What's For Dinner?

We had a delightful dinner last night with three of our couples-friends.  The kids were all gone to church groups so we all had a couple of free hours.  So everyone headed over to our pad and I served a couple courses of food for dinner.  First, as an appetizer I made satay beef, spinach dip and ginger shrimp.  We followed that up with an Asian salad with honey vinaigrette dressing.  The main courses was seared ahi tuna with oriental noodles and garlic beans.  Then for dessert after it all we had tahetian vanilla gelato with a little dough-bite, raspberries and butterscotch sauce.  As an added bonus, we used the fancy schmancy plates and wine glasses that we got for our wedding over a decade ago and have been used only a handful of times. 

As good as the dinner was, the company was even better and the night as a whole was a success.  That leaves only two things left to do (half of my scrapbooking and the splits).  We are almost done!

The Root of the Words

Over the year I have chosen 40 different verses from the bible for varying reasons that I wanted to analyze the differences in their translations.  As it turns out, I compared about 18-22 different versions of the bible and there are some remarkable differences.  Come on people!  I get that "stop" and "halt" and "cease" are all synonyms, but once I looked though all of the verses I found that less than 20% were essentially the same translation.  I made a note of each of these differences and figured out which was the most common translation, it's original language of authorship, who wrote it, who the audience was and when it was written.  For a lot of the verses, people just plain don't know those answers. 

From here, going forward, I would like to take this a step further and look into other places that these words are used to get the best translation of each word and review the bible codes to see if there is any hidden words in each verse.  It's all very interesting and enough to make and break faith for many folks.

I just keep telling myself that God has ways to achieve his goals so if he wanted the bible to say something then my opinion is that it is probably in there.  The fine line then is what it is that God really said and what is man's translation of God's word.  Therein lies the point of faith.

Things don't require faith if you can prove them.

Bedtime

Well I finished my e-book!  I wrote, designed and published it on Snapfish. It's a children's book about a young girl named Lizzy who is getting ready for bed.  Unfortunately Snapfish doesn't allow me to show it to you via internet.  I had to print the book.  Ask me someday when you're visiting if you want to see the hard copy.  I did the best I could to get the story into smilebox too but they asked me the ransom one of the kids in exchange to pay for it.  So after much deliberation...I guess I shall post the images here and you can scroll through them at your leisure: