There are Many Delicate Layers of Love / The Mystery of Life / School Calendar

Life
can become stunningly
Beautiful,
and touch the Soul.
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There are many
delicate layers of Love,
 not unlike layers of Colors
in a Masterpiece of a Divinely Beautiful
Sunrise or Sunset
or
Living Creation.

.We owe our Lord
a debt
of immeasurable proportions.

The Natural Colors
of our surroundings
are relaxing and rejuvenating
for the whole body.

The amazing Artwork in Nature
is Beautiful in every season.
Everything is colorful
and so soothing.
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We
become Truly inspired by Nature,
Love and the Spirit.

Our Lord provides
such a Beautiful, Soothing and Peaceful
World.
Open your Heart
and enjoy the moment.
This Time
is for
you.

The Beauty 
found in God’s Natural World
is such a great way to transport yourself
to this time,
to this moment.

God’s Love
is the Path
upon which you Travel
away
from yourself,
as you enter a World
of Soft and Gentle
Energy.

The Sacred Words
of our Precious Lord,
will be Engraved into the
Conscious mind
of your Heart,
and guide you in the direction
of a rewarding and positive Life
every day.
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Put aside
all the things that happened
in the past.
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Forgive
and return your Heart
to Innocence and Peace.

Our Lord
Speaks to the Peace
in our Soul. 

Every Leaf
of every Tree,
is from the Heart of One
who Truly Loves you
and me.

Such Love
Blooms in copper green,
and brownish gleam,
and colors yellow
and mellow,
to the mind,
to at last perish with the wind
and be reborn
again,
in our Heart,
in our Time.

.Life itself
branches out in our Dreams,
destined to the Stars
as the Light
of Life
is bright and beams
Love
to every thing.

Thank you Dear Lord
for your Precious
Love.

Discovering
how much you Love
everyone and everything,
has an amazing effect on Life
and Living.

Like a tiny drop of Precious rain
landing on a smooth surface of water,
Love
brings Beautiful waves of ever – enlarging rings,
flowing across the surface of Time,
and spreading out to
Infinity.

I Pray
that you find Joy
in all that you do,
and that you find your purpose,
and your way,
and why.

Your Love
helps you become a better Person,
and,
helps the World to be
a better Place.

 Our Loving Thoughts
for others
are comforting and have
Wings.
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They fly in your Dreams,
 until they land in Life
and form meaning,
and find lost ones
that God will Bless
with your Life.

The older we get,
the more memories
we have.
And our memories
will blend softly into the air, 
and at times,
 fall with a rain of tears,
and soak into the Sacred ground
as they continue to Live.

They will drift 
into the Hearts
of many others.

Memories
Live long after,
to Create new feelings
of Joy
and Happiness.

Loving acts,
Create
Loving memories.

Kindness
is one of the Wonderful Gifts
that enrich our Spiritual Life.
There are times
when we are immersed
in the Melody of the Moment.

Our caring for others,
makes our mind relax,
gives us a sense of Peace
and the desire
to be the best
we can.

And we can.

A Kind Thought
is like a gentle Hug
that soothes the mind
and envelops the body,
in Tranquility.

Each
Act of Kindness
is like a Caress,
that transports us to a state of
Inner Peace,
a True Work of Art
that invites relaxation and contemplation.

In our Quest
to discover our own
Innate Higher Intelligence,
we are being called
to see the Light
within.

Goodnight.

The Mystery of Life

by Paul F. Taylor and Simon Terry; last featured December 6, 2020

Featured in Answers Magazine

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One of Creation’s wonders is so commonplace that we don’t notice it. Yet it’s more marvelous than all the others . . . Life. What mysterious quality makes a creature alive at one moment but is absent the instant the creature dies? What is this mystery of Life?

No matter how much scientists learn about the complexities of organisms, they have not touched the more difficult questions – what is Life itself, and where did it come from?

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Have you ever thought about what Life actually is? What mysterious quality makes a creature alive at one moment but is absent the instant the creature dies?    A baby’s body, no longer breathing after it has just died, contains the same DNA, the same Heart and body, and the same mass as it did only moments earlier. So what is missing?

An entry in Wikipedia admits, “There is no Universal definition of Life; there are a variety of definitions proposed by different scientists.”

The latest Encyclopedia Britannica agrees. “Although the scientists, technicians, and others who participate in studies of Life easily distinguish living matter from inert or dead matter, none can give a completely inclusive, concise definition of Life itself.” Nevertheless, the encyclopedia’s online version attempts a clunky definition with lots of complex scientific terms:

A biochemical or molecular biological definition sees living organisms as systems that contain reproducible hereditary information coded in nucleic acid molecules and that metabolize by controlling the rate of chemical reactions using proteinaceous catalysts known as enzymes.

