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Another Japanese study in humans from 2013 found that mouthbreathing delivered a disturbance of oxygen to the prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain associated with ADHD. Nasal breathing had no such effects.
“We all have shadows and skeletons in our backgrounds. But listen, there is something bigger in this world than we are and that something bigger is full of grace and mercy, patience and ingenuity. The moment the focus of your life shifts from your badness to his goodness and the question becomes not “What have I done?” but “What can he do?” release from remorse can happen; miracle of miracles, you can forgive yourself because you are forgiven, accept yourself because you are accepted, and begin to start building up the very places you once tore down. There is grace to help in every time of trouble. That grace is the secret to being able to forgive ourselves. Trust it.”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Preoccupation with self is always a major component of unhealthy guilt and recrimination.”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“A two-story house had caught on fire. The family—father, mother, several children—were on their way out when the smallest boy became terrified, tore away from his mother, ran back upstairs. Suddenly he appeared at a smoke-filled window, crying like crazy. His father, outside, shouted, “Jump, son, jump! I’ll catch you.” The boy cried, “But, daddy, I can’t see you.” “I know,” his father called, “I know. But I can see you.”10”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Though Christ no longer visibly moves among us, we minister to Him in the ragamuffins within reach. Each encounter with a brother or sister is a mysterious encounter with Jesus Himself. In the upper room, the Man like us in all things but ungratefulness spelled out the game plan of gratitude: “Love one another as I have loved you.” To Peter on the beach along the Sea of Tiberias, He said, “If you love me, Simon, Son of John, tend my sheep.” Quite simply, our deep gratitude to Jesus Christ is manifested neither in being chaste, honest, sober, and respectable, nor in churchgoing, Bible-toting, and Psalm-singing, but in our deep and delicate respect for one another.”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Was it this novel that inspired Erma Bombeck to write a column entitled “If I Had My Life to Live Over Again”? In it, she wrote: I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded. I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains. I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn’t show soil or was guaranteed to last a lifetime. When my child kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, “Later. Now get washed up for dinner.” There would have been more I love yous, more I’m sorrys, but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute, look at it and really see it, live it, and never give it back.”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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