13 May, 2012
drink inflammation
It all started about three weeks ago, when my oldest son’s monthly magazine showed up in the mail. Since this was the May issue, and Mother’s Day is in May, they had a section on something that you could make for mothers, and since my oldest likes to cook (he’s doing really well with breakfasts and thought at one time he’d like to be a chef), he asked if it was something that we could make.
Well, without reading the ingredients or the instructions, I signed on for the task—and expanded it. He just wanted to make this lemonade drink that used lemon juice and lemon sherbet. I told him that we should do the cookies as well.
Let’s just say that this was a great theory, not so hot in practice.
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13 May, 2012
priorities
In the last post, I shared with you the sermon I gave this past Sunday for Mother’s day. It was a moving message, the first time that I felt emotional while giving one, because I thought about how much our mothers give and think they are giving their children, but also how they often think they are doing well and find that they missed what was truly important.
I have seen far to many families have their children grow up in church and in a Christian school only to find that later on in life the children decide that their parent’s faith will not be their own.
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13 May, 2012
Mother's Day
The old saying goes that a woman’s work is never done. In our culture today, she is expected to take care of the home, raise a family and make money. She is supposed to have the finest things money can buy, be connected at the appropriate social outings and serve as a chauffeur to any sporting event that a child wants to attend.
She is expected to be many things, but like Martha of old who was told that Mary chose the best thing, a woman’s greatest calling is often overlooked—the place that she can make the biggest impact in the world is right in her very own home.
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13 May, 2012
antioxidents health inflammation toxins
My mother-in-law always wants to help people, and she is now pursuing a way that she can help. She’s studying to be a naturopath. These people try to research the body and natural remedies, believing that the body will both tell what it needs and react as well to natural treatments as well as to prescription medication.
In my book, this would go along with chiropractic medicine and dieticians that try to correct the problems that bodies have based on their understanding of joints, muscles and reflexes.
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25 Apr, 2012
friend hospital optimistic realistic tips
Having a friend in the hospital can be a very troubling experience. Serious injuries or illnesses that require hospital stays often involve a certain amount of confusion. For example, you may ask yourself why your friend was injured in that accident and not yourself. Similarly, you may wonder why people get sick in the first place. After all, years of human civilizations should have collectively come up with some solution.
Sadly, such a solution does not exist. Bad things happen to good people. The first step to helping your friend in the hospital is to stop moping and feeling sorry for them and take action. There is a time to express sorrow to your hospitalized friend, but keep in mind that having a positive attitude can greatly aid a sick person’s recovery. At the very least, your hospitalized friend can laugh and perhaps forget that her situation is so unfortunate.
10 Apr, 2012
children kids love parenting
I’m always open to reading books about how I can become a better parent. Shocking, I know. I mean, as a teenager we all pretty much believe that we have it all figured out, and that we have all the answers.
The arrival of our fifth bundle of joy this past February made me realize that there’s always something that I can learn, and How We Love Our Kids: The Five Love Styles of Parenting was a book that I was interested in because of the Christian authors and the fact that I believe that we can always improve how we show our love to our kids.
The book starts out with a set of parenting styles, believing that the key to understanding how to love our kids is by understanding how we were loved as a child. One of the best things I gleaned from the book is that it is my job as a parent to not only identify who my child is and what his triggers are, but to help them identify them and how to cope with them. This must start with an honest evaluation of yourself.
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30 Jan, 2012
death grief Grieving
A few months back I was asked to read and review James R. White’s book, Grieving: Your Path Back to Peace (Crisis Points) by my Pastor for my input as far as giving this out to people we knew that had lost a loved one. At the time, I was unsure who I knew that would need such a book, nor did I really know what to expect.
When I got married to my lovely wife, Virtuous Blonde, back in 2001 I had all four grandparents at the wedding. Today, I only have one grandparent left—my maternal grandfather.
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Is This Modest?
