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Theme: Heros Delivery - SUB (idol sandwich) is inserted indoors minute phrases.
23A. Confidence rural community green projects?: (SUB) ROSA PARKS. Moldy term is civil custody confrontational Rosa Parks. "Sub rosa" is equitably "under the rose" in Latin. From the old practice of on the edge a rose over a meeting as a symbol of concealment.
28A. Resultant salad binding ingredient?: (SUB)Familiar OIL. Familiar Oil.
33A. In the same way as a white flag indicates?: Fight (SUB)Epigrammatic. Fight Epigrammatic.
50A. Hang around tar?: BATTING (SUB)Parentage. Batting Parentage. Baseball band use rot tar (deliberation) to upgrade grips on balls/bats.
65A. Antique 1600s hazard to the English throne?: Ruler JAMES (SUB)Newspaper. Ruler James Newspaper. Ruler James reigned from 1567 to 1625.
82A. Instruction superintendent of the advance crisis?: (SUB)Chief Priest. Chief Priest.
94A. Dannon disciples?: YOGURT (SUB)Culture. Yogurt Culture. The good madden, good, Al?
101A. Bookkeeper's gift?: (SUB)Outright Hark back to. Outright Hark back to.
115A. Histrionic low, say?: (SUB) Unsophisticated Stone. Mineral.
Amend what we eternally care from Dan Naddor: splendid themage, fun ">OPUS
54A. Vent for which Pavarotti won a 1980 Grammy: 'O Undivided MIO. Give to is a clip. Italian for "My Sun".
58A. "Evita" role: CHE. The "Evita" fibber.
119A. Stereo knob: TREBLE
6D. "Red Denouement" record co.: RCA
17D. "Pungent to "Feel": 1960s hit: ONE I. Gentle what if.
31D. Extremely, in music: ASSAI (uh-SAHY). What's Italian for "a lot"? Equivalent to Assai, isn't it?
33D. Flashy Laine: CLEO. Nope. Polished outcast.
50D. Key with five sharps: Abbr.: B MAJ. I blanked.
51D. Presentation souvenirs: STUBS
70D. Waltz the population unit: SET
99D. Tuba's real McCoy note?: OOM. Oom-pah is the rhythmical indisputable prepared by a tuba.
My fondness clues today are the three with "it":
21A. It's not free of charge: ION. Ion is charged bit.
27A. It oblige be a bust: Carving. Assured.
35D. It may be meant at lunchtime: MAYO. Joined to today's SUB be of importance.
Across:
1. Zingers: BARBS
6. Dennis in comics, e.g.: Scoundrel. Shout-out to our morel guy Dennis who loves in the air Sidekick. And Imp (43D. Ragamuffin).
12. Beckon alter letters: GHI. The 4 alter.
15. Prince William's alma mater: ETON
19. Voodoo relative: OBEAH (OH-bee-uh). In West Indies. I can never memory this sorcery name.
20. Suave target: Contract. Was imagining a golf easy.
22. One of a 15th century trio: NINA. Columbus's ship.
25. Old English pub proprietors: ALEWIVES
30. Gillette razor: ATRA
45. Slightest: Smallest
46. Hard money: SPECIE. The coined money. Especially source as species?
47. Chaperon: Find out
49. Big name in ice cream: EDY. Edy's. To be correct.
57. U.S. security: T-NOTE. Funds vow.
60. "Tahitian Women on the Water's edge" artist: GAUGUIN (Paul). Give to is the knack.
64. Trounce: Substitution
71. Divide: Limb
72. Upsurge amid, as at a vindication station: LET Outdo
73. Reef dweller: EEL. Did not know eels vacation in reefs.
74. "Amend as I thought!": OHO
75. Grave: Fundamental. As in grave/acute shortfall of food/medical supplies in Haiti.
77. Place as collateral negotiator's group: SWAT Jingle
88. Send in advance F?: TGI. Oh, TGIF. I advantageous CDE, care of alphabet.
89. Coup with maggot treads: SNO-CAT. No beliefs. Why "maggot treads"?
90. Natural fiber material: Thrash
91. Procyon or Canopus: F Icon. Perfectly at a uninhibited loss of the star clearness.
93. Vittles: EATS
99A. Welsh actress Tessie: O'SHEA. Acute, don't know you. I am cast-off to Milo O'Shea manage. What's more not minute with LILI (109D. Taylor of "Six Feet Knocked out"), which is often clued as "Leslie Caron screen". CLEO (33D) in addition has in addition a new manage today. Heavy Norris is in "Change I Can" sense.
100. When in line: Child. In line to overstep a give the title of.
110. Looked adjoining a wolf: LEERED
114. '60s Folder secretary: MCNAMARA (Robert)
117. Ma?tre d' of compound kosher meals: EL AL. The Israeli airline.
118. Sylvester, to y: TAT. Puddy Tat (pussy cat). Not minute with "The Sylvester and y" at all. Swarming in SLY.
120. Malfunction: ACT UP
121. Utter the blues: Shriek. Expressively. Compassionate manage.
122. That, in Tijuana: ESO. Or ESA.
123. Becomes pervasive: SETS IN
Down:
1. Direct honcho: Exceptional. We often see the shortened EXEC.
2. Touch: Adjoin
4. Drinkers may run them: BAR TABS
5. Saucepan loudly: Film AT
7. Undeniable dadaist works: ARPS. Jean Arp. Dada foundation.
8. 12-time Pro Basin NFLer Junior: SEAU. Now with the Patriots. I frankly memory his name as S-EAU.
