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Now we find ourselves in the last paragraph of the first chapter of Mark. Mark chapter 1, verses 40 through 45, that ends chapter 1. Now I told you we'd be moving through Mark faster than we moved through Luke ten years, or Matthew eight years plus. And just to prove that to you, we've been eight weeks in Mark and we are now at Jesus' healing the leper. If we were in Matthew, we wouldn't run into that until chapter 8 of Matthew and we would be three years in Matthew before we got there. Now if we were back in Luke, we wouldn't run into this until the middle of the fifth chapter of Luke and we would have been two and a half years in getting to this. So we are definitely moving faster.
As we said about Mark, Mark's gospel tends to be classified under the category of immediately, the common word that is used over 40 times. It's a fast-paced gospel, no wasted words, he moves rapidly and we're doing the very same thing.
Now as we come to the account that's before us which is included in Matthew 8:1 to 4 and Luke 5:12 to 16, we come to one of two occasions in the four gospels where Jesus actually heals a leper. Leprosy is common in Israel according to Luke 4:27, and had been common in Israel for a long time. So it is very likely Jesus healed many lepers. In fact, in Mark chapter 14 and verse 3, we come to an occasion where Jesus is at a gathering with a whole lot of people in the home of none other than Simon the Leper.
Well, he wouldn't have been a leper then cause if he had been a leper then he would have been an outcast and he wouldn't have been able to hold a party at his house and have people attend, which is to say to us that Simon used to be a leper which is very likely to say Jesus had healed him but there's no record of his healing given to us in the gospels. There are only two records of the healing of lepers, this one, one man, and the occasion in Luke 17 where Jesus healed ten lepers. Again that's not say He didn't heal many more.
Remember that the miracles that are recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are selective. For all intents and purposes, we could sum up the healing ministry of Jesus in the words of Luke, He healed them all....He healed them all. He healed people in the thousands. The record is in heaven of all His healings, we have only samples given us in the New Testament.
The purpose of all these miracles whether it is healing disease, ending death, casting out demons, feeding multitudes, walking on water, whatever it is that was miraculous was done in order to validate the fact that Jesus is the Son of God and therefore not only does He have supernatural power, but what He says is true. After all, the most important thing to Jesus was the message. Look at Mark 1:38, "He said to them, 'Let's go somewhere else, to the towns nearby that I may preach there also, for that is what I came for.'" Or as Jesus said on another occasion, "I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." He came for the purpose of causing sinners to hear a message that would lead them to repentance and salvation, and in the language of verse 38, that meant to preach the Kingdom, to preach the gospel, to preach salvation. That's why He came. All the miracles did was validate the message.
If He had teachers running around everywhere teaching certain things, how do you know who's telling the truth. Well the one who can cast out demons, who has power over the whole kingdom of darkness, the one who can heal all diseases of all kinds in all people day after day after day, month after month, year after year, the one who has total control over life and death so that He can raise people from the dead, that's the one who is divine. And if He has divine power, then He can be trusted to be teaching divine truth.
So the testimony of the record of the miracles of Jesus with regard to physical miracles and spiritual miracles is to point to the validity of His teaching. Now keep in mind that for a period of three years, Jesus moved, first of all, Judea for a period of time, then for up to a year and a half, through Galilee, then back in the final months before His crucifixion into the south in Judea, going from town to town, village to village, place to place, and through all of these experiences He was teaching and preaching the gospel of the Kingdom which is the good news of salvation, forgiveness, eternal life, and at the same time validating that by doing uncounted miracles. So much so that John closes his gospel by saying all the books of the world couldn't contain everything He did. And the record is massive...massive. I often say that He virtually banished illness and demon possession from the land of Israel during the time of His ministry. It is a massive display of divine power, which leaves the nation fully aware who He is. They never denied His miracles, never denied His power. Only the leaders came up with the idea that He did it by the power of Satan, rather than the power of God. Therefore the whole nation is really indicted and self-condemned as they reject Him as their Messiah and Savior because the evidence is not arguable.
Now in the verses before us, verses 40 to 45, you have this one incident recorded in Matthew, Mark and Luke of the healing of a leper. It's a fascinating situation whenever a leper appears in the Bible because of the nature of the disease, and I'll say a little bit about that. But let's read the account.
Verse 40, "A leper came to Jesus beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him and saying, 'If You are willing, You can make me clean.' Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him and said to him, 'I am willing, be cleansed.' Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed and He sternly warned him and immediately sent him away. And He said to him, 'See that you say nothing to anyone but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded as a testimony to them.' But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news around to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopular areas and they were coming to Him from everywhere."
If you noticed this morning in the bulletin, the title of the sermon...the title is "Jesus trades places with a leper." And just listening to the reading, you can see how the circumstances of this particular healing literally juxtaposed the leper and Jesus. The leper, an outcast, having to stay in isolated places, came into the city, met Jesus. Jesus in the city because of the leper ended up in isolated places. Jesus trades places with a leper. I'll say more about that later.
Let's begin the simple story, the simple and magnificent account by looking at the leper's predicament. Then we'll look at the Lord's response, then the leper's response and then the Lord's predicament. The leper's predicament is simply stated, "And a leper came to Jesus." All it says about him, he's a leper. The assumption is that he has the kind of leprosy that makes you an outcast. The word "leprosy" is from lepros meaning scaly. It is a term used to mark scaly skin manifested disease. And there is much discussion as to exactly what the disease was pathologically and clinically in biblical times.
Since there was really no pathology in ancient times, since they didn't know what caused diseases, they didn't know about bacillus, bacteria, things like that, viruses. All they could do was look at the symptoms and judge a person's condition by virtue of the characteristics of those symptoms, and there would have been many, many skin disorders and skin diseases which could have demonstrated themselves in a scaly fashion, psoriasis, eczema, and others.
Many biblical kinds of leprosy could be in view. But I think it's best to assume that in this kind of a situation where you have reference to being made clean, that we're talking about the kind of leprosy that rendered someone unclean. And you have the same kind of thing in the account of the ten lepers in Luke 17 because it says they were standing far off.
When it was deemed that a person had this kind of leprosy which is today known as Hansen's disease, the kind of leprosy we associate with the word leprosy, they were put out of society all together. And we'll say more about that as well in a moment.
This labeled them then unclean. According to Leviticus 13, they had to say unclean, unclean, unclean everywhere they went in order to give people warnings. They had to tatter their clothes, shred their clothes, rip and tear their clothes so that it would be apparent to everyone that they in fact were lepers. They had other very indicating...very indicative tell-tale signs as well. But it was important that they be designated as unclean. And the fact that this man who has leprosy of whatever sorts says if You're willing, You can make me clean, indicates that whatever kind of leprosy he had, it was that kind that rendered him unclean. Most medical historians believe that leprosy originated in Egypt and there's an interesting reason for that, the disease has been found, the bacteria for that disease, believe ir or not, in a mommy from Egypt...the bacteria was mummified along with the mummy. In fact, some say the leprosy bacterium is the first bacterium to be identified as causing human disease.
