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Frequently Asked Questions
What are your opening times?
Our office is open
Monday – Friday 9:30am – 5:00pm
Saturdays – 10:00am – 2:00pm
How do I arrange a viewing?
You can either telephone us on 0161 224 2134 or email firstname.lastname@example.com or even better call into our office for a more detailed description of the property and arrange your viewing. We like to give our current tenants at least 24 hours notice of a planned viewing. Wherever possible we prefer to show the whole group around the properties in one go as this causes less disruption to the current tenants.
My friends and I have viewed a property and love it what next?
In order to secure a property and take it off the market you will be required to pay a deposit & sign a Legally Binding Assured Short Hold Tenancy Agreement. There are two ways of accessing the tenancy agreement to read through before signing , go to TENANTS then downloads and you will find all necessary documentation or alternative is to call into the office were we are here to provide assistance. When you are ready to sign up you can do it the same day you are in the office or make an appointment to suit you and your co-tenants. (Click link to complete your application)
Be Aware: Until a deposit is paid the property will be still classed as available for other students to view.
How much is the deposit & what is it for?
The deposit on the property is worked out by 5 times the weekly rent (e.g.) £70 per person – per week = £350 per person. The deposit is refundable at the end of your tenancy providing there are no rent or utility bills outstanding on the property & the house has been left in a clean and tidy condition and no damage has been caused.
What do I need to bring with me upon signing?
You will be asked to fill out a basic tenant detail application form requiring some personal information
(Click link to complete your application) http://www.drakes.co.uk/tablet
We also require:
- Copy of Student Id card
- National Insurance Number
- Bank details
- Deposit funds – payable via card/cash or bank transfer
Are there any agency fees?
We do require a one off agency fee of £70 which is for matching you to a property including showing you around various properties, completion of the relevant paper work and provide assistance throughout your stay. You will also have access to our 24 hours emergency maintenance team out of office hours. (This fee is on an annual basis should your tenancy rollover).
Are utility bills included?
We give you the option should you wish to have utility bills included there is an additional charge off £20 per person – per week which covers (not available for 1 & 2 bedroom properties):-
- Gas
- Electricity
- Water
- TV license
- Broadband
- Telephone
*All of the bills are under Bills Paid Ltd fair usage policy*
How long is the contract for?
The contract is for one academic year 1st July – 30th June.
Do I need a guarantor?
A parent or guardian within the UK and over the age of 21 can stand as a guarantor. The guarantor is to cover the tenant should there be any outstanding rent arrears or malicious damage be caused by the tenant to the property. The guarantor is only liable for the tenant named on the guarantor form.
Tenants that are not uk citizens we will accept a paid guarantor service speak to a member of the team who will explain the process.
How is my rent paid?
Once the deposit and agency fee is paid the next time you will need to send funds will be for the summer retainer (Paid as One full month rent for July/Aug). This needs to be paid by cash, credit/debit card (via telephone or in person) or bank transfer. After this is paid the next rent you will need to pay is for 1st September. The rent from September onwards is paid by standing order (available to download from our website www.drakes.co.uk or in the office). Rent is due on the 1st of each month no later as a late payment charge will be added as detailed in your tenancy agreement.
Can I pay my rent termly?
If you wish to pay your rent Termly we will require the Summer Retainer payment and the September rental payment to be paid on the elected due dates and then your termly payments are as follows:
- 1st October – 31st January – Paid by September loan
- 1st February 30th April – Paid by January loan
- 1st May – 30th June – Paid by April loan
Can I live in my property during the summer retainer period?
We will allow access to the property from 1st July if there are no major works being carried out (information will be provided when securing property). If you request to live in the property over the retainer period please take into consideration it is a retainer period and this is the time that any maintenance works from your inventory/repair sheet are carried out. Please be aware that within the retainer period July/August we will not be able to provide any notice to tenants that have moved in of the builders/maintenance calling to carry out works in and out of your property.
Do I need insurance?
You will need to cover your personal contents but check your parent's home insurance policy as some insurance companies insure belongings away from home. If this is not the case you can enquire about contents insurance through
Are we allowed pets in our house?
Under no circumstances are pets allowed in any of Drake & Co's properties.
How do I collect my keys?
You can collect your keys anytime from the 1st July after 2pm from our office, if you can't collect your keys and would like someone to collect them for you (other than a co-tenant) you MUST inform us of the person & make sure they have photo id with them when they come to our office. Before we can release keys to any of our properties all relevant paperwork must be filled in & all funds must be paid. Under no circumstances can we post keys to any of our tenants.
How can I return my keys?
Keys to the property must be in our office no later than (12 noon) on the 30th June, If we do not receive keys back on time you may be charged for change of locks. If you leave Manchester with your keys before your initial move out date you can post the keys in a secure envelope recorded delivery but please be aware should they go missing you will be liable for replacement charges.
How do I report any maintenance issues/repairs?
There are many ways you can report issues;
Come into our office & report it.
Send us an email
Using our webform
Give our office a call
0161 224 2134
In writing:
Drake & Co
161a Dickenson Road
What if your office is closed and I have an emergency issue?
If the office is closed and you have an emergency you can ring our 24 hour emergency call out numbers
Frank: 07973472554
Lee: 07795211746
If the issue is not an emergency you will be charged a call out fee of £20, so please try and wait until office opening hours.
What happens if I want to end my tenancy early?
If you wish to move out of one of our properties for any reason you must either pay until the end of your contract or (with the agreement of the other tenants) advertise your room and get another student to take over your share of the tenancy. Once you have let your room and the new tenant has paid the deposit, all other co-tenants along with the new tenant are required to come into the office and sign a new tenancy agreement (NOTE: there will be a £75 administration fee paid by the tenant vacating the property).
What furniture will be in my room?
Most of our accommodation is supplied with ¾ (Queen) or double size bed, a set of draws, a wardrobe, a desk and chair (any other items will be what has been left by previous tenants and Drake & Co will not be responsible for repairing/replacing).
What am I responsible for?
You are responsible for:
- Cleanliness and refuse disposal internal and externally
- Reporting all issues as soon as they occur
- Changing of bulbs throughout unless they are dangerous to reach or sealed unit light fittings
- Reducing condensation issues (ventilating your room as much as possible)
- Cleaning filters on: washing machine, dryer & vacuum cleaner.
How do I get my deposit back?
To receive your deposit back you have to return your keys (on time) and need to provide our office with proof of final bill payments (gas/water/electric). Deposit will not be refunded if the tenancy has any form of rental arrears outstanding, until all is paid up to date including charges. Deposit are returned to the bank account details you provided on your original application form which you filled out at the beginning of your tenancy, failure to provide the correct details there will be a delay in returning your deposit.


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How to Overcome Culture Shock
You've settled into your dream job in a different country, negotiated the perfect relocation package for you and your family…so why do you feel lost, frustrated and even a bit homesick? Or maybe after initially embracing this new culture, suddenly your family are pining for home and struggling to adapt?
