Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome. If you're new here, my name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach. I'm on Weight Watchers and I track calories and macros. Happy Saturday. It is Saturday, so it's grocery haul day. I actually shopped at two stores this week and I'm excited to share with you everything I picked up. So if you're excited to give this video a big thumbs up, make sure you're subscribed and your bells on because I do a grocery haul every Saturday and five videos every single week. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching, where I offer personalized to you macros and calories. This is how I lost 90 pounds in 2022 and one-on-one coaching if you would like to chat with me directly. Links, discounts to my favorite things and come on over, join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. So let me flip you around and let's jump in to the grocery haul. So here is my grocery haul for the week. I shopped at both Sprouts and Walmart. What you don't see is Gatorade Zero and Diet Coke, which Troy has already put away in the garage fridge. But let's go ahead and start out with what I picked up from Sprouts.  It is currently on sale for $3.99 which is the same price as I can buy it at Fry's or the Kroger store. Normally it's like $5.99 at Sprout. So that's a pretty good deal for Sprout. And then I grabbed this little snack pack. I thought either Troy or I could eat this. It was on sale for $1.75 and it's pretzel, string cheese and apples. So I thought that would be kind of just a convenient on-the-go snack. I also grabbed some baby cucumbers because we love these and I actually need cucumbers for a recipe. A couple of red bell peppers for two different recipes. And then of course shredded chicken. This is Ash Day convenience. It's very nice to have this on hand. I need shredded chicken for a recipe and this is just going to make it so much easier. I don't have to cook it and shred it. It is already done. And then I needed broccoli and I lucked out because this broccoli is on clearance for $4. It doesn't expire for about a week. So I'll definitely be using it up before it expires. But that's about half price. So I was really excited to find that and it's even the organic broccoli.  I love them. I'm obsessed with them. I've really fallen in love with dates. So I actually picked up two packages. They were buy one, get one free at Sprout. So really, really good deal. And then the pecans are for the Snickers dates as well as a recipe. If you missed how to make the dates that tastes like a Snickers bar, I'll link that what I eat in a video, what I eat in a day video down below for you. Also, Chennies were on sale. This is one of my favorite crackers. This is similar to a Cheez-It but better and there's six grams of protein per serving. So I picked up two boxes because they were on sale for $3.99 and normally they're about $5.49. So that's a much, much better deal. Oh, and side note, Trey gave me roses for Valentine's Day. They're so beautiful. So I thought I'd put them on the counter for the video. I'm also totally out of yogurt. So I grabbed a couple at Sprouts and then grabbed a couple at Walmart. So I picked up two Ciggies, one key lime and then one vanilla. And then this little guy, I've never had it before but it was on sale for $0.99. This is the Icelandic Provisions Extra Creamy Lemon Yogurt. This is a whole milk yogurt. So it's going to be a little bit more points and calories but there's still a good amount of protein in there and I thought I would try it since it was on sale for $0.99. Some grapes because they were on sale at Sprouts and then I picked up my favorite popcorn. I love the Lesser Evil Himalayan Pink Salt popcorn. So incredibly delicious and the price at Sprouts is the same is at Kroger. So since I was there, I grabbed myself a bag for the week. So moving over to Walmart, I grabbed a loaf of white bread for Troy for his sandwiches and another pack of the Lavash bread. I've really been enjoying this. I love how low calorie it is. I love that there's fiber protein. It tastes really good. I've been making my little wraps with it and grilling them up kind of like a grilled cheese. I love them. I went through the entire pack so I went ahead and picked up another one and lots of cheese. So we needed some light shredded mozzarella and light shredded Mexican blend for a recipe. And then my favorite cheese when I'm making wraps or sandwiches is Pepper Jack. I had no idea that they had a reduced fat from Sargento. So I grabbed that.  I just love Pepper Jack cheese on those. I grabbed some sugar-free whipped cream so that I can make protein pudding. I'm all out of my whipped cream. I was looking for the ready whip. No sugar added, they didn't have it. So this one will do. A big box of Troy's favorite cereal, the Toasted Berry Crisp from Kashi. It is way cheaper at Walmart than at Kroger stores. It's like a dollar more than the small box for the huge family size box at Walmart. So I picked that up and then also for him he had asked for a refill on his Strydex pad. Light sour cream because we always have sour cream in our house and we have been using this on that Mexican casserole that I made in Wednesdays what I eat in a day so I restocked the sour cream. Scored on the 99% ground turkey. It was on sale for $4.81. There were two packages left so I picked them both up. I actually needed ground turkey for a recipe this week. I decided to try the Chobani Complete Vanilla. I haven't tried this one. I really like the strawberry and the banana one. I love having these on hand because they have 20 grams of protein and it's just a really easy way to get in protein especially on the go. And then I grabbed some more light mayo. I was shocked that this mayo was $5. I remember it being like two something or three something so I know everything went up but I was really surprised that that was $5. I needed some turkey breast for a recipe and the Hillshire farm was on sale at Walmart so I grabbed that. Two gallons of 1% milk for Troy and then lots more yogurt. So I did get one of the Oikos protein yogurt in mixed berry and then my favorite Oikos triple zeros are the banana and the lemon. So I did pick up one of each of those and then a couple of two good as well. This one is, this one's really good. This is the mango hibiscus and then I also grabbed the coconut. That way I have some yogurts on hand. I definitely want to buy them next time I go to Costco or Sam's Club because they're more affordable but this will definitely tide me over. So that is everything that I picked up for the week. Let's jump into what's for dinner and what you'll see in Monday's meal prep. Here's what's on my menu for dinners. Tonight, Saturday we are going out for dinner. Tomorrow I'm throwing a pot roast in the crock pot. Monday I'm going to be making a broccoli chicken Alfredo Bakes.  Tuesday's leftovers. Wednesday I'm doing chicken stuffed crescent rolls and then Thursday and Friday we do leftovers. That way we can eat up everything from earlier in the week. Apparently I wrote on my grocery list my meal prep. So this is supposed to say a hash brown casserole for breakfast, for lunch I'm doing kind of a meat rollup meal prep kind of bento box and then I am making turtle energy balls. So yeah, we wrote on the back of our grocery list instead of all three of these recipes in Monday's meal prep. Thank you for joining me for this week's grocery haul. I hope you enjoyed seeing everything I picked up from Sprout and Walmart for the week, what's on my menu for dinners and definitely stay tuned for Monday's meal prep. 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Welcome back. We have learned the principle of increase of entropy for any adiabatic process. In symbols it can be written down that for a small process, process element, process must be such that if it is adiabatic then the change in entropy must be greater than or equal to 0. Let us see the consequence of this, one consequence of this. Let us say that we have a system and I am sketching its state space say pv but could be any two properties x and y. Let us say that we have a state here and at that state the entropy is some S0 and we have not yet seen how to evaluate entropy, we will soon see how to do it but if we explore states around this, we will find that there is a locus of states which are all at the entropy S0. This is a locus of what is known as isentropic states, isobaric states are states which have the same pressure, isothermal states are states which have the same temperature. Similarly isentropic states are states which have the same entropy. Now this isentropic line at S equal to S0 sort of partitions the state space into two parts. One part where the entropy will be greater than S0 and another part is where the entropy is less than S0. And now according to this consequence of the second law if we execute an adiabatic process starting from this state say state 0 to begin with where we will reach the second law states that for an adiabatic process you must have a change in entropy which is greater than or equal to 0. Let us first look at greater than. So we may go to a state which has a higher entropy. So we can go here, here, here, here, anywhere. We can go anywhere in these directions and hence we have a zone here let us say and of course this is not the limit but even beyond this say this zone is the zone of states accessible or reachable from state 0 using some adiabatic process. However what about this zone? This zone the entropy is less than S0. So if you execute a process like this the change in entropy will be negative and second law forbids that and hence here we have the zone of states not reachable from state 0 using an adiabatic or using any adiabatic process and this precisely is the Karatheodori's form of the second law. For us it is not a primary form we started with the Kelvin-Planck statement of the second law as our basic statement and as a consequence one of the consequences was what Karatheodori proposed. Karatheodori turned it around he started with this statement as the basic statement of the second law of thermodynamics and derived everything else including the stuff which we have derived. Now in this limiting case it is possible that we want to remain exactly on this line the isentropic line in which case we will be executing a process which is adiabatic which is isentropic and because we will be satisfying this equality it will also be isentropic. So shown by green arrow what you see is a process which is all three together adiabatic isentropic as well as reversible. We will soon see the finer differences between these three adjectives. Thank you.


