The Imagination

The imagination is a wonderful gift of God that can give you images before you create something, but if it is allowed, it will carry you into shameful sin. The Book of Genesis tells us that the reason God destroyed the entire human race, except for eight people, was that "the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth."( Genesis 8:21) One of the things that God hates is "a heart that devises wicked imaginations."
(Proverbs 6;18)When God pointed Ezekiel to the sin of Israel, He said, "Son of man, have you seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery?"(Ezekiel 8:12) The key to a good imagination is to line the walls of the mind with the fear of God, and then to use that gift of God for the extension of His Kingdom and for the glory of His name. There goes another minute. Gone forever. Go share your faith while you still have time.

The World of Home

A church withing a church, a republic within a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters- Home! If things go right there, they go right everywhere; if things go wrong there, they go wrong everywhere. The door-sill of the dwelling house is the foundation of Church and State. A man never gets higher than his own garret nor lower than his own cellar. In other words, domestic life over arches and under girds all other life. The highest House of Congress is the domestic circle; the rocking chair in the nursery is higher than a throne. George Washington commanded the forces of the United States, but Martha Washington commanded George. Chrysostom's mother made his pen for him. If a man should start out and run seventy years in a straight line he could not get out from under the shadow of his own mantle-piece.

I have a word of advice to give to those who would have a happy home, and that is, let love preside in it. Why your behavior int he domestic circle becomes a mere matter of calculation, when the caress you give this merely the result of deliberate study of the position you occupy, happiness lies stark dead on the hearthstone. When the husband's position as head of the household is maintained by loudness of voice, by strength of arm, by fire of temper, the republic of domestic bliss has become a despotism that neither God nor man will abide. O ye who promised to love each other at the altar, how dare you commit perjury? Let no shadow of suspicion come on your affection. It is easier to kill that flower than it is to make it live again. The blast from hell that puts out that light leaves you in the blackness of darkness forever.

~T. DeWitt Talmage

Repent and turn America. Beg for mercy from you Maker.

I know it has been way too long and I have not the time for a real post but I wanted to share this video.

I was asked to post again. This is for you Missa Lyn.

I am sick again. Fever and aches. Tight chest. Not fun.

The house is moving along. Most of my family went over and worked there today. I stayed home with the littles.

Beans is naughty. I am ready for her to get bigger and be able to understand instruction a little more.

I am really bad at giving instruction instead of just getting angry. I need to work on that. Not reacting out of frustration.

Last Wednesday I did big group time in Awana. We talked about Bangladesh. I brought the kids some spices to smell and legume to look at. I told the kids a little about Islam and how Christians are persecuted by the Muslims. I was fairly vague. But I did tell them that the only way to heaven according to the Muslim faith is by killing Jews and Christians.

The kids didn't understand. They have no concept of killing someone because they believe differently. I was asked if they killed them because they were a "different color". I explained it didn't matter what color you were. One child asked me "Why they do that?". I was puzzled. I didn't know how to answer. There isn't a reason other than that men's hearts are evil. But those kids don't understand that at least not without much discussion. Another child answered for me. She said " Because they don't know God." That is exactly right. It is because they don't know God.

The only reason we have for not killing or doing anything else to another person is because of God. God's law is written upon our hearts. We have been given a conscience but that can be seared and shaped by circumstance. If it were not for a heart knowledge of the Creator there would be no reason for us to abstain from evil. No not everyone who sees murder as wrong is a Christian. But as I said before a conscience can be shaped by circumstance thus if they live in an environment where to take a life is wrong then they will see that as true.

This idea of the conscience may be wrong and if it is someone please tell me. I seem to remember hearing this idea from someone knowledgeable.

Tomorrow is church. I am not sure if I will be going. If I don't feel any better than I do now I don't think I will make it.

Beans needs my attention.

May God impart His grace to you......

Yes Lana I am feeling better....

I have been reading through Proverbs lately. The books just goes with my life right now. I am young and stupid and in need of advice, wisdom. I just wanna know what God says so that I can love Him and keep His commandments.

As I have read through I keep noticing this theme: counsel. My thought is " Well, that is why I am here. I wanna do what is right and I need someone to tell me."

My mom has been great as I struggle through this begining of the school year. She has been there to counsel me. Sometimes I don't want to listen to my mom's counsel. Sometimes it makes me hurt to obey but I came across this verse: Proverbs 19:20.

Now first off I must say that what my mom has told me has been in command form. It would not be a sin of direct disobeience to my mom to not heed her warning. (Let me say that it WOULD be sin bc it would not be honoring my mother as God commands me to do)

But when I was reading I came across that verse and I clung to it bc through that I was reminded that I was doing what was right even though my flesh groaned. I have already seen some good fruit from heeding her words. A friendship was not destroyed bc of my hastiness. (That is a whole nother topic that I have been seeing popping up in Proverbs; doing things rashly. Hmmm I don't know anyone who does that....)

Now what does that verse say?

" Listen to advice and accept instruction that you may gain wisdom in the future."

Know this: GOD ALWAYS KEEPS HIS WORD. I am a walking bilboard of " God said no in the Proverbs I did" and I have had to deal with the consequences that God says will come for my actions! Bc guess what? He is God and He hits the nail on the head eveytime. I know that is a great revelation but please learn now that actions have consequences. Not only actions but thoughts and ideas as well. But that is another blog post.

If God will keep His word when he says "your gonna fall if your are pround" why wouldn't He when he says "you'll be wise"? Well He does. Often times when it is a promise for good it takes us longer to recognize the good that come from obedience. We are slow to have faith in what God says concerning things that go against our nature. It hurts! Our society and fallen natures say "That action may have consequences but I can't see them now or they might not even happen and it could be good for me, or at least fun and pleasureable now, so I am gonna do it anyway! I don't care whether it is not purdent. Live for the moment and don't look back." When we sin we can get away with sin of a while and when the end comes the fall is great and the consquences are bitter: the second part of the two fold Proverb comes into play and there is no mistaking it.


