Thoughts for today
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beautyHe handed her 14 roses. 13 real. 1 fake. He said i'll love you until
the last one dies.. She gladly accepted them. But when she grabbed them. She said "one of these is fake!" He said "exactly. that's because i will love you forever." If you post this in another city in 5 minutes, someone that you want to love you forever will message or call you.
"You can not get what you want until you ask for it."
Or as the good book says:
Matthew 7:7 "Ask and it shall be given unto you; seek and ye shall find; knock and the door shall be opened to you"
True happiness..
God I love this:
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..You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost. .. (from the Wealthy Soul)"
Really now, think about it. When has the most happiness come into your world? I know it's come into my world when I've been giving .. giving of anything and everything!
GiveGivegivegive, now I am not talking about just giving money.
The 'giving' I am talking about comes from the heart mind and soul!!
The 'laugh with a child' give, where one happens to see a lil child doing what children do best and jumping to join them in their play. Run with laughter whether one dances through the hoops playing hopscotch -- or shoots a ball through the hoops tossing basketballs, or watching a grandchild pushing blocks through the hoops -- or whatever joyous thing that child happens to be doing!
Anykind of 'belly' laugh works! One is giving of oneself when one laughs with another ohh yes!!!
Cry! Give a cry for another! Let someone lean on one's shoulder when the hills get to steep for that person to climb alone. A lil piece of one's heart, and one's peace, go with the tears and each is rewarded for that.
Give material things!! ohh Yes!!! Do give those material things though with the heart! Looking around the house at all those outworn cloths? Or perhaps the pantry has become a lil full with all those cans of vegetables that ya'll just won't use? WeeelllLLl hey! there are children and adults down the road that have nothing to wear and nothing to eat .. AND there are food pantries and clothes stores that will take those clothes!! Hey why not throw in some of the good stuff too while one is at it? Perhaps that very favorite pair of jeans, just think of the joy some person will get from those that doesn't have a thing to wear!! That joy will come back to you 10 fold at least!
See a glass jar begging that lil Susie needs a heart operation and needs $235923857349 or some such ridiculous number? Well help meet that ridiculous number and pitch some change in, heck while one is at it might at well throw a few bills or more in too yes??
Ask Jesus and God to bless those things that have been given!
Trust me, not only will that bless this world that will bless the world to come, and God will most assuredly bless you on this earth!!
Ahhh after musing over that one I have to thank the Lord I can give, I feel sooo very blessed!!
Drake Equation
Ok now don't go all glassy-eyed on me right now!! Yes it's a bit o' scientific stuff, but hey it's good for one's soul!
It's Ze
Drake Equation**!
N = R * f p n e f l f i f C l
Where, N = The number of civilizations in The Milky Way Galaxy whose radio emissions are detectable. R* = The rate of formation of stars suitable for the development of intelligent life. f p = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems. n e = The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life. fl = The fraction of suitable planets on which life actually appears. f i = The fraction of life bearing planets on which intelligent life emerges. f c = The fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space. L = The length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space. Now go ahead plug in the number of stars you can see just .. make sure to multiply that by infinty for the number of stars one cannot see! Okok so pick some ludicrous but doable number, such as a googleplex of baby stars.
And then just imagine how many planets there are around those stars, and now take that fraction of planets that hold some kind of life and multiply that by ...
Ahh well I'll leave the number crunching to others. Suffice it to say that it doesn't matter how anyone measures it. Yep umm hmm we are not alone!
But hey! I'm betting God knew that equation all along, he probably made that equation! I'm also betting he knows just how many inhabited planets there are!
See?
Yes God to the rescue again!
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Girl in life support battle breathes on her own -- Court earlier ruled state could take her off ventilator; more tests planned
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A severely beaten and comatose 11-year-old girl is now breathing on her own, officials said Thursday, two days after Massachusetts’ highest court ruled the state had the authority to remove her from life support.
Denise Monteiro, a spokeswoman for the Department of Social Services, said doctors have weaned Haleigh Poutre off a ventilator in the past week.
“She can intake air, but she can’t swallow on her own,” Monteiro said.
Haleigh has been in the agency’s custody since she was hospitalized four months ago with a badly damaged brain stem that authorities say resulted from abuse. Thinking that she was in an irreversible vegetative condition, the state had gone to court to seek permission to remove her from life support.
