How we mourn....

    Hello everyone. God is good no matter what. I have strong faith that the grandmother we know is either in that body that lies in the hospital brain dead or has risen to her new home next to our king and is looking down on us trying to send comfort for those who can not let her go....

   For all of you who do not know yet, my grandmother has had a massive heart attack and is in the hospital since thursday of last week. The Drs. say she is brain dead and that she has pass, but some of the family memebers refuse to take her out of life support and therefore her soul if indeed has lifted up can not rest until the body has been laid to rest...

                     I was trying to locate a picture of her to show her beautiful face but could not find one in my computer at this time... I will later post one as I feel fit. In any regards although she lies in a hospital bed dead, I have began to accept the fact that maybe it was her time and God did not want her to suffer any longer. She was 88 years old. A strong woman. Never judge anyone and loved everyone.Her door was never shut. The big momma of our family ,she kept us all together and strong. No matter what we did wrong, she was there with open arms to just love us.... To her last breath she whispered words of love and compassion to those who knew her . I was reading a lot of different stories of how people dealt with sorrow and I found a poem that was a little different than most. This poem is told in the eyes of the Lord to all parents... But in this case is to my grandma from the Lord to us.....

   THE POEM.......

        I'll lend you for a little time a child of mine, He said,
For you to love the while she lives and mourn, for when she's dead
It may be six or seven years. or 80 or 83,
But will you, till I call her back, take care of her for me?
She'll bring her charms to gladden you, and shall her stay be brief,
You'll have her lovely memories as solace for your grief,
I cannot promise she will stay, since all from Earth return,
But there are lessons, taught down there, I want this child to learn.
I've looked the wide world over in my search for teachers true,
And from the throngs that crowd life's lanes,
 I have selected you
 Now will you give her all your love nor think the labor vain,
Nor hate me when I come to call to take her back again??
I fancied that I heard them say Dear Lord, Thy will be done!
For all the joy Thy child shall bring,
The risk of grief we'll run.
We'll shelter her with tenderness, we'll love her while we may,
And for the happiness we've known forever grateful stay;
But shall the angels call for her much sooner than we've planned,
We'll brave the bittergrief that comes and try to understand..

Another day with God's blessing....

 Good morning everyone. Today I am doing a little better than I was yesterday. I was in the hospital with my grandmother. She has been ill and not doing good at all. But let me tell you how good God is. If you did not know about Jesus you need to go look for him now while you can.
  My grandmother yesterday was was showing positive signs. Now today was going to be a critical day and so far so good. I came this morning with a positive attitude because yesterday she was moving . Although it was small gestures, they were huge to us. She is so tired and we are so selfish that we want her here with us instead of allowing God to do his will. She is such a fighter. I never really had someone accept me for who I am without being judge before. She has never pointed fingers and has never disrespected me like a lot of my husband family do. This lady is the closest to me having a grandmother.....
   Pray for my family please... For strength at our time of need.. And we really need.......I will keep you posted...

A not so healthy trip......

 Hello everyone. Today is a beautiful day. God be the glory. I hope we are able to enjoy more days like this.
I was called the other day and was told not some healthy news. I have family in Virginia. My grandmother is ill and things do not look so good. Anyhow, I had to pray very hard.
  You see , we have to learn to ask god to guide us while we become selfish and ask to keep us in his hands wil we grieve. Although she has not passed, she is of age and is not breathing by herslf right now...
  I can not really talk about this situation right now, jst needed to ask for prayers for my family to keep us strong and allow God to do his will..

A Good Joke..... The Lawyer Vs. the Cop.....

       Good Day everyone...
         I ran accross this joke at our bi-weekly publication. Always a free paper to inform our community of what is happening around town. We are all so greatful for that.

    The Lawyer Vs. the Cop
            
                   A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a Jersey cop. He thinks that he is smarter than the cop because he is a lawyer from New York and is certain that he has better education than any cop from Jersey. He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the cops' expense.
     The cop says, " License and registration , please."
    " What for?" says the lawyer.
 The cop says " You didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign."
The lawyer says, " I slowed down. and no one was coming."
" You still didn't come to a complete stop," says the cop.
" Licence and registration, please."
The lawyer says, "What's the difference?"
"The difference is you have to come to a complete stop, that's the law. License and registration, please! " the cop says.
Lawyer says, " If you can show me the legal difference betwen slow down and stop, i'll give you my license and registration.; and you give me the ticket."
 " That sounds fair. Please exit your vehicle, sir," the cop says.
At this point, the cop takes out his billy club and starts beating the ever-loving crap out of the lawyer and says, "Do you want me to stop, or just slown down?"


          This was submitted by a reader of "Our Town" publication...

I'm back, gone long but not forgotten ......

                                                                        Hello everyone. I hope all of you have been well in health and prosperity and all that maters to you. God has truly bless me in these troubled weeks that I have been expriencing. I have been sick and all the troubles at work . A little over stress but nonetheless ok. The fourth of July came and went and now we are finally came getting hot weather. Happy Independent day. Better late than never is what they say....

This is a pic. of Jenelle and Wilson.My grandaughter and nephew. I just can not believe how grown they both are. I remember Wilson when he was ten days old and I kept him here in my home while my sister recooperate  from being ill. And now  he is five years old. My grandaughter is a little firecracker herself and now she is two. Will only take pictures with wilson, her favorite cousin in the world.......

Of the fourth of July I had a small gathering . My sister who has come to my house maybe 2 times sice I have move from the city to the mountains , had came up. I had some friends and we just had a lot of food and listen to music and had a good time. My kids took my sister to the lake while we got the food prepared and the little ones just played.

My beautiful sister, (the shorter one) and one of my many blessings my oldest ddaughter and little Jenelle sneaking in the picture....

