And I'm an author, I'm a writer, I have written a couple of screenplays, I wrote a play that was staged produced by Arlington Friends of the Drama and I recently, this past May published a book called Weaving Dreams in Oaxaca. So the backstory to Weaving Dreams in Oaxaca, at least some of the background is, when I was, I think about 23, I spent a couple of months living in Guatemala and learning Spanish with a friend of mine and then we spent two more months traveling through Central America into Columbia and Ecuador and that sort of began my love with Latin America. So in 2005 we decided to go live in Oaxaca for about eight months and we drove down which was a challenge, it took ten days and we had, Nick was about six then and we had a big 65 pound lab in our Honda Odyssey and we stopped in different places and we were in New Orleans just like two days before Katrina and we kind of escaped the city just in time and Nick ended up, I think he was in first grade at the time so he went to school in Oaxaca, we enrolled him in a school, we found housing. So we couldn't find a bilingual school so he was promised that some kids would help him that spoke English but they didn't so much so at first he had a hard time and then he became very good friends and here he is with his friends really hugging him in like this beautiful embrace and he learned playground Spanish very well and he even had his friends sleep over a couple of nights and it was a wonderful experience. That was in 2005 and at the time my mom was I think 86 and could no longer read because of diabetic retinopathy, she couldn't see well enough so every two weeks I would send her back tapes that I would talk about the church we're in or the street we're on or the memorandum band we were listening to and so every two weeks she got these really fun tapes to listen to and when I came home and decided to write this book I transcribed the tapes and it was about 23 pages of very detailed description and it really helped me with the with being able to describe Oaxaca in the most colorful terms because it is a wonderful amazing vibrant city. Weaving Dreams in Oaxaca as I said was kind of inspired by living there and there's three main characters one is a professional dancer in New York City and she's struggling with should she keep dancing you know staying on the stage and as a professional or is it time for her to she's thinking about motherhood is it time for her to quit that position and figure out how she's going to get family in her life but she's had some past issues in relationships so she decides to take a leave from the dance troupe and goes to Oaxaca to figure things out and she has some regrets but I don't want to spoil the book and another character ends up in Oaxaca he's a professor of Colombian art and architecture and so he's visited to Cal in Guatemala and he's coming to Oaxaca to solve kind of unravel a family mystery and he ends up connecting quite closely with a an older woman who's a curandera she's a cures with herbs and in natural natural methods that's very common in Oaxaca and then there's a third character Enrique who is he's a DJ and he's a mechanic and he is a gay man who is having a hard time coming out because his father is homophobic and he's very he's an evangelical so the three cross paths and as Frankie the the dancers trying to figure out her issues she also becomes friends with Mack and ends up being his interpreter as he explores this Pueblo in Oaxaca where he he becomes close with this curandera and he also has a need to go to Mexico City there was some things that I naturally ended up incorporating into the novel I think partly from my own life I had struggled with you know how to become a mother how to involve motherhood in my life and I wasn't a mother until my mid 40s and the idea of adoption our son is adopted that that has a place a very strong place in the book and my oldest brother was gay and I experienced his struggles coming out and his successes coming out I self-published it and in doing in that process I reconnected with some women writer friends of mine and that's been really wonderful they've been very helpful they are you know published also authors themselves and also I'm part of a group called kitchen table writers and that was very supportive I'm really happy that with my book weaving dreams in Oaxaca that the book rack in Arlington Center carries it Porter Square books carries it I have some things that we brought back that are really indicative of how magical and full of art and life and light Oaxaca is so here's a son that is you know made of clay it's something that you know we had up in our dining room for years it's kept everybody smiling I'm here's a kind of a vase that is has little beautiful flowers you know very intricate clay flowers on it and then here's a frame which and it has on paintings of a liberty haze which are the you know the fanciful animals I told you about I think these are all bunnies and so I put a mirror in it when I came home and then here here's here's another other be here I really like the cat because you can stick it on a counter and then this is a like it just a very typical terracotta container and you can put anything in it I often put dried flowers in it which it's just quite beautiful and and also this is a we peel or covering from the Hoochitan area this is from the Zapotec culture and these are things like Frida Kahlo took this on her mom was Zapotec so this is something that she wore and she made kind of famous in her paintings but of course it's famous on the Isthmus the women wear these for special occasions and sometimes just if they feel like it and the mouches often the two spirited people will often wear one of these beautiful beautiful tops that's got gorgeous embroidery in it and the colors are just sort of the colors of Oaxaca


For eight years, I have gamed, studied and worked with one constant companion, my unbranded mesh budget office chair. It hardly shows any signs that it's close to a decade old and the cushioning is as good as I remembered it to be when I first got it. My favorite pastime is putting my feet up, reclining all the way and replying to emails in this position or just watch whatever random video comes my way. This chair accomplishes so many things correctly that even if you finish this video and decide to buy something else, I guarantee that you'll at least leave knowing what to look for in an office chair because of the great design of the Ergo Dynamic EHC-420.  You can find many different types of software here. There are games, apps, activation codes or Windows 10. Check out our video on CDK offers in the video description. It's fast, cheap and of course, legit. It's easy to order, search for the software you need, add to cart, check out, done because of the payment options. There's not one minute left, finished. You already have a legit working CDK on the software you bought. Use our promo code to get an extra 20% discount on your purchase. If you're looking for cheap, legit and original software, check out CDKoffers.com. Let's talk price first. Because at 7,800 pesos on Lazada, you might be thinking that this is a pretty steep price for a budget chair. But this chair right here is 8 years old as of this month or essentially a thousand pesos for each year for its existence and still going strong. You can indeed buy chairs which are cheaper than this but can they last 8 years or longer and are they as comfortable as the ErgoDynamic? I reviewed the Ethan chair some months back which retails for 3,799 or around half the cost of the ErgoDynamic. The video of which I'll link up above. However, let me tell you right off the bat that while it was cheaper, it had so many evident flaws in it that I would be crazy to recommend that over this. The ErgoDynamic is worth the extra investment in cash and each year that goes by in which it stays strong, further strengthens my opinion about it. This chair has lasted so long because of one simple design choice. Mesh material rather than PU leather or fake leather or leatherette whatever you call it. Prior to this, I own two leatherette office chairs which were extremely comfortable and then they just began peeling away out of existence on their second year. The reason for this peeling which you also see in keyboard wrist support eventually and gaming headsets is the chemical reaction between your body oils and the humidity of our Philippine weather. In short, even a tiny amount of sweat over a long period of time will rupture this delicate surface. The mesh isn't just durable but it's very breathable. My arms and back never sweat when I spend hours sitting in this chair. Fake leather makes one prone to sweat especially if you are doing intense gaming or prolonged sitting because there is no breathing space. The little gaps or holes you see here are essentially small air pockets which provide a lot of subtle natural coolant. And the best part, even if you do sweat, this mesh material seems to handle moisture for eight years with no problem. It is vital to have arm rest to your level without your desk to prevent arm and wrist strain. I have made this mistake more than once. The first time when I got my new desk which was too high even for this chair, I fixed it by shortening the desk. And the second time when we reviewed the Ethan chair, mental note, thick books come in handy for a lot of other things. Even my Herman Miller Aeron chair valued at 80,000 pesos didn't spare me from trouble. It is off by two inches and while that may not seem like a lot, it will feel like a lot when playing intensively for several hours straight. Sometimes my wrist feels a little sore even a day after because of this incline. The fact that I 8,000 peso chair can be more versatile in terms of desk matchmaking than an 80,000 peso chair, again speaks volumes. Adjustable arm rests are a necessity to have when you are buying a quality gaming or ergonomic chair. It makes sure that your chair can adapt to various desk heights. One thing the arm rests do not have is a feature which brings the arms together. I didn't care though because the distance was perfect for my use. Notice how both my hands are well supported without any wrist strain at all when using the ergonodynamic. Now compare that with the 17,500 peso charcoon gaming chair. I reviewed the charcoon a couple of months ago and the biggest deal breaker was that the seat was so wide that when typing, I could only use one arm rest thus leaving my other arm forced to hover. The sad part was that the charcoon was fully adjustable and yet it failed to achieve the basics of what the ergonomic is able to accomplish without it. In short, typing with this arm support for hours on end is a breeze. The headrest is made of the same breathable material as the rest of the body and it is highly adjustable. You can bring it up or down and tilt the actual cushion up or down or in four lockable positions. People are sometimes concerned with mesh headrests because of their hair being pulled. I have used this chair for eight years and it has never caught any of my hair.  