Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM Family,

I come to you today with a grateful heart for all the Lord is doing!!! Let us all go forward today with the love and strength of Jesus Christ!

Prayer taps the fountain of divine life and energy!

We are telling you about what we ourselves have actually seen and heard, so that you may have fellowship with us. 1 John 1:3

Welcome to fellowship here at KKIM and Dewey's Daily Cup! Glad to have you!



As the country centers on the bail out and debate...........let us not forget the folks in Texas........Pat Outlaw asks for prayers..........Get a load of this..........this was nice to hear......Canada is in Texas helping us!!!!!! PRAISE GOD!!! Let us not forget these folks...........


DEWEY-

. MY HEART ACHES FOR OUR PEOPLE ON OUR TEXAS COAST AND IN SOUTH-EAST TEXAS. SO MANY HAVE LOSS EVERYTHING THEY HAD. I ASK FOR PRAYERS FOR THEM AND ALSO FOR THE ONES CLEANING UP THE MESS AND TRYING TO PUT IT BACK TOGETHER. PRAY FOR THE UTILITY WORKERS . THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL ACCIDENTS SO FAR AND IT IS A LONG WAY FROM BEING OVER. THESE MEN AND WOMEN ARE WORKING FROM SUNUP TO SUN DOWN, SLEEPING ON COTS AND UNDER TENTS. THEY ARE COMMITED TO NOTHING BUT "GET THE JUICE BACK ON".

MY SON SAW A CONVOY OF CANADIAN TRUCKS AND THEIR LINEMAN ON INTERSTATE 45 FLYING THEIR CANADIAN FLAGS ON THE TOPS OF THEIR TRUCKS. WORKERS ARE DOWN THERE FROM EVERYWHERE.

I THANK YOU AND AS GOD'S BLESSINGS ON YOU AND YOUR OUTREACH. Pat

Please pass this prayer request along................You can also go to www.mykkim.com and find out how you can donate to Billy Graham's efforts to help the people in this area.

Also please pray for Gilbert and Caralee Larson as they have a bad virus that has really hit them. Our prayers are with them.

Please pray for my 93 year old Uncle Joe as last night when we were talking about our WINNING FIRST PLACE MINNESOTA TWINS he had his legs up on a chair as his right leg is twice the size as his other leg. Please pray that the swelling goes down.

Please pray for Steve as he continues to undergo counseling for his anger issues.

Please pray for our own Frank Haley who is going to undergo hip replacement in a few weeks......keep Frank in your prayers.

Yesterday I posted some thoughts on the bail out. What would this bail out mean for you and me? I believe that God will be glorified through this hardship........My prayer is that many will turn their lives over to him. We all need to bail out to God........give up the flesh and walk with our Lord!!! The United States has built it's financial house on sand.......we all know what the Bible says about that. here are some of your comments.............


Just what I needed. Thank you Dewey.


Janice E. Arnold-Jones
Representative, House District 24

SO VERY TRUE, DEWEY-AND SO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN! I THANK YOU FOR GIVING THIS TO ME TO START MY DAY! P.

Dewey, good thoughts and point of view, and well said.
Michael


extremely well said Mr Dewey....thank you......

Joe Rowe


Thank you for your emails and phone calls! They help us to keep going in the Lord!

Now our dear friend Nic takes over, he sent in the following..................

"I sleep, but my heart waketh."
-- Song of Solomon 5:2

Paradoxes abound in Christian experience, and here is one-the spouse
was asleep, and yet she was awake. He only can read the believer's
riddle who has ploughed with the heifer of his experience. The two
points in this evening's text are-a mournful sleepiness and a hopeful
wakefulness. I sleep. Through sin that dwelleth in us we may become lax
in holy duties, slothful in religious exercises, dull in spiritual
joys, and altogether supine and careless. This is a shameful state for
one in whom the quickening Spirit dwells; and it is dangerous to the
highest degree. Even wise virgins sometimes slumber, but it is high
time for all to shake off the bands of sloth.

It is to be feared that many believers lose their strength as Samson lost his locks, while
sleeping on the lap of carnal security. With a perishing world around
us, to sleep is cruel; with eternity so near at hand, it is madness.
Yet we are none of us so much awake as we should be; a few
thunder-claps would do us all good, and it may be, unless we soon
bestir ourselves, we shall have them in the form of war, or pestilence,
or personal bereavements and losses. O that we may leave for ever the
couch of fleshly ease, and go forth with flaming torches to meet the
coming Bridegroom! My heart waketh. This is a happy sign. Life is not
extinct, though sadly smothered.

