Trying to keep posting to a blog when you are already extremely busy - especially with three teenagers - is an interesting journey. Particularly around the Christmas holidays. Not to mention having a regular newsletter on my website, www.danroark.com, in addition to my regular writing while working on a book. There is only so much of the day in which to write. My past posts have turned into essays which, while interesting, are longer than a blog posts needs to be. The longer pieces are more in tune with the newsletter. Blogwise, it is time to shake things up and see what comes out.
I do not know exactly how much I will actually shake things up, but my purpose is to discuss current events and how they relate to our lives as Christians. Some posts might simply be observations. We’ll see how it goes. If you would like to read more of my writing check my website and while you are there, subscribe to the newsletter. It is free, of course. You might want to check out the store and my books, and coming ebooks.
Now to steroids. That is one of the hot topics in the news today. Specifically, steroids in baseball. Senator Mitchell released his report yesterday which named about 80 players who were suspected of using steroids or human growth hormones (HGH). I was surprised to hear that Roger Clemens’ name was on the list. I was not surprised that his lawyer was quick to call it slander.
However, who is on the list is not my concern. They either did or did not take performance enhancing drugs. My concern is why they took them. It is the same with plastic surgery and botox injections. If you are in an accident, fire, explosion, or the like, that is one thing. You are merely trying to repair the effects of the occurrence. But voluntary operations, I do not understand.
Let me say here that I would consider myself an "average-looking" man. There are parts of me that I would rather were different. But would I have a doctor surgically alter those parts? Absolutely not. I rather doubt that the result of surgical alteration is as good as the patients imagined it would be. There could be complications as well.
Regardless, my point is that I would not have any part of the body God gave me altered as a result of any sense of vanity I may have. There are not two people exactly alike - some close, but no one exactly the same. Given the number of people on earth, and the fact that it has been genetically proven that we all come from the same source originally, what are the odds that we would all be different?
God made me the way I am. For bad or good, I can accept that. Do I do the little things to make my appearance more the way I would like? Sure. But nothing that would make a permanent alteration. There are things I might at times wish were different, but I would not purposely change the body God gave me. With the possible exception of repairing damage someone or something else did to me.
Peace be with you.
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