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 . . .

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?