PARENTING FREEDOM

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    "None are so hopelessly enslaved as
    those who falsely believe they are free."
    Goethe
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  • Celebrating the Success of 8/28 with Glenn Beck

    carol | August 30, 2010

    My husband, two oldest sons, and I watched Glenn Beck’s Kennedy Center service on Friday evening, as well as the Restoring Honor rally on Saturday. Both events were very encouraging and inspiring. We loved hearing Dave Roever at the Kennedy Center. My husband and I heard him speak on abstinence when we were teenagers. I knew Chuck Norris would be speaking (homeschooling parent). He was so nervous.  It was nice to see video of Glenn Beck’s wife, Tania, on his website. Sarah Palin (mom of soldier) was awesome at the Restoring Honor rally. I loved hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece, Dr. Alveda King speak at the rally. She is a strong, brave, pro-life advocate. I appreciated the prayers at the Kennedy Center and the singing at the Lincoln Memorial – both things they were warned about. The bagpipes playing Amazing Grace was touching. It was encouraging to see all the people of different faiths and backgrounds come together.

    “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.”
    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Watch Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor (3 hours)
    http://www.therightscoop.com/watch-glenn-becks-restoring-honor

    You can’t tell from the aerial photos, but people were standing under all those trees, right around the tree trunks. I will update the crowd estimate when Glenn gets the final numbers, but the number is most likely 650,000 people. Wow. (They only had a permit for 300,000, so I hope they don’t have to pay more if they admit there were more people.)

    Photos from Restoring Honor Rally
    http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/44980/
    http://www.therightscoop.com/photos-glenn-becks-restoring-honor-rally
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/08/28/GA2010082800047.html

    [This must have been exciting:] Geese Fly By Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally

    Edited to add this note and two more geese videos:
    I LOVED that they said that it was a military flyover (planned by the King of Kings). Before the event, Glenn asked all around for some kind of military representation (cannons, etc.), but everyone refused, so that is why he got the boyscout (which was better anyway.) (Note the kids’ conversation in the second video below.)

    Honor Rally Geese Flyover

    Geese Fly-Over at beginning of Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally

    ‘Restoring Honor’: The Day After Wrap-Up & Whitewash
    http://michellemalkin.com/2010/08/29/restoring-honor-the-day-after-wrap-up-whitewash/

    “Now for some ‘compare & contrast’ as far as cleanliness goes. Here’s the National Mall, post Restoring Honor rally, where hundreds of thousands of anti-environment, non-green, polluting right wingers had been gathered:”

    On the Mall after the Restoring Honor Rally

    “And here’s the Mall after Obama’s inauguration — the ironic aftermath of a party consisting of a million environmentally conscious progressives who voted in 2008 in part for a cleaner planet in order to fight climate change:”

    Random Acts of Citizenship: Pickin’ Up Trash After Inauguration

    Freedom

    carol | July 24, 2010

    Free ~ Lighthouse Family (I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free)

    Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck’s NRA Speeches

    carol | May 16, 2010

    Audio: Sarah Palin’s NRA Speech
    http://www.therightscoop.com/audio-sarah-palins-nra-speech/

    Full Video: Watch Glenn Beck’s NRA Speech
    http://www.therightscoop.com/watch-glenn-becks-nra-speech/

    To Shave or Not to Shave.

    carol | April 16, 2010

    Unshaven Women: Free Spirits or Unkempt?
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/fashion/15skin.html?hpw

    “‘Women have a measure of freedom that they aren’t exercising.’”

    Pregnancy / Health Update 2

    carol | March 21, 2010

    C8 and I used the stethoscope on the baby bump (seems more like a hill) this morning. As expected, it was a little early to hear the heartbeat, but we enjoyed listening to the whoosh-whoosh-whoosh of the placenta. Right now, at almost 18 weeks, the placenta is on the lower right side. The children enjoyed seeing drawings of unborn babies at this stage.

