Politics are so corrupt I don't want to even think about them! If you were to talk to Bush, he would have a lot of negative to say about Kerry and alot of good to say about himself. If you were to talk to Kerry he would say mostly the opposite that Bush said and vice versa. Not saying that either of them is correct about the other or not. But if both candidates say that each is not telling the truth............my point.

Bought 3 Koi and 3 Shubunkins for my pond. along with the 8 or so cattails and a bunch of Water Hyacinth. also the water fall looks pretty good except it would have looked 'cooler' on the other end. But I'll wait till next year when I build my other pond and water fall.

There is a pretty thought provoking quote/question. "If you gave your life to the Lord, why do you hold so much back?"

If we call ourselves "Saved" then that means that we have dedicated our lives to Christ. If we have to make a decision, we may ask God to show us what to decide, which is the right thing to do. But when it comes time to make the decision, we just make our own decision and say "I prayed so this must be God's will". But praying and actually having faith are two different things. Real faith in God for ALL things (as God commands) is the biggest lack in most Christians lives.

Something interesting is that we have a hawk at work. It started living on a three story brick chimney. The chimney is not in use anymore and I think it may have a nest in there. It was pretty cool though we watched it dive down and attack a pigeon. Well that was cool except that it was some guys homing pigeon. Oh well. it didnt kill it but injured it! I think ill take a pic of it and maybe post here. I could shoot it.. but thats illegal!

New seat belt law in Philadelphia, they have check points set up throughout the city to check for seat belts or not. But, I still will not wear mine because I believe that if I put it on, I would be depending on that seat belt to protect me/save my life instead of God, as we are commanded to do.

Pastor Clark was a great comfort last night he said something that was good.
"If they hate you, remember they hated Me first"
"If they think you are nuts for your faith, remember they thought I was nuts for my faith first"

Speaking of Jesus Christ of course!

That could be applied to so many situations that the true Christian is faced with. When you do something in faith or stand up for what is right in Christ and you are persecuted or just looked at like you are nuts... The worst part about it is that some of the very people that persecute or put down your faith,,,, also call themselves Christians....... I guess that is why the Bible tells us that few will get to Heaven. The Bible says that in the days of the Lord (End of the world) it will be like the time of Noah. If you recall, in the time of Noah, think how many perished and only Noah and his family were saved.. of all the people on earth only a few, Noah's family, were saved! So it will be in the end of the world.. only a few will be saved.. how many is that 25? 250? 2500? 250,000 ?? No one knows because the Bible says that it will be as it was in the time of Noah, only how many were saved back then,,, 7 ? not many!!!!

"Find real faith in God! Find real dedication to Jesus Christ! Give up your control and hand it over to Jesus Christ! There is no other way to be saved than to surrender EVERYTHING that we have to Jesus Christ"

Just being labled a Christian and going to church and doing Christian things will not save us!!

It is real faith, real commitment, and real dedication!!!

The Bible says that Faith without actions is DEAD!!!

We are told by fellow Christians that actions and works are of the devil and they are wrong. BUT what is the proof of our faith? What we say? Absolutely not !! Words are cheap, words are worthless !! Our actions and how we live our life is the fruits or proof of the faith that we have in Jesus Christ !!

If we were to say "I have faith that if i step off this roof I will not fall to the ground" that is all good.. we could repeat that all day long and put up billboards and tell everyone.. BUT if we never stepped off.. there is no real faith.. it is just spoken, weak, no backbone faith.. because "Faith without works or actions is DEAD".

Is your faith Dead or alive?

My good friend's son was baptized tonight. An emotional night indeed!

A person can actually be provoked from sleep by saying one litte word. The secret is finding the one word that provokes them. Because the fact of the matter is, that no matter what state they are in, they can't help themselves from keeping tabs on what is being said around them.

Majority of the news media is controlled by the liberal left wing secular democrats

pastors are awesome people!

