Food

I'm hypoglycemic. It basically means that my body has some difficulty regulating the amount of sugar in my bloodstream. It's annoying.

If it's been too long since nourishment entered my mouth, I start to develop a progressive series of symptoms. My head becomes a little fuzzy and ache-y, I feel weak, I lose precise motor control, my thinking is slow and foggy, my insides feel like inside-outsides. I even completely lost my vision once. And ironically, at these times when I most need food, my appetite for it is GONE. Food makes me want to gag and throw up, but I have to force myself to eat because it's the only way to get healthy again.

"People can't survive on food alone; they need every word that God speaks." Deuteronomy 8:3 // Matthew 4:4

the love that matters

"The love that matters is His for you - yours for Him may presently exist only in the form of obedience. He will see to the rest." 


Letters of C.S. Lewis, p357.

Who is this?

by Mark.

That day when evening came,

He said to His disciples, 

"Let us go over to the other side."

Leaving the crowd behind,

the took Him along, just as He was,

in the boat.

There were also other boats

with Him.

A

 furious squall

 came up, 

and 

the waves broke

 over the boat, 

so that it was nearly 

swamped

.

Jesus was in the stern, sleeping

on a cushion. 

The disciples woke Him 

and said to Him, "Teacher,

don't you care

 if we drown

?

"

He got up, rebuked the wind and said

to the waves, "

Quiet! Be still!

"

Then the wind died down 

and it was completely calm

.

He said to His disciples,

"Why are you so afraid?

Do you still have no faith?"

They were terrified and asked each other,

"

Who is this?

Even the wind and the waves

obey Him!"

[mark 4:35-41]

Do you know who this is?

It is Jesus, King of Wind and Wave--

Jesus, King of Earth and Sea,

Jesus, Son of God, Son of Man,

Jesus, loving Friend of Sinners...

buh nuh.

“buh nuh. buh nUH. bUH NUH. BUH NUH. BUHNUH! REE REE REE REE!!!!!”

—Husband, in an IM message. I read it and look up to see him crawling across the floor from the other room with a mischievous grin on his face. I throw my head back and laugh. Next thing I know, he’s advanced to my chair and has his arms around me making menacing kissing sounds at my face. I laugh more.

It was a good moment.