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Hyperventilation is defined as over breathing. Hypoventilation is the opposite: under breathing. The first will result in abnormally low levels of carbon dioxide in the blood. The second will result in too much carbon dioxide in the blood. Normal breathing maintains the perfect balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood, resulting in good health and energy levels.
My hunch is that far too many of us either over breathe or under breathe in our spiritual and financial lives. Let me explain:
“If you follow instructions, you will have little problems with your house. If you take shortcuts, you will be taking it apart and doing it over. Now. Are you ready to listen?” George Waterman was never one to sacrifice clarity for tact, and, as we slurped water in the 100° heat, we decided that we had better listen up.
I admit that my first encounter with George that summer of 1996 wasn’t all that positive. As an adult sponsor of a high school youth mission trip in Reynosa, Mexico, I was thinking, “He sure is bossy.” But he needed to be. As missionaries for World Servants, an international organization dedicated to overseeing short term mission trips, George and his wife Jan were responsible for not only the construction of a dozen 12’ x 16’ houses that week, but also the well being of dozens of high school kids. In retrospect, they needed to be tough.
Mexico 2009 Our VBS Group
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