To be continued at a later date.....

Life in general

I need to update.......

Lets see what is going on? I am sick. I have been naseaus for the past 3 days.

I can fit into an xs pair of pants as of today when I tried a pair on. That amazes me b/c I shouldn't be able to do so.

I did horribly on my Spanish homework. But I got to eat an empanadilla. But b/c I was sick I could only stomach one. I wanted to eat more but I thought I was gonna hurl so I decided slow and steady and I might be able to eat the whole thing.

I need to practice the piano.

Heath is sick.

I am learning to trust God with the outcome of circumstances that I can't control. (you see I can't see how it is gonna be) And btw it is hard and I am not doin so great thus far but I'm working on it.

Now I am gonna go do some chores. Comment me!

p.s. My brother won his bb game on Friday. I so excited about going to the next set of Patriot games!

Fellowship and Food AND a Movie

Hey Ya'll!

It has been that our get togethers outside of regular high school fellowship have been to go bowl. This time it is going to be different. I recently attended a Code Blue Rally here in town and it got me to thinking that we, (as the next generation) need to know what is going on, have our heads up, and most importantly think as a Christian should- Biblically. Thus, an idea was born.

Instead of bowling lets get together, have some pizza, watch a Christian comedian, AND watch one speaker from a Code Blue conference.

I know some of my peers groan at the thought of more school in free time. But really is it that bad? I think that 30 - 45 minutes won't hurt us. Besides fellowship trumps any sort of pain that could come from learning how to defend and strengthen our faith. (as if that could harm us)

All of that said..... please join us at

7:00 p.m.
October 13th
at the Riley's

Questions and suggestions are, of course, welcome!

Uck! change

I know I need to post but I don't really know what to write. Church choir has started back up again and I am teaching bell choir this year too. Bell choir's first week was last week and I had only 4 students. Originally I wasn't going to teach unless I had 8 student for there are 8 note but as three of the kids are from last year and my newbie picked up all that we went over so quickly that I figured I would go for it. Hannah N has graciously agreed to help me teach. Thanks Hannah! You think of things that I don't see.

We have a new music minister now. I am still figuring out what exactly I think of him. He is still new and I am not one for change.

Change -that is my theme for this year. There have been numerous changes in things this year. The Andrews leaving and my house for starters. The summer didn't bring calm but more and more keeps happening. I am learning how to deal with change. All of it so far hasn't' been fun. But that is ok. God has been teaching me so graciously. I am learning that " all things" really do "work for good". Even things that we bring on ourselves. I went to a "Walk thru the Bible" conference last weekend and a man there said something that very much encouraged me. He said that God is in the business of refining us just as one who purifies gold. And the things that happen to us have to first go through Him. God is sovereign and everything that happens He first must allow. (I dearly hope my theology is right in this translation) Whether those things are just regular old trials, the things you have no control over, or the consequences of sin, God uses them to glorify Himself and conform us to His image. "Don't waist your life" by Piper also states this. (I am reading that right now btw)

How great is that? That no matter whether we bring it on ourselves or not God will use it for His glory. How sweet the words of Ps. 103! I am so thankful that no matter what I do, if I repent, He will forgive and have compassion as a father on his children.

I am looking back over some of the events of this year so far and am able to see how God has kept His promises. Ya know what? I can even see the negative promises from the warnings in Proverbs come to. Ya that one about pride and falling. It is such a comfort to know that He IS there. And I can see it even in the chastisement I get from His word.

"O Lord my God, Oh Jesus, thank you for fulfilling your word. Even if it is simply a Proverb coming to life."

There is a post for now. Rather a-typical but really when is a blog post of mine typical?

I haven't really been paying much attention to the presidentional ellection this year but yesterday I heard about Obama's running mate Biden. Of course if he is coupled with Obama then he can't be good and what I heard was distasteful to say the least. I was told, by those who keep up with it namely my pastor's wife, that he worked for and was a socialist. I have done a bit of research and haven't been able to find what she was talking about.....yet. But I did find this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden This site is his actual site.http://biden.senate.gov/ A quick look at his biography makes me think that Obama found his perfect match.

Quick Update

1) We watched, for the first time ever, one of our geckos (this one was Paragon I believe) molt.
2) Our house is officially being put back together. They started work early Wednesday worning. If I have heard correctly (haven't gotten to go around the corner) they have some new walls up!

On flying guitar we can go anywhere.....

As I sat thinking this day, which, mind you happens very little, rather too little actually, but anyway this thought popped into my cranium " I have this weird craving to write a blog post". Thus I am here.



Homework is eating me alive. Ok so not really I am just oober slow. I am going to have to find some way to ameliorate that problem. Physics is much, as in there is much of it, but not as hard as I thought. Spanish homework is done besides revision. Yeah ha!



I actually completed all of my subject today by around 1:00 pm. But I am trying to do as much work in a day as possible so there is yet physics in my lap.



Spanish is so far not that hard but I am afraid that I am not learning that much. Profesora Lana that is not due to you but rather my seeming inability to retain the knowledge that I accumulate during class. I don't know. I am probably learning more than I realize. That seems to be the case nine times out of ten. And be excited for me I throw in Spanish words at random during conversations and whatnot! That makes me happy.



I am thinking that maybe this evening I will watch a movie in Spanish with out English subtitles and see what all I can pick up on. Immersing oneself in "la lengua" is apparently the best way to learn.



Nicole is doing some better. In fact at this very moment she is working at the main branch library. She works this evening and tomorrow for a good stint of the day and four days this week. Her ulcer is healing and her mouth is healed to the point that normal people would have been healed about 3 days after her wisdom's removal. In other words she is a slow healer. Her pain meds don't' seem to be working anymore. At least this is what she is saying. If I remember correctly they also told me that the swelling is going down. I am sure she would enjoy some company so go pick up a book at that library, smile at her, and tell her you want her to get well soon.