Speaking of leaning back, this is my favorite pastime when I'm at my desk. The angle at which I can fully recline is so optimal that I sometimes feel more relaxed here than I am on my bed or sofa. I feel like it's the adult version of a baby's rocking cradle. First time we're sitting in this chair, freak out how far back I recline. But after eight years of continued lovely reclining usage, the ergonodynamic has never let me down. It feels as sturdy as it was the day I bought it. A lumbar pillow is essential. Emphasis on pillow and not just lumbar support. A lot of budget chairs provide something for your lower back. However, I find support such as that of the Ethan questionable. Chairs with this kind of support and there are many on the market feel like a claw digging into your skin as though it is preparation for surgery of one's lower spine. The ergonodynamic chair's pillow is adjustable. So if you want more tension or less, all you need to do is spin that knob. Gaming chairs usually provide a lumbar pillow in the back which to me looks tacky. A pillow hidden immediately behind the backrest creates a much more minimalist looking chair. When I first started sporting this chair eight years ago, ergonomic chairs weren't popular for gamers yet. Instead, everyone was still fixated on flashy race car gaming chairs. Today though, a lot more people prefer a minimalist chair design if it accomplishes comfort which I believe most gaming chairs lack. The overall build is made of hard plastic and stainless steel parts. The only form of apparent age on the chair are minor scratches over the years but this beast reclines and moves about beautifully. The actual seat cushion has also lasted very well for something which I have been sitting on every day for eight years. It is in between firm and soft. So if you prefer chairs in which you sink into like a lazy boy sofa, then this is definitely firmer than that but it is still softer than gaming chairs in general. Based on my research, gaming chairs such as the secret lab chairs are typically on the firmer side. Again though, nothing beats reclining and having a quiet siesta with this and your feet up. In short, it's comfortable enough to lounge in yet firm enough that you can focus on doing real work. I upgraded the wheels with ergonomic to roller blade like castor wheels. I'll leave a link in the description below. I cannot highly recommend these enough. Please, even if you aren't going to buy a new chair, do yourself a favor and get these beauties. They attach to almost any office or gaming chair and they take your chair rolling to the next level by making movement as smooth as an ice skating ring. Because these roller blades are made from some sort of transparent rubber, they protect whatever floor your chair is on. Lastly, they make rolling around in this super quiet. The only thing that I hear when moving about is the creaking frame of the chair, which leads me to the negative things about the ergonomic. Firstly, this chair creaks when you move about as though it's made from loose cheap material. This kind of thing bothers you. Please keep in mind that this chair is extremely sturdy even if it does make sounds and with that said, that is honestly the only bad thing I could think about for this specific model. Second bad thing is that because my chair is eight years old, the latest model of the chair has a design change with respect to the armrest. The new one is very much identical to my current chair except for the fact that the armrests are no longer mesh but a soft rubber pad, which in all fairness seems very similar to the 80,000 pesos of air on chair. The rest of the chair, as you can see, is still mesh. I can't say definitively if this new arm support lasts just as long but I would buy this new one in a heartbeat if I ever needed to replace my old one. This video is in no way sponsored. In fact, when I asked the official Philippine supplier of the chair if they could loan us a review unit just so I can verify if it's the same chair, they weren't interested. In short, they could care less if I made this video or not but because of how great a value this chair brings, I needed to do it. After making an unannounced trip to the cost-you-less branch of Manila, I verified it is indeed the same chair except for the change in arm support design and I can say that it is as comfy as my eight-year-old original. The ultimate test was to see if it cradled me the same way when I reclined back all the way and I was not disappointed. I bought my original chair from Dimensionals eight years ago but they have stopped selling it there and so if I have sparked your interest in this chair, the only way to get it would be to order it from their Lazada store or to travel here and pick it up yourself. There are a lot of chairs in here but really the prize is the Ergo Dynamic EHC-420, this chair. If you live in Manila, I highly recommend you pick it up yourself because they can assemble it for you for free at the store. I am always concerned about ordering chairs online because there is the fear that a part is missing and I cannot vouch for how easy it is to assemble the chair because mine came pre-assembled.  Not only because it is extremely comfortable but because it provides everything a good ergonomic chair should be able to give you without costing too much adjustable and leveled armrests, an awesome recline and most importantly long lasting build quality comparable to chairs which are much more expensive. This is the greatest bang for buck chair not just because of the following but because it has lasted eight years without a hiccup and will probably continue to do so for at least another two years. If you are curious why I upgraded to the Herman Miller Aeron it's because as a chair aficionado it was time to sample something new but the Ergo Dynamic will always have a special place in my room especially when I miss lazing away while watching a video or two. 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Okay, good morning, everyone. Welcome to a new week. Let's just begin this time with a word of prayer. Can one of us please lead in prayer for Barkar? Yes, Master. Dear heavenly Father, we praise you, acknowledge your holy name. At this moment, we have come onto your throne of grace. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to learn and grow together. Father, bless this class. Bless us all and all of our classmates and leaders, Holy Spirit, so that we can learn whatever you want us to learn and grow in you. Divine Grandfather, thank you so much. And I have this prayer in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Prabhakar. Okay, so what we did last week, we went from chapter 13. We talked about the great chapter on love. And how Paul sums up the entire chapter saying it's good that you all have gifts and you're flowing in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But if you do not have love, it is just a sounding gong, which means everything that we do should be out of the basis of love. And then we went into chapter 14 as well. Well, in chapter 14, Paul talks about this very important two very important aspects in in terms of flowing in the gifts of the Spirit. One was speaking in tongues and interpretation of tongues. So there were people Paul says in many verses, he says if somebody is speaking in tongues, let there be an interpreter. Why? Because he gives a couple of reasons. He says one because when we're speaking in tongues, we're speaking a heavenly language and not everyone can say amen to it because they don't understand it. Right? So if there is an interpreter, go ahead and speak in tongues, right? And this is mainly what he's talking about is in a public setting, so in a church setting. So Paul is not saying don't speak in tongues because he follows that up by saying that I speak in tongues more than any one of you, but I would rather speak one word of understanding in the church to help the church congregation. Right? So he's putting the emphasis, right? The gifts of the Holy Spirit is important. Speaking in tongues is important, but in a public setting, if you're speaking in tongues, have an interpreter, right? And then he also talked about prophecy, the gift of prophecy, right? We'll talk a little bit more. We're almost to the end of chapter 14. In the gift of prophecy, he says, I desire that everyone prophesy, but when you prophesy, do it in order, right? Don't just prophesy out of the blue or don't just prophesy in an unorderly manner. He says, let there be orderly worship, right? Orderly, an orderly service, right? So when you're speaking in tongues or when you're prophesying, let one person prophesy at one time. And if somebody is relating to that prophecy, let them acknowledge it and pray for it, right? And so he goes on to that chapter. Right now, we have stopped. Let me just pull up the notes. Yes. So we stopped at this order in exercise of spiritual gifts. So we'll continue from here. So that's from verse 26 onwards, right? So verse 26, chapter 14, verse Corinthians 14, 26 onwards, right? So let's go on. How's it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. So if anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or the most three each in turn and let one interpret. So you see here, Paul is saying, if anyone speaks in a tongue, so maybe the congregation, if there are 10 people, if there are three people who speaks in tongues, let each one of them speak at one time, take a turn, each one of them, and let one person interpret. So you see, he's going into the minute details on how we should exercise the gifts of the Spirit. Then he says, you're 28, but if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church and let him speak to himself and to God. So he's saying, in church, if there is no interpreter, it is better you pray with an understanding. And when in your personal time, you pray in the Holy Spirit, pray in the prayer in tongues. Verse 29, let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge. But if anyone is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. Sorry, but if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. Now the word here, I really like this word, it says that all may learn and be encouraged. So what is Paul emphasizing? Two things he's emphasizing. One is all can develop in the gift of prophecy. Two, we must learn how to release the prophetic word. And we've said this many times, the prophetic word is a word directly coming from God, but we are human vessels. So we can release that prophetic word sometimes in an arrogant way, or we may cut short some things from the prophetic word, or we may add additional things to the prophetic word. So Paul is saying that we may learn and that others may be encouraged. And verse 32, and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. And we all, I think many of us, we use this word, God is not a spirit of, not the author of confusion, but of peace. Now, why is Paul saying this? It is most probably that when the church is flowing in the gifts of the spirit, there was a lot of confusion. How, for example, there are three people prophesying in one corner, there are another three people speaking in tongues, and there's another person trying to interpret here, and so there was no order. Flowing in the gifts, very good, but there was no order. It was a lot of confusion. So what's happening? Now, if you picture it in the setting that we are in today, imagine a church with 50 people, 10 people are prophesying, 10 people are speaking in tongues, two people are praying for gift of healing, and it's all, there's no order. And so Paul is saying, God is not the author of confusion. So whenever we're having a, yes, it's the spirit of God, it is God ministering to us. But even when God ministers, he doesn't cause confusion. He does things in the right way in a proper manner. And so basically Paul is trying to encourage the church. He's not saying, don't flown the gifts. He's saying, when you do it, do it in an orderly manner. Now for us, it's very easy to, sometimes we may think, why didn't the Corinthian church just take turns and prophesy in order or speak in tongues in an orderly manner? Now, we must understand that over time, we have learned, and the church has grown as there's revelation upon revelation, and we have learned over time. But this is the early church, the first century church. They probably had no idea how a church looks like. And in Corinth, there was a Jewish colony. So there were a few Jews living, but it was mostly a Gentile church. So the Gentiles have no idea about worship or they didn't have no idea about flowing in the gifts of the spirit, how a church service looks like. They don't know. So Paul is trying to make them understand. You see, you notice here, Paul is not upset with them. In the first few issues, the apostle Paul was upset. He said, there is division, there is strife, there is the way you are taking the Lord's table is not in a worthy manner.  