Its a Journey

The pollynesians dances told stories, and our dance through life creates stories for our eventual glorification. Everything belongs.

Most Western Christians think their conversion and profession are the end of the matter and go on to live their lives with that confession at the periphery. It was supposed to be the beginning of a lifelong process of continual transformation into the loving image of our Creator and of His son our Savior, through the presence of their spirit of Holiness.

I am learning that more and more and challenging myself to see this present world as the very place where the hammering and fine tuning of our instruments with all the experience of love joy and suffering can give us.

The Big Island Revealed

This building played the major backdrop to an exciting Hawaii Five O last evening. This was me in Honolulu in 2006.

We found this great travel book that we used on Maui and Kauai in 2010 that promises to try everything they recommend or diss every year and we love the book and have used it to plan our week on the Big Island, and today I paid 8 bucks more for the Android app that tracks where you are and reminds you of the stuff to see in the area and how to get there and other facts to know in each area. Will share how it helped.

Meanwhile even though I am not taking the computer just our two phones, two cameras, and the xoom tablet, there are just a bunch of wires and extra chargers that have to go along. Being wired takes planing. Worth it not to have to bring the book along but to have the app and its help system in my carry bag.

When you take a bunch of pills to help you survive you need a system to get them straight without carrying a bunch of bottles. Done.

So now to think again about pain, suffering, death, and the hope of the life to come, as I end my month long series on putting our faith to work in this troubled world.

Underwater photography update

So I returned the yellow case and camera with the underwater 35mm, that weighed about 2 lbs, in a 5 lbs case, and got this plastic Dicapac plastic housing that fits hundreds of small cameras and allows me to take hopefully high quality pics and movies if we see something worth catching. Excited

Hawaii Life

McDonalds, Hawaiian style.

I have enjoyed all the episodes of Hawaii Life which help families find homes on the islands. Its part real estate and part travelogue for the island lifestyle. Couple spends twice as much for a house in a resort area that is at the top of their budget and says they will enjoy the amenities of tennis and swimming as well, which cost another 800 a month.

Nice place to visit, would not want to live there. However, when we are there is feels like your could live there. We went to church in Kauai years ago and talked to a retired trucker and his wife who turned their visits into a dream to live there and were in year two of getting used to it. They said you get island fever when all roads circle or end and you can't get off the island, then you realize your grandkids are far far away.

Immersion for a week, but no real estate searching for us.

Camera Test Results

We interrupt this daily blog to give a report to my friends on a recent Ebay purchase of an underwater camera.

It passed the airtight test completely.

both attachment flash and built in flash fired flawlessly.

To took decent pictures underwater and above water.

The biggest problem was making sure the film had actually moved through the camera, three times including your experiment the film did not catch on the little hooks, and although the film moved electronically through the numbers, no pictures were ever taken.


It is too big and the case is too heavy for the Hawaii trip, so this test was done in a pool.

and finally, of course, 35 mm film is passing away quickly, so sell it quickly.

respectfully submitted,

Don

I don't want the Bible to come alive

The first few days in Hawaii your body is on AZ time so you wake up very early and ready to go.

This months Charisma magazine was all about modern Isreal and the end times, topics about which I have throughly investigated the interpretistic pluralism issue. In other words, no one really agrees about the issue, except the magazine assumes their views are the only and correct views because they stuck some verses taken out of the OT to prove their point, and said, God forbid, we cannot entertain what they called replacement theology.

Did the new covenant not fulfill, complete and replace the old covenant? Are there double covenants in place? They further implied that every Christian should take a trip to Isreal, within some precautional reason, so the Bible can come alive.

I do not really want my bible to come alive because my Savior came alive from the dead, and left the dead works of the law behind.

I do not really want to walk where Jesus walked, but to be taken to the place He has prepared for me, a country and a city in which God is the lamp and these fractured nations are healed.

I do not want to get involved in a land war in the middle east and be ushered by a guide through the parts of the city that are not divided and torn by religious warfare.

Nope, I prefer to walk the hills, and sandy shores of our 50th state, and feel the presence of God among the polynesian culture, listening to IZ, who now walks with Jesus, singing "I think to myself, its a wonderful world".

Why me? works both ways

When things go wrong we ask, why me? And when things are good, we tend not to ask, Why me? Lord willing I am headed for a week on a tropical island and over a million families are refugees on the Syrian border waiting for their country to stop being torn apart.

This is why for me heaven should be like Hawaii, and not like an oasis in the middle east. But I was reminded that the writer of Hebrews used two logistical analogies of heaven, its a country and a city.