I am thinking that this should be the... never mind I knew what I was going to say.



Today my God's sovereign hand I yet have two living youngsters. Earlier Beans, J. Alan and I went outside to play for you see today it is a beautiful 59degrees outside with a bright sunny sky. Katy popped her head out from our second story bathroom window to wave to say hello to the kids but she didn't remember to close the window. B/c of the fall in the garden, my youngest sibs are bad. It is just a fact. Thus, our escapades in the great outdoors were cut short. It wasn't long before the tears ceased and the Beans and J/A were back to their fun. Little did we know how much fun. After a period of time, I know not how much for I was engrossed in finishing my Physics, we became aware of the lack of two young presences. Voices, laughing, playing together, nicely! Upstairs! This is not a good thing, mind you, b/c it is always a sign of mischief. Bounding up the stairs I turned the corner to see the children in the bathroom playing but there is no mess er very little. How can such a thing be? The window. They are by the window. "Get downstairs!" They scurry off and I warily approach the sill. No, I did not yell nor was I angered. Why I was not I don't know. Maybe it was that I was relieved that only all the contents of our bathroom cupboards (more or less) were on the ground outside and not a body. "Breath in and out" yes I know how to breath in and out and somehow I did so and rather coolly too. I couldn't' tell you what I was thinking at the sight of the mess. I really don't know. I am alright. I highly doubt that I shall be scarred for eternity. What of the children, you ask? They made it out alive. In fact, they just keep going back to various things that they aren't supposed to be in. Like right now in the kitchen, the one who is into the coffee. I suppose I need to leave now. I have physics and children to take care of.
Hasta la vista, mi amigos!

One dark and story night so many years ago this day became something to be feared...

Happy Birthday Emma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would love to have the time to sit here and write an ode to Emma but I don't. So, instead, I say that my comment sections should help me. We love you dear!

Lady

La camara bonita es mia well I wish.....

My mom got a new little OLYPUS fe-350 wide off e-bay. Umm so how much do I love this brand of camera!? I have played with many a friends' camera on choir tour and else where and found that OPYMPUS is by far the best brand. A friend of mine has one a few years old but it still has better anti shake, shutters settings, and whatnot than some of our other friends' new models from other brands. Apparently this isn't the most expensive brand which is nice but its cameras take some pretty stinkin awsome pics! Now all we need is a memory card so I can take a gonzillion er so mom can take a gozillion pictures.

I now know what brand I am gonna buy when I invest in my beautiful slr or dslr or whatever is the biggest and bestest for my needs. Yahooo! Ya so I am just a bit excited. But who knows when I will bother buyin the silly thing. I don't need to buy anything. I need to save my money. I am going to be a poor college student next year. Don't spend money Lady. Save it girl, save it!

Psalm 19

Psalm 19
The Works and the Word of God.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.

1The heavens are telling of the glory of God;

And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.

2Day to day pours forth speech,

And night to night reveals knowledge.

3There is no speech, nor are there words;

Their voice is not heard.

4Theirline has gone out through all the earth,

And their utterances to the end of the world

In them He has placed a tent for the sun,

5Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber;

It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

6Its rising is from one end of the heavens,

And its circuit to the other end of them;

And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

7The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul;

The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

8The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;

The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever;

The judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether.

10They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;

Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.

11Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;

In keeping them there is great reward.

12Who can discern his errors?

Acquit me of hidden faults.

13Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins;

Let them not rule over me;

Then I will be blameless,

And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.

14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart

Be acceptable in Your sight,

O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.

Pride

Written by a friend........
Have you ever noticed how prideful you can get? I’m going to bet that you haven’t. There were a few messages I’ve heard on the same passage recently and that was 1 Peter 5:5-7. It compared pride and humility with each other, and showed that they are direct opposites. When you’re humble you can’t be prideful and prideful you can’t be humble.
Verse 5 says that we are to be humble as young men are to be submissive to the elders. We are to clothe ourselves in humility towards one another because God will oppose the proud, but give grace to the humble.
So how do we become humble? Verse 6 says that we are to humble ourselves under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift us up in due time. Then in verse 7 we are to cast all our anxiety on him because he cares for you.
What is this all saying then? It’s simple really. It’s saying that we can’t be humble until we cast our anxieties on God. We as a fallen people are so prideful and arrogant that when we don’t give our worries to God we’re saying that He is NOT big enough or powerful enough to handle our problems. When we worry we’re being prideful.
If we are a fallen people then why would God want us to cast our worries on him and become humble? In verse 7 it says we are to cast our anxieties on him because He CARES for YOU. If you’re worried about something, anything at all, so is He. He wants to carry that burden for you because He can. God is good, and He loves you.
We need to trust that God will work everything out the way it is to be done and give Him that worry.
I’ve rambled quite a bit, but I think I got my point across.

What used to be quite fun is becoming rather tedious

I got a new calulator today. My TI-84 scares me. I can't get it to do what it should do. The tan function isn't anything all that spectacular. My dinky pinkish one can do it correctly! I gues I will learn. The manuel for the thing is viii + 216 pages long.

I have done some algebra today. Yipee. Joy and ecstasy. Tomorrow I am off to Spanish by Lana and the rest of this week I am goin to be diligently studyin' my ACT test prep book. I've got to find it first. That'll be what I do after this.

Children's church went well again Sunday. The number of kids we have is up and we have new first graders. The did a pretty good job of participating and behaved pretty good. I was proud of them. I think I am going to have to get a fill in the blank slide made so that they will really learn Ps. 1. We, I, forgot to put up the slide so they had a quick review of it at the end of CC. Next time we are going to learn verse 3. I hope that the kids will get this ingrained into their brain.

Mom is making leftover soup for dinner. I think it is going to be really yummy.

Well I best be off. Talk to me peoples. What is up with ya'll?

Colie is home and has already had her first done of Taco Bell. Her flight was again delayed so she didn't land until 9:45ish. But at least this time it was a delay in the states.

