11) With Gusto

The winners of the Fifth Annual Brillant 10 (by Popsci magzine) was announced last month and they were 10 young maverick scientists (avg age: 34) who changed the limits of what was known by discovering or reinventing science. The one that draws my attention is Kelly Dorgan who disproved Charles Darwin's theory on the way how worm moves. The century old theory by Darwin argues worms move by swallowing but Dorgan discovered worms are just living levers. What amazes me is she didn't have an engineering or physics background (only biology) but with her great enthusiasm, she nailed down the stress fields around the worms and discovered they moved by crack propagation.

This strikes me because it's telling me again one does well when one has passion in what one does & what one believes in, hence one will strive towards the goal with great enthusaism and energy ...and where goes my enthusiasm these days?

While i reflect on this, i came across Reflections on the Pslams by C.S. Lewis who shared his rumination on both the form and meaning of selected Psalms. If you read Christianbook.com's description on this book, you'll discover how C.S. Lewis "stresses the importance of the Psalms in singing and worship, how they provide words for our prayers and display an obvious "gusto" for God". (Note: according to wilkipedia Gusto means great enthusiasm and energy).

So believing God as the God alone in this universe, did I do all things with gusto in response to his overflowing love and grace?

~cC

P.S. While I googled search on Gusto, i came across a U.K. comapny named Gusto which does innovative design. The attached picture is one of their cool product named sticklebook which is an invisble shelving unit: where a line of books appears to hang, unsupported, on the wall. This is on sale online for only $28.70 US!