Tuesday, September 16, 2008

LOVE

"No one falls in love by choice, IT is by CHANCE.
No one stays in love by chance, IT is by WORK.
And no one falls out of love by chance, IT is by CHOICE."
~anonymous

hmmm, one to think on.....loved it.

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Godless || Liberalism

I just finished watching B.Hussein Obama's profile on Fox News---it scares me to think what our country is blindly entering. So, while i was doing some of my own research, I stumbled here, my next must-read....this book Godless by Ann Coulter has struck my interest....i might have to run over to BAM and get it....interesting b/c liberalism is a religion....hmmmm...what do you think? While studying the Truth Project, I have realized, as a Christian, how big the need is for us to be proactive---to know WHY we believe WHAT we believe. It's scary what will happen in a Godless culture.....and it will happen when God-fearing people do nothing.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely on the Left's attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: liberalism is a religion—a godless one.And it is now entrenched as the state religion of this country.Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In Godless, Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ (Roe v. Wade), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the "absolute moral authority" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident).Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: it is bogus science.Writing with a keen appreciation for genuine science, Coulter reveals that the so-called gaps in the theory of evolution are all there is—Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution's proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the "evolving" peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom?Liberals' absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution's scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force. They will brook no challenges to the official religion.Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter's razor-sharp wit, Godless is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today's most lively and impassioned conservative voices."Liberals love to boast that they are not 'religious,' which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'" —From Godless

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Worry Be Gone

It's a new year with all the unknowns that lie ahead.
One of my biggest faults is worry---i hate that i am a worrier,
and i am actually always reading self helps on this mental disposition
of mine to make it end, but lately I have been praying through some
worries and awaiting His peace....it does come...He promises. So as I am waiting, I have a recent change of perspective which helped me grasp
my smallness. A few of my close friends have some serious worries that
have trumped mine completely, biopsies, children with undiagnosed chronic pains, leukemia, husbands who have lost jobs---get it---I do God....I am now
counting my blessings that I am fortunate to say are many....how often we
take them for granted. So worry be gone....not this year...i choose not.
My sister just reminded me of a song my late bro-in-law wrote before his early death "the day we believe the things we believe in our lives will take a turn" (~Wes Uhler)....how true. I believe God, He gives us no reason to worry.

Friday, August 01, 2008

My Grandmother is 95!!!!


We are headed to a big reunion party for my Grandmother today...there are no words for how great she is in my eyes! She is the coolest cat you'll ever meet....i mean not many would want to hang out with a 95 year old lady and I would choose it any day over some of my closest friends....she's funny, smart, insightful, wise, so wise, but my favorite part is how she always lifts you up and lets you walk away feeling better about who you are and your true purpose in life....that's the kind of person i long to be someday and I will be blessed if I am half of her. She hums all the time..old hymns...in a low alto soul voice...and it just makes me happy...I will always treasure this, i can hear her if i think about this and that is a memory i will always hold close. She has a way about her that lets her interact with people on any level, in any age group, and charisma that makes you just want to BE with her longer....my time with her is never long enough. I always leave wanting more. She has been through the fires of life, including the witnessed loss of her brother at a young age; the loss of her first baby, her only girl, at delivery; a long struggle with an alcoholic husband who died at age 40 leaving her with 3 boys to raise alone, and she did it as a school teacher and she never "smells like smoke" (Beth Moore). I once asked her what her best piece of advice would be for me to one day tell my children and she said,"if you miss Jesus, you've missed it all"

I love you "G" (Grandmother Georgie)! Wishing you a very very happy 95th birthday today and every day--you deserve it!

Brooks, "You're My Everything!"...