My Autobiography

Dear Reader,
Recently, I came to the realization that I really haven't taken the time to tell my children all the memories that I have throughout my life. I also would have liked to have heard stories from my parents and Grandparents. All too often we get too busy to sit down to tell our children about ourselves, or about our own parents. When our parents are gone and we are gone, so are the stories of our lives. This realization is what has driven me to start an autobiography of my own life for my children to keep and read for themselves.
How I've started my writing was to create an outline to give me a base to work from. I started from my childhood years to the present. As I worked on the outline, I would reminisce about all the stories that I wanted to share. There are some that are very pleasant, some funny and some that may be a bit too embarrassing to share at all. I won't make this a 'tell all' story, but it will give my children a pleasant way to know me even better.
This is something I would encourage every parent to do for their children. They want to know you and hear the stories that you have stored in your memory. They would like to know your parents and Grandparents. Encourage your children to do the same and make it a tradition to hand down their life stories to their children also. It'll create a family bond that will be treasured for generations to come.
I'll be including photos from vacations, special events, and family members and so on. I think this will be better than all the photo albums that I have that never seem to leave the bookshelf. There are many memories stored away in all those photos that I have. I'm sure you have found the same to be true in your life also.
As time goes on there will be more stories to tell. This book won't be finished until I am. I would strongly suggest that all my readers do the same for their children. It can be something that you want to share with them only, or you can publish it to be shared with your friends, or the public, if that is what you wish.
Get started today, happy writing, you'll be glad you did and your children will be too.
-Ed

Evolution?

Last night I was watching the Discovery channel. They had programs about the wildlife throughout the world living in extreme environments. It always amazes me how they can survive in the extreme cold or the desert heat, high in the mountains or the extreme depths of the oceans. How they evolved on their own to live in all these various places.

And I look at the great variety of the wildlife in the world, the variety of plant life, the insects and birds. How did all this happen? To have all started from one little microbe! It just boggles the mind to think of it, that without any help from anywhere this could all have evolved on it own.

Then I look at the sky. I see the stars. And what I can't see, I can search for pictures taken with powerful telescopes to see the galaxies, the nebulae and all the other wonders in the universe. And this all happened on it's own. Spontaneously. With no outside help this all came to be.

The universe, the earth and all that is in it, just seems to be designed in such a deliberate, thoughtful manner that I can't help but to know that God created it all. He deliberately created each and every star in the sky, every galaxy, every particle of matter spinning through the universe with great precision.

I never studied Statistics and Probabilities, but I've heard the experts, In a few cases and taking just one instance, calculate the probability of just one of these instances to happen on it's own and the number is just immense! The is no chance that it could have happened on it's own. God just had to have done it.

Take for example, the earth and moon spinning around the sun. The sun's mass has to be exactly right in relation to the earth's mass and the moon's. The distance of the earth and the sun has to be exactly right, the speed has to be exactly right for everything to work the way it should for there to be life here on earth. And that's just a very few things. Just think of everything that has to be put together, and get it exactly right for everything to work. As long as scientists have studied the heavens and the earth, they've understood very little. We never will understand it all. It's all just to complex. What we can see is that is also perfect, if it wasn't, it would all come crashing together and we would have never existed.

So when you look at the stars, or take a walk on the woods. When you see the smile of a child, just think of God's wonderful creation all around you, and that it didn't just evolve, it could only have been created, deliberately and perfectly. It's all to complex and precise to have not been created by God.

Darwin had it wrong. If things would have just evolved it would be a big  mess, (just look at the kitchen after a big dinner).

Go out now and enjoy all of God's creation and each and every day that He has given to you.

-Ed