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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/8/2008 3:10:33 PM
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It's awesome the Munchkin is looking forward to school. Way to go, Mom!
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/9/2008 10:47:47 AM
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Hey Sam!
Mike, you're waxing very eloquently this evening.
Thanks Maggie! 
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/11/2008 12:39:53 PM
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Do you ever go through moments where you just wonder about things?
I sure do ...
This morning as I'm going through the mail there is a book about expert witnesses and it shows someone in the courtroom, on the stand, with their hand on a Bible. So I got to wondering: do people really still do that in court?
Then I got to wondering ... why do some people, when they are going through a tough time or they're just in an all around bad mood, feel justified in taking it out on everyone and anyone around them? Does that make them feel better to be unfairly harsh towards others?
Just wondering ...
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/11/2008 1:40:13 PM
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hey sam, just wanted to let you know that God as coach posting from last week got me thinking and i use it as part of my Sunday School lesson for the teens yesterday ... good tie-in with the olympics just starting ...
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/12/2008 4:01:33 PM
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Jesus said: Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. Matt 11:28-30
Whenever I feel overwhelmed, this is the verse that pops into my mind.
Come to Me ... He is inviting us to Him.
I will give you rest ... He is our place of refuge.
Take My yoke upon you ... He is sharing life's burdens with us. Stop for a moment and picture it. Jesus walking alongside you, helping you carry that heavy load, helping you get through the rough places, extending His hand to help pull you out of the dark valley.
I am gentle and humble in heart ... there is no condemnation or harsh words, only kindness and gentle encouragement.
you will find rest for your souls ... you are now in a safe place, a place of peacefulness and love.
My yoke is easy and My burden is light ... yes it is, Lord. While I was finding comfort, telling You all my cares and worries, listening to Your advice, You lifted the yoke and carried the burden.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/18/2008 12:43:11 PM
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A friend sent this to me. It reminds me that even though life is not always what we want it to be, God takes all the strange parts and all the icky pieces, that each by itself is nothing special or spectacular, and He puts them together, and makes something wonderful.
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. - Romans 8:28
God's Cake
Sometimes we wonder, 'What did I do to deserve this?' or 'Why did God have to do this to me?' Here is a wonderful explanation!
A daughter is telling her mother how everything is going wrong: she's failing algebra; her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away.
Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack, and the daughter says, 'Absolutely, Mom, I love your cake.'
'Here, have some cooking oil,' her Mother offers. 'Yuck,' says her daughter.
'How about a couple raw eggs?' 'Gross, Mom!'
'Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?'
'Mom, those are all yucky!'
To which the mother replies: 'Yes, all those things seem bad by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake!
God works the same way. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!
God is crazy about you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.
Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/18/2008 8:22:47 PM
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Oh Sam! That is SO good! I like it. Never thought about it like that. Thank you.
How was your weekend?
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/19/2008 12:30:39 PM
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Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it. Beware of allowing the influence of your friends or your circumstances to divide your life. This only serves to sap your strength and slow your spiritual growth. Beware of anything that can split your oneness with Him, causing you to see yourself as separate from Him. Nothing is as important as staying right spiritually. And the only solution is a very simple one: "Come to Me . . . ." The intellectual, moral, and spiritual depth of our reality as a person is tested and measured by these words.
This was part of the devotion from Oswald Chambers this morning. The verse is "Come to Me ... " Matthew 11:28
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. - Matthew 11:28-30
I like the verses best when they are all together.
Other things mentioned in the devotion are:
. . . life is attacked from the outside
. . . we fall back into self-examination
. . . self-awareness upsets our completeness in God
. . . self-awareness produces a sense of struggling and turmoil in our lives
Yes, it's this last thing ... focusing on ourselves causes turmoil. For me, turmoil causes me to start considering MY ways, not His ways; MY actions, not what He wants me to be doing. My focus has been sidetracked, siderailed, diverted. Like the train track. Even though my goal is to reach Point B, if I am not careful, keeping my eyes focused on God, and I start paying more attention to what's going around me, enjoying the scenery, getting caught up in the junk that others are saying because they themselves are so wrapped up in themselves and their point of view, and their opinions, and their lives revolve strictly around themselves ... I lose track. I forget to pay attention to where I'm going. Someone has pulled an ole swicherooney with the connections on the track and I am heading somewhere I wasn't intending to head at all!!
And then, something causes me to stop and look, and I realize I have gone astray. And I need to find where my focus is once again and start heading back in the right direction.
No, I do not need to stop and pick apart whose fault it was, or what happened, or exactly when I went astray. Why not? Because all that does is continue to sidetrack me further.