Now Leviticus chapter 13, and we won't go into it, I went into it in more detail in our study of this same account in Matthew and Luke, gives preliminary examinations that were to be done by the priests. The priests were the protectors of the people and if you had some kind of a skin disorder, your family, your community would send you to the priest and Leviticus 13 gives a long list of prescriptive tests that need to be taken to diagnose what this person has. In fact, there are 59 verses in that one chapter just sorting out the various possibilities of skin disease. They were after an accurate diagnosis to protect people from this contagious bacillus that could move from person to person. There...there were obvious signs of leprosy and if a person was obviously a leper, they knew exactly what leprosy looked like, they wouldn't have to go through all the tests. But there were people who had an emerging case of leprosy, beginning stages of leprosy or perhaps at least not fully developed so that they could actually be certain about a diagnosis and therefore there were tests given in Leviticus 13 by which they could discern a person's condition. It was particularly important for anybody who was questionable, not for those who clearly had the disorder. So if you look at verse 18 or so, and go all the way to verse 59 and you can read all the various ways in which they tried to discern this.
When you come down to verse 45, I'll read that to you anyway, in Leviticus chapter 13, verse 44. "If the person is identified as a leprous man, he is unclean. The priests shall surely pronounce him unclean. His infection is on his head. As for the leper who has the infection, his clothes shall be torn, that is so that he can be easily identified as wearing rags, the hair of his head shall be uncovered because leprosy tends to show itself in reddish blotches and open sores on the head, they need to be visible. He call cover his mustache and cry 'Unclean, Unclean.' He shall remain unclean all the days in which he has the infection. He is unclean, he shall live alone. His dwelling should be outside the camp."
Now all of that points to what we would see as kind of a clinical case of leprosy, to be distinguished, as I said, from eczema, psoriasis, batilico(?), acne, ringworm, keloid, whatever other kind of skin disorders there are. In obvious cases, again, that test wouldn't be necessary that's given in Leviticus 13, unless in obvious cases it was very, very important to determine it. We now know it is a micro-bacterium lepra(?), as it is called, that causes the disease. And what that bacteria does is attack the nerves...it attacks the nerves in the skin and below the skin. And what it essentially does is anesthetize the feeling, the body and the limbs are so viciously attacked by this bacillus that feeling disappears. Thus the potential for injury is extremely severe.
It usually starts with a whiter pink patch of skin, usually on the brow, on the nose, on the ear, the cheek, the chin. The patch begins to spread in all directions. And one of the early signs is the eyebrows and eyelashes disappear, then spongy tumorous swelling grows on the face and then on the body. The disease becomes systemic, it involves the internal organs as well as the skin, fingers and toes can be reabsorbed into the body because the baccilus-invading the bone morrow impairs the blood supply, causes the bones to shrivel, it causes the extremities to shrivel. And because of the loss of feeling, because of the terrible nerve damage, the victim then destroys his own tissue because he has no feeling and there are stories about people who literally wore off their fingers doing simple things like washing dishes or tying their shoes, or using a rake because they cannot feel anything. The bacillus can destroy the eye, cause blindness, can penetrate the teeth so the teeth fall out, it penetrates the internal organs, causes sterility. It's a horrendous disease.
One writer, a Dr. Hoisingus(?) says about it, "Leprosy generally begins with pain in certain areas of the body, numbness follows. Soon the skin in such spots loses its original color, gets to be thick, glossy and scaly. The thicken spots become dirty sores and ulcers due to poor blood supply. The skin, especially around the eyes and ears, begins to bunch with deep furrows between the swelling so that the face of the afflicted individual begins to resemble that of a lion. The disease-producing agent frequently also attacks the larynx. The leper's voice acquires a grating quality, his throat becomes hoarse. He can now not only see, feel and smell the leper, you can hear his rasping voice.
The world-renown expert on this in modern times is Dr. Paul Brand. You may have read some of his writings on it. He has really helped this generation to understand this disease...1982 there were drugs developed that can bring relief and cure, although no drug can restore what has been lost. Concerning Paul Brand, the writer says, "Hanson's disease is cruel but not all the way...the way other diseases are. It primarily acts like an anesthetic, numbing the pain cells of hands, feet, nose, eyes and ears. Not so bad really one might think, most diseases are painful and we would like them not to be. What makes a painless disease so horrible? Well Hanson's disease numbing quality is precisely the reason for its fabeled destruction and decay. For thousands of years, people thought Hanson's disease called the ulcers on hands and feet and face which eventually led to rotting flesh and loss of limbs. Mainly through Dr. Brand's research, it's been established that in 99 percent of the cases, Hanson's disease only numbers the extremities, the destruction follows slowly because the warning system of pain is gone." People literally wear out their limbs.
On one occasion it says a man with leprosy tried to open the door of a little storeroom but a rusty padlock would not yield. A patient and undersized malnourished ten-year-old approached him smiling, "Let me, Sahib Doctor," he offered and reached for the key. This is from Paul Brand. "With a jerk of his hand, he turned the key in the lock. Brand was dumbfounded. How could this weak youngster do this?
"His eyes caught a tale-tell clue, was that a drop of blood on his hand? Upon examining the boy's fingers, Brand discovered the act of turning the key had gashed the finger open to the bone, skin, fat and joint were all exposed, yet the boy was completely unaware of it. To him, the sensation of cutting his finger to the bone was no different from picking up a stone or a coin in his pocket." Brand says, "The daily routine of life ground away at the leprosy patient's hands and feet, no warning system alerted him." Horrible disease.
The disease would go from ten to thirty years, the victim's is usually dying because they had no resistence to other diseases. Transmission occurs when bacillus is inhaled, so it was communicable, or by bodily contact, or by contact with the clothes of a leper. The last figures I saw around the year 2000, there were reported almost a million cases of leprosy and they think that's probably less than half of the real cases because most are not reported.
In biblical times, God sometimes used leprosy as a judgment. It was such a visible horror. "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper." For the safety of Israel, as early as the time of Moses, they were putting them out of the camp. But a stigma grew on top of that because 2 Samuel 3:29 says, "When David cursed the house of evil Joab, the curse included this, my it, your house, your family, never be without a leper." It was a despicable disease. It was even believed that it was not just a human curse but it was divine punishment. It was God, you'll remember, who smote Uzziah with leprosy, 2 Chronicles 26, further stigmatizing its victims. They had a horrible disease and had to leave the camp and say, "Unclean, unclean."
On top of that, it was as if someone had cursed them. On top of that, it was as if God had cursed them. They were religiously cut off. They couldn't go to the temple. They couldn't go to the synagogue. They couldn't go home. They couldn't associate with their family. They had to be isolated from all healthy people, they could only associate with other miserable lepers and that's why in Luke 17 we see the ten standing afar off together...no family, no job, no friends, no worship, no hope.
