Please Teach Patriotism To Your Youth
This is what America is all about. Independence from England to stand on our own feet. It is Freedom to be what we want to be by establishing the type of government that we want. This video shows you what I see and what I feel when I think of our Founding Fathers and what they and those who fought in the revolution to give us the freedom we have today. I hope you see what I see and feel what I feel when you watch the following videos.
Our Children are Taught The Founding Fathers Did Not Believe In God.What Do You Think?
The American Revolutionary War That Made America Free
Hallelujah- The Patriot Warning: Shows Killings
This Is What It Took To Be Free and Gain Our Independence! Don’t let sedition take it from us! Warning: Shows Killings, Yes War is Hell But Sometimes Necessary.
Battle Hymn of The Republic
These videos should give you enough to talk about with your family. Please discuss Patriotism, the importance of the flag to Americans, and why our Constitution is favored above all other forms of government.
VIDEOS FOR SMALL CHILDREN
A Healthy Attitude
A healthy attitude about life and the trials you face give you a healthy outlook and put you in the driver seat. Otherwise, you will be living in default and reacting to negativity around you. This post helps you change the status quo as well!
A healthy attitude makes a huge difference in your ability to make wise decisions that
(1) affect how proactive you are in being responsible for your own life
(2) how you engage yourself in society affects how you fit into society
(3) and the position you place yourself because of your decisions and the rewards or consequences you receive.
Did you catch what I just said? Let me break this down for you:
*Attitude makes a difference in how proactive you are in choices that you make and whether you are living in default or sitting in the driver’s seat of life.
*Sitting in the driver’s seat means you make YOUR OWN decisions about how you respond to events instead of letting what happens drag you down.
*Living in default means that, instead of changing your bad attitude and accept the lessons gained from the situation, you go to the same place you always go to when you don’t like what life dishes out to you: that being you become angry with God, your parents, your employer or anyone you think has it better than you.
*Living in default means, instead of realizing that life sometimes gives out doses of misfortune to everyone and you are no different or that you choose to think you are singled out and punished for some reason, you just throw up your hands and give up! A person sitting in the driver seat does none of these things.
*Living in default means you blame people for what they have that you do not but want, rationalizing that they had better opportunities than you. Of course you do not know that, in fact, what you believe is true and yet you expect them to help — believing you are entitled to receive their help because they live better than you.
*Sitting in the driver’s seat means you take responsibility for the decisions you make, instead of forcing someone to make decisions for you because you can’t or won’t do it yourself.
*You know you are living in default when people keep telling you what to do and how to live your life.
*People keep getting into your business because they see that you are not in control of your life.
*Your actions prove that you are not in control of yourself and unable to manage life on your own, so they make decisions for you.
* If you want people to get out of your life then start taking responsibility for your choices and put yourself in the driver seat of your life.
You must commit to changing your situation and making better decisions or nothing will change for you. Can you make that commitment? If you can, you need to change your associations and hang out with those who live the way you want to be. These association will be your support system and a good example for you to follow.
Sneaky Way to Take Away Guns
Did you see this email yet. I received it on December 2nd and just got around to reading it. If you haven’t read it yet, I suggest you do now.
This is another evil global plot to take away our guns, but it is very sneaky –That’s the only way they can get away with it.
Globalists just won’t give up on their goal to disarm America. That means there is a reason they want our guns, and that can’t be good.
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Are Americans Really Stupid? You Decide!
Are Americans Really Stupid? You Decide! 
I completely agree with this video! Some people should not vote! After a 20/20 Special, a lot of people were outraged…and a lot of people nodded their head in agreement.
It appears that we are being conned by the public school system and the governmental Department of Education. I think it’s fair to say that since government has taken over public education, our students are coming out dumber than ever before in history.
Post your thoughts please!
Please don’t tell me that you think teachers unions are good for our public schools and what our students learn!
Challenge Status Quo
I want to give you a message of hope, a message with solutions, and a message with suggestions that help you positively affect those things that matter to you. Some principles you may never have thought of before, which is helpful to consider now.
What you consider now might challenge the way you think and feel about your life in the future and challenge the status quo you’ve lived in for so long.
Likely, you will realize that your past thinking, past attitude, past habits and reactions have created the status quo that’s challenging you to consider now. Up to this point, you hadn’t considered how your life is working out for you and if it’s the way you’ve wanted.
My job is to help you challenge status quo and try to push you out of your comfort zone! A change in attitudes changes how you approach life, work, and daily activities. Perhaps it’s time to risk taking a different approach to these activities?
Relax, you won’t be asked to do anything you can’t do or don’t want to do. This has to be about what YOU want and what YOU feel is important for your own happiness and peace of mind. You have my support if you want it, so let me help you make the changes you need to make to accomplish your goals.
Are You In Default or In the Driver’s Seat?
