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Three Rangers locks for U.S. Olympic team

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It sure seems come February, the Rangers will be sending three players to Russia to represent the United States in the Olympics.

David Poile is the general manager of the U.S. team, as well as the general manager of the Predators, and made it clear Saturday morning at Bridgestone Arena that Ryan Callahan, Ryan McDonagh and Derek Stepan were all pretty well locked into spots on the team.

Even though Poile had previously said he thinks the team will look very similar to one that won a silver medal in Vancouver in 2010 — a team that only Callahan was on — there are still spots available.

“All those guys that played there in 2010 certainly have their foot in the door,” Poile said. “They deserve the opportunity to come back.

It’s not going to be everyone, but it’s going to be most of the guys that played in 2010, for sure.”

Callahan is a given, as Poile said the Rochester native became part of a five-player leadership group established earlier this year.

McDonagh, from St. Paul, Minn., has smade his case over the past couple seasons, and Poile wasn’t coy about the defenseman’s prospects.

“He has played really, really well,” Poile said, “and I’m very confident that he has an excellent chance of being on the team.”

Stepan, from Hastings, Minn., also fills a need for the team up the middle.

“I see he’s second in scoring on the Rangers and that’s a component we’re going to need,” Poile said. “Center ice is a critical area for us. We have really good centermen, but we’re not really, really deep at center. So I’m trying to say it the right way, but we’d really like Derek to be on the team.”

There have been some rumblings about Chris Kreider possibly getting a look, but it seems Poile thinks the 22-year-old still has a way to go.

“A little bit of a late addition to our evaluations, but he’s playing really well right now,” Poile said. “Under the circumstances, we’re not going to make any decisions until we have to.”

The team roster has to be set by Jan. 1, and the Olympic break spans from Feb. 8-25.

Defenseman Marc Staal took the morning skate and deemed his bruised right ankle to be good enough to play after missing Friday’s practice.

Michael Del Zotto stayed in on defense, while Justin Falk and J.T.

Miller remained the healthy scratches.


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Cop charged for slapping prankster in bunny costume

He wasn’t hoppy about the air horn.

A New Jersey cop was charged with assault for slapping a prankster clad in a bunny costume who refused to stop blowing an air horn inside a police station.

Hopatcong police Officer Nicholas Maresca Jr. was charged Friday with one count of simple assault for slapping Kevin Hemmerich, who was turning himself in on an outstanding warrant, on Nov. 17.

A video of the incident shows Hemmerich wearing a grey bunny suit as he repeatedly blows the air horn, ignoring officers’ requests for him to stop. At one point, Maresca can be seen angrily approaching him.

The man’s brother, Jason Hemmerich, claims two cops cursed at them, then Maresca smacked Kevin in the face. He told NJ Advance Media they were playing a prank on the cops.

Maresca’s lawyer Anthony Iacullo said his client did nothing wrong.

“Officer Maresca acted appropriately and in accordance with his training and experience as a police officer on that evening in Hopatcong,” Iacullo said. “We are confident that when this matter proceeds to trial Officer Maresca will be vindicated of the one charge against him.”

Maresca has been placed on administrative duty, according to prosecutors.

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Christian Hackenberg making noise in Jets QB ‘kindergarten’

If the Jets truly are trying to get better by getting younger, exactly how does soon-to-be 38-year-old quarterback Josh McCown fit into that plan?

“Even when you go to kindergarten, somebody’s got to be the teacher,” coach Todd Bowles said at Tuesday’s minicamp. “You’re not going to have everyone young. You’re going to have the majority of the team young. You’re going to have some guys that have played some years.

“It’s not going to be a total washout like all freshmen coming into college, but the majority of them are younger. … It’s a fine line between choosing old and young, and picking which guys to, or not to, get rid of.”

Though the Jets shed several of their biggest stars this offseason, McCown signed a one-year, $6 million deal in March, joining his eighth team since entering the league in 2002.

Even with McCown’s edge in experience, Bowles said the veteran doesn’t have a lead over 22-year-old Christian Hackenberg and 26-year-old Bryce Petty in a wide-open quarterback competition.

Bowles sees a potential benefit to having a veteran starting at quarterback, with so much other uncertainty on the roster, but said he isn’t sure when he will be ready to name the starter.

“I have a point in my head, but they have to distinguish themselves as well,” Bowles said. “I can say Week 3 [of the preseason] and somebody might do it in Week 2, or you start to see it develop and you have a pretty good idea.

“Maybe after the third preseason game, but it could change.”

McCown, who has typically taken the first snaps during OTAs and will continue to do so during this week’s minicamp, appears to have a slight lead over his younger teammates, but Hackenberg may have earned more reps after having his best performance of the spring Tuesday, when the 2016 second-round pick completed 11-of-14 passes with one touchdown and one interception.

Bowles noted Hackenberg has “made some progress,” and the coach said he can make a fair assessment of the quarterback’s abilities before he sees his first regular-season action.

“The preseason games earn you the right to regular-season games — you don’t just stick him in — and you get a fair amount of evaluation in practice, and you have to combine all of that between the classroom, the learning, the camaraderie, the preseason, the production, how you do things, how you transfer things, how you relate things,” Bowles said. “You can [do your] evaluation that way, it doesn’t necessarily have to be in a regular-season game.

“As training camp gets going, each guy will probably get a little more [time] certain days, then you start to differentiate yourself as part of the things you do that earn you more playing time than the other guy.”


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10 Years of More Than I Deserve

Today Jaime and I celebrate our 10 Year Anniversary!  I can truly tell you that I have been blessed more than I deserve.  God has given me a wife whom I cherish so much.  We were best friends before we got married (which was a little weird!) and we are best friends to this day.  This morning I surprised her with with 10 roses and a homemade card that listed 10 Things I Love About Jaime.  I won't share them here, but let me tell you that as I wrote that list, my heart was filled with thanksgiving to God for the wife he gave to me.  Yes, like any other marriage, we've had our share of ups and downs, but through it all God has given us much grace and joy.  Thanks to all of you who have encouraged us and strengthened us in our 10 years of marriage together.

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Review – Pikmin 3

Rock Pikmin transcend the definition of adorable

After finishing Pikmin 2 back in 2004, I was left for a hunger for more Pikmin, but sadly, I had already cleared all of the content in the first Pikmin games. I waited eagerly for Pikmin 3 on the Wii, but I was only greeted with a remake of the first two, which implemented new controls, but nothing notably new. Years passed and there was no hope for a Pikmin, so I thought to myself, “Yknow what? Pikmin 1 and 2 were great. I’m content with the series.” And so Pikmin 3 fell of my radar…

…until the Wii U hit the scene. There it was in all of its glory; the long-awaited Pikmin 3. It only took 9 years, but it was finally here. Needless to say, I was fucking stoked. After picking up a free game coupon from the Mario Kart 8 promotional event, my poor ass finally got hold of Pikmin 3. So what do I think of such a long awaited sequel?

It’s fucking great. Like, every aspect of the Pikmin series was improved in every way. The game plays so naturally with any control scheme, it has great replay value, and I won’t hesitate to say that Pikmin 3 has some of the absolute best Wii U graphics. Fuck Mario Kart 8, which was great, and fuck Super Mario 3D World, which was also great. Pikmin 3’s graphics are unmatched by other Wii U games. On my 50 inch plasma, it’s just absolutely gorgeous. Like, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmf.