Culture shock happens when the familiar culture of your home country clashes with the way of life of your adopted location. We often take for granted the social and cultural norms of the country we grew up in, and only when we move away do we realise how deeply rooted these attitudes, values and customs are. When these differences don't line up, expats can feel isolated and unsettled.
If you're feeling this way, you are not alone – in fact, culture shock is referenced as a major factor in why international placements fail, either for the expat, their trailing spouse and/or their family. However, with support and awareness, culture shock can be a mere blip in a multicultural, mind-broadening experience. Read on for Saro Recruitment's guide to overcoming culture shock!
The Phases of Culture Shock
1. Honeymoon Phase
You've arrived in your new country and you are completely infatuated by the sounds, smells and people around you! Everything is an adventure and the differences are downright exciting. This phase can last for months, so if you have a short placement you may always feel this way.
2. Frustration Phase
The frustration of constantly being misunderstood and not understanding the language, social customs and infrastructure can be exhausting. Things that were easy in your hometown, like taking a bus, ordering food or making small talk, is now a struggle. Your trailing spouse or children may also encounter these issues – while your new job is keeping you busy and social, your partner and kids may be feeling isolated. Homesickness and a longing for familiarity is very common during this stage. This phase is make or break – either you succumb to negativity and go home, or navigate past it to the next phase.
3. Adjusting Phase
You're starting to acclimatise to the culture and the frustrating moments are lessening, luckily! You've got yourself a social circle, getting around isn't as difficult, and you're picking up the new language.
4. Acceptance Stage
You've accepted that you may never grasp everything about your new culture, but you have the experience and resources to settle in and feel at ease. You've realised that the way they do things here aren't necessarily wrong, just different, and you've ploughed your own furrow.
How to Overcome Culture Shock
Culture shock may not be completely avoided, but it can be lessened by following these tried and tested tips.
Understanding the Differences
The more you learn about your new country – the cultural differences, values, manners, weather, rules of the road – the easier it will be to understand why people act and speak the way they do, and reduce misunderstandings. But you should also take the time to learn about your home country's culture too. Are there any that you take for granted, but are actually not as common elsewhere?
Be Open Minded
You're never too old or stuck in your ways to learn a new language, to look at a problem in another way, to make new friends from a different background, or to change your routine. Don't isolate yourself – go out and socialise, join a club, take some classes, get a hobby. Be willing to learn and to accept other opinions and practices, even if they vary a lot from your own.
Give Yourself a Break
Don't be so hard on yourself – it's not easy adapting to a new way of life, and by being willing to move to another country, you've already shown that you aren't afraid of a challenge. So be patient! Keep your sense of humour – the funniest stories come from misunderstandings and cultural quirks. And don't forget to also take a break and travel around your adopted homeland, soaking in all the sights and sounds of this international experience.
Ready to grab that international opportunity of a lifetime? Contact Saro Recruitment and visit our vacancies today!
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With bursts of color mixed in with black and white apparel, elegant ballroom gowns and sophisticated sequins, Alice + Olivia by Stacy Bendet Fall 2012 collection speaks volumes.
You know the feeling of exhilaration you get when you see a cute and fun piece? Yeah, that's how I felt when I was looking through these pictures. Love! Enjoy…xx


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A wonderful scrub containing Organic Polyphenols of Green Tea and White Tea as well as tropical butters and oils for moisturizing during exfoliation. The Green and White Teas lend their rich anti aging properties to this scrub to create skin that is not only moisturized and properly exfoliated, but to also keep it tight, bright, and free of pro-aging free radicals.
Directions for Use: Use small dollop in a circular fashion on face and/or body for gentle exfoliation. Can use with fingertips or with cloth. Rinse off with warm water. Can be washed off with a foaming cleanser or simply pat skin dry and follow with one of our many toners, serums and moisturizers.
Ingredients: Aqua (Deionized Water), Pumice, Aleurites Moluccana Seed Oil (Kukui Nut Oil), Olea Europaea Fruit Oil (Organic Olive Oil), Persea Gratissima Oil (Avocado Oil), Jojoba Esters (Jojoba Beads), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice (Organic Aloe), Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract (Organic Green Tea), Ascophyllum Nodosum Extract (algae extract), Escin (horse chestnut based), Caffeine, Centella Asiatica Extract (Organic Gotu Kola), Equisetum Arvense Extract (Horsetail), Geranium Maculatum Extract (Wild Geranium), Taraxacum Officinale Extract (Organic Dandelion), Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hydroxide, Alcohol, Lecithin, Potassium Phosphate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Natural Green Tea Fragrance. **updated December 5th, 2016
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In the final part of the Just My…Favorites 2011 series, we take a look at our favorite albums/mixtapes. Albums and Mixtapes are pretty much the same thing these days when judging from a quality perspective, either can be better than the other. With that said, let's see what our top 5 favorites of 2011 were… Continue reading
Month: December 2011
Good Read: 2011 Pac Div Recap
Song of the week (Outside of hip hop)
I got a pretty good response last week to the song of the week post that I did so I decided to continue this week with another one. This week's selection is a song that I got a while ago, not sure when but I still like it. Not sure what to classify this song as but it has a groovy feel to it. I'm pretty sure that I heard this song one night out at a spot and a girl was covering on stage. Continue reading
Just My…Favorites 2011: Verses
As you all know from our Crazy Verse posts, we love a good verse, whether its full of knowledge, wit, flow, or whatever, good poetry is appreciated here. We found a good amount of verses over the past year that made us shake our head in amazement, let's get into it… Continue reading
Actual Proof – Super Genius ft. Cutlass Reid, Skewby, Naledge, Add2theMC, Kendrick Lamar, Brittany Street, The Kid Daytona, & Laws (prod. by 9th Wonder)
Crazy Verse: Andre 3000 – Millenium
Me and everything around me, is unstable like Chernobyl
Ready to go at any moment, jumpin like a pogo stick
Life never lived up to my expectations, so I accept the patience
Expect the worse but now I'm pacin', back and forth
Inside I'm melting like water on wicked witches
A monster truck done came and ran over my picket fences
I had the best of life in my clinches but monkey wrenches was thrown
Like chairs kings sit on, my prayers seem to long
I fall asleep before the endin, don't even get to say Amen
I hope He understand I be on bended knees
At times, I think I'm crazy, so I say forget it
Or maybe it's the devil infiltrating and like Riddick…Bowe
I've been fighting this since them fetus days
I count from one to twenty, when I'm through, repeat the phrase
It's just a phase, it's gon all pass, but that gets old too
I'm weakening like a deacon doin' dirt
What am I supposed to do?
