Hello all,
It's been a while, hasn't it? Instead of several posts for this week, I am going to try and smash it all into one. Settle in and read on!
This week has been crazy! I finally got credentials at the end of the day last Friday, which means I have been working in the O.R. all week. IT'S AWESOME! So nice to finally be able to do what I trained to do.
I need 30 cases for peer review, and managed to accomplish half of them this first week. It's almost been like being back in school, having late days and early mornings. One night I fell asleep by 8:30, and another night I was in zombie mode; staring off into space, not answering questions, etc. But it has been fun.
I did manage to get out of work in time to teach the Wednesday night Bible class, dealing with 2 Cor 2:7-10, talking about forgiveness. We had a great discussion, and I think that several members of the class actually learned something. One of the things that was brought up is that we, as a society, have a faulty understanding of what "forgiveness" means.
Forgiveness is not letting someone off the hook for whatever they do, no matter what. Forgiveness means that when a person asks us to forgive them, we do our best to forget it, blot it out as if it had never happened. That doesn't mean there aren't consequences for actions, but true forgiveness can only come when it is asked for. That is the example of God, who loves us so much He sent His son to die for us. How can we think to go beyond God and forgive someone who doesn't ask for us?
The other point that was brought out, and really hit home for me, is this: If we are wrong, would we want someone to "Forgive" us without letting us know we are in the wrong? How can we correct our mistakes, if we don't have them brought to our attention? This does need to be done in love, of course, not in a spirit of meanness.
Change of subject now: We are dog-sitting for one of my co-workers and his family while they are out of town to attend a funeral. A sad reason to go, but it has been good for us to have a dog in the house again. For those of you who don't know, we had to put our dog down last summer, and it has been an adjustment. While Mrs. Penguin has graciously made arrangements to add to the roll of little penguins wandering around the house (Due the end of May/1st part of June), we still like having a dog around. We are now on the adoption list for a miniature schnauzer, and hope to add one to the household in the coming months.
Boy Wonder's Tae Kwan Do class moved to later in the evening to accommodate the influx of new DoDos, so we are experiencing even later bedtimes on a regular basis. We also found out that Boo will have to take a break from tumbling this summer due to the deployment of her coach, so she also will become a DoDo for a few months!
Last night I got to reconnect with my family, and today has been a nice lazy day so far. In a few minutes I'm going to enjoy some wonderful cinnamon rolls (Thanks, Will at Alaska Cake Studio for the idea!) and then get to work on the oft-delayed bookshelves. Stay posted for pictures of the bookshelf project. I hope to have the trial set assembled this weekend.
Thanks to you all who have continued to spread the word about the Penguin. I was feeling a little blue, thinking about shutting it down since there had been so few comments or votes lately, that I wasn't sure anyone was reading what I was posting. However, there have been a few new fans added this week, so I will continue the wonderings for a while, at least.
That's the brief update of this week's wanderings of the penguin . . . and how was your week?
Finally, don't forget to vote in this week's poll.
Showing posts with label God's word. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's word. Show all posts
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Labels, and the impossible writing that accompanies them!
As I was making changes to the blog this evening, I happened to notice that there are 41 links listed, each of them occurring only once. That is about to change. What follows is the Freestyle writing including 19 of the links that I have previously listed. I'll try to get the other 22 into the next post.
When Yakob was a little boy, he wanted to be in the Union Air Force. He wanted to fly airplanes and visit far-off places like California. The intervening years had instead immersed him in a world of automated phone calls and book reviews, baby news, frustration and e-mail. Too much of which was currently occupying his phone. He couldn't even load his Bible software without it crashing.
"What ever happened," he wondered, "to the good old days when family sent actual letters, and actual comic books like Boy Wonder sat on actual bookcases?" Instead, as a e-news blogger trying to make a living in the brutally competitive news media, Yakob experienced daily frustration as his technology became ever more rapidly obsolete.
Yakob's thoughts continued as he hurried across the street, dodging around one of the many barricades erected recently. "Beards were only for old men, gaming had gone from on-line to live. Christians were a persecuted people, and few of his readers could separate fantasy from fiction. God's word was often considered a relic from 3000 years ago."
Even the food had gone down hill. "When I was young," he remembered, "and Mama went on her diet, she never ate this poorly." Neither had he, not till the war. It was the war that changed it all. The war . . .
