Gratefulness!
Besides good genes, good exercise, good eating, good health care, good sleep, etc., here’s another candidate that helps prolong life: gratefulness.
So claimeth authors from Harvard U. and the University of British Columbia in “Gratitude and Mortality Among Older US Female Nurses,” published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Psychiatry.
They surveyed 49,275 “older” women (mean age 79 ± 6 years), all nurses in the USA, between 2016 and
CheatGPT?
Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954) was an English polymath—mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He is rightly considered the father of theoretical computer science. He is well known for having postulated the eponymous “Turing Test.”
In its original form a human interrogator has a text-based conversation with two people in another room (unknown to the interrogator, one is a man and the other a woman). The
Woods!
The woods. Bliss. Birds chirping, streams gurgling, and leaves rustling. Even replicated on white-noise machines to bring rest to rushing minds. All is calm. All is bright.
But not at night. ‘Cos it ain’t no “Silent Night.” Woods are “lovely,” yes, but they are “dark and deep” as quoth ye olde poet.
And confessed Eric Larsen, a polar explorer, outdoor educator, and self-described “professional camper” who has spent years of his life sleeping outside and
Head!
There have been, of late, anecdotal reports about a universal rise in head lice cases, reported Lindsey Bever in The Washington Post recently. These critters are itch-generating parasites that live on the scalp, and are typically spread through direct head-to-head contact, mostly among children.
And one reason for the increasing number of cases? Selfies! Yup. Group selfies, in particular, which often involve two or more heads together to fit into a cellphone frame. And
1 Timothy 5:17–25
God’s leaders who demonstrate godliness in their ministries, particularly with regard to Scripture, are to be amply rewarded, and impartially disciplined when they do not.
“Honor” that began the previous section (5:3), recurs to mark a new section (5:17). The word clearly has the connotation of remuneration; especially here in 5:17, in light of the following verse. Perhaps “double” honor means the honor of respect and the honor of remuneration. Such honor is due
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.