All I need to do is refocus my eyes on where I am headed and continue on my way, with renewed commitment to stay on the path. And I have the faith and confidence in God to know that even though I will probably be sidetracked again a million times between now and reaching the Pearly Gates, the light is shining so brightly that no matter where I am, I will see that Light and will be able to head toward it from anywhere I have landed myself. He will be there with an outstretched hand to help me balance myself as I climb the rocky slope. He will be there shining the light onto my path in the darkness of the valleys. He will always be there to cheer me on and encourage me through my weakness.
He says "Come to Me ... " and so I will.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/19/2008 12:44:53 PM
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Ick to the flu! I'm glad it didn't last long.
I'm in somewhat of a downward slide at the moment. Dh and I went to a marriage refreshment camp this past weekend and a lot of emotional pain got touched in me, which has sent me into turmoil. Add to that a book I should have put down and returned to its owner at the first sign of trouble, but didn't. I need to keep my thoughts and eyes on God right now but a big part of me doesn't want to.
Your quote from Chambers is very appropriate for where I am right now. I must let nothing damage or destroy the oneness of my life with Jesus and if/when I do, I must face it, confess it and be reunited with him. Thank you for what you wrote.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/19/2008 12:53:55 PM
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ake My yoke upon you ... He is sharing life's burdens with us. Stop for a moment and picture it. Jesus walking alongside you, helping you carry that heavy load, helping you get through the rough places, extending His hand to help pull you out of the dark valley.
Hey Sam......I finally got around to catching up on your thread ...........good stuff here.......
The above quote caught my attention because the verse is one of the most powerful verses as well as misunderstood in my life for a long time.
I use to think of the yoke in this verse as in the yoke of an oxen......meaning that we would share the burden and God would help carry mine.......
But studying what yoke would have meant to Jesus in regard to a rabbi the whole verse becomes even more powerful.
The Yoke of a rabbi was his belief, laws, rules, interpretation of scripture and well as his mandates on what it meant to walk according to the law..........
A young student, who had already been deemed "good" enough to walk in the exact footsteps of a rabbi through his training and knowledge, would approach the ones who's "theology we could say" he most agreed with and request permission to carry his yoke........to carry the yoke of the rabbi..........
If the rabbi accepted the student he would then take up the yoke of the rabbi. He would mirror the rabbi.
Now don't forget the rabbi's job was to know scripture so well, so well he could answer a question by answering another question which not only answered the asked question but showed he knew more then the answer, and to guide the people based on the rules and laws in which they were to live their lives......
A rabbi's yoke was heavy and hard to carry because it required a strict following of legal rules.
Jesus says to lay down our own burdens and pick up his yoke............He isn't saying he will help carry all those things that weight us down such as worry...........no I think he is saying lay all those things down......all your worries, all your concerns.......all your burdens and pick up my yoke.
And his yoke isn't hard to follow like the yoke of most rabbi's..........it is not about a bunch of rules/laws which put us in bondage and of which we can never really follow perfectly........
Another thing I love about the verse is that he seeks us out.......and ask us to pick up his yoke.........
A rabbi would never do that........a student would come to him and have to prove he is worthy before the rabbi would invite him to carry his yoke.......
But Jesus says I don't care if you are not good enough I believe you are and I desire for you to carry my yoke because I know it is light........it is light because it is simple.......just love me..........
I love the powerful truth behind that verse...........the way I use to understand it was uplifting...........the way I understand it now is far more........
I love the bible because God uses it to take us from understanding to understanding always drawing us closer to Him..........
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/29/2008 6:29:40 PM
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In the past He permitted all the nations to go their own ways, but He never left them without evidence of Himself and His goodness. For instance, He sends you rain and good crops and gives you food and joyful hearts. - Acts 14:16–17 (New Living Translation)
Have you ever hit a point, perhaps plateau would be a better word for it, where you are just running around trying to keep up with everything that needs to be done and you forget to stop and smell the roses ... or realize all the good and wonderful things God has done for you?
That's been me lately.
And when I stop and take a deep breath, hoping to see something cool, something fresh, hear something encouraging from a fellow believer ... it seems the last flower has been snatched away and I missed it, or I say good morning and the person I thought would certainly smile back and say good morning in return just frowns and grumbles "What's so good about it?"
And after a while I decide to quit looking and quit smiling and quit saying good morning. I think "Who needs it? I know what's going to happen, why bother?"
Then ...
