Perhaps it's just me, but does it seem strange to anyone else that at a time when our whole world is concerned about oil prices as well as availability of oil as fuel, that it seems out of place for people to still be able to do such free and entertaining, yet extremely wasteful playtime events such as Auto Racing, Motorcycle Racing, Boat Racing, Airplane Racing, etc.? It seems like someone should have put a moratorium on such events until things level out a bit, or at least offer incentives for people to NOT hold such events. And don't get me started on the whole exhaust fumes and the Ozone layer or Green House Effects but it really seems like a no-brainer to me.
Every time I watch a movie that has something being blown to pieces it just breaks my heart. I can't help but think that for the price of entertaining we silly human beings, we are destroying our entire globe. I just don't get it. So much of life is perspective and it seems like common sense to me that if the exhaust from cars can warm the planet to a dangerous level (along with many other reasons of course), then why on earth (pun intended) isn't there some law that just says we can use our personal cars as we need but sporting events need to be curtailed until the earth cools down a bit.
I know, I know... Money! It always comes down to money! But these days it isn't just the money, our globe and the lives of our children and grand children are at stake. I hope someone can explain this to me, but I doubt there is a good explanation. And just for the record - I love these sports!!!
Friday, April 3, 2009
Friday, July 4, 2008
Happy 4th of July
Today is the 4th of July, 2008! Happy Independence Day! But as much as I love my country (and I really, really do) I have a problem with the way it is celebrated on the 4th of July. A few minutes ago, in connection with our local town celebration, huge planes flew overhead and while at a very low altitude scared the daylights out of me. It took me a second to realize why they were dive bombing our town. And I wonder who bought the fuel for the planes?
I have spent the past many nights trying to find a place in my bed that could block the sound of the neighborhood as it started doing it's loud fireworks a bit early. And if this holiday is like the rest of them, this neighborhood will celebrate well into the nights for a very long time yet, having bought up all of the fireworks they possibly could store safely. (And that's a whole different message.)
But it often occurs to me that we are strange here in America to celebrate our freedom by making so much noise that it sounds like a 'war movie' going on and on forever. I don't think this is what our forefathers had in mind when they started celebrating the 4th of July. I have seen many kids terrified out of their minds with the noise and the colorful explosions overhead. Here I am a grandmother and still don't like the noises going on and on non-stop for days on end. It just seems like overkill on the fireworks and it makes me wonder about the cost of all of these "celebrations" and just how all of that money could be used in a better way. Like feeding hungry people or finding shelters for the homeless...
I'm not a party pooper but I am a little too practical for my own good and I know this about myself. I don't expect anyone to agree with what I have said here - but then, that's why it is MY blog!
I have spent the past many nights trying to find a place in my bed that could block the sound of the neighborhood as it started doing it's loud fireworks a bit early. And if this holiday is like the rest of them, this neighborhood will celebrate well into the nights for a very long time yet, having bought up all of the fireworks they possibly could store safely. (And that's a whole different message.)
But it often occurs to me that we are strange here in America to celebrate our freedom by making so much noise that it sounds like a 'war movie' going on and on forever. I don't think this is what our forefathers had in mind when they started celebrating the 4th of July. I have seen many kids terrified out of their minds with the noise and the colorful explosions overhead. Here I am a grandmother and still don't like the noises going on and on non-stop for days on end. It just seems like overkill on the fireworks and it makes me wonder about the cost of all of these "celebrations" and just how all of that money could be used in a better way. Like feeding hungry people or finding shelters for the homeless...
I'm not a party pooper but I am a little too practical for my own good and I know this about myself. I don't expect anyone to agree with what I have said here - but then, that's why it is MY blog!
Friday, May 30, 2008
Oh, ye of little faith...
I have been a Christian since I was 13 years old and it is one of the greatest foundations of my life. But something has really been bothering me for the past several years. That is the fact that there are so many Christians in this world who have no problem believing in Jesus Christ being the son of God and the salvation of the world. But try to talk to them about angels, spirits, previous life in the spirit world or anything like that and they just shut down and look at you like you're speaking blasphemy.
I just don't understand how a Christian can have such limited thinking. God himself is the creator of miracles and Christ walked this earth making miracles happen to get others to see the power and greatness of our Lord and Savior. But it is the Christians who will limit God's powers faster than non-believers every time. As if to think such things would be to worship Satan himself. They will often quote that Satan can imitate miracles and do things that will make us think it is of God when it isn't. But it amazes me that they are so willing to first and foremost give Satan credit for things rather than think that God himself is doing things. I go crazy with this kind of limited thinking.
If you are healed after praying for healing, instead of "Praise God" being the first response, it is often things like, "Are you sure Satan didn't do it instead?" Oh my, I fear that God has his heart broken so often by his own followers. They will give Satan credit for God's miracles and then doubt God himself. This must be very painful for him. I hope that I don't do this and I don't think I do.