Strike, Strike , Strike

  Good evening to everyone,

                 I have a lot to be thankful for this day. For starters my life and second my family and third my job. You see as of yesterday my company was going on strike. We had until 11:59 pm to get a tentative agreement that both our union and our company will agree to. As of this morning there was no agreement reached. I was very nervous, although our right to exercise a strike would have protected our jobs we would have no salary coming in. Not a good time to be on strike. That was in the minds of a lot of people that are sole providers of their homes. It took us to be told how much one ceo of our company received as a bonus this fiscal year. It was stated that this particular person made in bonus alone 12.8 million dollars. Now a company that is in dire straits and can not afford to give a decent contract to their employees  does not have the money to pay out this kinds of bonuses to anyone. Keep in mind that this was the bonus of only one ceo. There sits about twelve. I was not as upset as I guess other people were. The ceo works just as hard as I do and got what he deserve but, in that same perspective I had prayed that he can see that we as well work as hard as he does and deserve our compensation too. But God is wonderful I tell people all the time. He put the right people in place last minute and our negotiating team was up all night and half through the morning to get us a contract that we can live with. We need help with health coverage. I have to pay almost 60 dollars a week in health coverage for myself alone. Not including a 20 dollar co pay and 150 dollars each time I see the emergency room. Our hourly wages will increase this year and our pensions will remain as is. So that is good for us. I am still fairly young and far from my retirement age but I know that by the time it is time for me to retire, there will be no social secuirity for me to collect. That is why our pensions through our jobs are so important.. All I know tommorow I have a job to go to and I want to thank my company for negotiating and cinsidering us after all.

This is a joke " Double Blonde Joke"

   Praise the Lord today people... How is everyone? I hope you are all well in health and fortune...
I read a joke in one of our town free papers and want to share with you... Here it goes.

   " Double Blonde Joke"

   A blonde female police officer pulls over a blonde gal, in a convertible sports car, for speeding. She walks up to the car and asks the blonde for her driver's license.
  The blonde convertible driver searches through her purse in vain. Finally she asks, " What does it look like?"
  The blonde police officer tells her, "Its that thing with your picture on it." The blonde driver searches for a few more seconds, pulls out her compact, opens it. and sure enough sees herself. She hands the compact to the blonde cop.
  After a few seconds looking at the compact, the blonde cop rolls her eyes, hands the compact back to the blonde convertible driver and says' " If you would have told me you were a police officer when I first pulled you over we could have avoided this whole thing. "


                         Don't mean to pick on the blondes. I just read it and thought it was funny.
I also read a trick to do and it kills me to try to prove it wrong, but I can't. See if you can..
  All you do is while you are sitting at your desk , lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now while doing this, draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction and there is nothing you can do about it..Let me know if you were able to do the opposite...

long commute....

God be the glory...... Is all i want to say after a long commute. I never realized how horrible commuting really is. I have a at least 2 hour drive in front of me everyday.:(
So I loose 2 hours of sleep in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. I love what I do and have been in my job a long time... but I wish I can find something closer to home. I feel like I ne er enjoy anything that I have worked hard for... Then I stop to think nothing is mine. God gave me a gift through Jesus so that through him I can stand here today and
complain to you and rant a out the small sacrife I make for my family and the blessing of my home but, like most people I do not choose to remember the big sacrifice Jesus made for me..
So as I sit on this bus that's hot and stinky going home in traffic and I absorb the
beautiful world we live in, I will just say thank you Jesus and enjoy while I can.....

Babysitter for the Grandchild

  Omg, today was a big mark in our lives. Our grandaughter had her first babysitter outting. Let me explain. We have always been around to watch our grandaughter while my eldest daughter goes to work. Someone always has been here or we all take turns in watching  her. She is use to family only. As we try to look at our schedules we realize that no one is going to be able to watch Jenelle in the morning. We are all busy in the morning and no one left to watch her. Time to look for a babysitter. My good friend Nancy happen to be available to watch her. So thank God for that, but we did not know how our grandaughter was going to react. She has never really been socialable without us being around. She knows Nancy but has never really been left alone with no one. She only needed to be watch for two hours but for a child that is not uise to being without her immediate family that is a long time. Needless to say she is only two..
 Time to drop her off. Can I tell you that we cried more than she. It turns out my grandbaby made us look like fools. She remember Nancy and was happy to go with her... But you have to understand we were like parents dropping of a child at school for the first time. I cried for all my kids. And it seems worst for my grandkids.... How crazy????

Forgotten Virtues...

   Hello to all. I hope today you are having a blesed day and all in your lives is well. As for me I can not ask for more than I can chew.
   I do not know where to begin so excuse me if I babble a little. Letme start by saying Happy late memorial day. Long weekend for me. I had 2 barbeques . I managed to be off on Friday. Said a little white lie that now I am suffering the consequences. This is why I do not like to lie. I told me boss that I had a personal matter and would like to take a personal day on Friday. He said ok. I had no real reason to be off with the exception that I just wanted some time away from work. I should have just said that but, instead I said I might have to go to court. Why did I lie??? I do not know but here is my punishment. I go to check on my hours of pay to ensure that all my hours are there for my pay period. This is my paycheck we are talking about and guess what....... NO PERSONAL DAY PUT IN..... So now I am not only short one day but two because if you do not work the day before the holiday you do not get pay for the holiday.... See why I do not like to lie.
     But I had fun on my days off. I usually commute to the city which is about two hours everyday going and two coming and was very happy not getting up so early. Back to my days off. Saturday did nothing but clean. Sunday went to two church services and a barbeque. and Monday another barbeque.. Thought I would have had more rest but, busy me always on the go did not know when to quit and just stay still.
   There have been some storms and tornado watches around our area these past two weeks, nothing compare to that in Missouri... I still pray for them and I am petrify of the thought of something like that coming this way. See there are some states that are more use to certain natural storms and our state is not.. We are use to snowstorms. Give us 20 inches of snow in one day and we will survive. You will see all of us continue our day like itwas nothing going on outside and it was just another day in the neighborhood. Give us lots of rain , fog that we can not even see the trees ,lights or anything else outside and we can get around like nothing but, tornados and hurricanes no can do. We are not equipped for something like this.  I am afraid of all the danger it could cause. All the lost lives it will leave behind.
  On another note remember these forgotten virtues. HONOR, PURITY, LOYALTY, INTEGRITY AND GRATITUDE......... These things are forgotten in today's world. It is something that we should try to live by and most of us do not even know the meaning of half of these.  God bless you all and pray for me as I will pray for you. Till next time...

