Today for The Morning Thing Fave 5, we shared our favorite things that have happened this week!
(and special guest) Joe Rinehart
The Morning Thing Fave 5 (11/3/17)
MVNU Presidential Update – November 2017
Today, The Morning Thing featured a conversation with MVNU’s President, Dr. Henry Spaulding. Our November Presidential Update features a discussion about campus events, a recent building purchase, what the President is thankful for and goals for 2018.
Click HERE to listen to the conversation with WNZR’s Daria Swisher and Dr. Henry Spaulding, MVNU’s President.
MVNU THEATRE PRESENTS “THE MATCHMAKER”
Mount Vernon Nazarene University’s theatre program, MVNU Theatre, presents “The Matchmaker” written by Thornton Wilder and directed by Keely Heyl. Wilder is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning plays “Our Town” and “The Skin of Our Teeth.” In this comedic play that inspired the musical “Hello, Dolly!,” a wealthy merchant hires a matchmaker to help him find a wife. Hilarity ensues as she becomes entangled in mischief with two of the merchant’s clerks, several ladies, and a pair of waiters at the finest restaurant in town.
WNZR’s Rachel Rinehart (who is in the play) talked with several cast members about “The Matchmaker”. Click HERE to hear their conversations.
Director Keely Heyl approaches “The Matchmaker” with innovative staging that couches the original story within a secondary story. About the production, Heyl states, “It’s going to be a delightful adventure from start to finish. If you have seen the play or ‘Hello, Dolly!,’ leave what you know at home. This will not be the same. While we are not the first cast to do a production this way, I think I can say we are the first ones to do THIS play this way. Your cheeks will be sore from smiling. There is a lot of darkness in this world, we aim to turn a few lights on and have a great time.” Heyl, a 2013 graduate of Cedarville University with a B.A. in Theatre, has extensive experience working with various theatres in the central Ohio area.
Performances will be on Friday, November 3; Saturday, November 4; Friday, November 10; and Saturday, November 11. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. in Thorne Performance Hall inside the R.R. Hodges Chapel on the campus of MVNU. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for anyone under 18 or those with military ID. The performance on Saturday, November 4 will be super-titled in Spanish. Tickets for all performances may be purchased online at theatre.mvnu.edu, by phone at 740-397-9000 ext. 1620, or at the box office beginning one hour prior to show time. Seating opens approximately 30 minutes prior to show time.
“The Matchmaker” is the first production of MVNU Theatre’s 2017-18 season. Season tickets and flex passes are available now and feature benefits such as 15 percent single-ticket pricing and coupons for complimentary concessions. For more information, visit theatre.mvnu.edu, email theatre@mvnu.edu, or call the MVNU Theatre box office at 740-397-9000 ext. 1620. Follow MVNU Theatre on Facebook and Twitter to keep up with the latest program news and events.
NOTE: This show is Rated PG. It contains mild language and depicts lifestyles not endorsed by MVNU. The intention of this production is to give young actors an opportunity to apply their advanced training to a professional-level production that tackles more challenging subject matter through a highly artistic medium.
It is National Stress Awareness Day – how will you celebrate?
What do we mean “celebrate” National Stress Awareness Day?! If we are honest, all of us deal with stress on some level. Stress Awareness Day was set aside as time to be aware of the stress in our lives and how it affects us.
History of Stress Awareness Day (from www.daysoftheyear.com)
Stress Awareness Day was established by the International Stress Management Association (ISMA) to help provide information on stress, and strategies on how to address it for both companies and individuals. The organization is focused on helping employers and employees help each other by providing comprehensive guides to establishing a program within their organization, and individuals by looking after their health and well-being on a day to day basis.
Stress Awareness Day is your opportunity to start looking after yourself and your life, and break down the individual stressors in your life. Failure to deal with stress in your life effectively can lead to serious health problems, including increased blood pressure, susceptibility to heart disease, and a decline in your immune system. Once you start experiencing these symptoms they can landslide into each other, resulting in growing sickness, and by extension, more stress. It’s truly a self-feeding problem, and a cycle that is necessary to control to enjoy our lives.
