In Response to the Rapture Prediction

Matthew 24:36

"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."

Yes I have had some laughs about the prediction of the rapture, because no one knows and honestly if it did happen I doubt anyone would be saying "I told you so"; we would all be a bit preoccupied with something else!

More than being a humorous time, (for me) it is a sad time! My heart is heavy for the people who do not know Christ as their Lord and Savior, especially those close to me, but also for those who do know Him (or think they do) who do ridiculous stuff like this (predicting the rapture) and cause people to turn away and mock rather than turn to God. It breaks my heart every time I see Christians causing anything associated with Christianity to leave a foul residue (for some reason that is the description I thought of) in the lives of Non-Christians. For example, standing outside abortion clinics or some "Gay Pride" event condemning people! How is that going to make them turn to God, rather than turn away? What happened to Grace and speaking the truth in love? I strongly believe we cannot expect Non-Christians to live by Christian standards! Oh and the Jesus I know spent time with sinners, and He was not screaming at them or holding up some cruel sign!!

But even more than causing laughter or sadness, it has definitely sparked a much needed time of self reflection, that hopefully leads to action. Yes, I am so looking forward to Christ's return! But I must ask myself, have I been living a life with eternity in mind? Have I been living my life wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord? Is there even a slight chance I may hear these words "Well done my good and faithful servant!"?

Glass 1/2 Full

I totally cried when I read this, but it was sooooo beautiful I had to share!!!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3dDfy9/www.globalone.tv/profiles/blogs/shift-your-perspective-in-37

37 Seconds To Read: May Change Your View For A Lifetime

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.

One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.

His bed was next to the room’s only window

The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end.

They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation..

Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.

Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats.. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine this picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by.

Although the other man could not hear the band – he could see it in his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days, weeks and months passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep.

She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside.

He strained to slowly turn to look out the window besides the bed.

It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.

She said, ‘Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.’

Epilogue:

There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.

Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy.

‘Today is a gift, that is why it is called The Present .’

Funny Friendship Quotes

This is for you eliiizabeth.blogspot.com you asked me to post it forever ago and I forgot! :)

Funny Friendship Quotes:

"A true friend stabs you in the front."- Oscar Wilde

"A friend to all is a friend to none."- Aristotle

"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."- Jane Austen

"Friends are relatives you make for yourself." - Eustache Deschamps

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Thomas Jones"

"The best time to make friends is before you need them." - Ether Barrymore

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." - Samuel Butler

"Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them." - Edwin Arlington Robinson

"We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends." - P.D. James

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." - Fr. Jerome Cummings

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." – Anonymous

"Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police." – Anonymous

"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim." - George Carlin

"Friendship. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul." -Ambrose Bierce

"An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body." - Jim Hayes

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." - Bernard Meltzer

"Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods." - Esther M. Clark

"Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice." - Anonymous

"I got a lot of best friends. Some o' them I don't even hardly know!" - Archie Bunker

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend." - John Leonard

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." – Silican proverb.

"Friends are God's ways of apologizing for our families." - Anonymous

"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected." - Charles Lamb

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one." - C.S. Lewis

"Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces."- Austin O'Malley

"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends." - Truman Capote

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!" - Doug Larson

Daisy Love

http://prayfordaisy.com/

Please pray for Daisy Love Merrick. She is only 6 years old and is battling cancer for the second time. She was diagnosed with a Stage 3 Wilms Tumor last September. She underwent surgery and 6+ months of Chemo and Radiation. She was declared disease free in May. Earlier this month Daisy complained of stomach pains, a CT Scan revealed a large tumor. Only 1/3 of the tumor could be removed because it is intertwined with major organs. The biopsy revealed that it is a recurring Wilms Tumor (this only happens to about 80 children in North America per year) and she has only a 30-50% cure rate.

My roommate Liz and I have been praying for Daisy and her family since the terrible journey began. We've shed tears and we've rejoiced. We fell in love with Daisy from the very first post (http://prayfordaisy.com). How could we not... she is adorable!!

Daisy Quotes:

Awhile back when Daisy was asked what she wanted to be when she grows up, she replied “I’m leaning toward astronaut, but maybe warrior for the Lord.”

The other day Daisy was looking at our globe, spinning it around. She started kissing it as it spun, over and over. We asked her what she was doing and she said “I’m kissing all the people who pray for me!”.

Please join us in praying for her and her family!!

Pounding on the doors of Heaven,

Yvonne

Letter to the Enemy

Dear ________,

Why do you hate me so? I am not sure when this all started. I know we never had the best relationship but I do not know who is to blame. I have been attempting to keep my distance from you, but still you attack me every chance you get. You are starting to negatively affect many of my other relationships and limit my enjoyment of things I once loved. When I try to make things work, oh how I have tried, you attack. Due to your most recent attacks, I can no longer go to a Starbucks or Jamba Juice without fear. As if that is not bad enough, you have even attacked me in my own home. I have had it, but I do not know what to do!

