Wednesday, November 18, 2009
the bomb dream
well, I'm not entirely sure if this is a dream from the Lord, or not. In my dream last night, terrorists had planted a bomb underwater (but I really thought "the bomb" was the Holy Spirit) and there were already 40 people underwater looking for it. So I was thinking, "why dive in?" but I knew that if I dived under water I would find it.
So, I went underwater and I found the bomb -- it was in an instrument case. I gave it to the authorities -- all the time I was so anxious that it was going to explode at any moment. The last thing I remember of the dream, we were in a mall and the bomb was on the 2nd floor, we were on the 1st floor, and we were all on the ground and bracing ourselves for the explosion.
Then I woke up at 3:59a.m. which was awesome b/c I've wanted to get back onto my early, early morning schedule and that was a good start to it.
Hmmm, so I have a number of thoughts about this dream. 40 is a biblical number, I looked it up on the tehillah dream dictionary, and it said 40 represents "trials and testing"
Also, I think finding a bomb in an instrument case = musical gift. While "giving it to the authorities" means giving it to God.
Not sure why I had to "dive in" to get it. I mean, I know water has many biblical meanings...This dream sort of reminds me of one of my favorite, hehehe, dreams --it was actually someone's conversion experience, which I will post below, Lauren F. Winner.
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darn, can not find that dream on-line. It's described in this article as "and her conversion from Judaism to evangelical Christianity involved a dream about being kidnapped by mermaids and rescued by Daniel Day-Lewis—who she later realized was Jesus (sassy!)" but it is not Winner's exact wording (which is so funny...) http://www.somareview.com/lauren_winner.cfm
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Or in this article "She found herself 'courted by a very determined carpenter from Nazareth,' one who haunted her dreams."
So, I went underwater and I found the bomb -- it was in an instrument case. I gave it to the authorities -- all the time I was so anxious that it was going to explode at any moment. The last thing I remember of the dream, we were in a mall and the bomb was on the 2nd floor, we were on the 1st floor, and we were all on the ground and bracing ourselves for the explosion.
Then I woke up at 3:59a.m. which was awesome b/c I've wanted to get back onto my early, early morning schedule and that was a good start to it.
Hmmm, so I have a number of thoughts about this dream. 40 is a biblical number, I looked it up on the tehillah dream dictionary, and it said 40 represents "trials and testing"
Also, I think finding a bomb in an instrument case = musical gift. While "giving it to the authorities" means giving it to God.
Not sure why I had to "dive in" to get it. I mean, I know water has many biblical meanings...This dream sort of reminds me of one of my favorite, hehehe, dreams --it was actually someone's conversion experience, which I will post below, Lauren F. Winner.
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darn, can not find that dream on-line. It's described in this article as "and her conversion from Judaism to evangelical Christianity involved a dream about being kidnapped by mermaids and rescued by Daniel Day-Lewis—who she later realized was Jesus (sassy!)" but it is not Winner's exact wording (which is so funny...) http://www.somareview.com/lauren_winner.cfm
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Or in this article "She found herself 'courted by a very determined carpenter from Nazareth,' one who haunted her dreams."
Saturday, October 31, 2009
a message to Judah's Kings
3 "This is what the Lord says: Be fair-minded and just. Do what is right! Help those who have been robbed; rescue them from their oppressors."
Friday, October 23, 2009
praying for lost loved ones
from Mahesh Chavda
"You have every right and authority to pray in every one of your loved ones into the Kingdom of God, without any apology. You find the model with Abraham and Lot -- Lot was totally out of the will of God...I mean, Lot was a confused Lot.
And still God said, 'Abraham, yup, we can save his posterior from judgement.'"
"You have every right and authority to pray in every one of your loved ones into the Kingdom of God, without any apology. You find the model with Abraham and Lot -- Lot was totally out of the will of God...I mean, Lot was a confused Lot.
And still God said, 'Abraham, yup, we can save his posterior from judgement.'"
Sunday, October 11, 2009
quotable day
actually, I read these a few days ago...but I still think they're funny.
taken from this article
The #7 reason not to buy a Kindle,
Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take off and landing. You can’t explain that it’s epaper and uses no current. You just can’t. It’s like explaining heaven to bears.
I just got a kick out of the "explaining heaven to bears" analogy.
Also, this is from Ivan and Isabel Allum: Isabel explaining a story of how she got to know Ivan.
"...he used to play darts. So, I figured, I might as well learn to play darts because I have to hang out with him and get to know him. So, we started drinking coke and playing darts--I didn't drink coke yet, he drank coke. And we started playing darts together, and I got to laugh with him, and get to know him, and we started developing a friendship, hanging out and doing things...until I *beat* him at darts and we never played again."
haha, maybe you had to be there, but I was so funny when she said this on the sermon tape.
taken from this article
The #7 reason not to buy a Kindle,
Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take off and landing. You can’t explain that it’s epaper and uses no current. You just can’t. It’s like explaining heaven to bears.
