This evening I had my pastor over and the youth leadership over along with my freind Kathy who also is involved with our chruch leadership.  I had them over to talk about the seminar I want to hold on Making Abortion Unthinkable, The Art Of Pro-Life Persuasion.  It has taken me weeks to pin them down to one room to talk about this.  You know how that can be.  At first it looked as if it would be cancelled due to one of the teens being in a car accednt but after my pastor and youth leaders went to see her at the E.R. and check to make sure she was ok they called me back to say they was still come over.   I have spent all day preparing for this meeting.  I fixed my printer and printed out the full leader guide and also copeys of the first sesion in the student guide. I can say I have learnd how to print on both sides of a paper in proper order. And thankfuly Josh got me more ink. I presented the first sesion and used the video that came along with the program.  We had good discusion.  There is concern that it will be hard to hold this as a 5 week one hour session, that intrest would waiver and also what day to hold it is an issue. My pastor apresiates my passion for this subject but kept using the term this is such a heavy subject it may be hard to get people intrested and commited to doing the full 5 hours. I said well I just want to be obediant to the Lord and that is why I am doing all this, if ony three people show that would be fine with me.  Think of the impact those three people would have.  After we went threw the first sesion they all saw how it wouldnt be that hard to go threw and that the information is valuble.  My pastor perty much told Kathy and me we had the go ahead after we make a plan on how we would present it to the Church. After they left Katy and I chatted and thinking of ways to get others passinate about this so they will show up.  She also showed me the Priests For Life website that had alot of picures on it. A must see.

FOR THE LORD IS GOOD!!!!

I am bubbling over with Praise Reports today!  God is so wonderful, he hears each and every prayer and answers them in his way acording to his will and his time.

First one is from the other day. I have been chatting with this women on and off named Amy for almost 2yrs now.  We live very close to eachother but have never met.  She is also a Christian but has been out of church for a long time for many reasons.  One of the biggest is she is very shy because of her physical aperance (she has been sick and has had many surgerys) and her oldest son has been a hand full.  She has had him in counciling for the past few weeks and she says it is helping some with is anger promblem and then out of no where her son asked if they could go to Church.  Only threw Jesus could this be possilbe to move on this young mans heart to ask this.  I dont have the space to go into all the history but belive me this is awesome.  Then Amy asks about my church and thier youth group and says she will try and make it this Sunday!  I have extended an invition to her for almost the whole time we have chatted and am over joyed that we will get to meet this Sunday and that she will be worshiping with me and my family. I have started now talking with her on the phone and there is a connection there, like we have been friends for years.

The next thing I want to sing Praises to the Lord for is our federal tax return came today! And it is almost a thousand more than what we was expecting. We have been in a bind with finances all month.  Josh's work has been perty sparce and in fact he filed for unemployment yesterday for the first time in 3yrs. Bills have been rolling in and we are behind on rent for Jan.  I have been praying that it would come by this friday because the irs website said it wouldnt come till about the 16th.  With it being so bad you would think we would be fraking out and in worry, but no we have had so much peace and faith knowing that the Lord would take care of us in his way and he has.  THANK YOU JESUS, THANK YOU LORD.  YOU ARE INDEED OUR PROVIDER, OUR HEALER, OUR EVERYTHING.

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 My faith encompaes all fasuets of my life. It is not just something I do on one day of the week or a lable I live under. It is indeed part of all that I am.  How I raise my children,my relationship with my husband,how I treat others (with love I hope), how I define truth, how I live my life and how I worship God. So for some one to sugesst we can or should separate the two is just NOT going to happen for me and I don't think it should for others.  No I am not saying we should have a state religion, our founders was wise to keep Goverment out of our Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and other places of worship(but I do see a time when they are very much in them sadly,rant for another day).  But when you vote for some one, you are voting for some one who is going to represent YOU.How can I vote for some one who is in complet oppisite to what I have based my life on?  I can not with sound mind vote for any canadate who thinks MILIONS of murders of innocent humans a year is acceptable, or some one who leads our nations away from our creator, or some one who has no charter at all. God has been very much apart of our goverment, from its beginings.. The Declaration of Independace contains five references to God - God as supreme Lawmaker, God as Creator of all men, God as the Source of all rights, God as the world's supreme Judge, and God as our Protector on whom we can rely. The Declaration of Independence is the official and unequivocal affirmation by the American people of their belief and faith in God. It affirms God's existence as a "self-evident" truth that requires no further discussion or debate. The nation created by the great Declaration is God's country. The rights it defines are God-given. The actions of its signers are God-inspired.  To be honest with you all, I don't care who is in office, I know God raises up leaders and moves on ppls hearts.  Who ever we have in office will be put there by God for such a time as this but unlike in other countries, we get to draw the line in the sand and say who we want to govern us. Who do you wan to govern you? Good quiz found on aol.

