This place dislocates everything.





...not dreaming something she was supposed to be dreaming.





-Tar Baby, Toni Morrison

New studies are revealing impressive health benefits of coffee.

You thought coffee was bad for you? Actually, it seems to protect against all sorts of ills, from diabetes to liver cancer.

Coffeemanics, rejoice! The lively substance has now been given a clean bill of health by ... well, everyone...

Plenty of health benefits are brewing in America's beloved beverage.

Health Benefits of Coffee

Now you can fill your coffee cup each morning, guilt-free.

Study affirmed coffee's benefits for its high level of antioxidants.
Researchers from the University of Scranton released on August 29, 2005 that coffee is the No. 1 source of antioxidants in the American diet. Black tea is the second.

Me and You

Im a selfish, lazy, irresponsible, apathetic, unmotivated, regretful, cheating, free lancing, prideful, hating, judging, lying, scandalous, sly, devious, undisciplined, oblivious, greedy, immoral, boring, skittish, delinquent, careless, insensitive, inconsiderate, impatient, sluggish, rash, ignorant, foolish, wicked, lax, stupid, imprudent, and bratty swine.

Jesus is kind, patient, forgiving, passionate, peaceful, encouraging, teaching, helpful, reliable, faithful, powerful, wise, caring, loving, lovely, amazing, close, compassionate, merciful, good, truthful, understanding, gracious, sacrificial, pursuing, holy, moving, speaking, healing, life giving, unwearied, famous, strong, potent, intimate, extravagant, indescribable, uplifting, comforting, beautiful, undeniable, glorified, blessed, gracious, noble, liberating, sanctifying, worthy, the savior of my soul, and the son of God.

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Renewal

If I were not a Christian I would probably curse; a lot. I know this because I often say words like crap, and dang, and I say them for no good reasons, to be honest. I don’t know exactly why I don’t curse now, except the obvious reason that Jesus changes people, like really changes them.

But cursing is not an issue for me. Rarely even a thought, unless I have seen some movie that frequents the words. I guess it serves no purpose when your mind chooses not to operate in that manner. I can understand the uses of curse words if your mindset is built in a way that requires cursing to express how they feel. But I don’t believe its necessary, its chosen.

Our mindsets also seem so malleable, so young and naive, so easily influenced by media, by our friends, our families, our peers, or just the common culture. As much as we would like to think it, we are not islands, we are not individual fortresses, and we cannot live in this world alone. We need other people. We are constantly exchanging information; constantly communicating. We rub off on people and people rub off on us. Were all connected to some extent.

God is love. By his love, by Jesus’s death and resurrection we are able to die to our old nature, our nastiness, our corrupt and influenced minds, and come alive to the mind of Christ.

Jesus can transform our minds and our lives if we just ask and believe. Give him a little and you get a lot.

I encourage you, renew your mind.

Soledad, by Robert Hayden

(And I, I am no longer of that world)

Naked, he lies in the blinded room
chainsmoking, cradled by drugs, by jazz
as never by any lover's cradling flesh.

Miles Davis coolly blows for him:
O pena negra, sensual Flamenco blues;
the red clay foxfire voice of Lady Day

(lady of the pure black magnolias)
sobsings her sorrow and loss and fare you well,
dryweeps the pain his treacherous jailers

have released him from for a while.
His fears and his unfinished self
await him down in the anywhere streets.

He hides on the dark side of the moon,
takes refuge in a stained-glass cell,
flies to a clockless country of crystal.

Only the ghost of Lady Day knows where
he is. Only the music. And he swings
oh swings: beyond complete immortal now.


-Robert Hayden