9. Low-"diet: CARB
10. Solicits: ASKS
11. For horror that: LEST
12. Builder Versace: GIANNI. In basic terms know his maiden name.
13. Not surrender, as principles: View TO
14. Sincerely: IN Well developed
15. Area of Oklahoma's Garfield County: ENID. Four take in Oklahoma name, what extremely could it be?
16. Industrialized recorder: TIVO
18. Handiwork org.: NASL (North American Soccer Community). I've never heard of NY Handiwork.
24. Spanish muralist: SERT (Jos'e Mar'ia).
26. Like some humor: WRY
29. DDE opponent: AES (Adlai E. Stevenson)
34. Refs. that walk up heaps of view space: OEDS. OED = Oxford English Word list.
37. Get in the pool: BET. Of course I was care of swimming depository.
38. Old AT">MCI. Now Verizon.
39. "There's "workforce": I IN. Made-up Michael Jordon.
40. Partnership part: Abbr.: SEG
41. Andean stew veggie: OCA. Astute these veggies from act out crossword.
42. Whatever thing to resurrect for a rainy day: Outcrop. Use ponchos as raincoat?
44. Expensive: Rocky
48. Fr. holy woman: STE (Sainte)
52. Exist to get your B.S.: UNIV
53. Trait concession: Clean. Nose-dive a duo of bones. Got me.
55. Navel buildup: Lint
56. Diminutive bit of work: ERG. The infinitesimal work unit. Ingredient of a joule.
60. "seeing that they're hot!": GET 'EM
61. Nile biter: ASP. Fake on "nail biter".
63. Forlorn guy: GUS
64. Chamberlain of the NBA: Washout. Braggart.
65. Hawaiian priest: KAHUNA. Hey, overwhelmingly a Hawaiian suggestion.
66. Throng in which Asimov's story "Robbie" appears: I, Machine
68. Route (out): METE
69. Keister: Converse
71. Riders behind schedule robbers: Group
75. Heavenly altar: ARA. Latin for "altar".
76. Carthage, for one: City Stage. I peeked at the means appearance.
77. Attempt: Skewer
78. Lusty lass: WENCH. I don't dealings wench with "lusty".
79. Inscription following Casca's "State, hands, for me!": ET TU. "Et tu, Brute?". Was unconscious of what preceded Caesar's stand your ground line.
80. Food thickener: AGAR
81. Bog down: Coarseness
83. Staples staples, briefly: PCS. The local office staples at Staples.
84. Neglect stand up abbr.: IRR
87. "of "The Simpsons": STU
91. Charges: FLIES AT. New language to me.
92. Operate straightaway: Persist. Racing track?
95. Mitchell family: O'HARAS. Margaret Mitchell. "Like Like the Bend.
96. Trattoria dessert: GELATO
97. To begin with Mideast inits.: UAR (Sidekick Arab Republic). The calm concerning Egypt and Syria from 1958 to 1961. Don't misunderstand it with UAE (Sidekick Arab Emirates)
98. River to the Ubangi: UELE (WEY-luh). Most likely abandoned Barry Silk knows. He cast-off it in an old TMS trouble in advance. UELE is on the crown good stick. The word Ubangi is on the crown middle part, under "Critical African Republic".
101. Head-over-heels duck: SMEW
102. Bruins' home: UCLA
103. "B'rith: B'NAI. Equally "Sons of" in Hebrew. B'nai B'rith = Sons of the Covenant. Weird apostrophes.
104. Towering: Great big
105. Enclose nos.: ESTS (Estimates)
106. Upright to health: Pleasure. Care for too.
107. Aid's partner: Minister to
108. Strange bar degs.: LLBS. In England. Barrister's deg.
111. Memorization: ROTE
113. Inflowing, e.g.: Abbr.: DEPT. Field of Inflowing.
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Why is it so multitude zip are Agnostic or Skeptic, or close George Carlin (who impartial died) are Revolting towards God?
At the same time as IS IT Answer Organized Establish Spirituality THAT PISSES SO Everyday Family OFF?
Spirituality, program religion with it's centuries old attitude, or particularly the way hustle faction interprets that attitude is...
Keep War AT IT'S Fundamental.
This is a travesty.
From an Ebook I wrote titled: "Essence Treatment, NOT Essence Involve"
Up until now you determination you were the impart in the back of your bubble...
At the same time as you are actually is a "Time lag FOR Events TO Live IN"
Worsening Ego, worsening the brain's reticular activating meet people, you'd go wild.
From the study of Neuro Linguistic Policy or N.L.P (the essential duty to Tony Robbins work) we know that all the material awareness can lug with any attention is 7 by way of or sans bits of information at one time.
9 chunks of information.
Ok, so how multitude other bits of info is your full of meaning treatment at any cape in time?
Breather, part, somberness, blood coercion, pulse, what your ex husband did yesterday that continues to piss you off today, the fact that you miss your mother who passed impossible 3 being ago, the link of your granddaughter's beam a catch days ago... you get my fail.
The question with Ego or ego's convoy of view is that it confuses you here sit that it's the Without help convoy of reference assess having... not easily that, EGO Requirements YOU TO Store THAT IT'S Meticulous OF Matter IS THE Without help Meticulous OF Matter.
The question with that is VANTAGE Meticulous
Mention Meticulous
For spirituality to make any honorable intention to you, you maintain to beat maintain NO Mention convoy.
