Be sure to watch his expressions too-so cute!
Christian living and homemaking, along with a few tutorials.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
O Holy Night
It's almost Christmas!
In step with one of my only yearly traditions, I have a song to share with you all....just in case you haven't heard it yet!
Get some tissue--this song is a real tear jerker! And be sure to listen to it to the very end.
And my disclaimer: I am a full time Christian, and I do believe God has a sense of humor. When Jesus walked on earth, there is a story in the Bible that tells of how He sat and ate dinner with the sinners, and those who were thought of as "low-life" folks. Althought the Lord is serious in most stories we read in the Bible, I personally don't believe that Jesus was completely serious when He was enjoying their company over a meal. People were drawn to Him--if He had acted high and pious, I don't believe the needy would have been drawn to Him. This story compares sinners to the sick who need a doctor, and God's word also states in Proverbs that laughter does good like a medicine. How fitting it would be for Jesus to provide moments of laughter, since He believes it is good. So! Here you have one of my favorite songs of all time:
In step with one of my only yearly traditions, I have a song to share with you all....just in case you haven't heard it yet!
Get some tissue--this song is a real tear jerker! And be sure to listen to it to the very end.
And my disclaimer: I am a full time Christian, and I do believe God has a sense of humor. When Jesus walked on earth, there is a story in the Bible that tells of how He sat and ate dinner with the sinners, and those who were thought of as "low-life" folks. Althought the Lord is serious in most stories we read in the Bible, I personally don't believe that Jesus was completely serious when He was enjoying their company over a meal. People were drawn to Him--if He had acted high and pious, I don't believe the needy would have been drawn to Him. This story compares sinners to the sick who need a doctor, and God's word also states in Proverbs that laughter does good like a medicine. How fitting it would be for Jesus to provide moments of laughter, since He believes it is good. So! Here you have one of my favorite songs of all time:
Monday, December 14, 2009
Oh, Curses!
I enjoy a good story and love to laugh just as much as the next person. And I have come across a story or two that has made me laugh so hard that I've cried--such as "Toe" by Pat McManus.
Building my website has me searching across the world wide web looking for other great reads by authors that are hoping to get their work noticed, and I have found a few so far!
But nothing turns me away and disappoints me quite as fast as crude humor, and the topic at hand--cussing.
Since what I put on the web myself is meant to be family friendly, I do pass by articles that throw in the occasional swear word. I want to offer something that I would be comfortable with my own children seeing, along with other mothers and concerned adults across the world.
But this is not a sale ad!
No, not at all! I just got to thinking about it last night.....
Our world has tried to limit what young adults see and do with a minimum age limit on different things-rated R movies, or PG-13. Smokers have to show their ID until they are 27(the age minimum is 18, I think), and I think you have to be 21 to drink alcohol. These restrictions are meant to discourage the younger age group, even tho they show the smiling faces of a group full of young, smoking friends having a great time across the large billboards by the highways, or the football party with chips, pretzels and beer all over the coffee table, and guys and gals rooting for their favorite team.
But anyway, what if.....what if we tried to discourage cussing? Is it possible? Sure it is!
What if they took all of the cuss words, and made them at least 5 syllables long? My suggestions are:
Hooty-patooty
Hocker-doodle-maimy
Nose-pickin-cracker-cruncher-head
Sweatin-orangutan-face
Muffle-strigger-riggin
Uses for these words would be:
The car won't start AGAIN?? That thing is just a hooty-patooty piece of JUNK!
Who came up with THAT hocker-doodle-maimy idea, anyway?
The nose-pickin-cracker-cruncher-head washer overflowed this morning.
How DARE you call me names, you sweatin-orangutan-face PUNK!
I can't get the muffle-strigger-riggin door open-it's stuck!
Now, I think words like these would be great deterrents for two reasons:
So anyway! Stories are much better without all of the foul language that they throw in, and this fabulous idea I've come up with could change authors and writers all over the world! Of course, if they ever did implement my idea, all movies and books would probably be categorized as comedy. But I can't imagine the big screen actors and actresses plastered all over highway billboards with big smiles on their faces while saying "hocker-doodle-maimy". Everyone else seems to be smiling, why aren't they? And why are their cheeks all red?
Building my website has me searching across the world wide web looking for other great reads by authors that are hoping to get their work noticed, and I have found a few so far!
But nothing turns me away and disappoints me quite as fast as crude humor, and the topic at hand--cussing.
Since what I put on the web myself is meant to be family friendly, I do pass by articles that throw in the occasional swear word. I want to offer something that I would be comfortable with my own children seeing, along with other mothers and concerned adults across the world.
But this is not a sale ad!
No, not at all! I just got to thinking about it last night.....
Our world has tried to limit what young adults see and do with a minimum age limit on different things-rated R movies, or PG-13. Smokers have to show their ID until they are 27(the age minimum is 18, I think), and I think you have to be 21 to drink alcohol. These restrictions are meant to discourage the younger age group, even tho they show the smiling faces of a group full of young, smoking friends having a great time across the large billboards by the highways, or the football party with chips, pretzels and beer all over the coffee table, and guys and gals rooting for their favorite team.
But anyway, what if.....what if we tried to discourage cussing? Is it possible? Sure it is!
What if they took all of the cuss words, and made them at least 5 syllables long? My suggestions are:
Hooty-patooty
Hocker-doodle-maimy
Nose-pickin-cracker-cruncher-head
Sweatin-orangutan-face
Muffle-strigger-riggin
Uses for these words would be:
The car won't start AGAIN?? That thing is just a hooty-patooty piece of JUNK!
Who came up with THAT hocker-doodle-maimy idea, anyway?
The nose-pickin-cracker-cruncher-head washer overflowed this morning.
How DARE you call me names, you sweatin-orangutan-face PUNK!
I can't get the muffle-strigger-riggin door open-it's stuck!
Now, I think words like these would be great deterrents for two reasons:
- These words would be much harder to say, so there would be fewer of them on the big screen, and also much harder to spell. Authors would not want to stop while feeling inspired, because they had to look up how to spell hocker-doodle-maimy.
- The glamorous Hollywood star in all her painted perfection, and the big screen "hunk" in all of his masculinity would not say these words because it would make them sound very, very.......stupid. "I don't care if you pay me TWO million dollars for this movie-I'm not saying hooty-patooty!!!"
So anyway! Stories are much better without all of the foul language that they throw in, and this fabulous idea I've come up with could change authors and writers all over the world! Of course, if they ever did implement my idea, all movies and books would probably be categorized as comedy. But I can't imagine the big screen actors and actresses plastered all over highway billboards with big smiles on their faces while saying "hocker-doodle-maimy". Everyone else seems to be smiling, why aren't they? And why are their cheeks all red?
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