First, consider that it doesn’t matter whose fault it is or if you are dissatisfied with life’s situations and the problems — it is what it is. What you need to do is accept things as they are and find a way to deal with it in a manner that you can accept.
Second, consider that your attitude about life’s events affect the habits you develop and what you get back from life.
- In general, a positive attitude reaps positive responses from people with whom you interact on a daily basis.
- Life gives back what you reflect in your expectations.
- A negative attitude reaps negativity from people around you and a negative response from life.
- A healthy attitude makes a huge difference in your ability to make wise decisions,
- affecting how proactive you are in engaging yourself in life,
- and affecting the position you place yourself because of choices you make and the consequences you receive.
Did you catch what I just said? Let me break this down for you.
- Attitude makes a difference in how proactive you are in choices you make, and whether you are living in default or sitting in the driver’s seat of life.
- Sitting in the driver’s seat means you are making your own decisions instead of waiting for something to happen and then let it drag you down.
- Instead of looking at your attitude and accepting the lesson you can learn from a bad situation, you go to the same place you always go to when you don’t like what life dishes out to you: being angry with God, your parents, your employer or anyone you think has it better than you.
- Living in default means that, instead of realizing life sometimes hands out doses of misfortune to everyone and you are no different or think you are singled out for some reason, you just throw up your hands and give up!
- You develop a bad attitude toward those who have a better life than you when you live in default instead of being proactive.
- You blame people for what they have that you don’t and want, rationalizing that they had better opportunities than you without knowing if that is really true, and then expect them to help you out because they live better than you.
- Sitting in the driver’s seat means that, instead of forcing someone to make decisions for you because you can’t or won’t, you make your own decisions and take responsibility for them.
What’s Happening to America
Our Nation is in Trouble! Thus the Flag is at Half Mast
Someone, please tell me what the HELL’s wrong with all the
people that run this country!!!!!!
Both
Republicans
&
Democrats
We’re ”broke” & can’t help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????
In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti,
Chile, Pakistan, Lybia, Egypt and Turkey
.. And now Japan
Literally,
BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
Our retired seniors living on a ‘fixed income’ receive no aid
nor do they get any breaks while our
government and religious organizations pour
Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$’s and Tons of Food
to Foreign Countries!
We have hundreds of adoptable
children who are shoved aside to make
room for the adoption of foreign orphans.
AMERICA is a
country where we have homeless without
shelter, children going to bed hungry,
elderly going without ‘needed’ meds, and
mentally ill without treatment-etc.
YET………………….
They have a ‘Benefit’ for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations,
ships and planes lining up with food, water,
tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave ‘US’ the same
support they give to other countries.
Sad isn’t it?
99% of people won’t have the
guts to forward this.
I’m one of the 1% –I Just Did
A Veteran -whether active duty,
retired, or national guard or reserve -
is someone who, at one point in
his/her life, wrote a
blank check made payable to
“The United States of America
for an amount of
“Up to and including my life.”,”
Sent to me by Jim Guiles
Happy Mothers Day – With a Bit of History
Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there. I hope the day is joyous. We don’t need gifts and stuff, we just need our children and husbands to appreciate us and to tell us they love us. We also want them to show us they love us by the way they act on this special day set aside for moms.
Dave did a beautiful post on Mother’s Day that I want to share with you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Thank you Dave for your thoughtfulness.
Repost from digitalDave on Sodahead.com
There are so many great Moms and Moms by proxy or Moms in the making here on SH,
I just want to tell you all…
Happy Mother’s Day and may the Lord bless you all always in all ways. xo -DaveMy mom is so sweet, and loving, everyone who knows her is surely blessed. She is a comic genius, a political brain, an awesome cook, a kind friend, a caring Grandma…not to mention a jazz artist, painter, poet and local radio personality. But to me, she is mom, my loving sweet and caring mom!!
I thought it might be interesting to look at a little history of Mothers Day… Let’s go!
Mother’s Day, like so many holidays is very old and the earliest Mother’s Day celebrations seemingly come from ancient Greece.
Though the meaning and celebration have over the eons changed from the way we celebrate now.
In the 1600′s, early English Christians celebrated a day to honor Mary, Christ’s Mother. Later it was expanded to include all Mothers and celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent and titled “Mothering Sunday” to honor all the mothers of England. At this time England’s poorest worked as servants for the wealthy. As most jobs were located far from their homes, servants lived at the houses of their employers. On Mothering Sunday, servants were given the day off and encouraged to return home to spend the day with their mothers. A special mothering cake, was often brought along to provide a festive touch. Over time, this tradition slowly became forgotten.
In the United States, Mother’s Day was loosely inspired by the British day and was first suggested after the American Civil War by Julia Ward Howe. Howe (who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) was horrified by the carnage of the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War and so, in 1870, she tried to issue a manifesto for peace at international peace conferences in London and Paris (it was much like the later Mother’s Day Peace Proclamation).