    Regarding my pregnant body, I feel much better after Googling photos of pregnant women as far along as I am. I have been feeling so fat, but by the pictures, I guess it is normal, even small for this stage! My regular pants still zip right up!

    Derek took my blood sugar this morning, and my mother took my blood pressure last night. Both were in the normal range. I don’t know why I am so extremely weak and tired. It has been going on so long that I am getting very discouraged and losing hope. After 25 days of continually getting worse on the vegan diet, I have added a little more protein, but I still feel terrible.

    The combination of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Pregnant-at-Forty makes you appreciate the good minutes, hours, days of life. I look at people and am amazed at their strength. They can get up and move without exhaustion. They can talk without tiring. Being physically able to stand, and walk, and sit up, and talk, and work, and play are certainly things to be appreciated, because sometimes, “You don’t know what you got till it’s gone.”

    “No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.”
    Cicero

    “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”
    Romans 8:18-23

    We were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.”
    2 Corinthians 1:8

    “Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you.”
    1 Peter 4:12

    “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
    2 Corinthians 12:9

    “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
    1 Peter 1:6,7

    And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Revelation 21:4

    “But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
    2 Corinthians 3:16-18

    “If God is for us, who can be against us?”

    carol | March 17, 2010

    Glenn Beck: I had to wear a bullet proof vest last night

    “The glorious freedom of the children of God.”

    carol | March 8, 2010

    I recently received this very encouraging email.

    “WOW! You have no idea how stumbling across your website in search of one particular homeschool book has changed our children’s and our family’s life forever!”

    “The Lord has been dealing with me on a handful of issues for a while now. Spanking, Vaccinating and as you put it “baby dumping”… With each baby the way we were “supposed” to do things seemed more and more wrong. After reading your sections on spanking and vaccinating and talking with my husband we have committed to gentle parenting w/no spankings or time outs or other “punishments” and to not vaccinate our baby any more… I do wear my baby as much as possible…”

    “I just wanted to say thank you for this site and the obvious time, effort, and energy put into it. It’s been a turning point in my life and my children’s life.”

    “I especially appreciate that you don’t act like you’ve got it all together. Saying you want your kids to ‘go play’ and things of that nature make me feel like I can do better, too.”

    “I’m a stay at home mom… I breastfeed and practice natural family planning and find myself aligning (to my surprise) to attachment parenting.”

    “God bless you and your work here and your new baby. Please pray for me and my husband that we can overcome our past and look toward our gentle parenting future!”

    What stuck out the most as I read, was when she said, “I especially appreciate that you don’t act like you’ve got it all together.”

    I could write a book on things I do wrong! I certainly don’t have it all together. Not even a little bit. Thankfully, that is where grace comes in big time.

    I actually try to avoid writing about things I’ve done wrong, particularly because I don’t want to embarrass my children in this age of the internet. I do worry about the future consequences of my writing.

    So far, I am fully convinced in my own mind that what I write is true. “Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.” Romans 14:5

    I might be wrong about my beliefs, but on the other hand, you might be wrong.

    I appreciated this recent sermon, shared by TulipGirl.

    http://www.gohope.net/resources/multimedia/details/?id=58903

    Among other things, I liked where the pastor mentioned that he is getting better at his parenting responses as he has grown as a Christian, by God’s grace. I have had similiar experiences. Even though I continue to do things I wish I did not do, and I fail to do things I want to do, I notice that God is getting rid of some of my old bad habits (sins). For example, when I came to my conclusions about child discipline, (after Child #2), it took a while before I lost the urge to hit with my hand. One time, when my third child was two years old, I shocked myself (and her) when I instinctively swatted her leg to get her to stop flipping over during a diaper change. Thankfully, I have never felt the urge to swat or hit her before or after and have never felt that instinct with my fourth child. Still, occasionally, I disappoint myself when I notice I am yelling at one of the children. I thought I had that under control, but it seeps out. But I am not the one in control. God is. 