Walking in faith and not by sight...

   Hello my family in Christ. I hope that all of you are in strong and good health. I want to thank you for taking the time to read my post and tell you that I pray for you and love you because you chose to love me first. This is straight out of the bible where it states that we love God because he loves us first.....

   I had a good day at church on sunday. I have been attending this new church and it has been very uplifting. My kids actually like it and they have daycare services for the little ones. My grandaughter loves it by the way.... It has been hard to take her home because she does not want to leave. I guess she is playing with kids her age and they have a sorts of things for them to do.
  The segment that I have been attending this month at this church was called Masquerade. It had a different message that was given by this pastor every week.
                 Part 1 was Hiding from God. It shows how we all try to hide from God but do not realize he sees all. In the bible in the book of Genesis, it was known that Adam and Eve hid from God after they ate from the apple. When God called Adam he was hiding behind the bushes because he was ashamed. I believe he was regretful of what he had done and not so much the fact that now he has realized that he was naked.
                Part. 2 Self Deception:  I am number one for this. In life when someone asks us how are we doing we tend to pretend everything is ok. Even to ourselves.I have a bad habit of not admitting to anyone when things are going wrong.  There was a saying and it reads " Th longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth"....
 Easy way out of self deception read Psalm 139 :23-24... It reads per the KJV bible "Search me o' God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Second Listen to others and listen to God as he speaks to you through the Holy spirit. And three change your way. Confess to yourself that everything really is not alright. Ask others to pray for you. You do not have to tell anyone your personal business but you can ask someone to just pray for you for strength.
              Part 3: Hiding your sins..... This was one of my favorite part of the 5 part series. We all believe that just because we did not get caught doing something , we can hide that sin. When we sin we only have to choices. One is to conceal our sin and the second is to confess our sin. Remember in Proverbs 28:13 it reads that He that coverth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.  We also read in Psalm 51 where King David was discover for commiting adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband killed so that they can hide that sin that they had committed. He wrote this Psalm to God asking for mercy and forgiveness, and it reads " Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. " It does not matter when you sin as long as you confess to God and ask for strengthening.

 I will continue with the rest on my next blog. But it is meaningful to me and I just wanted to share this with you. Hope to write to you soon. God bless everyone.. Have a great day ...

A Joke for you

  I am so sorry that it has been so long since my last entry. I want to say that all , I hope that you have has a blessed month and the best in health. I do not know about all of you and were you live but here in Pennsylvania we are overwhelmed with lots of rain. I am just grateful that we are not flooded like those other states. It is such a tragedy to see. I just feel like I have to pray harder for these people that are loosing everything but as a true christian I believe that God will provide them with something better than they originally had.It's the blessing after the storm.
  On another note, I lost approximately 7 pounds (YEAAAAAAH).
Today is the 20th of May and about 22 years ago and 36 hours of labor later, I had a child. My first born daughter. She is 22 today. It is helping me see all the years that I have been under God's protection. Happy Birthday Jessie.

A Joke for All

   This is suppose to be a true story..."The Houston Herald Newspaper" in Houston, Texas, reported this

        Last thursady night around midnight , a woman from Houston, Texas was arrested, jailed and charged with manslaughter for shooting a man 6 times in the back as he was running away with her purse.
  The following Monday morning, the woman was called in front of the Arraignment Judge, Sworn in, and asked to explain her actions.
  The woman replied, " I was standing at the corner bus stop for about 15 minutes, waiting for the bus to take me home after work. I am a waitress at a local cafe.... I was there alone, so I had my right hand on my pistol that was in my purse, that was hung over my left shoulder.
  All of a sudden, I was being spun around hard to my left. As I caught my balance, I saw a man running away from me with my purse. I looked down at my right hand and I saw that my fingers were wrapped tightly around my pistol. The next thing I remember is saying out loud, " No way Punk! You're not stealing my paycheck and tips!" I raised my right hand, pointed my pistol at the man running away from me with my purse, and squeezed the trigger of my pistol six times.
   When asked by the Arraignment Judge, "Why did you shoot the man six times?"
The woman replied under oath, " Because , when I pulled the trigger the 7th time, it only went click."
 The woman was acquitted of all charges. She was back at work, at the cafe , the next day.
   Now That's Gun Control!!!!!

Bible study among friends

  Hello to everyone and I hope that all your days are well. I want to thank my heavenly father for another wonderful opportunity to be able to fellowship with other friends. None of us go to the same church but we use to. We venture to different places. We had all started in the same teaching ministry but, found our way to different places to worship. Nonetheless, we found each other as friends and family and christ and were able to set up a day for our bible study. I had been wanting to have a bible study session amongst friends and finally we had one. I can tell you it was wonderful.I have to thank my God for allowing this to happen. We had been trying to get together for quite some time. We all started off with a wonderful snack. Thank you Mother Mary ( no she is not a nun) for allowing us to have our studies in your home. It was wonderful and for feeding us and treating us like family.
 We statred reading from the begginning. Genesis chapter 1-4. We had review how wonderful our lord made our world . We also took in acknowledgement that in biblical times our day actually statred at night for in Genesis 1:5 it say and I quote " and God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And  the evening and and the morning were the first day. This indicated to us and our searching that the days as we know it actually were man made clocks and not biblical. Reason for our conclusion.
I am so looking foward to next weeks bible study. I pray that we get just as much insight as we did last week. Until then be safe ,be blessed ,and be humble .



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Happy 2nd Birthday Jenelle

 This is a beautiful day. Today I celebrated Jenelle's birthday. I have not had a party for a child in so long , I had forgotten how tired it can make you.

 

                          

My beautiful angel of a grandaughter that I was blessed with. 

    I thank the Lord everyday that I am around to help in raising my grandaughter. Although my daughter those the best that she can and tries very hard, there is always something that we forget. So I am lucky and blessed to be here for her and able to help with all aspects of my granchild up bringing.

