You've turned my mourning into dancing...

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2011-08-04T22:46:00.000-04:00

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A new blog home

2011-08-04T13:51:00.002-04:00

I have been blogging at
http://thesimplyfreelife.wordpress.com

I have not completely abandoned this blog or my xanga, especially since I am a lifetime member. I just needed a change of scenery. I may revamp this blog as a hobby. The simplyfreelife will become my main blog that I try to post daily on.

Blessings,
Angie

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2011-07-16T23:48:00.000-04:00

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2011-06-27T14:29:00.000-04:00

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2011-04-27T23:57:00.000-04:00

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Mindy Smith - Come To Jesus

2011-04-27T23:44:00.000-04:00

Mini Update:

2009-02-20T21:04:00.002-05:00

Lots going on.
Samuel is having surgery next Thursday 26th
Daniel is having "Issues"
David is well. Noah is without his dummy(pacifier), but totally uninterested with the potty.
Jesse is working on a mouthful of teeth at once.
Kara and Kayla are working on raising 3200 dollars a piece for a mission trip they are going on in June.(We are having fund raisers and trying to acquire sponsors for their trip. Please send all donations to Z.C.W.A 1938 Dunhill Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28205 with a note attached stating it is for the girls. They will mail you a receipt for tax filing purposes. ZCWA is a not for profit organization.)
I have lost more weight.
DH has a job but half of his crew is gone and he gets less hours.
I am redoing our budget and looking for things to sell and cut back on.
I have sewing projects for larger cloth diapers since both Noah and Jesse have out grown the old ones.

Blessings,
Angie

Barack Obama: The 2004 “God Factor” Interview Transcript

2008-10-18T22:15:00.000-04:00

http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/06/06/barack-obama-the-2004-god-factor-interview-transcript/

Barack Obama: The 2004 “God Factor” Interview Transcript
30 APRIL 2008
Chicago-Sun Time religion columnist Cathleen Falsani (”God Girl”)

Editor’s Note:
At 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, 2004, when I was the religion reporter (I am now its religion columnist) at the Chicago Sun-Times, I met then-State Sen. Barack Obama at Café Baci, a small coffee joint at 330 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, to interview him exclusively about his spirituality. Our conversation took place a few days after he’d clinched the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat that he eventually won. We spoke for more than an hour. He came alone. He answered everything I asked without notes or hesitation. The profile of Obama that grew from the interview at Cafe Baci became the first in a series in the Sun-Times called “The God Factor,” that eventually became my first book, The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People (FSG, March 2006.) Because of the staggering interest in now U.S. Sen. Obama’s faith and spiritual predilections, I thought it might be helpful to share that interivew, uncut and in its entirety, here.

GG

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Interview with State Sen. Barack Obama
3:30 p.m., Saturday March 27
Café Baci, 330 S. Michigan Avenue
Me: decaf
He: alone, on time, grabs a Naked juice protein shake

GG: What do you believe?

OBAMA: I am a Christian.
So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith.
On the other hand, I was born in Hawaii where obviously there are a lot of Eastern influences.
I lived in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, between the ages of six and 10.
My father was from Kenya, and although he was probably most accurately labeled an agnostic, his father was Muslim.
And I’d say, probably, intellectually I’ve drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.

(A patron stops and says, “Congratulations,” shakes his hand. “Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Thank you.”)

So, I’m rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there’s an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

And so, part of my project in life was probably to spend the first 40 years of my life figuring out what I did believe – I’m 42 now – and it’s not that I had it all completely worked out, but I’m spending a lot of time now trying to apply what I believe and trying to live up to those values.

GG: Have you always been a Christian?

OBAMA:I was raised more by my mother and my mother was Christian.

GG:Any particular flavor?

OBAMA:No.
My grandparents who were from small towns in Kansas. My grandmother was Methodist. My grandfather was Baptist. This was at a time when I think the Methodists felt slightly superior to the Baptists. And by the time I was born, they were, I think, my grandparents had joined a Universalist church.

So, my mother, who I think had as much influence on my values as anybody, was not someone who wore her religion on her sleeve. We’d go to church for Easter. She wasn’t a church lady.

As I said, we moved to Indonesia. She remarried an Indonesian who wasn’t particularly, he wasn’t a practicing Muslim. I went to a Catholic school in a Muslim country. So I was studying the Bible and catechisms by day, and at night you’d hear the prayer call.

So I don’t think as a child we were, or I had a structured religious education. But my mother was deeply spiritual person, and would spend a lot of time talking about values and give me books about the world’s religions, and talk to me about them. And I think always, her view always was that underlying these religions were a common set of beliefs about how you treat other people and how you aspire to act, not just for yourself but also for the greater good.

And, so that, I think, was what I carried with me through college. I probably didn’t get started getting active in church activities until I moved to Chicago.

The way I came to Chicago in 1985 was that I was interested in community organizing and I was inspired by the Civil Rights movement. And the idea that ordinary people could do extraordinary things. And there was a group of churches out on the South Side of Chicago that had come together to form an organization to try to deal with the devastation of steel plants that had closed. And didn’t have much money, but felt that if they formed an organization and hired somebody to organize them to work on issues that affected their community, that it would strengthen the church and also strengthen the community.

So they hired me, for $13,000 a year. The princely sum. And I drove out here and I didn’t know anybody and started working with both the ministers and the lay people in these churches on issues like creating job training programs, or afterschool programs for youth, or making sure that city services were fairly allocated to underserved communites.

This would be in Roseland, West Pullman, Altgeld Gardens, far South Side working class and lower income communities.

And it was in those places where I think what had been more of an intellectual view of religion deepened because I’d be spending an enormous amount of time with church ladies, sort of surrogate mothers and fathers and everybody I was working with was 50 or 55 or 60, and here I was a 23-year-old kid running around.

I became much more familiar with the ongoing tradition of the historic black church and it’s importance in the community.

And the power of that culture to give people strength in very difficult circumstances, and the power of that church to give people courage against great odds. And it moved me deeply.

So that, one of the churches I met, or one of the churches that I became involved in was Trinity United Church of Christ. And the pastor there, Jeremiah Wright, became a good friend. So I joined that church and committed myself to Christ in that church.

GG:Did you actually go up for an altar call?

OBAMA:Yes. Absolutely.
It was a daytime service, during a daytime service. And it was a powerful moment. Because, ti was powerful for me because it not only confirmed my faith, it not only gave shape to my faith, but I think, also, allowed me to connect the work I had been pursuing with my faith.

GG:How long ago?

OBAMA:16, 17 years ago
1987 or 88

GG:So you got yourself born again?

OBAMA:Yeah, although I don’t, I retain from my childhood and my experiences growing up a suspicion of dogma. And I’m not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I’ve got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.

I’m a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it’s best comes with a big dose of doubt. I’m suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

I think that, particularly as somebody who’s now in the public realm and is a student of what brings people together and what drives them apart, there’s an enormous amount of damage done around the world in the name of religion and certainty.

GG:Do you still attend Trinity?

OBAMA:Yep. Every week. 11 oclock service.

Ever been there? Good service.

I actually wrote a book called Dreams from My Father, it’s kind of a meditation on race. There’s a whole chapter on the church in that, and my first visits to Trinity.

GG:Do you pray often?

OBAMA:Uh, yeah, I guess I do.
Its’ not formal, me getting on my knees. I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I’m constantly asking myself questions about what I’m doing, why am I doing it.

One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints. You also have to know when to be just a strong advocate, and push back against certain people or views that you think aren’t right or don’t serve your constituents.

And so, the biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass. Those are the conversations I’m having internally. I’m measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I’m on track and where I think I’m off track.

It’s interesting particularly now after this election, comes with it a lot of celebrity. And I always think of politics as having two sides. There’s a vanity aspect to politics, and then there’s a substantive part of politics. Now you need some sizzle with the steak to be effective, but I think it’s easy to get swept up in the vanity side of it, the desire to be liked and recognized and important. It’s important for me throughout the day to measure and to take stock and to say, now, am I doing this because I think it’s advantageous to me politically, or because I think it’s the right thing to do? Am I doing this to get my name in the papers or am I doing this because it’s necessary to accomplish my motives.

GG: Checking for altruism?

OBAMA:Yeah. I mean, something like it.
Looking for, … IT’s interesting, the most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I’m talking to a group and I’m saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I’m just being glib or clever.

GG:What’s that power? Is it the holy spirit? God?

OBAMA:Well, I think it’s the power of the recognition of God, or the recognition of a larger truth that is being shared between me and an audience.

That’s something you learn watching ministers, quite a bit. What they call the Holy Spirit. They want the Holy Spirit to come down before they’re preaching, right? Not to try to intellectualize it but what I see is there are moments that happen within a sermon where the minister gets out of his ego and is speaking from a deeper source. And it’s powerful.

There are also times when you can see the ego getting in the way. Where the minister is performing and clearly straining for applause or an Amen. And those are distinct moments. I think those former moments are sacred.

GG:Who’s Jesus to you?

(He laughs nervously)

OBAMA:Right.
Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.

GG:Is Jesus someone who you feel you have a regular connection with now, a personal connection with in your life?

OBAMA:Yeah. Yes. I think some of the thigns I talked about earlier are addressed through, are channeled through my Christian faith and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

GG:Have you read the bible?

OBAMA:Absolutely.
I read it not as regularly as I would like. These days I don’t have much time for reading or reflection, period.

GG:Do you try to take some time for whatever, meditation prayer reading?

OBAMA:I’ll be honest with you, I used to all the time, in a fairly disciplined way. But during the course of this campaign, I don’t. And I probably need to and would like to, but that’s where that internal monologue, or dialogue I think supplants my opportunity to read and reflect in a structured way these days.

It’s much more sort of as I’m going through the day trying to take stock and take a moment here and a moment there to take stock, why am I here, how does this connect with a larger sense of purpose.

GG:Do you have people in your life that you look to for guidance?

OBAMA:Well, my pastor is certainly someone who I have an enormous amount of respect for.
I have a number of friends who are ministers. Reverend Meeks is a close friend and colleague of mine in the state Senate. Father Michael Pfleger is a dear friend, and somebody I interact with closely.

GG:Those two will keep you on your toes.

OBAMA:And theyr’e good friends. Because both of them are in the public eye, there are ways we can all reflect on what’s happening to each of us in ways that are useful.

I think they can help me, they can appreciate certain specific challenges that I go through as a public figure.

GG:Jack Ryan [Obama’s Republican opponent in the U.S. Senate race at the time] said talking about your faith is frought with peril for a public figure.

OBAMA:Which is why you generally will not see me spending a lot of time talking about it on the stump.

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state. I am a big believer in our constitutional structure. I mean, I’m a law professor at the University of Chicago teaching constitutional law. I am a great admirer of our founding charter, and its resolve to prevent theocracies from forming, and its resolve to prevent disruptive strains of fundamentalism from taking root ion this country.

As I said before, in my own public policy, I’m very suspicious of religious certainty expressing itself in politics.