During the Franco-Prussian war in the 1870s, Julia began a one-woman peace crusade and made an impassioned “appeal to womanhood” to rise against war. She composed in Boston a powerful plea that same year (generally considered to be the original Mothers’ Day proclamation*) translated it into several languages and distributed it widely. In 1872, she went to London to promote an international Woman’s Peace Congress. She began promoting the idea of a “Mother’s Day for Peace” to be celebrated on June 2, honoring peace, motherhood and womanhood. In the Boston Mass, she initiated a Mothers’ Peace Day observance on the second Sunday in June, a practice that was to be established as an annual event and practiced for at least 10 years.
The day was, however, mainly intended as a call to unite women against war. It was due to her efforts that in 1873, women in 18 cities in America held a Mother’s Day for Pace gathering. Howe rigorously championed the cause of official celebration of Mothers Day and declaration of official holiday on the day. She held meetings every year at Boston on Mother’s Peace Day and took care that the day was well-observed. The celebrations died out when she turned her efforts to working for peace and women’s rights in other ways. Howe failed in her attempt to get the formal recognition of a Mother’s Day for Peace. Her remarkable contribution in the establishment of Mother’s Day, however, remains in the fact that she organized a Mother’s Day dedicated to peace. It is a landmark in the history of Mother’s Day in the sense that this was to be the precursor to the modern Mother’s Day celebrations. To acknowledge Howe’s achievements a stamp was issued in her honor in 1988.
It should be well to remember that Howe’s idea was influenced by Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called “Mothers Friendship Day”. In the 1900′s, at a time when most women devoted their time solely on their family and homes, Jarvis was working to assist in the healing of the nation after the Civil War. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors. Ann was instrumental in saving thousands of lives by teaching women in her Mothers Friendship Clubs the basics of nursing and sanitation which she had learned from her famous physician brother James Reeves, M.D. In parts of the United States it was customary to plant tomatoes outdoors after Mother’s Work Days (and not before).
It was Jarvis’ daughter, Anna Jarvis, who finally succeeded in introducing Mother’s Day in the sense as we celebrate it today. Anna graduated from the Female Seminary in Wheeling and taught in Grafton for a while. Later she moved to Philadelphia with her family. Anna had spent many years looking after her ailing mother. This is why she preferred to remain a spinster. When her mother died in Philadelphia on May 9, 1905, Anna missed her greatly. So did her sister Elsinore whom she looked after as well. Anna felt children often neglected to appreciate their mother enough while the mother was still alive. Now, she intended to start a Mother’s Day, as an honoring of the mothers. In 1907, two years after her mother’s death, Anna Jarvis disclosed her intention to her friends who supported her cause wholeheartedly. So supported by her friends, Anna decided to dedicate her life to her mother’s cause and to establish Mother’s Day to “honor mothers, living and dead.” She started the campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. With her friends, she started a letter-writing campaign to urge ministers, businessmen and congressmen in declaring a national Mother’s Day holiday. She hoped Mother’s Day would increase respect for parents and strengthen family bonds.
As a result of her efforts the first mother’s day was observed on May 10, 1908, by a church service honoring Late Mrs. Reese Jarvis, in the Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, where she spent 20 years taking Sunday school classes. Grafton is the home to the International Mother’s Day Shrine. Another service was also conducted on the same date in Philadelphia where Mrs. Jarvis died, leaving her two daughters Anna and Elsinore. So it was more of an homage service for Mrs. Reeves Jarvis than a general one conducted in honor of motherhood. Nevertheless, this set the stage for the later Mother’s Day observances held in the honor of motherhood.
From there, the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. The first Mother’s Day proclamation was issued by the governor of West Virginia in 1910. Oklahoma celebrated it in that same year. It stirred the same way in as far west as the state of Washington. And by 1911 there was not a state in the Union that did not have its own observances for Mother’s Day. Soon it crossed the national boundary, as people in Mexico, Canada, South America, China, Japan and Africa all joined the spree to celebrate a day for mother love.
The House of Representatives in May 1913 unanimously adopted a resolution requesting the President, his cabinet, the members of both Houses and all officials of the federal government to wear a white carnation on Mother’s Day. On May 7,1914, a resolution providing that the second Sunday in May be designated Mother’s Day was introduced by Representative James T. Heflin of Alabama and Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas. It passed both Houses on May 9, 1914.
“Arrangement in Grey and Black” aka Whistler’s Mother“
In 1934 Postmaster General James A. Farley announced a stamp to commemorate Mother’s Day. The stamp featured this famous painting.
The painting was a portrait of the mother of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, an English artist. It was brought into the United States as part of an exhibit in the year 1934.
Regardless of the pros and cons of the commercialization of this day, Mother’s Day continues to be one of the most commercially successful U.S. occasions. According to the National Restaurant Association, Mother’s Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States. The occasion is now celebrated not so much with flags as with gifts, cards, hugs, thank you’s and other tokens of affection. While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother’s Day on different days and at different times throughout the year, there are some countries such as Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium which also celebrate Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May. In some countries, the appreciation lasts for two days.
