tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349208212024-02-20T02:49:08.519-07:00Live Life Deliberately...if we are afraid to choose anything but what we've got, what good is choice?
--Richard BachAlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-76624185729899945012012-11-20T04:42:00.001-07:002012-11-20T04:42:27.412-07:00Ye Shall ProsperI have always been impressed by what is often referred to as the Book of Mormon Promise.<br />
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If ye keep my commandments, ye shall prosper.</blockquote>
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If I remember correctly is stated in this positive form over 20 times throughout the Book of Mormon. This week I have noticed in a different form. In an invitation to repentance.<br />
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(Book of Mormon | Ether 7:26)<br />And because the people did repent of their iniquities and idolatries the Lord did spare them, and they began to prosper again in the land. ...</blockquote>
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I keep thinking this would be a good idea for us a a country. Repent and turn to the ways of the Lord. I believe we can start with just one thing. There is a thought pattern or habit we already know is separating us from the Lord. Focus on that for a day or a week.<br />
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Take it to the Lord. Ask him for one thing you can do today to bring you closer to HIM.<br />
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If THE promise of the Book of Mormon tells us we prosper through keeping the commandments. I believe the next is that repentance is always an option.<br />
AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-2900594724987947032012-09-16T15:54:00.001-06:002012-12-30T08:49:07.491-07:00How I spent my Week...(when not at work)<div class="ennote" style="-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; word-wrap: break-word;">
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The supports have been added...</div>
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Then the painting. I really like how the colors turned out. Final pictures show them better.</div>
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Grateful my brother & family showed up Saturday morning...just when extra hands could be used!</div>
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Then, it all came together...</div>
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New Happy little office space.<br />
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I am going to move in slowly. Goal is to bring in what I actually use and get rid of the rest.</div>
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AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-14984188624030733032011-09-09T08:11:00.003-06:002011-09-09T08:12:00.682-06:00We Believe in God the Eternal FatherThe First <a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1?lang=eng">Article of Faith</a> states:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 </span>We <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1?lang=eng#" id="footnote0" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=pgp&bookUri=a-of-f&chapterUri=1&noteID=1a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">believe</a> in <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1?lang=eng#" id="footnote1" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=pgp&bookUri=a-of-f&chapterUri=1&noteID=1b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">God</a>, the Eternal Father, and in His <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Son</a>, Jesus Christ, and in the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1?lang=eng#" id="footnote3" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=pgp&bookUri=a-of-f&chapterUri=1&noteID=1d&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px;">This morning I was thinking about gifts of the spirit, and how they require faith...in God, the Eternal Father.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">I remember hearing as a missionary that to truly have faith in God we need to understand His true nature. I am still working on that. I have heard more than on person comment on the fact that His preferred title is </span><i style="line-height: 22px;">Father.</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">I have long loved this line from the <a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bd?lang=eng&letter=p">Bible Dictionary</a> under the heading of PRAYER.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">As soon as we learn the true relationship in which we stand toward God (namely, God is our Father, and we are his children), then at once prayer becomes natural and instinctive on our part (<a class="scriptureRef" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/7.7-11?lang=eng#6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt. 7:7–11</a>).</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">This really is more of a logic sequence. I hope everyone can follow it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">God is our Father</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">I am His daughter (son, for you men)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">As his Daughter (Son) I inherit divine gifts.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">As I believe and accept God as my father.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">I accept access to divine gifts of the Spirit.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As we learn of God and our relationship to Him we learn more of our divine nature. More or our God given talents. More of what we are here to do. Or rather what we are here to become.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span></span>AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-37926202959366189692011-07-08T14:13:00.000-06:002011-07-08T14:13:05.763-06:00Envelope BudgetingI was in college when I was introduced to the idea of envelope budgeting. I have been budgeted my money using this idea for over 10 years. Here is an good introduction.<br />