Now, that’s different form a belief that values have to inform our public policy. I think it’s perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including atheists and agnostics, while also insisting that there are values tha tinform my politics that are appropriate to talk about.

A standard line in my stump speech during this campaign is that my politics are informed by a belief that we’re all connected. That if there’s a child on the South Side of Chicago that can’t read, that makes a difference in my life even if it’s not my own child. If there’s a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that’s struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it’s not my grandparent. And if there’s an Arab American family that’s being rounded up by John Ashcroft without the benefit of due process, that threatens my civil liberties.

I can give religious expression to that. I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper, we are all children of God. Or I can express it in secular terms. But the basic premise remains the same. I think sometimes Democrats have made the mistake of shying away from a conversation about values for fear that they sacrifice the important value of tolerance. And I don’t think those two things are mutually exclusive.

GG:Do you think it’s wrong for people to want to know about a civic leader’s spirituality?

OBAMA:I don’t’ think it’s wrong. I think that political leaders are subject to all sorts of vetting by the public, and this can be a component of that.

I think that I am disturbed by, let me put it this way: I think there is an enormous danger on the part of public figures to rationalize or justify their actions by claiming God’s mandate.

I think there is this tendency that I don’t think is healthy for public figures to wear religion on their sleeve as a means to insulate themselves from criticism, or dialogue with people who disagree with them.

GG:The conversation stopper, when you say you’re a Christian and leave it at that.

OBAMA:Where do you move forward with that?

This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re going to hell.

GG:You don’t believe that?

OBAMA:I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell.
I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity.
That’s just not part of my religious makeup.

Part of the reason I think it’s always difficult for public figures to talk about this is that the nature of politics is that you want to have everybody like you and project the best possible traits onto you. Oftentimes that’s by being as vague as possible, or appealing to the lowest commong denominators. The more specific and detailed you are on issues as personal and fundamental as your faith, the more potentially dangerous it is.

GG:Do you ever have people who know you’re a Christian question a particular stance you take on an issue, how can you be a Christian and …

OBAMA:Like the right to choose.
I haven’t been challenged in those direct ways. And to that extent, I give the public a lot of credit. I’m always stuck by how much common sense the American people have. They get confused sometimes, watch FoxNews or listen to talk radio. That’s dangerous sometimes. But generally, Americans are tolerant and I think recognize that faith is a personal thing, and they may feel very strongly about an issue like abortion or gay marriage, but if they discuss it with me as an elected official they will discuss it with me in those terms and not, say, as ‘you call yourself a Christian.’ I cannot recall that ever happening.

GG:Do you get questions about your faith?

OBAMA:Obviously as an African American politician rooted in the African American community, I spend a lot of time in the black church. I have no qualms in those settings in participating fully in those services and celebrating my God in that wonderful community that is the black church.

(he pauses)

But I also try to be . . . Rarely in those settings do people come up to me and say, what are your beliefs. They are going to presume, and rightly so. Although they may presume a set of doctrines that I subscribe to that I don’t necessarily subscribe to.

But I don’t think that’s unique to me. I think that each of us when we walk into our church or mosque or synagogue are interpreting that experience in different ways, are reading scriptures in different ways and are arriving at our own understanding at different ways and in different phases.

I don’t know a healthy congregation or an effective minister who doesn’t recognize that.

If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they.

GG:Do you believe in heaven?

OBAMA:Do I believe in the harps and clouds and wings?

GG:A place spiritually you go to after you die?

OBAMA:What I believe in is that if I live my life as well as I can, that I will be rewarded. I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

When I tuck in my daughters at night and I feel like I’ve been a good father to them, and I see in them that I am transferring values that I got from my mother and that they’re kind people and that they’re honest people, and they’re curious people, that’s a little piece of heaven.

GG:Do you believe in sin?

OBAMA:Yes.

GG:What is sin?

OBAMA:Being out of alignment with my values.

GG:What happens if you have sin in your life?

OBAMA:I think it’s the same thing as the question about heaven. In the same way that if I’m true to myself and my faith that that is its own reward, when I’m not true to it, it’s its own punishment.

GG:Where do you find spiritual inspiration? Music, nature, literature, people, a conduit you plug into?

OBAMA:There are so many.
Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it’s pretty hard not to be move and be transported.

I can be transported by watching a good performance of Hamlet, or reading Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, or listening to Miles Davis.

GG:Is there something that you go back to as a touchstone, a book, a particular piece of music, a place …

OBAMA:As I said before, in my own sort of mental library, the Civil Rights movement has a powerful hold on me. IT’s a point in time where I think heaven and earth meet. Because it’s a moment in which a collective faith transforms everything. So when I read Gandhi or I read King or I read certain passages of Abraham Lincoln and I think about those times where people’s values are tested, I think those inspire me.

GG:What are you doing when you feel the most centered, the most aligned spiritually?

OBAMA:I think I already described it. It’s when I’m being true to myself. And that can happen in me making a speech or it can happen in me playing with my kids, or it can happen in a small interaction with a security guard in a building when I’m recognizing them and exchanging a good word.

GG:Is there someone you would look to as an example of how not to do it?

OBAMA:Bin Laden.

(grins broadly)

GG:… An example of a role model, who combined everything you said you want to do in your life, and your faith?

OBAMA:I think Gandhi is a great example of a profoundly spiritual man who acted and risked everything on behalf of those values but never slipped into intolerance or dogma. He seemed to always maintain an air of doubt about him.

I think Dr. King, and Lincoln. Those three are good examples for me of people who applied their faith to a larger canvas without allowing that faith to metasticize into something that is hurtful.

GG:Can we go back to that morning service in 1987 or 88 — when you have a moment that you can go back to that as an epiphany…

OBAMA:It wasn’t an epiphany.
It was much more of a gradual process for me. I know there are some people who fall out. Which is wonderful. God bless them. For me it was probably because there is a certain self-consciousness that I possess as somebody with probably too much book learning, and also a very polyglot background.

GG: It wasn’t like a moment where you finally got it? It was a symbol of that decision?

OBAMA:Exactly. I think it was just a moment to certify or publicly affirm a growing faith in me.

-END-

The I Have a Dream Speech

2008-10-17T10:16:00.001-04:00

In 1950's America, the equality of man envisioned by the Declaration of Independence was far from a reality. People of color — blacks, Hispanics, Asians — were discriminated against in many ways, both overt and covert. The 1950's were a turbulent time in America, when racial barriers began to come down due to Supreme Court decisions, like Brown v. Board of Education; and due to an increase in the activism of blacks, fighting for equal rights.

Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister, was a driving force in the push for racial equality in the 1950's and the 1960's. In 1963, King and his staff focused on Birmingham, Alabama. They marched and protested non-violently, raising the ire of local officials who sicced water cannon and police dogs on the marchers, whose ranks included teenagers and children. The bad publicity and break-down of business forced the white leaders of Birmingham to concede to some anti-segregation demands.

Thrust into the national spotlight in Birmingham, where he was arrested and jailed, King helped organize a massive march on Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963. His partners in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom included other religious leaders, labor leaders, and black organizers. The assembled masses marched down the Washington Mall from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, heard songs from Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and heard speeches by actor Charlton Heston, NAACP president Roy Wilkins, and future U.S. Representative from Georgia John Lewis.

King's appearance was the last of the event; the closing speech was carried live on major television networks. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King evoked the name of Lincoln in his "I Have a Dream" speech, which is credited with mobilizing supporters of desegregation and prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The next year, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The following is the exact text of the spoken speech, transcribed from recordings.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

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.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Another picture post

2008-10-17T09:57:00.003-04:00

Pictures

2008-09-19T13:24:00.004-04:00

Time to post

2008-09-19T13:24:00.002-04:00

My new baby Jesse is finally start to outgrow his colic. So maybe I'm back to posting again.

Ultrasound LINKS

2008-04-17T23:30:00.000-04:00

Ultrasound - by Beverley Lawrence Beech
On The 'Safety' and 'Usefulness' of Prenatal Ultrasound
The Dangers of Prenatal Ultrasound
How Ultrasound Works
Ultrasound Scans May Harm Unborn Babies
Ultrasound Scans Linked to Brain Damage in Babies
Ultrasound Resreach Lab; Loud as a Speeding Train...

Ultrasound Scans: Cause for Concern

http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/92/101784.htm?GT1=4541

http://www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/med_ultrasound.html

http://www.aims.org.uk/ultrasound.htm
http://www.aims.org.uk/ultra2.htm
http://www.alternamoms.com/ultrasound.html

Natural Cures

2008-02-28T21:55:00.000-05:00

http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/honeyandcinnamon.html

Hepatitis B Vaccine Linked to Autoimmune Rheumatoid Diseases

2008-02-22T22:40:00.001-05:00

Hepatitis B Vaccine Linked to Autoimmune Rheumatoid Diseases

The rise of autoimmunity following hepatitis B immunization in school children and adults has become a major public health concern. The data was released at the 62nd annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, held Nov. 8-12, 1998 in San Diego, CA. In October, the Ministry of Health in France suspended routine hepatitis B immunization of school children while continuing hepatitis B immunization at birth. The reason for this decision was reportedly the increased risk of autoimmune diseases that has been associated with the vaccine when it is given starting at school age or later.

The data from France links hepatitis B immunization to both the development of newly-diagnosed cases of autoimmune rheumatoid diseases as well as the exacerbation of previously diagnosed cases that were in remission. This finding is supported by data from Canada published in September which linked immunization against hepatitis B to the development of autoimmune rheumatoid diseases in fire-fighters. John Classen, M.D. an immunologist at Classen Immunotherapies, published papers linking the immunization against hepatitis B and other diseases to the development of insulin dependent diabetes, an autoimmune disease. Dr. Classen's work found that immunization starting after two months of life was associated with an increased risk of autoimmunity compared to starting at birth. Data from a small study published by the US government appears to support his data and showed that when hepatitis B immunization was given starting after two months of life it was associated with an almost doubling of the risk of diabetes.

The concept of giving a child an immunization against a disease they have virtually no risk for is so profoundly absurd it defies logical comprehension. The only risk factor for acquiring hepatitis B is through blood contact. This is primarily through transfusions and sexual contact. Infants rarely have either of these risk factors yet the traditional medical community persists in recommending them. I am glad to see some hard data at a respectable medical community confirm the danger of these vaccines.

http://www.mercola.com/1998/archive/rheumatoid_diseases.htm

Safety of Homebirth

2008-02-22T01:25:00.002-05:00

When researching birth, I was shocked to learn that actually, statistically, only the
highest risk pregnancies with comorbid diseases such as diabetes,
hypertension, preeclampsia, etc. are safest at the hospital. Planned
home births, with an experienced midwife, are safer than hospital
births for most all mothers and babies, except the highest risk pregnancy.