So the first few issues, he was very upset with them. But here, he's being very kind, because he understands that they don't know about it. And so he's teaching them. So let's look at a few points here. Those speaking in tongues to a congregation, let me just highlight that. Those speaking in tongues to a congregation should pray for interpretation. And the interpretation could be brought forth by the same person who gave the message or by someone else, right? And he goes on at one point, at any point, let there be up to three people in front to give messages in tongues with interpretation. And I think in a time that we are in, even we can do this, right? Of course, it's very rare that we see people with the gift of interpretation of tongues. But there are people around us, there could be people around us. And if there is, there are people who are interpreting, give them opportunity, let them interpret, let them, because we know that, see Paul says, when I'm praying in the Spirit, 14 verse 14, he says, if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. So there's nothing wrong in interpreting and saying, hey, this is what you've been praying for. You've been praying for our government, for our leaders in the government. So it's an encouragement, right? And then he talks about prophecy. If there are prophecies being brought into the congregation at any point, let there be three people in front taking turns, one is speaking, others judge. In a sense, the others keep silent and listen. And this way all can take the prophecy, while others can judge the prophecy. Now remember, all prophecy must be judged. This means that if anything is wrong, it must be discarded. Okay, let me give you this example, why prophecy must be judged, right? I remember many, many years ago, you know, I just became a believer and, you know, my mother got me, actually, my brother and me, she got us a bike, right? And we were very excited. So we had to come to, we would come to college together. And one day this man of God came home, right? And the moment he came home, he's, and we were just there at home. And he said, he said, sell this bike, because I see that you are going to meet with an accident. And you're going to have an injury. And it's going to be a lot of problems. So before this bike gives you any problems or causes you to be in the hospital, better sell this bike. Now, what is the first response that we must have for this? Oh my God, God is, this bike is a curse, is it? I have to go and sell it. What was be the first response? I, the first thing I said is, I cancel that prophetic, that word in Jesus name, front of the pastor, right? He must have been a pastor for about 30 years in ministry. But I said, I cancel that in Jesus name, because what does the Bible say? The Bible says, I've come to give you life and life in abundance one. And God says, when he blesses us, he adds no sorrow to it. So the bike is a blessing from God. Why would he add sorrow to it? And God does not want us to, you know, meet with an accident. That's, that's, I just rejected it and I discarded the prophecy and I said, I cancel it in Jesus name. I still use that bike and I've never met with an accident. So all prophecy must be judged. The spirit of the prophet is subject. This is also very important, is subject to the prophet. So when we are working with the Holy Spirit, when we are releasing a prophetic word, we have control over when and how to release a prophetic word. For example, many a times, you know, we are during the worship time, maybe on a Sunday service, the worship is going on. We may have got a prophetic word, right? But I'm not going and saying, okay, worship leader, stop. I have a prophetic word so let me release that prophetic word now before I forget. I can't do that. Why? Because I'm, I, then I'll be disrupting the worship time, the worship service, the worship leader who's prepared and people are in worship. I can't go in between and say, stop. I've got a prophetic word, right? I have control, right? The Holy Spirit has given me the word, a prophetic word, maybe for somebody in the church or maybe for the nation, the city, whatever it is. But I have the control. So I can, I can wait. I can finish with the worship, finish with the announcements, finish through the preaching of the word of God. And then the end of the service, I can say, you know, this is a prophetic word that I have. I just want to release it. Now, how do I, how have we done it in an orderly manner? Right? So there are times, early morning, when we wake up for prayer on Sundays, in my personal time, I've got a prophetic word. I knew it was for the church, but I didn't go and say, okay, church has come. First, let's give the prophetic word. No, let the service go on, start the worship, finish with the word. And at the end of the service, I've given the prophetic word. Why? Because we are, we are subject to it. We are under control. Right? So we must know how to release a prophetic word, when to release and, and, and, you know, why to release it. Right? And even as we develop, it's not like I haven't made mistakes. We all have made mistakes. I personally have made mistakes while releasing prophetic words, but it's good that, so I learned over time. Okay, so when I release the word, I must be more, you know, more simpler in the way I release the message, use words and sentences that can help them understand, give examples through that prophetic word, give, try to give them a, you know, the understanding of that prophetic word that has been released. Right? So Paul is saying to the church, when you're speaking in tongues, when you're flowing in the gift of prophecy, do it in an orderly manner. Then he goes on to talk about women keep silent. Now, earlier in this chapter, in Chapter 11, Paul said that women can pray, women can prophesy in public, publicly in public gatherings, in church gatherings. He says that, right? He says that all including women are to walk in love, to walk in spiritual gifts, to prophesy. Everyone, including women, can flow in all the nine gifts of the Spirit. So what is Paul trying to communicate here when he's saying, what he's saying in verse 34 and 35? Let's look at it. Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but they are to be submissive, as the law also says. And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home, for us to shameful for women to speak in the church. Now, when you look at this passage, and you look at it with one context, just thinking, okay, women should not speak in public gatherings. If you look at it that way, we will interpret these two passages in a very wrong way, and we can make our own dogma or our own understanding out of this. But what is Paul trying to say? Remember the head covering? It was for women who were married. Same thing goes here. The Greek word for women is gunay, which is a woman, a wife. So Paul is talking especially to married women.  Now, if it had to do with a wife wanting to learn something for which she speaks and asks her husband about the matter, then Paul is saying, see, if you look at this now, in the culture during that time, you had men sitting in one place, women sitting in another place. Okay, so it was a culture, even in Jewish synagogues, if you see here, you've got men in one place, women in the other place, and that customs is still followed in our nation, especially in India, the north of India, right? So we've got men and women who sit on two different sides in the church. But Paul is trying to bring this picture, right? He's saying, see, women, wife, if you have a prophetic word, if you have a word and you're not sure about it and you want to ask first thing, you ask your husband, don't stand up in the church and say, this is what I want to do. Don't disrupt the service or don't just say things which may not be effective at that moment, right? So he's saying, first, check with your husband. See, you can discuss the matter together if you want, right? That's why in this regard, Paul is saying, a woman, your first submitted to your husband, then comes the pastor and the prophet and all of that. First woman, a husband, husband, submitted to the woman, right? And so Paul is saying, in this matter, keep silent. He's not saying, don't talk, don't prophesy, don't speak in tongues. He's saying, in this regard, in the church, you keep silent, right? Because you willingly submit to your husband.  If you get a prophetic word, if you get a word of knowledge or anything, speak with your husband. Do it together, right? Discuss together, but don't disrupt the church service. Then he goes on here. So what does he mean to keep silent? Speak in tongues to the church audience, if there is someone who will flow in interpretation, then there he says, keep silent. So three places where Paul says, keep silent. If you're speaking in tongues, have an interpreter if not keep silent, two, take turns to prophesy. When you have delivered your prophecy, then keep silent and let someone else prophesy. Three, woman, if you have any questions in the church, this is what he's talking about right now. Woman, you may not understand a few things. If you have questions, don't, you know, don't stand up and disrupt the church at that time. Keep silent in church. Ask your husbands at home later on. So what does it say here? Now, if I look at it in a broader picture, and if I don't understand the scripture, it'll say that, hey, clearly women are not supposed to speak in the church, but that's not true. And I repeat this again, because Apostle Paul raised up many women leaders. For example, Lydia was, was a leader in the church. And I think it was Thessalonica. He was, she was a leader, a merchant in a plot merchant. And she was a leader on the church, Aquila and Priscilla. Priscilla again was the leader in the church. And so there is, there's, when we look at it, we must look at it taking into consideration the Greek, taking into consideration the cultural background. So when Paul is saying keep silent, he's saying, don't interrupt the church service at that moment, but go back home, submit to your husbands, ask them, and then you can come back. And if it's something that your husband says, okay, you can release the prophetic word. Maybe you can do that in the following weeks. Now, how do I put this in the setting that we are in right now? Now, I can't go home. Maybe women are there in a church, they can't go home and give, check with their husbands about the prophetic word and then comes to church the following. Now, we don't have to do that. Why? Because we understand that there must be order in the church. Remember, this is the early church, they don't know order in the church, they are still learning. But now we're in a time in a place where we have learnt over time. So even if women get a prophetic word, if people, if the pastor or the preacher is calling, they can come forward, give a prophetic word, but give it in the right way in an orderly manner. So we must understand these things. This is written to the early church, the first century church, they're still learning and they're still growing. And we are in a place where we have over time matured as a congregation, as a church of Christ. So we come to the end, verse 40, he says, let all things be done decently and in order. Right? So all the gifts of the Spirit, all the diversities of tongues, let everyone be encouraged as believers to flow in it. But when you're operating in these gifts, do it, let all things be done decently and in order. Why? Because God is the one who's giving us these gifts. God is not the author of confusion. Right? So we come to the end of this chapter, chapter 14. Any questions? Anyone has any questions regarding this entire chapter? Yes, just hold on. Yes, Mangi, please go ahead. Thank you, Pastor. Just a question on just the last part of chapter 14. One is the relevant of verses we just read now, one of the women keeping silent in the church. Is that verse still relevant today?  Secondly, for killing wives to go and ask their husbands home, what if those husbands did not know the word? Where were they leading their wives? Were they just causing confusion or just responding based on the question he was asked? Yeah. Thank you, so thank you, Mangi. Yeah, so the first answer to your first question is, Mangi, this is only for the church. It's not relevant now. Just like the head covering, right? It was for the women who were married, who had to cover their heads as a sign of submission to their wives, to their husbands. So right now, this is not relevant to us. It was only for the Corinthian church. Women don't speak, keep silent. It was only for the Corinthian church. Right? It's not relevant to us now. Right? So right now, women can preach, stage, prophesy, do everything. Right? Now two is in during that time, during the first century church, probably in the Corinthian church, now we must understand that many of these women have come from the, you know, their background has been an adulterous life, right? They were probably prostitutes and they were in the temple of Aphrodite. Now they've come out of prostitution and all of that, right? Now as prostitutes, they were, if you read about the culture of Corinth, you'll, you know, we learn so much from that. As prostitutes, they were very open. They never cared about what people think. They never cared about what the, you know, what civilians think or what leaders think. They were prostitutes. They were open about it. There were thousands of male and female prostitutes. They were open about it, right? Now these people, these prostitutes who are more open, more willing to, you know, talk out loud, they're not shy. They don't, they don't feel like, okay, I should keep quiet now. They're very open about their things. Now they have become believers and they've come into the church. Right? Now Paul says in 2nd Corinthians 517, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation. So what's happened here, Maggie, is in the church, these people who are prostitutes living in sexual immorality, they've become believers. Their spirit is new but their mind has not yet been transformed. Right? So they still feel that they can talk however they want to, behave however they want to and that they're doing in the church. Right? So Paul is telling them, listen, this is church. Right? And in church, you must submit to your husband first. Now whether the husband may not know much of the Word of God, that's all right. But you're submitting to the husband. Right? And that is priority for Apostle Paul. Right?  