Has anyone dealt with a floor refinishing person by the name of Jerry Crawford? He ruined my floor and I am trying to find him.

I was thinking about John Kennedy being killed, Bobby being killed, Watts riots, Viet Nam protests, the Black Panthers, SLA, the Manson murders and all the tragedy and turmoil that marred the '60s.

Then I thought of how resillient America is in healing and moving forward. The way we live today in the era of post 911 is a tribute to our collective strength and will - and God's grace.

We are a very special nation. People from all over the world came together and built this haven for the oppressed and respite for the persecuted.

I so love the United States of America.

THAT'S JUST HOW JESUS IS

You know sometimes

life doesn't seem fair

Like when your'e down and out

and friends don't seem to care

But let me tell you something friends

That doesn't always have to be true

There's someone whose love never ends

That is Jesus, whose always there for you

Yes, Jesus loves you every day

and every day He hears you pray

You pray for love and lasting joy

and He is there casting joy

Yes, that is just how Jesus is

He washes away our every sin

and when we die, He lets us in

In His mansion in the sky

Where He comforts those who cry

I hope you know, that's just how Jesus is

 

Barak Obama's answer to Rick Warren's question at Saddle Back Church, was to defer to someone beyond his paygrade.  That sounds to me, like the "God I love and serve".  But, it does not seem to be above his paygrade to sentence an infant born alive to death, discarding it in the trash to die.

Follow the link below to understand just how this person really feels about the issue of "infanticide" or as the Dems like call it "Pro-choice."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/vote
rs_should_be_trouble.html

For anyone out there who needs some inspiration, please read this book. Its written by one of if not the top neurosurgeon in this country. He just did the surgery on the little girl from somewhere in TX. Its a testament to how with determination and a huge amount of faith anyone can achieve great things in life. Its one of the best books I have ever read...well done Ben Carson I salute you

I know I should have posted this yesterday, but, here it is today.  To all those Mommies, Aunties, Godmommies, etc., out there.   Oh, and Daddy's, too!!

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Dear Lord, it's such a hectic day,
With little time to stop and pray,
For life's been anything but calm,
Since you called on me to be a mom.

Running errands, matching socks,
Building dreams with building blocks.
Cooking, cleaning, and finding shoes,
And other stuff that children lose.

Fitting lids on bottled bugs,
Wiping tears and giving hugs.
A stack of last week's mail to read,
So where's the quiet time I need?

Yet when I steal a minute Lord,
Just at the sink or ironing board,
To ask the blessings of your grace,
I see then in my small one's face,

That you have blessed me all the while,
As I stop to kiss that precious smile.

I saw the coolest thing while at Women of Faith Con. this weekend.  When we first got there, there was a man holding up a sign that said "God Bless You, My sisters in Christ."  We went in and looked around for a few and went back out to this same man holding up a sign that said, "Lynette, WILL YOU MARRY ME"..It was just the sweetest thing I'd ever seen.  I got a few pics of them and asked for their address so I could make something for them.  I'm off today to get them printed.  I don't know these people, but oddly enough, she was sitting just a few rows behind us...CONGRATULATIONS, LYNETTE...and...well, I didn't get his name.

Long before they attached a name to it (Intelligent Design Theory), I had considered the merging of Science and Religion. Our existence is full of opposites such as: you can't have an up without a down, in without an out, liberal without conservative, religion without science, and so on.

I have pondered both evolution and creationism for over 40 years.  In my late teens (1970's) I decided that both science and religion were right........to a point.

We do experience "evolution". We grow and change from one generation to the next. What was once an average height in men of 5' 5" tall in the mid 1800's is now 5' 10". 

Science calls it the Big Bang Theory. Random particles combining and exploding into stellar nurseries, Galaxies, Planets, and so on. Is it so far fetched to consider that there was Devine intervention that caused these "random " particles to merge? 

The issue that plagues us is that neither side is willing to acknowledge the other. Science will not even consider the thought of Devine intervention and Religion will not accept that there is an evolution which takes place. Is evolution fact? To a point, yes. Although they have yet to find the "missing link".

Religion is just as blinded as Science. If a UFO was to land in the Ball Park in Arlington and aliens from space exited the craft, religion would be in total shambles.  Everything that the religious community held true would be up for debate. In contrast, when Jesus comes back, the scientific community will also be in shambles.

The answer: God created the Heavens and the Earth with the Big Bang. God made all the animals and over time they evolved and adapted to the changing world. Once Earth was ready, which was millions of years ("a day is like a thousand years") God introduced man into the Earth. Over time, man defaced what God had provided and God brought forth a great flood which wiped out the "known" world's population.  

