The Timothy Project

 We had a great night at Vista de Yaque. Hector, Carolina and Milagros did a wonderful job leading the bible study. We had a pretty good group and several are really interested in the Bible and recognize their need for Christ yet they were honest that they weren’t ready to give up the things of the world for the things of God.

We started with some parables of Jesus about the value of the Kingdom (Matthew 13:44-46).  What is interesting about the parables of Jesus is he recognized that people have ears yet don’t hear.  We are praying for these people to have the ears to hear and respond in faith to the message of Jesus and the Kingdom of God.

Speaking of hearing…

 If you think that’s the sound of the ocean you hear when you put a seashell to your ear, listen up.

It’s the echo of the blood moving in your ear, says the book, Amazing Facts About Your Body, published by Doubleday and Co.

Among other “eary” tidbits from the book:

• The easiest sounds for humans to hear are the vowel sounds — ah, aw, eh, ee and oo.
• Humans can distinguish the direction of two sounds if they originate from points at least 45 degrees apart, while dogs, with their movable ears, can distinguish sounds only 11 degrees apart.
• A baby can hear sounds up to 30,000 cycles per second; a teen-ager cannot hear sounds above 20,000 cycles per second; a man age 50 cannot hear above 8,000 cycles; and a man age 80 cannot hear above 4,000 cycles.