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Category: health

  • Artificial Reality 

    There is a new South Korean show I am intrigued by. In English it is called, Boyfriend on Demand. The premise is a single woman whose time is taken up working and commuting gets an opportunity to try a virtual reality dating app, basically an AI boyfriend machine. At first it’s just fantasy fulfillment: rich,…

  • 2 Corinthians 5: Happy Campers

    In Chapter 5, Paul, a tentmaker by trade, starts referring to his body as a tent, a fragile structure, where his soul resides until it can go to its eternal dwelling in the heavens. He says that we groan, longing to shed the suffering in our current situation for a more complete, perfect one that…

  • The Check In 

    It’s still January of 2026. At the beginning of 2020, I wrote about all my hopes and dreams for the decade. Now it’s all whipping by like a car with no steering wheel and a brick on the gas.  In a few hours, I will pack up the kids and drive them two and a…

  • Home

    I had a reoccurring dream last night. One of the classics. It’s where I am running in slow motion. It’s not a nightmare, and I am not struggling get away from something, but trying to get back to something. The locations I am slo-mo traveling through are old neighborhoods of places I used to live…

  • Jump to Recipe

    While making telephone calls at work, sometimes I gently scroll the Internet, looking at recipes to make for our evening meal. Here are three features in a recipe that catch my attention. Number one. It has to have a great photo. Number two. The ingredients have to be affordable and accessible. I order from Walmart…

  • Alignment

    Alignment

    (I wrote this note 16 years ago and it just resurfaced on FB memories.) I went to the Physical Therapist yesterday because my neck and back have been stiff and sore a little since a car accident I was in a few weeks ago. Nothing dramatic, but I was getting headaches too. The PT had…

  • 1 Corinthians 8: Food for Thought

    Just like the Romans, the Corinthian locals are fighting over food, specifically ingredients that have been offered to idols. They lived in a pagan culture with pagan practices that some had been associated with before their conversion to Christianity. Paul warn them to not have knowledge that puffs up, but love for each other that…

  • Name It & Shame It

    There are many stripes of Christianity and the flavor I grew up with was Pentecostal. The kind with people speaking in tongues in a hot, sweaty gymnasium on Wednesday night. It’s when there was no Sunday school for kids, so you amuse yourself with coloring in all the o’s in on an old Sunday bulletin…

  • Romans 3: Why Even Try?

    In chapter three, Paul addresses the question, if God is giving out grace, then is there any benefit of being Jewish and practicing the law. Paul, also a Jew, responds, absolutely. First, the Jews carry the legacy of being the oracles of God. Second, if some of the chosen along the way were unrighteous, it…

  • H-A-double P-I-N-E-double S

    Our women’s study is going through the “Every Thought Captive” book by Kyle Idleman. This week we are reading about the pleasure fallacy where people pursue things that make them feel good, only to find themselves worse off. He’s right, in an attempt to make ourselves feel better we binge eat, binge watch, and binge…