Some quotes and thoughts for the day.
I got this link in an email from my pal “D”. Looks like there is a lot of potential fun to be had:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/magazine/17-10/st_miniweapons
D was a huge supplier of commentary about the last Indiana Jones movie. Both of us were very underimpressed with that waste of celluloid.
Enjoy the link, try not to get into too much troubles, ok.
Preschooler Stress
You think your life is hard? Imagine being plunked down in a foreign land where you’re not fluent in the language, you have to figure out how everything from a doorknob to a toilet works, and you’re one-third the height of everyone else. Being a preschooler has its stresses. When your child seems overwhelmed, it’s a good idea to look at what’s going on in his world, slow the pace, and provide extra TLC — the same things you like when you’re overwhelmed!
In our current state I think these are values that need to be thought about and taken to heart. I think we as a people are missing the mark and straying from our roots by our lack of care. Think about this…
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do. I think we tend to forget this fact. I feel that if we were to apply this to life we would all feel better about ourselves.
So on facebook this morning I read a great post by a pastor friend of mine, I thought I would pass it along so that all may enjoy.
Ben Binger: “Haha. I never thought of this b4.Nice. “…the entertaining Bible stories are God’s way of apologizing for Leviticus. (via @stevenfurtick)”
Thank you @BernieBing I love that thought, it makes the whole Leviticus section tolerable.
“Through modern invention and outright apathy, our present Western world has grown more and more passive. We have developed a TV-obsessed, entertainment-prone, and spectator-minded generation which seems to be largely content to watch life rather than live it” (Wilson, p. 136).
This is not only an apt description of American cultural life, but of the American Christian church, as well, which, sadly, has, to a large degree, become a mirror image of the surrounding secular culture. The typical church service in the First American Church, in Anytown, America has become a spectator sport with chairs (or pews) arranged theater-style facing a stage where often paid professional performers titillate emotions and the tickle ears of their fans for an hour or two on Sunday morning.
The churchgoers, on having received their weekly dose or fix of religio-entertainment return afterwards to their secular prayerless, biblically illiterate and evangelizingless lives to exist, by in large, as spiritual “couch potatoes.”
I found this blog to be very relevent to me today, I hope that it is something you can grab on to as well. I think Henrik has some good points, his blog is always a good read.
http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2009/05/08/where-is-your-precious-focus-going-today/
In a time where so much is being made about our first black president, Ann Coulter made the following observation in her column of 2/25/2009:
“But as long as the nation is obsessed with historic milestones, is no one going to remark on what a great country it is when a mentally retarded woman can become speaker of the house?”
The most dangerous myth is…that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate… Business doesn’t pay taxes….people pay as consumers every tax that is assessed against a business. If the tax cannot be included in the price of the product, no one…can stay in business. — Ronald Reagan
How can people be so blind as to think that the way to gain wealthy profitable economies is giving away money from the people who are profitable? If you had three apples and I wanted an apple would it be better to give me an apple or give me apple seeds so that I can grow my own apples?
Almost a month into the new job. I really do enjoy the people that I am working with, they are all very wonderful, gracious, and caring people. It has been quite a big change for me, I have manged to step out into a world that I am unfamiliar with but I know that I am supposed to be here. I am loving the challenges this new path of my life is offering to me. I will write more when I have free time again.
Until then a quote to ponder:
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Bradstreet
