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In the first post of this series, I offered a high-level overview of Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey, using The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien as a point of reference. Going forward, I hope to draw out some specific implications of the hero archetype and relate them to the path many seasoned change practitioners (my intended audience) follow as they come to terms with how they work with clients. In addition, I'll offer some related questions that I hope will be worth pondering.
Here is the basic storyline: The hero pursues a series of adventures that takes her beyond the safety of her ordinary life in order to learn some vital lessons important to her and others. In the process of her odyssey, she leaves her status quo, evolves into a wiser person, and returns to share her insights with those who could benefit.
In this and the next four posts, I'll frame my comments around four stages Campbell includes in his mythical Journey: Departure, Initiation, Slaying the Dragon, and Return. I have cast Sara, a change practitioner, as the protagonist who first struggles to break out of her perfunctory role, but who eventually earns her standing as a hero as she brings inspiration and enlightenment to other practitioners ready to embark on their own transformational quest.
Leaving the Familiar, Stepping Into the Unknown
Sara had become "comfortably numb" without ever knowing what happened. When she finished her master's degree in organizational change, she was confident she had found her professional niche. The academic challenge had been interesting, but not overly demanding. She had a natural flare for connecting with people interpersonally, so she seemed a perfect fit for the role as an internal change agent.
Her first job was as the junior player in a three-person implementation support team for a small company engaged in numerous IT-related projects. She valued the field experience she received there but never felt that change management was taken seriously by line management. After two years, she left to join a larger enterprise. There, she led one of several transition teams who helped "integrate" companies her parent organization acquired.
This assignment was a bit more interesting. She had a chance to try out many of the diagnostic tools and intervention techniques she had studied in graduate school. Around the third year there, however, she became disenchanted again. Although she was allowed to cherry-pick from an endless menu of implementation approaches and models her company purchased, there was no reliable structure to what she and her colleagues did. She had been exposed to almost everything but had become highly skilled in almost nothing. Some of her more experienced associates were nearing retirement and yet were still generalists in the change business—they had never gained any deep expertise. This was not something she wanted to repeat.
Thinking the problem was that she hadn't been properly placed in a large enough enterprise with enough serious change aspirations, she jumped at the chance when a headhunter called about a position as senior change agent, working directly for a CEO and his staff as they embarked on a grand paradigm leap for their organization. "This is as good as it gets," she thought…and took the position.
Within two years, however, she was back in a new version of the same irrelevant routine. She spent most of her time: 1) trying to talk senior executives into taking their sponsor role seriously, 2) watering down what it would take to really change the culture so leaders wouldn't become too uncomfortable, and 3) conducting training programs about managing change instead of actually helping execute deep transformational shifts.
There was something different this time, however; she wasn't frustrated like she had been before. She had "come to terms" with what she reluctantly saw as the truth about being a change professional…and it was very different from the images she had conjured up in graduate school. She had slowly accommodated herself to a much lower standard than she assumed would be the case, back when she was filled with excitement about her chosen profession. The reality was harsh:
- There was no urgency for change…only the rhetoric to suggest it.
- There were no senior leaders willing to do what was necessary to fully realize the changes they had promised customers, employees, and the board…only executives who wanted change results, but lacked the courage or discipline to do what was called for to make it happen.
- There were no true sponsors who were passionate about their transformation aspirations and who reinforced their declarations with meaningful positive and negative consequences.
- There were no disciplined structures to replicate change success…only training programs and processes that looked good but that few people actually applied consistently.
Here she was, a credentialed, experienced change facilitator with numerous certifications and lots of scar tissue, yet she was worse than unfulfilled in her work—she had actually lost hope that her knowledge and skills would ever be used as she had envisioned. She couldn't say for sure when it happened, but it was clear that, over time, her enthusiasm for making a difference had atrophied and was now flatlined. At some point, the vacancy left by a withered sense of purpose was replaced with cynicism and resignation. She felt like a victim of her career, rather than an active participant in it.
Doing "what she could" instead of "what was needed" had become so routine that the mechanical repetition of her actions first created frustration, then decomposed into compromise, and ultimately full-blown apathy and stagnation. Sara finally reached a point of unconscious negotiation with herself—"comfortably numb" was preferable to ongoing annoyance and disappointment.[1]
And then came the wakeup call.
What does it take to be roused from a long-standing lethargy? Some people never wake up. Those who do have their own unique requirements. For Sara, it was personal trauma.
Within a six-month period, she lost her last surviving parent and one of her siblings started cancer treatment. She was consumed with the emotions and activities associated with both of these tragedies for a long time. When both challenges finally came to resolution, she collected herself and returned to her professional routine. When she did, however, she found that she couldn't just pick up where she had left off. She "officially" re-engaged with her work, but found herself exasperated and angry at the futility of it.
The anesthetized state that had allowed her to carry on with her unfulfilling change agent duties was receding. The emotional pain this triggered prompted her to question more than her work: she began second-guessing her marriage, her relationship with her children, her spiritual commitments, and her physical health. In general, she found herself in a sweeping examination of what she had done with her life and what she still needed to accomplish.
She was reluctant to admit to herself that, although she was exploring these things, she was terrified at the prospect of finding answers she didn't like. However, comfortably numb had been replaced by uncomfortably agitated and there was no turning back. In a way, she felt that she was risking it all to probe beneath the crust of denial that had hidden her discontent, but she also had a sense that it would be even more precarious if she tried to ignore the increasing pain.
Over the next few years, she found different ways to address each of the other issues in her life—her marriage, children, health issues, etc. What we are following here is the discontent she experienced about her role as a professional change facilitator and The Hero's Journey she embarked on in order to come to terms with it.
In this respect, the professional "departure" Sara pursued wasn't about one day impulsively turning in her resignation and blindly running toward a new job. Her exodus was more about taking leave from the comatose state she had occupied for so many years. It wasn't about changing locations, it was about changing her mindset:
- She stopped being tolerant of poor sponsorship and unrealized aspirations.
- She began to believe that her knowledge and skills deserved better clients with more sophisticated initiatives to implement.
- She began to expect more from herself and those she served.
Sara departed from her complacency…a gutsy thing to do, given that her boss and clients were fine with the way she operated and couldn't really relate to her sense of disappointment.
Slackness and "retiring on the job" were acceptable norms in the organization, creating a political buffer from personal accountability. More to the point, there was even camaraderie with other victims, because everyone blamed something or someone else for the lack of change success.
What is even more important, however, is that when Sara woke up from her uneventful, "going through the motions" existence, it didn't mean that the indifference and alienation disappeared. It was actually the opposite…when she became acutely aware of how she was wasting her professional energy, her anguish increased.
Life didn't get better during the Departure phase of the Journey. In fact, it became more uncomfortable. Instead of being insulated by passive indifference, Sara was now extremely aware of the unresponsiveness of her leaders, the detachment of those who were supposed to be proponents of transformation, her lack of wisdom to deal with these challenges, and the escalating futility at having so little impact.
When Sara left her status quo, she didn't walk out the door. Instead, she woke up to the hollowness she had unknowingly suppressed for years. She didn't lay all the responsibility on the organization, nor did she think that if she could just find the "right" place to work, all her problems would disappear. She didn't begin looking for new clients in a different organization; she started examining how she related to herself and the clients she already had.
By the way, Sara's departure wasn't based on any self-assurance. She didn't begin her search for a better professional path because she was confident of what to do differently and how to make the transition. She escaped from her current status because she couldn't tolerate it any more. She hoped there was a better alternative but, for all she knew, it might have been just a fantasy to think that she could practice her craft at mastery levels while supporting clients who were as serious about orchestrating real change as she was about facilitating it.
Sara left the familiarity of her present state, not because she knew how to advance or in what direction to proceed. She left because she could no longer be a "zombie practitioner"— hypnotized by complacency, bereft of consciousness and lacking self-awareness, yet able to respond to requests to conduct meaningless activities.
How about you? Can you relate to any of Sara's frustration? Listed below are some questions to consider, whether you are currently well into your Journey or only just beginning to realize you are no longer satisfied with the status quo.
- What does being "comfortably numb" look like in your world?
- Is it possible you (or some of your colleagues) have anesthetized yourself to the point that you no longer feel disappointment regarding what you have accomplished professionally, how much influence you have with sponsors, the quality and integrity associated with the change implementation work you perform, etc.?
- Have you heard a wakeup call but been reluctant to heed the implications?
- To what degree has victimization played a part in any disillusionment you feel (or have felt) about your change work?
- To what degree has sovereignty played a part in avoiding or recovering from being a zombie practitioner?
- If you fell into, but have already rallied from, operating as if "adequate" was all you expected from yourself, what was your wake-up call? What jolted you out of complacency? How did you conclude that demanding more from yourself and your clients was better than remaining in comfortable apathy?
- To what degree did your true nature (Character) and how you conveyed it to clients (Presence) play a role in your "waking up"?
In the next three posts, I'll explore implications and questions related to the Initiation, Slaying the Dragon, and Return phases of the Journey.
Go to the beginning of the series.
[1] Sara's experience was similar to that of the metaphoric sapling in my series on cultivating character—being smothered and lost by the trunk that had developed to protect it.


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The George Washington National Forest (GWNF) is a vital natural resource in a region that is becoming increasingly developed. Only 100 miles from Washington, D.C., it provides incredible outdoor recreation opportunities to millions of Americans, including many living in urban communities. It is a well-used and well-loved national forest, home to many wildlife species including black bears, the endangered Indiana bat, , and many wonderful bird species. Old growth forest stands still remain, and it is home to the headwaters of the Potomac and James Rivers, important sources of drinking water for millions of people.
The management plan for the GWNF should strive to protect these natural resources and preserve the forest's multiple use opportunities. Natural gas development, and the roads and traffic that come with it, are known to cause significant impacts on wildlife habit, aquatic resources, forests, water quality and air quality.
I strongly support the Forest Service's proposal to prohibit horizontal drilling and its associated hydraulic fracturing, but I am concerned that your plan still makes hundreds of thousands of acres available for new natural gas wells created by vertical drilling. Due to the intense environmental impacts of new wells, including fragmentation and destruction of wildlife habitat, noise and light disturbance, and significant air, soil, and water quality threats, it is important that the most sensitive areas of the National Forest are protected from any surface disturbance or threats to surface waters or groundwater, including drinking water supply and other priority watersheds and sensitive natural, scenic and recreation areas, such as special biological and geological areas, old growth forest, the Shenandoah Mountain Crest, eligible Scenic and Recreational River Corridors, and the Blue Ridge Parkway Corridor.
I am also concerned that your preferred alternative does not protect all wilderness quality lands, old growth forest stands, or watersheds which supply drinking water, which should be completely protected from harmful industrial development. Please also ensure that all inventoried roadless areas and roadless areas identified in new inventories are protected consistent with the 2001 Roadless Rule.
The GWNF is a treasure for millions of Americans, and I hope you will do your utmost to preserve all of its important multiple uses. Thank you.
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Eliminate errors and gain a better understanding of the K-1. Many people know that a K-1 is used to report items of income, deductions, and loss to partners in a limited or general partnership, limited liability partnership, LLLP, or who are members of a limited liability company, but don't know all of the detail that exists in a K-1. Many may not know that the K-1 is likely to change in 2018 due to recent changes in the tax law. Partners or members who receive a K-1 often do not know how to closely examine the K-1 for errors. And those partners or members who discover their K-1 is wrong often do not know what to do next. While simply filing a notice of inconsistent treatment (IRS Form 8082) may seem like an easy thing to do, in fact, just the opposite is true. Careful regard must be given to the fact that a dispute has arisen, where state and Federal laws must be considered. An overall strategy is needed. This webinar is aimed at helping practitioners more fully understand the issues that need to be addressed when faced with a client who comes to them with a K-1 that they believe is in error, or who have not even received a K-1. For those partners or members who receive a K-1 that they know is wrong, they must take action. Doing nothing is not an option. In this course, you will be provided the ability to analyze a K-1, and if it is found to be in error, to then decide on an appropriate course of action, in consultation with your advisors. In order to do so, you will want to consider recent changes in the tax law and anticipate changes to the K-1.AGENDAMastering the Four Corners of the K-1
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Each year ORP actively participates in dozens of local community events and festivals. Often you can find us collecting and recycling oyster shell for future restoration projects, staffing an educational information table or simply having our mascot Shelly interact with event attendees. We never get tired of talking about oysters – so the next time you're looking for something to do, come see us. We promise you'll learn something new.