As it turns out the Brits wanted to hold em for another day but, b/c they have a wonderful GS counselor person, a fit was pitched and they traveled to a different airport borded, a different plane, and were transported over the big blue pond.

I will have to let her tell you her flight patter for I don't know it. All I know was that I bounce the whole way to the airport and basically the entire time we waited for her to arrive. Yes, I do love my Colie.

Missa Lyn this post is for you.....

What has happened in the not so distant past? My grandpa is back in the state that holds his home. He and his evil dog came a visited our house the day after he got back. Ok so fine the dog isn't evil but I don't like dogs, in general that is, I like Gabe.

Brandon, my eventual BiL, is a new father of a fat little black cat that came from the Danari back yard. He loves his Scout probably b/c his girl does. I don't know he may holds some affection for the animal itself. He is the one in the family that actually likes cats. Everyone else seems to get a kick out of them though. Apparently she is fat and stupid and when she rolls over she cant' get up.

Nicoley~Oly (I'm sure she loves that name) will not be back in the country for a while. :( It makes me very saddy. I do believe that her parents are traveling home today after being on a attending-cousin's-wedding vacation. I hope to hear how that went soon.

Jelly Bean has a new dress made out a big boy's shirt. The pattern we saw online made it out of a men's M shirt. Tis very cute. I would post a pic but it isn't easy to do that with mom's camera and who knows where Lienardo's is.

Today my Nana called and asked if I wanted to do lunch. I, of course, love doing lunch and so we went. We tried a new place " Joe's Italian Grill". The good things that we heard about this restaurant were all true but you must not be a poor man to eat there. Lunch for the two of us was $15. I guess that isn't too bad but that was lunch prices and I don't have money. So if you wanna go someplace really good for something special, try it!

Mom forgot to turn on the oven thus we are eating Pizza for dinner.

I had a headache all day. I tried sleeping it off but even sleep and the meds couldn't make it go away. Yuck.

We have a new addition to our household today! Two speckled gecko's joined our ranks. They happen to like wild rollie pollies. Yes, cheap food for ugly beasties.

Heath and her family came to our church on Sunday night b/c the air in their is out and they canceled evening service. She and I sat together and then both of our family's went to Braums afterward. Our mom's are planning some sort of family get together. The dad's said "Time to go" and the mom's pretty much said " Do we have to?". Ya know I thought that was kids line but maybe I am wrong. I guess they were having as good a time as the rest of us.

I was supposed to get off the computer a couple of paragraphs ago so I am going to end with that. Was this good enough Missa Lyn?

:smooch:

Have you ever been broken by God through a circumstance? Sometimes God uses circumstances to bring us break us and bring us back to Him. All of a sudden through something that happens the scales fall and you realize that your perspective and focus has been off. You have been tantalized by the world. But God in his infinite mercy and love uses circumstances to reveal to you the state of your heart. God uses that event to shock you into reality and then,as a Christian, you turn to the Word and He strikes again through the Sword of the Spirit.

It stings. It is supposed to. But when we are chastised, disciplined, it should, in a way, cause us to cry out for joy. Now don't start hollering'. I know what I am saying. After repenting and coming into fellowship with Him we can rejoice. Not only b/c He is faithful to forgive when we repent but also that He even bothers with us.

We are so unworthy to even be in fellowship with the Creator of the universe. We who, in our sin, hate Him. But God, b/c He is good and just, made a way for us and draws us unto Himself. And if we are His He will not leave us to our own devices. He will bring us back to Him. He promises He will. "He will perfect us until the day of Christ Jesus". I'm sorry I don't remember the reference.

We stray so often and sometimes so far into sin we don't even know we are there. But our Great God brings us back to Him if we truly are His. That is why we can rejoice. Not only that He will forgive but at the fact that it is an assurance. Hebrews 12:3-11 tells us that we can know that we are of the faith if God disciplines us.

Ya'll I am making very little sense today. This is one of my favorite verses right now.

Ps. 119:67.
Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your word.

The cross references that are tagged onto "afflicted" are Pr. 3:11-12 as well as Hebrews. Job 5:17 is another verse that goes along with this.

Wow this isn't well written. Very little of my stuff actually is, but this is especially topsy turvey.

It seems like my poor blog is being neglected only getting posted on once a week. Oh well.


Let us go back in time to what has happened in the past week..... How about only to yesterday?

My grandpa is not in the state that holds his house right now so we, being the wonderful family that we are, went out to his house to get the mail. The very polite, kind, diligent, plebeian mailman that I have never met didn't show up on the day that he was 'sposed to. We stayed and stayed and then we left b/c it gets hot at grandpa's house. Thus my mother was forced to venture into the wilds of our neighbor state.

What I forgot to mention before our great exodus was that Coley called. She was bawling. Yesterday my Colie (yes BD she was mine FIRST) left the good old U.S. of A. for London, England. Her guy was there that morning before classes to say goodbye. Mom told me that Shawna Momma said that at the airport she didn't cry which is good. While she is over there it is very little contact with this side. No good. 3 weeks only 3 weeks. :(

Note: Colie's staples came out fine. She said that she squeezed her man's hand till it turned a funny color but it only felt as if she had someone plucking her leg instead of eyebrows.

Today I am home with Beans Louise and Nopee as the rest of them went with mom into the wilderness. I think we are gonna have some fun...

Saturday. Looking ahead my dears. Saturday we are having a ginormous garage sale for some people at my church who are going to serve as Missionaries in Greece. We already have a ton of stuff and some of it looks really good so if you can and would come by and have a look. It is gonna be at the rent house.

Alright people muy amore!

~Lady ;k

I opened my blog and went " Oooo, need a new post" and then thought "I have nothing to say".

Today mom did some rearranging in the house and moved the TV into the living room from the dining room. We now have a place to put it in there. Some sorting was accomplished.

I did some school. Only 4 more days of last years English! I need to do some math tonight.