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Budgeting was one of the reasons I wanted a smart phone. I was very excited to find a EEBA (Easy Envelope Budgeting Aid) app for my android phone.<br />
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<a href="https://www.eebacanhelp.com/login.php">https://www.eebacanhelp.com/login.php</a><br />
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Here is info on how to use EEBA.<br />
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Using EEBA free does not include account information. You are just tracking spending against a set spending allowance. It allows for 10 budget "envelopes" and 10 annual / irregular "envelopes".<br />
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I get paid every two weeks. I set up 10 envelopes I can empty ever two - four weeks. I also set up 5 irregular envelopes for things like my MSA account, building savings, and car insurance. I am also hoping to have my students use the sight to work on budgeting skills.<br />
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Live long, and prosper.<br />
<br />AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-66158293238384581842011-06-27T19:45:00.004-06:002012-12-30T09:07:54.594-07:00Monday Memory MomentIt seems there are days I can go without noticing the date. Today, I saw it repeatedly. It struck mee as familiar and important for some reason. Maybe it is someone's birthday. Nope, no one I could think of ( I even checked facebook). Then all of a sudden it came to mee.<br />
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Carthage, Illinois. Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith were martyred by a mob in Carthage Jail.</div>
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There are many emotional and intellectual responses to the name JOSEPH SMITH. This range includes disgust, admiration, or nothing at all. There are few names more generic in the English language than Joseph Smith. Ask mee: Who is <a href="http://www.josephsmith.net/josephsmith/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=041579179acbff00VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRD">Joseph Smith</a>?<br />
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A prophet of God. The first prophet of this, the last dispensation, or the dispensation of the fullness of times. The founder of <a href="http://lds.org/?lang=eng">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints</a>. Translator of <a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm?lang=eng">The Book of Mormon</a>. A friend of God and all mankind.</blockquote>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1xVw6PsSinI?rel=0&hd=1" width="640"></iframe>AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-66371974078313291432011-06-20T22:55:00.000-06:002012-12-30T08:53:16.885-07:00Monday Mess MakingI did a pretty good job making messes tonight. I had heard about<a href="http://www.bountifulbaskets.org/"> Bountiful Baskets</a> a few months ago. I hadn’t gotten myself to the point of participating until last week. To help give you a better idea of how much food there is, this is a cardboard apple box.<br />
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At that point, I was ambitious. Rather than starting with the basic basket I went for the basket, and the Mexican add-on. I have so many peppers, I don’t know what all of them are. At first look I thought…salsa.<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ztgpvDFn-3Y/TgAfxYGjESI/AAAAAAAAFbg/zGyhc4cHdyo/s1600-h/IMAG0016%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMAG0016" border="0" height="257" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vJrgBLRFM98/TgAf00J_CGI/AAAAAAAAFbk/dZ1g36C-8yU/IMAG0016_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMAG0016" width="424" /></a><br />
I have never made salsa before. Neither had I worked with tomatillos. That too was interesting. I thought it tasted alright tonight. We’'ll see how it goes over at work tomorrow.<br />
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The other mess I started a while ago. It was actually an effort to clean something.<br />
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After my grandfather died I wanted a ratchet set. When Dad asked why I said: “If nothing else, for when you are there and need to use them.”<br />
As you can tell they need some help. I remember my dad telling mee Cola would clean rust.<br />
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I actually soaked them twice. I bought this bottle a year (or two) ago. I didn’t know if it did what it was suppose to. After the first soaking, it still looked like a lot of work. It still took more elbow grease than I would have preferred.<br />
Have you ever thought “This is going to make a big mess”, and then did it anyway.<br />
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After taking out and scrubbing all the tools, I decided to soak the case as well… <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-FE8Kb7MKCFw/TgAgKkToFRI/AAAAAAAAFcA/qESTEFrwjqU/s1600-h/IMAG0021%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMAG0021" border="0" height="263" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-NLYoiqUdfv4/TgAgPX7UrbI/AAAAAAAAFcE/bs0ykmaYhME/IMAG0021_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMAG0021" width="435" /></a><br />
I dumbed the cola from the bucket to the case, which was too big for the sink.<br />
Here is the out come…<br />
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I could have done a better job on the case…but it was getting late. I am not sure what else to do with these bits.<br />
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Old Fence Piles:<br />
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New Fence Pile:<br />
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The Worker Bees:<br />
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New Fence:<br />
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I had heard the Lincoln Monument contained the <a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gettysburgaddress.htm">Gettysburg Address</a>:<br />
