The Wild, Wild Web!
How to Make a Jack-o-Lantern that Lasts for Years
Simple Journey Ministries Presents
Mom, I’m Bored!
The Everlasting Jack-o-Lantern
If your family likes carving gourds and pumpkins in the fall (I know some families that do not celebrate Halloween that do this with a Christian poem), I got a nifty idea from a crafty friend that would be a great craft and homeschool project that can be preserved for years to come. This is an idea that will also work exceptionally well, for those tracking the projects over the years for families who traditionally do this project.
***I now feel I need to say something****
I need to ask that readers leaving comments on my blog re: Candy at Keeping The Home, need to stop as I will not tolerate this any further.
Everyone has a free will and a right to express their opinions on the internet as long as both blogs and comments do not offend anyone else.
Tell me, what is the purpose to putting anti blogs against a fellow blogger on the internet? What are you trying to achieve? Don't you also realise that posting/putting up "anti"blogs or anything similar for this matter is upsetting Jesus - has this crossed your mind?
By posting statements/blogs against someone is not only upsetting for that person but upsetting for friends, family and more importantly Our Father...............
If you have something to say then you need to tell the person directly to do other than this is not only very offensive but also childish and it is about time frankly that you guys out there grew up and fast and to think about what you are doing........
I will also add here that I enjoy Candy's blogs and besides which she speaks as she sees fit - not only that this woman speaks her mind and she makes it clear that she is not offending anyone but she is trying her best to reach out to the lost out there and those that do not know the Lord.
Candy like all of us is not perfect but she has a lot to offer all of us and I certainly am learning a lot from her. Candy also does not spend "all her time" on the computer but posts once maybe twice a day. Candy moderates all her comments of which I am not surprised and quite frankly don't blame her for doing so considering the anti Candy blogs out there. This very Godly woman is very much within her rights to post the kind of posts she does and has experience. Ok, this lady may only be in her early 30's but she is a lady who can reach out to younger women and teach them. Give her a break and get a life.
I will finally say here that I also may not agree with everything that Candy writes but on the whole I do agree with her posts and this lady follows the bible through and through and does her utmost to live a very Godly life (and yes this lady makes mistakes like all of us). She does her utmost to serve her husband and to teach her children the correct way to live - good for her but everything she does is is for the Lord and if you have a problem and/or fail to see that then go to your maker our Father.
I am not going to apologise for the harshness of this post but quite frankly I can not and will not deal with childishness especially in Adults. Oh and for my comment from my last post you also have no right whatsoever to put up a blog in the manner you are doing and if you fail to see the hurt etc you are causing then perhaps you need to go back to the Word of God and to back off completely.
If any more childish or anti comments are left against Candy or anyone else then these will be deleted straight away without fail. For goodness sake get a life and grow up.
I also pray that the Lord will bring your destructive ways to your attention and that you pray for forgiveness and move forward from what you are doing -
I have said my piece and that is that!
How to stay humble ...
Have a four year old. Yes, that will do it.Tuesday we were preparing for homeschool group. I looked at my 4 year old and saw white undershirt (his favorite shirt lately) and knew it was stained, but figured oh well. Then I saw blue jeans and cowboy boots. Okay, that'll do, I thought. Arrive at homeschool group and take a closer look. Cowboy boots are wearing out in one toe ... oops! Blue jeans have a hole in the knee ... double oops! Tshirt is not only stained, but has several small pinholes in the front of it ... triple oops! Oh well, at that point there wasn't anything I could do about it. So, my ragmuffin and I attended homeschool group, and patronized the library before going home.
Wednesday, he was in a MOOD ... and not a good one. I knew before we left for church that he was not going to be obedient enough to go to his class. I'd need to keep him with me. What I didn't know was how miserable that hour sitting in the car was going to be. (I had intended to take him, 2 yo L, and baby G to an empty room ... but he fought against that.) Then we arrived home and more tantrums over bedtime snack arose. He's determined to learn the hard way that Mommy means what she says ... and to make us all miserable in the meantime.
Then, he was awake twice in the night, whining and fussing. Plus the 2 yo woke up once in the night. And Baby G decided to live up to his nickname twice ... Mister Grunt ... so I had to take him out to the living room to rock him to sleep where his grunts wouldn't wake up Steve or 2 yo L.