Just My…Favorites 2011: Beats
In 2011 we saw a resurrection of the older producers with the addition of different elements to beat making. In part 2 of 4 we would like to share some of our favorite productions from 2011. It's always good to hear a great song come from an excellent beat. So let's get into it… Continue reading


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Beloved Children of God
The following passages are taken from Father Henri J.M. Nouwen's book "Life of the Beloved" published in 1992:
Beloved (pg 25-33)
Ever since you asked me to write for you and your friends about the spiritual life, I have been wondering if there might be one word I would most want you to remember when you finished reading all I wish to say. Over the past year, that special word has gradually emerged from the depths of my own heart. It is the word "Beloved," and I am convinced that it has been given to me for the sake of you and your friends. Being a Christian, I first learned this word from the story of the baptism of Jesus of Nazareth. "No sooner had Jesus come out of the water than He saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit, like a dove, descending on Him. And a voice came from heaven: 'You are My Son, the Beloved; My favour rest on You.'" For many years I had read these words and even reflected upon them in sermons and lectures, but it is only since our talks in New York that they have taken on a meaning far beyond the boundaries of my own tradition. Our many conversations led me to the inner conviction that the words, "You are my Beloved" revealed the most intimate truth about all human beings, whether they belong to any particular tradition or not.
Fred, all I want to say to you is "You are the Beloved," and all I hope is that you can hear these words as spoken to you with all the tenderness and force that love can hold. My only desire is to make these words reverberate in every corner of your being---"You are the Beloved."
The greatest gift my friendship can give to you is the gift of your Belovedness. I can give that gift only insofar as I have claimed it for myself. Isn't that what friendship is all about: giving each other the gift of our Belovedness?
Yes, there is that voice, the voice that speaks from above and from within and that whispers softly or declares loudly: "You are my Beloved, on you my favour rests." It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: "You are no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are nobody---unless you can demonstrate the opposite."
These negative voices are so loud and so persistent that it is easy to believe them. That's the great trap. It is the trap of self-rejection. Over the years, I have come to realise that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity and power can, indeed, present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. I am constantly surprised at how quickly I give in to this temptation. As soon as someone accuses me or criticises me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone or abandoned, I find myself thinking: "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." Instead of taking a critical look at the circumstances or trying to understand my own and others' limitations, I tend to blame myself---not just for what I did, but for who I am. My dark side says: "I am no good. . . .I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected and abandoned."
Maybe you think that you are more tempted by arrogance than by self-rejection. But isn't arrogance, in fact, the other side of self-rejection? Isn't arrogance putting yourself on a pedestal to avoid being seen as you see yourself? Isn't arrogance, in the final analysis, just another way of dealing with the feelings of worthlessness? Both self-rejection and arrogance pull us out of the common reality of existence and make a gentle community of people extremely difficult, if not impossible, to attain. I know too well that beneath my arrogance there lies much self-doubt, just as there is a great amount of pride hidden in my self-rejection. Whether I am inflated or deflated, I lose touch with my truth and distort my vision of reality.
I hope you can somehow identify in yourself the temptation to self-rejection, whether it manifests itself in arrogance or in low self-esteem. Not seldom, self-rejection is simply seen as the neurotic expression of an insecure person. But neurosis is often the psychic manifestation of a much deeper human darkness: the darkness of not feeling truly welcome in human existence. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence.
I am putting this so directly and so simply because, though the experience of being the Beloved has never been completely absent from my life, I never claimed it as my core truth. I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. It was as if I kept refusing to hear the voice that speaks from the very depth of my being and says: "You are my Beloved, on you my favour rests." That voice has always been there, but it seems that I was much more eager to listen to other, louder voices saying: "Prove that you are worth something; do something relevant, spectacular or powerful, and then you will earn the love you so desire." Meanwhile, the soft, gentle voice that speaks in the silence and solitude of my heart remained unheard or, at least, unconvincing.
That soft, gentle voice that calls me the Beloved has come to me in countless ways. My parents, friends, teachers, students and the many strangers who crossed my path have all sounded that voice in different tones. I have been cared for by many people with much tenderness and gentleness. I have been taught and instructed with much patience and perseverance. I have been encouraged to keep going when I was ready to give up and was stimulated to try again when I failed. I have been rewarded and praised for success. . . but, somehow, all of these signs of love were not sufficient to convince me that I was the Beloved. Beneath all my seemingly strong self-confidence there remained the question: "If all those who shower me with so much attention could see me and know me in my innermost self, would they still love me?" That agonising question, rooted in my inner shadow, kept persecuting me and made me run away from the very place where that quiet voice calling me the Beloved could be heard.
I think you understand what I am talking about. Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well being you desire? Don't you often hope: "May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country, or relationship fulfil my deepest desire." But as long as you are waiting for that mysterious moment you will go on running helter-skelter, always anxious and restless, always lustful and angry, never fully satisfied. You know that this is the compulsiveness that keeps us going and busy, but at the same time makes us wonder whether we are getting anywhere in the long run. This is the way to spiritual exhaustion and burnout. This is the way to spiritual death.
Well, you and I don't have to kill ourselves. We are the Beloved. We are intimately loved long before our parents, teachers, spouses, children and friends loved or wounded us. That's the truth of our lives. That's the truth I want you to claim for yourself. That's the truth spoken by the voice that says, "You are my Beloved."
Listening to that voice with great inner attentiveness, I hear at my center words that say: "I have called you by name, from the very beginning. You are mine and I am yours. I have moulded you in the depths of the earth and knitted you together in your mother's womb. I have carved you in the palms of my hands and hidden you in the shadow of my embrace. I look at you with infinite tenderness and care for you with a care more intimate than that of a mother for her child. I have counted every hair on your head and guided you at every step. Wherever you go, I go with you, and wherever you rest, I keep watch. I will give you food that will satisfy all your hunger and drink that will quench all your thirst. I will not hide my face from you. You know me as your own as I know you as my own. You belong to me. I am your father, your mother, your brother, your sister, your lover and your spouse. . . yes, even your child. . .wherever you are I will be. Nothing will ever separate us. We are one."
Every time you listen with great attentiveness to the voice that calls you the Beloved, you will discover within yourself a desire to hear that voice longer and more deeply. It is like discovering a well in the desert. Once you have touched wet ground, you want to dig deeper.
I have been doing a lot of digging lately and I know that I am just beginning to see a little stream bubbling up through the dry sand. I have to keep digging because that little stream comes from a huge reservoir beneath the desert of my life. The word "digging" might not be the best word, since it suggests hard and painful work that finally leads me to the place where I can quench my thirst. Perhaps all we need to do is remove the dry sand that covers the well. There may be quite a pile of dry sand in our lives, but the One who so desires to quench our thirst will help us to remove it. All we really need is a great desire to find the water and drink from it.
