by Skyla Soles | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Yesterday evening during church, we sang the song “I’ll Fly Away” by Albert E. Brumley. The pastor pointed out that we Christians are pretty weird singing songs about death that are upbeat and happy! We anticipate death! Not that we have a death...
by Skyla Soles | Feb 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
While listening to an excerpt of Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis, I was caught and deeply touched by something. We humans constantly look for things other than God to make us happy, but nothing can because God is the one who has made us, invented us. A car is...
by Skyla Soles | Jan 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
This is a little connected to Humans and Stories. Once again, we humans love stories. We love telling them and hearing them. As we read, watch, listen to, or play stories, we learn. Sometimes these lessons are good and sometimes they’re bad, depending on what...
by Skyla Soles | Jan 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have an entire dissertation, of sorts, about how we humans love stories and why. I wrote it about 8 years ago and it’s a little long for blog format, so I’ll try to shorten it and pick out the pertinent paragraphs. We humans love to hear and tell...
by Skyla Soles | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last night at church there were a couple things in the sermon that stuck out to me. One was the main point, and one was a side point. I’ll lay out some background first. (Scripture references around Genesis 31-33.) Jacob had been with Laban building wealth, and...
