Iread blogs and looked at social media to find answers to my unending questions. Do you breastfeed or do you bottle feed? Do you have an epidural or do you give birth naturally? Do you go back to work or stay at home with your kids?
And I found thousands of thoughts, opinions, and disagreements on motherhood. You should never rock your baby. You must have a gender reveal party. You must have a beautiful, fully furnished nursery. You must have this type of bottle, swaddle, organic soap, diapers.
When I was younger, I would always compare myself to my older sister, who was skinnier, smarter, and prettier than me. She was a size 0, and I was a size 4. She would make As, and I would come home with Bs.
I would see new clothes that I had to have; families that had all the time and money in the world to vacation; people enjoying parties and get-togethers without me. It was toxic and destroying my joy.
After the season of seeking all my motherhood advice from the fabulous Google, I wised up and began to ask some of the amazing women God had placed in my life through NewSpring, work and family friends.
I began to pray more, too. Prayers for myself and my husband to be good parents. Prayers for health and a smooth delivery for my baby. Prayers to see that the only one in control of my children was Jesus, and that my knowledge of true parenting only comes through His word.
I hesitated but then quickly deleted apps from my phone. A one-month fast from social media clearly showed me that comparison was the root to the majority of my problems in my marriage, finances, and friendships.
Through God's grace and goodness, my friends have helped me continue to battle the giant of comparison with the truth of God's word. I also have an amazing spouse who keeps me hearing the truth of who I am in Christ.
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An investigation is reported into the story comprehension abilities of four groups of children: those with typical specific language impairment (SLI-T), those with pragmatic language impairments who were not autistic (PLI), those with high-functioning autism (HFA) and typically developing controls. The story comprehension task required children to answer questions about the literal content of the story, as well as questions involving two types of inferences: text-connecting and gap-filling. The control children outscored the three clinical groups on story comprehension, but the group means of the clinical groups did not differ. However, categorical examination of the data revealed that children with pragmatic difficulties related to HFA were more likely to have specific inferencing deficits. Error analysis suggested that all children could make inferences, but these were not always relevant to the story context. This supports the notion of weak central coherence underlying deficits in inferencing. There were no group differences on story recall. However, there was a strong relationship between story comprehension and recall, in that those who had better comprehension tended to have better recall. It is concluded that comprehension aids recall by enabling the listener to build a more stable mental representation of the story. The pragmatic deficits seen in autism compromise this process.
Forget what your friends are doing on Facebook, forget what your mentor has already achieved and what their next project is, forget what someone your age has already achieved, there is only one comparison to be made.
Are you better, or at least trying to be better, than the person you were yesterday? That is the only real comparison that needs to be made because then you can be sure that you are moving in the right direction.
Comparing ourselves to others is so easy to do because it is all that we have ever known. Where are the others? How do I measure up to them? Am I up or down? What are people like me doing? Whether its school or university or in your job or your industry or in your neighbourhood, you can choose to stop asking these questions and stop drawing unnecessary comparisons.
In my study for this message, I came across a bit of a dilemma. The four gospels all contain very similar accounts of Jesus being anointed by a woman while at a dinner party. The issue is that each account has some discrepancies in it. Not all of the details are the same, and some even appear to contradict each other. How many times was Jesus really anointed? Do these tell the same story? Or do they tell of multiple accounts? Did the authors get some information wrong? How can we reconcile these differences?
As I looked at some of the material on this particular story, it was clear that different authors have come to different conclusions about how many times Jesus was anointed in the gospels. For example, the popular website GotQuestions concludes that the gospels record three separate events. On the other hand, the ESV Study Bible notes conclude that Jesus was anointed only twice. Naturally, others have come to different conclusions even from these.
I want to briefly present my own conclusion and how I came to it, which is in agreement with the ESV Study Bible. I believe Jesus was anointed twice, and that three of the gospels record the same account, with the other gospel (Luke) recording a separate incident.
I want you to notice that, technically speaking, each of these accounts can be read in a way that changes the order of events. In John, for example, it says explicitly that Jesus came to be Bethany six days before Passover. However, it does not say that the dinner took place right away. We simply assume that because it is the next thing stated in the text. Yet the text does not demand that this event have taken place on that specific day, but could have taken place at almost any point after his arrival in Bethany.
Again, this should not alarm us. When comparing the gospels, it is quickly apparent that the stories are definitely not always put in chronological order. They are often grouped according the themes out of chronological order. Put simply, the texts of Matthew, Mark, and John do not demand that this event take place in a specific pre-determined timeline. All three of them can be read as possibly telling an account that does not chronologically follow the previous or subsequent events.
Since it is at least possible to harmonize Matthew, Mark, and John, I think we should consider that the most likely possibility. This would be confirmed by the fact that the stories are far more similar than they are different. It would make very little sense, for example, to have a woman anoint Jesus for burial at a dinner party, and have the disciples raise the exact same objection, to which Jesus responds with the exact same correction, on two separate occasions only days apart. That seems to make no sense to me. It seems far more likely that these three gospels record the same event with differing details.
Thank you for helping me understand this episode in the four gospels. As still happens today, each account of an episode of life is seen from different perspectives and when written down, tailored to the intended reader or audience. Why would the people in the Bible be any different than we are today? This is why I can relate to what I read in the Bible, because humans are the same these days, although different-seeming circumstances, as our ancestors were from the beginning.
I know it was specifically that amount of time because I popped an XP Major Experience Boost that I had sitting in my inventory, left over from some quest from before the last time the levels were increased.
I made sure I did "Question of Motivation" last since I was going to farm XP there. The mobs spawn quickly and they're 25k - 35k xp each when the buff was active and during double xp as we have it now.
Today I took another level 75 out to get up to 80. This time I started the Ossus quest line. The intro story on Ossus which I had never done on that particular toon. It took me an extra 30 minutes, buffed the same way, to get to level 80. The quests on Ossus aren't "supercharged" (1 million xp or more as they are later on) so I got through that planet, and a few story stops into Onderon. Didn't hit 80 until after getting the Untamed on board with the story (imp side).
Yeah I'm there too. I maxed my possible slots with Server Character Slot tokens. I don't make any new combat characters on Star Forge anymore. only characters I've created in the past 16 months have been support characters. AKA cargo space, spare inventory holders, to free up my cargo bays on my active -playing roster of toons
I am moving to a large 3 story house and will need a router and am considering the AC2300 and he AC1800 Mesh MK-63-100NAS. Which those would be likely to provide better whole house coverage? There will be 2 or 3 TV's streaming and several iPads and iPhone as well as a couple of Android phones and a Chromebook using he WiFi.
2. if you haven't moved in yet, wait until you move in and then see how much coverage the apple provides. Maybe a single router solution is best, maybe a mesh system is the better idea. tough to tell until you're actually in the home.
Ref #2. That is good idea to wait but I'll have to think on that. If I do wait and see what the Apple device can do, it might be good enough for awhile since we initially won't have all the TV's and devices that will eventually be there, but in the end I'm pretty sure I will need a router that supports MU-MIMO for simultaneous streaming which I'm pretty sure the Apple device does not.
Ref #3 and #4. I'll have to try it and see. If I am able to find the rated coverage area for the AX8 RAX 78-100NAS and if it is significantly greater than the 4500 sq. ft. that the MK63-100NAS is rated for, I'll probably go for that and hope that greater coverage will make it cover more in the vertical plane as well, plus the added speed advantage of the tri-band.
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