When Yakob was a little boy, he wanted to be in the Union Air Force. He wanted to fly airplanes and visit far-off places like California. The intervening years had instead immersed him in a world of automated phone calls and book reviews, baby news, frustration and e-mail. Too much of which was currently occupying his phone. He couldn't even load his Bible software without it crashing.
"What ever happened," he wondered, "to the good old days when family sent actual letters, and actual comic books like Boy Wonder sat on actual bookcases?" Instead, as a e-news blogger trying to make a living in the brutally competitive news media, Yakob experienced daily frustration as his technology became ever more rapidly obsolete.
Yakob's thoughts continued as he hurried across the street, dodging around one of the many barricades erected recently. "Beards were only for old men, gaming had gone from on-line to live. Christians were a persecuted people, and few of his readers could separate fantasy from fiction. God's word was often considered a relic from 3000 years ago."
Even the food had gone down hill. "When I was young," he remembered, "and Mama went on her diet, she never ate this poorly." Neither had he, not till the war. It was the war that changed it all. The war . . .
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Food
So a quick second post, just to give you something to ponder.
I am trying to follow a healthy diet at the moment. My last 6 months or so of Nurse Anesthesia school followed by Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and vacation added 20+ pounds to the scales. That is not okay. In fact, it's just about forbidden by the military, because it makes me overweight. Not only overweight, but unhealthy. So, after I got home, I set about to renew my exercise obligation, and pay attention to what I stuff in my mouth.
And that's when I made a realization. I don't normally think of food as fuel, and I don't think many other people do either. We treat it as soooo much more, companionship, comfort, reward, etc. We eat when we are happy, we eat when we are sad, we eat when we are bored, etc., often without thought. It is GIGO. When I treat food as fuel, I am much more likely to stick with a diet plan. If food is only fuel, then fruits and vegetables, proteins and healthy carbohydrates are what I need, and what I am going to consciously choose to ingest. I'm also much less likely to overindulge, because just as you can't overfill a car's gas tank, it's useless to try and cram extra fuel into our bodies.
And then I thought about the inverse parallel of this information I had realized. I'm not sure an inverse parallel is the correct phrase, but stick with me here. :) If the Word of God, fellowship or worship is treated only as fuel, then we only want the minimum necessary to keep us going. But if we recognize all the other things beyond basic fuel that the Bible, fellowship and/or worship provide, we are much more likely to want to Feast on these things. If we recognize the comfort, the reward, the encouragement, the uplifting rewards to be found in the Bible/fellowship/worship, we go beyond the minimum necessary to the point that we are no longer just spiritually surviving, but experiencing spiritual growth from an abundance of spiritual food.
What do you think?
I am trying to follow a healthy diet at the moment. My last 6 months or so of Nurse Anesthesia school followed by Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and vacation added 20+ pounds to the scales. That is not okay. In fact, it's just about forbidden by the military, because it makes me overweight. Not only overweight, but unhealthy. So, after I got home, I set about to renew my exercise obligation, and pay attention to what I stuff in my mouth.
And that's when I made a realization. I don't normally think of food as fuel, and I don't think many other people do either. We treat it as soooo much more, companionship, comfort, reward, etc. We eat when we are happy, we eat when we are sad, we eat when we are bored, etc., often without thought. It is GIGO. When I treat food as fuel, I am much more likely to stick with a diet plan. If food is only fuel, then fruits and vegetables, proteins and healthy carbohydrates are what I need, and what I am going to consciously choose to ingest. I'm also much less likely to overindulge, because just as you can't overfill a car's gas tank, it's useless to try and cram extra fuel into our bodies.
And then I thought about the inverse parallel of this information I had realized. I'm not sure an inverse parallel is the correct phrase, but stick with me here. :) If the Word of God, fellowship or worship is treated only as fuel, then we only want the minimum necessary to keep us going. But if we recognize all the other things beyond basic fuel that the Bible, fellowship and/or worship provide, we are much more likely to want to Feast on these things. If we recognize the comfort, the reward, the encouragement, the uplifting rewards to be found in the Bible/fellowship/worship, we go beyond the minimum necessary to the point that we are no longer just spiritually surviving, but experiencing spiritual growth from an abundance of spiritual food.
What do you think?
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