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I may have even heard it contained his 2nd inaugural address. I don't believe I had ever read it before. I took pictures. Including the trascript to make it easier to read.<br />
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At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the enerergies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.</div>
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On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it -- all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to <u>saving</u> the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to <u>destroy</u> it without war -- seeking to dissole the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would <u>make</u> war rather than let the nation survive; </div>
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One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern <strike>half</strike> part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the <u>cause</u> of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" </div>
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If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope -- fervently do we pray -- that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said <strike>f</strike>[<strike>our</strike>] three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether"</div>
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With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan -- <strike>to achieve and cherish a lasting peace among ourselves and with the world.</strike> to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with <strike>the world.</strike> all nations.</div>
AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., DC 20037, USA38.8892786 -77.049977238.8889186 -77.0503587 38.8896386 -77.0495957tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-36397020433818714402011-06-06T20:58:00.048-06:002012-12-30T08:56:06.715-07:00Washington D.C. : Jefferson<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-YwmHkEzFc58/TexB6B28RCI/AAAAAAAAFWU/7bpAtloNhps/s1600-h/20110425%252520Memorials%252520026%25255B5%25255D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="20110425 Memorials 026" border="0" height="204" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-x-pGFfBITxI/TexB72M9lAI/AAAAAAAAFWY/mtWygTMNLPc/20110425%252520Memorials%252520026_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="20110425 Memorials 026" width="270" /></a>The first monument we made it to was Thomas Jefferson. I would of liked multiple hours dedicated to each monument. As it was, we were lucky to have a day to get in as many as we could.<br />
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This first quote was from there. The rest are part of the memorial.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Blackadder ITC'; font-size: x-large;">If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was, and never will be.</span> 1816<br />
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But law and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened. As new discoveries are mode, new truths discovered and manner and opinions change. With the changes of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as wall required a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.<br />
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We …solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states…and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honour.<br />
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Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishment or burthens---are departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our Religion---no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief. But all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion. I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively.<br />
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AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0Jefferson Memorial, Washington D.C., DC 20242, USA38.8813454 -77.03656238.8145309 -77.153291500000009 38.9481599 -76.9198325tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-23904454203118513982011-05-30T14:57:00.001-06:002012-12-30T09:05:47.295-07:00Washington D.C.: ArlingtonAbout a month before our trip I realized I would be in Washington D.C. for Easter Sunday. In many ways Easter isn’t much different from any other Sunday. This is not due to a lack of reverence for the Easter Celebration. Rather, it is consequence of a reverence for the Lord’s Day.<br />
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I remember meeting a young women on my mission. She must have been in her mid-teens. We had been invited into their home for a religious discussion. As they were Seventh Day Adventist our conversation evolved around the Sabbath day. As with some other Christian denominations they observe Saturday, the 7th day, as the Sabbath. As is the Jewish custom.</blockquote>
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<i>Old Testament | Genesis 2:1–3</i><br />
<i>Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.</i><br />
<i>2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.</i><br />
<i>3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.</i><br />
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In this conversation she asked me why we worship the Lord on Sundays. I in turn asked her which day they celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ<i>. “Why, Easter Sunday, of course.”</i></blockquote>
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Thus it is, each Sunday, a weekly reminder of the <a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bd/lords-day?lang=eng&letter=l">risen Lord</a>.</blockquote>
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Judge mee how you may. I took an ox in the mire position. Who knows if I will ever make it back to D.C. I took the opportunity to see some sights. Doing so I was very mindful of it being Easter Sunday. <br />
It was a beautiful Sunday. The sun was shining, not too hot, not to cold. And the humidity…was comfortable. We started with lunch at Union Station. Originally we planned on just riding the bus around and not getting off. When I realized we were approaching the cemetery I wanted to get off. Cemeteries are hollowed grounds. I find myself drawn to them for Easter, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day.<br />