It wasn't a restful night, and I was not a pleasant Mommy with the whining 4 yo at 1:30 and 3:30. And I laid there thinking some not so nice thoughts about my dear hardworking husband who had gone to bed at 10 pm because he didn't feel well. He kept asking me to take his temperature to see if he had a fever, which he didn't. I'm sure I'm not the first wife to sit and think some of those thoughts in similar circumstances.
At least things look better by the light of the day, after some coffee and iced tea. But by evening, I'll be dragging, living on caffeine and chocolate.
This too shall pass, right?
And just to encourage me, and anyone else who has had a week like mine with a 4 yo, I'm posting some of my favorite encouraging quotes.
"The most important occupation on earth for a woman is to be a real mother to her children. It does not have much glory to it; there is a lot of grit & grime. But there is no greater place of ministry, position, or power than that of a mother." – Phil Whisenhunt
“Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home” – Irish Blessing
“The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.” – Harold B. Lee (1899-1973)
"Homegrown children take a lot of hard work -- and sometimes "it ain't pretty." Other times, it's breathtaking." ~~ Passionate Housewives Desperate For God, pg. 21
“Biblical motherhood means sacrifice, selfless love, and faithful dedication. It means we’re there with our families – body, mind, and spirit.” ~~ Passionate Housewives Desperate For God, pg. 21
“What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.” ~~ Martin Luther
At least their hugs and kisses and sweet smiles this morning help me forget the frustration of the night before. I know God makes them cute for their own self-preservation. They're easy to forgive, and fatigued Mommy brains forget quickly, too.
Trusting in Him,
April
Pictures!!
Wondering what this family looks like?
Head over to http://candyfoote.com/
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Candy
Still Working on Those Goals
It sure is a good thing that I have an entire week to work on this goals list!
Olivia, Heather, and I have been steadily working on the laundry. "Mount Never Rest" as some people call it.
No organization of the clean clothes other than tossing into dressers, well, so far anyway.
Still have tons of school paper work waiting for me.
I have been working right along on the general all around house clean-up, though.
I have done quite a bit on my website http://candyfoote.com/
Well, you can see that I have NOT been disciplined enough to blog daily. Although, you must admit, I am doing much better.
I have been happily working on my next three books. (The Word of God on Prayer, The Word of God on the Words of Your Mouth, and The Word of God on Who I Am")
Both the tomatoes and peppers are still waiting in the kitchen for me.
The beef came back from the butcher, though. It was 400 pounds, not 300! Yeah! We got all of that wrapped and put into the freezer. Well, most of it. We also had a great supper!
I hope you enjoyed the update!
Candy
TCG Hotline Mass Calls for Obama Campaign...
I've been getting MASSIVE calls lately which call my cell, hang up on me and NEVER leave messages. When I call them back, I'm greeted with someones cell answering system which says You've reached TCG Hotlines. I am unable to leave comments, nor can I call any other line for it.
Apparently they've been spamming MILLIONS of people Nationally in order to get more votes out there for Obama.
I'm unsure if they have anything to do with ACORN. But after much research, heard it has something to do with several entities on behalf of the Democrats which are not limited to a hotline from the Clintons as well as bloomburg, and yes, all are working for Obamas Candidacy.
Unfortunately, since the numbers are pretty much bogus 800 and other like numbers, I cannot turn them into the FCC. I've tried it already within the month.
Finally tonight I got someone and after hearing the Obama hipe, I quickly told him I have his number, I am on the Do Not Call Registry and plan to turn TCG into the FCC if they do not take me off their list for future calls. He assured me He wouldn't and I assured Him I was a McCain Supporter (though is there truely a candidate worthy of my support these days? Not really)
I just wanted to post the information so others would have it in case you get mass calls as well.
What's Coming: An Explanation Of American Economics And What YOU Need To Know
Here’s my answer to your question of “what’s coming.”
The economy is going to get worse. I know that’s hard to believe considering that in the past 15 months Americans have lost over 2 trillion dollars of retirement savings, that Iceland which has a GDP of $14 billion and liabilities in excess of $100 billion held by its banks and is on the brink of bankruptcy and the International Monetary Fund has just warned of a global “major downturn” in 2009.
A Second Great Depression?
Just how bad will things get? Recently, I had an off-air conversation with one of the titans in the business community. He has been in the thick of what’s happening on Wall Street, the credit crisis and the economy. I’ve been speaking with him about these issues for about two years and he has always been an optimist. Every argument I would make about how bad things were going to be he would counter with an equally optimistic economic prognosis. For the first time he’s now told me that our economy is in for a very “rough landing, at best” and that if our politicians don’t get the bailout exactly right we could see our GDP (a measurement of the total value of all the goods and services produced every year) falling between 15%-20% in one year.