When our renewed heart struggles against our natural heaviness, we should
be grateful to sovereign grace for keeping a little vitality within the body of this death.
Jesus will hear our hearts, will help our hearts, will visit our hearts; for the
voice of the wakeful heart is really the voice of our Beloved, saying,

"Open to me." Holy zeal will surely unbar the door.
"Oh lovely attitude! He stands
With melting heart and laden hands;
My soul forsakes her every sin;
And lets the heavenly stranger in."




Ten Commandments of Human Relations
by Rubel Shelly

The fundamental issue in human ethical behavior is summarized by Jesus
in what we have come to call "The Golden Rule." Jesus put it this way:
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you,
for this sums up the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 7:12 TNIV).
It asks us to test our treatment of others by putting ourselves in
their place. Treat others the way you would want them to treat you in
the same or similar circumstance.
Somebody took that principle and translated it into Ten Commandments of
Human Relations. You may have seen this anonymous piece, for it
circulates in a variety of settings. In case you have missed it, I am
reproducing it here.
1. Speak to people. There is nothing as nice as a cheerful word of
greeting.

2. Smile at people. It takes 72 muscles to frown, only 14 to smile.

3. Call people by name. It is music to anyone's ears to hear the
sound of his or her name.

4. Be friendly and helpful.

5. Be cordial. Speak and act as if everything you do is genuinely a
pleasure. If it isn't, learn to make it so.

6. Be genuinely interested in people. You can like almost anyone, if
you try.

7. Be generous with praise, cautious with criticism.

8. Be considerate of the feelings of others. There are usually three
sides to a controversy -- yours, the other fellow's, and the
correct one.

9. Be alert to serve. What counts most in life is what you do for
others.

10. Live with a good sense of humor, a generous dose of patience, and
a dash of humility appropriate to being human.

Made in God's image, all of us have something to be valued!
The great challenge in human experience is not work skills, but people
skills. That is, research has shown that the majority of people who
fail in their vocation do so because they cannot get along with people.
You might think through the meaning of these ten common-sense ideas for
your own workplace and personal activity. But what about the larger
setting for your daily life? These principles work everywhere you go,
for they are about showing respect to the people you meet in all those
places.

Made in God's image, all of us have something to be valued, affirmed,
and acknowledged by others. But let it begin with us to acknowledge it
in them. As the cycle of giving and receiving enlarges, the human
community comes alive


Good write up on health................

Doctor preaches wonder cure: Vitamin D
By JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY, Star Tribune
September 21, 2008
The young man was back in the hospital again. Flare-ups from his sickle-cell disease have put him there repeatedly over the years, and he’s only 25.

This time, though, something was different. Sunlight streamed across his bed as Dr. Greg Plotnikoff held his hand and gently asked if the new pills were working.
“I’m feeling stronger,” the patient said, nodding eagerly.

It wasn’t the newest pharmaceutical that brightened the young African immigrant’s eyes with hope. It was what Plotnikoff heralds as the single most cost-effective medical intervention in America today: Good old-fashioned vitamin D.

There is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency, especially among the obese, the elderly and dark-skinned people living in the sun-deprived north. In fact, most Minnesotans are likely deficient in winter, unless they take supplements, because they live too far north to get enough vitamin D from the sun.
Deficiencies have been linked to 17 kinds of cancer, autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, heart disease, depression and ADHD. In fact, there is almost nothing t hat vitamin D can’t help, and that’s Plotnikoff’s point. It reduces death. It reduces pain. It reduces illness. And it’s free from the sun.

If vitamin D is the nutrient of the decade, Plotnikoff is one of its most passionate evangelists. He is the new medical director of the Institute for Health and Healing, the integrative medical clinic at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.
Plotnikoff says he is obsessed with vitamin D. But his passion is really about something much more profound for doctors, patients and a public overwhelmed by the cost of illness and a dysfunctional health care system. Sometimes it’s the little things like vitamin D, he says, that can make a huge difference in the nation’s health.

“He’s not selling something,” said his friend and colleague, Dr. Paul Goering, a psychiatrist at United Hospital in St. Paul. “He’s trying to inspire how you make change. And that’s much more exciting than this hopeless thing of health care is too costly and we can’t afford it.”

