Thoughts and Thanks

This past week was a double class week with Pastor Don teaching apologetics and Dr. Lisle teaching both apologetics and astronomy. So needless to say, my brain did quite a bit of stretching this week. I learned so much. The apologetics part was fantastic, but the astronomy part was rather difficult. After the first astronomy session, my brain was swimming. So i drew a picture that perfectly depicted how i felt and then bounced a sparkly ball against the floor until my mind was again capable of logical thought. Here's the picture:

Like a fish swimming under a US Navy battleship, so is astronomy in relation to me. It is above me. I can grasp a small portion of it's simplest part. But the vast majority of its simplicity is beyond me, and the many complexities of it will never enter even my wildest imaginations.

But even though astronomy astronomy and my brain are not friends, i am very thankful that God has made people who actually can comprehend things like that. I've been thinking about intelligence lately and I have decided that there are many different kinds of intelligence. There's the factual kind that has to do with remembering facts and usually results in good grades in school. Then there's the personal kind of intelligence that has to do with understanding people and being able to read them and knowing who they really are and what they need. The third general kind i see is a practical kind of intelligence. This kind is where someone is really good at figuring out how something works and/or how to build or fix it. This kind usually comes with the ability to think 3-dimensionally really well. I'm sure there are other types of intelligence other than this and that there are specialized types within each of these generalized types, but for the moment, these are the only ones that i'm gunna list.
so ya, this is what i've been thinking about lately and i must say that i am so thankful to have people with each of these gifts in my life. i am so thankful that i have someone like my friend Tat, who is a genius in personal intelligence. i am so thankful for my dad, who is incredible with practical intelligence. and i'm really thankful that God has given me teachers throughout my life who are so incredibly gifted in the area of factual intelligence. Praise be to God for making our world so diverse and interesting. To Him be the glory, honor, and praise in all things :) Hallelujah, Amen.