How severe was this man? Luke says he was full of leprosy, Luke 5:12...visible, ugly, frightening, a living death...a living death.
Now the fact that he came to Jesus is a shock...it's a shock. He's not supposed to do that. Outcasts were forbidden to come near anyone. The rabbis said...at least one rabbi that I read said, "Upwind a leper can come within six feet of a person, downwind, 150 feet." Josephus wrote that "Lepers were treated as if they were living dead men, corpses." In Israel they were barred from the city of Jerusalem all together, and all walled cities. And if they did enter any other place, they had to keep those distances. If a leper came near a synagogue, he would be rejected and sent to a small holding room until they could deal with him later. Rabbis used to pride themselves in avoiding lepers. One rabbi said, "He wouldn't eat an egg purchased on a street where a leper had walked." Another rabbi prided himself at throwing stones at lepers.
But this leper came to Jesus, through the crowd cause there was always a crowd. He violated all necessary standards of exclusion in his desperation. He came to Jesus beseeching him, begging Him with strong pleas, showing his desperation. His attitude was humble, respectful. It says that he was falling on his knees before Him. Matthew says worshiping, proskuneo, a verb that is always referring to worship of God every time it's used in the whole of the New Testament. He had a worshipful attitude, a respectful, reverent humble attitude. Luke says he fell on his face. He not only went on his knees, but he went down on his face. He flattened himself in humble adoration before Jesus.
Luke adds something else. Luke adds that he said, "Lord," and it appears as if this is all the right stuff. Did he believe Jesus to be the Son of God? The Messiah? The Lamb of God? The true King? The Anointed One? His body language might indicate that. He was willing to risk the shame, the embarrassment, the disdain to go where he was never supposed to go. That's how desperate he was and that's how confident he was in the power of Jesus which was now widely known. He had great confidence in Jesus' power to heal him, and he says to Him in verse 40, "If You are willing, you can make me clean." He had no doubt about Jesus' power. The only thing he didn't know was whether He willed to do it.
There's something very good in that. He acknowledges sovereign prerogative. He knows he has no just claim on Christ. Look, he would view himself as an outcast. He would view himself as despicable. He would view himself as despised by men. He would view himself as cursed by God. So he would come with the hope that if Jesus is indeed the Son of God, maybe God would change His mind, but he know he could lay no claim on God, he would be well aware of his own wretchedness, his own internal sinfulness as well as his own physical wretchedness. He would know well that he is a sinner. He would have borne the stigma of his sin physically in his own mind and he knew he could lay no claim on God. If God had cursed him this way, maybe God wanted him that way and no healing would come from this one, even if He were the Son of God.
So though he is respectful and reverent and calls Him "Lord" and bows down and gives Jesus the prerogative, if You are willing, You can make me clean...nonetheless he's desperate enough to show up, desperation, reverence, worship, humility, confident faith, respect, that's all the right stuff. And he pleads for what he needs...cleansing.
A little footnote. Scripture only talks about cleansing with regard to leprosy, never healing...never healing. Scripture always speaks of cleansing lepers, never of healing them because that connects it with the true disease, the disease that is defined in Leviticus 13 for which one is rendered unclean and socially isolated and ostracized.
And by the way, the defilement was worse than the disease. The disease was horrendous. The disease was horrible, but it is compounded by the fact that you have no ability to interact with anybody but the people who also have the disease. The defilement and the disease itself compelled the man, his confidence in the power of Jesus caused him to breach all laws and expectations, and he came.
Horror must have swept through the crowd, for Luke's words are understood that he was full of leprosy, that was because that was evident. So the leper's predicament.
Secondly, the Lord's response...the Lord's response. Although...just to make a note here...Jesus healed people who did not believe in Him, He healed people who didn't show Him respect, He healed people who didn't bow down, He healed people who didn't worship Him, He healed people who didn't call Him Lord, in fact He healed all kinds of people, most people certainly did not believe in Him...He healed non-believers, He healed them whether they had faith or didn't have faith. He cast demons out of people who didn't want Him necessarily to do that, they were being controlled by the demons who didn't want to be expelled.
So it had nothing to do with a man's attitude. His attitude is interesting but his attitude is not the reason Jesus healed him. Luke 4:40 says He healed everybody. He healed everyone. He didn't make distinctions about having faith, enough faith, too little faith. That was immaterial. He healed everybody. As I said, He banished illness from Israel.
The only thing that moved Jesus to heal a man is indicated in verse 41, His compassion, He was moved with compassion. He felt the man's pain. He felt the agony of this man's isolation, physical distress, social isolation, religious isolation. The man's plight triggered Jesus' compassion. God is a God of compassion. God is a God of all compassion. God feels the pain of sin's effects on sinners and Mark chapter 6, for example, and many other places, but close by in Mark chapter 6 and verse 33, "The people saw him going and many recognized them and ran there together on foot from all the cities and got there ahead of them. When Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd and He felt compassion."
This is the heart of God who feels the pain of suffering in this world. That's what motivated Him. It wasn't some trigger by the man's level of faith, for Jesus healed everybody all the time, faith or no faith. Jesus stretched out His hand, I told you last week He healed with a word and a touch, He stretched out His hand, touched him and then said to him, "I'm willing, be cleansed."
Now in Leviticus 5:3 there's a law forbidding anyone to touch a leper. But Jesus couldn't be defiled by anyone...He could not be defiled by anyone. Do you understand that? There's no record in the Scripture that Jesus ever had an illness, a disease, no record that He ever had a cough, a cold, a sneeze, no record that He ever had any infliction upon His perfect sinless body.
You say, "But He died." But nothing killed Him. He died only because He gave up His life voluntarily. "No man takes My life from Me, I lay it down by Myself." He was not affected when a prostitute ran her hands all over His feet. Most men having a prostitute do that would be fighting off illicit thoughts. Not Jesus, nor was He affected when a leper touched Him or when He touched a leper.
His touch was a touch of compassion. His touch was a touch of connection. It is Jesus linking Himself directly to the healing. Mark mentions this a lot. Mark talks a lot about touch, so does Luke. There are probably a dozen times in the gospel of Mark where we find Jesus is touching somebody or somebody is touching Jesus, and the same would be true in the gospel of Luke. Jesus loved to give people the touch of compassion, the touch of tenderness, the touch of kindness, especially people that nobody else would touch. They were known as the untouchables.
And then He said to him, "I am willing, be cleansed." Sovereign love responded and sovereign power acted. "I'm willing, be cleansed." And here comes Luke's...or Mark's favorite word, verse 42, "Immediately...Immediately," on the spot, at that moment, because that's how Jesus healed, right?, instantaneously and completely the leprosy left him and he was cleansed. Jesus heals him by a word and a touch, instantly, completely, no gimmicks, no process, and no explanation.
