Friday, October 28, 2011

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[This is rather long, so I've had to post it in sections- hope you bear with me a bit, as this is a vital bit of information!] When Life leaves you in the cold - go warm up a cold heart. Wish I's learned this before meeting and marrying the mother of my children! "Life," to me, has given some fond memories, and some very, very bad ones, especially where people have used deceptions and lying to make it seem that I have done very evil things that I have not even had in my mind or even subconscious mindset to act out. "Why?" I keep asking myself. But, on September 23rd, I was shown, by my oldest child at least part of the answer in a most clear way. He was completely unaware of his showing me, and that made the learning event that much more clear and lasting. To relate this clearly, there's some base foundations that underlie the lesson, and make it fact, rather than a mere fantasy, or hallucination. These are found in a famous teaching found in the records of an ancient Aramaic writer, and distributed as a part of the Catholic Bible, but it was in a Pashitta record of circa 100 to 300, A.D., that this teaching was opened to my understanding so that I could apply it to my living way, my walk upon Planet Earth every moment. The tiny yellow book this is published in attracted my attention in the amazing library that I used to discover much of Life's secret ways in, on McNeil Island, where I'd return at almost a heartbeat's notice, for the unbelievable life enriching joy of giving and receiving I experienced while there. It's like I had the most wonderful dream of my entire life, and its memories I will cherish all the remaining days of my living way. A photo of this little wonder book is here, on Amazon . . . http://www.amazon.com/Khaboris-Manuscript-Enlightenment-Testament-Nazareth/dp/B000KKQZZO A Google search for the whole published Internet content of the underlying records is this . . . https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1528&bih=861&q=khabouris+manuscript&oq=khabouris+manuscript&aq=f&aqi=g-s2g-v1&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=10466l16207l0l16767l20l20l0l0l0l0l430l3623l3.10.4.1.2l20l0 Anyway, for this little story about the lesson of love my oldest child taught me this past week, the foundation for it found in the Khbouris Codex goes like this; A. We humans are created with a mental reasoner - the brain, and its "mind." Animals are also given this "reasoner," as I think of it, although animals are also given lots of reliance on internal instinct, that governs most of the way they apply the reasoner to their living.
Section two . . . A. We humans are created with a mental reasoner - the brain, and its "mind." Animals are also given this "reasoner," as I think of it, although animals are also given lots of reliance on internal instinct, that governs most of the way they apply the reasoner to their living. B. Humans are given one factor of understanding and reactions to living that animals do not have, and it is far deeper into the reality of eternal living where this factor is found in every human being. I like to refer to it as my "Knower." In the Ancient Aramaic language which Disciple Matthew wrote his records of the times and events, and teaching of Y'shuah, [AKA, "Jesus"], the Peshitta, and this Khabouris Manuscript - [Codex] - defines the awesome teaching on a hill above the Sea of Galilee we often call The Beatitudes. It is in these where our "Reasoner," and our "Knower" come together to make up the basic person we are during adulthood. I'm going through a time of marital testing currently, and staying in love is hard when the spouse is unable, or just unwilling to communicate, and lives apart and completely isolated, so this lesson is doubly meaningful just now! The Beatitudes define the human mental and heart wisdom center as something like a fabric, a framework where the person builds on and creates a living design of personal responses to life events, other people,and to the spirit beings that we encounter, plus much, much more of our being human acts and thoughts. It's a wonderful study in the understanding of one's self, and all others one encounters, so do get the little book, as it is the very, very best translation of The Beatitudes! So, that base of Being Human now opened to our understanding, the Love lesson my son gave to me without his being aware of doing so goes like this . . . Recovering from the most traumatic head-on collision I can imagine, he spoke to me one day, and said something like, "Dad, all my life I have felt like you don't love me, and I feel really hurt by you. I know I have disobeyed you many times, but I have decided to love you the rest of my life, no matter how I feel about you." It was a very simple statement, and he gave it to me in the midst of the most troubling time of my living, when my entire dreams for love, family, future, and loving grandchildren was being undermined and destroyed by intimate family members, and distant counselors who were determined to cut me out of my family's existence, even if it took falsified court statements, and livid hatred to accomplish that evil objective. Later I added up the suicidal scale I was facing during this time, and it topped out around six or seven-fold the level of distress many who commit suicide face at the moment they end their earthly living. A miracle kept me alive, and I wonder why, at times. My son's statement cut through my "Reasoner," and buried its message deep in my "Knower." It caused me to break down in hours of sobbing over the disaster I had created of my home, and family, and marriage, but there was no way I had to correct the person I was, and so the determination of my children's mom to leave our marriage went on as she secretly planned it.
Last section . . . Not until Friday, September 23, 2011, some 19 years, one month, and a few days later did I get my son's underlying message! It is exactly the same message given by Y'shua, in The Beatitudes! It's unself-centric, self-sacrificing, and self-denying love, Love that refuses to quit! A song the mother of my children and I learned while in Hershey, PA, is titled "Through It All." That song was on our lips, but not in our marriage, not in our individual "Knowers." Without this undefeatable Love, or "Agape'" as defined in 1st Corinthians, chapter 13, our marriage just decayed into a rotting pile of accusations, secret alliances with professed "friends," whose aim was to destroy our home, without the least care as to the consequences for the parents or the children. In the Khobouris MSS, The Beatitudes hold the only known keys to living a successful and rewarding human being life! In the human relationship department, permanent, life-long Love holds the only known, workable solution to making marriage and family a living reality. Searching for enabling support to bear up while my wife is determined to shun me at all costs, I ran across a man whose wife told him that his only means of escaping his marriage to her was by him committing suicide, or otherwise dying! Their marriage was a living Hell, and they were in their 27th year of at least 26 years of this hellish relationship! Talk about a determined woman! But, his life turned around, and so did their marriage, when he buckled down to make his "Knower" the leader of his personal living, and the master of his marriage. He discovered the love he'd always wanted to have in marriage, and his marriage is now in its 37th year! We all too soon give in to our "Reasoner!" It tells us that a relationship is "hopeless," when nothing in Life is hopeless, especially marriage! May this little "talk" make your living a life-long, wonderful event, Joy!

