I am up early and couldn't stop thinking about our choices. We have so many that we make. Some we shouldn't have and others we should have and some we did. My heart is screaming about the ability to choose as being a gift from our Creator. When He created life in man, he put in us this great gift. We are not animals as many have tried to teach us. Animals do there thing out of pure instinct. That is why some dogs are hard to potty train or even control. We were never meant for that kind of life. Some scholars would say we are no better then animals and our behaviors are animalistic. This maybe true only because we are giving ourselves permission to be so. Our design with choice, was a marvel.
My thought is that some of us are living reckless with these gifts ever since. Each one of us has this gift. How well do we exercise the great power of this gift. We make chooses all the time, everyday and every moment. Some of mine have been great and some......not so much. My concern is that this gift is being taken away by our government, FDA and whatever else acronym is out there. The FDA is in the pocket of the Monsanto corporation. The FDA is allowing them to put a new chemical sweetener in our food and products without proper labeling. There should be labels on everything. We should be allowed to make the decision on what and how much we consume. Many of us have begun reading the labels on our food and making choices about it's content. This must have had an impact because they are now trying to get around the labeling. Why are some things good for us to be able to make choices like pro-choice. They say we should have the right to choose an abortion but we can't pick our own food sources. This is so messed up! We can choose to give life or take it away, but we can't choose which stewed tomatoes we want to buy. Both choices are based on money and how you spend it.
I was thinking about the abortion issue and how it has affected so many lives. Having an abortion can leave a woman with deep emotional scares. I gave up a child because I was afraid I couldn't take care of it. So...ironically...I choose not to care for it. Crazy!! I did what I was afraid of and choose to not take care of it and protect it. People are all up in arms about cancer and it's killing of millions of people. Where is there concern about the millions that die to abortion every year. Is death not just death no matter how you look at it? Cancer is a killer and so is abortion there is no getting around it. I am not saying these things as a hypocrite, but someone forgiven. I seriously wonder if the people in charge of these companies eat the food they contaminate? Or if....they grow and eat from the seeds they manufacture? These things way heavy on my heart.
I know that God is for us and He wants us to prosper and multiply. I think that our choices have everything to do with how we do it. Do we choose to put our heads in the sand or stand and fight back? Do we spread the news of what is happening in our country or ignore and let these thing continue to go as they have? I don't mean fighting back as in blowing up buildings or shooting someone. No Way!! I mean talking about it, getting angry about, looking at options, making decisions, change things, voting and being proactive on current issues. These are choices we are making everyday. I personally want to be responsible for my choices. I have made some bad ones and will continue to do so, but my prayer is that God will give me wisdom in how to make them in my future.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Cancer
Today, again, another facebook posting. A friend posted a picture of this beautiful young girl. She is bald with a huge smile on her face. She has cancer. The post asks us to like and share if you want cancer to go away. I wish it was that easy! My mother had uterine cancer, breast cancer and lung cancer. It is a very difficult thing to go through. The thing that bothers, though, is that it will never go away until we stop the pollution of our foods. Our government knows........that they are allowing these food companies to put chemicals and crap into our products. They won't stop it! So....how will cancer end?
We bike, walk, jog and run for funds to put a stop to cancer and help in research. We have remembered our dead. What good is the research to do if they don't stop polluting us. They will come up with another chemical that counter acts the first one that gave us cancer. STOP putting it in our food and products. My niece shared with me that she knew a young woman (28) that died of cancer. They think it was from her acne products she used. What? Are you kidding me? When is enough, enough? Just stop producing it! It's rather simple. Find another source of income. Murder isn't a great option.
As long as the companies have permission to use and produce there products and we consume them, we will have cancer. They will find a drug or chemical that will inhibit the cancer but at what cost to us. There will be side affects of that one too. They will just be making more money off of us being sick. I don't mean to be so cynical about it. I am angry about it. The only way it will STOP is if we send them a clear message that we don't want there products. Find healthy alternatives. Stopping there money flow is the only way they will change. They will make what you buy. Stop buying it. Hurt there pocket book one person at a time, one wallet, one life at a time!
