Chapter 2: Sing it Again
Being a Kindergarten teacher I read a lot of books to my students. There is one book that comes to mind about a honey bear that has a hand puppet inside the book. When I read this book I use a lot of inflection and the children love it! As soon as I close the book they all shout out, “Read it again! Read it again!†God wants our prayers to be like that. Although God already knows what we are going to say even before we say it He wants to hear our voice. He wants to “keep company†with us. I feel sometimes that my prayers are very repetitive, but I’ve learned from reading this chapter that that is ok. God delights in hearing my voice whether it be in praise or requests. “Not only do I need to hear God’s voice, but also he wants to hear mine.â€
Chapter 3: How Long?
For those of you who know my husband know he loves the band U2. All I could think about as I read this chapter was the song U2 sings, 40.
Waiting is hard to do. We are a society that when we want something we just go out and get it. However, there are some things that we have to wait for like marriage, going off to college, starting a new job, having children, etc. There is an “in between†period that goes along with waiting that Margaret Feinberg talks about in her book. “You aren’t fully here and you aren’t fully there.†God loves what that in between time does to us—“the humility it creates within our hearts. The prayers that emerge from our spirits. The childlike cries from our innermost beings that acknowledge utmost dependence.†Although waiting is no fun and can sometimes take years or sometimes not even turn out how we want, you learn more about yourself and grow closer to God. “Not only does God listen to our heart’s cries as we wait, but he blesses us, strengthens us, and renews us in the process.†Do you believe good things come to those who wait? I certainly do!
These speeches lifted hearts in dark times, gave hope in despair, refined the characters of men, inspired brave feats, gave courage to the weary, honored the dead, and changed the course of history. It is my desire that this library will become a lasting resource not only to those who wish to become great orators, but to all men who wisely seek out the great mentors of history as guides on the path to virtuous manhood.
I know that readers of blogs are often more likely to skim than to read in-depth. But I challenge you, gentlemen, to attempt a program of study in which you read the entirety of one of these great speeches each and every day. I found the process of compiling and reading these speeches to be enormously inspiring and edifying, and I feel confident that you will find them equally so.
Universities house an enormous amount of information and their libraries are often the center of it all. You don’t have to be affiliated with any university to take advantage of some of what they have to offer. From digital archives, to religious studies, to national libraries, these university libraries from around the world have plenty of information for you.
LONDON (AFP) – The credits are rolling in Britain for the time-honoured cinematic tradition of munching popcorn at the movies — a newspaper reported Sunday that increasing numbers of cinemas are banning it.
A combination of health-conscious cinemagoers rejecting sugar-coated popcorn and disgust at its distinctive smell is steadily spelling “The End” for the snack in some arthouse cinema chains, the Observer reported.
WASHINGTON (CNS) — In the not-too-distant future, songs such as “You Are Near,” “I Will Bless Yahweh” and “Rise, O Yahweh” will no longer be part of the Catholic worship experience in the United States.
At the very least, the songs will be edited to remove the word “Yahweh” — a name of God that the Vatican has ruled must not “be used or pronounced” in songs and prayers during Catholic Masses.
You are a bit of a traditionalist. You like old fashioned things with deep traditions.
You also like to see the result of your accomplishments right in front of you.
If practice makes perfect, that’s fine by you. You like to practice a skill.
Republican John McCain’s wife has been treated for a “minor sprain” after someone at a campaign event in Michigan shook her hand firmly.
A campaign spokeswoman says Cindy McCain left the West Bloomfield, Mich., campaign event Wednesday for X-rays at a local hospital after an enthusiastic supporter squeezed too much. McCain’s wife has had previous surgeries for carpal tunnel syndrome and the handshake exacerbated the condition.
Spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker says Mrs. McCain will campaign as planned on Thursday.
DETROIT — One dollar can get you a large soda at McDonald’s, a used VHS movie at 7-Eleven or a house in Detroit.
The fact that a home on the city’s east side was listed for $1 recently shows how depressed the real estate market has become in one of America’s poorest big cities.
With this plate the concept of measurement is explored in a way to create a connection between the person and the object. For instance, when cutting cake or cheese, nobody will complain about having the smallest slice.
It’s been a crazy web-traffic week for BON. First a foreign website links to me, then all sorts of people from CNN paid this website a visit because of an article I linked to.
I am ready for the swimming portion of the Olympics to be over.
I think Michael Phelps’ mother is getting more camera time than Kurt Warner’s mother wife got several years back.
You don’t hear anything about his father, so I decided to research that issue, but came up with nada. However, his Wikipedia page mentions that the swimmer is ADHD.
I’m going to hold off crowning Phelps the greatest Olympian of all time. I think Carl Lewis’ four golds in 1984 and earning a gold medal in four Olympiads is more impressive. Not to mention, Phelps has the ability to earn more golds in his sport than the atheletes in their respective sports. But I will say that Phelps is the greatest Olympian with an underage drunk driving record.
Speaking of Carl Lewis, his first name is actually Frederick. heheheheh.
My suit actually took a picture with Carl Lewis. In high school a friend of mine borrowed my suit to got to an FCA function where he was speaking.
I know there have been a lot of advancements regarding swimming such as the new swim suit and rubber platforms on the starting block and “waveless” pools, but it would not surprise me that years from now we discover that doping was involved. It all kind of reminds me of the home run chase between Mark Maguire and Sammy Sosa. Everyone was so caught up in the excitement that nothing was questioned. This all entered my mine when I saw the U.S. men’s relay team beat all the other teams in the same pool using the same advanced swim suits in the 4×200m freestyle relay by about two body lengths.
A total of 29 swimming world records were broken before the games even began. Source
My Olympian friend at my former work place use to tell some some crazy things that happens in the Olympic Village. He basically told me to think about it, you have all these beautifully sculpted atheletes from around the world that have been nothing but focused upon this one moment in their life, then when that moment is over, it’s time to unleash all that tension.
I think the new Samsung Instinct phone isn’t as intuitive as it should be.
There’s a new Baptist hymnal. I’m not sure I can recall the last time I was in a church that actually used hymnals as opposed to a projector.
My Acura theory continues to prove itself true.
I wish I had a better understanding of what’s going on with Russia and Georgia, but overall, I think I get the gist of it.
I saw that Charles Gibson was broadcasting from Dallas again, and I just don’t understand why they don’t use Victory Park as a backdrop. But they show some of it before they went to break.
It wasn’t until I left college when I first heard of someone having a peanut allergy, now it seems like almost every other person has a peanut allergy. I blame vaccinations since I can’t think of anything else to blame it on.
I wonder why Honda stopped making the Prelude.
ESPN Page 2 use to be a really great place to visit for a break during the workday, but I may have only visited that site a dozen or so times since it was redesigned about a year and a half ago.
There was an interesting discussion on The Ticket about movie and music sales. Music sales are tracked by number of albums sold, so you can easily compare the number of albums Elvis has sold compared to Justin Timberlake. But movies are measured by the amount of total money taken in. Wouldn’t it be easier to track movies by number of tickets sold? That way you don’t have to take the price of tickets and inflation into account.
Hard Knocks is interesting but not very entertaining.