Family and friends of Funtō Gumo have gathered to celebrate the grand opening of a counseling centre in BIO, therapy and wellness. The opening aids to give options to a few of the government's therapy centres and provide mental wellness to Nigerians. Correspondent Paul George was there. It's a serene environment for wellness as guests arrive at intervals. The amiable and soft-spoken clinical and mental health therapist Funtō Ogumbawu welcomes them. She immediately takes them around the counseling rooms one after the other. With smiles on her face, she excitedly speaks of how the journey of saving lives all began. Guys, I think about you, the things that I enjoy doing, the things that I'm naturally get to act and it was talking to people. People would always come and talk to me, they would always come and share with me and so thankfully my parents are supportive and so when it came time to start school, I just decided to study psychology. So I have a bachelor's degree in psychology and communication and a master's degree in clinical mental health counseling. Had the opportunity to study abroad outside of Nigeria and I worked and practiced and when life was moving the direction of moving back to Lagos, it was only a matter of time before I started EBIO. So it's always been a long-time professional goal of mine to start my own private practice, my own therapy practice and I feel so blessed that it's a reality now. Exceeding passion for the job, Funtō enthusiastically talked about the challenge of Nigerians not visiting a clinical mental health centre. Attributing it to lack of awareness. I would say one of the biggest challenges is just having to educate people on the importance of it because there isn't a lot of information. A lot of people are gathering their information from maybe like media sources or myths and you know maybe stories that have been told to us about like mentally unstable people. So a big challenge is just getting to see people, having people to get to see the value in it. The founder and lead pastor of the love of God in Christ, the logic church, Dr. Flourish Peters welcomes the initiative, praising the therapist for thinking of Nigeria first. He spoke alongside his wife, Pastor Amaka, who shares the same sentiment. We need a lot of believers in this space who can give godly counsel and counsel for you know my bias, the influence of the Holy Spirit and so this is descent out here when she just moved here and I've seen significant improvement here. So there's the piece, I like the name BIO, it's what Afrocentric if I would say so myself and I like the meaning of the name and Funtou is a blessing to our nation, our community.  The blueprint that God has placed in her spirit of fine fulfillment in Jesus' name. Funtou is somebody that has a lot of wisdom and she has a calm spirit too and not judgmental. I think having this kind of space, a safe space where people can talk about things is doing a lot of good to our community. When people talk about mental health, what happens most time is that people bottle these things in but with a place like this, with a BIO wellness therapy place, somewhere like this will give people the opportunity to speak and I think it's actually amazing. It's not something that you find naturally in Nigeria because a lot of people don't want to expose themselves but it's very important for the wellness of people. The anconium continued as other guests who also spoke to plus theory Africa could not hide their joy of a new beginning. I've been in therapy for three years and I've seen the benefits of it for sure and I'm praying for the day when the world at large sees mental health on equal measure to physical health the same way we go to a doctor you know when we're unwell everybody needs an outlet when either you have a down day or there's something going on sometimes you think it's just in your head but they could actually be a serious problem you know so it's incredibly important particularly in Nigeria we have so many stresses so much more than the average person everywhere else in the world so what I'm talking about is incredible and when I heard about it I was so so excited. I think therapy is very important wherever you live in the world it's even more important because more important than Nigeria because Nigeria is general we go through a lot it's been a tough period for us even just economically and the first thing that affects your mental health so I think that doesn't get a lot of attention just because of our culture but it's important for us to grow out of that and start by visiting places like this. As Nigeria continues to grapple with the jack bar syndrome there is a glimmer of hope as Funto Ogumbangwu founder Ibiyao therapy and wellness still believes in the bright future of the country Paul George plus TV news. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates


Item number SCP-1132 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures Due to the high percentage of personnel affected by SCP-1132, the lack of evidence suggesting that SCP-1132 may have any negative side effects on the mental or physical welfare of such personnel. As well as having passed all memetic hazard screening and quarantine requirements, personnel affected by SCP-1132 are allowed to continue working unless deemed unstable or dangerous by psychiatric or medical staff. SCP-1132 affected personnel are to be reminded that their afflictions cannot be used as an excuse to disregard standard procedures or violate Foundation safety guidelines. Foundation personnel affected by SCP-1132 are strictly prohibited from arming and firing their instances of SCP-1132. Description SCP-1132 is an anomalous phenomenon that affects Foundation personnel, especially those involved in the transcription of documents or records. Personnel affected by SCP-1132 will develop a cranial growth over the course of their employment that will gradually form into a fully functional artillery cannon. The specific type of artillery formed by SCP-1132 varies from subject to subject. To date, no two instances have been precisely alike. Personnel affected by SCP-1132 also gain a tendency to argue extensively about the specific pros and cons of a particular instance. While this does not appear to be any kind of harmful compulsion or memetic effect, personnel are encouraged to minimize such interaction due to their negative impact on activity, and to remind that each individual's SCP-1132 instance is unique and perfectly acceptable as it is. Addendum 1132-01 Transcript of Surveillance Recording So, as I was saying, my head cannon is by far the longest and pretty much ought to be the gold standard of how these things should go. Oh please, the 1700s want their muzzle loaders back. Mine's a rifled piece of art. Or not, you'd be crazy to consider anything else standard. Are you kidding me? That's not even a head cannon. It's more like a head mortar.  It's still a cannon, whether you want to believe it or not, and I'm pretty sure most of the others would agree with me. It's not my fault most of you can't be asked to use rifling. It's not like it's been a thing since 1855. Come on guys, I'm trying to make a point here. Mine's still the longest, and while size isn't everything, it's pretty freakin' important, okay? Heh, that's what she said. Alright, whatever.  I know I'm right, and I don't need your approval when you guys can't even get your historical back straight. Who are you calling a loser, dipshit? Hey, there's no need to- Jesus Christ, he's armed! Following this incident, Dr. ██████ was placed on administrative leave for a period of no less than six months, pending a review from the Department of Professional Responsibility regarding his conduct in the aforementioned incident, as well as resorting to ad hominem.