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Comments Moved From Joy Armstrong Photography Blog of Monday, January 10, 2011

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ClaudeA said...
When I remember how it was so wonderful to see the world through your eyes, from the moment you were birthed, and your mother held you on her tummy, and you looked so intently into her eyes for the first time in your life, and then until you were violently taken away by angry, hurting people, even though these many years have passed, and a million miles of hate, misunderstanding, false accusations, and so much ill-will its like the distance from Whidbey Island to Maui, in my memory it's still fresh and wonderful! How I miss the lovely woman I saw in my daughter, Cynthia Joy! So awesome! So filled with the exuberance of new-found life, and so joyful with helping her daddy in the jobs he took to make people's yards look neat and cared for. But, so much change has taken place for both of us these years, and so much fear and words that are used to cause separation, not reconciliation, love, and "family," have come between us. My heart cries every day for truth and genuine meaning to bring us back together, yet such a prayer seems so hopeless. I've heard it said that a mother told her children she can forgive their father for things she does not like, but she never took time to caringly understand their father, and so, she really never took the time to sit with him and tell him that she forgave him. A verse in Luke tells honest people what true forgiveness is; it's simply for one who has wronged to go to the wronged person, and speak words that the wronged person hears, understands, and then, and only then responds with. Instead of obeying this specific formula for forgiving, the mother assumes she can do what only Creator has authority to do, and that is illustrated when Y'shua made the plea on the Cross, "Father, forgive them." Today, following false teachers, people assume they have that same power, and they ruin relationships believing they can forgive-away their responsibility to do all possible to reconcile and maintain loving family. If only we had the power to see into our Creator's heart and see the sorrow there for those who are deceived in their relationship practices. But, even in this loss we humans have the welcome from our Creator to ask Him for enough love and sense of belonging to fill-in the emptiness where once we had loving family members. He never replaces those angry, hateful people, but He does provide us with a joy that can bridge the void. I am happy, Joy, that our Creator leads you to make and keep this blog. It's a wonderful thing to be able to share my heart and mind with my precious child. One day you too may have a child, and if some things about parent-child importance you now find vague, then you will know how vital it is to love your child. For now, dear, be well, be blessed, and be in Truth. Living is never so good as when it is filled with Truth. Til next time . . .
ClaudeA said...
"Next time"! (Smile!) You ask, "How many letters are out there?" Well, it's either 7, or, counting the "M," 8, for Me and you! Well, I'm feeling rather lonely, confused, and needing to be loved here in the middle of the night, so I've come to your "place" to hang out for a few moments to at least feel closer to you. I just posted links to two photos hosted on Google's Pacasa Web Albums that beautifully illustrate my feelings. "Life: Is It A Puzzle To You, Too? " http://claudea-more-than-gardens.blogspot.com/2011/09/life-is-it-puzzle-to-you-too.html The way we go in life determines all that living means to each person, and those we depend upon to love us can, and some do forsake us. It feels so much like an end to living when a dear, intimate friend, or lover, abandons us, with blaming, fear, confusion, hate and anger. Some will paint a wax-museum-like image of; "Well, you gotta get on with your own life," or some silly, worthless attempt to comfort us. But, in reality, our living ends when a trusted, intimate friend or lover denies our presence, and our love. So, all we're left with is, "Why?" "Why" is a good thing. Being abandoned is certainly grounds for feeling suicidal. And, I've been there. But "Why?" does present opportunity, too. My "why?s" have provided me with almost unbearable loads of questions, but like all heavy loads, there is a renewed sense of needing to find a helper. Someone with lasting, proven advice and guidance to make it through the next minute, the next hour, the next day. But, too many times we feel fear and panic, the advisers that are attracted to us give worse than worthless advice, such as, "Oh, just