Go Free Now

I'm moving to a new blog!

2007-05-31T11:38:00.009-05:00

Go to imfreenow.blogspot.com.

This ends an era. It was an era of riding around the country with two cats. It also ends because I thought, foolishly, that if I didn't end now, I wouldn't have access to my blog posts beyond 300.

Oops!

Don't go to Journey Of One Step unless you really want to read!

My Blog Worth $59,984,788!!!!

2007-05-30T15:19:00.001-05:00

According to a website called CyberWyre found at kingdavid's blog! They will calculate the dollar value of your website(?!) As he said, I'm not greedy so I'm open to offers. I'll take a mere $50 million.

Al Qaeda Also Fed Up With Ground Zero Construction Delays

2007-05-29T14:11:00.002-05:00

Watch the video in the Onion.
Photo: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/09/ground-zero-rev.html

Gay Men Really Don't Like Women At All

2007-05-28T18:31:00.000-05:00

Truth be told, despite how the TV shows try to depict gay men in friendships with women (and they choose straight men to play the part, Will & Grace) gay men don't like women and don't need them at all. This latest article in Drudge Report on a Gay Aussie hotel that is going to ban all heterosexual men and lesbians from entering the premises reminds me of the fact.

They don't want men who like women, and they don't even want women who share their lifestyle on the premises. Never mind just having interesting, engaging people around for good conversation! They just want gay men there so they can carry on with their orgiastic, myopic obsession. Ugh! Road to hell!

Notice it says in the article they will kick anyone out who seems to be acting too heterosexual! I try to imagine how that will be played out. Could be hilarious.

Animal Kingdom Jihad

2007-05-28T10:35:00.001-05:00

Dear friend Kingdavid has had a (hilarious)running theme over at his blog of AKJ, and there was this story in the Mpls Star and Tribune of a mystery animal clawing a camper(photo) in Itasca State park here in Minnesota just the other day. The story irritated me a bit because they left out the details of just how careless the camper was. Did he leave his tent unzipped? How did the animal just wander in? This is information we might want to know. (They did have a blurb in a later article about a bobcat that may have unzipped it.) It got me thinking about all the camp-outs where I could have been clawed or mauled in 2005. I was traveling in Montana, California and Arizona and camping out. It was kind of a dream I was living, at least a dream for some of us.

In Montana I met this couple and stayed in their home in Bozeman. They let me know they own a cabin, no two cabins, one large and one tiny next to it(see photos) in Yellowstone (the lucky dogs!) They said I could stay there for free for an unlimited amount of time in exchange for a little work there. So I headed there in my car with my two cats but arrived late at night. So I was wandering in the woods with a flashlight searching for the two cabins when I arrived, not knowing that it was grizzly country until later. You'd think that would be information they might share with me! That was my first brush with death. I was letting my cats out there to wander too.

Later I camped out West of there in some gorgeous mountains where there were mountain lions. There were other people camping around me, but I was in a tent. People were saying that hawks might take off with my cats.

After that I was in California staying in a campground in Monterey and near Santa Barbara. And then I camped out in the open in Arizona, where the hazards were snakes and scorpions, although in winter they were hibernating.

I guess after reading all of Kingdavid's stories on AKJ incidents, and many of them about domestic animals just going wild, what stands out is that I've been protected. Even when there could have been danger, I've been safe. I guess I expect God to protect me and He does.

A Godly Leader

2007-05-28T10:23:00.000-05:00

Here is the bible's definition of a leader found in 2 Samuel 23:3-4 -(Webster's Bible Translation)

3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

David goes on to say:
5 Although my house is not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he maketh it not to grow.

I thought of this passage while reading Jonathan's blog, and the post on Nancy Pelosi .

Greater Love Has No Man Than This,

2007-05-27T14:11:00.000-05:00

that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13 World English Bible

I would rather give up my life sacrificially than die from a disease or old age. What are we hanging onto our lives for when we cannot? Jesus said that if you seek to hold onto your life you will lose it, but if you lose it for His sake and for the gospel, you will "keep" it. I would rather keep it in the sense that Jesus is talking about, which is primarily, the life after death. Go for the gusto! Lose your life! (now that I have said this, I am going to go preach to myself!)

Memorial Day Poem

2007-05-26T16:17:00.000-05:00

Soldier, rest, thy warfare o'er,
Dream of fighting fields no more.
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Sir Walter Scott

I find it almost impossible to wrap my mind around what the American soldier has done or is doing for me, because it is so far above anything I have done or am doing in return, but I will try to say thank you anyway. I want to thank all the American soldiers who have died for me, or who have risked their lives or been maimed for me. You, like Jesus Christ, sacrificed yourself for me. He did it to free me from sin; you did it to give me freedom to live and choose and believe. How can I thank you enough?

Gabrielle Eden

(a good place to thank the troops is at: A Million Thanks!)

Bush Knows How to Get Pooped On!

2007-05-26T15:51:00.002-05:00

http://crooksandliars.com/2007/05/24/bird-shts-on-bush-during-press-conference Piece of cake after every other way he's been pooped on! As usual he handles it with decorum above a tirade of criticism and enemies clucking "it's a sign from God." (It was probably another "Animal Kingdom Jihad" attack.

Update On Jonathan

2007-05-25T12:02:00.002-05:00

Thanks for your prayers. Jonathan is showing signs that the prayers are working. See him in the photo? A sweet, sensitive soul. My sister, his mother, had to give up her house, so it seemed that Jonathan was getting stressed since he was losing the stability of having a home to live in at the same time while he has no life of his own yet. But, he just moved out of the house and is staying with his brother (shown at left), the one who he wasn't sharing with at all. So now he seems to be talking to him again. Things seem to be improving. I talked a little with him and he doesn't seem too bad.

Soon he'll be living with his mother at my cousin's home, a retired doctor. Keep praying, and again, thanks.

Dog Breeders Issue Massive Recall Of '07 Pugs

2007-05-24T11:52:00.001-05:00

Read about it in The Onion

Good Luck John Edwards

2007-05-24T10:59:00.000-05:00

This beats all! A democrat who comes out and says he's not comfortable with gays! John Edwards becomes more interesting every day.

Harsh Treatment of Homosexuals Another Example of the Disease of Radical Islam

2007-05-23T18:21:00.000-05:00

Like hangings and torture are going to "cure" people of their sin problem, and like Muslims really love the sinner and care about sin and the consequences of sin. No! Now here we have a perfect demonstration of hate, the kind of hate that liberals say that Christians have towards homosexuals, when Christians say that homosexuality is wrong, but are saying it in love.

In Iran, when torture and hangings ensue for acts of homosexuality, that is hate! (And the Westboro Baptist church protesting at funerals and saying God hates America because of homosexuality - that is hate too, and a twisted brand of Christianity.)

Nothing Without You - Bebo Norman

2007-05-23T17:26:00.001-05:00

This is one of my favorite worship songs.

Stand in Awe - Jeremy Riddle

2007-05-23T17:22:00.002-05:00

I always get excited when I find a great new worship artist.

I Will Lift My Eyes - Bebo Norman

2007-05-23T17:21:00.001-05:00

Majesty(Here I am) - Delirious

2007-05-22T18:00:00.003-05:00

Majesty(Here I Am)

2007-05-21T09:06:00.000-05:00

I get into the car yesterday (Sunday) and I happened to have missed church. I put on a Christian station and this came on. Instant worship, I couldn't resist. Notice the lyrics: "knowing I'm a sinful man covered by the blood of the Lamb"

By Delirious?

Here I am humbled by your Majesty
Covered by your grace so free
Here I am, knowing I'm a sinful man
Covered by the blood of the Lamb

Now I've found the greatest love of all is mine
Since you laid down your life
The greatest sacrifice

Majesty, Majesty
Your grace has found me just as I am
Empty handed, but alive in your hands
Majesty, Majesty
Forever I am changed by your love
In the presence of your Majesty

Here I am humbled by the love that you give
Forgiven so that I can forgive
Here I stand, knowing that I'm your desire
Sanctified by glory and fire

Now I've found the greatest love of all is mine
Since you laid down your life
The greatest sacrifice

Written by Stu Garrard/Martin Smith �2003 Curious? Music U

Worst Albums Covers

2007-05-18T12:18:00.001-05:00

I found this at kingdavid's site, only I picked a different album cover. Again, great minds are thinking alike.

Check It Out Again

2007-05-18T11:35:00.000-05:00

I have a new visitor to my blog worth noting: Jonathan of Ambassadors of Christ.

It always amazes me the level of maturity and development of some teens. He describes himself very well in his profile on his blog. And there is another blog I have begun to visit regularly too: Roy, or "Hook" of Hooked On Grace.

He is this breathtakingly prolific writer, and man of God who is very concerned about the church and matters related to our Christian walk.

kitten

2007-05-18T11:16:00.003-05:00

Cat meets kitten, kitten kicks butt (edited)

2007-05-18T11:16:00.001-05:00

John Edwards Feeling Pretty

2007-05-17T16:57:00.002-05:00

This needs no introduction.

Jerry Falwell?

2007-05-17T16:04:00.001-05:00

Michael Medved praised Falwell for uniting conservatives, including Jews and Mormons, and calling them the "moral majority." I'm glad for a Jew calling attention to this and respecting him for his values. But I have to recall what bothered me about Jerry Falwell. He lashed out in judgment as if he relied on his own righteousness instead of Christ. This is what kills the message of the cross.

It said in one article that he admitted he was losing the battle for better values. But I believe he wasn't fighting with the right weapons. He didn't touch me during the 80's when I was adrift from Christ with his political Christianity.

The church still hasn't seen its day. The traditional church has been losing its battles in America, but the true church, the true body of Christ has still not fully emerged. We are still waiting for revival.

Note: Falwell was always kind of cute and plump like Santa Claus.

IDAHO: MAY 17, International Day Against Homophobia

2007-05-17T11:52:00.000-05:00

For IDAHO (found out on Kingdavid's blog) I declare that I will fight homophobia by never being afraid of homsexuality by always knowing that I can overcome it by the blood of the Lamb.

Miracle On The Road

2007-05-16T12:18:00.000-05:00

I don't know exactly what inspires a new post, but you just hope that they have some rhyme or reason and that it speaks to someone. I was just remembering some amazing miracles of provision on the road, you know, when God showed up to protect or provide while traveling.

One is that I was taking a trip to Colorado in December late 2004 (gas price $1.66) for a week or so, and was driving all the way from Iowa to Colorado in one stretch. It was very late, around 3 AM, and I needed to stop and find a hotel. I was near a town called Merino so I turned in but got lost and ended up in another small town instead, named Hillrose. I was traveling with two cats and one of them was getting crazy from the long trek, so I let her out. She always stayed near the car, but this time strayed from the car to a junkyard nearby. I was stuck until I got her back in the car!!!

The little town had nothing. It had no stores, no hotels, not even a gas station, just a few houses. I wondered how people could live in a town like this. It seemed so isolated.

I looked down the street and saw a church. It seemed to be God's sense of humor because it was Lutheran and I was raised Lutheran. It was only a block from the junkyard so I figured if I could get in there I could still find my cat after resting in the church. Why did I just sense that I could into that church? See, I was raised in a small town church as my dad is a pastor. It was indeed open. There was one little door open in the small side door in the very front of the church, next to the altar. It seemed symbolic, being able to enter right into the "holiest" part of the church. God has allowed us into the "holy of holies."

