What a fun idea to have a 20’s party for someone turning 20. That is what Morgan’s mother did for her. We dressed up in our pearls, headbands, long gloves, earrings, feathers, furs and gowns.
Roaring 20’s Party
New Fun with Photos
I have just discovered some fun photo apps. This one is Prism.
Pretty Peacocks
This summer we found some peacocks. I realized that the male peacocks are quite aggressive. To the females of course. Not to us. We fed the peacocks by hand and they were very tame to us. The beautiful male peacocks think they are soooo beautiful…and they absolutely are quite breathtaking. They spread their tails and shake them like a dance. They spin slowly round and round to show off his lovely display. All make birds are this way. They need to put on a show to attract the women.
Enjoying Summer
This summer has been different. With the virus running though all facets of life…we have been closer to home. Travel outside of the US is hard and we have only been from St. George to Salt Lake. We have gone to the Lagoon Amusement Park 5 times. Another place that we have enjoyed is Stein Erickson Lodge in Deer Valley.
Where are the Unicorns?
8 times Unicorns are Mentioned in the Bible
Students of the Old Testament are well aware that it contains passages which many in the world find fantastic. From Noah’s Ark to Jonah and the whale, many stories and verses found in the sacred tome fly in the face of modern scientific discovery. Some of the faithful maintain a literal belief while others have come to view the text as largely symbolic—but all can agree that the ancient words have had an enormous impact on the world’s history.
Some of the more unique verses in the Old Testament refer to unicorns. Of course, when shadowed by tales of escaping lions’ dens, trumpeting down city walls, and splitting enormous bodies of water, it’s easy to see how these passag
es could be overlooked. But here they are, taken straight from the King James Version of the Bible:
Numbers 23:22
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Numbers 24:8
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
Deuteronomy 33:17
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
Job 39:9-12
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
Psalm 22:21
Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
Psalm 29:6
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
Psalm 92:10
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Isaiah 34:7
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
Unicorns are a mythical beast, no more real than dragons, which incidentally are also mentioned in the Bible (see Revelations). But what are we to make of this? With so many references to the creature, could the unicorn actually have existed?
Most experts say no, and they also say that the original manuscripts shouldn’t lead us to believe they did. The source text for each of these references gives us the Hebrew “re’em,” which the Jewish Encyclopedia describes as “a wild, untamable animal of great strength and agility, with mighty horns.” If this sounds less like a unicorn and more like a rhinoceros, that’s because many scholars believe these verses likely refer to the African mammal.
Other translations sometimes designate the re’em as a type of antelope, while still other scholars believe it refers to a one-horned ox. One group of fundamental creationists even proposed the somewhat unlikely theory that these verses referred to a Triceratops.
But there’s still hope for anyone who really, really likes the idea of actual unicorns. Answers in Genesis, a non-profit Christian fundamentalist ministry that rejects the concept of evolution and scientific agings of the earth, acknowledges the possibility that the unicorn in question may, in fact, be some other beast—but they aren’t so sure.
“Modern readers have trouble with the Bible’s unicorns because we forget that a single-horned feature is not uncommon on God’s menu for animal design (consider the rhinoceros and narwhal),” they explain, before asserting that “the absence of a unicorn in the modern world should not cause us to doubt its past existence.” After all, they say, the extinction of the dodo bird doesn’t mean it never existed. They also note that “eighteenth-century reports from southern Africa described rock drawings and eyewitness accounts of fierce, single-horned, equine-like animals.”
So there you have it. Sadly, most scholars agree that the unicorns in question probably weren’t real unicorns, but another, more familiar animal. After all, no scientific finding or archeological discovery to date has substantiated the existence of such a creature. But an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so for many out there, the hope of the unicorn can still remain.
This is me talking… I like to think they were here and just disappeared like many other animals have done.
We’ve Lost Something in Our Skin
It would be nice if our skin just was perfect, no matter what we without and within.
So I have to confess that I have been taking silica orally for over 10 years. It is actually Silica Plus and it had added vitamins and the mineral silica.
It is a squeeze bottle that you just drop a few drops in water, several times a day. I have to confess something else and that is, I only use it once or maybe twice a day.
It’s like this, Silica is one of those essential minerals that our bodies need, but can’t produce on our own. And like many other key minerals, it’s one of those that is stripped from many of the foods we eat. The result is many of us need more silica in our diets! be. Others report finger nails that are thin
Silica Plus is formulated to be rapidly absorbed and distributed throughout the body.
Silica Plus: Promotes cardiovascular health; Helps strengthen bones, cartilage, and connective tissues; Helps keep your skin, hair, and nails looking great; and will help prevent problems with arthritis and osteoporosis down the road.
Oh! One more thing about silica… IT IS SPECTACULAR FOR NAILS AND HAIR!
I’ll talk about it more on my hair blog and nail blog.