So what does that really mean? A 15%-20% reduction of GDP would be like wiping out between $2.1 to $2.8 trillion dollars from our $14 trillion GDP. To show you how big that number really is, consider that in one year we spend about $583 billion to run the entire Defense Department, $43 billion to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security and have spent less than a trillion dollars fighting in Iraq since that war began.
By way of comparison, in the Great Depression, our national GDP fell 29% over a four year period (1929-1933) and in that period we saw 7000 banks fail, a 25% unemployment rate and a Dow Jones industrial Average suffer an 80% decline. And that was when the pain of a shrinking GDP was spread over 4 years!
About three weeks ago I had the opportunity to walk with very successful billionaire who has spent over seven decades doing business in America. I asked him what it would mean if our economy suffered a 15% reduction in GDP in one year. He stopped mid-stride, thought for a few minutes before saying, “I can’t begin to imagine how bad things would be if that ever happened.”
Credit Card Debt and Greedy Politicians will Prolong our Problems
All the financial ‘experts’ are telling us that whatever is coming our way will be short-lived. Yes, times will be tough, but we’ll quickly emerge and be stronger. I agree that we’ll survive and that we’ll be stronger, but I don’t think it will be a quick recovery.
Unlike the Great Depression we don’t have a large industrial base that will assist in our recovery and too many people don’t have the savings to help them weather the storm. Instead, the average American household carries at least$8,000 in credit card debt. Lastly, our political leadership will be a burden, rather than a help, in getting us back on track. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, President Bush and Secretary Paulson wake-up each morning and gobble-up larger pieces of the economy and American businesses. They tell us that ‘we need to do this or things will get bad’ but none of them have gone on record and told us that if we follow them we’ll be better off.
The Great Depression showed us that government intervention, at best, will only delay the eventual belt-tightening and pain that must take place to bring the marketplace back into balance. The overbuilding and liquidity excess of the past 10 years has to be brought back into balance. Despite 10 years of government programs under Hoover and Roosevelt accompanied by massive government spending it was not until World War II began that unemployment fell below 10%. It was not a coincidence that the stock market finally regained the strength it had in 1929 only when the prospect of global war appeared to be inevitable in 1939.
How Hedge Funds Could Make things Much Worse
If the government regulated banks can be in as much financial trouble as they are now, just imagine the problems lurking in the unregulated hedge fund world. Hedge funds are a 2 trillion dollar industry. That 2 trillion has been leveraged by several multiples giving it much more influence than the 2 trillion would suggest.
The super-rich invest their money in hedge funds because of their traditionally higher returns. Along with the super-rich, teacher unions, government employee unions and large mutual funds invest in hedge funds, in short, if you have money invested in the market there’s a good chance some of it is held and managed by a hedge fund.
In September, hedge funds around the world recorded their biggest drop since August 1998. Investors that wanted to pull their money out were prevented from doing so by mandatory ‘lock-up’ periods imposed by hedge funds that prevent investors from pulling their money out without giving advanced notice, typically 60 or 90 days. I can only imagine that lots of people have given notice and when they can, will be pulling out their money. When that happens the smaller hedge funds will be wiped out and the larger ones will take big financial hits. The next big test for hedge funds will be October 23rd when an estimated $400 billion in Lehman related credit-default swaps will have to be auctioned and settled, those hedge funds that can’t come up with the money will be wiped out.
Our Politicians keep Playing Politics while our Country is on Fire
Look for our politicians to take advantage of this crisis to promote their own agenda. They keep treating this like a game and are taking actions only after weighing whether their action will help or hurt ‘the party’ at election time. Our country is at the edge and our politicians are worried about elections. This can’t be about Democrats or Republicans. This has to be about saving America.
It’s shameful that Obama and McCain haven’t told the American people that there is no money for all of their proposed spending plans. No, our candidates continue to promise us new plans when we don’t have enough money to pay for the ones we already have.
During the last debate Obama told us that America is the richest country in the world and that we need universal health care. Maybe one of his advisors should tell him that this richest country in the world is borrowing 2 billion dollars a day from foreign countries because that’s how much more we spend than take in, and that was before we started bailing out Wall Street, Main Street and homeowners.