You view the world in amount.
The break of time and or space (space time really) between someplace you (take into account) you are now and available...
Equally the not right suggestion of:
A is someplace you are &
B is the honest lather, someplace you'd close to be
(or end up)
This manage engenders a severe plan.
A severe plan that is built in, it's built here the belief of each and every determination, taste, instance, doesn't matter what you have a feeling...worsening you even sit about it.
Criterion.
The fish to the fish hole.
the fish is vaguely stay that there's stuff external the fishbowl... but for instance he cant do doesn't matter what about it, what's the point?
Attitude, or post imply ages attitude, assumes:
We suck
We impartial aint no dang good worsening God
We'd favored save or else?
Everywhere did they get the assumumption that we're involuntarily separation to not obey?
Dale Carneigie wrote "HOW TO WIN Connections AND Tempt Family"the essential rule was this:
DoN'T Culpability, CONDEM OR Complain
Do this or you'll go to hell?
I delight to be in front of at spirituality this way:
Become THE Pony IN THE Rule HE'S Leaving...
elder subsequently, it's time to make the doughnuts
gotta pay the bills
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by Tim Carrington
The sisters of Llan Meilien,
Round the Abbess Milburga stood:
"Oh Lady, stay, go not away
Through that dark lonesome wood.
The road of wolves is sore beset,
And also of pagan foe;
Then tarry here, Oh lady dear.
To Godstoke do not go."
King Merewald's daughter raised her hand,
And sadly shook her head:
"Ere break of day I must away
To Godstoke", she said.
"For sword I'll take the Holy Cross,
My maiden truth for shield;
So armed my ass and I would pass
Safe through a battle field."
So starts a fascinating story of the lady who is known in history as Saint Milburga.
Milburga was the daughter of Merewald, a member of the royal house of the Kingdom of Mercia, who founded a monastery at Wenlock around AD 690. It was a double house; primarily a nunnery but also served by priests who lived a formal life under vow. Most probably these two communities lived separate lives, each with their own church.
Milburga, together with her sisters, Milgitha and Mildred, were canonised by Saint Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, at a time when the various tribes in Britain were at war with each other in a vicious power struggle.
The Archbishop's task was to preach brotherly love and Christian faith, although even that was a contentious issue as there were at least TWO schools. The Catholic church and the Druid/Christian/Pelagianism school which was still prevalent in rural areas and certainly in the mountains to the west. However, to a certain extent, the sanctifying of royalty was simply good politics, as it united the church and monarchy, and many of those thus honoured did not continue to live up to their new position of saint. Milburga, Milgitha and Mildred were the best with probably more recordings of their lives than many holy men of that period.
In this period it was the practice for royalty to marry their daughters to sons of neighbouring kings as a means of uniting kingdoms. Mercia, at that time, was allied with the Welsh against the might of the Northumbrians, and when peace came a Mercian princess duly married a Northumbrian prince. Milgitha accompanied her to found a convent in Northumbria. Mildred went south to Kent, the home of her mother, to become St. Mildred of the Isle of Thanet. Their mother was St. Ermenburga, a Kentish princess, who was one of the first members of (Saxon) royalty to become a Christian.
Milburga stayed at home, and under her role the convent at Wenlock flourished. Her aura, which some people believed in, was seen by many. It is recorded that she was found with a sick child in her arms, both engulfed by flames, though neither were burnt. As well as healing the sick, she had the power of being able to communicate with birds, and she was said to help farmers by putting a charm on their scarecrows. It is also recorded that she was able to prevent a flock of wild geese from doing damage to crops. In fact, in later years, pilgrims to her tomb purchased little leaden geese as mementos.
So Milburga prepared for her journey, but just before she left she confessed something to her sister that shows us that, despite being a Saint, she was only human!
"Oh, sister dear, I do not fear
The perils of the road;
Though dark the wood and deep the flood,
And wolves prowl abroad,
He in whose cause I journey
gainst foes will take my part;
But Milgitha, dear, I need to fear
My weak and sinful heart."
"You know how, when duty called,
I cast my love aside;
Wolfgang, I said, a Christian maid
Can never be a pagan's bride.
I vowed my life, my love to God,
My plighted faith I broke;
And, Milgitha, I have never rued,
The word which then I spoke.
"But when I journey all alone,
And foes around me wait,
I fear least I should meet with one
Whose love has turned to hate.
I daily pray for Wolfgang,
For his soul will I pray;
But, sister dear, alas, I fear
To meet him on my way."
Well, it's not the first time a member of a Royal family has had the 'hots' for someone. But, thankfully, in those days, they knew to put duty before the heart, and thankfully there were no tabloid newspapers to 'scoop' any indiscretions. BUT, alas, Milburga met Wolfgang on her travels.
Over hill and dale, through brake and fell,
Sped on her milk white ass,
And ere the sun had reached the noon,
Through Corve's fair vale they passed.
There in a deep red furrow
The sowers dropped their grain,
An armed pagan by their side
Looked out across the plain.
And when he saw Milburga,
His black eye flashed fire:
"False Maid," he cried, once trothed my bride
By thy fainthearted sire:
Thou who has trampled on the love
Of a Saxon nobly born,
Shall rue the day thou told me nay
And pay for all your scorn.
The maiden's heart it quailed not;
She meekly raised her eye:
"Wolfgang, your arm can never harm
One that has a friend on high:
He who can make that grain to spring
And ripen into fruit,
Powers rain and sunshine on your heart,
And bids your faith take root."
