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I’ve got one happy, happy boy on my hands this weekend! He got a Lego magazine in the mail both yesterday AND today. Then Uncle Luke came over with a costume Aunt Valerie found while in the checkout lane at the local second hand store!! AWESOME!!! He already had the mask (from Grandma W) & the light saber, though I’ve been informed the whole thing just isn’t complete without a red one – Darth’s color. (I told him to pretend he stole that blue one from a jedi or else start collecting TP tubes to spray paint red.) I’ve had a hard time peeling this off of him to go to church.
I have a special thank you to send out to Valerie for the costume. Nate has been begging me for weeks to let him buy a Spiderman costume from Wal-Mart (size 4!!!) & I just couldn’t get him to understand those kinds of things don’t really come in his sizes much at this point in his life. SO, he suggested we get some material so I could whip him up an outfit or two. THANK YOU for saving me the time, frustration, etc. at the sewing machine trying to do that!!! You’re my hero.:)
Sorry this is late, but it has been a busy last half of the week. Change of season, you know. Thursday through Saturday were consumed by the bi-annual changing of the clothes. So, though late, this is the newest installment of Flashback Friday…
1970
Since some of you didn’t know me as a wee one:) Didn’t recognize me without all that hair, did you? It was slow in coming in, but made up for lost time.
PS – I also posted a few late pix of our excursion to the Indian Powwow from a few weekends ago over on Flickr to the right.
Chusok chal pullae sa oh!
“Big sky, fat horses.”
Fall is here…
Now, where’s the Spam? I better pick up a gift set at the store tonight for my dear hubby.:) It’s Chusok, you know!
In honor of the holiday & with fond memory of our years at Myongji, I give you a sample of the Baduk Channel. I just love to listen to Hangul – takes me back. Our University is most famous for it’s Baduk degree. Yes, you can get a degree in this game! And Myongji University is the place to “go” if you want to perfect your game (pun intended)…
The timer lady in the background, “Hana, dul, set…” reminds me of our dear trainer at the local Y in Seoul – Mr. Kong. He was HUGE (think a 5′ 5″ Arnold Swartzeneggar with jet black spiky hair) & would yell out the time really loudly for those doing sit-ups, etc. Other Korean Y memories: the row of 50’s style gut wiggle/jiggle machines, the metal disc that people would stand on & turn 360 degrees each way – how did they keep from throwing out their backs?, the large sticks behind the neck swung around wildly, the three gyms full of third-fifth grade students learning Tae Kwon Do after school, the chock full lanes in the swimming pool (half with little ajimonies clad in swim caps chatting it up!), the stares as a 5′8″ pregnant woman worked out, the love for Nate as their little foreign “eggy-ba” (his big blue eyes got the college girls every time), the personal swimsuit wringer-outer at the front of the locker room (at the hotel gym – we worked out there the first year before we found the Y), oh, the memories!
A blogger friend of mine did this back in May & it so touched my heart. I began to take notes on my own children along the same lines. Thanks for the idea, Jeana!…
“I didn’t repay his evil, Mom. Jesus wants me to turn the other cheek.”
Baptizing your toys & brother in the tub.
Tithing a dime (your own idea) when the plate is passed on the dollar you got from doing extra chores.
Reinacting David & Goliath over & over & over & over!!
Playing Sunday School & church – Anders with his “preaching Bible” standing up front & Callie with the CD player. Never mind it was playing the opening theme to “Beauty & the Beast”! First she taught the songs (with motions), then encouraged him to sing more. Then it was on to verse time complete with a sticker chart & stickers to reward those who knew their verse! Finally, they wrapped things up with a gospel presentation using the flipper flapper! I had a hard time watching without them knowing I was watching, but what a kick!!!
Drinking a cup of grape juice with the comment “I’m drinking wine…” – that leading to a 10 minute monologue on Jesus, how He died for our sins, the two bandits on the cross with Him (for some reason that has been a favorite with all three of my children), etc.
Singing loudly while sitting on the couch thinking no one can hear…
“Oh, Thank You, Lord, for dying on the Cr- O-O-O-O-ss. Thank You, Lord, for everything we’ve G-O-O-O-T” to some new song made up just flowing from her heart. All the while playing with Barbies.
Any time the word “died” is mentioned, it naturally follows with “to take away our sins”, even if it’s referring to the cat.
Questions:
“Who put together the first Bible?”
“Does God love the devil?”
“Where is Heaven & Hell?”
Is Sparky (our cat) in Heaven?”
“Do they know Jesus? Should we tell them?” (to ANYone we pass in the grocery store.)