Politics & Religion

Main Entry: pol·i·tics
Pronunciation: 'pä-l&-"tiks
Function: noun plural but singular or plural in construction
Etymology: Greek politika, from neuter plural of politikos political
Date: circa 1529
1 a : the art or science of government b : the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy c : the art or science concerned with winning and holding control over a government
2 : political actions, practices, or policies
3 a : political affairs or business; especially : competition between competing interest groups or individuals for power and leadership (as in a government) b : political life especially as a principal activity or profession c : political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices
4 : the political opinions or sympathies of a person
5 a : the total complex of relations between people living in society b : relations or conduct in a particular area of experience especially as seen or dealt with from a political point of view <office politics>  Main Entry: re·li·gion
Pronunciation: ri-'li-j&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English religioun, from Latin religion-, religio supernatural constraint, sanction, religious practice, perhaps from religare to restrain, tie back —more at RELY
Date: 13th century
1 a : the state of a religious <a nun in her 20th year of religion> b (1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance
2 : a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
3 : archaic : scrupulous conformity : CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
4 : a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

Ok. so I have yeilded to the idea of getting DSL.  I was on Barbie.com with Annie yesterday and playing with her and found myself saying, "oh honey, dont worry, when daddy gets dsl this all will load faster." LOL Ofcourse Josh over heard me saying that and took that as his cue for calling the phone company and ordering it!  We should have it up and going in a few days after they send us the modem, since the one our friend had given us wasnt compatable (just another way to milk us).  I was surprised that DSL will only be $35 more amonth on our phone bill, and that they will break up the cost of the modem over 4 months and then get a rebate for some of the cost at the end of that.  So now we are going over how much AOL for Broad Band will cost us.  Looks like $14.99 a month extra.  Ofcourse Josh dosn't see the reasoning in paying that when we can get free e-mail boxs from hotmail and get AIM.  I do, so I don't have to re-do all I have done on here for the last 2yrs and keep my screen name that I love so much! Sigh, so we will see how that goes.  If anything I have heard from E's~ journal that when they went to dsl and cancelled aol, aol offered them 3 months free to reconsider.

Anyways. Today is another SnowDay for Josh and the Kids. UGH! LOL So Josh is putting the kids to work and demanding the kitchen shine but he is helping fold all the laundry and that is oh so nice. But the downside is he is hovering over me as I write this.  He said I embelish all this and that I rail him.  I told him well You can always have your own journal and share your side OR go on your screen name and post a comment in defense of yourself.  MY World View as it says under the title.

Round and Round we go

Well I fianly got my cord back, for now anyways lol.  I had to bribe him to get it.  We had freezing rain and some snow today so church was cancelled.  Josh wanted me to go out after the worst was over and get movies since tomorrow he will be off work due to the weather. I told him I was willing, if he would give me what I wanted. He asked and asked, well what do you want.  YOU know what I want babe, I said with smile. After him guessing about 5 wrong things I told him, read your e-mail, and give me back my cord, that will make me happy.lol So I left as he was signing on to his e-mail and reading threw the couple of e-mails you guys sent him. I will admit that I snuck a peak at them before hand, and I just want to say thanks, that was sweet what you all said about me. I came home after braving the cold cold to him reading my journal (gulp). He said I railed him lol and didn't show his side acuratly. That he never intended to take away the internet, just aol, he wants to get dsl in it's place.  I told him I think I painted him in a very good light, and asked if he only read the parts about him or did he take the time to read all of my journal.  I always tell ppl too that there is two sides to a story and this is just mine. My world view.  Anyways, i would love dsl, but not too faund of the idea of loosing aol for it. And he is a cheapy and dont want to pay extra for it.  He said atleast this way with dsl he would be able to get threw on the phone when he calls.(wasnt keen on the aol ringer service).  So we are still going round and round on this one. I am about broken down to submission, I am sick of arguing over it.  If God wants me to stay here he will move on Josh's heart. It would take alot for me to re-do all I have done on here, my webpages and groups and all that jazz. I hate change, but sometimes change is good too.

BTW I promised to give a shout out to my friend's new journal Jessica. She just started it so it is perty fresh still. I just started chatting with her and you know I talked about my journal so much she just had to get her own. lol So go give her a big welcome to J~Land!

Life Up Dates

Hi all, got to make this a short one.  Life up date, still using the short cord for now, tried to get Josh to give me the other one back but he is still being stuburn. We will work it out, thanks for all the advice and complinents. I dont think itching powder would be the answer lol but good thought.  #2 Report cards came back friday and my son got ALL A'S!!!!  I am so proud of him, where do I get that bummper sticker lol my kid is on the honor roll.  Annie did very well too, but she is still on the number system and dont get letter grades yet. #3 Today was Zane's pinewood durby and he and Josh sound like they had fun, they are out at the car show down town at the moment. Annie had a b-paty to go to at a roller rink so I took the little ones to a place called Tumble Drumm. They wore me out!!! Imagin Mc Donlad's play place X 10! But we had fun. My knees are killing me from chasing them threw the tubes. I found out after we was done that they rent knee pads for the adults, gurr, have to remember that for next time. ouch, think I should ice them. #4 On a sad note for me, my best online buddy and prayer partner Becky (INJESUS24HRS) called me and left a message of her computer crashing and how she will be permantly off line cuz of the finances. I will miss her so much, she is such an encourager and treasure to know. I hope she calls me back cuz she didn't leave her #.

I hope to get caught up on your guys journals real soon.  I miss ya!