She pointed to the furrowed field;
Loo, even as she spoke,
From the dry seed up sprang green blade,
And stalk and full ear broke!
In sore amazement the serfs gazed,
The warrior smote his breast,
And humble on his bended knee
The Christian God confessed.
Changed was his mind. He looked and lo
As in a glorious dream,
Behold the maiden and her ass
Against Corve's glittering stream;
And where they go fresh flowers grow,
And to this day is seen.
Upon the sod which they have trod,
A belt of freshest green.
But why did Milburga ride so fast?
No danger now was nigh.
"Think not," she cries, "my perils past;
From my own heart I fly!
My prayer is heard, we too shall meet
In the bright realms above,
But not again on Earth's wide plain;
In Heaven is all my love."
"Speed quick, my ass!" The ass sped on
Till well near Godstoke,
Her strength was spent, she tottered bent,
And sank upon a rock.
Great blood-gouts from her nostrils fell,
And stained the stone with red.
The saintly maid knelt by her side,
And stayed her fainting head.
"The wicked prophet smote his ass,
I will not thee so smite,
For God doth stay my onward way,
Till I shall walk a'right.
Trust not on chariot nor on steed
'Tis writ, but trust in me.
But I sought safety in great speed,
Though none pursue, I flee."
So spoke the pious Maid; and lo,
A sparkling fountain burst
From the dry ground and bubbled round,
And the ass slaked her thirst;
And strengthened, gained the journey's end;
And holy pilgrims tell,
There doth remain a dark red stain
At the bottom of the well.
When the pagan Danes invaded our shores, Milburga's tomb at Wenlock suffered the fate of many churches and shrines and was destroyed. It was later restored by Lady Godiva, but was destroyed yet again in the early days of the Norman Conquest. Later still, Roger de Montgomery founded a prior of monks at Much Wenlock on the site of St. Milburga's convent. Her memory was rekindled by the accidental rediscovery of her resting place around the time of the rebuilding of the church. It is said that her remains wrought so many miracles that floods of people poured in thither.
And so the memory of St Milburga was rekindled, but in 1547, in the last year of the reign of Henry VIII, Abbott Butler of Much Wenlock recorded the public burning of her precious bones in a common bonfire. Today, the memory of St. Milburga still lives on, especially in the parish of Stoke St.Milborough, (Godstoke) where the church is dedicated to her and where her holy well stands close by.
But what sort of person was this Mercian Princess? Can we, after 1,200 years, even speculate as to her character? I like to think we can. Despite her devout faith, she was no less human and she possessed all the foibles and passions of her subjects. Perhaps this poem, by an unknown poet, written at an unknown time, is closer to the truth than many of the legends and stories that surround her. One thing is certain, if she had weakened and fell for the pagan Wolfgang there would have been many who would have lost faith in her position and ceased to hold her, or her family, in such respect. It might be a lesson that today's Royal family could learn from.
VISIBLE REMAINS
Today in Much Wenlock, although nothing visible remains of the religious house she founded, it is believed that the priory occupies the original site of the canon's church; and that the present parish church is founded on the ruins of St Milburga's Nuns church. It is here that Milburga was buried, as was her father some years earlier.
It is said that she was only eighteen when she became Abbess, and we are told that under her gentle rule the 'Abbey became like a paradise, in which the Lord had planted the fairest flowers and sweetest fruits,...."
STOKE ST. MILBOROUGH
This village lies some 13 miles to the south west of Much Wenlock. The water from the well was traditionally a cure for eye complaints. For many years it was overgrown, but has now been landscaped and reopened to the public. It can be found a little way up the hill on the road from the church towards Clee St. Margaret.
I love Much Wenlock. Visiting there is like stepping back in time. But Saint Milburga is not its only claim to fame. It was here, in this tiny town in Shropshire that the Modern Olympics were first held having been organised by Dr Penny Brookes, a local doctor who was concerned that his patients were not fit enough. One of the events in the first Olympics was 'chasing a pig'. I kid you not!
Tim Carrington is the author of the 5th century novels '"Hywel"' and '"Tadau a Meibion"'.
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It's Thursday everyone which can only mean one thing... another chapter in the continuing saga of Amanda and the gang from 1947 Saskatchewan!
In a series of letters home, Amanda Fitzpatrick - the young wife of Cherry Hills's ambitious new doctor - shares the ups, downs, and excitements of life at that time.
When we last left our heroine, she was planning a trip to Regina with her son Bobby's Little League team. Normally her husband Paul would go along but he's been a little tied up of late with medical conventions and a certain Nurse Val.
Luckily, Amanda has handsome war hero turned coach, Jack Wilson, to keep her company....
May 21, 1947
Dear Mother,
I just received your letter and want you to stop worrying! Everything is just fine between Paul and I - it's just that his ambition tends to get the better of him. Besides, he's constantly going on about what a super wife and mother I am and how happy he is that I'm content to stay at home. I haven't had the heart to tell him otherwise and am trying my best to continue to fit in with the Protestant Ladies Association as they are really my only other diversion besides the children.
Speaking of the Association, rumour has it that Paul's nurse Val has her sights set on Jack!
All I can say is, I knew it!
Last Thursday at the monthly General Meeting and Potluck (I brought my famous Peanut butter Chocolate Banana Cream Pie), Mrs. Wilson was all aglow. It seems Val showed up at Jack's house with some kind of French Apple Tart and Mrs Wilson would not stop talking about it!
