I'm not voicing in on the political history that has been made. It's done, and all I can say now is May The Lord God bless our President and lead him in His Path, Guide his daily steps with prayer and thought, and Direct him with His Spirit in the leading and protecting of our country. May God have mercy and bless all of us through this time. Now, more than ever, is the time for prayer for our country and our future.
I am still having issues adding pictures in here. I have several just waiting to get put in place. We have pictures of the hogs -- which I sold to a friend at church and don't even have to attempt to load up for butcher myself. I'll use the proceeds from their sale to go buy someone else's pork at the butcher.
I have pictures of our visit with Christina and her family last month -- all our combined children gathered on the swing set, and some beautiful scenery on the way over the Tennessee River.
Yesterday we rearranged the main room here. Being a double-wide mobile home, the living room is rather open and large -- ours is about 18x24. Would be a great living room if the dining room wasn't such a joke in size. Our main room is kept as living room and dining room here. The true dining room houses the school shelves and desk, computer and all the sewing needs.
The move around was done so the cookstove could be set in place for use this year. I am not construction-skilled in the slightest. I can hammer nails, drive screws and make attempts at cutting wood correctly, but I'd be afraid to live in something I had constructed aside from popping up a tent. The enclosure of the front porch into living space just wasn't going to happen on my watch. And without some properly done constructing, the cookstove cannot be used out there without subjecting it to all manner of weather.
However, I think I can manage to close off the back window and seal it properly, then sleeve a pipe through there and mount it for use.
So, the cookstove, however misplaced it may seem in the "living room" of my house, is there now, waiting for the materials to do the task at hand. Of course, I might just wait on thanksging weekend when Dewey comes home for that installation part. I do believe I can do it without him, but I wouldn't want to deprive him of the joy of blessing his wife with the use of her cookstove.
This weekend -- barring that rainy forcast -- we will begin emptying, sorting and purging the workshop building here. It's a mess. No. It's a disaster area out there. I'm bringing the trailer up here and we are going to begin loading everything onto it, then sorting and cleaning the building, getting some areas set up for the mass of tools we have accumulated over the years, and then we'll put things back in place in some sort of order. That's The Plan, anyway.
I guess that's about it. Despite all that's turning about in our country, we are just moving along at the usual pace around here. Although I will admit to a slightly deeper pull to prepare for the future of my family here, mainly our needs and daily living survival things.
Is there such a thing as Righteous Anger?
Is there ever a time when, as a Believer in Jesus Christ, can I be 'righteously' angry?
I do not agree with statements such as "how can people call themselves christians and vote for ____" I think that is EXACTLY what Judge not, lest ye be Judged is written for.
I do not look at someone and say "they must not be a christian because they did X". It is NOT my place to 'judge' salvation or where one stands with the Lord...........
However, the 'fruit of the tree' speaks volumes.
Can there be a righteous anger, from a human, on earth?
You opinion is very valuable to me.
Laura
~~I know you asked about removing this as you already had it answered, but would you mind my leaving it?
There is alot of 'righteous anger' out there that honestly, I don't think is really righteous at all.
Right now, folks are bouncing off the walls with this Presidential election. They do it every 4 years, though. It's not anything new to this year's election.
This election was history in the making from day one. A black President? A female Vice President? It was going to make waves from the beginning.
I can see the monumental historical value of Obama as President. Our roots run deep in this country, and to come to this point after our history of slavery and racial dissention...it's a wonderful moment to be American.
But, in my heart, this man stands for so many things totally against what I value as a Christian, I cannot find any level of peace with his election.
That doesn't matter, though. He is the President-elect and he will receive my deep, sincere prayers as he is due.
My God is still God, and My God is still on His Throne and He still has His Hands on my country. I do not believe in chance or popular vote...or even understand the chaos of electoral college stuff. God placed President-elect Obama to govern us.
Chronicles 7:14 comes to my heart.
"If there is to be any future to the Christian political thought, then Christians cannot continue to be republican lapdogs rain or shine. There must be a return to uncompromising faith in the certainty of Gods word. Every area of political thought must be brought under the authority of scripture, and any candidate that is Biblically unqualified will have to change or give up one of their most influential voter bases. We are called to be peculiar people of faith in Christ, not people called after pragmatism and compromise. If we believe what scripture says then, it is not the voter, but God who rises up leaders for the nations. Christians read that in the scriptures, but they do not truly believe that do they. If Christians truly believed what the word of God said it would naturally follows that delivering a vote made in faith for a Biblically qualified candidate (even if he has “no chance” of winning) goes further to raise up strong and godly leaders then a pragmatic vote for “the better of two evils”. Leaders like Obama are given as God’s judgment against all those who disregard His word and are given to compromise.
We have four years to think over the consequence of compromise and during that time we have a lot of work to do."
Prayer is what is due here. And a true repentance of heart.
Deanna
Edited by HandsNHearts on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 08:50
cos I am heartily shocked at the vengeful spite I have seen elsewhere around here, from people I normally like and respect.
~~Not me, I hope!
I am not the slightest bit politically minded or politically lead at all. I have no opinion either way as to who would or will make a better leader for this country. We will get whomever The Lord places in our lead, plain and simple.
There are things I dislike about Obama and things I dislike about McCain and honestly, I have no deep seated opinion either way.
As this IS 'my country' though, and everyone else who lives on this soil, we must pray heartily and deeply for our President and all other leaders we may have in place. It's our duty to pray for them to be good leaders, faithful in spirit to direct our paths, and followers of the guidance that is around them for the good.