I put my sleeping bag down on the carpeted floor but then realized that there was a kitchen area in back that was more cheerful and carpeted as well. There was also a bathroom. There was also food in the refrigerator so I could get a snack - some ice cream in the freezer, and some water in bottles. There were some chips in bags. I was so hungry I didn't think I could fall asleep.

After setting up my sleeping bag I opened a can of tuna I had and went back to lure my cat out of the junkyard which was successful. Now I had both my cats in the church with me, and they were very harmless to the surroundings. I felt God telling me to check to see if there was a downstairs, but I thought, "nah, there's probably no downstairs."

I finally fell asleep and was aware that someone had come during the morning and saw my cats and left. I was awakened at 1:00 PM by the minister. He was a nice, young, rather roly-poly man, who seemed only slightly miffed, but not that alarmed. I explained my situation and that I was a minister's daughter, and that we had often had bums come to our church and sleep on the pews at night. He told me that there was no problem. He handed me his business card and told me there was a guest room in the basement and if I was ever in the area again to look them up.

I was passing through Colorado again on another trip coming from Arizona and I did indeed look them up. A pipe had broken in their guest room at the time, so they couldn't put me up there, so they offered to put me up in a nearby motel for free. Isn't that the sweetest thing you ever heard? That, my friends is the love of the body of Christ. The pastor and his wife did it for me because they recognized that I am a sister in Christ. I suppose they would do it for a stranger under other circumstances as well. It is the love of Christ. Believe in it. Let it sink in.

Please Pray For Jonathan

2007-05-14T14:05:00.001-05:00

He's 19, going on 20, is my nephew, my older sister's youngest, and seems to be 'losing it.' He likes history and through scholarships got things lined up and went to an Eastern college, but halfway through his first semester, he quit and came home. Now he is isolating himself and wouldn't even come to our mother's day celebration. He has cut himself off from all people, even friends, and won't talk to his mother, father, or his brother who has always been close to him about what is wrong. We fear he is getting ill mentally.

He is a Christian, but needs a more firm relationship to Christ and has no fellowship right now, or Christian friends. Help! I love him dearly. Strange coincidence he has the same name as a new visitor to this site who is close in age and a Christian who can pray for him.

Everybody Loves Raymond Can Dance

2007-05-12T17:34:00.001-05:00

I don't know how long I've been watching these re-runs, but I love this show for the characters and values. It was unparalleled. And trust me to find it late, but I found it. Here is a collage of dances from the show.

Interview With Everybody Loves Raymond Cast (hillary 2008)

2007-05-12T17:23:00.001-05:00

I happen to watch reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond religiously on local station 29 in the Cities. I found this.

Bush Just 'Doing His Job', Right?

2007-05-11T17:21:00.002-05:00

It doesn't help the opinion polls to see Bush tirelessly visiting Kansas, because he's just fulfilling his obligations as President, supposedly, but I admire him.

photo: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/08/president_bush_swiftly_to_the.html

The Story Of Mother's Day

2007-05-11T16:47:00.000-05:00

The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday". Celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter*), "Mothering Sunday" honored the mothers of England.
*(For more information on Lent/Easter check out - Easter on the Net)

During this time many of the England's poor worked as servants for the wealthy. As most jobs were located far from their homes, the servants would live at the houses of their employers. On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. A special cake, called the mothering cake, was often brought along to provide a festive touch.

As Christianity spread throughout Europe the celebration changed to honor the "Mother Church" - the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from harm. Over time the church festival blended with the Mothering Sunday celebration . People began honoring their mothers as well as the church.

In the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) as a day dedicated to peace. Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother's Day meetings in Boston, Mass ever year.

In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.

Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. It was successful as by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.

While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year, there are some countries such as Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.

from: Mother's Day on the net

A Mother's Day Poem

2007-05-11T16:11:00.000-05:00

M - O - T - H - E - R

"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell
"MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.

Howard Johnson (c. 1915)

Vertigo

2007-05-11T10:59:00.002-05:00

It's my favorite U2 song! I do like the dynamics, and with YouTube, it's free, so why not?

Life Without limbs -Nick Vujicic

2007-05-10T11:02:00.001-05:00

You must see this to understand how a young man can live a life without limbs as a life without limits. I found him on Texas Rainmaker's blog. He was at his church. Texas Rainmaker said that Nick was recently in Indonesia, a Muslim country, speaking to a group of 350,000 people, and 80,000(!) gave their lives to Christ. He has been able to go all over, sharing the message of his love for Christ and Christ's love for him. A torso! A torso goes all over the world preaching and bringing people to Christ!

I have seen pictures of people lying on the streets of India, for example, without limbs and thought of how I want to restore them, and how horrible their situation. Nick is the perfect person to give hope to such people. While I believe it is God's perfect will to restore Nick to wholeness (because that is Christ's gospel), it is awesome what God has been able to do in and through him in the state that he is. He is an inspiration. He causes me to be drawn to the hope of heaven, because he obviously relies on that. On Texas Rainmaker's blog you will find a video of Nick doing everyday tasks.

"I'm Just Fixing Up My Manspace"

2007-05-08T11:43:00.002-05:00

I just thought this article was pretty funny, unabashedly calling a man's private area to hangout at home his "manspace"

Virginia Tech Had Gun Control

2007-05-08T10:37:00.000-05:00

Virginia Tech already had gun control laws in place preventing anyone from defending himself and stopping the crazy person. This ought to be a perfect example of what can happen to a country with gun control in place. Why isn't it obvious that gun control only leaves the majority of people defenseless but still allows the killer a way to find a weapon? And gun control happens when people want to put more trust in their government than in themselves. I found this writing on the topic.

Discerning God's Will

2007-05-07T12:29:00.000-05:00

I found this in the bulletin of my parents' church and thought it was good. Based on Dr. James Dobson's answers to the question "how do you make decisions that are in line with God's will?".
1. A search for God's will should begin on your knees. He will meet you there.
2. Examine the scriptures for principles that relate to the issues at hand. The Lord will never ask you to do anything morally wrong or in contradiction to His word.
3. Seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many people.
4. Pay close attention to what is known as "providential circumstance." When you begin to be blocked on all sides in a particular pursuit, you might consider the possibility that God has other plans for you. Don't give up at the first sign of obstacles, but be attentive to what God is already doing around you.
5. Do nothing impulsively. Give God an opportunity to speak while you concentrate on the first four approaches.

In addition to these five steps to determine God's specific will, you can know His general will for each of us. The Scriptures give all believers the same assignment, and we find it in the words of Jesus, who said, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation" (Mark 16:15). So in whatever you do, whether you are a dentist, a truck driver, an artist, or a homemaker, you have the privilege of using that position as a springboard to witness for the Savior.

Fred Thompson?

2007-05-07T09:50:00.001-05:00

I was watching some videos that my politically minded cousin put together for me and my family of Fred Thompson and was not feeling comfortable with him. He was clearing his throat too much in a Fox news interview and I just thought, "Oh no. We've got Obama and Clinton sharks waiting to devour us on one hand, and candidates like this on the other." He just seems to lack confidence. And Drudge Report has an article that expresses doubt in other conservative minds too.

Sexuality Issues

2007-05-06T16:27:00.001-05:00

Journal notes.
When someone negates the basic, innate, healthy, normal attraction and desire that human beings have towards the opposite sex, when you condemn that, problems arise, and the result is rebellion, it causes things to be out of balance. Doesn’t it seem strange, when you teach people in the clergy to be celibate, when it is not their calling, they end up in perversion? Perversion results from twisting God’s natural, healthy order of things. Matt 19:11 – “he who is able to accept this..”

God had just been dealing with me on this issue of sexual purity, and I was traveling to the Toronto church to be in revival power with a friend, and she was telling me how she could “see” I was lusting after men, just because I would look at one or say that I liked another one who seemed to be my type. Example of when God deals with an area (sexuality) and after that someone says they see that problem in you – after the fact, after it’s cleansed – weird.

It seemed to boil down to open jealousy of an older woman towards a younger one, I don’t know. She is old enough to be my mother and I know she still wants to get married and maybe it’s just too much for her – a young (attractive, if I do say so myself) female, making her feel old or something.

I had to carefully avoid taking her too seriously, even though I wanted to be sensitive to God if He was trying to say something. Recognize how she might be twisting and skewing the truth. I knew the danger of trying to surgically cut out my most basic sexual interests.

I have had a huge problem coming to balance in sexuality, because what does a person do with his/her sexuality if one is single but has sex drive? This is the basic question and all the problems stem from that. I see stuff about the internet perverts and am reminded of how many isolated people there are in our culture who get sick in their isolation and loneliness.

SCRIPTURE ON SEXUALITY ISSUES

It is wrong even to think lust, so Jesus said. My definition of lust: sex with an object, negating the spirit, soul, mind, value of the individual and denying responsibility for them in a total commitment. This is what has to go. We cannot even think it, moreover, we must not even like it, otherwise we cannot defeat it. See, He must change our desires from within.

There are degrees of lust, and shades of sexuality in complex beings. One may have a positive fantasy about someone close to them whom they love and wish to be married to, and someone else may have degrading fantasies. It is up to the individual to determine if what they are thinking is lust and not godly – that which leads to spiritual death.

The following are passages from the bible about sexuality, and short references to what these passages say. You really need to go and look them up.

Rom 6: 12,13
Sexual immorality mentioned as one of main causes of being in judgment, or even hell. (see Revelation)

Rom 1:29, Rom 2:22
Rom 1: 26 - sexual perversion the first result of exchanging truth for a lie

1 Cor 6: 9-13 do not keep company with sexually immoral people
1 Cor 6: 9 Fornicators mentioned first! vs 13 sexual immorality, 18 flee sexual immorality. Every other sin is outside the body. The immoral person sins against his own body. vs 19,20 you were bought with a price, therefore, glorify God in your body…..!

1 Cor 7: 8, 9 If you burn with passion, marry! 1 Cor 11:11 Man and woman not independent of one another. One flesh!

1Cor 11:27-30 Don’t take Jesus’ body and blood unworthily. What would unworthily be? Casually taking the body and blood without intent to let these do what they are meant to do: change you, redeem you from sin.

2 Cor 4: 7 We have a treasure in earthen vessels (our bodies)

2 Cor 12: 9 God’s grace is sufficient for our weakness - the hinge. Don’t rely on your own strength. All commands are written to inspire conviction, but the power to change does not lie in deciding to “try” to obey them but to cast oneself upon God’s grace and mercy to help in time of need. Righteousness is a work of God.