A new approach

Plotnikoff, 47, is an unassuming evangelist for public health. Usually wearing a dark blue suit and striped tie, he sometimes puts his palms together and bows slightly, a gracious habit learned during four years of studying herbal medicine in Japan.
He admits he sees every patient through the prism of vitamin D. In August, for example, he met with Kari Helling and her doctors. She was=2 0in the hospital for an inflammatory bowel disease — also linked to vitamin D deficiency. He suggested they test her level. When it came back low, he advised prescribing 4,000 International Units per day.

“It was very interesting to be in a room with very pragmatic surgeons who think a colon is a colon,” Helling said. “When he raised the issue of vitamin D, it kind of fell flat.”
In the end, her doctor gave her far less than Plotnikoff recommended, she said. But she’s been taking 2,000 units a day on her own — far more than the 400 units that has been the standard for decades.

A note of caution: It is extremely difficult, but not impossible, to take too much vitamin D, experts say. Adults would have to consume 2,000 units or more a day for a long time. But too much could trigger too much calcium absorption, causing kidney stones.
Far more likely is the possibility of deficiency.
“The majority of physicians still believe that in the 21st century, Americans could not possibly be vitamin D deficient,” Plotnikoff said. “We are an advanced society. No one could be deficient.”

Plotnikoff looks for every opportunity to spread his message. He gives talks about vitamin D at community meetings, medical conferences, on TV and the radio.
His own eureka moment with vitamin D occurred in the late 1990s when he was a primary care doctor at the University of Minnesota’s community clinic. His p atients were mostly poor, many immigrants with darker skin from countries where the sun shines a lot more than it does in Minnesota.

“I was frustrated by their chronic pain, goofy chronic pain that was disabling people,” he said. He would prescribe treatments that didn’t work very well or that his patients couldn’t afford.

“To be a good doctor you have to go beyond medical training and find the answer,” said Plotnikoff, who went to divinity school before he went to medical school at the U.

He came across an article that said that immigrant women were frequently vitamin D deficient. He measured it in 150 of his own patients who complained of pain.
“I was shocked,” Plotnikoff said. “Ninety-three percent were vitamin D deficient. Five people had unmeasurable levels. One woman came to him with six pages of complaints — everything from “squishy” headaches to throbbing gums. Six months after he prescribed supplements “they had all cleared,” he said. “She had her life back.”

He wrote up his findings for a small medical journal and left for Japan. His article, published in 2003 in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, caused a bit of a stir in medical circles. It was the first in the United States to connect vitamin D deficiency to chronic pain in a wide range of patients. In the four years he spent in Japan, he received e-mails about it from around the world every week.

By the time he returned last year, vitamin D had become the “it” vitamin. Study after study connected deficiencies to everything from multiple sclerosis and diabetes to cancer and heart disease. Last month, the American Medical Association urged the Food and Drug Administration to up its dietary recommendation of 400 International Units per day.

Nutrient from the sun

For decades, Vitamin D was valued primarily for its ability to help the body absorb calcium for strong bones — hence its addition to milk. But it’s now understood that its job is much bigger.

It regulates hundreds of genes, especially those associated with cell growth. That’s why, researchers believe, it reduces cancer, slows cell death and regulates immune cells. Almost every living thing on Earth depends on it.

But unlike other vitamins that come from food, vitamin D comes primarily from the sun. UVB rays are absorbed by melanin in the skin. People with darker skin are less able to absorb vitamin D, so when Africans move north, for example, they are at far greater risk of deficiency. Plotnikoff’s patient with sickle-cell had almost no measurable levels of vitamin D in his blood.

The vitamin D epidemic has evolved largely because we now spend far more time inside than outside. When we do go outside, we often cover up or use sunscreen. It is, sadly, “an indictment of our way of life,” Plotnikoff said. But this epidemic has a cheap and breathtakingly simple solution — awareness, for starters.
Plotnikoff urges “safe sunning,” which means no burning. In winter, when no one who lives in Minnesota can get enough from the sun, most everyone should take supplements. To be sure you’re getting enough, he said, ask your doctor to do a blood test.
The payoff, he believes, is much bigger than ending an epidemic. It’s a bridge to a different medical philosophy altogether, one that embraces health, not disease, and the patient, not the treatment.
“This is what gets me going,” he said. “It does not require physician expertise. True primary care is self care.”
Josephine Marcotty • 612 673 7394

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