Month: December 2006

Not to Be Selfish, But . . . .

Housework is better for my wife than for me!

The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores was far more cancer protective than playing sport.

Dusting, mopping and vacuuming was also better than having a physical job.

The women in the Cancer Research UK-funded study spent an average of 16 to 17 hours a week cooking, cleaning and doing the washing.

Experts have long known that physical exercise can reduce the risk of breast cancer, probably through hormonal and metabolic changes.

But it has been less clear how much and what types of exercise are necessary for this risk reduction.

And much of past work has examined the link between exercise and breast cancer in post-menopausal women only.

The latest study looked at both pre- and post-menopausal women and a range of activities, including work, leisure and housework.

All forms of physical activity combined reduced the breast cancer risk in post-menopausal women, but had no obvious effect in pre-menopausal women.

Thank You, Sir

That was one of my first thoughts last night upon learning that President Ford had died.

Kim Priestap wrote over at WizBangBlog:

But my recollections of Gerald Ford were correct: he was a good, kind man, who, as President Bush said, was president when our country needed him most.

I remember Watergate. I remember Nixon’s resignation. I remember Ford’s pardon. I remember Mayaguez. I remember the fall of South Vietnam. I remember the assassination attempts. I remember the election defeat.

So was Mr. Ford a good President? I honestly don’t know. But that doesn’t matter. I am grateful for the good he did do. God raised him up to the Presidency and used him there for His purposes.

It just seems right to thank the man, albeit belatedly.

And in that context, it seems only right to also thank Presidents Carter, Bush, Clinton, and Bush.

Thank you.

Christianity 102

God wants His people to live by the Bible, not swear by it.

“But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne: But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil” (Matthew 5:34,37).

So why should Christians be in an uproar about this next matter?

Minnesota lawmaker takes hits over Quran

Conservative bloggers were outraged when former Detroiter Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, announced he would use the Quran for his swearing-in ceremony photo, instead of the Bible.

It’s OK.

(And when a Christian in Turkey is forced to swear by the Koran, well . . . .)

“Disappointed”

Bush disappointed by Libyan death ruling:

President Bush told Bulgarian President Georgi Purvanov on Thursday that he was disappointed with a Libyan court decision to reimpose the death sentences on Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting Libyan children with the HIV virus.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after Tuesday’s ruling that the United States was “very disappointed with the outcome” and urged the medical workers be freed and allowed to go home at the earliest possible date.

Ah, diplomacy. Gone are the days of outrage. And demands. And threats.

Maybe that’s good.

Or maybe it isn’t.

I wonder what caused Libya to reimpose the death penalty. Maybe next we’ll hear they have resumed sponsoring terrorism. Or resumed their WMD programs.

Maybe they knew disappointment would be the greatest sentiment they would provoke from the US.

Christianity 101

God loves Muslims.

So don’t be insulted or offended or mad because of the Tennessee governor’s Christmas card:

A Nashville pastor is questioning why Governor Bredesen chose to paint a picture of a teenage Muslim girl for his annual Christmas card.

Bredesen’s card shows a young Muslim girl that he met in Afghanistan last March.

Pastor Maury Davis of Cornerstone Church told W-K-R-N-T-V in Nashville that the governor’s message is convoluted and could be interpreted as an insult to Christianity.

On the back of the card, Bredesen wrote that it may seem odd to put a portrait of a Muslim on a Christmas card. But he said that the season should serve as a reminder that God loves his children most of all.

Bredesen also wished for peace and hope for the woman and her country.

Pastor Davis, it’s OK. Let it rest.

Can You Care…

…enough to get beyond feelings of contempt (or even lust)?

Prostitute keeps working despite friends’ killings:

Lindsey, a 20-year-old prostitute in Ipswich, huddles into her furry red hood as she tells how she is still working to feed her huge drug habit, even amid fears of a serial killer on the loose.

…having been close friends with the first two women to be murdered — Gemma Adams, 25, and 19-year-old Tania Nicol.

The mother-of-one says that she has a 300-pound (446-euro, 590-dollar) per day crack cocaine and heroin habit….

“If that’s the only life you know, then that’s the easy way of life to get through drug habits,” she added.

“This is our way of earning money, is working the streets and selling ourselves,” Lindsey said, taking a pull from the can of lager in her hand.

Who will pray for Lindsey?

Above all, love God!