    Remember… Grace… Forgiveness… Freedom…

    These are surely the theme verses for my life:

    “We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7:21-25

    TulipGirl also gave me a lovely gift for Christmas. A book! *grin* Not just any book, but a book about freedom. One that I found easy to apply to parenting freedom.

    I enjoyed A Scandalous Freedom by Steve Brown very much. I hope this is an acceptable amount of quotes that one has the freedom to post from a book, but there were many more that I would love to share. You will have to order the book for yourself.

    Here are a couple of interesting quotes from A Scandalous Freedom on the topic I was just discussing.

    “The very fact that you want to be better – even perfect – is a sign that you belong to Christ. One of the best ways to find assurance of your salvation is not so much to examine what you do, but to look carefully at what you want to do.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 61

    “You greatly diminish your freedom when you pretend to others that you are accomplishing perfection.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 64

    I found the following to be the most interesting part of the book, A Scandalous Freedom, especially in regard to parenting:

    “Sometimes God will gives us the gift of obedience, and sometimes he won’t. When God doesn’t, he gives us love and forgiveness. But more important than that, God gives us himself – freely, joyously, and without reservation.”

    “And when he does gives us the gift of obedience, God also gives us an acute awareness that it wasn’t us; it was him. We had very little to do with obedience except, of course, that we went to him. And even that came by his bidding and through his grace…”

    “If you’ve been a Christian very long, you may be wondering why I left out the guilt, the condemnation, and the promises to get better and better in every way, every day. I left them out because they simply aren’t in the Bible. I am drawn to that stuff too, but it simply isn’t there.”

    “If you use the law of God to condemn yourself, go ahead, but don’t say it’s from God. If you allow others to use the law to make you guilty and afraid, go ahead, but don’t call them God’s servants…” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 233

    “Something about religion will, if you let it, make you into an insecure, self-doubting, failure-producing worm. It happens with the misuse of the law…” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 234

    “If something we think about God violates what we know of Jesus, what he taught, and how he acted, then that thought lies.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 40

    “This is a book about freedom, but it is really more a book about God – not a god we have created from our guilt and our neurotic need for punishment, but about the real God who would have us laugh, sing, and dance.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 48

    Here are some more quotes from A Scandalous Freedom. I also included some Scripture verses and a quote from another book.

    “This is why ‘it was credited to him as righteousness.’ The words ‘it was credited to him’ were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.” Romans 4:22-24

    “Because of the imputed righteousness of Christ, he won’t be angry with you nor will he ever condemn you.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 14

    “God loves you and will bless you without condition, without reservation, and without equivocation. You are free!” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 15

    “The more I experience his love and grace, the more I want to please him.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 16

    I mentioned this type of relationship in my essay on child discipline and attachment parenting. I wrote, “ The closer our walk with the Lord, the easier it is to do His will. The parallelism in parenting is similar. The better our relationship with our children, the more they want to obey. It is all about relationship.”

    “Freedom threatens religious people because it takes away their leverage and makes it more difficult for them to maintain control.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 19

    People are so afraid that if they take away the punishment factor in their parent/child relationship that they won’t be able to maintain control.

    “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:33-39

    “Someone has described the church services of American Christianity as a nice man standing in front of nice people, telling them that God calls them to be nicer. But if the Christian faith is about being nicer, it becomes moralism; and in that case, Buddhism will probably be of more help than biblical Christianity.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 83

    “Through grace, with our assent, our desire begins to be transformed. Energies that once were dedicated simply to relieving ourselves from pain now become dedicated to a larger goodness, more aligned with the true treasure of our hearts. Where we were once interested only in conquering a specific addiction, we are now claiming a deeper longing, and we are concerned with becoming more free from attachments in general, for the sake of love. What had begun as an expedient attempt to reform our behavior has now become a process of transforming a life.” Gerald May, Addiction and Grace

    “The biggest battle you will fight will be with yourself, not with the people you perceive as enemies. They really don’t need fixing. And even if they do, you’re not their mother. We are the ones who need fixing… When I have enemies, I must control, change, or defeat them. That takes a lot of time; but even more important, I find that I have given my enemy the ability to control me and take away my freedom… I don’t have to fix anything or anyone. That is God’s business. When I let him be God, I’m incredibly free to be…well, his servant.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 148, 149

    What? We don’t have to constantly fix our children?

