This is a video that was sent to me.....I am so thankful for seeing this...I love this song and the work of these people is amazing......I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did. I do not know the originators who performed this but they deserve all the credit and God all the gory.
Here is the video and the link so that you can forward to others....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7x3VnrqbA
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Monday Madness--'Pay it Forward'
Hello my fellow friends and bloggers, I hope this post finds you all well. My streak of writing came to another llong pause..I have been working at a different building the past week, and have not had PC access...and by the time I got home, if I sat at the PC to type I would have fallen asleep so my awake time, I wanted to spend with Momma and the kids. Overall I have been really good, I have been working a lot, and I miss the family. I was sad to miss Church yesterday, but I had to work. I should be back on Wed to my normal routine so the post should start to come back on a normal basis.....I wanted to just ask a question today to each of you, Have you ever paid it forward before? What I mean by this, is have you ever paid back a favor forward, for example did a good deed for someone and rather than receive monatary payment you told them to pay it forward, do a good deed for someone else. There was a movie made about this, called 'Pay it Forward' Actually a really good movie and one that you can watch with the kids. This was brough to my attention again this morning, while listening to Air1 (90.1) or air1.com, there is a church in Texas that is asking all of its members to do this. Air1 then challanged all of its listeners to do the same......so I am passing on the challange....do a good deed for someone and rather than receiving anything for it, ask them to pay it forward, do a good deed for someone else. One of the examples is to pay for the car behind you in the drive thru, just tell the person working the drive thru that you want to pay for the car behind them, if the drive thru clerk ask you what do you want them to tell the car, just tell them that God loves them, or to have a nice day. Who knows what is happening to the car behind them, that you could have just changed their life, just by doing this one deed. Do the deed, don't expect anything in return and you will be blessed...I promise....let me know if you 'pay it forward'!
Mick
Mick
Friday, August 15, 2008
Free 4 All Friday
Sorry guys I am a bit late and I missed yesterday. As for yesterday I remember waking up and I remember going to sleep, everything else is a blur....It is great because the day flys by, but then it sucks when you try and remember it. Today has been crazy but not as bad, so I wanted to just say Hi and leave you with a few thought / feelings that I have had the last few days.
Yesterday on my way to work, I was listening to Air1, if you live in socal, it is 90.1 ( I highly recommend it, it is a christian radio station, but I guarantee that it plays music that you will fall in love with) I am not sure if I was just sensitive yesterday more than other days, but I almost cried twice yesterday, I actually had tears formed, while I was driving! The first time was from a 14 y/o girl whose dad is leaving for Iraq at the end of the month, she was asking for the DJ and the listeners to pray for her and her family. She was really sad and scared, since I know the feeling of leaving a family for a military commitment, I could really sympathize with her. On that same note, I got pretty angry. I got angry at the news media, each night you see the news and the updates from Iraq, and what do you see, the # of people killed, the destruction...negative...negative...negative!!!! Now don't get me wrong War is War and it is not pretty, I 100% understand that. However, I just wish the news showed the wonderful things that are happening because we are over there, the millions of people that are alive and have a better life because we are there. Kids and well everyone only see one side, this little girl was scared that her Dad was going to go over there and die, because that is all that the news shows...I was really angry.
On that same note....I am mad at the US people right now, I don't care if you are for or against the war, that is your choice (that is why we have solders fighting for you to have that right). I am mad at the people because regardless of positron they should be supporting our troops. It seems to me, that since we have been there for so long, we have forgotten about the men and woman who are away from their family so that we don't have to be. We ALL need to say a prayer for them and show our thanks in our own little way. If any of you are interested, at Air1.com, there is a prayer wall, that you can get a name of a solider to pray for, or you can post a note for one to read. I can tell you personally that you feel every prayer, and you re-read every note 100 times....
On that note...I love you all....have a great weekend....
Yesterday on my way to work, I was listening to Air1, if you live in socal, it is 90.1 ( I highly recommend it, it is a christian radio station, but I guarantee that it plays music that you will fall in love with) I am not sure if I was just sensitive yesterday more than other days, but I almost cried twice yesterday, I actually had tears formed, while I was driving! The first time was from a 14 y/o girl whose dad is leaving for Iraq at the end of the month, she was asking for the DJ and the listeners to pray for her and her family. She was really sad and scared, since I know the feeling of leaving a family for a military commitment, I could really sympathize with her. On that same note, I got pretty angry. I got angry at the news media, each night you see the news and the updates from Iraq, and what do you see, the # of people killed, the destruction...negative...negative...negative!!!! Now don't get me wrong War is War and it is not pretty, I 100% understand that. However, I just wish the news showed the wonderful things that are happening because we are over there, the millions of people that are alive and have a better life because we are there. Kids and well everyone only see one side, this little girl was scared that her Dad was going to go over there and die, because that is all that the news shows...I was really angry.
On that same note....I am mad at the US people right now, I don't care if you are for or against the war, that is your choice (that is why we have solders fighting for you to have that right). I am mad at the people because regardless of positron they should be supporting our troops. It seems to me, that since we have been there for so long, we have forgotten about the men and woman who are away from their family so that we don't have to be. We ALL need to say a prayer for them and show our thanks in our own little way. If any of you are interested, at Air1.com, there is a prayer wall, that you can get a name of a solider to pray for, or you can post a note for one to read. I can tell you personally that you feel every prayer, and you re-read every note 100 times....
On that note...I love you all....have a great weekend....
