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April 12, 2009 - Sunday 

Category: Religion and Philosophy
Christ, the Lord,
    is risen today, Alleluia!

Sons of men
    and angels say, Alleluia!

Raise your joys
    and triumphs high, Alleluia!

Sing, ye heavens,
    and earth, reply, Alleluia!

Love's redeeming work
    is done, Alleluia!

Fought the fight,
    the battle won, Alleluia!

Lo! the Sun's
    eclipse is over, Alleluia!

Lo! He sets
    in blood no more, Alleluia!

Vain the stone,
    the watch, the seal, Alleluia!

Christ hath burst
    the gates of hell, Alleluia!

Death in vain
    forbids His rise, Alleluia!

Christ hath opened
    paradise, Alleluia!

Lives again
    our glorious King, Alleluia!

Where, O death,
    is now thy sting? Alleluia!

Once He died
    our souls to save, Alleluia!

Where thy victory,
    O grave? Alleluia!

Soar we now where
    Christ hath led, Alleluia!

Following our
    exalted Head, Alleluia!

Made like Him,
    like Him we rise, Alleluia!

Ours the cross,
    the grave, the skies, Alleluia!

 


Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today by Charles Wesley, 1739

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April 4, 2009 - Saturday 

Category: Life

It's been a very busy season around here.  Feels like I'm constantly busy and nothing get's done.  Unsettling to say the least.  It's getting better now.  I tackled 2 of the most disorganized rooms here (basement and Boy Child's room) a little bit a day and they both got done.  What a relief!  I want to start a spring clean because to be honest I haven't kept up this winter the way I like.  Curtains, baseboards, nooks and crannies just haven't been a priority and I need to get back on track.  Truth be told even if no one else notices I DO.  I can just feel it when things aren't done and it eats at me. 
I have a cat that suddenly decided that peeing on every rug I have down is a cool thing to do so I spent most of my days cleaning up cat pee and washing rugs.  We got a new cat box and I put back in an old place she was familiar with if that doesn't work we are going to have cook her up.  I can't have her peeing all over.  It's gonna get into the wood not to mention the Boy Child plays on the rugs, it's just wrong I tell ya ,wrong and nasty and a time consuming job.  She has been held up in the bed room.  Her favorite room she normally spends a lot of time in anyway I thought she'd be ready to roam around again but she is preferring to stay in the bedroom.  I know she's just waiting for me to be off-guard, she ain't fooling nobody.  We'll see how it goes.  We have the Urine Off and the cat boxes get cleaned everyday and she stays clear of the Boy Child and other kids when they are here so I'm not so sure what her problem is.
Has anyone checked themselves against their goals for 2009?  Yeah, well, give me an update cuz I could use some encouragement. 
Someone (I'm not mentioning names) is losing weight and I keep finding it ALL OVER the place.  Please learn how to dispose of your weight correctly or I'll have to call CONgress and see if we can't get a bill passed on these inconsiderate people.  Maybe Al Gore could work something up under global warming or something.  I'm kidding of course.  My goal WAS to lose...I don't know, 10 pounds maybe?  INSTEAD I GAIN 10!!!!  No It's not muscle.  Did you know that 10 lbs. of muscle weights EXACTLY as much as 10 lbs. of fat?
I have an absolutely wonderful friend here on MyBroke.  Val. She is one of those women that has no clue how wonderful she is and when I grow up I want to be just like her.  Anyway she sent me some Amish Friendship Bread starter about 2 weeks ago but life kept getting in the way of me making it (or I used life as an excuse-DON'T JUDGE ME ((lol))).  Today we are making it.  A-3 or 17 year old darlin daughter, will be helping me.  She woke up not feeling the greatest so I'm giving her some time to man up and we're going to dig in.  I'm soooo excited.  Hubby has seen my interest and results of bread making (Artisan Bread) and purchased a bread maker.  I need to learn how use that and predict it will save a lot of time and be more energy efficient as well.  It's huge and it's ugly so I need to find space in the garage to store it when not in use.  I've been making that Artisan Bread for quite some time now and it has helped my confidence tremendously.  The little's that I babysit eat it up like candy.  They love it and it is so easy. 