Then the polititians were born along with the scientists and religious scholars and destroyed what God had created.

The time is coming my friends when all our questions will be answered. Just be prepared when it does and hope it's the answer you were looking for!

From Michelle Malkin.  I love the guy who keeps yelling "what part of the woman's body is the baby?"

http://michellemalkin.com/

CLICK ON GRAFFIC

Hope
 

Hope is a word
that every
hurting heart
understands.

Hope shines
brighter than
the brightest star
on the darkest night.

Faith is bigger than the highest mountain.
And God is greater than any obstacle in your path.
Anything can be accomplished by those who fully
put their hearts into it.  
The time to start is now
the place to start is here.

May hope cast its special
light upon your path and God
bless everything you touch in the
hours, days, and moments
still to come.

What is with all of the people saying "There is no god"? How could someone just denie him like that? If people would look around at all the amazing things in life and still think God does not exist? People are too wrapped up in the world to see that all of this just did not happen. John 1:1- "In the begining was the word and the word was with God and the word WAS God." Also, Genesis 1:1&2- In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Any thoughts?

Bill Maher's Anti-Religion Movie

“Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.” That’s my favorite quote from Bill Maher’s often brilliant, but often unfocused “documentary,” called “Religulous.” It opens in early October right after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival.

The articulate, quick-witted comedian sets out in this film — which was supposed to have been released last Easter — to prove that line is true. Directed by Larry Charles, the man who put "Borat" together so skillfully, "Religulous" is blatant about Maher’s feelings: religion is bad. All religions are bad. They are ruining everything.

If you go for that, then "Religulous" is for you. Unlike Michael Moore, whose controversial films at least allow stories to be told, Maher is not interested in other viewpoints. Rather, "Religulous" is a long Maher spiel that pauses only to underscore his own points.

At first the film is very funny as Maher gently mocks one organized religion after another. He questions just about everything in Catholicism, even though he was raised Catholic. (His mother is Jewish, but threw it all over for the father.) Everything from the Immaculate Conception to crucifixion re-enactments are covered. By the time “Religulous” is over, the faith-seekers in the audience will have scratched Catholic off their possibilities.

Not that the other major religious groups don’t come in for razzing, either. Maher is brutal to Orthodox Jews and just as nasty to Muslims. (He interviews gay Muslims in Amsterdam, a city where he also smokes a lot of pot and finds many easy laughs.) Mormons get it, and so do Scientologists, whom Maher mocks in London’s Hyde Park.

Maher sends up everything outrageous and unusual in religion, cherry-picking the fringe elements wherever he can find them. There’s no question that he’s serious in his endeavors, and for a while following him feels like it’s going to lead somewhere.

Alas, it doesn’t. Unlike "Borat," or even a Moore film, “Religulous” is a dead end. In the last quarter, the laughs peter out as we realize the exploration is pointless. The film concludes with a long, very not funny, tedious speech by Maher — in which he rails against religion — that should clear theaters before the credits start rolling.

Right now you can see a trailer for "Religulous" on LionsGate’s Web site. Interestingly, it’s linked another site called disbelief.net. Obviously, a parody site designed just for the film, disbelief.net is registered to an unknown group in the Cayman Islands. It features the quotes of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, videos from the Church of Scientology Web site and a link to a Christian yoga video collection starring (whatever happened to) ‘Northern Exposure” star Janine Turner.

“Religulous” is a tough call. Will audiences flock to theatres to see it? That depends on just how many atheists there are at the popcorn stand. Maher’s point, that the world would be a better place without any religions, that wars would be eliminated and there would be universal understanding, comes across simultaneously as utopian and cynical.

To:             YOU
Date:            TODAY
From:           GOD
Subject:       YOURSELF
Reference:   LIFE

This is God.  To day I will be handling All of your problems for you .  I do Not need your help.  So, have a nice day.
I love you.

P.S.  And, remember...
If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, do Not attempt to resolve it yourself!  Kindly put it in the SFGTD (something for God to do) box. I will get to it in MY TIME.  All situations will be resolved, but in My time, not yours.  

Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold on to it by worrying about it.  Instead, focus on all the wonderful things that are present in your life now. 
 

Should you decide to send this to a friend; Thank you. You may have touched their life in ways you will never know!

Now, you have a nice day.

                           God
 
God has seen you struggling,
God says it's over.
A blessing is coming your way. If you believe in God.

 

 

Sometimes we just need to be

reminded!

A well-known speaker

started off his seminar by:

holding up a $20.00

bill. In the room of 200, he asked,
'Who would like this

$20 bill?'

Hands started going up.