I receive a gentle reminder ... It's not about you
And I come out of that place where I have put myself, as far from others as I could, with the reminder that we are all walking along various paths at different points, oftentimes deep in our own individual thoughts, not even thinking about how another may take our offhand comment, grumbling when we don't realize that's what we're doing. And I consider this: by allowing others to influence how I feel, how has it affected me, and in turn, how have I changed and affected others ... either in a positive way or a negative way.
God has been so very good to me, how can I ever forget that?
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 8/29/2008 9:22:06 PM
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Very good post, Sam! I know I'm far too vulnerable to other people and what they say and think (or what I perceive them to say and think) and have a bad history of trying to tailor myself to whomever I am with. Very, very bad. My happiness and well-being is not dependent (or shouldn't be dependent) on anyone but me and God. I'm trying to sink that into my 52-year-old brain and it's slow going--I must have rock in there or something.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 9/3/2008 1:15:32 PM
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Take control of what I say, O Lord,
and guard my lips.
Don't let me drift toward evil
or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don't let me share in the delicacies
of those who do wrong.
Psalm 141:3–4
Yes, Lord, this is my prayer!!
Oh how very attractive it is to be swayed, to be lured into doing something because it's fun. But how often do we stop and consider our fun time ... is what we do in fun pleasing to the Lord? In other words, is the Lord part of our fun time? Is He a part of every aspect of our lives? Do we take steps to make sure He is always included?
I remember a conversation a few months ago where the person I was conversing with seemed to be of the persuasion that there were "God times" and there were "not God times".
I could only think "How do you compartmentalize God?" What a foreign concept to me.
I also have friends who heartily believe God is always a part of everything we do ... which is how I feel.
Sunday in church, we reached a portion of our current series discussing relationships in our lives. The sermon touched me in a very deep place of my heart.
Our pastor talked about the number three. Three is a divine number.
Father, Son, Spirit.
The Way, the Truth, the Life.
When Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, he asked three to come along with Him ... "Sit here while I go over there and pray."
Jesus was keenly aware of our need for relationship with one another in this life.
Our pastor asked us to stop and think ... do we have three close friends in our lives? Brothers and sisters in the Lord who will come with us and pray with us, perhaps pray on our behalf, when we are hurting and needing? When we need them the most? Who are there for us through thick and through thin? Through the fun times and through the rough times?
He gave us a few minutes to contemplate these special friends and to offer prayers of thanksgiving for them.
I was so very touched and incredibly thankful as I took the time to contemplate the friends who are and have been and who I know will continue to always be there for me when I need them. I thanked God for them, and I asked His blessings for those who are not walking closely with Him.
As I considered all of them, praising God for these special friends in my life, it occurred to me that the ones who truly are the closest to my heart are those who are walking the closest with God. Who hold Him in the highest esteem. Who strive to please Him in all they do. Who desire to please God with their actions big and small. Who ask Him to be a part of every aspect of their lives. Who consult Him with decisions that need to be made.
Praise be to God for the faithfulness of these friends who are so much more than just friends in my life, and who lead by example through their faithfulness and obedience to Him.
Lord, I praise You and thank You deeply for the brothers and sisters You have placed in my life. You know in this world all the pretty and desirable things that are placed before me, and no matter how tempting the delicacies others offer me, if it is not pleasing to You, help me to see Your way clearly in every aspect of my life. Amen.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 9/5/2008 1:16:49 AM
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I could only think "How do you compartmentalize God?" What a foreign concept to me.
Yeah, I can't compartmentalize him either. He's either your life or he isn't.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 9/5/2008 12:36:34 PM
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Sam I just have to say I love this thread. I don't post much, but always stop in and read. There are lots of fun threads and conversations, but it's nice to have you posting scripture and talking about how it impacts your life! And that always makes me think about how those scriptures imact mine- I just don't often post about it.
The psalms 141 - has had me thinking about "drifting toward evil". How easy and almost un-noticable it seems sometimes that you can be there without even realizing how, when or why it happened!
Thank you!!
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 9/5/2008 2:21:10 PM
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Aww. Thank you Hot-N-Saucy, you have really touched me today.
I have not been doing as much posting as I used to ... feeling a little disjointed from the CW community, partly because my life has been so busy, partly because of some of the discussions that have gone on in various parts of the forums that make me go  or  or sometimes  , and partly because of all the strange and unusual emotions going on inside me as a result of some things that have gone on in my personal life these last few months (both good and bad).
There is a song that Casting Crowns sings called Slow Fade ... sometimes I listen to it over and over, meditating upon it if you will. How easy it is to slowly fade into a place and not even realize what's happening. Life throws us into strange places sometimes, and one day we wake up and wonder how we got to where we are. Things seem foreign.