How to Celebrate Stress Awareness Day (from www.daysoftheyear.com)
The best way to celebrate Stress Awareness Day is to take the opportunity to remove the stress from your life for the day. Take the time to examine your life and find out where all the stressors lie, and start looking into taking steps to remove them or find ways to mitigate them. Removing stress from your life can start off as a stressful experience, so it can help to get the assistance from organizations like ISMA to look into strategies and support in how to manage those things in your life that cause stress.
Whatever you choose to do, take the time to take a day off and let yourself have a day of freedom. If it’s sickness, do something to help you focus on something other than that sickness. Stress can be a killer, don’t let it take one more day from your life, act now and start living a stress free life!
Today, The Morning Thing shared some ways to relieve stress from Focus on the Family.
Click HERE for the full article.
Here are some tips excerpted from Tools for Time Management by Edward R. Dayton.
- Staying ahead of your work is a good way to relieve the pressure of schedules. By scheduling a completion time 10 percent to 20 percent ahead, you have the peace of knowing there’s time to recover if things go wrong.
- Doing the hard things first, particularly if they have a great deal of emotional content, will relieve the subterranean emotions that tend to plague us in different situations.
- Getting enough sleep is a must. Know how long you can get along with a reduced amount.
- Do the difficult tasks in phases. Often a “first draft” will get you 80 percent of the way along. Time for “topping off” the finished product can be better foreseen, and meeting the deadline seems less of a task.
- Have planned recreation and hobbies. I am a wood carver and a carpenter of sorts. Setting aside time for this activity helps me relax. Other people enjoy different methods of unwinding. One of my close friends has a way of announcing to his secretary when he will be finding some relief. If he says, “I’m going to inspect some real estate at 3 o’clock,” you can be sure that you’ll find him on the first tee at the golf course.
- Admitting and verbalizing the causes for your own irritations (be they lack of sleep, overworking, too much stress or what have you) helps [keep] others from getting emotional with you and triggering unexpected explosions.
- Facing up to the fact you really can’t do all the things you scheduled and that some of them need to be postponed is probably the best relief valve of all. This can be a humbling experience, but the rewards in personal well-being are great.
Meet the Team – MVNU Men’s Basketball Team
For this week’s “Meet the Team” feature, we shine the spotlight on the MVNU Men’s Basketball Team. WNZR’s Dan Monnin sat down with Head Coach Jared Ronai to talk about the upcoming season.
Click HERE to hear their conversation.
Click HERE to see this season’s schedule.
Click HERE to follow the Cougars with WNZR.
Rekindle you marriage in 15 days!
Today, The Morning Thing shared some wonderful advice from www.imom.com
Check out these tips on how to rekindle your marriage in just 15 days! Try it out and watch what God can do!
The Morning Thing celebrates Massage Therapy Awareness Week!
Today was a GOOD day! The Morning Thing celebrated Massage Therapy Awareness Week with Licensed Massage Therapist, Angi Davidson.
Angi works for Knox Community Hospital’s Center for Rehabilitation and Wellness. She stopped by our studio to talk about the benefits of massage…….and to give US chair massages! Yeah! Praise the Lord for Angi Davidson!
Do you know how helpful massage can be to your body? Check out this list of benefits of massage from the American Massage Therapy Association.
The Morning Thing Fave 5 – our favorite things that have happened this week.
For The Morning Thing Fave 5 this week, we all shared our favorite thing that happened this week. Enjoy!
Helping your home find humor and happiness – The Morning Thing 10/25/17
On Wednesday’s show, we focused on the desire to have a happy home. It is something all of us want, right?!
We shared more great advice from the wonderful website, wwwimom.com.
Here are 9 habits for a happy home from author Susan Merrill
Click HERE to see the entire article.
H – HOLD YOUR CHILD AND HUSBAND EVERY CHANCE YOU GET.
A – ANSWER EVERY CHILD’S “MOM!” AS IF AN ANGEL WAS CALLING FOR YOU.
P – PRAY DAILY, HOURLY, EVERY SECOND IF NECESSARY.
