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Sir Ken Robinson and the Mis-Education of Calabarboy.

For a long time I have been reconsidering the way I have been educated (or mis-educated) over time and have to come to realize at what point of this process I lost some of my childhood dreams to what I call the practicalities of reality. This of course was the painful pill my parents and teachers gave me to swallow and for which I was pretty rebellious about, but felt good as it gave me a place among the “literate folks”. But I lost something in the process and I am still trying to get it back and that is ‘the innocence of childhood faith in everything’. Ken Robinson so masterfully reminds me of my current struggle and I want to share his video directly on my blog. So watch and think along with me if you are one of the unlucky ones to have been wrongly educated. After I digest some more issues on the matter I will be back to share my thoughts on the it.

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WHERE IS GOD?

This is for the spiritually aware and those who consider life having more meaning than the daily struggle for bread and butter matters. Let me share something that struck me greatly today, and for which I have been in deep meditation for some time now. I have often wondered when in my walk with God I am going to have a face to face encounter, or a divine visitation as some may put it. I secretly long for the time when I will be awakened at night by a tap and bright lights fill my room, and a huge figure standing at the corner smiling at me and saying (with a scary deep voice) “Hey Reg! I want to talk with you”. It can happen. It hasn’t happened yet, but I am still waiting.

I was in Church on the Christmas morning of 1998 and the Pastor in church read from John 12:26, which read “Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.” The Pastor titled his message “Where is He?” It remained one of the most impactful messages in my life. I prayed a very sincere prayer that day in church and remained very conscious of God as the day progressed. What followed was drama for the remaining part of the day.
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