Weighed?
For those struggling with body image issues, even going to the doctor can be stressful, it appears.
Checking your weight at your physician’s office is standard practice (but not for dermatologists!). So if you have to hop on to a scale in the middle of a busy hallway at your doctor’s, well, that can be embarrassing for the self-conscious. And apparently that results in weight-worried patients avoiding health checkups altogether.
So More-Love.org has created a solution.
Recognition!
Yenny Seo is special. She is one of the few who fall into the category of “super-recognizers.”
As a child, this gal often surprised her mother by pointing out a stranger in the grocery store, remarking it was the same person they passed on the street a few weeks earlier. Gosh, while watching a movie, she could even recognize those extras in it who had also appeared fleetingly in other movies.
Ms. Seo:
It’s always been quite fun for me. Especially as a child. I remember
Intelligence?
There’s always the smartest kid in your class. The one who knows everything, aces every test, memorizes historical dates, names, places, recites the multiplication tables and the alphabet backwards and forwards, and in medical school can remember all the histories, medications, and lab values of his patients without the need for notes. And all the esoteric anatomical landmarks. And so on. Always the smartest kid.
That one, we’d predict, was headed towards being a rocket
New!
Well, what about that? We humans have a body part that’s never been seen before! Whodda thunk it?
So claim anatomy researchers from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in “The Human Masseter Muscle Revisited: First Description of Its Coronoid Part,” published in the Annals of Anatomy last month.
As one correspondent reported, it’s a jaw-dropping discovery. Literally. Because the masseter muscle is a muscle in our lower jaws essential for chewing. It’s the hunk
Ephesians 5:21–33
The filling by the Spirit manifests in the mutual submission of believers, and in the modeling of the husband–wife relationship after the Christ–church relationship.
“Submitting” in Ephesians 5:21 is the fifth verb (participle) that is dependent upon the main verb “be filled’ (in 5:18); the other four were: “speaking,” “singing,” “making melody,” and “giving thanks” (dealt with in the previous text, 5:1–20). What is called for here is mutual
Alone?
They say that “loneliness” is the pain of being along. And the glory of being alone is “solitude.”
Over the past few years, for most us—and not just for some who have chosen singleness and celibacy as a lifestyle—being alone has become quite a reality. Sheltering in place. Socially distancing. Exposure and infection quarantining. Etc.
Whether this becomes loneliness or solitude is a different question.
The last few years have also brought out significant research
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.