Mery CHRISTmas

T'was the Month Before Christmas

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Twas the month before Christmas



When all through our land,

Not a Christian was praying

Nor taking a stand.



Why the Politically Correct Police had taken away,

The reason for Christmas - no one could say.

The children were told by their schools not to sing,

About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.



It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say

December 25th is just a "Holiday."

Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit

Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!



CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod,



Something was changing, something quite odd!

Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa

In hopes to sell books by Franken and Fonda.





But as Targets were hanging their trees upside down

At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.

At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears

You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.





Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty

Are words that were used to intimidate me.

Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen

On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!





At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter

To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.

And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith

Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace.

The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded.





The reason for the season, stopped before it started.

So as you celebrate "Winter Break" under your "Dream Tree"

Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.

Choose your words carefully, choose what you say



Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS, not Happy Holiday,



Our Countries were founded under the Christian way



To our "guests" I can say,



If You don't like it, You don't have to stay!!



MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

WTC Ground Zero

Construction started on WTC at Ground Zero. Picture was taken through mess netting.

Brooklyn Bridge

Kiana and Kaitlyn Kirsten on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York!

Reunion with Friends

Getting together with friends of the faith is always fun. Part of me misses the "good old days" when we would get together on Friday nights at our little mobile home and play games and watch movies. Of course this was before we all had kids, which made it a lttle easier.
But seeing all the kids together and seeing how God has divided the roads that each of us are traveling on, the "reunions" whenever they happen are very sweet... very special.
Having families has made it harder to get together, but those times truely give testimony to the grace of God and how binds us together with His love. God is truely faithful, and truely gracious in His mercy, to make His love stand the test of time!

Grand View in Canyonland National Park

It was a wonderful view. It makes me wonder, though, when you go into the visitors center and they talk about the theory this all took millions years to form. What about the theory that the earth is young and only 6,000 years old. That the diasours died in a great flood (like discribed in Genusis 7:11). But no way, they will never give in to a theory that includes God. Funny thing is that they use fossels to date rocks, and rocks to date fossels. Wait until truth is revealed and so many see their dimise. It will be a very sad day.

Moab and the Arches National Park

Four Coners- The kids stand in four states at the same time.










Emel (good friends of my parents) could not wait to take me on Hell's Revenge. Dad got to sit in the back and the 2 hour-5 mile trail had some very fun (scary) parts.














Arches National Park- This is one of my favorite pictures.










Here Justin (the mountain goat) is the first to climb to the top of the Turret Arch.

We had a great time in the park.

Mesa Verda

We went to Texas to Jake's graduation (my nephew) and traveled home with my parents in their RV.
One of our stops was in Cortez, Colorado and we went to Mesa Verda National Park. It was a good time showing the kids the Indian cliff dwellings.
Ma (grandMA) bought the kids a CD_ROM that is interactive with photos of the cliff dwellings. It is a good thing she got that disc, because it started raining and as it got cooler we came home in the snow.
From here we are on to Moab, Utah.

A place to play

We were blessed enough to go to Disneyland. This was the first time for the kids, and it was great to have Uncle Derek and Auntie Kirsten.
We also got to spend time with some old friends.

Via Baja

When "lady luck" turned my way, I won a drawing for a trip for two to Baja 3 day ride. Riding in Baja is the greatest adventure I have had in 34 years of riding. Trail Boss Tours... check it out if you like to ride! www.trailbosstours.com

Getting Old

Well, another birthday came and went. The big 38! Twenty years at being an adult. I have so much to be thankful for in my life. This year was tough loosing two grandmothers and discovering my son has seizures. But God has been so good to my family and to me. I am thankful for my faith and the faith of my family. The season is of CHRISTmas. Thank God for that! I wouldn't have made it through this year so well without Him.

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What do you want most in life?

A great marriage?
A successful career?
Wealth and security?
A name for yourself?
Health and prosperity?

Where the desires of your heart are, is where YOU will be - physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. These will be what you give your most time and attention to.

If you want a great career, you will spend most of your time and talent on that....

If you want material things, that make you feel like "someone" - a great house in a great neighborhood, the latest car, clothes, and vacations - you will spend most of your time and money on acquiring these.

If you prize beauty and health, you will spend most of your energy, time, and money on doing what you can to "turn back the clock", be it vigorous workouts, plastic surgery, costly cosmetics, beauty treatments, hair styles, and clothing...

But what happens when you die?

A must read!!

Be good to those who do not deserve it! Life s a fight to push on. I feel like I have hit a plato and moving on is going to be hard hard work. I know this because everything is very frustrating- friends, work, school and especially myself.
Christmas is around the corner and that probably does help. Commercialism has taken over Christmas. Everyone around me is seeking spiritual things but they do not want to hear the one thing that can satisfy that thirst- Jesus Christ. Why is that? Weird. Buda, Yoga, Islam and any of the other religions that chains people rather than freeing them.

What's up?

Gas $3.50 a gallon?

My Joy

This is my Prince & my Princess! Justin and Kaitlyn overwhelm me with emotion. They bring a smile to my face everyday.
God is teaching me a lot about his will of decree. Seeing Justin dealing with absent seizures at a young age has been really hard. I really wanted to fight God on this. I shared with my Sunday school class that I felted betrayed or ripped off. I have been taught that if you love the Lord God with all your heart he will make me happy. He will make me (my family) safe. Life will be good. This was a shake up of that teaching.

More on that later. These two and my wife are my joy... in the good and the bad.

Tahoe

This is a poor pic. It was taken from my iPaq but is a memorial of July 4th getting ready for fireworks. This was the cabin weekend with the Anderson's. Our kids play so well together it is really a joy to spend time with them.

Penny Wise and a Pound Follish

Tough day today. Submitting to authority is a pain. I wish I could "just do it!" I met with some friends tonight for Bible study. It was a bit weird. As we were studying Eph. 4:25-32 the leader of the group started asking if anyone had bitterness against anyone else in the group. It was very uncomfortable.

But as I reflected on the event later, I believe the leader's heart is in the right place. But I feel if we are walking in the Spirit and our life is being led by scriptures such as "setting our eyes and Jesus"- then we should "forget what lies behind and press on or strain forward.
Do we need to pick the junk off the ground (shouldn't it have been “left behind”) and deal with it again?
Sometimes? Maybe every once in a great while? But that felt like emotional gobbly-gook. It feels like a type of self-center maneuver to feel-goodism.

One shouldn't feel like they are walking on egg shells when around brothers and sisters in Christ (nor should one use our brothers and/or sisters as door mats). As Jesus said in Matt. 5:37: “Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.”

Life is too short to tip toe around or trying to walk on egg shells with out breaking them. We live in a time when God has so much grace and mercy and forgiveness that we should also imitate the grace, mercy and forgiveness to each other (7 times 77?).

Philippians 3:7-16

Yet whatever gains I had these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.

More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

Let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind; and if you think differently about anything, this too God will reveal to you.

Only let us hold fast to what we have attained.

Live life with passion to what your heart desires!

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