Here on CW, sometimes I wonder if people repeat things to try and convince others of their perceived rightness or if they do it to convince themselves. It seems like when I feel I've gotten over my last bout of  -dom and go back into a certain forum (actually, that should be plural  ), it's still the same ole conversation being repeated. Again. And I can't help but think to myself "Can we please move to another subject?" or I wonder why, no matter how the conversation starts out, it always seems to come back around to the same ole discussion. I try not to continue running in circles in my own life, preferring to continue moving along the path, and yet I know that I cannot expect others to feel the same way I do. Maybe this is a lesson I need to work through, and I just haven't quite put my finger on what specifically I'm to learn.
Sometimes I feel stuck, that God hasn't made clear the lesson He needs me to learn. A state of stagnation ... and yet we must persevere through it. Stubborness is perceived as a negative trait, but perseverance ... to persevere is a positive trait! Isn't it funny how a weakness in our personality is also a strength?
Sometimes I feel like an outsider. Take, for instance, a family situation going on at the moment. Only one other family member who can see the situation as clearly as I do has had a very different relationship with this particular person than I did ... and hence feels more emotions than I do. It's a very sad thing going on, and while I feel compassion, I definitely am not feeling sympathy. I so firmly understand the principle of sowing and reaping that I can't help but sit back and look at what's going on and think "Um, yeah, of course this is happening. There is no possible way this was not going to happen." And yet, the majority of my family is in a state of shock and surprise.
I spoke with a couple of my mentors about this. I wondered if I just was lacking heart in the situation, but they both assured me that I am indeed seeing the results of a lifestyle overrun by bad choices. One told me that of course they are in shock ... shock is a result of having been in denial about the situation, but since I have not been in denial, of course I'm not shocked or surprised by the results.
Oh man, I know that probably all sounds so confusing, but it really isn't.
So, not only do I have these emotions about the situation itself, I feel such sorrow that the members of my family can't see through the smoke-and-mirror show going on. Actually, I don't think they want to see past the show. And honestly, I woke this morning praising God that He has allowed me to see the truth in all of this.
Truth ... what would I ever do without Truth? He is the Way and the Truth and the Life.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 9/5/2008 7:43:09 PM
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I'll be praying for you about this family matter, Sam.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 9/8/2008 10:16:01 AM
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Sam, Slow Fade is one of my favorite songs too. It's just so true. LOL, since I just filled up my gas tank this is the illustration that came to my mind: When I was a kid (back in the stone age  ), gas was $.25 a gallon. Yes, that is correct twentyfive cents a gallon- and we had one local station that only charged $.23. Now if they had overnight put the gas price at the $3.59 per gallon that I just paid, people would have gone crazy! Probably refused to pay that for gas. But, at 2 or 3 cents here and maybe 10 cents there... before you know it we are paying $3-4.00 with hardly a complaint (well, a lot of grumbling maybe, but we're paying it)! That's the way sin can be. The enemy knows if he just "suggests" his desired end result we would often say "No way!", but just one little step toward his goal and we just might take that bait and nibble on it- right up to the point we realize that hook is halfway down our throat and we can't spit it out!
A good reason for part of our daily prayers to be "Open the eyes of my heart, Lord!". Open our eyes, our ears to hear Your words, and the wisdom to discern His words from the words of the enemy that he tries so hard to make sound reasonable and good.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 9/8/2008 1:27:59 PM
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I'll be praying for you about this family matter, Sam.
Thank you Maggie.
I'm still just shaking my head over the whole thing.
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 9/8/2008 4:40:38 PM
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Admittedly, I am one of the last people you will find discussing politics. But a very good friend of mine, a young spitfire, sent me this email, and I felt a need to share it.
WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE
This is the story of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, as they lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'
They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?
Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.
All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient.
My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. 'One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said. 'What would those women think of the way I use--or don't use--my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'
HBO released the movie on video and DVD. I wish all history, social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order.
It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.
The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'
Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote. History is being made.
I too can say: I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder. How easy it is to take our privileges for granted. How easy it is to forget what others have gone through so that we can enjoy the rights we have today.
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There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven
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RE: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise The Lord! - 9/8/2008 5:24:01 PM
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hotsaucygma
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That gave me chills Sam. How sad indeed that we take it so lightly!
Thank the Lord for brave women of every nationality, race and every political persuasion. Vote ladies!
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Dear Lord, let my words today be as sweet and delicious as cheesecake... for tomorrow I may have to eat them!
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