Dad just broke something. He isn't too happy and what do the kids do? Come watch. They have to investigate and it isn't a good thing.


Kels got into town yesterday and afternoon which means that "the car" is in town. So after spending about an hour at my house I said "So ya wanna go for a ride?". So Taters, Wounded Soldier,I and the driver went for a road trip through town. I called Heath and she was so very excited so we went to see her. First, b/c it was on the way we stopped at the Csg house and Mr. Csg drove "the car". After that we headed on to Heath's and showed off the ride. We took her for a ride and her daddy came out to look at "it". Our whole alias for leaving the house was drinks. We were going to SB. So after giving rides we went to our final destination and bought drinks. While we were there we saw Heath's brother and their church friends. It turns out that a girls' dad was the one that pulled their group outside to check out the car. It was funny cause Heath's bro was a bit bummed about having to be somewhere and not able to ride and he isn't even the one who checked it out first!

Drinks done and gawking accomplished we shipped out towards home. Did you know that people really like nice cars and they honk at you and ask you at the stop light "Is that a new challenger? Whered'ja get it? ^Insert word that shouldn't be used^ They don't even have those here." and people on little motorcycles almost can't drive b/c they are too busy looking at you? Oh the joys of having such a toy. Mom enjoyed her frozen Mocha and I suffered from what I think may have been a caffeine induced migraine. That's alright I had fun and now I might know better. But who know whether that head ache was from the drink or not. It might have just been coming to me. I may have to try another one to see if that really was the cause.

I think that is all of my adventures from the weekend. Sorry this was another one of those unstimulating posts.

Turquoise duct tape wraps arms beautifully

Did you know that little boys, when they are angry and unregenerate, sometimes behave like dogs and pee on whatever they wish.

Yesterday evening Nicole went to do her usual house sitting chores at the Danari's and was slit by glass in her calve. I bled profusely, so I understand, and was stapled shut by the doctor at the walk in clinic. She called my house b/c her mom was not yet back to the house when this tragic event took place thus she called my house and my parents went to her rescue.

I have come to think that eskimo kisses should be shared by husbands and wives (this of course I am guessing b/c I have been neigther) and by a child under the age of 4 and someone old. Mom eskimo kissed me last night and I found it almost disturbing. But if the way mentioned is the way my mom does so choose to display her afection towards me then I shall take them with out any complaints. I love my mommy. Just so ya know, if you are ever depressed moms are great at helping you out of it.

This evening I am expecting to enjoy some of the pleasures known to be enjoyed by people who play the wii. I have rarely used this form of timewaster but I intend to do so tonight with my newly lame friend (lol). We are gonna house sit. ;D

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2008 Challenger

So Tony I mentioned something about this sweet car. I figured I'd let you see it now. I honestly don't know much about it other than it is kinda pretty. So if someone does you could sorta help me out here.

I just got back from going to see Kung Fu Panda. I don't recommend that you go see it. Don't bother to spend you money.

My aunt is in town and said that she would take us to see a movie namely Kung Fu Panda. I read up on it and the review looked pretty clean. Very little inuendo the worst thing in it was the Eastern religious stuff. I thought, pretty clean I can't really red flag it for any reasons and told mom it was watchable. The whole while I was thinking " No movies. TV doesn't honor God we can't watch it. Even our clean old movies. LORD are you calling me to give up tv?"

God is really working in my heart right now but I also know that I have been under attack. Lately I have felt guilty for doing just about everything. That is not of God. Feeling guilty all the time is not of our LORD. God very pointedly convicts.

We are called to be holy b/c He is holy. But I know that I am falling far short of this calling. But then I remember that we won't be perfect in this life and He knows it. Does that mean that I am to live a life of lawlessness? I will never be perfect and He has saved me from my past, present, and future sin so whay not? "May it never be!" were the words breathed by God( 2 Timothy 3:16) through the man Paul in Romans 6:1 and else where. We were saved to be "conformed to the image of His Son..." (Romans 8:29). We are called to be like Christ.

Well then, who is Christ? What did Christ do? How did He live? Blamelessly. He preached, served, and loved the Father. Christ is revealed to us through the word. The living word that is "sharper than a two edged sword"

In His mercy not only did God save us be He is sanctifying us. Ephesians 5:26-27 says that Christ gave Himself up for us, the church, to sanctify and present us to himself "without spot or wrinkle... that she might be holy and without blemish".

But how are we sanctified? Romans 12:1-2 presents the case ( if you don't know off the top or your head, as with the rest of these verses, look it up). First we are to be holy. Second, how do we become holy? By the renewing of our minds. Ok thats great but how do we renew our minds? Lets turn to the Old Testament. Ps. 119:9,11 and really the whole chapter, tells us that bythe word our way is kept pure by the word our paths are directed and by the word we "might not sin against You". If we travel back to 1 John 2:1 the verse states that "I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin." Thus by knowing what has proceeded from the mouth of God and treasuring it in our hearts we can discern truth from lie and live accordingly.

We know this but we fall short and indeed we do sin. So how do we know that we are of God and do not just have a "form of godliness"? In the closing part of 1 John he says that these things were written "that you may know you have eternal life" (1 John 5:13). This whole book is full of tests that prove, or disprove, our regeneration. I am not going to go into them here and now. And, in case your wondering, we are told to "test ourselves to see if we are in the faith" (1 Cor 13:5). John Piper has a wonderful series on 1 John and the new birth that I would suggest that you find and listen to. God has quelled some fears through them.

As you can probably see this is what I have been dealing with lately. I would ask that you please pray for my encouragement in the faith. Lies are being wispered in my ears by the enemy and it has made me blue and physically sick to an extent. Ya'll I hope that by this post this may be an encouragement to others. And if anyone has any words of wisdom my reading in Proverbs today says that we are to listen to godly council.

I am going to play with my family. Every one is going swimming.

adios!

