A Big Fat Turkey
Thanksgiving is coming up this Friday. What a beautiful opportunity to spend time with our families that we love and be thankful for all that God has blessed us with. Well, that’s ideally what should happen. However, in actuality a lot of people or going to spend time with their annoying in-laws, fall asleep watching football, and get even fatter than what they are.

I find it absolutely hilarious whenever I hear Christians state that smoking is a sin. They use passages in the Bible that talk about how our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit and that we need to take care of them. I would agree that this is true and that smoking is harmful. Smoking leads to cancer and cancer in the #2 leading cause of death in the United States. Smoking is bad for your body. But would you like to know the #1 leading cause of death in the US?

Heart disease…

Do you know what causes heart disease? Unhealthy eating habits, lack of exercise, and being overweight. Indeed, there are ways of contracting heart disease that are beyond a persons control and there are people who simply cannot lose weight. I realize this. I know this. So, I’m not raving to these people. Just to those who can control their weight, but just don’t care enough to. Maybe some of us should stop smoking and maybe others should stop eating Oreo’s. Just something that makes me laugh. Adventures in missing the point. I’m in the same boat quite often as well.

Another thing to think about this holiday weekend. I got an interesting email recently that shares some startling facts. The email read that if 20 people sit down at your table, representing the world's population, three would get a gourmet meal, five would get rice and beans, and 12 would receive a small portion of rice. The issue isn’t lack of food it’s an issue with distribution.

Check out: www.one.org

Anyway, the whole reason I started writing was to say that in the next hour and a half I’m leaving for Tel Aviv to go pick my sis up from the airport. This digression simply spilled out. She’s coming to visit, see the land, and to hang out over the holiday. She’s leaving on Monday, but it should give us enough time to go visit some stellar sites. I’m thinking about…

Giving her a tour of the city…

Snorkeling in Eilat…

Hiking in Qumran…

Swinging by the Dead Sea…

and hiking at En Gedi…

Should be a good time and I’m really stoked about her visiting. We have a lot to talk about and share with each other. I really value that she’s coming for a lot of reasons, but one especially…

My sister graduated from APU in 2003 basically paying for college on her own. After graduation, she spent 2.5 years in Togo, West Africa with the Peace Corps and now she is working for a non-profit organization called Illinois Citizens for Better Care. Needless to say my sister is an absolutely amazing person. Due to the call on her life she has no money and it doesn’t seem to bother her.

She values and loves her little brother so much that she scrapped what little money she had to fly to Israel to spend the holiday with me. I wouldn’t even be in this country if it wasn’t for my sister’s influence.

I think my little big sister is an amazing person and I’m completely stoked about being able to spend the holiday with her…