This is one day, we can all get behind someone… Mom, we love you!
Being Prepared For Emergencies Matters
Do You Have An Emergency Evacuation Plan? 
We should all have some sort of evacuation plan in place should a crisis or an emergency unfold in our areas.
What plans have you made with your family that will meet whatever challenge comes your way? Perhaps you believe that there is nothing you can do so you just wait and let whatever happens happen.
The more prepared you are for an event, the easier it will be on you and all your family. It will be easier on your neighbors and community as well when you are prepared. Anything you do now will only benefit you in a crisis.
- You need to put aside some money for emergency gas, food, and shelter.
- You need some blankets and a change of clothing stored in a box or a backpack for emergencies.
- You need to store a three day supply of water and food (or food bars) that contain stomach fillers and nutrients that will last for at least 72 hours.
- You need to store small games or a deck of cards for taking off the edge of the emergency or crisis.
There are many reasons you may need to evacuate without much or any warning so it’s a good idea to have important things ready to carry with you; remember that you may need to walk and not have access to a vehicle.
- Important papers and pictures are vital to take with you if you have to evacuate.
- Also important is medication and first aid supplies as well.
Please sit down with your family and have a serious talk with them. Make plans that every family member will understand and remember so all are familiar with what to do in case of an emergency and evacuation. Make sure family members who don’t live with you know your plans as well so they don’t worry about you in an emergency.
Below is an article that Glenn Beck wants you to read. I’ve been adamant about preparing ourselves and families with books, food, and supplies. That’s why I am setting up stores to help you prepare for emergencies. ***************************************************************************************************************************
Emergency Evacuation Plans from Stratfor
Monday, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:56 PM EDT
The Glenn Beck Program recommends the article below so you and your family can properly prepare for a crisis like what is happening in the Middle East and, to a lesser extent, Japan.
Vice President of Intelligence Fred Burton examines the importance of having an emergency evacuation plan in light of the unrest in Bahrain and the disaster in Japan.
Editor’s Note: Transcripts are generated using speech-recognition technology. Therefore, STRATFOR cannot guarantee their complete accuracy. The recent political instability in Bahrain, on the heels of the nuclear disaster in Japan, highlights the need to have an emergency plan in place before you need it.
A basic plan consists of three critical factors, the first being a prearranged rendezvous point for family or loved ones.
The second factor is a communications plan in the event of cell phone tower failure; one of the tools you can utilize is a satellite telephone, which enables you to communicate outside the affected area whenever your cell phone coverage and Internet is out.
The third factor is having a primary and secondary route of escape. When looking at primary and secondary evacuation routes, geography is going to be critical. You need to think about your means of escape when, for example, your primary route may be taken out, due to things such as a tsunami.
Your secondary means of escape can include either roads or trains, as well as many other global providers that you can subscribe to that will actually come and assist you in those kinds of events. These service are usually fee-based, and you usually have to sign up beforehand, but these services can aid you in getting out of the disaster zone either by air, road or by backpack if need be. They can also provide medical assistance if you are injured.
In a politically unstable environment, such as Bahrain on March 15, it is very important for you to have good intelligence as to what is taking place. Good intelligence will provide that tripwire and will enable you to make the decision to depart the affected area before it is too late.
You can stay abreast of good intelligence by monitoring the local news and radio, websites such as STRATFOR, as well as any sources you may have in the local community that are linked to the government that may help understand what could be taking place.
For example, many of our readers, as well as many of our multinational clients, were able to reposition many of their personnel and assets out of Bahrain by monitoring our very detailed analyses as to what was taking place. The “Above the Tearline” aspect of emergency action plans is: Don’t expect your government or your company to help you for 48 to 72 hours. Make a plan for yourself and know when it is time to execute it and get out. ——–
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS TOPIC?
WILL YOU SHARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU HAVE DONE?
Teach You Patriotism
Please Teach Patriotism To Your Youth
This is what America is all about. Independence from England to stand on our own feet. It is Freedom to be what we want to be by establishing the type of government that we want. This video shows you what I see and what I feel when I think of our Founding Fathers and what they and those who fought in the revolution to give us the freedom we have today. I hope you see what I see and feel what I feel when you watch the following videos.
Our Children are Taught The Founding Fathers Did Not Believe In God.What Do You Think?
The American Revolutionary War That Made America Free
Hallelujah- The Patriot Warning: Shows Killings
This Is What It Took To Be Free and Gain Our Independence! Don’t let sedition take it from us! Warning: Shows Killings, Yes War is Hell But Sometimes Necessary.
Battle Hymn of The Republic
These videos should give you enough to talk about with your family. Please discuss Patriotism, the importance of the flag to Americans, and why our Constitution is favored above all other forms of government.
