Celtic Christianity So So Cool!

Celtic Christianity so so cool!

"They are unusual people: dedicated, and full of the Holy Spirit. They are also sometimes anti-social, quirky, and plain obstinate. They love remote islands, where they can contemplate the Creator through the creation - sun, moon and stars, winds and frost, mountains and seas and forest, birds and fish and great seals. They bless freely, and they curse freely. They lived plainly, and prayed much."

-Prof. Kathleen Jones on the Celtic Saints

Definitely my favourite flavour of christianity.

So true!

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. 2 Corinthians 7:10

Too often our repentance is shallow. We’re sad over the consequences of our actions and upset that we’ve failed to live up to our own standards of good behavior. But genuine repentance goes deeper than that; it involves a sense of grief over having wronged God by sinning against Him.

Our desire should be to please our heavenly Father, not grieve Him. So genuine repentance leads us to forsake the sin and practise obedience. When we humble ourselves and truly repent, the Holy Spirit pours His power and strength into our life. He enables us to turn from that sin in order to walk in obedience to our Lord.

In the epic of gilgamesh timber is a priceless commodity. The end goal of Gilgamesh and Enkidu's journey is venturing into the woods to, after killing a god, gather timber.

Like, it's just wild to me how to their imagination the most heroic thing a couple of demigods could get up to isn't winning a war or fighting a dragon or killing a god, its gathering building materials!

It just says so much about how hostile nature was back then and the impact it had on their culture

god bless you all :)

The following is inscribed on the doors of oldest lab in the world, in Cambridge University:

"Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them."

Psalm 111:2

Both the cathedral and the lab are places to ponder, and worship

labs that are also churches. to me

(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)