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BlogHere are the thoughts and news of the people in our community. Leave a comment as you wish. If you want to join the blogging ask Mark.
Monday, November 28, 2005GraceI was hoping to have chance to read these Lyrics out yesterday at our CCN Family meeting, but the opportunity didn't quite arrive. So they arrive here instead! Grace I like that a lot. Grace does the work of "redemption" - turning to good what once was rubbish [Bono probably would use a different word]. Are you a "GRACE" person? Do you turn to good and see good in things you encounter in life? By the way, I decided to get some info on the line "She travels outside of Karma". Karma is a Buddhist "law" related to cause and effect. Karma is the automatic respnse to and event or action. A person can create Good Karma [ a "pleasant" consequence] by acting skillfully, i.e.by not acting out of craving, resistance or delusions. What does it mean to say then that Grace travels outside of Karma. I guess it means that grace transcends the mechanical "law" of cause and effect, "fate" is not the controller. Grace works outside of that. Grace can turn even 'unskillful' actions to good. "Grace makes beauty out of ugly things". Posted by: Mark | 9:31 am |
Friday, November 25, 2005New CCN News Just to let you know that I have uploaded the latest CCN News to the website. And that the Home page has details of our Christmas events. Posted by: Mark | 2:29 pm |
Oh and another thing I heard on the telly last night that there are 100 million insects for every human being on the planet... [and most are on "I'm a celebrity get me out of here"...]. Factor that into the whole space is big thing! These Psalms work for me: Psalm 47 He heals the brokenhearted and puts bandages on their wounds. He knows the number of the stars and gives each of them a name. Our Lord is great! And no one is stronger! we can’t even begin to imagine the stuff he knows Psalm 8 Brilliant GOD, yours is a household name. Babies gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout songs to you I look up at your huge skies, dark and enormous, your handmade jewels in the sky, Moon and stars in their place. Then I look at my small-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way? Yet You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, Trusted us with the sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild, Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps. Brilliant God, your name echoes around the world. Posted by: Mark | 1:09 pm |
Wednesday, November 23, 2005Space is quite large...  Last Friday I did the talk at JFC, the kids club that we run. Our theme this half term has been "Space". I decided to do a slot on the hugeness of space. To be honest as I did a little research I got pretty overwhelmed by it all. It's AMAZING! Let's start with our solar system. Our sun is a star [not just that it is famous, or even good at it's job, but one of those twinkling things in the sky] a lot of people don't know that you know. It has 9 planets [arguably 10] spinning around it. The first thing we did was get someone to stand with a football, and pretend it is the sun. That is the scale we were working on: the sun is the size of a football. So haw far away is the next planet, Mercury? 10 paces then Venus? another 9 paces then Earth? another 7 paces then Mars? another 14 paces As you can imagine by now we are placed around the edge of the hall, the hall isn't long enough. By the way did you know that if you decided to drive to Mars from Earth at 70 mph it would take you 80 years? then Jupiter? another ... 95 paces [think about it] For this one I had to set a kid off walking around the hall counting off the paces. Round and round he went. We carried on regardless... our model stopped there cos it is all stupidly [;o)] big. Saturn ANOTHER 112 paces, Uranus [snigger] ANOTHER 249 paces, Neptune ANOTHER 281 paces, Pluto ANOTHER 242 paces [depening on the time of year]. I had thought about setting all of these off together around the room, but from Mars the Pluto person would have had to walk 979 paces!! So we got back to the scale thing. So the sun is a football, how big is the Earth? I lined up some objects: a mini football, a tennis ball, a large bouncy ball, a golf ball, a small bouncy ball, a marble, a ball bearing,a coffe bean, a peppercorn and a mustard seed. The kid's guessed first at a tennis ball size ... WAY off. We eventually got to the peppercorn - we live on the peppercorn planet - 6.4 billion of us!! Venus is also peppercorn sized, Mars & Mercury are mustard seed sized... But get this our solar system, that we can hardly even visualise is part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. How big is the Milky Way? Well, people guess that our sun is one of AT LEAST 140 million stars in the Milky Way, more it is probably more like 100 billion. The disc that is the milky way is: 600,000,000,000,000,000 miles across. WOW, that's unbelievable!!! Wait... There are other galaxies in the known universe. How many? One child guessed 6. Nearly, but not quite... Best guess is "several billion"... [rubbish guess, I say...] So, how big is God? Posted by: Mark | 3:37 pm |
A Posting Fast? Although it may appear as if I am on a blogging fast I am actually not! I have had things I wanted to post but actually getting round to it has been a little harder. Frustrating, but never mind! One little enjoyable moment this week was noticing on the stats pages that the search string "cineworld northampton" had pulled up our site. And then I noticed that there were a significant number of hits in the vue and cineworld pages. And then lastly I noticed that most hits on those pages were the entry pages to the site. My super sluth brain kicked into action and I came to a radical conclusion. And then I tested it. Sure enough if you type "vue northampton" or "cineworld northampton" into google we are on the first page!! cool, eh?! Even "cinema northampton" works pretty well! Posted by: Mark | 3:22 pm |
Wednesday, November 16, 2005We don't always see what we think we see? I saw this today and knew I had to post it. You have got to try this!!! Click here V weird... Posted by: Mark | 5:32 pm |
Wednesday, November 09, 2005Quote of the Day Posted by: Mark | 10:30 am |
Wednesday, November 02, 2005October Stats The trouble I was having last time getting our monthly stats has well and truly set in. My old stats programme has disappeared and I can't seem to get the information I want of the new one - D'oh. However, what is clear is that October showed a step change in ccn-online.org.uk web traffic. And the best way to show this is a graph [the one thing the new stats programme does well!] so take a peek at this:  Some interest points:Most popular Day: 12th Top search string: Celtic Designs!?!?!? Most bizarre search: koro old ways under his nose Interesting country: Trinidad and Tobago Posted by: Mark | 5:07 pm |
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