Archive for May, 2006



Photo_062005_003.jpg Amitryptilline and effexor interaction, Words are the commodity I trade in.  I enjoy writing and love reading well written materials.  I think that why I read several blogs daily or every other day.  Many of them are written by true wordsmiths, like MFC (my friend Cathy) at www.cathy.likeafire.net

Word games is another passion of mine.  At one time I used to subscribe to a magazine called "Games" which was full of word games.  Last week our small group from church decided to go to Macaroni Grill.  Dave, who was sitting across from me, drew a hangman and then put out spaces for two words (5 letters and 6 letters).  Lynda guessed the letter "A" which was the second letter in both words.  I immediately said, "I got it. Paris, France."  Dave was incredulous and didn't want to play anymore.  Word games can keep me occupied for hours.

I just love words.  Maybe that's part of the reason I joined Wycliffe BIble Translators 30 years ago.  We're all about words and more precisely, the Word.  Studying linguistics in preparation for being a Bible translators was like going to class to do anagrams.  It was great.

Words can get you into trouble too ... like the time my friend Steve and I nearly got beaten in the Omdurman market.  Steve was negotiating a price and didn't like the way it was going, Long-term side effects of effexor xr, so he decided to try out a colorful and idiomatic Arabic insult on the shopkeeper.  Whew!  That guy just about came unglued and had to be subdued by others while we bid a hasty retreat.

Other words can comfort and give you hope.  Still others inspire.  There's a song by Michael W, amitryptilline and effexor interaction. Smith called Ancient Words that I really like.

Holy words long preserved
for our walk in this world,
They resound with God's own heart
Oh, let the Ancient words impart.

Words of Life, words of Hope
Give us strength, help us cope
In this world, where e'er we roam
Ancient words will guide us Home, zofran effexor.
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CHORUS:
Ancient words ever true             
Changing me, and changing you.
We have come with open hearts
Oh let the ancient words impart.

Holy words of our Faith
Handed down to this age.
Came to us through sacrifice
Oh heed the faithful words of Christ.

Holy words long preserved
For our walk in this world.
They resound with God's own heart
Oh let the ancient words impart.


This past year I got to touch some ancient Photo_062005_004.jpgwords when I received on behalf of Wycliffe a 400 year old scroll of the first five books of the Old Testament.  These were hand copied at the oldest continuously operating scriptorium in the world, which is in Yemen.  Of course the words go back several millenia, Is cymbalta the same as effexor, not just four centuries.  It was a palpable touch with anicient history though as I touch the lambskin scroll.

That scroll is going to go on display soon in the WordSpring Discovery Center at the Wycliffe Center in Orlando.  It's a pretty amazing thing to see.  More amazing though is the content of the scroll which is still relevant today.  Words are powerful.  The Word is eternal.

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Effexor and sexual desire, I'm not talking about $3 a gallon gas, although that is a subject I could rant about.  Yesterday I saw a station with regular for $2.73.  I got so excited I nearly caused an accident.  There's something seriously wrong when $2.73 a gallon seems like a good deal.

No, this post has nothing to do with money.  It's about what it costs to follow God.  We would like to think that saying "yes" to God is the equivalent of saying "yes" to the good life.  Well, it is a good life, but it's not necessarily an easy life.

I think about middle school and high school kids who say yes to God.  It can cost them popularity (an important commodity in the life of someone bursting with hormones).  It might cost them opportunities to hang out with friends.  Oh, other opportunities will open up to them that will probably be even better than what they gave up.  But at 15 or 16 years old, Comparring cymbalta with effexor,  its hard to have that kind of long view.

A group of 12 of our high schoolers from our church left yesterday for a ministry trip to work among the East Indians in London.  They gave up there first two weeks of summer vacation to go work with and for others.  Some of their friends probably think they are pretty strange!  They are paying one of those costs of following God.