It was obvious and His miracles were creative. There is no medication that can restore what leprosy has eaten, even though since 1982 we have a medication that can stop the disease, it can't stop and reverse the effects of the disease, but Jesus didn't have those limitations. If his forehead had been worn away, if his face had been disfigured, all of that disappeared in that moment. If his eyes were sunken and even absent, they reappeared, freshly created. If his eyelashes and eyebrows were gone, they suddenly were back. If his bloody limbs had been worn off, if his throat had been scarred, if his fingers and toes were curled up like claws and worn away, all this was instantly restored...instantly restored. This is a true healer...true healer, and it all happened instantly.
Let me tell you something else. He was not only well, he was fit. And if you have had something like leprosy for years and years, the destruction of your system that isn't visible on the inside, the internal organs, the problems with the blood would render you weak. And the recovery period could be months, if not years. But in this man's case, Jesus sternly warned him in verse 43, "And immediately sent him away." On your way, and He said to him, "Go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded."
Where would he have to go to do that? Jerusalem...to the temple, to the on-duty course of priests where all necessary offerings and sacrifices were made. Walk 60-70 miles to Jerusalem. So when I say he was healed and he was also fit, that's what I mean. In the healings of Jesus, there's no rehab.
Now, our Lord gives him some instruction that I think is so fascinating in verse 43. He sternly warned him...that's an interesting verb, it comes from the roots to snort...snort not like cocaine, but like a horse. To make a loud snort as if irritated and impatient. This is verbal noise that came to refer to a very strong demand. This is very strong language. This is not a suggestion. The Lord snorted at him, "I'm warning you, get out of here right now, immediately." And He gives him two commands...a negative one and a positive one. The command, first of all, verse 44, "He said to him, 'See that you say nothing to anyone.'"
Oh, come on. That is so counterintuitive. That is so difficult. That's a test of obedience, isn't it? Why? Well He doesn't tell him why. Remember the rich young ruler? He gave him a couple of tests and he wasn't willing to do it and he walked away, right? You remember the rich young ruler came to Jesus, bowed down, "What do I do to inherit eternal life?" All the right questions, all the right stuff, very much like this guy. Jesus tells him to do two things, you know, basically take an inventory of his life and admit he's a sinner and secondly, be willing to give his money to the poor. Then he walks away. So the acid test of a true faith is in the obedience. "If you continue in My Word, you're My real disciple. If you obey My Word, you're My real disciple," John 8.
Jesus gives him a simple command, not a difficult one, but at this point He's establishing whether or not the man when he said "Lord" really meant it. Now it isn't unusual for Jesus to silence somebody. Go back to chapter 1 verse 25. The demon in the synagogue in Nazareth, or in Capernaum, rather, the demon in the synagogue in Capernaum says in verse 24, "What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are, the Holy One of God." And Jesus rebuked him saying, "Be quiet, come out of him."
Down in verse 34, end of the verse. "He was not permitting the demons to speak because they knew who He was. He did not want publicity from demons. So He's been silencing the demons and now He's going to silence the people who are healed. This becomes a pattern. I don't want you to say anything. Chapter 3 verse 12, "After healing many people, many afflictions, unclean spirits, verse 12...3:12...He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was."
Chapter 5 verse 43, "After the miracle with the twelve-year-old girl that astounded everybody," verse 43, "He gave them strict orders that no one should know about this." That seem strange? Don't tell anybody. Chapter 7 verse 36, this is the healing of the deaf man. "He gave them orders not to tell anyone," chapter 7 verse 36, "but the more He ordered them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it." Chapter 8, here He heals a blind man and down in verse 25, laid His hands on his eyes, looked intently, was restored, began to see everything clearly, and He said to him....He sent him to his home, He said, "Go home, do not even enter the village."
Now what is this about? Well He doesn't give this man...go back to Mark 1...He doesn't give this man any explanation to what it's about but I'll show you the explanation in a moment. Don't tell anybody. Don't tell anybody. Go immediately, get somebody...obviously who will accompany you...head for the priest in the temple at Jerusalem to do what is prescribed.
Back to verse 44, "Go show yourself to the priest." That's the positive. The negative is, "Don't tell anybody," the positive is, "Go show yourself to the priest, offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded," that's what I want you to do.
Now the Old Testament gave a prescription. Leviticus 14, that when a leper was thought to be cured, there was a process the leper went through, a process of examination and a process of offerings and sacrifices that were to be done at the temple. So Jesus is upholding the Law. He upheld the moral law, and He upheld also the...we could call it the medical law, or the health part of the law which protected the nation Israel from contagious diseases. So He says you've got to follow the prescription according to Leviticus chapter 14. Go to the priest, go to the priest...the priest, as we note when you read through Leviticus 13 and 14, are the ones who are the health officials in the nation.
Now the ritual is very interesting. Here's kind of how the ritual goes. The leper is examined by a priest, two birds are taken and one is killed over running water, in addition they're taking cedar, scarlet and hyssop, these things are taken together with the living bird, dipped in the blood of the dead bird, then the living bird is allowed to go free. The man...this is all symbolic...the man washed himself and his clothes, shaves himself, seven days are allowed to pass and then he's reexamined. He must then shave his hair again, his head, his eyebrows, certain sacrifices are then made consisting of two male lambs without blemish, one ewe lamb, three tenths of an amount of fine flour mingled with oil and the restored leper is then touched on the tip of the right ear, the right thumb and the right great toe with mixture of blood and oil. Finally examined for the last time. And if the cure is indeed real, he is allowed to go with a certificate that he is cleansed. So He says, "Go do that."
Why? End of verse 44, "As a testimony to them." Who? Priests. You're going to go to the temple, you're going to talk to the priests. I want this miracle confirmed to the priests. That...that would be something they couldn't ignore. You take...obviously he's going to take some people from his family with him, they're going to tell the story because to look at the man, you'd never know he had leprosy. But I want them to know that you have been totally healed of leprosy. He wants the priests to have to face His power. He also wants the priests to know that He upholds the Mosaic Law.
The testimony then will indict the priests. And if they are sufficiently indicted, and convicted of their sin of rejecting Jesus Christ, remember now, they're at the temple and He already cleansed the temple so they already have a severe anti-Christ attitude. You go back, you tell them this incredible story. They go through the tests. If indeed they face the reality that you are a leper who is now completely restored, then if they reject me, they condemn themselves by their own findings...by their own findings. If they believe in Me, it will be because they have made the obvious connection. This kind of power belongs only to the Son of God. So it's important to the testimony to the priests that they might be convicted, convinced and believed or that t hey might be condemned by their own findings.
Well we know eventually they all screamed for His blood and condemned themselves in the process. Jesus wanted the man to give a testimony to the priests. What did he do?
Well, we've seen the leper's predicament, We've seen the Lord's response, gives him a negative and a positive command, here's the Lord's predicament...we're back now kind of where we started. Started with a leper's predicament, the leper puts the Lord in a somewhat similar predicament, verse 45, "He went out, began to proclaim it freely and spread the news around." Just exactly what he was told not to do.