    It is a lot of work and time and patience. God knows patience. 

This weekend was a little gathering for this precious grandchild and it was very tiresome. It has been so long since I had a gathering for a child. Now I see why . It felt like a tornado was about to approach and no matter how you thought you had prepared for it , it just was not good enough to handle the storm. Kids are just naturally hyper and I guess I am getting old.It was a great time had by all. We had attempted to grill outside and immediately had took notice that the weather was not going to let us so we had to take the outside grilling , inside. We cooked and finish grilling. Thank goodness for the foreman grill and the griddle. Everything was made in no time . We all ate and rested while the kids played and then it was time for the pinata. let's just say OMG. Confetti everywhere. Kids sliding and my grandaughter in the middle trying to taste confetti. Then we cut this huge cake...Bye- bye diet..

But she is worth it. God bless you...

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My grandaughters 2nd Birthday.............

    Thank you Lord for this special day and for blessing us with another day on this earth.

A Newborn

At 1 year old...

Today is my grandaughters 2nd birthday. I can not believe how fast time is going by. She is so sweet. In a year she has mature so much. Just to think next year she is going to start head start. On sat. we will have a gathering for her little friends can come and enjoy cake and some ice cream. I will include photos of what she looks like now at 2 on a later blog. God bless everyone and have a good night..




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Do you see him????

                I am enclosing this link so that you can listen to this sermon that I heard today, if you have time. It was about these two guys walking down a road and a third man join them ,and they were so unfocus that the person that they were talking to was Jesus and they did not even know it. This was a very interesting story for me ,and so I kept hearing  the sermon and as I was listening  to the way the Pastor had explained it, and  it  made me realize that I can relate to these two gentlemen. I too sometimes do not see Jesus and therfore do not acknowledge that he is in my presence. In case you have time to read your bibles, the story came out of Luke chapter 24 13-54 and the reading of the word reads as follows:

13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,
34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen


        Can I tell you that I do not go to this church . I have only been here twice. I just  happened to register to get free emails from them and today I was checking my emails and I received a newsletter from them. So I read it and decided to listen to the sermon this past sunday. Their website is http://www.innovationlife.org/  and go to media. All this Pastor's sermons are place in this audio and you can even watch the sermon if you want to. I thought what a wonderful way to spread the message of Jesus.







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What a beautiful day?????

 OMG.... Yes what a beautiful day.. Thank you lord for all your days but, thanks for this day specially because it was just perfect. No rain , mid 70's a little breezy and sunny. Not muggy. Just perfect. Gotta love it. Now if only all our days are like this would be so great.
  On another note, I hardly ever get to enjoy the day. With work and all it's hard to see days like this unless I request off or call out. Hopefully this summer will stay around for a little while.
Today I miss out on girls night out. It's a bunch of my friends and myself get together and go to the casino and eat and just hang out. I can not make it . It's like a big slumber party. Hope they have fun.

Weather is crazy and I hope whever you are , you are having a great day.

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What a beautiful Easter Day?????

Happy Easter Everyone.... Hope you had a wonderful day. I know I did. It has been raining all week and it's been cold here in Pennsylvania, but today may God be the glory it was warm and sunny. Isn't it like our father to choose the right day to shine his glory....

 I complained about the church I had went to on Friday because there was no morals as to what the day was about. The significance it has for us christians. When I say us christians, it simply means those who believe in Jesus Christ and that he came here to save us from our sins, so that through him we may have eternal life. I had to specify that because for some reason people have asked me what religion is that and I have had to explain. I have no religion preference. I am someone who is tired of believing in everything negative and chose to one day pick up the bible and started to go to church and realized that there is so much out there that I have yet to see. When you look at things in God's way , you see things so different. Everything is still the same but the way you handle things are so much different and therefore you get different outcome.
Now I must say , I wanted to apologize because I should not have been disappointed. After all we are only humans and are entitle to make mistakes. All of us have our way of expressing the love that we have for Jesus and I should not have judged the church for allowing mess to happen. I put man on a pedestal instead of gloryfying God even though there was so much not done right. After all that is why I was there for.

 Today I went to a church that I have gone to about three times before. I enjoy the Pastor sermons everytime I do go. We are just taking it slow because I am tired of going to churches that are only money hungry and spread there word and not the word that's in the bible. We had a great service and we had a feast afterwards. We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and what we did that stood out for me was have communion. Most churches ahve communion only on the first sunday of the month, but this Pastor felt compelled to see that we take communion. This signifies the rememberance of Jesus and what he had done for us on the cross. This was a wonderful message to give today. I pray for you my friends and family in christ that your lives will be fulfilled......











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Good Friday .... What is wrong with the sermons at churches on this day?

    Hello everyone. I hope you are blessed today as you read and go about your day in the presence of the Lord. Let's start out with a prayer that I read and found it to be so inspiring to me....

          Lord Jesus, the presence of your mother at the cross engages my heart. You are no longer only the Savior dying for the sins of the world. You are also a fully human man, a son with a mother.

O Lord, how can I begin to thank you for what you suffered? My words fall short. My thoughts seem superficial and vague. Nevertheless, I offer my sincere gratitude for your suffering. Thank you for bearing my sin on the cross. I give you my praise, my love, my heart . . . all that I am, because you have given me all that you are.
All praise be to you, Lord Jesus, fully God and fully human, Savior of the world . . . my Savior!
                                                                                             Amen.

   I had went to a church service on Good friday. I was not very please with what I was hearing. At all.
I do not know about you , but it has taking me almost my whole life to come to terms that I owe my whole life to my living God and the Saviour Jesus Christ that hung on that cross for me. Through him I am allow to still reach the kingdom . With all that said , the passion that a church should have for this special day that we chose to remember and embrace as the day that Jesus died on that cross, should be full of life and hapiness and rejoicing. Something like thanksgiving for life and a second chance of life...This was the day that our jesus died for the sins of the world .It makes sense that the first word of Jesus from the cross is a word of forgiveness. That’s the point of the cross, after all. Jesus is dying so that we might be forgiven for our sins, so that we might be reconciled to God for eternity.
  Now when you go to a church you think that this celebration is going to bring such joy. As I anticipated such a great service for the evening, I couldn't wait to get there. I got dress and headed my way to a church. The church that I initially wanted to go was unfortunately close, so I went to another. I think I sat for about half an hour out of a three hour service. That's how unhappy I was . It was like it was a dead church. No one was uplifting no one was prepared to do the last seven words of christ and the services was just chaotic...All I can do is pray. Ask God to forgive us for how we are remembering why christ die. To think that this is what we are teaching our children..

