There is an old story of a weak, sickly man. The man was very weak and sick, but he could not afford to go to town and see a doctor. The man lived in the deep back woods, in an old log cabin and his condition seemed to be getting worse. Out in front of the cabin was a massive rock. One night he dreamed that God told him to go outside and push on the huge rock all day long, day after day. The man got up early the next morning, and with great excitement he pushed on the rock until lunch, then he rested a while and pushed on the rock until his evening meal. The man loved pushing against the rock, it gave his life meaning and hope. The dream had been so real, so something great was about to happen. Day after day he pushed. Days rolled into weeks and the weeks rolled into months. After 8 months of pushing the rock, the weak sickly man was getting tired of pushing the rock. In his tiredness he started to doubt the dream. So one day he measured from his porch to the rock and after a day of pushing he measured again. After 2 weeks of pushing and measuring, he realized that he had not moved the rock at all. The rock was in exactly the same place as when he started months ago. The man was so disapointed, he though the dream had been so special, and now, after 9 months he saw his work had accomplished nothing. He was tired and cried and cried on his porch. He had invested many hundreds of hours into nothing. Nothing, it was all for nothing! As he sat on the porch he fell asleep. In his sleep he had another dream. Jesus can and sat down beside him on the porch and said, "Son, why are you crying?" The man replied, "Lord, You know how sick and weak I am, and in a dumb dream you gave me false hope by telling me to push on this rock. I have pushed with all I have for over 9 months and that dumb rock is right where it was when I started." Jesus was kind and said to him, "I never told you to move the rock, I told you to push against the rock." The man replied, "Yes, Sir, that was the dream." Jesus told the man to step in front of a mirror and look at himself. As an act of obedience the man stepped in front of a mirror and looked at himself. The man was amazed, he had been so sickly and weak, and what he saw in the mirror was a stong muscular man. The man realized that he had not been coughing all night. The man started thinking of how well he had felt for the last several months and the strength he now had built up by pushing on the rock. The man realized that the plan of God was not for the rock, but for him.
At times, when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own intellect to decipher what he wants, when actually what God wants is just simple obedience and faith in Him... By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains, but know that it is still God who moves the mountains. You just P.U.S.H.!
P.U.S.H. = Pray Until Something Happens!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The Second American Revolution
I've always been the type of person that has a hard enough time fighting for my own life that I haven't ever really paid attention to politics. Then when I became voting age I had a lesson in church encouraging us to vote and stand up for what we believe in because we CAN make a difference. So I've voted a few times but I usually go off of what my parents or John says I should do because I trust them and they understand what is going on a lot better than I do. With the major politics going on last year I got a little more into it. We helped with prop 8 of course and I got in a few discussions trying to stand up for the candidate that was the least worst choice. But I still didn't do as much as I could have or should have. So many of us are like myself where we are so wrapped up into our own lives that we forget to fight for what is really important. Especially the things that allow us to have the life that we have.
I've seen a couple videos on youtube and have heard a couple things that have really gotten me thinking. This first video is really just a radio clip from Glenn Beck. It's about 4 1/2 minutes but it's really good. (I don't know how to post the whole video in here but just click on the link)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDmGt1Pafw
To quote the main purpose of this video, "You Americans are so gullible that we will feed you small doses of Socialism until you wake up and realize you are already living Communism." At the end of the clip it quotes a women who believes that if she supports Obama, that she will not have to worry about earning her own money for gas and food anymore, but that he will take care of her.
This country was founded on Freedom. What makes our country so successful is our Free Enterprise system. We each have the freedom and the ability to make something of ourselves. To be in charge of our own life. We have the right to be in charge of our own income and to decide where it goes. We have the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech, etc. But unfortunately we have gotten so lazy that we've forgotten how to fight for ourselves. To fight for what is right. Too many people have the attitude of "What can my country do for me," instead of, "What can I do for my country." We are so blessed to be living at this time in this great country that we should want to do whatever we can to keep it great.
The United States of America is a Democracy, meaning that We the People make the laws and choose who will represent US. Our Senators and Congressmen are there to represent US and OUR beliefs, wishes, wants, desires, etc, to the President who is there to serve OUR country.
OUR Country is in a lot of debt and Our Elected Leaders are trying to "stimulate" the economy by getting us into more debt. Because of this debt they are going to raise our taxes and with these higher taxes there will be more and more people who are dependent on welfare. When I was discussing this a few weeks ago with a few people they pointed out that they are TRYING to get more people to be dependent on the government because then they have control over us. Is this what WE want? Do we want to take the bits of socialism that they are handing us? This brings me to my second video. This one is a little bit longer but well worth it. This guy may seem like a bit much but I think he chose his costume and back drop well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA&feature=channel_page
What are you going to do to fight for YOUR country?
I've seen a couple videos on youtube and have heard a couple things that have really gotten me thinking. This first video is really just a radio clip from Glenn Beck. It's about 4 1/2 minutes but it's really good. (I don't know how to post the whole video in here but just click on the link)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDmGt1Pafw
To quote the main purpose of this video, "You Americans are so gullible that we will feed you small doses of Socialism until you wake up and realize you are already living Communism." At the end of the clip it quotes a women who believes that if she supports Obama, that she will not have to worry about earning her own money for gas and food anymore, but that he will take care of her.