Today is the Jewish Day of Atonement – the most sacred of the year (Leviticus 23:27-32). As Christians, we too can honor this day. Isn’t is awesome that God came down in human flesh to be sacrificed so we could be atoned for our sin? To do away with the picture & fulfill the promise?
On this day, the priest would enter the Holy of Holies, sprinkle blood on the Ark of the Covenant, & pray for the sins of the people. If he was holy & his prayers were acceptable before God, no harm would come to him. But, he took his life into his hands to do this. They had bells sewn onto the hems of their robes & tied a rope around their leg so that if God did not except his prayer, the other priests would hear the bells jingle when he hit the floor & they could pull his dead body out by the rope! He did not come lightly.
I’ve often thought how I would’ve loved to have been born into the Levitical family in the times of Solomon’s great temple. Can you imagine how awesome that would’ve been to SEE God in your midst as a cloud in the Holy of Holies? All that beautiful gold & gems! To hear the powerful music as the choir praises! Then it hits me – Christ has not only made us adopted Jews, we are a royal priesthood!!! Even the women! “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people”! WHY? “…that you may PROCLAIM the praises of Him Who called you out of darkness & into His glorious light!” (1 Peter 2:9) Think on that. We are called out of darkness & into His light for the purpose of PROCLAIMING HIM.
What a gift we’ve been given in our salvation. We don’t have to wait until Yom Kippur to ask for deliverance from our sin. We can boldly come before the throne of our Holy God any day or time. We can call Him “Abba”, our Daddy. Instead of us going to God, He dwells IN US!! Amazing love.
I love this song, but this video in particular plucks at my heartstrings because it’s a Korean 4th & 5th grade SS class.:) Sweet…
1980’s…Peanut & Prism, the synchronized swimming duo.
1990’s…Diva & Bride, world travelers.
2000’s…Boozm Buddies!!
See? I was nice. But, oh, what I could’ve pulled out!! I will have to try to dig around for those re-e-eally old ones later. They must be in Mom’s basement.
If you haven’t seen this skit yet, it’s worth the five minutes…
Thanks, Lindsey, for passing this on.
So I watched “An Inconvenient Truth” last night. Un-BULL-lieve-able!!!!! Have you seen it?!
Three things…
1 – He says “it’s a moral issue” after showing tons of these Power Point graphs like we’re morons. (Frankly, the cartoons & homemade video of a polar bear trying to get on a breaking little ice cube insulted my intelligence.) I find it so ironic that these people who’ve shouted from the rooftops for years about science being so much above faith are now trying to bring faith & morals back into the picture by using “science“. This movie is shamelessly religious. From the anti-religious!! It even ended with an alter call, complete with piano background while he made a plea for all to join the cause.
2 – I don’t believe HIM. How can I? Here he is, trying to tell me he cares so much about this planet & is desperately trying to wave the warning flag for his children’s sake, while he jets around in private airplanes (although for the movie he is shown being frisked & sitting in a commercial plane – what a farce!!!), lives in a HUGE mansion, & leaves his own gigantic carbon footprint. Oh, yeah, I forgot. He’s buying those carbon offsets – FROM HIMSELF!!!!!!! This movie is one giant ad for his own company & it makes me angry! He is weasling around pulling out the “moral’ card, throwing around a slide show full of homemade graphs & cartoons, & expecting people to soak it all up like a brainless sponge! And incredibly, many are! As Ravi Zacharias says, “Let My people think”!!!!!!!
3 – Weather changes. That’s a fact. We’ve had ice ages, plate tectonic shifts (theoretically), a flood, etc. And guess what? The earth does end up in a ball of fire – the Bible tells us that in Revelation. So we already know the ending. He sure has made an awful lot of assumptions & “if”s to get where he tells us we’re going due to our cars & light bulbs.
Conclusion – Does Al really expect me to believe we “bad Americans” are causing all the weather change?! Has he seen the power in our sun lately? Or how much carbon a volcano spews out in short order? Does he really think he’s that powerful? (Don’t answer that.) Has he ever been to Asia?!!!! There’s so much pollution there you can’t see across the river often! And I’ve only been to two countries over there! Even I can see they’re belching out a WHOLE lot more stuff in the atmosphere than we are. So no, I don’t believe his little graph about America being the big, bad problem. And no, I don’t believe he’s on the up & up. I believe we need to take care of this world God made & worship Him alone, not live in fear or throw money at some guy because he made a Power Point presentation & needs a “legacy”. So there you have it.
PS – If you’re interested in hearing more about the other side of the story, I just found another documentary that is worth watching. It came out of Great Britain in 2007 & has nine parts to it. A must see!