turn away from "that" person who abandoned you, and get on with YOUR life!" Life doesn't work that way - nobody "just gets on" without that loved one who abandons us. In reality, our Creator tells us that Reconciliation (Yes, with a capital!) is the one and only key ingredient to a happy, successful, and well-balanced life. We leave this life and face Him, in the end, so it is not a bad idea that we should pay attention to His Life Guidance, recorded in His Living Word. So, if you are facing the question, "How many letters are out there?" sometime in your love life, just think to go and ask the Living Way "Lead me on, oh Sweet Friend, I do not know the Way." He will lovingly show you all the "letters out there."
ClaudeA said...
Yesterday's living - Today's longing Since 2003, when son Carl brought things left for me by departed family to my apartment, they sat buried amidst many other things kept here, wanting a place big enough to spread out for viewing, and reminiscing. Then, in September, 8 years later, Carl again helped to move them to a place large enough to view and sort family memories left from a past so painful it stings like a fresh wound. Yesterday, October 6, reading through letters that flooded the mail system at the time of my family denouncing me as husband and father, I read one crucial letter written by Crystal. Her angry heart is frozen in time and eternity in the words she penned. Of course, my heart wept for the daughter that means so much to me, yet her fear and hard-hearted disdain for me is a mighty barrier that stills grows larger, between us. My mother tried her best to break that barrier, and open dialogue between my departed family and I, but, her prayers and goodwill made no impact, no change, no difference. I too, gave up my trust in prayer and my hope for personal change, and returned to despair, which I imagine is just what my former family wanted, anyway. But, as I read my precious daughter's angry words, and wept from my heart, a thought began to pervade my anguished mind. "What if I had been a gentle father, a father who needed less nurturing than the nurturing he gave to his wife and children? That thought quickly overcame my grief. So, I began to search my memories for how I measured up as a husband and father who nurtured his family. Know what? I failed so miserably that it is a wonder that my sweet wife and our children did not leave me years before they did! Yet, it is abiding Love which conquers family breakup, and our home did not have abiding Love. Now, considering my family, and comparing our home to others where abiding Love held families together through far worse than our family experienced, the awesome abiding Love of my mother shines more brightly than ever! Somewhere it is written that "Love covers a multitude of wrong." I always wondered at this seeming contradiction of emotional conditions. But, now, it makes perfect sense. Real Love cannot die! It just goes on and on and on! Even more a miracle, True Love never quits its efforts to reconcile, restore relationships, and create better and more meaningful marriage, family relations, and even deeper love for all! My family has never, ever experienced True Love. My mother did, and now I know that it is true of her that she was a praying wife, and mother. Her abiding Love still lives today. My question is, "Will mother's abiding Love bring myself and my family back together?" To be honest, I don't think so. Too many years with too much hard-hearted mindset has formed hard-lined separation in the hearts of the one who vowed with me to a lifetime of marriage, no matter how difficult, but when the chips went down departure seemed better than vows, and the children of our love also went away. But! Abiding Love still lives! Recently I discovered a man who is married to a woman with abiding Love. She and he had 27 years of pure Hell as a couple before he woke up to understand his role as husband, father, and nurturer. His wife told him, when he wanted Divorce, "Over my dead body!" Her abiding Love not only saved her family the evils of Divorce, but it led her family into a world of hope and new beginnings every day, as her husband was given unlimited time to change. Now, he is so enthused at her abiding Love that he uses her undying faith in him and their marriage vow to share with everyone how to gain and grow abiding Love! http://youcansavethismarriage.com/blog/unhappy-marriage/ I'll finish my thoughts about abiding Love on my blog - http://claudea-more-than-gardens.blogspot.com/2011/10/father-learns-about-abiding-love-and.html

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ClaudeA said...
I just wish you knew the truth, my little one.