I just got a kick out of the "explaining heaven to bears" analogy.
Also, this is from Ivan and Isabel Allum: Isabel explaining a story of how she got to know Ivan.
"...he used to play darts. So, I figured, I might as well learn to play darts because I have to hang out with him and get to know him. So, we started drinking coke and playing darts--I didn't drink coke yet, he drank coke. And we started playing darts together, and I got to laugh with him, and get to know him, and we started developing a friendship, hanging out and doing things...until I *beat* him at darts and we never played again."
haha, maybe you had to be there, but I was so funny when she said this on the sermon tape.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
from the WSJ
I originally wrote this 7-19-07 on another blog, but thought I should republish it today. from the Wall Street Journal.
today I was reading an article on the state of medicaid. "Note to Medicaid Patients: the Doctor won't see you." On the contrary is the following physician, as quoted from the article,
"I don't want to pull any punches taking care of people," says Dr. Tynes, "I'm a spiritual man, not a business man." In his waiting room, gospel movies play round the clock on a DVD player and patients can sign up for his weight-loss coaching.
On a recent day, 22 out of the 37 patients were on Medicaid, and another 12 had Medicare or other government-sponsored insurance. Only three had commercial health coverage. Dr. Tynes tries to make ends meet with a bare-bones staff. He has also cultivated a loyal patient base by offering specialty services such as sexual-dysfunction treatment and marriage counseling. Depending on how good business is, he tries to pay himself an after-tax salary of $500 to $750 a week to support his family of five children.
But three times so far this year, he's forgone his biweekly paycheck to keep the practice out of the red. Last year, he cut his office staff from seven to four people. "We [primary-care physicians] are the ones keeping this Medicaid system together, but we're the ones getting killed," he said.
My thoughts. A) He went to med school, he could make a killing but to actually forgo the wealth is unusual. plus, he left a salaried position (a.k.a, decent paycheck every week) to run his own clinic in Benton Harbor. also, in reference to the quote, "I'm a spiritual man, not a business man," can one be both? This follows some thoughts with "the princess goes to Hollywood" post: can Christians live in Bel-Air?
B) $500 to $750/week to support a family of five! I can hardly believe that. let me state the obvious: most doctors don't think that way. Medicaid doctors should be salaried by the government, funded by taxes, the same as public school teachers since they're doing a service to society.
today I was reading an article on the state of medicaid. "Note to Medicaid Patients: the Doctor won't see you." On the contrary is the following physician, as quoted from the article,
"I don't want to pull any punches taking care of people," says Dr. Tynes, "I'm a spiritual man, not a business man." In his waiting room, gospel movies play round the clock on a DVD player and patients can sign up for his weight-loss coaching.
On a recent day, 22 out of the 37 patients were on Medicaid, and another 12 had Medicare or other government-sponsored insurance. Only three had commercial health coverage. Dr. Tynes tries to make ends meet with a bare-bones staff. He has also cultivated a loyal patient base by offering specialty services such as sexual-dysfunction treatment and marriage counseling. Depending on how good business is, he tries to pay himself an after-tax salary of $500 to $750 a week to support his family of five children.
But three times so far this year, he's forgone his biweekly paycheck to keep the practice out of the red. Last year, he cut his office staff from seven to four people. "We [primary-care physicians] are the ones keeping this Medicaid system together, but we're the ones getting killed," he said.
My thoughts. A) He went to med school, he could make a killing but to actually forgo the wealth is unusual. plus, he left a salaried position (a.k.a, decent paycheck every week) to run his own clinic in Benton Harbor. also, in reference to the quote, "I'm a spiritual man, not a business man," can one be both? This follows some thoughts with "the princess goes to Hollywood" post: can Christians live in Bel-Air?
B) $500 to $750/week to support a family of five! I can hardly believe that. let me state the obvious: most doctors don't think that way. Medicaid doctors should be salaried by the government, funded by taxes, the same as public school teachers since they're doing a service to society.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Tom Wright: The Holy Spirit in the Church
The Holy Spirit in the Church
"And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord, and in the Spirit which he sends. The earliest Christians spoke of God and Jesus in the same breath - and, of course, the word 'breath' is pneuma, the same word as 'Spirit' - and, so to speak, on the same side of the equation. Paul wrote that if you want to know who the real God is, as opposed to the non-gods of paganism, you must think in terms of the God who, to fulfil his age-old plan to rescue the world, sent first his Son and then the Spirit of his Son (Galatians 4.4-7). You either have the Trinity or you slide back into paganism."
