The capacity of certain types of battery cells are better than others. As I was thinking about the low density of zinc-carbon batteries (often with the misleading advertising: "heavy duty"), I thought of my own brain capacity. With so much information around to absorb and put to use, I wish that I had a brain like a sponge. Unfortunately, my skull is too thick and my brain often feels like it absorbs information like a brick absorbs water. Not very fast.
Today a doctor informed our class about various skin conditions and wounds, including basic information about how to treat them. This forms part of our Field Health class. It is important for us to remain healthy on the field in order to be most effective. Apparently, sick missionaries don't accomplish as much as healthy ones. Tomorrow we will be talking about stress, which happens to be a big factor in a line of work where you may be isolated from your relatives, modern conveniences, and emergency healthcare. I also learned that caffeine has the same effect as stress. It releases a chemical in your body called cortisol, which explains why I felt so stressed when we were discussing it. Life here has been fairly busy, but most of it has been enjoyable. I am privileged to have a career where my business is people. Before moving here, I had a manufacturing job that made me feel a little guilty if I talked to anyone for long when I could have been creating product. That is no longer a concern. My concern now involves people, understanding their worldviews, and presenting the Biblical worldview to them. There are many assaults on it and even Christians can be duped into thinking this way. I was at Cedar Ridge last night where they were watching a show called "My Name is Earl", which is about a petty criminal who turns his life around because of bad karma. All kinds of bad things happened to him until he started making restitution for his past crimes. That is certainly not Biblical. Did Jesus die because of bad karma? Was Stephen stoned to death because of bad karma? In their group meeting, one of the guys was talking about how he didn't have a higher power and another guy said it didn't matter what higher power you had or what 'faith' you followed. Later, I was talking to the guy leading the group and he asked how we as Christians thought we had the truth when all the other religions claim to have the truth. I said, "Do you know what sets Christianity apart from every other religion?" "What?" "Every other religion is about what you must do to earn something. Christianity is not about what we can do, but about what Christ did." "That's a good point," he said. Keep trusting in the One who paid our sin debt in full. Tomorrow we are supposed to get a bunch of snow and people are talking about power outages that could last a couple of days. Maybe I will write about that next wek
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