VIDEOS FOR SMALL CHILDREN
Does Democracy & Voting Matter
This has to be the most upsetting report I have ever done. I knew some of this before but I did not know the extent of it. I cannot believe HOW VILE AND EVIL THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT HAS BECOME in defending what matters most to Americans, our voting rights being protected!
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Witness to Obama Election Fraud?
July 25, 2010
The question is asked, “The press was given this, Why didn’t the press cover it? It’s called This Chicago brand of politics came into the caucus states is something new and it set a new precedence that we have to change.
Obama Camp Responds to Election Fraud Allegations
DOJ Attorney Testifies on Voter Intimidation Case: FoxNews.mp4
July 07, 2010
Megyn Kelly interviews Ashley Taylor, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. They explore the racist guidelines that have been handed down regarding the DOJ’s refusal to prosecute the Black Panthers’ Philadelphia Voter Intimidation case that was dismissed by the DOJ. Their argument was the facts and law don’t support the Black Panther case. According to The Washington Times, Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, the No. 3 official in the department, was responsible for the decision. J. Christian Adams resigned his position as a result of the improper handling of the case by Eric Holder and the Obama Administration. Mr Adams told FOX News that Thomas Perez, assistant Attorney General, provided false testimony to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Why Hillary Clinton Loses ALot Of Close Elections In The Primary Against Barack Obama, CAN ANYONE SAY ACORN?!!!!!! Lou Dobbs nails Barack Obama connection to the Accorn voter registration fraud!
Yes, this video came from 2008 but it shows the history of campaign fraud. It appears that this type of election fraud is what we have to look forward to in the 2012 election for President. It ticks me off that our most sacred part of Democracy is being hi-jacked by this man.
Positive Within Negativity
Life is what we make it: we can make it a pleasure and more tolerable or we can make it miserable by the way we respond to it.
I believe I have learned a lot about responding to life’s challenges in a more appropriate manner than I used to ten years ago, and because I have, I live a much happier life.
I assume that you want the same things I do, that you want peace, joy, and happiness to permeate our lives in a positive way when we interact with those whom we associate and have dealings.
This blog is a way for me to share with you the lessons I’ve learned about “What Matters Most In Life”. I want to do this so you won’t become overwhelmed when misfortune hits you and give up on things ever getting better for you.
We cannot give up because nothing will change that’s good if we do. We can’t go backwards or stay in status quo, nothing good is there for us either! All we can do is accept the challenge and move forward, trying to change our perspective and the way we respond to life and it’s challenges.
If we cave in to the negatives of life and focus on what we don’t have, we miss the blessings and the joy that life also provides but we’ve become too jaded to notice. Doing this will NOT make our lives any more tolerable, just more miserable.
Look at your life and then turn around the negatives you see into a positive. It may take a lot of effort to find the blessings at first but before long, you will see them easier and more frequently.
Let me give you a few examples of what I mean.
Story #1: We had just received a huge income tax refund, which is NOT a usual for us. We actually had almost $5,000 in our tax refund check. We had the check for a short time before we had an emergency.
Our toilet had overflowed. Even though the water was clear, it was still considered black water and was contaminated. I didn’t know that at the time and so I was soaking up the water with towels and washing them. However, washing them added to the flooding…which I had not realized either.
Finally, a friend suggested we call a particular plumber to come out and see what was wrong. He discovered we had a pipe on our side of the road that had broken and the whole front yard had to be plowed up. It cost us a total of $4,000 after our cost of all the cleanup and plumbing work was done. We had to have new carpeting throughout the whole house except the living room because of the black water.
My husband was several states away for his father’s funeral and taking care of his dad’s affairs. I had an illness that prevented me from bending over to clean up or to pack up the house. The insurance covered the cleanup and carpeting but we had a $500 deductible. They also allowed ServPro to clean up and pack up rooms in the house. I had to make the decisions by myself because my husband couldn’t focus from all he was dealing with on his father’s affairs.
At first I was very angry because most of our refund check had gone to this emergency, and so little was left for us to do what we wanted to do with it. It took me about another day to ask myself, “What would we have done if we didn’t have that money? What if the problem had happened a few months earlier or a few months later, when the money had already been spent?” That’s when I realized the blessing in having the check when we did, and so I no longer saw the situation as a negativity.
Story #2: We wanted to see more of our grandchildren because most of them lived so far away from us that we rarely were able to see them. I had prayed and asked God if that desire would ever be realized. He assured me that it would.
Not long after the prayer, my husband was told that he and the company he worked for as a contract manager was being replaced. It was a very hard time for him, and that, in turn, made life hard on me too.
My husband had put in applications everywhere in Oregon (where we lived), he had even put in applications in Utah, Texas, and Indiana. Nothing was happening, so we decided to move to Indiana and stay with our son and his family until we secured a job. With so many states surrounding there, we thought that would give him a better chance of finding a job.