Everyday our world gets worst. Just pray as much as much you can, our future need it.....                                     


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A joke for you.....

God bless us all as we are in a Holy week of passover.

  I want to talk a little bit about marriage today. Give me opinions if you like. I encourage and I like to see what other people think. As a woman who has been married for nearly 20 years, you tend to have gone through a lot.  Saying that I believe in the bible. Let me explain. I made a covenant (contract) in front of God to be married through sickness and good health, for rich and for poorer until death do us part. I never promise these things to my husband. I promised them to the lord. He is who I truly put in front of my home so that I have the strength to deal with all that is coming my way..... And it usually is a lot....lol
  Being this said, I have always seen myself as a very opinionated  woman with my own vision as to how a marriage should be. I believe in order to be respected by your spouse, you need to respect him first. Do not give him a reason to have an upper hand on you... If I yell first , I am just invited him to yell as well. If I argue first , then I am just invited him to argue.... etc, etc,,,.... It's like opening the door to the devil. I am in no means trying to tell you to be a wuss... But all you do has to be judged by God... Jesus came and die for the remission of our sins and because of this fact is why you need to be very careful how you address issues in your marriage. Everything you do is consider in the day when we are to be resurrected in the new Heaven...Why on earth would you allow anyone even your husband to let you stray from your crown of glory.
    There are so many times that I have wanted to just pack up and go but, as I attempted todo so, something always held be back and instead, I choose to read my bible and pray for forgiveness and understanding and best of all wisdom to deal with the cituation at hand that was causing me to want to leave in the first place.You can only save yourself. No matter how hard you try, your spouse has to want to be in God's presence for his blessing. We all do not get our blessing together . All we can do is pray for one another....As a woman we are built to deal with a lot. Our bodies are physically stronger and our minds even better. Our abilities to fix any problem that comes your way is a gift from God. Do not think that you are all that and a bag of chips, although we are all perfect in God's eyes. To say that you are not perfect is like saying God is a liar. Your choices and decisions are not perfect but you as an individual are perfect cause we are all made through the vision of our lord .Do not ever doubt yourself. Your spouse no matter how negative he can be can never put you down or make you feel like crap because you are perfect and you father up above loves you.
    I had been married before, I was in an abusive relationship that I stayed in because I misunderstood what marriage was about. I had never read the bible before therefore I was being mistreated very badly and in return I was mistreating an individual as well. I had a way out. You know when it is a blessing when you leave the transition is smooth. No fights , no arguments . Everything is there for you. A job, a home, and your family.... The most important thing... My kids were always my strength. I thank god for them. Without them I would not have seen the light . Who knows I might have been dead by now, so I thank God for saving me.

Allowing me to find a husband whom I can respect and love dearly .

 Here is a joke after all this seriousness...
" If you Marry a Pennsylvania Girl..."

       Three friends married women from different parts of the country.

   The first man married a woman from Utah. He told her that she was to do the dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple of days, but on the third day, he came home to see a clean house and dishes washed and put away.

  The second man married a woman from Louisiana. He gave his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes and cooking. The first day he didn't see any results, but the next day he saw it was better. By the third day he say his house was clean, the dishes were done and there was a huge dinner on the table.
 The third man married a girl from Pennsylvania. He ordered her to keep the house cleaned, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything, but the third day, some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye, and his arm was healed enough that he could fix himself a sandwich and load the dishwasher. He still has some difficulties when he pees...

    I thought this was funny condisidering I am from Pennsylvania.....

 Have a bless day and thanks for reading....

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Good Friday and what it means to me....

Sorry I have not written in forever....  
      Hello everyone. I hope all is well with good health and good spirits. I know that you are all doing fine . My faith tells me so. We are not all perfect but, we are doing just fine. I have been overwelm with stuff and have not had time to write anything.
   Tommorow is Good Friday. A very touchy subject for me to even speak about without getting tear -eyed. The closer I seek God by reading the bible the more I can see what was going on at this time. The thought of all the cruelness that we as people were able to show and enforced on a person just does not make sense to me. Never mind the fact that this man "JESUS CHRIST" that walk the earth healing the sick, casting out demons. A man about peace and love and repentance. A man that came here to give us an opportunity to see that there is another way of living life. Not the sinful lives that we were showing at that time and even now.So I am enclosing in respect to Jesus Christ his crucifiction ...... his death as foretold by previous prophets.
    This comes out of the KING JAMES VERSION of the bible.
                                  Matthew 27: 35-54

35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

36 And sitting down they watched him there;
37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest [it] in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking [him], with the scribes and elders, said,
42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard [that], said, This [man] calleth for Elias.
48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled [it] with vinegar, and put [it] on a reed, and gave him to drink.
49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

Thank you Jesus for dieing for my sins. Thank you , because of you I am able to repent.  Because of you I am able to live.... Even in this sinful world..



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We are all meant for something.....

    In this crazy world that we live in, we just always wonder what on earth are we here for. What is my purpose? I always have this type of questions.. The world that we live in gets worst and worst as the years go by. How can we possibly be put in it for good when we do evil more and more each year. I can't even turn the tv on without hearing about rape, murder, robbery and  arson.
  My quest to understanding life has put me on my quest to understanding the bible more and more. I am trying to live by the laws on the bible. Although I know I can not accomplish half of what it's expected of me I am going to try the best that I can to achieve most. I have been listening to the audio part of the bible on my ipod and reading the rest when I get home.The hardest thing that I have found for me is to have faith in my heavenly father.It has taken me a long time to get to the point where I believe in the things that I can not see.That is what faith is all about. Now I can truly tell you that my faith has kept me from making a lot of wrong decisions.
 I wanted to have share one thing that I have been reading. In the King James Version of the Bible . On the book of Esther , I found one example of a woman that was put on this earth for a very important reason. She was just a young woman that became a queen and because of her and her faith in our Lord she was able to save her people from being murdered... She became a queen at the right time. Her calling was to be a queen and save her people.
 If you want to read it I recommened
 this is just one of the stories that are in the bible.


