got a grittibaenz
He’s waving; see his arm? It’s a grittibaenz. I feel special to have this little Christmas dough boy and I barely got this photo of him before we ate him as we turned him into a turkey sandwich. Thank you Evy!
The cake
This royal wedding cake was very inspiring to view and is motivating me to make a cake. I try to put less sugar than the recipe calls for and it usually turns out. Cakes symbolizes happiness, hope for the future and celebrations- that’s why I like big fancy cakes!
Below is a quote from the wedding message:
Marriage should transform as husband and wife make one another their work of art”
Just for the record- Thank God I live in the USA where there is no Monarchy, although there is corruptness in politics, I’m glad the revolution in 1776 got us away from a Monarchy!
Veterans Day your town USA
Civil Air Patrol (have to be 12 to join)
from left to right- Coast Guard flag, Air force flag, Marine flag, Navy flag, Army flag. Don’t quote me on these!
Parade starts and comes back here to the courthouse for taps being played on the grounds and how sad it is to hear the taps and think of the dead that never returned.
The POW flag that I blurred so bad because of holding on to a dog’s leach at the same time. It is the loneliest flag there is.
Vets rode in this.
More color guard photos
Above the entrance to the courthouse there is this carved stone decoration that looks like it is from Roman times of a Greek God nature. Dragon in the ship on either side with two undressed men carrying something- that cylinder shape thing above.
On the parade route before they stop and shoot the guns while on their way back to courthouse.
Some old hay cutting machine, I think on the courthouse grounds. By the wheel it says Prairie city Iowa where the piece was manufactured. The green metal thing a little higher than the wheels is where you sit.
Another Civil War diary
Fear in North Carolina is the book I read recently. I am glad for getting to know Cornelia through her diary. She was a good women and I enjoyed the sweetness of her kind husband she so often wrote about. It was the civil war era (chalk that up for my 3rd civil war diary that I read since summer!), yet each lady I read about had a different situation (the previous posts were July 11, 12, 31st). This recent book was called “Fear in North Carolina” compiled and edited by Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell. 2008 copyrighted.
Here is Cornelia’s photo many years later.
This lady, Cornelia Henry, lived on a farm in the mountains outside of Asheville North Carolina with her husband and operated a hotel for a short while till it burned, afterwards they took in boarders (like a mini hotel) in another building on the grounds which she writes about, making it an interesting read for an hour at a time on the sofa. All the farm hands were slaves. this was the first time I had known about middle class people owning slaves, just thought it was for big cotton plantations. On the link above you’ll find the touching excerpt of when Atheline ( house slave) dies. Atheline’s parents were there when Cornelia’s father in law had the farm. You can bet Cornelia made her dresses that she has on in both photos. She was always sewing for her family and the slaves.
Here’s a quote from her diary that sums up the risk you take concerning marriage:
April 9th, 1868 This day 13 years ago I paid a last adieu to the home of my childhood. Put my happiness in my dear husband’s keeping. He has faithfully discharged his trust as it lay in his power. I am happier now than I was as a bride for I know him now to be a high toned gentleman. Then I did not. He was almost a stranger to me. When I think of it now, I see how much we both risked.
Doesn’t that about sum it up as far as marriage goes? You really don’t know how the character of each other will develop until the years go by!
Don’t let Cornilia’s big hat scare you away from reading her diary when you see her on the cover of the book. I think it was a wedding photo. I’m glad the authors (Richard Russell and Karen L. Clinard) compiled this work into a book since I gleaned so much out of it.
To me it was a true love story about a good man who was a “high toned gentleman” (as Cornelia puts it) in the community and his family, with Cornelia shining throughout the book as a mom who dearly cared for her children. All the people mentioned in the book caught my attention and the time period of the book- the start to the end of the civil war covered. There was no insurance claim to be had when the hotel burned down either. If they had one, they could have rebuild. What a loss if you had a fire on your property back then!
photos courtesy of google books online reading.
the grown up bully
I found this article online about grown ups being bullies. The grown up bully
I thought of men as I was reading this, but I know women too like this, not very many I’ve come across, but it doesn’t mean they are not out there just because I’ve not experienced them. What an article!
Industrial and cooperative bullies is what this article is about . I’d think it includes church settings too. Have you met one before? Do you have a husband like this? Pastor? Neighbor? Co-worker? Boss? Relative? I had to read this article a few times over in a weeks time to digest all of this. The bully is exposed!
