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For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. . . . . . . Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Job 14:7-9 KJV
#Lifeandhope
@ThiagoUtdA @a4lasade She did not misunderstand the relationship rather, she was trying to confirm the relationship.
She actually mixes mandarin with nonsense words. And the mandarin identified in her words are mainly out of context and not relatable to what is going on.
In all, she should stop embarrassing herself and get a real tutor to teach her since she is so interested in mandarin.
Update: The fake Chinese-speaking girl has fully resumed posting her Chinese-language content on TikTok, and removed posts advertising her Chinese language classes.
She says speaking Chinese is her “talent”.
But has, however, admitted that she will attend a Chinese school to properly learn the language this August.
Too bad. She is actually brilliant and may not be like her grandfather
فتاة صينية حصلت على 702 درجة في امتحان الثانوية الصيني وهي درجة عالية جدا تؤهلها لدخول جامعة الدفاع الوطني للتكنلوجيا وهي جامعه مرموقه وكان افراد عائلتها فرحين ويحتفلون لانهم متأكدين من قبولها
ومع ذلك تبكي بشدة لانه تم رفض قبولها بعد ان اجرت الجامعه فحص سياسي وتبين ان جدها كان مسجون عندما كان شابا (حتى الاب لم يكن يعلم)
@Row_Haastrup Same thing happened to me. And NO I did not add it to my calendar 😒
@MrCharlesky Interested
Nature is everything and more. Humans longevity somewhat depends on their interaction with nature.
There is a reason for everything. Ignore a routine and risk resetting the body system to a harmful state.
A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.
His name is Qing Li.
He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.
The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.
Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.
He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.
Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.
The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.
The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.
Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.
Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.
Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.
The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.
The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.
When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.
Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.
This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.
A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.
The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.
Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.
They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.
The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.
After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.
What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.
But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.
The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.
Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.
Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.
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There was a guy in my fellowship who always looked spiritually strong.
Always smiling.
Always encouraging people.
Always posting scriptures online.
But one night after service, I saw him sitting alone behind the church auditorium.
No phone.
No Bible.
Just silence.
I asked if he was okay.
He laughed softly and said...
“Do you know the hardest thing is pretending to be strong when you’re actually tired of everything?”
That sentence stayed with me.
He later opened up and told me he had been praying for a job for almost three years.
Nothing was working.
His friends had moved ahead, and even some people in church had started treating him differently.
Then he told me something I’ll never forget:
“I realized I was praying for breakthrough, but I stopped talking honestly to God.”
That night, he prayed differently.
“Lord, I’m tired. I don’t understand this season, but I still don’t want to leave You.”
A few weeks later, he got a job opportunity unexpectedly.
Today he always says:
“God can handle honest prayers too.”
Sometimes faith is not pretending you’re okay.
Sometimes it’s staying with God even when life hurts.
@MrMekzy_ No pastor, no matter how anointed, is the author of life.
Laying on of hands is an act of faith, not a magic trick.
If we believe God is sovereign, we have to accept that His 'No' or 'Not now' is just as much a part of the journey as His 'Yes.'
The most terrifying detail about Noah's Ark isn't the size of the flood. It is the design of the boat. If you look closely at the blueprints God gave Noah in Genesis 6, He was extremely specific. He gave the exact length, width, and height. He specified the type of wood and the pitch to seal it. But God left out one crucial component: no steering wheel, no sail, and no engine.
Think about how scary that is. Noah built a massive vessel to survive a global storm, but he had zero control over it or where it went. He couldn't steer away from rocks, turn into the waves, or aim for dry land. He was completely at the mercy of the water. The Ark was designed for floating, not navigation. Noah's job was to be the passenger, not the captain. God was the Captain.
This is your life right now. You are trying to put a steering wheel on a situation that God wants you to simply float on and allow Him to lead and take control.
This blessed me. I hope it blesses you too. 🙏🏾
Overtime mode unlocked 😎
I noticed one of my male colleagues usually stays back after closing hour.
Our office closes around 4:30–5:00pm. Once you’re done with your work, you’re free to go.
But this guy? He never leaves.
Every closing hour, you will just see him still glued to his desk.
Meanwhile, I’m always one of the first to go home once it’s closing time.
So this evening, immediately it was 4:30, I packed my bag sharp-sharp and was about heading out.
As I got to the door, I heard the HR knock on his office door and ask: “Are you staying back today?”
He said yes.
HR now asked, “What will you be having? Rice or swallow?”
He said, “Rice.”
Ehhh!?
Since when did our office start serving food??
I quietly turned back, went to my seat, and opened my laptop immediately.
After some time, every other staff left.
It was just me, that man, and HR remaining in the office.
Around 5:30pm, the food vendor from outside came in with food for HR… and another one for that man.
Ahhhh!
As she was leaving, I quickly opened my door on purpose.
She saw me and said, “Nne, you’re still around?”
I said, “Yes oo, I still have some work to finish.”
HR heard my voice and said, “Chinecherem, you’re still here?”