If you open milk and the aroma of fruit loops tantalizes your nostrils that is a sure sign that you milk it bad unless, of course, you siblings decided to put fruit loops into your gallon of milk. In our house this morning that wasn't the case and when the fruit loop milk was drank an upset stomach was the result.

Over the weekend I have learn a valuable lesson about animals. God made them to live outdoors. They do not have their own way of disposing of waste nor are they able to clean up their lovely deposits of hair. The aroma given off by the filthy beasts is not pleasant to the smell receptors up the nasal cavity and is hard to eliminate. The stench can be covered but some times the mask is worse than the original offence. I must add to the end of this paragraph a word of hope to those who love their pets indoors and not out. Constant cleaning can keep a house free of pet odors and any other sign of life outside of human form and I know a wonderful lady who is able to do so in such a way that I marvel. I applaud you Mrs. Danari, yes mam, I do.

I also learn of a smell that I cannot stomach. Dirty cat litter is....... no good. That and boiling vinegar may be the only to things that evoke the desire to hurl. Oh the potency of that stench!

In other news.....

I now have a new(to me) car;a little black buick. My grandpa gave it to me and my parents drove way too far into Kansas to get it for me. Round trip for them mom guestamated to be about $300 and that would happen to be the total cost of my new car.

While our parents were off enjoying the lovely landscape of America's breadbasket, the children sat at Nana's grumbling and complaining and being all out nemesisses. Let us just say that we don't know how to behave and are learning this week.

Sometime this afternoon I will engage my mind in a wondeful game of "Remember you Algebra" but as of right now the game I am entering into is "chase J. Alan" and it isn't a fun game.

Happy Birthday

Today is a great day in America. ? years ago on this day a wonderful addition to our society was brought into the world by a new mother. Somehow this pint sized super momma was able to bring forth, by God's grace, a beautiful baby girl.

After enduring great hardship, which brought about a Chinese belly button, this phenomenal young woman has become as a strong woman of God. Ok maybe not quite a woman but well on her way.

Many thanks to her parents for bringing her up in the fear and admonition of the Lord. Because of their obedience to God and God's protection of her I have wonderful friend in Heather H.

Sorry that is the newest picture I have.

Dress up memories

Britney and I were there too but I uploaded these so that Judy and Emy could see the dresses I am going to let the borrow for their 4h thing. Girls, if you don't like them you don't have to wear them. Do you understand? Nod you head yes now.

Ya'll I just found this green site. I am not all about going green but I thought this place was cool.

Why do we even have these things? I hardly write things that I could even begin to know how to title!

Yesterday, in an attempt to keep the natives from devouring each other, we drug the spinning water thing into the back yard. The spinning water thing kept them in a good mood and away from each others throats. (First we just went outside to play then we played with bubbles then brought out he big guns) That was the beginning of our water adventures. Ok so we really didn't' do much with water yesterday just ran through the sprinkler in the morning and swam at Mrs. Danari's house that evening.

Also yesterday, some guy came to our house (we didn't know he was coming) to look at the place where our roof leaks upstairs in the bathroom. Ya - no one was dressed for the day. Thankfully we had company Wednesday night so I slept in my day clothes.

Ooo! I slept all the way through the night last night! Yeah! I haven't been sleeping well or feeling good but it looks like I might be getting better. Hopefully!

Back to join the first paragraph. Swimming! Beans was so afraid of the water at first. She sat on the side with mom for a good long time but after a while mom said that she had to get in. " I want mommy! I want mommy!" "Yeah, pretty much you can't have mommy but you can wave as we pass by!" That was gist of our conversation at first. She would get sorta excited
b/c I mentioned mom ( she thought we'd let her out) and started to wave then, as we passed, on our conversation would begin again. "Don't like it! Don't like it!" "Beans, your fine. You are going to like it whether you do or not."

She did eventually like the water and sat on a floaty mat thing while I pushed her around the pool.

J. Alan, the little man in my lap right now, loved the pool. It took him a few minutes to warm up, very few. He is going to tell you all about it.

" I swimmed in the water. I goed in the water and I sinked and I got on the boat and it was sinking and I had to get out."

This boat happened to be Mr. K. He rode and played with him till they were both tired out. I was glad he was there to keep track of J. Alan. His being there meant that I didn't have run around so much. I spent a very leisurely evening in the pool floating around on noodles or other flotation devices. Quite relaxing.

When we were done Ar made Amish bread (I "helped") and our littles ate the Danari kitchen out of snacks. They know where to find good snacks. That house is never lacking good food. I hope the bread turned out. We had to sub junkit vanilla ice cream mix for vanilla pudding. It smelled great so it should have tasted good as well.

That is enough of me rambling about nothing you want to hear. I need to go get ready for Heath b/c she is coming to play with me today. We are going to do something special for lunch but don't know what at of yet. She is bringing us a move called Lorna Doone. I read the youth version of the book. I liked it ok. She says it is a good movie so we'll see.

I would like to leave you with a Bible verse but I don't have one jumping out at me right now but I will leave you with this admonition. Stay in the word. Study it day and night ask God to write it on you heart. Ask Him to cause it to increase you faith b/c "faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God."

Love and please continue to keep me in your prayers.

~Lady

p.s. Please pray for the Danari family. Their roof is leaking after being newly put on (by new I mean the left overs are still in their yard) among other things.

Thursday June 5th 2008

The Bible Prohibited in Colorado

Senate Bill 200After 400 years of religious freedom for those who wanted to own anddistribute Bibles on their own property in America, the Governor ofColorado has put an end to it. SB08-200, signed into law last weekwill prohibit the issuing, circulating, and distributing of Leviticus20:13. While churches are exempted for now, Christian schools,Christian book stores, private business, etc. are not.http://www.generationswithvision.com/

I kiped this from TruthMatters.

p.s. Please pray for me as I walk through the valley.

The twisted marathon

Time for a new post. There is so very much to say and so very little time and space to do it!