P – PUSH EVERY NEGATIVE THOUGHT INTO THE DISPOSAL AND TURN IT ON.
Y – YEARN FOR NOW, APPRECIATE THIS STAGE OF YOUR CHILD’S LIFE.
H – HAVE SUNDAY SUPPER TOGETHER IN YOUR KITCHEN WITH YOUR FAMILY.
O – ORDER YOUR DAYS EFFICIENTLY SO THAT YOU HAVE TIME TO PLAY.
M – MAINTAIN PEACE AND FORGIVE DAILY.
E – ENJOY THE BLESSING OF YOUR CHILDREN.
We also shared some tips from Focus on the Family on how to encourage family fun and humor at your house.
How can you turn your house into a place where the walls ring with laughter and where family members actually get a kick out of being together? We have a few simple suggestions:
- First, don’t take yourself so seriously. If you and the rest of your family are like most people, perspective is probably hard for you. You find it difficult to remember how small and insignificant you are in the grand scheme of things. You allow your petty trials and concerns to cast a pall of gloom over the entire universe. Our advice is to lighten up and relax. Take a step back and try to get a sense of where you fit in the “bigger picture.” And remind yourself that God alone sees your situation as it really is.
- Second, resolve tolaugh even when you don’t feel like laughing. It’s precisely when you’ve had a tough day that your need for a good laugh is most urgent. At such times, a bit of humor will help wash away the stress. It will also keep your marriage and family together when you’re coming unglued.
- Next, look for the humor around you. This may require some extra work, but it’s worth the effort. Once you open your eyes, you’ll find that life is full of good comedic material. Art Linkletter had it right when he said that “people are funny.” So stay on the lookout for the comic element in everyday life. If you can’t find it, create it for yourself.
- Discover what makes your spouse and children laugh . When you hear guffaws coming from their direction, pay attention and investigate the cause. Study their individual humor styles. Learn to distinguish between sarcasm, slapstick, irony, clownishness, and absurdity. Exploit your findings at least once a day. Pay special attention to the ways in which these humor styles reflect the various temperaments and personalities of your children. Think in terms of birth order. Learn to recognize each individual’s unique role in the family system. An awareness of these issues will help you find the correct balance between humor and sensitivity.
- Finally, learn how to poke fun at one another in a light-hearted, healthy, affirming, and non-derogatory way. A certain amount of good-natured “teasing” can actually increase feelings of intimacy among the members of your household. But be careful. Some skins are thinner than others. It’s all too easy for one person’s “joke” to become another person’s raw and bleeding wound. It may be acceptable for people to laugh at one another if they share a certain kind of relationship. But when that connection is lacking, it’s best to avoid the kind of “playfulness” that is all too easily interpreted as disrespect.
Click HERE to read the entire article.
(Picture from www.imom.com)
Parenting – a tough, but rewarding job.
Today, The Morning Thing focused on parenting. We shared some incredible insight from 2 great resources.
We shared 8 truths that every parent should know from Mark W. Merrill. Mark is the president of All Pro Dad and Family First , a national non-profit organization.
Click HERE to read the entire article from www.allprodad.com
1. Parenting requires loving your child for who they are, not for what they do.
2. Parenting requires patience.
3. Parenting is “heart work.”
4. Parenting is always doing what’s best for your child.
5. Parenting requires always speaking the truth to your child and into your child’s life.
6. Parenting is about failing, forgiving, and asking for forgiveness.
7. Parenting requires prayer.
8. Parenting is putting your relationship with God, and then your spouse, ahead of your relationship with your child.
We also shared 8 warning signs that your child is headed for trouble.
Click HERE to read the entire article from www.imom.com
Here are some of the common signs of a child who’s heading the wrong direction. It is important to recognize these and take the appropriate steps to guide your child back down a positive path.
1. Mood Swings
2. Withdrawal
3. Hiding Things
4. Dropping Grades
5. Sudden Change of Friends
6. Fluctuating Weight
7. Personality Changes
8. Changing The Way They Dress
(Picture from www.allprodad.com)
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