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ORP collaborates with schools, camps, scout troops and clubs to deliver a wide range of educational services for students grades 2 – 12. Our programs share one key objective – we use oysters to educate students on the Chesapeake Bay, it's ecosystem and the important role we all play on the Bay's overall recovery.
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We have 2 oscilloscopes at our school an ADC-200 and a USB 2203. The 200 runs on Pico 5 software and the 2203 on Pico 6.
My problem is that the 2203 is not being recognised by Pico 6 (6.9.18 or 6.6.57). When I run the software it says "no device found".
I have run this fin on other PC/laptops, although not always first time. In fact, I find both oscilloscopes to be temperamental at times. Usually it the older ADC-200 with the serial connection.
The device manger sees the device as a 2000 series oscilloscope and I have removed the driver, reinstalled, cleared files out of the user data and tried earlier versions to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated. First post so be gentle.
I am running Win 7 32 bit on a Lenovo X240 laptop.


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Santa Monica, California drew the stars and cars early on Sunday, Oct. 16 to help celebrate National Plug In Day. The event, a joint effort between Plug In America, the Sierra Club, and the Electric Auto Association, was held in 21 cities, with electric vehicle owners participating in parades, tailpipe-free tailgate parties, and other festive grassroots events. "It's wonderful to see all these cars with plugs," raved actor and eco-activist Ed Begley, Jr. at the Santa Monica parade. "I've had a Rav4 electric for ten years come February and [it has] 94,000 miles."
Begleyjoined by "Revenge of the Electric Car" producer Chris Paine, former "Baywatch" actress Alexandra Paul, model pitchman Fabio, Los Angeles Congresswoman Janice Hahn, and Air Force veteran Tim Goodrichsnapped photos and spoke to a crowd at Santa Monica's city hall before sending 188 eco-friendly vehicles down the road.
"It was so quiet as we drove that we could talk to people along the route," says parade participant Deb LaCusta, who steered her new bright blue Nissan LEAF alongside her husband, actor Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Homer on "The Simpsons"). "It was fun to be involved and get the message out."
Iraq war vet Goodrich delivered an exceptionally poignant message. "While serving in the Middle East, I quickly realized that America's involvement had a lot to do with our need for gas and fossil fuels." Eventually Goodrich grew opposed to the war and returned to America after his tour to champion electric vehicles.
Not that driving electric makes for an easy cause. Critics are quick to point out the obstacles: they often lack power and run on expensive lithium batteries that only last for several years. Batteries need to be constantly recharged, and the cars aren't great for long distances. "We talk about range anxiety and plugging in, and what happens to batteries," admits producer Paine, "but what really changes people is the experience of driving an electric car."
For longtime electric vehicle advocate Paul Scott, it is America's overdependence on oil and the resulting economic impact that's tantamount. "We import 60% of our oil. So 60 cents on every dollar you pay for oil leaves our economy," the Plug In cofounder explains. "Just in the first months of this year, the oil industry made billions in profits. Electric vehicles are powered by domestic electricity, so every cent we spend to run them stays in America."
Electric cars have a global humanitarian appeal as well. "After Japan's tsunami, we gave 90 electric vehicles to the disaster relief program," says David Patterson, Los Angeles Mitsubishi General Manager. "Because all the gas stations were devastated, [Japanese officials] put quick charge stations in strategic areas so all the government officials and doctors were able to drive the electric cars where they needed to go."
Alongside the shiny new Nissan LEAFs, Chevy Volts, Codas, Teslas, Fisker Karma, MINI Es, Smart ED, Wheego Lifes, and Zero DS motorcycles were electric service trucks. Like a Smith electric truck owned by Staples, Santa Monica City maintenance vehicles, and a Coke beverages delivery truck. "It gets 100 miles per charge out of it," says the Coke truck driver. "With the weight that it carries, you get a lot. You're saving on fuel and getting all the customers taken care of. No maintenance. No oil changes. No fueling up anywhere."
Now that's a message that delivers.
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Google latest product doesn't yet work with the iPhone or iPad, limiting its usefulness for those that use Apple's devices, but rely on Google's services.
You can do some things via Safari on iPad/iPhone, but if you hit play on video files you'll get an alert to update Adobe Flash, which can't run on iOS devices or a broken video file.
This is a problem since the iPad and iPhone are the best-selling mobile devices in the world, with Apple selling a combined 46 million of its mobile devices in the first three months of the year.
Google promises that Google Drive for the iPhone and iPad is on the way, and should arrive within the next few weeks to a month, but until then most users will use Google Drive through the web browser on the iPhone and iPad, and run into difficulties.
To use Google Drive on the iPhone and iPad, point Safari to drive.google.com and log in.
Once you're logged into Google Drive you can access Google Docs and the various files you have uploaded to Google Drive from the Mac or PC uploader app.
Unfortunately the web page is not reliable. The mobile version of Google Drive would load one in five tries and any attempts to reload would fail. I could click over to the desktop version and see all the files I have uploaded, but then video files tried to play using Flash.
While in Mobile mode I was able to play a video file once on my iPhone, but the iPad would never play video files from Google Drive.
Google Drive on the iPhone will provide access to Google Docs files, but the editing process is as tedious as ever. Image files load quickly as well.
PDF files fall flat. Google Drive opens PDF files in a preview pane that makes it easy to read the contents, but provides no means of downloading the file to the iPhone or iPad to use in apps like iBooks or SignMyPad.
Stay tuned while we investigate a better way to use Google Docs on the iPhone and iPad.
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EEO - Harassment: New York
Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.
Authors: James Anelli and Robert Pettigrew, LeClairRyan
- New York's law on harassment is generally more expansive than the federal statutes. SeeProhibition Against Harassment.
- New York City has a local ordinance which also provides a cause of action for employment harassment that is broader than its federal and state counterparts. SeeProhibition Against Harassment.
- The NYSHRL and NYCHRL permit an aggrieved employee to elect between instituting either an administrative or civil action. See Bringing a Harassment Claim.
