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LEARN WHAT WORLD HOPE INTERNATIONAL IS DOING
TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
By Robert Lee Stogner
When my oldest daughter was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer at age seventeen, I gave no thought of helping her treatment with nutritional supplements. When my wife was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in September, 2008, I thought a great deal about this, after the shock passed. I talked with her doctors but could not get any specific direction. I explored the internet to get some help. The complexities and opposing views were greatly confusing and discouraging. [Read the rest of this entry...]
By Olivia Lee Stogner
We were talking about death and about angels. My sister, Suzie, told the story of holding the two month old, quiet, little, breathless body and rocking her. Suzie held her, even though she was gone.
She asked, “Do you get tired of hearing my hospital stories, about my year as a chaplain?”
“No,” I answered. “Of course not. I love the way you wear your heart on your sleeve.”
Me…I wear mine buried under layers of vintage and “on sale,” balanced by certified Fair Trade accessories. Those make me feel better about the “on sale,” but the truth is the same. She wears her heart and I, too often, cover mine.
When she told me, woke me, a few months earlier, at six in the morning with, “They think Mom has cancer,” what did I do? I did everything I was supposed to do. I gasped, I cried, and then I went to work. Later I made phone calls, I sent messages, I gave updates, I graded papers, graded papers, graded papers, folded clothes when I could, got up and did it all again. [Read the rest of this entry...]
By Suzie Stogner
As I was drinking my hot tea, relaxing and watching TV, my mom turned it to “60 Minutes.” I really did not want to watch it. However they were doing a story about cancer patients being left to die because the community hospital has to cut back. The hospital stopped the infant care center, women’s health, cancer center and dialyses. The cancer patients were notified by a letter. All of the people interviewed were hard working, middle class Americans who were not poor enough or rich enough to receive life saving treatments. And this is happening in Las Vegas (known for its lack of money) …ok, right… Now this really hit home because I had cancer 16 yrs ago, and my mom is fighting it right now! And what in the world would I do if she could not receive her treatment? [Read the rest of this entry...]
Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, according to a new study. Mercury was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first or second highest labeled ingredient.
HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods. A high consumer can take in about 20 teaspoons of HFCS per day. Mercury was found most commonly in HFCS used in dairy products, dressings and condiments. The use of mercury contaminated caustic soda in the production of HFCS is common. [Read the rest of this entry...]
By Robert Lee Stogner
The sabotage defined. There is an understanding that is an absolute MUST for meaningful and effective communication with family, friends, neighbors, employees-everyone! It is simple but not always easy and it also is something that our children desperately need to know.
Our thoughts (mental processing) and our feelings (emotional processing) can not be confused or switched.
Obviously both of the thinking and feeling functions add greatly to our lives and are extremely important, but different. When people think with their emotions and feel with their thoughts communication is confused and a poor quality of decision making and relationships are inevitable. Simple examples of the two ways these functions get switched follows. When children are being difficult and behaving inappropriately, parents can get so frustrated that their emotions “drown out” their thinking and they can make unsound and even dangerous decisions related to managing the children. Or when there is such intense and often painful emotions it is easy to block them out and function out of our thoughts, almost pretending we do not have a great deal of feelings. This denies us the richness of our emotions and the opportunity to learn from them, to integrate them into our understanding of the situation and our selves. [Read the rest of this entry...]
1. Be specific when you introduce an issue.
2. Do not just complain, no matter how specifically: ask for a reasonable change that will relieve the problem.
3. Ask for and give feedback about the major concerns. This is to make sure you are heard and to assure your partner that you understand what he/she wants.
4. Limit yourself to one issue at a time. Otherwise you may skip from issue to issue, creating confusion and defensive reactions and evading the difficult and painful areas.
5. Do not be flippant, sarcastic or intolerant. Be open to your own feelings, and especially your partner’s. [Read the rest of this entry...]
By Robert Lee Stogner
On the “East End” of Burlington there was a small family café tucked away between Bell’s Shoe Store and Clapp’s Furniture Store. This café was operated by Nick Johnson and his family. Since we lived less than a half block from the café, as a child I often passed by, often went in and some times even bought something. It was usually a couple of cold, bottled Pepsi Colas, and on very special occasions, some hot dogs – all the way – slaw, mustard and chili.
One day when I was around eight years old I went in the café. As usual, Nick’s face was full of energy and excitement just as if some one really important had entered his little café. He showed great interest in how and what I was doing. His Greek accent made it seem a little magical. However on this day I was quiet and sad. [Read the rest of this entry...]
By Robert Lee Stogner
“Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.” Psalm 85:5
If someone asked you if you have set your heart on a pilgrimage, what would your answer be? If it is someone you do not know or respect you may think the person a bit “daft.”
Every Christian is a pilgrim. There are many images and understandings of the nature of this pilgrimage. Books like Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan give excellent imagines and allegories of a spiritual pilgrimage.
There are two central themes to our Christian pilgrimage. One is the sojourn as an alien on earth (I Peter 2:11 ) headed for Eternal Life, the true home. The other is the sojourn of the inner spiritual life of a Christian while on this earth. This is the spiritual transformation into the image of Christ, taking on the mind of Christ here on earth, in mortal bodies. Ultimately the two become one. [Read the rest of this entry...]
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