'Sgetti

I made a pot of spaghetti.  I haven't had 'sgetti for a while and and was craving starches.  So, I made a big pot of starch...with sausage.  The thing about making spaghetti with sausage instead of hamburger is the high fat and cholesterol content.  If you do make 'sgetti with sausage or even hamburger, cook the meat first and then rinse the grease out with very hot water, through a colander or strainer.  Then you can put the meat back on the stove and add the ingredients in for making the sauce.  Everyone makes their sauce differently, so do what you like best.  To make a really good sauce let it simmer on low heat for about an hour or so.  Then it is yum and the craving for starch is .mollified...maybe.

I think that sometime soon I will get a big package of chicken out of the freezer and can it.  Canning meat will change the texture a little, but it will be very tender and good.  As the weather is so unpredictable, canning is a better way to preserve meat instead of relying on the freezer(s).  I look for a strange spring and summer.  We may be becoming tropical and Europe may be in the throes of a little ice age..who knows.  Read a book entitiled  "LIGHTS OUT."

As I have stayed in for a couple of days, there isn't much to say or write about.  Tomorrow I do need to be out and get a few things done, make a trip to the library and take some stuff to the Salvation Army.  You all get off easy tonight-no scripture.

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Tattoo your forehead

There is a war being waged right in our own country, in case you haven't noticed.   Right now it is about religious freedom and separation of church and state.  It started years ago with the legalization of abortion.  It has kind of coasted along without anyone bringing out the big guns.  Now the big shooters are blasting away and undermining the tenants of the constitution, the basic moral code of all Christian beliefs and the forced imposition of a government infringement into the lives and fabric of most conscientious followers  of the Ten Commandments.  This would be forced upon American Jews as well as any Christian Church or Religious employers.

So, how do you like your Presidential mandates that shred the Constitutional freedoms of religion, freedom of speech, the Ten Commandment, sit in your bedroom, pick your pocket, protect high-up criminals and punish the lowly?  How do you like them now?

Abortion is legal.  Smoking pot is not.  You don't get punished for the snuffing of the tiny sparks of life, but you will go to jail for puffing away on a MJ.  Do you enjoy the unequal weights used in the scales of justice?

OK, the first run was for abortion.  The second run is in the works right now in the overt interference by your present leaders.  In the next 30 years or so, it will...or may be government euthanasia.  That would be a neat way to cut spending, wouldn't it?  Zap the elderly, the mentally and physically infirm and save a ton of big bucks.  Send the best and the brightest off to wars and keep the military occupied while the war machines are well oiled and running.  George Orwell's 1988 scenario, a little late, but moving along.

Of course, it is up to us, the presently "free citizens," to take a stand and voice our opposition to what is tossed into our gullets, the forced feeding of an ideology that is senseless and only serves the purpose of the rich, powerful, and corrupt individuals that spin the wheels.
Do you need to have some one reminding you of the Ten Commandments?

Or do you need to have "Freedom of Religion" tattooed on your forehead? 

How about the precept of separation of church and state?

We, as a nation, have been so "dumb downed" that we hardly know how much of our basic freedoms have been eroded.  I include myself in the stupid pot.  If you can't see it, voice your opposition to what is slowly and methodically worked into system and into you/our cerebellums, then I guess we will get just what we pay for...

The other day I wrote that we still have freedom of speech...but do we?

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I won't write much because this has been a quiet day.  The only thing that I will mention is that our government has mandated that abortions be payed for or covered by all Christian employers, like it or not.  All tax payers will be paying for abortions though taxes, something that Obama-AKA-government, promised never to do.  Another promise broken, probably never intended to honor, and is being rushed and mandated before the next election.  If you are  against paying for abortion though your payroll taxes...then you better call or notify your congressmen and fight like H**l to prevent it.

Also, I will not share my post on Face book anymore.  If anyone wants to read it in the future the will have to go to:
LivingLesson-meb@blogspot.com
and find it, bookmark it or RSS the blog.
Facebook is not very well moderated really not a very "social net work" anymore.

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FREEDOM TO WORSHIP

Everything is about the Super Bowl tomorrow in Indy.  I guess, if I were a football fanatic I would be cheering for the NY Giants.  Some one has to win, so it might as well be the NY Giants.

It's been raining and misty most of the day.  The temps are moderate, more like spring time, but not.  Winter has not arrived-just late.  I am sure we are in for at lest one surprise.  I know some people are starting some of thier seeds now.  I think I will wait until mid-March.  I still have not decided if I will put in a garden, but tomatoes are a "must have."  There isn't much to write about, so I won't make a big effort to come up with something.

"FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD

ARE OVER THE RIGHTEOUS

AND HIS EARS ARE OPEN

UNTO THEIR PRAYERS,

BUT THE FACE OF THE LORD

IS AGAINST THEM

THAT DO EVIL."