Articles & Links:
British Medical Journal study:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7505/1416?ehom_
http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articl...ogyinbirth.asp
http://gentlebirth.org/archives/prntshar.html
http://www.homebirthdallas.org/HANDWebResources
http://www.texas-midwife.com/ishomebirthsafe.htm
http://gentlebirth.org/archives/prntshar.html
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/5510/studies.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~eaglefalc...irthoprah.html
http://www.homebirth.org.uk/homebirthindex.htm
http://www.healthychild.com/database..._like_home.htm
http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articl...irthchoice.asp
http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/gracious.asp
http://www.birthpsychology.com/violence/odent1.html
http://www.acegraphics.com.au/articles/wagner01.html
http://www.birthpsychology.com/birthscene/otoday4.html
http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/homebirth.html
http://www.thefarm.org/charities/mid.html

Books:
Immaculate Deception by Suzanne Arms
Special Delivery by Rahima Baldwin Dancy
Birth at Home by Sheila Kitzinger
The Cultural Warping of Childbirth by Doris Haire
The Home Birth Book by Charlotte and Fred Ward
Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way by Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg
Active Birth by Janet Balaskas
Birth Without Violence by Frederick Leboyer
Birth Reborn by Michael Odent
The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin

Information to NC Homebirth resources: http://www.nchomebirth.com/

Also, there is a new documentary about "The Business of Being Born"
about the risks of birthing, in hospital, in the US.
http://womenshealthnews.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/review-the-business-of-being-bo\
rn/
http://www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com/

Homemade diapers: free patterns

2008-01-18T23:03:00.000-05:00

http://www.thenappynetwork.org.nz/diy.php
http://diapersewing.wordpress.com/

Vaccine Information Links

2008-01-17T20:03:00.000-05:00

http://www.vaccineinfo.net/
http://www.909shot.com/
http://www.vaccinetruth.com/
http://www.vaclib.org/
http://www.reformation.org/vaccine.html

http://www.thinktwice.com/
http://www.laleva.cc/choice/vaccine_logic.html
http://www.vaccineawakening.blogspot.com/

Margaret Sanger

2008-01-17T19:58:00.000-05:00

Margaret Sanger
Founder, Planned Parenthood

* “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)

* “…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ’spawning… human beings who never should have been born.” Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, (referring to immigrants and the poor)

* “More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief aim of birth control.” (Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12)

* Birth control aims: “to create a race of thoroughbreds,” Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

* “The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” -Margaret Sanger, letter to Clarence Gamble, Dec. 10,1939. - Sanger manuscripts, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.

* “Those least fit to carry on the race are increasing most rapidly. … Funds that should be used to raise the standard of our civilization are diverted to maintenance of those who should never have been born.”—Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, p.279.

* “I visited hospitals in this city, and found them lacking in the simple and most ordinary article of decency. No soap, no cod-liver oil … This has given rise to skin trouble, and the poor little waifs are a sad, miserable lot. It would be a great kindness to let them die outright, I believe.”—Margaret Sanger. “Women in Germany.” Birth Control Review, January 1921,
(vol. V, no. 1); p. 9.

* “Today, however, civilization has brought sympathy, pity, tenderness …. We
are now in a state where our charities, our compensation acts, our pensions, hospitals, and even our drainage and sanitary equipment all tend to keep alive the sickly and the weak, who are allowed to propagate and in turn produce a race of degenerates.”—Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control and Women’s Health.” Birth Control Review,December 1917, (vol. I, no. 12); p. 7.

* “Before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed,they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control,the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods. …” -Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control and Racial Betterment.” Birth Control Review,February 1919, (vol. III, no. 2); p. 11.

* “The marriage bed is the most degenerating influence in the social order,” –Sanger, (p.23)

* (referring to Catholicism beliefs) “…enforce SUBJUGATION by TURNING WOMAN INTO A MERE INCUBATOR.” The Woman Rebel - No Gods, No Masters, May 1914, Vol. 1, No. 3.

* “I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.” What Every Girl Should Know, by Margaret Sanger (Max Maisel, Publisher, 1915)

The American Baby Code

Margaret Sanger

Article 1. The purpose of the American Baby Code shall be to provide for a better distribution of babies. To assist couples who wish to prevent overproduction of offspring and thus to reduce the burden of charity and taxation for public relief and to protect society against the propagation and increase of the unfit.

Article 2. Birth control clinics shall be permitted to function as services of government health departments or under the support of charity, or as non-profit, self-sustaining agencies subject to inspection and control by public authorities.

Article 3. A marriage license shall in itself give husband and wife only the right to a common household and not the right to parenthood.

Article 4. No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit for parenthood.

Article 5. Permits for parenthood shall be issued by government authorities to married couples upon application, providing the parents are financially able to support the expected child, have the qualifications needed for proper rearing of the child, have no transmissible diseases, and on the woman’s part no indication that maternity is likely to result in death or permanent injury to health.

Article 6. No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth.

Article 7. Every county shall be assisted administratively by the states in the effort to maintain a direct ratio between county birth rate and its index of child welfare. When the county records show an unfavorable variation from this ratio the county shall be taxed by the State…. The revenues thus obtained shall be expended by the State within the given county in giving financial support to birth control…..

Article 8. Feeble-minded persons, habitual congenital criminals, those afflicted with inheritable diseases, and others found biologically unfit should be sterilized or in cases of doubt should be isolated as to prevent the perpetuation of their afflictions by breeding.

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Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood (formerly American Birth Control League) was outspoken in promoting her idea of a racially better society. The origin of her public prominence was her launching of The Woman Rebel around the time of separation from her first husband. It was a monthly newsletter encouraging a woman to become “the absolute mistress of her own body”. Being found in violation of the Comstock Laws, she was compelled to flee to Europe to escape conviction. While there, she had an affair with the outspoken socialist H.G. Wells*, though he was married at the time. Wells, however, proved to not be her only love interest as she had an affair with yet another outspoken socialist and eugenics supporter Havelock Ellis**, who at the time was married to an open lesbian.

Sanger returned to the States shortly, more determined to promote her racist and population limiting philosophy by publishing numerous publications on the subject, including articles for the Socialist Party newspaper entitled, The Call. Not limited to socialist publications, in her April 1932 writings in A Plan for Peace, she asserted her objectives, a few of which are listed below:

C: To keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feebleminded, idiots, morons, insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others in this class barred by the immigration laws of 1924.

D: A stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

F: To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.

G: To apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.

She quickly gained enough prominence to establish The American Birth Control League with the assistance of Lathrop Stoddard and C.C. Little. She caught the eye of James Noah H. Lee, an oil tycoon and they were married. Shortly thereafter, through his Bureau of Social Hygiene, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., an avid population control and eugenics advocate, allocated funds for the Clinical Research Bureau, the first legal birth control clinic in the U.S. In fact, Rockefeller himself was neck-deep in promoting eugenics. As such, he funded none other than Ernst Rudin in his search for the eugenically correct population– yes, the same Nazi appointed by Adolf Hitler to direct the Racial Hygiene Society – a society devoted to the sterilization or death of those who were racially impure. During Hitler’s reign, we saw the implementation of such ideas. In the years prior to World War II Margaret Sanger commissioned Rudin to serve as an adviser to her own organization.

The ABCL eventually altered their name to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. in 1942. Assisting the organization through the transition was Prescott Bush, who had developed deep business connections with Rockefeller in the oil industry. Bush served as the Treasurer for Planned Parenthood during their name transition in 1942, and remained with the organization through 1948. Sanger later served as their president from 1952-1959. In promoting her cause internationally, she also helped establish the first World Population Conference (in Geneva).

Planned Parenthood has and continues to serve as a major catalyst in population control and as an effective vehicle for changing the mindset of society from traditional Christian values, which embrace reverence for life, to promoting atheism, selfishness, and racial control, which many adopt under it’s careful disguise of sexual liberation.

In order to cloak the true purpose and history of this organization, Planned Parenthood continues to proliferate propaganda that is blatantly false when having to face truths proclaimed against them. For instance, although Sanger was a founding member of the Eugenics Society of America, Planned Parenthood states:

“Eugenics is the science of improving hereditary qualities by socially controlling human reproduction. Unable to foment popular opposition to Margaret Sanger’s accomplishments and the organization she founded, Sanger’s critics attempt to discredit them by intentionally confusing her views on “fitness” with eugenics, racism, and anti-Semitism. Margaret Sanger was not a racist, an anti-Semite, or a eugenicist.” - Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, Inc. (still online as of March 16, 2007)

Apparently, Planned Parenthood attempts to claim that though she was a founder of the Eugenics Society of America, she was not a eugenicist. In fact, they outright claim she did not promote it, even against a mountain of evidence. Planned Parenthood will predictably continue their deceptive propaganda, which is easily derailed with facts rather than propaganda. The thoughts and ideals of this organization’s founders expose the true agenda for Planned Parenthood.
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*H.G. Wells (socialist, member-Fabian Society, eugenics activist, assisted in the formation of the League of Nations)

“I believe .. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.” - H.G. Wells

**Havelock Ellis (socialist, member-The Fellowship of the New Life which directly splintered into the Fabian Society, pioneered autoerotism and narcissism, both later adopted by Sigmund Freud, wrote The Task of Social Hygiene)

“Eventually, it seems evident, a general system, whether private or public, whereby all personal facts, biological and mental, normal and morbid, or duly and systematically registered, must become inevitable if we are to have a real guide as to those persons who are most fit, or most unfit to carry on the race…” -Havelock Ellis

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Modern Planned Parenthood Quotes

“We are not going to be an organization promoting celibacy or chastity.”-Faye Wattleton, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 17, 1986

“If your parents are stupid enough to deny you access to birth control, and you are under 18, you can get it on your own. Call Planned Parenthood.”-Planned Parenthood advertisement, Dallas Observer, Jan. 30, 1986

“There are only 2 basic kinds of sex: sex with victims and sex without. Sex with victims is always wrong. Sex without is ALWAYS right.”-You’ve Changed The Combination, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Denver, Colo.

“The question of whether or not to sell ourselves to men is a false one: The real question is how to sell ourselves in the way that is least destructive to ourselves and our sisters. Prostitutes don’t need our condescension. What they need is our alliance. And we need theirs.”-The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, Boston Women’s Health Collective, p 113

“Sex is too important to glop up with sentiment. If you feel sexy, for heaven’s sake admit it to yourself. If the feeling and the tension bother you, you can masturbate. Masturbation cannot hurt you and it will make you feel more relaxed.”
-The Perils of Puberty, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Denver, Colo.

