From Sickness to Sabbath: Embracing Rest

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10 Commandments, busyness, Genesis, healing, health issues, rest, sabbath, Shabbat, sickness, Spirit God, Spirituality & Health

Here is my latest piece for Spirituality and Health. I have been ill for several months now and so I ask for continued prayers.

by Grace Ji-Sun Kim

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Sabbath is a time to set aside work and embrace rest and recovery. “In the busyness of our lives, we don’t just forget that we need to rest, we forget how to rest.”

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I Went to the Emergency Room

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Arianna Huffington, balance, chinese medicine, health issues, Kwok Pui-lan, lean in, pain, sabbatical, Sheryl Sandberg, western medicine, women, workaholic

This blog “I Went to the Emergency Room” is reposted here with Dr. Kwok Pui Lan’s permission.  Click here for the original post.

Last Saturday night I went to an emergency room in Evanston, Illinois. I had spasms on my right chest. Luckily it was on the right side and not the left side (where the heart is located). Since I needed to fly back to Boston the next

Social Issues are Economic Issues

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contraceptives, economic issues, election 2012, grace ji-sun kim, health issues, presidential candidate, social issues, vote, women's issues

Most people are now probably tired of hearing about the politics as the elections are very close and the campaigning has been too long.  What I am tired of hearing is whether this election is about either ‘social issues’ or the “economy”?  Is there a real difference between the two?