Holding the KJV dear to our hearts
thou has magnified thy word above all thy name
Psalm 138:2b
Johannes Weiland oil painting "Reading her bible"
Do you associate reading your bible with this oil painting as in something not for us today, but was for people to read a long time ago? Reading the King James Bible is for us today too. It’s hard to make the time, especially if you are reading it on a regular basis with someone else, which means there are two or more daily schedules that have to have time set aside for it.
It helps us get ready for heaven, by learning what we’re being taught in Pauls books, to get all the history out of the Old Testament, and to see what the Tribulation and beyond will be like which comes after Pauls 13 epistles. It also helps to get our thoughts off of worldly enticements that are always bombarding us .
Reading the Bible out loud
It’s the best thing you can do with your kids. It’s been about 10 or 11 years now that I started our day out with a chapter or two from a book of the bible. It’s the right thing to do. When you’re dead and gone your kids just might be reading the Word of God with their kids around their sofa too. That’s the goal isn’t it?
Mom’s need to protect their own
Here’s a good article on protecting your children from pedophiles as it relates a true story on why the boy didn’t get molested in his story. Becoming a Bear . The article is from the No greater joy website from October 07 . I don’t advocate everything they teach, but this article is on target about protecting your kids. This particular pedophile knew his mom was a “Mama bear” in that she would raise a ruckus if he did anything questionable to her son.
Just be aware Mom. Be aware of your children’s surroundings. Wish it was preached from the pulpit. Mom’s guard your children. Don’t let your child be an offender or a victim. It is Mothers who need to teach purity to their own children. Men and boys protect the women in their life, they don’ t do wrong to them, that is what Mom should be letting their sons know.
That’s one reason why Mom’s need to be a guard of the home. Years ago I read an article on baseball coaches who get to know the parents before molesting the boys. I think that article was in Newsweek or Time magazine. I read it as I was in the waiting room of the doctor’s office with my home care patient.
Boys get molested in hotel rooms at overnight church youth events too. Don’t let your boy go if he’s too young. Why should he go without his dad anyway?
Then there’s the man from Texas, Joe Barron, who was driving to see the girl he chatted with online (arrested in May ) . He got caught! He had some very illegal bad intentions. My question is this: where was her mom? I know it’s all too easy to hide what your doing on the computer from parents, but the question is- was mom close enough to her 13 yr old daughter to see what was up? Moms and their children have to be close and go where there children go. Girls don’t go out alone, Moms. Stay close to your daughters.
Here’s the marriage counselor chat room skunk. He was on the pastoral staff at his church counseling the married couples, had a mission trip for this summer planned that included young people from his church.
- chat room skunk was heading to teens home with video webcam
Skunk
Comforting your children
I heard a great sermon on-line about Fathers comforting their children coming from 1 Thessalonians 2:11,12 from Pastor Paulson in WA. Here’s the link:
CorrectionGrievous.html(here are the notes)
correction should be comforting, not grievious (Here’s the video of the sermon)
Messages like this one are helping parents make changes in how they relate to their kids. It helped me a lot too.
This particular sermon was the Sunday pm 16th one entitled “Correction Should be Comforting not Grievous”. If you have kids in the house than you need to exhort (encourage), charge (witness or testify to something) and comfort. This sermon focused in on the comfort part.
Being corrected in the right way should bring comfort, trust, assurance, caring, growing. There’s a lot more in the one hour and 15 minute message on comforting your children than I can tell you about here. The notes are on-line too and are helpful in understanding the sermon.
The Danger of Harry Potter kids on your block
The danger of kids on your block reading this trash is that it ends up permeating their thinking and leads them away from a Holy God .
Here’s a good article that reveals what Harry Potter is all about which can be found at http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/007/phoenix-movie.htm (sorry, this link thing isn’t working so it doesn’t take you there when you click on it).
This article is a book review on “the Order of the Phoenix”. Bert Kjois the author talks about what happens when kids read these occultic books and he lists 6 specifics that happen and supports each one with a scripture verse. In my own words here are his 6 points:
- Reading these books takes away a love for God,
- makes evil look desirable, promotes fantasy over truth,
- values based on culture of the day and not on the Word of God,
- Changes the meaning of Biblical words,
- has kids following other kids that are in this occultic junk
Even at the local Walmart there are night time parties offered right inside Walmart for this book coming out on the shelves that will change a persons thinking to have mixed up ideas which leads them away from knowing the Risen Savior, our wonderful Lord who died for their soul, Jesus Christ.
