Amazing 6 year old Polka Drummer

I always look for ways to brighten my day. I hope this brightens yours.
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Is this man invincible? Perry eyes the GOP nomination

Is this man invincible? Perry eyes the GOP nomination

What Are They trying To Feed Us?

I just had to post this.

I think this guy speaks for many of us.

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Date: Monday, July 25, 2011, 5:37 PM

EXCELLENT! This is as straight forward as you can get !  My concern is that these people in Washington DC won't hear any of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SGyVNippvA&

My Rant- Take Back Our Country-Fire Congress

This is an e-m ail that continually goes around on the internet and I hope there are enough of us that will push for the Congressional Reform Act of 2011 as stated below or by adding even more reforms to the Act.

 Let’s keep spreading the word because I believe that  with God’s help we the people making the decision to remain true to the love of this country can get it back on the right track. A nation people want to come to because they know if they obey the laws and work hard they can become successful and raise their families better than where they came from, can become citizens legally and know they are free from some of the fears and horrors of where they came from. It is the legal immigrants who founded this country.

 Let’s not lose our dignity and give up our God given rights to people who want to tell us how we should live our lives all the way down to what we should be eating now. Why are we allowing people some of them that we wouldn’t want near our families direct our lives,  INSANITY?? God grant us WISDOM to NOT  FORGET TO VOTE THEM OUT IN 2012!!!!

E-MAIL AS FOLLOWS::

 Congress is no longer responsive to the will of the people...it's time to force them to act on behalf of America.  We now have a professional political class whose only purpose is to continue feeding at the public trough.  We need to wean them away from waste and corruption.  Congress routinely exempts themselves from the laws they impose upon the rest of the country it's time for that to end.

"The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice." -Linda Bowles

Subject: WE NEED THIS NOW!

I have totally cleaned this e-mail from all other names, sending it to you in hopes you will keep it going and keep it clean. This is something I will fight for and I hope you all read it all the way through. You will be glad you did.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...    Before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc. 

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land... all because of public pressure. 

I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people in their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. 

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

Congressional Reform Act of 2011 

1. No Tenure / No Pension. 
A Congressperson  collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future)  participates in Social Security. 
All funds in  the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social  Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.  It may not be used for any other  purpose.

3. Congress can  purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. 

4. Congress will no  longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health  care system as the American people.

6. Congress must  equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. 

7. All contracts with  past and present Congresspersons are void effective 1/1/12. 
The American people did not make these contracts with Congress. Congresspersons made all these contracts for  themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The  Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should  serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. 

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three  days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it  is time.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX  CONGRESS!!!!! 

How to Find Great Wealth And Be A Winner On A Daily Basis?

  

She had worked fervently in the latter part of the month to make sure she had covered her sales route thoroughly. She had to make sure she enough orders before the 1st of the month to pay the bills, to say nothing of the extras, like food. Above all else she wasn’t willing to allow her daughter to go to a public school, after all, the private Christian school was doing so much to enhance her education and hopefully was building her self esteem.

It was one of those months when all the footwork seemed to be for naught and there was only one more day left before the end of the month. The next day she awoke early in the morning knowing that today was the day, her last chance; she just had to come up with the rent, utilities, etc. Upon awakening she suddenly felt a sharp, familiar pain; somehow she knew she had contracted a kidney infection, the pain was so great she could not get out of bed. Oh no, she cried with tears streaming down her face and in total fright, what am I going to do? How am I ever going to be able to take care of my daughter and her next thought was, oh God I hope I don’t lose custody of her. One more time fear was closing in on the woman and trying to take over her life.
At that point she cried out to God and said Lord I can’t get out of bed and I don’t know what I am going to do, please help me. Needless to say she did the only thing she could that day which was to stay in bed and drink lots of water in the hope of flushing the poisons out of her kidneys. She was running a high fever so she slept most of the day and when awake she drank water continually.
A strange thing happened while she was sleeping; her phone started ringing off the hook and orders started to pour in for the product she was selling. Since the woman was sleeping she had no idea what was going on because she had turned the ringer off to the phone and the message recorder was set to low, therefore, she couldn’t hear them. When she was finally able to get out of bed, she checked her messages and lo and behold she discovered that there were enough orders to meet all her needs, there would even be a little left over. The Lord had supplied everything she needed while she was sleeping.
I wrote this story in the hope that someone during these hard economic times will be encouraged enough to surrender their heavy load to the Lord. I feel strongly about surrendering to win because the woman in the story was me. I had worked so hard for the month before I had contracted the kidney infection and nothing had come to fruition. It seemed like the harder I worked the worse things got. I just knew that the Lord had deserted me. I gave up in total despair that day. When I wasn’t sleeping from the fever that I was crying out, God why have you deserted me? I believe God allowed me to get sick that day so he could show me that he would take care of me. All I had to do was the footwork and to quit worrying about the end results. I needed to surrender it all to Him.
I believe the moral of the story is; to surrender to God is to win. He will meet your every need, not your every want. Become a daily winner, surrender all to the Lord.
The lesson I had to learn is in the Holy Bible, Matthew, chapter 6, verses 31-34 and Mark, chapter 5, verse 34. Check it out it; hopefully it will help you win in your earthly journey too.
May God bless and keep you as you trudge the road to happy destiny.

