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To our supporters,
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
September 19 Chp 139 v 13 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALMS
You made all the delicate ,inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb .
STEP 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable.
A couple of years back my wife and I purchased a battery powered car for our three year old son .It was a gift from Grandma from up the mountains. Thanks Grandma ! When we opened the box we were confronted with a million parts and an instruction booklet . With out those instructions the little car would have been a mess and me and my wife would have eventually succumb to defeat and given up . Life is a lot like that car ,from Birth God provides instructions .Moms and Dads should read us the instructions or take us to a place where we can be given the instructions . Without God given instructions for our lives we will eventually succumb to defeat . No where in the instruction manual does it say everyday will be sunny and stress free. It does say that we will have troubles but God our Father is with us every second of every day to love, lead, guide, comfort,, listen ,and meet all of our needs. Addictions were my way of dealing with life without the instructions. Well anyone with half a brain knows that addiction wont repair your life it will only wreck it .Step one opened my eyes and helped me realize I had become powerless to overcome my addictions because I wasn't reading Gods instructions. Gods Big book is the only book in the universe that once you own one and read it everyday it will come alive and become a part of you .
Romans 15 : 4For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.
BY JOSEPH DICKERSON
Friday, September 19, 2014
"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence." - Thomas Merton
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Teens Who Feel Less Favored By Parents More Likely to Use Drugs, Alcohol: Study
September 18th, 2014/
Teens who feel their parents favor their siblings over them are more likely to use alcohol, drugs and tobacco, a new study finds.
“There’s this cultural perception that you need to treat your children the same, or at least fairly,” lead researcher Alex Jensen of Brigham Young University told NPR. “But if kids perceive that it’s not fair, that’s when issues start to arise.”
The researchers studied 282 teenage sibling pairs, ages 12 to 17. He asked each participant how their parents treated their children overall, whether any sibling was favored, and how the family functioned.
They found an association between feeling less favored and substance abuse. Teens were more likely to abuse substances if they felt less favored and were in a family that was not particularly close. The more they felt slighted, the more likely they were to use alcohol, drugs or tobacco.
Teens in these disengaged families who felt less favored were almost twice as likely to use alcohol, cigarettes or drugs. If the preferential treatment was perceived to be extreme, the less favored child was 3.5 times more likely to use any of these substances, the researchers found.
In families in which members were more engaged with one another, teens who felt less favored were less likely to abuse substances.
“It’s not just how you treat them differently, but how your kids perceive it,” Jensen said in anews release. “Even in the case where the parents treated them differently, those actual differences weren’t linked to substance use – it was the perception.”
The study appears in the Journal of Family Psychology.
Jensen advises parents to try to minimize any bad effects of perceived favoritism. “See them as individuals and love them for who they are. Show them how you love them. Hopefully you do, but try to communicate that love.”
Football Players Will be Tested for Human Growth Hormone Under New Plan
September 18th, 2014/
Football players will be tested for human growth hormone (HGH) under a new drug-testing plan agreed upon by the National Football League (NFL) and the players union. The plan has been in the works for several years, The New York Times reports.
The plan also includes a higher threshold for a positive marijuana test. Under the new plan, a positive marijuana test will require 35 nanograms of THC per milliliter in a player’s urine, compared with the previous limit of 15. Players who test positive for amphetamines for the first time in the off-season will be referred to the league’s substance abuse program, instead of being suspended. No agreement has been reached on new terms for the substance abuse program, the article notes.
Appeals for positive test violations will be heard by an independent arbitrator, not an appeals officer appointed by the league. Up to five arbitrators will be selected, approved and paid for jointly by the NFL and the union.The plan will require a player to be suspended for two games if they are convicted of, or plead guilty to, violating laws involving drinking and driving.
To address privacy concerns, the plan calls for fines of as much as $500,000 for any NFL, union or team employee who is found to have disclosed information about drug violations. Players, agents and drug policy administrators can also be fined.
HGH testing should begin by the end of the month, and will be fully implemented this season, according to the NFL.
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