The evil empire

I listen to a podcast called “hardcore history” I just listened to the episode entitled “Judgment at Nineveh” according to this history dude Dan Carlin the Assyrians in Nineveh were brutal, violent, and whacked out!

They where cruel for the sake of cruelty – a formidable enemy- all of the nations around them hated them.

One thing I found on the internet was this:
One of the kings Ashurbanipal – Some accounts and pictures show him putting a dog chain through the jaw of a defeated king and then making him live in a dog kennel. Many bold pictures and paintings even boast of such cruel acts, showing he was proud of all that he did.

All the Assyrian kings where like this, terrorist and proud of it.

Can you imagine living in a culture like that? Or called by God to go to them ?

I can only imagine, how afraid, and how much Jonah might have hated them.

Can you imagine if God called you to go and bring his message to people like that?

I wonder, when God asks me to bring his message to a place I fear and hate… do I obey?

<< Jonah 4:11 >>

"Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?"

A nice day for a walk

i did it

I walk the butte today!!!

I tell you the truth

Matthew 24:30-45

"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time

IST

Most of my bloggy friends know I ‘v got a new fun illness to deal with.
“inappropriate sinus tachycardia” ( Heather thinks the “inappropriate” part is funny LOL) my case is mild, thank you Father God! It’s on my mind a bit these days as I try to adjust to the beta blockers, I though I would enlighten all who care to read :)

Inappropriate sinus tachycardia is:
An uncommon type of cardiac arrhythmia (an abnormal heart rhythm) in which a person's resting heart rate is usually greater than 90 - 100 beats per minute (or rapidly accelerates to greater than 90 - 100bpm very frequently), the heart rate increases dramatically with small amounts of exercise, emotional or physical stress.

What causes IST? Nobody knows
Patients with IST are hypersensitive to adrenaline, such that a little bit of adrenaline (like a little bit of exertion) causes a marked rise in heart rate

Symptoms
• Frequent Palpitations ( hate this one)
• Dyspnea (Shortness of Breath) and Palpitations on exertion
• Pre-Syncope (feeling as if about to faint)
• Fatigue (physical)
• Dizziness
• Exercise intolerance
• Occasional Paresthesia and cramping
• Symptoms associated with Autonomic nervous system disturbance, including GI disturbance

I don’t have fainting or paresthesia (sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness of a person's skin) but I got all the other symptoms.

Is it weird that I am blogging this?

We all like learning new things right? :)

The good news : IST itself is not dangerous. Whilst it can produce many unpleasant and disabling symptoms, it is not life-threatening.

Can IST be cured?
The 'Sinus Node Modification' / Ablation procedure, potentially offers a cure, the success rates for this procedure are lower than for most other types of arrhythmia. If the SA node Modification / Ablation is initially succesful (i.e. cures the IST), unfotunately the IST sometimes returns within a few months.

Can IST be treated?
IST can be treated with medications - some tried by cardiologists and other doctors include: Beta-blockers, Calcium channel Blockers, Anti-arrhythmics, Serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (e.g. Prozac), Florinef and Midodrine.

And you know, sometime it can spontaneously get better

For me the fatigue before treatment was just killer, I’d go to Costco on a Friday night and could barely push the cart I was so worn out. At church I’d stand up - and I’d get anxiety producing Palpitations. I’m so thankful for every service I can sit through now. The worst was the Saturday I had tachy and Palpitations the entire day. Grrrrr awful feeling. I did not know what it was back then, now I know, I know it won’t kill me that anxiety is gone. I have a few tingling worries in the back of my mind, like will it get worse? Will the drugs not work? Will I be disabled? Will I ever feel normal again? Will my friends think I am weird? Wait they already do……

But I know my life is not my own, and I trust my Father God. So I don’t let my worry take over

bean left behind

This is from an email my BFF Trish sent me.
I love this illustration.I have quite a few dried beans stuck in my wheel.

"It’s like a mental “dried bean on the floor of the store that got wedged under my grocery cart wheel”! Sometimes you just shake the cart around a little and it gets loosed, other times you push that dang thing for an hour through the store, pulling right the whole time thinking the wheel is just broke. Then you finally give up, get a new cart and watch someone else walk away with your old one with total ease. Then you see the stupid dried kidney bean left behind, half smashed."

So which one do you want to be?

Shuuush it’s a secret

dont tell anyone but i love Michael Bolton



mullet michael :


Nessun Dorma:

the new Dog bed :)

the verses mulling around in my head today......

Psalm 84:10 "Better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere...John 6:68 "to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."These verses mean a lot to me , They make me thankful and give me joy.what verses are "mulling" around in your head?

So Long and Thanks for all the Fish sing along!!!

So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear?


You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that grow (around you)
So long so long and thanks for all the fish

The world’s about to be destroyed
There’s no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the world dissolve (around you)

Despite those nets of tuna fleetes
We thought most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women

So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long and thanks for all the fish

If I had just one last wish
I would like a tasy fish
If we could just change one thing
We would all have learnt to sing

Come one and all
Man and mammal
Side by side in life's great gene pool

So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long and thanks for all the fish