"And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord, and in the Spirit which he sends. The earliest Christians spoke of God and Jesus in the same breath - and, of course, the word 'breath' is pneuma, the same word as 'Spirit' - and, so to speak, on the same side of the equation. Paul wrote that if you want to know who the real God is, as opposed to the non-gods of paganism, you must think in terms of the God who, to fulfil his age-old plan to rescue the world, sent first his Son and then the Spirit of his Son (Galatians 4.4-7). You either have the Trinity or you slide back into paganism."
Sunday, July 12, 2009
quote from Nicholas Wolterstorff
This is from the book that he wrote ("Lament for a Son") after his son, Eric, passed away tragically in an accident.
"With every fiber of my being I long to talk to Eric again. When I mentioned this to someone, she asked what I would say. I don't know. Maybe I would just blurt out something silly. That would be good enough for a beginning. We could take it from there. Every day I wonder, and some days I doubt, whether that talk will ever take place. But then comes that insistent voice: 'Remember, I made all this and raised my own son from the dead, so I can also...'
'I know, I know. But why don't you raise mine now? Why did you ever let him die? If creation took just six days, why does re-creation take so agonizingly long? If your conquest of primeval chaos went so quickly, why must your conquest of sin and death and suffering be so achingly slow?'
When I say my first words to Eric, then God's reign will be here."
"With every fiber of my being I long to talk to Eric again. When I mentioned this to someone, she asked what I would say. I don't know. Maybe I would just blurt out something silly. That would be good enough for a beginning. We could take it from there. Every day I wonder, and some days I doubt, whether that talk will ever take place. But then comes that insistent voice: 'Remember, I made all this and raised my own son from the dead, so I can also...'
'I know, I know. But why don't you raise mine now? Why did you ever let him die? If creation took just six days, why does re-creation take so agonizingly long? If your conquest of primeval chaos went so quickly, why must your conquest of sin and death and suffering be so achingly slow?'
When I say my first words to Eric, then God's reign will be here."
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
letters from the edge
I can not believe my life lately. Namely, lack of competent medical personnel, in the region (mid-nowhere) that I moved to 8 months ago. I *finally* have my foot diagnosed. Interphalangeal sesamoidins (hallux). I've not had to have surgery before, and I hope I don't have to now. First I am getting new orthotics. If it comes down to surgery, then I guess I will have to have surgery though.
First step is *prayer* Second step is *prayer* Third step is *prayer*...no, seriously, I attend a church now that is totally into healing.
First step is *prayer* Second step is *prayer* Third step is *prayer*...no, seriously, I attend a church now that is totally into healing.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
a one-Starbucks town
just kidding. So, I started going to a new church in mid-nowhere, as of last Sunday, I love it though. (picture from below post is from hanging out at Starbucks, last night--a one Starbucks town, too, I might add)
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
flotrack
*sometimes* I get homesick for the midwest. this is not the school I went to, but it's not far from here. Jorge Torres is one of Illinois great runners, close to when I was in high school.
prayer
meaning, I think I need some: I have to teach (intro to ) Stoichiometry tomorrow a.m. to make matters worse, the principal is going to observe...oh dear lord..
all of chemistry was just a warm up to this point...now we'll see how much chemistry they actually know, LOL!
all of chemistry was just a warm up to this point...now we'll see how much chemistry they actually know, LOL!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
controversial comment on farm workers
"They're not even American citizens for starters. Do you think we should employ illegal aliens? What parent raises their child to be a farm worker? These kids are the least educated people in America or the southwest corner of this Valley. They turn to lives of crime. They go on welfare. They get into drug trafficking and they join gangs," Lloyd Carter said
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
new soul & I'm making every possible mistake...
I'm at home sick today. Luckily, I'm not *on my deathbed* kind of illness. Instead, I just had some illness in my throat, which was horrible.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
"The current economic strategy is right out of "Atlas Shrugged": The more incompetent you are in business, the more handouts the politicians will bestow on you. That's the justification for the $2 trillion of subsidies doled out already to keep afloat distressed insurance companies, banks, Wall Street investment houses, and auto companies -- while standing next in line for their share of the booty are real-estate developers, the steel industry, chemical companies, airlines, ethanol producers, construction firms and even catfish farmers. With each successive bailout to "calm the markets," another trillion of national wealth is subsequently lost. Yet, as "Atlas" grimly foretold, we now treat the incompetent who wreck their companies as victims, while those resourceful business owners who manage to make a profit are portrayed as recipients of illegitimate "windfalls."
from 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
from 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
egos in the room?
First reunion of all living U.S. Presidents since 1981 from MSN
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"I will tell you what a tragedy is, I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader’s Digest: A couple took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. … Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: ‘Look, Lord. See my shells.’ That is a tragedy.” - John Piper
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