Welcome everyone to class. This is our last class on Children's Ministry. So from Monday onwards, Pastor Vosin will begin taking classes on Youth Ministry. So today is our last class. Before we begin our class today, can one of you please lead us in prayer, please? Anyone? Yes, we can pray. Dear Evening Father, we thank you so much for this morning. Thank you. That you are continuing to guide us. We thank you Lord that you are continuing to guide us and you are allowing us to continue to know you. Dear Evening Father, as we prepare to learn and continue to understand on how the ministry to boys and girls, the ones that you love, and that you have given us, Lord, we pray that you will continue to give us more insights, to present to you our teacher that will give him the right to vocabulary and the methods that we will be able to learn. And in all, your name will be glorified when Jesus' name will be granted to you. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Charles. Sorry I couldn't hear you. Okay, so last week, sorry, last class, we were looking at how to narrate a story. And before that, we looked at the important things that we need to keep in mind while writing, you know, the main content of each lesson. So I just gave you some important points to keep in mind, which will help in writing the main content of a lesson. And then I began, you know, looking at how we can tell a story to the children because children love to listen to stories. And, you know, the way we tell them will always help capture their attention. So we said the beginning of the story is very, very important. And we looked at four main ways to begin a story and to understand how to narrate a story. We said we'll look at First Kings chapter 21 where King Ahab wanted a neighbor's vineyard. And so we looked at how we can start the story in four different ways. We said it can be a direct approach where you can start with the action of the story. And I said, what could be the action of the story? Or you can start with asking a question, is there something that you really like, really want? Something that you are anticipating, looking forward, desiring to have from a very long time. Or you can also begin with an exciting part of the story.  Or you can start with an illustration. And that's where I ended. I said that, you know, you could, you can use a small incident from everyday life but ensure that that is something that children will identify with, they will connect with. It's something that they are going through and also, you know, which will create a sense of curiosity, excitement and anticipation for them to listen to the rest of the narrative that you have for them, the biblical narrative. So then I just gave something very small about how two girls, you know, have a doll each but, you know, Susan had a latest doll and how Rita wanted it and how she longed for it even though she had her own doll, but how she longed for Susan's doll. So that you can narrate it for children in grade two, three, because, or younger than that because, you know, they love playing with dolls, but not for children grade of, you know, even foreign above. For children grade four and above are usually, you know, give them this real life example that happens. That's why I said, you know, when we are writing a lesson plan, it's good to prepare a week in advance so that, you know, if you read something in the newspaper, you come across it in the news, something that happened in your everyday life, something on the way to office, something in the mall, in the markets that you went to, you can use that as a real life example to illustrate, you know, what you are going to teach them. So when I narrate this narrative about King Ahab and Nabot, I used this real life example of an incident that happened in North India in one of the places and, you know, there was this very famous rich man who owns this, you know, business of making chips and, you know, these eats which come in tetrapacks and he has his company very close to the airport in one of the states in North India and just next to his property or his factory where all these chips and mixture and, you know, eats are, you know, produced and packaged. There is an empty plot of land, a good piece of land, and there we see only a tea stall vendor having his tea stall. I remember, you know, when I went to the city and I came out of the airport, I saw this place and I was quite amazed because, you know, in the state there is no piece of land that's available and here there is this empty plot of land. I remember seeing it and so that's why I was very curious to read about this in the newspaper. So the owner of this factory, you know, he sends his manager to find out who is the owner of this plot of land and then he comes to know it's the tea stall owner who is the owner of that piece of land and so he tells his manager, you know, you tell him that I will give him a good money for his land if he's willing to sell it and the tea stall owner says, refuses, he says no. You know, the manager kind of negotiated with him for a good higher price but he was not willing to even take that higher price. So he came back and told the owner, the owner told him, okay, tell him that I will give him a better piece of land in the heart of the city, you know, which he can buy and take in exchange for this. So the manager goes back and tells him and the tea stall owner refuses even that. So this man is so angry because, you know, he's gone to an extent where he's giving him a huge price for the land beyond the real estate, beyond what's the price. He's also willing to give him a plot of land in the heart of the city and this man is outrightly refusing and it was amazing to read because this man had the same thing that was in the Old Testament concept. He said, I got this piece of land from my forefathers. It's something that is, you know, belongs to the generations and because it is part of our forefathers piece of land, I can't sell it. I can't, sorry, I can't give it away. So, you know, the owner of this factory was so angry. He goes to the extent of, you know, plotting with his manager and, you know, killing this tea stall owner and he thought he's a rich man.  He thought he can get away with the murder. But, you know, he actually got that man, tea stall owner, killed, took that property, extended his factory. But the police, you know, when they investigated, they got up to the manager and the manager spilled the beans. He said everything and, you know, they caught hold of the owner and this man, who's a very famous man, his company is very famous throughout India, was put into J. So, you know, I just briefly, very briefly narrate this whole incident to children because they all know this company. It's called Haldiram's and all of these children, all of our children in India, they eat a lot of snacks from this company. So, and then, you know, you connect it with the Bible story, they'll be very interested to know. So, you know, you can bring about an illustration or you can even do an object lesson talking about greed. Remember, last class, last Wednesday, I spoke about greed. I used a tissue paper and I spoke about how, you know, when you put small droplets of water, which signifies things that we want, we can still use a tissue paper, but, you know, when we keep wanting it more and more and I just put a lot of water, it kind of tears the tissue paper and it's useless, it's worthless and it destroys the tissue paper and how greed can destroy our lives. So, you can start off with that object lesson as well. Okay, so the next thing is once you've done with the introduction, then you go on to the progression of events. It's very important that, you know, you run the story, not only in your mind, but write it down so that, you know, you children are able to connect from one point to another point. Sometimes what happens is, you know, we're so familiar with Bible narratives, we can miss out on a point and we can go back and say, hey, you know, before this happened, you know what, before Ehab went into Nabot's vineyard, you know what happened is the queen came to his room and then you can reach the son. Children will find it very difficult to connect. Adults, of course, for us, it's okay, but children are not adults, you know, their minds are not fully able to comprehend things. They need things to see things in logical progression of events. So it's important that you write down the whole narrative progression of events one after the other. So here we, you can see the progression of events. Ehab, Kovetz, Nabot's vineyard, Ehab asks Nabot for it, and Nabot refuses to sale or exchange Ehab's sulks, Jezebel intervenes, and then, you know, Jezebel writes letters to the heads in his village and Nabot is killed because he's charged of blasphemy, he's taken out and stoned.  And then God tells Elijah what King Ehab has done, tells him to go and meet King Ehab, who is in Nabot's vineyard, and he goes and, sorry, and he meets Elijah and he tells him, you know, what is going to happen. Now, so this is the progression of events, so you need to run it across in your mind. And even as you are narrating to them this progression of events, remember I said package it with learning in between, so just don't narrate the story and then come to the end and, you know, give them the learning. But, you know, like I said, package it in between the learning, what they need to learn, the truths that you want to tell them, the truths you want to communicate, theology you want to teach them, and also the learning and how they can apply. And after you narrate the whole sequence of events, the progression of events, you've taught them the truths, the theology, whatever, then we come to the next point is climax. Now, climax and conclusion are two different things, climax is not conclusion, and conclusion is not climax. So what do you think is the climax in this narrative in first Kings chapter 21? What do you think is the climax? Or what is climax? Before I ask you what is the climax in the story, basically climax is the high point of the story where all the events have now has led up to this point called climax. It's where the hero wins, the problem is solved, the mystery ends, or what the person wants, he receives it. So, you know, and it is actually bringing the children, the young ones to the peak of their interest, their curiosity, you're trying to satisfy their curiosity in climax.  