For those of you who are required to work on Sunday, but would prefer not to work, the following story from Fox News may interest you. A woman living in Savannah, MO who attended the Lutheran Church was terminated for refusal to work on Sunday. A federal court held that she was a victim of religious discrimination. She got her old job back.
Have those of you who like to serve God ever thought about brain functioning as an important issue in your service?
Brain health is becoming a topic discussed more and more these days. The general research on sleep relative to brain health suggests that most adults need eight (8) hours of sleep a night, teenagers nine (9), and children ten (10) hours. Hogwash you say.... We all know people who survive on five or six hours a night and seem to do just fine! Well, Friar Tuck!!!! Let me tell you about your five hours.....
True...some people seem to get along on five or six hours sleep without damage. But for most of us this is not true. For most of us, when we sleep less than needed, we are 'stealing' from our self. We are stealing healthy brain functioning, memory capacity, longevity of life. Of course, when a person is younger, there is usually plenty of extra so that the theft is not readily apparent. But as you become older, the theft (though still likely not thought of as an issue) becomes a factor in your capacity for church service. AND...your ability to do anything else in your life.
Sleep less now and cut short the time you have to serve; OR sleep adequately now and lengthen the time you have to serve. It is your choice.
And, by the way, you with teenagers who like to sleep in on the week end. Probably you should let them do it. They probably need to catch up on their sleep from what a teenager tends to miss during the week.
We spend too much time in this life on temporal things or "stuff" we want to have. There are really only three things of any importance and the only things we can take with us when we leave this life.
1. Developing appropriate and lasting love and friendship and relationship with those around us.
2. Learning as much as we can whether it is temporal or spiritual.
3. Developing our faith in and coming to know the Savior Jesus Christ. Learning and following His commandments so that we can have the greatest possible happiness in this life and in the next.
Where are you in these three?
The theory of the evolution of the earth's crust is under scrutinity. "Experts describe the hole along the mid-Atlantic ridge as an "open wound" on the ocean floor that has puzzled scientists for the five or so years that its existence has been known because it defies existing tectonic plate theories of evolution" says the Yahoo! news article.
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