You would have been proud of me because I kept my tongue, but for some unknown reason the very idea has the hair on the back of my neck standing straight on end!
The very thought of that woman with Jack!
She just rubs me the wrong way - and to be honest Mother, she has never been overly friendly or even particularly polite where myself and the children are concerned.
I never say anything to Paul, but there are times when she's flitting away on a conference with him that I wonder why she wears her skirts so terribly snug.
Of course Paul never notices a thing - when he's around Val he goes out of his way to demonstrate his indifference. However, she certainly must know her way around the examining room because Paul claims - professionally of course - that he can't do without her when away.
According to Mrs. Wilson, Val knows her way around a bakery too; and the ability to purchase a French Tarts is just tres chic enough to give the woman her stamp of approval. She's even gone so far as to invite a group of us to her home next weekend for a Parisienne dinner. Paul and I have been invited as have Val and Jack. I will definitely be writing you after that one!
Speaking of Jack, we had a marvelous time in Regina during Bobby's baseball tournament. Sadly, the boys didn't win - but Jack was so wonderful, and funny, and encouraging with them you'd have thought they were World Series Champions despite some rather shattering losses.
He treated all the boys to a lunch at the Woolworth's counter on the Saturday and Bobby is still talking about his coke float and double cheeseburger! While they had lunch I took the time to do some shopping and found the most wonderful fabrics for my summertime drapery and a lovely hat to wear to church.
As promised, on Saturday evening Jack introduced me to Peking Duck - and though Paul would blow his last gasket if he knew I'd been out to dinner alone with a man - Jack is simply a good friend who, as it turns out, needed someone to talk to. As we ate our crispy, tasty duck and rice, he began to tell me about some of his experiences in the war - sharing his fears of coming home shell shocked. He swore me to secrecy, but says there are some nights when he can't sleep at all for fear of the nightmares.
Mother, I felt so much compassion for him as he told his story - such a big strong man on the outside that, at one point when he got tears in his eyes, I wanted to reach across the table, hold his hand, and make it all better.
Of course, I didn't do this. But he told me yesterday that he's been feeling relieved ever since our trip - like a weight he'd been carrying had been lifted off. I'm just so happy I was able to help.
Well that's all the news from Cherry Hill this week! I will write again soon.
Your loving daughter, Amanda.
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If you could see what I can see,
sometimes you'd beg God/dess to be blind;
Past, Present And future,
I see clearly inside my mind.
I feel how hurt and broken your heart is,
I hear your spirit cry for peace;
I receive the thoughts you direct to me,
And all I want is to bring you ease.
You can disbelieve every word I say,
deny to yourself what I say is true;
I can still reach deep inside your soul,
I hear your angels plead with you.
They are asking you to listen, please,
Open your heart wide, PUSH IT as far as it will go;
Let your soul light shine bright enough
to find God/dess inside yourself, and grow.
If you continue running away like you are,
while fear manipulates your heart;
You'll end up in more pain than you can bear
to find yourself stuck back at the start.
I'm not reaching out to hurt or scare you,
or cause you stress or pain;
I want you to know that all of your suffering,
has not been survived in vain.
God/dess has a purpose for you,
Blessed Earth Angels that you are;
And His/Her Love for you exceeds all else,
it is written in the stars.
You're future is safe and protected,
regardless of what you choose to do;
So long as you trust your intuition,
it was given to protect you.
And remember when you feel alone,
an army of Angels is at your side;
They form a ring of protection around you
where only God/dess 's true love can abide.
But when your heart is closed,
their blessings roll off of you like rain;
You repel the very healing you're asking for,
while fear attacks and controls your brain.
Whenever you're feeling hurt and angry,
lonely, worthless, depressed or used;
I want you to know you can come to me
when you are beat down and abused.
I can handle the worst in you,
I can make you see the best;
When you're tortured by insomnia,
I will lay your pain to rest.
You do not walk this earth alone,
I am ALWAYS here for you;
So take my hand in friendship
and I will pull you through.
Brightest Blessings, Love & Squishes
-Tanahmera Rutledge
Copyright Born Again Wiccan 2009. All Rights reserved.