He said, 'I am going to give this

$20 to one of you

but first, let me

do this.
He

proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill.

He then asked, 'Who

still wants it?'

Still the hands

were up in the air.

Well, he

replied, 'What if I do this?'

And he

dropped it on the ground

and started

to grind it into the floor with his shoe.

He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.

'Now, who still wants it?'

Still the hands went into the air.

My friends, we have all learned a very

valuable lesson

No matter what

I did to the money, you still wanted it

because it did not decrease in value.

It was still worth $20.

Many times in our lives,

we are dropped, crumpled, and ground

into the dirt

by the decisions we

make and

the circumstances that come

our way.

We feel as though we are

worthless.

But no matter what has

happened or

what will happen, you

will never lose your value.

Dirty or

clean, crumpled or finely creased,

you are still

priceless to those who DO LOVE you.

The worth of our

lives comes not in what we do or who we know,

but by WHO WE ARE and

WHOSE WE ARE.

You are

special

-

Don't EVER forget it'

If you do not pass

this on, you may never know the

lives it touches, the

hurting hearts it speaks to,

or the hope that it

can bring.

Count your blessings,

not your problems.

'And remember:

amateurs built the ark ..

professionals

built the Titanic.

If God brings you to

it - He will bring you through it.

Leave it to the atheists to call for the resignation of a great general for endorsing a religious novel.   Why can't they (the left) allow people to worship as they choose?  Riiiiight because religious freedom only applies if you aren't a Christian - anyone feeling that way?  I say Petraeus 2016!

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http://www.military.com/news/article/petraeus-book-
endorsement-draws-fire.html?col=1186032310810&wh=wh

Petraeus Book 'Endorsement' Draws Fire

August 20, 2008Military.com|by Bryant Jordan -->

Gen. David Petraeus is used to controversy surrounding the war in Iraq, but his publicized thoughts on an Army chaplain's book for Soldiers put him squarely in the middle of the ongoing conflict over religious proselytizing in the U.S. military.

The book is "Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel," by Army Chaplain (Lt. Col.) William McCoy, and according to Petraeus' published endorsement of the work, "it should be in every rucksack for those times when soldiers need spiritual energy."

But the endorsement - which has spurred a demand by a watchdog group for Petraeus' dismissal and court martial on the grounds of establishing a religious requirement on troops - was a personal view never intended for publication, the book's author now says.

"In the process of securing … comments for recommending the book I believe there was a basic misunderstanding on my part that the comments were publishable," McCoy said in an Aug. 19 email to Military.com. "This was my mistake."

In addition to Petraeus, Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling also is quoted plugging the book in press releases and advertisements and on the jacket.

McCoy, writing in response to Military.com's Aug. 18 inquiry to Petraeus' office for comment, said the two generals' endorsements "were intended for me personally rather than for the general public."

In response to follow-up questions from Military.com, McCoy said he has asked that all distribution of the book be halted until a new "graphic overlay" for the back cover  is produced "so there is no further public misunderstanding."

McCoy did not respond to questions on the timing of the endorsements, and why it took so long before the officials learned their endorsement has been used in print. Petraeus' endorsement has been on the book since its 2007 publication, while Hertling's plug first appeared on the 2005 edition. Both also are quoted in newspaper ads for the book and on the book's Amazon.com Web page.

Patraeus spokesman Col. Steven Boylan said the general has been Iraq since the beginning of February 2007, "and unless someone [like Military.com] notes it, we would not be aware of it," he said in an Aug. 19 email. "We don't get the stateside papers in Baghdad and I doubt very much that Gen. Petraeus goes to Amazon.com much, if at all."

Mikey Weinstein, head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, believes McCoy is taking the fall for Petraeus and Hertling's improper endorsements. Weinstein said it "strains credulity" that Petraeus never knew that his private written endorsement of the book was in the public domain since last year.

Weinstein is a former Air Force judge advocate general and White House counsel during the Reagan administration. His group has been fighting in the courts to keep improper proselytizing out of the military. Now, he said, he intends to incorprate the Petraeus and Hertling endorsements into an ongoing lawsuit against the Pentagon for an alleged pervasive and permicious "pattern and practice" of religious liberties violations in the military.

"MRFF is now officially putting both Army chaplain Lt. Col. Bill McCoy and  General Petraeus on notice not to destroy any of the written or  electronic records of their communications about this [issue]," Weinstein said.

The chapters in McCoy's book are offered up as "Orders," he said, and one of them is titled "Believe in God."

With his plug for "Under Orders," Weinstein said in a statement to Military.com, Petraeus - one of the most widely recognized officers in the American military - is endorsing religion as something all Soldiers should have and, specifically, the Christian religion.