But anyways, the graphics and soundtracks have both gotten massive improvements, and the game mechanics just feel so polished. The need to march your Pikmin with the C stick isn’t needed anymore because the Pikmin AI’s pathing has improved tenfold. Flowered Pikmin are automatically prioritized over bulb and leaf Pikmin, meaning you’re throwing your best troops first for maximum damage. A new group of protagonists means you are allowed control of three captains as to Pikmin 2’s two captain systems, increasing multitasking opportunities. Managing three captains is easier thanks to the Wii U gamepad, which allows you to assign pilots to automatically do tasks in a given area while you work hands on in a different area. The new Pikmin are fun to use, and the boss fights are surprisingly challenging. I won’t spoil anything, but the last few bosses are no pushover, and you WILL spend a few in-game days working on the final puzzle/boss fight.

In all honesty, this game doesn’t have many downsides. In a very few instances you’ll experience a few frame drops, but those don’t occur during gameplay. One thing I will say is that the game uses a compromise of Pikmin 1 and 2’s calendar system. In Pikmin 1 you had 30 days to beat the game, and in Pikmin 2 you had no time limits. Pikmin 3 lets you beat the game at your own pace, but there IS a limit on how much fruit you can collect for your daily rations, which could be a good or bad thing depending on personal preferences.

Final score: A solid 8-9/10. If you have a Wii U, you should own Pikmin 3.

If you own a Wii U and you don’t have Pikmin 3, you’re honestly not doing yourself any favors. I’m trying to be fair about the game, but honestly it just delivers in so many ways. I’ll go ahead and say that Pikmin 3 was definitely worth waiting 9 years to get my hands on and I hate waiting on Hot Pockets. If you can play it in HD on a big ass TV, then by all means do it, but either way just give it a go; you won’t be disappointed if you’re a fan or someone looking to get into the series.

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Sheddding the pounds: Obesity Management, NICE Guidence, Bariatric Surgery in England

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Date of publication: September, 2010

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In a nutshell: This report details the results of an exercise undertaken by the Office of Health Economics (OHE) looking at trends in obesity, current provision of bariatric surgery in England with particular reference to the NICE clinical guideline for obesity, and potential economic benefits that could be achieved through adherence to the NICE guideline .

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Thursday, August 06, 2009

I love pharmacies. Let me into a nice pharmacy where painkillers and skin care products are neatly shelved and categorized and you’ll get a metaphor better yet than that kid in a candy store.

So today I went into a pharmacy with my friend Sarah, who shares my love for pharmacies, and as we were waiting in the line at the cash register, one of the workers at the pharmacies who was a girl probably in her twenties approached us. She asked us if wanted any help and we said that we were already done and waiting to pay. Then she started telling Sarah that they have a very good product for blackheads and make up removal. She took us to the lane were that product was and told us it was medical, not cosmetic. Sarah took it and went to the cash as I stayed there checking out other products. The pharmacist then came to me again and told me that they have a very good product for facial care and those black circles around the eyes, and she said it in a way that made me feel like I have oil fields around my eyes. I said I wasn’t sleeping enough but then I thought to myself that I was actually sleeping relatively well which is kind of freaked me out a little bit because I was wondering what could be causing those black circles! Anyway I told it her it was nice to know about it but I didn’t want to buy it just now.

So, after that we went to some clothes store and I was still thinking about those black circles so I went up to a mirror expecting to see something horrible, but to my relief there was nothing of the sort, I thought I was perfectly normal, el hamdu lellah! So I went to Sarah and told her that I was checking my face in the mirror because that lady freaked me out and she was like: DO I HAVE VERY VISIBLE BLACK HEADS? I took a good look at her face where blackheads usually appears, and I noticed that even though she was wearing some make up her face looked really clean of black heads!

Nonetheless, I’m still thinking of buying that black circles products, why? Because obviously the people who use these marketing strategies know what they’re doing and with whom they are dealing… it’s pathetic really

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Jazzy Bangle Bracelet - Set of 3 - Interlocking Design

$ 24.80

LOVELY set of 3 silver plated bracelets. UNIQUE INTERLOCKING BRACELET DESIGN. The gentle curve of each bangle bracelet is lightweight and designed by award-winning artist, Judith Stiles. Exclusively from the OF EARTH AND OCEAN COLLECTION from our Wellfleet studio on Cape Cod. All metals are carefully plated and contain no lead, nickel, or cadmium. These interlocking bracelets make a unique gift and are thoughtfully gift packaged in a lovely OF EARTH AND OCEAN blue box. Great for everyday and evening wear. 2.75" diameter.


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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Shiny & Sharp: Monster #2 in the #WarWithJBF

Choosing a headline for a story or post can be one of the more difficult parts of writing for me. Most of the time, it's because I'm trying to be original when writing up a trade post using the name of the blog or person who has sent me cards.  But, sometimes, there is almost no work to do.

Sometimes, the headlines are written for you:

Who am I to disagree?

Wes and I are trading barbs and envelopes and boxes across the Georgia/Alabama border. It's not quite a Border War along the lines of Missouri v. Kansas -- which, come on guys, quit being like Texas and Texas A&M and get your dadgum rivalry game back on your football schedules -- but this war is definitely heating up.  I mean, it's a none-too-veiled threat to receive this guy in your mailbox:

Monster #2 was a much smaller salvo in the war than the first monster box that showed up here at Hiatus Central, but...well, let's have JBF explain:

So, shiny and sharp.  I break them down into shiny and sharp PC guys and shiny and sharp non-PC guys for the team collection.  Let's start with the PC guys.

Jeromy Burnitz
In the last few months, the Jeromy Burnitz collection stagnated as my sources for late 1990s cards dried up and as other collections -- Ryan Braun in particular -- flourished.  This Shiny & Sharp package pushed things forward, though:

Those Topps Gold Label cards in particular just feel high end in my hand, and those card corners are sharp! I almost got a paper cut.  Would that earn me a Baseball Card Purple Heart?  And, it would be difficult to be any shinier than that Pacific Revolution card.

On the other hand, the Bowman's Best card is almost as creepy as Michael Myers (the guy in Halloween, not the sidearm-throwing former Brewers/Marlins/Tigers/Rockies/ Diamondbacks/Mariners/Red Sox/Yankees/White Sox lefty).  Why did card companies think that having two photos on the front of the card -- one of which looks like some sort of dissolving stalker composite photo you see on the TV news -- would be a good idea?

Let's move on.

Ryan Braun
Speaking of my Ryan Braun collection, I think I've added something like 50 Brauns to my collection since the start of the 2015 baseball season.  I guess people are starting to realize that I actually collect him.  Now, to be fair , I decided to demote Braun and all the other active Brewers in my player collections to be "guys I'll collect as Brewers only" (though I did not remove the non-Brewer Carlos Gomez cards from my lists) because, as I thought about it, I almost certainly would not chase cards for any of those guys if they were traded away.

So what shiny and sharp Brauns did JBF send my way?

There were a few that were duplicative of cards in my PC already, but I am pretty sure that most of those will migrate into the Brewer team collection.  The obvious highlight is the Baseball Heroes Navy Blue Jersey card, serial numbered 47 out of 50.  The sharp card is that die-cut insert from 2014 Topps Chrome.  That thing is dangerous.

Prince Fielder

Starquests and Refractors for Prince Fielder.  It's really good to see that Prince appears to be healthy again and is taking advantage of the favorable hitting conditions in Texas.  As of this writing, Prince is leading the American League in hits (73), runs batted in (38), and batting average (.361).  I'm glad I loaded up on his cards last year, while he was hurt.

Jeff Cirillo

Just one Cirillo in this group, but it's an early Topps "peel and eat shrimp" finest card.  I'm about 95% sure that I'll peel off that protective plastic.

