Happy Birthday Canada!

So it's Canada Day and I'm about to leave in about a half hour to go watch fireworks at the Burrard Inlet here in the beautiful city of Vancouver. I love Canada. I'm proud to be Canadian and it would take a lot for my feelings to change. That's about all I have to say about that.

I got my wisdom teeth removed on Friday. All 4 of them. Yanked. The good thing is they were all pretty much fully grown out so there was no cutting or stitches needed. I'm feeling relatively ok right now, which is pretty darn good if you ask me. It'll be a bit before I feel totall normal though.

Last week the Canadian Leadership Team of YWAM was in town for a conference and also with them was Jim Stier, the YWAM Director of the Americas. We had a question & answer time with him and the CLT on Monday and Jim talked about how he feels that the difference between Christians in the Eastern world and the Western world is this: we in the West have put way too much weight on science and the nature of material things. We base reality on things with substance... things we see or touch... the world around us. And it has become our measure of truth. When you think about it, what is the substance of life? Spiritual things. Before the world was made, before molecules and atoms and carbon components, there was Spirit... the Trinity. So why do we have so little faith that miracles can happen? That occasions and acts beyond the physical laws of this world are more than possible but they are likely? After all the scientific method is based on what, 7 steps? And all it takes for a scientific theory to be proven is if it can be repeated. I think our God is a little bigger than that. Sure science is a wonderful way to understand God and some of the methods He's used to make the world work, but it shouldn't be the be-all-end-all of our truth and what is possible and impossible. The Eastern world seems to have embraced this idea a little better and it shouldn't be looked at as an immaturity or a less-progressed way of thinking, I don't think. I wish I could look at life that way a little more often than I do.