Haleigh’s stepfather, Jason Strickland, is charged with beating the girl and could face a murder charge if she dies. He has fought to keep her on life support, but this week’s high court ruling said he has no say in her medical care.
“This is exactly the point we were trying to make. What’s the rush? Just give her a chance,” attorney John Egan said. “Medical science is not that certain. We would hope the whole process will slow down, and everyone will step back and end the compulsion to end her life.”
Officials first reported changes in Haleigh’s condition on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the agency had the authority to remove her ventilator and feeding tube.
No plans yet to remove feeding tube
Monteiro said the state now has no immediate plans to remove her feeding tube, and more medical tests will be performed Thursday. She said Haleigh had responded to some testing on Wednesday but would not specify what the tests or responses were.
When Haleigh was hospitalized four months ago, her doctors said she was in a permanent vegetative state and would die within a few days without the feeding tube. ..... 'MSNBC and the rest of the article
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Now some might call this coincidence. In my life I've learned that there is NO SUCH THING as a coincidence.
For those that doubt and believe that coincidence is just coincidence .. it just doesn't matter because God is there whether or not one believes. People just have to listen to what God is telling us.
God works in all kinds of ways ... Thank the lord!
It's Just wrong...
This is just wrong in so many ways:
'...BOSTON - The state’s highest court ruled Tuesday that the state can remove an 11-year-old girl from life support after she was badly beaten, allegedly by her adoptive mother and stepfather.
Haleigh Poutre of Westfield was hospitalized in September after her stepfather and adoptive mother allegedly kicked her and beat her nearly to death with a baseball bat.
The girl’s stepfather, Jason Strickland, asked the Supreme Judicial Court last month to block the state from taking her off life support. If she dies, he could face a murder charge for taking part in the beating that left her comatose.
Within two weeks of being charged with assault and battery, the adoptive mother, Holli Strickland, who was also Haleigh’s aunt, was found dead alongside her grandmother in a possible murder-suicide.
Jason Strickland is free on bail while awaiting trial on assault charges.
The state Department of Social Services has custody of the girl and wants to remove her from life support, citing opinions from her doctors that the girl is in a permanent vegetative state.
A juvenile court judge granted the state’s request to disconnect Haleigh’s feeding tube and ventilator, prompting Jason Strickland to appeal to the SJC.
Haleigh was adopted by her aunt about five years ago after her biological mother moved to Virginia with a new boyfriend. Jason Strickland never formally adopted the girl, argued that as the stepfather, he should be considered a de facto parent and allowed to have a say in whether she lives or dies.
The court said Strickland had not established that he was the girl's "de facto parent," or offered evidence that he was "a loving or nurturing."
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Why do we as humans like to play with others lives?
Haleigh is on Life support atm, and she is NOT physically dead, and certainly she is NOT spiritually dead. Just because people don't want to put in the time it would take to nurture her back to this existence doesn't mean that she should be murdered -- once by those that supposedly love her and again by OUR OWN SOCIETY.
That is just not right. People that are hanging their collective hats in this world -- albeit for a tiny fraction of time until we 'go home' fully and completely -- need to speak up and nurture others that society wants to get rid of. Who are we to tell this soul that she doesn't deserve to fulfill her own life commitment? If she or the Lord chooses that her time here in this universe is done then they shall choose that. That choice is an option for her and the Lord.
I know that the Lord always forgives and this is just a trial for our own society. The trial tests how much backbone -- FAITH AND LOVE -- do we have? Shall we allow others to continue to disconnect people's life support just because they think that certain people cannot make a recovery?
True stories abound in life about people that make a partial or even full recovery after many years on life support in supposedly vegetative states. The recoveries just goes to show that Doctors and all their tests certainly don't know the will of God.
The people that assaulted the girl are in God's hands -- perhaps they have asked for his forgiveness -- perhaps they shall leave it as karma to work out -- God knows.
Sure we can intervene, but why? It's God's domain to intervene. Did we intervene in keeping her alive for so long now? Perhaps Doctors interventions did, then again perhaps not. If God wants her 'home' and off life support then so it shall be without any of societies intervention.
I do know that without God's blessing she wouldn't be here. That holds true for whether or not someone believes in God. He exists whether or not someone believes. I do know if God hadn't wanted her to stay here on this plane of the universe she wouldn't be here right now.
May God help her.. and help all the others that our decadent society regard as misfits.