“At Planned Parenthood you can also get birth control without the consent or knowledge of your parents. So, if you are 14, 15 or 16 and you come to Planned Parenthood, we won’t tell your parents you’ve been there. We swear we won’t tell your parents.”-Planned Parenthood employee lecturing students of Ramona High School, Riverside, Calif., April 21-22, 1986

Of 6,000 clinic visit records examined from a Texas PP clinic, only 3 referred for adoption. (Aborting -Planned Parenthood, by Robert H. Ruff, New Vision Press, 1988

Planned Parenthood advocated compulsory sterilization of all who have two children.
-Family Planning Perspectives (a PP publication), June, Oct. 1970

“… to be ready as educators and parents to help young people obtain sex satisfaction before marriage. By sanctioning sex before marriage we will prevent fear and guilt. We must also relieve those who have these … feelings, and we must be ready to provide young boys and girls with the best contraceptive measures available so they will have the necessary means to achieve sexual satisfaction without having to risk possible pregnancy.” -Dr. Lena Levine in 1953, concerning Planned Parenthood’s purpose and planned course of action, Planned Parenthood News, Summer 1953, Psycho-Sexual Development, quoted in Planned Parenthood News, Summer 1953, pg. 10

Dr. Warren Hern on pregnancy: “an episodic, moderately extended chronic condition … May be defined as an illness … Treated by evacuation of the uterine contents…”

-”Is Pregnancy Really Normal?” Family Planning Perspective, Planned Parenthood, vol. 3, No. 1, Jan. 1971, pg. 9

Front Wrap Cross Carry Tutorial

2008-01-06T21:04:00.001-05:00

http://joyfulchaos.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/front-wrap-cross-carry-tutorial/

Tutorial on babywearing

2008-01-06T20:58:00.000-05:00

http://joyfulchaos.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/back-carry-tutorial/

VBAC and scar integrity

2008-01-01T15:10:00.000-05:00

http://www.natural-forces.com/essays/vbac.htm

Shampoo Free

2008-01-01T14:50:00.000-05:00

http://babyslime.livejournal.com/174054.html?view=9336038#t9336038

Monday, December 03, 2007 copy/paste from xanga post

2007-12-05T22:25:00.000-05:00

I am venturing to sit up at my desk and eat a bowl of soup.
Time to stop starving the baby!
I feel much better now since I went to the ER yesterday and got a breathing treatment and some pain meds for my head. I have a prescription albuterol which I use every 6 hours as needed. I try not to use unless I am really short of breath. I have a few more days of augmentin left to take. The ER doc I saw, feels my bronchitis is viral and the sinus infection is bacterial. Because my sinus infection IS improving, whereas my bronchitis got worst. The worst thing right now is this headache I have had continuously since last Monday! I did a bad thing last Sunday and Monday and attempted to scrub down mold off the walls without wearing a mask. I was in such a hurry to finish up a list of goals I had set to get done.
I have been told that this bug I have was going around everywhere now and half of our church is ill. But I really think I started it in me with the mold scrubbing and lack of sleep I had previously the prior weeks from Noah being ill.

Thursday, November 29, 2007 copy/paste from my xanga

2007-12-05T22:24:00.000-05:00

I know I promised to update..but I've been to ill to function...not sure if it is a sinus thing or bronchitis.
I have been floored by an angry headache and shortness of breath,lots of coughing and general fatigue.
I pray to return soon.
Blessings,
Angie

edited to add:after nine
ob treating me for bronchitis and sinus infection. 7 day regimen of augmentin. I hope I feel better soon. THIS headache is ridiculous!!

Pregnancy Update

2007-11-25T21:51:00.000-05:00

I had an appointment on Wednesday Nov 21,2007.
Things seem to be progressing well.
I don't have any external bleeding. My bp is low/normal. Baby has a strong fast heartbeat and I am no longer losing weight.
My next appointment will be a month away after I see the perinatologist for the higher level ultrasound.
Doc said since I appear to be stable we can space this next appointment out.
I am still on restricted activity, no lifting,etc. But not required to stay in bed anymore. Just listen to my
body and take it easy as needed. We won't know the status of the SCH until after the ultrasound. Doc said not to
think about it, chances are it's gone. I am believing it is gone also.

Update..copy pasted from myspace blog

2007-11-14T11:50:00.000-05:00

Saw ob last thursday. No ultrasound just wt check,fetal heart tones, and my bp checked. Doc said baby has good heart rate fast like 160 something. I've gained almost 2 pounds supposedly. I think it was partly my heavy wool sweater.lol. No.Really! I was cold today so I wore this really thick sweater. I can't believe I did not take it off. I guess I did not want to mess up my hair.(Vanity)I am having static trouble and it is a pullover. I am constantly getting shocked.
WE are still measuring at least a couple of weeks ahead. Which has been consistent. I have no exterior signs of problems.
I am staying on bedrest but not strictly.Light bedrest.Freely shower,up for all meals. Still no lifting,etc.
I will continue to see doc every 2 weeks mostly to check heart rate and they'll check my hemoglobin.It is good right now at 11.8.Ferritin level is good right now too. I am supposed to see the perinatologist in 4 or 5 weeks for the level 2 or 3 ultrasound...I can't remember which.
He said 17 or 18 weeks is the optimal time because of the baby's size being perfect to see all organs and such.
Just for fun he's guessing it is a boy.

Ron Paul on Leno

2007-11-06T22:43:00.000-05:00

Update

2007-10-25T23:09:00.000-04:00

I had a follow up ultrasound today.
They said the subchorionic hemorrhage (SCH) is significantly larger [There is more blood between the chorionic sac and the amniotic sac. ]The second baby is complete unseen now. They believe not there anymore. The first baby still appears strong and growing well.
They don't seem too concerned. I am to not lift anything heavier than a gallon of milk.
Pelvic rest,No vacuuming,sweeping,laundry baskets,or anything strenuous.{Sounds like bedrest to me.}
But he said he was unsure if bedrest would help or not. I am to return for pain or bleeding. I return for an appointment in 2 weeks on Nov 7th at 3pm.
but so far no ultrasound is scheduled for that day. I am to see the perinatologist for a level III ultrasound and a genetic counselor in 6 weeks. I will probably see my regular doctor every 2 weeks unless I have complications or complete healing of the SCH. I'm told if it completely resolves by 20 weeks,I may deliver fullterm. If it doesn't
I can still deliver a healthy preemie. Pre-term labor is caused by this condition. Sometimes it can be stopped and most times it can only be delayed.

Breast Cancer Foe Gives Big $$ to Top Abortion Provider

2007-10-23T13:19:00.000-04:00

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5CSpecialReports%5Carchive%5C200502%5CSPE20050222a.html
By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
February 22, 2005

(CNSNews.com)- A foundation that uses events such as the "Race for the Cure" to raise money to fight breast cancer is jeopardizing women's health by using some of those funds to support local chapters of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, according to a former advisor to the foundation.

Planned Parenthood clinics provide breast cancer screening and education, but the organization is also the nation's top abortion provider.

"You can't affirm life with one hand and support an organization that kills people with the other," said Eve Sanchez Silver, a medical research analyst and two-time breast cancer survivor who severed her ties with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation after learning that its chapters supplied $475,000 in grants to local Planned Parenthood affiliates in 2003. Silver and many others in the medical and scientific community believe that abortion makes a woman more vulnerable to developing breast cancer.

According to its website, the Komen Foundation works "through a network of U.S. and international affiliates and events like the Komen Race for the Cure ... to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease by funding research grants and supporting education, screening and treatment projects in communities around the world."

The foundation's most recent annual report indicates that, for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2003, Komen and its more than 100 affiliates received over $154 million through private donations, corporate contributions and a number of fund-raising events.

The most successful money-maker for the organization in that 12-month period was the Race for the Cure, the largest series of 5K runs/fitness walks in the world. The events drew more than one million participants who raised nearly $88 million from donors. The 2004 race in Washington, D.C., held in June, drew more than 52,000 runners/walkers. The Komen Foundation expects 1.4 million participants in its series of more than 100 races in 2005.

While holding administrative and fund-raising expenses to about 25 percent of its budget, the foundation spent about 75 percent of its funds in the 2003 fiscal year on mission-related activities, including grants and programs related to breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment.

That year, Komen affiliates awarded $38.4 million to support community outreach programs, including 21 grants to local Planned Parenthood chapters totaling more than $475,000.

Silver told the Cybercast News Service that she doesn't believe the foundation should be involved with Planned Parenthood, since that organization "is in the business of abortions.

"If they stopped doing abortions tomorrow, they'd go broke the next day," Silver said. "As far as I'm concerned, anything they do in the way of drawing women in for any kind of service would simply be to acclimate them to their organization until they're ready to have an abortion."

The fact that Komen is awarding grants to the nation's top abortion provider "proves to me that the foundation's perspective is not for the safety of women. It can't be," she said.

"Everywhere, women who are working to combat breast cancer are begging for money, but they give funds to Planned Parenthood instead," Silver added. "And that organization is using it to make beautiful centers so they can lure women in to kill their babies."

Silver sees a parallel between today's abortion industry and the situation during World War II. "Gas chambers were set up right in the middle of neighborhoods the same way Planned Parenthood centers are," she said. "One day, we're going to look back, and people are going to be ashamed that we allowed this to happen in this country."

'This can't be true'

Silver spent almost four years as a charter member of the foundation's National Hispanic Latina Advisory Council. In that capacity, she helped the Komen organization set national and international policy, particularly regarding Hispanic populations.

That all changed after Silver received an e-mail about Joan Archer, a breast cancer patient who returned a wig to an Iowa chapter of the foundation last May. Archer cited Komen's financial support of Planned Parenthood as one of the reasons for giving back the wig.

"The people who sent that to me said, 'This can't be true because Eve (Silver) is a part of this organization, and there's no way she'd be a part of this,'" Silver said. "I checked it out to see if it was so, and it was."

The following weekend, Silver attended a meeting with Komen's leaders at the foundation headquarters in Dallas. "They were getting ready to revamp their program, and I wanted to know if they would consider not funding Planned Parenthood.

"I said: 'As a Latina adviser, I have to tell you that this is a serious break in the fabric of the reality of the organization. It's not in line with what I believe Komen to be. I don't understand why this is happening.' "

According to Silver, the foundation officers responded that they were helping Planned Parenthood in an effort to support any organization providing breast care services.

However, as the Cybercast News Service previously reported, an examination of Planned Parenthood's recent annual reports shows that while the organization's overall revenue has increased five years in a row and the number of abortion procedures performed at Planned Parenthood clinics has soared during the same period, the number of breast exams conducted at Planned Parenthood facilities in 2003 (the most recent year available) fell by 13.3 percent.

Silver's second objection to Planned Parenthood is that the organization was founded by Margaret Sanger, a leader in the science of selective breeding or eugenics. "[Sanger's] plan was to eliminate people of color," Silver said. "As a woman of color, I have no interest in supporting an organization that is designed to kill the very people I'm supposed to be representing."

When Komen officials refused to back down on their financial support of Planned Parenthood, Silver resigned from the foundation.

Abortion-breast cancer link

Silver also told the Cybercast News Service that as one of the nation's most powerful advocates for finding a breast cancer cure, the Komen Foundation is ironically contributing to the incidence of breast cancer with its support of Planned Parenthood.

Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, agrees with Silver, even referring to the number of breast cancer cases since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court made abortion legal in its Roe v. Wade decision, as "a tsunami."

Malec pointed to a 2001 report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, which indicates that among women in the generation following Roe v. Wade, there was a 40 percent increase in cases of breast cancer. "In 1970, the average American woman's lifetime risk for the disease was 1 in 12," she noted. "Today, 1 in 7.5 women develop breast cancer.