We left Oregon on July 4th 2000 and arrived in Indiana July 6th, on a Saturday. Sunday we went to church with our son and family. On Monday, my husband picked up the local sales paper and saw a management job right there in town near where we were. Tuesday, he called on the job and Wednesday they called him back and did a phone interview. On Thursday, he was offered the job.
My husband losing his job put us in Indiana near our son and his precious family. This was the beginning of my prayer being answered. Three years later, my son living in Texas called to tell my husband that his company was going to be calling him for a job interview in Texas. As it turned out, he did get the job and we moved to Texas.
Living in Texas put us only two and half hours from our son and his family and only thirteen hours from our son in Indiana. That still put us twenty-two hours from our son and his family in Utah and thirty-four hours from our daughter and her family in Oregon if we drove.
From then on, most of our spare money goes to plane tickets to Utah and Oregon to see family we are too far away from to drive. We are able to see them a lot more frequently than we had before moving to Texas. Do you see the blessing? The lost job and moving to Indiana actually brought to pass our desire to see family more often.
Story #3: Before we moved to Texas, my husband moved there ahead of me to set up everything for us to move there. I was working at the time, so I had to finish up my job. A month later, he came home to help me tie up loose ends and then planned on taking one of the cars back with him so he would had a vehicle to drive.
On Sunday, the day before he was to leave and go back to Texas, we went to a church conference about twenty-five miles away from home. On the way home after church, the car died right there in our town and about five miles from home. All we had to do was call our son to come rescue us. It couldn’t have been any more convenient.
The next day we had our vehicle towed to a repair shop. We were told the engine was dead and that it would take $2,500 to fix it. We only had $5,000 from the company to make our move with, which included the moving van. There was no money to fix the car and still have enough to move with so we had to get the other vehicle ready for the drive and tow the broken car behind the moving van.
Where was the blessing in this story? Do you see it? If we had not driven to church and put on those extra miles, the vehicle would have broken down somewhere late at night in the boonies and my husband would have been stranded. He would be stuck and no money to fix it. Instantly, he recognized the blessing and was thankful for it.
These are just three of the many stories I can tell you of situations where a calamity turned into a blessing. It was not always recognized as a blessing at first, but we did finally recognized it and felt grateful. Instead of feeling like life treated us badly and was always taking things from us, we saw the blessing and as a result, negatives were turned into a positive.
You can see blessings as well when you look for them and accept them with gratitude. As my stories reveal, you can turn a bad situation into a positive one when you accept life on it’s own terms and look for God’s hand in the situation.
The same is true when you see a negative situation that makes you angry, especially when someone does something that angers you, and then you do what I call, “Turn the penny over to see what’s on the other side.” In other words, you look at a situation and assume that it may not be what appears to be.
Turning the penny over means you consider what another scenario might be that would make it a different outcome that you had not considered before. Perhaps someone had a different motive than you immediately thought of or there were situations that you are not aware of that changes the situation dramatically from what it first appeared to be. In other words, turn over the penny and see what the other side presents.
Sometimes you just have to accept that “It is what it is!” and let go of it. If you can’t do anything about it or it won’t help the situation to create a commotion about it, then leave it alone. It won’t change things or make things any better, except to appease ego and emotions. It does nothing that creates peace or peace of mind in the situation, or do what’s best for the situation when the desired outcome is peace or peace of mind.
I hope my comments have given you something to think about, and that what I’ve said will help you see your trials differently.
I know God makes it clear in the scriptures that He is not pleased with people who don’t recognize His hand in their lives and then give the “enemy to peace” credit for the misfortune they experience instead of seeing the blessing that comes from Him. That’s not smart, and it’s no way to earn the Lord’s trust in our ability to accept His blessings in the future.
Protect What Matters
Protecting What Matters Is Necessary Now More Than Ever!
If “what matters” is for you to function in a free society, and if “what matters” is to protect your family, friends, and relationships from the fallout that is in a future without freedom, safety, and security, and if “what matters” is having peace of mind, then you need to accept some things you would rather not know or be bothered with and confront what you would rather not face.
You may want to investigate this concept a little bit more. We need to become proactive in what Congress is doing to protect our businesses and our way of life. If we don’t, we will lose what we have enjoyed throughout the years. Don’t take the last statement as a political point of view because it is not. What I said is a reality we are facing today, I’m talking about right now. We need to recognize this is true and do what we can to resolve this situation.
First, we must take a closer look at ourselves and what we demand from those who represent us. Are we expecting them to pass legislation they shouldn’t because we are self-centered and demanding or are they passing legislation they shouldn’t because of pressure from other politicians?
Second, we must consider what you can do to counter-act the mistakes policy makers are committing and then take appropriate actions in protecting our families. That’s why I have posted links for heirloom seeds and portable greenhouses for you to check out. Use this link WhatMattersStore.com.