You lived fewer years than I. You may still want to look around a little more and a little longer so as to become convinced that the spiritual life is worth all your energy. But I do feel a certain impatience toward you because I don't want you to waste too much of your time! I have fewer years ahead of me than behind me. For you, I hope the opposite is true. Therefore, I want to assure you already, now, that you do not have to get caught in searches that head only to entanglement. Neither do you have to become the victim of a manipulative world or get trapped in any kind of addiction. You can choose to reach out now to true inner freedom and find it ever more fully.
So, if you are interested in starting on the journey of the Beloved, I have a lot more to say to you, because the journey of the spiritual life calls not only for determination, but also for a certain knowledge of the terrain to be crossed. I don't want you to have to wander about in the desert for forty years as did our spiritual forbearers. I don't even want you to dwell there as long as I did. You are very dear to me, a friend whom I truly love. Although it remains true that everyone has to learn for himself or herself, I still believe that we can prevent those we love from making the same mistakes we did. In the terrain of the spiritual life, we need guides.
Father Henri Nouwen was hit by the outside rear view mirror of a passing van, while hitchhiking to the Corner House at Daybreak, on a dark winter morning. He had to be operated to stop the internal bleeding and to take out his spleen. He survived the surgery. The following passages are taken from Father Henri J.M. Nouwen's book "Beyond the Mirror" published in 1990.
1.God's Beloved Child (pg 68-70)
My experience of God's love during my hours near death has given me a renewed knowledge of not belonging to the world---to the dark powers of our society. This knowledge has entered more deeply into my heart and has led me to a fuller acceptance of my identity. I am a child of God, a brother of Jesus. I am held safe in the intimacy of the divine love.
When Jesus was baptised in the Jordan, He heard a voice from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:17) these words revealed the true identity of Jesus as the beloved. Jesus truly heard that voice, and all of His thoughts, words, and actions came forth from His deep knowledge that He was infinitely loved by God. Jesus lived His life from that inner place of love. Although human rejections, jealousies, resentments, and hatred did hurt Him deeply, He remained always anchored in the love of the Father. At the end of His life, He said to His disciples, "Listen: the time will come---indeed has come already---when you are going to be scattered, each going his own way and leaving Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me." (John 16:32)
I know now that the words spoken to Jesus when He was baptised are words spoken also to me and to all who are brothers and sisters of Jesus. My tendencies toward self-rejection and self-depreciation make it hard to hear these words truly and let them descend into the center of my heart. But once I have received these words fully, I am set free from my compulsion to prove myself to the world and can live in it without belong to it. Once I have accepted the truth that I am God's beloved child, unconditionally loved, I can be sent into the world to speak and to act as Jesus did.
The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world---free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridicule, or considered useless; free also to receive love from people and to be grateful for all the signs of God's presence in the world. I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries.
2.Beloved (pg 85-88)
One of the most life-giving experiences of my last weeks in the hospital was the visits of my father, my sisters, friends, and members of my community. They had time to spare. They had nothing more important to do. They could sit close to my bed and just be there. Especially the most handicapped were very present to me. Adam, Tracy, and Hsi-Fu came in their wheelchairs. They didn't say anything, but they were there, just reminding me that I am loved as much as they are. It seemed that they wanted to tell me that my experience in the portal of death was real and could be trusted, and by their silent presence they said to me that they might be able to keep me faithful to it. When Hsi-Fu visited me, he jumped up and down in his wheelchair, and when I hugged him, he covered my face with his kisses. He made the circle full. I wanted to come to him, but in the end it was he who came to me, as if to say, "Don't worry, I got my bath, but stay close to me so that you won't lose what you learned on your bed."
I have lost much of the peace and freedom that was given to me in the hospital. I regret it; I even grieve over it. Once again there are many people, many projects, many pulls. Never enough time and space to do it all and feel totally satisfied. I am no longer as centered and focused as I was during my illness. I wish I were. I yearn for it. It is a yearning I share with many busy people.
Because they have nothing to prove, nothing to accomplish, Hsi-Fu and all the weak and broken people of our world are given to me to call me back, again and again, to the place of truth that I have come to know. They have no success to achieve, no career to protect, no name to uphold. They are always "in intensive care," always dependent, always in the portal of death. They can bring me in touch and hold me close to that place in me where I am like them: weak, broken, and where God calls me blessed and says to me, "Don't be afraid. You are My beloved child, on whom My favour rests."
I keep being reminded of Jesus words: "Unless you become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 18:3) I realise that my accident made me, at least for a while, like a little child and gave me a short taste of the Kingdom. Now all of the temptations to leave that childhood are here again, and I am not surprised that some of my friends feel that I had more to give when I was sick than after my recuperation. However, I can no longer sit and wait for another accident to point me toward the Kingdom once again. I simply have to open my eyes to the world in which I have been placed and see there the people who can help me over and over again to become a child. I know for sure that my accident was nothing but a simple reminder of who I am and of what I am called to become.
The following passages on belovedness are taken from Father Henri J.M. Nouwen's book "Here and Now" published in 1994.
Living in God's Time (pg 137-139)
Each time we claim for ourselves the truth of our belovedness, our lives are widened and deepened. As the beloved our lives stretch out far beyond the boundaries of our birth and death. We do not simply become the beloved at our birth and cease being the beloved at our death. Our belovedness is eternal. God says to us: "I will love you with an everlasting love." This love was there before our fathers and mothers loved us, and it will be there long after our friends have cared for us. It is a divine love, an everlasting love, an eternal love.
Precisely because our true identity is rooted in this unconditional, unlimited, everlasting love, we can escape being victimised by our "clock-time." Clock-time is the time we have in this world. That time can be measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. Our clock-time, chronos in Greek, can become an obsession, especially when all that we are is connected with the clock that keeps ticking whether we are awake or asleep.
I have always been very conscious of my clock-time. Often I asked myself: "Can I still double my years?" When I was thirty I said: "I can easily live another thirty!" When I was forty, I mused, "Maybe I am only halfway!" Today I can no longer say that, and my question has become: "How am I going to use the few years left to me?" All these concerns about our clock-time come from below. They are based on the presupposition that our chronology is all we have to live. But looked from above, from God's perspective, our clock-time is embedded in the timeless embrace of God. Looked upon from above, our years on earth are not simply chronos but kairos---another Greek word for time---which is the opportunity to claim for ourselves the love that God offers us from eternity to eternity. And so our short lives, instead of being that limited amount of years to which we must anxiously cling, become that saving opportunity to respond with all of our hearts, souls, and minds to God's love and so become true partners in the divine communion.
The passages below are taken from Father Henri J.M. Nouwen's book "The Inner Voice of Love," published in 1996. The book was his secret journal, written between December 1987 and June 1988, during the most difficult period of his life. Everything came crashing down---his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, his hope for healing, his trust in God . . . everything. He was helped by two guides, who did not leave him alone and kept gently moving him from one day to the next, holding on to him as parents held a wounded child. Nearly every day, usually immediately after meeting with his guides, he wrote a "spiritual imperative"---a command to himself that had emerged from their session. The imperatives were directed to his own heart. They were not meant for anyone but himself. But 8 years later he was persuaded to release them for publication.
