M*A*S*H

This winter my husband and I watched all 11 seasons of this popular TV series that began in 1973.  Though watching it was hit and miss throughout its run, it was one of my favorite TV shows.  It was a treat to see every episode during the cold, dreary months of this winter/spring.  I found myself laughing out loud one minute, only to be teary-eyed the next.  When the cast all packed up and went home on the grand finale, I was left with a huge hole in my heart.  I will miss them.  Did you realize that the final 2 hour episode, aired in 1984, had the largest audience ever tuned into a program, and held that record until one of the Superbowl games in the early 2000's?  Amazing!

~Photo courtesy of Dercum Over

This Guatemalan cowboy reminds me of Colonel Potter and his beloved horse, Sophie from the series.  What a cool older man, with his lovely peacock feather-bedecked horse!

Neverland.......

Miss M and I watched Finding Neverland yesterday. It is the story of the playwright that wrote Peter Pan. A very touching story. We had to dry our eyes and faces before anyone came home. The music score is beautiful in this movie......... if you've never seen it, you might want to!

Intelligence vs. Ignorance

My husband and I viewed the movie Expelled this past weekend. It deals with the issue of science and Intelligent Design. There are great scientists on both sides of the issue, but the movie's main thrust was that Intelligent Design cannot be taught, written about nor otherwise mentioned by university science professors for the students to ponder or investigate. If they do, they find themselves jobless and expelled from the scientific community. Even black-balled. I listened with a sad, sometimes angry, heart as great scientists not only ridiculed all humanity that believes in any kind of a God as "ignorant" and "harmful to this world", but also blasphemed the very God who actually did create us....... and in His image, no less. Isn't the first premise of science to question everything? Somehow I guess that this very basic premise simply does not apply to Intelligent Design. That in itself makes me lose respect for these scientists who seem to be incredibly fearful of the notion. What are they protecting? Certainly not the truth, since by everyones' admission on both sides, we simply do not know how the very, very first life form began. Don't know. Period. Therefore, scientifically speaking, there is no absolute truth on this issue. So I want to know why in this 'highly evolved' society we can't consider Intelligent Design as a viable option. Question everything!

Photo by Ivory Hut

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom.

~Isaiah 40:28

Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.
~I Corinthians 3:18-19a

To be called 'ignorant' by these foolish scientists, is the ultimate compliment :-)