5R series

Has your get up and go, gotten up and left? Are you tired all the time and lack the energy or desire to accomplish many of your daily tasks. Did you know that food has a purpose? When you eat fresh fruit, because it is high in fiber, it goes to work clearing the digestive system of toxins, keeping you regulated. Fruits provide you with potassium, which helps…

Fever is when the temperature of your body goes higher than normal, that normal being 98.6. Your hypothalamus, which is located in the center of the brain, is the controlling mechanism of your body’s temperature. This gland sends out commands to your heart, liver, skin, sweat glands, muscles, and a host of other organs to keep your body temperature within a…

A dear friend told me that when she was growing up, she always knew when she was about to make a big mistake that was going to cost her dearly. She was a rebellious adolescent and still learned the hard way. She recounts always arguing with her mother, who would spend hours trying to talk some sense into her, but no matter what her mother said she was intent…

We all do it; we have looked for something that will give us a way out, so we buy diet pills that promise to take 30 pounds off in 30 days. We drink a can of “something” believing that it will give us incredible strength, or make us irresistible to our partners. We apply some cream or take a pill, thinking certain parts of our body will grow. We send some…

As much as we would like to blame Delilah, in truth, the problem was not her. She had made it clear what her intentions were. Three times she had set him up, three times her deceitfulness nearly cost him his life, yet he kept going back, and he paid dearly for that decision because he decided his desire for her was more important than his very life. You say…

Are you stuck? Do you get up every morning and wish you had accomplished some set goal from the day before? Do you see yourself as the person you really want to be, only to feel trapped by the reality of who you are? It’s time to test yourself, give yourself ten days, ten days without that thing that stands in your way to feeling better about who you are…

We live in a fast-paced world, years ago before internet and cable, and midnight tv stations would sign off so that even if you wanted to stay up there just wasn’t much to do except go to bed. For those who had difficulty sleeping, a glass of warm milk was drunk and shortly after that back to bed. Now, we have 24-hour news feed, movies, along with a plethora…

There is an old story about a group of scientists who had been working diligently to create another human being. The scientist had worked for years putting together the building blocks of their new creation. Once they had the entire equation figured out, they immediately called a meeting with God. As you know, God is very patient and kind, even when he must…

When I was a little kid, a family member told me that people who go to hell had to eat the one vegetable that they hated. This was terrifying to me because I was not too fond of okra and the thought of having to bite into this medium size pod that was slimy gave me nightmares. This inspired a great reformation in my behavior which lasted about an hour.  Hell…

Did you know that there are people who work in fields whose only goal is to make things more appealing to you? Of course, you did, these folks are in the market to get your attention and to hold it. That’s why cans are so smooth and cool to the touch, that’s why candy is generally in a bright, colorful wrapper, and that’s why car commercials usually have a pretty…