Warren Spahn

All that glitters is not gold, the old saying goes. This one, though, is no chalcopyrite -- it's the real McCoy as a gold Chasing History insert from the 2013 Topps set.

As an aside, if Topps wants to go nuts with parallels, they should incorporate educational information into their parallels.  Rather than gold, silver, and platinum parallels, they should use the Mohs scale -- have 10 parallels ranging in commonness from Talc to Diamond to teach kids subliminally about the Mohs scale.

Or, maybe, go completely off the charts and do parallels based on series on the Periodic table.  "Hey mom, could you buy me this pack of Topps Science Baseball cards? I'm trying to complete the inert gases parallels!"

Okay, I don't know where that came from.  I think I need more coffee.  Or maybe less.

Ben Sheets

One of the highlights of Monster #2 is this Ben Sheets Donruss 2002 Season Stat Line Parallel.  The stat line Donruss used was Sheets's win total -- 11 -- so this card is serial numbered out of 11.  Just awesome.  The Finest is a refractor too, so that's really shiny.

Cal Eldred

Eldred pitched barely into the shiny card era, so there's just one card for him:
It is one of those Cyberstats parallels, where Topps projected out the rest of the 1994 season to point out to everyone what a great season we missed out on when King Bud decided with his owner cronies to cancel the season after the beginning of August.

Thanks, Topps!

Geoff Jenkins

I think the star of this three-card show is the Fleer E-X card.  The almost rubbery feel of those cards gives it more substance and weight.  If I were ever lost in the woods with only my Geoff Jenkins collection available to me, I'd sacrifice this card to use it as a hatchet to gather firewood.

Don't get me wrong -- I actually like that E-X card a lot -- but I think it would last the longest being used as a tool.

Corey Hart

To be fair, I think that there were four or five of these Corey Hart golden parallels.  I'd say it was a Golden Harting, perhaps.  But not a golden shower.  That's just weird.

Rickie Weeks

Shiny and sharp? Certainly.  Especially that Artifacts Apparel serial numbered 22 of 130. The Bowman Chrome Refractor actually kept my cat Gus entertained as he chased the reflection off the lights in the room around for a while until he got bored with it.

Other Highlights of Shininess and Sharpness
To keep this from extending into another post, here are the highlights from the cards that went into my team collection.  I have to keep it from extending into another post for a good reason...that will be disclosed at the bottom of this post.

That Keith Ginter card probably should have been left on the drawing board -- thanks for the Astro-dressed Brewer "prospect", Select!  And didn't Gene Altman direct M*A*S*H?  Oh, wait, that was Robert Altman.  For Select's information, I don't believe that Gene Altman was ever a prospect unless you think a closer in the Midwest League who splits time between two organizations while putting together a 6-0 season with 17 saves is a prospect (hint: minor league closers are almost never prospects).  In 7 minor league seasons, Gene had an ERA of 5.67 and a WHIP of 1.637.

And yes, that's yet ANOTHER printing plate.  I think that is now 6 printing plates that have come over from Hazel Green.

But I might be wrong about that.  After all, this is what showed up on my front doorstep yesterday afternoon:

In fact, THREE monsters from Hazel Green showed up yesterday.  An envelope labeled as Monster #3, a single box in the four above was identified as Monster #4, and then three of those boxes above were labeled as Monster #5.

Will we be able to defeat the monsters? We'll see.  The Shiny & Sharp monster will be tough to top!

  1. That is what JBF does. Right when you are feeling pretty good about yourself.....boom! 5 priority mail boxes hit your doorstep.

    1. Matthew speaks the truth. JBF has tons or artillery. (And all of it is glorious!)


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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Meet the Brewers #19: John Kennedy

On the same day -- May 18, 1970 -- that Brewer #18 Greg Goossen was sent to the minor leagues outright, another Brewer was placed on waivers and sent to Triple-A: John Kennedy.

Kennedy did not make his debut as a Brewer until the bottom of the 7th inning in the second game of the season. He debuted by pinch running for Goossen, who had pinch hit for Mike Hegan. Kennedy then played first base for the rest of that game.

1970 McDonald's Milwaukee Brewers
Kennedy was a 28-year-old utility infielder with the Brewers when the season started. Marvin Milkes, the GM who quit at the end of the 1970 season -- likely allowed to resign before he was fired (interesting side note: Milkes went next to be the GM of the New York Raiders in the World Hockey Association in 1972 for 8 months, then, nearly 10 years later, he became the GM of the Los Angeles Aztecs in NASL just before it folded) -- sold Kennedy's contract to the Red Sox in June of 1970 rather than getting a player. Perhaps Bud Selig needed to pay for a new shipment of used Buicks.

Anyway...Kennedy. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1941. Coincidentally, he shared this May 29 birth date with a more famous John Kennedy, the future president who turned 24 on John Edward Kennedy's birthdate. Even more coincidentally, as his SABR biography points out, the baseball player was signed by the Washington Senators in 1961 and broke in with the Senators in 1962.

It was a rather auspicious debut. Pinch hitting in the bottom of the sixth inning against the team that was the Senators previously -- the Minnesota Twins -- Kennedy stepped up and promptly homered in his first major league at bat and, in the process, broke up a no-hitter. Still, JEK was never a power hitter; his career high came in 1964 when he hit 7 homers in 521 plate appearances.

The highlight of his career came in 1965, when Walter Alston used Kennedy as a late-inning defensive replacement for much of the season (104 games played, 120 plate appearances). The Dodgers went on to win the World Series that year, and Kennedy was on the field at the end of the seventh game when the Dodgers won.

1994 Miller Brewing Milwaukee Brewers
Two stories seem to have followed Kennedy around for his career. The first is one Kennedy probably told hundreds of times: that, on one occasion, a letter meant for him went to the White House; by 2010 when the SABR biography writer asked, the letter was from Kennedy's fiancee.

The second story is, as you might guess, one of infamy from Ball Four in an entry dated June 18:
John Kennedy flew into a rage at Emmett Ashford over a called strike and was tossed out of the game. Still raging, he kicked in the water cooler in the dugout, picked it up and threw it onto the field. Afterward, we asked him what had gotten into him. He really isn't that type. And he said, "Just as I got called out on strikes, my greenie kicked in."
Kennedy told that story to some 250 kids and adults at the Elks home in Rockland, Maine, in December of 1971.  Kennedy claimed that the remark had been made in a joking fashion, saying, according to the newspaper,
that he had vowed that anywhere he spoke he would relay the tale and try to impress upon young people the evils and dangers of taking drugs. He told the young ballplayers that it would be physically and mentally impossible for any athlete to perform effectively if he took drugs.
Ah, that 1950s mentality still in full force and effect.

Kennedy repeated his statement about that being a joke in 2010 to his SABR biographer as well, saying that he and many of the 1969 Pilots -- and, by extension, a number of the 1970 Brewers -- felt violated by Bouton's book. Kennedy admitted, though, that "Now, though, looking back on it, it all seems pretty tame."

Kennedy went on to manage here and there in baseball -- a couple of years in the Red Sox system in the late 1970s and four seasons in two different independent leagues in the mid-2000s in particular.  In the time in between, he served as a scout who admittedly did not sign anyone who made it beyond Triple-A. As of 2010, he and his wife were living in Peabody, Massachusetts.

There are three to four cards of Kennedy as a Brewer. I say three to four because his Mike Andersen Postcard from 1970 probably calls him a Brewer but it features him with a logo-less helmet. Otherwise, he also appears with the Brewers on his 1971 Dell Today's Team Stamp and the two cards that I have, shown above.