Dishes by the loads
After musing over my ever full but not often finished coffee today, I realized that the troops needed chased out of my mouth. Soo I ran and grabbed my extra large 'Colgate' the always whitening brightening everythinging tooth scrubber. With dismay I noticed that I had forgotten to put it on my grocery list, and the tube was just about empty. Squeezing a few drops out of the tube, I was thankful that God didn't squelch on the heavenly toothpaste.
Now with just a bit of his heavenly toothpaste we can have a big pearly-white gleaming smile, and make something that might not be so pleasant one of joy. Often in daily life we go about the little things such as dish duty thinking with a frown 'ohh if only I didn't have to do the dishes I would be able to read a book'.
A table after a spaghetti dinner often looks like some crazy artist had come with a brush full of red paint and randomly spattered the dishes for his masterpiece. With a pop the nearest one releases a little bit of it's artist goo and surrenders itself to the inevitable bath in the sink. The dishes make a great clinking sound as chips fall off where they hit the side of the dishwasher. With a frown and thoughts on the book laying on the table upstairs one forgets to think of what those film covered dishes really mean.
One artist smeared plate .. hey that was my sons! The masterpiece next to that? Why that was my friend's plate that came to visit! Wait a minute I guess that if one didn't have tomatoey goey dishes soaking in the sink then one wouldn't have loved ones -- be they children, a spouse, neighbors -- to make the mess!
So instead of sighing and thinking about the book laying upstairs perhaps it would be a good time to bless this mess! Grabbing a lil of Jesus/God's Whitening brightening toothpaste, I smile and thank-him for the artist tomatoey goey glop all over the plates. While each plate is gently snuggled in the dishwasher I sing a lil song that I am so blessed as to have so many in the extended family to love!
That reminds me.. I need to stop at God's store today and stock up on his new extra whitening - brightening smile maker. I heard he has a special going on -- pick one up for Free!
I've a locket in my pocket
Feeling a bit frowny today? Well sometimes just a simple act of kindness can -- as the old saying goes -- turn a frown upside down!
Well one day my parents decided we should take a long road trip, which probably wasn't the smartest idea being that our family sometimes put the 'dys' in dysfunction. Now as many know large families tend to have some dysfunction in them. I was one of five children in the family, and being in the middle I was picked on often by one of my brothers.
Along our route my Dad planned to stop and see a few business associates. After a long few days on the road we stopped at one of my Dad's clients homes. The hot car and long ride had made us tired and grouchy, and I had a red mark or three on my legs where my brother had pinched me.
By the time we arrived inside the home, I was in tears. To make matters worse, my parents forcefully told me that I must sit in a chair and not move -- while my brother was still throwing a fit and acting up. I sat and said nothing, but the child inside me was still crying.
Who should walk through the door but a kindly gray haired lady with a smile that lit up the room. She waltzed over to me, smiled and said a few words to me and my day brightened. 'Just a minute dear' she said, and she went into the other room. When she returned she had a gift-wrapped box, and she dropped it in my lap with a few soft words and a big smile.
Well my tears started drying up. In that box was a necklace and earring set with a cross on them. The whole time my father chatted with the couple I was fingering the locket and thinking 'This is so nice.'
We finally left the 'angels' house, and of course things heated up again in the car. It didn't matter though, because whenever I felt bad I just looked at my locket and smiled.
Now though that is not the end of the story. I outgrew the locket through the years, and being rather unorganized I always put it somewhere that I thought it would be safe, only to lose it for some time.
Through the years that locket just followed me around. Anytime that anything is going a bit wrong in my life -- pop! from seemingly out of nowhere to my version of somewhere the locket reappears and always brings a fresh smile to my face and a song to my heart.
I hope that the times I've helped others -- even with just a smile --that it has brightened their day as much as the locket has my life!
On worry, love, and life's ailments
Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage;Minds innocent and quiet takeThat for an hermitage;If I have freedom in my love,And in my soul am free;Angels alone, that soar above,Enjoy such liberty. Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison, 1649So there I was -- sitting under the twilight of the early morning stars, sipping a steaming cuppa coffee, and talking to God about how my life had taken a rather drole turn this Christmas season. Divorce papers from my husband the day after Thanksgiving hadn't done much to lift my spirits.
Now Christmas has to be my favorite holiday ever. It's the time for celebrating Christ's birth, time for family - friends - sharing - caring - giving and most of all for love. Christmas, and everything it stands for, is something that everyone should hold in their hearts all year long.
