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You say: "It's impossible"

God says: All things are possible

(Luke 18:27)

You say: "I'm too tired"

God says: I will give you rest

(Matthew 11:28-30)

You say: "Nobody really loves me"

God says: I love you

(John 3:16 & John 3:34 )

You say: "I can't go on"

God says: My grace is sufficient

(II Corinthians 12:9 & Psalm 91:15)

You say: "I can't figure things out"

God says: I will direct your steps

(Proverbs 3:5-6)

You say: "I can't do it"

God says: You can do all things

(Philippians 4:13)

You say: "I'm not able"

God says: I am able

(II Corinthians 9:

You say: "It's not worth it"

God says: It will be worth it

(Roman 8:28 )

You say: "I can't forgive myself"

God says: I Forgive you

(I John 1:9 & Romans 8:1)

You say: "I can't manage"

God says: I will supply all your needs

(Philippians 4:19)

You say: "I'm afraid"

God says: I have not given you a spirit of fear

(II Timothy 1:7)

You say: "I'm always worried and frustrated"

God says: Cast all your cares on ME

(I Peter 5:7)

You say: "I'm not smart enough"

God says: I give you wisdom

(I Corinthians 1:30)

You say: "I feel all alone"

God says: I will never leave you or forsake you

(Hebrews 13:5)

Posted by rockcrawler69 @ 8:36 pm EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments

Parents Relationships...

The source root of the problem is not the games or movies but the parents. I truly believe that.

Columbia University commissioned a study  after columbine to find out how family structure between a single parent family headed by the mother and a two parent biological family headed by a  Father and Mother and how it effected a child's involvement in drugs and alcohol and how it extrapolated to violence. When they released the study, this is what it showed:

A) A child raised in single parent home where the mother is the head, is 30% more likely to be involved in drugs, alcohol and violence. [i](thats a pretty high percentage)[/i]

B) A child raised in a 2 parent family BUT there is a fair to POOR relationship with the father,  is 68% more likely. (HOLY COW, THAT IS OVER TWICE  AS LIKELY as the above)

C) A child raised in a a 2 parent family BUT there is a GOOD to EXCELLENT relationship with the father,  It is stated, by Columbia in the negative because of the way the norm was established in the study... that child is 94% LESS LIKELY  to ever be involved in drugs alcohol and violence.  In other words it is possible, but not probable.

It is not just the structure of the family but the relationship within that structure  and that relationship is THE responsibility of the parents.

The FBI , after Columbine, spent millions on developing a profile to help teachers, administrators and school police help identify potential shooters. After several years and studying 17 shooters  they found THREE main ingredients to the profile.

1) They are all white. Not Hispanic or Black or minority. White

2) They are middle class

3) The father is either absent or distant in the parenting process.

It is up to us as parents to teach and love and nurture our children. I think the biggest problem facing this country today is the lack of the Daddy. Mothers, you guys are taken for granted, you will always be their to love, to help to hold you children, it is just a given. It is when a FATHER does it that it is out of the norm.


I will go one more.... Johns Hopkins Medical School did a 30 years study.. 30 YEARS. They wanted to see if their was a single predicting factor, and single link , if they could look at a young person's life and say if this is true then they have a greater potential, not a guarantee just a greater potential for 5 things.
1) Mental Illness
2) Hypertension
3) Malignant Tumor
4) Coronary Heart Disease
5) Suicide

Could they look at a young at a young person and see a single thing and say they are more likely to have the above. 30 years, 1377 graduates of Johns Hopkins, the study by Dr. Thomas Andwasinsky.

After 30 years they found the most significant predictor was the Lack of Closeness to ones Parents
I though Come On.... but then I read and understood why within 3 minutes and it made sense. It is something that all of us have everyday and we all handle it differently, sometimes good sometime bad.

STRESS

They found that a child raised in a loving and intimate  environment as they grow up can handle stress SO MUCH BETTER in their life.

We should quite looking to blame outside issues. Quite looking to blame the games, movies etc. Of coarse they are not healthy for all kids and ages and should be monitored and restricted according to age and maturity. THAT IS WHAT PARENTS SHOULD DO for petes sake.

Posted by rockcrawler69 @ 4:38 pm EDT | Permalink | 9 Comments

Blog

So much on my mind lately. So much rushing through my head. I am thinking about God every day all the time and how I can live my life according to his word, and I am enjoying life so much more. I am just so amazed at how much I am learning, at how it applies to daily life and how it truly gives me a direction.

I have been listening and reading so many different things, reading the Bible, listening to a few different scholars, Alister Begg, James Dobson, Ryan Dobson, Ken Davis, and Josh McDowell to name a few . They all say the same thing in a round about way and I truly believe it. God loves me. Jesus loves me. He knows who I am and the struggles I go through. I have started thanking him for the good times and even more important, thanking him for the bad. It is in these bad times that I have learned the lessons I need to keep me out of the bad. Until opened my heart to Jesus, I just was mad about why me. Why am I always hurt. Why can't I make more money, why are my kids pre-mature, why why why..... now I understand. I know that God has a reason for what he does and if we just look and more important ask and even MORE important...LISTEN. Listen and will hear and learn.

Why was I alone so long. Why did the first to true loves in my life hurt me so???  Because I was not ready and God knew I was not ready. I needed to learn about listening and caring and being their for someone. He also knew that he had made a PERFECT women for me. He has, He has let me be with her and I am blessed.   I understand
 
I am so filled with the love God has for me. The sacrifices he made for me. The time he has taken for me. I have learned from him what a good Father does. That being their for my kids is the most important thing I can do. Being their for them and teaching them in a LOVING way, what I have to teach them. To disiplin when needed. To let them find their own way when they need. But most important to be there and to love them.

I am rambling.

I wish I could make everyone feel as I do, as complete as I do, as safe as I do, as loved as I do, since I have opened my heart and soul to Jesus.

Rock

Posted by rockcrawler69 @ 9:37 am EDT | Permalink | 5 Comments

Crop art

Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. This year’s creation — a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji — has begun to appear (above). It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September.










Posted by rockcrawler69 @ 5:50 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

Stacking Coins

I stumbled across this and just have an urge to go empty the penny jar!! From Fincher.org


The following is the basic pattern for building cantilevered structures with Pennies. Although it looks trivial, we can build amazing structures with these pillars. All penny columns are ten high, a "stack". Two side-by-side pennies held in place by a penny above them is called a "triad". Below is a stack with two triads resting on top.
Duplicate it and stack it side by side.

Carefully filling the space between with pennies, we create a one penny-span bridge.


And so on and so on






Posted by rockcrawler69 @ 8:58 pm EDT | Permalink | 4 Comments