I’ve learned a lot of things since I started working as a nurse. I learned about medications, diseases, human nature, and life and death. I’ve learned a lot about reality, And I’ve learned about reality shows. Now, I didn’t watch TV growing up, but I had heard the term “reality show,” and lately I’ve seen snippets of reality shows that my patients were watching. That is, I thought they must be reality shows, because they appeared to be attempting to seem real, or in other words, to disguise sensationalism as reality. Yet the concept of unreality trying to appear real (when, in fact, it would have been more real to remain unreality), left me confused about what was “in reality” the point of a reality show.

"…A more excellent name…a more excellent ministry…a more excellent sacrifice…the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel” (Heb 1:4; 8:6; 11:4; 12:24).

It is in the Epistle to the Hebrews especially that His excellencies are displayed—to the Hebrews, to whom He was unattractive and unwelcome. They gazed on the root sprouting from the dry ground, thought of their bygone bramble-king, and longed for the cedars of Lebanon (Jud 9:14)…This is the burden of the Holy Spirit…He alternates from throne to cross. He travels from the mighty present into the misty past, and onward to the eternal future. But there is a constancy in His task—the unveiling of the excellencies of Emmanuel.

—A. C. Rose, Soul Food, pp. 77-80
 

“I was a printer by trade,” said Mert Walcott, a missionary to the Belgian Congo with his wife Jane for nearly forty years. “Now, with computers, you can do so much you don’t really need typewriters.”

“…Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong…”

(Hebrews 11:33-34)