Someone has written these beautiful words. It’s a must read.
They are like the ten commandments to follow in life all of the time!
Prayer is not a “spare wheel” that you pull out when in trouble, but it is
a “steering wheel” that directs the right path throughout the journey.
So why is a car’s windshield so large & the rear view mirror so small? Because out PAST in not as important as our FUTURE. So, look ahead and move on.
Friendship is like a BOOK. It takes a few minutes to burn, but it takes years to write.
All things in life are temporary. If going well, enjoy it, it will not last forever. If going wrong, don’t worry, it can’t last long either.
Old friends are Gold! New friends are Diamond! If you get a Diamond don’t forget the Gold! Because to hold a Diamond, you need a base of Gold.
Often when we lose hope and think this is the end, GOD smiles from above and says, “Relax, sweetheart, it’s just a bend, not the end!”
When GOD solves your problems, you have faith in HIS abilities; when GOD doesnt’ solve your problems, He has faith in your abilities.
A blind person asked St. Anthony: “Can there be anything worse than losing your sight?” He replied, “Yes, losing your vision!”
When you pray for others, God listens to you and blesses them, and sometimes, when you’re safe and happy, remember that someone has prayed for you.
WORRYING does not take away tomorrow’s TROUBLES,,,,, it takes away today’s PEACE!
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God!
Everyone knows
just where I stand
on the red, white and blue
symbol of our land.
I have shared my thoughts
when they’re asked of me
on “In God We Trust”and
“My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
The pledge of allengiance
it should be made clear
is recited by all
who choose to live here
Give our flag the honor
and respect it commands
as the symbol of freedom
that governs these lands
With life and liberty
come opportunities
not separate laws and
closed communities
Jesus said we must all
“Love one another”
not viciously kill
our sister or brother
When I hear those words
“Oh say can you see,”
I’m proud to sing
“My Country ‘Tis of Thee!”
God bless America!
“I pledge allegiance
to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic
for which it stands,
One nation
under God
indivisible
with liberty
and justice
for all.”
Teresa Marie 7/15/16
Subject: FW: The List
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> THE LIST:
I just received this from a good friend and want to share with you…
I like the way this is phrased because it recognizes that the political class are “bought and paid for”. I believe that the basic premise is correct:
If you listen to Trump, he is hitting many of the hot buttons of the electorate. But you have to listen to him and not be distracted by his showmanship (which is designed to give him free publicity since he’s paying for his own campaign).
I like the list of 13 things that I, as a senior American citizen, want. Trump is at least talking about issues that most Americans are concerned about.
My mantra about Trump is this: We are usually in agreement with most of what he says but wish someone else was saying it. We are getting older and our tickers aren’t what they used to be …
so here is
Our Special Bucket List for 2016 ….
HERE IS WHAT WE WANT…
1. Hillary: held accountable for her previous wrongs!
2. Put “GOD” back in America !!!
3. Borders: Closed or tightly guarded!
4. Congress: On the same retirement & healthcare plans as everybody else.
5. Congress: Obey its own laws NOW!
6. Language: English only!
7. Culture: Constitution and the Bill of Rights!
8. Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before & during Welfare!
9. Freebies: NONE to Non-Citizens!
10. Budget: Balance the damn thing!
11. Foreign Countries: Stop giving them our money! Charge them for our help! We need it here.
12. Fix the TAX CODE!
And most of all.
13. “RESPECT OUR MILITARY AND OUR FLAG!!”
My mother sent me an email containing the following statements, which at first I thought must be a hoax but Mark later told me it’s true. Am I really the only one who hasn’t heard of this?
“How would you feel if you
drove into a town here in the United States and
found that many of the street signs were in
Arabic only with no English?
Then you look around and discover that many of
the signs on the businesses were also in Arabic.
Not possible you say? Think again! Welcome to
Dearborn, Michigan.
Steve Tarani, author and speaker recounts what
he saw when he rode with a member of the
Detroit Metro SWAT Police as they drove
around Detroit and into Dearborn:
“The street signs suddenly went from
English to Arabic. There wasn’t a single English word on
any shop or any street sign.