Gal 5:13 Don’t use your liberty as an opportunity for the flesh
Note: Paul wrote a lot of things that imply to us that we are to do this or do that – and it sounds like something we are to do instead of God. Be reminded that Paul was of all people most aware of the need to fall upon God’s mercy and have God’s righteousness replace his own. The things we hear, the exhortations are things God uses to instill good within us, but we need to hear these things through the Holy Spirit and NOT allow our flesh to rise up and say “I’m going to try to do that!”
Col 3: 5,6 wrath!
1 Thes. 4: 3-7
Hebrews 12: 15,16 Bitterness and fornication equated
2 Peter 2:14 Eyes full of adultery, weak women
Jude vs 7
Rev. 21: 8 and Rev 22: 15 sexual immorality
Marriage is sacred and binding - what then, is sex outside of
marriage?
Matt 5: 27-28 lust is a degrading view of someone. It is ignoring the soul and spirit and looking on the body instead of the soul. vs 32
Matt: 19-3-9

If unmarried man sleeps with unmarried woman he can actually make it up to God and to her by marrying her, and he cannot divorce. Deuteronomy 22: 28 But Deut 22: 25 If she is betrothed and he isn’t and he forces her in the country, where no one would be able to hear her cry out, he is killed. If in the city, both killed. vs 22 If she is married, both die also. How do these laws play out today, considering God fulfills his law through His spirit, even when man doesn’t carry out punishments?
Deut. 27 - more laws on sexuality
Deut. 24:5 1 year of happiness to the newly married

Similar to Don Juans and Donna Juans

Beware oh beautiful young woman of your beauty. Men may desire you, but not love you, and women may find it hard to love you, even hate you. It’s because of beauty walls are created. One can merely concentrate on being attractive as the primary thing, leading to trouble.

If a woman or girl has a lot more on the inside - more self love and an awareness of one’s value on the inside, then that woman or girl will demand that value to be seen by others and will not lean on her exterior qualities. What leads to depending on the exteriors? Something goes wrong.

In the Mall of America tonight, I am reminded of things past. I remember loneliness -a spell that would be broken only by the admiring glance of a handsome young man. Now, I am thankful that with time and learning, when I walk around in the mall that I seem to be more of an object of scrutiny for reasons beyond beauty, to both young women and men. Particularly it is the young who notice me. With those women who are not young, I am always afraid of jealousy popping up, so I avoid looking at them at times. But things have changed. The old ways are breaking.

I saw a baby crying as his mother walked away to throw trash away, and look at her with glee again as she returned. She approached him inching, making wide smiles at him while he giggled. I thought of how a child sees his mother as beautiful, even if she has shoulders too wide and wears camp, masculine clothing and isn’t pretty. To him she is beautiful. And this is reality we were all born for: to be loved by people who know us, not to be admired, not to live inside a glass case. To live on the inside of who we are and what we believe and to be known and loved for who we are. How did I get so isolated?

Immoral sexuality is indulged by those who deny healthy family ties, who deny that sex can bring a baby and that a baby needs to come into the world through a home. But how do we get like that? How do we become lost so that we desire sex outside of love and family - so that we attract people we find attractive, but we don’t love them and it doesn’t lead to love, but it looks good, it feels good, and it seems as if one is reaching for love and intimacy, while all the time one is pouring sand through a sieve.

How did it get that way? It comes from pain in those significant relationships. It comes from hurt. But in looking back at the life that led to the wrong things, one has to forgive, one has to forget wrongs that were done. Bitterness underlies all wrong sex, and bitterness has to go.

Sexuality that is evil desires pleasure and even intimacy, but denies responsibility for the person or persons. In the past I chose those who wanted me for a moment, and then ran away. I chose wrongly because there was something wrong in me.

MARRIED, literal translation: “possessed.” Scary!

It's Not Gay, It's Queer, Part 2

2007-05-06T14:50:00.002-05:00

As a girl, an adolescent, I was interested in other girls' bodies as an extension of my own. My interest was in the sexuality of the body and I was not attracted to females. Adolescent girls are afraid of experiencing real sex (I mean, so it was in the mid-1960's,) but they are fully aware of it and extremely curious. There's excitement in exploring other girls' bodies as a way to get familiar with one's own sexuality, but this is far removed from desiring another girl as a sexual partner, or from having a longing for romance with another girl. This seems to be more acceptable for females than for males, so I hear.

When I turned 16, I remember a female friend in my High School class who was sensual and had been violated - more by the culture than anything else. She had been in some very shallow sexual relationships for a couple years already with older men. I was staying at her home for a weekend and I remember lying next to her one night and having thoughts of 'playing around' with her as I had done at about 12 or 13 years of age.

Suddenly the thought caused fear and revulsion. Suddenly it seemed evil and inappropriate, because I had passed the point where it was no longer innocent. I had reached the age of accountability, but also, God had placed His spirit within me through excellent evangelical teaching, and it was His spirit, not me that gave me that check inside.

What causes a young woman to be attracted to this very same evil that suddenly presented itself to me that year, rather than resist it? What makes this a desirable thing to the lesbian? It is a pathological condition, a weakness that makes good and evil indistinguishable in terms of consequences. It comes from nothing more complicated than our basic evil nature, the sin we were born into.

If you continue in something sinful, including perversion, demons will surely find you and seek to overtake you. Where people continue in heterosexual or homosexual sex even when they know it will give them AIDS, just to have the full sensation of unprotected sex, the demonic is evident and present there.

Here is an example of the beauty of the multi-dimensional experience of normal, healthy male to female sexuality that I have experienced.

A policeman dropped me off at a convenience store during the dead of a cold, long winter years ago, because my car had broken down on the highway. This was to help me to find a phone. At the store I discovered a young man I'd worked with at a security company a couple summers before. At that time he was only about sixteen and a half, but now at eighteen, he was the picture of masculinity with only traces of boyhood left behind.

He was adorable! There was something so innocent about him, so unspoiled; yet he seemed bursting with the thoughts and feelings of a grown man. I looked at him and literally sent a thought up to God, "this is the object of my greatest desire." Just as my thought emerged, the young man turned, looked at me and smiled.

The affirmation this gave me is something unparalleled on earth. The ordeal I was having with the car and being in a lonely place in the middle of "urban-sprawl" was softened, even made happy by this young man.

I remember thinking how the feelings he was giving me were health to my mind, my body. This was not a sordid lust - this was the purest and surest form of the basic attraction we all feel who long for the opposite sex. The warmth that came from him was almost a tangible river. I could feel it. I think when we feel this desire, this pure, healthy version of sexuality, we are ministered to.

When I sit next to a homosexual male in a cafe or a computer lab - wherever, and he's someone who has all the obvious signs of being gay, almost inevitably I can clearly observe that he cannot, or will not share the current that often runs between a male and me similar to the one described above. He coldly shuts me out, except in the case of the type of gay man I described in part one, where by some accident he is attracted to me. Otherwise, the cold is also almost as tangible as ice. Again, I want to mention that homosexuality carries with it a face, a look, a sound in the voice - that is so unattractive. Think about it - why does it change one's appearance and voice?

That's why it didn't surprise me that the actor in Will and Grace isn't gay. He isn't gross enough.

Does this not alert the gay person to the truth about him, that he is living a big lie? Yes, and I also know that many who are caught in the gay lifestyle feel trapped, regardless of how hideous they may seem. That prison has been opened by Jesus Christ.

The gay person suffocates and twists what is so profoundly basic in us all. He causes himself ill health, damage. Lesbians and gays are trying to undermine the most fundamental area of their lives! Can you imagine rejecting something as basic as your gender? How miserable!

Adam wasn't happy in Paradise because he was alone. As the saying goes it was Eve not Steve, her, not him who made the difference. God made her out of him so she wouldn't be something that much different, i.e., "bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh." It was not God's idea to create anything so far from Adam, just something that would reciprocate needs and feelings in a way that would be far better than something identical. And male and female is one of the most basic and concrete plans God ever showed us. I laugh to think of going against that.

I think of the profound way in which God did that, how men do compliment me and provide so much that a woman can't. I am in awe of this perfect idea and the fact that so much of that perfection is still present in the world. After all this time I still see my Adam in so many men, having a part in Eve. If you do not accept the biblical story, I cannot convince you or find any frame of reference for you.

How is it that homosexuals have gained so much ground in our society today that we are being told how to think, how to act? There has begun an undermining of our foundations through deadly, "snaky" brainwashing.

Don't impose upon me your same-sex mentality! Lesbianism can only undermine the beautiful love between my mother and myself in which sexuality would be absurd, or the love between me and my blood sisters, and all wonderful loves between me and other mothers and sisters who come into my life.

I will defend to the death these safe, non-sexual relationships against the systematic and lecherous undermining going on, by minds so open their brains are falling out!

How can you live day-by-day killing the power of biological urges, which go to the core of our survival? These urges have caused men to worship women in monosyllabic tones, and these urges have caused women to go through hell in order to have the child they have been told it is not possible to have with the man they love.

How can anyone live in opposition to the first and most basic thing God built into our life on Earth every day of their lives and not only that - also brag about it?

What kind of insane bitterness from rejection or what revulsion of nature could possess such people? Think about it.

There is a deluge that has begun to move in our direction in Western society - starting with the acceptance of the disease of homosexuality, under the guise of coming to the aid of the people afflicted by it, and feeding off of every shred of guilt we may have from ill treatment in the past of homosexuals. And what is our defense? What is our survival packet? Here it is:

A) Ask God to show you that you too are capable of homosexuality. It seems strange, it hurts, and it's ugly to see such a thing within you. No one is above this sin. NO ONE! It shouldn't surprise us to see this within us.

B) Confess your sinfulness to God and ask God to cleanse and purge you. It doesn't matter if you have sinned in this area already or not. Repentance and forgiveness are two of the greatest weapons of the Christian, in fact, two of the greatest luxuries. You will find power. Use communion - it is also powerful, and rightfully yours if you desire to separate from sin.

C) Live life free from heterosexual lusts. Heterosexual lust leaves the doors wide open to homosexuality.

D) Above all - find Christ's righteousness through his death and resurrection. Do not rely on your own righteousness - a deadly trap.

If Jesus was tempted even in homosexuality, since we know he was tempted in all points but without sin...and if he was tempted with homosexual thoughts but was not weirded out by this, nor did he tell himself "I must be gay," then you too can face the temptations to perverted thoughts without owning them, without letting them pigeonhole you..

E) Failure in relationships with people of the opposite sex doesn't have to freak you out. Many are experiencing failure today, because it takes two to make it work, and you can't control the other person's choices. It can take time to iron out all the kinks that have come from the things that haven't been right in one's life. Find the wisdom of patience.

F) You need to learn about inherited sin. Yes, it's true that our genetics can bring homosexuality, because sin patterns and tendencies are inherited. It doesn't make it natural. It means that it gets passed down. Lucky you. Jesus broke all curses at the cross and can break yours.

G) The good news is that if something is a sin, all we need to do is repent, and Jesus will wash us from it. This was such a breakthrough revelation when I had bulimia years ago.

As soon as I got out of high school, I began to gain weight instead of the killer metabolism that I was used to whereby the burning metabolism consumed all that I ate. Suddenly I needed to eat much less but wasn't used to that. I became discouraged and depressed, and wanted to eat for emotional reasons. I was used to overeating as a teen too when my metabolism was so strong. But then it hadn’t made me fat.

I was so blessed to know that gluttonous eating was a sin and all I needed to do was repent, because then according to the scriptures 'if we confess our sins He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.' Repentance, then, has the power to cleanse us from whatever the problem. Any other type of problem is not as easy to remove if it is not a sin we are committing.

