Hiccups
I have had the hiccups for about thirty days now and needless to say I am tired of having them.
The thing about hiccups is that there is little I can do to remedy the situation other than follow some wife's tales which generally involve me choked on water or consuming large amounts of peanut butter. Neither of options are really helpful to help with the hiccups that interrupt life.
Perhaps you too have had the hiccups for an extended period of time? Perhaps you too have felt like there are a number of things that are going on that keep you from breathing as you normally do.
The thing about hiccups is that there is little I can do to remedy the situation other than follow some wife's tales which generally involve me choked on water or consuming large amounts of peanut butter. Neither of options are really helpful to help with the hiccups that interrupt life.
Hiccups keep me from writing. When I am not writing then I get distracted. When I am distracted I feel stressed. When I am stressed my chest is restricted and when that happens I get the hiccups.
All I can do it wait and hope for the breath to come again to restore the rhythm I so desperately seek after.
UPDATE* - I received a number of comments about actually having the chest spasms we call the hiccups. Just to be a bit clear, I never had these hiccups. I was too coy with my metaphor I suppose and it lead to believing that I have been plagued with a month worths of spasms. I am talking about feeling like distractions and interruptions are a regular thing the past month and I am ready for this phase to pass.
To those who gave me a good word on my medical condition, thank you. I know in the future I will be well taken care of in the event of chronic chest spams.
UPDATE* - I received a number of comments about actually having the chest spasms we call the hiccups. Just to be a bit clear, I never had these hiccups. I was too coy with my metaphor I suppose and it lead to believing that I have been plagued with a month worths of spasms. I am talking about feeling like distractions and interruptions are a regular thing the past month and I am ready for this phase to pass.
To those who gave me a good word on my medical condition, thank you. I know in the future I will be well taken care of in the event of chronic chest spams.
All cooks are hypocrites!
I have heard it time and time again that many people do not like Christians because they are all hypocrites. Christians say one thing (love all people) but then do another (picket funerals). Christians say they forgive people but then they go ahead and hold grudges forever. So many people have decided that they give up being Christian because of this hypocritical behavior that is observed in a select few.
Whelp if that is the case then you might just want to give up cooking.
This little gem of a business will offer you dirty dishes alongside the food you ordered for authenticity sake.
That is right. For those of us who want the joy of cooking without actually cooking but still ensuring others believe you cook - you too can have dirty dishes delivered to your home to give the impression that you slaved over the meal.
The thing is, no one is going to look at this and say, "well, I know that some people will say they cook but actually don't therefor I will give up cooking because all cooks are hypocrites." This is silly.
Christians are not hypocritical - human beings are hypocritical. It just turns out that all Christians are human.
Whelp if that is the case then you might just want to give up cooking.
This little gem of a business will offer you dirty dishes alongside the food you ordered for authenticity sake.
That is right. For those of us who want the joy of cooking without actually cooking but still ensuring others believe you cook - you too can have dirty dishes delivered to your home to give the impression that you slaved over the meal.
The thing is, no one is going to look at this and say, "well, I know that some people will say they cook but actually don't therefor I will give up cooking because all cooks are hypocrites." This is silly.
Christians are not hypocritical - human beings are hypocritical. It just turns out that all Christians are human.
I love change! (As long as it is not happening to me.)
It is one of those things that as life goes on change happens. People get married, jobs change, people get older, graduations, births, anniversaries, going back to school; change happens because that is life. An odd thing about change is how much we all live with it everyday but many people are insistent that they do not like change. This just is a crazy thought. People like change otherwise there would be no growth in life.
There is that story that is told every year in the UMC about this time. There was a minister who asked a congregation who was in numeric decline, "how may of you love your grandchildren?" Every hand went up. "How many of you would give your money to ensure your grandchildren did could have what they needed." Again, hands raised. "How many of you would sacrifice everything you had for the sake of your children's life?" Hands up. Finally the minister asked, "How many of you would be willing to have different music in worship to ensure your grandchildren felt free to worship here on a Sunday morning?"
One hand went up...
So let us be honest with ourselves, we all love change, as long as it is happening to someone else.
This stands in direct conflict with the Gospel which says we are to die to ourselves, we are to be transformed and resurrected, we are to change so that it is not our will but God's will that be done on earth as it is in heaven. Again, Christianity is not about beliefs it is about living a way that being in this world that builds trust and that can only happen if we ourselves are willing to change.
One hand went up...
So let us be honest with ourselves, we all love change, as long as it is happening to someone else.
This stands in direct conflict with the Gospel which says we are to die to ourselves, we are to be transformed and resurrected, we are to change so that it is not our will but God's will that be done on earth as it is in heaven. Again, Christianity is not about beliefs it is about living a way that being in this world that builds trust and that can only happen if we ourselves are willing to change.
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