It's our future, and according to my Bible, I already know the outcome. It's just a matter of marking away the steps really at this point. Anyone who reads the Scripture knows where we are headed, so the buzz across the Internet today over "Yippee, Obama!" or "OMG, not HIM for President" is all just a waste of time and words. We have what we have and we get what we get. My Lord is still on The Throne and still in charge, Amen?
Deanna
Edited by HandsNHearts on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 11:56
Obama is not black.
His ma'ma is a white woman.
His father, is a muslim middle eastern mix.
Obama doesn't have an ounce of 'slave blood' in him. It has been proven geneologically. (that was a gross misspelling :-)
Everyone is caught up in this notion that we have "arrived" because we voted a person with darker than lilly white skin.......
Don't you see??? We are doing what we have been programmed to do.
My generation, and the one after me, has had it beat in their head that we are the 'bad white guy' and if we disagree with a person who has pigment, we are a racist.
People voted for Obama BECAUSE he was black.
And that's ok??
Yet, if they voted McCain because he was white.......THEY ARE A RACIST.
MY POINT????
Brainwashed. We've been hoodwinked. A great lie has been told and we bought it hook line and sinker and still........people are buying the snake oil.
I am not a racist when I say I didn't vote for obama.
I am someone who believes life begins at conception. I am not for the Socialist States of America. I support my troops, and I want to be able to strive to make 251,000.00 a year and not be penalized because I worked my butt off.
My anger is really because people are so programmed, so blind, and so "head in sand" minded. No one reads history. No one reads Scripture, No one does research and thinks.
They are doing what the public education has taught them.
Listen to ONE leader, do what they say.
Don't, DON'T ask questions.
Hitler, Stalin, Lenin...........Castro, Chavez.........Hussain, Ak-ma-gen-a-dod.......................ALL of them every single one of them have the same pattern..........
And if anyone read obamas speeches.......they would have seen, he's in bed with all of them.
BUT NO, we can't do that because we would be racist.
I just can not believe that people really really can't see through.
BUT
God said...........God said..............He said this would happen.
Yeah, go ahead and remove my comment.
It doesn't really go with what you said in your blog..........
Thanks so much
Laura
~~Laura, I can't say that I don't agree with you with this one. It all makes perfect sense when you read it all together. You are right...it's a total brain-washed response on our parts.
Yes, I was not hitting the right base at all with my return to your comment. Slightly darker than lily-white hardly makes one black, and that was the premise of my comment. But, yes, with his family tree, his isn't the second coming of Martin Luther King, certainly.
As I said, I'm not politically-saavy in the least, and I did not follow closely, even barely skimmed, the whole Presidential hoo-ha of the last many months. I just know I personally didn't care much for either candidate from the little I heard. I could have dug deeper, learned much more than I did, but I did not see either as the man I would prefer in Office up there in Washington.
God placed him there, and honestly, I can't see where we would have really chosen better (not to say he was the better choice...neither was). We reap what we sow. As a friend said -- we allowed what we did in the last election, and saw government grow, socialized medicine get a running start, our freedoms limited on every angle, abortion funding cranked up...everything that our newly elected President plans to continue. Perhaps we were blinded last time, but this time we have no excuse for what we have in place. That brain-washing you mentioned worked very well indeed. We were not seeing the full picture last time, but this time it's all there in black and white in front of us.
What's done is done, and there's a shame in that to be carried by all of us. The deeper shame, however, will be in allowing the planned agenda to make any further head-way. We can stop the policies that we have watched get started, and will certainly continue this time around.
Fall down on your face -- this is much deeper than a simple knee-bowed prayer session! We have to repent in heart and spirit of what we have been walked into believing and get back to truly taking The Bible as it stands, word for word, no changes or dumbing-down. God is waiting for our hearts to turn!
If you still want your comments, gone, I will delete them, but honestly Laura, I do see nothing but truth, and shared by an honest heart. We need to hear these things.
Deanna
Edited by HandsNHearts on Friday, November 7, 2008 at 08:26
No indulgences of self will can be trivial, no denial unprofitable; Heaven or Hell depends on this alone. A parent who studies to subdue it in his child works together with God in the renewing and saving of their soul. The parent who indulges it does the devil's work, makes religion impractical, salvation unattainable, and does all that in him lies to damn his child, soul and body, forever.
Susanna Wesley
At The School Desks
We are a Christian family desiring to raise our children with the primary focus of Training their Hearts!
I have no greater joy, than to hear my children walk in truth... III John 1:4
Train up the child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it... Proverbs 22:6
Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!... Deuteronomy 5:29
Our mission in life is not to go to some far-off foreign land, but to work at home and in our churches and home communities. Our goal should not be to leave behind riches and possessions, farms and homes for our children, but a priceless heritage they will cherish enough to work fervently to pass along to their children. It has been done for generations and with God's help it can still be done. In teaching our children, we are striving toward a deep understanding of who they are In Christ. I am . . . a child of God, a gift to my parents and my country. I'm a person of great value because God made me. I can . . . do all things through Christ who strengthens me. God has made me able to do everything required of me. I ought . . . to do my duty to obey God, to submit to my parents and everyone in authority over me, to be of service to others, and to keep myself healthy with proper food and rest so my body is ready to serve. I will . . . resolve to keep a watch over my thoughts and choose what's right even if it's not what I want.
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