So if you had any big-time illusions about this man's spiritual interest in Christ, it sort of seems to fall apart here, doesn't it? Man's disobedience eliminated the opportunity for the testimony to the priests which is what the Lord wanted him to do. Secondly, the man's disobedience in spreading this all over everywhere had a negative effect on even what Jesus was able to do. It says in verse 45, "He spread the news around to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas. He couldn't even go into a city. Josephus says there are about 240 towns and villages around Galilee, He wanted to go to all of them, that's what it said in chapter 1 verse 38 and 39, let's go to all the towns and all the villages and preach. Let's go everywhere. That's what He wanted to do.
But there was just too much hysteria. And remember, a moment ago I read you chapter 7 and verse 36, this thing reaches a fever pitch. He gave them orders not to tell anyone. The more He ordered them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it. And now He can't even get near a town. Any where there's a mass of populous, they crush Him. He has to escape that. You see Him out in the wilderness from here on. You see Him out by the seashore somewhere. Sometimes He has to get in a boat and float off just to get away from the people enough to speak to them. The enthusiasm has reached a fever pitch and it's all about the healing. It's unrealistic Messianic expectation. His popularity is exploding. In fact, in chapter 2 verse 1, when He does come back to Capernaum, His home base, several days after this and it's heard that He was at home and many were gathered, there was no longer room, not even near the door and that led to the story about the man being let down through the roof to be healed. Just crushed everywhere. And all they all wanted was the healing...the healing...the healing...the healing. Jesus said we don't need anymore of that promotion, we don't need anymore of that publicity, just go tell the priests, I want the priests to have to face the reality of My divine power.
You know, this was the first sign that the Galilean ministry was being ground down...ground down, eventually to a halt. And one of the grinding stones was the hatred of the leaders and the other grinding stone was the massive popularity of the people. In between the two, they were just grinding down that ministry to a stop. Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city but stayed out in unpopulated areas.
Drop down to verse 13 of chapter 2. "He went again out by the seashore and all the people were coming to Him and He was teaching them." He couldn't go to a city anymore. Chapter 3 verse 7, "Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples and a great multitude from Galilee followed and also from Judea and from Jerusalem and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him." And that's when He told His disciples that He was going to have to get in a boat.
If this man had obeyed Him, it might have slowed the crush. It might have allowed Him to go to a town He never was able to go to, maybe heal some people that were unable to be healed. The people who tended to be ill, severest, couldn't leave the town. If He couldn't go to the town, He couldn't get to them.
Still, the end of verse 45, "They were coming to Him from everywhere, out to the wilderness, out to the mountain side, out to the hills, out to the valleys, out to the fields, out to the seashore...massive crowds. And He can't enter the city."
Now here's the title, Jesus exchange or trades places with the leper. The leper started in the wilderness in isolation and after meeting Jesus, was able to mingle in the city. Or Jesus started in the city after meeting the leper, was isolated to the wilderness. So Jesus trades places with a leper.
And I think that's a metaphor in closing for what He did at the cross, is it not? We are the spiritual lepers who lived in alienation and isolation from God. We met Him, we were brought into the presence of God in the Kingdom. But the only way we could ever be taken from our isolation and brought into the presence of God was if He left the presence of God and went Himself into isolation. And that's what He did on the cross because Jesus was forsaken, because Jesus was treated as an outcast we are accepted and welcomed into the presence of God.
So here you see in this one little healing, Mark uses language that really irresistibly draws us to the fact that Jesus takes the place of sinners.
We thank You, Lord, again to this wonderful glimpse of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank You for each glimpse we have but never enough. And even when we look, we know there's much more that we surely missed. What a joy it would have been to have been there then. We think we would have believed, but the whole nation rejected Him, it seems to us incomprehensible. We don't even know what happened to this man. We have no idea what happened to this man, but we do know that when he had an opportunity to obey, he refused. So whatever he meant by "lord" didn't seem to be very serious. Father, we want to thank You that Jesus Christ exchanged places with us, that He traded places with us, that He took our sin and our judgment and our punishment, that He became an outcast, that He was forsaken by You in order that we might be received and accepted and be made sons. We rejoice in this with grateful hearts. And we ask that You would cause us to proclaim this great message which is such blessing to our own hearts, may we tell the story. Leprosy is a picture of sin, is there any better physical picture of sin, destroys the whole person, alienates, isolates, cuts people off from You. But Jesus ushers the sinner into Your presence by taking the sinner's place. What a wonderful truth this is. Thank You for it. We thank You for the salvation that is ours in Christ, and we ask, Lord, that You give us opportunity to proclaim it to His glory. Amen.
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Sometimes decking the halls is just the thing to take your mind off of whatever ails you. Here's a peek at the full-on holiday immersion we had over the weekend. 'Tis the season!
You may look at these photos and think what a happy, sweet family they must be. Well, full disclosure: In between many of these shots, there were meltdowns (all four of us took turns) and time outs and feet stomping and the usual shenanigans. But overall it was a great family weekend of holiday prep and merriment. We bought and decorated our tree, hung wreaths, made holiday treats, watched The Grinch and Arthur Christmas, bought new and special ornaments (Alex got a fish hook thingy and Nora got a pink glittery nutcracker; I got a s'more snowman) and the Christmas carols cranked throughout. I even ordered Alex his violin (and marshmallow shooter). All the holiday prep was the perfect antidote to any scroogey/grinchy feelings we may have had. It's definitely been a rough few months in these parts for so many people, but seeing the house all done up really does make me happy—and the kids are in constant awe, which is so fun to see. Here's how it all went down. Or up, I should say…
On Friday after school, we picked out our Christmas tree. We get it from our local fire department—love supporting them, particularly after our "gas leak" incident over the summer.
The kids helped hang roping and lights on our fence. They also decorated each other, of course.
I have a bunch of red plastic balls that the kids are allowed to hang. They put all of them in one big clump, naturally. I can't remember why Nora was undressed but we went with it.
At one point, Nora looked up at me and said, "Wait, what is this again? What is this holiday called?" Um, Christmas, hello??!!!
After smashing a few ornaments, we took a break and made peppermint barf (Nick thought it was funny to call it that and—shocker!—the kids liked saying it, too).
Nora guarded the fridge so no one (her) could get in and stick their fingers in the hardening barf. Gross, I know. Sorry.
This is quite possibly my favorite shot. My earnest little boy was finally getting to hang the star, which he'd been asking about all weekend and his sister took the opportunity to raid his wallet down below.
Nick snapped this in the mirror of me snapping a pic of the kids. Cool shot, but weird to see my living room flipped!
Well-deserved, post-decorating martinis. Cheers! How's your house looking? Does the holiday décor make you happy, too?


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HAMDEN, Conn. - The Quinnipiac University men's ice hockey team upset nationally-ranked #5 Yale, 4-3, in its final regular-season game of the 2009-10 season before a sell-out crowd of 4,267 at the TD Bank Sports Center in Hamden, Conn. With the win, Quinnipiac clinches the 7th seed in the upcoming ECAC Hockey Tournament. The Bobcats are now set to host 10th seed Dartmouth on Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7 with the third game slated for Sunday, March 7, if necessary.
