A Special Quote

The following quote really sickened me not because of its ludicrousness, but because of its accuracy.

"The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it." — Leonard Ravenhill

Ponder this thought......

God Bless:

A Birthday That I Celebrate

Charles F. Kettering was born on this day August 29. Every day I thank this man but on this day, his birthday, I celebrate. Many of you if you only knew this man, would also mark your calendars and thank him.

For a day does not go by that I do not think of him kindly. So the next time you jump into you cars and before you turn that key to start your engine, thank Mr. Kettering. For you see he was the inventor of the electric starter.

No longer do we have to use that stupid hand crank, praise God!

God Bless:

I Have A Dream

On this day August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream" Speech.

Here is a small part:

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!"

Click here for the Full "I Have A Dream" It is worth reading.

GodBless:

Review: Krystal Myers

I love to listen to new artists, but lately, many of them seem to have the same sound. Of all the new Christian artists that are coming many are very good but their sound and the rhythms are very similar (which of course is not a bad thing...) but Krystal Myers does not fit into that mold. Her style and sounds dares to be different.

Her Christian alternative style varies, some pieces begin soft and mellow then flow into an alternative rock style while others are straight alternative rock. If you like the alternative/mellow rock style of music then I would recommend you try this freshman CD from Kystal Myers, entitled Krystal Myers.

Here is the lyrics to track 1 of her new CD:

Dear God

It's me again down here
Don't wanna sound insincere
I'm lost
Sometimes you're so unclear
What can I do?
I'm feeling so far from you
Frustrated
Irritated
Disconnected from it all
The weight of the world
Has pushed me to the wall

(Chorus)
I surrender - To you I'm giving in
Come take me - Save me -
I want to start again - I'll open my broken heart
'Cause I've reached the end - And you are the way to begin

Ohh ohh...ohhh....

I've seen a million empty smiles
Living in denial
I don't wanna live like that
where nothing's real
I hate how it is to feel
Frustrated
irritated
Disconnected from it all
I'm breaking
I'm aching for something beautiful

(Chorus)

All the riches in this world
Couldn't fill this great big hole (I surrender)
It takes something so much more (I surrender)
Only you can take me
You can make me whole

Its not the end this is the beginning
Its not the end...its not the end...

(Chorus)

(I surrender....I surrender....)
Its not the end this is the beginning

Love it:

Born on this Day: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

Better known as: Mother Teresa (of Calcutta)

Christian missionary in India, born in Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. She went to India in 1928, and taught at a convent school in Calcutta, taking her final vows in 1937. She became principal of the school, but in 1948 left the convent to work alone in the slums. After medical training in Paris, she opened some classrooms for destitute children in Calcutta. She was gradually joined by other nuns, and her House for the Dying was opened in 1952. Her sisterhood, the Missionaries of Charity, started in 1950, and in 1957 she started work with lepers and in many disaster areas of the world. She was awarded the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971), the inaugural Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (1973), and the Nobel Peace Prize (1979). In 2003 she was beatified by Pope John Paul II in a ceremony in St Peter's Square timed to coincide with the celebrations for his silver jubilee.

A woman of peace and a servant to all.

GodBless:

All Alone!

Well my daughter is now off to college for the year and my wife has gone to help her get moved into her college apartment. So that leaves me alone with my steaks and spiral cut ham. **sigh** All I have around me now is comfort food, and I do plan to take some comfort in them. I am off to see if the steaks are thawed....... Will talk later.... ***sigh***

God Bless:
BluesMan

One More Day

Another day is passing but this no ordinary day. For you see my daughter ”reves plaisants” is getting ready to go back to college. reves plaisants and her mom are going through the checklist and making sure all is in order.

I will be left, “all by myself” (**sniff** - **sniff**) for the next five days starting Thursday morning. All I will have to keep me company are my 6 steaks; spiral cut ham, and my keyboard. So I guess I will be posting more in the next few days as my mind gets itself wrapped around the idea she will be gone for another year. I will try to put all those bits and bytes (0100111010) back into a somewhat reasonable order and in doing so I will have to try to put my thoughts into words (hence the next few postings).