So what is the climax in a neighbor's or in first Kings chapter 21? Yes, Rupa. Yes, go ahead Rupa. Maybe she's lost connection. Okay, anyone else will be wait for Rupa. Can anyone else tell me what you think is the climax? Yes, go ahead Rupa. If you're there, you can speak. I'm wrong, touch it, just touch that. Okay, okay, okay, fine. Okay, what's the climax in the story? Come on guys. Yes, Christopher. The climax would be probably like a dramatic conclusion, something that will, you know, make ma'am put together, you know, whatever the content of the lesson is, summarize it and then, you know, add sort of a final dramatic ending to it. So yeah, that's what a climax would be according to me. Yes, that is what climax is. So in this story, what is the climax? Yes, Charles. Thank you, Christopher. Oh, I, for my wife, going to talk about the, what the climax is, but now the question has changed. Okay. Yes, I said the climax, the high point of the story, all other events have led up to it. You know, it's where the hero wins, the problem is solved, the mystery ends, and it's where we're bringing up, tightening up the excitement of the kids, you know, satisfying their curiosity, just like even Christopher said. So, the climax is where Nabaut is killed and King Ahab gets the vineyard. Okay, that could be one of the climax. Thank you, Kung. Yes, climax is the culmination. Okay.  I was going to say when Ahab gets the land. Okay. King Ahab gets the land could be one of the climaxes. What is he, what can be the other climax? The other climax could be that, you know, God telling Elijah go and meet King Ahab and tell him that when Nabaut died, you will also just like the way he died, the dogs came and licked his wound, his blood, the same way you will die. And also the wicked queen, Jezebel. So that is a climax. So a story can have two or three different climaxes. So here we have two, one is, you know, the King Ahab get the land, they get the vineyard. Yes, he did get it. Another climax would also be that, you know, God's punishment or you could even stop with just the climax that he got the vineyard.  And you can talk about that for every greed or every sin that we commit, there is serious consequences. There is serious punishment that goes out and that, you know, God sees our sin and there is a punishment that we receive. So here the punishment is that just like Nabaut died, King Ahab and Queen Jezebel will die. So in some stories, which can be very long, the narratives are very long. There can be different climaxes in different parts of the story. So you can decide ahead of time where do you want to stop, you know, and what is the climax that you want to bring about. Okay. So I hope you understood what a climax is. And next after the climax comes the conclusion. So immediately after the climax is a conclusion. Now you need to give a careful thought about how you're going to finish the story. You know, it's important that you conclude the story in a nice way, not just ended with, hey, there was a punishment that Elijah came and gave, you know, God pronounced and Elijah came and told it to Ahab. But you need to tell the kids whether that came about, whether that was fulfilled. So that is the conclusion. So if you don't choose to say what Elijah came and met and told Ahab, you leave it.  But if you're talking about what Elijah told King Ahab, then you need to come to bring a conclusion about talking about, hey, did this really happen to, you know, King Ahab. So then the conclusion can be in this story, can be what happened to Ahab and Jezebel. That is a conclusion. So Ahab went out a battle. He disguised himself to the enemy as just a normal person and not as a king. And he was, you know, an arrow that struck him and he died and he fell down.  And sometime later, Jezebel was also thrown by the enemies from a high window just as God said would happen. And also the dogs came and licked her blood. So what is the use of Naboth's vineyard now? So that can be your conclusion because both of them are dead. You know, what is the use for their greed? Nothing came about it, their sin, nothing came about it. So you can say, you know, you're talking about sin, you're talking about greed. You can say that, you know, it has no everlasting or far-reaching consequence. You know, it doesn't bring joy, happiness or blessing, but it brings only a terrible consequences of the deeds or the sin that we have committed. Okay. So that can be the conclusion. So I hope now you understood what is the climax of the story and what is the conclusion. Okay. So now you've narrated the entire story. You've used, you know, you've done a good job. You've used various activities, object lessons. You've begun your story well. You've, you know, you tried to narrate the story and, you know, packages with truths, the theological truths that you have told them. You've also narrated the story using pictures or object lessons, you know, facial expressions, tone of voice. You've done all of those things and you're very happy. But you need to come to, now you come to the most important part of the story or the most important part of the lesson. And what is that? What is the most important part after climax and conclusion? What is the most important part? It's the moral of the story and application. Yes. Yes, it's the moral of the story or it's the application. So, you know, you need to help children how to apply the truth that you have taught them or the learning objectives that you had in mind. Remember, I said, every lesson we begin by writing the learning objectives, you know, how you are going to help them to apply those objectives in their everyday life. And your application should not be vague in the sense, okay children, so what did we learn from, you know, King Ahab's greed that greed destroys our lives.  So let's pray and ask God to help us to overcome greed. Now that is a very vague general kind of an application, but you need to get down to the specifics. You can say, you know, children, we saw how greed destroys our life. So I want you to take a minute or two to just write down which are the areas that you are very, you see yourself being very greedy. Okay, so get them to write down because different children have different areas where they are, you know, experiencing greed. So you can ask them to write it down and then you can ask them to write down. Okay, now since you've identified your area of greed, how are you going to overcome it? Now it's easy to say, let's just pray about it and God will give us the strength. Yes, that is the most important thing that we do. We tell them we pray about it, you pray about it, ask the Holy Spirit to help you, give you the grace and the strength. You can lead them to do that. But before that, how can you overcome this greed, some practical ways that they can do it? You know, so if they like to share it, then you can say, okay, how do we help Susan, you know, overcome her greed? Or how can we help Asha overcome her greed? Or how can we help Tom overcome his greed? So, you know, this is his area, so you can give various suggestions. And, you know, or you can give them various examples of how people have overcome greed in that area. And that becomes very practical for them. And so they know how specifically to go back and implement that, you know, and overcome greed in that area. Now, for another example, if you say, okay, today what did we learn? We learned about obedience and we know children that God wants us to obey him. Obedience is very important if we don't obey, you know, we don't receive his blessing and all of those things. But, you know, that's what children have heard, you know, day in and day out from their parents, even in Sunday school. But, you know, there can be specific areas where they are having a challenge to obey, you know. So where is your, you know, where do you find it challenging to obey? And who do you find it difficult to obey? Why do you find it difficult to obey them? What can you do? So, you know, just giving them practical tips would help children. Most of the time we have only a maximum of 8 to 10 children and then lesser than that. So it's easier for us to work with each child. And then, you know, the whole lesson becomes very relevant for them and how to apply things in their life. You are teaching them at a very young age, even when they go to a dark church and they're listening to a sermon and automatically their system is, you know, is just being taught how to put into practice, how to work on those areas, how to, you know, make it relevant in their lives. And so the word of God comes alive. It just helps them. It just becomes very relevant in their day-to-day situation. Yes, Charles? Thank you. I was, I wanted to add something about the application. Like you, when you have taught the lesson, sometimes you might be dealing with children that are already saved and you are doing a discipleship teaching where you might again weave the application. You have application one where you are identifying the program.  Like if it was a grid, you are talking about it. Then there somewhere towards the end, you can give another application where you are giving the practical helps on how to do it. For instance, you can say, whenever a grid comes to you, you can stop. During the week, stop. Remember the memory verse. You give them, like you can remind them to remember the memory verse. Since they will have written it down, then from there you can also tell them, if you have stopped, you have remembered the memory verse, say it to yourself and then from there you can again say, maybe you can again ask God to give you strength to overcome the grid. In that way, you will also tell them to thank God that he has given you the strength to overcome the grid. Such tips also really help when you have woven the applications in the lesson and then the final part would be giving the final application to help the child to grow in Christ. Thank you. Thank you, Christopher. Sorry. Thank you, Charles. Yes, I think sometimes what you said is very relevant and good, Charles, but sometimes making everything very spiritual can kind of put off children. It puts us off sometimes. Sometimes being more practical and relevant can really help. So for example, telling a child if the parent gets them chocolates or gets them in school, they get a chocolate or get two chocolates, they come back home, they're not eating that and they have two with them. They can be green enough to eat both of them. Or they can be willing to give one to their sibling or share it with their sibling. So at that time, the practical thing to tell the child is if you had two, what would you do? You would want to eat both of them, but what would God want us to do is to give one to your sister or to a friend or to the child you're playing with every day near your house.  