Boy Child (almost 28 months) woke up this morning with a dry diaper so we are going to attempt some potty training today.  It's a little sad for me.  This is a major milestone in his manhood.  Before you know it he will want to replace me with some cutie-pie and forget about visiting me in the nursing home every Sunday.   I'm joking but I don't mind changing diapers.  I got issues!
I ran across some Montessori blogs and dove in head first.  Montessori is a teaching style and the boy child LOVES it.  He's not a big talker but I've come to realize that he is his father's son.  He just doesn't have much to say right now and that's ok.  I gave him some sorting activities about 2 weeks ago and he nailed them down in no time.  He catches on quickly...just doesn't have a lot to say.  He knows his colors red, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, black and white and he's counting (up to about 7 right now).  He knows the difference between numbers and letters and will argue with you if you tell him he is cute.  Noooooo, I not cute, daddy cute.  Last week Big Daddy took him to the Aquatic Center to swim and a stranger told him he was cute and he argued with her about it.  He's too fun and he is cute rather he wants to be or not.  Anyway, I have been looking for ideas and such to keep up with him.  I hope to post more on some of these activities soon.
I started about 100 seeds a few weeks ago.  Only a couple took.  I think I started to early.  I'm still learning.  I replanted all of those and started some more on last Monday, they are all sprouting.  I have Cukes, peas, green beans, peppers, pumpkin, tomatoes, lettuce, spring onion, watermelon and cantaloupe that I can think of right now.  I have about 6 different herbs (not doing so great) and am trying some flowers this year.  So far...not so good.  I'm down but I'm not out yet.  We tilled up the small garden area and I have my buckets ready to go.   The boy child LOVES the dirt.  He's gonna have a blast in the yard this year.  I'll keep busy out there in the dirt too.  Any ideas on how to keep rabbits away?  We have 3 (or more) out in the yard and I can't afford to wire the entire yard to fence him/her out.  I started some marigold seeds.  I hear they aren't to fond of Marigold.  I'm gonna plant spring onions bordering the garden area, they should love that.  If nothing else maybe that will help control the rabbit population.  Hahaha  Get it...onion breath.
Ok, I think I'm done for now.  I won't touch politics or the economy cuz that is just a huge joke anymore.  I don't even get upset anymore it's just sad, sad, sad.  Maybe next week.  This blog has taken me forever and I got to git.
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April 3, 2009 - Friday 
101 Things to Do When There's Nothing to Do - Quick Games for Planes, Cars and Waiting Rooms
Forgot to toss toys in your purse? Carry-on consigned to the cargo hold? Long waiting-room stay used up all your distractions? No matter how organized the parent, there will always come a time when your child will rely on you for distraction, just you and you alone. What do you do when you're stuck without props? Here are 101 informal activities that use nothing more than your clothing, your accessories, and whatever wits you have about you. If your child has a particularly short attention span or low tolerance for boredom, you may have to run through a whole string of these -- but finally, the time will pass.