But recently I had my own heart broken by having one of my sister's question whether I had brought evil spirits into her home. To have her sit and pray two nights in a row that the evil spirits would leave was almost more than I could bear. I wanted to scream at her that perhaps I had brought angels with me and that was the difference that she was sensing. Why do Christians so readily jump to the thoughts of Satan instead of thinking that God is taking part in things. To me, every time someone asks if Satan is behind something that is extraordinary - it is giving Satan more credit and more power than he deserves. I don't choose to give him that much of my thinking, personally!
I just don't understand how a Christian can have such limited thinking. God himself is the creator of miracles and Christ walked this earth making miracles happen to get others to see the power and greatness of our Lord and Savior. But it is the Christians who will limit God's powers faster than non-believers every time. As if to think such things would be to worship Satan himself. They will often quote that Satan can imitate miracles and do things that will make us think it is of God when it isn't. But it amazes me that they are so willing to first and foremost give Satan credit for things rather than think that God himself is doing things. I go crazy with this kind of limited thinking.
If you are healed after praying for healing, instead of "Praise God" being the first response, it is often things like, "Are you sure Satan didn't do it instead?" Oh my, I fear that God has his heart broken so often by his own followers. They will give Satan credit for God's miracles and then doubt God himself. This must be very painful for him. I hope that I don't do this and I don't think I do.
But recently I had my own heart broken by having one of my sister's question whether I had brought evil spirits into her home. To have her sit and pray two nights in a row that the evil spirits would leave was almost more than I could bear. I wanted to scream at her that perhaps I had brought angels with me and that was the difference that she was sensing. Why do Christians so readily jump to the thoughts of Satan instead of thinking that God is taking part in things. To me, every time someone asks if Satan is behind something that is extraordinary - it is giving Satan more credit and more power than he deserves. I don't choose to give him that much of my thinking, personally!
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Global Warming!
How can anyone say that there isn't a problem with global warming? I don't get it! I have seen the changes first hand and I am amazed that anyone can still dispute the effect that it is having on our world. I went on a cruise several years ago with family members that went through the Inside Passage to Alaska. Our cruise ship went into Glacier Bay and we were all taking pictures of the most amazing and huge glaciers. The ice floes were the most beautiful color of blue and the size of them was enough to make a person feel very small indeed. We saw the ice "calving" or breaking off and tumbling into the sea and it was nothing short of awesome. Some of the ice chunks were just floating around the bay with seals on them and we enjoyed the view as we slowly turned our ship around and then left the bay.
Five years to the week later, my family was on a second cruise going the same Inside Passage. It was a different cruise line but it was still such a thrill to be going back and seeing the spectacular ice floes that we had seen before. As we entered the mouth of the bay, a voice came over the speaker telling us that because of the changes in the bay they were now only allowing one ship into the bay at a time and then as we left, another cruise ship would enter.
I was standing on the deck watching as we entered the bay, full of excitement for what was ahead of us. I remembered the glorious view of the blue ice floes and the seals floating in a lazy manner on the broken chunks of ice. But I was so very disappointed when we were told by way of the voice in the speaker that we were in fact IN the Glacier Bay. I couldn't recognize any part of it. There were no seals, no ice chucks, and very little ice floes coming down the sides of the bay. The beautiful blue color was all washed out since the ice floes were so thinned out. There was no "calving" to see. I wanted to just stand by that railing and cry my heart out. The beauty that I had enjoyed only five short years ago, was but a memory, now replaced with something that was in no way spectacular. I don't even remember if I took a picture of it since there was so little to see and not anything to be impressed with.
It has bothered me ever since that last trip as to where my beautiful ice floes have gone. What could cause them to disappear when they were such enormous cliffs of ice that would have taken centuries to freeze that thick. I have been so bothered by this that when I hear people say there is no such thing as global warming it stirs anger inside of me. I wish they could see the changes that I saw - I doubt that they would still say that.
Then one evening when I was watching TV I had an idea of one thing that I feel deep in my heart has to be contributing a great deal to the warming of our earth. The more I thought on it though, the more I knew why I never hear anyone address this one major offense. Whenever the entertainment world is involved in something, and with the advent of the stars getting more and more involved in political events... it's no wonder that this problem will never be addressed.
Every time I watch a television program that uses explosives to blow up buildings, cars, ships, planes... I feel deeply in my heart that this is all contributing to the global warming that is changing our world for the worse and is leading us to the destruction of the earth as we know it. It is enough that with the "progress" that we have made in this world, building tunnels that need holes blown through mountains; with all of the planes in the air that increase the number of planes that are going to crash and explode; with all of the many ways that we use the resources of this earth to build and grow, with a war raging on the other side of the globe that in and of itself is causing enough warming all by itself; with the oil pumps being attacked and sent into plumes of flames and smoke... and then we have to have people blowing things up and causing major warming to the air around our globe - just for entertainment purposes!