Today was my first day back after being gone for two weeks with the exception of about half a day and a night in between my two trips. It all started with Branch people camp. I had an absolutely lovely time. I hope and pray that what went on was God moving in hearts not just emotional hype. The music was wondermous. It had good theology! That made me VERY excited. Our music leader even said that it was important to have sound doctrine in our music! Yeah ~ha!

The camp speaker, Keahbone, was pretty good. Monday night he challenged first all the counselors and other leader to get right with God. After them he challenged all believers to make sure that they were in fellowship with the Father. He gave a short sinner invatation that evening but he honed in on us Christians. I thougth that was pretty cool.

I love Branch people! Everyone was so sweet and kind. I had a blast getting to meet new people and getting to know better those that I was already aquainted with. Thank you Branch!

Choir tour. Well ummm..... there were some good times. I was introduce to some of the realities of the world. Just so you know, some people are just unkind and if you are a girl, homesick, and clueless you might cry alot when thoes people behave unkindly. No really there were some highlights such as working with a small church in the city passing out tracts and talking to people, and singing at the ball game was muy bueno/bien. Truth be told, I have some friends who really do care if you are hurting and are watching out for me. It was a learning experience and I survived.

I must be done as I have to try to catch up on some sleep by going to bed early. Love ya'll and am so very glad I have you for friends.

Lady

Pray for me. Pray that I would learn discernment in my speech.

LADY

I dadn't talked to ya'll in a coons age....

New post, new post, new post...... Where shall I begin. Ah why not begin with the conclusion of our last post.

The movie was a success! There were a lot of people there. I walked into the theatre and stopped once I saw the size of the crowd. I think that all but about 4 people were there on our invitation. And to answer Meaggy's question. I was very good. The picture of the Berlin wall and its to sides as a parallel (???) to the wall of general consensus with ID being oppressed and evolution being "free". There is a wall draw by media and general consensus that has evolution and "higher order thinkers" on one side and any kind of intelligent design, "lower order thinkers", on the other. Let me make clear here that ID does not necessarily denote God. Just b/c scientists think that evolution is insufficient does not mean that they believe in the Creator of the Universe. Through the rise of Nazi Germany we see the ultimate ramifications that a strict belief in evolution and its ideologies. Was evolution the only cause of that evil regime's rise? No, of course not, but it was a propellant. That "science" justified the ideas of crooked men and b/c it was "science" people believed that it was right and the things that were being done to "lesser people" was, OK. Hitlers plan was to make a "perfect seed". He wanted, in essence to breed people. Eugenicist thought that by killing off people with disabilities, those who were old, or had a different religious or political views they could create a better man. "If animals worked that way then why not humans?"they reasoned. There is more to this movie but I am going to be done. Instead of further explaining things I am going to urge you to watch the movie. It is truly worth the time and money. Go see the reality the infringement of our rights which are laid out in the constitution. Think about this, if it happens in the free area of science, why not in the more touchy realm of religion?

Umm I have a field trip today to our city's lab. Mr. Herb says it will be very interesting. We have to wear "eye protection" so I figure it is kind of a big deal.

Hopefully we will be able to move into our rent house this weekend! The agent helping us says that is should be ready by Friday.

Tonight daddy is going to, with help, move my piano out of my house into the rent house.

Meaggy is coming soon. Our choir performance is in two weeks. Shooting tournament is a week from Saturday. The wedding is coming up soon. I shot 10 last practice-- that happens to be quite sorry but it was good for me! I am running out of things... Oh wait. We have two sick. Actually I think Beanie is better but Nopee has a sore throat and is coughin a lot. We traveled to SDC last Saturday. It was, I wanna say fun but it didn't quite get to that mark. The place was crowded. I saw about 5 people that I know including one that I haven't seen in almost year.

I think that is about it. No its not. High School fellowship was Friday. We had a great time. I have to say though, I don't ever want to play hide and seek like that again. The good part of that game was watchin Sweet-T and Joel spring out of the truck and run. Oh and I am so gonna learn to say "Mother Teresa". Thanks Sweet-T ya got me hooked.

Our verses for this month are on Hope:
Romans 15:4
Romans 5:5
Jeremiah 17:7
Psalms 119:147
We are also to study up on hope.

Now I am officially going to be done even if I remember more.

The End

Expelled: No intelligence allowed

We are going as a HS group to see that on Tuesday the 29th at 7:30 (meet). This is a high school event. Please read the review if you have any question regarding the movie. I have seen it and think that it will be well worth our time to view it.
Please comment me if you can come.

Wow!

Ok so I need to post and have wanted to but there's been a handicap put upon my ability to post. You see it is hard to access the internet with out a computer. No wait Nana has one but her ancient beast has no internet. So ha! I do have a legit excuse!

"If you have no internet how is it that you are posting?" you may ask. That my friends is simple. Babysitting. Today I am keeping some delightful little girls and am using their computer and internet access. I have one on webkins and another working on mathfacts.

What has happened in the last two week that have caused for me not to post a thing? Umm well ya know that time when the big storm blew and there was that house that was on the new and it had the tree and all the people and the block party thing? Yup well that was me. My family, especially my mom, has become a celeb family. We have been in local and state newspapers (so were 2 of Sunshine's bros). The local tv news stations have had several interview with members of our family and have come by to tape all the action. People from our state capital(the snorkfish) came all the way here to take a picture on our demolished front porch. It has been quite a story.

I am sorry ladies and gents but I have no pictures. I will see if I can post a link where you can see some.

A block party was thrown for us on Saturday. Many people were unable to make it but that is more than understandable. There was a silent auction table. Shawna Momma won a print of a mother and her toddler. It twas gorgeous! Antiques often are. After being there about two hours I left with a friend to go watch Expelled. Good movie everyone needs to go see it. Veiwer discretion advised which means don't take your 10yr old sibling. Go see the movie! Take your friends. Go! Any way after I left some more of my friends showed up. I am VERY sad about missing them but I figured stuff came up and they weren't going to be able to make it. Oh well.

