why I smile

swing dancing in the kitchen with my sister

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dreaming

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picking wild blossoms

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I have three awesome older brothers

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writing long letters to pen pals

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deep thinking up in the barn loft window

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the wonderful smell of hay

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having a good talk with God

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journaling

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grease

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playing piano

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running through the field barefoot dodging bees ;)

The Environmental Agenda In America

This is a paper I had to write for class last week and thought I would share with you all. This environmental agenda is one of the many weapons of cultural destruction......................



The environmental agenda, that is becoming increasingly popular in America, is one of false propaganda and deceit. Those behind the movement have made the supposed “environmental issues” seem urgent. The American people are being pushed into an agenda of an  elitist group. If they don’t agree, they’ll be labeled as a pollutant and a roadblock.  Most people trust that the brilliant minds in government certainly know what they’re talking about, so they go along without question - a very dangerous decision. The government is finding their methods to be very effective.

    Radical environmentalists have four stated goals: “1. Save the planet, 2. Achieve bio-diversity, 3. Eliminate third-world poverty, and 4. Guarantee ‘a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature’ for all human beings.” These four reasons stated above, are what the  biased media is telling the American public. Behind each of these are secret motives. What the government is really trying to achieve is 1. Complete preservationism, 2. Doing away with property rights, 3. Abolishing industrialized society, and 4. Establishing a ONE-WORLD Government under the dictates of the UN.

    Starting with their first goal to save the planet, we see that by using the term “total preservation,” they’re saying that we need to give nature back what’s rightly hers. The average American hunter, industrialist and entrepreneur are being viewed as exploiters. Edward O. Wilson said that we should...“Initiate restoration projects to increase the share of Earth allotted to nature... let me suggest 50 percent. Half the world for humanity, half for the rest of life...” (emphasis added). The plan in this statement would require reducing humanity, which is also known as genocide.

    The environmentalists second goal, to “Achieve Bio-diversity,” could be re-defined as “achieving socialism.” In order for the government to assure that bio-diversity is being attained, they must own all property. In socialism, government takes from the citizen any so called “burden” of ownership. One of the major ones being private property. The reason for their needing citizen’s property is so they (govt.) may determine what’s best for earth and “mother nature.” This is another socialistic principle - that the average Joe is not capable of doing what’s best for nature. The governments goal here is to take our rights, which are guaranteed in the Constitution, and through this, attain a socialistic society and ultimately full communism.
However, if this comes to pass, they will have done more harm than good to the earth.

    The third stated goal is to “Eliminate Third-World Poverty” - the underlying goal being to do away with industrialized society. The argument presented is that industrialized societies are the major cause of poverty in other countries. If you favor industry, you favor poverty. However, there is a missing link here, which keeps it from flowing logically. The reasoning behind the ideas stated are that, 1) there are not unlimited resources in the world, and 2) the upper class are the only ones who benefit from industrialism. This is not true. The economy was booming during

America’s Industrial Revolution. New inventions were being bought by foreign countries, which greatly improved their societies.

    So, if industrialization hinders our planets capabilities, why are the intelligent business men and women and all other highly educated upper class (who are the ones behind this movement), still driving cars, buying the latest phone and computer technologies, and flying in their expensive jets that use who know how much gasoline which is wasting away our environment and killing animals? The answer: because these four reasons listed are not their true reasons. They want power and control - Socialism. They themselves desire life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but they will deny it to any other.

    The fourth and final goal is to, “Guarantee a ‘Healthy and Productive Life in Harmony with Nature’ for All Humans.”.... aka, One World Government. In order for government to regulate and preserve all of nature, they must control all of the world. This can be easily done through establishing a one world government. The earth and nature are becoming more precious and sacred than life. Nature’s needs will be placed above the individual.