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ClaudeA said...
Wow! When i grow up, I wanna be just like you, girl! Here's a little sense of what I think growing up is like - Enya speaks so much that makes sense to me . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znmQhptP8VA&feature=related BTW, if you search for the name, Clewewtt, in and around Maui, you just might discover you have cousins living there! [Read my blog for some more about our family on Hawaii!]
ClaudeA said...
This is a long message, but important, to share with you. So, I'll break it into two posts . . . #1 Tonight - it's Carl's 42nd Birthday, and I remember when his mom was in the Keflavik, Iceland, Navy/Airforce Base Hospital, now decommissioned, and out of service since 2006, had waited in that little hospital with the alcoholic Navy doctor, for 10 days! What I still hate about myself is how poorly I treated your mom, since I did not visit her there except for about one, or maybe two times, during that terrible, lonely stay. My heart is so heavy for all I have been, done, and still have trouble with! Oh well, it seems that we hurt the ones we are truly blessed with who deserve the most of our love, and loving. At least, I do that. It's been a difficult week for me. Mary-mom, as Carl calls his sweetheart step-mom, has had some good vibes about our marriage, until today, that is. She was trusting in the 'system' of commercial 'death' care, as I put it, to care for her recovery from a shattered shoulder, and loss of most of her vision, about a year ago. Today she was informed that I was no longer welcome to visit her, and that was from the home's assistant admin, who turned against me when she failed to change my mind and come live there with Mary. Mary & I had a very brief conversation, and maybe she will now come back home, but I do not dare hope so. That's yet to be seen. But, I did run a letter to her up to the Post Office, and the mile walk gave me time to reflect about what Life is about, and what I would want my children to gain from my being of even the most distant influence in their hearts, and minds. It gave me time to realize how little any parent has to offer his child, even if that child loves and cherishes that parent, which only Carl dares to do for me, of all you dear children. But, Carl is a man who loves and looks upon our Creator for how to relate to our parents, and you other three rely upon those who deceive and teach disrespect toward parents, Creator, and all things good, all things relative to reconciliation, and all things that teach one must be considerate of others first. No, I fail to be considerate of others first, so you know not to think I'm saying I do what I actually do not do. Yet, like Apostle Paul wrote, 'I want to do what I know is good, but, i do that which I really do not want to do - oh, woe is me!' And, that honest statement from Apostle Paul is what my thoughts were on, tonight. If Paul had had children, it seems to me that he would have best left this statement implanted in their hearts, more than any other of the many things he taught the crowds that flocked to hear his wonderful messages.
ClaudeA said...
#2 What does it mean to understand that I want one thing so badly, but I do the opposite? Well, just maybe it means that I, or whoever dares to think this honestly, will be ready to face our Creator, and say to Him, "Look, Creator, You gave me so wonderful an opportunity to live a good life in Your sight, and all I did was make a terrible mess of your gift, so bad in fact, that others do not like You, and that is the worst thing I could have done." We might add, "And, all I deserve is to be the farthest away from You, both now and after this life is finished, for me." In some ways, I think that is how your brother, Carl, thinks about his relationship with me. He knows how much he hurt me with his rejection of me, and his going against my instructions for his well-being as a teen. His mother's disrespect for both me and him played a very damaging part of his disrespect, but he sees himself as fully responsible for allowing his mother, friends, and his own thoughts to cause him to disrespect me, as his father. It is this personal choice to disrespect someone that is the most evil sinning we can do. It follows the satanic psychological mindset of self-esteem, directly opposing the others-esteem that Creator commands us humans to practice, in order to be approved by Him. This is exactly what Apostle Paul shared with people. He took this as a mandate against him, personally, just as it is in fact, a clear word against all self-esteeming persons, and the mindset it comes from - greed - and makes those who face it aware that it is each of us who is personally responsible to respect, honor, and love those who we'd rather disrespect, distrust, dishonor, and mistreat, if not do criminal things against them, such as speak altered facts about them, mistreat their reputation by slander and spreading false, or falsified rumors, and causing others to disrespect them. So, what would I most want my own dearly loved children to take from their dad, to carry for their life, and to make them each a better person, especially when they face Creator? This: Each day, give praise to Creator, that you are. Then, accept that He has a specific objective for His creating you, and that it is your privilege to be given His honor and power each day to experience the wonder of sharing your Being upon Planet Earth, whether that day brings you joy, fear, pain, kindness, respect, lies, hate, death, disease, kindness, ecstasy, wealth, love, or loss. Then, and I think only then, you will have the ability to experience Living as Creator intends for us to know it. So, just like Paul also shares with us, we have these construction tools to use to build for us a wonderful living; He says it like this: Finally, my family, think on these; "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things." New American Standard Bible (©1995) [This passage is found in many NT versions here . . . http://bible.cc/philippians/4-8.htm] To close this message that could well be my last one to you, my beloved daughter, and your siblings, in my deepest heart, and intentions, always, Always, it has been my fervent hope and desire from when I was 11 years old, to love my wife, and our children, at whatever cost to me it may be. But, it has cost me all I have to love you, and that is as it should be. For, as Paul says, "I count it my greatest honor to have given myself for you to come into the knowledge, and experience, of relationship with Creator." That, dear ones I cherish beyond anything you know, says what I want each of you to know about your dad. I love you.