Quinnipiac closes the regular season at 17-15-2 overall including a 11-11-0 record in ECAC Hockey play. Yale is now 19-7-3 overall and 15-5-2 in ECAC Hockey play. They own a share of the ECAC Hockey Regular-Season Championship and will be the first seed, receiving a bye, in the ECAC Hockey Tournament.
Quinnipiac also remained undefeated at 13-0-1 when holding a lead after two periods. The Bobcats are undefeated in their last 48 games in that scenario, posting a 44-0-4 record since the 2006-07 season.
The win also ensures that the "Heroes Hat" remains at the TD Bank Sports Center. The "Heroes Hat" is played in remembrance of the victims of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and in memory of Joseph Mascali (FDNY/Staten Island 5), father of Quinnipiac alumni Chris and Jenn Mascali. The winner of the annual game between Quinnipiac and Yale at the TD Bank Sports Center wins the Hat for that year. Quinnipiac has never lost the Hat to Yale, posting a 3-0-1 record all-time at the TD Bank Sports Center.
"The 'Heroes Hat' is a big game for us," Head Coach Rand Pecknold said. "To my guys, this game against Yale is a big game. The 'Heroes Hat' is something that is important to the Quinnipiac hockey community and I'm happy to have it stay in Hamden."
Yale senior Denny Kearney scored the first goal of the game, staking Yale to a 1-0 lead midway through the first period. Broc Little set up the play, dropping a pass to Kearney in the slot. Quinnipiac's Zach Hansen (White Bear Lake, Minn.) tied the game with less than a minute to play in the period.
Hansen's second goal of the year came on assists from senior stand-outs Brandon Wong (Victoria, B.C.) and Jean-Marc Beaudoin (St. Paul, Alb.). A shorthanded goal, the junior defenseman scored after an interference call on Quinnipiac. The trio heard their numbers called several times over the course of the evening as Hansen was credited with an assist in addition to the goal, while Wong had three assists. Beaudoin scored twice for the second night in a row, while also picking up one assist.
Kearney netted his second goal of the game just 1:29 into the second period, with assists going to Jimmy Martin and Mark Arcobello. Kearney's second goal of the night gave Yale their second and final lead of the night. The Bobcats rattled off three unanswered goals, two coming in the last 12 minutes of the second period.
Greg Holt (Mt. Sinai, N.Y.) added to his career-high goal total with his ninth marker of the season. Hansen quarterbacked the play, carrying the puck into the Yale zone before sending it across ice to Wong. Wong handed the puck off to Holt who attacked the net. Holt faked a shot, from the right side of the goal, skated behind it and beat Bulldogs' goalie Nick Maricic on a wrap-around to tie the game.
It was all Beaudoin down the stretch as the senior captain scored twice to give Quinnipiac a 4-2 lead with 13 minutes to play in the game. Beaudoin's first goal of the game, came with just under seven minutes to play in the second period. Beaudoin's goal gave Quinnipiac a lead, with assists going to Lampe and Loren Barron (Glendora, Calif.). Barron had three assists in Friday night's win against Brown. The senior captain then scored Quinnipiac's lone power-play goal of the evening seven minutes into the third period to give Quinnipiac a two-goal lead.
Yale's Brendan Mason pulled the Bulldogs to within a goal with his ninth of the season. He was set up on the play by Tom Dignard and Jeff Anderson. Anderson fed Dignard who dropped a pass off to Mason on the goalline. Mason, also behind the goalline, sniped a shot over the shoulder of Quinnipiac's Dan Clarke (Belleville, Ont.). Clarke finished with 35 saves in the game.
The Bobcats return to action on Friday, March 5 when they host 10th-seeded Dartmouth for the first game of the ECAC Hockey Championship First Round at 7 p.m. at the TD Bank Sports Center in Hamden, Conn. The second game is set for Saturday, March 6 at 7 p.m, with the third game, if necessary, to be played on Sunday, March 7, also at 7 p.m.


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[CE 2006 August 7, 2006 23:25 PDT] Index page started, trac pages started to an end
I've worked up a simple index page for the Tioga project available. Undoubtedly, there are some more pages to be added, there. Having the opportunity to host the Tioga project, at common-lisp.net I have been more interested in mapping out a baseline structure for the project than to produce any code or any web-pages, immediately.
Originally, it was my intention that the Trac resource to the Tioga project would be used as a primary whiteboard, for a containment of material in regards to the design of systems to the project.
On further consideration, however, Trac's conventions about text markup may appear to be stifling of an opportunity to use Trac's features for page-service.
This may be the last change onto the Tioga project's Trac resource.
With courtesy to the common-lisp.net administrators, and tech-coop for the hosting
-- Sean Champ, Tioga Project Head Guy
An Introduction to Trac (I)
Tip: HTML markup does not work, in Trac pages. Trac's supported format for Trac wiki page markup should work.
An Introduction to Trac (II)
Please read the TracGuide
Also see http://common-lisp.net/trac-intro.shtml for some information about how Trac is configured and for hints which you may be interested in.
The common-lisp.net maintainers
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Let me make this very clear. Gratitude is the best attitude.
Saying thank you and showing appreciation can be done in many ways. But the most important thing is simply recognizing how fortunate we all are. The fact is, in this country, even our slums are better than the best of what many other countries in the world have to offer.
Our lack-based protective mind continuously looks for more (like a squirrel hording nuts for winter) and has a tendency to overlook and discount what we already do have. Consequently, unless we consistently remind ourselves to look for "what's right" in our lives, we often only see "what's wrong."
It takes courage to "want what we've got" and be grateful for what we already have. The ego will tell us that if we spend too much time appreciating what we have, we won't attempt to get "more" and disaster will eventually befall us. This is how the ego keeps us on the high-speed treadmill of "more". The fact is, however, that there is never an end to the chase. (We think it will end, but notice from your own experience that it never does!)
The universe has a rule that states, "If you don't appreciate what you've got then you won't get anymore." In short, if you don't appreciate one, you don't need two. Again, it's the old "use it (as in appreciate it fully) or lose it" deal. The power of appreciation particularly holds true when it comes to our finances. If you want more abundance, be grateful for and properly manage all the wealth you have now. Remember, what you focus on expands.
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What's better than adopting one cat? Adopting two! They will keep each other company, and two felines means double the love and affection for you.read more
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Don't leave your furry feline friend behind the next time your family hits the road. Use these five easy tips to make traveling with your cat a snap.more
Is your cat always in your closet? Does she knock over plants and bother you at night? Your home could be dullsville for your feline, but it may only require simple changes.more
The Daily Cat's most requested topic is how to solve cat litter box problems. You asked and we listened. Here are ways to prevent litter box misses, kitty carpet messes and much more.more
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Animal shelters must screen their cats for health and temperament, whereas pet adoption ads posted on the Web or in newspapers by individuals are usually unregulated. Adopting a new cat from a shelter is therefore often the best, safest option.read more
While cats are considered to be senior at age 7, they move into the "senior-plus" category at age 11. Below, Dr. Trisha Joyce, veterinarian at BluePearl Veterinary Partners, shares the special nutritional needs of cats in their golden years.