"Only a third-trimester process matures breast cells into cancer-resistant tissue and protects a pregnant woman from the overexposure to estrogen -- a recognized carcinogen -- experienced early in a normal pregnancy," Malec said. "On the other hand, a woman who has an abortion is left with more cancer-vulnerable cells," she added.

"The link between abortion and breast cancer is further supported by research showing that a woman who has a premature birth before 32 weeks of pregnancy more than doubles her risk for breast cancer," Malec said. "A premature birth is biologically the same event as an abortion," she added. "Only the mother's intentions differ."

Five medical groups and a bioethics center recognize that abortion raises a woman's risk for breast cancer, Malec said. A seventh medical organization, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, has called on doctors to warn women of a "highly plausible relationship" between abortion and the disease.

While the Komen Foundation acknowledges that several studies "have suggested that abortion may moderately increase the risk of breast cancer," it questions the accuracy of those studies, arguing that the reporting of past behavior on a sensitive topic like abortion "can have a significant impact on the precision of the information gathered."

Instead, the Komen Foundation's website cites a number of studies that contradict the assertions of an existing link, and the group states flatly that "the evidence clearly shows that abortion does not increase the risk of breast cancer."

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) takes a slightly different approach to the topic on its website, conceding that there is a "possible link between induced abortion and breast cancer," but in the same sentence slamming the "theory whose principal promoters oppose abortion regardless of its safety.

"The theory awaits conclusive confirmation by medical researchers," the PPFA website states. "While Planned Parenthood believes that women should have access to information about all factors that influence the risk of disease, PPFA also believes that women deserve information that is medically substantiated and untainted by a political agenda."

Silver has a different view of the link between abortion and breast cancer.

"Physiologically, this is a fact. For people to say this is not a fact is outrageous and ridiculous," she said. "In Great Britain, they use abortion incidence as an indicator of breast cancer risk."

'Two for the price of one'

Rebecca Gibson, a spokesperson for the Komen Foundation, told the Cybercast News Service that the foundation and its affiliates "do not provide any funding for abortions or for any activities outside the scope of our mission.

"We know that early detection is the key to surviving breast cancer; thus, we support breast cancer screening programs," Gibson said. "In many urban and rural areas, Planned Parenthood may be the only source of free or low-cost women's health screening services (e.g., pap smears, mammograms, clinical breast exams, etc.)."

In addition, "some Komen affiliates provide restricted grants to local Planned Parenthood clinics to provide vital breast health services for underserved women in their communities," she stated. "In order to monitor their progress, grantees are required to provide detailed reports to the funding affiliate at least twice per year."

Nevertheless, Silver said this arrangement makes abortion more accessible because "the money is fungible.

"If you relieve pressure on one side, that means they can use more money on the other side for abortions," Silver said. "It's not separate, and people need to know that. You cannot kill people in one room and do breast services in another and somehow think that's a balance."

Silver added that Planned Parenthood's current strategy enables that organization to "get two for the price of one" since "they kill the baby, and then they let the mother go because eventually she will develop breast cancer, and then they'll get her, too."

Contributors and corporations should "stop funding the Komen Foundation" and other organizations that provide money to Planned Parenthood, Silver said. But until that takes place, she is hopeful that a legal trend which began in Australia will spread to the U.S.

"Medical malpractice, insurance companies and all of society are going to pay a price because women who are denied their right to abortion-breast cancer information are beginning to sue, and they're beginning to win," she said.

Silver referred to a recent lawsuit against a clinic in Portland, Ore., that performed an abortion on a 15-year-old girl without informing her of the procedure's psychological and breast cancer risks. This was the second abortion-cancer case to be prosecuted in the U.S. and the first in which a judgment, the terms of which were not publicly disclosed, was returned against an abortion provider.

"If they're not going to listen to us one way, they may have to listen to us through litigation," she said. "The next voice you hear may be the sound of another woman saying, 'I didn't get my information, and I want to sue.'

"I think women everywhere should check out the rules of their state and see what's going on because they may well have been injured and may not know" the options available to them, Silver added.

'I'm a survivor'

In addition to running Cinta Latina Research, the firm she founded in 1999 to provide cancer control education and research consultation, Silver is "speaking out on the abortion-breast cancer link all over the country" and has found receptive audiences in unexpected places.

"I spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about abortion and breast cancer the night before the Boston Red Sox won the World Series" last October, she said. "Most of the people who attended were men who would rather come to hear what I had to say than stay home and watch the game. That was rather inspiring to me."

Silver acknowledges that surviving cancer herself has made her "race" against abortion and Planned Parenthood a personal matter. "I don't want any woman to go through the horror of breast cancer the way I did," she said. "I'm a survivor, and I have a responsibility to make sure that information gets out."

Planned Parenthood did not respond to numerous calls seeking comment on this article.

Vaccine Refusal Form

2007-10-18T20:04:00.000-04:00

For my friends who requested it's location.
Here

ICAN

2007-10-16T21:06:00.000-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dRF4RtdJdo

Yesterday's Trip

2007-10-10T18:47:00.000-04:00

I took a trip to visit my ob. I had an ultrasound.
I know I saw 2 babies but only one had a heartbeat.
They said I ave a subchorionic hemorrhage or hematoma.
I am taking it easy and not lifting the kiddos or anything heavier than a gallon of milk, waiting on the blood to be reabsorbed by my body and not get worst.
I am praying that both babies are okay and that the blood just made the scan harder to visualize.
But I am at peace regardless. I have had a prior twin pregnancy where I loss one twin and went on to deliver the other child at 36 weeks.
That is all for now.

Hi Kerri!!
I am very tempted to join you on those sew crafty days. I pulled out my sewing machine who has been in hiding for the past 18 or so months.

Great Spirits

2007-10-01T15:52:00.000-04:00

I am feeling really queasy, but in great spirits despite my physical. I know this is only temporary. Maybe it means the baby is well? I promised God that I would keep my eyes on him and not on my physical senses.
I am pressing my children especially the older ones to help out more so things don't pile up ,like they usually do when I am down. We are all working together. The girls and the boys can help. All can cook,clean house,dishes,laundry,etc. I try to do what they can't and let them help with the rest.

The Lord has granted me the petition that I made to him. 1 Samuel 1:27

Paul wrote: We know that suffering produces endurance, and endurance
produces character, and character produces hope. Romans 5:3,4

Blogging is Difficult right now

2007-09-24T20:09:00.000-04:00

I am expecting a new wee one May 2008.
I seem to be experiencing this odd thing called morning sickness.
My sofa and I are now very best friends.
If I can pull away a bit and share myself I may post other life happenings.
Hi Kerry! Love Ya!!
Blessings,
Angie

Finally!!

2007-08-26T23:00:00.000-04:00

We can actually see teeth.
Noah has 4 visible teeth and 2 lumps.
I hope the worst is over!

Life

2007-08-24T21:36:00.000-04:00

Its getting busy around here again. We are stating school,restarting dance class,Sunday School,children's church.
I am determined to make my entire household healthy!
I am in research mode again.
I am taking lots of note and plan to printout a notebook to use for references.

I am working really hard on a good schedule.

2007-08-07T12:10:00.000-04:00

The Wall

2007-07-30T21:00:00.001-04:00

Their wedding picture mocked them from the table,

These two whose minds no longer touched each other.

They lived with such a heavy barricade between them

That neither battering ram of words

Nor artilleries of touch could break it down.

Somewhere, between the oldest child’s first tooth

And the youngest daughter’s graduation,

They lost each other.

Throughout the years each slowly unraveled

That tangled ball of string called self,

And as they tugged at the stubborn knots,

Each hid his searching from the other.

Sometimes she cried at night

And begged the whispering darkness to tell her who she was.

He lay beside her, snoring like a hibernating bear,

Unaware of her winter.

Once, after they had made love,

He wanted to tell her how afraid he was of dying,

But, fearing to show his naked soul,

He spoke instead about the beauty of her breasts.

She took a course in modern art,

Trying to find herself in colors splashed upon a canvas,

Complaining to other women about men who are insensitive.

He climbed into a tomb called “The Office,”

Wrapped his mind in a shroud of paper figures,

And buried himself in customers.

Slowly, the wall between them rose,

Cemented by the mortar of indifference.

One day, reaching out to touch each other

They found a barrier they could not penetrate,

And recoiling from the coldness of the stone,

Each retreated from the stranger on the other side.

For when love dies, it is not in a moment of angry battle,

Nor when fiery bodies lose their heat.

It lies panting, exhausted,

Expiring at the bottom of a wall it could not scale.

By Anonymous

2007-06-07T23:46:00.000-04:00

My baby is now 11 months old. Boy does time fly!

Dinner

2007-06-07T23:40:00.001-04:00

One day for dinner I made stroganoff with ground turkey.

From my reading:

2007-06-07T23:36:00.000-04:00

Luke 23:28-29 (New International Version)

28Jesus turned and said to them, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.
29For the time will come when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

Ouch. I hear these things a lot. It makes me sad.

June 28th

2007-06-07T23:33:00.000-04:00

Will be our 17th wedding anniversary
We had a very small candlelight ceremony
Lots of live fresh flowers and lots of candles
All in attendance cried and said it was one of the most beautiful they'd ever seen

Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain! Psalm 127:1

Wedding Vows: (my part)

2007-06-07T23:26:00.000-04:00

In the presence of God and these witnesses,

and by a holy covenant,

I Angela (my entire name) joyfully receive you Ron (his entire name)

As God’s perfect gift for me,

to have and to hold from this day forward,

for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,

in sickness and in health, to love you, to honor you, to respect you,

forsaking all others as long as we both shall live.

2007-06-07T23:23:00.000-04:00

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Matthew 7:12
Do for others what you would like them to do for you. This is a summary of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.

I Peter 4:8
Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.

John 13:14,15
And since I, the Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other's feet. I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you.

Galatians 6:9
So don't get tired of doing what is good. Don't get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time.

John 13:34
So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.

Romans 12:9,10
Don't just pretend that you love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Stand on the side of the good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.

Romans 12:20,21
Instead, do what the Scriptures say: "If your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink, and they will be ashamed of what they have done to you." Don't let evil get the best of you, but conquer evil by doing good.

Marriage

Genesis 2:18,24
And the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion who will help him. This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”

Matthew 19:4-6
“Haven't you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. "They record that from the beginning 'God made them male and female.' And Jesus said, 'This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.' Since they are no longer two but one, let no one separate them, for God has joined them together."

Ecclesiastes 4:9-11
Two people can accomplish more than twice as much as one; they get a better return for their labor. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But people who are alone when they fall are in real trouble. And on a cold night, two under the same blanket can gain warmth from each other. But how can one be warm alone?

Proverbs 31:10,11
Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is worth more than precious rubies. Her husband can trust her, and she will greatly enrich his life.

Ephesians 5:25
And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her.

Ephesians 5:31-33
As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one." This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and she must respect her husband.

1 Peter 3:7
In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat her with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. If you don't treat her as you should, your prayers will not be heard.