Without going into detail I let my desire to get off known to the rest of my group. While a little hesitant, they picked up the intensity, if not the depth of my desire to spend Easter Sunday at:<br />
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I was about ready to cry right there, and I haven’t even made it through the gate.<br />
“Our nation’s most sacred shire.”<br />
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I can’t seem to get over that line. Humility and awe overwhelm mee. As Latter-day Saints our temples are sacred. Our families are sacred. Something is sacred because you make it so by how you treat it, talk about it, and even live for it. A shrine is something built, maintain and cared for to honor someone or something we hold dear. I was to spend the next week visiting monuments (shrines) built for founding father’s, presidents, and war veterans.<br />
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This shrine, Arlington National Cemetery, started as the order was given for Civil War casualties to be buried in “Mrs. Lee’s garden”. Lying west of the Potomac River the Lee Plantation become the resting place of those who are willing to give their lives for freedom. The giving of life for an ideal, makes the ideal sacred. Maintaining a resting place for those whose lives have been given for the same ideal makes it a shrine.<br />
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier…I am not sure I could begin to explain. We were able to witness the changing of the guard. How do you explain the “why” in guarding a tomb? Furthermore, how do explain the responsibility as be a high honor? For the you to understand you would need to value you something deeply, so as to be willing to sacrifice for it.<br />
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I have heard it said there are two people willing to die for your freedom:<br />
JESUS CHRIST and the American Solider. I am profoundly grateful for both.<br />
I got to spend an Easter Sunday at Arlington National Cemetery. A beautiful reminder of those who have died for my freedom. One of them rose again. May I prove worthy of their sacrifices.<br />
<br />AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-90214247636348524732011-05-23T19:26:00.001-06:002012-12-30T09:07:38.808-07:00Washington D.C. : Charters of FreedomYes, it has been a while. I was informed I need to share more of my D.C. pictures.<br />
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The Education Department went the <a href="http://cec.sped.org/am/template.cfm?section=Home">Council of Exceptional Children</a> Convention and Expo which was held in National Harbor, MD. I struggled deciding which I was more excited about: convention vs. Washington D.C.<br />
We had almost a full week in the DMV (District of Maryland, Virginia).<br />
We had three days of Convention and three days of site seeing. I had one M<u>U</u>ST see:<br />
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The Charters of Freedom. Housed in the National Archives, 235 year old parchment, elegant penmanship, and inspired words protected as the priceless gift they are: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights. Amazing, amazing, amazing...this should be the Mecca of all freedom loving people.<br />
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While I will treasure knowing that I have seen the actual documents. I am most grateful for a keener understanding of the sacrifice and foresight of these, our founding fathers. As I wondered the monuments and museums I kept reflecting on the words given to the Prophet Joseph Smith concerning this great land and are freedoms.<br />
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<a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament?lang=eng">Doctrine and Covenants</a> 101:77–80<br />
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77 According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [God] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles;<br />78 That every man may act in doctrine and principle pertaining to futurity, according to the moral agency which I have given unto him, that every man may be accountable for his own sins in the day of judgment.<br />79 Therefore, it is not right that any man should be in bondage one to another.<br />80 And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land [The United States of America], by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood.</blockquote>
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AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0Washington D.C., DC, USA38.8951118 -77.036365838.793160300000004 -77.1415488 38.9970633 -76.9311828tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-10245409230193566042010-12-28T18:23:00.000-07:002010-12-28T18:23:13.243-07:00Fiona<div>I got a new name today. One of the boys called mee Mrs. Shrek. I think he may have trying to insult or upset mee. Rather I was confused and asked him to repeat what he said. While I turned the conversation to what Shrek's wife should be called, my mind went another direction.<br />
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Although I haven't worn about a Shrek movie I will say I enjoy the story line. 1) The princes wasn't saved by a prince she had only danced with once. 2) They learned to get along and talk and so on. 3) The ever lasting beauty of true loves kiss looked nothing like the airbrushed photoshop models we are regularly bombarded with. Even the second movie maintains the separation of love and the media's ideal look.<br />
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I therefore decided I was okay being called Fiona.<br />
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The trees tell you it is out in the forest. Look closely. There is even a moon on the door.</div>