Homosexuality is a compound of sins, therefore a serious condition and not easily overcome, yet nothing is impossible for God. It is rebellion against the simplest most basic plan and design of God. This rebellion may be forged out of an extreme hurt or disappointment, causing us to lash out at God, who we feel has betrayed us. It is lust, the kind I have described in another essay, a hateful, unkind, unloving wish for another person. It is perversion - twisting something out of its original and intended shape. It is hate and violence.

There is no love in sexuality that is against God's way of sexuality because God is LOVE. It is a serious sin condition that breeds in affluent and complacent societies like ours. If you have fallen in, it’s not too late. God has an answer. Call on the Lord and you will be delivered.

I feel terrible for those who are plagued by homosexuality, who have found they are vulnerable to this.

I will offer you my compassion, to find healing and be restored to the person you were meant to be, but I cannot respond to you as long as you expect me to believe that you are normal.

Note: I have encountered trouble in completing this project. I feel sure that the subject I have just presented to you is one of the enemy angel's most treasured conquests in the world today and that certain principalities and rulers of this present darkness in the world desire to propagate the homosexual kind to the furthest degree possible.

As in the days of the prophets of Baal, I know my God is the one who can consume the works of our enemy gods.

Go in peace. The force of the Holy Spirit is with you!

Exodus International: www.exodus.to/ phone no: 888-264-0877

It's Not Gay, It's Queer

2007-05-06T14:47:00.003-05:00

I prefer the word "queer", not gay for this, because gay you are not. Gay means happy. You know you are not happy. If you were truly happy, you'd have no reason to end the misery. But you can let misery propel you to end the problem. Those who are comfortable and happy in this sin are lost - eternally, but I know that is not you.

WORDS FOR THE HOMOSEXUAL YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS

Oh to be "gay"

I sit at table with my male friend
I look over and see a young man, and his "friend."
They are conspicuously dressed in 1920's hair and 1920's
sweaters. Something about the face is tight. It's awful.
One of them sees me. He begins to look longer. He begins
to look admiringly. He begins to look longingly.
I look again and catch him looking. He snaps head around to
avoid me. His friend returns. They leave the bar/restaurant
and he detours to pass by the window in front of my friend and me.
He looks at me. Deep inside, I gasp. I pray a prayer for his confusion because I believe he and his friend are "gay."

(I believe this was written when I was "too good to miss")

Homophobia makes sense. What if I AM capable of homosexuality? We know for sure that it can happen to a whole society, I mean, loosely recalling history I know that in Greece the military was 90% gay towards the end of their great civilization. End, that is. Get it? So, if Homosexuals inject their thinking full-force into the society trying to influence others, and are accepted - that's it! The writing is on the wall. Decline ahead. I believe we are seriously heading for a fall.

The man who plays "Will" in the TV show "Will and Grace" said on a recent talk show he believes we'll all be gay someday. Yeh, over my dead body, Mr. Know-it-all! That possibility is not something I would boast about on a talk show as he did. Interesting that he and the other main gay guy character are actually straight. Weird, but I was so happy to find it out. I thought they were straight. Why is that? What happens to a man that even converts his exterior self to reveal that he is "queer" indeed.

We do not know if we are capable of becoming Sodom and Gomorrah. It's about the collective mind. Christ seems to have more interest in us than that. Look at the door that has been opened to the enemy of our souls, allowing AIDS. Yet here is a crisis that could bring someone out of sin, if they let it. I do believe the disease comes from consequence, in general. (Therefore God can remove it on the behalf of the penitent one.) I have a right to fear not only disease, but also the moral disease that can erode a culture, that can desensitize people to what is right and wrong, that can weaken the moral fiber. Excuuuuuse me, then for my "homophobia," but I'm gonna say these things if it causes trouble, or not.

Of course one must not hate people for homosexuality as has been done in the past. We must not insist that people live in dark corners alone, unable to talk about the strange desires they are not able to control, and try to brush the problem and the people under the rug.

There is healing for the homosexual through basic principles laid down in the Bible, and that healing has perhaps been denied for too long, so we reap the consequences. As a society we eventually suffer as a whole for our neglect of homosexuals as their bitterness and hatred escalate. The power they have over us comes from the guilt we harbor deep down from our own part in the problem - our neglect.

The word homosexual means same-sexual (homo=same,) therefore the word applies to male or female and shouldn't be used to denote only males of that orientation.

In observing two lesbians, or female homosexuals, I noticed one was very pretty, the other looked like a lesbian (could that have been the perverse turning up of the corners of the mouth as she looked at me?) She had short, black hair, and a very rugged face. Ok, let me stop here and acknowledge - homosexual sex is a part of the human race because we all are capable of just going after kinky, wild forms of sex - it's in us. I am not exempt. Some are more vulnerable to that.

Back to the "queer" women - OOOOH isn't it just sweet and cozy? Together they left the cafe where I found them, the pretty one of the two, the unlikely one (of course), took the masculine role, surrounding the other one with her hands and arms. Because it's weird, it's kinky, it's not how it's supposed to be and that's rebellious. Rebellion can appeal to you if you have given up on the things you once loved that were right.

They are so "close." It led me to thinking...

1) Women get their periods at the same time when they live together. Ish. Yuck. The thought of touching another woman's menstrual blood, it makes me cringe. But for a man, it’s not a problem or disgusting at all. Why should it be? When the mind becomes perverse, when you want to rebel against what is normal, you can learn to overcome what would otherwise be objectionable. You can learn to love what is disgusting. The thought of oral sex with another woman-it also makes me nauseous. Involving myself with labia, or vaginal discharge (unless as a gynecologist) ISH! ISH! ISH! What possesses a woman so that she can love such a thing? Need I say?

2) Don't things hit these two over the head once in a while, such as, a woman can never truly make love to another woman with a part of her body, the one thing which makes sexuality between a man and woman extremely charged and strange, but fantastic? A man puts an extremely sensitive part of his own body inside the woman. This is the profound, the symbolic thing about heterosexual (normal) sex that is so essential and cannot in any way, shape, form be replaced in homosexual sex by either gender.

To say that it is replaced in any way is stupid and absurd. Doesn't it seem absolutely ridiculous, childish, flat and empty to be trying to simulate what a man does each and every time they strap on a fake penis? It should remind them that a man has a real flesh and blood penis. They don't care if this is absurd because they enjoy bashing God and God's beautiful creation. However, that is something we all are capable of, I want to add, but usually because the good things have been destroyed for us.

Always in male homosexual sex one person is uncomfortable or in pain while the other is getting a cheap, merely physical imitation of true, fulfilling sex. Interesting that God's ideal is that both parties feel ecstasy at the same time, with body parts complementing each other in a way that it is not painful, but also, homosexuals seem to miss the fact that there is a deep, spiritual component built into God's way of sex that is only present with male and female. Both feel wonderful sensations at the same time, but both fulfill some God-given need, in part, as they merge with the other sex.

It is as fundamental as God saying he made man in his image: male and female. The true Godhead is made complete as male and female unite. The mystery that Apostle Paul talked about lay in the fact that God has become the lover of mankind as male is lover to the female. It seems possible that the two become one because the oneness created is a total picture of the Godhead who himself said that his image is made up of male and female. (See Genesis.)

It amazes me that for the sake of whatever the homosexual is trying to 'prove' he or she endures third-rate sex that is merely the physical aspect of getting an orgasm or some kind of physical pleasure. It is shallow. There are those who try to say it is good sex. How unbelievable. How stupid. They are referring to an erotic experience that can in no way come close to what male and female can experience because of the dimensions God has placed within it. And in giving in, and going to the homosexual dimension, they have lost the ability to truly experience the mysterious, wonderfulness of what God has given to male and female.

God did not place within males and females the same dimensions with their own sex as he placed within male and female towards each other.

Homosexuals cannot see the third and fourth dimensions that cannot possibly exist between them. What? Do homosexual men find a perfect replacement in having the penis enter the part of the body that disposes of bodily waste? HA! What mockery of the creation! And that's what it is. It is mockery because it is forged in cynicism - when we give up on the good things.

When the penis is sinking into human feces - this perfectly replaces the union of male and female? What? While one man looks down at another man's back, and causes him pain while he finds momentary pleasure of the rankest kind? This is "wonderful?" HUH? Are you insane? I really think so.

Homosexual love is not actually love for your own sex - to the contrary. There is an underlying hatred or disgust for one's own sex, not to mention, there is hatred for the opposite sex, despite what many will claim. I have examined these things carefully, having also been tempted by the gay lifestyle. I have observed the fundamental basis for this temptation. It was deterioration that brought this temptation. It was the deterioration of my hopes regarding the opposite sex.

You see, when one is hurt by the opposite sex and after going ahead of God and indulging sexuality outside of a loving commitment, what God would have, one can become so deeply wounded. I can see clearly, having passed through these same portals more than once, where the spirit of the age was beating against my soul and where homosexual thoughts came flooding in and I had not the usual resistance.

I can see that there is a cynicism that comes in with the hurt, and homosexuality is a result of the cynicism. Ugh. Are you ready for the truth? Homosexuality is a compound of evils, of sins. These words cannot help the one who just doesn't care about all this. For those who never really cared about the good things, about God's good things, God's ways - this is meaningless. I am speaking to the ones who care, or who once cared.

Satan is lying to you. It has a lot to do with the collective unconscious of a place, and the spirits in that place, something I understand now but didn't then, when I first felt overwhelmed by a new temptation to perversion.

There I was, 28 years old, and let me tell you how heterosexual I am, how I've always adored the male. Yet, at 28, living in central Philadelphia surrounded by transvestites waiting for their turn to have their sex change at the Philadelphia hospital which is renowned for it's sex changes, I was being attacked by something new and unwelcome. I was being bombarded by homosexual thoughts.

Just prior to this I was living on the other coast in Los Angeles. The collective unconscious of that particular region is very powerful and controlling also. I had been influenced by the attitudes and behavior of L.A. at a time when some were choosing to escape typical lifestyles and try celibacy.

A new movement was under way called "neo-celibacy". The old kind was monks and nuns. The new kind was people reacting to the damage done by promiscuity, lust, and a casual environment for sex. A guy told me, "It's either become a neo-celibate or become gay." In other words: either get off the sex merry-go-round or let it take you even further into a wilder, cruder form of self-indulgence and perversion.

And I had just moved to Philadelphia where people weren't old fashioned anymore. Oh no! You can't let that "old world" exterior fool you. Brotherly love is now brotherly lust. I had stopped the destruction and become a neo-celibate a little too late. I had also gotten pregnant and it led to a miscarriage. Miscarriages are a lot more traumatic and dangerous than people realize. Post miscarriage is a time of mourning and a time of psychological vulnerability.

The damage had been done. Me - a raging heterosexual! I suddenly felt like putty, strangely without resistance to sensual thoughts and feelings. My head was reeling. I felt as if I was losing my mind. It didn't seem possible that I was getting thoughts of perversion, and I didn't want to admit it. Wow! I would know today exactly what was happening. The collective unconscious and the wicked spirits of a metropolis are controlling. Yes, I had to deal with something in me, but there was something outside of me I never understood.