    I recently watched a cartoon on a PBS station with my young niece. The girl was challenged by her friend to go a whole day without talking, but when all the citizens of their village fall asleep under a spell, not wanting to break her promise, she goes into the woods to seek help. She sat down and listened/meditated on nature (in a trance). She was able to hear the trees talking, the sound a rock makes, etc... and in her mind she asked for their help.  Some forest butterflies answered and went to help her friends. She then told her friend about how you can hear nature if you just listen, etc.. Well, I then had a talk with my niece! The New Age religion
and a sense of preservationism were rampant in that short, but loaded show. These are the kind of shows that are on national television and kids 1- 10 yrs old are watching. Once they get into highschool, they are also bombarded with Humanism, New Age, Socialism, Preservationism, and more....
  
    The Georgia Guidestones, which are located on one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia, consists of four large granite stones written in eight different languages. No one knows much about it’s origin, however, they deal with four major issues: “(1) Governance and the establishment of a world government, (2) Population and reproduction control, (3) The environment and man’s relationship to nature, and (4) Spirituality.” These guidestones appear to be written by the same radical environmentalist with the same agenda.
    
There have been many scare tactics about so called “global warming.” It is interesting to note that only 17% of atmospheric scientist believe that global warming may be happening. That means that 83% believe it to be a bunch of hype and yet, they seem to be silenced to push their “green agenda.”

    This environmental agenda is one of the ways that a select group of people are using to bring about socialism.

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- Class Handout, “Weapons of Cultural Destruction.”
- http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm - Georgia Guidestones.
- Channel 9 PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) Television
- Exploring Creation with Physical Science (Apologia Science) by Dr. Jay L. Wile (pg. 38-41)
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Any Comments or Questions?    

:::Writing:::

I've just started reading "Writing Personal Essays: How to Shape Your Life Experiences for the Page," by Sheila Bender. I'm only in the second chapter thus far, but yesterday I did my first writing exercise called, "Clustering."

According to the author, clustering is a type of method that helps to give suggestions or answers to your questions. You begin with circling the words "people," "place," "thing," or "event." After starting with one of these subjects, you draw lines out to the things you think of - things that you either like or dislike. You then circle them, and if something that correlates to the one you just drew, then you can draw a second line out from it. This can continue until you run out of thoughts. Below is a picture of one of my clusters. I chose "places."

The next exercise is called "Freewriting." After you finish your cluster, you choose one of the places, persons, things, or events and write about that subject for ten minutes. During these ten minutes, you should not worry about what you're saying or do any erasing (though I did cross a few words out). This exercise is to get your pen moving and your mind going. The author says if you can't think of anything to write, then go ahead and repeat yourself! You can also look to your cluster page and get some ideas. The main point is to write.

 Next is the "This is a Poem" exercise. It is used to gather sensory images about your subject. Her example:

"This is a poem about going to work.

This is a poem about the floating bridge route.

This is a poem about a reversible lane.

This is a poem about being passed from the right." etc.....

The last exercise is "Comparative Thinking." This is describing something by likening it to something unrelated. My example is below:

I'm interested in writing, but still in the beginning stages. Do you have any writing exercises that help you? Or good suggestions that you'd like to share?

"For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My sister and I were soaked by the time we returned from the barn this morning. My drenched hair felt like it froze into strips of icicles.

On most rainy Saturdays, I enjoy reading a wonderful novel, playing piano (always the slow ballad types on rainy days), or writing..

However, this Saturday, I had no choice but to finish reading a book that I have to write a book report on. It's a very interesting and informative book!

The title: "They Must Be Stopped." 

The book is about how we must stop radical Islam and what the dangers of that religion are. Many say that Islam is a "peaceful and tolerant" religion. My friends, nothing could be further from the truth. I would encourage you all to read it and let me know what you think. Do not be ignorant of what is happening. 

There are only three religions in which the followers will die for their beliefs. 1. Christianity, 2. Islam and 3. Marxism

I plan on having my book report on it done by Monday, so I may post my review of the book.

I hope you all had a wonderful rainy Saturday... :)

my paper......

This is a paper I had to write for one of my classes this week on the evidence for Christ and His resurrection.

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   The Christian religion is not a “blind un-reasoning faith,” it is supported by unbiased evidence, as well as history, science and archeology. According to the handout on the “Historical Christ,” the self-professed heathen, Johann Goethe said, “If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was the person of Christ... The human mind, no matter how far it may advance in every other department, will never transcend the height and moral culture of Christianity as it shines and glows in the Gospels.” This man attested to this, even though he does not believe in God. There are many more quotes from other antagonistic, agnostic unbelievers. The Bible
contains much scientific significance, such as, the earth is round. In fact, Nothing in the Bible has
been proven to be incorrect, even in regard to archeological findings in the past 500 years.