"General Petraeus has, by his own hand, become a quintessential poster child of this fundamentalist Christian religious predation, via his unadulterated and shocking public endorsement of a book touting both Christian supremacy and exceptionalism," Weinstein told Military.com Aug. 16.

And by endorsing a book that argues only those who believe in God can fully contribute to the military mission or unit, Weinstein contends that Petraeus insults ""the integrity, character and veracity of approximately 21 percent of our armed forces members who choose not to follow any particular religious faith."

He said that even if Petraeus offered his comments personally, that's a distinction without a difference. "Privately he's denigrating 21 percent of troops," Weinstein said. Suppose he privately denigrated women, African-Americans or Jews? Weinstein asked.

"He should still be relieved of duty and court martialed," he said.

Rev. Billy Baugham, a retired Army chaplain and executive director of the International Conference of Evangelical Christian Endorsers, backs Petraeus' right to plug the book. Past generals, among them George C. Marshall and George Patton, made the case for religion in the ranks.

Marshall claimed that the Soldier's spiritual life was critical to his morale, even more than equipment, while Patton, said Baugham, had a chaplain pray for good weather for an coming battle and then submitted him for an Army Commendation Medal afterwards, when the weather turned out clear.

"So the ICECE would support what General Patreaus has done," Baugham said.

Chris Rodda, a freelance writer and researcher for the MRFF, noted in an Aug. 16 column on the Daily Kos Web site that she found much in "Under Orders" that was "pretty good." It offered sound advice and promoted a brand of Christianity that it would be good to see more often both in the military and civilian worlds, she said, and even warned against the practices used by some "para-church groups" within the military that Weinstein's group considers dangerous and unconstitutional.

But in the end, she claims, the book paints those who don't believe in God as "somehow deficient," in that they may - in McCoy's words - view their own "agenda [to be] more important than [the] unit's agenda and thus lead to unit failure."

Author McCoy, writing Aug. 11 in his blog on Amazon.com, acknowledges that the book does promote Christianity.

"No one [else] has written a book which allows for varying world views and perspectives while suggesting the Gospel might have an idea worth considering. Under Orders does just that," he wrote.

McCoy is endorsed by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, according to a recent press release for his book. Now the chaplain for U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, Germany, McCoy previously served as chaplain for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and, before then, the 10th Mountain Division, according to the release.

© Copyright 2008 Military.com. All rights reserved

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.  Psalm 55:22

I must tell Jesus all of my trials,
I cannot bear these burdens alone;
In my distress He kindly will help me,
He ever loves and cares for His own.

I must tell Jesus all of my troubles,
He is a kind, compassionate Friend;
If I but ask Him, He will deliver,
Make of my troubles quickly an end.

Tempted and tried, I need a great Saviour,
One who can help my burdens to bear;
I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus,
He all my cares and sorrows will share.

O how the world to evil allures me!
O how my heart is tempted to sin!
I must tell Jesus, and He will help me
Over the world the vict'ry to win.

Chorus:
I must tell Jesus!
I must tell Jesus!
I cannot bear my burdens alone;
I must tell Jesus!
I must tell Jesus!
Jesus can help me, Jesus alone.

We love Him, because He first loved us.   1 John 4:19

I'm trusting, only trusting
In Jesus day by day:
I feel His presence nearer,
While pressing on my way;
My soul is full of glory,
And this my song shall be:
I love my blessed Saviour,
Because He first loved me.

I'm trusting, only trusting
In Jesus ev'ry hour,
Who saves me by His mercy,
And keeps me by His power;
I'll publish His salvation
Wherever I may be;
With all my heart I love Him,
Because He first loved me.

I'm trusting, only trusting
My Saviour's hand to guide;
I know His grace sufficient,
And ask for naught beside;
My soul is on the mountain,
My home beyond the sea:
O bless the Lord! I love Him,
Because He first loved me.

Chorus:
Because He first loved me.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me:
I trust Him, I trust Him,
Wherever I may be.
My soul is full of glory,
I sing because I'm free;
I love my blessed Saviour,
Because He first loved me.
     -- Fanny Crosby

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.   1 John 4:9

I gave you life, but I cannot live it for you.
  I can teach you things, but I cannot make you learn.
  I can give you directions, but I cannot be there to lead you.
  I can take you to church, but I cannot make you believe.
 
  I can teach you right from wrong, but I cannot decide for you.
  I can offer you advice, but I cannot accept it for you.
  I can give you love, by I cannot force it upon you.
  I can teach you to share, but I cannot make you unselfish.
 
