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It’s been a busy travel season—whew! It’s a good thing I don’t mind flying. I have to tell you, though, that I don’t much care for thinking about the airplane air I’m breathing while I’m up there. They just keep recirculating the same air. Hmm, recycled air. Ew.

Pre-breathed air is not like pre-treated lumber. It seems more like recycled snacks. Again: Ew. Recycling is all fine and good, but please give me refreshments that are on their first time around, thanks. And I’m thinking un-recycled air would be so much more refreshing.

There’s a different kind of “refreshment recycling” in the Bible, though. Proverbs 11:25 says that “He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.”

Now there’s some worthwhile recycling. Like a breath of fresh air, wouldn’t you say?

Thank you for the ways you refresh me, friends. May the Lord pass some refreshment right back around to you!

Now That’s Alarming

by Rhonda Rhea

“Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 7For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. We urge you, brothers, to do so more and more”
1 Thessalonians 4:1-2, 7, 10, NIV.

I keep trying to find a friendly-sounding alarm clock. Do you have one of those alarms that shrieks at the decibel level of a tornado siren? The alarm goes off, you jolt up in a panic, heart pounding, barely catching yourself before you sprint to the nearest storm shelter. Ever find those fingernail marks in the ceiling over your bed? And my alarm doesn’t blast and then stop. It just keeps on shrieking. Smashing it with a fist does nothing—except cause major fist pain. Throwing it across the room doesn’t faze it. Stomping on it doesn’t do much either. Maybe you can guess why I never keep a sledge hammer beside my bed. Or C-4.

Why don’t they make an alarm clock that gently jostles my shoulder while softly informing me that the cinnamon rolls ... [read more]

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