  1. Play "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
  2. Arm wrestle
  3. Thumb wrestle
  4. Push palms together to see who can push the hardest
  5. Stack hands one atop the other, pulling out the hand at the bottom and bringing it up top
  6. Stack fists, using same rules as above
  7. Stack arms, similarly
  8. Play with your child's hair
  9. Let your child play with your hair
  10. Draw a letter on your child's back with a finger and see if he or she can guess
  11. Draw a letter instead on your child's arm
  12. Have your child draw a letter on your arm or back, and you do the guessing
  13. Take off your shoe and have your child practice shoe-tying
  14. Take off your child's shoe and find a different way to lace it
  15. Take off your child's shoes and sock and use the socks as puppets
  16. Use your wristwatch to give a lesson in telling time
  17. Use your wristwatch to time things going on around you
  18. Let your child try on your wristwatch
  19. Let your child try on your jewelry
  20. Count by twos, threes, fives, tens
  21. Count backward from 100
  22. Pick a number between one and 10
  23. Teach the 9 times table trick
  24. Give a math equation for your child to figure mentally
  25. Give a string of math equations and ask for the answer at the end
  26. Make up math story problems
  27. Say words to spell
  28. Say words to rhyme with
  29. Play "I Spy"
  30. Try some tongue twisters
  31. Play "I Went to ..."
  32. Sing some silly songs (softly)
  33. Do songs with hand motions, with and without the words
  34. Play "20 Questions"
  35. Look for things out the window
  36. Play paddycake
  37. Teach your child some clapping games
  38. Have your child teach you some clapping games
  39. Whisper secrets, silly and serious
  40. Say "Tell you tell me three things you did today"
  41. Tell a story, taking turns one sentence at a time
  42. Write a poem, taking turns one sentence at a time
  43. Hide something (even just your thumb) in one fist -- guess which hand?
  44. Count your change
  45. Count your currency
  46. Make a stack or a snake with loose change
  47. Fold or roll up currency
  48. Make a pattern, train, or house out of credit cards.
  49. Show your child the pictures in your wallet (yes, even your driver's license)
  50. Try to remember one of your child's favorite storybooks; let your child correct your mistakes.
  51. See how your child looks in your glasses
  52. Give an invisible manicure
  53. Give an invisible pedicure
  54. Get an invisible manicure or pedicure
  55. Have your child name all his or her classmates
  56. See how many people your child can name in your extended family
  57. See how many birthdates of friends and family your child can recall
  58. Name a relative's birth year and have your child figure out how old; invent relatives if necessary
  59. Guess what the people around you do for a living
  60. Make a Christmas or birthday wish list
  61. Count how many words you can spot -- on signs, posters, clothes
  62. Make faces
  63. Play Straight Face
  64. Try to make each other laugh -- last one wins
  65. Have a staring contest
  66. Have your child narrate a favorite movie
  67. Interview your child for a TV news show
  68. Speak Pig Latin
  69. Play "Truth or Dare"
  70. Make up your own secret code
  71. Think of rhyming words for items around you
  72. Take turns naming words for a letter of the alphabet; last one to think of a word wins, and you move to the next letter
  73. Same as above, but with rhymes
  74. Same as above, but with entries in categories
  75. Explain the meaning of various figures of speech
  76. Make up silly similes
  77. Make a puppet face with your fist, with your thumb as the lower jaw
  78. Flip a coin
  79. Do "This little piggy" on feet or hands
  80. Give a backrub
  81. Get a backrub
  82. Crawl fingers up your child's back or arm like a spider
  83. Make up an acronym for your child's name, and the names of other family members
  84. Ask for favorites: TV show, movie, book, color, game, animal, friend
  85. Play peek-a-boo
  86. Give your child the name of an object and ask what color it is, what letter it starts with, what shape it is, if it's heavy or light
  87. Go on a "hike" with your two fingers walking over your child's arms, shoulders and head
  88. Break an egg over your child's head by rapping it gently with your fist and then opening your hand to make the egg roll down the face
  89. Do charades
  90. Be mirror images
  91. Play "Simon Says" on a smale scale.
  92. Throw an imaginary ball
  93. Blow imaginary bubbles
  94. Blow a raspberry on your child's arm
  95. "Steal" your child's nose
  96. Be a little goldfish
  97. Do "Here is the church, here is the steeple," or make your own version for another building
  98. Try guided relaxation
  99. Practice breathing techniques
  100. Repeat what the other person says; repeat what the other person says.
  101. See who can go the longest without talking.
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March 29, 2009 - Sunday 
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March 22, 2009 - Sunday 
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March 19, 2009 - Thursday 

