Hi, from Bangladesh #1

I have decided to share my experiences and thoughts on my time here in Bangladesh. It is a Moslem country and I cannot speak the language. It is hard to evangelize in such conditions. I have tried to bring my beliefs into any conversations with those who do speak English. It is not exactly evangelizing, but I am trying to model how Christian people are different in thought, behavior, and salvation because of Jesus. Please pray for Bangladesh, its people, and my family here.

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Quote from the first page of the United States Passport:

“And that government of the people,

By the people, for the people,

shall not perish from the Earth”

Abraham Lincoln

Well, we are here. Yep, about 8000 miles away from home…18 hours in the air…and 12 hours of stopover in Hong Kong. To talk about how far we are from the USA culturally and economically would be about as far to make one think of another planet. Still the people are wonderful, and this is a country struggling to come into the 21st century. There are improvements every time we come here, but there is so much to be done that it can be daunting. This is a new country founded after a civil war between West and East Pakistan (two land areas alike by religious beliefs but very different in culture and temperament.) West Pakistanis are more strong and warlike while the East Pakistanis were more interested in culture and philosophy. History has shown that when pushed against the wall the people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) can be very fierce and dedicated.

East Pakistan won the civil war in the early 70’s, and started to build their country. Their National Anthem sings of “Amar Shonar Bangal” what means “our golden Bengal,” This is phrase is from a poem written by a famous 20th and Noble Prize winning Bengali poet and philosopher, Ravindra Nath Tagore. It is a beautiful place…tropical and filled with flowers and fruits. I will write more about that in later updates.

As I said in my email we have just been settling in, but there have been lots of people coming to see us and share supper. The kitchen has a gas table top stove with two burners, so cooking is a never ending process with each dish getting its turn when another is completed. Still, meals are hot and delicious. Nothing is expected of me about the cooking, because the methods are unknown to me. I could stir a bubbling pot I think, but no one wants the honored guest to be reduced to working. My position here is one of an honored elder guest…a grandparent so to speak, and they all want us to take their gifts of service. I try to take my own dirty dishes to the sink to rinse, and someone grabs them out of my hand before I can take two steps. I feel very valued.

There are three children in this family. One is a 12 year old girl named Zayma. She is beautiful, outgoing and very smart. Then there is the son, Abiaz, who is 9, handsome and a bit more reserved than his sisters. The “baby” is Zasra, who is 5, cute, and very active. Every time I turn around one of them is hugging me and telling me that they love me and that I am beautiful. Just saying…it is what they say…not that I am all puffed up about the beautiful part. Still, I feel so loved, and will miss their sweetness when I leave this place. I feel torn by a desire to be home and a desire to have them close to me, too.

Enough for now. More to follow soon.
God bless from
Corinne

Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1/10/15

I just had to share this

The Things I Owe My Parents!


1. My Parents taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE..
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside… I just finished cleaning."


2. My Parents taught me RELIGION.
J"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."


3. My Parents taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"


4. My Parents taught me LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why."


5. My Parents taught me MORE LOGIC.
"If you fall out of that swing & break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."


6. My Parents taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."


7. My Parents taught me IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."


8. My Parents taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper"


9. My Parents taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"


10.My Parents taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."


11.My Parents taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."


12.My Parents taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"


13.My Parents taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."


14.My Parents taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"


15.My Parents taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."


16.My Parents taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home."


17.My Parents taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when you get home!"


18.My Parents taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."


19.My Parents taught me ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"


20.My Parents taught me HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."


21.My Parents taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."


22.My Parents taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."


23.My Parents taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"


24.My Parents taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."


And my favorite:


25.My Parents taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

New Year Thoughts and Prayer

December 31 - Daily Feast

We move now toward a new year. It gives reason to think who we are and what we are about. Do we reach eagerly toward the future or does it frighten us with its weapons and voices and anger? Think long and hard about this, for it reveals your state of existence. A person cannot go on thinking "someday" and change anything. But to say that this day is the day to make changes and to bring one's own personal spirit into alignment, that is an accomplishment. Some feel they are not good enough to be any different. But what they don't realize is that making the effort to change makes them good enough. A person can't get there until he takes an action.

~ Some of our people have gone from here in order that they may have a change. ~

              SPOTTED TAIL - SIOUX

January 1 - Daily Feast

JANUARY




ONE



So-Qua



COLD MONTH



Unu la at nee'



The Cherokee people stand upon new ground. Let us hope the clouds which overspread the land will be dispersed, and that we shall prosper as we have never done before.



