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Nikki Sylianteng’s To Park or Not To Park project is a classic that exemplifies best practice of both design thinking and data visualization in real life. To that end, I am always on the lookout for instructive examples in the real world, of ordinary folks applying their ingenuity to pervasive societal frustrations. “Just as one infectious agent can spread throughout the network from a single point, so too can one solution.” - Gaia Vince, Nautilus It’s critical to remember that lesson, perhaps now more so than ever before in our lifetimes. The intersection of curiosity and passion for innovation is one that leads to positive change. However, the ability to recognize opportunities and apply your talents- or, more generally from a different perspective, identify problems and devise solutions - is an invaluable life skill. Design thinking was not a capital-T Thing when I was growing up. If I can pass the baton to the final leg of our brief run through a few thoughts from this wise book, it would be with this: Until we allow God's word to expose our complete and total incapacity to realize meaning in our lives apart from God, we will continue to mine bottomless pits. Have you ever needed to be scrubbed from illusion? Ever needed to be pulled from the wreckage - out from under the delusion that you can live your life on your own terms?įor Discussion: Tough stuff, right? Maybe it's just me, but if everything is meaningless according to the wisest person in the Bible aside from Christ, how does this trilogy end? I'd love to use something you say in tomorrow's entry, so please share.I hope that I am raising my three children to be inquisitive, innovative thinkers (and also good humans!). It challenges the naive optimism that sets a goal that appeals to it and then goes after it with gusto, expecting the result to be a good life." We are called to honor God with our bodies, and we easily find refuge in that as justification for week, after week, after week of "time well spent."Įugene Peterson once wrote, "We read Ecclesiastes to get scrubbed clean from illusion. We almost find ourselves coming to the defense of fitness, of striving, of effort and byproduct. It's offensive when someone diminishes the importance of something so important to us. To some of us - and I know it could have been said of me at one point - it's borderline insulting to read this series. In its natural delivery of your health, it's saying to you that no matter what you do, load it with protein, fill it with carbs, lift a million pounds of mindless metal for the rest of your life, you will not be able to prevent its demise. As you read this sentence your body is betraying the efforts you placed upon it 5 minutes, or 5 hours, or 5 days, or even 5 years ago. That's why, like we touched upon yesterday, there's no surprise that we keep such eating, resting and training routines justifiable as we attempt to make them. Indeed, you and I have a burden placed upon us by God that can only be satisfied when HE is pleased and when we are content in pleasing Him. It's a longing placed within every human that ever lived.
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Personally speaking, it was at the peak of my fitness lifestyle and resume that I began to realize the dilemma in my heart and mind that in my work, there would be no real fulfillment because of the longing placed there by God. But when I looked, I saw nothing but smoke (everything was meaningless) nothing was gained under the sun. “Oh, I did great things: built houses.amassed silver and gold.became greater by far than anyone.I refused my heart no pleasure.Then I took a good look at everything I’d done, looked at all the sweat and hard work. I wrote a few books, made a name for myself, and the emptiness and hollowness followed.Īnd it's that emptiness and hollowness that comes to mind as we travel along the oft jagged and piercing edges of these verses in Ecclesiastes. (I studied the effects of endurance training on muscle size and strength in competitive weightlifters.) That thesis eventually landed me writing gigs with magazines until ultimately, I was the worldwide fitness editor for the most popular muscle magazine in history. When I got out of grad school with thesis in hand, I was ready to conquer the world. How's that for an opening line? Did anyone do their homework? If you did, then you know the gross, impossible task of trying to lay the wisdom of Solomon upon our health with a few devotions, and from a ham-n-egg writer to boot.
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We will never, never, ever, ever be satisfied with anything other than God.