Category: Religion and Philosophy

Matthew - Chapter 25


1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

2 And five of them were wise, and five [were] foolish.

3 They that [were] foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

9 But the wise answered, saying, [Not so]; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

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March 15, 2009 - Sunday 
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March 14, 2009 - Saturday 

Category: Religion and Philosophy


Several Ways to Make Yourself Miserable by Elisabeth Elliot


1. Count your troubles, name them one by one--at the breakfast table, if anybody will listen, or as soon as possible thereafter.


2. Worry every day about something. Don't let yourself get out of practice. It won't add a cubit to your stature but it might burn a few calories.


3. Pity yourself. If you do enough of this, nobody else will have to do it for you.


4. Devise clever but decent ways to serve God and mammon. After all, a man's gotta live.


5. Make it your business to find out what the Joneses are buying this year and where they're going. Try to do them at least one better even if you have to take out another loan to do it.


6. Stay away from absolutes. It's what's right for you that matters. Be your own person and don't allow yourself to get hung up on what others expect of you.


7. Make sure you get your rights. Never mind other people's. You have your life to live, they have theirs.


8. Don't fall into any compassion traps--the sort of situation where people can walk all over you. If you get too involved in other people's troubles, you may neglect your own.


9. Don't let Bible reading and prayer get in the way of what's really relevant--things like TV and newspapers. Invisible things are eternal. You want to stick with the visible ones--they're where it's at now.
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March 12, 2009 - Thursday 

Category: News and Politics

I posted the warning from Pastor Wilkerson HERE.  I haven't seen, heard or read anything anywhere online that says this man is a false prophet or anything other than he is a Godly man.
Heed Wilkerson's warning
Exclusive: Janet Porter notes pastor made sandwiches for 9/11 workers – before attack
Posted: March 10, 2009
3:02 pm Eastern

By Janet Porter

When I was a kid, I read about David Wilkerson who took to Gospel to the gangs of New York. I even saw the movie "The Cross and the Switchblade" that was made about him. Many know about that, but most don't know what happened in his church just eight years ago.

In the fall of 2001, Pastor David Wilkerson, of Times Square Church in New York City, was warned by God that a calamity was coming. For six weeks they felt an intense burden and enormous heaviness. A critical need for intercession was so profound that Pastor Wilkerson canceled everything on the church calendar – mission's conferences, youth events and every guest speaker.

For six weeks, there wasn't a sermon. Instead, there was intercession for our nation with weeping and repentance. They knew something was coming and that something was bad. And that something was soon. So they prayed. And prayed … and prayed.

Then Wilkerson felt God telling him something that seemed rather bizarre. He felt God telling him to make sandwiches – lots of sandwiches. What were they for? Who would eat them? That part wasn't clear, but his church did what they believed God was telling them anyway.

And on the 10th of September they stayed up all night making hundreds and hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. By morning they had about 2,000 sandwiches. At 8:46 a.m. the first plane hit the World Trade Center and Times Square Church was ready to feed and minister to rescue workers and victims of our nation's worst attack.

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Making sandwiches all night is a strange thing to do. If someone told me to stay up all night making sandwiches, I'd probably tell them they were crazy. But if David Wilkerson says he's heard something from God today, I think we'd be crazy not to listen.

He now says he feels the same thing he felt leading up to the attack by radical Islam. In an "URGENT MESSAGE" dated March 7, 2009, Wilkerson said:

AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE – EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.

For 10 years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires – such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.

There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting – including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God's wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written:

… God is judging the raging sins of America and the nations. He is destroying the secular foundations.

The prophet Jeremiah pleaded with wicked Israel, "God is fashioning a calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh, turn back each of you from your evil way, and reform your ways and deeds. But they will say, It's hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart" (Jeremiah 18:11-12).

In Psalm 11:6, David warns, "Upon the wicked he will rain snares (coals of fire) … fire … burning wind … will be the portion of their cup." Why? David answered, "Because the Lord is righteous" (v. 7). This is a righteous judgment – just as in the judgments of Sodom and in Noah's generation.

WHAT SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS DO? WHAT ABOUT GOD'S PEOPLE?

First, I give you a practical word I received for my own direction. If possible lay in store a 30-day supply of non-perishable food, toiletries and other essentials. In major cities, grocery stores are emptied in an hour at the sign of an impending disaster.

… I will behold our Lord on his throne, with his eye of tender, loving kindness watching over every step I take – trusting that he will deliver his people even through floods, fires, calamities, tests, trials of all kinds.

Note: I do not know when these things will come to pass, but I know it is not far off. I have unburdened my soul to you. Do with the message as you choose.

Warren Buffett has said that our economy has "fallen off a cliff." With the election of the most pro-abortion president (and Congress) in history, there's no question that we deserve God's judgment.

Just yesterday, Barack Obama signed an executive order to use children for spare parts. So much for defending the "least of these," as he so often quoted during his campaign. Cannibalizing the weak to help the strong. And by the way, don't believe everything you hear in the news – Obama didn't say he was against cloning. He said he was against "reproductive" cloning. Killing a new life after cloning one is another matter entirely: the cowardice of Obama's "Brave New World."

The bottom line is that we are economically and morally bankrupt. And it's reported that Iran now has all they need to build nukes.

So, when the guy who made the 2,000 sandwiches on Sept. 10 warns us: "AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN," I think we would do well to heed it. And follow the words Wilkerson quotes from the prophet Jeremiah and "turn back each of you from your evil way, and reform your ways and deeds."

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