Well, that stunk. Yep. It did. For my Introduction to
Biblical Counseling class I had to do a personal paper of no less than three
pages about an area (or areas) in my life where I would like the Lord’s
healing. I gotta say I was a bit resentful of this assignment. I’ve met this
woman once or twice in my life (it’s an online class) and I’m about to spill my
guts over something in my life? And get graded on it? Sheesh!
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| My wrinkly hand. My right-hand is worse but I had a hard enough time taking a picture one-handed of my left hand! |
Little bit of ADD happening around here, just to give you
fair warning, so major topic change for no reason coming in 3-2-1. I’ve been
noticing lately how old my hands look. I’ve got freckles/age spots and the
worst wrinkles and parchment paper skin ever. Honestly it’s like my skin
stretched out a bit too much and I’m wearing skin gloves (which totally makes
me think of the first “Men in Black” movie where the farmer’s wife is talking to
Agents K & J about her husband after the alien cockroach takes him over. “It’s
like he was wearing a suit. An Edgar suit.”) Anyhow, I don’t want old looking
hands. So what do you do about it? I seriously have no idea. I’ve been drinking
my water like a good girl and trying to moisturize (even though it leaves weird
oily marks on the keys of my laptop…blech). Maybe I ought to Google it. Course
then I'd come across some nutritional supplement that guarantees to help you
lose weight, cure any and all diseases, is "completely natural" make your nostrils the same size, and…not make
your hands look old. (Another topic switch about to happen. Hold on to your
seatbelts.)
Have you ever noticed that there are a lot (a LOT) of
products that are sold through MLMs that swear that they cure pretty much
everything? And they cost a lot of money. And they are "completely all-natural" (um, so's the grass outside my door; ain't gonna eat it just cuz it's "natural"). And they aren’t backed by normal
medical doctors. Because according to them medical doctors lie. But all the
studies that THEIR doctors have done to prove the effectiveness have to be done
by…scientists and medical people.
My personal opinion is that most of the reason that
stuff works is psycho-somatic (or whatever the word is that means that you believe in
it enough to make it work). Add in that, of course, when things don’t work that
they always tell you to clean up what you eat and drink the recommended amount of
water to really see the benefits and you have to wonder. Wouldn’t you save a
lot of time, energy, and money if you just eat right, drink water, exercise and
believe in THAT?! I got put on a forum for one of these products and someone
asked how they took the product. One pill with breakfast, the special drink 30
minutes later, a different pill with lunch, another something 30 minutes later,
more pills at bedtime…I was exhausted just reading and wondering how in the world
anyone with any common sense couldn’t take a step back and look at that and see
that something wasn’t right. And the conspiracy theories about the medical establishment
that gets bandied about. Yes, I know that there are a lot of doctors that are
in pharmaceutical companies’ back pockets but I am certainly not going to trust
some dingaling lady that did some research on Google on things that backed up
her own theories vs. the years and years that my doctor (who also has spent
years and years with me and knows my medical history backward and forward) has
in schooling. Reminds me of a conversation I had with a lady about 20 years
ago. She had studied to be a birth coach for one of those no doctors/no drugs
birth programs. She was trying to talk me into letting her be my birth coach
instead of using my ob/gyn. And you know what she said to convince me? “We had
to take a 6-week course and write a paper and everything! Those doctors just
want to drug you up to control your labor so they can get on to the next
patient.” Wow. She had to study for 6 weeks and write a paper! Woo-wee. Why
yes, I certainly am going to trust YOU to deliver my precious baby and not my doctor of five years who
already delivered my first child because you had to "write a paper and everything!"
Morons. The world is full of them. And, yes, Chief Moron is
typing this out. I see the hypocrisy of it. And, yes, I’m laughing at myself.
And, no, it’s not going to stop me from posting this nonsensical blathering,
this not one iota of saneness happening post to my blog. Cuz I’m a rebel, I tell
you. Living on the edge.
Oh, and I really want to go see KISS and Def Leppard in
concert this summer.
That is all.
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