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Friday and welcome to the clubhouse here on this
January 28, 2011. What club am I talking about? The Centers for Disease Control just announced their recent statistics regarding diabetes in our country. Some 26 million of us are full fledged members of the club with an astounding 79 million more who are very close to crossing over the threshold. The US population clock puts us at around 312 million. You add up us club members and those borderline folks and you end up with nearly one third of our citizenry exposed. No wonder it is being called an epidemic. We all are aware of how sad it is for our younger ones to deal with this disease, especially Type 1. The good news is how that less than 225,000 who are twenty years old and younger are having to deal with it each day. I will confess that while I do work on mine, it is an ever present challenge. Reading all the things that are more likely to happen to folks with diabetes is a very sobering experience. More strokes, higher rates of kidney damage, blindness, and many other ailments have much higher occurences in diabetics. No. It's not a pretty picture but the good news is that each club member can do something about it. My grandfather was a very disciplined person. We used to have a number of folks in our family at any given time who were chasing some type of new diet program. He always advised that the best way was the most simple way, push away from the table. I can imagine him telling me that since I know what's best in order to manage my disease and get it under control: Then why not just do it? I would likely tell him I didn't intend not to do the right things to which he would ask: What did you intend to do? He had a very simple and straight forward way with words and I feel privileged to have been able to have been his student.
Facebook
friending is a big deal. This is where a Facebook user requests someone to make them their friend and when they do they become connected and share each others postings. This past week two cousins up in New York became embroiled in a fight over a fellow they both liked. It seems the fellow added one cousin as a friend on Facebook but did not add the other. The girls were at a party and began to argue about this guy. They carried it outside where they scuffled. Finally, one of the cousins climbed in her mini van and ran down the other cousin, hitting her twice and causing serious bodily harm. Very sad. Most of us are aware there's even been some suicides prompted by a Facebook posting that embarrassed and humiliated the one who took their own life. This shows the inherent power in instant communications and also the danger. I saw a Facebook page the other day of a distant in-law who had plastered for all to see both the name of the place where he worked along with how much he hated it. He may be banking on his employer never seeing that posting but how absolutely foolish it is to advertise something like that. It does serve as a reminder that we all have to think seriously about how we conduct ourselves in the electronic age. I've heard far too many folks who say they were messing around and accidentally hit the send button. Too late to do anything because once it's gone, it will arrive at its destination almost instantaneously. Kind of scary if you ask me but it is good to know both the positive potential of being able to share and stay in touch, as well as the potential heartache from the careless use of such a powerful tool.
We are pretty gullible, don't you agree? We are told there are billions of stars and we believe it but we will not accept that the paint really is wet without touching it to see. And, we do have questions. How did the fool and his money ever get together to begin with? I wonder how the deer learned to cross at the place of that yellow sign? If Jimmy really does crack corn and no one cares, why then is there a stupid song about him? If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? If pro and con are opposites, wouldn't the opposite of progress be congress? (Sorry, but I couldn't resist.) If a kid refused to take a nap during nap time, would it be a case of resisting a rest? If laughter is truly the best medicine, why do people often say they nearly died laughing? If one is cheated by the Better Business Bureau, who do they complain to? Finally, if a parsley farmer is sued and he loses, can they garnish his wages? I know. I know. They are all pretty lame but perhaps just one of them caused a slight upward turn of your lips on their way to a smile. If so, that's a good thing as we anticipate our Saturday and upcoming Lord's Day Sunday. If you aren't a part of a local fellowship who meet each week to worship God and learn more about His truths, you need to seek one out, and try it because doing so will help to make sense out of the questions we deal with every day. Until next time, I do pray that God will take a liking to you and yours.
Amen. ..... More later.
Facebook friending is a big deal. This is where a Facebook user requests someone to make them their friend and when they do they become connected and share each others postings. This past week two cousins up in New York became embroiled in a fight over a fellow they both liked. It seems the fellow added one cousin as a friend on Facebook but did not add the other. The girls were at a party and began to argue about this guy. They carried it outside where they scuffled. Finally, one of the cousins climbed in her mini van and ran down the other cousin, hitting her twice and causing serious bodily harm. Very sad. Most of us are aware there's even been some suicides prompted by a Facebook posting that embarrassed and humiliated the one who took their own life. This shows the inherent power in instant communications and also the danger. I saw a Facebook page the other day of a distant in-law who had plastered for all to see both the name of the place where he worked along with how much he hated it. He may be banking on his employer never seeing that posting but how absolutely foolish it is to advertise something like that. It does serve as a reminder that we all have to think seriously about how we conduct ourselves in the electronic age. I've heard far too many folks who say they were messing around and accidentally hit the send button. Too late to do anything because once it's gone, it will arrive at its destination almost instantaneously. Kind of scary if you ask me but it is good to know both the positive potential of being able to share and stay in touch, as well as the potential heartache from the careless use of such a powerful tool.
We are pretty gullible, don't you agree? We are told there are billions of stars and we believe it but we will not accept that the paint really is wet without touching it to see. And, we do have questions. How did the fool and his money ever get together to begin with? I wonder how the deer learned to cross at the place of that yellow sign? If Jimmy really does crack corn and no one cares, why then is there a stupid song about him? If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? If pro and con are opposites, wouldn't the opposite of progress be congress? (Sorry, but I couldn't resist.) If a kid refused to take a nap during nap time, would it be a case of resisting a rest? If laughter is truly the best medicine, why do people often say they nearly died laughing? If one is cheated by the Better Business Bureau, who do they complain to? Finally, if a parsley farmer is sued and he loses, can they garnish his wages? I know. I know. They are all pretty lame but perhaps just one of them caused a slight upward turn of your lips on their way to a smile. If so, that's a good thing as we anticipate our Saturday and upcoming Lord's Day Sunday. If you aren't a part of a local fellowship who meet each week to worship God and learn more about His truths, you need to seek one out, and try it because doing so will help to make sense out of the questions we deal with every day. Until next time, I do pray that God will take a liking to you and yours. Amen. ..... More later.
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