I have been paying close attention to what’s been going on in Washington the past ten years or so. Believe me, I know things you would rather not know. I hope you will heed my warning and spend money on things you really need right now: such food storage, non-hybrid seeds, portable greenhouses, and emergency supplies.
If you don’t believe me, just let things happen that puts your family in jeopardy. It’s okay if you won’t trust my judgment, but at least spend a little money now and put a few items aside in case I am right.
Perhaps some day you will say what my son said when I asked him to put on a long sleeve shirt and long pants before riding the motorcycle to work. I said, “Just do it. One day you may thank me.” Later that day, I came home a found a note on a chair that said: “Don’t worry, I’m okay. Robin’s mom took me to the hospital. I’m glad I listened to you.”
He had been in a head-on collision; the motorcycle met a huge Ford Thunderbird around a blind curve on a narrow mountain road. I had said it many times before, that he needed to put on long clothes, probably too many times and became a squeaky wheel, but I am glad he finally listened to me. It saved him from being hurt worse. He only had a broken toe and a concussion cut on his knee. I hope you might listen to me as well, and save you and your family from getting hurt too badly in the future.
I realize that it is usually easier to live in default and allow things to come at you and then react. You probably throw up your hands and say “I can’t do anything about it anyway.” However, understanding that you are only one person and that what you think, say or do won’t change anything, I ask you to do something proactive to take control of your life–even if it’s uncomfortable. Being in the driver’s seat in order to have “what matters” to you will effort on your part, and often means swimming up stream and against the current.
You’ve probably figured out by now that, with twenty-four domain names and more than that in blogs, I am very committed to helping people who feel as I do or who suffer from the type of depression I spoke of earlier.
It gets harder every day to handle the news we hear on television (at least the little truths they allow us to hear) or read some of the propaganda they put in newspapers and magazines today. It is even harder to sift through the abundance of information available to us on the Internet without learning more than we want to know.
It is no wonder that people are feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the chaos that comes with living in our times, and no wonder they feel helpless in protecting “what matters” to them. I am here to help you with this. However, in some cases, I will add to your stress level by reporting on things you need to know but would rather not know right now.
I realize that this is a strange statement to make because it is not what you expect to hear from me. However, YOU MUST know the truth about what is going on every single day that threatens “what matters” to you and to me. You may know some things but there is much more that you may not know but need to know.
I will try to tell you what you need to know without stressing you out or causing you to become overwhelmed. Keep in mind that if you resist the truth and not face what you should, it will only become harder for you to protect “what matters” and find peace of mind.
Remember that FREEDOM is not free because someone has to pay the price for it. The more of us who share the load and pay the price, the easier it will be to protect that which the enemy among us in sheep’s clothing is trying to steal from us. They will succeed in their mission if we continue to live in default and not engage ourselves.
We cannot depend on mainstream media to report honest and unbiased news anymore, which to me, is unacceptable. For a candid look at events that are not being reported by NBC, ABC, or CBS, and sometimes CNN, then perhaps you will check on my blog at CanWeBelieveIt.Info.
If “what matters” is for you to function in a free society; if “what matters” is toprotect your family, friendships, and relationships from the fallout of a future without freedom, safety, and security; and if “what matters” is peace of mind, then you need to consider my comments in this posting and ask yourselves if you are prepared to pay the price for what is required of you to make that happen.
When you identify the things that really matter to you, and make choices that protect those things the best you can, then everything else doesn’t matter does it?
Feeling Overwhelmed by Our Times
The Problem We Share
People are becoming overwhelmed by the times we live in and are having to rethink “what matters” to them. As a result, they are beginning to shut down emotionally and refuse to listen to negative reporting.
This is understandable, there is only so much bad we can take before it affects us at home and work, possibly socially as well. However, this condition only makes things worse and does nothing to provide peace of mind, to trust government to solve the problems we face, and to gain a sense of security.
We share these feelings and let me tell you why. I went through my own rethinking process about “what matters” after September 11, 2001; the day we were attacked by Islamic terrorists. Within a weeks, I had succumbed to excessive thinking, and became depressed enough that I could not function normally.
I could not find enjoyment in doing things that used to give me pleasure and my emotions shut down. Depression affected my life so severely that I could not function at work well enough to do simple tasks, and so I lost my job.
I am telling you these things because you probably know these feelings. You may be worrying about your job, about where the money will come from to protect what you have, and you may not see any clear solution or know how to respond to our times.
Truly, you are not alone in these feelings. Even though I am not suffering from the same worries as you, I do know some of what you must be feeling. You may need to do what I did and seek counsel from your church, family, friends, and those who have been through the same concerns.
This is where I can assist you. I made it through the bad times but writing in my journal. I was able to redirect my negativity into something positive. I even wrote my first poetry during those times.
Seeing the American people reach out to comfort those suffering was uplifting to me. This is what I wrote in my journal and became part of the book I wrote about that September event. Let these words warm your souls and assure you that we are not alone in these times.