  1. If you want your league to fold, hire Marvin Milkes.

  2. Ball Four. I recently added this to my reading list. Before I begin reading, I'll tape my jaw closed - and maybe wear some gloves. Not sure how many gals have read this masterpiece.


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Is Maci Bookout's Baby Daddy Ryan Back In Rehab? Edwards' Wife Mackenzie Reveals Shocking Details

The 'Teen Mom OG' dad allegedly failed a drug test according to a shocking claim.

Ryan Edwards sobriety has been a topic on Teen Mom OG this season. Early this week a shocking claim said that Maci Bookout’sex and first baby daddy relapsed. His wife, Mackeznie Edwards, exclusively spoke to about the shocking about the shocking allegations.

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Get it while you can!

This is my favorite item in our boutique. Sometimes I think of keeping it for myself in hopes that my next baby will be a girl! 😉 but I can’t be that selfish, this outfit deserves to be worn immediately. The fabric is so rich and the attention to detail is exquisite.

What I love about this outfit is that she can wear it to a special occasion or dress it down by breaking the set up. For example for a girly yet stylish look you can pair the skirt with a basic white t-shirt or wear the shirt and jacket with a pair of jean for a more causal look.

The outfit include:

Bella Blouse
Tango Skirt
Jackie Jacket

The best thing is that it is on sale. It was KD 150, now it’s only KD 40 !! There is only 1 left in size 4 years so get it while it last.

You can find the hopkins gold outfit at Oleana Boutique. For more information please call us on 60606707

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Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire

Toby’s in hot water again. What’s new, right? Well, this time the hot water is political—not exactly Toby’s strong suit.

once-broken-faithTitleOnce Broken Faith
AuthorSeanan McGuire
SeriesOctober Daye, Book 10
Publish Date: September 6, 2016, DAW
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal
Cover: Christian McGrath
Source: Purchased

Publisher’s DescriptionPolitics have never been October “Toby” Daye’s strong suit. When she traveled to the Kingdom of Silences to prevent them from going to war with her home, the Kingdom of the Mists, she wasn’t expecting to return with a cure for elf-shot and a whole new set of political headaches.

Now the events she unwittingly set in motion could change the balance of modern Faerie forever, and she has been ordered to appear before a historic convocation of monarchs, hosted by Queen Windermere in the Mists and overseen by the High King and Queen themselves.

Naturally, things have barely gotten underway when the first dead body shows up. As the only changeling in attendance, Toby is already the target of suspicion and hostility. Now she needs to find a killer before they can strike again—and with the doors locked to keep the guilty from escaping, no one is safe.

As danger draws ever closer to her allies and the people she loves best, Toby will have to race against time to prevent the total political destabilization of the West Coast and to get the convocation back on track…and if she fails, the cure for elf-shot may be buried forever, along with the victims she was too slow to save.

Because there are worse fates than sleeping for a hundred years.

Possible spoilers beyond this point.

Invested_Ivana_100Invested Ivana says…

One of the things I really like in series is when a book deals with the consequences of a previous book. The October Daye series is awesome at this. The newest book, Once Broken Faith, deals entirely with the consequences of the previous book, A Red Rose Chain.

In A Red Rose Chain, one of the characters develops a cure for elf-shot, a drug that puts the victim to sleep for 100 years. Because having a cure to elf-shot will significantly change how the denizens of Faerie deal with conflict, the existence of this cure is now a political issue—and a hot one. As a reader, I found it fascinating to see how something like a cure—substitute in a policy, a law, whatever—has such a profound impact on people AND can be interpreted so differently. People you think should be for the cure are against it, and vice versa, and the reasons for both points of view actually make some sense. The scary part is how far some folks will go to secure their own political agenda. Considering the recent climate in US politics, I think this novel is pretty timely.

The other thing I love to see in series is when characters actually show that they are growing and changing, that their experiences in previous books have had an impact on who they are now. Toby is now more secure in her relationships, more secure in her own abilities, and has learned some measure of caution and self-restraint. While those things don’t always come easily to Toby, she is at least trying. She takes fewer unnecessary risks, makes an effort to include her friends instead of protecting them my leaving them out, and, while she hasn’t quite forgiven Sylvester, on an emotional level, for what she perceives as a betrayal, she recognizes that her feelings aren’t completely rational. All of that shows that the Toby we met in Rosemary and Rue has done some maturing, and that’s a good thing.

badge5v5Overall, I loved this installment just as much as the others in this series. I like the author’s ideas and her writing and am totally committed to these characters. October Day is still one of my favorite series.

Vagabond_Vahn100Vagabond Vahn says…

Alright, Toby, this is your 10th main entry.  Let’s see how things are going for you…

The Good:  McGuire has really solidified Toby’s personal life, introducing great characters who are each fleshed out a bit more with every entry.  Her squire has grown through the series, her “sister” has sculpted her own identity, her love life seems to finally make sense.  The care that was put into these side characters is obvious.

It was fun—and I want to emphasize the word fun here—to bring the story back around to a simple “Who Dunnit?” detective scenario.  Sure, it’s set during the middle of an important political event, and yes, October is yet again set up to take the blame – but the scope of the adventure involving a murder in a single locale offers us a nice break between otherwise grand adventures.

The Bad:  I know Toby feels betrayed by Sylvester from what happened previously, but she really drags it out too long for me.  Get over it, Toby.  I’m always slightly annoyed by characters who, even when presented with the evidence that they are now being ridiculous by holding a grudge, continue to hold said grudge.

Ultimately, I’m most bothered by the stagnation evident in this entry.  How many stories in the series are going to rely so heavily on Elf-Shot as the focus?  How many more loopholes in Oberon’s law are going to be found for the benefit of October, and how have so many centuries passed without these loopholes being discovered and used?

badge4v5The Conclusion:  I wrestled for a time with how much weight The Bad would bring to bear on The Good.  In the end, the fun of the story and characters won out, and kept this entry at a 4.  I’m very interested, and a touch worried, where the story goes from here.  If Elf-Shot and loopholes in Oberon’s laws continue to be the focus, and in the case of the latter, the resolution, I may have to take a break.  I don’t want to, though, because the series is fun!

Our reviews in this series…

About Invested Ivana

I'm currently a freelance line editor, a book blogger at One Book Two, and lifetime reader. I like geeky things. All opinions expressed on this site are my own and do not reflect the opinions of Red Adept Editing or any of my clients, the other reviewers on this site, or this site as a whole.

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Short Goodbyes

Still thrilled about a spectacular weekend with Smiles, I began a new week.

Monday passed by without me seeing Smiles again. I did speak to him however. We spoke while I walked home from work. He still had a migraine, and I tried to console him. I wished there was something I could do for him, but I was powerless.

He had a work event that evening, so he soldiered on. His migraine was lessened, but he still wasn’t 100%. I knew it was going to be a long night for him.

He called when the event was over to say hi and check in on me. I always relish his phone calls just to say hi and ask me about my day.

I explained to him I was watching the first Twilight movie. It happened to be on TV that night, so I made it a point to watch in an attempt to catch up to the current day release of Twilight: Breaking Dawn pt. 1. I was also able to find the second and third installments in the series on the guide over the next few days. Smiles seemed excited to see the movie, so I was putting in the effort to get onboard. I have to say, they’re certainly not amazing cinema, they’re not unbearable either.

I asked him to wait to see the movie together in the theater. He agreed. After talking about the series, he realized he’d never see the third installment, Twilight: Eclipse. I told him I would keep it on my DVR, and we could watch it together before hitting up the newest in the theater.