  I can teach you to respect, but I cannot force you to show honor.
  I can advise you about friends, but I cannot choose them for you.
  I can tell you the facts of life, but I can't build your reputation.
  I can warn you about drugs, but I can't prevent you from using them.
 
  I can tell you about lofty goals, but I can't achieve them for you.
  I can teach you about kindness, but I can't force you to be gracious.
  I can warn you about your sins, but I cannot make you moral.
  I can pray for you, but I cannot make you walk with God.
 
  I can teach you about Jesus, but I cannot make Jesus your Lord.
  I can tell you how to live, but I cannot give you eternal life.

Author Unknown

Are their more mentally challenged people riding DART Blue Line from Garland to Dallas? I started noticing about 5 months ago VERY loud ignorant people making comments about others. I usually ignore these idiots, but they are very loud so sometimes without thinking I listen.  I really really DON'T care of someone on the bus is a "ho" "drug dealer" "molester" "slut" "n*gga" "wetb@ck" "Christian" "atheist" "poor" "rich" "fronting" "dealing", etc.  PLEASE PLEASE if you ride the BLUE LINE from downtown Garland to Dallas keep YOUR opinions to YOURSELF!!!  Please!!!  If anyone was really a problem, DART Police and Dallas Police would take care of it.  They usually do a good job of it.  And for the very LOUD Christians - BLEEP?? "He without sin cast the first stone" - don't you read the Holy Bible?  Or you read what you like?  Keep your DAMN comments to YOURSELF--and stop harrasing people trying to get to work, school, doctor, VA, etc.  You give true Christians a bad name!

Here is a great piece by David Freddoso summarizing Barack's inaction and/or rejection of bills designed to protect the most innocent among us. 

I honestly don't understand the following:

1) how anyone could consider abortion anything other than murder

2) how anyone could vote for a man who votes to allow abortion survivors to be killed when they are capable of surviving

Read on.  

 

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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTBkYTYzZDNjND
gyMWJmMzMxYzljYjYxNmEwMTdhYWE=

Life Lies
Barack Obama and Born-Alive.

By David Freddoso

In 2001, Senator Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois senate to speak against a bill that would have recognized premature abortion survivors as “persons.” The bill was in response to a Chicago-area hospital that was leaving such babies to die. Obama voted “present” on the bill after denouncing it. It passed the state Senate but died in a state house committee.

In 2003, a similar bill came before Obama’s health committee. He voted against it. But this time, the legislation was slightly different. This latter version was identical to the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which by then had already passed the U.S. Senate unanimously (with a hearty endorsement even from abortion advocate Sen. Barbara Boxer) and had been signed into law by President Bush.

Sen. Obama is currently misleading people about what he voted against, specifically claiming that the bill he voted against in his committee lacked “neutrality” language on Roe v. Wade. The bill did contain this language. He even participated in the unanimous vote to put it in.

Obama’s work against the bill to protect premature babies represents one of two times in his political career, along with his speech against the Iraq war, that he really stuck out his neck for something that might hurt him politically. Unlike his Iraq speech, Obama is deeply embarrassed about this one — so embarrassed that he is offering a demonstrable falsehood in explanation for his actions. Fortunately, the documents showing the truth are now available.

At the end of last week, Obama gave an interview to CBN’s David Brody in which he repeated the false claim that the born-alive bills he worked, spoke, and voted against on this topic between 2001 and 2003 would have negatively affected Roe v. Wade. This has always been untrue, but, until last week, it appeared to be a debatable point that depended on one’s interpretation of the bill language. Every single version of the bill was neutral on Roe. Each one affected only babies already born, not ones in the womb.

But in 2003, in the health committee which he chaired, Obama voted against a version of the bill that contained the specific “neutrality” language — redundant language affirming that the bill only applied to infants already born and granted no rights to the unborn. You can visit the Illinois legislature’s website here to see the language of the “Senate Amendment 1,” which was added in a unanimous 10-0 vote in the committee before Obama helped kill it. This is the so-called “neutrality clause” on Roe that everyone is talking about:

 

1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1082

2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1082 on page 1, by

3 replacing lines 24 through 26 with the following:

4 “(c) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to

5 affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal

6 right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at

7 any point prior to being born alive as defined in this

8 Section.”.

The addition of this amendment made the bill identical to the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.
This Committee Action Report, dug up in Springfield by the National Right to Life Committee and revealed last week, shows two different votes. In the left column, under the heading “DP#1”(or “Do Pass” Amendment 1), we see that Obama’s committee voted 10-0 to add this neutrality language to the bill. In the right column, we see that the committee then voted 6-4 to kill the bill. Obama was among the six “No” votes.


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