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Friday, August 21, 2026
What you see in the above photo is a capsule. It used to be a probiotic capsule, because some time back Shelley decreed that she and I need to take one of these apiece each day. Exactly what a probiotic is, or does, remains a mystery to me, but I have learned the wisdom of being “pro” anything Shelley is “pro” about, biotics or anything else.
However, even a medicine-moron like myself, upon close examination of the above capsule, can ascertain that whatever lifegiving powder was once packed within it has now vanished, likely through the little slit I think I perceive at the left of the joint. The powder is probably still back in the bottle.
Which of course means that it has not been ingested into myself, nor into Shelley. Whatever biotics are (and I am of course as “pro” them as Shelley is) will do us no good.
So what’s the parable in all of this?
Health, of course, is more than supplements. The Bible contains a surprising number of health principles which, if followed and not allowed to slip from our reach like what was in this capsule, will strengthen us. Check out the link just below: