Popular Science Metabolic Rates

 

I opened the compost container we keep on the kitchen counter and a CLOUD of fruit flies came out. Yuck! I hate those little buggers. Then I read this article in Popular Science.

 

 

 

 

"At the gym, humans burn roughly two watts of power per kilogram of body weight - only lightly more than an elephant just standing still. But the fastest metabolisms in nature put even our best athletes to shame.

 

 

Yeast burns 269 watts per kilogram {Yeah for Sour Dough Starter!}

Fruit fly burns 34 W/kg {Die and burn out nasty little pests!}

Anna's hummingbird 24 W/kg

Paramecium 2.8 W/kg {One of my favorite microscopic creatures}

 

Human jogging at 6 mph 2.2 W/kg (You will never see me doing that.)

Asian Elephant 0.64 W/kg

Reticulated python 0.085 W/kg (Creeps me out to even type that!)

 

 

Radical acceptance requires Total Surrender to the Holy Spirit.

Umptillion

We were watching Morgan Freeman on "Through the Wormhole" and I heard him make a reference to quintillion. Now mind you, I have no head for math, but the word sounded like something a grade schooler would make up! Here is an on-line definition

"A large number after quadrillion (15 zeros) is called a quintillion. It has 18 zeros. After that comes a sextillion (21 zeros), a septillion (24 zeros), octillion (27 zeros), and nonillion (30 zeros). A centillion is 303 zeros!"

Oh, by the way! We each bought a lottery ticket on Saturday and we won quintillion zeros. Nothing else, just zeros.

Radical acceptance requires Total Surrender to the Holy Spirit.

That Refreshing Water

When we were in the Smokey Mountains I shot this video of one of our favorite areas. My favorite photographer is featured, too.
As you watch, ponder how is it going with your promised stream within?

From Sarah Young in  Jesus Calling:

"Bring Me the sacrifice of your time; a most precious commodity. In this action-addicted world, few of My children take time to sit quietly in My Presence. But for those who do, blessings flow like streams of living water. I, the One from whom all blessings flow, am also blessed by our time together. This is a deep mystery; do not try to fathom it. Instead, glorify Me by delighting in Me. Enjoy Me now and forever!"

PS 21:6, JN 7:38, PS 103:11

The Sound of Many Waters

In Revelation John describes the Risen Reigning Christ as "someone like a Son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to His feet and with a golden sash around His chest. The hair on His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of rushing waters.

When I finally got to Niagara Falls with a video camera I recorded our time behind the falls. It makes for an unusual sight, seeing 600,000 gallons of water go past per second, but the sound is tremendous!

NIV Revelation 1:15 His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and

His voice was like the sound of rushing waters.

KJV And His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and

His voice as the sound of many waters.

Prayerfully listen and try to imagine the voice of Our Lord.

Radical acceptance requires Total Surrender to the Holy Spirit.

Dry and Thirsty Land

When I visited Corrales I had the treat of a light rain. It is so dry and dusty there, only averaging 9-10 inches of rainfall per year and they are currently in a drought. In Cincinnati our average rainfall is about 42 inches!

These verses came to mind as I watched the atypical shower.

Psalm 63:1 You, God, are my God,earnestly I seek you;

I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you,

in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

Psalm 42:1 As the deer pants for streams of water,

so my soul pants for you, my God.

Radical acceptance requires Total Surrender to the Holy Spirit.

Twila Paris

I hope this plays! One of my all time favorite surrender to Christ songs. I heard it first when I bought a tape while we were on vacation. I soared to the heavens with the first playing, shocked that she captured what Jesus and I had been talking about for several weeks. On the second playing (mind you, rewind, find the beginning, listen again) I was just stunned in joy!

The person who set up this video with the Great Blue Heron to boot! Well, I am loving it!
PS I also just bought the song again through Amazon.

Who are these people?

Young, wild, impulsive, and even silly?

 

 

Oh yeah, that's us Before Kids, (though I was pregnant in this photo!)

 

 

 

 

 

Radical acceptance requires Total Surrender to the Holy Spirit.