- Unlawful workplace harassment consists of quid pro quo or hostile work environment harassment. See Forms of Harassment.
- An employer may be held vicariously liable for the acts of supervisory employees, non-supervisory employees and third-parties who engage in harassment. See Employer Liability.


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Polling: Michigan Voters Want State to Use Federal Funds to Cover Uninsured Through Medicaid
Jan 23, 2013, 11:00 EST
LANSING, Mich., Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Public opinion polling released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) shows that registered voters in Michigan, by a 40-point margin, want the state to accept federal funds that are available to broaden access to health coverage through Medicaid, a move that would provide 218,000 currently uninsured people in the state with access to lifesaving preventive care and treatments for cancer and other serious diseases.
The poll, conducted by a bipartisan pair of polling firms, Lake Research Partners and GS Strategy Group, indicates public support for Michigan to make health coverage under Medicaid available to individuals and families up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, as urged by the Affordable Care Act.
"Michigan has an opportunity to provide thousands of currently uninsured people with lifesaving health coverage through Medicaid, and public sentiment is decidedly in favor of using available federal dollars to pay for it," said Judy Stewart, Michigan director of state government relations, ACS CAN, the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society. "If Michigan makes the right choice, families across the state will have the security of knowing they have access to proven cancer screenings and treatments they otherwise could not afford."
Respondents were informed that federal funds are available to pay 100 percent of the costs to cover more uninsured people through Medicaid beginning in 2014, with the federal share gradually decreasing to 90 percent. According to the poll, a strong majority (63%) said they supported Michigan accepting federal dollars to cover more people while only 23% preferred turning down federal funds and leaving vulnerable populations uninsured.
Other key findings include:
- Voters agree more with common arguments to accept federal funds than with arguments to reject the funds. After hearing arguments from both sides, Michigan voters are more likely to agree with reasons to accept federal funds (62%) than reasons to turn down the funds (29%).
- Support for accepting federal funds was especially strong among independent voters, where it has 63% support.
- Fifty-four percent of voters have a close friend or family member who is uninsured.
"Beginning next year, Medicaid will offer a defined set of essential benefits to prevent and treat a serious disease such as cancer," Stewart said. "Improving access to Medicaid coverage in Michigan will save lives and reduce health care costs."
ACS CAN is working in Michigan to support strong implementation of provisions of the ACA that enable people with cancer or at risk for cancer to access critical prevention measures such as mammograms and colonoscopies, treatments and follow-up care for cancer.
More information about the polling is available at www.acscan.org.
ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people extraordinary power to fight cancer with the training and tools they need to make their voices heard. For more information, visit www.acscan.org.
SOURCE American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN)


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ADDISON – In the midst of the thick blanket of snow covering Addison and temperatures that seem more frequently below zero than above, Larry Bollmann has created a small oasis on Lake Street.
"It's got to be one of the better jobs especially with this winter," Bollmann said.
The scent of fresh flowers fills the warm store front of Addison Floral, which Bollmann, opened nearly 40 years ago. His passion for floral design began during a high school class where he started working in a greenhouse. He then decided to pursue his newfound passion at the American Floral Arts School.
He shares his passion with Addison Trail High School and the community every year with an annual flower show, which funds the school's horticultural program and scholarships.
After almost 40 years at the store he owns with his wife, Cathy, Bollmann's favorite part is still designing.
"Flowers say so much," he said. "They have their own language."
He explained how he matches flowers for specific occasions. Red roses show love, white roses purity, and yellow can be friendship or even jealousy. In any color, the rose is always the most popular purchase year round.
"Valentine's Day, it's a little bit tricky," Bollmann said.
The shop gets roses from Ecuador, where the weather is better, but transporting them requires special care.
"You've got to wrap them up like babies," Bollmann said.
Valentine's is one of his busiest holidays, but Mother's Day, Christmas and Thanksgiving are still big in the business. What's really changed over the past few decades is the decline in everyday flower purchases just because.
"Weddings are a lot of fun," he said.
Even with Pinterest fans always presenting their ready-made ideas, Bollmann enjoys the creative freedom weddings give him. He likes listening to customers and helping them create what they're envisioning.
"If there's anything that's changed in the business over the years, it's the personal touch with the customers, because everything now is done on the computer, " Bollmann said.
He enjoys the long-time relationships he's built with employees and customers. He supplied flowers for the daughter's and granddaughter's weddings of a long-time customer.
"We have loyal customers," Bollmann said.
While the store still gets visitors, many of its orders come in through the store's website. Addison Floral is a member of Teleflora, which fills orders – even internationally – with local florists like Bollmann.
In addition, Bollmann is a member of Metro Chicago Florist Delivery Co-Op. The 26-member group meets six mornings a week in Chicago and exchanges deliveries. This way, Bollmann's flowers can be delivered to the loop or Deerfield and he delivers orders from other shops that are going to Addison.
In the midst of the plethora of colors, textures and Bollmann's creative spirit, the florist still thinks the flower business has a simple message at its core, no matter the occasion.
"People don't realize how much joy a bouquet of flowers can bring," he said.


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I am no doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
I little personal health tip for all of you out there putting off having an Orthopedic surgeon evaluate an ache in a joint.
You can say I am a walking orthopedic case, considering that I have had about a dozen orthopedic procedures done over the past 8 years. Yes, age plays a part in all this, but these procedures were a result of sports-related injuries.
The moral of the story, if you have pain, get it checked out. If the Doc tells you surgery is an option, get it done early. By having surgery early, you minimize the risk of the injury worsening, which inevitably leads to arthritis in the joint, and will eventually lead to a total replacement of the joint, but not until you have suffered through years of unnecessary pain and discomfort.
And for those of you big cry-babies, the pain of an elected and preemptive procedure is minimal, with you down-time being anywhere between 4-8 weeks.
What I mean by down time is, you will be limited to your activities with that particular joint.
For example, I just had my left shoulder scoped-sling for 5 weeks, no lifting for 8 weeks. I started running at the 4 week mark, and has exercising my lower extremities and abs. After 6 weeks, I am up to 70% of where I was prior to surgery.
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Here's your place to come talk about sex and love whenever you feel like it.
Anecdotally, it seems like a large number of people are very invested in denying the fact that bisexual people exist. But what does science say?