In our 30 years in ministry with Wycliffe we have seen many of our colleagues pay heavy costs for the sake of translating the Bible into previously unwritten languages.  Just recently I learned of another friend whose family just paid a traumatic price though an assault on a family member.  Makes one wonder if the cost is too high.  This family has touched the lives of many language groups who today have the Scriptures.  If they had not followed God into ministry, those people might still be Bibleless.  I'm sure the speakers of these languages are grieved by the cost to our friends, but they would probably say that the cost, though great, was worth it for the eternal value it has brought to them.

When I was 18 and considering going into ministry, my pastor gave me a verse from Luke 9 .., effexor and sexual desire. "No person who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of heaven."  At the time I thought that was a bit severe, number of granules in effexor, but with the passing of years I've come to understand the wisdom of it.  This is all about keeping focused on what lies ahead ... God, heaven, the future.  Looking back at what has passed takes our focus off the future.

Plowed field.bmpI never understood the analogy of the plow until one day I was given the opportunity to plow a field.  The rancher told me to pick a spot on the horizon and just keep going straight towards it.  He told me that whatever I did, don't look back.  I started plowing that field.  At one point my perverse nature got the better of me and I decided there was no reason I couldn't look back.  Whoa!  That furrow ended up looking like a cooked spaghetti noodle -- it went all over the place.  There was nothing straight about it. Large dosage effexor, God has wisely given us the choice of taking a straight course towards Him.  It might be costly.  Then again weaving all over the place through life may be even more costly.  I'm going to try to keep my focus forward ... even through the costly moments of life.

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Depression Women Effexor Xr

Depression women effexor xr, That's probably a fairly sacriligious statement.  It's not original with me.  I stole it from a magazine I used to read years ago called the Wittenburg Door.  Their articles were satirical.  This post is just meant to show how besotted we are with our pooches.

Between the kids and us we have five dogs.

Kali.jpgKali is our (my) black and white cockhuahua (cocker/chihuahua mix).  The dog is OCD (obsessive compulsive) when it comes to golf balls.  She will chase and return it more times than my arm is able to throw it.

Muffin.jpgMuffin is Lynda's miniature schnauzer ... a present from Erik and Rinnie.  She had a little barking problem ... the problem being she didn't know when to shut up.  Her figure is reminiscent of a pear, but Lynda thinks she's svelt, depression women effexor xr.

Ndevu.JPGNdevu is the alpha dog (also a miniature schnauzer).  He has been in the family the longest.  Erik and Rinnie got him shortly after they married.  He is also by far the most obedient.  Having an ex-Marine for a "father" probably has something to do with that.

Bailey 1.JPGBailey is Pam's Heinz 57.  She's looks kind of like a mix with a corgi, but she's really mostly duck.  She loves swimming in the ponds.  She also has ears that if trained correctly would probably allow her to fly. What side effects effexor and triazadone, Tequila.jpgThen there's Amy's pretty boy, Tequila, who is supposed to be a long haired chihuahua.  He considers all three of the females as his harem, something which Ndevu occasionally takes issue to.  He's our little Latin lover.

Maybe it is more aptly put that between the five dogs they have Bag of Tequila.JPG7-12 humans.  They've trained us well.  They let us drive them on rides in the car.  They let us waste serious coin on useless cannine paraphrenalia.  They let us going walking with them and occasionally let us off our leashes.

Bailey 2.JPGThese dogs occupy places in our hearts, in our pocket books, in our cars and in our beds.  We're totally over the tops with these descendents of wolves.  I won't spend a dime to get myself checked out by the doctor, but just let Kali come home with a Dress up dogs.JPGlittle irregularity and I'm right up at the vets.  Shoot, high blood pressure effexor, we even have doggie health plans for them.  We're told these save us money.  We're so smitten with them that we believe the lie.

We probably know their personalites and quirks as well as we know our spouses and kids.  I suspect we cater to them more.

And what do we get in return?  Complete, unconditional love.  Dog nest.JPGThe occasional wet nose in the ear.  Companionship when others are away.  Unbridled excitement when we whisper, "Want to go for a walk?"  Obedience sometimes.  Endless games of fetching the ball, pulling the stuffed toy, cleaning up shredded Kleenexes (they think that's a game). Remeron versus effexor, So will dogs be in heaven?  I hope so.  The saying, "It's a dog's life." is supposed to mean that it is a good life.  It can't get any good-er than heaven.