That is number one. Now whether he doesn't know the Word and if he doesn't know the working of the Holy Spirit, then you can, you know, think of doing other things. Right? When we look at in Corinth, he says in many places, he says when you all meet on a regular basis, you all can, you know, break bread and meat. And so what I would say is, Maggie, what is Paul trying to say here? He's trying to say that, women, firstly, you submit to the husband and then you can be submitted to the church as well. Now if the husband doesn't know, then you can, you know, probably ask but not during the church service. You ask people, you know, there'll be times of fellowship, you ask, grow together, learn together. So, but the main point is one, it is not for the church today because women are allowed to preach, teach everything. Two, is he's just trying to bring that whole aspect of women. I know you all were living a very liberal life, doing whatever you felt like in the open, but now you'll have born again. You need to also change the way you behave. So first, submit to your husbands. Right? Ask them if you get a prophetic word. Ask them. Don't just go and do whatever you feel like and the husband will feel, hey, what am I here? Now, again, this again is subject only to the time of when the church was at Corinth. Right? So it's not applicable now. That's what I would like to say. Yes, say go ahead. Oh, thank you, Pastor. Why are you talking? I was, I completely agree with you and I'm all for the point that the instruction was specifically for the Church of Corinth. But again, I think the principle of submission goes a long way as something we can also learn, even though it was specifically for the Church of Corinth, because even in our church of today, there are still some element of insubordination. Let me use that word. Or wives trying to, or even let me say, generally women, and I'm not trying to bash women in any way, but I've just seen it in some instances where some women try or some wives try to be, it beats, I would say, pushy or in the sense they want to show that they know the word. So I think the principles, we can still learn in the sense that if a couple don't agree on something on the word, the church should not be the place where they argue about it, rather take it home and talk about it and see where they're missing it and try to understand. So I think that we can still learn the principle of submission, but I agree completely that this was an instruction specifically for the Corinth Church. Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much, Sey. Yes, I would like to add that. That was very well put, Sey. Thank you so much. Sey says, the act, right? So the act is not something that we follow, but the principle is something that we have to carry. For example, Jesus washes disciples' feet. We don't have to go around washing people's feet. We don't do the act, but the principle is humility. So that's what Sey was trying to say. Thank you so much Sey. So the act of submission, the act of women to not preach, so in terms of women and husband, women go home and ask your husband, was basically the principle is submission. You submit to your husband. Right. That's nice. Thank you so much. Yes, Teisha, please go ahead. Hi, Pastor, I have one. I agree with Sey, but on a different side to this, why you find women today somewhat, some may say some are rebellious or because they feel they have to defend because some persons, even though it was the context with the earlier church, you have some ministers are still using this as a level of control. So you find that the woman now takes up this, it's some sort of disrespect, but they have to keep defending themselves. I have a right to be here. I have a right to be heard. So then you have now the feminists, and you have all these different people calling what they are, and it's a constant fight, a battle, and some say, you know what? I don't need a husband. I don't need a man because he puts me down or whatever, which are some person, they dislike the Bible because it seemed to be pointing in that regard. Why a man has to be heard over me, et cetera, which the principle is not for if the man, if you have a man that is godly, which is God is the head, and then the husband is supposed to be following God, and then you can submit to him and not feel, it's not a level of control, it's not slavery. And so you feel your voice can be heard respectfully and support you, and you can disagree to agree, et cetera, and discuss in your own private space. But some do not agree, even to this day. And that's why you have the breakaway from marriages, et cetera, and it spills over in other areas of society. Yes. Yes, that's very true, Tehisha. Thank you so much for sharing. I would like to add this, in a time that we are in, and there are some wonderful women who have started their own ministries, and we don't even know their husband's names. So they've started their own ministries, and they're doing so wonderfully, blessing the body of Christ, just powerful ministries. But one thing that we always encourage is it's good, because when women take up that whole call of God upon their life, and there's a calling, they take it up, they do well, and they just raise up in the ministry, and they raise up leaders, they're doing really well in the ministry. But we must always, women must always remember that at home, they're not a pastor, right? And even men, I would say even men, right? Men also, we can have the greatest ministry and all of that. But at home, we are not a pastor. We are husband and wife. Right? And the women also must understand that however big their ministry is, however well they're doing, God may be using them very greatly, but your husband may be somebody who's just working a nine to five job, yet you are to submit to your husband. And why, and husbands again, you may be a, we may be great in our ministry, having a great work, and God is just using us so powerfully. But we must remember that our wife is our helper, and we need to be together and honor them. And so at home, it's always husband and wife, it is not pastor and wife or pastor and husband, it is not that way. So that is a distinction that we must learn to draw. Right? So, especially as minister, because we're so used to people calling us pastor, people calling us this, we're giving us so much of importance, you know, we have to go here, we have to do this. And we forget the small things. Hey, I've got a home, and at my home, I'm not a pastor, just a husband, I'm a father, or at home, I'm not a, I'm not a, you know, a prophetess. I'm just a wife, and I will submit to my husband. And I'm just a mother here. And so I want, so there are two different, these are two different places with two different callings. And so thank you, Tehisha, for sharing that as well. Thank you. Right. Yes, Louis, go ahead. Good morning pastor, good morning everyone. Just on the last side track, if I can run this story quickly, there's a testimony I heard of a minister that, the anointing, yes, as a pastor in church, he does the prayers, and there's so much testimony in church, but they were struggling at home. On to the wife recognized the anointing on the husband's life at home, then the anointing began to work for them at home. So where do we bring in that also that balance, where we recognize the graces that the spouses carry, but at the same time, we have to function as husband and wife, but the grace also can function for them or for them at home. So where do we bring in that sense of balance, where we are not taking for granted, but at the same time, we recognize the graces that flow the space on the life, so we can work for them at home, because on to recognize the anointing of him as a pastor at home, before that I'm going to go work for her at home, but that's our own testimony. So where do we bring in that kind of balance. Yes, thank you so much Louis. Here's what I would say. Now, picture this, right? Maybe your husband is a man of God, doing a ministry, and he's used powerfully prophetic word of knowledge and God has been using him, wonderful ministry. And maybe the wife is just helping out in ministry, just doing small things, but just helping out with the church, not really in the ministry, but just being there. Now, we must remember that when we go back home, a husband and wife were serving the church, or when they're at home, doesn't mean the gifts of the Holy Spirit will stop and say, okay, no, I will only give you the anointing in church. We know that the anointing is there, right? God can speak to us through the small things at home as well. So here's what we can do. Now, if I recognize something about my wife, I know the grace of God upon my wife, then what must I do? I must understand that, hey, maybe she's sharing this because this is something that God is speaking to her. So I should not be in a place where I say, okay, leave all of that only in the church. Yes, prophecies, word of knowledge, all of that. We want to have it, develop that and grow in that, and it sounds nice when it's in the church or blessing the church, but God doesn't stop that. So we must understand that, okay, even as God is speaking to us at home, I recognize the gifts, I recognize the grace that God has. So for example, if my wife says, hey, can we pray together for half an hour? Now, I may be busy doing something, but I can stop what I'm doing because maybe God is ministering to her and saying, let's pray. Maybe this is something that God is leading her towards. So I don't have to make it sound super spiritual. For example, I'm just there and I'm saying, okay, I feel led to pray together with my wife, but my wife is doing something, she's doing household work. I say, hey, why don't we pray? She must recognize that, hey, maybe God is speaking or ministering, saying that, hey, let's pray together. So I don't have to make it super spiritual by saying, you know what, just now I got a prophetic word and God is saying, right now we should pray. So we have to pray and only when we pray, I don't have to make it sound super spiritual. I just say, I can just be normal and say, hey, when we have time, can we just spend half an hour in prayer? So what I'm doing is I'm, of course, I'm still flowing in that gifts and the anointing, but I'm not, you know, being trying to be super spiritual, trying to act as if I'm on the stage in front of hundreds of people. No, just being normal and saying, hey, after you finish your work, why don't we just spend half an hour and pray. And if she recognizes the gifts and call in my life, she will agree to it. Right. So that balance is something that it's an ongoing learning husband and wife. Right. But very important is Louis, as you said, we must learn to appreciate and understand the gifts and the grace that each one of us have, the husband and the wife, they have different grace gifts. Right. So we must learn to appreciate and walk together in that right that that understanding must be there. And it will come over time. You will know. And I feel just making life very simple, not making it super spiritual and just trying to go overboard saying, hey, you know, this is what I feel that we must do, even in terms of making decisions for the home, for the family, for the children, just prayerfully, you know, we don't have to say, okay, I feel that this is what the prophetic word that God is telling me right now. We want to say all that. Right. So just be normal and say, you know, I feel that God can lead us to this, maybe let's pray and see if this is something. Now we may be very good in prophetic words, but I don't have to release it with, you know, in terms of in arrogance or anything. Just be simple about it. Right. And yeah, so just recognizing each other, being there for each other, honoring each other. And I think as we do that, automatically, the other things will fall in place. People will, you know, the husband and the wife will begin to know, okay, this is what he says when he says this, maybe the Lord is speaking or ministering. And I must also value my wife, the husband and the wife must value each other, whether they are in ministry or not in ministry, they must value each other. So I will close with that. Right. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, everyone. Thank you. What we'll do is we'll take a break because we have five minutes. So before we get into the next chapter, we'll take a break. We'll come back at 9.55. We'll go back at 9.55 and we'll continue with chapter 15. Thank you.