The numbers of the books being sold are unbelievable. Where are all the parents? So many parents are fooled into thinking this is fun and exciting for their kids. On this website “Kjois Ministries”, there are some very informative articles on all the Harry Potter craze. It is a great website to get informed on because you might talk to someone who wants detailed answers on why these books are witchcraft.
The danger of these kids is that they learn to love witchcraft. It infilters the mainstream of society. What are the kids going to do as they get older? probably more witchcraft. Those magic cards are occultic too. I know some “nice” boy-scouts a few years ago who were into them.
I love Kjois Ministries Website for what it all exposes, not only Harry Potter sorcery, but other schemes of trying to deceive people.
Week later update:
I had no idea (I’m writing this a week after this post was made) that at Boy scout camp this year 30 of the 60 something scouts were reading the latest Harry Potter book in their spare time! I wouldn’t have guessed that many boy scouts would be packing the Harry Potter book along for a week of boy scout camp. My source of information is my son who was there at camp.
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/007/harry-deathly.htm Here’s a new article on the last book.
The Baptizing Hysteria of Children
When kids get dunked in the water at church it is very confusing for that little girl or boy in understanding where they stand in their relationship to Jesus Christ as the years go by. Parents that are pushing baptism to their children need to re-think this whole thing.
MY STORY Years ago we joined a church after moving to a new community. What a great time for my daughter to be baptized I thought. In retrospect, it was just to show the pastor that we are serious about bringing up our kids. Recently we were talking about it (she’s almost 17 now) and she said she didn’t understand what it meant to be baptized back then, but she sure enjoyed being dunked in the water! We laughed about it and she forgave me.
Recently we were talking about it (she’s almost 17) and she said she didn’t understand what it meant to trust Jesus Christ’s work on the cross for full payment for her sins, but she sure enjoyed being dunked in the water! We laughed about it and she forgave me.
It confuses the poor child and could hinder his understanding of baptism and trusting Jesus for dying for our sins. It could lead to a false security of going to heaven in the mind of the young person as they go into their adult life. It does lead to false eternal security many many times.
Why is it when a new Pastor comes to town, a bunch of kids at church get baptized? I think the parents want to impress the pastor or prove that they want to do something useful! We just came to a new town, new church, and I wanted to let the pastor know I was a good mom. Dumb isn’t it? In reality, you don’t even need to be baptized to go to heaven.
Guarding the home takes time
The blog called “Guard the Home“ is worth talking about. I’ve never met Mrs Sherman, the author, but I sure do think she hits the nail on the head with everything she writes. I don’t go on the site as regular as I should but none the less, she affirms these beliefs of hers to me and I agree with her.
The url was “save the home” but now it is Guardthe home.blogspot.com. I had a hard time googling it. The link on the right side of my page “Guard the Home” still works and if it doesn’t then you can find the Guard the Home link on the LAF website (Ladies Against Feminism).
Each post is good and true. She puts into words what I believe about the home. The topics presented need to be heard. Some people are just wise and she’s one of them. Thank you Mrs Sherman.
Dee Millers website
Dee Miller guards the home too but in a different sense- Its just a good website for a mom with children of all ages. She was a missionary to Africa for 10 years with her husband and has a story to tell. Here is her and her husbands website: www.takecourage.org Her husband makes a good point about what the “frightening truth” is as he describes the reality of our society.
“The most frightening truth for most is that we live in a society that is dangerous, especially for women and children”.*
It is a good website for moms to read. Women and children really are put in situations where it is dangerous to their well being and it happens more often than anyone ever talks about. Moms need to be with their kids and just be on guard.
*(can be found on the first line of his paragraph on the page “Ron Speaks”.)
A good sermon on-line
I heard a good sermon on-line from Pastor Paulson from his website (Wednesday, august 16th) on “the Manner of Life” which isn’t a do/don’t list of what to do but instead it is the manner of life in our homes in place of a series on disciplining your children. Things we should be doing taken from the verse in 2 Timothy 3:10 is what he’s talking about.