We were also coming up on Thanksgiving. I struggled with the thought of inviting him to come home with me. He is from and his family is still in Florida. I knew he wasn’t planning to go home, but I wasn’t sure if he’d have other plans. The thought of inviting him came from numerous places. I felt we were comfortable with each other, and I knew he would stand well with my family. He was very good at getting along with strangers, and I knew he could win them over, especially since this would be the first time they’d learn about my homosexuality. I knew it would have been a little early in our relationship to ask him to come home with me, and this is the main reason why I didn’t. I didn’t want him to think I was a little psycho.

In the meantime, I learned he finally did make plans for Thanksgiving. He was going to a few friends’ homes out on Long Island in the Hamptons and on Fire Island. I was happy he found some special people to spend the holiday with, but was a little disappointed I wouldn’t be spending it with him.

Before I went home, and he split for Long Island, I wanted to see him again. I suggested we grab coffee or something quick because I knew he would be quite busy with work leading up to our departures on Wednesday. He told me we’d have to play it by ear, but he would make a concerted effort to work it out.

I was worried I wasn’t going to see him before the long holiday weekend. We’d spent other weekends apart, so this shouldn’t be that big of a deal, but to me it was. I wasn’t spending the holiday with him, so I wanted the next best thing.

Tuesday evening I had a dermatologist appointment to have an ingrown hair taken care of. We were going to attempt to meet after as long as time allowed for it in his schedule.

It turned out he was able to meet. In the rain, I made my way to Lyon to grab a drink with him before he was going out to dinner with business colleagues who were in town for the week.

This was the first time I’d see him following a workday in which he interacted with clients. He looked very smart and super cute. It was all I could do to keep my hands off him. He was happy to see me, but I could tell he was pretty exhausted from a long day. We ordered some small dishes because I was ready for dinner, and his dinner wasn’t until 10:00 or 11:00. The conversation was nice, and we discussed our plans for the weekend. He also expressed concern for the incision on my abdomen from the dermatologist. When we finished, we paid the bill and began to walk towards the PATH/his subway.

We popped into a fun travel amenities shop to check out some of the cool things we noticed in the front window.

We walked a little further and reached his subway. He began to descend the staircase, and I called after him to explain I wouldn’t be joining him since it didn’t take me near the PATH. He walked back up a few steps and gave me a quick kiss as he said goodbye.

It was very unceremonious and not very romantic, but I decided to concentrate on the fact that I got to spend time with him at all before he left.

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Travel Date: Sunday, Nov 22 2015
After lunch at the Thai restaurant we drive to Volcanoes National Park

We stop by at the Visitor’s Center.

We want to get some information on the volcanoes. The weather forecast is not great. It is pretty cloudy and visibility is poor. We were crossing our fingers for a clear day/evening later but that does not look likely.

So we decide to make the most of it, and check out what we can. We get back in the car and make our first stop the Jagger Museum.

Following the signs.

There is the volcano. Do you see it clearly? Us neither.

However there are some noticeable vents of steam protruding.

But it is pretty much blurry.

But at night time on a clear evening, you can see the glow of the volcano and it is supposedly amazing to see. Take a look at my friend Mengia’s pictures of the crater trail and the volcano glow. She was able to take these on another day.

At least the educational signs are readable.

We decide to check out the museum instead.
One of our favorite signs across the park is warning about driving and Cars killing Nene.

More volcanic exhibits.

Time to hit the road and visit other sites at Volcanoes National Park.

Next stop is the Thurston Lava Tube.

This is a popular spot and parking is limited. If all the spots are taken, just wait for a bit and something will open up. Be patient.

Justin and I walk to the trail head

And we pretty much go in circles around the trail-head to the bottom of the tube.

A view of a healthy rain forest.

A view from the top: lots of trees everywhere.

More walking.

And finally we get to the entrance of the volcano tube. Quite pretty!

Inside the tube looking back.

Fortunately there are lights everywhere.

One of my favorite pictures at the exit point looking back.

Back outside we walk across an asphalt trail with lots of tropical plants everywhere.

Appreciating the tropical beauty as we slowly ascend back to the top.

The view from the top again

We leave and continue moving on to the next spot: The Devastation Trail.

A walk through another rain forest..ish.

Wow! It actually looks kind of cool.

Doesn’t it look from afar that that ‘used-to-be-a-tree’ is on fire!!!

A closer look.

We decide to turn around and walk back to the car.

It is time to head out and leave.

The sun is beginning to set. And we need to beat it the Punalu’u Black Sand Beach.

Volcanoes National Park is interesting. I wish we had better visibility and less clouds. It would have been cool to see the crater clearly during the day and the wonderful glow at night. Seeing the lava tube was good and also the Devastation Trail. It was quite pretty in a different kinds of way.

Expenses: $0.00
None – because I had an ‘America the Beautiful National Parks Pass which meant that I could drive our ‘ugly car’ in and out of the park for fee. Otherwise it would be a $15.00 fee.


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One Living Hope

Overcoming Problems in God’s Work: The Halfway Hurdle (Neh. 4:7-23)

If you are like me, I am sure you would agree if I said, “Being halfway done with something is the hardest part.” For example, when is it the hardest time of the day at school or work? I know you want to say, “All the time!” but you know right in the middle of the day is the hardest time, right after lunch, right? You probably have 3-4 hours left to go. I remember while working at Moody how I hated meetings right after lunch. I would have so much “food coma.” Initially when I get to work, I would have many emails and phone calls to return, so that kept me busy and toward the end of the day, I just want to finish, so I’m working hard to end. But right in the middle? It’s hard!

Halfway through the school year is especially hard isn’t it? The initial excitement about seeing friends after along summer and wondering who’s in your classes is over and now mid-terms! They say when you hit 40, you may experience a dramatic period of self-doubt as you realize youth has passed and old age is imminent. They call this what? A mid-life crisis! I don’t know any other periods of life called a crisis!

Whenever we drive to NY from here, do you know which part I hate the most? Pennsylvania! I call it the never-ending-state and do you know why? You guessed it…it is right in the middle of the journey. I remember when Jenny was pregnant with Abbie, that between the initial excitement and the final few weeks, those middle months of just waiting were really hard! I can tell you that my hardest part of sermon preparation after the initial work is right in the middle. There is a lull that happens for some reason that causes me to do something else for a while and come back later. What about halfway through a home renovation project? When the mess looks bigger than the goal?

Today I want to talk to you about the halfway hurdle in the work of God. The theme of the book of Nehemiah is “Building God’s People for God’s Work.” Chapters 1-7 deal with doing God’s work, while chapters 8-13 will be building God’s people. We talked about how God prepares us for His work, how He prospers us in the work and now, in Neh. 4-7, problems in the work. Last week, we dealt with overcoming the Enemy’s ridicule. Today, the title of the message is “Overcoming problems in God’s Work: The Halfway Hurdle.” Although for us, we don’t have a half-way point in the work before us, there can be periods of time when we are just trudging through. These are the times when it is just another week in your life. These are the times when nothing particularly exciting going on, just the “same ole same ole.” Actually most of our life is that way isn’t it?