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Wordless Wednesday
Have you been watching the Olympics? I can tell you that I love the Olympics...obviously I am rooting for the USA in every event, but I am watching every event that I can, even if USA is not competing..I have watched the Olympics in English, Spanish, Chinese and another language that I have no clue what it is. I told Momma that I would take 2 weeks vac. just to sit at home and watch it...I love it that much.......anyone out there think I am nuts...or do you agree?
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I am Back!!!!
I guess I should start off by apologizing for my lack of post, I have received a few emails and phone calls to ensure that I was ok, I am. I could tell you all the reasons why I have not written in a while, but to be honest they are just excuses, I was being selfish, not only to myself but to God. As I have stated in earlier entries, I feel that God has put things into my heart and my mind that he wants me to share with others, and by not taking the time to write I have been selfish and disobedient. I know it sounds weird, but this lil blog has been really therapeutic for me, I really enjoy writing and many times, I feel that God puts words onto the paper just for me to read, it is a lesson that he is teaching me.
With all that being said, I will give you a readers digest version on what I / we have been up to the last 2 weeks or so. I have been working a lot, at 2 different sites so my schedule has been thrown off a lil bit, but I will admit that I enjoy the breakup of routine. In addition, I have been doing some training and as we all know training takes time and one-on-one dedication. Yet the best thing that I've done is that the family and I took a trip to SF for a week.
We have said that we were going to try and go on a vacation once a year, with the kids growing so fast and involved in so many things, it is extremely hard for all of us to get away together. For those same reasons, it is so important for us to go and spend that quality time together. We all felt that last years 9 day trip to Texas and the other 7 states that we went to, was going to probably be our last big trip for a few years, we had plans to buy a house and we needed to save as much as we could, plus we figured that the girls would be working and the baby would not be that much fun having in the car for long periods of time. And to be honest all that is true, but as each passes I see the kids growing up and soon out! So family vacations are just not a possibility for much longer, so I am going to take advantage of them for as long as I can.
Yet on that same note, with buying the house and all the other good stuff that comes with buying a new house....there was just not the money to go on vacation, but as I have said before, we serve a loving God, a God that provides and last minute we were able to access some additional money that allowed us to go on vacation.
Although SF is an 8 hour drive, going there was a nice drive (I waited until 3am, so that everyone slept while I drove!!!!!) I will admit sometime I just don't think before I do things, and I planned on not getting a hotel until we got there, so that we were not limited to where we could stay, however for whatever reason, there was just no vacancy anywhere. So we got stuck staying about 20 minutes away and all of us in 1 room, not the most comfortable, but hey could have been a whole lot worse. The next 4 days we just spent time together and did touristy things, took lots of pictures and had millions of laughs....when you get teenagers to want to spend time with mom and dad....you know it was a good vacation.....!!!!!! Coming home was not as pleasant because everyone was awake, and they did not enjoy the drive as much, lets just say we have started to outgrow the expedition.
Well we are back home, safe and happy. Everyone is ready for next year, the planning has already started. I think another trip down the Mexico coast is in order. I think that we may try and bring some more family with us...but as you all know that is much harder to coordinate, and I am not always the best host, or companion...but we will see.
As I close for today, I just wanted all of you to know that I missed each of you, I missed reading your comments and I missed sharing with you. So until tomorrow....God Bless!
With all that being said, I will give you a readers digest version on what I / we have been up to the last 2 weeks or so. I have been working a lot, at 2 different sites so my schedule has been thrown off a lil bit, but I will admit that I enjoy the breakup of routine. In addition, I have been doing some training and as we all know training takes time and one-on-one dedication. Yet the best thing that I've done is that the family and I took a trip to SF for a week.
We have said that we were going to try and go on a vacation once a year, with the kids growing so fast and involved in so many things, it is extremely hard for all of us to get away together. For those same reasons, it is so important for us to go and spend that quality time together. We all felt that last years 9 day trip to Texas and the other 7 states that we went to, was going to probably be our last big trip for a few years, we had plans to buy a house and we needed to save as much as we could, plus we figured that the girls would be working and the baby would not be that much fun having in the car for long periods of time. And to be honest all that is true, but as each passes I see the kids growing up and soon out! So family vacations are just not a possibility for much longer, so I am going to take advantage of them for as long as I can.
Yet on that same note, with buying the house and all the other good stuff that comes with buying a new house....there was just not the money to go on vacation, but as I have said before, we serve a loving God, a God that provides and last minute we were able to access some additional money that allowed us to go on vacation.
Although SF is an 8 hour drive, going there was a nice drive (I waited until 3am, so that everyone slept while I drove!!!!!) I will admit sometime I just don't think before I do things, and I planned on not getting a hotel until we got there, so that we were not limited to where we could stay, however for whatever reason, there was just no vacancy anywhere. So we got stuck staying about 20 minutes away and all of us in 1 room, not the most comfortable, but hey could have been a whole lot worse. The next 4 days we just spent time together and did touristy things, took lots of pictures and had millions of laughs....when you get teenagers to want to spend time with mom and dad....you know it was a good vacation.....!!!!!! Coming home was not as pleasant because everyone was awake, and they did not enjoy the drive as much, lets just say we have started to outgrow the expedition.
Well we are back home, safe and happy. Everyone is ready for next year, the planning has already started. I think another trip down the Mexico coast is in order. I think that we may try and bring some more family with us...but as you all know that is much harder to coordinate, and I am not always the best host, or companion...but we will see.
As I close for today, I just wanted all of you to know that I missed each of you, I missed reading your comments and I missed sharing with you. So until tomorrow....God Bless!
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