Get to the Real Issue. Look Beyond Appearances.

I went to the Urgent care for help with a leg swollen three times its normal size. The urgent care doctor sent me straight to the emergency room, who sent me to admittance for my blood pressure. 

For three days my blood pressure was uncontrolled. I keep telling the nurses that the pain in my leg could be causing it. They ignored me because I was a diabetic.  They assumed that I was eating poorly.

The truth was I did not eat. The pain had caused me such grief that for two weeks I did not eat very much. Yeah, this was two weeks in the making before the last seven days of those two weeks became unbearable.

I prayed that I would not leave that hospital until they found out what was wrong with me and allowed myself to rest. Soon, my wife called the nurse to check out my foot and leg. The nurse was alarmed and called a wound doctor. He was alarmed and called three other specialist. Dr. Nwarfor saved my leg as he made a unilateral decision to operate against the other doctors advice because all the test returned inconclusive.

When he sliced into my flesh, he found what he suspected, dying flesh and dead flesh filled with fluid--necrosis. Pictures were taken and therapy began. I ended up in a nursing home because of the wound and intravenous antibiotics.

God answered my prayers to open the doctors' eyes to heal me. I am in recovery and the battle was not over. I still had a nodule on my lung to think about, but I can deal with one trial at a time.

At the same time, my spiritual wounds were nursed as the doctors worked to heal my body. God healed my heart and rewarded my faith by answering my petitions. No one listened to me when I cried because I have one of those faces that shows little discomfort at pain. If I show any discomfort, it is major pain indeed. It took an act of God to get attention to my needed area.

Just because someone does not look like they are in pain, does not mean it is true. Many of us are nursing hidden wounds of offense or heartache. All we need is for some person to listen to the whispering of heaven to know who to go and help nurse back to health. The grass may look green on the other side, but the roots may be weak.

The moral of this story is never dismiss a plea for help or judge a plea because it does not look like a desperate enough plea. Like me, someone's look of desperation may not be very evident at a glance.

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Two of the Best & Helpful Microsoft Word Tutorials You Should Use!

Word Help

I performed a search to find out a good free tutorial for Microsoft Word as part of a way to help adults and youth that are not familiar with Word to to become so. In my search for happiness in tutorials I came across two sites that I feel deserve a comparison. I intend to give a basic appraisal of the sites rather than an exhaustive critic.

FREE. I like free! Microsoft Word is one of many popular software used by millions of people the globe over for many different reasons.

Because the use of the software is so broad, many institutions create tutorials to familiarize their students or employees with the program.

During research on the Microsoft Word list of available tutorials, I found the following two that popped up immediately under.

The tutorials are from Baycon Group for employees and Florida Gulf Coast University for students and faculty.

I am not inferring that each group specializes for one group or the other, but I think one works better for students and the other for employees--time constraints and all.

Both tutorials were comprehensive covering the material in an organized pattern so that the user could locate information about the Microsoft Word software.

Baycon Group website

The first tutorial form the Baycon Group website consists of five lessons about the features of the Microsoft Word program. The lessons cover the entire program and is in a format that could be used in a classroom or office.

My first visit, the actual lessons had too much text for individual study ease and the lessons seemed long and involved. The table of content did not functional to locate the user to information listed but directed the user to the first lesson of the tutorial. The navigation links at the top of the page allowed a user to go forward or backwards in the tutorial, but other than that, the functionality was limited.

It is not a school that sponsors this tutorial so I do not expect it to be as glamorous as such. Schools must have better software tutorials to justify being an institution of learning. I would be hard-pressed to send a kid to a school with a dinky tutorial. What would that say about the academic programs?

Upon another visit to the site I found that Baycon Group revamped the tutorial and corrected all of the reasons I found for pause. The site is more user friendly and the table of content actually functions. The content in each lesson still seems to be less than concise, but it is thorough and reduced from its previous bulkiness.

I give them a B + on this FREE tutorial. In fact, I think it very generous that Baycon Group offers such top-notch tutorials on software for free.

Should I complain? No, but I recommend this site as a good source to become familiar with Word and other software for free.

The Florida Gulf Coast University Tutorial

The Florida Gulf Coast University tutorial is the more superior of the two tutorials starting from the table of content on the first visit. Since FGCU did not need to change its site it gets an A right out of the gate.

It has headings with functions to move to the next topic and a comprehensive table of content that allows the user to travel to a specific topic covering all the function of Microsoft Word.

The text is informative and not over exhaustive and the transition between pages is easy, while the information does not contain unfamiliar terms--concise!. The user can move forward or backwards in the tutorial and can jump from topic to topic depending on the need.

This functionality is great for students on the go who just need a quick reminder or employees who just need to brush up.

Though there exists no assessments or comment section for the user as does the tutorial for Baycon group, FGCU tutorial is the best suited for users as a reference tutorial and/or a learning tutorial. The most important part of a tutorial is its entertainment value.

To entertain means to hold the attention of the user. Florida Gulf Coast University tutorial has a higher entertainment value because it allows the user more control over what to learn. The search for pertinent information is quick and over!

Summation

In choosing between the two. I would of course go for the quicker FGCU tutorial, but there is something to be said about the thoroughness of the Baycon Group. If you are not familiar with Word to begin with, after you finish, you will be well informed--where as with FGCU tutorial you may be forever dependent on returning.

The question is, do you want to learn how to fish or do you just want to eat a fish?

Well another "the question" is if you know how to fish, do you still eat the fish if it is handed to you. Actually, I think I am confusing myself. I will just state that I like them both for different reasons; but for me, the quick reference FGCU tutorial works.

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Jesus Christ Himself was Baptized

In The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Nephi states that Jesus Christ will be baptized to fulfill all righteousness. This he foresaw nearly 600 years before the event occurred in Jordan. So important and supernal was that act of humility the Lord showed it to a Prophet to put in a book that would speak to the souls of the pure in heart that God has always revealed His son to the world.

Nephi says that if Christ being as holy as He is has a need for baptism, then we being unholy have even a greater need for baptism.

Nephi describes the scene--the voice from heaven and the Holy Spirit's descent upon Christ in the form of a dove. Even the name of John was revealed to this prophet! In response to this revelation, Nephi states

"...I know that if ye shall follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent, repenting of your sins, witnessing unto the Father that ye are willing to take upon you the name of Christ, by baptism—yea, by following your Lord and your Savior down into the water, according to his word, behold, then shall ye receive the Holy Ghost; yea, then cometh the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost; and then can ye speak with the tongue of angels, and shout praises unto the Holy One of Israel.2 Nephi 31:13

Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Redeemer of mankind through the Atonement. He paid for our sins because he had none of his own for which to suffer. He had no reason to die, so he did not stay dead. He suffered for our sins so that we have no reason to stay dead either; so, we will live again.

God be thanked for Jesus Christ.

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