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Last week I was a girls' camp. We had a lot of fun. One of my goals for the year was to participate in the hike. While near the height of our climb I decided I wanted a picture. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4HH_7LUs6jL8yS9KXs-pSAMsd28gcFb1of_7otNo6KAcTBk7rmFYggPhQCQRVTc7at2xgfIs83AEt7dCb4m7CZZ5b_AMPd6bMOgvhJB_mvoAOtNX4dZnwbw40kKvPx1GrsPdHxA/s1600/20100104+051.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4HH_7LUs6jL8yS9KXs-pSAMsd28gcFb1of_7otNo6KAcTBk7rmFYggPhQCQRVTc7at2xgfIs83AEt7dCb4m7CZZ5b_AMPd6bMOgvhJB_mvoAOtNX4dZnwbw40kKvPx1GrsPdHxA/s640/20100104+051.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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I stood up on a mountain slope giving a directive; "Say cheese", when another time and place came to mind.</div>
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I was in the Missionary Training Center (MTC) for three weeks. While I was there we took lots of pictures, especially the last day or so. One of our MTC Instructors had his own twist on picture taking. Where most might prompt, "Say Cheese" we were prompted with...say...</div>
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Fabric, yes, but so much more.</div><div>A reminder of fore fathers who thought more us than their lives or their possessions.</div><div>A reminder of soldiers willing to give their lives.</div><div>A reminder of soldiers families separated from loved ones.</div><div>And most of all </div><div>A reminder of God, who has made a preserved us a nation.</div><div></div><div>God bless America!!!<br />
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A part of my job is data collection. We receive demographic information on our clients. As a sociologist I understand why we collect data about individual race/ethnic identity. There is something about the process which has been bothering mee for a while. <br />
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I have been wondering for a while about how the race and ethnic information is reported. The forms include both. Ethnicity is reported as Hispanic or Non-Hispanic. Then there is a separate race selection. I am offended. My ethnic identity, or that of anyone else shouldn't be based on "Are you Hispanic?" There are more then two ethnic groups in the world.<br />
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I got an e-mail today telling mee about the new federal guidelines for race and ethnicity categories. Google it. There are a lot of sites to look at. Apparently these forms are within compliance. It seems the purpose was to allow those who are Hispanic it be able to also acknowledge their racial differences within an ethnic group. What about the rest of us?<br />
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It is nice that individuals will get to select more than one race. Mind you, race is a genetic physical heritage. Ethnicity on the other hand refers to social and cultural similarities to a group of people. Historically ethnic groups have been of similar race. Thus the oft interchange of word usage. World travel and mixed race relations have altered that reality.<br />
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So, what's your ethnicity? You will come across the question on a variety of forms. I cannot deny it is a part of who we are as individuals and groups. My racial heritage is Northern European, mostly. There is also some Native American blood in my veins. I can trace my lines to pre-Revolution America. My lines include Yankees and Confederates. I even have Mormon Immigrates as ancestors.<br />
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How do I respond to questions about race and ethnicity? Well, as God fearing Idaho hick, I have been writing in my own option:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">6+ generation American.</span><br />
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The swimming is in a slow portion of the Boise River. There is a "beach". I really remember the cattails, and swimming out the island. I also remember diving for rocks. There is also a water slide. It was a special treat to enjoy. I do remember trying to keep our bare feet cool on the hot cement. We might follow wet foot prints, or stand on our mat, if we grabbed one.<br />
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We often got a season pass. It was close enough we would often go for just an hour or so after dad got home from work. I cannot say there was one particular time I remember the most. All of them sort of run together. However, I do remember what TIME we often went.<br />
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If we were wanting to go swimming when dad got home, first we had to eat dinner. Then, we had to clean up from dinner. We where usually given the same time frame as to when the dishes had to be done if we were to go swimming.<br />
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Dishes had to be done before...Hogan's Heroes was over.<br />
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/></a>My sister recently asked for "mom" memories. Starlings were the first thing that came to mind. They are little brown birds. While the females are brown the males are more colorful, to attract a mate.</div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">How does this related to my mother?</div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">When I was in elementary school I did a report on starlings. I don't remember if it was suppose to be on an animal or a bird. Whereas I lived in Star I probably felt it was only logical for mee to right a report on STARlings.</div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">If I remember right I had a book with the information I needed. Reading wasn't a strength, and was therefore avoided. Mom read to book onto a tape. I remember looking though the book while listening to the tape. It my have been my first audio book. </div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Thanks, Mom. </div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</div>AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-89838244317050495962010-05-03T21:28:00.000-06:002010-05-03T21:28:21.435-06:00Dependence, a weaknessWhile standing at the kitchen sick I was pondering what story to tell you tonight. My thoughts turned to cleaning my house. Not really anything most people want to remember. However, maintaining a cleaner home is my goal for the year. <div><br />