Via our pals at The Frisky, I learned that researchers at Indian University and the University of Pittsburgh decided to evaluate real-world attitudes to bisexuality and come up with some hard numbers, turning speculation into actual facts. What they found was troubling: 15% of the population rejects the idea that bisexuality is a "legitimate sexual orientation," because apparently people now need to pass examination by a panel of judges before they're allowed to have a sexual orientation.
The study was conducted as part of a larger look into HIV transmission rates, as specific information on HIV prevalence and transmission among the bisexual community isn't tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and other agencies. One reason for that may well be the persistent attitude that bisexuality doesn't "really" exist, illustrating how social attitudes about sexual orientations can directly hinder important medical research.
Their work involved a 33-question survey administered to 1,500 people drawn from social networking sites: not an ideal sample, and not large enough for definitive results, but enough to start to provide a glimpse into social attitudes. And enough to show that more research is clearly needed here. Respondents were asked to answer the series of questions and then their responses were assessed to determine how they felt about bisexuality.
What the researchers found was that heterosexual men and gay respondents tended to be most hostile to bisexuality, while women and (unsurprisingly) bisexuals were most supportive. Since I don't have access to the questions used, I don't know if other sexual orientations were discussed in the survey, and thus some users may have been forced into answers inconsistent with their actual beliefs; for example, the survey likely didn't account for nonbinary people, who don't necessarily fit into a straight/gay/bi orientation framework, and it's doubtful that the survey included orientations like asexuality, pansexuality, and so forth.
The important takeaway here, though, is that 15% of respondents apparently felt that it was their business to police the sexual orientation of other people, even though it has absolutely no bearing on their actual lives. This shouldn't come as a surprise, since this is a culture and society utterly bent on concerntrolling, but it's still upsetting. And it highlights the stigma faced by members of the bisexual community, as they're routinely labeled as simply confused or confused by a society that wants to deny they exist.
Bisexual men, don't you know, are really gay and they're just pretending they're not -- ladies, don't date them, because you'll only have your heart broken when they realize they're not into girls. Bisexual women, on the other hand, are just making it all up in order to seem more attractive, so they can make out with girls in bars for the pleasure of the heterosexual men they're really interested in. Or bisexual people just can't make up their mind, and they're taking out their sexual confusion on the world around them.
Bisexual people are promiscuous, and thus no one interested in a long-term monogamous relationship should date a bi person, because, you know, anyone who claims to be attracted to two genders clearly is incapable of being faithful. Bisexual people will also totally drink the last of the milk and then put the carton back in the fridge to fake you out.
The persistent social attitude that bisexual people aren't "real" contributes very directly to a harmful stigma, but more than that, it suppresses bisexual visibility. As Marianne has pointed out, visibility can become an active and conscious effort where you are continuously forced to reassert your sexual orientation. As a woman who likes ladies and dudes alike in a monogamous marriage with a man, she's erased, assumed to be a heterosexual woman -- even though her sexuality is not that simple and nothing about her orientation changed when she and Ed eloped.
Many bisexual people express similar frustrations with marriages and long-term relationships, no matter what the gender of their partners. A bisexual man in a gay marriage is told he's really gay, and that any relationships with people of other genders in the past were just dalliances, expressions of confusion, or experimentations, for example.
In a society where people seem to be able to passively accept that heterosexual men and women remain heterosexual in their monogamous relationships (and thus that they may experience interest in and attraction toward people outside the relationship even if they don't act on it), the same assumptions are not accorded to bisexual people.
Bisexual stigma has very real-world consequences. It makes it harder to seek medical treatment, harder to find a supportive community, and more difficult to communicate openly. That was one reason the researchers were so interested in HIV in the bisexual community, as they suspected that phobia might be contributing to viral bridging, in which bisexual men transmit HIV to women -- their research found no evidence to support the bridging theory, but it did highlight the fact that society has a long way to go when it comes to acceptance of varied sexual orientations.
Perhaps one of the most difficult lessons for people to learn is that sexuality lies on a spectrum; it is not a toggle with only two positions. Some people are strongly heterosexual or strongly homosexual, while others lie at points along the middle; and some have stepped off the spectrum entirely.
That spectrum also shifts over time, which is another issue clouding the waters when it comes to bisexuality and other sexual orientations. Some people have sexualities that remain stable throughout their lives. Others may find that at different stages in their lives, different labels are more accurate for them, and the insistence on "picking one and sticking with it" is quite damaging, because it erases the fact that humans grow, change, and shift sexually, sometimes very radically so.
This study highlights the fact that many people still have their noses far into the bedroom doorways of others. Surely we have something better to do than challenging the sexual identities of other people; the only time another person's sexuality is really relevant to me is if I'm in a relationship with that person. And when I want to make sure that I'm inviting the right partner(s) to dinner parties.
If you're not bisexual, great! That's cool! Not everyone needs to be! But that doesn't mean bisexuality isn't a thing, that you need to deny the actual attractions and experiences of real people around you to feel more secure about yourself.
The insistence on erasing bisexuality from the spectrum of sexuality strikes me as a way for people to feel more secure in their own sexualities; people who hotly deny bisexuality might want to do some thinking about why the idea bothers them so much.


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One thing you can guarantee about kids is that they are contrary. One week they love something, the next they won't touch it with a barge-pole. Such is the case, in our house, with bananas. My children always used to enjoy a banana or two, but now they are met with scorn and disdain. Trouble is, I keep buying them on autopilot, so every week or so I find myself lumbered with squishy, overripe bananas and a lack of ideas for what to do with them.
A few weeks ago I put out a cry for help on Twitter for recipe ideas for my surplus bananas and half an hour later I had a long list of suggestions. At the time I joked that "I could feel a blog post coming on". So, as promised, here it is
Five Uses for Overripe Bananas
- The easiest thing to do with overripe bananas is to cut them up, freeze them, and then add them to smoothies. So many good smoothie recipes have bananas for flavour and thickening, and the riper they are, the more flavour you get.
- A favourite online cookery website of mine is the BBC Good Food site. The site contains over 5,000 recipes so is always a great resource if you are lacking in culinary inspiration. And their recipe for Caramel Banana Blondies has got to be worth a try!
