I took this photo last spring and forgot to post it. My kids and I drove along beside this truck on the way to school in the morning. How many of you have tried camel milk? Me neither 
I hear it’s pretty salty. I think it’s safe to say that this is a sight pretty unique to the Arabian Gulf.
I dare you to visit the website listed on the side of the truck!
6parks.com – [cqod] 05/30/07 — MacDonald: the last resort:
“How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest
resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And
then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon
the rocks, but into the desired haven.… George MacDonald (1824-1905)”
This is why I don’t believe a person’s will is ever really “free”. Whenever a person tells me something about their ‘free will’ I want to ask: What is your will free from? All outside influence? Surely not. So in what sense can it be free? Certainly it’s yours to exercise. But I don’t think it’s ever free.
I think Robert Short gets it right in this quote.
The heart’s slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is
what fathers of the Church have called ‘the bondage of the
will.’ This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our
lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot;
when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or
another conflicts with the desires of our true god–that value
nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply
inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its
presence or of what it actually is.… Robert L. Short (b.1932), The Parables of Peanuts
[1968]“
I just returned from a long stretch of meetings in Jordan. We were able to get out just a little to see some sights. Here is a picture taken with my phone. The location is a place called Aljoun up near Jerash north of Amman. There are ruins on the top of the mountain… likely some structure erected by the Crusaders about 1000 years ago.
Hi friends, I’ll be out of town on vacation until Friday April 5th. Tune back in then for more posts. Have a great week!
Brian
I went with my family to the last night of Global Village, Dubai’s world fair, day before yesterday. The rest of Dubai/Sharjah went as well! The crowds were big when it opened and they thickened to a glut by the time we left at 9pm. It would continue until 2am! Crowd watching is a fascinating experience there but if you look up occasionally you’ll see some interesting things too.
These posters are up all over the fair. They are comical if not completely sad. If the joy of togetherness is equivalent to the joy of shopping?… God help us.
Healthy Pop? Good luck on your diet!
