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My digital camera appears to have DIED on me. Just cold turkey - no warning. Turned it on and everything looked like I was looking thru a funny mirror, everything just melted..seriously.. dripped til the view was totally muddled... WAAAH... I love my camera! I dont have money right now to buy another one. 

 

Church was interesting today.. it was a great message... Took the quote.. "Getting your second Wind.." and turned it to Getting your second WHEN.. based off of the message out of Corinthians...

 

When I was an infant,
I spoke as an infant,
I reckoned as an infant;

when I became [an adult],
I abolished the things of the infant. 

 

You start out as a infant, a beginner in the Lord, then you grow, learn, go to the next level so to speak.. thats where the SECOND When comes in..you grow up.. become an adult, things that you struggled with as a child or a young christian, shouldnt always be there constantly dogging you... That the closer you get to the Lord, the more you grow.

 

I am really enjoying doing the 30 day challenge. I do see that not many are hitting on the video on youtube.. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get it out there? I really think other women would be blessed by it, and I would be hugely blessed to begin to get some interaction and meet other women and chat thru this process...

 

til later :)

Dawn

I have decided to take on a challenge. Its about encouraging my husband. Now if you are single you can certainly choose a different person to encourage but the basic principles will be similar..just change it for your situation! Want to take the challenge with me? If this one doesnt interest you there are other challenges listed here: http://www.reviveourhearts.com/challenge/

 

Here's the challenge for the next 30 days:

 

30 Day husband Challenge-

 

* You can't say anything negative about your husband . . . to your husband, or to anyone else.

* Say something that you admire or appreciate about your husband . . . to your husband . . . and to someone else.

To help you get started, have you ever thanked your husband for "choosing you" above all other women? He found you attractive as a person, and appreciated you. Though many circumstances in your marriage may have changed, let your husband know that you are glad God led you together, and that you want to be a blessing to him for the rest of your marriage.

 

One of the best opportunities to express your gratitude is first thing in the morning. How do you greet your husband each morning? Is he confident in your love? Give him a "wake up call" that he'll never forget--a big "I love you" and an "I'm so glad I'm your wife!"

 

"The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil all the days of her life." (Proverbs 31:11-12)

 

Not going  to be easy!

 

 

We all do it. Standing in line. Slowpoke in front of you on a two lane highway. Late for work/school. Bored. Computer issues. Children/spouse/parent  issues. Bosses/employees. Let's face it, during the next 24 hours there is bound to be something that will irritate or stress us out. We have all heard that we cannot change others and sometimes not even the circumstances themselves, but we can change ourselves and our reactions, right?

 

In order to make my life more of a attitude of gratitude I have decided to STOP, take a deep breath and think of the positive of the situation that I am, something to be grateful about.

 

< insert live in progress example  > Just as I typed this, my two 15 week old puppies were chewing on a bone under my chair. Or so I thought. Apparently the added flavor of the little scatter rug adds to the fun. It is now a stringy mess in that one section. Initial and usual response... "argh... now it's ruined!" turned to..."(deep breath) At least it wasn't the hardwood floor, and I am so glad I have these puppys to enjoy" < end of life example >

 

Ok, so not every situation will be as easy as that. And I may end up half way thru my normal response before I remember to even breathe. But this is my intention for the week. Anyone care to join me? By practicing gratitude and positive thinking stress won't have room to take root in my mind, body or soul.

 

 

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is fair, whatever is pure, whatever is acceptable, whatever is commendable, if there is anything of excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy-keep thinking about these things.-Philippians 4:8 International Standard version

 

Love and Laughter,

Dawn

 

 

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    Date Line June 21, 2008

Religious Right – have they ever read the Bible?

One must seriously question their Biblical Knowledge, or even their honesty.  If we listen to their verbatim quotes we would assume they know what it says – which means they intentionally go against it.

Think about the silence there exists with regard to their mindless attacks on Michelle Obama.  Think about Moses, Aaron and Miriam when Miriam badmouthed Moses’ black wife.  Possibly the only time God personally appeared to Aaron and Miriam was to rebuke them for race based gossip and specifically for Miriam’s snide remarks about the wife of Moses.

Is Barack Obama the modern Moses?  We’ll need to see if he can save  us from the Bush/McCain style Pharaoh and point us to the promised land; but that possible future aside, let’s focus on how God viewed racism.  He made his prophet, his seer, Miriam, a leper in punishment  for her comments.

Think about the Bible Belt.  Has it prospered by its post slavery racism?  Or has it been the butt of many a joke – an intellectual leper, where it had been the home of one of our first major Universities and  birthplace of some of our greatest minds (those who became our founding fathers).  God does not suffer racists with grace – not even those he previously selected to be his earthly voice.

But then, there are those who do not tie a Bible to their had and speak in liars condensation to those who know what is moral and right.  Of them we wonder where the feminist morality lies.  Why do they seem to fear a strong, competent, educated wife, mother, and career woman?

Where are the Liberals and those who support equal rights for all?  Why are they noticeably silent?  Why when her campaign went the way I had said it would over a year ago, were those who supported Clinton so open in their statements of support for McCain?  Does the race of a highly qualified candidate trump the good of the nation?  Is their own self worth and the future of their children so meaningless that they would see all destroyed because the qualified candidate is married to a black woman?

This is not about the race of the candidate – his mom is white and he is a blood relation to both Dick Cheney and Harry Truman.  Granted both those relatives were seen as unpopular, and Cheney is destined to keep that reputation while Truman surpassed his heritage to take a  positive place in both American and World History.

Is Barack a part of our history?  His family certainly is: Harry Truman, the president who brought World War Two to a victorious end; Christopher Clark, a decorated Union Officer.  There was a probably false, certainly unestablished,  connection to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy; but even if real, it would be another National Leader in his bloodline.

Consider Bush one and two, all they can lay claim to is Prescott Bush – an American Senator, a racist and anti-Semite who helped fund Hitler and the Nazi war effort.  We can see that traitor, anti-American conduct, runs in the Bush bloodline.  We can see leadership there which believes in weakening our military, and not only plunging the nation into debt, but doing so to a nation which the Republicans had  routinely branded as anti-God, anti-democracy and an enemy.  At least  Bush is consistent to both his roots and his Right-wing supporters.

What of the Heir-apparent to the Bush legacy?  John McCain, a man who seeks victory in a religious sectarian civil war where the victor can only be an outside faction whose agenda includes our destruction and whose leadership has declared, as a primary goal, our incurring a Trillion Dollar deficit.  Those with the ears to hear and eyes to see have already learned that we are nearly half way there – having gone from a budget surplus to record deficits without any national benefit.

It is now June.  In November we either seal our fate, or move toward achieving our historic promise.  Which objective is best served by the attacks on Michelle?
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