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 'god's'. Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:42:03 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2902942&cid=t_198687_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fverse-1-even-though-i-walk-through.html Verse 1:Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death (Psalm 23:a)Your perfect love is casting out fear (1 John 4:18)And even when I’m caught in the middle of the storms of this life (Mark 4:35-41)I won’t turn back (John 6:66-69)I know You are near (Psalm 145:18)Pre-Chorus:And I will fear no evil (Psalm 23:4b)For my God is with me (Psalm 23:6)And if my God is with me (Psalm 46--especially verse 11)Whom then shall I fear? (Psalm 27:1)Whom then shall I fear?Chorus:Oh no, You never let go (Hebrews 13:5-6; Deuternomy 31:6; Joshua 1:1-9)Through the calm and through the storm (Isaiah 25:4)Oh no, You never let go (John 10:27-28)In every high and every low (Ecclesiastes 7:14)Oh no, You never let go (Psalm 55:22)Lord, You never let go of me (Matthew 28:20)Verse 2:And I can see a ... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2902942 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:59:00 +0100 2902942 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2902943&cid=t_198687_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fsunny-with-scattered-cloudiness.html Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. Jeremiah 31:13The unbridled joy of children unleashes my own appetite for joy and beauty. The gleam of sun in golden locks levitated from dancing heads, the shadow and light as they flit through dappled sunlight on a bridge in autumn, the stepping forward and looking backward all at once that is so inherent to life. This week was a week of remembering cancer, viscerally so. Being in the house of cancer again. It is shadow and light changing hands with my view of the world so frequently that they become one, part of the same vista. I can't differentiate the light from the darkness this week. They simply are, and... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2902943 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:31:00 +0100 2902943 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2876322&cid=t_198687_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Freflection.html Every year, at family church camp, we take a family photo on a certain dock, with the fall colors behind us. The first year, it was just the three of us. Katy was two months old, still in that curled up, cuddlesome newborn stage.Two years later, another daughter had joined us, and, at six months, Rosy was a bundle of energy and charisma. Katy was a beautiful, chubby-cheeked big sister. We couldn't believe our blessing. On the other hand, this was my darkest year as a mother. I struggled to juggle two children. I constantly felt like I was letting someone down or leaving one of my two precious children with unmet needs. I threatened to throw in the towel and go back to work, leaving the child-loving and the child-rearing to someone who could do a more dispassionate job of it. Aaron and I ha... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2876322 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:29:00 +0100 2876322 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871993&cid=t_198687_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fglimpses-of-glory.html It is in the dainty china cups of Belgian hot chocolate, the 10 a.m. brownie bites, the hug from a warm mama when you come in from the crisp autumn morning. It is in the impromptu trip with Grandma to your favorite thrift store, the Christmas cookie tins that cost a dollar but yield hours of imaginative play the next day, in the three hours you spend scrubbing the floor to your four-year-old delight.My baby's chocolate smile is just a foreshadow of the adoration I will shine with someday soon in heaven. Adoration for moments like those I've had the past two days, watching Him work through me in these budding lives. How much I cannot understand heaven is crystal clear: I assume I'll be adoring Him for what I've received in a temporal world, but I suspect that the memory of bittersweet joy o... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871993 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:33:00 +0100 2871993 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2858873&cid=t_198687_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Frole-of-wine-for-christian.html I unwittingly opened a Pandora's box in the Christian world with my last post, which included photos of chokeberries drying on our countertop, and a description of my husband's lovely Farmhouse Wines fermenting in our basement currently. I published a representative comment on yesterday's blog. I received six other similar comments, and so would like to take the time to post my position on wine. I believe wholeheartedly that Christians are free to consume alcoholic beverages in moderation. There are also plenty of examples in Scripture where wine in excess is damaging (for a summary of both the positive and negative references to alcohol in Scripture, read an excellent bulleted list here). Because I think we are more familiar with the arguments against the drinking of alcohol for Christian... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2858873 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:25:00 +0100 2858873 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2858876&cid=t_198687_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Ffrom-bounty-of-nature.html Sweet onions and fresh garlic sautéed in olive oil. Cooked pasta tossed in to warm. At the last minute, sea salt, blue cheese crumbles, a few tablespoons of Greek yogurt, and garden fresh tomatoes sprinkled over all that succulence. The natural way to a healthier digestive tract: penicillin grown in a monastery in England; antiviral activity in fresh garlic and olive oil; antifungal dose in the culture of the Greek yogurt; and antioxidants to support and sustain a weak immune system, transformed from dirt and sunlight into the beautiful rose of a September tomato in Wisconsin.All this au naturale talk reminds me of several requests for my homemade Scrubbing Bubbles recipe. After admiring the hygienic household of a dear friend, I became interested in the variety of ways one can clean with... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2858876 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:11:00 +0100 2858876 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2858880&cid=t_198687_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fdancing-in-rain.html As I watched them walk out the door ahead of me, waiting for the perfect shaft of light to illuminate girlhood and infancy lilting through the sunset and out of the cavernous old barn, a million old emotions flooded back. That moment...watching someone I love dearly walk off with my son, facing forward toward the beauty and possibility that is life outside the cavern...I remember the moments I spent watching my kids dance in a lamp lit living room in November. Isolated, shivering, standing in the dark, surrounded by the eerie loneliness of the sounds of city nightlife. Feeling my life slip like so many grains of sand through an open palm. The glass shut me out, just like the length of that barn floor did. Being an outsider is never pleasant, especially when your heart is heavy with worry.T... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2858880 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:28:00 +0100 2858880 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2858883&cid=t_198687_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fwhen-he-sustained-me.html In the midst of another season of hurts, I am reminded continually that there are many hurts greater than those I bear today. I thank God for offering perspective on my life (vibrant, full, joyful, entertaining, beautiful) and my suffering (bruising, buffeting, confusing, exhausting).Aaron and I continued a pregnancy nearly 3 1/2 years ago after receiving a poor prenatal prognosis after ultrasound. Our unborn daughter was diagnosed with spina bifida, myelomeningocele, and Arnold-Chiari malformation at an 18 week ultrasound. My alpha fetoprotein levels were also abnormally high. We were urged to go through with an abortion that very day, as we were just 1 1/2 weeks from the cutoff date for an "easy" abortion. We adamantly refused. At 24 weeks, our daughter was found to be perfectly healthy ... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2858883 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:44:00 +0100 2858883 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2858884&cid=t_198687_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhappy-anniversary.html The difference is just a breath aparton one side loneliness, on the other warmthSeven years I've waited for something to break my heartbut you just keep holding onI sometimes waver between trust and fearwonder whether someday God's gonna take meMy choice is to remember every morning I'm still herejust keep holding on to loveSeven years or seventy and sevendreams unfinished or dreams forgotten in the dustJust keep walking hand in hand, just keep livin'Till death I'll just keep holding onYou're still the reason I hold on this tight, the reason I live this hard, the reason I am this warm, the reason I believe in oh, so many things I never believed in before. It's been the best season of my life. I can't wait to see what you eclipse it with in the next seven. (Source: Turquoise Gates) Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2858884 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:37:00 +0100 2858884 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2858888&cid=t_198687_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fmotivation.html It's nice to feel understood. As I read over those verses yesterday, the verses on my own personal list of motherhood rules, I was struck that God totally gets it that I'm selfish. Instead of just constantly reminding me to change, to give up my selfishness and be a better person, He instead uses it to motivate me. The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother. (Provers 29:15) He doesn't say, "Correct your kid because it's good for him", or "correct your kid so he will behave", or even, "correct your kid so he won't go to jail or murder someone or something". Instead, He motivates me with the specter of my own disgrace! Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?The only appropriate photo to accompany these thoughts is one of my mischievous son, who... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2858888 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:54:00 +0100 2858888 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2510323&cid=t_198687_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E5%2F6NVe682k5gM%2Fbioethicsandpublicpolicy.pdf Associate executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society and WBP supporter, Marcy Darnovsky argues in a new article in the Democracy Journal that for too long progressives have built a bioethics around opposition to the religious right, and have thus failed to explicate a positive vision. In an article complementary to the WBP’s report (downloadable here), Darnovsky outlines a framework for just such a vision, one that balances individual autonomy with the real social concerns raised by biotechnological advances, such as how will human biotechnologies reshape our sense of ourselves, our relationships, the shape and feel of the world we occupy together? Who will profit, who will lose, and who will survive?: “For many progressives and liberals, President Barack Obama’s Marc... Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2510323 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:02:44 +0100 2510323 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1961298&cid=t_198687_151_f&fid=35793&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thejunkyswife.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fgods-will-for-me-and-power-to-carry-it.html "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."-Havelock EllisI'm starting my second round of the ninth step this weekend, but I am struggling with 11th step issues. I am looking and looking and looking for God's will for me, and I'm not sure what it might be.It seems ungodly of God to want my marriage to end; it seems like God would want a marriage to be restored. Maybe God is mad at my marriage for springing from the seed of infidelity. Maybe God is mad at me for having a second marriage. Maybe that God I don't believe in is the God who's handling my life right now.Sometimes, I feel like all the evidence in my life is pointing me toward ending everything with my husband, cutting all ties, and moving on. I want to pack up my belongings, sell my house, and mov... Heroin Addiction Codependence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1961298 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:46:00 +0100 1961298 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=847285&cid=t_198687_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F09%2F06%2Fthe-great-escape-boarding-a-diabetic-pet%2F Filed under: Type 2, Adult Onset, Exercise, Opinion, Allie Beatty, Care, PersonalitiesA friend of mine told me about a friend of hers who had a cat that used to have diabetes - until she left him with the Vet. Her friend was overprotective of her little cat since it was diagnosed with diabetes. The cat was put on insulin injections. She also upgraded the entire posse of cats to low-carb cat food. Routinely she took her cat to the vet to have the blood sugar levels checked ($75 a pop!) So far, so good - the story is mundane until her friend left for a vacation and boarded the cat at the Vet's for the week. All week her friend was worried about the welfare of her cat - even though she was safely under the watchful eye of the vet. As it turns out, upon her return from vacation - the vet notif... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=847285 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:00:00 +0100 847285