CHIEF JOHN ROSS - OCTOBER 9, 1861



January 1 - Daily Feast



If, like a Cherokee warrior, I can look at the new year as an opportunity to stand on new ground, then strength and courage are on my side. If I have waited a long time for everything to be perfect - and there have been moments, brief as they were, that filled my expectations - then I can face the challenges. I will remember that things do work out, bodies do heal, relationships mend - not because I said it, but because I believe it. But it is time to make things right, to stay on the path. As water runs fresh and free from the woodland spring, so new life and meaning will bubble up from my own inner source. I will be still and steady, because there is nothing to be gained by showing fear in a chaotic world. I can turn from ignorance and prejudice toward a light that never goes out.

~ The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do. ~
SEQUICHIE COMINGDEER

Quoted from...

'A Cherokee Feast of Days, Volume II' by Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Heavenly Father,
I come to you on the eve of 2013 filled with hope that this year will be special. Help me to reach toward the future with confidence and not with fear. Help me to know that "someday" has come...it is now. I long for the changes that You can lead me toward with an adjustment in my thinking. I ask you to lead me towards choices and actions that will help me achieve that to which you are drawing me. Thank you, Lord of the Angel Armies.
Amem.

Wisdom of Ronald Reagan

The link below is from a

YouTube video of President Ronald

who was speaking about the traditions of our country

with regards to God, religion, and what this country

has always stood for.

Enjoy and be blessed.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/OvN1jTkzXbY?rel=0

Celebrating Christmas at the Mall

WOW! WHAT A WAY TO CELEBRATE!

---IT MADE ME MISTY TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE JOINING IN TO HONOR     CHRISTMAS  AGAIN THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE!

-----PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW

               http://www.youtube.com/watch_popupv=Vnt7euRF5Pg&vq=medium      

Moral Decay

Truth & Courage

This is a homily given by a New Orleans Catholid pastor the Sunday after election day. It is reported that his congregation listened in stony silence and were moved to give him a standing ovation. Read and see that he is spot on.

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I want to begin today by thanking those of you who went out on Tuesday and voted for the sacredness of human life. Just as the widow’s deed in our 1st reading will never be forgotten as long as the Scriptures are read, be assured that no righteous deed that we ever undertake will be forgotten by Almighty God.

This past Wednesday, the day after the election, I received a message on my phone at the parish office, from a gentleman who didn’t identify himself by name but who said he was a parishioner. And in this message, this gentleman ranted for several minutes about Tuesday’s election results. And here were the first words out of his mouth, “You lost Father; you lost!” Well, the first thing I want to say about Tuesday night’s election results is that I didn’t lose. On Tuesday night our entire country lost!

Now, having said that, I know that there are several of you who have just decided to tune me out, or you’re now burning up with anger at me because of what I just said and you can’t wait to give me a piece of your mind. But let me say two things in this regard. Number one, I am a priest of Jesus Christ, not because of any merit of my own, not because I’m any better than anyone else. God probably chose me because I am nothing and He wants to make something out of me. But I have been anointed and consecrated by God to preach His truth. And so, you can tune me out, but be warned, you do so at your eternal peril.

Second, if you’re angry because you read into my words that this homily is going to be about one elected official that you probably voted for, you’re wrong. What I have to say today goes far beyond just one elected official. What I have to say is about the overall trend that was put on display in Tuesday’s election results.

Did you know, for instance, that on Tuesday several states voted by popular majority to legalize the recreational use of marijuana? Did you know that a plan to legalize physician assisted suicide was barely rejected in Massachusetts? Did you now that for the first time in our country’s history several states, by popular vote, chose to legalize gay marriage? Did you know that two of these states are run by “Catholic” governors who actively encouraged their constituents to vote in favor of same sex unions? Did you know that in Florida, a ban on tax payers funding of abortion was rejected by the people? Add to all of this the fact that some who were elected in Tuesday’s elections are pathological liars, people who have been exposed in their lies numerous times. Apparently, a majority of Americans now condone lying, or perhaps worse, for them the lie has become the truth, evil has become good. Now can you begin to see the trend?

In the days after the elections all the talking heads in the media have been trying to explain how this all happened. But not one person in the mainstream media has gotten it right. You see, these election results are not about one party’s marketing advantage over another. Ultimately, they’re not about the appeal of one person over another, nor are they about one party being more up-to-date while the other is behind times. What we saw on Tuesday night IS about the moral decline of our nation.