Hey Virgo, hope everybody's doing well. It's Kelly from House of Virgo. If you're new, please do hit like, share, and subscribe. Personal reading links and everything else you need is in the description box below and hello everybody in the chat. I hope you're doing well. All right, Virgo. So this is going to be for October as per usual. Please be mindful. Some of the messages may or may not resonate. Take with it. Leave the rest. Did I say that already? Am I like repeating? Am I repeat a repeating Peter if I didn't? There you go. If I did, well, it is what it is. All right, let me see here. Now I just recorded a 35-40 minute reading and I uploaded it.  And guess what? The volume was so choppy. And I think yesterday's reading was a little bit like that too. I dropped my, I have a Blue Yeti and I've had it for like like seven years and I dropped it on the floor. So I think maybe it's done. So I'm gonna have to get a new one. So forgive my, my, uh, the sound, the audio. I hope hopefully it's okay. Anyway, I need to stop rambling. I just wanted to shuffle a little and get some, I just want to listen. I just want to, I want to get like what you just need to know. That's all I want to look at right now. What, what Virgo needs to know for the month of October. Okay. You have the moon, Pisces and energy, some secrets. There are secrets, illusions. There are dreams. Okay. Let me see. Things are, things coming to light, getting a teeny, like an ounce of clarity about how you feel about something. Okay. Let me see what's going on. The moon is all about the emotions, the cycles and the changes. Okay. Let me see. All right. Queen of Swords, Page of Cups, Justice and the Emperor. Okay. This is definitely about clarity, about how you're feeling, about what you want to do, about what's the right path for you to take. Okay. This could have something to do with an Emperor, Aries or a Pisces or a Libra. There's definitely communication coming in here for you, Virgo, in September. I'm hearing also somebody, I feel like you're, you're going to be saying to somebody, now you have your dukes up, man.  I feel like you're going to be like, you're not sure about someone. I feel like you're going to get like a sweet text message or communication from someone, but you've got your sword drawn. Oh, okay. You definitely have your sword drawn. You're giving somebody, like you're dropping some truth bombs on somebody here. Yes. Gemini, Aquarian Energy, something to do with a family member, a legal situation regarding a family or something to do with a marriage or a relationship of some sort. These cards at the bottom look great. Okay. But the top is like, hmm, I feel like you're pissed.  Are you like pissed about something? I don't know what's going on. That moon energy makes me feel like there was some deception and lies. Okay. First court card, or second court card, King of Cups. Okay. You might be, hmm, finding something out that somebody's been, I don't know, texting another person or there was some kind of communication or something or somebody comes in and messages you or sweet text message and you're just like, oh, you're showing up out of the dark. Like, are you a ghost?  This real life? Yeah. Okay. So you're definitely having some communication with someone, but you're sitting, I feel, in the position of the Queen of Swords. Okay. Cause that was the first card that came out for you. I feel like, and that can be a Virgo card, you're being clear and concise, crystal clear. Okay. Virgo, I feel like there was a connection with somebody perhaps in the past where somebody like disappeared on you. That moon card is like being deceptive, hiding in the shadows, hiding in the dark. Somebody's coming out of hiding and you're going to get some communication. And Virgo, I feel like you're, you're like bringing on because I have something to say. Virgo, bring it on. This could be like, this could be a parent. This could be some of you are connecting or I'm hearing a parent, maybe a father figure, something to do also with a child. Somebody was disappeared on you and didn't like, hasn't seen the child or the grandchild, something along those lines. I just feel like you have your claws out in October. Okay. Definitely. Definitely. Okay. So Virgo, I feel like there's definitely some truth coming out from someone here sitting in the emperor position. Okay. Aries energy. It's going to try to make something right here with you to correct the situation. Somebody wants to like have a reunion, get married, be in some kind of a connection with you. Okay. Now they could represent the emperor or Empress energy, someone that sits in a position of authority, someone that sits in a position of like fertility, children, motherhood, fatherhood, that kind of thing, but showing up in the king of cups energy. Yeah. Six of cups being very sweet and wanting some kind of reconciliation, hasn't let go of the past, that kind of stuff.    I don't even know. What are you talking about? I don't know. I like being alone. I just, I'm not done with it. I'm done with it. Like, I don't want to have that back again. Is that what's going on with you? I don't know. You've got other options or you that you'll be presented with options and I do feel like you're going to like go within and try to sort it out yourself. But right here, right here, someone tries to reach out to you. Like I'm not saying you're going to hit somebody over the head with a hammer. I don't feel like that's energy playing out, but I do feel like you're going to speak some truth. You have something to say. You have something to say because I feel like you were left in the dark about something or a certain matter or a particular thing and maybe you find out or it comes to you. You get like your intuition. It's like, oh, I see. Oh, I see. Okay. But I see somebody here is coming in that's trying to like give you kindness and that's what that, no, but Virgo, you're like, no, you don't want that. You're not like, you have something to say first. I don't feel like, all right. So overall, you're not accepting any apologies because I do feel like someone's going to try to apologize to you. You're not ready to forgive. You're not ready to accept an apology from someone yet because you have to speak your mind. You have to say your piece. You have a boundary that you need to set. And I see October, you're going to set that boundary. You might even say, I don't want to hear any excuses. You owe me an apology for what you did as a decent human being, you know? Now, listen, my personal opinion, I personally don't feel like anybody owes me anything. I owe it to myself to take care of self, but you might be feeling like you might be in this position where you might be saying, you know, I'm not, we can't work this out until you like come with that bloody stump until you're like ready to sort out these problems.   So I feel like a lot of you, that's why you have something you need to say. Okay.  If you haven't done it already, or if you've done it before, I feel like somebody might come in with this sweetness, this child like, oh, you know, is this all right? And then they play up on your emotions. But like that doesn't work with Virgo. It doesn't. That's usually why Virgos are single because it's not that they're mean or anything. It's just Virgo is very crystal clear and can see right like Virgos can cut right through the clouds.  You know, even if somebody's trying to be nice, it's like, it doesn't matter how nice you are. It matters like how you make amends. You know what I mean?  Okay. So yeah, you've got somebody in here who's trying to come in.  They want to make things right. They want to be what they need to be for you. You know, even if there's like a legal issue between you and them or something to do with money or anything, I mean, there's no panicle energy here yet. So that may only be for a small amount of you, but it's even something like I made a mistake divorcing you or cutting this relationship off. I'm sorry, I took you to court. I don't know what that's got. You know, some legal issues.  Okay.  Look at the face. It's like, what? I just kind of feel like it's, it's like, you got to be out of your mind. I don't know why I feel that, but Virgo, you do want love. You do want that beautiful partner and connection and that like this here. Okay. That represents harmony, appreciation of each other, self-sacrifice, loyalty, responsibility to each other. It's not just about affection. It's not just about kissing, you know? Yeah, that's all there, but there's, there's more to it. You know, and I feel like Virgo, you're looking at love as like the way it should be, you know, the way it should be. I feel like it's, it's not, you can't even go along the lines of like, saying, well, if someone loves you, they'll never leave you. That's not always true. Sometimes people leave because they're emotionally unstable and has nothing to do with their love or they have other problems. Like, does this person love you? Yeah. But I feel like they are just that moon. Like I said, the moon is like the cycles, right? Like your menstrual cycle, you go through the ups and downs, it's like a roller coaster. You've got somebody, some type of connection with someone who's in and out of your life. They're up and down, they're unstable. The moon energy is instability. Okay. When it's in the reverse, it's clarity. It's like that full moon, it brightens everything. You know, what's going on, right? The full moon is when that's when we always set our intentions. We don't do it in a half moon. We don't do it, you know, waxing your waning moon, right? We do it in the new moon and we do it in the full moon. So what I feel like is this is Gemini energy, Virgo Taurus, Capricorn, Cancer Scorpio Pisces. Oh gosh, very little fire.  And that might be very telling. Okay. For some of you that had a connection with a fire sign, I feel like this person is always running.   Like I cannot have a connection with them. Like this is a decision that if you haven't already made it, you will be making it. Even if you have made it, I do feel like this person is going to try to make that reconnection with you again.  And I don't think you're going to, like, I don't think you're going to be like cruel and critical and harsh or mean. I just feel like you're just going to give it straight, like straight up. Listen, listen. Let me speak to you.  