If you were to ask any 3rd or 4th grade kid what their dream is, most of them would tell you something like, a doctor, a firefighter, a police officer, an astronaut, a pilot, etc. The list goes on and on. But when a kid gets to 10th or 11th grade and drops out of high school gets into drugs, drinking and sex, then it's a different story. Somewhere between 4th and 10th grade kids are losing their dreams and plummeting. In people 15-24, suicide is the third leading cause of death! In 2000 there were almost twice as many suicides as homicides. Suicide is the last straw to any of the other things that these 'almost graduates' turn to. They turn to drinking, drugs, sex, they carry guns, they commit crimes, etc. But these are all done when they still have a hope. In one high school 28 kids committed suicide in one year. Two of them went under the bleachers and hung themselves together!

The remedy to all of this??

"Parents",, thats the answer. Too many parents get married and have kids and somehow think that life will not change for them. Somewhere down the line they forget about the kids that they brought into the world and figure they will take care of themselves. The blame is thrown in every direction and no one will own up to it.. But the responsibility to raise kids in a Godly way falls on the parents. Divorce is a leading cause of why kids turn. becuase once a divorce takes place, the kids usually only see one parent and then that parent is usually too caught up in fighting for something with the ex and everything else that they feel is important to 'them' disregarding their children!

So, parents, step up and take back the responsibility that accepted when you chose to have kids! your kids deserve it. Don't let them be another statistic!

"A kid who had a dream in 3rd grade and has lost that dream to something negative by 10th grade can almost always be linked to the parents being un-involved and not dedicated to that kid's life"

Hey Shauna's alive!! haha

Preface: I totally agree with your preface. Like I told my cousin who told me I was vain for blogging, "It's my choice to click, and my choice to read everyday".

You're too funny Shauna, the reason I even thought of posting politics that night was because I read Jon Carlson's blog!

I guess I will be held to that comment for the rest of my life now.. Oh wait, i'm beginning to know what its like to be a politician!!

To answer a few questions.

Yes, I'm above most taxes, but not all-

No, I do not have a DNR-

Yes, I drive, I obey most but not all of the laws-

Yes, I buy electricity-

My trash? I pay my sister to take it out! :)

back atcha-
Do you believe that voting for president (at least this term) is choosing the lesser of two evils?

Do you believe that by voting you are supporting the actions of the candidate?

Does that mean when you don't comment, you do agree? Wow, we have so much in common! haha

ok, ok, just three for you!

btw, you really ranted there!!

For the record: Anyone who knows me somewhat, knows that I do discuss politics alot and they know that I discuss them alot at work. So for anyone who is informed they would have caught on that it was a comment of humor!

Chow4Now!!

btw, I am one of healthy disagreement.. that one just got me more in shape.. but I almost blew my knee out on the stairmaster paragraph.

JF

My hope is in the Lord Who gave Himself for me,
And paid the price for all my sin at Calvary.
No merit of my own His anger to suppress,
My only hope is found in Jesus' righteousness.
And now for me He stands before the Father's throne,
He shows His wounded hands, and names me as His own.
His grace has planned it all, It's mine but to believe,
And recognize His work of love and Christ receive!

Recognize that? How many of you skipped to the bottom?!

Anyone who calls themselves a Christian should believe that old hymn is true!

Also they could lay their life on the altar of sacrifice and die with Christ and then be raised to a life that is new and different from the old sin life! New and different from the world.. If they can't tell the difference from us and the world.. somethings wrong, right? I think it's time that we, as Christians, practiced "Radical Amputation" of the things that we KNOW are no in God's will! Put it this way, would Jesus do it with us? Would Jesus buy it too? Would Jesus listen to that music, would He watch that film? If we said no to any of those questions but then make an excuse that for some reason it's still ok for us to do.. We obviously aren't following Jesus Christ, to follow in His footsteps is to do as he would do if He were here! Would he pop pills or pray for healing, would he sue or pray for, would he borrow or pray for provisions, would he listen to music with unchristian themes or bad language or would he smash it as he did the money changers tables in the temple?? The answers are pretty obvious.. Now, are we Christians or do we like the benefits of calling ourselves, going through the motions but still living as the world??? It's truth time!

"I need no other argument, I need no other plea, It is enough that Jesus died, And the He died for me"

He died for me, I'll live for Him !!

Whew, ok, its been three days since I last blogged.. seems like a long time.. but then again.. I think I blog more than any of the other blogs I read. I'll give myself an award! But then again, maybe that means I have nothing to do.

