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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