Genesis 2:23-24
"At last!" Adam exclaimed. "She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of a man. This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

Matthew 18:19
"I also tell you this- if two of you agree down here on earth concerning anything you ask for, my Father in heaven will do it for you.

Amos 3:3
Can two people walk together without agreeing on the direction?

Angie's Ponderings?

2007-01-15T14:24:00.000-05:00

Is suffering a blessing?
What should our attitude be towards it?

Angie's Musings

2007-01-15T14:21:00.000-05:00

Psalm 149

1 Praise the LORD. ^[a] Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saint

2 Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;

let the people of Zion be glad in their King.

3 Let them praise his name with dancing
and make music to him with tambourine and harp.

4 For the LORD takes delight in his people;
he crowns the humble with salvation.

5 Let the saints rejoice in this honor
and sing for joy on their beds.

6 May the praise of God be in their mouths
and a double-edged sword in their hands,

7 to inflict vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,

8 to bind their kings with fetters,
their nobles with shackles of iron,

9 to carry out the sentence written against them.
This is the glory of all his saints.
Praise the LORD.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Isaiah 62

Zion's New Name

1 For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet,
till her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
her salvation like a blazing torch.

2 The nations will see your righteousness,
and all kings your glory;
you will be called by a new name
that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.

3 You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD's hand,
a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

4 No longer will they call you Deserted,
or name your land Desolate.
But you will be called Hephzibah, ^[a]
and your land Beulah ^[b] ;
for the LORD will take delight in you,
and your land will be married.

5 As a young man marries a maiden,
so will your sons ^[c] marry you;
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice over you.

Psalm 32

7 You are my hiding place;
you will protect me from trouble
and surround me with songs of deliverance.
Selah

Psalm 64

1 Hear me, O God, as I voice my complaint;
protect my life from the threat of the enemy.

2 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked,
from that noisy crowd of evildoers.

3 They sharpen their tongues like swords
and aim their words like deadly arrows.

4 They shoot from ambush at the innocent man;
they shoot at him suddenly, without fear.

5 They encourage each other in evil plans,
they talk about hiding their snares;
they say, "Who will see them ^[a] ?"

6 They plot injustice and say,
"We have devised a perfect plan!"
Surely the mind and heart of man are cunning.

7 But God will shoot them with arrows;
suddenly they will be struck down.

8 He will turn their own tongues against them
and bring them to ruin;
all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.

9 All mankind will fear;
they will proclaim the works of God
and ponder what he has done.

10 Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD
and take refuge in him;
let all the upright in heart praise him!

1 Corinthians 10

11These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. 12So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

Let Us Reason Together

2007-01-02T00:48:00.000-05:00

We have been asked alot of times over the past month or so by church members and family about why we avoid eating certain things. People quote the scriptures to us alot Acts 10:9-17.
So we decided to really study these and a few other scriptures and found things in there we did not even see before just reading through it.
Peter had a vision when he was hungry waiting for his meal to be prepared.

Peter's Vision

9About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. 13Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."

14"Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."

15The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."

16This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

17While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon's house was and stopped at the gate. 18They called out, asking if Simon who was known as Peter was staying there.

19While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Simon, three^[a] men are looking for you. 20So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them."

21Peter went down and said to the men, "I'm the one you're looking for. Why have you come?"

22The men replied, "We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to have you come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say." 23Then Peter invited the men into the house to be his guests.

These scriptures have been quoted to me,us as to why it is now okay to eat unclean animals,pigs,shellfish,etc. I never believed it but I won't argue with you if you'd quoted these either. Seemingly convincing scriptures. But we sat and read the entire passage in context and found that the answer to the vision was given right there in the scriptures.

NIV 27Talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. 28He said to them: "You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with a Gentile or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean. 29So when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. May I ask why you sent for me?"

NASB 28And he said to them, "You yourselves know how ^(AL)unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet ^(AM)God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

AMP 28And he said to them, You yourselves are aware how it is not lawful or permissible for a Jew to keep company with or to visit or [even] to come near or to speak first to anyone of another nationality, but God has shown and taught me by words that I should not call any human being common or unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean.

It wasn't about the food. It was a lesson on race relations. Are there some people who we will not associate with because of their race?

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So about the unclean food. We realized you can eat what you want and it isn't a salvation issue. But there are consequences to everything that goes in your mouth. Either we pay now or later.
Like my dh family. Rail thin people with a "familial hereditary" cholesterol problem. After lots of research we found a connection between pork cnsumption and high cholesterol and also sugar consumption.
Later after reading in the bible we saw that there is a list of unlawful foods to eat. We felt G-d would not have put dietary laws and cleanliness laws in there just to put them there. We realize that we are
no longer under the law for salvation. The dietary and cleanliness laws make sense for good health and long life.

Isaiah 65

1 "I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me.
To a nation that did not call on my name,
I said, 'Here am I, here am I.'

2 All day long I have held out my hands
to an obstinate people,
who walk in ways not good,
pursuing their own imaginations-

3 a people who continually provoke me
to my very face,
offering sacrifices in gardens
and burning incense on altars of brick;

4 who sit among the graves
and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,
and whose pots hold broth of unclean meat;

5 who say, 'Keep away; don't come near me,
for I am too sacred for you!'
Such people are smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that keeps burning all day.

6 "See, it stands written before me:
I will not keep silent but will pay back in full;
I will pay it back into their laps-

7 both your sins and the sins of your fathers,"
says the LORD.
"Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
and defied me on the hills,
I will measure into their laps
the full payment for their former deeds."

8 This is what the LORD says:
"As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes
and men say, 'Don't destroy it,
there is yet some good in it,'
so will I do in behalf of my servants;
I will not destroy them all.

9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,
and from Judah those who will possess my mountains;
my chosen people will inherit them,
and there will my servants live.

10 Sharon will become a pasture for flocks,
and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds,
for my people who seek me.

11 "But as for you who forsake the LORD
and forget my holy mountain,
who spread a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,

12 I will destine you for the sword,
and you will all bend down for the slaughter;
for I called but you did not answer,
I spoke but you did not listen.
You did evil in my sight
and chose what displeases me."

13 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
"My servants will eat,
but you will go hungry;
my servants will drink,
but you will go thirsty;
my servants will rejoice,
but you will be put to shame.

14 My servants will sing
out of the joy of their hearts,
but you will cry out
from anguish of heart
and wail in brokenness of spirit.

15 You will leave your name
to my chosen ones as a curse;
the Sovereign LORD will put you to death,
but to his servants he will give another name.

16 Whoever invokes a blessing in the land
will do so by the God of truth;
he who takes an oath in the land
will swear by the God of truth.
For the past troubles will be forgotten
and hidden from my eyes.

1 John 2:6 (New International Version)

6Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

1 John 3:21-22 (New International Version)

21Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

If G-d gives you something pertaining this...PLEASE feel free to share it.

Blessings,

Angie

Monkey Bread

2006-12-18T00:37:00.001-05:00

Monkey Bread

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:

Dough 1 1/3 cups milk 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch pieces 1/4 cup sugar 1 (1/4-ounce) packet active dry yeast (not rapid-rise) 1/4 cup lukewarm water 2 large eggs, at room temperature, lightly beaten 4 3/4 to 5 cups (approximately) flour 2 teaspoons salt

Glaze 1/3 cup light brown sugar 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 tablespoons heavy cream

Nut and Sugar Coating 3/4 cup chopped pecans 5 tablespoons melted unsalted butter 3/4 cup sugar

1. Heat the milk in a saucepan until hot but not scalded. Then pour it into a large bowl. Add the butter and sugar, stirring until the butter is nearly melted.

2. Sprinkle the yeast over the lukewarm water, stir briefly, and then set it aside to dissolve for 5 to 10 minutes.

3. When the milk mixture has cooled to slightly warmer than body temperature, stir in the yeast and the lightly beaten eggs. Add 3 cups of the flour and beat the ingredients well with a wooden spoon for 100 strokes. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and set it aside for 10 minutes.

4. Stir the salt into the dough. Now stir in the remaining flour, about 1/3 cup at a time, until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl and is firm enough to knead.

5. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead it for about 8 to 10 minutes, until it is elastic and supple. Use more flour, if needed, to keep the dough from sticking. Then put the dough in a large, oiled glass or ceramic mixing bowl and turn it to coat the entire surface. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set it aside in a warm, draft-free spot until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.

6. While the dough rises, generously butter the entire inside of a large Bundt pan (it should have a capacity of about 12 cups). Do not use a tube pan with a removable insert, such as an angel food cake pan, because the glaze will run out of the pan.

7. Now make the glaze by heating the brown sugar, butter, and heavy cream in a small saucepan, stirring continuously. As soon as the glaze comes to a boil, pour it into the Bundt pan so that it puddles evenly in the bottom (a parent's job). Sprinkle half of the chopped pecans over the glaze.

8. When the dough has doubled, punch it down and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead the dough for 1 minute. Cut off golf ball-size pieces of dough and roll them into rough balls.

9. Now prepare the coating. Pour the melted butter into one bowl and the sugar into another and place them in the work area. Dip the dough balls into the butter and then roll them in the sugar, placing them in the pan as you go. Once you've covered the bottom of the pan, start a new layer.

10. When you've used half of the dough, scatter the remaining pecans over it. Then continue adding layers until the pan is two thirds full. Ideally, you will have used all the dough. If you happen to have excess dough balls, layer them in a small, well-buttered loaf pan or casserole.

11. Cover the pan with plastic wrap and let the dough rise until doubled in bulk, about 35 to 45 minutes. Start heating the oven to 375º about 10 minutes before the dough is fully risen.

12. Remove the plastic wrap and bake the bread on the center rack for 45 minutes. Don't worry too much if the top gets quite brown, but if it starts to look scorched, lay a piece of tinfoil over the bread to deflect the heat. (If you're baking a small loaf alongside, it will take only about 30 minutes.)

13. Transfer the pan to a cooling rack and gently run a butter knife down the side here and there to loosen the loaf. Carefully flip the bread over onto the rack and remove the pan (another job for parents); it should lift right off. If there is excess glaze left in the pan, immediately spoon it onto the bread.

14. Cool the bread for at least 20 minutes. Then pour glasses of cold milk, put out some plates, and help yourselves by pulling off pieces of the bread. Any leftovers can be wrapped in tinfoil and reheated later in a warm oven. Makes up to 9 servings.