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ClaudeA said...
HaHa! It's like the great horse story, "War Horse." Amazon has used books for little $$, and it's a new movie by Steven Spielberg, in the making. Have you watched "P.S. I Love You? a teary-eyed story of real love, the first book a new college grad ever wrote! I'd love to have one sent to you!:-))
Just a note about my removal of comments; Each was good, and now I kinda wish I'd left them, but, my thought was, "What if my meaning is misunderstood?" So, I removed them. Anyway, I've decided that those who use deceptions to separate my family are not going to win! I'm a man with good character, but some people with poor character have seen opportunity to make themselves look good by bad-mouthing me, and worse. I face the same Creator at the end of Life as they, so, even if it hurts to stand for true and honest relationships that some may use every means to harm and destroy with words and worse, it is better to stand FOR my children, than to run from hateful people trying to keep from being hurt more by them. It hurts to do this - it seems my whole life has been trying to avoid being hurt by people close to me who cared little to dig down into my little person to understand and relate as a friend - but, if it means that my children can finally know me for who I am, and feel good about being my children, then I'd best do this for these dear people. In 2003 I was searching for answers to the wicked system of direct taxation by those who want to destroy America, and Americans. In that search I discovered a man who deciphered the evil code used by these charlatan central bankers, plainly showed where the IRS breaks every financial law of the Constitution, and then opened a web site to share the true facts with the whole world. He, Peter Hendrickson, faced four challenges from the IRS, in THEIR unlawful courts, and each case was dismissed when his simple facts were made known to the IRS' prosecutors. On the last such endeavor to shut Peter up from speaking truth about the unlawful IRS scam, instead of accepting his facts in their court, the court ordered him bound and thrown into prison, without any trial, just because the unlawful court has the power to make others fear for their own freedom, if they dare to speak out against the evil courts of America. This evil has not been so open since medieval days, when men with power to kill took control of their local communities and literally enslaved those fearful, plain people. It was the same in my case. Now, peter sits in a prison, but his spirit for truth still rings loud, clear, and stronger than before. His family stands united around him, and his friends and those he gave so much to bring truth to stand strong for his family. So, I say to myself, "If Pete can face such evil and tell it "Kill my body if you must, but the Truth is worth dying for, no matter how scared of dying I may be," then I should take heart, and basically do the same, for my children." You can see how Pete, and his family, are doing, here: http://www.losthorizons.com/ The people who die because Truth means more to them than the lies that fill them with fear have more value to Living than those who cringe in fear, as I have done. Years of study in Hebrew Scripture and too many years carrying grief over having trusted people who abandoned even marriage with me has taught me that standing for truth costs even one's life, but that the alternative, running away from those who use lies to gain and hold power makes for a far worse living than standing firm against their lies, even if they kill to remain in power.

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These comments are moved here from  . . . http://joyarmstrongphotography.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-more-old-ones.html?showComment=1306819308487 In late February, 1993, I was very privileged to meet Ron Wyatt at the little church Aunt Grace was married in, in Denair. He had discovered, and documented Noah's Ark remains, and had numerous relics off the ship to show! Go see what his sons and wife now share about Ron's work . . . http://wyattmuseum.biz/shop/product_info.php?products_id=34 Ron gave two copies of this book to me . . . http://www.amazon.com/Discovered-Noahs-Ark-Ron-Wyatt/dp/0942521439/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1306811716&sr=8-3 Ron also discovered the Real Mt Sinai! Years later, another man figured he'd find tons of gold there, and tried to get in to get it. Investigative Reporter Howard Blum, wrote a book about the adventure, and included numerous photos from Ron Wyatt's 'official' exploration of Mt. Sinai! That book is here . . . http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Exodus-Discovery-Most-Howard/dp/0340640456/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1306819062&sr=8-2 Posted on 