Tuesday’s voting results are a mere confirmation of a choice that a majority in this country made, some as far back as 50 years ago, to reject God and to embrace evil in one form or another! And who’s to blame for this choice? Well, ultimately, each individual is responsible for his or her choices. Those who chose to vote with evil are to blame for their own choices, and they’ll have to answer to God for the way they voted. But the reality is I don’t think any of us can take ourselves completely off the hook on this one. Why? Because one of the worst contributing factors to the moral decline of our country has been the lukewarmness that has plagued the Catholic Church for years all the way from the Bishops down to the people in the pews. Pope St. Pius X once said that “All evil in the world is due to lukewarm Catholics.” Think about that for a second, “All evil in the world is due to lukewarm Catholics.”

Well, I have to be honest with you. I’ve seen this lukewarmness in every church parish at which I’ve served. But you know where else I see this lukewarmness? I see it when I look in the mirror; I see it in myself. And if we’re honest with ourselves I think all of us would see one or more area of lukewarmness in our own spiritual lives.

My brothers and sisters, each one of us has a moral obligation to do all that we can to try to reverse the moral decline of our nation. And the first place that we have to begin is within ourselves. We have to begin by responding to that vocation which is common to all of us, what the Church calls the universal call to holiness, the call from Jesus to each one of us to become a saint!

In his letter to the Philippians, St. Paul says, “work out your salvation with fear and trembling.” How many of us, each day, tremble as we strive for holiness?! How many of us live with a lively fear of hell, a place that is real and a place where souls go for all eternity?! Or have we instead accepted mediocrity in our spiritual lives? “Oh, I’m too busy to pray Lord; I just don’t have the time… I’m too tired to pray; I’ll get to it tomorrow... Oh, I don’t like that teaching of the Church, I am not going to do that, who do they think they are coming up with this stuff... Well, I think I’ve done enough for God; what more do I have to do for Him…”

In one of His parables Jesus poses an important question that we would all do well to ask ourselves. “Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?” Well, what cost is Jesus talking about? He’s not giving construction advice to builders and contractors. The context of that Gospel is the cost of discipleship, what it costs to be a saint, ultimately what it costs us get to Heaven. But all too often we act as if that cost is cheap! “Well, I go to Mass on most Sundays. I’m a good person; I haven’t murdered anybody. Of course I’m going to Heaven!”

Jesus dealt with this kind of cheap discipleship in the Gospels when He said, “Not everyone who says to me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” On the day of judgment many will say to Jesus, “Well, didn’t we go to Mass fairly often on Sundays and didn’t we put some money in the collection basket? Didn’t we accept at least some of the Church’s teachings? Besides, as I said before, I’m a good person; I didn’t murder anybody.” Then Jesus will declare to them, “I never knew you; go away from me you evildoers!”

My brothers and sisters, in ordinary times lukewarmness in our approach to salvation is deadly. But we are not entering into ordinary times. We are not moving forward into ordinary times. There is a great battle brewing; in fact this battle is already upon us, a battle in our country between good and evil and I can feel this battle in the very marrow in my bones. If we are not striving for holiness with every fiber of our being we will nothave what it takes to pay the cost of discipleship, we will not have what it takes to get to Heaven! As Jesus says near the end of Matthew’s Gospel, “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now and never will be. And if those days had not been shortened, no one would be saved…no one would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.”

It’s clear from the trends that we see in Tuesday’s election results that people of faith in this country are going to be attacked relentlessly over and over again by one wave of evil after another. And so we must be sure that we have included these attacks in our calculations. A lukewarm faith will never survive the attacks of an army of evil that is Legion. We must become saints! And do not wait for tomorrow to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for tomorrow may be too late. Today let us resolve to root out all sin from our lives! Today let us resolves to remove all evil from our hearts! Today let us double our efforts at prayers! Today let us pray that Mary, the Mother of God, our Mother, will once again crush the head of Satan, and intercede for us the grace of perseverance!

Today, let us resolve to take up our cross and be a disciple of Jesus Christ! Christ, who in the words of the Servant of God Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, “will restore within us moral indignation, Who will make us hate evil with a passionate intensity, and love goodness to a point where we can drink death like water!”

The final message that I received from that gentleman’s call on Wednesday was that I need to stop preaching the way I do. I need to stop telling people how they ought to live their lives, what teachings of the Church they need to follow. “If he wants to support gay marriage I just need to shut up and give him a choice.” Well, sir in answer to your request I give you a choice: You can either come here to this Catholic Church and listen to the Word of God and to the teachings of Jesus Christ and His Church or you can leave and go somewhere else!

