Meteorology has always been a fascination of mine. I would watch the TV and check out the internet websites that forecasted major weather events like hurricanes and snowstorms. Weather storms are an interesting meteorological event. Storms can be predicted but never do they present themselves as the weather forecasters predict. Every summer and fall, hurricane predictors try to figure out how many major storms will hit land. As we have seen from hurricane Katrina, storms can catch us off guard and teach us that we must be careful how we prepare for storms.
I think I loved weather events as a kid because that meant that there would be no school. I guess I still have a little of that still in me, except I do not go to school anymore. I remember one storm that hit the Mid-Atlantic with so much ice they closed school for days. The storm iced everything with a half inch of slippery,cold ice. All of the kids in the neighborhood broke out their ice skates and we skated all over the roadway! The only way you could get anywhere was on ice skates. We loved it because everything was shut down and we were stuck, which meant the school buses could not pick anyone up.
In this week’s readings, we read about two storms: one on land and one on the sea. In the first storm, we read about David, the young anointed one in 1 Samuel 17. David comes to the front line of the battle to face the giant Goliath. This little shepherd boy is mixed up in this battle just as the armies meet. Nobody thinks that David can beat Goliath, who represents the strength of the Philistines. David is caught in a political storm as these two nations meet.
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(not that bad), and algebra II (got C’s and past, barely). I took at practical math class my senior year in high school where I learn to balance a check book, learned about mortgages, understood the stock market, and all sorts of practical mathematical concepts. I got A’s in that class! The issue I found with mathematics is that the vast majority of equations and problems you have to solve have one answer. For some reason, my mind was more suited to the humanities like government, history, art, and english (sort of). In those classes, the answer was usually subjective. In the humanity classes, thinking and discussing were at the center of learning. Memorizing math formulas and the rules of math was difficult. Every time I got a concept in math class we would move on to another concept. I could not keep up!
ven though it takes three different modes. The same can be said of the Trinity. God is still God, but just in three forms that share similar properties made up of one substance. It’s crazy, I know. Similes and metaphors get us close to an idea, but never fully explain it. Trying to explain God is like trying to explain an emotion. Words that can fully describe it. How do you describe the Divine? How do you describe something greater than ourselves? We have some pretty good ways of describing God, but nothing can fully explain God. There is a certain mystery there that we are meant to be in awe of. 
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