THANKS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
You were an inspiration to this country, as you came together from far and wide across this nation; united in purpose and patriotism.
This was shown in the flags you raised and the songs you sang, in the candles you lit, and the prayers you said.
With heads held high and caring arms spread, you hugged each other as tears were shed.
You were a ray of sunshine in the middle of turmoil, and an inspiration when this country was thrust into chaos.
No one did this alone; we did it together! Together we bridged the chasm of grief and despair, and together we face the future.
Although outraged for what happened that day, we must be united in order to be strong.
I’ve written about my experiences in a book, “The Treasure Box Series, Volume I: Peace, Joy, and Happiness.” The book tells more about the lessons I learned during that time, and the changes I had to make to stop reacting and respond appropriately to stressful and challenging situations. The book is loaded with suggestions for staying out of the wake that follows something traumatic and how to avoid getting caught up in things that don’t matter.
My biggest problem was excessive thinking of gloom and doom, caused by my fear that we would be attacked again and that my family would be harmed. Adding to depression was my bubble of trust in government burst when I realized government cannot completely protect us from an enemy committed to doing America and its citizens mortal harm.
My next challenge was the internet and emails. With all the information available about our times, I learned of deceitful manipulators in past and present government who want to destroy the American way of life as we know it.
Also, I learned from the internet and emails that some of our trusted officials have abused those they represent by making deals and passing bills (stuffed with pork to satisfy special interest groups) that people would object to if they knew about it.
And then, adding insult to injury, I learned that some of those I thought I could trust had actually abused their power of influence by falsely representing themselves or a policy they want us to support because it benefits them and their agenda and not the American people.
All of these conditions caused me to react and sink into a deeper depression. Does any of this sound familiar to you? Up to that point, I thought that government only had good intentions for America. Learning that was NOT true in most cases was a rude awakening for me, which I did not handle well.
I will not go into any more detail about that time in my life because I’ve written about it in my book, “The Treasure Box Series, Volume I: Peace, Joy, and Happiness.” The book tells you more about the lessons I learned during that time, and the changes I had to make to stop reacting and respond appropriately to stressful and challenging situations. It is loaded with suggestions for staying out of the wake that comes after something traumatic happens and how to not get caught up in things that don’t matter.
It serves you well enough to say that I really do understand things better now, and that I know how you may feel about living in these stressful times. It’s been almost ten years since I first realized I was depressed and learned to process my feeling better about events going on around me. So, yes, I really do have a good understanding of how you probably think, feel, and react to the times we live in today.
All you really need to know about me is that I learned to stop “reacting in default” when I didn’t know any better, and became proactive in my choices.
I learned to consider the worse case scenario for things that concerned me or caused me to be fearful, and then think of possible responses to help me deal with it. Doing that put me in the driver’s seat instead of living in default and fear.
In other words, I no longer react to situations but respond much better to life’s challenges, now that I know how. I learned my lessons well, and as such, I live a much happier and more peaceful life. You can live this way as well.
Welcome To What Matters!
We live in perilous and challenging times. We can give up and succumb to the pressure of our times or we can find a positive way to handle the events taking place around us.
Advice in this blog is from Judith Sherman, author of “The Treasure Box Series, Volume I: Peace, Joy, and Happiness”.
Choices that we make right now affects how we view our situation and if we react or respond appropriately to it.
Our attitude about life events affects the habits we develop and what we get back from life.
A healthy attitude makes a huge difference in our ability to make wise decisions, affecting how proactive we are making our own decisions, and affecting how we engage in life.
Attitude affects whether we live in default or sit in the driver’s seat of life. Sitting in the driver’s seat means we are making our own decisions instead of waiting for something to happen and then let it drag us down.
Living in default means that, instead of realizing life sometimes hands out doses of misfortune to everyone and we are no different or think we are singled out for some reason, we just throw up our hands and give up!
The truth is attitude affects how we accept the lessons we are supposed to learn from a situation and if we see a blessing or not in that experience .
When something bad happens to us, a bad attitude sends us to the same place we always go to when we don’t like what life dishes out to us: being angry with God, our parents, our employers or anyone we think has it better than us.
This blog is here to help you understand the world we live in can be a blessing when we know how to respond appropriately instead of reacting in default.
It’s a matter of being proactive in our choices, engaging in events that require our attention, and sitting in life’s driver’s seat instead of letting things come at us and then react out of emotions, ego, or in default because we know of no other way to respond.
Let us work closely together so we can support each other and be affective in our efforts to protect what matters to us.
If “what matters” is for you to function in a free society, and if “what matters” is to protect your family, friends, and relationships from the fallout that is in a future without freedom, safety, and security, and if “what matters” is having peace of mind, then you need to accept some things you would rather not know or be bothered with and confront what you would rather not face.</blockquote>
