i worked outside with my dad today fixing some things around the house. i also got my mom's Mother's day present. My parents are awesome, my favorite two people in this world. "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you." ~Deut. 5:16


So, my older sister is halfway around the world right now teaching English at a university in Mongolia, near the Kazakhstan border. About two or three weeks ago there was a really bad dust storm in the city that she lives in, and the power went out. Original estimates said that it could easily be out 6 weeks, and it wouldn't be a surprise to see it out even longer. Well, the power came back on yesterday. I am going to go ahead and tell you that I know that God had a huge hand in that. You may say I'm ridiculous, but I'll explain why I'm so confident: Mongolia is still recovering from Soviet rule. If you know anything about communism or socialism, neither one has ever heard of efficiency. They both go completely against almost every economically sound principle known to man. But I digress. What I'm trying to say is that power would never be restored in less time than they would have originally estimated. You may say, "Korver, don't you think you're stretching it a little?" No. Open your eyes to the world around you. Life doesn't always have pragmatic, scientific answers to our questions. There may be pragmatic, scientific explanations to our questions (and even they are not always existent), but explanations never got anything done. Here's a tough one for you: Meteorologists could talk for an hour on how the cyclone formed and devastated Myanmar, but I defy you to find anyone who could answer why it happened. Another example on the other end of the spectrum: Historians will go till they're blue in the face on how we somehow pulled off the American Revolution. But why was America born?

I am not asking illegitimate questions. I am asking why. No one seems to ask that anymore. Perhaps because the only way to find truth to that question is to think. To search. Have we forgotten how to do that?