BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Weekly Reflections automatically translated

Monday, January 28, 2008

Weekly Reflections automatically translated

Some of you know that I write weekly devotional texts (I call them Reflections). I used to write these texts in Dutch (my mother tongue) and translate them in English, but I only did the Dutch texts for the last couple of months due to a lack of time. I just have too many things to do and too little time to do them!

But you can use Google translate if you want to read my Dutch texts in funny English (yes, even funnier than my Dutch-English) because sometimes the Google translation is hilarious! But you will get the idea anyway and if not, please let me know. By the way: 'Superheld' is the Dutch word for Superhero. Have a look here!

1 comments:

Art said...: I've tried Google Translate and Babelfish for French and German and both can produce some very (unintentionally) humorous translations. Try translating the translated text back into the original language!!!; 1/30/2008 5:50 pm

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God loves us

Have you ever wondered why God gives so much? We could exist on far less. He could have left the world flat and grey; we wouldn’t have known the difference. But he didn’t. He splashed orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue. And if you love to see geese as they gather, chances are you’ll see that too. Did he have to make the squirrel’s tail furry? Was he obliged to make the birds sing? And the funny way that chickens scurry or the majesty of thunder when it rings? Why give a flower fragrance? Why give food its taste? Could it be he loves to see that look upon your face?

Max Lucado - He Chose the Nails

Sadhu Sundar Singh

I do not condemn theologians wholesale, but it is unfortunately the fashion in Western thinking to doubt and deny everything. I protest this tendency. I never advise anyone to consult theologians, because all too often they have completely lost all sense of spiritual reality. They can explain Greek words and all that, but they spend too much time among their books and not enough time with the Master in prayer. It is not that I oppose all education, but education without life is certainly dangerous. You must stop examining spiritual truths like dry bones! You must break open the bones and take in the life-giving marrow.

Oswald Chambers

In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness. (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, July 29th)