God has such a great way of making me smile and bringing moments of pure joy to my life.
I just love seeing
God's hand in things, after the fact.
Looking back and seeing how seemingly random and unrelated things fit
together…again after the fact. Thinking to myself "oh, that's where that
interest suddenly came from. Cool!".
It just makes me smile!
Here's the short version of the story.
Several weeks ago I started a class offered by Hillsdale College called
"Math and Logic: from Euclid to modern geometry". Where did this sudden interest in geometry
come from? I avoided geometry in high
school because I heard the teacher was really hard so why, almost 50 years
later, an interest in geometry?
But it gets weirder.
From there it occurs to me that it would be fun to take a high school geometry class. I go over to Khanacademy.org and start taking high school geometry. It's fun. I can see how it is really helpful. I love the logic of it.
Which brings me back around to the class I am taking. Geometry had been around for a couple thousand years when Euclid revolutionized it. Before Euclid, geometry had a practical basis. What I mean by that is that it was used in measuring and laying out foundations of buildings, etc.
Euclid changed that. He turned geometry into a theoretical discipline. And that theoretical disciple became the basis for logic.
So to wrap this
up, I am always looking for new ways to
see things. I love to go back and
challenge already held beliefs to see if I can defend them.
So today God said "hey, why don't you go back to the beginning and offer
proofs of your deeply held beliefs? I'll
bet you could use some of that geometric logic stuff here. (As He smiles a sly smile)! "
So that's where the sudden interest in geometry came
from!!!!
PS. Euclid's Elements was taught for
hundreds of years. It is second only to
the Bible in number of printings over the years. You can learn more about Euclid here.