I cannot build something with someone who is in and out of my life. I cannot, we cannot build. You know how long it's going to take me to get this house built when the builders are here once a year or they say they're going to finish the job and then they don't. And, you know, it's very frustrating. And that's one of my analogies. I feel like, Virgo, you're going to give some truth. And it might hurt because the love, the feeling, the connection, some of you are like, this is my twin flame. Some of you are like, this is my person or at least I thought it was, but you know now what, what real love looks like between two people. And like I always say, people who are emotionally secure, right? You can always expect your needs to be met by people who are emotionally secure, who are emotionally stable. You cannot, you'd be insane to expect people who are unstable to meet your needs. Okay. And I feel like for some of you, this is like, oh man, I fell in love with a psychiatric patient. I fell in love with someone who out there on these roller coasters acting a fool and I'm trying to get this person and I'm trying to train them and I'm throwing them some biscuits and I'm like, no, this is how you do it. Say it over and over and over and over and they're not getting it. And why? Because there might be some immaturity or child, child, childlike behaviors with this person. Okay. Very immature. They think they're still six, seven throughout their play and, you know, and Virgo, you know what? For this is, this is, this won't resonate for all of you. Some of it, you know, I know it will. And I feel like if anything, this might be just more of a guidance message for you, like see things for what they are, not with your rose colored glasses on, get that clarity, give it as well, see things for what they are. That's what that self introspection is about. You know, kind of like, you know, maybe the problem is I just wasn't as, I need to be more indifferent to this person. In other words, I need to get myself in a position to say, you know what? I love you and I care, but you are not coming through for me and I can't depend on you. I don't feel safe.  This is not about us. Right. And it's selfish. Right.  That's, that's not going to, that doesn't cut it. And Virgo, you have to hold people. You have to call people out. You do.   That's that warrior energy. Right. And that doesn't mean you got to go around slashing everybody.   You got to get into boss mode here. If you're not already, you will in October. That's for sure. Some of you are already there and you're like, Oh, no, yep, this reading for me, but I've already done it. Okay.  Some of you are like in this, like, you know what, I need to rethink my career here because I don't know, something's going on. Maybe you work online. Maybe you do some type of work where everything's online and you could be seen. You might have a business that's online that you can't go private, so to speak, because it's public, right? As a business should be.  Maybe I need to find a different way to do something here and make money because there's some type of connection. I feel like somebody is like watching your every move and it might just be draining you because they're in and out or they're connecting. Like some of you just got to block, block, block. You got to block somebody here. Okay. Listen, on a positive note, you've got new love coming in. I know you're, I know you're like, you're looking towards that now in your life and then you have a new love start coming in here and new love beginnings could be with someone who is already a parent. Okay. Or let's see. Yeah, they're saying for you to open your heart to receive. Also cherish your children, your animals and, and like be love, right? You know, I listen to a lot of Joel Austin. He is so uplifting and positive. And I feel like for some of you, I don't know if you listen to him if you're, if you're very spiritual or, you know, I know it's a Christian channel and everything, but the uplifting messages, if you're going through a difficult time in your life at this time, try it. That's all I can say. Just try it. It's not a requirement. You know, I'm not going to charge you to do it. Just try it if it helps.  All right. So sweet text message. I think we already said that because we had two cups this year. But for some of you, this is somebody that you're, I feel like you're going to be connecting with someone in October and make a love connection with someone in October. There will be, it'll start with like a sweet text message or some kind of something very sweet. Some of you have like an older female introducing you to someone as well. And I feel like there was going to be a connection made with that person. It could be a Gemini. It could be an earth sign. Okay. Oh, yeah. Message from an admirer. Well, this is beautiful. I feel like Virgo, Virgo, you're just done. You're like, not today, Satan. It's done. And at least for October, you're not dealing with anything.  I feel like single as a Pringle is better than being like stale in the box. And I don't feel like you're, you're trying to be that some of you may not even wish to be dating, but I know like you're, you're crossing over some kind of boundary. You're making some huge change in your life here in October. And it's all because of your will. Some of you just need, some of you might just say, I accept your apology, but I don't want this back. I'm sorry. Bye-bye. Take care. And you give someone the closure. Okay. Have faith in your dreams. Wow. That's so beautiful, Virgo. Communication is key.   Uh, no, that's not how that works.  No, it's the opposite.  And to turn around to that person and say, I'm sorry, I am not your mother. I am not your father. I am not responsible for the decisions you make. You're living your life that way. That's on you.  Who am I channeling? Medea? Who am I channeling? I don't even know. There is some spunk coming out in this reading. Is that the name? Is that her name? Medea? I don't know. I'm channeling somebody here. I just need to get a romance angel card. I really do for this, for this new love coming in here, this sweet text message, this communication. Oh, worth waiting for. Divine timing. Is it working your love life? That's all this is Virgo. Okay. This past stuff, whatever's going on here, I mean, that'll resolve on its own. You just have to take care of you. But as far as so many new coming in here, this is someone worth waiting for. Okay. This is all spirit is bringing this to you. These are your blessings coming to you and you just got to have faith and keep the faith that you deserve better. Okay. Yeah. Little bit of flirtation. Extend your lighthearted energy to others, Virgo.  Smile. If you want, listen, some of you are like, I'm not a good flirt. You don't have to actually flirt. Just smile. All you have to do is smile. Smiling is flirtatious. Just smile. Okay. Give the relationship a chance. All right. So Virgo, your reading was amazing. You know what? Let me just get one charm. See, I keep trying to end them and I keep going. Okay. Oh, you have a starfish and it's pink. Beautiful. This might have something to do with your butt. Somebody likes your butt, Virgo. Somebody really likes your butt. Oh my goodness.  I know some guys have some pretty great butts. Yeah. Somebody is really digging your butt. Let me see. You know what? We're not done here. We're not done. All right. We got the charms. Who wants a Chinese sign? And everybody's like, don't forget the Chinese signs. All right. Let's get the Chinese signs. All right. I'm going to do a different round. Okay. Let me see. All right. Year of the rabbit. Year of the goat. This is for the past person. Year of the ox. Year of the dog. And for the new person. Okay. If it's not you and them, you know, in other words, it's like the past person is going to be of that Chinese sign.  It's not them if this isn't their sign. Okay. I feel like I need to give clarity. But it could also be you. So keep that in mind. All right. New person. Year of the rat. Year of the rooster. Year of the snake. Year of the horse.  It's just a new you. It's beautiful. I love it. All right. Let's get your... Oh, we had a little dolphin fall out here too. Hmm. Okay. Miami dolphins maybe? I know it. I know it's not the eagles.  Very significant. Dolphins are angels of the sea. So you have protection. You're being watched over. Okay. Aquarius, Capricorn twice. Taurus. Okay. Let's see. Valentine's Day. Very significant. Special day for somebody, for most. Okay. August. Okay. It's... Oh no. Oh my goodness. If you're seeing 2-2-2 a lot, and it is your 2022, if you're seeing 2-2-2 a lot, that's very significant. There's a message in there for you because 2s represent balance, partnership, diversity, duality, choices. So 2-2-2, like that's some... There's a message in there for you if you keep seeing it. Okay. Coming into balance or partnership with someone as well. And this is going to be someone who's like opposite track kind of thing. There's going to be some kind of difference between you and this person, this new person. Now, caveat, they're just telling me it could be your past person that you're given some what for too. That you're like calling them out because there might be some kind of change and shift that happens with this person because you call them out. This is not predictive of you're going to call them out and they're just all of a sudden just... No. You have to do something. You have to say something. Okay. Did I say Aquarius? I don't know if I said Aquarius, but yeah, Aquarius. Okay. Somebody is 50, I'm hearing. August 26th. I'm also getting 3-11. Okay. Maybe that's somebody's favorite band or it's an address, maybe an area code 3-11. Okay. Somebody's born in 1968. September 14th, September 3rd and the 9th. Okay. Did I say Taurus? I can't remember if I said Taurus. Let me see. And I'm also picking up Libra. I think I said Libra, so we have Sagittarius, Aries, Leo, Double Sag. Okay. Yeah. I think we're going to end it there. So that's your reading. I hope you guys, I hope the volume was good and you're able to hear me because like I said, my microphone went so I'm going to have to get a new one. But yeah, I will be back on, I don't even know what today is. What is it, Tuesday? Okay. Wednesday, so I'll be back tomorrow with your next reading and Thursday for your weekend reading. And yeah, I hope you guys have an awesome, awesome rest of your day. Also, don't forget I'm uploading shorts, daily shorts, and they only let me do it for 60 seconds. I wish I could do it for longer, but they won't let me do it longer than that. That's, it has to be like a straight minute or less. So definitely check that out because I'm trying to like give you guys a little extra bonus since I'm only here once a day and I'll try to have them for the weekend as well.  So all right, Virgo, that was your reading. Hope you enjoy it. Hope it gave you some insight.  Love you very much and I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.


Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. Thank you so much for clicking on today's video My name is Jen and I am a certified nutrition coach and I'm currently on the WW or Weight Watchers blue plan in today's video I'm going to share with you ten tips on how to get back on track how to get back to healthy eating healthy lifestyle How to get back to exercise intentional movement? I'm going to share with you ten pretty easy And maybe some tips that you just never thought about when it comes to getting back on track Make sure that you are checking out the description box down below this video Just click the little drop-down arrow right about there and it'll open up the description box You are going to find my nutrition coaching website Make sure you check that out as I offer several different versions of nutrition coaching everything from one-on-one to a macro calculation figure out exactly what you should be eating macros Points and calorie wise and I have a private Facebook group that you can join with a monthly membership as well So check that out down in the description box I'd love to help you on your healthy lifestyle journey also in that description box You're going to find links discount codes to my favorite things and also the link to head over and join my public Facebook group gents WW tribe We'd love to have you come over and join us in that community It's a super fun place to be also if you are new to my channel and you haven't yet subscribed Make sure you're subscribed and your bell is turned on so you don't miss a single video I do upload most days of the week and I share lots of tips and tricks Recipe videos weigh ins grocery hauls all the things so head on over and join us here on YouTube Give this video a thumbs up if you love these tips and tricks and you find them helpful It really helps my channel and of course I appreciate it So let's jump into 10 tips to get back on track Blame it on the holidays blame it on the season change blame it on quarantine Or maybe you're just too busy to really give a rip about what you're eating What calories you're eating you're not tracking and honestly you don't really care Well, it's time to reverse that thinking and get back to a healthy lifestyle healthy eating I promise you're going to feel a lot better and you're gonna get a little bit closer to your goal It happens to every single one of us guaranteed There has been a time throughout our weight loss our healthy journey that we have actually gotten off track Maybe it was a vacation Maybe it truly was that you just didn't care for a short period or even a long period of time The most important thing is to stop eating yourself up and just get right back on track So I want to share with you today 10 easy tips on how to do just that tip number one Don't turn getting off track or this relapse into a moral issue.  This isn't a moral issue This doesn't define who you are as a person. It's simply a slip up Instead think of it as a setback or a way to develop some coping skills set yourself up for success and just get back on Track tip number two is learn learn from the experience of getting off track If you fail to recognize what caused you to get off track on the first place Chances are you're just gonna fall back off track again I recommend that you take a notepad in a pen and you write down a list of situations or Feelings or environments that trigger you to overeat and once you've written down those items next to it Write down a plan of action. What are you going to do next time? You are in that situation or have those feelings or in that environment.  What are you going to do the next time that that happens? For example, if snacking before dinner or well-cooking dinner is your downfall Set up a game plan to make sure that you're having an afternoon snack before you start preparing dinner Set yourself up for success. Make sure you're not overly hungry Don't go from lunch to dinner without a snack Have a snack a half an hour an hour before you start prepping dinner Even if it's a small snack, it'll help prevent you from falling into that same pitfall of snacking While you're preparing dinner number three is so important And that is don't punish yourself for slipping up with hours in the gym or starving yourself for the next day Days or next week now Let's be real hours in the gym or starving yourself and only eating 500 calories for the next day days are weak Yeah, you're probably going to lose weight, but it's not a healthy way to do it It's not sustainable and you certainly can't do this to yourself every time you have a minor slip up Not to mention chances are as soon as you start eating again or stop exercising for hours You're going to gain that weight back set yourself up a pattern of success Don't sell your set yourself up a pattern of unhealthy eating unhealthy exercise and unrealistic goals You're just going to create a cycle of gaining and losing and gaining and losing And you're also going to set yourself up to have anxiety when it comes to food Let me tell you there are so many more things in life If we're gonna have anxiety to have anxiety about then food So don't go to the gym for hours. Don't restrict your eating Just get back on track eat like you did before exercise like you did before and I promise you're going to develop a much Healthier approach to slip ups number four is take a look at the big picture Just remember that weight loss is calories in versus calories out and it requires a decrease in calories over a period of time You didn't gain 50 pounds overnight and you're certainly not going to lose it Really take a look at your food intake over the course of a week or a month rather than every single day Look at patterns and cycles. Don't focus on how you did that day Focus on how you did that week or that month the same goes for weighing yourself Don't focus on your daily weight Our bodies can fluctuate several pounds in the matter of hours more or less days Take a look at the overall weekly picture by weekly or monthly However, often you weigh yourself take a look at the big picture rather than focusing on the small picture The big takeaway is remember you're going to have slips up There's peaks and valleys throughout an entire weight loss journey Just get back on track and you'll be able to make up for it with the next meal or the next day Don't stress out and be really hard on yourself for the small picture again Take a look at the big picture and the overall goal that you have when it comes to your healthy lifestyle and your weight loss Number five is renew your motivation when we slip up on our diet or our healthy lifestyle It's a sign that maybe we're getting bored or we're getting complacent or comfortable Where we are in our eating plan or exercise or a healthy lifestyle When this happens sit down and really reflect on how are you feeling when you first started your weight loss journey or your health Journey how motivated were you what caused you to be happy and excited about that journey? Take a look at that and really reflect on that and implement that back into your life If joining that gym new exciting gym made you excited about exercise again Maybe it's time to look at another type of exercise or maybe switch up the gym that you're a member of Maybe if switching to Whole Foods made you so excited You couldn't wait and now you're tired of Whole Foods and you'd like to have a process cookie or bag of chips Do just that remind yourself what it was that got you excited in the first place And that's going to help your lifestyle your weight loss your diet your exercise feel a lot less mundane Number six is make sure you plan ahead to keep your hunger at bay when we find ourselves starving Marvin It's a lot easier to overeat That's why it's important to set yourself up for success have snacks on hand in your desk drawer at work in your purse in Your car readily available to you when you open your pantry or fridge those healthy snacks are the first things that you see You don't have to just eat breakfast lunch and dinner if you find yourself hungry between meals have a snack Make it a healthy snack, but nonetheless have a snack Create a snack pack for when you're away from home in your desk drawer Have a little bag full of your favorite snacks Maybe some dried fruit fresh fruit nuts trail mix granola Maybe some baked chips that you absolutely love just make sure that you have healthy snacks available and that they're at Eye sight so it's the first thing that you reach for don't put the Oreos at your eye sight and your healthy snacks on the top shelf of Your pantry make sure that they're ready. They're available and they're within view number seven is so Incredibly important and that is do not deprive yourself Do not cut out any foods when we restrict ourselves from specific foods. We take away carbs We take away high-fat foods that can be the leading cause to binge eating We can overdo it when we get our hands on those foods that we've eliminated or restricted from our diet Just make sure you're eating a balanced diet and you're not eliminating or restricting yourself from any foods or any food groups This goes for foods that are considered unhealthy and just remember there are no good foods or bad foods All few foods are fuel for your body So some tips and tricks may be instead of having that pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream reach for a lower calorie lower fat option Maybe an enlightened bar or a Yasso bar or maybe a pint of low-fat frozen yogurt Or what if you're really really craving a candy bar instead of buying the king-size candy bar the full-size candy bar Pick up one of the miniature size They sell those year-round not just in Halloween, but year-round you can find miniature versions of candy bars or Worst-case scenario buy a full-size candy bar cut it in half have half of it and put the other half away Don't deprive yourself. This is the leading cause to overdoing and binging Number eight is don't stop moving don't stop getting in physical exercise Even if you can't make it to the gym just schedule doesn't permit or maybe you don't have the financial means to join a gym It is free and easy and good for you to head outside and take a 20 minute walk If it's cold and snowy and rainy do laps around your house for 20 minutes house walking is actually proven to be a great form of Exercise exercise not only helps you burn those extra calories you ate when you were off plan But it helps with boredom and it enhances your mood So take 10 minutes 20 minutes and get a little bit of exercise in especially When you're feeling hungry or triggered to snack number nine is find an accountability partner I think this is so incredibly important. That is where myself as a nutrition coach can come into play for you Let me be your accountability partner Let me be the person you reach out to when you're struggling or before you fall off the wagon Let me guide you give you tips and tricks set you up for success when it comes to macros calories and points and being part Of my private Facebook group will be such motivation for you You're going to have a slew of accountability partners. This is so important We certainly don't want to text our tracker to our accountability partner when it's way over our points calories and macros We don't want to have to tell our accountability partner every day that we've fallen off the wagon Are we ate too much or ate too little or didn't exercise? It's a big motivation factor It's a big way to keep accountable So let me be as your nutrition coach also your accountability partner and of course your friend So definitely take advantage of my coaching options again My website is in the description box and lastly number 10 is change up your routine Sometimes we just get bored we get bored with our routine whether it be our food routine our exercise routine our healthy habits routine We can get bored and sometimes we just need to change it up to become more motivated So some ways that you can do this is maybe try a new exercise class or maybe try a new piece of equipment at your local gym Try a new healthy food. Maybe you thought that you would never ever ever like eggplant. Try it It may become one of your favorite foods. Try something new It's always exciting and motivating and re-energizing to have something new That's how we fill when we get new clothes a new car a new house a new pair of shoes Do that same thing and have those same feelings when it comes to your lifestyle It re-ads that spark and again keeps you from getting bored. So that's what I have for you today 10 pretty easy tips to get back on track again.  We're all gonna make a mistake during our weight loss or a healthy lifestyle journey It's going to happen. So take these 10 tips take advantage of them and use them when it does happen No matter how often that is to get back on track. Be patient with yourself Give yourself grace and remind yourself of how far you've come. I hope these 10 tips really helped you today I hope that you can use these in the future when you feel like you need a little bit of motivation to get back on track Again, make sure you are checking out that description box for my nutrition coaching website discount codes links to my favorite things and head on over again and join my public Facebook group Jens at WW tribe. We'd love to have you over there if you are new Thank you so much again for stopping by if you're a returning subscriber You know, I love you make sure that you are subscribed and that your bell is turned on so that you don't miss a single video Again, I do upload most days of the week and I have tons of tips and tricks to share with you So definitely make sure you're subscribed thumbs up this video if you enjoyed it and of course leave your comments down below Let me know if you have any questions or if there's anything that I can help you with Or if you have questions on my coaching. Thank you guys again so much for watching. Let's do this Let's be successful and stay on track and I'll see you next time. Bye guys


