PARENTING FREEDOM

carol | February 16, 2010

Third Voice ~ Fresh Anointing

Hat Tip: http://www.jillstanek.com/

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carol | February 15, 2010

Caitlin Jane- Unborn

Hat Tip: http://realchoice.blogspot.com/

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carol | February 13, 2010

We Are The World 25 For Haiti – Official Video

I am not a fan of the Olympics, but I was looking forward to this video. I didn’t recognize many singers this time compared to the video from twenty-five years ago when I knew EVERY star. Getting old! I teared up when seeing Michael Jackson, of course. Sad about Haiti, too.

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carol | January 24, 2010

Ella Fitzgerald – Blue Skies

Blue Skies

I was blue, just as blue as I could be
Ev’ry day was a cloudy day for me
Then good luck came a-knocking at my door
Skies were gray but they’re not gray anymore

Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see

Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you’re in love, my how they fly

Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on

I should care if the wind blows east or west
I should fret if the worst looks like the best
I should mind if they say it can’t be true
I should smile, that’s exactly what I do

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carol | January 16, 2010

Baby Mamas (Put a Sling On ‘Em)

Bæring ( babywearing )

Somebody Loved
Rain turns the sand into mud
Wind turns the trees into bone
Stars turning high up above
You turn me into somebody loved

Nights when the heat had gone out
We danced together alone
Cold turned our breath into clouds
We never said what we were dreaming of
But you turned me into somebody loved

Someday when we’re old and worn
Like two softened shoes
I will wonder on how I was born
The night I first ran away from you

Now my feet turn the corner back home
Sun turns the evening to rose
Stars turning high up above
You turn me into somebody loved

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carol | January 16, 2010

‘American Idol 9′: Maddy Curtis stands out in Boston

UPDATED – American Idol: 9th Child of 12, Daughter of Pro-Life Blogger Advances to Next Round
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jan/10011501.html

http://mommylife.net/

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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

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carol | December 31, 2009

Quoting the boy, in the movie, About A Boy, “There were people out there who had a good time in life. I was beginning to realize, I wasn’t one of them. I just didn’t fit. I didn’t fit at my old school. I definitely didn’t fit at my new one. I heard that some kids got taught by their parents at home. But Mom couldn’t do that unless I paid her to teach me, because it was just her and me and she had to work… So basically, I had to go to school…”

Badly Drawn Boy – A Minor Incident

A Minor Incident

There’s nothing I could say
To make you try to feel ok
And nothing you could do
To stop me feeling the way I do
And if the chance should happen
That I never see you again
Just remember that I’ll always love you

I’d be a better person
On the other side I’m sure
You’d find a way to help yourself
And find another door
To shrug off minor incidents
And make us both feel proud
I just wish I could be there
To see you through

You always were the one
To make us stand out in a crowd
Though every once upon a while
Your head was in the cloud
There’s nothing you could never do
To ever let me down
And remember that I’ll always love you

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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.

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carol | December 21, 2009

Cop Tases 10-Year-Old Girl
Arkansas mother suggested stun gun treatment for unruly daughter
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/1118091taser1.html

“An Arkansas cop tasered an unruly 10-year-old girl after her mother called police to report that the child was crying, screaming, and refusing to go to bed…”

“Officer Dustin Bradshaw arrived at the residence last Thursday, he found the girl ’screaming, kicking, and resisting every time her mother tried to touch her.’ Bradshaw added that, ‘Her mother told me to tase her if I needed to.’ After Kiara continued to refuse her mother’s instructions, the cop concluded that ‘there was not going to be a peaceful resolution of the issue.’ Bradshaw warned the girl that she was ‘going to jail,’ but the child continued kicking and crying and resisted his attempt to handcuff her. During the tussle, Kiara ’struck me with her legs and feet in the groin, reported Bradshaw, who countered with a brief ’stun to her back’ with his Taser. The child, not surprisingly, ‘immediately stopped resisting and was placed into handcuffs. She would not walk on her own and I had to carry her to my police car.’ Kiara was then transported to a youth shelter.”