Being greedy is you eating up everything. So in just very practical, simple ways, just teaching them how to do it so that it just becomes a lifestyle for them. Then of course, all of the others think of the memory verse, think about what God would do, think of how God would be pleased and all of that would come later, but then just getting it very practical basically helps children in the first go. And then of course, all the others follow. So then once you're done with the application, you can get down to teaching them the memory verse. Now memory verse is not just say, okay, today's memory verse is this and turn to the Bible and get them to read it and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it. But you can do it in a very creative way. You can get them to repeat it once or twice and then you can have a small soft ball or football and just take it and throw it and say, I'm going to throw this to one person. One person will say the first word or two words or three words in the memory verse. It's a big memory verse and then take that ball and throw it to the next person and the next person will say the next two words in the memory verse. So if you're saying, if you're teaching them John 316, then I can say, okay, today's memory verse is John 316 and I take the ball and throw it to one child and the child can say, begin by saying, for God so loved. Okay, for God so loved. Four words and then, you know, the next child, the child can throw it to the next person and the next child can say one word or three words or four words, whatever. And that becomes very interesting for children to learn memory verse. Sometimes you can just write the memory verse on the board, get them to repeat it twice. And then the third time, you know, erase one letter and just fill in the blank. So, you know, it just becomes very exciting for them or you can teach them memory verse through song, just put, you know, music to it and teach them. You can also teach them a memory verse through action.  So, basically, just for smaller children, you can teach them through action and, you know, the actions help them to remember. Remember, we said that children learn 90% by hearing, seeing and doing so even memory verse can help that ways. And then you can end, you know, the class in the word of prayer. Yeah, close with prayer. Basically, don't make your prayer very general. Thank you God for bringing us to Sunday school, for teaching us, help us to be like David, help us to be like Bartimius, help us not to be like King Ahab, you know, but, you know, make it more specific, you know, to saying Holy Spirit, we invite you to help us to overcome the spirit of greed. We just break the spirit of greed in Jesus' name over our lives and you can tell children to repeat that. So you're teaching them to pray powerful prayers, you know, how to pray, how to break strongholds. In Jesus' name, we ask your Holy Spirit to break the spirit of greed, break the spirit of disobedience.  So you're teaching them to pray meaningful prayer, powerful prayers, you know, which can have greater significance and eternal value and, you know, can help them know how to pray also in the future. Okay, so you can end with prayer and then, you know, make sure that, you know, you can also have a time of, if you have time, just question and answer. Of course, we did that in the lesson plan. We said, stop at various points, ask them so you know they have understood what you have learned. Don't wait till the end to ask them questions and then be disappointed. Hey, they haven't understood the main truth of the lesson I wanted to communicate. You know, do it at various points so that, you know, they, you can understand, you can reiterate and it will just help the children. Okay, so this is all about how to narrate a story and how to write a lesson plan. And this is the, you know, the end of the course. So anyone has any questions, anything that you'd like to ask or can ask? Anything? Any questions? No questions? Okay, if there are no questions, then just a reminder that today is your assessment one. Okay. You can, you know, I'll post it before 6 p.m. today and please ensure that you submit your assessments on Friday, end of day by 11.59 p.m. Okay. And when can we have the second assessment? When can we have the second assessment? Can you give us a date? Give me a date, please. Because 15th we have, that is the following Wednesday you have your first assessment on 1st Timothy. Do you want me to schedule your second assessment for Children's Ministry on 22nd of March? Is it too late or you want to have it earlier? First of all, please schedule the Children's Ministry one area because that's the most difficult one. Sorry, Mangi. Can you repeat that again, please? I'm saying please give us more time on the Children's Ministry one so schedule the area so that we can have time to work through it. Yes, so I'm giving you the assessment. Thank you, Mangi. The assessment is scheduled for today and you have to submit it on the 10th. So you have like almost two full days, two and a half days. The whole of 9th, whole of 10th and you know, almost half day today. So that is for your assessment one. Abhishek says, you know, you can have it next Monday which is 13th but if I'm giving it on 13th then it will clash with your 1st Timothy assessment on 15th. Is that okay? Or do you want me to keep it on the 22nd of March? 22nd of March is the Wednesday so you can submit it on 24th of March. Is that fine? This is the second assessment. This is the last assessment for Children's Ministry. Is that fine, everybody? 22nd March. Okay, thank you, Harrison. Okay, thank you, everyone. So your first assessment is today and your second assessment is on the 22nd. Is that enough time, Mangi? 22nd, 23rd, 24th, is that fine? Because that is what we decided earlier. Yes, Pastor, it is enough time. Okay, thank you, Mangi. And just as Christopher had requested, I have posted one or two lines for each video in the stream page. So all of the videos that are posted on the stream page will also have a small write-up of what was taught in that class. So you know which video is about what. Okay, 23rd, Mission Strip to Mangalore. All of you are going? Sorry? All of you are going. You're going on the 23rd. Okay, because the in-person students are going for the Mission Strip on the 23rd, so then we can't post it on the 22nd. Can we have it on the 28th? That is a Monday and then you can submit it on the 22nd. Is that fine? So you have two and a half days? Is that fine? Okay, thank you. Thank you, Pratik, for mentioning that. Okay, so your second assessment will be on the 20th. I'll release it on the 20th and then you can submit it on the 22nd. Okay, thank you everyone for joining the Children's Ministry class. I hope it has been of help and useful for all of you. Many of you, even though you are not going to be involved in Children's Ministry, but you will be pastors or maybe you have groups that you are leading families. You can also know how to cater to children, how to help them in your own area as a missionary or as an evangelist. You can also help build up Children's Ministry. You can teach this to people who are involved in Children's Ministry and it will benefit and help them. Okay, anything anyone likes to say before we end class? Yeah, I'd like to say thank you so much for teaching us for the last three years. In times we've been unrolling and you've been patient with us. Thank you so much, Pastor, we really appreciate it. You've input so much in us and we are not the same. We've been blessed. Thank you so much, Pastor. Thank you so much, Maggie. I wouldn't call you unruly. You all have been wonderful. Thank you. I've just been thinking about your whole burden of understanding predestination. So please listen to the sermons on Romans. If it's not available, let me know. I'll post it for you. You can listen to the sermons on... Sorry, the classes. Basically Romans chapter 9, 10, which talks about predestination, God's choice, choosing and how God has full knowledge but not predestines anyone to sin or to be confined to hell or to eternal death. So if you can't access those lecture videos, let me know, Maggie, on the stream page and I will have it accessible for you so that you can listen. That's very, very important for you to know and understand so it can benefit you because I think that's something that you're trying to grasp or hold off and understand. Yes, thank you, Charles. It says, it's been educated. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you, Asha. Thank you, Harrison. Yes. Yes, Rupa had something to say. A very big thank you, ma'am. Really learned so many things during this children's ministry, especially how to be focused and all those things which really helped me. Thank you. Please pray that we would put it into practice and raise up the children a generation who will really love the Lord. And thank you for the passion you have for the Lord and thank you for being a blessing to each one of us for the past three years. We want to bless you and may the Lord use you powerfully and fulfill all the purposes he has for you. Thank you, ma'am. God bless you. Thank you, Rupa. Receive everything. Thank you so much. Hey, guys, I'm still coming back to you on Monday to teach you for first Timothy, second Timothy, Titus and Philemon. I'm in a race to finish that. Yes, Christopher? Yeah, it's something I just realized that you are actually going to be doing the Timothy one. So, yeah. But anyway, thank you so much. There was just something I just realized and maybe I'm not sure if the question should be directed to you or to the administrative of Bible College. But I think if I remember correctly for the first year, we did not have recordings of the videos and it only stopped for us, at least for this batch, at least. And for us, it started only in the second year. So is there any way we can access the videos for the first year? I mean, first and second semester, which would obviously be for another batch so that we know we can have that as our reference to be accessed whenever we do require it. So just I'm not sure how this can be arranged, but it would be nice if you can have the first, our first year videos available or rather the first and second semester videos available. Yeah. Let me check on that and I'll post on the screen page if those are available and then how you can access it. I'll do that. Thank you, Rose. Yes, sure. We'll pray. Thank you Prabhakar as well. Yeah. Yes, hope to see all of you, at least in the classroom. I was just thinking, before we, before I end teaching TTP, that is first Timothy, Second Timothy, Titus and Philemon, I was just thinking when I come early to class, one of you can just put on your video so I can just get to see at least some of you on video because you're living different parts of the world, but just to see you interact with you because it's been three years. I don't even know your faces. It would just be nice to know you. So maybe on Monday, when I log in early, I can come in early. One or two of you can just come on, put on your videos. I just can look at your faces, your handsome faces, your beautiful faces, whoever it is, and then maybe just get to know you a little more and that will just, it'll be nice actually. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thank you everyone and have a blessed day and a blessed week ahead and I'll see you on Monday for our class on Second Timothy. God bless everyone. Thank you. Thank you so much for this. Thank you Prabhakar. Thank you.