    On an aside, I enjoyed what author Steve Brown said about setting himself free from the fear of the West Nile virus (p. 150). Just like I felt free of the Swine Flu!

    “All of the things the world feels are desperately important aren’t really so important after all.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 153

    “What if I could admit to you that I’m a sinner and that the statue of limitations hasn’t run out because I committed my sin this morning. What if I no longer had to pretend to be good?” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 156

    “If God loves me, you can’t manipulate me by threatening to take away your love.” Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, p. 165

    This threatening of taking away of love, comfort, and attachment is a very common discipline style in parenting. It is the worst kind of punishment, but often the easiest to employ. How many times have you been in a store and heard a parent say, “If you don’t come now, I will leave you here.” How many times have you said a similiar thing yourself? Some popular (anti-spanking) parenting programs are based on this philosophy.

    I could quote so many more intersting things from the book, but for now, just read A Scandalous Freedom.

    “Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.” 1 Peter 2:10

    “Let freedom ring!!” Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Glenn Beck Keynote Speech at CPAC 2010 ~ Statue of Liberty Reference

    carol | February 21, 2010

    Glenn Beck Keynote Speech at CPAC Pt 1-6

    Glenn Beck on the Statue of Liberty – from CPAC Keynote Speech

    “The French did it to mock Europe…The Statue of Liberty was mocking the old system…” Glenn Beck

    Inscription on The Statue of Liberty
    The New Colossus
    Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
    with conquering limbs astride from land to land;
    Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
    a mighty woman with a torch
    whose flame is imprisoned lightning,
    and her name Mother of Exiles.

    From her beacon-hand glows
    world-wide welcome;
    her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor
    that twin cities frame.
    “Keep ancient lands your storied pomp!”
    cries she with silent lips.

    “Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
    Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

    Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

    “That is the message. Even the people that you reject can make it here. They will give it all to be successful here. You can make it here.” Glenn Beck

    Also enjoyed when even his chalkboard got a standing ovation.

    I know I wouldn’t want to trade places with a working mother.

    carol | February 18, 2010

    What women want in 2010: A husband who’ll be the main breadwinner
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251873/What-women-want-2010-A-husband-wholl-main-breadwinner.html

    “Young mothers are turning their backs on high-powered careers to raise their children, a study has found…”

    “‘Having tried full-time working themselves they have found the home much more interesting and want to be enabled to have that – especially if the only job they have access to is a dull job.’”

    “He said there had been a gradual move back towards ‘more positive evaluations of women’s traditional “work” in the family and informal community’.”

    Sick of the green police.

    carol | February 10, 2010

    Audi 2010 Green Car Super Bowl Commercial

    I, for one, am sick of the green movement and the green police. Being harassed by the enviro-wacko grocery store tellers about forgetting cloth bags is enough to make me switch groceries stores when it’s convenient. The ad is not even far-fetched in this age of the nanny state and environmental extremism.

    “Leave them kids alone”

    carol | February 10, 2010

    Want Passionate Kids? Leave ‘em Alone
    http://www.livescience.com/culture/children-passions-autonomy-100209.html

    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Quotes

    carol | January 18, 2010

    “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”
    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    “The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”
    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    “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.”
    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    “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.”
    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    “Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, “Love your enemies.” It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.”
    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    “And when this happens, when we allow freedom 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!”
    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

    http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/02/20/rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-against-spanking/

    Freedom ~ Robert Miles

    carol | January 2, 2010

    Robert Miles – Freedom

    Freedom ~ Robert Miles

    All my life I have searched for clues
    This is what they taught me
    Every mystery I pursued
    Was a secret I already knew
    Deep down you know – in your soul
    Love is in control
    How, if you could find the angel within
    Time, time to have faith in your wings

