#wondrous things

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

God Does Great Things Beyond Our Understanding

God thundereth marvelously with his voice, doing great things which we do not comprehend. For he saith to the snow, Fall on the earth! and to the pouring rain, even the pouring rains of his might. — Job 37:5-6 | 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY) The Darby Translation of the Holy Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Job 5:9-10; Job 11:7; Job 26:14; Job 28:26; Job 36:7; Job 37:2; Psalm 147:16

[subpoenas]

Players assume the role of No Man, a tall thin man who sports the standard garb of a noir hero: a trench coat and a hat. Late in the game he is referred to by different names: the Eternal Demon, Beat Brother, Ancestral Spirit, and Time Traveler, which reinforce the notion that he is more of a symbol than a conventional character; thus, his actions should be read metaphorically. At the start of the game, we find him selling watches out of his coat pockets to various pedestrians on the street like a peddler of illicit goods. Returning to his home in a clock tower he finds a number written on a napkin belonging to a love interest. After dialing the number on a rotary phone he hears distressed sounds coming from the other end before the line abruptly clicks off. Racing, falling and crawling on stairs and streets that take on impossible angles he arrives at a building where he wrenches on the door handle until the door shatters like a pane of glass. Bursting into a room, he sees another man point a gun at a woman and pull the trigger. In “Genesis Noir’s” cosmology, this event is the cause of the Big Bang. The would-be victim is Miss Mass, a singer who leads a band called the Divine Jazz Section. Her assailant is her bandmate and erstwhile lover Golden Boy, a saxophone player who is made jealous by her dalliance with No Man. Viewed through the lens of the Big Bang, the symbolic relationship of these three is clear. Miss Mass held the universe of the band together until her head was turned by No Man. In a fit of jealousy, Golden Boy shoots Miss Mass and triggers an explosion of energy that echoes throughout time and space — elements that are associated with No Man, who takes it upon himself to literally peer into the explosion to see if there is a way that he might be able to reverse it.

– Christopher Byrd, ‘Genesis Noir’: A stunning game about love, murder, joy and the Big Bang

[wiirocku]

Psalm 119:18 (NKJV) - Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law.

[subpoenas]

Many places have a “forest that shouldn’t be entered.” Even people who are used to working in the mountains feel there is something there. They are suddenly overcome with fear and it becomes the custom to avoid certain places. These places exist. I don’t know what is there, but I think they are real. I’m not a believer in the occult, but the world is more than we can fathom with our five senses. This world doesn’t exist just for humans. So I think it’s all right to have such things. This is why I think it’s a mistake to think about nature from the idea of efficiency, that forests should be preserved because they are essential for human beings … I am concerned, because for me the deep forest is connected in some way to the darkness deep in my heart. I feel that if it is erased, then the darkness inside my heart would also disappear, and my existence would grow shallow.

– Hayao Miyazaki, “Totoro Was Not Made as a Nostalgia Piece”, Starting Point: 1979-1996

[wiirocku]

Psalm 119:18 (ESV) - Open my eyes, that I may behold     wondrous things out of Your law.

[funicularinclinefan]

[funicularinclinefan]

no reason this song should go so hard

[all-or-nothing-baby]

the thing is (and this is coming from somebody who generally tends to enjoy the darker and more disconcerting aspects of life) seeing a newborn baby human yawn cavernously as their unfocused eyes screw themselves shut and non-existent eyebrows meet for the first time and curve upwards either side of a funny little wrinkle and tiny fingers of tiny hands make tiny fists and chubby noodle arms wave themselves around chaotically is actually just one of the most wondrous things you might ever have the privilege of seeing in this world.