Implanted Memories Are very real - but, false [Moved Frm CJA Photography, Oct 8 2011]

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Moving Comments Left On Daughter C. Joy Armstrong Photography Blog Here, To My Blog

Yes! Today I will begin to move each of the comments I left on CJ's blog here. Why? I read a letter her sister wrote that makes my heart very sad. The words are from a hard heart that years of teaching to disrespect her father caused. That disrespect was taught to CJ, and my comments on her blog may well offend her. So, since I said things from my heart that may mean a lot to her someday when her heart leads her to ask "What is my dad really like?," she can see my heart and find me.


I'll attempt to post them in chronological order, here. It may take awhile, but her peace is worth the effort!

I so wish I'd married a mother who had the abiding Love that my own mother showed when the mother of my children denied her vow of marriage and ran away in a very bad cloud of imagined fears. Our lives as a family were frozen in the disaster that had befallen our home at that time, and her Divorce wreaked any hope of following the path of wholeness to reconciliation for four precious children. I despise Divorce!

Our Creator records "I hate Divorce!" in the Bible book of Malachi. Elsewhere He states that He sees Hate as exactly the same thing as murder. He also had Moshe' [Moses] record that He, Creator only allowed Divorce, since He knew how hard-hearted those who would dare practice such a crime would become, and to spare their marriage mate untold hurt and harm, He made Divorce as a provision for the hard-hearted spouse to run away from the lifetime vows to love and cherish, and honor and respect the other spouse.

Anyway, that's a very long story of how humans substitute everything they can in place of the required reconciliation that Creato0r requires from every one of His Believers, without exception. Today's churches are infiltrated with deceivers that promote the spirit of disharmony in marriage, so I'm not surprise that my children's mom took the "Church Path" to end her vow of marriage to me. But, it sure makes me sad to know the fate that she and our children, save our oldest, who decided to honor his dad, as Creator commands, and their children face every day of their lives.

Well, on with this comment transferring project!


CJ's blog is here . . .

http://joyarmstrongphotography.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-more-old-ones.html




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ClaudeA said...
Perspective on charity; A dog is, perhaps, one of our best examples for the Spirit that gives us a quality we name, "Charity." A dog? Even after a family is split by deception that result in Divorce, their dog loves all equally. "Charity" does the same thing, but much better; it continues to respect and trust, no matter how much the hurt. True "Charity" just does not disappear; it lives on, giving, trusting, being kind, and taking tons of disrespect, dishonor, and deception. Search for a charity where the people give love to those who despise and hurt them, but they just persist in giving their love. That is True Charity. Disciple Matthew recorded a most revealing fact about true "Chariity;" 6:33 "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." That "Seek" part is the key to true charity. The "Kingdom" is "His" home, so what does one seek to be gifted with "all these things"? Here's some movie scripts that shed some light. Far and Away (1992) Joseph Donnelly: "I tried to prove myself to you, But I know nothing of Books, or Alphabets, or Sun, or Moon, or... All I know is Joseph Loves Shannon" Shannon Christie: "Pretend you love me." Joseph Donnelly: "I pretend I love you." Shannon Christie: "I pretend I love you, too." Shannon Christie: "Look, you've got your land." Joseph Donnelly: "But all the land in the world means nothing to me without you." Shannon Christie: "This was our dream together. I don't want this without you!" First Knight Lancelot: "I dare not kiss so lovely a lady. I have but one heart to lose." Guinevere: "I want to marry you. Not your crown, not your army. Just you." Guinevere: "Love has many faces. I may look on you differently, but not with less love." Guinevere: "I only know one way to love my lord, and that is body and mind and soul." Frankie and Johnny (1991) Frankie: [Johnny carves a rose out of a potato and gives it to Frankie] "What is that? Johnny: "A rose. It grew in the kitchen." Johnny: "I know I can't the make the bad go away. You're right, I can't. But when the bad comes again, I am gonna be next to you." Forget Paris "When you love someone, And you love them with your heart, It never disappears when you're apart. And when you love someone And you've done all you can do, You set them free, And if that love was true.... When you love someone It will all come back to you." Fried Green Tomatoes Ninny Threadgoode: "A heart can be broken, but it will keep beating just the same." Fools Rush In (The song my wife & I call "ours!") "You will never know love unless you surrender to it." Forces of Nature "Marriage has less beauty but more safety than a single life; it's full of sorrows and full of joys. It lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love, and those burdens are delightful." Recently I watched Ingrid Bergman's "Joan of Arc," Joan, against all her family's naysaying and deceptions to keep her from doing the Right thing to obey the King of Heaven, made herself one of history's best examples of charity. She was murdered by her own king, when his heart was torn by lies about her, and he turned against her. But, Joan's charity gave a nation hope, even when its people had given up hope, because their leaders had sold them out with lies, deceptions, and murders. Charity has a clear definition: Love in spite of deception; togetherness in spite of hurt; trust, even though our heart has been broken beyond human endurance; and best; the King of Heaven calls us to give all for those who hurt us most, just like in true Marriage Example? Carl