Buying all your produce, eggs, dairy and meats from local organic farmers is the best way you can stop consuming the processed food poison. This will keep your money at home in your own town. You will be investing in an agricultural business and helping a family run operation. If this isn't possible, shop organic in your grocery stores and stay on the outside perimeter and buy only fresh items. Grocery stores put all the processed foods in the middle isles. Staying away from them is a great way to start. In some areas there are farmers markets and some farms do a co-op option. You pay them so much a month and you can come and get produce from them that you have already paid for. I am sure there are all kinds of different ways we can change the make up of how we do business. Maybe you know a friend that gardens or has chickens. You could work something out with them. Keep it real close to home. Maybe even start a garden or co-plant with a friend who has a yard. It will help build friendships, get exercise, fresh air and learn an new skill.
These things have been heavy on my heart and I think it's time to stand up and draw a line in the sand. We can make changes and make a difference. One choice, one garden or farm at a time!
Feel good about what you eat,
Debra
We bike, walk, jog and run for funds to put a stop to cancer and help in research. We have remembered our dead. What good is the research to do if they don't stop polluting us. They will come up with another chemical that counter acts the first one that gave us cancer. STOP putting it in our food and products. My niece shared with me that she knew a young woman (28) that died of cancer. They think it was from her acne products she used. What? Are you kidding me? When is enough, enough? Just stop producing it! It's rather simple. Find another source of income. Murder isn't a great option.
As long as the companies have permission to use and produce there products and we consume them, we will have cancer. They will find a drug or chemical that will inhibit the cancer but at what cost to us. There will be side affects of that one too. They will just be making more money off of us being sick. I don't mean to be so cynical about it. I am angry about it. The only way it will STOP is if we send them a clear message that we don't want there products. Find healthy alternatives. Stopping there money flow is the only way they will change. They will make what you buy. Stop buying it. Hurt there pocket book one person at a time, one wallet, one life at a time!
Buying all your produce, eggs, dairy and meats from local organic farmers is the best way you can stop consuming the processed food poison. This will keep your money at home in your own town. You will be investing in an agricultural business and helping a family run operation. If this isn't possible, shop organic in your grocery stores and stay on the outside perimeter and buy only fresh items. Grocery stores put all the processed foods in the middle isles. Staying away from them is a great way to start. In some areas there are farmers markets and some farms do a co-op option. You pay them so much a month and you can come and get produce from them that you have already paid for. I am sure there are all kinds of different ways we can change the make up of how we do business. Maybe you know a friend that gardens or has chickens. You could work something out with them. Keep it real close to home. Maybe even start a garden or co-plant with a friend who has a yard. It will help build friendships, get exercise, fresh air and learn an new skill.
These things have been heavy on my heart and I think it's time to stand up and draw a line in the sand. We can make changes and make a difference. One choice, one garden or farm at a time!
Feel good about what you eat,
Debra
Abortion
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A friend of mine posted this article on her facebook today. I, for one, am very grateful that she did and that others are. Abortion is a very hot topic for some and very painful for others. The facts that are brought out in the above article are true about how many and how the abortions are being done. It is troubling the damage that is being done to this country, to babies and the people having them. We put our children on the alters to be sacrificed.
I am one of those that the topic is very painful. I was 19 years old living with my sister and supporting myself. My father had died and it put me in a huge tail spin. I so badly wanted to know that he loved me. I never got to know. I needed to be loved so terribly, that I tried to find it in my relationships with men. This lead me to finding I was pregnant. I was scared, desperate, lonely and I barely could take care of myself. In my desperation, I went to Planned Parenthood. I was told not to worry. They told me it wasn't a baby. I was told it wasn't formed yet and it was only a blob of tissue. I had the abortion and I can still hear that sucking machine. I had to go years later to the doctors to have pre-cancer cells removed from my cervices. In the procedure they used the same suction machine and I started crying floods of tears. The doctor was so concerned about why I was crying. He thought that he was causing me pain. He took me into his office afterwards to talk to me about it. I explained to him what I had done (abortion) and that the sound of that machine caused me a flashback that I did not realize was hiding in there. He teared up and said that he was glad that he asked me. His wife was pregnant and they didn't feel it was a good time for them to start a family. They were young career people and that came first. He told me he was going to have a long talk with her that night. Maybe....just maybe I helped save one life!!
My husband always tells us to not judge people to quickly because you don't know really where they are coming from or where they have been. I know this first hand. It has been my dirty little secret for years. My immediate family knows about it, but my siblings and friends, not so much. This may shock many of them and that's alright with me. Maybe.....just maybe I could save just one more!!
The problem with it is that we should not choose who lives and who dies. God gives life and let God take it back. Raising children can be hard, but for most, it is the most rewarding and life changing thing they could do. Children and elderly people should not be a problem but a great recourse for learning and growing. Caring for them both helps us get away from the me, me, me syndrome. Give back to our society one of it's greatest gifts.....babies!! Love an innocent and help an elderly person.