Nutritional Considerations Change as Cats Age
"The biggest thing for older cats is protein content," says Joyce. "All cats older than 11 have some degree of kidney disease." Cats are obligate carnivores; they need animal protein to not only thrive, but also survive. As they age, though, their kidneys can't generally handle so much of a good thing. "A little less protein is easier on the kidneys," emphasizes Joyce.
Other concerns for older cats will not be new to anyone who is familiar with the human aging process:
Is Senior-plus Food Right for Your Cat?
Senior-plus food is appropriate for all cats 11 and older whose health problems do not meet the threshold for a specific prescription diet. Cats with more severe health problems may need a more aggressive dietary approach. "Senior food is no substitute for a prescription diet. Make sure to involve your veterinarian in any decision to change your pet's food," says Joyce.
When transitioning to a new food, it is recommended that you make the change gradually, substituting small amounts of new food for old over the course of a week.
What to Look For in Senior-plus Food
Given the most common health concerns of older cats, senior-plus formulas should address kidney health, immune functioning, joint health, digestion and weight concerns. As Joyce mentions above, a lower-protein formula can help promote kidney health. The following ingredients address each of these other common concerns:
"Cat's don't complain like dogs do, so owners are less likely to know they're suffering, but it doesn't mean joint pain is not an issue for them!" emphasizes Joyce.
Cats need extra TLC in their golden years, and one place to provide it is in the dish. With the right pet formula, your senior-plus cat can enjoy its old age as much as its youth.
Rose Springer is a frequent contributor to The Daily Cat and The Dog Daily. She lives in New York City.
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Statistics reveal that the UK represents the most expensive market to drive app downloads. In fact we're 74% more expensive than the USA.
The findings come from the InMobi App Insight Report released yesterday, revealing trends and insights from app developers who ran campaigns on InMobi's network in Q2 2013.
So what accounts for the UK being such a pricey market to crack?
According to InMobi's analysis, out of 50m app installs, 60% were downloaded by just five countries: USA, India, Japan, China and Indonesia.
United Kingdom is in eighth place with only a 3% share.
According to Ofcom's last report, mobile penetration in the UK is at 58%, and 19% of us own a tablet (check out more fascinating stats about mobile commerce here), so there's a huge disparity between these figures.
In this table we can see the UK's position in the global market and how much more it costs to drive an app download here than anywhere else in the world.
Using the US as a base rate, we are a 74% tougher market than they are, and nearly 100% tougher than anywhere in Asia.
The UK is one of the more advanced places in the world for mobile usage, so why is it costing so much to persuade us to download an app?
I asked Kathryn Green, marketing director at the UK app developer Poq Studio, her thoughts on the subject...
Why do you think it costs so much to persuade someone to download an app in the UK?
I think it's a combination of the app space now being extremely crowded, and the fact that sophisticated app promotional tools are still gaining a foothold in the UK market.
For example, there are case studies of Facebook Mobile App Install Ads in the US doing really well, but not so many this side of the pond. 02 is an exception, but this would have been an expensive campaign to run.
Most app developers have a real problem distinguishing themselves from the crowd. We work exclusively with retailers who already have an existing audience of shoppers so this makes it a lot easier to get people's attention, but even so a good app marketing plan is vital.
It's very hard for a completely new brand to build an audience from scratch, and that's always been the case, whether it's with an app or any other product.
Is there something more that can be done in terms of marketing or advertising apps in the UK?
More companies need to take advantage of different tools to promote their apps. Banner ads aren't enough! Facebook and Google both now offer direct download app adverts, which should be tried out and tested like any other advertising channel.
There are lots of easy things that app developers can do but most currently aren't, like using the Apple approved banner pop-ups on mobile websites, or using existing channels like email marketing to promote apps.
Once you've got someone to download an app and become a regular user, it's a huge part of their life. Google has said that people look at their phones 150 times a day.
An engaged app user is incredibly valuable to a brand, so it makes sense that they would be expensive to recruit.
Is the cost of an app download in the UK comparable with the rest of the globe?
It's hard to generalise as apps vary so wildly in category and function. What really matters is not the initial cost of getting that download, but what the lifetime value of each download is.
For retailers, the lifetime value (LTV) of app users can be very high indeed, as returning customers are worth much more than new ones. For a gaming app, for instance, this will look very different. UK app developers need to have a clear picture of their revenue stream when they're looking at how much to spend on promotion - the LTV is the key figure.
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text: DigitalPaper Invades LA: Shop 'Til You DropBy Alissa Walker|November 13, 2007ShareBy Alissa Walker|November 13, 2007ShareWe're probably getting to this post about the same time everyone from Paper is finally waking up from their recovery naps after the five-day bender that was the LA Paper Project. The highlight for us, of course, was the 24-hour pop-up store featuring some of our very favorite art and design retailers. The store, designed by Barbara Bestor, was hot and packed tight, and, to our dismay, a completely dry event, except for the bottomless supply of Red Bull. We hear Lindsay Lohan came by later, so it was probably for the best.Kim Hastreiter's red specs presided over the Paper booth and Mickey Boardman flitted about the space in a signature cardigan. A smiling Tim Biskup carried an unhappy camper, his daughter, through the throngs. Cobrasnake was there selling his line of products (who knew?) and chatting with the guy we didn't know was Jeremy Scott when we snapped him at Moss (he was wearing the same sweater so he was easy to spot). And we finally met the troublemaker behind CITIZEN:Citizen, Philip Wood, who handed us a bottle of pills (to promote their pop-up store in LA this December). He wasn't too rattled by the fact that vendors Andrew Andrew were selling knock-offs of CITIZEN:Citizen's products a few booths away. More on that.We met photographer Dan Monick, he's the guy who snapped those shots of Daft Punk for Paper this month (and he's not telling who's who behind the helmets). Adorable Rose Apodaca was found manning her booth and promoting A+R's new blog. The 'A' in A+R, Andy Griffith, was putting the final touches on the second A+R store in Venice, which opened this week. And our vote for favorite booth, Heartschallenger, got their heart on (below).Click on for lots more photos of the wares… The too-cute Ooga Booga. CITIZEN-Citizen and their gold-plated goods. Solitary Arts skateboards and custom art by Jeff McFedrich. 150 limited edition basketballs from Undefeated. Rose Apodaca and A+R. Awesome shop Family looking rather bookish. New surf shop Mollusk's got some fine shirts. See you next year, Paper! Sharehttp://adweek.it/2kfYhEQ copy Adweek Adweek


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WHY: Most medical students in the United States, like those at Pitt's School of Medicine, receive their residency assignments through a national computer system operated by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The process matches graduating medical students with residency programs across the country. During the past few years, more than 80 percent of Pitt medical students have received one of their top three choices.