Felt like crap all weekend and so far this week! Yippee, right? Right now I feel like im six feet outside of my own body! kinda like euphoric or something. But I won't go into details about how im not feeling well cause I really dont thinka anyone wants to hear it! But to say the least it was kinda cool beside that fact that I felt like i was going to die! I lost my smell, I lost my taste, and I feel like i've been using a straw and a razor blade for a week!

Working on updating my website learning new stuff like what CSS files are and what they do. That is definitely interesting stuff!

NO....NO.. to discuss politics means you are mentally disturbed and have too much free time!

Ahhhh,, sleep time! Maybe I feel better tomorrow!

When we become aquainted with a person, after a while I think that we subconsciously make assumptions and have expectations of that person. We sometime make them feel obligated or we feel they are obligated to act in a certain way or do a certain thing. And when they do not, we are offended. Although this person has their own personality and life, for some reason we feel that they have an obligation to meet on our end. Not to mention that with the amount of aquaintances that each person may have, it would seem pretty absurd to have one person be obligated to each of them. That is why each person is born with the irrevokable power of choice!

I need zzz's!

An influencial person has the responsibility of eternal souls in his care. If you are an influence on anyone, even one person. Be on your guard to lead them to Christ! There salvation could hinge on how your influence them. God does work in wierd ways sometime.(so it seems to us anyway)

Sigh, I've been thinking that its not good for me to get really pissed off because I get angry and soon rage sets in. And then I get my cousins involved and then they get their friends and then I get the 'African Americans' from the hood that "got my back" and we roll on the sorry ******'s that got us pissed in the first place. BUT, it didnt go that far so its all cool. :)

Ok, now that we are done with the drama.

What does the word 'vain' mean anyway.

If I speak my mind about something, does that mean I have an opinion? I believe that everyone has an opinion.

One of the coolest things around is the fact that we will always have our power of choice. And the fact that if we use our power of choice, we cannot blame the consequences of our choices on anyone else. Even if we are pressured or forced to decide a certain way,, if we make the choice, we are responsible. Got it?

Paintball has got to be one of the biggest adrenaline rushes ever! Besides being a white kid getting chased out of the ghetto of course.. but thats not fun either !!

If we say we too busy to do something.. does that mean that we realy try to fit it in and are just too busy.. or does it mean that it does not mean that much to us and we just dont want to offend anyone so we just say "Ive been really busy"..?
I think the latter !!

I changed my email address.

I no longer use dctineffect@safeplace.net
I now use JFM@safeplace.net ONLY!

Not that you have a use for it or nothin. But, you are informed!

I wonder who actually has the time to read this "El Material inútil" everyday? Maybe i'd be surprised.

Finished building the engine for the Monte Carlo tonight. Yes, I picked the hottest day yet to do it. But at least its done.

I think I'm going to have to work late Wed. and Thurs. night! It's crap we gotta get done because my boss wants to earn more money. Surprise!

Happy Birthday Mindy H. ! Not sure when your birthday is.. but I found out they had a party for you and I, your favorite cousin, was not even invited !! Horrors !! But maybe they didnt know I was "Favorite Cousin". Oh well!

Wow, look at the new posting format!

I will write to my new friend tonight, interesting anyway.

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Not much else new, I pressed for time :) But at least I write.

I'm trying to decide who would recieve the prize if there was a "longest without blogging award".

Ha, some ppl have gone over a week !!

There's nothing to get excited about anymore,,,,,, you'd think that after 7 years I'd get over it, yeh me too, But no, I'm the big baby that I am. Sometime it just makes me sad. But other times it makes me mad! Sometime I wish that there was a person that was responsible. That way I could phyisically do something about it and feel like there is something changed because of it. But no, nothing like that, It's just how it is. Things happen and things change, things are how they are and I have to just accept them and get over it, right? Wrong, I don't have to and will not 'get over it'. There is a void that I know God is supposed to fill in my life, buy why lie? Sometime it seems the hole is so big that God can't fill it. When is it going to be filled? What went wrong? If nothing went wrong, then why is this right? How about everyone who told me "Everything will be ok" 7 years later it's still not.. now what? Empty words . . . . . . . Empty words echo from the halls of 7 years . . . . . . . . . Oh sure, I get along fine, I'm not sure where'd I'd be if things never did change. But one thing is for sure, i'd give anything to have it back. I'd sleep in a box on the street , , , Sitting here thinking just amazes me that something like this is a reality and this many years later, I still won't believe it. There is a place in my heart that isn't supposed to be taken up by anything else and now it has to, but it can't. It alters a person's mind and changes them inside. Things like this aren't supposed to happen, or at least it seems that way. I don't know. But from day to day, there is nothing that I miss more.