In the summertime, some would call it “the dog days of summer.” I want to call it today in relation to Nehemiah, the “Halfway Hurdle.” Amazingly, this message is so appropriate for us, right at the end of July! Isn’t God’s providence amazing? If we are not careful, halfway hurdles can paralyze us spiritually and keep us from serving the Lord effectively. If that’s the case, what are the signs I am about to collapse under this hurdle? How can I jump it effectively? This is what we are going to explore today in Neh. 4:7-23. Here is our first thought:

I. Halfway hurdle times are vulnerable times (Neh. 4:7-9)

We left Nehemiah and the Jews listening to the Enemy’s ridicule and overcoming it through prayer and perseverance. The wall was halfway done (Neh. 4:6). So guess what happens when there is another advance in the work of God? That’s right…a setback! Motion always causes friction. Look at Neh. 4:7. The enemies are now growing in number and now they are on every side! Jerusalem was now surrounded by enemies: the Samaritans on the north, the Ammonites on the east, the Arabians on the south, and the men of Ashdod on the west.[1] Ashdod is another name of the Philistine area west of Jerusalem. Isn’t it amazing that when God’s people often have difficulty working together, that the people of the world have no problem uniting in opposition to the work of the Lord? Spurgeon says, “It has always struck me as a very startling thing that you have never heard of any division among the devils in hell. There are no sects among the devils; they seem to work together with an awful unanimity of purpose in their wicked design. In this one thing they seem to excel the family of God. Oh, that we were as hearty and united in the service of God as wicked men are in the service of Satan!”[2]

If you had a Google Earth overhead view or have you ever seen a war movie where they show you those infrared shots of where you can see the Enemy approaching the camp very subtly? If Nehemiah had one, he would see in every side, they were surrounded.  Listen, beloved, when you are advancing with the Lord, there is not an angle where the Enemy will not attack you. Which area of your life do you think he will leave you alone in? The answer is none! You are surrounded.

The ridicule did not work. They are now “very angry” in Neh. 4:7. This phrase refers to something “like the kindling of a fire.”[3] It is explosive, ferocious, spitting anger.  This is not just like water boiling, it is acid boiling with its awful vapors seething into the air poisoning those around.[4] Notice their anger is now expressed in violence inNeh. 4:8. I hope they realize that Nehemiah has the King’s letters behind him?! But unfortunately, this is not something to lean on because when the wall building was attempted before, the enemies lied to the King saying they were attempting a rebellion (Ez. 4:7ff). They could very well do the same thing here.

Notice they want to cause “confusion” in it (says ESV and NLT). The KJV says “hinder,” while the NASU says “disturbance” and the NIV says, “stir up trouble against” it.  The idea is to cause “uproar, i.e., a state of hostility and strife apparently as a riot and not a full battle or war.”[5] They want to come all around them and scare them so that the Jews all scatter and trample upon each other like those out of control soccer games you hear about from time to time.

So how does Nehemiah answer the latest opposition? Look at Neh. 4:9: Prayer and Planning or to use the language here, watching and praying. He is always doing both and we will see that throughout this section today as well as one of the themes of this book. If there was a time Nehemiah is going to pray like he never had before, it is now. And ff there was a time Nehemiah is going to plan like he never had before, it is now. Why? The wall was halfway done. Halfway times are vulnerable times.

I would like to define “halfway times” as the period of time which is more routine, mundane or ordinary, usually following a season of activity or in between activities, which together with idleness, allows a fertile ground for the Enemy to work. Our idle days are the devil’s busiest days. I believe we are in that time now with the retreat and VBS over.

I know exciting events are happening with a new name for this ministry coming up and our junior high/high school ministry starting up, but we must be careful for overall, it is a “halfway time” for us. Especially in America, everyone seems to have a sense of entitlement. I deserve better and I need this and that-kind of attitude. I need entertainment. I need a break. It is one thing to take a break and relax and another for sloth and laziness to feed your flesh and allow Satan to get a foothold in your life. Stagnant waters are a breeding ground for thousands of insects, but not so with living water!

We are very much performance driven. We pray a lot for our serving times don’t we? We prepare much for retreats, VBS’s and perhaps our small groups and sermons, but what about the times when no one is looking? When the performance is over? What about the times only God sees? God cares as much if not more about those “halfway times” as our times preaching, teaching or leading. And if we do not pray and watch over those times, we will fail.

So how did the people of God do with their “halfway hurdle”? So far with every setback, they have pressed on right? (Neh. 2:204:6). But now, they collapsed! Jot this down:

II. Watch for Signs of Halfway Hurdle Collapse (Neh. 4:10-12)

Finally, the enemies were getting somewhere. Look at Neh. 4:10. In Judah, in other words, not from a single person, but from everyone: “The strength is failing.” They had accomplished much up to this point. I mean, they have never ever even gotten this far before. They were halfway done! The enemies made another push, this time surrounding them in every corner and threatening military attack. They had even prayed, even watched carefully, but they collapsed at this hurdle. Here are some signs that we too may collapse at the halfway hurdle:

a) Physical exhaustion (Neh 4:10a)

Notice the word “failing” in Neh. 4:10. This word means “stumbling, staggering or tottering”[6] and the image is the picture of “an exhausted laborer, reeling under the heavy load he is trying to carry.”[7] They had been working now for several weeks. The initial enthusiasm has waned, the external pressure has mounted and to top it all off, they were physically tired. It was a deadly combination. It is always easier to begin a work of God than to continue it[8] right?

This is another extreme the devil will take us and the power is always in the balance. Either we become lazy and make ourselves look busy or we work ourselves to death to make ourselves look important. Here, physical exhaustion made them disillusioned about the work. I wonder if this is why God created a seventh day for rest? I think I have mentioned the prophet Elijah already. He was doing intense ministry, so much so that he became drained and fatigued and even suicidal (1 Kings 18-19). He went from great victory to emptiness, because he forgot about rest. God’s “spiritual” treatment was sleep, rest and a good meal. One of the best advice I have ever received from my seminary professors was to make sure I’m eating and sleeping well. So servants at EFC, don’t stay up late on Saturday night and come serve on Sunday. Actually no one should stay up late on Saturday night period, whether you are serving or not. We want to come giving our best worship to the Lord, especially as you are serving. When I get home on Sunday, I am so tempted to start studying the next passage. Not always, but sometimes. But I am so spent, so I have to train myself to put it all away and just be.

b) Loss of perspective (Neh. 4:10b)

Notice the words “there is too much rubble.” Not only were they physically exhausted from the tremendous amount of work they had already accomplished, they started looking around at all the work left to do and became discouraged. They started to lose perspective. The glass was half-empty.

They did not look back and see how much progress they had made, but rather on all the work left to do. There were piles of huge stones, overgrown vines, rubbish and mounds of dirt. That was all they can see. This happens all the time. You get covered under the mountain of “still to do” and become overwhelmed.

Again, sometimes it is a matter of stepping away from everything and getting recharged again, allowing God to show you what He has already done. This will strengthen you to hope for the future.

c) Hopelessness (Neh. 4:10c)

Once fatigue sets in and you lose that perspective and that starts to settle in, automatically, hopelessness is right around the corner. “That’s it Nehemiah. We tried. We made it halfway, but we’ll never make it to the top. It is a hopeless endeavor.” Notice the key words now coming from their mouth: “We WILL NOT BE ABLE.” You hear it all the time: “I can’t stay in this marriage. I can’t stay with this ministry. I cannot step out for the Lord. I’m not going to do anything anymore.” Clare Boothe Luce once said, “There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.”[9]

What has crept into the hearts and minds of the people of God? Unbelief. Trials reveal the depth of your faith. Author and pastor Chip Ingram says, “It’s interesting that when the wall wasn’t built at all and they had a big God, they were ready and willing. Once they got tired and lost perspective, the focus went from upward and outward to inward and downward.”[10] When hope dies, the motivation to change dies and you quit trying.

d) Fear and Insecurity (Neh. 4:11-12)

This is exactly what the enemies wanted. In Neh. 4:11, as the Jews were weakening internally, they amplified the attack externally. They started looking at all the work left to do. As they were looking at that and being paralyzed by it, they hear that if they try to even attempt fixing it again, there is a possibility of being slaughtered while doing it.