Scriptures-KJV

2006-12-18T00:35:00.002-05:00

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. Proverbs 31:26

“Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way” (Ps. 119:37)

“Rid me and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace.” (Ps. 144:11,12)

“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Ps. 1:1-3)

“I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.” (Rom. 16:19)

“I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.” (Ps. 119.101)

“Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.” (Deut. 7:26)

“Abstain from all appearance of evil.” (I Thes. 5:22)

“Keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith.” (I Tim. 6:20,21)

“But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker.” (II Tim. 2:16,17)

“If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed.” (II Jn. 1:10,11)

“I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.” (Ps 101:3)

“One sinner destroyeth much good.” (Eccl. 9:18b)

“For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Ps. 11:2,3)

“They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them” (Ps. 106: 34-36)

“The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.” (Luke 11:34-36)

“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.” (I Cor. 15:33)

“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” (I Cor. 5:6,7)

“Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” (Gal. 5:7-9)

“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” (Rom. 1:33)

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” (James 4:4)

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness” (Matt. 6:22,23)

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” (Gal. 6:7,8)

2006-12-18T00:35:00.001-05:00

Great Game!!?? For us STEELER Fans

Earlier I watched Dad beat up big brother. Steelers and Redskins have always been my favorite teams.
Since Carolina Panthers came around I feel I must pull for them when they play. But I can't when they are
playing my favs.
37 to 3

Can't say more

Peppermint Brownies :o)

2006-12-18T00:34:00.001-05:00

Peppermint Brownies :o)

1 1/3 c. butter, softened

2 2/3 c. sugar

4 eggs

1 TBSP Vanilla

2 c. flour

1 c. baking cocoa

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp peppermint extract

1 package of Andes Peppermint Crunch baking chips

(our Aldi sells it)

Powdered sugar, optional

In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla; mix

well. Combine flour, cocoa, and salt; add vanilla, mix well.

Add peppermint extract and blend in
candy cane pieces.

Spread

into a greased 13 x 9 x 2 in. baking pan. Bake at 350º for 25-30

minutes or until the top is dry and the center is set. Cool

completely. Dust with powdered sugar if desired.

DON'T overcook! Enjoy!

Wednesday

2006-12-14T17:07:00.000-05:00

Wednesday

I’m trying to salvage some video.

Some well-meaning friends adjusted my digital camcorder

And several dances are zoomed in so close that we missed many

dancers. So I have borrowed a friend fellow mom/choreographer..

mini-dv and am now trying to piece them together.

For some odd reason my computer does not want to recognize my camcorder

So I am having difficulty downloading video today for editing. L

Oy Vey.

Big kiddos had dance today. We are dancing and I am singing on Christmas eve.

Morning and night.

Daniel will be 9 Saturday. We are having a big family party. Sam turns 3 next

Wednesday another birthday party.

In between it all we are on a cookie baking spree.

I am too tired to type more...

Blessings,

Angie

Christmas Program

2006-12-14T17:05:00.000-05:00

Christmas Program

Our program went great on Sunday afternoon. G-d blessed it.
BY Our dress rehearsal saturday you would have not known that we know what we are doing.
We missed our cues. Costume malfunctions......
But Sunday was great. Noah was an excellent Baby Jesus but we forgot to remove his dummy from his mouth.
OOPS.
I'm too busy to post. We have lots of parties this week, some with homeschool group, some with family and some with friends.
I'm editing video currently. Catching up on laundry.
I May try to pop in here if I can.
December is such a busy family oriented month for us.

Blessings,Angie

2006-12-09T22:57:00.000-05:00

We are busy working on tomorrows Christmas program.
Most of us are dancing in it.(minus Sam)
Will update later.
Hi Kerri.

Blessings,Angie

Hello

2006-12-01T16:52:00.000-05:00

Thank You Kerri for dropping in.I am glad you can read it. Esp since xanga blocks you. I'll try to remember to post here daily like I do with xanga.

A few kid pictures

2006-12-01T00:39:00.000-05:00

Noah

Having fun

Hi there

Monday Noonish

2006-12-01T00:18:00.001-05:00

It was after 11am around noonish. I was loading bags,bags,bags and more bags into my mommyvan to take to the refugees. I was supposed to meet V.Y. at the church.(She sorts and distibutes things to the families that need them).
Just as I loaded the last item in my van, I noticed a tall young thin male jogging lightly up my road. (I didn't think much of him jogging...common in my area....but it was odd that he appeared to be wearing a few too many layers. I had on short sleeves.)
When he was about 30 feet from my house...I heard screeching tires coming around the corner. He slowed his jog to a walk. He and the car full of more young guys stopped right in front of my house.
I saw the front seat passenger pass a gun to the back seat passenger,stick it in the abdomen of the jogger and fire it. I dropped to the ground and heard at least 4 more shots loud enough to buzz my ears.
The car sped..peeled off. I could not make out the license plate, but had a pretty decent desciption of the car. I did not see but heard the jogger toss his gun(It made a loud metallic thud as it hit the paved road)
I ran in my house grabbed cordless phone and dialed 911. told them we need police and medic. My other neighbor (one of 3 of us eyewitnesses) i told her to grab some old towels. His exit wounds were bad.( I don't think I could have emotionally handle a 17 year old boy dying in front of my home.) I held pressure with doubled towels till medic took over. They took him to our major trauma center nearby.

How sad young people are Choosing this kind of life for themselves. It breaks my heart to see kids not much older than mine in sad predicaments and lifestyles.

Hope

2006-12-01T00:18:00.000-05:00

Lamentations 3:22-33 (New International Version)

22 Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.

24 I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him."

25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;

26 it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.

28 Let him sit alone in silence,
for the LORD has laid it on him.

29 Let him bury his face in the dust—
there may yet be hope.

30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him,
and let him be filled with disgrace.

31 For men are not cast off
by the Lord forever.

32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion,
so great is his unfailing love.

33 For he does not willingly bring affliction
or grief to the children of men.

Jeremiah 29:10-14 (New International Version)

10 This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. ^[a] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."

God's Promises To ME

2006-12-01T00:16:00.000-05:00

God's Promises To ME

"I will protect you" - Acts 26:17
"I will comfort you" - Isaiah 66:13
"I will give you peace" - Leviticus 26:6
"I will listen to you" - Jeremiah 29:12
"I will carry you" - Isaiah 46:4
"I will strengthen you" - Isaiah 41:10

"I will give you rest." - Matthew 11:28
"I will be with you." - Genesis 31:3

Updates ....Check out my xanga

2006-11-05T22:01:00.000-05:00

Noah Luke now 4 months old. My mr. chunk. On our way to MawMaw's funeral..before getting dressed.

I made this homemade carrot cake with cream cheese icing and took it to my mom on her birthday October 29,2006.
It was yummy!!

How many have your name?

2006-11-05T22:00:00.000-05:00

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
470
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

Pray for Susan

2006-09-15T00:03:00.000-04:00

http://susangodfrey.blogspot.com/

Please pray for Susan and her sweet family.

So this is Heaven on Earth!!

2006-08-24T10:45:00.000-04:00

So this is Heaven on Earth!! I love this blog. I have 4 boys and I'm learning alot here.

Vegan Lunch Box

2006-08-19T21:56:00.000-04:00

Vegan Lunch Box This is one of my new favorite sites. Full of vegan recipes and cute pictures of shmoo. I constantly check it for new ideas.

www.keepingthehome.com: Here's What My Current Dresses Look Like

2006-08-15T15:50:00.000-04:00

www.keepingthehome.com: Here's What My Current Dresses Look Like

I am thinking of taking the challenge. I have also made a headcovering. Lots on my mind and heart lately.

New Kid on the Block

2006-07-31T23:52:00.000-04:00

Arrived July 2nd 2006
weighing in at 7 pounds 6 ounces 20 inches long.
Totally adorable. You gotta love him.

Picture option not working tonight so I'll try tomorrow.

Pictures

2006-06-25T19:24:00.000-04:00

Pictures from today.

Laboring week

2006-06-25T18:51:00.000-04:00

This week was really exhausting. I lost mucous plug tuesday night and wednesday morning. By tuesday afternoon I started having really strong non BH contractions. about 15 minutes apart. Wed they moved to 10 minutes apart so I though maybe this is it. Thursday and Friday were the same. We actually went to the hospital Saturady around 330am or 4am because I was have contractions 5 minutes apart. I 'm still having them 5 minutes apart. I just figured out this morning that this is prelabor just getting my body ready NOT the real thing and can go on for sometime before we meet the baby. So I just need to rest and not get all excited. Dh and I are somewhat sad for this young girl that came into observation while we were there in another room. dh said she looks really young and out of it. Was accompanied by her parents. She came in screaming and moaning and just did not look right. We overheard her mother say she just started having excrutiating pain about 5-10 mintues before she was brought in by ambulance and began bleeding in the ambulance. Things moved pretty fast. There was an emergency nurses and doctors came from everywhere. Stat ultasound revealed no heartbeat her baby had bled out. And her uterus had filled with blood and they needed to do an emergency csection to save her life. With in 5 minutes they had rolled her out to surgery. Dh and I prayed for her and her family. Our heart sunk from the aweful scream she had once finding out her 34 week gestation baby had died and there was nothing that could be done for the baby but they needed to now try to save mom. After losing Morgen last year I have very recent empathy for the young mom. Also being a nurse I know she may never be able to have children if they had to perform a hysterectomy to stop the bleeding. She'd be alive but she'd feel dead inside. Losing her baby and chance to ever have more. I felt grateful this year to be pregnant like A second chance at life even though I can never replace the baby I lost. Little Noah will help ease the pain of my broken heart. The young mommy just turned 16 in March. It felt weird because dh and I daughters will be 14 in a few short weeks. So we felt parent pain and just weird like so close. I can't explain but we talked and prayed for an hour. I was so sad and ready to go home after that. I still want to know if the young girl made it through surgery she looked really really close to death. Like she was bleeding to death. We are still praying for her.

