Despite all the debate about the economic crisis and possible remedies, there has been almost talk about the overriding issue; the transformation of our economy from unsustainable growth to sustainable growth. There are many possible effective solutions that are being overlooked.

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Fueled by a crop of books, Web sites with countdown clocks, and claims about ancient timekeepers, interest is growing in what some see as the dawn of a new era, and others as an expiration date for Earth: December 21, 2012

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Deuteronomy 4:29

But if from there you seek the LORD your God,
you will find him if you look for him
with all your heart and with all your soul.

You are the single most distracting obstacle between your own failure and success. Each day you make a series of immediate decisions that ultimately shape the course of your life. Failure and success are not immediate procurements; they are slow fades evolving from the good and bad decisions you make each and every moment of your life.

Don’t ever believe that God does not have a will and purpose for your life. Even if you feel lost in the gray area between black and white – remember that your position in life today, has been your choice and yours alone.

Nothing can stand between you and God’s will, except you.

Right now, simply by reading this – you are reaching to find that will. You are seeking.

Matthew 6:31-34

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you as well.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Can you discern through the gate whether the dog is a beggar or just a truly hungry animal? Hunger is a boldness that doesn’t whine. It takes what it needs in order to feed itself. Hunger is determination. Those that have true hunger don’t waste time and energy on making useless noises, they simply act.

Beggars pause. A beggar makes his presence known to all; the truly hungry stalk their prey carefully, methodically, and with an ultimate goal. It is the beggar that waits for a bone, the hungry find one and then devours it.

True hunger is honest, unabated, unswerving and yet unpredictable.

Which is more dangerous?

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. – James Dent

At my house, “Dust” is a noun, not a verb. – Anonymous

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. – Phyllis Diller

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance? – Phyllis Diller

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. – C.E. Cowman

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. – Phyllis Diller

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy. – Shirley Conran

I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner. – Roseanne Barr

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. – Anonymous

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it. – Dottie Archibald

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. – Anonymous

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. – Erma Bombeck

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? – Erma Bombeck

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. – Anne Gibbons

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duck tape to make them stop. – G.M. Weilacher

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they’d never clean anything. – Dave Barry

This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, “Honey, do this,” and “Honey, do that” around the house. – Jim Lemon

Three-fourths of the Earth’s surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. – Chuck Clark

Most people believe that I think Texas is the ideal place to live. Most people believe right. But my idea of the ideal place to live is not always similar to other people’s ideas. To me, ideal means heaven. Ideal means that every circumstance that I believe to be perfect is true – that’s ideal. I have an idea that my ideal surety isn’t as sure as my idea’s. Are you following me?

I’m sure that in our human stupidity we are probably contributing to the heating of the planet in many ways, but for the most part, the dramatic changes in weather and climate are caused by the natural rotation of the earth around its oblong axis. Surely everyone was paying attention in high school science, right? Didn’t your mother ever teach you that you would need that education some day?

The earth rotates around the sun in an elliptical pattern rather than a circular one. When the orbit is highly elliptical, one hemisphere will have hot summers and cold winters; the other hemisphere will have warm summers and cool winters. Many different things affect the motion of the earth as it rotates on its axis. Let’s face the truth here, this is Science 101.

Nutation is a slight irregular motion in the axis of rotation of earth (and other planets in our solar system). The process is slow, but cumulative. If the Earth were a perfect sphere, there would be no precession. Nutation occurs because the tidal forces which cause the precession of the equinoxes vary over time, so that the speed of precession is not constant. This leads to periodic climate changes known as the Milankovitch cycle. The Milankovitch cycle equals about a 1 degree change every 71.6 years. Another disturbance of the Earth’s rotation is called polar motion. Polar motion is influenced by various unpredictable things such as ocean currents, wind systems, and motions in the Earth’s core. Changes in these factors can cause radiation levels to rise all the way to 15% at high latitudes… so in simple terms, the ice plates start melting, the ocean temperatures change, wild weather starts occurring and we all become warmer.

If you study the patterns of earth, it is very simple to understand that over the next 10,000 years, northern hemisphere winters will gradually become longer and northern hemisphere summers will become shorter. The closer we tilt toward the sun, the hotter we get, the further we tilt away, the colder it gets (as in the ice age). This is just the nature of our planet.

In other words…. the earth is only going through its own self-healing process (imagine that) and there is nothing we can do to slow it down or stop it, at least nothing that will make a huge impact as some people imply.

God is in control and always has been!

SO there Al Gore

 

I was shutting down the computer, really I was!
And he walked out and threw a fit because I was still *at* the computer. 

I’m still getting use to my laptop and for some reason
you have to wait till the screen goes BLACK to shut the thing up. 
So there I am, just waiting, fixing to go to bed where he wants me
- and then he’s got to go and make me mad. 

So now I’m in front of the computer that was off
- that now is on….

…..Here’s where the question comes in

 good or bad?

In my defense, this is NOT a habit,
it just takes me a little longer to shut down than it takes him. 
I always make sure his needs are met,
so what’s the big deal?

So in my anger, I’m not going in …
… until he’s good and asleep.

 So I gotta know -

bad or good? 

my conscience is waiting lol……