- For basic, child-friendly dinners and recipes to cook with your children you can't beat Netmums. Most of the recipes have been submitted by mums, or tested by them, and they have a great receipe for Banana Flapjack which is perfect for school lunchboxes.
- Think a Banana Split is just a banana cut in half, a scoop of ice cream and a smattering of chocolate sauce, then think again! Food Network has a whole collection of banana split recipes so you need never get bored, including a Banana Split Brownie Pizza!
- Now you can't think of bananas without thinking of Banoffee Pie (well I can't!). There are lots of recipes out there but one very simple one that I have tried is Cheats Chocolate Banoffee Pie using Carnation Caramel, and it is delicious.
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Jan. 3, 2009
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) -Pat Summitt has been in all sorts of crazy games in her Hall of Fame career. She couldn't remember one quite like this.
Her Lady Volunteers, led by Shekinna Stricklen's 16 points and 11 rebounds, pulled off the biggest comeback in school history by rallying from a 20-point halftime deficit to stun Rutgers 55-51 on Saturday.
"Never in my 35 years of coaching have I seen a game like that," said Summitt, who earned the 994th win of her career. "I've been in a lot of games, I've been behind a lot in my career, this one stands out as one of the most special."
The only game that came close to this was when the Lady Vols rallied from a 17-point second-half deficit to stun Virginia in the regional finals of the 1996 NCAA tournament.
"This group will go down in the record books," Summitt said.
Trailing 33-13 at the half, Summitt ripped into her inexperienced team telling them it would be a long plane ride home for the Lady Vols if they didn't start playing with some "Tennessee pride."
The Lady Vols, who had never trailed by 20 points at halftime before, responded, with the first 11 points of the second half.
"We came in and regrouped at halftime," said Angie Bjorklund, who scored all of her 12 points in the second half. "It doesn't matter how much we're down, we look at it that it's a zero-zero game. I give a lot of credit to Rutgers. They did a great job defending us and we didn't know how to handle it. They were shooting lights-out."
Trailing 49-40 with 6:40 left, Tennessee (11-2) went on a 13-0 run. Bjorkland's jumper with 1:30 left gave the Lady Vols their first lead of the game at 51-49. Prince missed a floater on the other end and Stricklen hit two free throws with 39.8 seconds left.
Prince made a tough jumper in the lane to cut it to two with 21.8 seconds left. She then forced a jump ball, giving Rutgers a chance to tie the game, but Kia Vaughn missed underneath and Bjorklund sealed the game from the free throw line.
"They were keying on (Bjorklund) big-time in the first half," Summitt said. "We had a one-sided conversation. She stepped up."
The rivalry between the two schools has become more intense over the last two seasons. Tennessee beat Rutgers for the 2007 national championship. Last season, the Lady Vols topped the Scarlet Knights in a controversial game when Tennessee's Nicky Anosike made two free throws with two-tenths of a second left.
The free throws followed a fast-paced sequence in which Candace Parker missed a shot with 1.8 seconds left. Anosike grabbed the offensive rebound under the basket and was fouled - after the final buzzer should have sounded.
Tennessee turned the ball over on 11 of its first 14 possessions and Rutgers took a 14-0 lead. The Lady Vols trailed 23-4 with 7 1/2 minutes left in the half before managing to finish with 13 at intermission. The previous lowest was 14 points in the first half against Virginia at the regional finals in 1996.
"Obviously this was a tale of two halves," Summitt said. "We couldn't do anything right in the first half. We missed shots and turned the ball over."
Tennessee's previous largest first-half deficit was 19 against Mississippi in 1996.
The Lady Vols cut Rutgers' lead to 33-24 on Glory Johnson's jumper with 15:20 left.
"We told each other in the locker room that the first four minutes was the most important of the game," Lady Vols forward Alyssia Brewer said. "We knew that if we came together and took it one possession at a time we could get it done."
Brittany Ray, who scored 14 points, ended Rutgers' drought by hitting a deep 3-pointer from the corner as the shot clock went off to restore a 12-point advantage. Tennessee kept chipping away and trailed by eight when Stricklen hit back-to-back 3-pointers.
"We came out a little sluggish in the second half and we didn't have the same intensity," Ray said. "When they scored the first 8 points we got a little complacent on offense."
The teams traded baskets before Prince's jumper made it 49-40 with 6:40 left, but Rutgers went scoreless over the next six minutes.
Bjorkland had five points during the spurt and Stricklen hit three free throws.
"When you let people like that believe that they can win you're in trouble," Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer said. "This group is champions. They didn't have a hesitation about playing. We're afraid to lose. You don't understand the great benefit of playing to win. You have to risk failure for success. There's no such thing as a moral victory. It stings as much as we lost at their place."
Summitt earned her 400th win against a ranked opponents and is 13-2 against Stringer, a fellow Hall-of-Famer.
Tennessee was able to pull off this improbable comeback without starting forward Vicki Baugh, who was sidelined with a sprained left ankle she injured in practice on Thursday.
"It's a huge statement we won this game without Vicki," Brewer said.


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In what ways is a true Christian like an "eagle"? What spiritual lessons can we learn from this noble bird of prey? Are you a spiritual "eagle" who can soar to great heights, alone, majestic? Or are you more like a barnyard "chicken" -- bound to the earth, scratching for a living, dependent on the local "flock" and chicken "coop" for protection?
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Eagles are among the most amazing creatures that YEHOVAH God created. Solomon himself wrote in the book of Proverbs, "There be three things which be too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air..." (Prov. 30:18-19).
Golden and bald eagles are among the largest and most powerful birds in the world. They rank second in size next to the California condor among the birds of prey in North America. On inspection at close range, eagles look fierce and proud, and gracefully soar high in the air as they look for food and survey their aerial domain and the landscape beneath them.
Eagles are wise -- they are careful to avoid danger, and rarely attack humans, unless they come too close to its nest, and pose a threat to their young. Eagles have been noted as symbols of strength, bravery and courage -- and proud independence -- from the earliest of times.
Approximately 30 to 35 inches long from beak to tail, weighing about 8 to 13 pounds, the wings of an eagle stretch about seven feet wide. When the wind is favorable, golden eagles can carry prey weighing about as much as they do up to their nest.