And in fact, these little yellow
signs were posted all along the edges. Jeremy
said to me, ‘this is it. We don’t go past this line.’ And I
said to Jeremy, ‘what do you mean? You guys are
Detroit Metro. You’re the SWAT team. You can
go anywhere you want. What if you get a call over there?’
He said, ‘this is it, it’s hazardous for our team if we go past
this line. I have seen it with my own eyes, witnessed it in the backseat of a car and it is for real.’
‘No-go zones exist in the United States. Dearborn, Michigan is not the only place that these settlements exist. They are spread out over the country in various cities. There’s an estimate of over 5,000 known terrorist cells in the United States.’
‘However our most persistent and significant threat right now, to us here today this morning, is the homegrown violent extremists.’
Some people try to discount Tarani’s account but I’ve seen too many reports that have come out of Dearborn that would tend to support his account of the Muslim takeover of the American city.
Christians have been only attacked by Muslims without prosecution. They’ve also been told to stay away from the city’s Islamic festival and even banned from talking to people on the public streets outside the festival.
The Muslim influence is so strong in Dearborn that the high schools hold girls only proms because Muslim girls are not allowed to socialize or dance with boys.
These proms are religious based and no one has said anything about a violation of church and state or tried to stop them.
Christian students are banned from having Christmas parties, prayer meetings or Baccalaureate services, but Muslims are allowed to pray in school and hold Islamic proms.
You have to ask why organizations like the ACLU, American Atheists, Freedom From Religion Foundation and Americans United for Separation of Church and State remain silent about what is happening in Dearborn schools.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee is fast becoming a second Muslim controlled city like Dearborn and there are others on the way.
I have friends in the United Kingdom who have told me of how Muslims have taken over entire cities and areas in their country. What they tell me is that it all started with cities like Dearborn and Murfreesboro and just continues to spread.
One of my friends compared Islam in England to a cancer that continues to spread and contaminate everything it encounters. In time it will spread to the
point that the country dies from it and becomes the home of a religion that teaches hate, bloodshed and sharia law.
Like a cancer, the only way to save the nation is to stop the spread of the religion of terrorism. Then he told me that in our modern sophisticated world full of freedoms and rights that it’s impossible to stop the spread of Islam without igniting a worldwide religious war.
Now realize that Barack Hussein Obama has been actively inviting Muslims to come to the US.
He is also advocating opening our doors to up to 7 million Syrian Muslim refugees and there is no telling how many terrorists ware hiding among them.
That would be like trying to cure a patient by injecting him with massive doses of cancer cells.
I have to honestly say that the future of America is not looking very bright and to be honest, I don’t know what to do to change it other than make others aware of it and encourage everyone to get on their knees and pray for Christian revival.~”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children
in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” Ronald Reagan
I don’t know about anybody else but this ignites such a rage in my spirit that I am beside myself. Not since when I escaped my abuser have I felt it boil over so uncontrollably. At the same time my blood runs cold, sending a shiver of dread down my spine. I would have bet you a million dollars when I was growing up that nothing could ever make me say that I was ashamed of my country or president!
Today I must say, to be perfectly honest, I don’t think you could pay me a million dollars to say that I believe anything this president or his administration says or does! From the very first day that he disrespected Israel and President Benjamin Netanyahu I felt a dark shadow of foreboding pass over my soul and I was disgusted beyond belief.
With each step away from God and our Christian values that this country, as a whole, has taken, that disgust has grown and festered, becoming a deeper, fuller loathing for what we have become as a nation.
No longer are we the symbol of democracy, liberty, morality, justice, Christianity, or defenders of freedom for the world. That once bright beacon has become but a candle light blowing in the wind. Our image deliberately tarnished, military weakened beyond all comprehension; civilian unity twisted and turned inside out to the level of dissention tantamount to the Civil War times; suspicion and distrust sown country wide to stop any hope for unification; murder, genocide, mutilation of our future generation has been condoned and financially supported by the very ones who were entrusted to protect them; the atrocities go on and on. It makes me sick to my stomach, ashamed right down to my soul and carrying a spiritual rage that I need to find a direction for or I think that I might go insane. Is that what’s called “holy anger”?
I sound like a ranting maniac, don’t I? Believe me, I’ve raked myself over the coals every which way but loose just trying to figure out if I’ve been bitten by the wild conspiracy bug, which has poisoned my mind to reason and already driven me quite mad! Just kidding, I’m slightly exaggerating there but you get my drift.