Obama is unbelievably still planning on redistributing wealth in the middle of an economic crisis by taxing those who earn in excess of $250,000 and then redistributing that money to those who make less than $200,000, including sending people who don’t pay any taxes at all $1,000 check. His plan has been called a New Tax Welfare Plan. Call it what you want, we don’t have the money to pay for it.
McCain’s plans for revamping our health care system and his support for a carbon-tax plan are also unaffordable. He should come clean with the American people and tell us that. His failure to so demonstrates that he really doesn’t understand what is taking place in our homes and businesses.
Congress wants in on the action too. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd will flood our country with new programs. The progressive ultra-left has taken over the Democrat Party. They are so liberal and so out-of-touch with mainstream America that Senator Lieberman, a longtime Democrat, left the party and is now an Independent who is publicly thinking about no longer caucusing with the Democrats. Longtime Democrat and chief fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, has said that her party is too far leftand is now actively campaigning for John McCain.
Politicians Waiting to Exploit the ‘Right’ Tragedy
Too many politicians are anxiously waiting for the right moment to expand government. They’re waiting for the “Megan Law” moment. That moment when the stars align so politicians can pass legislation over any objections, whether it’s good or bad.
Megan’s Law is named after a 7 year old girl who was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a repeat violent sexual offender. The public had finally become so outraged that the politicians had to act. Megan’s Law requires the posting of information about sexual offenders to the public. Passing Megan’s Law was the right thing to do but it shouldn’t have taken this tragedy to do it—but it took Megan’s tragedy in order to overcome the opposition from the ACLU and other groups who kept screaming about the rights of the accused.
Pelosi, Reid and the progressive left as well as many Republicans still don’t believe that our very survival is at stake with what is going on today. They still look at this meltdown as just another opportunity to score political points. If the Democrats in the House of Representatives really believed that our country’s economic security was at stake then they would have passed the bailout bill. They didn’t need any Republican support. They had the votes. But Pelosi and the Democratic leadership didn’t want to risk a massive voter backlash so they didn’t push the bill through. That is playing politics. If the Senate believed that our country’s economic security was at stake they would have passed a bailout bill without the $100 billion in ‘goodies’ attached. That is playing politics. Do the right thing for the country, stop playing politics.
As the crisis worsens and takes a higher emotional toll on the public we will see tragic stories. We will see more stories about people giving up hope, losing focus on what’s truly important and ending their lives and the lives of people they love. And when the ‘right’ story comes along, it will be exploited to take away more of our freedoms, to shred the Constitution just a little more and grab more money for the government from the people who earn it.
We can also expect our international/foreign enemies and competitors to take advantage of our current economic crisis.
Inexpensive oil is the lifeblood of our economy. It helps us plant our crops, is needed to make the clothes we wear, and keeps us moving freely by car, plane, and ship. America benefits when oil prices are low. Russia, Iran and Venezuela (along with several other countries) benefit when oil prices are high. Iran recently misreported that it forced a U.S. military airplane to land (it turned out to be a Hungarian plane carrying relief supplies). This was an attempt by Iran to spike oil prices temporarily, and it worked, until the truth came out.
Russia’s invasion of Georgia wasn’t about South Ossetia. It was about sending a message to the West that our efforts to build and maintain an oil pipeline through Georgia relied on the good graces of Russia and they didn’t want the West to forget that. Iran has continually petitioned OPEC to cut back on production in order to keep oil prices high and Venezuela is using its petro-dollars to spread his form of socialism.
Russia is also using its massive petro-dollar supply to buy influence on the international front. Remember all those banking problems Iceland is experiencing? Russia is now working with Iceland on a bailout package in an attempt to leverage this crisis into strengthening its international influence. Russia is also reaching out and strengthening its ties to Syria and Iran. Syria announced that it is dredging its fishing port of Tartous so it can accommodate Russian warships.
Iran will continue to develop its nuclear program. The countries of the world will increasingly be focused on reviving and in some cases, saving, their economies. Iran will take advantage or our collective distraction. I am increasingly in the camp that thinks Israel will have to take unilateral action against Iran before it develops a nuclear weapon and that would explain why we’ve decided to sell Israel 1,000 bunker busting bombs.
In the past four weeks Venezuela hosted two strategic long-range Russian bombers, and held joint navy exercises with a fleet of Russian ships, including a nuclear-powered missile cruiser. President Chavez has also been busy working with Columbia’s FARC terrorists and last week renewed his goal of building a ‘civilian’ nuclear program and has called for revolution throughout South America.
