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Tag: 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,…

  • Genesis 3: In the Garden

    The story of beginning takes a turn when the serpent starts talking. Being “craftier” than the other animals, it asks the woman if God actually said they shall not eat of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Is this a talking animal book? No. No more animals speak except for one time later.…

  • 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…

  • 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 10: K-Paul Demon Hunter

    Paul transitions his talk from discipline to demons. He begins with the story of the Israelites living in the desert. Between their escape from slavery in Egypt and arrival in the land that became the nation of Israel was forty years of wandering in the desert learning to depend on God. Not only did they…

  • Dreams & Goals

    Christmas eve this year, I sat on the bed wrapping gifts and chain-binging Christmas movies. One was a Hallmark story where a big city gal goes to back to her Southern hometown for the holidays. While the characters were awkwardly churning through lines that someone spent five seconds writing, the romantic lead said he was…

  • I Corinthians 6: Take Care

    In this chapter, Paul calls out the Corinthians’ litigious ways and to kick their unhealthy habits. Apparently, they were often running to the secular courts to sort out their conflicts rather than dealing with in the community of faith. He is telling them they’re going about it wrong, because the saints will judge the angels.…

  • Anything but Beige 

    A doctor asked me yesterday if anyone in our family has been diagnosed with mental health issues. The short answer is no, but the long answer goes like this: If you gave me a list of all the different things that one would associate with ADHD, autism, OCD, anxiety, depression, hyperactive or ultra focused, I…

  • 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…

  • Arrivals & Departures

    When my father passed decades ago, it was a quick. He seemed relatively healthy and active, then just died on his way to work. Within two weeks his body was buried, and within two months all of his paperwork was closed out. His name was carved onto a headstone and deleted from all of the…