My thoughts from my heart,
Debra
A friend of mine posted this article on her facebook today. I, for one, am very grateful that she did and that others are. Abortion is a very hot topic for some and very painful for others. The facts that are brought out in the above article are true about how many and how the abortions are being done. It is troubling the damage that is being done to this country, to babies and the people having them. We put our children on the alters to be sacrificed.
I am one of those that the topic is very painful. I was 19 years old living with my sister and supporting myself. My father had died and it put me in a huge tail spin. I so badly wanted to know that he loved me. I never got to know. I needed to be loved so terribly, that I tried to find it in my relationships with men. This lead me to finding I was pregnant. I was scared, desperate, lonely and I barely could take care of myself. In my desperation, I went to Planned Parenthood. I was told not to worry. They told me it wasn't a baby. I was told it wasn't formed yet and it was only a blob of tissue. I had the abortion and I can still hear that sucking machine. I had to go years later to the doctors to have pre-cancer cells removed from my cervices. In the procedure they used the same suction machine and I started crying floods of tears. The doctor was so concerned about why I was crying. He thought that he was causing me pain. He took me into his office afterwards to talk to me about it. I explained to him what I had done (abortion) and that the sound of that machine caused me a flashback that I did not realize was hiding in there. He teared up and said that he was glad that he asked me. His wife was pregnant and they didn't feel it was a good time for them to start a family. They were young career people and that came first. He told me he was going to have a long talk with her that night. Maybe....just maybe I helped save one life!!
My husband always tells us to not judge people to quickly because you don't know really where they are coming from or where they have been. I know this first hand. It has been my dirty little secret for years. My immediate family knows about it, but my siblings and friends, not so much. This may shock many of them and that's alright with me. Maybe.....just maybe I could save just one more!!
The problem with it is that we should not choose who lives and who dies. God gives life and let God take it back. Raising children can be hard, but for most, it is the most rewarding and life changing thing they could do. Children and elderly people should not be a problem but a great recourse for learning and growing. Caring for them both helps us get away from the me, me, me syndrome. Give back to our society one of it's greatest gifts.....babies!! Love an innocent and help an elderly person.
My thoughts from my heart,
Debra
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Concerned
I started this blog today so that I could write down my concerns and thoughts. I have trouble sleeping at times because there is so much on my mind. I wonder sometimes if there is anyone else out there that feels the same. When I post important issues up on facebook, I don't get a response. Posting something about food or some activity I have done, get's all kinds of likes and responses. Confusion and frustration set in for me. Am I weird, are people shallow, scared or just plain don't want to know anything?
Where are we engaging people on issues of life? Life right now is full of turmoil and strife. People I see at work are frustrated but can't talk about things on the job. I have felt like our country is spinning out of control. Which makes me feel like my life is about to spin out of control. We have elections coming up, housing market has peoples houses upside down, to much personal debt, religions being told what to do and not to do, money being printed with nothing to back it, food being engineered and made into a monopoly, countries financially failing, GM Genocides, Monsanto's lawsuits against farmers, the war and the fact that radical extreme Islamists want to take over the world. The sad thing is, is that there is so much more.
I am hoping that this will give me an outlet. I am sad and frustrated. I am a grammy of 6 wonderful grandchildren. My hope is for them to have a better future. Things are looking grim to me and I want us and people to be ready. Will we be there for each other or will there be fighting in the streets and neighbor be against neighbor? I don't feel safe.......do you?
Where are we engaging people on issues of life? Life right now is full of turmoil and strife. People I see at work are frustrated but can't talk about things on the job. I have felt like our country is spinning out of control. Which makes me feel like my life is about to spin out of control. We have elections coming up, housing market has peoples houses upside down, to much personal debt, religions being told what to do and not to do, money being printed with nothing to back it, food being engineered and made into a monopoly, countries financially failing, GM Genocides, Monsanto's lawsuits against farmers, the war and the fact that radical extreme Islamists want to take over the world. The sad thing is, is that there is so much more.
I am hoping that this will give me an outlet. I am sad and frustrated. I am a grammy of 6 wonderful grandchildren. My hope is for them to have a better future. Things are looking grim to me and I want us and people to be ready. Will we be there for each other or will there be fighting in the streets and neighbor be against neighbor? I don't feel safe.......do you?
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