Just to let you know…since I started taking this mineral, I have long hair and hard nails.
The Love of a Dove…They Come Each Year
Yesterday was a beautiful day to hear the doves cooing
. I laid in bed relaxing with a cold and had my sliding door open to the world. I was literally in paradise. I could hear the sound of a waterfall and the coo of the doves. They come each year to our rooftop right near our bedroom.
Earlier in the spring I saw the male dove on the tree branch, doing his “love” dance. He spread his wings and fluffed his tail. The other dove had been flying around our piece of the hill and came fluttering down to be right near the other.
From then on they were together, swooping all around the house, the pool, the trees and way beyond our view.
A few years ago we had 2 other doves. the sound was incredible. But one day… the dove was in the pool…drowned. It was horrible. We drug it from the pool and the mate was flying above us chirping and crying. He stayed aroun
d and cryed in the sky for many weeks and then eventually disappeared.
The love of a dove is forever and eternal
What Sets Your Soul On Fire
Recently I have been involved with thinking about accomplishing something really big. What actually sets my SOUL on FIRE.
A big dream of doing thousands of names in the Temple.
A big drea
m of people finding me on the internet to buy my Seacret Products.
A dream of going around the world to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
A dream of having more than enough money to share with others especially in Ethiopia.
A dream of being the most inspiring Grandma.
Only LIGHT Can Do That
” Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
The time is always right to do what is right.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others? “
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr~
At that moment, I experienced the presence of the …
At that moment, I experienced the presence of the Divine as I had never experienced God before. It seemed as though I could hear the quiet assurance of an inner voice saying: “Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.” Almost at once my fears began to go. My uncertainty disappeared. I was ready to face anything.”
It was the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott. Rosa Parks had just been hauled to the police precinct for her audacity on the bus. And amid the electricity in the air, King emerged — the man of the hour, a confident new leader who would take on racism and injustice and violence, and surprisingly, in a spirit of confident, public non-violence.
At least by the outward look of things. Privately, however, he started out as a reluctant prophet. By all means, he
would help advance non-violent change. But to be thrust in the spotlight of national leadership — that was another matter indeed.
On the other hand, an assumption mitigated the pressure. The boycott, assumed everyone — including King — would last but a few days. Symbolic victory achieved, and in short order things put back to normal. A few days, however, became many and passed over into weeks and months, and white Montgomery rightly discerned a bona fide economic threat. That’s when the death threats began. Chilling and cutting to the chase: “Call off the boycott or die.” Towards the end, as many as 40 such phone calls came in every day. And on one occasion, when the police had hauled him into jail for speeding, in the clutches of the police at last, he imagined himself on the threshold of being lynched. Fear descended like a fog.
It reached an apex late Friday night, Jan. 27, 1956. King slumped home, another long strategy session under his belt, and found Coretta asleep. He paced and knocked about, his nerves still on edge. And presently the phone rang, a sneering voice on the other end: “Leave Montgomery immediately if you have no wish to die.” King’s fear surged; he hung up the phone, walked to his kitchen, and with trembling hands, put on a pot of coffee and sank into a chair at his kitchen table.
Here was the prelude to King’s most profound spiritual experience. He describes it in his book Stride Toward Freedom.
I was ready to give up. With my cup of coffee sitting untouched before me, I tried to think of a way to move out of the picture without appearing a coward. In this state of exhaustion, when my courage had all but gone, I decided to take my problem to God. With my head in my hands, I bowed over the kitchen table and prayed aloud.
The words I spoke to God that midnight are still vivid in my memory. “I am here taking a stand for what I believe is right. But now I am afraid. The people are looking to me for leadership, and if I stand before them without strength and courage, they too will falter. I am at the end of my powers. I have nothing left. I’ve come to the point where I can’t face it alone.”
At that moment, I experienced the presence of the Divine as I had never experienced God before. It seemed as though I could hear the quiet assurance of an inner voice saying: “Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.” Almost at once my fears began to go. My uncertainty disappeared. I was ready to face anything.”
Three days later a bomb blasted his house and his family escaped harm by a hairsbreadth. “Strangely enough,” King later wrote, “I accepted the word of the bombing calmly. My religious experience a few nights before had given me the strength to face it.”
News of the bombing drew a crowd A mob formed within the hour, all clenched jaws and closed fists. And they pressed up against the shattered house and shouted for vengeance. King mounted the broken porch and raised his hands. “We must meet hate with love. Remember, if I am stopped, this movement will not stop because God is with this movement. Go home with this glorious faith and radiant assurance.” And thus the mob dissipated, their mood disarmed and their ears ringing with the message of gospel non-violence.
Some 11 years later, King spoke before an audience of his epiphany in the kitchen. “It seemed at that moment, I could hear an inner voice saying to me, ‘Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth. And lo, I will be with you, even until the end of the world.’ I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone.”