“Action: Ask God to bless your enemies, people you’re envious of people you’re angry with, people you’re concerned about, people you love. Use their names when you say the blessing. Ask God to bless each person’s health, finances, all areas of his or her hie. Ask God to pour down blessings on that person. Say it until you mean it, until you feel the blessing in your heart. If you’re praying for someone you resent, say the blessing each time that person’s name pops into your mind. Whenever a friend or a loved one comes to mind, say a special blessing far that person too. In your prayer time, take a moment to ask God to bless you. Whenever you start a project, your day at work, a meeting, or even a night of fun with friends, you can say a silent little prayer asking God to bless that too. Ask God to bless the people you’re giving to and serving. While you’re at it, ask God to bless our country and the world.” via May 5.
The Truth About Your Eggs
One of the supreme joys of living in rural Wisconsin is eating warm eggs that have been laid minutes before by your own chickens. Reading this I’m even more grateful…
“Eggs are quite possibly the world’s perfect protein source. The six grams of protein in each egg has the highest biological value—a measure of how well it supports your body’s protein needs—of any food, including beef. The yolks contain vitamin B12, deficiencies of which can cause attention, mood, and thinking problems.
Depending on where you’re getting your eggs, though, you could be getting a lot more of stuff you don’t want. First you’ll get some arsenic, added to feed to promote growth in hens but linked to various forms of cancer in people, and an extra dose of antibiotics, also used to promote growth but linked to antibiotic resistance and even obesity in people. Then add a heaping helping of salmonella. A 2010 study published in the journal Veterinary Record found that the eggs from hens confined to cages, as they often are in factory farms, had 7.77-times greater odds of harboring salmonella bacteria than eggs from non-caged hens.
You wouldn’t know that based on what’s starting to appear on egg cartons. Labels like “natural” and “cage-free” make eggs seem like they came from down on the farm, from chickens living happy lives and eating bugs. But that’s not always the case. If all you want is healthy protein, it’s time to start scrutinizing egg cartons. Following are nine of the most common egg-carton claims and what they mean for your health.” Go to the source to learn more: free range eggs | The Truth About Your Eggs | Rodale News.
…on Control
Melody Beattie has a good reminder I needed to hear this morning…
“Control is an illusion, especially the kind of control we’ve been trying to exert. In fact, controlling gives other people, events, and diseases, such as alcoholism, control over us. Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life. I have given this control to many things and people in my life. I have never gotten the results I wanted from controlling or trying to control people. What I received for my efforts is an unmanageable life, whether that unmanageability was inside me or in external events. In recovery, we make a trade-off. We trade a life that we have tried to control, and we receive in return something better—a life that is manageable. Today, I will exchange a controlled life for one that is manageable.
Beattie, Melody (2009-12-15). The Language of Letting Go (Hazelden Meditation Series) (pp. 125-126). Hazelden. Kindle Edition.”
I need you to turn to
And I wonder sometimes and I know I’m unkind
But I need you to turn to when I act so blind
And I need you to turn to when I lose control
You’re my guardian angel who keeps out the cold…
Thanks. I’m taking my own inventory this morning and this is really helpful…
A informational chart about how to make one of my favourite things… Coffee. via A informational chart about how to make one of my favourite….
Cartoon of the day. For more: http://nyr.kr/JWOmj9 via Cartoon of the day. For more: http://nyr.kr/JWOmj9.
Business Pundit via Which College Degrees Lead To Higher Unemployment [infographic].
How could I NOT reblog this? Happy Friday, David…
Thought provoking…
In 1985, when Bruce Springsteen wrote “We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school,” he was talking about the lure of whatever might be waiting outside every classroom around the world. That youthful feeling of the world passing you by — the things you were missing as you sat in a classroom day after day — is an age-old challenge for educators. It’s one that’s about to be subjected to an even greater assault as the digital generation moves deeper into education.
The Internet was the first volley on the way a generation learned. Students no longer had to trudge to the library to research a topic. The encyclopedias of our parents’ generation were tossed into recycling bins, and a combination of Google (s goog) and Wikipedia was all students needed to complete even the most ambitious assignments. Even with all their merit — the…
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Gene Vincent records “Be-Bop-A-Lula”; This Day in History
“When a music critic wants to indicate that a song lacks lyrical sophistication, he or she will often refer to its lyrics as being of the “moon in June” sort. It’s a label left over from the Tin Pan Alley era, when even great composers like Irving Berlin churned out a hundred uninspired Moon/June tunes for every highly original classic like “Blues Skies” or “Puttin’ On The Ritz.” If rock and roll has an equivalent in the area of clichéd lyrics, it is probably “Baby” and “Maybe”—a rhyming pair made most famous in the smoldering early-rock classic “Be-Bop-A-Lula,” which was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, by the rockabilly legend Gene Vincent on this day in 1956.” via Gene Vincent records “Be-Bop-A-Lula” — History.com This Day in History — 5/4/1956.
How to Live Your Dream When You’re Scared to Death
“There is a tragedy in our world today. Most people aren’t living their dreams, and the reason is simple: fear. They’re scared to be who they are.
When you endeavor to find your life’s work, there is a lot at risk:
- You could fail.
- You could lose the respect of your friends.
- You could go broke.
You could mess up in a hundred different ways. But—and this is important—you could also succeed. And until you start living into your calling, you’re robbing the world of a gift.” Go to the source: How to Live Your Dream When You’re Scared to Death | Michael Hyatt.
…on Discovering Your Own Worth
“You alone are the judge of your worth, and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.” ~ Deepak Chopra via Today’s Quotes: Deepak Chopra Discover Your Own Worth!.
…on Fear
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.” ~ Napoleon Hill via Today’s Quotes: Deepak Chopra Discover Your Own Worth!.
Sometimes We Need to Go Backward Before We Can Move Forward
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” ~ Albert Einstein via Sometimes We Need to Go Backward Before We Can Move Forward | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In.
Don’t Give Up…
…has been one of my favorite love song duets since 1986 when the album first came out. I love the ‘dialogue’ between the two lovers. Here are both versions…
Which one do you like better? I think I’m partial to the first…
Another stunning photo from Pops Digital via Embrace of the Sun.
Did you know…
…that otters hold hands while they are sleeping so they don’t drift apart from one another? Neither did I. Otters holding hands – YouTube.
Bright, shiny objects! 
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