Ever notice how you respond to a story, v.s. just verbal information?

[Note: This was not published when I wrote it. Here it is today, October 8 2011]

THIS, just arrived in my main e-mail box:

"HELP! OUR MEETINGS ARE HORRIBLE – WHAT TO DO?"

Wanted: Stories, Storytellers and Story Sellers for Business
Good stories fascinate us all. They always have. They always will. Basically, there are two types of stories: Truth Stories and True Stories.
By Cincom CEO, Tom Nies

Tom Nies is no less than an accomplished story-teller, himself. His bio includes . . .

"Thomas M. Nies is the founder and CEO of Cincom Systems, Inc. The longest actively serving CEO in the computer industry, Nies was recognized by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 as "the epitome of the entrepreneurial spirit of American business." In 1992, British Prime Minister Edward Heath honored Nies for Cincom's role in bringing the software industry to England. In 1995, he was profiled by the Smithsonian Institute as one of the "pioneers of the software industry," alongside other industry giants such as Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Larry Ellison (Oracle). In 2004, Ernst & Young inducted Nies into its Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame. In 2005, along with the CEO of Adobe, Nies won the International Stevie Award for Best Executive in the International Business Awards—"the business world's own Oscars," according to the New York Post. In 2005, Nies also received the University of Cincinnati Lifetime Achievement award and in 2006, was named as one of the Top Ten IT Visionaries by START-IT magazine. In 2008, Tom and Cincom were featured in a Harvard Business School Study. Email Tom Nies: TNies@cincom.co"



The "Wanted: Stories, Storytellers and Story Sellers for Business" web page gives a clear picture why people prefer facts-by-story.

http://expertaccess.cincom.com/2011/02/wanted-stories-storytellers-and-story-sellers-for-business/

The page begins: "Good stories fascinate us all. They always have. They always will. Basically, there are two types of stories: Truth Stories and True Stories."

Isn't this the missing link so often left out of our own communications? Raising my family, instead of giving my dear children a memorable story to guide their thoughts like I wanted, my usually cryptic, too-often unfriendly diatribes were void of any story-like presentation. Even now, retired and with time to reflect on what I say, my words are un-story-like.

I'm sure there's ways to retrain myself to think and contemplate things in "storySpeak"!! In fact, let's search for just this . . .!

A favorite place for me to gain insight into my self-centric "Me," is Sonny Radio.

http://www.sonnyradio.com/

For this topic, let's listen to movie great, Jimmy Stewart. "A Dog Named Beau" [It's on YouTube!]

http://www.sonnyradio.com/jimmy-stewart-johnny-carson-dog-named-beau.html


I always loved Jimmy's movies, his homey voice and down-home delivery always captured my full attention to all his words. I don't know how he was in relating to his children, but, can you imagine how awesome it would have been to have your father give you growing-up guidance the way Jimmy told stories?!!

This search returns lots about Jimmy . . .
http://www.google.com/search?q=Jimmy+Stewart%27s+family&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Here he is given acting and personal insights for us to know and understand him more . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart

Jimmy's grave is detailed here . . .

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1816

"Actor, American Icon. James Stewart was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, where he had an ideal childhood with encouraging and supporting parents. When he won the Best Actor Oscar in 1940 for his role in "The Philadelphia Story," he sent it to his father saying, "It belongs to us both.""

He is remembered all over the world by many . . .
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One of the greatest and best
- Bette
 Added: Feb. 28, 2011


Personal life


Jimmy Stewart marries Gloria McLean, 1949
James Stewart was almost universally described by his collaborators as a kind, soft-spoken man and a true professional.

Some excerpts from the Wiki . . .


"James Stewart was active in philanthropic affairs over the years. His signature charity event, "The Jimmy Stewart Relay Marathon Race", held each year since 1982, has raised millions of dollars for the Child and Family Development Center at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California."