Father received a standing ovation from his congregation.

Fr. Charles Sikorsky, LC, JD, JCL

God's Accuracy

Fascinating, I've never given most of this a thought!!!!

God's accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs.
For example:
-the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;
-those of the canary in 14 days;
-those of the barnyard hen in 21 days;
-The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days;
-those of the mallard in 35 days;
-The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.

(Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!)

God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant.. The four legs of
this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other
quadruped is so made. God planned that this animal would have a huge body,
too large to live on two legs... For this reason He gave it
four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily.

The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A cow
rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord
is in all His works of creation!

God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments,
as well as in the number of grains.
-Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind.
-Each orange has an even number of segments.
-Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
-Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grain.
-Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of
bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an
even number and the next row an odd number.

-The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in
all kinds of weather.

All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord
specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundred fold - all even
numbers.

God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times
during the day, so that Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that
if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture
and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers
that were open and those that were closed!

The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful
way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. If you
try to regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure.
Only the One Who made the brain and the heart can successfully
guide them to a profitable end.

I HOPE YOU FIND THIS AS FASCINATING AS I DID.....WOW!!!!
May God Bless You In Ways You Never Even Dreamed Today!

APPLES

A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly-missed boarding...

ALL BUT ONE!!! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.

He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.

He was glad he did. The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her; no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.

The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.

When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?” She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly."

As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued,

"Are you Jesus?"

He stopped in mid-stride ... and he wondered. He gently went back and said, "No, I am nothing like Jesus - He is good, kind, caring, loving, and would never have bumped into your display in the first place.

"The girl gently nodded: "I only asked because I prayed for Jesus to help me gather the apples. He sent you to help me, so you are like Him - only He knows who will do His will. Thank you for hearing His call, Mister."

Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?"

Do people mistake you for Jesus?

That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.

If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day .

You are the apple of His eye even though you, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked up you and me on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.

Sometimes we just take things for granted, when we really need to be sharing what we know....Thanks.

"Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect.

It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections."

Shared by Corinne

“The Quilt Holes"

When you are suffering, let the light of Jesus shine through your covering.

As I faced my Maker at the last judgment, I knelt before the Lord along with all the other souls.

Before each of us laid our lives like the squares of a quilt in many piles; an angel sat before each of us sewing our quilt squares together into a tapestry that is our life.

But as my angel took each piece of cloth off the pile, I noticed how ragged and empty each of my squares was. They were filled with giant holes. Each square was labeled with a part of my life that had been difficult, the challenges and temptations

I was faced with in every day life. I saw hardships that I endured, which were the largest holes of all.

I glanced around me. Nobody else had such squares. Other than a tiny hole here and there, the other tapestries were filled with rich color and the bright hues of worldly fortune. I gazed upon my own life and was disheartened.

My angel was sewing the ragged pieces of cloth together, threadbare and empty, like binding air.

Finally the time came when each life was to be displayed, held up to the light, the scrutiny of truth. The others rose; each in turn, holding up their tapestries. So filled their lives had been. My angel looked upon me and nodded for me to rise.

My gaze dropped to the ground in shame. I hadn't had all the earthly fortunes. I had love in my life and laughter. But there had also been trials of illness and wealth, and false accusations that took from me my world, as I knew it. I had to start over many times. I often struggled with the temptation to quit, only to somehow muster the strength to pick up and begin again. I spent many nights on my knees in prayer, asking for help and guidance in my life.. I had often been held up to ridicule, which I endured painfully, each time offering it up to the Father in hopes that I would not melt within my skin beneath the judgmental gaze of those who unfairly judged me.

And now, I had to face the truth.. My life was what it was, and I had to accept it for what it was.

I rose and slowly lifted the combined squares of my life to the light.

An awe-filled gasp filled the air. I gazed around at the others who stared at me with wide eyes.

Then, I looked upon the tapestry before me. Light flooded the many holes, creating an image, the face of Christ. Then our Lord stood before me, with warmth and love in His eyes. He said, 'Every time you gave over your life to Me, it became My life, My hardships, and My struggles.

Each point of light in your life is when you stepped aside and let Me shine through, until there was more of Me than there was of you.'

May all our quilts be threadbare and worn, allowing Christ to shine through!

This may be the best prayer I’ve ever read.

