MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'ashes'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:56:13 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5096929&cid=t_265444_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F08%2Fgrey-gold.html The sliver of yellow breaks through on a difficult day of research last week. He gives me glimmers - my seashell dull grey and unremarkable on the beach, like an iceberg with it's beauty hidden beneath the sea. He catches my eye, and I lean down, and dig up gold. I open His book and I am surrounded by His promises and beauty. A fairyland with giants and armies, glitter, pomp and circumstance, romance, history, beauty for ashes. Go digging today, my friend, even if you think you've exhausted the Good News and live in the bad. You will be rewarded.Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies. Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence. I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of t... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5096929 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0100 5096929 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5096931&cid=t_265444_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F08%2Fone-brick-short-of-sidewalk.html One rope less, and this post at the marina would lean or give.I am the leaning post. I stand only because of Jesus.The strands in my rope, my husband, my family,my small tassel of friends.The longest bridge of it's type depends on each and every cable.One cable snapped and it would have to be immediately replaced.One less pound of concrete and the supports would collapse.One less pound of flesh leaning as the sailboats keel,and they flounder in the wind or capsize into the current.A woman alone is a sad thing.I make my list, the list of friends remaining.Many far away. But there is always the phone.Several left here, and my family, too.But tears flow for each and every piece of my lifethat crumbled into the raging storm of the past year.Sadness as if those beloved to me had died.Lord, comf... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5096931 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:37:00 +0100 5096931 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5029037&cid=t_265444_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F07%2Fhorrible-terriblelaundry.html I have been known to tell my children that, if we lived in almost any 3rd world country, they would have 1, maybe 2 outfits. They would wear them all week and then I would scrub them down in a washtub, and leave them playing naked in the house while I scrubbed 6-12 outfits in the tub outdoors in the baking sun. And, if we were middle class, I would also have a maid.Pile #1 of clean laundryThat's not how middle class works here. My kids have scads of clothes and I seem to be forever buried in laundry. I remember being a country kid with a healthy covering of dirt most of the time, wearing outfits 2 or 3 days at a time. Our social standard now is sparkling clean kids in perfectly matched outfits. I had someone offer me information about the food stamp program while in line at the grocery sto... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5029037 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:52:00 +0100 5029037 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4338220&cid=t_265444_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F01%2Funfinished-made-perfect.html Her very first journal entry ever read sad.It's fall 2010 and it's hard for me. My mother has cancer and my sister Amy has epilepsy. My brother Caleb is hard to take care of and Rosy is hard to please. September 28, 2010 I talked to her about finding the silver lining. About thankfulness as a choice. Encouraged her to add a few lines. In red, below the black pencil of pain, another sentence is added. The sentence that really breaks my heart.I'm thankful that my mother and Amy are still here. I have this idea in my head of who they are, these four children. I know this: they bear the image of God, they are full of creativity, passion, justice, beauty. And they live in a broken world, and side by side with the characteristics of the image of God they bear, there is pain, brokenness... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4338220 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:01:00 +0100 4338220 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4322665&cid=t_265444_136_f&fid=39212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahtocancer.com%2F2011%2F01%2Fnot-cricket%2F I’m not a cricket fan. And I have had ample opportunity to become one. Both of my grandfathers were fans, as are  my Dad, my brother, my ex-husband, and my son. I’ve tried, but I just don’t get it. Although I do have a grudging admiration for a sport that stops for tea and, I always imagine, cake. Lots of cake. Victoria sponge and scones and dark, claggy gingerbread. Something else I admire about cricket is what happened in Australia this week. It wasn’t that England won (or retained, or whatever) the Ashes: it was Jane McGrath day. I’d never heard of Jane McGrath, who died of breat cancer in 2008, and was first diagnosed at the age of 31. I’d never heard of her husband, Glenn McGrath, an Australian cricketing legend. (But then again, if I listed a... Bah! to cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4322665 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:38:22 +0100 4322665 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4309822&cid=t_265444_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F01%2Freflection-in-mirror.html I remember the first time I heard of a Bible reading plan. I thought it was ridiculous - how can God direct through a scheduled reading of the Bible? How does He speak into the needs of that day, if you are just marching through? Desperate for structure as a young mother, I picked up my first One Year Bible and read through it, and I found out otherwise. God has a way of exploding every box I put Him in.Yesterday, I started a new reading plan. It's affectionately known as B90X (a take on the popular fitness "boot camp") and means reading through the entire Bible in 90 days. Fifteen to seventeen chapters (or about 45 minutes of reading) each and every day, with only two "grace" days.Here, on day 2, He speaks loudly and clearly into the needs of this day. Genesis 22, the sacrifice of Isaac. ... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4309822 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:35:00 +0100 4309822 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2611009&cid=t_265444_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FjluMRj4Wor8%2F Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes, is battling meningitis in a New York hospice, say news reports. The 78-year old has been battling melanoma , a frequently fatal skin cancer, for quite a while now. He had been doing quite well until the meningitis struck. Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges, the covering of the brain and spine. You can develop bacterial meningitis, which is the most common form, or viral meningitis. Bacterial meningitis is also the most serious and can cause severe disability and even death if it’s not treated quickly. You can read about meningitis, its symptoms and treatments at the Meningitis Foundation of Canada . It’s not unusual for people with melanoma to develop meningitis and according to the news releases, it appears that Mr. McC... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2611009 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:24:23 +0100 2611009 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=745612&cid=t_265444_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F135483743%2Fwhen_works_the_scourge_of_the.html When Oscar Wilde said … “work is the scourge of the drinking classes…” was he speaking about your work? Certainly he nailed high-flying ideas that come without feet.  And how about routines without wings that couldn't lift grasshoppers - let alone rise a Phoenix from ashes. Those gaping wastelands between progressive ideas on the one hand ... and concrete profitability on the other ... seem wider where some people work. Why so?It amazes me that people who hold mind-bending ideas sometimes fail to see any practical solutions that add to job satisfaction and increased productivity. Similarly, other people may show a penchant for creative solutions … yet they tell you work bores them and leaves them dry daily. D... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=745612 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:43:05 +0100 745612