Fitting into the Pattern

It is therefore inaccurate to define a miracle as something that breaks the laws of Nature. It doesn't. If I knock out my pipe I alter the position of great many atoms: in the long run, and to an infinitesimal degree, of all the atoms there are. Nature digests or assimilates this event with perfect ease and harmonises it in a twinkling with all other events. It is one more bit of raw material for the laws to apply to, and they apply. I have simply thrown one event into the general cataract if events and it finds itself at home there and conforms to all other events. If God annihilated or creates or deflects this new situation, makes it at home in her realm, adapts all other events to it. It finds itself conforming to all the laws. If God creates a miraculous spermatozoon in the body of a virgin, it does not proceed to break any laws. The laws at once take it over. Nature is ready. Pregnancy follows, according to all the normal laws, and nine months later a child is born. We see every day physical nature is not in the least incommodes by the daily inrush of events from biological nature or from psychological nature. If events come from beyond Nature altogether, she will be no more incommoded by them. Be sure she will rush to the point where she is invaded, as the defensive forces rush to a cut in our finger, and there hasten to accommodate the newcomer. The moment it enters her realm it obeys all her laws. Miraculous wine will intoxicate, miraculous conception will lead to pregnancy, inspired books will suffer all the ordinary process of textual corruption, miraculous bread will be digested. The divine art of miracle is not an art of suspending the pattern to which events conform but of feeding new events into that pattern #CSLewis

Dunford Picked As Next Marine Commandant | Military.com

Dunford Picked As Next Marine Commandant | Military.com

The Glory of God

The glory of God also means his supreme importance. The Hebrew word for "glory" is kabad, which means "weight" - literally God's weightiness. Fortunately, we have an English word that has the same way - it is word matter. Matter means "as opposed to the immaterial, something solid, something substantial," but it can also mean "importance." And therefore, when the Bible says that God is glorious, more than anything else or anyone else. And if anything matters to you more than God, you are not acknowledging his glory. You are giving glory to something else.

All Good Masters Are Servants

The question we want to ask about Man's 'central' position in this drama is really on a level with the disciples' question, ' Which of them was the greatest?' It is the sort of question which God does not answer. If from Man's point of view the re-creation of non-human and even inanimate Nature appears a mere by-product of his own redemption, then equally from remote, non-human point of view Man's redemption may seem merely the preliminary to this more widely diffused springtime, and the very permission of Man's fall may be supposed to have had that larger end in view. Both attitudes will be right if they will consent to drop the words mere and merely. Where a God who is totally purposive and totally foreseeing acts upon a Nature which is totally interlocked, there can be no accidents or loose ends, nothing whatever of which we can safely use the word merely. Nothing is 'merely a by-product' of anything else. All results are intended from the first. What is subservient from one point if view is the main purpose from another. No thing or event us first ir highest in a sense which forbids it to be also last and lowest. The partner who bows to Man in one movement of the dance receives Man's references in another. To be high or central means to abdicate continually: to be low means to be raised: all good masters are servants: God washes the feet of men.

Unifying Awareness

Situational awareness is almost a Marine Corps training tenet. Attention to detail is probably the first situational awareness concept that a Marine learns. From that point on each Marine gains tool that permits him or her to execute multiple tasks simultaneously or linearly depending on the specialty training and core competencies taught and learned in the Marine Corps. Some of these interrelated tools used to enhance situation awareness are the skills, concepts, and competencies listed below.

• Estimating the situation - METT-T and METT-TSL
•  Utilizing the OODA Loop 
• Development of paragraph one, situation, of the five paragraph order
• Cognitive skills development and application 
• Effective communications skills using any media and format 
• Combining experience, training, and environmental factors

The combination of these creates a mental awareness that allows the Marine to make better decisions, which is the goal of situational awareness.

OODA Loop Goal

The goal of the OODA Loop is to develop decision-making superiority. Decision-making superiority occurs when leaders and Marines can make decisions faster and more effectively than the opposition. The ability to make simultaneous decisions by exercising the human mind correlates to enhanced performance in every aspect of life and the operating environment.

Elements of Tactical Decision Making - Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is the ability to combine observations, experiences, and theoretical solutions into one practical solution. Depending on the depth and breadth of the problem, the solution may have to be multilayered, meaning analyzing and subdividing it into multiple smaller problems which can be solved more simply and easily, and by subordinates, either independently, simultaneously, or in linear fashion to achieve the desired output.