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Hello Monday....

Here we are another week. I am so sorry that I have not written anything. Just have been very busy and as usual no time for anything. But, tonight I decided that I had to uleash a few words and thought so that I do not feel alone and crazy...lol

 First thank you Lord for another week of me being able to yell and scream and complain as only I can do best. Have had a crazy couple of days but, through the glorious power of my heavenly father , whom keeps me and the faith that I truly have in him, I am able to sigh....

 Now where do I begin. Maybe i'll go backwards. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my nephew  ELIJAH. He turn 16 this past Sunday. Time has past me by. You know the signs were there. You would think that after having 3 girls that are all over the age of 18 and one son that is almost there. Like 9 months away might have given me a  hint. Or better yet , two grandaughters that both are old enough to call me grandma, would be a even bigger hint but the truth of the matter is that since I am so use to them, things just seem normal. However, going to my sister's to celebrate my nephews birthday and seeing all my nieces and nephews, made me really feel old. As they were all having margaritas, and sharing laughs I had realized that not to long ago, it was us having the margaritas. You see it has been a long time that I have gone to one of my family's gatherings. My nieces and nephews range from 27 being the oldest to 20 being the youngest. Then there are those that are still left to turn 18. Which are my son and my nephew. Good luck to me.....

 It was all fun.... Some of my nieces came from Ecuador and we just sat around and talk about my family. I have not seen them in years. Which brings me to my next dilema. I have been looking for flights to Ecuador . My father requested to see us. I mean my husband and me. I have to try to find flights that are affordable and right now it is a bad time. I have not seen my father for over 4 years. I truly miss him. More so than my mother. Him and I are very close. I think that I miss my best friend which is what he was to me. I felt like I have lost my father. He moved years ago back to his country. He resides in Ecuador. He lived in the states for years and when he retired his doctor told him he needed to go some place warm. He did not want to be like the rest of his family and end up in Florida so he chose to go back to his country. This is the reason I can not just go in my car and take a drive to see them. I truly miss him. I just saw a picture that my sister has posted on facebook and I started to cry...

Pray for my strength and hope that I can find a flight that I can afford.....

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First Day Back to Work....

    Lord thank you for another day... Thanks for not letting me break any bones during the course of the day(LOL)...
  Bless those who are less fortunate than myself and allow them peace and hope to fill their hearts as they get closer to you.

       Let me tell you, I wanted to die. It was freezing at work today. You would have thought I work outside. Wrong. I am as indoors as it gets. My company sponsors a flower show every year around spring time.Normally the weather is much warmer. Right now we are looking at 15-40 degree weather, when normally it is 50-70....

Although, the flowers are beautiful I would much rather have the real ones that come from outside. And the weather that comes with it. Winter does not seem to want to leave us, and the snow that is coming this weekend is really not allowing the flowers to bloom through. What can we do? We can just pray for a long summer.

  The flowers are beautiful to look. It keeps me hopeful that we will be warm soon. I had a minor surgery last week. I was home all week driving my poor husband crazy... I know I was so whiny. I couldn't stand myself. But coming back to work today was hard on my. It was cold and my bones were hurting . Got me thinking about a lot of things in life that I want to do. I am going to do more things in life. I do not know when my last day on this earth is going to be ,but in the meantime I want to live my days like if it was my last. I want to live it fully and joyous. I want to be remember as someone kind and with good intentions and happy.
                                          Which brings me to my story today.

               The story I chose today come from a lady who is 85 years old and these are her words as she tells them....
       "If I Had My Life To Live Over"

     I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
   I'd relax. I would limber up.
I would be sillier than I have this trip.
I would take fewer things seriously.
I would take more chances.
I would take more trips.
I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers.
I would eat more ice cream and less beans.
I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones....
You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day.
Oh, I've had my moments and if I had it to do over again, I'd have more of them. In fact I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments.
One after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.

I've been one of those people who never go anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute.
If I had it to do again, I would travel lighter next time.
If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.
I would go to more dances.
I would ride more merry-go-rounds.
I would pick more daises.
                    This was a story I read and chose for me to discuss with you today. I am always complaining about something and I hardly ever look around and just be contend with what I already have. It's like I have to do more because if I feel like I have nothing more to accomplish , then I am not showing my kids to reach for the stars. Reach for the inevitable. You know the saying" THE STARS ARE THE LIMIT" ...
Yet what I want them to learn is to enjoy reaching there.....




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An addiction, Let me explain, It's not what you think!!!!

Dear Lord,    Thank you for the opportunity you give me to share a few words with friends and family....

   My story..The one I read....
       It's called " Sachi"
           Soon after her brother was born, little Sachi began to ask her parents to leave her alone with the new baby. They worried that like most four-year-olds, she might feel jealous and want to hit or shake him, so they said no. But she showed no signs of jealousy. She treated the baby with kindness and her pleas to be left alone with him became more urgent. They decided to allow it.
           Elated, she went into the bne baby's room and shut the door, but it opened a crack---enough for her curious parents to peek in and listen. They saw little Sachi walk quietly up to her baby brother, put her face close to his and say quietly, "Baby, tell me what God feels like. I'm starting to forget."

                  

                                  
   My addiction,
Little House On a Prairie.....    The show..... I have been home sick like I told you. So I have been watching all these shows on tv. One of my all time favorites was Little House On A Prairie. It reminds me of how free we use to be back in those times. I also notice that God was in almost all the episodes. I have not really found a show in this era that I can sit and watch with my children that defines the goodness of God.This has been my new addiction. Although I have watch almost every episode this show has out, I am now watching with a different view.... Take the time and find good shows that has a relationship with God and sit and watch with your children. The children are the way to our future and I am concern if we do not teach them about the love that the Lord has for us it will disappear like these great shows.....