Residency assignments will be presented to the class of 2011 by Arthur S. Levine, M.D., dean; Joan Harvey, M.D., associate dean for student affairs; Chenits Pettigrew, Ph.D., assistant dean for student affairs and diversity programs; and Steven Kanter, M.D., vice-dean, all of the Pitt School of Medicine.
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"It is not so difficult to develop a loving attitude toward yourself and others. Rather than searching for shortcomings, love searches for any sign of light and strength. It sees how far each one has come, not how far he has to go."
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The National Weather Service was forecasting more of the same for the region - including Oklahoma City and Tulsa - Monday afternoon and evening.
SHAWNEE, Okla. — When Lindsay Carter heard on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, she gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left.
Sunday's tornado that tore part of the roof from Carter's frame house — one of few such homes in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park near Shawnee — laid waste to many of her neighbors' places, and killed two people and injured several others.
"Trees were all gone. I walked further down and all those houses were gone," she said of her return home to the neighborhood.
The tornado was one of several that touched down Sunday in the nation's midsection, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan. Two people were killed in or near the mobile home park, which is outside of Shawnee, a community about 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City. At least 39 people throughout Oklahoma were injured, according to the state's emergency management director, Albert Ashwood.
The National Weather Service was forecasting more of the same for the region — including Oklahoma City and Tulsa — Monday afternoon and evening, warning of the possibility of tornadoes and baseball-sized hail. Residents of Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri were also warned to watch for bad weather Monday.
Gov. Mary Fallin began touring the hardest-hit areas early Monday, including Carney, in Lincoln County, and a mobile home park near Shawnee, 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, that suffered a direct hit and was where the two confirmed deaths happened.
"It took a dead hit," resident James Hoke said of the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park. Emerging from a storm cellar where he sought refuge with his wife and two children, Hoke found that their mobile home had vanished. "Everything is gone."
Hoke said he started trying to help neighbors and found his wife's father covered in rubble.
"My father-in-law was buried under the house. We had to pull Sheetrock off of him," Hoke said.
Forecasters had been warning of bad weather since Wednesday and on Sunday said conditions had ripened for powerful tornadoes. Wall-to-wall broadcasts of storm information spread the word Sunday, leaving Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth grateful.
"There was a possibility a lot more people could have been injured," Booth said. "This is the worst I've seen in Pottawatomie County in my 25 years of law enforcement."
Booth said a 79-year-old man, who was later identified as Glen Irish, was found dead out in the open at Steelman Estates. The state medical examiner's office said Monday that a 76-year-old man, Billy Hutchinson, was found dead in a vehicle. The office said both men lived in Shawnee, but the city wasn't hit by the tornado and it wasn't immediately clear if either or both lived in the mobile home park, which is near the city.
"You can see where there's absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up," Booth said. "It looks like there's been heavy equipment in there on a demolition tour.
"It's pretty bad. It's pretty much wiped out," he said.
Tornadoes were reported Sunday in Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma as part of a storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota.
Emergency officials traversed the neighborhoods struck in Oklahoma in an effort to account for everyone. Keli Cain, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management, said that, many times in such situations, people who are not found immediately are discovered later to have left the area ahead of the storm.
A storm spotter told the National Weather Service that the tornado left the earth "scoured" at the mobile home park. At the nearby intersection of Interstate 40 and U.S. 177, a half-dozen tractor-trailers were blown over, closing both highways for a time.
"It seemed like it went on forever. It was a big rumbling for a long time," said Shawn Savory, standing outside his damaged remodeling business in Shawnee. "It was close enough that you could feel like you could reach out and touch it."
Fallin declared an emergency for 16 Oklahoma counties because of the severe storms and flooding. The declaration lets local governments acquire goods quickly to respond to their residents' needs and puts the state in line for federal help if it becomes necessary.
Heavy rains and straight-line winds hit much of western Oklahoma on Saturday. Tornadoes were also reported Sunday at Edmond, Arcadia and near Wellston to the north and northeast of Oklahoma City. The supercell that generated the twisters weakened as it approached Tulsa, 90 miles to the northeast.
In Wichita, Kan., a tornado touched down near Mid-Continent Airport on the city's southwest side shortly before 4 p.m., knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses but bypassing the most populated areas of Kansas' biggest city. The Wichita tornado was an EF1 — the strength of tornado on the enhanced Fujita scale — with winds of 110 mph, according to the weather service.
Golf ball-sized hail slammed homes in the area. Jim Raulston, of Wichita, said the ferocious winds slammed the hailstones into his home.
"It was just unbelievable how the hail and everything was just coming straight sideways," Raulston said.
Sedgwick County Emergency Management Director Randy Duncan said there were no reports of fatalities or injuries in Kansas.
The weather service reported two tornadoes touched down in Iowa — near Huxley and Earlham. Damage included the loss of some cattle when the storm blew over a barn on a farm in Mitchell County. Some 6,000 customers were without power Monday, including in the hardest-hit areas where the tornado sirens were also rendered silent. In the event of new impending strikes, first responders planned to use their emergency vehicles' sirens to warn residents.


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Best Spells by Betty Croaker
On Tuesday, I spent close to nine hours putting away Halloween decorations because I decided to completely reorganize the bins (and make sure everything was off the floor since we had that incident with water in the basement after the torrential storm).
While doing so, I came across a box of all the decorations I had made for my first big Halloween party back in Grade 4.
Amidst the paper bats and pumpkins was a bound book entitled "Best Spells By Betty Croaker" (and my other name). I do enjoy that I put a copyright symbol on it.
I'd bound the book with thread and used wall paper for the cover. No, the wallpaper isn't very scary, but when you're little you have to work with what's in the house.
The book is a collection of spells for monsters from A to Z. Some are classic Halloween characters while others are creatures I'd seen in my Dungeons & Dragons books (I didn't play at the time, I just liked having books about monsters).
Want to make a mimic? A Frankenstein monster? A Zorma?
It's all here.
Need an elf for a recipe but don't have one on hand? No worries. There's a recipe for making your own elf.
A is actually an introduction. Note how little Ghoul uses the traditional spelling of Hallowe'en.
I hope you enjoy the pictures below. I got a good chuckle out of them.
omg--this is just too cute!
omg--this is just too cute! this is a keeper if there ever was one!
Your decorations are away?
Crap....mine do not come down until tomorrow......and I am sure I will find nothing that cool in my reogranization! :D
You are a treasure my friend!!
Hahha fantastic!!:)))
Hahha fantastic!!:)))
A rare and magical tome!
I'm thoroughly impressed with this past project. 4th Grade and you're already putting the work to seasoned Monster Manual creators to shame. Such an inventive and creative way to catalog your favorite creatures.
In particular, I love the odd yet exact number of lightning bolts necessary to complete a Frankenstein's Monster.
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