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Home-made Easter Traditions

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Two weeks after Easter might not be the best blog time to post my favorite family's Easter Tradition, but if you know me you will understand. I have the pictures handy, and next year before Easter I may never know how to put my hands on it. Maybe by next year I will have it all figured out and have my digital photos in order. (: In any case, here is a Easter tradition that my family loves. This is an idea that I thought up (every know and then, I do get an original idea) when the children were very young, and experiencing their first Easters. I wanted to have a way to make Easter lots of fun and filled with anticipation, without using the Bunny. I wanted to emphasis Jesus' resurrection. I had the children cover a simple tissue box with different color construction paper to make the cave tomb. We also made a solid brown construction paper door, and finally we made a white paper cutout of Jesus, the main person of this event. On the night before Easter I have the children set

Our Civic Duty

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It is now time for the citizens of the United States of America to come together and not allow ourselves to be divided by party lines. The "Obama Agenda" being placed on our country is not representative of how the majority of the US Citizens want our country to be going. We don't want : debt we can never pay off, terrorist given secret memo information, NYC citizens to running in fear due to a thoughtless photo op, our federal government running GM (our largest manufacturer), and our government taking over privately owned banks. We are a country of independent thinkers. We must not forget who we are, our history. Our government is to be 'for the people and run by the people'. We the people have the ability to come together, cross party lines and unite to save our Nation. Let your Congressmen know how you feel and how you want to be represented in Washington. Our Nation is changing too swiftly. I would like my Representative to consider people

Angels Preforming Ballet - Tornado Survival Story!

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Angels performing ballet is a unbelievable survival story written by a Pastor in Murfreesboro, TN named David Young. It is his words, his story. I simply wanted as many people as possible to see it! It was sent to me by a dear friend on email. I am sure it will be flying all over by email. I thought this can’t be real. I was lying on my side wrapped around a tree like a koala bear looking straight up into the eye of an F-4 tornado. And the debris at the top of the funnel looked just like angels gracefully performing ballet. How ironic. Those few seconds in the eye of the tornado may have been the most peaceful seconds of my life. It felt transcendental and sweet. That is, until the back wall of the tornado slammed against me, hurling two-byfours, trees, and sheet metal at 200 miles per hour. Here I was caught on the trail in the middle of a tornado. It was Good Friday, and my mind was distracted. A minister for a large church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a few miles south of

Angels Performing Ballet

Angels Performing Ballet written by Pastor David Young, Murfreesboro, TN. Angels performing ballet. Unbelievable, I thought. This can’t be real. I was lying on my side wrapped around a tree like a koala bear looking straight up into the eye of an F-4 tornado. And the debris at the top of the funnel looked just like angels gracefully performing ballet. How ironic. Those few seconds in the eye of the tornado may have been the most peaceful seconds of my life. It felt transcendental and sweet. That is, until the back wall of the tornado slammed against me, hurling two-byfours, trees, and sheet metal at 200 miles per hour. Here I was caught on the trail in the middle of a tornado. It was Good Friday, and my mind was distracted. A minister for a large church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a few miles south of Nashville, I was thinking about the Easter program that had required so much preparation over the last several months. I should have been thinking about the Resurrection itself, but I con

Who To Follow On Twitter?

Who To Follow? With so many people on twitter, how does a person figure out who to follow? I am not asking a rhetorical question. I am just a little puzzled. When I first started at twitter, I would look for people who had similar interest, or different interest but seemed interesting. I looked at their twitters to see if I wanted to follow them. Let's face it, with this and every other avenue, you get some pretty weird or sick people, and you get some people that you just would not care to listen to a word they spoke (or twoke). When I see a person that cusses like a sailor (why do sailor's get the rap!?) how about a person who curses like a average r-rated movie character or an everyday common high school student whom their life has been not so kind and/or they haven't been taught or exposed to how to speak in an honoring way....oops...I got carried away. Where was I ...twittering...I have about 850 people following. It really doesn't matter to me who follows, b

Murfreesboro, TN Tornado (Rutherford County)

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I am shook up. I live in Murfreesboro, TN where the tornadoes hit heavy today. I went to pick up a teen that was working on a school project with my son. On our way home it started hailing, and I blew it off as no big thing. I laughed with my brother on the cell phone about being a "cool" mom that drove around in hail before it stormed...not that I planned it. I pulled up as close as I could to the garage door, and we rain inside through the wind, rain and hail. Looking at the TV, we saw that the tornadoes were coming our way, Right our way! The streets the TV Weather Channels were naming where literally all around us. My two teen sons and their two friends darted to the front porch to "watch" the storm. I ordered them in as lighthearted as a mom surrounded by tornadoes can be and told them that I at least wanted them in the house, in case the tornado hit. "It would be kinda irresponsible for me to tell your parents if you blew away in a storm that I

7 Things You Need to Know to Save Your Life

Seven being the number of perfection to God couldn't be more perfect for this post that is truthful, relevant and a great need to millions - I dare say billions of people around the world. If you think you don't need this, think again. You need it the most! God loves you! John3:15 For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (NIV) Not only does God love you, He wants to bless your life and family. You are sinful, we all are! Romans 3:23 For all have sinned; all fall short of God's glories standards (NLT) We all do things that are wrong - things God would not want us to do. No one is perfect. Sin has a punishment, a penalty! Romans 6:23 For the wages (cost) of sin is death. (NIV) Since you have sinned (done something wrong, made a mistake), you are like a criminal that must pay the penalty for your crimes. Sinners must pay God the penalty for sinning. Death is something we all m

31 Days to Build a Better Blog #31DBBB

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As of today, I am one of 9,100 bloggers who have accepted the 31 Day Challenge to Build a Better Blog. I am going to follow the lessons each day for both of my active blogs www.lindylou-abbott.blogspot.com and www.abuseandtrauma-hope.blogspot.com. I can not tell you how excited I am about this! I have been wanting help to create the best blogs I possibly can make. In fact, I really want to launch my blogs as their own website domain so that I don't have to worry about my blog being removed by a host. Which happen to me in January 2009, when blogger removed www.coloringpeople.blogspot.com and I lost all of my content because I did not have it copied and was never given a reason or given information about how I could get my posts, even a copy of them to put on another site. So giving this experience I am a little leery about using a blog host site, and only do so at this point because I don't have the money to set up a website or the knowledge to know how to do it myself. W

We Are a Nation of Citizens

Today will be a day we should all remember as a turning point in American History. April 6, 2009, our American President, Barack Hussein Obama announced at the global economic conference in Prague that "We (America) are not a Christian Nation..., we are a Nation of citizens..." It is evident that the man the majority of Americans voted for President is not a God-fearing man, and no matter what some may say, Jesus is not his LORD and Savior. He IS NOT a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ. President Obama was not making a statement of fact, in a repentful sorrowful way. Instead he was making a Presidential announcement for all the Nations of the world to hear proclaimed, "American IS NOT a Christian Nation..." in the world according to President Obama. And it is on this day, that our Nation has fallen from its blessing, and covering of grace, not only in practice, but in principle. This is a very important point that must be understood. Over the course of o