We humans are so selfish, as a whole when we don't care about what we leave to our grandchildren, as long as we got to see those cars and trucks explode on our favorite TV program. But who, if anyone, will ever dare to put a moratorium on such programs so that we can slow the drastic changes to our globe? We try to conserve gas, stop using our fireplaces, stop burning the trimmings of our trees and leaves, carpool, consolidate our trips into town so as to keep the emissions to a minimum, and yet huge explosions can rock our world right off its' axis and we call it entertainment!
Five years to the week later, my family was on a second cruise going the same Inside Passage. It was a different cruise line but it was still such a thrill to be going back and seeing the spectacular ice floes that we had seen before. As we entered the mouth of the bay, a voice came over the speaker telling us that because of the changes in the bay they were now only allowing one ship into the bay at a time and then as we left, another cruise ship would enter.
I was standing on the deck watching as we entered the bay, full of excitement for what was ahead of us. I remembered the glorious view of the blue ice floes and the seals floating in a lazy manner on the broken chunks of ice. But I was so very disappointed when we were told by way of the voice in the speaker that we were in fact IN the Glacier Bay. I couldn't recognize any part of it. There were no seals, no ice chucks, and very little ice floes coming down the sides of the bay. The beautiful blue color was all washed out since the ice floes were so thinned out. There was no "calving" to see. I wanted to just stand by that railing and cry my heart out. The beauty that I had enjoyed only five short years ago, was but a memory, now replaced with something that was in no way spectacular. I don't even remember if I took a picture of it since there was so little to see and not anything to be impressed with.
It has bothered me ever since that last trip as to where my beautiful ice floes have gone. What could cause them to disappear when they were such enormous cliffs of ice that would have taken centuries to freeze that thick. I have been so bothered by this that when I hear people say there is no such thing as global warming it stirs anger inside of me. I wish they could see the changes that I saw - I doubt that they would still say that.
Then one evening when I was watching TV I had an idea of one thing that I feel deep in my heart has to be contributing a great deal to the warming of our earth. The more I thought on it though, the more I knew why I never hear anyone address this one major offense. Whenever the entertainment world is involved in something, and with the advent of the stars getting more and more involved in political events... it's no wonder that this problem will never be addressed.
Every time I watch a television program that uses explosives to blow up buildings, cars, ships, planes... I feel deeply in my heart that this is all contributing to the global warming that is changing our world for the worse and is leading us to the destruction of the earth as we know it. It is enough that with the "progress" that we have made in this world, building tunnels that need holes blown through mountains; with all of the planes in the air that increase the number of planes that are going to crash and explode; with all of the many ways that we use the resources of this earth to build and grow, with a war raging on the other side of the globe that in and of itself is causing enough warming all by itself; with the oil pumps being attacked and sent into plumes of flames and smoke... and then we have to have people blowing things up and causing major warming to the air around our globe - just for entertainment purposes!
We humans are so selfish, as a whole when we don't care about what we leave to our grandchildren, as long as we got to see those cars and trucks explode on our favorite TV program. But who, if anyone, will ever dare to put a moratorium on such programs so that we can slow the drastic changes to our globe? We try to conserve gas, stop using our fireplaces, stop burning the trimmings of our trees and leaves, carpool, consolidate our trips into town so as to keep the emissions to a minimum, and yet huge explosions can rock our world right off its' axis and we call it entertainment!
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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Long ago I started this site (above) and had every intention of keeping it up and current. HA! I didn't do too well at that idea. So, now I have put the link to it on here for people to see and perhaps I can keep both sites going so that there is something to see there and here as well.
I just might even start posting some of my poems and other writing on here just to share them with the world. They aren't doing anything just sitting in that notebook where they reside. LOL
Blessings to all who visit me here, or there. Think kind and loving thoughts as one day they may be all you have left in your head to entertain you...
Long ago I started this site (above) and had every intention of keeping it up and current. HA! I didn't do too well at that idea. So, now I have put the link to it on here for people to see and perhaps I can keep both sites going so that there is something to see there and here as well.
I just might even start posting some of my poems and other writing on here just to share them with the world. They aren't doing anything just sitting in that notebook where they reside. LOL
Blessings to all who visit me here, or there. Think kind and loving thoughts as one day they may be all you have left in your head to entertain you...
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Hole in the Desert?
Awhile back I was watching a show on PBS about a huge, deep hole in a desert that people were diving down into. It was so fascinating until I realized that someone had died down there. This group of people were there to retrieve the body of their friend who had drown at this place. The outcome was so horrible and unexpected that I'm not even going to talk about it here in case there are people out there who know what show I'm talking about, have wanted to see this special and haven't seen it yet. But if anyone wanders past my site and knows what desert that was, what the show was called and when it will be on TV again, please let me know. I thought I would GOOGLE it but don't know what it was called.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
WELCOME TO MY WORLD! PLEASE WIPE YOUR FEET.
Welcome! I hope to use this format to let friends, family and others know something about what is going on in my world. It seems there is never a shortage of excitement in it and I never run out of thoughts... so it should be an interesting site when I get it up and running. Please check back often to see what new and interesting things I have found to post here. And may God bless all who enter... My Corner of the World.
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