At Wits End,

Yvonne

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Who is my enemy you may ask? My enemy is…

I’ve never really liked it, but recently I discovered I am allergic to it, thanks to some help from Detective Mama Colleen and the good ol’ internet! I am not sure if maybe I never liked it because I was allergic to it or if the allergy developed later. Anyway, I used to randomly get these red, sore, dry patches of skin that burn all over my face, especially around my mouth. Colleen noticed and was trying to help me figure out what it was from. For months I switched soaps and lotions; thinking it was because of my sensitive skin, with no avail. One day Colleen told me she though maybe it was a food allergy and I should watch what I eat well I did. Eventually I noticed that when I drank milk or ate anything with a large amount in it I would “break out” and my stomach would be really upset. I looked up information about Milk allergies on the internet and found these two symptoms on every site. 1) Upset stomach and 2) Skin rash, often around the mouth. So I stopped consuming dairy, but missed it so much I started eating cheese, yogurt and a few other things again. Well, I was fine. It was just milk. I’ve tried soy, I don’t mind it in my Jamba Juice or Starbucks but I can’t take it by itself. Which is ok because I never really drank milk by itself anyway, but I must say I do miss cereal or having a few sips after something really sweet. Oh well, I like a happy face and stomach better. Nest step: Vitamin D…I don’t want brittle bones. Lol!

Grandma Doris

August 23 1924- March 12 2005

I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck (something she always said)!!!!!! Missing you today!!!!

Thinking of you with love today, but that is nothing new. I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. I think of you in silence, I often speak your name. All I have are memories and pictures in a frame. Your memory is a keepsake, with which I'll never part. God has you in his keeping, I have you in my heart!

My grandma Doris was a beautiful woman. Eighty four years of age, but surly did not look it.

She had few wrinkles, and earned those that she had. She was average in height and weight.

She had short black hair with few grays; you would never know it was straight

because she curled it every day. She had light skin with a slight yellow tint.

Her eyes were bright blue; if someone looked deep enough, he or she could almost see her soul. Above them were thin eyebrows, somewhat penciled on.

And her smile was gorgeous; it would melt a persons’ heart if they let it.

My grandma had an original scent. She smelled of Ponds cream and Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum.

I Caught Hypochondriasis!!!!!

I took the MMPI like 2 weeks ago and I was in the 'normal' rang (whatever that means) for hypochondriasis. Well if I took it tonight that would most definitly NOT be the case.

I've devoted my undivided attention to the fine specimans available to me in the

waiting room for Kaiser's urgent care. What fine specimans indeed!

Am I doing the field of B.S. (Behavioral Science that is) an injustice by not taking advantage of this once in a...I wouldn't say lifetime but you get the idea...opportunity by taking notes?

I mean its not everyday you are in a room full of people this...special.

I would hate to do that so here are a few observations:

1. When you see a child screaming and a mother doing nothing, don't jump to the conclusion that she is a bad mom neglecting her child. She may actually be doing her job...parenting. I saw a perfect example of that tonight. This lady had the most well behaved children Liz and I have ever seen, and at one point when the daughter was having a fit her mom did not give in! Way to go mom!

2. Backing in to sit down. Have you experienced this? Someone that instead of walking towards their seat, they back in and sit down, sometimes missing the seat and landing on an unsuspecting stranger. Tonight that unsuspecting stranger was me...3 times, I will spare you the ENORMOUS details. Who do they think I am, Santa?

3. "Not sick!" I heard an interesting conversation between 2 ladies, one who looked like an African Tribal Princess with a...mane and the other with a bad case of...gas. The conversation went something like this:

Gas: Are you sick?

Mane: No, you?

Gas: Nope, not sick!

Then what are you there for????

4. Ok about the gas. This woman had a RANCID case of it. She kept burping and farting ON Liz, poor Liz! She didn't say excuse me or anything, in the words of Bon Qui Qui...RUDE!!!! Hey, maybe thats why so many people were wearing those surgical masks. At least that is what I would like to think and that it was not that they have some crazy airborne disease lol!

5. Discharge. No not from the hospital...from the eye of the lady sitting next to me. NASTY!!!!!!

6. Tyra, come get some contestants for America's Next Top Model. There were some ladies in there that would put some famous models to shame. They were dressed in the finest cloths, no sarcasm here seriously. They even had THE walk and created a few of their own. One called the "stop and cough walk" and the other the "limp walk" not to be confused with the pimp walk). I still don't know what they were there for. Maybe it was to get a surgical mask, I mean a "cool little blue hat" as one boy called it to add to their wardrobe.

7. She doesn't bite... at least I don't think so but she sure does growl a lot! A lady near me honestly sounded like she was snoring while she was awake.

And last but not least my favorite.

8. The argument!!! There was this crazy money hungry man there. Seriously! He was lecturing (funny considering he thought teaching was a stupid waste of time) everyone about how everyone should be a business owner and that you make a choice not to be rich. Business owner, what about the doctor who is treating him or the pharmacist that is medicating him...anyways I wont get into all he said you would be reading for awhile. Oh but one more thing, when asked how many kids he had, he said "4...that I know of haha!" JERK!

So a man confronted him (wearing a blue mask, I might add, it was amusing) and they argued for awhile but then changed subjects and came to a mutual agreement regarding multiple marriages, be prepared to take notes you wont be getting this anywhere else.

The first wife is the one to "practice" with and make tons of mistakes.

The second wife is the one to learn from the mistakes with.

The third wife is the...keeper.

WOW!!!!

Anyways, sorry if I was mean and/ or disrespectful in any way in this blog. It was just a long night and my roomie and I wanted to turn it into a funny memory.

I hope you at least laughed a little!

GOODNIGHT!!!!

*This blog is dedicated to my beloved roomie and friend Elizabeth Mousa who made this experience all possible. I love you!!!!!*

--And for those of you who are wondering, which I hope is ALL of you...Liz is fine, she has drugs!

Just for fun and maybe some (more) laughs,