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east.gif Alternative drug for effexor, Have you noticed that hospitals have a really distinct odor?  I guess I shouldn't be surprised.  Between the chemicals, cleaning agents, bed pans, bio waste, and who knows what else ... why wouldn't it be a unique smell.

I've been hanging around and hearing about too many hospitals recently.  Between family and friends, we are putting a lot of the children of medical professionals through college.  Hope they enjoy learning off our dimes and dollars.

Kind of takes me back to 1979 and our first experience of an African hospital.  It was the Juba Hospital ... the main medical facility in a region about as large as Florida, marijuana and effexor, Georgia, the Carolinas, Alabama and Mississippi combined.  It didn't take us long to learn that people waited until they were near death before submitting themselves to Juba Hospital.  If you were admitted, you better have family or friends nearby because no one was going to role a nice food trolley around with your meals.  Either someone brought you something from their home, Effexor poisoning, or you just went hungry.  And there were more patients than beds, so be prepared to share with a stranger.

Fortunately none of us were ever admitted.  But I do recall the experience of having to deliver a stool sample to their lab for analysis.  Although our sample was delivered in a sealed film cannister that you could not see into, most people just brought in a folded up piece of paper.  The lab tech at the little receiving window would scrape the needed amount off the sample and then drop the remainder into a waste paper basket on the patient side of the window.  In other words, making the delivery meant leaning over the fly infested excess samples brought in by other people with all sorts of communicable diseases.

Maybe all hospitals don't really have the same smell.  The Juba Hospital lab had one that was unique---to outhouses .., effexor sideefects. together with the requisite number of bloated flies!  Let's hear it for the clean and sanitary medical facilities we enjoy today.  We had great service at the Florida Hospital East recently ... and I'll quit complaining about the odor.  It could be worse.

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Does Effexor React With Marijuana

Photo_051706_001.jpg Does effexor react with marijuana, Lynda's surgery was a resounding success.  We arrived at the hospital at 7:00 and were discharged at 2:30.  The actually surgery was quite short and uneventfully.  We spent more time trying to wake her up and keep her awake long enough to drink water and pee ... both necessary actions before the hospital would let her go.  At 2:30 we were pulling out of the parking lot.  By 2:31 she was peacefully snoring in the passenger seat.  She woke up long enough for me to grab her belt loop and navigate her to the couch, at which point to logged out for several more hours, prozac vs effexor.

I was able to stay with Lynda up to the point at which they took her off to put her out.  As I walked out of the room to the waiting room, Switching from cymbalta to effexor, I found my eyes welling up with tears -- I don't like for my wife to have to undergo surgery ... minimally invasive or not.  Waiting around for the next couple hours was the pits.  And I have a question for the medical community.  Why does the waiting room have to be sub-arctic temperatures?  I understand the other rooms needing to be cold to supress bacteria, but a walrus would have been shivering in that waiting room.  I had to go swipe a blanket off an unconscious patient in order to kept from freezing, venlafaxine vs effexor.

Lynda's doctor was a wonderful Christian Jamacian man.  When he came out to give me the news that the surgery was successful, I told him that I and many others had been praying for him.  He was visibly and vocally moved.  It's probably pretty sobering to be digging around inside someone's gut and to know that a slip of the hand could mean serious injury or death.  I think he liked hearing that he wasn't alone in there.

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Effexor Results From Real People

Gator 2.jpgIn the past week three women have been killed in Florida by alligators.Gator.jpg Effexor results from real people, For those who don't live here, they probably think that is a slow week for the gators. Actually in the past 50 years there has only been something like 20 people killed by gators in Florida. The three gators that perpetrated these recent deaths have been harvested (polite term for revenge killing) or will soon be harvested. There is one still at large, but the trappers will find him eventually.