"One of Stewart's lesser-known talents was his homespun poetry. He once read a poem that he had written about his dog, entitled "Beau," while on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. By the end of this reading, Carson's eyes were welling with tears.[82] This was later parodied on a late 1980s episode of the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live, with Dana Carvey as Stewart reciting the poem on Weekend Update and bringing anchor Dennis Miller to tears."


Jimmy proved himself a man after my own heart, too! . . .

"In addition to poetry, Stewart would talk during Tonight Show appearances about his avid gardening. Stewart purchased the house next door to his own home at 918 North Roxbury Drive, razed the house, and installed his garden in the lot."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Stewart_walk_of_fame.jpg










His hometown hosts a museum, but it has fallen on hard times. Wall Street Journal has and article by Clare Ansberry posted on its website about the museum . . .



[Wonderful]  
"Jimmy Stewart Museum
At the Jimmy Stewart museum, one display features artifacts from the hardware store founded by the actor's grandfather.
INDIANA, Pa.—It used to be a wonderful life at the Jimmy Stewart Museum.
Every year before Christmastime, bus loads of senior citizens would come to the actor's hometown to see costumes and scripts from his 81 movies, his childhood bed and the red leather booth excavated from the acclaimed, now-shuttered Chasen's Restaurant in Hollywood. The Stewart family dined there on Sunday mornings and Thursday evenings."


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703395904576025701805597850.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

"He was, Mr. Harley notes, not only a Hollywood star, but a decorated military hero, a Boy Scout, as well as a good husband and father. Mr. Stewart's simple four words of advice to his twin daughters as they went off to college: "Be nice to everyone.""






I Get The Point!

Oh? Do I really understand the concept of making myself think how those I interact with see me as a communicator? Honestly, maybe not!

Here's one man's way with communication. I think that anyone who watches and listens to Nick cannot help but be moved with Nick's life. Let's listen and watch as Nick Vujicic shares his heart with you and me.

http://press.lifewithoutlimbs.org/
http://press.lifewithoutlimbs.org/images/book2.jpg
Lots more from this search . . .
http://saerch.yahoo.com/search%3B_ylt=A0oG7nECh2pN7E4AbgWl87UF%3B_ylc=X1MDMjE0MjQ3ODk0OARfcgMyBGZyA3NmcARuX2dwcwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc3ljBHF1ZXJ5A2xpZmUgd2l0aG91dCBsaW1icwRzYW8DMg--?p=life+without+limbs&fr=sfp&fr2=&iscqry=

http://ts2.mm.bing.net/videos/thumbnail.aspx?q=423121126275&id=dfcaea363ba022ade8cef72e93245df5&bid=qYc8q3ZXvRTwWA&bn=Thumb&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3dTl58qufXfYk

Nick is a story. He tells it with his presence. His words reflect his story. Nick, is a story.

Am I a story that those I love want to hear told?




My Recent Story-telling Activites

To begin this year, I am focusing on forming a story to share with everyone who loves to garden, and to utilize organic waste materials as high-nutrient garden soil builders. It's called "Composting."

Out in the woods, it happens quite naturally, and in a lawn that gets no care, or a meadow, or even a semi-arid desert region, "compost" happens to organic materials that are no longer alive, accumulate on the ground, and have a bit of moisture added to assist in the enzyme, insect, fungus, and microbial life in digesting and de-composing organically-bound elements into their individual forms. It's a form of fertilizer production that creates one of the best plant nutrients known, if not THE best plant nutrition.

In fact, a man where I live discovered that burying kitchen wastes directly into his little tomato plant garden produced more tomatoes, and better tasting fruit than using commercial fertilizer, such as "Miracle-grow"!!

When I studied this phenomenal event in my own garden area, I saw why; As the kitchen wastes decompose, earth worms and other soil organisms ingest the now-edible material, and their digestion produces a steady flow of plant nutrition right at the root level! How efficient!

Now, to fertilize my garden while it is growing, I dig in kitchen and other organic waste materials alongside my vegetable and flower plants, and watch them grow with vigor and produce heavy yields of flowers and foods! 

Of course, for a large-scale food or flower production enterprise, like a farm, it would require much more than the home gardener's shovel!

I'm educating myself to understand sustainable agriculture ways, learn how to give my ideas as stories, and meeting with those who may become my customers! It's all here, in a local Agriculture Extension Service class . . .

http://smallfarms.wsu.edu/images/siteid/education.jpg
http://smallfarms.wsu.edu/education/pierce/






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