I will bear my soul – well not my soul but my thoughts on this.

GodBless
Bluesman

Nothing But the Blood

What can wash away my sin?
    Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
    Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

        Oh, precious is the flow,
            That makes me white as snow;
        No other fount I know,
            Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

For my pardon this I see,
    Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my cleansing this my plea,
    Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

        Oh, precious is the flow,
            That makes me white as snow;
        No other fount I know,
            Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Nothing can for sin atone,
    Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Naught of good that I have done,
    Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

        Oh, precious is the flow,
            That makes me white as snow;
        No other fount I know,
            Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

This is all my hope and peace,
    Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my righteousness,
    Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

        Oh, precious is the flow,
            That makes me white as snow;
        No other fount I know,
            Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

©Public Domain — Words and Music by Robert Lowry

The words of this hymn reminds me, it nothing I do but it is what he has done through His own blood. — Amen and Amen

BluesMan

Don't make the wife MAD!

A police officer pulls over a speeding car. The officer says, I clocked you at 80 miles per hour, sir."

The driver says, "Gee, officer I had it on cruise control at 60, perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating."

Not looking up from her knitting the wife says: "Now don't be silly dear, you know that this car doesn't have cruise control."

As the officer writes out the speeding ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls, "Can't you please keep your mouth shut for once?"

The wife smiles demurely and says, "You should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did."

As the officer makes out the second ticket for the illegal radar detector unit, the man glowers at his wife and says through clenched teeth, "Darn it, woman, keep your mouth shut!"

The officer frowns and says, "And I notice that you're not wearing your seat belt, sir. That's an automatic $75 fine." The driver says, "Yeah, well, you see officer, I had it on, but took it off when you pulled me over so that I could get my license out of my back pocket."

The wife says, "Now, dear, you know very well that you didn't have your seat belt on. You never wear your seat belt when you're driving."

And as the police officer is writing out the third ticket the driver turns to his wife and barks, "Would you PLEASE shut up?"

The officer looks over at the woman and asks, "Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma'am?"

She replied, "Only when he's been drinking officer."    

Why's

Why do toasters always have a setting that turns the toast into a charcoal briquette, which no decent human being would eat?

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?

Why do you have to "put your two cents in".. . but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?

Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Why do we choose from just two people for President and fifty for Miss America?

Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked anyway.

Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

What do you call male ballerinas?

If Wyle E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME stuff, why didn't he just buy dinner?

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?

Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

Why did you just try singing the two songs above?

Just a few questions we ask and really never have the answers for.........

Just smile:
BluesMan

Sing It BB

Nobody loves me but my mother,
and she could be jivin' too

Nobody loves me but my mother,
and she could be jivin' too

Now you see why I act funny baby,
when you do the things you do

Bad Choices

There are times in our lives that we are faced with choices. Many times we do not really know what lies beyond them but we make them anyway, not thinking how the outcomes will affect us.

One of my best friends (let's call him "D") had a son (lets' call him "B"). "B" was a good son who loved his dad, but there was something physically wrong with "B" which caused him physical pain most of his teen years. It was that pain and the emotional pain that was secondary to the physical, which started "B" using drugs.

Many state that the reason for using drugs is one of three reasons.

1) Peer pressure 2) For the high 3) To mask the emotional or physical pain.

"B" used drugs because 3 first and then 1. It masked the pain and it also made him feel a part of a group. "D" loved his son and tried for seven years to help "B" to overcome his drug addiction and he provided money and resources to help "B" break the cycle of this life style, but "B" constantly made bad choices. At the age of 20 "B" made one last "Bad" choice and it took his life.

"B" was a Christian but his life was riffed with bad decisions and the last one was his last. The lesson "D" would like all of us to know is that the choices we make affect not only you, but it affects all those around you. Pray for "D" and his family as they grieve the loss of "B" but also remember that the choices we make, they have lasting consequences.