In all the years we were in Africa I only knew one guy that was killed by a wild animal. He was a student at our kids school, effexor results from real people. The boat he was crossing a river in capsized and before he could reach the shore, a croc got him. Pretty nasty stuff ... especially since his father was on the opposite bank watching it happen. Makes me shudder even today to place myself and one of my kids into that situation. Effexor results from real people, I also knew a couple other young people who got some broken bones courtesy of an elephant that took offense to the tent they were sleeping in. Using its tusk, it hooked the tent, which had a sewn in bottom, effexor rx causes kidney problem, and tossed it a few dozen yards. The guys tumbled, bounced and broke, but they escaped without further injury.

dad_buffalo.jpgMost of the time, it was us homo sapiens that were out doing damage to the wild life. For several years all the meat we ate in our home was meat from animals that we had hunted. The game was plentiful and we had licenses, effexor results from real people. It was a nice outing every three or four weeks during the six month hunting season. And it filled a protein need in our family.

My biggest trophy though was neither four footed or tasty. In one incredible moment of bad luck I took out our 1968 Toyota Landcruiser. Effexor results from real people, Five of us were out hunting. One guy was driving while four of us were sitting on the roof looking for game as we bounced through the bush. Effexor ultram interaction, I had loaned my faithful 7mm Remington to a visitor and was using my double barreled shotgun for close-in small stuff. As we came into a clearing, I was certain I would be able to get off a shot at a guinea fowl or something of the sort. I closed the breech on the shotgun, at which point both barrels of double-ought buck shot discharged and the gun went flying from my hands. The driver stopped and I scrambled off the roof to go retrieve my gun that was about 10 yards behind us by the time it landed, effexor results from real people. When I got back to the car, the guys were huddled around hood saying things like, "Do you think he hit anything?" In the left front of my hood there was a hole about two inches in diameter. We opened the hood and found that I had very nicely taken out the top corner of the core of the radiator.

One rule of thumb when traveling in rural Africa is always carry water. We had a five gallon container of water in the car, so we topped up the radiator and headed for home about 35 miles away. Effexor results from real people, We soon learned that a Landcruiser can go about 7 miles on a severely punctured radiator full of water before you have to stop and fill it again. We refilled our water can three times, but finally limped into home, sideeffects of effexor.

It wasn't a wasted day though because we already had several animals in the back of the car. The guys divided up the meat, but I had the largest trophy of the day. I thought about mounting the hood on my wall, but decided to fix the radiator and go out for more tender meat.

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P1010020.JPG Retarded ejaculation effexor, Tomorrow Lynda goes into the hospital for surgery to remove her gall bladder. Some years ago she had another piece of her anatomy removed. I have to say there is something strange about giving up bits and pieces of your body as "no longer needed."

I'm personally glad I have all my parts still intact. Effexor starting, That's not to say that everything still functions as well as they once did, but at least I have them all. Donating organs to others is a lofty bit of philanthropy. Donating parts to the biowaste bin is just creepy, retarded ejaculation effexor.

Still, overdose on effexor, the doctors tell us that Lynda's gall bladder is creating more problems than it is solving ... and that if it really malfunctions one of these days, Effexor safe to take with phenterimine, it could take her out. So the early dismissal of the offending part is a good thing. I just don't like the thought of parting out my wife like I did my old VW bus in the 70s.

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Raw Lips From Effexor

domino02.gif Raw lips from effexor, It's been three weeks again since I've posted anything. I don't know how time gets away from me so quickly. I love blogging, but I guess I'm just not like MFC (my friend Cathy) who seems to be able to blog through all the storms and distractions of life - and she's been through a few recently in her family's health.

The past two weeks have been a blur. As I look back at them the term that keeps coming back to me is INFLUENCE. Most of us probably don't think we have that much influence, but I bet we'd be surprised by how much our lives influence others, raw lips from effexor. I'm not talking about influence that comes from power or position. Some people have that. President Bush was on Moss Park Road that runs past our office two days ago ... right at rush hour. Raw lips from effexor, The police (and there were many, many of them) made all the cars on the road turn out onto side streets until the motorcade passed. W has influence flowing out of his position.