Updates

2006-06-11T22:02:00.000-04:00

Sam was very dehydrated when He woke up this am for pain meds. So Had serious prayertime. Coaxed him in to sipping it from the medicine dropper. So I am now getting him to drink some water. Hope to be able to get him drinking from a cup soon.
Sam had 4 of his front teeth pulled. They had died. He is having some problems with his bones right now. I didn't know anything was wrong with him until around February when he kept complaining or ear pain. I never saw any ear problems checking myself. Took him to our family practice doc. even he said his ears are fine.One month later he actually verbalized that Sammy's teeth hurt. So I decided to take him to a dentist. Some days he wouldn't want to eat.. I believe from the pain. The dentist told us then that his teeth felt "spongy" or really soft and suggested we use floridated water( allow him to drink it)To help strengthen his teeth?? One of my children told him that we drink filtered water and use tooth paste that doesn't contain flouride. So the dentist thought it was a simple case of Sam having spongy teeth from a lack of flouride in his diet. But refered us to a ??periodontist,endodontist??? for evaluation. The endo?? thought he felt a tumor or something that didn't belong there in Sam's upper gums. He also wanted to look inside to make sure that it wasn't something really bad or too close to his brain so..... He began xrays and MRI. It appeared to be localized to the area in front of his ear..Hence the pain in his ear for over a month or more. ?? not sure if it was lymph related..ie) drainage or what. but it was removed. Sam had nerve damage all of his front top 4 teeth had died and they had to be removed. the rest of his teeth all had to be capped to protect them. He doesn't know if the teeth still in his gums are alive or dead. Sam has had a few fevers recently and has elevated liver enzymes,elevated platelets and elevated white blood cells. They want to recheck his blood in 2 weeks.
He is to see the endo on thurs for followup. His surgery friday was at CMC under general anesthesia at same day surgery so we came home as soon as they felt comfortable with him leaving. The endo has been calling us alot to check on Sam. Really nice guy. God blessed us with a few good people to care for him. They didn't even give us trouble about our lack of vaccinations. I was kinda worried about that. All were courteous and respectful and didn't act weirded out by us praying for and over Sam. Right before the anestheiologist carried him into the OR we prayed that Sam would be happy,calm ,peaceful and relaxed. He was giggling like a silly little drunk man when he was carried away. A nurse called from the OR after they started working on him to tell us that God answered that prayer that he was giggly till he was put under and that the surgery was going well. it took almost 4.5 hours. She(the RN) called us from the OR to update us hourly which gave me lots of comfort. We were only expecting a 2 hour surgery. Overall things seem God ordained. My only complaint is upon returning home ..i guess the stress had gotten to dh.. he was fairly rude to me all evening.Upset that I had not planned what we'd have for dinner, I hadn't made tea for him. We went to hospital together and stayed there all day together fine. But at home I felt very attacked and just physically and mentally spent. I was too fatigued to even think about anything so I went to bed. Someone woke me up to give Sam his pain med. then I went back to sleep. I didn't really eat much friday or yesterday. I am still quite exhausted. today I am having
less contractions today..like 4-6 per hour so they have spaced out. Had about 10-12 per hour yesterday. But I still feel quite crampy like af cramps. Baby still moves alot. So I am not really worried. I don't feel like I am in real labor anymore like I felt yesterday. It was probably from all the stress.
I still want to finish cleaning my house before I have the baby.
Oh .. Sam is up playing with his cars and coloring and seems better since I 've gotten water into him. I am planning to give him some soft solids today ..like applesauce, potatoes mashed or maybe custard. he is starting to look a bit puny. I appreciate ALL of the prayers for us that we can get. I see prayer working.
I need to rest because I am too tired to behave. May pop in again later. I am getting AOL broadband soon Woohoo...(can't wait)so it will be easier to get on and STAY online without being bumped. Psalm 103:1-5
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits; Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Blessings,Angie W.

WOW!!!!!

2006-06-05T23:33:00.001-04:00

Kayla and David are working their tushes off to help me get the house clean.
They are being such a blessing today!!! I have been trying so hard and feeling so tired.
I hope we can get all accomplished by friday and I can rest till baby is born.
Blessings, Angie

blah...too hot.... whine.... whine..where is my cheese?

2006-04-17T23:55:00.000-04:00

I'm slowly rereading Created to be his help meet. I am reading my bible and praying. It is an all out battle for souls here. I have to remember I'm on the winning team. I am having a hard time here. I am heat untolerant when I am not pregnant but it is pretty bad pregnant. I can not convince dh to put window units in the window yet. He said I need to toughen up and it doesnt feel that bad. So I haven't cooked for a few days like I usually bake fresh bread and such. I haven't gotten up early as usual either because I am fighting again for a bed time for the kids. dh telling me how much of a control freak that I am. We are so working against one another. I have no clue what he is trying to raise ..other that tv addict children that think that I am a maid or something. Can you belive everyone got angry with me for telling them yo fix their own breakfats and sandwiches at lunch. The around dinner time..what are you making for dinner? uh.. nothing Mommy is waiting for the cool front to return. We have no ac other than the window units. I have swollen so much that I can NOT wear my wedding rings or my shoes. All heat related because my bp is fine... 100/60. I guess I went from one miserable house to another.As a teen living with my mom and her husband was pretty rough. I had a great husband and marriage until 7-8 years ago. Subtle selfishness creeped in. Now I don't even care to get out of beds most days. I think if I didn't have a 2 year old and was expecting a new baby I probably would be dead by now because I have loss energu to fight. I don't even know what I 'd be fighting for. I don't even know if my sacrifice of time and energy has even had a positive effect on my children? I am exhausted and wish I had a place to just go and rest for a little while. .. alone....I wish I had a maid for a few days to get my house really clean. because right now it is filthy. I wish the hot weather did not bring in fleas into my house. Every time it gets hot for the past 2 years since dh got these cats I am the one who gets eatten alive by fleas?? why I dont know. Maybe they think I am an animal of sorts?I feel so bad for my children having me for a mother right now. I feel like such a poor one.it is 1144pm here and 4 of my kids are still awake Sam the 2 year old has been down since 830pm.dh went to bed at 930pm. I would have made the kids go to bed right after him ..which is what I usually do ,but since he had an extra day off he made a huge mess he expected me to clean but I made the kids clean it after he retired. He has been trying to punish me all day for not cooking all weekend. But as long as its 90 degrees in this brick house with thick flea carpeting... I will stay far far away from the kitchen. Our family needs serious prayer and serious Christian counseling. I tried talking to dh about marriage counseling. He told me to go ahead and go. Because I am the one with the problem..the rest of the family is happy. Maybe it will help me to fit in with him and the kids. Maybe I'll learn to be a part of their family.

Today

2006-04-16T20:14:00.000-04:00

Resurrection Sunday. I had a great day at church today. Was only sick for a few hours this morning. So I am quite happy.
Came home we had sandwiches for lunch and dinner. Without a/c and being 7 months pregnant it is way to hot to cook. Ronnie doesn't work monday. He said he may put a window unit ac in our living room before he returns to work. I am trying to save up money to get our icemake fixed to. Dh said it was leaking under the house ,so he shut it off and disconnected it sometime last year. I didnt care with cool weather ..but now I need my ice. Some of the family..dh and 10yods and one of my twins are upset with me because I refused to cook today and I refused to order pizza. Did I have change yes. Did I want to spend it on pizza ..no. I figured the faster I get some ice here and the plumber out the better. :o) besides sandwiches never killed anyone..eh??

I am nesting a little trying to get my tiny home ready for baby. Who will be here before we know it. I am a little worried about not having help or what I need. I'm having trouble here with help. I guess that is why I stopped feeling sorry for my family's request. I think we have made them spoiled ..so I am trying to reverse that asap.

In the picture about to the right above my sofa you can see Samuel's masterpiece. I asked the big kiddos to watch him for a half and hour because I was feeling really tired and sick. This is one of the things I awoke to. But I kept my cool. I want to paint my house so bad. I need those renovate your house or habitat people or something.
I have a long list of needs for my house:

I need to finish tearing up carpet because it makes me and half of our kiddos sick.
We need some rotted wood replaced
We need to paint. inside and out
More plumbing needs fixed
It would be lovely to have these ceiling fans that have been in my closet for 10 years put up.
I want tile in the bathroom but it isn't necessry ..just a want
I have a ton of stuff in the attic I want hauled to a dump somewhere.

Short of divorce.. how do women deal with homethings and raising children alone with a husband who is physically there but can't seem to be mentally or emotionally for help?????

More pictures of the kiddos at play and schoolwork..

Its A....

2006-02-15T19:24:00.000-05:00

We decided to go ahead with an ultrasound. I am at the week where Morgen died 20 weeks. So I kinda needed it for a little peace of mind. It feels
great to have seen all 4 heart chamers beating, untact spinal column and organs, 10 fingers and toes, all organs .
Part of me says I should have just prayed for peace from God. Another part of me has been depressed since I lost her and feels great with our decision
and with seeing a healthy baby. I'll sleep better at least for tonight :o)
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f65/ucmamma/GalleryPic19w3dUS02-13-06CMOMB.jpg

We are expecting a baby boy in 20 more weeks. Mid summer.

Finally

2006-01-06T12:04:00.000-05:00

I am starting to feel human again. The nausea is sporadic not all day any longer especially since I found out about eatting hourly and lots of good proteins. My blood sugars don't drop so much any more except first thing in the morning. I think I've been feling baby flutters for a few days now. First day I thought it was gas..lol. Now I remember that is what all the babies felt lke the first movements that I felt. Totally cool!!!
I am still recovering from the assault of pnemonia on my lungs. Somewhat wheezy still. I still get short of breathe from walking over a few meters. So my endurance is NOT. I hrew my back out a couple of days before New Year's Day. It is starting to feel a lot better. I don't have the constant spasms anymore. I think upping my Shaklee calcium has helped tremendously. It sure helped quell the leg cramps.
Right now I am working on a name for my home business.
New Year New Focus!!

You've turned my mourning into dancing...

2005-12-29T23:25:00.000-05:00

We had visit to ob wednesday but didn't see him because he was ill at home. So we had labs-blood and urine.
We also had ultrasound. Which dated baby as 12w3d
and due date of July 9,2006.

Nausea

2005-11-29T00:11:00.000-05:00

We are experiencing a multiplied wave of nausea.
Still happy to not have puked so far. Praising God for every moment.
Continuing my Shaklee "powerpack" as we call it here.
Well gotta go to bed. NOW!!!
Nighters!!!

Hi Kerri

2005-11-17T18:44:00.000-05:00

Saturday November 5th, 2005
Went shopping. I had been feeling quite queasy all week.
??flu or baby?? :o)
So purchase a Clear Blue Easy at Target.{Idiot Proof Right}

You've turned my mourning into dancing...

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Mindy Smith - Come To Jesus

Mini Update:

Barack Obama: The 2004 “God Factor” Interview Transcript

The I Have a Dream Speech

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Natural Cures

Hepatitis B Vaccine Linked to Autoimmune Rheumatoid Diseases

Safety of Homebirth

Homemade diapers: free patterns

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Margaret Sanger

Front Wrap Cross Carry Tutorial

Tutorial on babywearing

VBAC and scar integrity

Shampoo Free

Monday, December 03, 2007 copy/paste from xanga post

Thursday, November 29, 2007 copy/paste from my xanga

Pregnancy Update

Update..copy pasted from myspace blog

Ron Paul on Leno

Update

Breast Cancer Foe Gives Big $$ to Top Abortion Provider

Vaccine Refusal Form

ICAN

Yesterday's Trip

Great Spirits

Blogging is Difficult right now

Finally!!

Life

The Wall

Dinner

From my reading:

Luke 23:28-29 (New International Version)

June 28th

Wedding Vows: (my part)

Angie's Ponderings?

Angie's Musings

Psalm 149

1 Praise the LORD. [a] Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saint

Isaiah 62

Zion's New Name

Psalm 32

Psalm 64

1 Corinthians 10

Let Us Reason Together

Peter's Vision

Isaiah 65

1 John 2:6 (New International Version)

1 John 3:21-22 (New International Version)

Monkey Bread

Scriptures-KJV

Great Game!!?? For us STEELER Fans

Peppermint Brownies :o)

Peppermint Brownies :o)

Wednesday

Wednesday

Christmas Program

Christmas Program

Hello

A few kid pictures

Monday Noonish

Hope

Lamentations 3:22-33 (New International Version)

Jeremiah 29:10-14 (New International Version)

God's Promises To ME

God's Promises To ME

Updates ....Check out my xanga

How many have your name?

Pray for Susan

So this is Heaven on Earth!!

Vegan Lunch Box

1 Praise the LORD. ^[a] Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saint