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My daughter and I had a wonderful weekend getaway last weekend. My wife is out of the country right now, so she missed out.
Mountains. A little ice and snow. Peace and quiet. My daughter worked on homework and Facebook (unfortunately we did have Wi-Fi access). I watched the NFL playoffs and finished my book on my conversion. And we just enjoyed being together. Great stuff. Very renewing time away.
We need that. Time off, time away. Two new studies show that. One study is the first to PROVE that stress does cause heart attacks and shorter lives. Better find a way to reduce stress and keep it at manageable levels. Time off does that.
A second study shows that LoverBoy got it right. We really are working for the weekend. A new study (U of Rochester) shows we feel better on Friday than we do on any other weekday. We then feel terrific on Saturday. By Sunday afternoon, we’re sliding down into a malaise. And the study showed the same “weekend effect” for everyone regardless of age, or how much they earned. You are in the best mood, have the most energy, and the least aches and pains on Friday and Saturday. And Wednesdays are just like all the rest - no such thing as hump day. Weird, huh?
So here is the important question. How do you multiply Friday and Saturday into other days of your week?
Three ideas:
1) Discover and embrace your life's purpose. When you know your reason for being, you can begin to include it in all of your days throughout the week whether you like your job or not.
2) Seek a job that helps you fulfill that purpose. It will still be work but it will be meaningful work.
3) Serve another person in a significant way on Mondays and Wednesdays. This will add meaning and power to other parts of your week.
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2 Idol favorites: Andrew Garcia and Siobhan Magnus And yes I know, this is the last year of Idol. Once Simon is gone, it is ovaaahhh.
This Spring time change thing is killing me. Must be the combination of old age and change!
March Madness has begun. No UNC, UCLA, or UCONN. How weird is that? Who wins? Kentucky.
Lost my cell phone overnight, then my home phone got hit by lightning this morning. God has given me a nice gift today. Silence is golden.
Does anyone besides me not really care whether Wal-Mart charges less for black Barbies than for white ones?
Have you watched The Middle? I love that show. Best thing on TV now. Gotta love Brick.
Spring is better than winter. In fact, it is superior in every way. God bless Spring.
One month of this "weekend" thing. And I think I like it. A lot. Evidently, most people have known about thi... http://tinyurl.com/y9nyt7t
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The Allen Hunt Show is about faith and life, plain and simple. According to a Gallup Poll in May of 2005, 85% of Americans consider their faith important or fairly important to their lives. Yet there is a gap on the talk radio airwaves that examines where faith and life come together. This show fills that gap like nothing currently on the radio. This is not one more political talk show, nor is it another faith-based counseling show because ultimately, life is not about what is right or left, but about what is right and wrong. The Allen Hunt Show takes on real life issues, with real life people, to see how faith can have a real impact. Join us on Saturdays from 9-12 PM and Sundays from 6-9 PM. Blessings!
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Adopt a two day workweek... :)
I agree with you on the importance of taking time off. In America people work way too much. Western Europe has struck a much better balance between work and leisure (nowhere near the two day workweek though; that'd be a bit too much of a good thing).
One of my pet peeves is theists like you ascribing all good things to God, even if things are demonstrably the product of human ingenuity and inventiveness while not blaming God for anything (such as hitting one of the poorest nations on Earth with a devastating series of earthquakes)
Naturalistic worldview is so much more honest and consistent. Gatorade is seen as it really is - as a product originally developed at the University of Florida (hence Gatorade, not Jesusade). We in the reality based community also see earthquakes for what they really are - natural events without a teleological basis.
I think you view earthquakes and other natural disasters the same way but that view is inconsistent with a belief in a deity such as the Bible describes (see Matthew 10:28-29:
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
If not even a sparrow can fall from the sky apart from God's will, how is God not to blame for earthquakes?
Simply astonishing.