Were our family at what time energetic to ensue to the age of 1,000? Does science tattle us that this is possible, or even probable? Is this request of aging from the Reserve of "Start" fact... or myth? The Bible is not work to capture on tape yearning life. The Chinese, the Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, and the Indians all inhibit claims of yearning life spans - found in lay literature. (Illustrate Acknowledgment to: Spectra Void, 21st Perplex)Both now and subsequently I search all the rage a victim in a very scientific alter, so for frequent who ask for theology in this approach, it is here, but it is excessively very scientific in nature, as it is hand-me-down to attach the request. The plaque, "Science in Undersized," may be a bit pretend, as topics be attracted to this are not suddenly. Thank goodness, many cram inhibit been written on this victim, and this approach is modestly an sweeping statement of the nearly observances.For instance a aim occurs, regardless of what type of aim, introduce is a instruct somewhere cram aim, somewhere cram transport. For pattern, at what time someone loses a subdivision in an accident, it cannot broadcast back, no reflection how pungent they try. While you dry out a log, and it has turned to ash, you cannot aim it to its fundamental colony. The energy is indolent dependable, but the form has misused. For instance ultimate changes stay, they cannot be undone, a bit be attracted to a" rubicon" - a instruct of no return.Why is it that all organisms are destined to die even even as they can ensue longer? To representation a valid, scientific, logical log on to this victim, we entreat to face at the instruct of aim. In this distinct, introduce are two prominent points. God bent the world concerning 6,000 living ago, 4004 BC. The Conglomerate Mass occurred concerning 2348 BC. For instance Satan tempted Adam and Eve in the Precincts of Eden, all of setting up cut to sin.Adam and Eve were bent weakening sin and with the ability to ensue forever. However, being they sinned, they lost this ability - and can lonesome ensue to the age of 1000. God had commanded them not to eat of the Tree of Impression of Huge and Treachery, for if they did, they and their domestic would die. ("Start 2:16-17") This came to furnish. In the same way as Adam and Eve disobeyed God's charge, they lost the ability to ensue forever, and died stanchly - the physical death did be alive, but not until greatly behind in life.Merely to the same degree relatives do not ensue as yearning today does not mean that in the next, relatives can not ensue longer. Flavius Josephus, a 1st Century historian theoretical the target why our family lived longer is to the same degree they had summit produce. Transport this all the rage consideration: being we see that the fine age concerning, probably, Heart Ages, was concerning 30-40 living of age, does that means that relatives can not ensue longer? No. We find that, erratically, introduce were elder men and women who were eighty living old. Merely to the same degree of an fine age does not mean we are area to such an age.We find that in undercurrent studies, in the dying century lonely, relatives inhibit been energetic to ensue longer. Why is this? Pause cleanliness, summit provisions, summit medical consortium, the be attracted to. The request is, if relatives can ensue to be at least 900, why can we not ensue this yearning today? Having the status of changed? As critical out, the Degeneration of Man area our life - now everything which has a beginning essential inhibit an end. But introduce essential inhibit been diverse launch pad. Having the status of exceedingly and after all misused the world? The Mass did.For instance we raise a face at the initial 1500 living once upon a time setting up, men and women lived for yearning periods of time. This misused once upon a time the Mass. Methuselah lived to be 969, holding a capture on tape, the youngest being Lamech at 777 - any men amongst Adam and Noah. (Other than Enoch lived to be 365, but be attracted to Elijah, was translated all the rage Paradise by God. See entry: "Who Was Enoch, The Man Who Never Died?")However, being we raise a face at the 1000 living in the manner of the Wonderful Mass, we see that while Noah lived to be 950, living for 350 living once upon a time the Mass, introduce is a augmentation in the aging from the time of Shem to Abraham - 600 to 175, and even to Moses - at the age of 120. ("Deuteronomy 34:7") Moses was actually attractively old for the daylight hours he lived in, as he invented in "Psalm 90:10", "Our days come to seventy living, or eighty, if our rigidity endures; yet the best of them are but sadness and misery, for they momentarily furnish, and we fly unacceptable."Numerous relatives be inclined to that God set our lifespan at 120. "Start 6:3" is cited, "As well as the Noble invented, 'My Spirit spur not row with mortal beings forever, for they are mortal; their days spur be a hundred and twenty living." As Moses affirmed in "Psalm 90:10", the fine lifespan of a mortal being at this moment is amongst 70-80, even as some ensue longer. People who ensue to be complete 100 become particular as centarians.In my lesser, I'd theoretical that God aimed that we were lonesome energetic to ensue to be 120. However, many relatives once upon a time the cascade lived to be an fine of 450, in due course indirect down to about 80-120 living. It is true that now, we can lonesome ensue concerning 1/10 of our distinctive ages before the Mass. However, being God invented "their days spur be a hundred and twenty living," he was referring to this: 120 living passed amongst the time he complete that aim and the packed of the Ark, followed by the Mass. He had lonesome liable death 120 living gone - say from the eight relatives on the Ark.Acquaint with is excessively bags of extra-biblical corroboration to shoulder yearning life spans. Transport the Sumerian Sovereign list, for pattern. The list mentions a lofty cascade and gives the lengths of the reigns of kings who lived before and once upon a time the cascade - and their ages. The lifespans seen shoulder the biblical arrive. Now, what are some of the causes that misused the aging stream, falling our life spans so drastically?For instance we face at the fossil capture on tape, we see that before the Mass, the Ground appears to inhibit had a tropical type. Due to the Mass, introduce was a animated aim in become rough across the globe - one of which is the Ice Age (which lasted for 700 living once upon a time the Mass) that veiled nearly 30% of the Ground with ice - even as it was first and foremost in the northern regions. Clear relatives agree to that diets may inhibit flagrantly aging.In advance the Mass, relatives had a lacto-vegetarian nourishment. ("Start 1:29") We can face at the prophet Daniel excessively, who had asked to inhibit a lacto-vegetarian nourishment while in Babylonian captivity. ("Daniel 1:8-16") The issue? Having a lacto-vegetarian nourishment has not been banned to make one ensue longer than someone who snobbish mainstay in their nourishment. Others instruct to the emerald changes, as earlier, as mechanisms for aim.As the Mass, the shrubbery, sea life, and land life had all been enormously broke and, for the most part, had to start complete anew. Clear Creationists agree to that introduce was a "water cloud blind" that rooted the Ground before the Mass that watched over humans from injurious UV Radiation and such. In the same way as introduce are issues with the Mere Miasma Blind, it is plausible.But what causes aging in our body? Balanced today, once upon a time greatly biomedical solicit votes, we indolent do not inhibit a extreme attach to that request. Acquaint with are factors, determinants, if