Foreigner-I Want to Know What Love Is

I Want to Know What Love Is ~ Foreigner
I gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I’m older
Aaaah woah-ah-aah

Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
And through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder

In my life there’s been heartache and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
Can’t stop now, I’ve traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
Aaaah woah-oh-ooh

I’m gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me, oooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh oooh
I’ve got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me

In my life there’s been heartache and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
I can’t stop now, I’ve traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
And I wanna feel, I want to feel what love is
And I know, I know you can show me

Let’s talk about love
(I wanna know what love is) the love that you feel inside
(I want you to show me) I’m feeling so much love
(I wanna feel what love is) no, you just cannot hide
(I know you can show me) yeah, woah-oh-ooh
I wanna know what love is, let’s talk about love
(I want you to show me) I wanna feel it too
(I wanna feel what love is) I wanna feel it too
And I know, and I know, I know you can show me
Show me what is real, woah (woah), yeah I know
(I wanna know what love is) hey I wanna know what love
(I want you to show me), I wanna know, I wanna know, want know
(I wanna feel what love is), hey I wanna feel, love
I know you can show me, yeah

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carol | December 18, 2009

The Known Universe by AMNH

“He stretches out the north over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.”
Job 26:7

“If heaven above can be measured,
And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
I will also cast off all the seed of Israel
For all that they have done, says the LORD.”
Jeremiah 31:37

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
John 1:1-5

CREATOR OF THE WORLD, TO THEE
http://nethymnal.org/htm/c/o/w/cow2thee.htm

Creator of the world, to Thee
And endless rest of joy belongs;
And heavenly choirs are ever free
To sing on high their festal songs.

But we are fallen creatures here,
Where pain and sorrow daily come;
And how can we in exile drear
Sing out, as they, sweet songs of Home?

O Father, who dost promise still
That they who mourn shall blessèd be,
Grant us to weep for deeds of ill
That banish us so long from Thee.

But weeping, grant us faith to rest
In hope upon Thy loving care;
Till Thou restore us, with the blest,
Their songs of praise in Heav’n to share.

To Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
The God Whom Heav’n and earth adore,
From men and from the angel host
Be praise and glory evermore.

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carol | December 10, 2009

The Twelve Doctrines of Christmas

If you haven’t grown up Presbyterian, you might not recognize or understand the terms mentioned in the above song. I added some definitions from Wikipedia (not the best source, but it gives you the idea.)

Doctrine of Perspicuity ~ The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture, is the Scripture itself; and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it may be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly.

Dichotomy ~ The belief that humans consist of a soul and a body.

Hypostatic Union ~ A technical term in Christian theology employed in mainstream Christology to describe the presence of both human and divine natures in Jesus Christ. The Gospel of John 10:37-38 quotes Jesus as follows: “…that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

Forensic Justification ~ God’s act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God.

Five Points of Calvinism ~

1. Total depravity ~ As a consequence of the Fall of Man, every person born into the world is enslaved to the service of sin and, apart from the efficacious or prevenient grace of God, is utterly unable to choose to follow God or choose to accept salvation as it is freely offered.

2. Unconditional election ~ Before God created the world, he chose to save some people according to his own purposes and apart from any conditions related to those persons.

3. Limited atonement ~ Jesus Christ’s substitutionary atonement on the cross is limited in scope to those who are predestined unto salvation and its primary benefits are not given to all of humanity but rather just believers.

4. Irresistible grace ~ The saving grace of God is effectually applied to those whom He has determined to save (the elect) and, in God’s timing, overcomes their resistance to obeying the call of the gospel, bringing them to a saving faith in Christ.

5. Perseverance of the saints ~ None who are truly saved can be condemned for their sins or finally fall away from the faith.

Amillennialism ~ The thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 is a symbolic number, not a literal description; that the millennium has already begun and is identical with the current church age, (or more rarely, that it ended with the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 — see Preterism). Amillennialism holds that while Christ’s reign during the millennium is spiritual in nature, at the end of the church age, Christ will return in final judgment and establish permanent physical reign.

