Thursday, November 30, 2006

I Wish My Mom Were Here.....

So tonight is one of those nights that I wish my mom was here in the US. It is a rare occasion that I get to watch ER, usually my Thursday nights are spent with Middle School students at my church. But this Thursday I got to stay home and relax (which seems like a foreign concept to me at times, how sad). So I decided to partake in an old tradition of watching the Thursday night sitcoms and ER. When I was in High School I used to watch ER with mom after she got home from work at about 8 pm; Thursdays were always her “odd” day; meaning that she went into work at 11 am and would get home at 8 at night. So we would sit and watch ER and my dad would always ask me questions such as:

“What are they saying, Shannon? You’re gonna be a nurse you should know this!”

And now the usual question is:

“Is that really how it is? What does that mean?”

Now I am able to somewhat answer his questions, but I digress! I remember, one night when I was in college I happened to be watching ER and one particular doctor (that no one liked) got killed by a helicopter. Not less than 10 seconds after it happened my phone rang and the first words out of my mouth were:

“Oh my word! Did you see that!” And then that was immediatly followed by laughter on both our ends of the phone.

Tonight there was another another hilarious moment in the episode (involving a psych patient no less!) and I really wish I could have called my mom and laughed with her! But alas she and my father are up in the Himalaya’s hiking and relaxing on a little vacation; which is something they needed after being in India for four months. So this is a “shout out” to my mom (and dad, you too!) that I miss and love them very much! ER just isn’t the same without you!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Sometimes You Just Need A Good Laugh....


So this blog entry may not seem funny to most of you but my fellow health care workers may just find this pretty funny! So at work today I happened upon a very funny story. In a recent office visit, I found quite an amusing note by one of our physicians. So I thought that I would post one of the funniest things I have read at work in a long time. (This is paraphrased by the way, my memory isn’t that good!)

“In retrospect, the patient believes that the right upper quadrant abdominal pain the patient experienced was due to eating copius amounts of dill pickle potato chips prior to experiencing the abdominal pain. In an effort to determine if this was the cause of the patient's abdominal pain, the patient decided to perform a dill pickle potato challenge; which resulted in the same abdominal pain. The patient has now d/c’d eating dill pickle potato chips and has not experienced abdominal pain as before. It appears that the abdominal pain has resolved upon d/c’ing the dill pickle potato chips. No further action needed at this time.”

Oh how I laughed! I attempted to read this note out to my fellow co-workers but I was laughing too hard! I hope you can enjoy, and be cautioned; apparently dill pickle potato chips can cause right upper quadrant abdominal pain.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

On a Lighter note.....

So this is a video link stolen from Jon, he has his favorite video linked on his blog. And this is mine, it is absolutely hilarious! We really should show this in church! So enjoy!



What would to do with $50,000?

This Can't Be Real......

So thanks to my parents I am now the proud owner of a Newsweek magazine pretty much every week. My parents have now forwarded their mail to me (kind of like a reversal of what I did to them while in college) and so I get the chance to check up on some news each week, for free! Well when I picked up the latest issue I was intriuged by a headline of “ Christian Hell House” because when I see a headline that mentions “Christian” and “Hell House”; ya gotta wonder! So I opened to the page listed and proceeded to read a very disturbing article about an “Evangelical” (I would use that word VERY loosely here) christian haunted house. These “hell houses” are stationed (apparently) across the country with the purpose of attracting people who wouldn’t normally go to a church but would go to a haunted house. While reading the article I can’t describe the disgust and the shock I felt as I read how these “Hell Houses” portray sins but with a grotesque twist. As I read the article, I literally began to cry; how can this be real? How can a pastor take the Good News (the true meaning of the word Evangelical!) and turn it into something so heinous? I just don’t understand. Today, the pastor of my church spoke about how Christians are messengers of the Good News and this cannot be the way! How can putting on a play that depicts a young boy reading “Harry Potter” who then turns into a school shooter be a way of showing Jesus? Or how does a woman who goes to a rave and then gets ganged-raped as her “consequence” for going to this party? (I won’t even start on how perverted and disrespectful are their multiple uses of the awful and violent act of rape.) The producers of a Brooklyn “Hell House” even stated that the pastor (original creator) and producers both “agree that probably no souls were saved in Brooklyn this October, but they both also see their collaboration as a success.” Their rationale for “success” was that they were able to give “New Yorkers an oppurtunity to meet Jesus and to get aquainted with the risks of sin.” At the end of the play “Jesus” invites them to repent and be saved, yet the stricken audience “when invited to join the Lord in prayer, all remain silent.” (Rightfully so) What a ludicrious and hurtful way to show people Jesus, this is not the Jesus that I know and who redeems me. The Jesus I know has taken my place and has sacrificed His life to save me. And with that redemption I have found a love from a Holy Father; a love that surpasses anything that I deserve. And it was not made real to me through a perverted display for shock value. It was/is shown to me by people who humbly lead a life that demonstrates God’s love and sacrifice of his own Son. It saddens me that people can now see a match of “Christian Values” and hate (which I feel is demonstrated in these “Hell Houses”). I want to be someone who preaches the Good News of Christ; first by my actions in love and in humility and second by my words which hopefully encourage and build others up. It saddens me that the world can now take this and use it as a reason not to know Christ and can throw it right in my face. How will I respond when that happens? I pray that I will respond with the love of the Lord and that I will seek their forgiveness for this heinous display. As for the creators of this display, I don’t even know what to pray; but I will still pray that the Lord will give me the right words.