</div><div><b>Mission story:</b><div><br />
</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznLtgvTxhXSPY4KCmklKZv0ruHjzQBw2vgWp_Mi-53cpsmNEMZNKhZWCesSkdoi41Qqg0Gfl4VZwVRIUxOyrB85rGHkK2YF6CItLD6ZYHD5MvIs6WFEd3gXJ0wjlwo5SDbXPdpQ/s1600/carmel%20corn%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznLtgvTxhXSPY4KCmklKZv0ruHjzQBw2vgWp_Mi-53cpsmNEMZNKhZWCesSkdoi41Qqg0Gfl4VZwVRIUxOyrB85rGHkK2YF6CItLD6ZYHD5MvIs6WFEd3gXJ0wjlwo5SDbXPdpQ/s320/carmel%20corn%201.jpg" width="320" /></a>A clean home wasn't really a <i>huge </i>prioriaty growing up. We had chores. Most of us got out of doing the dishes when mom said she would do them if we would cook. (It's always funner making the mess.) Have you ever heard, "Nothing cleans a house like company"? If we new someone was coming over, we cleaned. We also did a good clean before leaving town for a few days. I also remember washing the ceiling a number of times.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Sister Tanner, our mission President's wife, always had about a half hour of so during Zone Conference. About halfway into the mission she talked about keeping our apartments clean. It wasn't until then that I made the connection. I remembered liking the feeling of having a clean room. In <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/132/8">D&C 132:8</a> the Lord says "...my house is a house of order..." It is also recorded in various places and phrasings "<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/1_ne/10/21#21">...no unclean thing can dwell with God...</a>" So I realized, at 25, the reason my clean room felt so much better was because it was easier for the Spirit of God to be there.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I cannot say I mastered the cleanliness trait. I tend to migrate to cleaner offices when I need a different place to think at work.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Moving on...I started with the thought about developing my cleaning habits. Then my thoughts went to Ether 12:27 " ... I will make weak things strong unto you..."</div><div><br />
</div><div>This thought usually leading my mind back to sitting in my Major Professor's office. In accordance with NCLB I needed a subject area endorsement on my Special Education Certificate. She suggested Reading. Inside I laughed. Then came " ... I will make weak things strong unto you..." </div><div><br />
</div><div>While in elementary school I received Special Ed. services with a reading disability. In fact my IQ- achievement discrepancy was 25 points. It only need to be 15 for mee to qualify. (yep, Mee, the Reading Specialist who hates to read.)</div><div><br />
</div><div>Mind jumping back to " ... I will make weak things strong unto you..." "...There is only one weakness." That was all she had a chance to say. It wasn't the point of the lesson. I was curious.</div><div><br />
</div><div><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ether/12/27#27">Ether 12:27</a></div><blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhixn89gmxd7CuEQ9QaU_t_6fGfT2lKNuovF9vvClxguYPrh8SmpK1ve9dUxLUUiImnw-zFLmNmPKfv4NOoPMUOrG_2f6N_GCrrsnMNKbS37txlAjdHvXO247fzaaaweGVrNWWcxg/s1600/20090803+029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhixn89gmxd7CuEQ9QaU_t_6fGfT2lKNuovF9vvClxguYPrh8SmpK1ve9dUxLUUiImnw-zFLmNmPKfv4NOoPMUOrG_2f6N_GCrrsnMNKbS37txlAjdHvXO247fzaaaweGVrNWWcxg/s320/20090803+029.jpg" width="242" /></a>27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their <sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a</span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ether/12/ether/12/27a" mark="a" title="Jacob 4: 7." type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">weakness</span></a>. I <sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">b</span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ether/12/ether/12/27b" mark="b" title="Ex. 4: 11; 1 Cor. 1: 27 (26-31)" type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">give</span></a> unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my <sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">c</span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ether/12/ether/12/27c" mark="c" title="TG Grace." type="B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">grace</span></a> is sufficient for all men that <sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">d</span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ether/12/ether/12/27d" mark="d" title="D&C 1: 28; TG Humility; TG Teachable." type="C"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">humble</span></a> themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make <sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">e</span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ether/12/ether/12/27e" mark="e" title="Deut. 11: 8; Joel 3: 10; Luke 9: 48 (46-48); Luke 18: 14 (10-14); 2 Cor. 12: 9 (7-10); Heb. 11: 34; 1 Ne. 14: 1." type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">weak</span></a> things become strong unto them.</blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">She was right. I had always read it as "...I will show unto them their weaknesses..." Don't take this to mean you only have one flaw. The Lord did also tell Moroni "...I will make weak <i>thing</i><b><i>s</i></b><i> </i>become strong unto you."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">So, what is this weakness? The answer I got, and felt to share via my not so world famous blog, dependence. It drives mee nuts. I work with so many students who feel they need to be coddled every step of the way. They often won't even try to do things by themselves. Oh, and those girls ( I am sure there are guys too) who always need to be in a relationship. Drive mee batty.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">Yet, through our imperfect, mortal, probationary state we are dependent on Christ. There is no way home without Him. There is no peace without Him. There is no life without Him. It is through this humble and dependent state with Christ we are strong. <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/matt/19/26#26">With God, all things are possible.</a></span></div></div>AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-83261113107066047612010-05-01T11:50:00.000-06:002010-05-01T11:50:01.389-06:00Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation<div class="articleparagraph" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="articleparagraph" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold;">Gary Hubbell: The Readneck tree hugger<br />