1.Accept Your Identity as a Child of God
Your true identity is a child of God. This is the identity you have to accept. Once you have claimed it and settled in it, you can live in a world that gives you much joy as well as pain. You can receive the praise as well as the blame that comes to you as an opportunity for strengthening your basic identity, because the identity that makes you free is anchored beyond all human praise and blame. You belong to God, and it is as a child of God that you are sent into the world.
You need spiritual guidance; you need people who can keep you anchored in your true identity. The temptation to disconnect from that deep place in you where God dwells and to let yourself be drowned in the praise or blame of the world always remains.
Since that deep place in you where your identity as a child of God is rooted has been unknown to you for a long time, those who were able to touch you there had a sudden and often overwhelming power over you. They became part of your identity. You could no longer live without them. But they could not fulfil that divine role, so they left you, and you felt abandoned. But it is precisely that experience of abandonment that called you back to your true identity as a child of God.
Only God can fully dwell in that deepest place in you and give you a sense of safety. But the danger remains that you will let other people run away with your sacred center, thus throwing you into anguish.
It might take a great deal of time and discipline to fully reconnect your deep, hidden self and your public self, which is known, loved, and accepted but also criticised by the world. Gradually, though, you will begin feeling more connected and become more fully who you truly are---a child of God. There lies your real freedom. (pg 70)
2.Protect Your Innocence
Being a child of God does not make you free from temptations. You might have moments when you feel so blessed, so in God, so loved that you forget you are still in a world of powers and principalities. But your innocence as a child of God needs to be protected. Otherwise, you will easily be pulled out of your true self and experience the devastating force of the darkness surrounding you.
This being pulled out may come as a great surprise. Before you are even fully aware of it or have had a chance to consent to it, you may find yourself overwhelmed by lust, anger, resentment, or greed. A picture, a person, or a gesture may trigger these strong, destructive emotions and seduce your innocent self.
As a child of God you need to be prudent. You cannot simply walk around in this world as if nothing and no one can harm you. You remain extremely vulnerable. The same passions that make you love God may be used by the powers of evil.
The children of God need to support, protect, and hold one another close to God's heart. You belong to a minority in a large, hostile world. As you become more aware of your true identity as a child of God, you will also see more clearly the many forces that try to convince you that all things spiritual are false substitutes for the real things of life.
When you are temporarily pulled out of your true self, you can have the sudden feeling that God is just a word, prayer is fantasy, sanctity is a dream, and the eternal life is an escape from true living. Jesus was tempted in this way, and so are we.
Do not trust your thoughts and feelings when you are pulled out of yourself. Return quickly to you true place, and pay no attention to what tricked you. Gradually you will come to be more prepared for these temptations, and they will have less and less power over you. Protect your innocence by holding on to the truth: you are a child of God and deeply loved. (pg 76)
3. Know Yourself as Truly Loved
Some people have lived such oppressed lives that their true selves have become completely unreachable to them. They need help to break through their oppression. Their power to free themselves has to be at least as strong as the power that keeps them down. Sometimes they need permission to explode: to let out their deepest emotion and to shake off the alien forces. Screaming, yelling, crying, and even physical fighting might be expression of liberation.
You, however, do not seem to need such explosion. For you, the problem is not to get something out of your system but to take something in that deepens and strengthens your sense of your goodness and allows your anguish to be embraced by love.
You will discover that the more love you can take in and hold on to, the less fearful you will become. You will speak more simply, more directly, and more freely about what is important to you, without fear of other people's reactions. You will also use fewer words, trusting that you communicate your true self even when you do not speak much.
The disciples of Jesus had a real sense of His loving presence as they went out to preach. They had seen Him, eaten with Him, and spoken with Him after His resurrection. They had come to live a deep connectedness with Him and drew from that connectedness the strength to speak out with simplicity and directness, unafraid of being misunderstood or rejected.
The more you come to know yourself---spirit, mind, and body---as truly loved, the freer you will be to proclaim the good news. That is the freedom of the children of God. (pg 74)
4. Let Jesus Transform You
You are looking for ways to meet Jesus. You are trying to meet Him not only in your mind but also in your body. You seek His affection, and you know that this affection involves His body as well as yours. He became flesh for you so that you could encounter Him in the flesh and receive His love in the flesh.
But something remains in you that prevents this meeting. There is still a lot of shame and guilt stuck away in your body, blocking the presence of Jesus. You do not fully feel at home in your body; you look down on it as if it were not a good enough, beautiful enough, or pure enough place to meet Jesus.
When you look attentively at your life, you will see how filled it has been with fear, especially fears of people in authority: your parents, your teachers, your bishops, your spiritual guides, even your friends. You never felt equal to them and kept putting yourself down in front of them. For most of your life, you have felt as if you needed their permission to be yourself.
Think about Jesus. He was totally free before the authorities of His time. He told people not to be guided by the behaviour of the scribes and Pharisees. Jesus came among us as an equal, a brother. He broke down the pyramidal structures of relationship between God and people as well as those among people and offered a new model: the circle, where God lives in full solidarity with the people and the people with one another.
You will not be able to meet Jesus in your body while your body remains full of doubts and fears. Jesus came to free you from these bonds and to create in you a space where you can be with Him. He wants you to live the freedom of the children of God.
Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you are and ask Him to give you a fearless heart where He can be with you. You cannot make yourself different. Jesus came to give you a new heart, a new spirit, a new mind, and a new body. Let Him transform you by His love and enables you to receive His affection in your whole being. (pg 40)
5.Let Your Lion lie down with Your Lamb
There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together. Your lion is your adult, aggressive self. It is your initiative-taking and decision-making self. But there is also your fearful, vulnerable lamb, the part of you that needs affection, support, affirmation, and nurturing.
When you heed only your lion, you will find yourself overextended and exhausted. When you take notice only of your lamb, you will easily become a victim of your need for other people's attention. The art of spiritual living is to fully claim both your lion and your lamb. Then you can act assertively without denying your own needs. And you can ask for affection and care without betraying your talent to offer leadership.
Developing your identity as a child of God in no way means giving up your responsibilities. Likewise, claiming your adult self in no way means that you cannot become increasingly a child of God. In fact, the opposite is true. The more you can feel safe as a child of God, the freer you will be to claim your mission in the world as a responsible human being. And the more you claim that you have a unique task to fulfil for God, the more open you will be to letting your deepest need be met.
The Kingdom of peace that Jesus came to establish begins when your lion and lamb can freely and fearlessly lie down together. (pg 78)
6.Give Gratuitously
Your love, in so far as it is from God, is permanent. You can claim the permanence of your love as a gift from God. And you can give that permanent love to others. When others stop loving you, you do not have to stop loving them. On a human level, changes might be necessary, but on the level of the divine, you can remain faithful to your love.