Hi, everyone. Quickly, my name is Nate. I work at a search for targeting company in the city called Magnetic. We're hiring, so come talk to me afterward. That's my shameless plug. So let's talk about third-party JavaScripts. All of you kind of know the general concept. You've seen the like button, the Twitter widget, Google Analytics, OLARC, tons of advertisements. But if you actually inspect the DOM on tons of pages, you can see it's polluted. There's so much going on. There's all these advertisements in the console, outputting all of that. And we're a little bit crazy, so let's take a look at maybe how a JavaScript could work, one of these third-party JavaScripts. So generally, they have kind of two parts. You have your embed code. So if any of you have used Google Analytics before, you have that little code. You give it to the client. They put that on their site. And usually it loads something more substantial, which is all the logic. So that's how we're going to refer to things. And the embed code usually looks something like this. So we're going to go ahead and create a little embed code. And you can see this is just going to load a JavaScript from our third party.  You don't want to give your client this huge embed code. And the logic code, of course, is like the meat, right? It's like, what do we actually want the code to do? And most of the time, this is the place where you have to deal with sort of the biggest problem, which is the same origin policy. So in general, though, we're not going to talk about that today. Pretend our logic JavaScript looks something like this. So I think everyone can understand what this is. But basically, we're just going to create a text node. And we're going to append it to the body of the page. Very amazing. So how do we go about testing this? We have this embed code. And it's going to load this other JavaScript. And ultimately, the way we want to test it is on the client page. We give it to the client. And we know for 100% sure it's going to work on their page. We also know that it's kind of the wild west out there. Any code we give to the client who knows what they're actually going to do with it. But as a reasonable idea, we set up our own test page. If you're in Rails, you create some view, and you put the embed code in there. And we create some tests. So if you guys are familiar with Capybara, we create a test that's like, visit my test page and expect it to have content, because that's what our embed code was supposed to do. And you can test all your features. And you feel good at the end of the day. Your tests pass. You test every single feature. 100% code coverage. You start drinking a beer. And you start drinking a few more beers. And I like to think, after about four beers, I'm peeking. It's my Balmer Plateau, if you will. And I kind of have this feeling, though, that I tested all the features. But if I give this to a client, is it actually going to work? If they put it on their page and follow my install instructions, I don't have that confidence, normally, that I would. And that's kind of a scary feeling. Especially if you're kind of in the situation, if you're a startup or something like that, and you say, I wonder if I give it to my client tomorrow, and it's going to break their page.  They're really hard to come by and convince. And salespeople are going to yell at you if you break the page. So you kind of have that pit in your stomach that's like, my JavaScript, it's great. It works. But anyone I give it to at any point, it could break. So maybe you have an idea that says, let's go to this client page, and let's open the Chrome Developer Console. Click on the Console tab, and copy and paste our developer JavaScript in there, or embed JavaScript. So theoretically, that should embed our JavaScript on the page, and we can kind of debug. And when we do that, it doesn't work. We get some syntax errors, we get something. Something's going wrong. All we know is that our JavaScript really isn't working on this page. And if the client puts it on tomorrow, it's going to break. Even though all of our tests pass, when we set up our test page, everything was amazing. And the biggest issue underlying all of this is that with most testing, you don't have to test the environment, the environment's an assumption. So when you're dealing with third party JavaScripts though, that's something you have to completely think about. You can have library clashes. So if your JavaScript uses one version of jQuery and the client uses another version of jQuery on the same page, either they're going to break you or you're going to break them.  Part of dealing with this is just having a better design. It's dealing with all these scope issues, and there's actually libraries to help you with that, specifically Lightning.js and other ones. But that's not what we actually care about. We can always try to write better code and handle all this stuff. But what we really want is some sense of confidence that if I give this to a client, we know almost for a fact, assuming they don't screw anything else up, that it's going to work. And just testing in our isolated test page just doesn't give me that confidence as a developer. So it would be great if there was a way that we could almost simulate putting the JavaScript on the page directly without having the client have to actually do that for us. So essentially, we have our one test that we run that visits our test page and expects the page to have the proper output. What we'd actually like to do for our test to look like this, we visit the client page. And we can verify that our thing is actually working on the client page itself. So this is Butters, my dog. And he says he knows how to do this. And he told me how to do this, too. And here's the trick. The idea is, what if we put a proxy server between our browser that's being driven by Capubara and the outside world? And any time that we receive a request for our client page, we listen for the response through the proxy server and inject our JavaScript directly back into the page. So this is a technique that you could think about using. So kind of said again, if you guys missed that, we have our browser, our proxy server, and the client site. And we're going to intercept the response, which is going to be an HTML document. And we're going to embed our JavaScript directly in there. So let's write a proxy server real quick. How do we do this in Ruby? There's many different proxy servers, but you can do this pretty quickly with WebRick. And you can see here, if we look at the code, if we read our JavaScript and then take a look at this block here, it's really simple to do. We just listen for this response. We make sure that the content type is HTML, and that it's from our host. And then when we get that response, we just add our script into the body. And what this is going to allow us to do, again, is to put that JavaScript right into the page and almost trick the browser. We can go to the client site.com, and it's going to look like the JavaScript is actually running on that page. So it's kind of exciting. So here's how you'd actually do it if you wanted to point your browser directly to it. For a lot of you who've used Kevibar, you can register a custom driver. And we can point our driver directly at the proxy that we just started that I just showed you. And one thing to look out for if you're ever attempting this is to make sure that you're not accepting anything that's zipped. Because if you try to add JavaScript to something that's zipped, it's not going to be nice. And of course, Kevibar is great that you can also test IE with this technique. And finally, in our spec, if you wanted this to run before your suite to start up the browser automatically, you could set that up before the suite and after the suite. So great. I mean, we basically solved the problem that we set out to do, which is we want to simulate the JavaScript actually running on the page. And our test passed now. We can go directly to the client's site. It looks like there's a JavaScript on the page. And we're happy. Another side effect of this is basically if you ever are doing demos to any clients and you wanted to show them their JavaScript running on that page of their site without having them to do an integration, then you could easily demo this. Set up a proxy server, inject some stuff into the page and show them how amazing their page could look with your JavaScript on it. You can also do this with phantom.js. There's a bunch of easy ways to do it. But it's kind of the new hotness these days. So it has a couple methods, inject.js, if you want to just inject your JavaScript directly. Also, it makes it a little bit easier to listen for responses and requests. And finally, if you think about the anatomy that we first started, there's the embed and then there's the logic. And like I said, most of the time, you don't have to test the environment. But in this case, you do. And when you're testing the embed, you need to look at things like, what happens if my API goes down? Is it going to break the client page? What's going to happen? What happens if the client installs my embed code in the head versus the body versus who knows where? What happens if they load me dynamically? What happens if I'm a JavaScript inside of a JavaScript inside of a JavaScript? And finally, when you're looking at the testing the logic, you're going to look for things like library conflicts. Are they using JSON? Library conflicts? Are they using jQuery? And you're using jQuery? And especially testing for performance is huge. So I hope this technique, you guys can go try it. I'll throw up this code on GitHub. But the main technique here is, and the main thing to take away is that you want to simulate things as live as possible when you're developing third-party JavaScript. And hopefully this helps you discover new test cases and new scenarios that you didn't think about in your environment. That's it. Thanks.


Away from that we go to Cameroon, where Cameroon goalkeeper Andru Onana has retired from international football after falling out with the head coach Roba Goat, so sung at the World Cup. The 26-year-old said on Friday that his story with Cameroonian national team has come to an end. Onana made his debut in 2016 and went on to win 34 caps. Cameroon exited the 2022 World Cup in a group stage with Brazil and Switzerland progressing to the knockout rounds.