These countries will increasingly use more aggressive methods to drive up the cost of oil and expand their sphere of international and regional influence by generously spreading around their petro-dollars.
Meanwhile, North Korea doesn’t have any oil so it’s using the next best thing, the threat of nuclear weapons to get what it wants. It wasn’t too long ago that President Bush was touting a new ironclad agreement between America and North Korea. Well, after promising to verifiably dismantle its nuclear power plants in exchange for financial aid and fuel, the North Koreans have vowed to resume their suspended nuclear program. You can expect the guy with the crazy haircut and glasses to demand more money, fuel and aid for him to play nice again.
Closer to home you will see that Americans are increasingly feeling isolated and detached from their government. Part of the reason is that we don’t think politicians care what we think anymore. The $700 billion bailout bill passed the Senate at a time when only 30% of the country supported it. We felt that a giant stick was poked into our collective eye!
59% of Americans would vote the entire Congress out of office but due to the self-serving way the politicians have drawn their election districts it’s just this side of impossible to do it. Only 49% of the people believe that this congress is currently doing a better job than a group of individuals selected randomly from a phone book would do and 33% of us actually believe the group selected at random would do a better job!
Politicians play Politics with our Economy by Playing Politics with Energy Policy
But our politicians just don’t get it. Look at energy. We need inexpensive oil to make our country work and maintain our standard of living. To be perfectly clear: without inexpensive energy our economy doesn’t work and our standard of living dramatically falls.
You would think that our politicians, who understand this, would put our national interest above their petty desire for re-election, but they don’t. Look at what happened with offshore drilling. The federal moratorium on offshore drilling legally expired at the end of September. In theory, oil companies could have started drilling the first week of October but instead no oil company is even drafting plans to drill, why? Because they know that the politicians aren’t serious about offshore drilling. They know that too many congressmen are servants to the extremist environmental movement and as soon as the election is over will vote to either prevent offshore drilling or impose onerous conditions on any drilling. So the politicians will go home to their districts and tell the voters they are for drilling and then turn around and collect big fat donations from the environmental lobbyists who oppose drilling.
The same thing can be said about coal and nuclear power. Obama tells a national audience during his nomination acceptance speech that he and Joe Biden are for clean coal. Less than 90 days later Joe Biden is captured on tapetelling a woman that coal isn’t going to play a role in an Obama Administration energy plan.
Obama and McCain have talked-up nuclear power on the campaign trail but have done little to actually make it happen in their many years of service in the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile China plans on building about one nuclear power plant a year up through 2020.
There’s a real disconnect between our elected leaders and the people, but the majority of Americans are willing to work through this disenfranchisement. We want to reform government. We want to improve our country and communities but there is a fringe that is actively trying to exploit this disenfranchisement. I have someone on my staff that monitors the extreme blogs—stuff that most people, thankfully, haven’t even heard of. These blogs contain a call to revolution. One writer said that we need to “join with your brothers in arms and through force, return what is rightfully the peoples to the people” and another entry encouraged the reader to “rise up and join us before our nation is taken from us by the crooks and *******s that waste our air, one nation, taken back by the force of the peoples militia…”.
Guys, I told you that this was going to be a sobering letter. We are on the edge of a giant abyss that could swallow not only our economy but the freedoms and security we have enjoyed for over 200 years. Believe it or not, I don’t think that this letter captures the urgency that I feel, but I didn’t want to include wild speculation because I can’t see into the future but I wanted to give you a sense of the Perfect Storm that I have talked about and how the pressures that our economy and country face at this time are once again placing our “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” at stake.
Source: Glenn Beck
A Call To Christians For Scripture Interpretation And Sisterly Advice.
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:19-27
I've been contimplating on this scripture in James today. Praying on it. I'm a bit confused as to what it all means and thought I'd ask for elaboration for those who know His word well.
Not forgetting His word, but "doing it". Sounds as though He's saying practice what you preach. I guess I sometimes wonder about this within the Body and am hoping someone out there can explain this to me so I can understand what He actually means by this.
Recently, I had a discussion about beliefs within the body. Obviousely we know there are many "reilgious" beliefs out there. I grew up believing one way, and when I got older, after much searching and praying, I accepted Christ through Salvation. I began to understand a whole different side to "faith" and a "relationship with Christ" than I once knew.