    Free – everybody’s free
    In the new day that’s coming
    Freedom for all is our destiny

    Every stone that I left unturned
    Soon came back to haunt me
    Every fall, every finger burned
    Was a step on the road to the truth
    That I am you – in my soul
    You are not alone
    How, when your heart is turned to stone
    Love, love is the only way home

    Free – everyone’s free
    In the new day that’s coming
    Freedom for all is our destiny

    Free – everything’s free
    In the new day that’s coming
    Freedom for all is our destiny

    Freedom from shame
    Freedmo from fear
    Freedom to live – it’s your right to be here

    September Pictures of the Children Set 2

    carol | December 26, 2009

    I only posted pictures up to the end of August 2009, so I thought I might catch up a little. Most of the posts will be private, but I will publicly post some of the pictures of the children with their backs to the camera, as well as scenery.

    Wishing You and Yours a Very Blessed Christmas!

    carol | December 24, 2009

    Are you struggling with trying to do better as a parent, yet still failing on a continual basis? You are not alone. We continue to sin and fail, yet we continue to be forgiven.

    Read this passage from Romans with your own self in mind, and then again from the perspective of your child. Paul shared our struggles.

    “We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.”

    “So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!”

    “So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.”
    Romans 7:14-25

    “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
    Romans 8:1

    “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”
    Ephesians 1:7

    Repent and you are forgiven!!!! Do you realize the significance of this good news??!! Since we regularly forget this truth in our own lives, it is understandable when we forget to treat our children with grace. Rest and find joy in the freedom of HIS GRACE!!!!!!! Take some pressure off yourself as a parent as you begin the new year. Take some pressure off your children.

    Some Favorite Lines from Christmas Hymns

    carol | December 23, 2009

    GOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN
    http://nethymnal.org/htm/g/o/godrest.htm
    God rest ye merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay,
    Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day;
    To save us all from Satan’s power when we were gone astray.
    O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy;
    O tidings of comfort and joy.

    O HOLY NIGHT
    http://nethymnal.org/htm/o/h/oholynit.htm
    Truly He taught us to love one another;
    His law is love and His Gospel is peace.
    Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother
    And in His Name all oppression shall cease.

    ANGELS FROM THE REALMS OF GLORY
    http://nethymnal.org/htm/a/f/afrglory.htm
    Sinners, wrung with true repentance,
    Doomed for guilt to endless pains,
    Justice now revokes the sentence,
    Mercy calls you; break your chains.

    O COME, O COME, EMMANUEL
    http://nethymnal.org/htm/o/c/ocomocom.htm
    O come, O come, Emmanuel,
    And ransom captive Israel,
    That mourns in lonely exile here
    Until the Son of God appear.

    COME THOU LONG EXPECTED JESUS
    Come Thou Long Expected Jesus,
    Born to set Thy people free:
    From our fears and sins release us;
    Let us find our rest in Thee.

    SILENT NIGHT
    Silent night, Holy night
    Son of God, love’s pure light
    Radiant beams from Thy holy face
    With the dawn of redeeming grace.

    STAR OF THE EAST
    We may read, we may learn, from His birth to His grave,
    The teachings of peace and of love;
    For this is the King Who is mighty to save;
    His grace and His love we may prove.

    The True North (not so) strong and (not so) free!

    carol | December 21, 2009

    Canada : Hijacked by Big Brother – The Surveillance State

    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin

    “Are you still sleeping and resting?” Matthew 26:45

    carol | December 21, 2009

    Swine Flu Hoax Exposed – The Global Awakening
    [LANGUAGE WARNING]

    “The people are waking up and reclaiming their individual sovereignty, freedom and taking back their own personal power refusing to sit idly by while their liberties are being stripped away day by day by those who consider us their slaves.”

    “The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.” Zbigniew Brzezinski (Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy Advisor)

    “A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” Ted Turner