BWI # 996

Breakfast with Ian. The last lap to Easter. In two weeks time I will be writing BWI # 1000. 
I got started when Pauline and I were visiting old friends, John and Sue Cowgill in Cyprus. For the ten days we were with them I would give a brief message from the Bible to begin the day. "Sue called them "Breakfasts with Ian." The title stuck and when we returned to Canada I continued with these thoughts under the same heading  "Breakfast with Ian" Now, some seven years later I am writing # 996. Will I continue posting after Easter? I don't know, but I feel that I should give some credits where they are due at this time.
To John and Sue Cowgill, a heartfelt word of gratitude from Pauline and myself for a most memorable time in Cyprus and for getting me started on "Breakfast with Ian."
My thanks also to my son, Mark, who set up my original web site and who has tinkered several times since to keep me "on air".
To my friend Ken Skinner, my original 'techy' man who launched BWI to a wider audience around the world, my appreciation.
My acknowledgement also to Donna Morris, my present and most excellent secretary who unfailing presses the right buttons and who sends BWI "on 'er way" several times each month.
Finally, to my wife Pauline, my love and deepest appreciation. She has cast her eye over hundreds of posts, spotted typos, made valuable suggestions and exercised great patience when I have been AWOL banging keys behind closed doors. 
Will more of her patience be called upon in coming days? We shall wait and see.
That's it for BWI 996 folks.

Jubilate .
Ian

HAWKINS IS GONE : POOF!

Yesterday came news that Stephen Hawkins, the celebrated theoretical physicist,  had died. As I said in my title "Stephen Hawkins is gone. Poof" Surely no one would find such a title offensive for, after all, that is what Hawkins himself believed. When a person dies its just "Poof", they go back to the universe and that's all there is and that's all there was and that's all there ever will be.

So when a U.S congress man, Briscoe Cain, tweeted this morning the following words:

"Stephen Hawkins now knows the truth about how the universe was actually made. My condolences to his family." there was a storm of social media protest.

Some called Briscoe Cain a jerk and others were outraged that he had not shown more sympathy to his relatives. 

But the congress man has held his ground. In reply he stated that: "while many see Hawkins as one of the greatest of public intellectuals and no one denies that he was brilliant, the fact remains that GOD EXISTS. Hawkins denied this. He was a vocal atheist who openly mocked God. My tweet was to show the gravity of the gospel and what happens when we die. Namely that we must all meet the Creator of the Universe face to face." 

To which I, Ian Wilson, add my ready "Amen." Well spoken Briscoe.

Jubilate.

Ian  

P.S. Two weeks ago this man died.      

Who was telling the truth?