The human eye is pretty amazing. Each of your eyes has about 120 million rods and 7 million cones. The rods are more sensitive, but can only detect shades of gray and so are used for night vision. The cones are used for color detection and daylight vision. With them you can perceive depth and size as well as see …
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Have you ever seen the TV show called “Dirty Jobs?” It’s a reality show that was on the Discovery Channel and stars a guy named Mike Rowe, who then later started a show called “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” which has a similar theme, and now he has a great podcast. In every episode of Dirty Jobs, Mike participates in doing …
Have you ever seen a child clean their room after their parents told them to go clean it? When they think they’re done, their parents go to inspect their room, and it still looks like a disaster area. I can remember being a kid and doing the same thing. My standard of “clean” was not the same standard that my …
Both our Old Testament and Gospel readings today talk about marriage, and then our epistle reminds us that “we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it” (Genesis 2:18-25; Mark 10:2-16; Hebrews 2:1-18). So, it would be fitting today to talk about marriage, where it comes from, and what it is an …