Satan has been given a degree of power to be able to invade our thought lives. If you get a thought of perversion, why does it surprise you? You still have a flesh side of you and the enemy can influence it. There is no need for panic or to think you are now "gay." No one is gay, that is a lie. Everyone is either male or female, and everyone is capable of perverting the normal way of the genders. That your flesh would want to pervert sexuality should be no surprise. But if Christ has bought you, you can just say, "no" to the enemy. Just send the author of sin away, and confess your own sin.

I finally sought out the group called HARVEST at Tenth Presbyterian in downtown Philadelphia (restoration for the homosexual through Jesus.) Partly, I chose this ministry because it was all I could find in that town that had living, evangelical Christianity. Here at last were people whose lives had been truly transformed by Christ, and they were thankful to Jesus for it.

Finally, in the privacy of my own home I simply came to terms with the reality that I was capable of the sin of homosexuality, and that I had opened a door through my heterosexual sins. Something had been conceived within me, though not realized through experience. I simply confessed this to God, while in the bath, and asked him to cleanse me of this sin.

An important element is that I needed to recognize and confess that I could not stand in my own righteousness. No. I needed to come to the end of that, and to accept that I too could become homosexual and am capable of perversion. In the transaction that took place, I confessed my sin that had brought me to this place, but also received the righteousness of Jesus in place of my own. In that I found grace and strength to overcome.

Wham! I came out of that weird struggle OVERNIGHT. Simple confession and forgiveness are great weapons of the Christian. I was afraid that sin would grow in me and lead to actions, and confession stopped that.

It's important to note that I will always recognize the potential I have for that sin, and will never assume that I am beyond it. This gives me great power against it. It is our strongest defense. Self-righteousness will never hold up. It's His righteousness or no righteousness.

We are tested and tempted by our living in the world. Not being of the world is only possible in the strength of His righteousness replacing our own. Yes, the self-righteous attitude of those who do not feel tempted by homosexuality, and maybe never have, can be cruel and loveless.

Violence is an element of homosexuality. It exists in homosexuality because it exists wherever there is lust. I will later add scriptures that confirm this. There are several scriptures that link violence to lust. I will outline this in my essay entitled merely: "sexuality issues." The evidence is everywhere.

Homosexuality proves that there always have been two kinds of desire involved in human sexuality. One: the multi-dimensional longing to join with the body of the gender with which one can create new life, and find affection and love according to nature and God, i.e. male to female. Two: the desire for pleasure, for kinky diversions from love, for other people's spouses in order to play a game or cause pain (a destructive wish,) for a physical sensation and experience with anything or anyone for the sake of excitement, or the desire for someone in a kind of idolatry, or the desire for someone as a conquest for the sake of ego. These I label with one word: lust, whether they be between male and female or of the same sex.

Homosexuality is not only the second kind of desire; it is taking it to the next level, taking us deeper into bondage. It's lust gone completely wrong, completely out of control. It cannot have the dimensions of health and love, and it is not surprising that it has fostered so much disease (syphilis now occurs only between homosexual males, did you know?)

Don't give me your hare-brained sentiment about how homosexuality can belong to the first category if the situation is right! Homosexuality is intrinsically and without exception an evil diversion from healthy sexuality and nothing you can do can redeem it from that. You think marriage can redeem it? Hilarious.

You cannot experience love for your own sex and include lust, there is no possible way. Homosexuals have damaged the one relationship in which the most pure and self-less love can be found-fraternal love. What is fraternal love? It is an unselfish love felt toward a brother or sister, which does not include sensuality or sexual desire. Just as with our pets, we can get a non-sexual, and thus non-threatening touch from our brother or our sister, or our friend of the same gender. In homosexuality, this is being threatened.

It is one of the purest loves, right up there with mother or father love. It is a relationship in which we can retreat and know we are not being used, that there is nothing to be desired about us but our true selves. For the homosexual, lust has spilled over into that relationship too. There are no boundaries. There are no safe places.

I don't know how I could handle the tragedy of losing the beautiful love that I now can have with another woman or the tragedy of losing the protection I have against elements of desire that would pervade it.

To lose that would tell me to scream in terror. But because of an overwhelming deluge of perversion and of lust, the homosexual lives that nightmare which I cannot bear to imagine. Even in my relationships with men, it seems only the ones which do not include sexual desire are the ones that are lasting and demonstrate true love. In any relationship where we introduce sexuality, problems always seem to come so easily.

If sexuality is spilling over into all sorts of relationships where once one felt "safe" from them, one cannot experience this without misery, unless one is merely a devil or a son of the devil. How horrible when a father sees his daughter no longer as a beloved child but he sees her body, her sexuality and takes an interest only in the pleasure it might give him. How horrible when a person sees an animal and instead of having a divine respect for a species given by God to mankind for a divine purpose, sees it as a means of sexual pleasure. This could be a dog or a horse. Men have looked at the opening on a sheep, and seeing it’s not that different from a human female, they have decided to have sex with a sheep. What can you say about such a man? Such a person as this has lost all self-respect, all hope, all faith, all life, all love.

Do I have to remind you that AIDS reportedly began with someone doing this same thing with a monkey? There are built in consequences when sin goes to the extreme. Thank God. Without consequences we would not know for sure if anything was wrong.

Imagine, a man saw that a monkey is a higher species, and has an opening, a vagina similar to a woman, and says, "I'll have sex with that." He sees a boy, and since boys can be small and delicate with smooth skin, he can't see the difference between that and a soft, delicate woman. No boundaries!

Something horrible happens to a society where the boundaries surrounding those who should be protected, or those who are completely inappropriate for sex are destroyed. That society becomes very, very ill. And that's what I see happening, and my soul is troubled.

Satan is a thief, a killer and a destroyer. He wants nothing more than to see you and the culture around you sink into lust and perversion, with no boundaries, and uncontrolled passions and desires until you turn into a pile of mush! All the colors of relationships just run into one muddy mess. That way you and others will lose all strength and energy for life and lose all inspiration for the things that really matter and you and those around you will be destroyed. This is happening to our society. It is terrifying.

Why have so many societies and countries disappeared into fragments of history? Because Satan did them in too. They eventually were overtaken by passionate hatred, greed, anger, vengeance, lust, murder and perversion. Just think of where things can end up. Think of those strong characters of honor we depend on to hold our society together. If they get old and die and are not replaced, it is a tragedy.

Since this is such a long essay, I have divided it in half. See part 2.

To contact an organization that helps people resolve unwanted homosexuality, look up the website: www.exodus.to/ called Exodus International or call 888-264-0877. There are thousands of success stories of kicking the gay lifestyle.

Bush Has One Of Those Days Where He Feels Like 68 Percent Of People Hate Him

2007-05-05T20:30:00.001-05:00

WASHINGTON, DC—In an East Room press conference Tuesday, President Bush told reporters that he had the "sneaking feeling" that 68 percent of the U.S. population hated his guts that day.

"Maybe it's just me, but when I woke up this morning, it really seemed like 60 percent of men and 77 percent of women didn't want to have anything to do with me," Bush said. "I'm even getting the feeling that nearly two out of every three people who identify themselves as devout Christians—people who usually love me—are giving me the cold shoulder lately." From: the Onion

National Day Of Prayer - OOPS!

2007-05-04T13:27:00.000-05:00

Almost missed it! It was yesterday. This is what they said about it:

The 56th Annual National Day of Prayer will take place Thursday, May 3, 2007. The theme for this year is "America, Unite in Prayer" and is based on the verse from II Chronicles 7:14 which states: "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." NIV.

Well, did you PRAYYYYYYYYY????! Actually, I prayed all day, but I missed putting it on my blog.

There Are People Struggling With Homosexuality Who Don't Want To Be Gay

2007-05-02T16:03:00.001-05:00

And there is an answer: Jesus Christ. That's why someone wrote the word "lie" on this billboard. Jesus isn't going to "affirm" a gay couple when it is his desire to set people free from the bondage of homosexuality. But if you are one who is honestly seeking to be free, there is an organization called Exodus International, dedicated to helping people leave the homosexual lifestyle through the power of the cross. And the power is through the cross. I've been struggling to get my own testimony on here, to tell you how I do not stand in my own righteousness but in the power of the cross. I've been tempted by the gay lifestyle, but managed to escape getting involved in it by simple confession. My post Win Over Sin tells how I later won over heterosexual sin.

Wow, reading that over I actually thought "that sounds like no more fun left. No heterosexual sin either. Wah!" Just kidding. My good Christian friends know: sin is bondage.

An Example Of the Disease Of Radical Islam

2007-05-02T14:06:00.001-05:00

I say radical, because I don't want to offend Nonie if she's reading (Nonie, who still wants to call herself a Muslim. OK, if she insists). But really, if you read the article on this story, this is an example of the disease of self-righteousness that pervades the deception that has become this religion. He wasn't supposed to affectionately kiss a woman, though it's his one act of non-sexual love towards an older woman, which made me think maybe this man has a chance at having a soul after all! He isn't supposed to even touch any of her skin, but she was gloved and had her skin covered, but there's still an issue! Ach! Ach!

Why? Because they are so ho-o-o-o-oly. So holy they use language such as: "This type of indecency progressively has grave consequences..." And holy people are indeed concerned about whether or not things are right and correct. And if things are wrong, they should be punished. Hats off to hilarious (and truly holy in the eyes of our God) Kingdavid who determined that this man should have his lips cut off! But he's only interpreting the law as it has been interpreted before!

You see, Nonie, the truth is that radical Muslims, because they are so deceived, actually believe in the devil. Muslims like you recognize God, our God, but Muslims like these, unreasonable, and unhealthy, do not recognize the true God. Being caught up in laws such as these characterize Jesus' worst enemies: the Pharisees, the Jews of his day who also didn't know the true God and who he himself said were sons of the devil.

What's interesting about this story is that Mr., ah, Mr. "A" is getting caught at his own game.

Al Gore's Book Is The New Bible

2007-05-02T13:54:00.000-05:00

I think this is a hoot! See, this is what God meant when he said "have no other gods before Me." A California hotel is placing Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth in the nightstand drawer instead of the Gideon bible. It's one thing to wonder about global warming and another thing to believe in it like this.

I'm Gonna Miss Hot Prime Minister

2007-05-02T13:50:00.004-05:00

I guess because I like him, I always thought he was kinda hot. I'm a little uneasy losing the leadership that we have now, in this case, in the near future.

I Guess I Got Tagged Over At Night Writer's Blog

2007-05-01T12:11:00.000-05:00

Reverend Mother mentioned that she wanted to tag me. So here goes.
A- Available or Single?
I'm single and available, but that depends on who you are, he he.

B- Best Friend.
Definitely Jesus Christ.

C- Cake or Pie.
This is a very tough question because of the existence of chocolate tortes and French silk pie. It would have to be a toss up. There's caramel pecan too.

D- Drink of Choice.
Here is one of the reasons there has to be a heaven. There are never enough beverage choices in life. We are so limited. Pop is sweet and the sugar is bad for you and for your teeth. Milk is good for you but can be fattening. Juices can add up to too much sugar as well. Tea and coffee become our choices for the non-caloric benefits. Unfortunately, I don't like the taste of tea that well, leaving me very few choices. I love coffee, but how much coffee can you drink? I also love mango juice.

E- Essential Item.
I learned to have only essentials while traveling around the country in a car with my two cats. Cats are essential, thus a cat-box is also essential. The Bible is essential. My computer is essential.

