A Reason Season Lifetime Poem
They enter our lives to fulfill some need or a purpose. Depending on the kind of lessons we most need to learn, they stay for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Once the purpose for which they enter our world is fulfilled, they part ways. A lot of times we don’t even know the reason as to why they walked away until life reveals to us. This can be life-transforming depending on the intensity of the bond we have with that person. Such situations push us into bringing in some kind of a change in our attitude, lifestyle, behavior, etc. for good.
These people come to us to fulfill a need, teach a lesson or help us to apply those lessons in our lives. They move out of our lives once their task is done. However, our job is to accept the lessons and be grateful to the person who gave us this gift of learning. Whether they are there for a reason, season or a lifetime, we must realize that their role in our lives is indispensable.
In other words, we must value their presence as they are God sent.
NOTE: Their loss inspires us and doesn’t break us in a way.
That is to say, it makes us see this event of separation in a positive light rather than perceiving it as a tragic event. That’s how we allow that situation to grow us mentally, emotionally and physically.
There is a poem by an anonymous author- “Reason, Season, or Lifetime.”
It teaches us about accepting the impermanence of relationships in our lives and recognizing the lessons they leave us with.
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Genesis 1 — New International Version
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produces vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, “Let the water teeming with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
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28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
Footnotes
- Genesis 1:26 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth.
Genesis 2New International Version
2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creation that he had done.
Adam and Eve
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth [a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams [b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[d] and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. [e] 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam [f] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs [g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib [h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 Then man said,
“This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Footnotes
- Genesis 2:5 Or land; also in verse 6
- Genesis 2:6 Or mist
- Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20).
- Genesis 2:12 Or good; pearls
- Genesis 2:13 Possibly southeast Mesopotamia
- Genesis 2:20 Or the man
- Genesis 2:21 Or took part of the man’s side
- Genesis 2:22 Or part
One of Einstein’s predictions on black holes has finally been confirmed
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Detecting strong X-ray flares beaming from the center of a black hole is nothing new. But detecting light signals from behind one is a different story. That’s because the force of gravity in a black hole is so severe that nothing that goes in can come out. No scientist has managed to find light from beyond—until now.
In contrast to what their name implies, supermassive black holes can be one of the brightest sources of continuous light in the universe. Their extreme gravitational pull brings in all kinds of material that manifests as a bright ring, or corona, around the so-called event. Little is known about supermassive black hole coronas, so scientists turned to black hole I Zwicky 1, which lies 100 million light-years from Earth, to investigate the beams shooting out.
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They detected smaller X-ray “echoes” around the supermassive black hole, in addition to the expected flares. The light signature of these pulsing beams indicated that they were the same X-ray flares, but reflected from the back side—meaning the supermassive black hole’s gravity must have actually warped space-time, thus bending the beams around in a direction then detectable by specialized telescopes. The findings, published in Nature, support a key prediction from Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Back in 1915, Einstein described the way light could be expected to bend around supermassive black holes. But “50 years ago, when astrophysicists starting speculating about how the magnetic field might behave close to a black hole, they had no idea that one day we might have the techniques to observe this directly and see Einstein’s general theory of relativity in action,” said Roger Blandford, an astrophysicist and co-author of the paper, in a statement.
This research is the first to confirm what the renowned physicist predicted more than half a century ago.
“Although we have seen the signature of x-ray echoes before, until now it has not been possible to separate out the echo that comes from behind the black hole and gets bent around into our line of sight,” Edward Cackett, an astronomer at Wayne State University who was not involved with the study, told Technology Review. “It will allow for better mapping of how things fall into black holes and how black holes bend the space-time around them.”
Black holes are one of the universe’s biggest mysteries, literally and figuratively. Getting a glimpse of the far side of a black hole is a monumental step for astrophysics, and leads scientists one step closer to unlocking their mysteries, like how they grow, how they take in and release energy, and how they help galaxies form around them.
“We are learning how to use these echoes…to reconstruct an image of the extreme environment just outside the black hole,” Dan Wilkins, an astrophysicist at Stanford University and the lead author of the study, told VICE.
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Of course, imaging of this caliber requires powerful instrumentation. These x-rays were detected with the use of two specialized telescopes: NASA’s NuSTAR, and the European Space Agency’s (ESA) XMM-Newton. The ESA is working on a new x-ray observatory, Athena, that will hopefully provide astrophysicists more chances to see behind these black holes with unprecedented resolution.
“If you want to understand how galaxies form,” Wilkins told Technology Review, “you really need to understand these processes outside the black hole that are able to release these enormous amounts of energy and power, these amazingly bright light sources that we’re studying.”
Some of Hubble’s first images after getting back to work: an unusual galaxy pair (on left)
and a rare three-armed galaxy (on right). Science: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton (UW) Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
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After almost five weeks of going dark, the Hubble telescope is finally back in action as of Saturday, July 17. Hubble halted suddenly on June 13, when its computers stopped properly communicating with each other. The malfunction placed the telescope in “safe mode,” deactivating all scientific observations and only retaining essential functions. NASA scientists, including a few who had previously worked on Hubble over the past decades, combined their expertise and rallied to find the root of the problem. They even resurfaced some of Hubble’s old, original paperwork—some documents 30 to 40 years old.
NASA engineers initially thought the error came from a degraded memory module, but that turned out to be a red herring. They then spent weeks tinkering and running diagnostic tests to pinpoint which of the other components could be responsible, eventually landing on the Power Control Unit, a piece of hardware that ensures the telescope receives a steady voltage supply.
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Over the next two weeks, more than 50 people worked to plan and carry out the 15-hour operation to replace Hubble’s Power Control Unit—the team even ran everything on a high-fidelity simulator before committing to the whole affair. The procedure was complicated and unprecedented, almost like surgery in space.
“The main computer had to be turned off, and a backup safe mode computer temporarily took over the spacecraft. Several boxes also had to be powered on that were never turned on before in space, and other hardware needed their interfaces switched,” Jim Jeletic, Hubble deputy project manager at Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement.
The operation succeeded on July 15, and Hubble was fully operational and back on its scientific observations by July 17. In the few days since its return, Hubble has already imaged some unusual galaxies out in the cosmos, including a rare interacting galaxy pair 297 million lightyears away. It’s the first high-resolution glimpse of this sort of system. Another new Hubble image shows a large spiral galaxy that lies 490 million lightyears away. Its arms reach a whopping radius of 163,000 lightyears, three times more expensive than our Milky Way. But this galaxy is also peculiar: Most disk galaxies have an even number of spiral arms, but this one has three.
The Hubble telescope was built in the 1980s and first launched in 1990. Its original mission was to spend at least 15 years probing at the secrets of space—a goal it has far surpassed. On one hand, reliably using one instrument over the decades means that there is no shortage of resources to turn to in times of crisis like this. “That’s one of the benefits of a program that’s been running for over 30 years: the incredible amount of experience and expertise,” said Nzinga Tull, Hubble systems anomaly response manager at Goddard, in a statement.
On the other hand, Hubble was never intended to spend 31 years in action.
With this malfunction, Hubble may be starting to show its age.
