Are you Voting?

My favorite group, SOW(Student of the Word) has been having a wonderful discussion on should one vote or not. I have so enjoyed all the scripture and the different view points.

One of my favorite books is 'The Scarlet Letter A.' We now have many bastard children running around this world because of what was wanted by the one wearing the Scarlet letter A, acceptance. You see she wanted to enjoy sin and wanted the church to stand by and do nothing in the way of discipline. And guess what! That is exactly what the church has done. I must add when I say church I am talking about all of the 'christian' world (not what God calls christian or church but what the world calls christian and church). The church today is all about tolerance, standing by and 'loving' the person but never addressing the sin.

The church has been and is still willing to accept anything today. I am voting and I do have a problem voting in sin. SD is voting on abortion again this year, but this time they are allowing exceptions, so either way I vote I will be voting for murder. And I have a real problem with that. My point. If I do not show up at the poles I am being just as passive as the Lady wearing the Scarlet Letter A wants me to be, she then can do as she pleases really with my approval. Even though I do not approve. So I know I must show up vote on the issues I can with a clear conscience. And the issues that I cannot vote on with a clear conscience, I may even add my own box and add a scripture. If I leave a blank, my having gotten a ballot will still show that I was there and for what ever reason the one that does get voted in will know that there is a number of people that didn't vote for anyone still didn't vote for them, so they will know in their heart of hearts how many didn't vote for them.

If I do nothing, not even show up at the poles I am allowing Satan to win 100%. No fight. That is what he has wanted all the time, christians to just give up so he can have his way. I also understand we must strive for peace, yet by standing by and allowing 'satan's' people to do all the decision making what good am I to God. If I never open up my mouth, if I never stand up and fight. Is not this the reason why Israel had all the problems they had and have, they did not utterly destroy the wicked from among the land they were to posses. They allowed some to stay, so that satan could have a foot hold. Our not fighting in war's, not voting, and etc. is doing the same.

As in Ecclesiastes, there is a time for silence... and a time for war.

The End

The end times have always intriguing to me. As a young child I always felt that I would be in the tribulation. Who knows how that idea got in my head. Maybe it could be all the times the movies about the rapture and being left behind were show in the church when I was very young. By age 8 I could not sleep and would have my dad sit by my bed until all hours of the night (happened mostly on Saturday nights) and he would have to stay awake, I could not be the last one to go to sleep as a child. What patience he had, I would toss and turn, I can still remember the dark circles around his eyes as he stayed awake until 2-5 AM at my bed side. Oh, I was so afraid of death as a child, especially death by fire. Flipper would scare me and I would hide behind the lazy boy chair and peak at the show, so other than the scary movies shown at church they really limited my TV.

As I have grown up I have always felt I was to be in the tribulation, that I would never be good enough to make the rapture. I was raised strictly Pre-Trib. Never questioned it until Grandpa John made some mention one day while visiting that scripture really talks about several different. To me that made more sense, yet I have not sat down and reread Revelations to see for myself. This post by a fellow SOW'er just might get me to.







I have been having some very interesting dreams over the last 3 years. And they all seem to one way or another fit into this idea. Interesting. Just some rambling thoughts. And yes, I would like your ideas on these things.

Update

There are so many things going on and so many things to blog. Yet I still find myself lost of time to get everything I desire and everything that needs to be done done.

• School is going quit well this year.
• Our oldest daughter is still my challenge, I have decided it is because I am learning how to teach. When I have it totally figured out things go so smooth.
• Our youngest is taking to school like a fish in water. What a joy.
• I am still figuring out how much is enough and how much is to much. LOL Will that challenge ever end.
  
• I am teaching Sunday School and am learning right along with the kids, why does Sunday school have to be such a short 45 min?
• Our family business has filled the house to overflowing, God has really blessed us.
• There is a grand baby in the family and is the most precious baby. I didn't realize how I could love a child I did not birth to as much as this little one. It is so hard to take my eyes off of her when around her, which is not nearly enough.
• Thyroid is still all messed up, so some days I am not sure if I am coming or going.
• God has been working on my trusting Him in everything. Wow! Such amazing lessons and such freedom when I learn to trust Him instead of me or the world.

God Bless. Dawn

Wordless Wednesday

Ok, this is my first Wednesday participating in Wordless Wednesday . I know this is to be wordless, but I am going to tell about the picture. It has been labeled: PERSEVERANCE
Our pastor's wife took this picture summer of 2007. The sunflower has come back each year out of the crack in the black top and each year it gets bigger. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all had this kind of perseverance? Dawn

Job Description- PARENT

POSITION :
Mom, Mommy, Mama, Ma
Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop

JOB DESCRIPTION :

Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an, often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends
and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to
primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities! Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• The rest of your life.

• Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5.

• Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly.

• Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf.

• Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers.

• Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects.

• Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.

• Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next.
  

• Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices.

• Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.

• Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product.

• Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION :

• None.

• Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE :

• None required unfortunately.

• On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

WAGES AND COMPENSATION :

• Get this! You pay them!

• Offering frequent raises and bonuses.

• A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent.

• When you die, you give them whatever is left.

• The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS :

While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth, unconditional love, and free hugs and kisses for life if you play your cards right.

** AND A FOOTNOTE "THERE IS NO RETIREMENT -- EVER!!! **

Quote

“The gospel of Satan is not a system of revolutionary principles, nor yet a program of anarchy. It does not promote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daughter nor the father against his son, but fosters the fraternal spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great ‘brotherhood.’ It does not seek to drag down the natural man, but to improve and uplift him. It advocates education and cultivation and appeals to ‘the best that is within us.’ It aims to make this world such a comfortable and congenial habitat that Christ’s absence from it will not be felt and God will not be needed.”

–-A.W. Pink (1886–1952)

An Award!!!!

I was wondering this morning what I could blog about, then I got a hint to check out a friends blog and what did I read?
Well this is hard for me to believe, I have received an award and such heart warming words with it. I am so very new to blogging I started to read some blogs about the same time as I started to blog.

There are several blogs I do check on about daily. I would like to pass on the Daily Dose to her, but she has already passed on the award to me. Becca's is the first blog I started to read and she is a wonderful true friend. Do you have one of those friends who will tell you the truth no matter what? A friend who is not afraid of what you will say about the truth, and the truth is God's truth. So I look forward to each blog she posts.

I will pass on the award to Domestic Felicity. I cannot remember how I found her blog. I find it so refreshing to read about an unmarried lady striving to all that God has created her to be with out all of the worldly poison that is out there.

There are several others that I enjoy checking in on. Two of my favorites are Amy's Place and Jessica's Journal.

I do enjoy learning seeing other blogs from like minded women. I am glad to have received this award to meet some of the godly women that are out there in the cyber world. Dawn

Looking for Jesus

Looking for Jesus

If you are looking for Jesus at Christmas,
You won't need a special star-
He is no longer just in Bethlehem,
He is right there where you are.
You may not be aware of Him amid the celebrations-
You'll have to look beyond stores and all the decorations.
But if you take a moment from your list of things to do
and listen to your heart,
You'll find He is waiting there for you.
You're the one He wants to be with,
You're the reason that He came,
And you'll find Him in the stillness
As He is whispering your name.