I was awoken this morning at about five thirty this morning and was completely unable to go back to sleep. And during this time of sleeplessness, my mind was running from 90 to nothing on some of the most absurd and random things ever. Although I do believe that amidst all of sleepless thoughts that I did have one very strange dream. But more about that later... but write now I think I want to write/talk about a thought that has been running through my head all morning, and its a thought that I think really does not have a point to it.
To begin this random thought I had this morning, I must cover the back story of where this thought might have come from. Last week sometime, my little brother (a senior in high school) was assigned to write a 1-2 page paper about evolution being taught in the public school system. To me, this seemed like a very absurd homework assignment because for one, my brother attended a private school; two, he, unlike my sister and I, has never attended public school; and thirdly, a good many of the people in Chris' Bible class had probably never stepped foot into a public school a day in their life... so their perspective on the topic would have only been objective, not subjective. (I hope I got that wording right) But anyways, my brother called me last week while I was in rehearsal begging for my help on his paper. He told me the assignment and told me that he only had about three-fourths, to a whole page written, and he just needed help in finishing it because he was stuck. (My brother hates writing, and bless his heart, its definitely not his strongest point). So being the good big sister that I am... good big sister who is earning an English degree... came to rescue sweet little Christopher who was in dire need of some help.
I got back to my room that night, prepared to help make something up in order for my brother to receive a passing grade. But also in doing this, I had a perspective about the topic that my brother did not have, I was subjected to the teaching of evolution in the classroom. I, unlike my brother, had attended public school from kindergarten until the seventh grade. (My brother started Briarcrest when he was in the second or third grade). I had the perspective on the topic that my brother only imaged about. While writing, I had to reflect back on my years in public school and try to remember how several of my middle school teachers approached the topic of evolution in the classroom. In the paper, I wrote about how "I" thought it to be important that children are taught both Evolution and Creation, only because I see it to be important for kids (and ages beyond) to form their own beliefs and opinions. But it was also stated in the paper that, not only is it important for them to form their own opinions, but for us as Christians to fully understand both points of view. i.e. Philosophical or religious debate when someone (namely a Christian) is trying to explain the creation story to an Evolutionist... thus being able to know all the theories or information on evolution in order to refute it and to back it up with Biblical principles and verses.
But Charles Darwin and his theories of Evolution is not what kept me awake this morning, it was the simple word... evolution. Not the science of it but the process or formation of growth. And this is the thought that kept me up this morning, kept my mind racing. It got me thinking that I am evolving... everyone is constantly evolving. We are all growing, hopefully, into better versions of ourselves. And then this thought set off a whole new cycle of events... I am evolving from being a college student, into an adult... and then it went into the thoughts of the cycle of growth we all go through from birth until adulthood... and then it got me thinking that I am evolving as a Christian... I am not the same girl that I once was on October 26, 2010. I have evolved from the girl that I was once was into the woman that God has me to be. I am guessing this whole cycle of thoughts all came from my brother's paper, and also from all the baby developments since Sunday (Jen and Goldie).
I am not sure if I was going anywhere with any of that, but its a thought has been brewing and growing in my mind since about 5:30 this morning, and I thought my blog would be a good outlet to finally get that thought out and into words.
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