Aspen Times Weekly, Sunday, February 28, 2010</span></div><div class="articleparagraph" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's future. He is the best thing ever.</span></b></span></span></div><div class="articleparagraph" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></span></b></span></span>Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.<br />
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That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.<br />
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Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.<br />
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Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips — they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.<br />
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Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and “disabilities.” Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.<br />
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We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.<br />
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But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.<br />
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In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms. ACORN — a taxpayer-supported organization — is given a role in taking the census, even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union — whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense — is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.<br />
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I don't know about you, but the other day I was at the courthouse doing some business, and I stepped into the court clerk's office and changed my voter affiliation from “Independent” to “Republican.” I am under no illusion that the Republican party is perfect, but at least they're starting to awaken to the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels of debt; we cannot afford to hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim our massive entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world's policeman and dole out billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek to harm us.<br />
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Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years — the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama. </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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</i></div></span>AlwaysMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373438933871510064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34920821.post-78947962885132069522010-04-26T21:10:00.002-06:002010-04-26T21:10:01.185-06:00Monday Memory Moment<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I received an e-mail of "Texas Facts" from my cousin. It has some pretty interesting information. Read the following and then I'll share a quick mission story.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Cowboy's Ten Commandments posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie , Texas :</span></span><br />
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(1) Just one God.<br />
(2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.<br />
(3) No telling tales or gossipin'.<br />
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.<br />
(5) Put nothin' before God.<br />
(6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal.<br />
(7) No killin'.<br />
(8) Watch yer mouth.<br />
(9) Don't take what ain't yers.<br />
(10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I did a google search for Cross Trails Church. </span><a href="http://www.markwilliams.net/cowboy.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is the article I liked the best.</span></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was in my last area, Holtom City. We had been working with a young father for about a month. His daughter was friends with a girl in the ward, and the families were growing closer. We were getting reading to share Moroni's promise when the seven-year-old came in. Dad asked if she wanted to read...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Moroni 10:3</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><div id="moro/10/3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 3 Behold, I would exhort ya'll that when ya'll shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ya'll should read them, that ya'll would remember how </span><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/moro/10/3a" mark="a" style="color: #40639d;" title="Gen. 19: 16." type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">merciful</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ya'll shall receive these things, and </span><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/moro/10/3b" mark="b" style="color: #40639d;" title="Deut. 11: 18; TG Meditation; TG Study." type="C"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ponder</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> it in your </span><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/moro/10/3c" mark="c" style="color: #40639d;" title="Deut. 6: 6." type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hearts</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">...</span></div><div id="moro/10/3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div id="moro/10/3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dad corrected her before she got too far...but classic.</span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><a href="" name="4" style="color: #40639d;"></a><div id="moro/10/4"><br />
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