“But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long suffering, charity, patience.” 2 Tim. 3:10
2006 sermons all on one page is where you can find the notes to it and hear it online as well. A flock of does not a flock of don’t s is what that title of the sermon means. He doesn’t manipulate you the listener when he gives a sermon but rather, he helps you understand the passages. A lot is at stake for me and other moms as well when you have young people in the home. We want them to understand so many things, to get them to see the snares and traps and wiles of the devils that are there for them to fall into like a big ditch dug that is covered with leaves and you fall into it.
what we say to each other in the home
A wise woman in Christ she is, Mrs. Sherman is her name. Her articles inspire me and this latest one written is one I will have my son read out-loud. Topics on integrity, truthfulness, the reason for respect in the home and other discussions like this one must be brought up or else we have young people in the home going the ways of the world and sitting in their ignorance on many issues.
http://homeliving.blogspot.com/( This link won’t take you to the exact article, so you have to search for it on her website). This recent article entitled “honoring the home” just struck me as one of those articles for my kids and I to discuss. The first point she made is all I am referring to right now which is: doing right to one another by not showing rudeness. How we treat one another in the home is so important and especially sons honoring their sisters and their Mom in the home. It doesn’t just happen automatically, it has to be taught. These two verses are a good start for everyone at home:
“Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.” Colossians 3:12,13
Noxious Narnia
Just because you get a Narnia toy at McDonalds and many are praising the movie doesn't mean you have to stoop to it's occultic deception. There is some truth in it but it's mixed with myth. Aslan is not Jesus Christ. God's truth will not stoop to mans imagination. Spiritual compromising equals you enjoying this movie.
This is a review of Bert Kjos's excellent 3 part series on the Chronicles of Narnia movie from his website crossroads. All this material is in his 3 part series that includes a more in -depth look at this truth twister- C .S. Lewis.
Gods truth is not in this movie or in any of C S Lewis' writings. He had a real bent to mythical fantasy pagan rituals and the like. He suggested that Christianity and Paganism supported each other in a biography of him written in 1974 by R L Green. This verse in Jeremiah 11:18 sums up the masses of Americans that are watching this movie even though in Jeremiah the verse is talking about Israel.
"They obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked everyone in the imagination of their evil heart." Jeremiah 11:18
One of Satan's stratagies is to offer counterfiet images of God's creation. Satans tactics are: temptations, lies and half truths, deception, theft and murder. C S Lewis distorts and changes God's unchangable truth. He distorts and changes God's uncompromising rightousness, his peace in the midst of turmoil and God's unwavering faith. C S Lewis also distorts and changes God's eternal gift of salvation.
A vision for my son
Plain Path Publishers have helped me go through some good character training for my son over the years and I”m very thankful to them. http://plainpath.org/store/
Christian Manhood was what we started with a few years ago, a character building curriculum for boys around 6th grade age wise. We took chapter a week, chapter after chapter we plowed through it and not only my son was taught, but I was taught as well as we went through all 45 chapters. Each chapter has the verses on the given topic and is arranged in a simple to understand way. Here are some of the chapter titles:
- (ch 10) How do you treat the Women in Your Life?,
- (ch 19) What Do you Words Show about Your Character?
- ( ch27) Do you show discretion in Your life?
- (ch 38) How Do you choose your Heroes?
It’s King James Version based too. This year we’re going through the Christian Leadership manual which is similar to the other one.
King Lemuel’s mother had talks with her son in proverbs 31:1-9 .
Proverbs 31: 1-5
“What, my son? And what, the son of my womb? And what, the son of my vows? Give not the strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.”
Magic cards and Boy Scouts
benevolent unicorn
Magic cards are Satan’s tools to capture the hearts and minds of young people. The quest for power is so appealing to our carnal nature. I’ve been exposed to Magic cards through boy scouts, my son’s troop. The occultic pictures on the cards are enough to show you that this is the occult. Why do you think that the Eagle Scouts in the troop are playing this occultic game? Power. Satan shows them that they can have power over people and circumstances and they fall for it. This unicorn card says: Whenever a spell assigns damage to a creature or player, that damage is reduced by 1.
photo of boyscouts playing magic cards that I just got off the web!
Four Eagle Scouts in one troop is prestigious in the Boy Scout realm but if they are all into magic Cards then they do not have any creditability. The nature of Boy Scouts is not Christian which means their campfire time won’t be an edifying time of a man giving a devotion out of Gods Word so, why go? There is nudity and awful death occultist stuff on other majic cards, I only posted one, the unicorn card which looks tame compared to the others.It’d be better for a few wise Dad’s to go through 1st and 2nd Timothy or the book of Romans with a group of boys than to have the boy scouts camp fire time with a secular troop.
red carnations
pansey wreath 1995