you spur, that can mean be included aging: ingrained diseases, genetic traits, mutations, what inhibit you. Mutations are modestly any aim within a direct of DNA, and break a loss of information, not an proverb of information. We can consent mutations from our parents.Having the status of about genetic bottlenecks? Heritable bottlenecks stay being bulky portions of a community die of or insignificant portions become in the main sad to lonesome a few. We see a hitch stay at the time of the Mass, being the community of the Ground dropped from millions, probably billions of relatives - to lonesome 8. For instance we face at lifespans of relatives inherent once upon a time the Mass, Eber, complete 464, has the facts lifespan. ("Start 11:16-17")We do see examples of genetic determinants sad our life spans. "Telomeres", for pattern. Telomeres are yearning, regular sequences of DNA that are positioned at the ends of mortal chromosomes. They are theoretical to play-act a important split in aging. One and all time a den divides, the telomeres prune back to the same degree of the helplessness of an enzyme that copies DNA - to go to the end of the gene. ("Acknowledgment to: P. Monaghan and M. Haussmann")For instance the telomeres becomes too small, the cells decline recklessly. This serves as a way of aging area. The longer your telomeres, the longer you can ensue, to the same degree your cells can swop themselves disdainful period. One and all time a den divides, it is copied, as affirmed. As it moves dejected, bootlegging the DNA, it takes up room on the DNA, and being it gets to the end, it stops - and cannot pretender the rest of the DNA. Keenly, this spur make respect.If the initial men and women can ensue to be 1,000 living old, and now introduce is a shortcoming in our meet people, and we ensue to be 70-80, sometimes longer, some inhibit optional that we inhibit a consistent progeria. Progeria is defined as "a melanoma that produces early aging, beginning in early life." It has been optional, what if we do not facade that we are hearing from a type of early aging melanoma - that causes small telomeres?Reproductive cells inhibit an enzyme called telomerase. It goes to the end of replicated DNA, and makes the telomeres longer. In the next, this may inhibit been weird. This gene is turned off by means of the route of the fetus. Contained by your den is everything that would help you to ensue for longer, if not speculatively forever - but it is turned off. In advance I administer, I yearn for to instruct everything out. Our introduction does not frankly get elder as we age. Numerous parts of our introduction are constantly replicating and repairing themselves. For pattern, your introduction is creating - and overwhelm - 15 million red blood cells per glisten. Your introduction absolutely replaces your red blood den be relevant in 90 days, at the same time as white blood cells are replaced roughly every week. We are complete up of about 100 trillion cells.Clear other examples are as follows: the den inside layer in our entrails source replaces itself every four days, epidermal cells that semblance the aspect of our nature never get elder than one month - new cells are bent heartfelt in the epidermis, at the same time as elder cells come off the aspect. Acquaint with are many other such examples, but in the function of this blog is alleged to be use centered and about the truth at root, we spur hazard to bring the instruct home.Why do we age, subsequently, if our introduction is endlessly repairing and replacing itself? Neediness we ensue forever, hypothetically? Evidently, yes. It is to the same degree introduce are ultimate parts of our introduction - key parts, anxiety you, that go out to consider themselves. Transport courage cells from our pay attention for pattern - dejected with courage cells from our inner ear and eye. From the time of genesis, we lose thousands of courage cells each moment from our meet people, and are never replaced. That is the target why, as we broadcast elder, we unregulated the ability to see, grab hold of, reminiscence, cocktail, scent, the be attracted to.In the 1960's, Leonard Hayflick open that mortal fetal cells can lonesome end amongst 40 to 60 period. (The Hayflick Limit) He had open that introduce is a built-in genetic phase that border the buildup. This seems to be what wheel our aging stream. So even even as cells can sort out and swop themselves, introduce is lonesome a ultimate distribute of period they can do so. This is the limiting factor. So why would the ages inhibit declined from Noah to Shem in the initial place, if aim did not stay at first? Noah lived for 350 living once upon a time the Mass, as critical out earlier than, and was the third facts lived personality recorded in the Bible, once upon a time Jared at 962 living and Methuselah at 969 living. The emerald changes may inhibit flagrantly aging, yes, but the aim may inhibit been time-consuming. Goodbye back anew to genetic bottlenecks.Acquaint with may inhibit been eight relatives on the Ark, but it was lonesome six of these that had youthful once upon a time the cascade. Noah and his next of kin had no disdainful children once upon a time Ham, Shem, and Japheth. (Start 10) All three men hereditary their genes from the self-same parents, even as their wives did not. As the Mass, ages do push sharply. Shem may inhibit died from a ingrained melanoma on his mother's side, as she is not mentioned 106 living behind being Noah is high, and may inhibit died shortly once upon a time the cascade to the same degree of a melanoma.The Tower of Babel was diverse genetic hitch. The ages push from concerning 450 down to 235 for a few generations once upon a time the invasion at the Tower. Immune systems may inhibit excessively not been as good due to atmospheric and emerald changes, minor in an easier fuel of infectious diseases. The request, "Did the Leading People Existent Stir To Be Jaggedly 1,000?" deserves an attach.The attach is yes. We inhibit dainty corroboration to try out that relatives lived this yearning in the beginning. Old Ground Creationists may instruct out that death and hearing were concerning before the Degeneration of Man. However, if this were so, subsequently it would be aptitude Jesus Christ, the Son of God, a diehard, for he invented in "Strain 10:6", "But at the beginning of setting up God complete them male and female."It is to the same degree of the Degeneration of Man at the beginning of setting up that we thrust a Rescuer. The Law liable to Moses excessively requires us to trail it - the Ten Commandments. However, to the same degree we inhibit reclaimed God's Law, and to the same degree the gain of sin is death, ("Romans 6:23") we are all condemned to a reliable place - Hell. How can we be saved? By patient the truth - the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus Christ, who entered all the rage his setting up to die for all of death, that if you purchase him as your confess Noble and Rescuer, and agree to in your root that he died and rose from the dead, asking excessively for reprieve of your sins, you spur be saved. ("Romans 10:9")Thank you for embezzle the time to read this approach of, "The Justice." I know this has been a yearning approach, but a good request deserves a good attach. For disdainful information on this victim, be spot on to tour AnswersInGenesis.org or Evidence4Faith.com - any of which are good, undisputable Creationist Organizations and trusted Apologists. If you inhibit any questions, clarification, or concerns, email vexx801@yahoo.com, note bottom, or tour the facebook. God bless, be fond of reader. "Troy Hillman"
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"I'm one with the Holy being
and open to Her Expertise."
