WHAT'S GOOD ABOUT BEING BIONIC?

Lindsay Wagner to me will be the only bionic woman. And there's only one 6 Million Dollar Man. But today A-Rod is a quarter billion dollar man who just turned down a guaranteed $72 million contract to play with the Yankees. There's something, well there's a lot of things obscene about that.

But back to my title and Lindsay Wagner. There's a new bionic woman. I don't know her name. There are people living today with Jarvis hearts, transplanted organs, prostheses which were only fiction, like Lindsay Wagner back when. And they're all great. Medical science and engineering have found each other to the wonderment of all.

Our son had his gall bladder taken out laproscopically. A good friend of mine is having a hernia repaired laproscopically this morning. After he had a surgery , performed laproscopically to disconnect his intestine from his bladder. It absolutely astounds me at the advances of modern medicine. May God bless you today, Bob.

May He give you the rest you'll need for recovery. And that's what's wrong with the Bionic Woman--new or old. Who needs rest when you have working parts that need no cessation, no release, no stillness? Rest is something we all need. If God needed it after 6 days of creation, don't you think we might need it after our daily toils?

One definition of rest is partaking of things that do not require performance. This is the kind I get at night before sleep. When I'm armed with remote control and a steady trigger finger. Some nights that's all I do, though last night during the World Series inane commercials, I found a great 1981 movie on PAX called simply Peter and Paul. It was an excellent movie about their lives, so my rest was more of peace than inactively disengaging my mind.

Now, had PAX shown Noah's life, then it really would have been peaceful, because that's what Noah means--rest. Better yet, the source of rest, now and for eternity, lies in our Lord. When we walk with Him, when we take the yoke (Matt.11), and when we become one of His, then we will receive God's grace and compassion.