of the Hierarchy of Needs and the journey one takes into faith in Jesus.

Mark K.

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Time and Space

In an effort to get back into the Book of Mysteries that I have been reading, I re-read the Day 17 article “How to Alter your Past”.  Interestingly, I woke this morning thinking deeply about time and space.  And the end of the world.  I’ll explain!

Last night, prior to bed, I watched a videos about the Building of the third Temple, and the Antichrist.  Not exactly the most settling of topics before heading off into dreamland, but it was interesting.  It was put together by a guy who runs a news program (online, I guess) for Isreal.

The first video claimed that the Temple Mound, currently occupied by the Dome of the Rock is NOT the original location of the Jewish temple, but was a Roman fort, Fort Antonio (apparently named for Mark Anthony).  The controversy of the building of the 3rd Temple is that the traditional location is on Temple Mound and that the Muslim shrine there would have to be removed.  I do not think they want to remove it (tradition say that Mohammad was taken up into heaven on that spot.)

So, if the original Jewish temple was not built on Temple Mound, but close to it in the “City of David” (a section of Jerusalem) then the construction could start immediately.  This would be an important event for both Jews and Christians because the building of the 3rd Temple would foreshadow the return (Christian) or appearance (Jews) of the Messiah.

So, mindful of “end times”, the second video discussed the Antichrist. The video made a case for the last two Popes of Rome to be the two individuals discussed in Daniel 11:20,21.

This all resulted in me thinking about Time and Space.  Strange, I know.  First, we are possibly close to the end times and I find these thoughts intriguing.  Second, it makes me wonder about “living after death” and the forever-ness of that.  Third, how does God go back in time and erase our sins?  The creator of time must certainly be able to alter and master time.  Fourth, what has this to do with the nature of universe and the relationship between time and space?

Well, a though, unfounded, came to me.  Time IS space.  Now this might not be a revelation of any kind from a Physics point of view (I will look into this) but it is a curious thought to me.  I will dwell on this.  Of course it would have implications to explain infinity and, on a more mundane level, it would explain space travel and living outside of time in the resurrection.

Mark K.

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I had a strong day…

Today I had what I would call a “strong” day.

It started out with my participation in a meeting with a student who was in a touch situation.  Details are withheld from this document!  I was a good emotional support and helped in bringing about a good solution.

I then met with Kevin Casey and we reviewed my method for managing course content through www.kvccdocs.com.

That was a cool experience.

I got to go through the role of advocate representing a Faculty in a negotiation of an accommodation…that was cool.

And TODAY, America experienced a full solar eclipse…I got to borrow some glasses and was able to see it!  Very cool.

Here is the route that the eclipse took across the US.

We in Maine did not get a full eclipse, but a partial.  I saw something similar to the image I indicate above.  Very cool!

Mark K.

 

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Hiking in the Rain

So, this is the sort of thing that happens when Mara is here. She wants to go hiking. I’m not sure but I want the chance to get out with her and NOT work!

I agree. It is raining all day but we go anyway.

We hiked Eaton Mountain. This is not far from home but there are no real trails. We really bushwhacked our way through.

We started the hike up the old ski lift line.  This was the first view back to the base station of the lift.

This is the view looking up the hill.  Notice how overgrown this area is!

This is a LOT of what we walked through, though we did hike into the woods when it made sense.  The woods were a lot more clear due to the canopy.

Waist deep in ferns!

At the top of the mountain, Mara got to get on the ski lift!

There were a couple cell towers at the top and we took a round-about way to get back down.  Got a little lost (not really, because we had GPS) but we made it back.

We started at building A, walked up the D line and then came back down (approximately) following the #1 trail.

We were soaked. We arrived at home 5 minutes before dinner time!  Perfect timing!

Mark K.

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Busy Day

Wow, so today has been a busy and pristine day!

  • Set up all the PSY 101 classes for Fall
  • Set up MHT 104
  • Set up all theiTunes U classes for Fall (at least they are ready to be edited)
  • Chores
  • Recycles
  • Bank deposit
  • Bought tickets to see Don Fedler, Styx, and REO Speedwagon this Sunday!  Going with Hannah and Mara!!

It was also a bit of a sad day as we said goodbye to Kell Clark.  Kelly was the culinary arts teacher at KVCC and she is moving to South Carolina. 

End note:  Mara totally got to bro a conversation about buying an RV to live in during the summers!  Wow. 

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Mark K. 

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I got a Drone

Yeah, so caved in and bought a little drone. This is the same model I saw at the ADE conference and it can be programmed with Swift Playgrounds. I have not done anything in Swift with it but I did get some pictures of the top of my head in my back yard!

It is a Parrot Mambo Minidrone. 

The thing on the top is a cannon that can shoot little plastic balls and there is a clamp on the bottom to pick things up. I have not done any of this yet, I’m still learning how to NOT fly into walls!


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Mark K.

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YBR Trio Gig

Last night we played a gig as a trio.

Drummore Bay Music Hall
It was a cool show. It I had a bit of a hard time hearing myself, particularly in the first set. Second set we moved the bass amp in front of me and that was a lot better.

Did some cool songs as a trio including “Burn Down the Mission” and a completely new song, “Border Song”.

Fun was had by all!

Here is a picture of me that was captured by James Ross!


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Mark K.