Anthropomorphism ~ refers to the perception of a divine being or beings in human form, or the recognition of human qualities in these beings

Tetragrammaton ~ The Hebrew term for the name of the god of Israel in the Hebrew Bible.

95 Theses ~ written by Martin Luther in 1517 and are widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation

Note: I believe in Paedobaptism as opposed to Credobaptism.

Paedobaptism ~ Christian religious practice of baptising infants or young children. Infants or young children may be baptized upon request of a parent who professes faith.

Credobaptism ~ A person is baptized on the basis of his or her profession of faith in Jesus Christ and as admission into a local community of faith.

Salvific Monergism ~ God through the Holy Spirit works to effectually bring about the salvation of individuals through spiritual regeneration without cooperation from the individual.

Supralapsarianism ~ The view that God’s decrees of election and reprobation logically preceded the decree of the fall while infralapsarianism (also called postlapsarianism and sublapsarianism) asserts that God’s decrees of election and reprobation logically succeeded the decree of the fall.

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carol | December 5, 2009

“Live not in yesterdays, look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, look forward to tomorrow.”
J. J. Hulsgen

“Love…does not take into account a wrong suffered.”
1 Corinthians 13:5 NASB

“And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”
Mark 11:25-26

Tim McGraw: Let It Go

Let it Go ~ Tim McGraw
I’ve been caught sideways out here on the crossroads
Trying to buy back the pieces I lost of my soul
It’s hard when the devil won’t get off your back
It’s like carrying around the past in a hundred pound sack

[Chorus]
Today I’m gonna keep on walking
I’m gonna hold my head up high
I’m gonna leave it all behind
Today I’m gonna stand out in the rain
Let it wash it all away Yeah wash it all away
I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah
I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah

Skeletons and Ghosts are hiding in the shadows
Threatening me with all the things that they know
Choices and mistakes, they all know my name
But I’m through holding in and holding onto all that pain

Today I’m gonna keep on walking
I’m gonna hold my head up high
Got No more tears to cry
Today I’m gonna stand out in the rain
Let it wash it all away Yeah wash it all away
I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah
I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah

And I know I know I know I know I’ve been forgiven
I know I know I know I’m gonna start living
Today I’m gonna keep on walking
I’m gonna hold my head up high
I’m gonna leave it all behind
Today I’m gonna stand out in the rain
Let it wash it all away Yeah wash it all away
I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah
I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah
I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah
Oh yeah

LUBA let it go live canadian music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSFqcBswcjQ

Let it Go ~ LUBA
Too many doubts
Too much fear
Too much danger
When society constructs
Our human nature
Live by the rules
Live by the laws
Live by commandments
Notions preconceived
Can lead to utter madness

[chorus]
Let it go
Let it go
Let it free your body
Let it move your soul
We are made
We are not born

Learn to convert
Learn to assert
Learn to abandon
Ideologies and
Disciplines at random
Lay down the rules
Lay down the laws
Lay down commandments
Lift the sanctions
That restrict this woman’s madness

Uniformity
Conventionality
Is the fate of our existence
Keep it safely at a distance
Nonconformity
Unconventionality
Is the fate to be
Let your hair down
Can’t you say

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carol | December 3, 2009

Our Girls, Tribute to Conservative Women by Lloyd Marcus

Hat Tip: http://texas4palin.blogspot.com/2009/12/lloyd-marcus-our-girls.html

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carol | December 1, 2009

Into Each Life

INTO EACH LIFE SOME RAIN MUST FALL
Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots – 1944

Into each life some rain must fall
But too much is falling in mine
Into each heart some tears must fall
But some day the sun will shine

Some folks can lose the blues in their hearts
But when I think of you another shower starts
Into each life some rain must fall
But too much is falling in mine

SPOKEN (Ink Spots Version):
Into each and every life some rain has got to fall
But too much of that stuff is fallin’ into mine
And into each heart some tears gotta fall
And I know that someday that sun is bound to shine

Some folks can lose the blues in their heart
But when I think of you another shower starts
Into each life some rain must fall
But too much is fallin’ in mine

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