F- Favorite Color.
Red. I've always loved red. As a kid, when I'd get a fever during a cold I'd go asking for red. I also like periwinkle blue.

G- Gummi Bears or Worms.
Love gummi bears.

H- Hometown.
Fergus Falls, Minnesota. It was a heavenly beginning.

I- Indulgence.
My indulgence is travel and camping, if I have the money to do so. I want to go global. Lately my indulgence is to be on the internet. I almost prefer that to going to movies, but actually movies are a big indulgence.

J- January or February.
February. Weird question. In Minnesota, aren't we just getting through both of them?

K- Kids.
Kids? I have taught Sunday School to compensate for not having them. But I have some awesome nephews and nieces in my life too who have made the difference. Oh, I almost forgot. Cats have been like little kids in my life. Pet owners are pretty silly about that.

L- Life is incomplete without…
Animals. And of course, a relationship with Jesus.

M- Marriage Date.
Can't predict that, especially now when it looks like it's going to be the marriage supper of the Lamb coming sooner.

N- Number of Siblings?
Five. Three brothers and two sisters, living around the country and the world.

O- Oranges or Apples?
For some reason I don't like apples that well and they're supposed to be so healthy!

P- Phobias/Fears.
I'm better at denial than fear. Don't like to think about my fears. God has been at work to help me overcome numerous fears. I live above fear better at certain times in my life. My biggest fear to overcome is lack of provision and failure.

Q- Favorite Quote.
Man was born free, but he is everywhere in chains, by French philosopher Rousseau
And since you already read this coming into my blog...here's another one:
And with what do we pay when we purchase the truth? Why, young man,
we buy it with our time, and with our youth.
And here's another:
There's only one trouble with running away. You always meet yourself when you get there.
from the movie "The Leech Woman"

R- Reasons to smile.
On the third day, Jesus rose from the dead. I think that if Jesus can overcome death, then anything in life can be transcended. Laughter is transcending.

S- Season(ing).
Season: Spring
Seasoning: Curry

T- Tag Three.
Kingdavid, Kev, Trailady

U- Unknown Fact About Me.
Should I say? OK. I am a weak thing. I am the weakest thing there is. When God said He chose the "weak things of the world..." He meant me.

V– Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animals.
Vegetables are nice, but what am I supposed to do when I'm hungry?

W- Worst Habit.
I'm too embarrassed to admit that I'm still trying to teach myself to get out the tissue instead of using my finger when my nose needs cleaning.

X– X-rays or Ultrasounds.
I can't believe how many X-rays I've had, and every time I freak out just a little, you know, worrying about radiation.

Y- Your Favorite Foods.
All I can think of is chocolate and chicken. I love chocolate and it's amazing all the ways people have thought of to prepare chicken.

Z- Zodiac.
This is the perfect opportunity to take out the four spiritual laws and preach. The Zodiac is naughty, I don't believe in it.
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May Day

2007-05-01T10:47:00.000-05:00

Whew! Our parents who had us celebrate May Day probably never heard this description of the holiday:
May Day (May 1) is a spring festival celebrating human fertility and the renewal of nature. The festival originated with the celebration of the Roman goddess Flora and spread to other countries of the Roman Empire. May Day was especially popular in England during medieval times. Activities centered around the maypole, a tree collected from the woods and brought to the village to celebrate the upcoming summer. Many people participated in temporary sexual encounters while they were off in the woods.

Fortunately, Christians liberated the holiday and transformed it. I remember as a kid we made our May Day baskets which we brought to friend's houses.

Lutefisk Capital Of The World

2007-04-30T13:20:00.001-05:00

Did you know that there is a town in Minnesota named Madison, after Madison, Wisconsin, that is called the Lutefisk capital of the world? Neither did I. It was on the travel channel, the Taste of America show with Mark DeCarlo. And I didn't know that they have a Norsefest with an outhouse race - an outhouse on wheels! Pictured is 'Miss Lutefisk' humor and the outhouse race. Those crazy Minnesotans!

The Madisonians couldn't answer the question: "what does Lutefisk taste like?" And what do you think Mark thought of it? Did he like it or find it disgusting? Answer in comments.

In "The Ten Commandments" Charlton Heston Performed All His Own Miracles

2007-04-22T15:44:00.002-05:00

Read about it in The Onion

"Partial-Birth Abortion" Ban Upheld

2007-04-21T17:32:00.001-05:00

The Supreme Court upheld a 2003 Congressional ban on intact dilation and evacuation of a fetus. What do you think?

Theresa Bennell
Systems Analyst
"But what if you don't find out until late in the pregnancy that your fetus is doomed to be a total nerd?"

Keith Milan
Gymnastics Coach
"Partial-birth abortion is a horrific practice second only to the grotesque act of sexual intercourse."

Ivan Sarkisian
Respiratory Therapist
"This ban just ruins the whole abortion experience for me."

Silly humor from The Onion

Love Of The Brethren

2007-04-20T15:27:00.000-05:00

This is Lauren McCain, one of the slain at Virginia Tech, only a 20 year old Freshman! She was quoted as saying Jesus was the "love of her life" and reading about her, the tears just welled up in my eyes, and something just takes over inside, letting me know there is something inside me that isn't me, it's God, making me love my sister in Christ. It is just amazing. Just think, she was taken away from all of life's troubles and will live in glory now. I'm so jealous. She is definitely a testimony to the godly elements that still live on our College campuses today.

Photos of "Buddy"

2007-04-19T12:17:00.000-05:00

Buddy is my buddy. Here he is with me.

Here he is with my brother.
Here he is with my niece of 8 years, adopted from China and my other niece from China, 10 years old.
Here they are again.
Here you can get an idea of how big he is,
and here you can sort of see how heavy Buddy is.

Imagine The Pain

2007-04-18T14:05:00.000-05:00

of Cho, the killer at Virginia Tech, or the pain of his relatives now after this tragedy. His parents, reportedly have been hospitalized with shock. I imagine Cho was as miserable with the things that were tormenting him, as he was ready to hurt others. His parents probably didn't raise him in a godly, loving home and he was probably isolated from godly influences. He got into the hands of American psychiatrists - whose healing "arts" are Godless - trying to heal the soul and the spirit without God. He was on an American campus, a place that is increasingly Godless.

Dennis Prager, radio talk show host, made the statement that in our society it is easy to be isolated from the conservative stream of thought but be inundated by the liberal one, but not the other way around. At the same time, it is possible to be isolated from the love of Christ and the saving message of the gospel in our society, and to be isolated from God. Oh sure, one may have heard the story of Ted Haggard or seen Jan Crouch on TV, but not really heard a heartfelt gospel message.

As the psalmist David said, "truly thou art a God who hidest thyself oh God of Israel." (passage?) Hard to understand, but Cho did not have Christ revealed to him.

He would have had more chance being exposed to the amazing wonders of people turning to God and mighty miracles in China, where thousands have been turning to Christ.

There is talk about gun control as an answer - ridiculous! More people should be carrying guns. I thought that would be the obvious answer. But aside from that, the answer is not really something that we should "do" now. There is talk about working harder to solve the problem of the rising number of mental health cases on college campuses - not an answer. The rising number of mental health cases is a symptom of a larger problem, but many don't see the problem. God help us.

Hero In The Midst Of Tragedy

2007-04-18T12:30:00.000-05:00

Liviu Librescu is a great testimony to the Jewish spirit to be told on the day of solemn remembrance of the Holocaust. He died on that day. Little did I know when I did my last post on Hitler that it was Yom Ha-Shoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, the day the professor blocked the door to protect his students in the worst shooting rampage in American history. What a great story. He survived the holocaust and later escaped from Communist Romania only to end up at an American university at 76 years of age to be a hero to young students at his last breath!

Hitler Basically Inspired By Jihad

2007-04-16T12:57:00.000-05:00

Here it is again, a point that was made by the movie Obsession, that Hitler got his inspiration from a Muslim cleric and that he was basically learning Jihad. It is hatred of Jews they have in common, and as the movie made me realize, the Islamo-fascists are our new Hitler! Hatred of Jews spells out hatred of God. That's who they actually hate because one fact remains: the Jews are God's people.

The Great Global Warming Swindle

2007-04-15T16:06:00.000-05:00

Now before you accuse me of having a political belief about global warming, know that I don't know what to believe. And I believe in asking questions and not getting in a frenzy because the world is coming to an end. Here is the perfect answer to An Inconvenient Truth and this documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle, which if I've done everything right you should be able to watch here, suggests that any warming of the earth may be caused by the sun! Of course! I thought that made so much sense. It also states that scientists who are convinced about man-made global warming have to convince people of their beliefs in order to fund their research.

It states that third-world countries are prevented from development of things like access to electricity by "believers" in global warming because they feel the earth can't stomach any more development. This is unfair and selfish. This means: "We have already polluted the earth, and used the earth's resources for our own ends, you must remain in a crude state and can't progress because there's no more room for you!"

Abortion Spells Out Double Standard

2007-04-14T17:20:00.000-05:00

Partial birth abortion, or just abortion and a teen stabbing her newborn infant (even if 135 times) are in my mind no different, yet here is a frightened teen facing first degree murder charges. What a double standard. Something just goes off in my head when it comes to our judicial system hearing about this story. It reminds me of the story of Adam Bede, set way back in the early nineteenth century in England, when a pretty young girl also kills her infant, under duress. It is interesting how they convict her at this time in England, how they treat this, and to compare it to today. She is given a commuted sentence. At first she is sentenced to death, but since her lover is an aristocrat who has influence on her behalf, instead of death she is sent to Australia with other convicts.

This, by the way is a beautiful story worth reading and seeing. The British did a film version in 1992 of it that is lovely.

I thought when reading the story that surely the sentence was so harsh back then because it was pre-abortion times. Today they wouldn't see it that way. How could the sentence attached to the baby be so much harsher?

In our society, abortion is OK (and is funded by the taxpayer!) partial birth abortion is being fought for, but when a girl who is overweight comes up having a child under all her weight and in a panic stabs the baby repeatedly, she is charged with first degree murder. Wow! I just find that staggering.

Apology to Nonie Darwish

2007-04-14T16:58:00.000-05:00

You may notice her name connected to the book Now They Call Me Infidel in an earlier post. I wrote her an e-mail, as she has a website of her own called ArabsforIsrael.com

I directed her to this blog. And after reading her book I realize that she is this amazing person. She is, at last, a Muslim who is temperate in her beliefs.

In my post Muslim Attitude Toward Dogs Says It All, I say some pretty harsh things about Muslims, but I am referring to radical Muslims - Islamo-fascists. I am referring to Muslims who are irrational and harsh themselves, intent on destroying and frustrating all those who don't fit into their belief system. Nonie is Muslim, but not one of these. I am apologizing to her because I sometimes forget that there are those who call themselves Muslim but don't fit the narrow-mindedness that I describe in that post. Although Nonie probably understands that, I just want to make that clear. I have made this new acquaintance - a meaningful one, and I don't want to mess it up.