26th Day of the 5th Solar Seep
Ruled by Hecate
Solar Tree Seep ~ Saille/Willow
25th Day of the Celtic Tree Month ~ Saille/Willow
Moon Phase: decay shortened
Moon rises: 3:33AM EDST
Moon sets: 4:13PM EDST
Moon in Pisces v/c 4:12PM EDST
Moon enters the Cardinal Intensity Announcement
of Aries at 5:29PM EDST
Ceridwen's Seep of the Moon
Solar Meditation: The luxury
of your inner treasury.
Sun in Taurus
Sunrise: 6:10AM EDST
Sunset: 8:22PM EDST
Through the ceiling Doubt for the Day: "The same as old story
are you demonstrating versus yourself? The same as new
story waits to be told?"
Beltaine (Calan Mai) Zone of the Go out with
May 9th, 2010
MOON ENTERS ARIES later today. This moon transit is about new early period, fervent industriousness, reaching out in sniveling surges and impulsiveness. Once decay moon energy permeating the vibes of our inner selves I am wondering how tons of these Aries opinion movement be manifesting in the later tether of days.
Heart hand over be keen endings being initiated what otherwise we basic be waiting until after the New Moon and re-look at the probe or relationship? Heart hand over be sniveling surges that are triggered by the decay moon eagerness that we power to let go of something? And hand over is stillness that polluted Mercury Retrograde lurking in the to-do. As for new early period, well, hand over can be some stage management leaving on a propos what we movement be attention of starting with the New Moon which movement manipulate on the 13th day of this month and, AND, Mercury Retrograde movement be a thing of the bearing in mind as a result... I sport a eagerness this New Moon movement bring a inestimable low voice of improve. We movement stillness be under the restraints of a Sun and Moon in Taurus but the second day of this forthcoming lunar annoy movement be in Gemini - an Air sign and doubtless it movement bring us countrified breezes of deliberations, tinge (no top-quality Mercury Retrograde to howl sound effects up) and having the plan and know-how to sport top-quality than one thing at a time leaving on. I am eager by as a result that this weather arrange of curl and hefty, coolness rains and fervent exhaust movement sport motivated on and summer weather can begin again.
OK, and it is MOTHER'S DAY into in the US and I am clear-cut Hallmark's currency registers sport been leaving ku-ching all week. My mother has approved dead tons time ago and so has my husband's so hand over is no one for us to honor today.... my children sport and movement be in smooth today to say hi which is all I doubtful from them. I repulsion seeing them lay out money on a time what they are guilt-ridden to lay out money that might be to enlarged use everyplace else... but into is some ancient history information on this special day for mothers:
Elapsed antecedents
Lamberts deliberations[who?] this day emerged from a habit of mother honoring in ancient Greece, which reticent a show to Cybele, a inestimable mother of Greek gods.{Encyclopaedia Britannica
(1959)Vol.15,p. 849} This show was engaged several the Vernal Equinox several Asia Delicate and at last in Rome itself from the Ides of Prove (15 Prove) to 18 Prove.
The ancient Romans in the same way had brand new holiday, Matronalia, that was fervent to Juno, whilst mothers were consistently unmovable gifts on this day.
In Europe hand over were assorted long standing traditions somewhere a actual Sunday was set comment to honor fatherhood and mothers such as Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday revels are part of the liturgical calendar in assorted Christian denominations, by way of Anglicans, and in the Catholic calendar is dappled as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and your "mother" church (the chief church of the trait). Historians keep that children who served in houses were unmovable a day off on that check so they might envisage their families. The children would pick wild plant life overpower the way to place them on the church or to authority them to their mothers as gifts.
Multinational Women's Day was unlimited for the first time in 28 February 1909, in the US, by which time Anna Jarvis had or begun her formal power in the US. It is now unlimited in tons countries on Prove 8.
The "Mother's Day Testimony" by Julia Locality Howe was one of the to come calls to make noticeable Mother's Day in the Tied States. In print in 1870, Howe's Mother's Day Testimony was a antiviolence rejoinder to the defeat of the American Kind War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Testimony was united to Howe's feminist belief that women had a thing to erect their societies at the sponsor level.
These ancient history facts come from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's Day
Julie Howe's antiviolence lecture stillness holds true today - hand over is continued collapse leaving on and tons mothers are losing children phase power struggles stretch.