One day you will be free to give gratuitous love, a love that does not ask for anything in return. One day also you will be free to receive gratuitous love. Often love is offered to you, but you do not recognise it. You discard it because you are fixed on receiving it from the same person to whom you gave it.
The great paradox of love is that precisely when you have claimed yourself as God's beloved child, have set boundaries to your love, and thus contained your needs, you begin to grow into the freedom to give gratuitously. (pg 11)
The following passages are taken from Father Henri J.M. Nouwen's book "Bread for the Journey," published in 1997:
1.Baptism, becoming Children of the Light
When Jesus appears for the last time to the disciples, He sends them out into the world saying, "Go. . . make disciples of all nations; baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." (Matthew 28:19)
Jesus offers us baptism as the way to enter into communion with God, Father, Son, and Spirit, and to live our lives as God's beloved children. Through baptism we say no to the world. We declare that we no longer want to remain children of the darkness but want to become children of the light, God's children. We do not want to escape the world, but want to live in it without belonging to it. That is what baptism enables us to do. (Sept 25)
2.Baptism, the Way to Freedom
When parents have their children baptised they indicate their desire to have their children grow up and live as children of God and brothers and sisters of Jesus, and be guided by the Holy Spirit.
Through birth a child is given to parents; through baptism a child is given to God. At baptism the parents acknowledge that their parenthood is a participation in God's parenthood that all fatherhood and motherhood comes from God. Thus, baptism frees the parents from a sense of owning their children. Children belong to God and are given to the parents to love and care for in God's name. It is the parents' vocation to welcome their children as honoured guests in their home and bring them to the physical, emotional, and spiritual freedom that enables them to leave the home and become parents themselves. Baptism reminds parents of this vocation and sets children on the path of freedom. (Sept 27)
3.Becoming Fathers and Mothers
What are we going to do when we get home? When the two sons of the parable of the prodigal son both have returned to their father, what then? The answer is simple: They have to become fathers themselves. Sons have to become fathers, daughters have to become mothers. Being children of God involves growing up and becoming like God. Jesus doesn't hesitate to say this: "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect,. . be compassionate as your heavenly Father is compassionate." (Matthew 5:48 and Luke 6:36) How? By welcoming home our lost brothers and sisters the way our Father welcomes us home. (July 2)
4.Welcoming Home
How do we welcome home our lost brothers and sisters? By running out to them, embracing them, and kissing them. By clothing them with the best clothes we have and making them our honoured guests. By offering them the best food and inviting friends and family for a party. And most important of all, by not asking for excuses or explanations, only showing our immense joy that they are with us again. (see Luke 15:20-24)
That is being perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect. It is forgiving from the heart without a trace of self-righteousness, recrimination, or even curiosity. The past is wiped out. What counts is the here and now, where all that fills our hearts is gratitude for the homecoming of our brothers and sisters. (July 3)
5.Claiming the Identity of Jesus
When we think about Jesus as that exceptional, unusual person who lived long ago and whose life and words continue to inspire us, we might avoid the realisation that Jesus wants us to be like Him. Jesus Himself keeps saying in many ways that He, the Beloved Child of God, came to reveal to us that we too are God's beloved children, loved with the same unconditional love.
John writes to his people, "You must see what great love the Father has lavished on us by letting us be called God's children---which is what we are" (1 John 3:1) This is the great challenge of the spiritual life; to claim the identity of Jesus for ourselves and to say, "We are the living Christ today!" (June 3)
6.Jesus Living within Us
When we gather around the Eucharistic table and eat from the same bread and drink from the same cup, saying, "This is the Body and Blood of Christ," we become the living Christ, here and now.
Our faith in Jesus is not belief that Jesus, the Son of God, lived long ago, performed great miracles, presented wise teachings, died for us on the cross, and rose from the grave. Our faith first of all means that we fully accept the truth that Jesus lives within us and fulfils His divine ministry in and through us. This spiritual knowledge of the Christ living in us is what allows us to affirm fully the mystery of the incarnation, death, and resurrection as historic events. It is Christ in us who reveals to us the Christ in history. (Oct 6)
7.Empowered to Be
Who are we? Are we what we do? Are we what others say about us? Are we the power we have? It often seems that way in our society. But the Spirit of Jesus given to us reveals our true spiritual identities. The Spirit reveals that we belong not to a world of success, fame, or power but to God. The world enslaves us with fear; the Spirit frees us from that slavery and restores us to the true relationship. That is what Paul means when he says, "All who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons (daughters) of God, for what you received was not the spirit of slavery to bring you back to fear; you received the spirit of adoption, enabling us to cry out, 'Abba, Father!'" (Romans 8:15)
Who are we? We are God's beloved sons and daughters! (June 10)
8.We are the Glory of God
Living a spiritual life is living a life in which our spirits and the Spirit of God bear a joint witness that we belong to God as God's beloved children. "The Spirit himself joints with our spirit to bear witness that we are children of God."(Romans 8:16) This witness involves every aspect of our lives. Paul says, "Whatever you eat, then, or drink, and whatever else you do, do it all for the glory of God."(Romans 10:31) And we are the glory of God when we give full visibility to the freedom of the children of God.
When we live in communion with God's Spirit, we can only be witnesses, because wherever we go and whomever we meet, God's Spirit will manifest itself through us. (June 18)
9.Being Given
Jesus is given to the world. He was chosen, blessed, and broken to be given. Jesus' life and death are a life and death for others. The Beloved Son of God, chosen from all eternity, was broken on the cross so that this one life could multiply and become food for people of all places and all times.
As God's beloved children we have to believe that our little lives, when lived as God's chosen and blessed children, are broken to be given to others. We too have to become bread for the world. When we live our brokenness under the blessing, our lives will continue to bear fruits from generation to generation. That is the story of saints---they died, but they continue to be alive in the hearts of those who live after them---and this can be our story too.(July 16)
10. What we Feel is not who we are
Our emotional lives move up and down constantly. Sometimes we experience great mood swings: from excitement to depression, from joy to sorrow, from inner harmony to inner chaos. A little event, a word from someone, a disappointment in work, many things can trigger such mood swings. Mostly we have little control over these changes. It seems that they happen to us rather than being created by us.
Thus, it is important to know that our emotional life is not the same as our spiritual life. Our spiritual life is the life of the Spirit of God within us. As we feel our emotions shift we must connect our spirits with the Spirit of God and remind ourselves that what we feel is not who we are. We are and remain, whatever our mood, God's beloved children. (July 23)
11.Bridging the Gap between People
To become neighbours is to bridge the gap between people. As long as there is distance between us and we cannot look into one another's eyes, all sorts of false ideas and images arise. We give them names, make jokes about them, cover them with our prejudices, and avoid direct contact. We think of them as enemies. We forget that they love as we love, care for their children as we care for ours, become sick and die as we do. We forget that they are our brothers and sisters and treat them as objects that can be destroyed at will.