Such definitions don’t actually state what Life is, merely what we see in living things. For instance, the biologist and philosopher Harold J. Morowitz comments that living things have one thing in common – cells: “The only Life we know for certain is cellular.”

The teaching guidelines for British textbooks suggest that students ages 11 to 14 learn that life is anything that displays seven qualities, summarized in the cute mnemonic MRS. GREN. That is, living objects have Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion, and Nutrition. These properties are typical of cellular life, but they still don’t say what Life actually is.

Advanced as computer technology may become, a living thing is still leaps beyond.

To help us understand the problem with defining Life,  a cell can be compared to a powerful computer – a highly sophisticated system that stores and processes information. There is more to a working computer than its physical parts – it needs a designer, a programmer, and an engineer to build its parts. Then it needs a source of power and an operator to turn it on.

Advanced as computer technology may become, a living thing is still leaps beyond. Despite its complexity, the computer is not alive. Consider a house fly buzzing about an office on a blistering day. If the power shuts down, the computer “dies,” but it can be rebooted after the power is restored. Not so with the fly.

No Definition in Scripture

Plants Are Not Alive?

The Bible assigns “Life” to animals, not to plants. Plants are merely described as “green things” (Job 39:8). Most scientists would agree that any life in plants is of a different order than that in animals. If we saw a dead tree in a forest, we wouldn’t be repulsed – we might even sit on the stump! Most of us, however, would not consider sitting on a dead animal. Similarly, we are happy to place dead flowers in a vase, but most homes would not display dead mice.

While the Bible makes a big deal about the wonders of life, it never actually defines it. God introduced this special thing on Day Five of creation: “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath Life” (Genesis 1:20, KJV).

The Hebrew word used for the quality of having Life is nephesh. Leviticus 17:11 shows us that this Life is related to having blood: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.”

The word nephesh is translated in this particular verse as Life, but also as Soul. Yet, although the Life is in the blood, this verse does not tell us what Life actually is.

The sort of Life described in the Bible is not physical. While Life clearly produces physical results that we can observe, that quality called “Life” is something intangible.

Life, by God’s Command

No matter how much scientists discover about the physical systems in organisms and their possible origin, they still have no clue about the infinitely more difficult question of where Life came from. If you could make a baby from scratch, with all its physical parts in place, you still would not have a living Human.

The Bible gives us the answer.

Life is a Gift from God, a Blessing from the Creator Himself. By God’s command, not physical accident, it is granted or removed.

“And [Job] said, Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21).

Even if we do not understand what Life is, all Humans can “see” it all around them. They also know in their Hearts that the Life-Giver makes all this Life possible. God uses even the mysteries of His creation to make Himself known!

“I Am . . . the Life”

In fact, Human Life encompasses more than the “Life” of animals. After Adam and Eve rebelled against their Creator, Humans forfeited their right to Life in this higher sense. While our bodies may be full of vigor and outward vitality, the Bible says we are dead. The world is one big Spiritual graveyard, with zombies that appear to be living but are missing another quality that is infinitely more significant than breath or physical mobility.

To restore this life – everlasting Life – the Life-giver Jesus Christ stepped into our world. The Creator made this Life available to all, but we find it in only one place: “He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life”          (1 John 5:12).

God’s hand is at the switch, and He asks only that we look to Him in faith, trusting in the merits of His Son, who was the sacrifice for our sin, that we might obtain Life everlasting.

“He who believes in the Son has everlasting Life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see Life, but the wrath of God abides on him” (John 3:36).

Love
is Life.

Knowledge is power
and LIFE.

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2022-23
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for any amendments that may occur.

First Semester
Sept. 6 – December 16   2022

Sept. 6 (TUESDAY)               First Day of First Semester
Oct. 10 (Monday)                   Columbus Day Holiday
Nov. 21 – 25                           Fall Break (and Thanksgiving)
Dec. 16                                   Last Day of Fall Semester

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Jan. 16  (Monday)                  Dr. Martin L. King Holiday
Feb. 20  (Monday)                  Presidents’ Day Holiday
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“He who opens a school door,
closes a prison.“
– Victor Hugo

I wish you all
 Peace.

Hang on
to your Faith.
You will get there.

The most Precious Gift
is Life.

You
are Forever in my
Heart.

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