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A Tale of Toxicity: Winning the Fight for Health in a Toxic World
Michael Simms, A Tale of Toxicity: Winning the Fight for Health in a Toxic World, 2011. We have all wondered if the incidence of asthma, autism, diabetes, chronic fatigue, and many other conditions are increasing in the Western world (and elsewhere for that matter) ¢â‚¬“ or whether we are just more accurately diagnosing illnesses […]
THANKSGIVING
GRATITUDE Thursday, November 24 THANKSGIVING DAY Most high, all powerful, all good Lord! All praise is yours, all glory, all honor, and all blessing. To you, alone, Most High, do they belong. No mortal lips are worthy to pronounce your name. Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially […]
Humans survive in amazing places!
(And the photography is also amazing!) http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=2HiUMlOz4UQ&vq=large
Wisdom for a Good Life
Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old. This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once […]
A Christian…..?
A Christian…..? ~~~~~~~~~~~ Several years ago, a preacher from out-of-state accepted a call to a church in Houston , Texas . Some weeks after he arrived, he had an occasion to ride the bus from his home to the downtown area. When he sat down, he discovered that the driver had accidentally given him a quarter too much change.. As he considered […]
Ventriloquist – best ever?
http://www.youtube.com/v/qNJ02rxaNrs
Death and dying
By Alan Matheson… A couple of thoughtful articles on dying: * “Good intentions lead to bad deaths”,The Australian 17.10.11 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/doctors-good-intentions-lead-to-bad-deaths/story-e6frg8y6-1226168013266 * “Advance care planning & end – of – life”, The Medical Journal of Australia 2011;195 (8):435-436 Editorial, http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/195_08_171011/sil10913_fm.html The MJA Editorial (above) has a link to “Advance Care Planning:If your choices for future health care […]
Fear and Faith (Richard Rohr)
One could sum up the Bible as an interplay of fear and faith. In general, people are obsessed and overpowered by fears; they fear what they cannot control. God is one of our primary fears because God is totally beyond us. The good news, the gospel, according to Luke, is that God has breached that […]
Forgiveness (Richard Rohr)
You could say that among the most powerful of human experiences is to give or to receive forgiveness. Much of Jesus ¢â‚¬â„¢ teaching is directly or indirectly about this mystery of forgiveness, God breaking God ¢â‚¬â„¢s own rules. That ¢â‚¬â„¢s not surprising, because forgiveness is probably the only human action that reveals three goodnesses simultaneously! When we forgive, we choose […]
9 Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime
(Depends how long our lifetimes are) Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come. 1. The Post Office Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no […]
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