All Things Supercinski

My doctor suggested I have my blood drawn and cholesterol checked, mainly as a precaution due to a history of hypertension in my family and that my blood pressure on that day was in the normal range, but closer to the higher end of the range. I received the results today, and you can all be calm. All the levels are well below what is recommended and the final verdict is that all my results are “normal or acceptable for you”. It’s amazing they knew what was acceptable to me.

On a related note, we had an excellent, healthy meal on Monday evening. And yes, our house is black and white, but the food is in color…

News Flash - Many of our fellow Americans don’t know world history or much of anything else about the world. This article, “Nazi Pope”, reports on some of the astounding reactions some Americans have had to Pope Benedict XVI.

Last week, we watched the movie Hotel Rwanda from the safety and comfort of our own bed. The movie documents the horror of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 while also portraying a story of hope through telling of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed and protected over a thousand Tutsis during the massacres. This movie is a must-see as it tastefully presents what happened without overwhelming you with too much gore. After we finished watching the movie, it was about midnight so we went to bed. I had difficulting falling asleep because I kept having to remind myself that while the movie was true and it did happen, it wasn’t happening at that moment, in my backyard or the city I live in.

This thought process is frustrating. How can I become so overwhelmed and moved by what I see, but then the next morning, its Saturday donuts and fun? This reminds me of a wonderful book: Good News about Injustice by Gary Haugen, who works for the International Justice Commission. Haugen investigated the Rwandan genocide for the U.N. by digging-up mass graves and interviewing survivors. His book gives practical advice about how to take atrocities we see on the news and not forget them as soon as we turn the page, how to see injustice biblically, and what to do when we see it. In discussing the investigation of the mass graves, he says that he was doing his job, looking at them as just masses of body parts, but that, “in truth each body, now dull and limp in the mud, was actually a unique bearer of the very image of God, a unique creation of the divine Maker, individually knit within a mother’s womb by the Lord of the universe… We would never number all the mother’s children in these mass graves, but their Father in heaven had numbered even the very hairs of their heads.” If only I could take images I see on the news and think of them that way!

Good News about Injustice demonstrates how to cope with what we see without just forgetting about it. I highly recommend it. It gives great insight into the world around us and how we, as insignificant as one of us is, can do something about injustice. Did you know that each year, according to Mr. Haugen, OVER ONE MILLION children are forced into prositution? Hard to imagine from the comfort of our American existence. Thankfully, we (and they) have a God that knows them and has spoken, “Take heart! For I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).

O LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear to vindicate the orphan and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror. ~Psalm 10:17-19

So last week, Thomas and I went for a walk around the neighborhood and through Wolf Pen Creek, as we often do. It was getting dark so things were getting more difficult to see. A block from our house, we noticed a bright white blob in someone’s yard. No, it was not an angel or anything of the sort, but the cutest, sweetest, little white bunny with small ears and big brown eyes. The bunny was just chilling in someone’s front yard munching away at weeds. He was so consumed with his weed-eating that we were able to squat down two feet away from him–I suspected that he was blind. Thomas figured he probably escaped through the backyard with the open gate. We didn’t give it much thought until two nights later when who did we see, but the same cute little bunny! He was up to his same business of eating in the dark open to dog attacks and animal killers. It didn’t take too much convincing to get Thomas to try to capture it to make it our very own backyard bunny. So we got a box and attempted to corral him into it, but he knew our tricks and hopped away as fast as he could through the open gate. We couldn’t tresspass and get him out of whoever’s yard it was, so we figured that’s where he lived and left him alone. But as we drove the next night, guess who we saw? Our not-so-blind cute little bunny friend. So much for our very own backyard bunny. Maybe he’s really just a vampire.

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE ON THE BUNNY SITUATION: So we went for another walk immediately after I wrote this post. And who did we see? The bunny. We took it as a sign that he really did need a home, and we came home and got a box and a plan. On our way over, we met a boy from down the street who loves to climb trees and rollerblade. He decided to help us. While the boy and I attempted to chase the bunny into Thomas and the box (but not into the street), the lady of the house happened to see us and come out. Yikes. However, she was so nice and said that it was her neighbor’s bunny and they let it roam free in their yards. She also said we weren’t the first people to try to catch the sneaky little bunny. So, again, no bunny, but we got to meet lots of neighbors, which was really fun too.

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