Only when we have the courage to cross the road and look in one another's eyes can we see there that we are children of the same God and members of the same human family. (July 22)
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June 4, 2014
It has been almost two months since the community came out to watch the historic Clare depot being moved to its new home. Since that time the depot has gained a foundation, and a basement. Today (June 4, 2014) workers were present moving dirt around the depot securing it permanently in its new location.


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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 4 – Masters)
Topic: Telephone (07/17/08)
- TITLE: Sunrise Song
By Yvonne Blake
"ARRRRRGGG !! I can't stand it! Why can't you sing your silly ol' song just a little bit later in the morning, like after sunrise?"
I pulled my pillow over my ears. Every morning at 4 o'clock, a melody drifts into my room. I didn't hear it the first few nights, because I was so tired nothing could have woken me. But last Thursday, it was so muggy I had to open a window. As I lay there thinking over my situation, I heard it…so faintly that I thought someone was playing a radio across the lake.
I had come to the cabin to get away. I was tired of being treated like a kid. Just because I had no where else to go for the summer, no money and no job, I went home. Dad hugged me and Mom cleaned up my old room, with the pink wallpaper and pink flowered sheets.
It wasn't so bad at first, but they complained about my clothes, my friends, my appetite, and my schedule. Dad grumbled about me not having a job, and Mom worried about me coming in at "unreasonable hours." They didn't care while I was in college. Why now? That's why I had to get away… away from everything, so I could think things out.
But, that stupid music won't let me sleep!
Friday morning, a crazy bird was squawking, so I got up to close the window. I heard the music again. I stuck my head out the window to hear it better, but it wasn't outside. A soft breeze sifted through the leaves and caressed my warm cheeks. It smelled sweet and reminded me of Grammy's garden. When I finally stepped back into the room, the song was gone.
That was a week ago. Every morning at 4 o'clock sharp…
La laa la la laaaa-la laa la laaaa-la laa la la laaaa la laaaaa…
I can't find it! I can't stop it! I've looked everywhere! But it only plays for about a minute and stops…until the next morning at 4 o'clock! I tried to sleep through it, but my silly body wakes up to see if it will sing again. I feel like I'm going crazy!
I'll have to admit that I've been learning to enjoy getting up early, but don't tell my folks. I like sitting on the porch, wrapped in a hand-stitched quilt, with a cup of coffee, and watch the lake turn gold and pink in the early sunshine. Some mornings, the loons play "Marco Polo" through the morning mists.
It's really quiet around here, too quiet. It used to be a noisy place when we came here for our summer vacation. My brothers and I were in the water from morning to night, splashing and screeching and having fun. We got Grampy's old rowboat out and explored the whole lake, after we progressed from rowing in circles.
I remember when Dad took us for a ride one night. We floated through the reflected stars. He sang "Amazing Grace." We worshiped the Lord in the middle of the lake, in the middle of the night. Sigh… Maybe I'll go for a ride tonight, if I can stay awake that long.
I've been going to bed early…well, earlier than I used to. It's that mysterious music waking me up every morning! Actually, the sounds of the water and woods usually make me feel so drowsy…except for last night! Last night, I heard a whipporwill. At least, I think that's what it was. It must have called 100 times. Maybe he feels lost too.
I think I'll go back home tomorrow. I'm running out of food and clean clothes. I suppose I could apply for a job at the new greenhouse. I wonder if Mom would teach me to crochet a sling-sack like I saw in the catalog.
La laa la la laaaa-la laa la laaaa-la laa la la laaaa la laaaaaa…
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm going to miss that stupid tune. Hmmmm… I hope I have one more pair of shorts in the bottom of this bag. Huh? What's this? A cell phone? Cool! Dad must have stuffed it in my bag when he carried it out to the car.
RING TONE: La laaaa la la laaaa- la laa la laaaa- la laa la la laaaa la laaaaa..
"Amazing Grace" by John Newton
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My friends I grew up with, did "dirt" with, was best friends with, well, I am only still close to really just one. We've managed to stay close because throughout our friendship, regardless of what is going on with our lives personally, we never judged each other based on our actions. Being raised in a Christian household, I was taught that judging others is your quickest ticket to being judged yourself and the minute you do something wrong or something out of the "norm" happens to you, people aren't so ready to sympathize with you. I left the judging to those who like that sort of thing.
So when I got pregnant, there were A LOT of people I stalled on telling...namely, a good handful of people I grew up with. Granted, I'm grown and I don't put much energy into how people feel about my life decisions but I do care what my REAL friends and family think and say. Those people are important to me and if I've disappointed myself in any way, my next concern is how much I've disappointed them.
Telling my mother was fairly easy because she has always viewed all three of her children as simply...her children. No matter what has happened with my brother, sister, or I, and no matter how horrible it was, she looked at us the same way she did when we were born...as her children that might need her help one day when we get in situation that requires love and understanding. My father on the other hand...he loves us just as much but he has ALWAYS been the voice of reason for the ENTIRE family. Emotional isn't really his forte but when he was upset or disappointed in our decisions, he had no problem letting us know. He never really judged us but he did make us think about the consequences of our actions and laid it out straight. It was harder to tell him because all I could think about was when my sister got pregnant at 18, how he treated her.
My sister lived in the same house as my parents and my father didn't speak to her for 6 months. I thought he was ridiculous then (and I still do now LOL) for acting that way but if you look at from a father's perspective, I can understand why he reacted like a 'tard. It was his first born daughter...getting pregnant at 18...still living at home...not married...as a parent, you automatically feel obligated to STILL take care of your family and if this isn't in your life plans, you get upset. Granted, he didn't have to stay upset like he did and I still believe to this day, it has caused a permanent rift in his relationship with my sister. But as it stands, my sister had the first grandchild and my nephew spends so much time with my parents that it might as well be their 4th child.
Bottom line, my parents didn't like the fact that my sister had put herself in a situation that caused her to go contrary to how she was raised but it was no longer about her actions that led her to being pregnant...it was about that baby that was on the way.
Regardless of how a baby gets here, they never asked to come in this world so when they are on the way, those who genuinely love the person carrying the child, should do what they can to make that child's entry into the world, a pleasant one. I did mention we were raised in a Christian household right? So, the belief that children are a blessing from God STILL applies...whether you are married when you conceive or not.
So back to me...telling my friends was a hard thing to do because they have ALWAYS known me to not want kids unless I am married. I'm 29 and up until January, I had never been pregnant in my life. I NEVER wanted to do this "alone" because I've seen so many other mothers who have and it has been a struggle for them. I didn't think it was any different for me and so far, it hasn't been.