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It's only Wednesday...

 Dear Lord... HELLLLLLLPPPPPP....

 I am tired of snow.It is March 23, and it just does not stop snowing.What happen to Spring?
Today we got 9.1 inches of snow.

    
As you see spring is trying to come through, but this morning we woke up to 9.1 inches of snow and have a snowstorm alert until Thursday at 6:00 pm..My plants do not know what to do...
Got to love nature , specially when it is at its best..

I can not believe it is only Wednesday. I feel like this is the longest week. I have been basically bed-written. So all I do is sleep and go to the bathroom. I barely eat . No appetite. Just taking meds. I am so tired of being tired. I should be happy that I'm home but, when you are use to working and being active , it's so hard to be just laying around. If this was a real vacation the time would fly by real fast.

Just for now I am going to stop complaining but I can't help but vent out my frustrations. I have utilize this time to read a lot. I have gotten more indefinite with the bible. I am trying to get more closer to my spiritual side. Wish me luck in my quest....
                   God Bless...

Another story from the book I have been reading... Told you I have nothing to do...LOL

  This story is called "True Love"
        Moses Mendelssohn, the grandfather of the well-known German composer, was far from being handsome. Along with a rather short stature, he had a grotesque hunchback.
     One day he visited a merchant in Hamburg who had a lovely daughter named Frumtje. Moses fell hopelessly in love with her. But Frumtje was repulsed by his misshapen appearance.
    When it came time for him to leave, Moses gathered his courage and climbed the stairs to her room to take one last opportunity to speak with her. She was a vision of heavenly beauty, but caused him deep sadness by her refusal to look at him. After several attempts at conversation, Moses shyly asked, "Do you believe marriages are made in heaven?"
     "Yes," she answered, still looking at the floor. " And do you?"
  "Yes I do," he replied. "You see, in heaven at the birth of each boy, the lord announces which girl he will marry. When I was born, my future bride was pointed out to me. Then the Lord added, 'But your wife will be humpbacked'.
     "Right then and there I called out, 'Oh Lord a humpbacked woman would be a tragedy. Please, Lord, give me the hump and let her be beautiful,'"
   Then Frumtje looked up into his eyes and was stirred by some deep memory. She reached out and gave Mendelssohn her hand and later became his devoted wife.

   What a way to win a woman's heart.I thought this was so sweet. We all have to look past our appearence and really search within ourselves.God loves us all, and we have to learn to love one another regardless of what the other person looks like...



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One At A Time

Father help your children and don't let them fall by the side of the road...
And teach them to love one another and heaven might find a place in their hearts, Cause Jesus is LOVE....
These are the lyrics to a song sang by the Commodores. If you are interested iit is called "JESUS IS LOVE"

I have a lot of things that I base my day by. There is a lot of scriptures that I read. None in order at all. Some songs that have meaning to me. It helps me go through my day. I am not as religious as I would want to be but I am trying...
A new thing that I have been doing lately while I'm home sick is read. The book of choice besides my bible is Chicken Soup for the Soul. I have had this book on my shelf and never even looked at it. But now I can't seem to put it down.
The story I want to share is called ONE AT A TIME...
 The reason I want to share this with you is because with all that is going on with the world....

                          Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami



The protest in Libya and this horrible leader that is killing civilians because they are tired of his cruelty..

I figured we have to start praying for God to help us.
 
    Here is the short story..
   "ONE AT A TIME"
  A friend of ours was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time again he kept hurling things out into the ocean..

 As our friend approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time , he was throwing them back into the water.
 Our friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said, " Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing."
  " I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean.You see, it's low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
     " I understand," my friend replied, " but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"

    The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish , and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "Made a difference to that one!"

 We can all make a difference in anything thing that we do... I choose this week while I'm home to go through my closet and getting rid of the clothes that I know I do not need and give it to the churches or local pantries that will take it, for other families that need them. ... It's small but it's a start. Have a bless day and thanks for stopping by.....................................................
                                    




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The unemployed and Bad credit

Today I was puzzled to find out that many jobs today wont hire someone base on their credit score. I understand if you have state official jobs and banks or the treasuer department. But retail, medical and production, are you serious.
  
I was looking into the unemployment rate of my state. There is approximately 9% of unemployed. In my county alone that has become about 11%. I was asking people around as to why do they feel they are not employed by now considering we are told the economy is getting better. I was told that a lot of people that are willing and able to go to work are being overlooked because they now have bad credit.

One gentleman whose name I will not disclose told me that he had perfect credit until the economy took a turn for the worst. He show me how easy it was to get bad credit through no fault of your on.. First he got the pink slip from his job. Laid off back in 2008. Then he applied for unemployment but it takes two weeks to get an answer and then you get your funds. You do not get what you were making obviously so, now he is working with almost three weeks of no income. Trying to go out and find employment, wasting money he does not have in gas.To be rejected because the economy is bad. No one is hiring at this time. Mortgage or rent is due. One late mortgage payment is like being late the whole year. When the making home affordable program started, it was a blessing to many but in the process it has left your credit damaged. While you are waiting for the process no matter what you send in for a mortgage payment, it will be put aside until the modification process is done. This is approximately 60-90 days... Late, Late, Late and now your score is horrible.This is one example he showed me.
I research to see if the state of Pennsylvania allowed Credit checks as part of job employment and it does. One main reason the unemployment rate is high.
 I found a few states that their unemployment rate is low and one reason is because the states have decided to stop companies from discriminated base on your credit score. If you can not get a job to pay your bills you will never have a good credit score again. Intead of judging base on a score, find out what cause the defaults in a negative credit report and I think you will find a lot of people lost their jobs and just couldn't paid their bills.Should this be a reason for someone who is well qualified for a position not get the job??????

Here is the article I found about the states that put a stop to this discriminating issue...