Yeah, yeah, all right, so we have like I'm Paul Lewis you might have met me Paul Irish And we've talked we've been hearing a little bit about rail We just want to spend a moment to just like focus on it make sure it's all covered Yes, and just give the give the deep dive on it. Yeah, and I want to start off by just Discussing like performance in the way that we think about it like Oftentimes we consider as kind of this linear relationship between like the faster it is The better it is and this is you know generally true and there's a lot of academic research and a lot of like You know metrics and numbers from industry that validate this and say that yes actually conversion goes up revenue goes up All these things are great But we kind of think of it is like this like straight line right and I'm not really sure but like you know Because at certain points there's certain things, you know if you're on some experience and and it's just like terribly slow And you're like come on, you know you quit like I quit you quit It's just you have to right it gets a little bit better and then you're like, okay sure. Yeah, I'll put up with it Pass that even better and like yeah, I'm happy It's beautiful. It's smooth. It's chill But if we like look at it as like these like break it up into these quartiles, I guess Maybe the line is a little bit more like this it might be a little bit more like we start out and In the front actually, it's just like it's literally too slow like From from terrible to like pretty terrible. It's just still not really satisfying the user Up at the top, you know very high performance like changing the page load from I don't know from being a second long to being Like a half second long like both are pretty much great and it might be incredibly hard So the ROI of development there is that's important That middle area, this is like the sweet spot, right?  It's smooth. It's chill And I do feel like a lot of times like we kind of end up started, you know, we start here and We kind of want to figure out where it is that we go But we need to figure out like What what it is and right now, you know, this is the two slow thing. Yeah, which I think I mean Yeah, you want to get from too slow to where what do you call it chill chill? Yeah, it's a very you was a good thing It's a bit. Well, yeah, it is for you. Of course. Yeah.  I don't know doesn't feel good. So, um, I think the question Why I wanted to ask this like is 50 milliseconds too slow Just kind of have this question in your mind as we kind of go through it's like well 50 It is it is just what well, I guess I mean, you know what's coming up. So it's true True 50 milliseconds isn't too slow Well, look at it this way, right? If you're doing some page load like you're loading the Google store or something like that 50 milliseconds here is not a big deal, right? Because you know, it's probably gonna take a second or two There's a lot of stuff going on But let's say you are scrolling the store, right? 50 milliseconds here, you're gonna feel that a lot more you're much more likely to introduce jang Exactly well, let's say you're doing something with web GL. Oh, I know this is so pretty. Oh, yes Jame well done. Well done. Jame. It's good. It is one of the nicest things I've seen You know another 50 milliseconds here. You're gonna feel that one too, right?  I like it. Yeah, good. All right. I think that's kind of the way we've been thinking about this like performance Has had a lot of ambiguity and we felt it on the Chrome team We we've optimized, you know for things like benchmarks and Kraken and Jermeo and octane and that's cool at all but like Not really satisfied with that We were thinking about a better way of modeling this and kind of walked back to Google's principles The number one principle is like focus on the user and all else will follow anyway That makes sense seems like a good thing great thing like let's apply this to performance And so like we thought it might actually we could flip the question kind of on its head, right? Right, so instead of being kind of going what's slow or it's 50 millisecond slower or any of that kind of stuff instead of that why don't we say What does the user feel or as I like to put it how can we make performance user focused? And I think if we're talking about users we're talking about human beings and we have to start with human perception I think a lot of people Many of us have seen these numbers before They're about how delays are perceived so up to a hundred milliseconds. It just feels instant 100 to 300 there's a perceptible delay, but it's not too bad up to a second. You're still kind of Task-focused, but it's very perceptible now and then it kind of goes all the way up to 10 seconds where you just get and give up I give up.  I'm just gonna go and do something else And I guess there's probably one more number that we should kind of toss in the mix 60 FPS right or kind of the flip side is the 16 milliseconds per frame in order to achieve 60 It's just kind of like the jank thing that's been discussed So I'll add that into kind of the number mix Okay, so on the one hand is like this kind of theory I suppose And then on the other side you've actually got the reality of looking at a site and what goes into it So for example, let's say here I'm going to the Chrome Dev Summit website and I tap on it and I'm in the search So I tap on the site stuff and that's a load and we're loading the site and I maybe scroll a bit That's an animation fair enough. I'm gonna tap on the menu Loads me the data there. I like I do a bit of a fling yeah, and then We go into a section with Joffrey and then and then Owen. Yeah, yeah, you call him on whatever So we start to sort of see these atomic actions as you're going through as you're thinking about the things that you're building You kind of go. Yeah, that feels like these are the discrete discrete interactions that are actually happening So what we then need to do is tie those two things back together. We know how humans perceive Delays and and emotion and so forth and we know that we can break down our experiences into these Kind of book hits I suppose. Yeah, so the four that we have our response animation idle and load and Conveniently by the power vested in us by transitions So good so good feels great. Okay. I was I Really wanted like that Yeah, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I do I do love the flame one Yeah, like the classic, you know flamboyant So good. Anyway, so rail dive into those responses This is kind of the you tap on something and we bring something back on screen From the perception we know that it's something that feels instantaneous hundred milliseconds is gonna make it feel So then maybe that tapping on a button or tapping on a form control something in that kind of area We want that to feel instant to our users Next up animation. Well, we want these to feel smooth and consistent So this is you know animations like scrolling or transitions or gestures or those kind of things Humans are very good at noticing variation in frame rate not necessarily what the frame rate is But because the frame rate on the web is 60 frames a second That's what we aim for and we want consistency there more than anything. Yeah idols next Idol is you know, interesting. It's kind of like the absence of an interaction The user is not doing anything right now, but the thing is is they might be And the key thing here is this is a great time to do work But the user might start interacting at any time So you need to be available and responsive to that so that when they start to interact you are Giving a snappy response right back And so if you break up your work into 50 50 millisecond chunks You can basically guarantee that between you and the browser you're gonna do a good job of responding to that user when they start to engage The last one is load load I think is the one that we're all kind of most familiar with talking about it for years and load Firstly like getting the experience to the user delivering to them in about a second to keep that like seamless flow of thought really nice Is kind of what we're shooting for here. Yes so That's kind of like the numbers But we're developers and we need to kind of like make this both measurable and like quantitative things that we can discuss on our teams And just make it really action-focused So if we take that stuff and bring it blended in we're gonna kind of just walk through the specific items Right. So I said it's like the responses is buttons. It's Form controls. It's anything where you kind of changing state I suppose. Yeah, it's the opportunity to give the user some feedback. You want that to fill instant 100 milliseconds You could call this it's it's input Lindsay to exactly, right?  So 16 milliseconds An idle great time to schedule work chunk it into 50 milliseconds. It's right ready to do it and lastly load Deliver in one second but in addition to that and probably the trickier part is Continuing to satisfy these response goals and stay responsive to the user during that load You know during a page load a lot of things happening job script running all over It's just like a circus and cacophony of things happening on a single thread And it's a little tricky to actually continue to satisfy like responding to the user when they start to engage And they want to engage like they do they're just there's a thing Up we go The it's good for us to see kind of goals and and so on but the important thing that We want to reiterate about rail at this point is Essentially that it puts the user right back in the center of the performance story the technology and the technical decisions They will come as as part and parcel of that but putting the user in the center is exactly right because that's exactly Where we think they should be yep. Thank you


If we could save two million fish, I'm there. Hi, I'm Chantel, and I'm working with Gitsen, and this is my mom. My name is Millie, and I'm working with Gitsen. I'm from Babine Lake, the heart of Babine Lake. And we're a mother and daughter team. Love you guys. It's very friendly here, and lots of people are working together. We're all working together and trying hard. Yeah, we've got everybody in all nation. That's awesome. It feels good. All corners of the world, it's awesome to meet all different kinds of people. And we all have our own lingo and our own dialect. But it's cool. It's nice to come out and get to feel how it is to work with all sorts of people.