Yesterday chem class went on a fieldtrip to the Sparks lab. I had a good time but now we know who the skwirmish one is. (cough,Hannah,couch T,cough) Mr. Herb showed us around one part and another man showed us the other. The man who worked there didn't know we were coming till about 30 minutes before we showed so he wasn't all that prepared. I think he felt a bit bad about it. Mr. Herb, on the other hand, was able to show us where he used to work and give us a good lesson. That man has led a full life.

We had a baby at our house yesterday. She is about 6weeks old. We were going to keep her while her mom goes back to work but her mother feels guilty adding another responsibility to our plate. She told us she would love to have her stay with us but she felt like she was using our willingness to keep our agreement. We responded with the "that's fine" and " call us if you need us" and assured her it didn't hurt our feelings and so on and so forth. It was really sweet of her to think of us. I am sad that we don't get to keep her more though.

Oh I have more to tell but this post is getting long and I am about ready to be done. You don't need to be weighed down in reading the most minutely detailed account of my life. I will mention though, that some of my relatives sent us a box filled with clothes, shoes, and some other stuff. My Caunt Beth called and asked our sizes and what we needed so I told her (she Really wanted to help) and she and some of my other relatives sent us a $51 shipping charge sized box. It was very sweet.

All right I think that I am done. Thanks ya'll for all the prayers and everything!

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When you don't test you go to testing anyway !

This morning I saw and spoke to a tired Lana Marie at testing. She was dropping off her testing brothers. Pray for her-wedding plans are at a stall. I played with Heather and Emy too.



Most of the seniors were at testing b/c of a sibling or could be so they had song practice today. They are sounding pretty good. The vocals need some work but the music ROCKS! Well not literally but, it sounds great and the vocals are bad just a bit rough. Twon't take anything to smooth them out.



AND drum roll please! Hannah Elizabeth for the first time that I have known her and I have known her 7 years wore jeans AND a t-shirt. She looked beautimous as usual by the way. Her hair and make up was still done up in usual Judy fashion. Hannah dear I love you and I don't care whether you show up in formal always or holey jeans. It doesn't matter what you wear.

The t-shirt was their senior shirts with every ones name on them. Twas grey. They are nice.



Bro. Larry had a retirement party on Saturday and at it they had black lite puppets. I videoed them. It isn't the best performance but it is a taste of black light puppets. Beanie loved the puppets she sat mesmerized. Mouth open, stark still, eyes wide t'was a funny site then all of a sudden, as if roused from a trance she would smile at daddy, clap and maybe even let out of small squeal of delight.



I must be off dear bloggers. Leave me comments per faber(that is Dixie 'panish).

~Lady

Senior pics

I have more pics than this but I must be off to bed. We took some more at another location. She hasn't seen these yet. I hope she likes 'em. We had a bunch of fun. Maybe we could do this again. Have I any takers? LOL

Heresy pervading our churches

In this postmodern world where man is glorified above all else it is increasingly important to be able to tell truth from lie, especially in the church. I wanted to share will all my doctrine sensitive friends some sites that speak on the fallacy of the emergent church. As of right now all I can do is post link. I myself am looking into its lie but am able to expose its false teaching from my own mind. I would encourage each one of you to carve out some time to look at these sites and read these articles or at least skim them. Thanks Ya'll!
The Gospel: Conventional vs. Emerging

You might be emergent if...

Search "Emerging church"

These are the only links I have time to get. A little one just awoke. Please, please, please take the time to look.

How to witness honestly

Ahhh!

Friday was Jr/Sn banquet. We had a wondermous time. We spent many hours in Bella~Italia and guess what? We even sang with the entertainer/piano guy that was there. Hannah S is EXTREMELY talented and was able to play songs from memory that we sang to. Our party sang their graduation song. The vocals weren't the best but that is ok. We had a great time. After dinner, it was off to bowling. But alas it was not to be. A high school rented out the place so we couldn't get in. I tried to reserve lanes or figure something out and they said you they were not able to do that at all. But wait- are there not two bowling places? Yup there are but when they are both full up your just outta luck. So most of us went to Walmart and had a scavenger hunt. Mucho grande fun!

Last night was youth night. We had a TON of people. There were a bunch of newbies! It was great. The Noom's house is getting too small so I think next month we are going to have it at Mr. Herb's house. Ms. Katie and I were talking this morning and we are going to start having more youth events. Maybe do two or three things a month. We might go bowling or putput or it might be that we just have a prayer/praise& worship meeting. It looks like maybe this summer we are going to have a world view retreat out at "the farm". Yup this is good. We played mafia last night. Any game that you play with ColeE has got to be fun and last night's mafia wasn't any different.

This morning's songs were kinda 'blah' but as time progress so did the quality of things. Today we used a baseball analogy. Hit the ball = salvation/ 1st base= baptism/ 2nd base= regular church person/3rd base= you have your nitch of service / home= true Christain living.
That isn't to say that you are not being sanctified always and that you are being conformed the whole way but it is sort of a growth chart. It isn't the best but it was fairly easy to understand.

I think that soon we are going to make an e-mail loop for our hs youth. That way we can keep up with people and people will be able to suggest things. It is just a good way to stay in contact with people that you don't see except there. I am excited!

A vow of celibacy

In our neighborhood there are a lot of stray cats. One of them in particular likes our house. It is a weird reddish colored long haired girl cat. This poor cat is sick, or so we think. Anyway we are not to touch her. When we went outside this morning it was on our porch with our cat, Malarky. As we tried to shoo her away Nope piped up with "Maybe Malarky and that cat will get married" or course what she means by the marriage of cats is nothing more then "maybe they will have kittens". But at our house those two things are synonymous. "Nope" , says I, " they can't get married Malarky has taken a vow of celibacy. That means he won't marry." So now I think that I will continue to say "fixed", whether it be spayed or neutered, as " a vow of celibacy". I like it. Indeed I do.