Easter Wish Repeated--A Letter To My Daughter!

This is one of the first piece I ever wrote and I thought it is time for it to re run because the special lady could probably use another boost and I know she tends to forget things, just like her mom. This is my Easter card to you even though it is the second time around.

Love you, Mom.

This is for a very special person who needs a lift today. She has been going through some very rough times lately but through it all she has shown strength of character and she has hung on to her faith in God, and continues to rejoice in Him. I am so very proud of her. Ah if only I had half of what she has I would be a much better person.

Dear Michelle,

I just wish I were more poetic and better able to express myself and my feelings. I am grateful for your forgiveness of me and my actions, and for that I thank you. Having you in my life has been one of the most perfect and spiritually enhancing parts of my life. I don’t regret one moment of our lives. Please don’t be too hard on yourself, my moral standards were not the greatest and you weren’t always raised in the greatest of environments. I will make no excuses for that, I know that God has forgiven me and I know He has forgiven you. I must say when God’s word says the reason my people suffer and die is due to lack of knowledge, I so understand that today. I believe that the greatest devastation in one’s life is emotional and I know that I caused great emotional harm in your life and for that I am truly sorry.

I know that you are having and really rough time right now and rightfully so considering your current circumstances. Try hanging onto Matthew, Chapter 5 and Psalms 91. I pray that His peace and His joy will totally overtake you.

Most of all I wanted to let you know how much I love you and how proud I am of you. I pray that you will let God carry you through these troubling times.

Love

Mom

P.S It is really hard for me not to preach, must come from my Grandmother.

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Can An Attitude Adjustment Really Turn Your Life Around?? Worked for Me-It Can Work For You Too!

She waited quietly at home alone for the love of her life to return. He has made her so happy. She tries to do everything she can to keep him happy so they can live in la-la land forever and ever. What would she do without him? After all she needed him to make her complete. Without him she couldnt be happy and surely she could never survive. Her children would have to go hungry and without clothes or a decent place to live if he wasnt there to take care of them. She must be careful not to crack the eggshells when she walks and please above all dont mention the elephant laying in the middle of the living room floor. Is this person you? I used to be that person with the wrong attitude about everything. Do you want to be free from the delusion that if you manage well in your life you will have satisfaction and happiness? I can only share with you my experience about how my bad attitude was changed and pray that maybe someone, just one person can grab hold and have their lives changed. Today I live a wonderful life and have spiritual, emotion and physical health that I had never even dreamed of. Didnt know it existed. I wasnt raised knowing about those things. I was raised to survive.

I hit such a low in my life that I had to surrender to the fact that no matter how hard I tried; no matter what I did it was not going to change one thing in my life. I wanted better for my life and the lives of my children but didnt know how to get there, all my efforts failed. In my desperation I cried out to the Lord, someone I had long since forgotten about and was sure He had written me off because after all little girls who play cards are really going to make Him angry, another of my many wrong beliefs, I did not know the depths of His love or about working out my salvation. I didnt know that He wanted to be my very best friend, that He wanted to take care of me and that He was ever present and was watching over me and my family, calling to me, saying Ill be here when youre ready if you dont die first. I am the one who truly loves you. Renewing my relationship with the Lord was the first step to recovery for me.

Over the years I have spent many hours renewing my mind. I studied books that have given me clear cut directions on what my part in all these changes need to be. Ive spent years learning new ways to live my life by practicing how to change my attitude and see things from a new, healthy perspective. I had to learn how to change my actions from unhealthy ones to healthy ones. Ive learned how to turn negative emotions into positive ones and most of the time my intellect takes precedent over my emotions today. Thank God. There is still some damage in some of the relationships in my life as a direct result of me reacting as opposed to responding. Im praying for healing in those relationships and I know that God will have his way no matter what I think or want. Praise Be to God.

If you want to take a new direction in your life ABOVE ALL DO NOT try to take the path alone. Trying to learn to live a spiritual way of life alone could be dangerous and could create more havoc in your life. Even Solomon sought direction and his gift was wisdom. Think about it. Ask God for guidance and direction, to lead you to healthy Christian people who have been successful in turning their lives around and who have a relationship with the Lord and a foundation for living that is unshakeable.

One of my favorite websites is Purpose Driven Life. Pastor Rick Warren has daily readings written in laymans terms. His sharing comes from his own experiences and the wisdom he has acquired while studying the Bible and being taught by many others.