We continue today with chapter 17. The two pictures. God established His relationship with you to make you happy, and nothing you do that does not share His purpose can be real. The purpose God ascribed to anything is its only function. Because of His reason for creating His relationship with you, the function of relationships became forever to make happy. And nothing else. To fulfill this function you relate to your creations as God to His. For nothing God created is apart from happiness. And nothing God created but would extend happiness as it's created. Whatever does not fulfill this function cannot be real. In this world it is impossible to create. Yet it is possible to make happy. I have said repeatedly that the Holy Spirit would not deprive you of your special relationships, but would transform them. And all that is meant by that, is that He will restore to them the function given them by God. The function you have given them is clearly not to make happy. But the Holy relationship shares God's purpose rather than aiming to make a substitute for it. Every special relationship you have made is a substitute for God's will. And glorifies yours instead of His because of the illusion that they are different. You have made very real relationships even in this world. Yet you do not recognize them because you have raised their substitutes to such predominance when truth calls to you as it does constantly. You answer with a substitute. Every special relationship you have made has, as its fundamental purpose, the aim of occupying your mind so completely that you will not hear the call of truth. In a sense, the special relationship was the ego's answer to the creation of the Holy Spirit who was God's answer to the separation. For although the ego did not understand what had been created, it was aware of threat. The whole defense system the ego evolved to protect the separation from the Holy Spirit was in response to the gift with which God blessed it and by His blessing enabled it to be healed. This blessing holds within itself the truth about everything. And the truth is that the Holy Spirit is in close relationship with you because in Him is your relationship with God restored to you. The relationship with Him has never been broken because the Holy Spirit has not been separate from anyone since the separation. And through Him have all your holy relationships been carefully preserved to serve God's purpose for you. The ego is alert to threat and the part of your mind into which the ego was accepted is very anxious to preserve its reason as it sees it. It does not realize that it is totally insane and you must realize just what this means if you would be restored to sanity. The insane protect their thought systems but they do so insanely and all their defenses are as insane as what they are supposed to protect. Separation has nothing in it, no part, no quote reason and no attribute that is not insane. And its quote protection is part of it as insane as the whole. The special relationship which is its chief defense must therefore be insane. You have but little difficulty now in realizing that the thought system the special relationship protects is but a system of delusions. You recognize at least in general terms that the ego is insane yet the special relationship still seems to you somehow to be quote different. Yet we have looked at it far closer than we have at many other aspects of the ego's thought system that you have been willing to let go. While this one remains you will not let the others go for this one is not different. Retain this one and you have retained the whole. It is essential to realize that all defenses do what they would defend. The underlying basis for their effectiveness is that they offer what they defend. What they defend is placed in them for safe keeping and as they operate they bring it to you. Every defense operates by giving gifts and the gift is always a miniature of the thought system the defense protects set in a golden frame. The frame is very elaborate all set with jewels and deeply carved and polished. This is to be a value in itself and to divert your attention from what it encloses but the frame without the picture you cannot have. Defenses operate to make you think you can. The special relationship has the most imposing and deceptive frame of all the defenses the ego uses. Its thought system is offered here surrounded by a frame so heavy and so elaborate that the picture is almost obliterated by its imposing structure. Into the frame are woven all sorts of fanciful and fragmented illusions of love set with dreams of sacrifice and self-aggrandizement and interlaced with gilded threads of self-destruction. The glitter of blood shines like rubies and the tears are faceted like diamonds and gleam in the dim light in which the offering is made. Look at the picture. Do not let the frame distract you. This gift is given you for your damnation and if you take it you will believe you are damned. You cannot have the frame without the picture. What you value is the frame for there you see no conflict yet the frame is only the wrapping for the gift of conflict. The frame is not the gift. Be not deceived by the most superficial aspects of this thought system for these aspects enclose the whole, complete in every aspect. Death lies in this glittering gift. Let not your gaze dwell on the hypnotic gleaming of the frame.  That is why the holy instant is so important in the defense of truth. The truth itself needs no defense but you do need defense against your acceptance of the gift of death. When you who are truth accept an idea so dangerous to truth you threaten truth with destruction and your defense must now be undertaken to keep truth whole. The power of heaven, the love of God, the tears of Christ and the joy of his eternal spirit are marshaled to defend you from your own attack. For you attack them being part of them and they must save you for they love themselves. The holy instant is a miniature of heaven sent you from heaven. It is a picture to set in a frame. Yet if you accept this gift you will not see the frame at all because the gifts can only be accepted through your willingness to focus all your attention on the picture. The holy instant is a miniature of eternity. It is a picture of timelessness set in a frame of time. If you focus on this picture you will realize that it was only the frame that made you think it was a picture. Without the frame the picture is seen as what it represents for as the whole thought system of the ego lies in its gifts so the whole of heaven lies in this instant borrowed from eternity and set in time for you. Two gifts are offered you. Each is complete and cannot be partially accepted. Each is a picture of all that you can have seen very differently. You cannot compare their value by comparing a picture to a frame. It must be the pictures only that you compare or the comparison is holy without meaning. Remember that it is the picture that is the gift and only on this basis are you really free to choose. Look at the pictures, both of them. One is a tiny picture, hard to see at all beneath the heavy shadows of its enormous and disproportionate enclosure. The other is a lightly framed and hung in light. Lovely to look upon for what it is. You who have tried so hard and are still trying to fit the better picture into the wrong frame and so combine what cannot be combined, accept this and be glad. These pictures are each framed perfectly for what they represent. One is framed to be out of focus and not seen. The other is framed for perfect clarity. The picture of darkness and of death grows less convincing as you search it out amid its wrappings. As each senseless stone that seems to shine from the frame in darkness is exposed to light, it becomes dull and lifeless and ceases to distract you from the picture. And finally you look upon the picture itself, seeing at last that unprotected by the frame, it has no meaning. The dark picture is lightly framed for time cannot contain eternity. There is no distraction here. The picture of heaven and eternity grows more convincing as you look at it. And now by real comparison, a transformation of both pictures can at least last occur. And each is given its rightful place when both are seen in relation to each other. The dark picture brought to light is not perceived as fearful, but the fact that it is just a picture is brought home at last. And what you see there you will recognize as what it is, a picture of what you thought was real and nothing more. For beyond this picture you will see nothing. The picture of light in clear-cut and unmistakable contrast is transformed into what lies beyond the picture. As you look on this you realize that it is not a picture, but a reality. This is no figured representation of a thought system, but the thought itself. What it represents is here. The frame fades gently and God rises to your remembrance, offering you the whole of creation in exchange for your little picture, wholly without value and entirely deprived of meaning. As God ascends into his rightful place and you to yours, you will experience again the meaning of relationship and know it to be true. Let us ascend in peace together to the Father by giving him ascendance in our minds. We will gain everything by giving him the power and the glory and keeping no illusions of where they are. They are in us through his ascendance. What he has given is his. It shines in every part of him as in the whole. The whole reality of your relationship with him lies in our relationship to one another. The Holy Instance shines alike on all relationships, for