In a column by Alexander Cockburn in The Nation (a huge, huge, huge lib magazine),
“Is Global Warming a Sin?” is the headline.
“In a couple of hundred years historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the Tenth Century as the Christian millennium approached. Then as now, the doomsters identified human sinfulness as the propulsive factor in the planet’s rapid downward slide. Then, as now, a buoyant market throve on fear. The Roman Catholic Church sold indulgences like checks. The sinners established a line of credit against bad behavior and could go on sinning. Today a world market in ‘carbon credits’ is in formation. Those whose ‘carbon footprint’ is small can sell their surplus carbon credits to others less virtuous than themselves.” This is a liberal saying this!
“The modern trade is as fantastical as the medieval one. There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of carbon dioxide is making any measurable contribution to the world’s present warming trend. The greenhouse fearmongers rely on unverified, crudely oversimplified models to finger mankind’s sinful contribution — and carbon trafficking, just like the old indulgences, is powered by guilt, credulity, cynicism and greed. Now imagine two lines on a piece of graph paper. The first rises to a crest, then slopes sharply down, levels off and rises slowly once more. The other has no undulations. It rises in a smooth, slow arc. The first wavy line is the worldwide CO2 tonnage produced by humans burning coal, oil and natural gas. It starts in 1928, at 1.1 gigatons (i.e., 1.1 billion metric tons), and peaks in 1929 at 1.17 gigatons. The world, led by its mightiest power, plummets into the Great Depression and by 1932, human CO2 production has fallen to 0.88 gigatons a year, a 30 percent drop. Then, in 1933, the line climbs slowly again, up to 0.9 gigatons. And the other line, the one ascending so evenly? That’s the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, parts per million (ppm) by volume, moving in 1928 from just under 306, hitting 306 in 1929, 307 in 1932 and on up. Boom and bust, the line heads up steadily. These days it’s at 380. The two lines on that graph proclaim that a whopping 30 percent cut in manmade CO2 emissions didn’t even cause a 1 ppm drop in the atmosphere’s CO2. It is thus impossible to assert that the increase in atmospheric CO2 stems from people burning fossil fuels. Compared to all the water in whatever form it is, and compared to the vapor, “‘carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases are, by comparison, the equivalent of a few farts in a hurricane.’ And water is exactly that component of the earth’s heat balance that the global warming computer models fail to account for.”
Bloomberg.com tells us, “Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won’t find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ former Vice President Al Gore’s book about global warming.”
The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa putting Gore’s book in their nightstands! It’s a religion!
So, when I saw “An Inconvenient Truth” at our library the other day, I picked it up to watch this week for three reasons…
1 – I don’t like to have an opinion of someone or something without firsthand reasons. I hate it when people do that & do not want to be one of them
2 – It was free at the library. I wouldn’t pay for it.
3 – If you say a lie long enough & loud enough, people believe it. If enough people believe a lie in this country, we’re all in deep doo-doo. (see Daniel, a Godly man, in Babylon for a lifetime!)
What a weekend! Our family took in an Indian Pow-Wow, a street fair with sixteen extended family members, saw my brother’s future home site – his land, attended a sixth grade football game, & church activities. We heard drums & watched lots of Indian dancing, ate cotton candy & funnel cake (have to do that once a year), & cheered for both teams (the winning side had a nephew on it while the other side had all Keith’s students he currently teaches).
On top of that, our TV cabinet came in, so Keith & I spent Saturday into the wee morning hours connecting all those ding dong cables & putting the right appliance into the shelf that fits best. Yikes! I’m glad we don’t have to do THAT every day, or year!
I have to share about the plastic samurai swords at the fair. Three of the boys (two nephews & my oldest) came back from a ducky game with them. The younger of my nephews was the fun one with it! He didn’t swing it around or anything, just held it. But boy, could that thing get around! He was all over the bleachers during the oldies band show – it was hilarious! All the while gripping that precious sword. It got into some pretty crazy places, let me tell you.
What is it with most boys & weapons? My ten year old was doing the same thing, although he sat in one place. They are born with this thing for weapons. It’s incredible! Just like most girls are born with this thing for pink & princesses. Nobody can convince me otherwise – it’s an inborn thing. I’ve seen it too many times & when it was even discouraged. New rule implemented at our house – weapons are allowed in OUTSIDE play only. We’ll see how that goes! It has been driving me nuts lately always seeing a weapon (or two) hanging off the belt loop. Maybe this will encourage more outside play.
PS – Note the name change at the top of the page. Please update your “records” accordingly as you have time. Thanks:)