1 Peter 3:12

While I know that there are those that hate religion or anything that has to do with God-Christ, but this is my post and I am free to write what I wish and believe in.  So far, we are still a free nation and cont. to have freedom of the press.  God bless America and all who seek to worship without fear of retaliation, be it verbal, physical or psychological.  YES!

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VERBLE CRUCIFIXION

My early thoughts and inclinations were not to bother with this post today.  Today was a day of verbal crucifixion, persecution and hate, directed right to me...and all because I said that I hated the usage of the famous four letter word.

These are the times we find out how strong our faith is...or weak.  I am certain that the three individuals from facebook would have nailed me to a cross, if at all possible, and joyfully pounded in the spikes  Their attacks upon me and what I believe in were pretty bad and foul in language and content.  I was really hit hard by the verbal abuse, more so because they are "family."  I can't really tell you how vicious they became.  I have deleted them and banned them as harassing, which they were.  I decided that no one was going to run me off and I will stick to my conviction that facebook is not the place for vulgarities.

So, I was really feeling pretty low until my big brother in Texas called and gave me moral support.  He saw what was written and was upset that "family" could be so vicious.

Will I get over it?  Yes, but I think it will take awhile.  In the meantime I will continue to hate that four letter word that is used so frequently and without thought of its meaning.  I think the so called "now or me" generation has really fell far from any spiritual or inner awareness.

No, I am not shocked by that particular word.  I grew up in house with six brothers and four sisters, so I have heard it all esp. in the working world.  It is just so inappropriate in mixed company or in any social setting.  Even if you have a PhD in street life or academics... you don't sound any smarter when you limit your vocabulary.  You know the adage of computer users: garbage in, garbage out.

So, this is my sad story of the day.  I made myself smile, turn on the computer, and write this post, bearing in mind that Christians all over the world are being attacked in one form or another...often in a violent, deadly manner.  No, I don't like it, but I accept it and consider it one small station on The Way of the Cross.

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For those in need....

For the sick,

the injured,

the suffering,

the lost,

and the poor.

HOW GREAT IS THE LOVE

WHICH JESUS HAS SHONE

HE CAME FROM ABOVE

FROM HEAVEN'S

BRIGHT THRONE

THAT HE MIGHT DELIVER

HIS CHILDREN

FROM HELL

AND TAKE THEM FOREVER

IN GLORY TO DWELL

HE DIED ON THE CROSS

AND POURED OUT HIS BLOOD

TO BEAR THEIR DREAD SINS

MAKE THEM FIT FOR

OUR GOD

FOR LOVE SO AMAZING

HIS NAME WE ADORE

AND TO HIM BE PRAISING

WITH SAINTS EVERMORE

****

I PRAYED TO GOD

HE HEARD MY PRAYER

AND TOOK ME

 INTO HIS

LOVING CARE

WHEN I WAS SICK

HE HEALED MY PAIN

AND GAVE ME HEALTH

AND STRENGTH AGAIN

OH, LET ME NOW

HIS GRACE GRACE IMPLORE

AND LOVE AND PRAISE

HIM EVERMORE

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 authors unknown

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1 Peter 5:7

"Cast all your cares upon Him

for He cares for you."

We learn of our frailties and weakness through various, trails, troubles and sorrows.  No one promised us a rose garden, but we can nurture the roses where the thorns once grew.  With Christ we sand-without Him we fall.  "Into your hands, Oh lord, I commend my spirit."  Have you?

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LENT COMES SOON

It comes.  In 20 days, depending on where and when you are reading this, Lent begins on Feb. 22, 2012-Ash Wednesday and ends on April 8th, 2012.

Lent isn't about hunting for Easter eggs or wearing the latest fashions, but they are a part of the tradition of the church.  Lent is a time of reflection, penance and prayer.  Christ went into the desert to pray and fast and was also tempted.  It is also a time to remember that we too are tempted and in need of reparation and re-generation of our spirits.

We think of Lent as 40 days and forty nights of spiritual rejuvenation, but there are actually 46 days of Lent.  Sundays are not counted because they are when we are to celebrate the resurrection of Christ.  Sundays are free of fasting and penance and Christians are forbidden to to deprive or do penance.  Sundays are days of joy and hope and thankfulness for what the Lord has done for us and what he has given us.

While Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation, it is a day we are reminded of our own mortality through the sign of ashes on the forehead.  It is a day of personal mortification through fasting, prayer and penance.  Most Catholics try to attend mass on Ash Wednesday.

The ill, the infirm, the aged and young children do not have to fast.  There are rules that cover those that can not  practice or comply with the demands of Lent.

I could go on and on and write a lot more, but you can look up most of this on your own, and should.  Think of Lent as something like good transportation.  You need to have a repair and maintenance schedule for you inner workings-the spirit.  If you don't take care of your transportation-soul-something is bound to go wrong.  I hope readers can makes some sense of what I post because I try to keep it simple.  I often run out of ideas to write about and how to present it.  So, you see, I need a little rejuvenation-or maybe a lot-myself.

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