in it they are one. For here is only healing, already complete and perfect. For here is God, and where he is, only the perfect and complete can be. And from the workbook, Lesson 136. Sickness is a defense against the truth. No one can heal unless he understands what the purpose of sickness seems to serve. For then he understands as well its purpose has no meaning. Being causeless and without a meaningful intent of any kind, it cannot be at all. When this is seen, healing is automatic. It dispels the meaningless illusion by the same approach that carries all of them to truth and merely leaves them there to disappear. Sickness is not an accident. Like all defenses, it is an insane device for self-deception. And like all the rest, its purpose is to hide reality, attack it, change it, render it, inept, distort it, twist it, or reduce it to a little pile of unassembled parts. The aim of all defenses is to keep the truth from being whole. The parts are seen as if each one were whole within itself. All defenses are not unintentional, nor are they made without awareness. They are secret magic wands you wave when truth appears to threaten what you would believe. They seem to be unconscious, but because of the rapidity with which you choose to use them. In that second, even less, in which the choice is made, you recognize exactly what you would attempt to do, and then proceed to think that it is done. Who but yourself evaluates a threat, decides escape is necessary, and sets up a series of defenses to reduce the threat that has been judged as real. All this cannot be done consciously. But afterwards, your plan requires that you must forget you made it, so it seems to be external to your own intent. A happening beyond your state of mind, an outcome with a real effect on you, instead of one affected by yourself. It is this quick forgetting of the part you play in making your quote reality that makes defenses seem to be beyond your own control. But what you have forgot can be remembered, given willingness to reconsider the decision which is doubly shielded by oblivion. Your not remembering is but the sign that this decision still remains in force, as far as your desires are concerned. Mistake not this for fact. Defenses must make facts unrecognizable. They aim at doing this, and it is this they do. Every defense takes fragments of the whole, assembles them without regard to all their true relationships, and thus constructs illusions of the whole that is not there. It is this process that imposes threat, and not whatever outcome may result. When parts are rested from the whole and seen as separate and whole within themselves, they become symbols standing for attack upon the whole, successful in effect and never to be seen as whole again. And yet you have forgotten that they stand but for your own decision of what should be real to take the place of what is real. Sickness is a decision. It is not a thing that happens to you quite unsought, which makes you weak and brings you suffering.   How do you think that sickness can succeed in shielding you from truth? Because it proves the body is not separate from you, and so you must be separate from the truth. You suffer pain because the body does, and in this pain you are made one with it. Thus is your, quote, true identity preserved, and the strange, haunting thoughts that you might be something beyond this little pile of dust, silenced and stilled.  Thus is the body stronger than the truth, which asks you live but cannot overcome your choice to die. And so the body is more powerful than everlasting life, heaven more frail than hell, and God's design for salvation of His Son, opposed by a decision stronger than His will. His Son is dust, the Father incomplete, and chaos sits in triumph on His throne. Such is your planning for your own defense, and you believe that heaven quails for such mad attacks as these, with God made blind by your illusions, truth turned into lies, and all the universe made slave to laws which your defenses would impose on it. Yet who believes illusions but the one who made them up? Who else can see them and react to them as if they were true? God knows not of your plans to change His will. The universe remains unheating of the laws which you thought to govern it, and heaven has not bowed to hell nor life to death. You can but choose to think you die or suffer sickness or distort the truth in any way. What is created is apart from all of this. Defenses are plans to defeat what cannot be attacked. What is unalterable cannot change, and what is wholly sinless cannot sin. Such is the simple truth. It does not make appeal to might nor triumph. It does not command obedience nor seek to prove how pitiful and futile your attempts to plan defenses that would alter it. Truth merely wants to give you happiness for such its purposes. Perhaps it sighs a little when you throw away its gifts, and yet it knows with perfect certainty that what God wills for you must be received. It is this fact that demonstrates that time is an illusion. For time lets you think what God has given you is not the truth right now, as it must be. The thoughts of God are quite apart from time. For time is but another meaningless defense you made against the truth. Yet what He wills is here, and you remain as He created you. Truth has a power far beyond defense, for no illusions can remain where truth has been allowed to enter. And it comes to any mind that would lay down its arms and cease to play with folly. It is found at any time, today, if you will choose to practice giving welcome to the truth. This is our aim today, and we will give a quarter of an hour twice to ask the truth to come to us and set us free. And truth will come, for it has never been apart from us. It merely waits for just this invitation which we give today. We introduce it with a healing prayer to help us rise above defensiveness that truth be as it has always been. Sickness is a defense against the truth. I will accept the truth of what I am and let my mind be wholly healed today. Healing will flash across your open mind as peace and truth arise to take the place of war and vain imaginings. There will be no dark corner sickness can conceal and keep defended from the light of truth. There will be no dim figures from your dreams or their obscure and meaningless pursuits with double purposes and samely thought remaining in your mind. It will be healed of all the sickly wishes that tried to authorize the body to obey. Now is the body healed because the source of sickness has been opened to relief. And you will recognize you practiced well by this. The body should not feel at all. If you have been successful, there will be no sense of feeling ill or feeling well, of pain or pleasure. No response at all is in the mind to what the body does. Its usefulness remains and nothing more. Perhaps you do not realize that this removes the limits you had placed upon the body by the purposes you gave to it. As these are laid aside, the strength the body has will always be enough to serve all truly useful purposes. The body's health is fully guaranteed because it is not limited by time, by weather or fatigue, by food and drink or any laws you made it serve before. You need do nothing now to make it well for sickness has become impossible. Yet this protection needs to be preserved by careful watching. If you let your mind harbor attack thoughts, yield to judgment or make plans against uncertainties to come, you have again misplaced yourself and made a bodily identity which will attack the body for the mind is sick. Give instant remedy should this occur by not allowing your defensiveness to hurt you longer. Do not be confused about what must be healed but tell yourself, I have forgotten what I really am for I mistook my body for myself. Sickness is a defense against the truth but I am not a body and my mind cannot attack so I cannot be sick.


women, for instance, understand that they grasp it more even when I take them into training and I have them go into certain chances to have the elder women from the old world of Panjia come through. It's easier for them to access these spirits than I've noticed with men because they don't want to get into that feminine place that you have to get to to access that doorway.


Welcome! My name is Benjamin Kogan. I'm running for County Supervisor District 1. We need to re-evaluate the 5G cellular infrastructures with the radiation it puts out, which hasn't been significantly tested for health or safety. It is also being protested in many other parts of the world for this reason. I am your People's Person, your Freedom Possibility Candidate, your local representation first. I see AMBAG, the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments, working to map out and plan our future by affecting our local policy. Unbeknownst to many, the United Nations plays a big factor in the shaping of our lives with the control over local policy. Some may know this to be Agenda 21 or Agenda 2030. I am for transparent local government of, by and for the people. I also see our air quality is in jeopardy by way of geoengineering. Geoengineering is a science that affects our weather, again without adequate health or environmental impact studies. I ran four years ago to represent the people of Santa Cruz and at that time one of my main concerns was SB 277. I am opposed to mandatory vaccines, just like I am opposed to mandatory apple pie. Our freedom is something I am very passionate about. It would be an honor to serve, represent you and protect the Constitution and the people of Santa Cruz. On March 3rd, I appreciate your vote.