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Calvin Bobblehead

Would it be weird to ask for this for my birthday?

Thank Goodness Blueberries are In Season

In the past month or so I have been incredibly forgetful. Or maybe unintentionally negligent would be a better way to put it. I have every intention to do something important, but it just completely slips my mind, and sometimes gets me into trouble. Like the other day, I took all my coupons to the grocery store, left them in my car, and forgot to even swipe my rewards card that had great coupons on it. Then the yesterday, when my mother mentions about financial aid, I realized that I’ve had an email for about three weeks starred on my inbox to tell them about, that I completely failed to mention. And then about a week ago I thought to myself that I better check the lease to figure out what to do about moving out. Finally remembered to do it today, when it would have been two days late anyway to write our 30 day notice, only to find out that our lease was until the end of June, when I’ve already made plans for the lease ending at the end of May. And these are just a sampling of my negligence recently. So, that being said, I, first of all am repenting of my laziness and carelessness, but then also researching ways to increase memory function. As an avid brain studier, I know that there is little proof that any form of remedy can help memory problems, but that still doesn’t stop me from trying. 

The first method I have discovered is getting better sleep. With the business of school, work, and everything else, I haven’t been giving my brain enough time at night to process what my days have held, therefore, making it more difficult to remember little things.

Next, is to get more exercise. The easier oxygen flows through my body, the more will get to the brain, and the better my brain will function. 

And lastly, the food I eat. Cruciferous vegetables, berries, fish, and anything with folic acid are among the top foods that aid in taking oxygen to the brain, and thus promote memory function.

Oh, For Grace to Love Him More

“If you love me, keep my commandments.”

In his book, Being God’s Friend, Charles Spurgeon notes that “A person can know whether he loves the Lord or not, and he ought to know…Do not be content with merely longing to love Jesus or with longing to know whether you love the Lord Jesus is a state of mind so dangerous that I exhort you never to go to sleep until you have escaped from it.” When first reading this it is so easy to just immediately jump to the thought that of course, I love Jesus. That is the whole reason I’m profess faith in him. Then I ask myself if I really do love Jesus. If I loved Jesus, if it really was all about Him, how would I respond in every circumstance? In my daily interactions with people, in my efforts in schoolwork, in my rest, in my play, am I evidencing that I love Jesus? “For love pleases even in trifles.”

Jesus said that if we love him, we are to keep his commandments. One of his commandments is to love Him. Commandments in themselves are not life giving, but Jesus is. Since a command cannot generate what it commands, there is the gospel, the grace of God. In “longing for perfect holiness, to be with god, it is easy to want a half Christ and to refuse a whole Christ.” We find it easy to want to obey God’s commandments, but the actual daily action gets looked over.

By God’s grace I have salvation and the ability to be God’s friend. Because God has given me the grace to be His friend it is only natural to want to obey Him.

“He who loves Christ is the freest person outside of heaven, but he is also the most under bonds. He is free, for Christ has loosed his bonds, but he is put under bonds to Christ by grateful love.”