Archive for July, 2011
To the families in Norway: Give them strength and comfort
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Every needless act of violence brings new questions. And after last week’s tragedies in Oslo and on the island of Utoya, again, answers are needed. Our hearts go out to Norway, to those individuals who lost their lives, and to those who treasure their loved ones they have lost.
I’m finding that spiritual solutions can help answer tough questions. Read More→
If it’s Tuesday, it’s San Angelo & Spinach Enchiladas
Posted by: | CommentsHow time flies. Just over a year ago, I wrote this post about my trip into West Texas. Enjoy the look back. —
Diary – Tuesday, July 20
9 AM - Meeting with Pat Attebery, Anchor KLST-TV CBS. Pat is a kind and professional woman. I explained to her that Christian Science practitioners are self-employed healers who devote themselves full time to helping others through prayer. They do not offer counseling, diagnosis, prognosis, or any physical manipulation or treatment, however, they do offer Christian Science treatment (prayerful treatment) — as explained in Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
I read where Arthur Brisbane, a New York journalist back in the 1900′s, once interviewed Eddy. He later told friends, “…it was my privilege to discover one of the keenest intellects I had ever encountered and the most gentle and sweet woman I had ever met. Her very presence was restful to me. During our conversation I mentioned this, telling her how very tired I was. She then asked me if I would like to have a Christian Science treatment and I told her I would. All I can say is that it was a most unbelievably beautiful experience….that treatment proved to me the great need in the world for Christian Science.” Read More→
Reading Medicines’ Side-Effects can be Unhealthy
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Have you ever listened to the possible side-effects of a drug as advertised on TV and then felt queasy? Reading about those effects can make you feel bad as well, it turns out.
Fiona Macrae’s recent Health post, The health alerts that make you ill: Negative thoughts ‘can induce sickness’, at the Daily Mail, recently got my attention. In the post, she writes:
My Remedy For Hiccups: Prayer
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After I married my wife, Joanne, and whenever I got the hiccups, a race for relief would break out between prayer and her home-remedy of a spoonful of jelly.
If I couldn’t make the hiccups disappear before Joanne arrived with her spoon, I was supposed to swallow her sugary solution.
However, absolutely every time, prayer won out. My specific prayer caused the hiccups to completely stop before Joanne could dash to the kitchen and return with the jelly.
I don’t know if you have ever tried praying while under pressure, but it took a concerted effort to keep my thought on God’s goodness and His ability to supply me with health while hearing Joanne’s shoes on the tile floor as she ran to the kitchen. Read More→
Quit interrupting God’s story
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One afternoon several years ago, my wife, Joanne, and I had $4,000 worth of cookie dough boxes packed in dry ice stacked on pallets on our back porch. In one hour we carried all the boxes inside and sorted out the flavors. This was a Boy Scout fundraiser. We then made stacks of boxes for each one of the boys in the Troop.
Then all afternoon, boys came to the door and I helped them carry their boxes to their cars. After carrying one of the last loads, I felt a horrible pain in my shoulder. Whether I moved or didn’t move, stood up, or laid down, it didn’t matter. I was in pain. Read More→
