“Has everyone picked a moving buddy?
You guys think this is a big joke.
We’ve only got one week left before the move. I don’t want any toys left behind.
A moving buddy. If you don’t have one, get one.”
— Woody from Toy Story
I recently visited the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to view the “Disney100:…
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad. – Proverbs 12:25
Many things, especially in these days, makes it easy to be anxious. We each may have an anxiety trigger that weighs us down. For me, just the thought of going to the dentist is anxiety producing, let alone actually sitting in the dentist chair. The other day I slugged my way, with a stooped, weighed down posture, into my dentist’s office…
About a year ago, I reluctantly began reading the Bible in “chunks”. My former pastor in MS started assigning portions of Scripture to the congregation. Each week a few chapters would be listed or announced with the goal of reading the same book or section of the Bible every day that week. The ultimate goal of course was to see something “new” in the passage through the repeated readings.
My friend who is a member there started “chunk reading”. She loved it. I pretended…
It’s called “Hitting the Wall” and it is a well-known and much dreaded phenomenon among athletes – the professional elite and amateur runners – especially in long distance races. Hitting the wall typically happens around mile 18. A simple definition would be: when a runner runs out of energy.
One famous marathoner put it this way, “It felt like an elephant had jumped out of a tree onto my shoulders and was making me carry it…