This country was founded on Freedom. What makes our country so successful is our Free Enterprise system. We each have the freedom and the ability to make something of ourselves. To be in charge of our own life. We have the right to be in charge of our own income and to decide where it goes. We have the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech, etc. But unfortunately we have gotten so lazy that we've forgotten how to fight for ourselves. To fight for what is right. Too many people have the attitude of "What can my country do for me," instead of, "What can I do for my country." We are so blessed to be living at this time in this great country that we should want to do whatever we can to keep it great.
The United States of America is a Democracy, meaning that We the People make the laws and choose who will represent US. Our Senators and Congressmen are there to represent US and OUR beliefs, wishes, wants, desires, etc, to the President who is there to serve OUR country.
OUR Country is in a lot of debt and Our Elected Leaders are trying to "stimulate" the economy by getting us into more debt. Because of this debt they are going to raise our taxes and with these higher taxes there will be more and more people who are dependent on welfare. When I was discussing this a few weeks ago with a few people they pointed out that they are TRYING to get more people to be dependent on the government because then they have control over us. Is this what WE want? Do we want to take the bits of socialism that they are handing us? This brings me to my second video. This one is a little bit longer but well worth it. This guy may seem like a bit much but I think he chose his costume and back drop well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA&feature=channel_page
What are you going to do to fight for YOUR country?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Barbie's Anniversary
Note: This is not my accomplishment, but it is my dear mothers.
A couple years ago my mom started a project. She belongs to a quilt guild that was having a summer contest. Everyone had to make a quilt and they would all get to judge them at the end of the summer. The theme was: "The Little Things." She immeadiately thought of a barbie shoe. 6 months latter this is what she had taken that first thought to. She has displayed it in a few different quilt shows. The latest was last weekend in Manteca, CA. The Manteca quilt guild happens to be good friends with the famous quilting TV star, Alex Anderson who has been present and participating in a few Quilt Shows around here. Last fall I attended one in Livermore where my mom got to meet her and show her some pictures of her fabulous Quilt. Alex Anderson was impressed and was excited to see it in person at the Manteca Show. Monday night we discovered this on Alex Anderson's TV Show Blog:
http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/blog.php/blog_id/1758
Check it out and let me know what you think of my mom's hard work. Those are actually real Barbie dols attached to the 3D quilt. She not only made all the different compartments herself, but she made each Barbie's clothes too. She is quite thorough when she dresses Barbie so all of them (except one) has underwear and a bra on that she also made herself. There are a few other interesting little facts about the quilt, some of them are listed at the end of the slide show but there are a few more detailed things that I'll have her explain in a comment because she put so much work into this and the things she used to make it look this awesome are quite entertaining. My mom is planning on showing it in one or two more quilt shows and then selling it on Ebay. I had no idea it was Barbie's Anniversary but maybe that will make it sell for more.
I enjoyed reading the comments people made to the blog. Not many were about the quilt itself but about Barbie in general and were interesting to me. Especially when they talk about the old dolls and their names because my mom had most of those ones. Ricky, Allen, Tutti, etc. She actually kept them in a box in the top of her closet with all the clothes she made for them when she was growing up because she didn't want us to break them. But me and my sister would always sneak in there and get them out of the box and play with them. We were always so careful with them because they were antiques. I guess to a 10 year old 35 years sounds old.
Enjoy!
A couple years ago my mom started a project. She belongs to a quilt guild that was having a summer contest. Everyone had to make a quilt and they would all get to judge them at the end of the summer. The theme was: "The Little Things." She immeadiately thought of a barbie shoe. 6 months latter this is what she had taken that first thought to. She has displayed it in a few different quilt shows. The latest was last weekend in Manteca, CA. The Manteca quilt guild happens to be good friends with the famous quilting TV star, Alex Anderson who has been present and participating in a few Quilt Shows around here. Last fall I attended one in Livermore where my mom got to meet her and show her some pictures of her fabulous Quilt. Alex Anderson was impressed and was excited to see it in person at the Manteca Show. Monday night we discovered this on Alex Anderson's TV Show Blog:
http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/blog.php/blog_id/1758
Check it out and let me know what you think of my mom's hard work. Those are actually real Barbie dols attached to the 3D quilt. She not only made all the different compartments herself, but she made each Barbie's clothes too. She is quite thorough when she dresses Barbie so all of them (except one) has underwear and a bra on that she also made herself. There are a few other interesting little facts about the quilt, some of them are listed at the end of the slide show but there are a few more detailed things that I'll have her explain in a comment because she put so much work into this and the things she used to make it look this awesome are quite entertaining. My mom is planning on showing it in one or two more quilt shows and then selling it on Ebay. I had no idea it was Barbie's Anniversary but maybe that will make it sell for more.
I enjoyed reading the comments people made to the blog. Not many were about the quilt itself but about Barbie in general and were interesting to me. Especially when they talk about the old dolls and their names because my mom had most of those ones. Ricky, Allen, Tutti, etc. She actually kept them in a box in the top of her closet with all the clothes she made for them when she was growing up because she didn't want us to break them. But me and my sister would always sneak in there and get them out of the box and play with them. We were always so careful with them because they were antiques. I guess to a 10 year old 35 years sounds old.
Enjoy!
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