To make matters worse, the surrounding Jews came to them in Neh. 4:12 and say “you must return to us” (ESV). This is hard to translate from the Hebrew, but most likely it is saying something like “Wherever you turn, they will attack us!” (NIV).  In other words, “You’ll never make it. You won’t survive. The enemy is too numerous. No matter where you turn, they’ll be waiting for you.”[11] Thanks a lot, friends!

What is Nehemiah going to do? Exhaustion, loss of perspective, hopelessness, fear and insecurity had hit God’s people with one blow after another, pushing them into the corner. I don’t know a lot about boxing, but I hear that if a fighter ends up “on the ropes” or ends up standing in a corner, this is the most dangerous time, because this is where you can get pummeled. So the boxer must jump back in the center of the ring to regain perspective.[12] Like tired, worn out boxers, who have just been hit with punch after punch, there were the Jews with their hands on their face, about to give up.  But Nehemiah does not give up. Thirdly and lastly, let’s now look at:

III. How to Jump the Halfway Hurdle (Neh. 4:13-23)

Nehemiah does several things here to get the people back into the center of the ring, to jump over this halfway hurdle. Take note of this:

a) Resist passivity proactively (Neh. 4:13)

The worst thing to do when you are discouraged is to do nothing. It is always easier to steer a moving car than a parked car right? This is what the Enemy wants. He wants to disable you permanently so God cannot steer your life again.

Look at Nehemiah in Neh. 4:13. He starts with positive and practical action. He took people off building the wall and set them up at vulnerable parts of the wall by families. Commentator Ray Brown says, “Members of extended families knew each other well enough to allocate respective duties effectively, and the presence of their women and children close at hand was a constant reminder that they were not simply fighting for the city’s walls but for the family’s and community’s future.”[13]

Discouragement and all the signs we just talked about do not come suddenly. They come gradually. We can usually tell when the fog starts to move in right? You start to feel a loss of energy, a mild dissatisfaction, boredom, laziness, procrastination, self-absorption, etc. before it all comes tumbling down. It is then you need to move forward! Take small practical steps. When you don’t want to do anything…is when you do something! Write a positive note to someone. Take a walk. Wash the car. Do the laundry. Get around godly people. Nehemiah put the people together by families. This provided a sense of ownership and importance of what is going on. No time to be passive because it is a matter of life and death for my loved ones. Some of us may not think being with our families are not always the most encouraging when we are discouraged. Sometimes they are the source of our discouragement! But it is important to be around the family of God.

b) Refocus on the Lord (Neh. 4:14a)

It is not enough to be out doing something to get your mind off of things when you have collapsed at the hurdle. Christian life is not about taking our mind off our problems, but putting our mind on the Lord. Look what he says inNeh. 4:14, “Do not be afraid. Remember the Lord who is great and awesome!” The last time he called the Lord that was in his prayer in Neh. 1:5. The word “great” refers to His power, while “awesome” (remember reserved for God alone) refers to His holiness.

I like how he says, “Remember.” Is it because they were forgetting Him? They did forget Him. Nehemiah is calling the people to look away from the rubble, look away from the enemies, look away from yourself and how tired you are and remember the Lord. Consider who He is. Consider what He has done for you. Consider how far He has brought you. Yes, since that day everyone said, “Let us rise up and build” (Neh. 2:18), circumstances have changed. The enemies have become more and more active. The work has become more and more difficult. Yes, all these have changed, but God has not changed!

How do you refocus on the Lord? I would recommend the following to you. 1) Christ-centered praise music 2) review your journal, counting God’s blessings, (if you journal) 3) Have you ever written or typed your prayers out? I would commend that exercise to you. It helps you stay focused in prayer and think about the Lord. Andy Stanley, pastor out in Georgia, says that on his desk, he has a card that reads, “Lord, you got me in this. I am trusting you to get me through it.”[14] A great reminder for when we hit a snag in ministry to refocus on the Lord. Or as the Apostle Paul says, “”And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil. 1:6).

Here is one of my favorite prayers from St. Patrick that brings me back to the Lord each time I see it:

I arise today
Through the strength of heaven;
Light of the sun,
Splendor of fire,
Speed of lightning,
Swiftness of the wind,
Depth of the sea,
Stability of the earth,
Firmness of the rock.

I arise today
Through God’s strength to pilot me;
God’s might to uphold me,
God’s wisdom to guide me,
God’s eye to look before me,
God’s ear to hear me,
God’s word to speak for me,
God’s hand to guard me,
God’s way to lie before me,
God’s shield to protect me,
God’s hosts to save me
Afar and anear,
Alone or in a mulitude.

Christ shield me today
Against wounding
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,
Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in the eye that sees me,
Christ in the ear that hears me.

I arise today
Through the mighty strength
Of the Lord of creation

c) Remain balanced with faith and action (Neh. 4:14b-17)

This is a theme in the book of Nehemiah. Prayer and Planning; Faith and action—all go hand in hand. It was not enough to re-orient their thinking. They had to resume building. Take a look at that combination showing up here from Neh. 4:14b-17:
14 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome [FAITH], and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes. [ACTION]” 15When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work. [FAITH] 16 From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah, [ACTION] 17 who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand [FAITH] and held his weapon with the other [ACTION].

You can probably argue faith or action or both for a couple of these, but you see the idea. We saw it earlier as well in Neh. 4:9 where the people prayed, but they also “set a guard.” Notice that when Nehemiah prayed, the enemies did not go away. In fact, they attacked more! Well, that is, until Neh. 4:15. Nehemiah called their bluff. They weren’t really ready to fight. It was all bark and no bite.

But remember that prayer without work is presumption, and work without prayer is self-confidence. Remember the Lord, but fight. Pray for your marriage, but take some steps for change. Pray to God against temptation, but take some steps to make it really difficult to fall into the same thing over and over again. Pray for that test coming up, but study hard. Faith without works is dead (James 2:14).

d) Rally together with others (Neh. 4:18-20)

How do you picture this scene so far? When I picture this, I picture people with a trowel in one hand and a sword in another. That was if you carried materials. If you were builders like in Neh. 4:18, you needed your hands free, so the sword is at your side. CH Spurgeon, once had a magazine called “The Sword and the Trowel.”  Isn’t that a great image for the Christian life? We are soldier servants or servant soldiers! So Nehemiah here spreads everyone out and gets them back to work.

He also does another thing here.  He determines a rally point. He has a guy with a trumpet next to him at all times. So in case of attack, the trumpet would sound and everyone would rally together where the trumpet sounds and again, he reorients people’s focus on the Lord as he says: “Our God will fight for us.” In other words, “Hey guys, we are in this together!” The principle? Do not fight alone.