I really don’t think that I’m literally going crazy. Sometimes I think that maybe my previous encounter with heaven has left me with a type of spiritual awareness, maybe, and I can see/feel the underlying evil workings going on.
Let me give you a very simplified example of what I mean:
Sara and I were watching the movie “Easy A” the other night. As it was reaching the middle to latter part of the movie I realized that I had become irritated by something. It hit me like a brick between the eyes when I took a minute of pause and thought a little harder about it. I pointed it out to Sara and she said it occurred to her as well at another section. We agreed that every blatantly disrespectful phrase or cuss word had been edited out but every “God damn or Jesus Christ” originally scripted still remained. I can’t point my finger at this entity or that saying they are the ones conspiring to do this but I can say that there is an underlying evil influencing those that be to accomplish their goal of separating God from His children.
I know that I have thrown a lot out there for you to consider but I would be most appreciative of hearing your thoughts about it. I had to quit reading a lot of posts on Facebook dealing with these subjects because I was getting so angry and disgruntled that I wanted to go postal, if you can picture that, lol! But that doesn’t mean my mind was shut down.
This is not an open invitation to argue about it. I will not respond or post any comments that are left for me with that mind-set. I would just like to have an honest, respectful exchange of viewpoints on it. I don’t think there is any doubt what this blog stands for or what I believe. Those with similar backgrounds and upbringing, those who are Christian in other words, I am actively soliciting your thoughts!
With my love and God bless you all, Terri
PS: Just wanted to say, for the umpteenth time, how much I’ve missed you all! 3>
I wrote a whole post about this movie after Mark and I watched it about a month ago but did it on my new tablet and promptly lost everything. So I’m going to do it again from the desktop.
Have you seen this movie? If you haven’t, I strongly suggest that you do. It is fabulous and deeply moving in every way.
Here is the official plot summary:
Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name, HEAVEN IS FOR REAL brings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son’s extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. The film stars Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo, the real-life couple whose son Colton (newcomer Connor Corum) claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth … things he couldn’t possibly know. Todd and his family are then challenged to examine the meaning from this remarkable event.
– Written by Sony Pictures Publicity
The little boy they cast to play the part of Colton was superb, along with the rest of the cast.
I has watched it once before Mark and I watched it together and it got me thinking about my own experience. It saddened me greatly to realize how far away from my connection to God that I have allowed the world and the enemy to take me. Just a short time ago, no more than 3 or 4 years, I would have told you it was impossible but here I am. I don’t pray for the first hour of each day, or read daily in the Bible, or walk around the house praying in tongues. The only time it seems that I do pray these days is when requested to or someone I know is in need. I have determined to strive hard this year to correct that situation. After that, I also realized how much Mark has changed over the last few years as well.
We’ve both been through a lot and, in reality, it’s not surprising to find some bitterness has set into both of us. Just seeing it in writing really pounds the point home.
Anyway, when we were watching this movie I kept glancing over at Mark through my tears and wondered if it was affecting him as much as it had me. I was pretty sure it was. Afterwards I asked if it made him remember more clearly his experience.
He said that whomever did the cinematography for the scene where Colton tells his dad about entering their church and seeing the angels in Heaven did a spot on job.
I asked what he meant ’cause I thought he didn’t see any angels. Mark said that he didn’t see the actual angels forms but he saw the lights just exactly as they had depicted them. I found that not only awesome but also reassuring ’cause I only saw the light as well.
So take it from two “near-deather’s” this is the inspirational movie of the decade to see.
I’m sure I had more to say about it in the first post I did right after viewing it but I don’t remember 😦
Love and blessings to you all, my friends,
Terri
P.S. Check out also Akiane Kramarik’s (another near-deather mentioned in the movie) painting of Jesus. To see more on her Pinterest page click on the link:
(BTW: Mark just got his third opinion last week, that doctor concurred with the first two and their diagnosis. 😦 BUT, we will not allow it to dampen our Holidays. I plan on enjoying however much time God grants us together; hoping and praying for another miracle Christmas like the one He gave us a few years back when my brother wasn’t supposed to live long enough to see the day and we still have him!!)
What about God? 