God blesses me so much:

• When people say they read this thing, it makes me see how God can use me when I’m not expecting it.
• Every day with the beautiful nature of Gainesville!
• This morning with a cup of iced coffee, Twitter updating and studying for my ethics exam. Yes, my semi-important voice memo failed to save on my phone, but it’s not a day-killer!
• I’ve lost around 13 pounds since Christmas. My weight has been something I’ve struggled with since senior year of high school, so getting below a certain point feels great and makes me want to DANCE!
• It’s a BEAUTIFUL day today!
• Fundraising for Nica is going strong. I’m halfway to my goal!
• With friends. Had some good conversations last night and look forward to this weekend. :)

And of course, GO GATORS. ‘,—,< (I love my school!)

Bear with me, but this crazy analogy just popped into my head.

Just kidding, it’s not that crazy.

I started watching Saving Private Ryan and had to turn it off, momentarily, because of the gore in the first 10 minutes of the movie. One man had his intestines coming out, and it hit me: imagine if humans were made of metal.

Yep, metal.

OK, I know the human body is amazing and how its contents work together is incredible and similar to a machine humans could build. But it’s totally more than that.

Imagine for a moment if we had pipes instead of intestines, poles instead of bones and bolts instead of teeth. It’s something similar to the Terminator.

Robots are man’s best effort at recreating something already created, but what’s already created is unfathomably complex. Doctors still fail to understand every disease, every function and every nook and cranny of the human body.

We are machines. Iron is a simple pattern of atoms sealed together by tiny electrical forces. Humans are a variety of chemicals, emotions, organs, elements, liquids and systems.

Machines need fuel. Metallic ones need oil, and ours need nutrition. Vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins, etc. enter our bodies from thousands of plants and animals that serve as food, not one providing every nutritional value on its own.

Nothing- and I repeat, nothing- can compare to the human body. Everything man tries to create that’s similar comes from something that’s already created. Even clones’ bases are things that have been created, and the chemicals used to make “synthetic” products were present before they were formed into those products.

We only change what already exists. We are no creators. We are manipulators and utilitarians who use what’s been given and, sometimes, abuse what already works. And God gave us the minds to think and to dream. We are living breathing machines.

We can’t move forward because it’s all contained in what already exists. Energy moves through objects, never disappearing. However we reorder what’s already ordered, in the end, will get us nowhere. Outside control belongs to God.

He will always win. (ptL)