But what the Enemy wants us to do is the opposite: Just get off by yourselves. I’ll find an escape and distract myself with entertainment. I won’t answer any phone calls. Stay away from church, you are going to feel guilty being there and no one is going to miss me anyway, says the Enemy. Stay away from the Bible and prayer, God does not want to listen to you, you start to think.

e) Recommit to sacrificial service (Neh. 4:21-23)

They got back to serving selflessly. They worked all day into evening in Neh. 4:21. They put themselves wholeheartedly back in the work of God. Even those who lived far away, did not go home according to Neh. 4:22. In fact, they were so zealous for the work of God again that they didn’t even have time to change their clothes, meaning no time to even bathe! Notice who is leading this example: Nehemiah, the chief servant.  The head grows by taking in but the heart grows by giving out.[15]

Everyone is building a wall. Either you are building something for God or you are building a wall between yourself and others or you are building a wall around yourself. You make it strong and thick and high so that no one can ever break through. It is easy to build this wall, satisfied with your lives with no ministry, no compassion for others and no sacrificial service. With these kind of walls, you will not be facing the attack of the Enemy. You will have become your own enemy.[16]

Pediatrician David Cerqueira shares a story of how a dying girl showed his church the honor of serving God:

One Sunday my wife had prepared a lesson on being useful. She taught the children that everyone can be useful—that usefulness is serving God, and that doing so is worthy of honor. The kids quietly soaked up my wife’s words, and as the lesson ended, there was a short moment of silence. [A little girl named] Sarah spoke up. “Teacher, what can I do? I don’t know how to do many useful things.”

Not anticipating that kind of response, my wife quickly looked around and spotted an empty flower vase on the windowsill. “Sarah, you can bring in a flower and put it in the vase. That would be a useful thing.”

Sarah frowned. “But that’s not important.” “It is,” replied my wife, “if you are helping someone.” Sure enough, the next Sunday Sarah brought in a dandelion and placed it in the vase. In fact, she continued to do so each week. Without reminders or help, she made sure the vase was filled with a bright yellow flower, Sunday after Sunday. When my wife told our pastor about Sarah’s faithfulness, he placed the vase upstairs in the main sanctuary next to the pulpit. That Sunday he gave a sermon on the honor of serving others, using Sarah’s vase as an example. The congregation was touched by the message, and the week started on a good note.

During that same week I got a call from Sarah’s mother. She worried that Sarah seemed to have less energy than usual and that she didn’t have an appetite. Offering her some reassurances, I made room in my schedule to see Sarah the following day. After Sarah had a battery of tests and days of examinations, I sat numbly in my office, Sarah’s paperwork on my lap. The results were tragic. [She had leukemia.]

On the way home, I stopped to see Sarah’s parents so that I could personally give them the sad news. Sarah’s genetics and the leukemia that was attacking her small body were a horrible mix. Sitting at their kitchen table, I did my best to explain to Sarah’s parents that nothing could be done to save her life. I don’t think I have ever had a more difficult conversation than the one that night.

Time pressed on. Sarah became confined to bed and to the visits that many people gave her. She lost her smile. She lost most of her weight. And then it came: another telephone call. Sarah’s mother asked me to come see her. I dropped everything and ran to the house. There she was, a small bundle that barely moved. After a short examination, I knew that Sarah would soon be leaving this world. I urged her parents to spend as much time as possible with her.

That was a Friday afternoon. On Sunday morning church started as usual. The singing, the sermon—it all seemed meaningless when I thought of Sarah. I felt enveloped in sadness. At the end of the sermon, the pastor suddenly stopped speaking. His eyes wide, he stared at the back of the church with utter amazement. Everyone turned to see what he was looking at. It was Sarah! Her parents had brought her for one last visit. She was bundled in a blanket, a dandelion in one little hand.

She didn’t sit in the back row. Instead she slowly walked to the front of the church where her vase still perched by the pulpit. She put her flower in the vase and a piece of paper beside it. Then she returned to her parents. Seeing little Sarah place her flower in the vase for the last time moved everyone. At the end of the service, people gathered around Sarah and her parents, trying to offer as much love and support as possible. I could hardly bear to watch.

Four days later, Sarah died. …

I wasn’t expecting it, but our pastor asked to see me after the funeral. We stood at the cemetery near our cars as people walked past us. In a low voice he said, “Dave, I’ve got something you ought to see.” He pulled out of his pocket the piece of paper that Sarah had left by the vase. Holding it out to me, he said, “You’d better keep this; it may help you in your line of work.”

I opened the folded paper to read, in pink crayon, what Sarah had written:

Dear God,
This vase has been the biggest honor of my life.

Sarah’s note and her vase have helped me to understand. I now realize in a new way that life is an opportunity to serve God by serving people. And, as Sarah put it, that is the biggest honor of all.[18]

I was thinking after I read this, “What is the biggest honor of my life so far?” I can only say one thing, “Serving the Lord who saved me.” Even through all the halfway hurdles I have been through, He has been faithful, still giving me this biggest honor of my life.  I pray we can all say the same, for the Lord’s sake.

[1]Breneman, 196.

[2]“The Two Guards, Praying and Watching” accessed July 23, 2009.

[3]R. Laird Harris, Robert Laird Harris, Gleason Leonard Archer and Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, electronic ed., 322 (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999, c1980).

[4]“Dealing with the Anger of Others”  accessed July 23, 2009.

[5]James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages With Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament), electronic ed., DBLH 9360, #1 (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).

[6]Swindoll, 83.

[7]Brown, 78.

[9]Mark Water, The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations, 495 (Alresford, Hampshire: John Hunt Publishers Ltd, 2000).

[10]Ingram, 205.

[11]Davey, 96.

[12]Ingram, 205.

[13]Brown, 80.

[14]Stanley, 154.

[15]Water, 936.

[16]Davey, 99.

[18]From accessed July 25, 2009. Condensed from an  article in Today’s Christian ©2008 Christianity Today International.

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Our venerable and God-bearing Father '''Alexis Kabaliuk''', [[Apostle]] of Carpatho-Russia ([[August 30]], 1877 – [[December 2]], 1947), was a leader of the Carpathian Orthodox in the early 20th century.  His [[feast day]]s are celebrated on [[October 21]] and December 2.  There is an [[akathist]] written for him.
Alexander Ivanovich Kabaliuk was born into a Greek Catholic ([[Uniate]]) family but [[convert]]ed to Orthodoxy as a young man. He became an [[archimandrite]] and played a major role in reviving Orthodoxy in Transcarpathia in the early 20th century, and his [[missionary]] activities were persecuted by the Austrian-Hungarian authorities, who suspected Orthodox believers of pro-Russian sympathies. On the eve of World War I, Kabalyuk was sentenced to jail, and following his release he was one of the leaders of the Carpathian Orthodox until his death in 1947. He is considered an Orthodox hero and was [[glorification|glorified]] in 2001 by the [[Church of Ukraine]] ([[Moscow Patriarchate]]) as the first Subcarpathian Russian Orthodox saint.<ref>[http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050630/40819891.html Ukraine: Conflict between Orthodoxy and Greek Catholicism], ''Ria Novosti'', 30/06/2005.</ref>
His [[relics]] are at the St. Nicolas [[monastery]] in the village of Iza in the Ukraine.<ref>Notes from [http://spmu.narod.ru/seminar/seminare.htm Uzhgorod, Ukraine-2000: International seminar of orthodox youth: "The Main Commandment—To Love"] by Taras Andrusevych</ref>
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*[http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/carp-rus.htm Carpatho-Russia And The Struggle For The Russian Orthodox Tradition Outside Russia], including a detailed life and icon
*[http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/servalex.htm Akathist to the Holy Confessor Alexis of Carpatho-Russia]
*[http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/falexis.htm A Troparion to St Alexis, Apostle of Carpathian Rus. Tone II]
*[http://www.unicorne.org/Orthodoxy/avrilmai/holyspirit.htm New Fruits of the Spirit: Two Saints and an Icon] by Dr. Alexander Roman
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