Tuesday's Devotion Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" (Luke 1:34 NRSV)
"The angel appeared unto a virgin . . . named Mary." Scholars will battle forever over the question of the virgin birth. That's all right. You do with it what you will. Still, in a day when mere humans are cloning animals and giving birth to test-tube babies, the idea that God could cause a virgin to have a child stretches the imagination not at all. The essential message still comes shining through--Jesus was a man like no other. He was unique among all the people who have ever lived. He was the Son of God!
posted by dtb on 12/19/2000 11:39:00 AM
· QUOTE OF THE DAY- “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
posted by dtb on 12/15/2000 10:06:00 AM
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
· QUOTE OF THE DAY- “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven’t really learned anything.”
posted by dtb on 12/05/2000 09:28:00 AM
Open Season BSD community learns to get along By Sam Williams December 01, 2000 12:00 AM PT
"To be honest, what we really have to thank is Linux for opening the doors to Fortune 500 companies, letting them know that open source software is a good thing," says McKusick. "When they accept open source, they find that there still are some limitations to Linux. That's when they start looking around for other alternatives and find FreeBSD and NetBSD."
posted by dtb on 12/01/2000 05:06:00 PM
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