    Now there are many incorrect theories about Jesus. Some say He was a legend, some say He was real but purely a human person, another says He was a real person of supernatural origin or possession. As to the first theory, He cannot be a legend because the Jewish officials testified to His power and authority, as well as His being a real person who did perform miraculous signs. The Jews hated Jesus and would not have testified about Him if He had only been a legend. If the second theory, being purely human, Jesus could not have done the miracles that he did without  supernatural power from God or Satan. However, we know that He did not possess power from Satan because He cast demons out in God’s name. Jesus mentions this in Mark
3:23b-24 saying, “How can Satan cast out Satan. And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.”
  
    The last option is that He was, in fact, who He said He was. He was sent from God, His Father, to do His perfect will. This is the only “theory” with valid evidence. There are also many theories about His resurrection. Such as, the swoon theory, the hallucination theory, the wrong tomb theory and the theft theory. The swoon theory is very unlikely and impractical. The Roman soldiers would not have removed Him from the cross if
they were not completely satisfied that He were dead. The separation of Jesus’ blood from the water when they pierced His side on the cross, signified to them that He was dead (John 19:34-35). In fact, the soldiers were so satisfied of Jesus’ death, that they did not break His legs (which quickened death), and by not doing so, fulfilled a prophesy. Even if He had not died on the cross, I believe that most doctors and nurses would agree that a man with that much beating and pain inflicted upon him would not survive without any provisions or medical care within those three days. He would have bled to death. And how could a man who was so weak that He was pronounced dead, not only survive, but also roll away the large stone in front of the tomb that required many strong men to move and was guarded by Roman soldiers who would not sleep less
they themselves be put to death, which none were as they had been faithful in their duties. And yet, He was out of the tomb and appeared to more than 500 people.

    The Hallucination theory disproves itself. This theory states that Jesus died, but did not resurrect; the disciples and all the many people He “appeared to” were simply hallucinating. Well, it is proven that multiple people (around 500) do not ever hallucinate the same thing. 500 people is more than enough to convince a court of law. Besides, all the officials had to do to disprove the resurrection was to produce Jesus’s body. However, this theory has no evidence, because the body was gone.

    The last of these theories is one of theft. Since the tomb was empty, Jesus’ disciples must’ve stole it. You must ask yourself: What motive would they have in stealing His body so that it appeared He had risen? Perhaps they didn’t want others to think that they were wrong in believing He was the Messiah, so in order to protect their image, they stole Jesus’ body. But how would they be able to get past the Roman guards and roll away the stone? And why would they be so impassioned and willing to die for their beliefs? Because Jesus did die and did rise from the dead and then appeared to them giving them the great commission of Matthew 28:19!  They were martyred for their belief in Him - you don’t just give your life for something you don’t believe in.

    As well as all of these facts portraying to the truth that Jesus Christ was a real person with supernatural power to perform miracles, given by His Father, God, and that He did die on the cross and raise from the dead three days later, there are also Bible prophesies. Jesus fulfilled all of the many various prophesies written about Him. The chances of Him even fulfilling eight the 48 prophesies is mathematically impossible. It would be like covering the whole state of Texas with silver dollars two feet deep having marked just one of them, stirring them all together and then picking up the one silver dollar with the mark on it while being blindfolded. Sounds pretty impossible to me!

    The evidence for Jesus Christ is so overwhelming the only way you could not believe is if you chose not to educate yourself to the facts. Jesus did not have a selfish agenda while He was on earth, but came because of His Heavenly Father’s will - that all men may be saved through the atonement of Jesus blood for them. Jesus forgave these men who persecuted them and even loved them, despite their hatred for Him. Jesus Christ was the greatest man to ever walk the earth. He rose from the dead, like He said and how the prophesies predicted and became our High Priest - our intercessor. John 14:6, “No one comes to the Father, except through me.”