I said yes, I still had some work to clear.
He replied, “That’s good. That means you’ll eat here instead of going home late to cook. Tell her what you want.”
Eeehhh! I almost screamed.
But I composed myself and said, “I’ll have jollof rice, ma.”
She said okay, and left.
About 5 minutes later, hot jollof rice landed on my table.
The joy I felt ehn… I didn’t waste time at all.
After eating, I just sat in my office, waiting for the right time to leave, so it wouldn’t look like I stayed back because of food.
Soon, they locked up their offices and we all left together.
On our way out, that my colleague asked me: “This one you stayed back today… unlike you that always rush home?”
I said calmly, “I had some work to clear.”
He nodded.
Then he asked, “So tomorrow you’ll go early since you’ve finished everything?”
I said, “Hmm… not really. From this month, once I’m done with my work, I’ll start staying back to cross-check everything.”
The man looked at me and asked, “Don’t you think that’s stressful? You need to go home early.”
I said, “No. I just want to be more dedicated this month.”
He looked at me somehow and didn’t say anything again.
Haaaa!
Can you imagine?
Why should I rush home when I still have “work” to clear in the office?
I am dedicated to work abeg! 😩😂
Chinecherem Onu 🖊️
Taking out personal time is required in all of life's wants.
Kids want more dad time. Wife wants more husband time. Parents want more son time. Work wants more of your time. And you still show up. Shoutout to the men doing it all. 🙌
What a sissy! 😁
She needs a well decorated lawyer to defend her cos this is infringement of her privacy.. 😒😒😒
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I heard a testimony of a lady today.
She said, "I woke up around 2am with a strong urge to pray, but I went back to sleep, then I woke up again, so I got up and started praying in tongues quietly because I didn't want to wake my dad, but I got so caught up in prayer that my voice became loud. Then my dad woke up and joined me. We prayed together for about 20 minutes, and then we went back to bed. But I still couldn't sleep; the urge was still there.
I got up again, and my dad joined. This time, we started mentioning our family names and prayed for each of them and went back to bed. Except the urge was still there. This happened three times; we prayed and went back to sleep, but the urge was still there.
Eventually my dad said, "Let's surrender it to the Holy Spirit. Let's ask Him to reveal who is in trouble to us while we pray in tongues."
We did that, and we got the victory. We still don't know who it was, but the burden was lifted.
And my peace was restored.
My dad went to work in the morning; he works at a construction site.
His boss told him Mr. So-and-So did not come to work today, so he had to fill in for him. My dad agreed and climbed the ladder. Before he got to the top, he came down and said, "I'm sorry I can't. As I was climbing, the Holy Spirit reminded me of a dream I had last night. How I climbed that ladder, and the cable cut; I fell and hit my head on an iron, my skull was wide open, and I died."
One of his colleagues laughed and said, I will take his place. And climbed the ladder. Ten minutes later, the cable cut, and he fell, hit his head on an iron, and died instantly.
My dad had this dream right after we got the victory and went to bed, but it was hidden from him till the appointed time."
Y'all, Isaiah 43:4 is no joke!!! That man said, 'I will take his place,' and he indeed took his place. When the Lord wakes you up to pray, please pray. You don't need to know why. Just pray.
A friend got yelled at in a meeting.
Publicly.
She didn’t react. Didn’t cry. Just took notes.
Later, she sent a summary of “key discussion points” to the VP.
Included exact quotes of the yelling.
The VP asked, “Did this really happen?”
She replied, “I believe you call it culture.”
The guy was “moved to another project” the next week.
Lesson:
Sometimes, the most powerful person in the room is the one taking notes.
Be grateful but never entitled. A very vital advice
Do not take people's support for granted, say ‘thank you’.
When you don't get the support you believe you need, don't get grumpy, ask for it instead. If it comes, great; if not, also great.
You will not always need the help, and you will not always be exactly where you are right now.
In the moment, be grateful but never entitled.
Do not take people's support for granted, say ‘thank you’.
When you don't get the support you believe you need, don't get grumpy, ask for it instead. If it comes, great; if not, also great.
You will not always need the help, and you will not always be exactly where you are right now.
In the moment, be grateful but never entitled.
A doctor friend of mine explained this to me last year like a 10years old clearly.
What happens in your body when you worry:
1. Your brain thinks you’re in danger
* Even if nothing bad is happening, worry tells your brain: “Something is wrong!”
2. Your body releases stress chemicals
* One big one is called cortisol (think of it as an emergency alarm chemical).
3. Too much cortisol causes damage as stated below:
* It breaks down skin cells
* It weakens hair roots
* It slows healing
* It makes you tired easily
4. Your cells get tired faster
* Your body cells have tiny “caps” that protect them (scientists call them telomeres).
* Worry makes these caps wear out quicker.
* When they wear out → cells age faster.
All these things happens inside of our bodies all at the same time due to worries. The scientific effect of worrying scares me till date.
Make God grant us peace of mind daily
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