So there I was sipping that coffee and feeling a bit blue about the way things were going when out of nowhere I saw a dark shape, and when it came into focus in the stillness of the brisk wintery morning the brown eyes of a doe caught mine. After a quick gaze she went back to flicking the snow off the top of the grass and nibbling a bite or two before moving on.
Mama's antics brought a smile to my face and I was thanking God for his gift of letting me know that he is always there, when a minature version of mama came prancing out of the same still nowhere to my lil version of somewhere.
One deer frisking around the back-yard in the twinkle of a million city lights .. and a million Christmas lights .. is a wonder, but two? Well upon seeing those two I chuckled, took a deep breath and sucked in all that is right in life and breathed out that is wrong in life. Heading back inside I realized that God had opened the door with a smile on new day.
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When you are flying, everything is all right or it is not all right.If it is all right there is no need to worry.If it is not all right one of two things will happen.Either you will crash or you will not crash.If you do not crash there is no need to worry.If you do crash one of two things is certain.Either you will be injured or you will not be injured.If you are not injured there is no need to worry.If you are injured one of two things is certain.Either you will recover or you will not recover.If you recover there is no need to worry.If you don't recover you can't worry. W.E. Johns, Spitfire Parade, 1941
Letting Go, Letting God
Thanksgiving! Now that all the leftover turkey has been put on ice for the turkey ala king, turkey and noodles, turkey pie, and flaming turkey drumsticks one can think about what there is to be actually be thankful for.
Turkey day this year with our family brought about huge changes. A couple months ago my husband decided to (according to him) 'NOT' have a
MIDLIFE CRISIS -- even though he grew his hair long, bought two new guitars, hooked up with his ol' rock and roll buddie, and had (is having) an affair because as he said he didn't know how to love.
Well the day after Thanksgiving I heard a pounding on the door, and guess what? The Mail-man had an extra-special delivery just for me.. Divorce papers. Tumtetum..
I never ever never ever thought I'd see the day when... but hey one never knows what is just around the block and up ones street!
Anyway back to tissue city.
Who knows what the next curve in the road will bring? Will I get a lawyer to counter his lawyer? I doubt it, as I don't want to hurt anyone at anytime if at all possible. What am I going to ask for in the divorce? What are material things after all? Just material things, and things don't matter. Which means I have a big ol red target printed on my shirt but hey that's ok go ahead have some target practice, because I know what love is.
and.. it.. just.. doesn't.. matter...because
I'm letting go and letting God.. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is worth giving up God. God is love.
One doesn't know what love is? Just train ones heart on what there IS to love, and that would be anything and everything and everyone. Be thankful for family and friends, appreciate each other, and be thankful for everything that comes ones way.
Do I forgive Mr. Midlife Crisis? You bet I do, and I still wish him the best. Someday someway I have a hunch that this will all seem just like some kind of pre-school mudthrowing wrestle.
The tough roads are where one gets to know God the best. He's always ALWAYS there, and hey if one doesn't know it then just check out his
Footprints in the sand.
dream a lil dream
..I dreamed me a desert
and a diamond clear sky
I'm still making rainbows at the end of the line
heard rail-roads rhymes
and hobo's hard times
saw depression roads
and Gods of all kinds..
I'm in the habit of waking up at 3am in the stillness of the night, pulling out the cannister of coffee and brewing my special cuppa to sit and sip under the stars while nature unveils it's secrets. Does life get any better than that?
Nooo! Each and every day .. nay moment of life .. is a mystery to unfold and cherish. Three am is the perfect time to just not think but BE.
A few days ago I had my cuppa coffee in hand and was enjoying the act of just being when the early sunrise caught both I and a majestic owl sitting almost at my feet by surprise. Mr. Owl thought he was king of the skies, and who knows he well might have been! The blue flash of his wingspan nearly matched my own height. Surprised as he alighted upon a post a few yards away, the owl and I matched wits for an hour or so. Me? Just thinking about everything in God's creation, how such a beautiful creature existed and landed here to share my coffee with me, and the owl staring back I suppose drinking his own cuppa coffee in a sense and wondering how on earth such a creature as I could exist to share his early morning with him.
One thing I've found out in this life is that Shakespeare was so right when he said -- There is more to the heavens and earth than your philosophies can dream of Horatio.
Do a lil dance, say a lil prayer, and dream a lil dream because
'..Life is but a dream sweetheart hello hello hello again! ..'