I am in the process of learning about another person named Teresa Ortiz. She also has a web site called In Seasons Ministry. I find her to be very encouraging and full of wisdom also. I know she helps a lot of people, even some very close to me. I thank God for people like Teresa.

The most important thing for me to always remember about all the changes in my life is that it would not have been possible without the relationship I have with the Lord Jesus Christ today and the help of many people who cared more about helping others than they did about themselves. They were more than willing to share their experiences and bare their soles and for that I shall be eternally grateful. Thank you one and all.

Gods Healing Power in My Relationship With My Mother

This is probably one of the hardest articles Ive had to write and I really dont want to but since I volunteered I will. This is the piece about Mothers day.

My relationship with my Mom has never been a very good one or a very happy one, even when I was a small child that I can remember. We did have some good times together but our relationship has always been a struggle for both of us. We would do okay for a while and then before you know it we would be doing the same old dance of anger for one reason or another. I am not sure if the reasons behind some of the dissention was real or not, but when all was said and done I always felt like I had been beat to a pulp verbally and then left lying on the ground, and saying to myself how did I get here one more time.

It has been one of the hardest areas of my life which I had to reconcile, and to be able to allow God to heal me emotionally and spiritually. I could never have reached that point without Gods help. I will share how I got to this point with the hope that maybe some other person who is at odds with their mother for one reason or another and appears to be in an irreconcilable state will be helped.

At one point in our lives my Mom and I used to work for the same company and it was okay. She was an amazing sales person and loaded with talent but she would let other things get in her way and they would take precedence over everything else. She would get to a point where she was very hard to be around, but one day she accepted the Lord into her life and I saw the most wonderful person I had ever seen in her. She was gracious, humble, and into serving the Lord. The sad part is that it only lasted about four months and she chose to go back to her old life style and from there it seemed to go downhill (in my opinion).

My mother and I have been estranged for years now, even though I did try to make amends for my part, I have come to realize that I am not strong enough to be around her and to be able to remain the person I want to be (hopefully someday I will become strong enough). I am so glad I got to see that other side of her because I knew I did not love and respect her the way I thought God would have me love and honor her and the guilt and the pain kept me in turmoil from time to time for years. The way I overcame it was to ask God to love and honor my mother through me in a manner that was pleasing to Him because I did not think I was not capable of doing that.

When I asked God to love and honor her through me he reminded me of the other person I saw in her some years prior and he said you see Linda that is the person I want her to be, but she chooses not to be. It was at that point that I knew that I really do love my mother and today I honor her in the best way I know how. I miss her but my heart no longer hurts because she and I cant be together but maybe someday in Heaven.

So if your Mom is alive and your relationship is at odds do youre very best to repair it, but if it is not possible at this point seek God for healing. He answers all prayer and mends broken hearts. He can give you peace and joy even in time of distress. If your Mom is no longer living and you were at odds with her when she passed away write her a long love letter and then go to her grave and read it to her. There is healing power with God, and he works through our willingness to trust Him in all things.

Happy Mother's Day mom. I love you.

Is It Possible To Overcome Depression, Panic Attacks, Fear, Etc In Our Lives?

Have you ever watched people who struggle with depression, panic attacks, fear, etc? I find it amazing that some of them can even manage to go from one day to the next. If you watch these people you can see how so many of them allow fear to devour and rob them of their very lives, yet many of them claim to be happy and content just the way they are. I have a hard time understanding how they can live that way but it is in trying to acquire understanding about their situation that I am able to get through my own depression and draw closer to God.

Lately I’ve been fighting off the funk of depression and it is a real struggle because I’ve always been such an upbeat person. It used to be that when I would get knocked down I’d get up and go another round until I succeeded, however, the depression I’m experiencing now is caused by a disease I have in my brain in which the spark plugs don’t fire quite right. The Dr. is in the process of adjusting my medication but it takes time. This minor setback has given me a new understanding and much greater empathy for people who have clinical depression. Clinical depression is much different than people, who sit around and feel sorry for themselves, and it can usually be controlled by medication if taken the way it is prescribed, but make no mistake about it, it is very real.

Going through this depression has been good for me because it has made me get back into the scriptures more and has softened my heart towards people with depression. Proverbs 4 talks about acquiring wisdom and understanding and the softening of your heart. It is in trying to gain wisdom we acquire understanding and from that comes peace. It is not my peace but a peace that only the Lord can give His peace.

I try to remember to praise God daily. When I do he restores His joy within me. There are many scriptures about giving praise to the Lord. A good one for me today was Psalms 105:1-5. I find my healing in praise to Him.

If you or someone you know is going through depression, clinical or otherwise, seek medical help and consider seeking the wisdom of God, because through His wisdom comes healing.