Eagles may live for fifty years or more. They breed for the first time when about four years old, and keep the same mates for life. Nests of eagles are called eyries or aeries (both words are pronounced AIR eez). Bald eagles usually build their nests in the tops of tall trees, near water, or high up on sheer cliffs in the mountains. Bald eagles use the same nest year after year, building, refurbishing, adding new material, year after year. A new nest may be only three feet across, but an old eyrie may be ten feet across and twenty feet deep, weighing an incredible two tons! Both eagle parents guard the nest and take food to the young.
Eaglets begin to grow feathers when they are about four weeks old, and cannot tear up their own food until they are six to eight weeks old. They finally leave the next when they are about ten to twelve weeks old, but cannot fly very well at first. For several months the parents feed them until they are able to fend for themselves as hunters and gatherers of food.
The Eyes of an Eagle
An eagle's eyes are large and located on the sides of its head. However it can see straight ahead, and its vision is greater by far than that of humans. Eagles and hawks are said to have the keenest sight of all, and can sight their prey while soaring high in the sky. In the book of Job we read, "Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off" (Job 39:29).
The eagle is noted for its great vision. But what about you and I? Are we like the eagle in being able to "behold afar off" in the distance? Do we have spiritual "vision"? Solomon wrote, "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, HAPPY is he" (Prov. 29:18). The word "vision" here is chazown and means "a sight (mentally), i.e., a dream, revelation, oracle," from the root word chazah, meaning "to gaze at," "mentally to perceive, contemplate, specifically, to have a vision of -- behold, look, prophesy, see."
The word generally refers to a "divine vision" or "oracle" from YEHOVAH God -- and therefore refers to "prophetic insight" and understanding the events happening around us, in the light of Bible prophecy, and therefore perceiving the future, and taking warning. Many people lack spiritual insight and understanding. They lack "vision." They also lack "perception" of the things of YEHOVAH God -- the deeper truths, and the more profound understandings. They cannot "see afar off.' They are cursed with spiritual astigmatism, or even near-sightedness.
Some are even spiritually "blind" and cannot see at all! The Laodicean end-time Church and its membership falls into this terrible category (Rev. 3:17), and so do the self-righteous "Pharisees" in history and among us today, in the end-time churches of YEHOVAH God. Yeshua said of such: "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Leave them alone: They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch" (Matt. 15:14). Are you blind? Or do you possess the keen-eyed vision of the "eagle"?
Solomon wrote, "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished" (Prov. 22:3). This lesson is so important, that YEHOVAH God had it recorded twice for our reflection, meditation, and instruction. We read again: "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on" -- go on their way, merrily and blithely unaware of the danger and peril that is rushing upon them -- "and are punished" (Prov. 27:12).
The Wings of an Eagle
Eagles have long, broad wings and tails which easily support their weight when flying, and can glide long distances by holding their wings out stiffly, catching the air currents and updrafts, enabling them to soar high into the sky, far higher than other birds. Says Alan Devoe, "An African eagle, swooping down at a speed of better than 100 miles an hour, brakes with such stunning skill -- spreading wings and tail in an aerial skid-stop -- that it comes to a dead halt in the space of 20 feet."
Continues Alan Devoe in "The Miracle of Birds," "A bird cushions its landing with it legs, which consist of three single rigid bones with joints that work in opposite directions. This is probably the most effective shock-absorbing mechanism in nature" (Our Amazing World of Nature: Its Marvels and Mysteries, p. 59).
Eagles, like other birds, are amazing miniature natural "airplanes." "On the downstroke each wing moves forward, the inner half held almost rigid, its fore edge slightly sloped like a plane wing, its upper surface arched by a curve of feathers. The outer half of the wing moves separately, activated by the bird's 'wrist,' located about halfway along the wing's length. During wingbeat, the primary feathers at the bird's wing tips flare out almost at right angles to the wing and become propellers. The inner half of the wing, curved and tilted, is meanwhile the plane wing providing steady lift. On landings and takeoffs, the bird avoids stall by means of special feathers at the front end of its 'wrist.' It raises these to make a 'slot' between them and its main wing, providing a perfect auxiliary airfoil" (ibid.).
The word of YEHOVAH God compares true Christians to "eagles." In the prophecy of Isaiah, YEHOVAH says, "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not be faint" (Isaiah 40:31).
What does it mean, to "mount up" with wings as eagles? The Hebrew word is alah and means "to ascend," "to be high," "lifted up," "arise up," or "carry up," and is used in a great variety of senses. An eagle "mounts up" as it soars high into the sky, far above the plains below. When a storm breaks, the violent winds that lashes the earth also carry the eagle aloft to unscaled heights, above the storm clouds.
How the Eagle Learns to Fly
Airplane pilots must undergo intensive training both on the ground and in the air in order to learn how to fly an airplane. It is a very complicated business, but such training is altogether necessary in order to avoid expensive and violent "accidents." Years are spent in acquiring the necessary skills and experience in order to be trusted to fly an airplane.
How do young eagles get their "flight training" and develop their "operational skills"?
In the word of YEHOVAH God we read: "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him [Israel], and there was no strange god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields..." (Deut. 32:11-13).
When the time comes for the young eagles to begin to leave the nest, and learn to fly, they are at first very fearful. The nest is so comfortable, safe, and secure. Who would ever want to leave it? Mommy and Daddy provide food and protection. Why shouldn't the little eaglets just stay there for the rest of their lives?
But no -- they must fulfill their calling in life. They, too, must learn how to soar, and ride the winds, and mount the heavens!
To convince the little eagles that the time has come to leave the nest, the parent eagles "stir up the nest." That is, they rough it up with their talons, and make it uncomfortable, so that sticks and sharp ends and pointy spurs stick out of the nest, so that it is no longer soft and secure, ruining their "comfort zone." The nest is made very inhospitable, as the eagles tear up the "bedding," and break up the twigs until jagged ends of wood stick out all over like a pin cushion. Life for the young eaglets becomes miserable and unhappy. Why would Mom and Pop do such a thing?