There were 2 people in particular that I REALLY didn't want to tell because for as long as I have known them, they have ALWAYS judged others for the things that they do. No one wants to deal with that...especially while you are pregnant. But the more mutual friends that found out, I figured I needed to speak up and say something so they wouldn't find out through the grape vine. One persons reaction was the total opposite than I had expected and it made me feel better that she hadn't taken her personal opinion on what happened for me to get pregnant and thrown it in my face. The other persons response...it was the opposite too but I could tell something wasn't being said.
Sure enough it comes out later that she doesn't and can't support me having a baby out of wedlock, simply because I wanted to send her a baby shower invitation.
This train of thought would make sense...if it was consistent with her actions. I wanted to ask what exactly was her definition of supporting someone who had an illegitimate child because in my mind, that would entail not being around us at all...ever. You don't decide when you want to be encouraging and nice to someone with a bastard child and when you don't. My problem isn't with her opinion...my problem is with her reasoning not coinciding with her actions and it just doesn't make sense.
So coming to a baby shower is supporting me not being married and having a child...but wouldn't giving advice on how to raise my kid, talking about my pregnancy with me and assuring me everything is gonna be fine, having jokes about me and kid's father, telling me I can call you if I need anything or help, and/or eventually having play dates with my kid, also a form of support? Maybe my brain has turned to mush in the last 5 months and I don't know any better but yeah, I think those are all forms of support.
Not that I care if she came to the shower or not (because we live on two different sides of the states), it's the principle of the matter. The baby didn't make me fornicate and as a result, here it comes 40 weeks later. The baby shower isn't for me...it's for the baby. So in the future, if you did ANYTHING for my child, does it change the fact that you would then be "supporting" me and my bastard child?
The point of my sharing all this unnecessary info is that when people have kids, make it about the kid, not the parent. Judging someone because of their actions contrary to how they were raised is not your place either. (If you believe in God) Let God do his job of judge and juror...he'll deal with me in his own due time but to pick and choose when you want to be there for someone who is supposed to be your friend that is having a baby? That's ridiculous...it's all or nothing.
The really sad thing about all this and how some people act is the same ones that judge you, can EASILY be judged for their behavior but they don't even realize it. The person who said she didn't want to support me having a baby out of wedlock, she has based how she feels on "biblical standards". I laughed inside because I've always known her to be this way but sometimes you think people have grown past certain things in their life. It's obvious she hasn't. Her life hasn't been 100% sparkly clean...not since we were kids and not even now. If we were to talk about the things that God doesn't like that is going on in either of our lives, we'd both have our fair share to contribute...but I suppose since mine is more obvious (read: you can see me being pregnant) it is easier to pick at it.
Knowing that this is how she feels, it baffles me as to how she would think I would EVER ask her about anything regarding a child in the future. She doesn't understand that even though she might not be saying it every time she picks up the phone or IM's me, that underlying feeling is still there. Every time she cracks a joke about my situation, I'm going to feel some kind of way about it. If you don't agree with my situation, this is nothing to crack jokes about...EVER. I don't see how she could even fix her brain to process that her behaving like that is okay. I crack jokes with people who don't judge me because then I KNOW it's sincerely a joke...not really how you feel glazed over.
There really was no point to me sharing this with complete strangers...I just didn't want to think about it anymore after today so I wrote about it. Comment if you want or don't.


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Outdoor Season
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Local SEO is all important when it comes to the virtual world. The Local SEO is a great tool in the overall improvement of the business's visibility and in attracting local customers.
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Since most of the local customers are turning to the internet through desktop and mobile to find a local business, the Local SEO helps a lot in the generation of better exposure of the business. The local SEO helps you in getting ranked in Search Engines like Yelp, Superpages, GMB, Bing Places and many other local power places listings websites.
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About Film Prize - Project Market Amman
How to Apply
Project Market Amman - Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung
The Royal Film Commission – Jordan started in 2012 a partnership with the German foundation the Robert Bosch Stiftung with the aim of supporting collaboration between young filmmakers from Jordan and the Arab world on one hand, and those from Germany on the other.
The Robert Bosch Stiftung issues three annual Film Prizes for international cooperation between young German and Arab filmmakers to realize a joint film project. The prizes, each worth 60,000 euros, are awarded in the following categories: short animation, documentary, and short fiction film.
Each year and in cooperation with the Royal Film Commission – Jordan, the Robert Bosch Stiftung invites up to twenty emerging talented Arab film directors from the Middle East, Iraq and the Gulf region to meet with up to fifteen promising German producers at the Project Market Amman. The Arab directors must apply with film projects in one of the above-mentioned categories.
For the seventh consecutive year, the Project Market Amman was held in April 2018. During the five-day event, a diverse program offered the filmmakers from the Arab World and Germany various occasions to get to know each other, to introduce each other's work, to talk in detail about the directors' project and to exchange knowledge and experiences. Joint events and excursions helped to intensify the newly acquainted contacts.
The meetings between directors and producers do not necessarily have to result in a partnership but can help them gain the experience of an international co-production market and extend their network. In the event that a team is formed, the first step towards preparing a joint application for the following round of the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung is accomplished.
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Science 1998; 281(14): 898-907. "The (Political) Science of Salt"Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Abstract (Summary)
Taubes discusses the debate over the benefits of salt reduction, which shows how the demands of good science clash with the pressures of public health policy.
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The last 5 years have also seen two studies published-the latest this past March in The Lancet-suggesting that low-salt diets can increase mortality. Both studies were done by Michael Alderman, a hypertension specialist at New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine and president of the American Society of Hypertension. Epidemiologists-and Alderman himself-caution against putting too much stock in the studies. "They are yet more association studies," says Swales. "Any insult you make of Intersalt you can make of those as well." But Alderman also notes that only a handful of such studies comparing salt intake to mortality have ever been done, and none have come out definitively negative. "People just rely upon statements that [salt reduction] can't really do any harm," says Swales. "It may or may not be true. Individual harmful effects can be as small as beneficial effects, and you can't detect those in clinical trials either."
After publication of his second study, Alderman recruited past and present presidents of hypertension societies and the American Heart Association and wrote to Lenfant at the NHLBI "urging prompt appointment of an independent panel of qualified medical and public health scientists to review existing recommendations [on salt consumption] in light of all available data." In April Lenfant told Science that he had agreed to proceed with the review. If such a panel should convene, Hennekens has one observation worth keeping in mind: "The problem with this field is that people have chosen sides," he says. "What we ought to do is let the science drive the system rather than the opinions."


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Mechanical Fitter
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Mechanical Fitter - Days Only
Salary: £24,000 - £28,000
Location: Wolverhamtpon
An exciting job opportunity has arisen to join my client as a Mechanical Fitter. Working as part of the Engineering team, you will be repairing, modifying and assembling rotational equipment, including industrial gearboxes, pumps compressors, motors and other industrial equipment as required.
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