The kind of influence that I've been running into though is the kind that happens (for good or bad) as we live our lives. On Easter Lynda's Mom had a stroke. A couple weeks ago she had another two and ended up back in intensive care. Lynda flew out last week to be with Louise and Ray, raw lips from effexor. She spent 12 hours a day at Louise's hospital bed. All this brought up for Lynda the major influence Louise has had on her life. You need to know that Louise was not her "mom" until Lynda was 16. Ray and Louise took her in for her senior year of high school. Raw lips from effexor, What was a short term commitment as a guardian became a life long commitment as parents. In those years Louise has influenced Lynda's life so that much of who she is and what she does is a reflection of that influence.

Last week I flew to Tacoma, Washington to perform the funeral of Russ Garrison. He is the father of my longest friend, Mike. I met Mike on the first day of sixth grade when I was brand new in the school and community. We became friends and have stayed that way for 43 years, raw lips from effexor. I spent many, difference between effexor and lexapro, many hours in Mike's home. Russ and Donnamarie became like second parents to me. At a time when my nuclear family was blowing apart, they modelled a caring and loving family environment and influenced my future family life. They didn't try to do it and even think about it. Raw lips from effexor, They just led good lives and influenced another generation.

Last Thursday was the National Day of Prayer. Earlier in the week I got a last minute call asking if I would be the speaker at the Osceola County celebration. I'm not an especially gifted speaker and they could have gotten a bunch of people better than me, but I felt an obligation to accept. Why. Influence, raw lips from effexor. Without seeking it, God had given me an opportunity to influence a large crowd of people through delivering the main message. Most of them were people I have never met before and will likely not meet again. I probably won't know if that message had any influence on them. I'll just have to trust God for it. Raw lips from effexor, As we live our lives we influence all sorts of people. Definitely our families, neighbors, work colleagues, church friends. But we also influence people that we don't know about. In the church where I came to Christ there was a large contingent of Army and Air Force personnel from Ft. Lewis Army Post and McChord Air Force Base. One of the guys who went there was a young Christian guy who played in the Air Force Band, raw lips from effexor. One day he and a non-Christian friend went to the BX (base exchange). Withdrawls from effexor er, As the cashier was giving him his change he realized she had given him too much, pointed it out and returned the extra. (Ouch, I would have probably looked at that as a windfall blessing from God!) Anyhow, the guy who was with him was so impressed with his honesty, he asked him why he had given the extra money back. That gave my friend an opportunity to tell about his relationship with Christ and how he wanted to live in a way that was above reproach. Raw lips from effexor, This led to the eventual conversion of his friend. That was the start of a chain of dominoes. When the first guy fell into Christ, he started something that ended up with nearly half the band becoming believers. My friend's influence through something as simple as returning the change had incredible influence in many lives.

At Russ Garrison's funeral I ran into Dave Coleman. He was on the Campus Life staff in Tacoma for many years, raw lips from effexor. When I was in high school Dave led Campus Life in the high school across town from me. It was the high school where my friend Mike attended. Dave led Mike's girl friend to Christ. She was like that first domino. Raw lips from effexor, It resulted in Mike and many other friends at Clover Park coming to the Lord. Then their families. Mike's girl friend eventually married another guy and they joined Wycliffe. She influenced lives in Asia and then wrote a book that has influenced lives all over the world. It has been translated into a bunch of languages. One life that Dave failed to influence through was Russ Garrison, raw lips from effexor. He was not a religious man. Even though all his family had become Christians, Russ was a hold out ... that is until two weeks before his death. At that time, treatment bulimia zonegran effexor drug combination, through reading the Gospel of Matthew, he came to realize his need of a savior. Raw lips from effexor, He would probably have never read that if Dave had not pushed that first domino over back in the late 1960s ... and the falling dominos of his influence keep reverberating around the world.

Makes me wonder if I've created any domino runs. Not because I want to show how influential I am. I know that we are all influential. I want to hope that my life will set off domino chains that lead to God ... that my influence will be spent on goodness and godliness.

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