I miss my Momma, Happy Mother's Day!

It was weird, I thought about my wife today.

I mean, yeh, i'm not married or nothing, now,, but someday yeh, and it was weird, I just started thinking about a family.. woo weird stuff there! I don't think i'm quite ready, although some faces did pass through my mind. Hmmm.

Random thought: I actually like my boss. Yeh, there are those who do not.

See I think that if you are employed by a person, that you should do whatever you are asked to do. Of course if it conflicts with Bible teaching then by all means, don't. But other than that, if it is just personal preference, i think you should do it anyway. Not only if it is hte boss , even a manager. I know what its like to be in charge of other ppl and them not want to listen. But that's life and that's other people. Oh well !!

JF

"Nothing compares to the greatness of knowing you, Lord"

Man I love that song! It's like the whole meaning of why I exist. I think that knowing the Lord is the only thing that is worth living for. I mean, we can live for ourselves, and work to build up us and our stuff, but we cannot save ourselves. We could live for someone else, but they cannot save us. But if we live for the Lord and put our complete trust and faith in Him, He can and will save us. The Apostle Paul knew that even today even 2000 years after he lived on this earth, that there would still be nothing that could even come close to the greatness of knowing the Lord Jesus Christ. I want to challenge you now. Do you know the Lord? I mean do you just know of the Lord and frequent church and pray now and then, or do you really know the Lord and base your whole life and existence on the Lord Jesus Christ? Is every choice and decision you make based on the teaching of Jesus Christ, is everything that you set out to do, have the favor and blessing of the Lord. Do you live for Him alone? Do you have faith in the Lord for everything, or just the things that suit you? All that , would be the greatness of knowing the Lord Jesus Christ !! What a great thought !! Make it reality!!

Finally put the new liner in the pond tonight.. Betsy and I had a good time of yard work for a couple hours.. Got the liner and and the rocks put back in place and filled it up !!

Looks geat if i say so myself !!

Then I got the urge to make chocolate covered strawberries.. so i did.. mm mm good !!

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1/6

May work late tomorrow night.. but don't mind. Picnic on Sat. And yo, Canst! Something is only as boring as you make it.. It was once said that only boring people get bored!!

JF

Nothing to blog about tonight, just lettin yall know im alive.

Today, I thought about the fact that I will die someday. Like, that fact that you dont have to be old to die. And that my next breath could be my last breath. I heard a commercial for some asthma medicine (however you spell it) and saying that "With asthma your next breath could be your last". I thought, "Duh you morons, everyone on earth can say that, our next breath could be our last". Only by the grace of God we will breathe one more time. "God or Medicine"? I'll choose God anyday, He has a better track record than any doctor or medicine could even dream of. There are those who believe in God, and there are those who do not. I hope I am always in the those who do catagory! Anyway, I'm sure I'll come under attack for those statements. and yes, ( ) I feel your pain !! oh oh, pain, should i get medicine.. ha. whatever!

I think I should read more of my book tonight.. for some reason books get put on the back burner when it's my time to read !!

Fixed the lawnmower
Mowed the grass
Cleaned up the yard
made it look it look nice!

Day 08

Found a great deal on Ebay for a better filter to treat my dirty dirty Oscars !! See I got a deal becuase.. in the store they are $170 and mail order they are $116 shipped! BUT, I found it on Ebay for $53 with an hour left so i bid.. with one minute left.. i bid $55 and was outbid right away.. with 23 seconds left... (drama) I bid $60.01 and won.. I beat the highbidder by 1 cent !! Now I may even be able to pick this thing up and save on shipping too !! Oh its great to be frugal.. but wait. im not frugal.. maybe just cheap.. ha.. idk. anyway.. now its been 24 hours and the guy aint email me back.. oh well.. i wait.

Too busy to blog tonight.. but never the less i think i blog more in a week than most of my daily reads post in a day !!


God is great and greatly to be praised !!