State Laws

As of 2010, legislation in Maryland is being considered to restrict employer's access of a prospective employee's credit history. The legislation would authorize employers to request credit reports from applicants only if the report would serve a legitimate purpose for work-related reasons or if the employer is under a legal obligation to request the credit report.
Washington and Hawaii have enacted similar legislation which limits employers' rights to perform credit checks during the hiring process. Most states that have passed restrictive legislation provide an exemption for financial institutions.
These states have cited concerns with the consequence of making hiring decisions based upon credit reports, such as the inadvertent consequence of disproportionately passing over otherwise qualified employees.
Concerns are that, during a time of economy downturn, contingent hiring policies based upon credit reports lead to more unemployed applicants who may have overextended themselves due to unemployment.
Lastly, these hiring decisions may disproportionately impact minority groups who traditionally have been underrepresented in professional-sector positions.

Read more: Laws Against Employers Checking a Person's Credit History
eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_7240230_laws-checking-person_s-credit-history.html#ixzz1HPzlLodR


                                                              Thank you for you time... Sorry to sound so condescending.
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     Good Day my sisters and brothers in Christ. Hope your day went well today. I have had better days but, I also have had worst so I can not complain at all. With all that is going on in the world ,how dare me..
   Prayers to Japan and the Libyan people that truly want freedom from all the wrong doings from their goverment and their leader.

   Today I went to a new church. I was not feeling very good. I have been in slight pain that comes and goes for a few days now, but I had made up my mind to go. A good friend of mine had invited me a few weeks back and I always had something going on. Never made it. Today however with all that is going on in the world and in my personal life I push myself to go.

I was glad I went. I always feel better after I go. I feel refresh. The message was simple and to the point. The question the Pastor ask was "Who do you want to be like?" The reason for the question came from Romans 1, where in the KJV bible tells you that Paul, says in one of his letters I, Paul a servant of Jesus Christ.....

     The meaning of servantry was not a good one  in these times. For someone to choose to want to be a servant for someone , you must know you have a good master. So for this reason Paul chose to be a servant of Jesus Christ. So the questions lies on us. ho do we choose to be like. I use to want to be like my mother. Until I realise my mother wanted to be like Jesus Christ herself. A person of peace, love,unselfishness,caring and willing to sacrifice themselves for another. That's who I would attempt to be like. So I guess this makes Jesus Chist.....
       It's truly amazing when you need a word or a message of comfort how it is sent to you in the most strangest places. This new church is in a hotel. They rent out the conference room. It's a fairly new church so it is slowly growing. I pray for them....

A simple Gesture

" Everybody can be great...because anybody can
 serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and
agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love."
                                              Martin Luther King ,Jr.

      Hello to everyone.  I hope that your day has been great..I thank God for waking me up this morning and cherish the earth that I am a part of.


    Let me start by saying all week I have been nervous. I had a Dr. appt on Friday and it wasn't a normal appt. I have been in a lot of pain. It has been increasing as the days pass by. I already knew that the appt. was not going to have a good outcome.
    I had made  the mistake of choosing the Mirena as a forrm of contraceptive. It was put on last year. I have had nothing but problems since inserted. My appt. was to remove this because I had signs that I might have an IUD infection. In other words this Mirena was causing me to have an infection. Therefore I was iin pain even when I went to the bahroom. Iwas really bad off.
      I had went to the Dr. anxious and nervous because I wanted this thing removed and I needed something for the pain. Plus I want to know what is wrong with me. As I get to the office and I check in the nurse calls me in and does the usual. Checks my weight height and notices that I have a slight fever. So she asks me what was my reason for the visit. I explain and I find out that the Dr. that was to see me today is not a GYN, but a family practician. She was under the impression that I was there for a Pap check up. So they gave me an emergency referral to a GYN available. Now the appt. was at 1:oo pm.
   The Dr. that I was sent to was horrible. I went in pain ,barely can walk. The nurse at the window who registers you was nasty and the one that brings you back in even worst. But, when I finally get in to see the Dr. I was even more upset. I wanted to ask questions and he basically told me that he was only there to remove my IUD(Mirena) and that was it. He had other patients in labor and I guess to him the fact that I was concern about having an infection or something being done about my pain was out of the question. It was like hello, drop your pants open your legs, ok good bye.... Even when I checked out the girl there was too busy on the phone as the line grew. I never want to go there ever again
     A simple hello goes a long way. An act of kindness when someone feels horrible and in pain makes that person smile for a bit. The nurse at the first office was all of this and more. She took the time to acknowledge my pain. Had a conversation with me. Made my emergency appt even though it wasnt her job. Wrote down directions how to get to the other office and even gave me her card and told me that if I had a problem ever making an appt. I can call her and she will make it for me. Now that simple gesture from her heart went a long way with me. Although I was in pain placing a call to her ,I know that I would get the fastest appt. possible. This kind gesture came from her heart. I just want to thank her...... Her name is Dianne from the mountainhome Geisinger in Pa.



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A Joke for the day"

   " The Blonde And The Thermos"
                 Submitted by a Faithful Our Town Reader

   A blonde was shopping at Target and came across a shiny silver She was quited fascinated by it, so she picked it up and took it to the clerk to ask what it was.
 The clerk said, "Why, that's a thermos... it keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold."
  "Wow!" said the blonde, "that's amazing... I'm going to buy it!"

 So she bought the thermos and took it to work the next day.
  Her boss saw it on her desk. "What's that ?" he asked.
 "Why that's a thermos... it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold."
 Her boss inquired, "What do you have in it?"
" Two popsicles and some coffee."

 I know a little corny but what can I say. I just read them not write them...

I have always read Chicken soup for the soul. It has a lot of stories that I can identify with. I hope the one that I have chosen will make you feel a little better... I know it does for me.
  


                                          "Don't be Afraid to Fail"

                              You've failed many times, although you may not remember .
  You fell down the first time you tried to walk.
 You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you?
 Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?
 Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot.
 R.H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
 English novelist John Creasy got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.
Babe Ruth struck out 1,3330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs.
Don't worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try....

                                          



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