But to make matters worse, then the mother eagle begins to "flutter her wings" at the youngsters, beating on them, harassing them, and driving them to the edge of the nest. Cowing before such an attack, the little eagles climb up on the edge of the nest. At this point, the mother eagle "spreads her wings" and, to escape her winged fury, the little eagle climbs onto her back, and hangs on for dear life. As if that were not enough, then the mother eagle launches out into space, and begins to fly, carrying the eagle on her back. All seems safe and serene, the little eagle never expected such a thrilling ride -- but that was nothing to what was to come shortly. For suddenly, without any warning, the mother eagle DIVES, plummeting downward, depriving the little eagle of its "seat," and the next thing it knows, it is in free fall, falling, and tumbling down, down, down, in the air, its wings struggling to catch hold of the air currents, but flopping crazily due to its inexperience. For it must learn to flow, and there is nothing like "experience" to teach an eagle to fly! Instinct alone is not enough!
Just at it thinks all is hopeless and lost, however, the mother eagle swoops down below and catches it once again on its back, and soars back into the atmosphere. Much relieved, the young eagle hangs on for dear life. But just when he thinks everything is "OK" once again, the mother pulls another sneaky trick, and dumps him into the air, alone, again! Once again, the little eagle struggles, this time his wings begin to work a little better, and instead of tumbling like a rock pulled by gravity to certain destruction below, he manages to slow his descent, and is able to stay aloft a little longer, as his wings begin to strengthen. Again, if necessary, the mother eagle rescues him from death, and soars back into the heavens. But just as he thinks everything is finally "hunky dory," she does it again! And down he goes! Finally, he learns how to catch the air currents and ride the winds, and begins to soar "like an eagle" -- and now experiences the thrill of total "freedom" and "liberty"! Now he is no longer confined to the parameters of the nest. Now he is free to soar in the sky, and to be a true "eagle."
Unfortunately, some little eagles never do learn to fly, however. They stubbornly refuse to use their wings, and fly on their own. Despite numerous attempts by the mother eagle to teach them to "fly," they rebel. Flying is not for them! They will just stick to the nest, and depend on others to do their "flying" and "thinking" for them.
In sheer exasperation, the time finally comes when the mother realizes there is no lope for such a child. So she takes him one last time up on her back, and soars high into the air, and with a wild screech of disappointment and pain, she dives out from under him and flies away, leaving him to his fate -- either fly -- or die.
Fly -- or die. That's it. The little eagle either catches himself, and begins to fly on his own, or he is a "goner." If he doesn't fly this time, he will surely crash and smash upon the rocks below.
"Try Your Wings"
Once in an Ambassador Club (a speech club for all men at Ambassador College in Pasadena, California), Garner Ted Armstrong, who seldom visited the clubs, did on this one night, and made a statement which I have never forgotten. He said to me, and to all the men in the club, as part of his over-all evaluation, "Try your wings." "Don't be afraid to try your wings."
I wrote that down, and have remembered it ever since. There are times, today, of course, when I wish he and others would learn to "try" their own spiritual "wings," and grow up spiritually! But at the time, I thought that was remarkably good advice -- inspired of YEHOVAH God. And I have been striving to "try my wings," ever since!
What about you? Have you learned yet how to "fly," spiritually? Or do you still depend on other men, the comfort of a safe and secure "nest" such as a local church congregation? Have you learned "the way of the eagle"? Or are you more like a spiritual "chicken," just another one stuck in the barnyard, fenced in, living out your spiritual life depending on the "feed" that your owner provides, scratching out your daily hum-drum existence, finding your place in the local 'pecking order" and staying there?
Oh for the life of the eagle! Free to roam the skies, unafraid of any other creature, glorying in the gifts of YEHOVAH God, and exhibiting the proud airs of unsullied freedom -- free at last -- free at last -- thank YEHOVAH God Almighty, free at last!
Of Eagles and Chickens
The Bible only speaks of chickens once. Yeshua the Messiah said to the people of Jerusalem, as he thought about the future destruction that was soon to come upon them, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stoneth them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord" (Matt. 23:37-39).
Chickens, of course, are domestic fowl. They are kept penned up by farmers to keep them from straying away, and to protect them from wild animals, such as foxes, coyotes, wolves, or even dogs.
Many Christians, in these last days, are much like these "chickens." Rather than being spiritually strong, and far-sighted, and powerful, like the eagle, who is master of his domain, the chickens are not solitary creatures who can stand alone. They need "friends," the surroundings of a "flock," and quickly establish a "pecking order" amongst themselves.
Each "chicken" is confined to the chicken pen of its owner. It is not allowed to wander or roam freely. Woe to the children who keep straying from the pen! Such a chicken becomes a candidate for a fried chicken dinner! Today, as we look about us, we see all kinds of groups of "spiritual chickens" -- there is "United," over there, and the "Global chicken yard" over there, and the "Philadelphia Chicken pens" down the street, and the 'Chicken Yard, International," over the hill, as well as many smaller chicken pens. The various chickens may all feel comfortable in their own chicken yard, and may think it is better than the others, but aren't they all pretty much the same?
The dull, monotonous, routine life of the 'chicken yard" will never appeal to those who are like the "eagle." Which are you? A "chicken" saint of YEHOVAH God? Or an "eagle" saint of YEHOVAH God? Do you spend your life in the barnyard of your master, the ministers of your church, clucking, and crowing about the special "advantages" of your chicken coop? Maybe your nest is a little bigger than those of "Farmer Flurry," or "Farmer Rod"?
When the storm strikes with unmitigated fury, notice how the chickens scurry for the chicken coop, cuddle up inside, and cower in fear. If the storm should beat upon their own coop with real fury, they would be tossed about, and perhaps killed, all together. They have no way of escape -- for they are bound up inside the chicken pen!
The eagle, on the other hand, doesn't blink at the storm clouds scudding along the horizon. Its nest is built upon a "rock," high up in the mountains, safe from the fury and onslaught of the storm's violent winds and rains and lightning. The same storm of tribulation and persecution that beats down upon the cowering chickens -- a type of weak, back-slidden, sickly "Christians" -- is the very storm that allows the eagles -- bold, fearless, obedient Christians who know the 'way of the eagle" -- to ride the powerful upshafts of the storms winds, and to soar to heights never before imagined or attained by mere mortal man!
What kind of Christian are you?
A "chicken"?
Or an "eagle"?
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