Hot Cross Buns Are Too Christian For Hospital

2007-04-13T12:05:00.000-05:00

Can we put two and two together? There are two articles referring to removing something too "Christian" today in the news, for those seeking a more secular society. One was a hospital banning hot cross buns on Good Friday and the other was the Easter bunny being renamed Peter Rabbit because it was too Christian. And it causes me to think of how many things in our world we owe to our Judeo-Christian roots, but do we know that? D. James Kennedy wrote in What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? about all the ways that Jesus and Christianity have impacted our world. Did you know that hospitals and Universities were founded in the middle ages by the church? Literacy and education for the masses? The abolition of slavery? Modern science? The elevation of women? Inspiration for some of the greatest works of art? The list goes on.

How can we continue to enjoy the many benefits and blessings of the things God has given us if we choke the very source? Will we figure it out finally, but too late? We who enjoy the blessings the most are the ones who are denying the source the most. In third world countries where people don't have these blessings they are running "to the cross" in large numbers.

In Nonie Darwish's book Now They Call Me Infidel (see earlier post) she makes the observation that Muslims in America will say that they enjoy certain privileges and things are OK for them, but she has to show them the things they enjoy are made possible by American rights and privileges that are not guaranteed in Muslim countries and do not originate in Islam. Again she is affirming the Judeo-Christian roots and the blessings offered by them.

Don Imus' Racial Slur

2007-04-12T11:49:00.000-05:00

Now this is ridiculous. Drudge Report had several items related to this story today. First, Don Imus, radio talk show host out of New York city, makes this stupid remark about the Rutger's University women's basketball team, who are black, that they are a bunch of "nappy headed hos." Of course, it was wrong. But then, there are all these reactions and repercussions. A bunch of sponsors decide to pull out of his show. MSNBC decides to drop his show.

The whole world turns against Don Imus. He's got the head of the NAACP crying that he has "violated our community." Oh come on. And what about the lyrics in rap music? What about all the "ho" words there? I can't believe a guy can make one comment and because he's white he can get pummeled to death. Now they are talking about firing him. Obama called for him to be fired. And lily white Hillary, lover of black people, said "I've never wanted to go on his show."

Then, a Pennsylvania DJ got fired for repeating the comments, or, he had people call into his show to repeat them for a "phrase that pays" contest - kind of disrespectful.

Rosie O'Donnell talked about the 'thought police' are coming, and defended Imus. She talked about freedom of speech. I agree with her. Why can't he apologize? There's all this vindictiveness over a few words. When will black people be free of the victim syndrome?

Much to their surprise, the Virgins awaiting Muslims

2007-04-10T13:02:00.000-05:00

in Heaven were not quite what they expected.
Kingdavid had this on his site, but my sister also sent this to me, so I thought I'd put it on mine too. Isn't it great?!

Now They Call Me Infidel

2007-04-07T21:31:00.000-05:00

Why I Renounced Jihad
For America, Israel, And The War On Terror

This is a book I just finished by Nonie Darwish, an amazing Arabic woman from Egypt, daughter of a "shahid" - a martyr for jihad. She has renounced jihad as the book says, which tells so much. From her childhood she has had an independent mind.

She made her way from living with her mother who was widowed and living independent of a man, to living in America, the land of her dreams. It is great to hear what America means to someone like Nonie. You ought to hear how it is appreciated, for once - truly appreciated! She stands strong against the terrorist mindset and stands for Jews and for Israel.

She has even started a website for Jews called ArabsforIsrael.com. She speaks at colleges every where about her anti-terrorist beliefs. This book is worth reading.

How Does Al Gore Explain This..?

2007-04-07T20:39:00.000-05:00

Record-Shattering Cold Threatens Crops
(State College, PA) - A brutally cold surge of arctic air into the eastern half of the United States will easily bring record-low temperatures on Easter morning and could cause significant losses in some of the nation's most prolific agricultural areas.

Resurrection of Jesus

2007-04-06T13:36:00.001-05:00

This is from "The Passion Of The Christ." Happy Resurrection everybody!

Global Warming Hasn't Helped Minnesota

2007-04-06T11:55:00.000-05:00

I don't know what you believe, but here it is, Friday before Easter and it's Co-0-0-0-0-ld. Cold like it's always been in Minnesota. It's only about 20 degrees in April! Frankly, I have been counting on global warming, thinking that at least in Minnesota we will benefit from it (selfishly.) I have thought that people were moving here because they figured a cold place was safer while the earth was warming. But now, it doesn't look like there is any warming, I'm sorry. And it is surely getting to me. The cold wind blows even into April and I'm sick of it, but I guess it could be worse.

Anyway, if you believe in global warming, come to Minnesota and you will think twice. This is ridiculous.

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (live)

2007-04-06T11:17:00.005-05:00

Here is the song to listen to... the "flavor" Gabriel added is Latin. Imagine as you listen to it the whole time he is doing this as a worship to Jesus and not as a love song to a person.

Love Heals Your Heart - Third Day

2007-04-06T10:51:00.002-05:00

For Good Friday - this song by the most prolific of Christian musicians in my opinion - every song a novelty. This is one of my favorites. (I am going a little YouTube happy since I figured out how to use my account)

Note: funny thing is singing along with this song I find myself singing "love breaks your heart" because it does. When you love you always risk breaking your heart. I broke my heart loving that cat right there - Tubby, because he's gone now. But the love in this song is God's love, and His love always heals.

Bush Refuses To Set Timetable For Withdrawal Of Head From White House Banister

2007-04-04T14:12:00.001-05:00

Bush has refused to budge from his position. From The Onion.

Christ Getting In Shape For Second Coming

2007-04-04T14:00:00.001-05:00

The Onion Reports, Jesus Christ, Son of God spends each morning trying to attain perfect abdominal definition.

For Easter - What would you like to resurrect...

2007-04-03T12:55:00.000-05:00

and what would you like to put to death? Think about it. And is the power of Christ's death and resurrection enough for you this Easter?

Resurrection

2007-04-03T12:38:00.001-05:00

Rainbow Bridge - A place where pets go when they die

2007-04-02T13:36:00.002-05:00

My dear friend from high school, with whom I share a love of animals, just told me about the Rainbow Bridge, so I'm putting it here. I went to this church for a couple of years that seems to have gotten its inspiration from this poem, and from this video in particular. It has a big Jesus and a rainbow on the wall over by 35W near the University of Minnesota and it's called "Lovepower." The people are very tender and older and inspired by the 60's, I believe.

I ended up not going there, just dropping in to visit once in a while, because they were a little wacko and had some weird problem relating to young people, and just played very uninspired, twangy music that I couldn't stand. But they helped me during a difficult time, and I was touched by their rainbows and their love of pets and their "pennies from heaven."

I like the poem because it suggests that animals came from God and therefore will return to God, and you will be with them too if you are going to heaven.

"In Your Eyes"

2007-04-02T12:03:00.000-05:00

PETER GABRIEL LYRICS

love I get so lost, sometimes
days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
when I want to run away
I drive off in my car
but whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are

all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
the heat I see in your eyes

love, I don't like to see so much pain
so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

and all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light,
the heat I see in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes

I always thought that there is absolutely no one you could sing this to but Jesus. But I guess Peter wrote this to a woman. Yet for a long time after I reaffirmed my relationship to Christ I sang this song to Jesus and whenever I hear this played I still think of this as the perfect praise to Him. I introduced this to a group of middle and high school kids in church once. This is one of my all-time favorite songs.

Naked Chocolate Jesus Upsets Christians

2007-03-30T12:50:00.000-05:00

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A life-size sculpture of a naked Jesus made out of chocolate has angered a Roman Catholic organization and forced a Manhattan art gallery to reconsider exhibiting it during Easter week.

The sculpture "My Sweet Lord" by Cosimo Cavallaro was to be exhibited for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan. It was set to open on Monday, days before Good Friday when Christians mark the crucifixion of Jesus.

"We're considering our options," Matthew Semler, the gallery's artistic director, said on Friday. "We're still assessing the situation."

I just thought the headline was hilarious, as found in the Drudge Report.

Why Dogs Are Divine

2007-03-30T11:23:00.001-05:00

ABC News reports on a dog who saved its owner with the 'Heimlich' maneuver! He noticed her trying to dislodge food she swallowed by performing her own Heimlich, so he jumped on her chest and started pounding on it. So smart! Oh, yes, that "unclean" animal (to Muslims) just saved a human again! Look at that honey of an animal! Oh, dogs!

Anna Nicole Smith Finally Reaches Target Weight

2007-03-28T12:20:00.000-05:00

From The Onion

NASSAU, BAHAMAS—Former stripper turned Playboy Playmate turned reality-TV star Anna Nicole Smith has overcome her longtime struggle with obesity, at last reaching her target weight of 125 pounds, sources said Monday.

This is the Onion's humor, finally funny again after failed attempts.

Muslim Attitude Toward Dogs Says it All

2007-03-27T14:23:00.000-05:00

ABC News reports about how dogs are unclean to Muslims,

and it's enough to make me so mad. I am tired of hearing about all the self-righteousness in Islam. Muslims declare certain things to be holy and are dead sure they are correct, despising what is "unholy" and it amazes me how Satan has deceived them with their brand of holiness. In Minneapolis, the Muslims who work at Target are so holy, they refuse to touch a package that has bacon in it, so they will not work in a grocery line passing food such as this through the line and have to work somewhere else in the store for the sake of their religion. So holy! Makes me sick! Self righteousness is a righteousness that is man-made not God-made, and is not truly righteous. It is a lie.

Radical Muslims have the audacity to call all those who don't embrace their ways "infidels." Interesting that we use that word to refer to those who who have sex outside of marriage, something that is a part of their religion, as they don't hold sex between one man and woman dear at all, and that is what they call us. Hypocritical!

I cannot believe that Muslims call our bible the word of the devil! Who do they think they are? These are people whose only concept of heaven is sexual, and for men only: 72 virgins in eternity.

Dogs are unclean to them? I find it interesting that one can measure the health of people by their treatment of dogs, since nut-cases mistreat dogs. How can you not see the divinity of the dog? Seeing dogs as unclean shows the twisted thinking in their religion.

Feminism Could Be Bad For Your Health!

2007-03-26T14:25:00.000-05:00

This was from The Daily Mail but it will not allow me a transfer to the source. I thought it was funny. Here is an excerpt: "A study in Sweden, arguably one of the most egalitarian countries in the world, discovered that men and women who are equal are more likely to suffer illness or disability.

Those who earn the same are also more likely to become unwell or suffer a disability.

People who have management jobs, male or female, were also found to die younger than those with a less pressured lifestyle."

Speaking In Tongues and Your Brain

2007-03-26T13:14:00.000-05:00

ABC news reports, the control center of the brain goes quiet while speaking in tongues, according to a study featured on Nightline. This is a gift God gave me but I haven't used it much. It is supposed to be God praying through you according to His perfect will, and it is His heavenly language. It is supposed to give you peace of mind, and bring you into line with God's will in things. It is also supposed to be a source of Gods' power. Interesting that this secular source reminds me of this neglected gift.

Chocolate is Good For You! Duh!

2007-03-26T12:54:00.001-05:00

ABC news just came out with another article about how chocolate is good for you, like I didn't know. I understand it's just the amount of sugar it takes to sweeten chocolate that has always been the problem.