In the whole process of it all, I have understood there are MANY teachings in the Bible that are non-essentials., BUT, there was one essential that just couldn't be changed or liberally pieced so that it fits with whatever we so choose. That would be Salvation. Confessing with our mouths that we know Jesus suffered, died, was burried, and now lives within each one of is. That it is THE ONLY thing we need to get to heaven and that everything else is non-essential and thus, really not something to be arguing over.
In this process though, I've found so many brothers and sisters alike that have been practicing tolerance even though it goes against the very foundations they have been taught. I've found myself feeling like an outsider and an outcast wondering if what I really believe is actually "real" at all. Trying to find the Truth in what I've read from the scriptures above, while also comparing it to the following scripture:
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
What does our God want us to do? He says anyone who listens and doesn't do, is like a man who looks in a mirror and forgets what He looks like.
In my own opinion, If I believe one way, I shouldn't falter or teach that one way is right if it isn't within Gods guidelines just out of tolerance or respect. On the other hand, If someone chooses to believe another way and hasn't asked my opinion, I am respectful of their faith and tolerant. I just choose not to falter on what I think is Truth based on Christs teachings, if I'm asked my opinion or belief. Often, I made to feel quite untolerant of those believing otherwise who think we should all be tolerant of a paticular belief as a "Christian" yet doesn't really follow the teachings of Christ.
Hopefully I didn't confuse many of you here: I've just been reading scripture on some things pertaining to conviction of myself, while also understanding just what I'm supposed to be doing as a child of God.
I know the biggest command is to "LOVE". Yet, I think we all know that it's hard to love someone when you disagree with them right? In my case, I'm learning not to take things I say too seriously. I mean, I'm not perfect, I DO make mistakes. It's the very reason I NEED JESUS. But I find myself having to change from believing in the Essentials of Christ (meaning only needing Salvation through Christ to get to heaven) within the Body these days, to be tolerant of ALL RELIGIONS that supposedly get us to heaven.
Sadly, I see a whole lot of "Christians" faltering to "The Worlds View" of interfaith tolerance. It's becoming SO confusing to understand Gods teachings anymore as humans have been taking scriptures out of context to suit themselves these days. Especially when those around me who are believers aren't standing on what they believe. "If You don't stand for something, You'll fall for anything" as the quote goes. I'm having a REALLY hard time and my spirit is weary.
Your Calls Made A Difference...
I thought it important to post today that due to the abundance in call volume at the NBC New York Studios, They have since posted the SNL C-Span Bailout Spoof just this morning BACK to their site.
Many people called to complain about the bias of the network and the fact that they would switch the tv to a new station.
I'm unsure how much more they'll change their stance concerning unbiased media coverage in the future, but I was pleased that they heard the American Public, who wanted answers and demanded uncensorship of the network and pray that the public will continue to hold ALL the media accountable for their unconstitutional behavior.
amazing son
God has blessed me above measure on so many things. I can't even list the blessings in my life, there are so many. One of the spectacular blessings that seems to go on like the energizer bunny is my oldest son Miles. He has always been a blessings, but out here where there are so many things that need doing, he is able to shine. One of the two water heaters in this house started leaking. The closet it is in is so small there isn't really a way to work on it. In fact, to get the water heater out we are going to have to take the door frame off. I budgeted the water heater into this months budget. I saw one at Home Depot for $330. I budgeted $400 because I know that is the nature of the beast and everything costs more than you expect and everything on an old home breaks as you touch it. Miles had been thinking about this water heater because we were going to replace it this week. He came up with an alternate plan. He would run both bathrooms off of the one larger water heater that is easier to reach and work on, plus the average house has one water heater to use on the whole house. My house tends to be a house of after thoughts and things were hooked here and there to make up for someone after thought (before we bought). He ran into town after his very long day of school and bought everything to do this. Instead of costing $400 it only cost $25. Now I can buy a stove with the difference. I don't want to buy my dream stove right now, just something that the stove top and oven works (that seems like a dream stove right now). Once we remodel the kitchen I will buy the dream stove. After many hours under the house (in the crawl space) he had the second bathroom up and running. He is totally amazing to me. This is my 20 year old who has never seen anyone do this, but can figure it out. He is my carpenter, electrician, plumber, chef, bird raiser, neat freak, organizer, fashion lover, decorator, mechanic, architect, problem solver, listener, opinionated, honest, loyal, committed, Christian, and one of my very best friends. God has surely blessed me.
I hope all of you have someone like him in your life.
Blessings, Brenda
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