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"Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise; be thankful unto Him and praise His name.  For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures to all generations."  Psalm 100:4-5 (NKJV)

I posted this scripture last year, but it is worth repeating.  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

A spoof on the PC/Mac commercials.

For the wife who says, “It’s hot dogs tonight.”

Because she is home with me and not out with someone else.

For the husband who is on the sofa being a couch potato,

Because he is home with me and not out at the bars.

For the teenager who is complaining about doing the dishes,

Because it means she is at home, not on the streets.

For the taxes I pay,

Because it means I am employed.

For the mess to clean after a party,

Because it means I have been surrounded by friends.

For the clothes that fit a little too snug,

Because it means I have enough to eat.

For my shadow that watches me work, 

Because it means I am out in the sunshine.

For a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing,

Because it means I have a home.

For all the complaining I hear about the government,

Because it means we have freedom of speech.

For the parking spot I found at the far end of the parking lot,

Because it means I am capable of walking, and I have been blessed with transportation.

For my huge heating bill,

Because it means I am warm.

For the lady behind me in church who sings off key,

Because it means I can hear.

For the pile of laundry and ironing,

Because it means I have clothes to wear.

For too much e-mail,

Because it means I have lots of friends who are thinking about me.

For weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day,

Because it means I have been capable of working hard.

For the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours,

Because it means that I am ALIVE!

COOL!

I know what I'm going to go see over the Christmas holiday!

This video is long (1 hour 20 minutes), but is worth watching.  It is also a couple years old.  The Kyoto Treaty is dead, and we have a new President.  But the new President's Global Government agenda is even more radical than past Presidents, and I have no doubt that he will sign the Copenhagen Treaty which is 10 times worse for the US than the Kyoto treaty was.  Please be diligent.  Do not allow your Senator to ratify the Copenhagen Treaty in December of this year!  Call him/her!  Stay on them!  Stop them from destroying our country and our freedom through global warming propaganda!  Please share this information with everyone you can!

Another good reference for arming yourself against the GW radicals is this: Not Evil Just Wrong.  It is an excellent and informative video about the true human cost of this hysteria.  It was created by two former liberals who believed the Green-Peace-type environmental hype, until while making a documentary on the "evils" of mining and free enterprise they saw the actual devistation brought to poor communities by the activism of radical environmentalists.

You have to have seen the Will Farrell "Healthcare Reform PSA" to really appreciate this.  It's hilarious!

And one more...(PJTV.com, ya'll!  You gotta check it out!)

If you haven't visited Pajamas TV (www.pjtv.com) you should.  There are some great pundits, including my personal favorite, AlfonZo Rachel ("Zo") at ZoNation (formerly known as "MachoSauce" on YouTube).  They have some free videos like:  this and this and this which are hilarious and full of wit & sarcasm.  But it's worth the $5/month subscription to support one of the few anti-MSM news and commentary sites out there.

I've posted Easter pictures to Vox since I joined, how could I have forgotten this year?  My profile picture is Xander's 1st Easter!  Plus, I got a ton of great ones this year.  But, better late than never...

I've been looking for dress shoes for my boys since Easter.  I've looked everywhere...okay, not everywhere.  I've not checked specialty shops, like Straussburg.  I'm not paying $75 dollars for a pair of shoes they will wear on Sunday for 3 months, and then outgrow.  But I've checked all the usual places, Famous Footwear, The Shoe Dept., Payless, Walmart, Target, Kohl's and a few kids shoe stores in the mall.  Nobody has boys summer dress shoes.  My boys are still wearing their winter shoes on Sunday, because I can't find any summer ones.  I went to one store and asked the sales lady for boys dress shoes.  She showed me what they had...two pair of black winter shoes.  "Don't you have penny loafers?" I asked.  You should have seen the confused look on her face..."What?"

I've been puzzled by this strange phenomenom.  Why (not even around Easter) is no store carrying dress shoes?  Sandles? Sure.  Tennis shoes?  By the boat load.  Dress shoes?  Nada.  And of course, the answer finally came to me like a flash.  It's because people don't dress up anymore.  Boys don't wear ties (another delimma I've had for my 5 & 2 year old), girls don't wear dresses, unless it's some micro-mini sexy/sleazy completely-inappropriate-to-wear-anywhere type dress.  Stores don't offer what doesn't sell.  Dress shoes don't sell.  Noone buys them; noone wears them, not even to church.

I remember several years ago having a conversation about this with a friend at work.  She didn't even own a dress.  She made the comment, "I'm not going to dress up like those snobs at church that are just there to show off their clothes."  (Or something to that effect.)  I've heard this attitude and similar statements from a lot a people.  They think the reason people dress up for church is out of arrogance or to please other people.  They've completely missed the point.  Worship isn't about YOU!  Worship is about GOD!  Dressing in your "Sunday best" is about respect for God.  This is the King of the Universe!  The Savior of the World!  Are you gonna just throw on your old comfy jeans and ratty T-shirt for the Almight Creator?  Look at it this way, regardless of your political convictions, if you were invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States, would you just throw on any old thing?  Of course not!  You'd put on your best clothes!  You'd probably even go out and get something new.  You'd want to look your best out of respect for the office...he's the President!  Yet every week, when you go to church you come before the the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Holy of Holies...you are in His presence...and you wear shorts?  Or your holey jeans?  Think about it: what are you saying to God by your appearance?

"The Lord is in His holy temple, let all the earth keep silent before Him." --Hab. 2:20

"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?...for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple." --I Cor. 3:16,17b.

"But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all that you do; for it is written, 'Be holy because I am holy'." --I Pet. 1:15-16