Televangelists

2007-03-25T16:14:00.000-05:00

In their defense, I have to say that though God is not using them in my life now, that He has used them in the past and for good. Joyce Myer, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, TBN's Paul and Jan Crouch, and locally, Mac Hammond. They have all had good teaching that I have thrived on for a period of time and learned a lot from. There was a time when I watched Joyce and Benny almost every single morning. I don't agree with their materialism at all, but I can't discount the ways that they have been used in my life. I have given small amounts of money here and there, but caution against giving money to them.

Rat Poison?

2007-03-24T21:22:00.000-05:00

"No Big Deal! We just accidentally spilled some rat poison into our food designed to nourish cats and dogs, sorry. Sorry it killed your pet." Is that what they're gonna say? No, I don't believe in suing them, but it's kind of ridiculous. Kind of funny on this side, since I miraculously was using an obscure cat food that wasn't on the list, thanks, God.

Cruise Survivor Made Peace With God

2007-03-22T11:42:00.001-05:00

ABC news report. Tim Sears, 31, swam 14 hours in a dark ocean after jumping from his cruise ship while drunk, and had given up. He prayed to God and planned to go under but then decided to swim up and go for one last run, swimming another 3 hours. A cargo ship came and he yelled to it and was rescued. He wasn't attacked by sharks and his survival is miraculous. I'm sure this experience has changed his life.

Wrong Sperm Gives Couple Black Baby

2007-03-22T11:27:00.001-05:00

I suppose anything is possible. Abc news reports. This couple realized they got the wrong sperm from a fertility clinic because their child doesn't resemble them. Wow. So now they're suing. Funny thing is, the mother looks kind of black, doesn't she? I guess she's Hispanic. Funny story, funny movie premise!

The Final Upgrade: Airline Moves Dead Body to 1st Class

2007-03-20T13:23:00.000-05:00

ABC news London March 19, 2007 A first-class passenger on a flight from Delhi to London awoke to find the corpse of a woman who had died in the economy cabin being placed in a seat next to him, British Airways said Monday. The economy section of the flight was full, and the cabin crew needed to move the woman and her grieving family out of that compartment to give them some privacy, the airline said.

The first-class passenger, Paul Trinder, told the Sunday Times newspaper that he was sleeping during a February flight from India and woke up when the crew placed the dead woman in an empty seat near him.

"I didn't have a clue what was going on. The stewards just plonked the body down without saying a thing. I remember looking at this frail, sparrow-like woman and thinking she was very ill," the newspaper quoted Trinder as saying.
"When I asked what was going on, I was shocked to hear she was dead."

This sounds like a scene from a funny movie.

Argentina Has Miracles

2007-03-18T17:17:00.000-05:00

An article appeared in Christian News Source on churches in Argentina that meet in theaters - large congregations of passionate worshippers, people of faith who see miracles of healing such as healing from AIDS. It reminded me that I heard about this a while back while making visits to the church in Toronto called the "Toronto Blessing." The leaders of that church had been visiting a church in Argentina prior to the outbreak of miracles in their church in Toronto that led to throngs of people coming to visit them between 1994 and 2004, still visiting them really. I heard that if you had a physical ailment, something major - something missing, you got healed in Argentina, instantly. There is something about a collective of people of faith that brings miracles. I had always wanted to go to Argentina and find the church they were talking about but never had the money to go. I once knew the actual church but no one to make contact with there and I don't know Spanish.

In America we miss out on radical miracles because of lack of faith, prosperity that causes us to rely on doctors and man instead of God, and pride that says that good can't come from somewhere else such as Argentina or even Canada. I brought a friend from the States to the Canadian church and she couldn't get a blessing from it because she didn't want to believe that something so good was happening in Canada and not in America, so it seemed.

Facing The Giants

2007-03-17T18:20:00.000-05:00

NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER BACK DOWN. NEVER LOSE FAITH. I just saw this movie last night and it is staying with me because it is a movie about miracles and is a miracle itself. It got all the way from a Southern church into movie theaters and into mainstream video stores.

It's all about beating unbeatable odds through faith in Christ and God stepping in and making your dreams come true. And it makes me scream out inside: "I want to see miracles!" I want the fire to come down and consume the water! I want real miracles! I need miracles. Do you?

I'm in worse shape than this coach was. I'm more in the state of the guy in the wheelchair. And there was something prophetic about the message for me when that man was under the banner that said 'believe" and he was rooting for his son. I felt he was rooting for all of us harder cases who need bigger than life miracles and the message was "believe!"
That little movie is a major milestone!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

2007-03-17T18:03:00.000-05:00

Be prepared to toast on St. Patrick's Day!

For all those who were wondering what to say on March 17th, when they raise their glasses, here are a few phrases to remember:

May God bring good health to your enemies enemies

May you live to be a hundred years, with one extra year to repent.

May you be in heaven one half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

As you slide down the banisters of life may the splinters never point the wrong way.

There are many good reasons for drinking,
One has just entered my head,
If a man doesn't drink when he's living,
How the hell can he drink when he's dead?

May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.

May you get all your wishes but one,
So you always have something to strive for.

Here's to you,
here's to me,
the best of friends we'll always be.
But if we ever disagree,
forget you here's to ME!!

Here's to your coffin...
May it be built of 100 year old oaks which I will plant tomorrow.

Here's to you as good as you are,
Here's to me as bad as I am,
As good as you are,
And as bad as I am,
I'm as good as you are,
As bad as I am.

May the sons of your daughters smile up in your face.

Health, and long life to you
Land without rent to you
The partner of your heart to you
and when you die, may your bones rest in Ireland!

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.

May your neighbors respect you,
Troubles neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And Heaven accept you.

An old Irish recipe for longevity:
Leave the table hungry.
Leave the bed sleepy.
Leave the bar thirsty.

I've drunk to your health in the pubs ,
I've drunk to your health in my home ,
I've drunk to your health so many times ,
That I've almost ruined my own.

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
Or remember what is best forgotten.

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been,
The insight to know where you are,
and the foresight to know when you've gone too far.

May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door.

May you never make an enemy
When you could make a friend
Unless you meet a fox among your chickens.

May your fire be as warm as the weather is cold.

You Did The Right Thing!

2007-03-17T17:41:00.000-05:00

There is no reason whatsoever that you feel horrible and guilty. Abortion is not immoral, just as homosexuality is not immoral. Clinton and Obama say so. Tell yourself over and over until you believe it. Sweet dreams.

an Eden original abortion greeting card

You Had An Abortion?

2007-03-17T17:38:00.000-05:00

You might have had a Beethoven, or an Einstein!! Oh well, too late now. Maybe next time.

an Eden original abortion greeting card

So, soon we'll be hearing the patter of little feet?!

2007-03-17T17:32:00.000-05:00

Oh, well, I guess not!

an Eden original abortion greeting card

Women in Emotionless Sexual Encounters? Yeh, Right!

2007-03-16T16:55:00.000-05:00

ABC News reports that they are absolutely dead sure that young women are trading relationships for emotionless sexual encounters. What an oxy-moron: women/emotionless. And young men are saying, "more sex for me!" I'm telling you, it will never be "empowerment" for women like the feminists have lied to women. It will always come out that the men are in control of the situation, getting the casual sex that they want. It will always be that by learning casual sex, women will be giving men the "sure thing" they've always wanted, with no strings attached, no questions asked, basically playing into the "enemy's" hand - the non-committal male who wants to get what he wants from you and then wants to leave, leaving you with nothing - no life, no marriage, no home, no children, no future, no security.

The feminist lie: "Learn to be like a man. Get sex for pleasure from men, have fun, then leave. You won't lose. You can leave and have no consequences and no emotional scars."

Also, no matter what women try to do they won't change their basic nature. They won't become emotionless and detached, basically. God forbid. The way women relate won't change, basically. And attempts to make women ashamed of their basic nature are shameful themselves!

Most likely, living this way will prevent a woman from developing a deep commitment and having a lifelong partner. Most likely living this way comes from a fear of intimacy and commitment, as with men.

My Own "I Didn't Have An Abortion" Story

2007-03-16T14:58:00.000-05:00

This was spurred on by Donny Prater's (A Man Coming Alive) latest post on abortion. I left a comment that I thought I should turn into a post.

When I was 27, probably because I was afraid of never having a child, I got pregnant. Now scared because I was single and with a man who would never become a good husband and father, I was contemplating abortion. However, my conscience just wouldn't allow it. I was not be able to fall asleep until I put it out of my mind. I planned to go ahead and have a baby, but I was crying out to God in my situation because it was not good.

A little while later, I had a miscarriage. I felt that God had answered my prayers. This is one of the few times in my life when I saw the hand of God at work. At that point, the miscarriage was a miracle that released me from a miserable situation, and made the decision an abortion, after all, but the decision was God's.

I have never regretted the decision to have the baby, and am so glad for the grace God gave me to have the conscience that said "no" to abortion, and I'll never forget the miracle of that miscarriage.

Another little miracle is that my sister had a son that was born almost exactly when my child would have been born, and then named me the godmother of that son. So, I got a nephew instead of a son that year who has been special to me since he has talents and interests in the same areas as I do.

$42,000! Pay Off Your Mortgage, or Buy A Purse? Tough Call

2007-03-16T14:01:00.001-05:00

Louis Vuitton Tribute Patchwork Bag, (World's Most Expensive) Handbag of the Day

I know she's ridiculous, but Rosie O'Donnell was funny on a talk show yesterday when she said she was going to go home and make this in her craft room for under $10. I tend to agree with her. Not only is it expensive, this is one ugly, tacky bag. And I seriously just sold my house which had a balance on the mortgage of exactly this amount!

We Shouldn't Apologize For Saying "Immoral"

2007-03-13T14:24:00.000-05:00

I was impressed by General Pace's clear cut message about homosexuality(ABC News), saying that he thought it was immoral, and that he thought it didn't belong in the the military for that reason, just as adultery didn't belong there. Some gay activists have called for an apology, but that is so twisted. Should you apologize to someone for telling them it is immoral to commit adultery, if they are in adultery? You apologize as if you have injured them, when the opposite is true? You have told them it is immoral as a way to keep them from injuring themselves - you have done the only kind thing there is.

I am so refreshed by General Pace's strong stand and hope that he can stand strong against any "politically correct" homosexual agenda.

Do People Dislike Bush?

2007-03-09T16:30:00.002-06:00

Good Lord, I don't know how the man does it. He always appears dapper and confident, smiling. Yet he has all these enemies, even when he's visiting neighbors in the South (Brazil), not just Muslims. I am sometimes overwhelmed by our enemies. Calling him a Nazi and a terrorist - a little ridiculous! Photos: Abc news

Movie Premise: Men Go Undercover Dressed In Burqas In Afghanistan

2007-03-07T13:42:00.000-06:00

Oh! it just came true when a man was caught in Afghanistan according to an ABC news article, wearing a Burqa.

I thought of this as a movie similar to "Some Like it Hot" only the female garb is Burqas and it could be CIA men operating undercover.

Now if I only had a picture.

Birth Control For Squirrels?

2007-03-05T15:27:00.001-06:00

Kingdavid's gotta love this one! Drudge Report has an article from the L.A. Times saying Santa Monica California is going to use birth control on its out of control squirrel population because animal lovers won't tolerate killing the squirrels.

Like Kingdavid said, why not just hand out condoms and literature rather than force the birth control on them? That would be kinder.