PRAY THIS EVEN IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE IT!!

IT WILL ONLY TAKE A MINUTE.

You never know WHEN GOD IS GOING TO BLESS YOU!!

GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT THEM TO !!!!!!!!

Dear Lord, I thank You for this day,

I THANK YOU FOR MY BEING ABLE TO SEE AND TO HEAR THIS MORNING.

I'M BLESSED BECAUSE YOU ARE A FORGIVING GOD AND AN UNDERSTANDING GOD.

YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH FOR ME AND YOU KEEP ON BLESSING ME.

FORGIVE ME THIS DAY FOR EVERYTHING I HAVE DONE, SAID OR THOUGHT that was not pleasing to you.

I ask now for Your forgiveness.

PLEASE KEEP ME SAFE FROM ALL DANGER AND HARM.

HELP ME TO START THIS DAY WITH A NEW ATTITUDE AND PLENTY OF GRATITUDE.

LET ME MAKE THE BEST OF EACH AND EVERY DAY TO CLEAR MY MIND SO
THAT I CAN HEAR FROM YOU.
PLEASE BROADEN MY MIND THAT I CAN ACCEPT ALL THINGS.
LET ME NOT WHINE AND WHIMPER over things I have no control over.
And give me the best response when I'm pushed beyond my limits.

I know that when I can't pray, YOU LISTEN TO MY HEART.
CONTINUE TO USE ME TO DO YOUR WILL.
CONTINUE TO BLESS ME THAT I MAY BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS.
KEEP ME STRONG THAT I MAY HELP THE WEAK...
KEEP ME UPLIFTED THAT I MAY HAVE WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT FOR OTHERS.
I PRAY FOR THOSE THAT ARE LOST AND CAN'T FIND THEIR WAY.
I PRAY FOR THOSE THAT ARE MISJUDGED AND MISUNDERSTOOD.
I PRAY FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW YOU INTIMATELY.

But I thank You that I believe THAT GOD CHANGES PEOPLE AND
GOD CHANGES THINGS.
I PRAY FOR ALL MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS.
FOR EACH AND EVERY FAMILY MEMBER IN THEIR HOUSEHOLDS.
I PRAY FOR PEACE, LOVE AND JOY IN THEIR HOMES; THAT THEY ARE OUT OF DEBT
AND ALL THEIR NEEDS ARE MET.
I PRAY THAT EVERY EYE THAT READS THIS KNOWS THERE IS NO PROBLEM, CIRCUMSTANCE, OR SITUATION GREATER THAN GOD.
EVERY BATTLE IS IN YOUR HANDS FOR YOU TO FIGHT.


I pray that these words be received
INTO THE HEARTS OF EVERY EYE THAT SEES IT IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN!

Land of the Free

Alabama Judge

Some of you may be wondering what Judge Roy Moore has been doing since he was removed from the bench for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom wall.

Please read the poem he wrote. .

Judge Moore was sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer. He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama! The judge's poem sums it up quite well.

America, the beautiful,

Or so you used to be.

Land of the Pilgrims' pride;

I'm glad they'll never see.

Babies piled in dumpsters,

Abortion on demand,

Oh, sweet land of liberty;

Your house is on the sand.

Our children wander aimlessly

Poisoned by cocaine

Choosing to indulge their lusts,

When God has said abstain

From sea to shining sea,

Our Nation turns away

From the teaching of God's love

And a need to always pray

We've kept God in our temples,

How callous we have grown.

When earth is but His footstool,

And Heaven is His throne.

We've voted in a government

that's rotting at the core,

Appointing Godless Judges;

Who throw reason out the door,

Too soft to place a killer

In a well deserved tomb,

But brave enough to kill a baby

Before he leaves the womb.

You think that God's not angry,

That our land's a moral slum?

How much longer will He wait

Before His judgment comes?

How are we to face our God,

From Whom we cannot hide?

What then is left for us to do,

But stem this evil tide.

If we who are His children,

Will humbly turn and pray;

Seek His holy face

And mend our evil way:

Then God will hear from Heaven;

And forgive us of our sins,

He'll heal our sickly land

And those who live within.

But, America the Beautiful,

If you don't - then you will see,

A sad but Holy God

Withdraw His hand from Thee..

~~Judge Roy Moore~~

This says it all.

May we all forward this message

and offer our prayers for Judge Moore to be blessed and for America

to wake up and realize what we need to do to keep OUR

America the Beautiful. He has stood firm and needs our support.

IN GOD WE TRUST!