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Stress, Part IV

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Here are a few ways you can handle stress: 1. Meditate – just 10 or 20 minutes of quiet reflection may bring relief from chronic stress as well as increase your tolerance to it. Use the time to listen to music (check out God’s ipod on iTunes), read a devotion or Scripture, pray, etc. 2. Take one thing at a time – for people under stress, an ordinary work load can sometimes be unbearable. The best way to cope with this feeling of being overwhelmed is to take one taskRead More...

Lessons from My Refrigerator

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:00:00 +0100

I bought a new Amana refrigerator and to my horror when I went to get a glass of water out of it…it was room temperature. I called the manufacturer and after two different visits from the Amana repair guy it was determined that the water is not supposed to be chilled.

Let me ask you…why do I need to get water out of my fridge if it is not chilled? I can just throw a filter on my faucet and have nice-clean-warm water from there if that is all I want in liRead More...

Lessons From My Ridiculous Lawn

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

During the summer, I travel a lot. As in, I have been home exactly 11 days in the last 2 months. And since it’s been 105 degrees most days, and I am not blessed to have a sprinkler system, you might naturally think, like I did, that my lawn would die, and I would not have to mow every time I am home during those precious 11 days of home time. But no, it seems to grow MORE when I am gone. And not only that – while the lawn grows, the plants in the flowerbeds diRead More...

A Lesson on Aisle 14

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

I went grocery shopping with my oldest daughter the other day. We went to a popular grocery chain in the dfw area. There were an interesting couple that were shopping at thRead More...

Deep Thoughts from Uncle Andy

Andrew.Manthei@bnsf.com — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Hi. I'm Andy, and I help lead the Men's Ministry here at Light of the World. Chances are, you've seen me running around on Sunday morning...probably trying to recruit some guys for our Tuesday Morning Bible Study. If you see me on Sunday, feel free to come up and say hi. In the mean time, enjoy a few random thoughts from a random guy. I'll probably have several of these over the next few weeks...enjoy!

Non-Deep Thought from Uncle Andy: For thoRead More...

Angels and Demons

Wed, 20 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

On Sunday, a middle school youth named Brandi asked me if I thought she was mature enough to read Angels and Demons, the Dan Brown book that is the basis for the controversial new sequel to The Da Vinci Code movie, starring Tom Hanks. My first thought was “Is anyone mature enough to read that?” But then, I’ve read it, and I actually enjoyed it a lot-just like I enjoyed the Da Vinci Code. Between the media interviews and the blogs surrounding the release of the movie, everyonRead More...