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Tradition and Vision
Tradition and Vision
This chapter considers Hekhalot literature to show that the Sar ha-Torah narrative from this corpus responds to the Talmudic academies' ideology of Torah study, presenting an alternative vision for Jewish culture in which retention and recitation are central rather than marginalized. It argues that this response correlates with other Hekhalot texts that recruit powerful images such as heavenly vision, transformation, and angelic liturgy to the project of memorizing and reciting the Oral Torah. It also contends that there is some evidence that the individuals whom the Babylonian Talmud marks as its opponents—the tanna'im—had a role in the shaping of Hekhalot traditions. Finally, the chapter suggests, based on the fact that the Hekhalot texts enter Jewish history as texts transmitted by Babylonian reciters, as well as on other connections between the tanna'im and Hekhalot texts, that the Babylonian reciters took active part in the shaping of Hekhalot traditions.
Keywords: recitation, Hekhalot literature, Sar ha-Torah narrative, Torah study, Jewish culture, liturgy, Oral Torah, Babylonian Talmud, tanna'im, Hekhalot tradition
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"Now God can work with us. We have a new nature that God can build up and work with. We can praise God for that, because that is the only thing He can work with. We can't do anything with the old nature. God can't do anything with it. He says that it is only fit to die, and it must rest there. Then you and I must reckon it to be a fact and keep it there - not because Satan has the ability to bring it back, but because he works in the feelings. He makes you think it is fact because you make a mistake and you sin. He whispers in your ear, "if it was really dead, you wouldn't have committed a sin." He gets you to commit a sin, then he turns around and blames you for committing it." Frank Phillips
These are my own notes and are not a word-for-word transcript of the message. However, by listening multiple times to the sermon and filling in what was missed previously, I have attempted to get as close as I can to what was shared. Quotations have, in many cases, been expanded to the sentences around what the speaker quoted to enable the reader to gain the full impact of what was shared in the sermon. Where the speaker referred to quotations without giving a reference, I have attempted to find the quotation that most closely reflects what was being shared. - © Cheryl Hosford
2 Peter 1:5-8
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are talking about some very important items, as our message tonight is the first message on sanctification. This message of sanctification will be given in two meetings. There is much misunderstanding in this area. We will not be going into the theological differences that we find within the church or outside of the church. We will try again to study the "how" of sanctification. If we understand the "how," we recognize that the results will be right.
When you crucify something,
Galatians 5:24 - "And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts."
When you crucify something, you can't half crucify it. It is either crucified or it is not crucified. It must be. There is no other way.
Romans 6:11 - "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." - not halfway but completely dead to sin. Immediately, there comes into the human mind the question, "if I am dead to sin, then why do I sin?" Because there is no answer to that, one thinks that we must have a dual nature. This is totally and completely unscriputural in every respect.
When we get into the seventh chapter, we get into the transition period between justification and sanctification, which every solitary person goes through. We went through this in a previous session and don't have time to go through it now.
That is why the world is caught in the Satan's trap, because almost everything that we do, we do because
I sin,
I sin again
What am I repenting for? I don't like the feeling of the guilt. This is nothing but absolute selfishness. It is not God's plan under any circumstance.
I didn't intend to read this, but I will anyway. There is a statement that Ellen White makes on this.
1 Selected Messages, p. 108
At times you may have a desire to repent. But unless you decidedly reform and put into practice the truths you have learned, unless you have an active, working faith, a faith that is constantly increasing in strength, your repentance is as the morning dew. It will give no permanent relief to the soul. A repentance caused by a spasmodic exercise of the feelings is a repentance that needs to be repented of; for it is delusive. A violent exercise of the feelings, which does not produce in you the peaceable fruits of righteousness, leaves you in a worse state than you were in before.
Who is doing this job? Who is promoting this type of thing. If this is true, then how does God work?
When I was a boy, I was the youngest of three children. My mother loved the Lord, but she didn't know exactly what she was doing always, as most of us didn't when we were raising our children. I remember I would get myself into trouble and I would be a bit stubborn. That is not really my nature -but it came out when I was young. (audience chuckle.) I would do something bad and mother would try to get me to repent or confess. I was stubborn and I wouldn't, so she would say, "you go sit on that stool then, in the corner." My brother and sister would run around playing. I would sit there, but I wasn't dumb in the least. I would see them playing and me sitting. I would say, "this isn't getting me anywhere." So I would shout "I'm sorry, mother." She would say, "Alright, you may get down and play." It didn't take me very long to learn that I didn't have to sit on the stool very long. I repented because I wanted to play. I repented because I wanted my own way.
He places His robe of righteousness around me, I am a member of the family of God - more than adopted - we are grafted in, and become members of His flesh and bone.
By faith, this is actually real in our lives.
Paul says this is an actual fact. God does not condemn us - what does He do? If I make a mistake, what does He do? He treats me as a true father treats his son. He puts his arm around me and in love, leads me to calvary. I take a look at calvary and I respond as David responded. David was a man after God's own heart (Acts 13:22) - not because he never made any mistakes, but every time he made a mistake he didn't try to hide it or excuse it. He faced it and said, "That's right." He went to God in repentance.
We could very easily ask the question, "Is there any time that I have sinned that I didn't blame it upon circumstances or people?" It is never our fault. It is our natural response to blame it on something else. But David came to the point in his experience where he excused nothing, he blamed nothing. He said, "I am the man." He said, "God, create in me a clean heart and renew in me a right spirit." (Psalm 51:10) I have to be a new person entirely. We have to have the same experience.
Paul says this condition applies to those who are "in Christ Jesus." Romans 8:1 - "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." The spirit of the Lord Jesus comes in and guides me.
If you have a habit of marking in your Bible, mark that there is an explanatory note in verse 2. "For the law, of the Spirit (insert comma) of life in Christ Jesus, (insert comma) hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Doesn't that make sense. You can leave the commas out and it still makes a full sentence. That is right. What is the law of the spirit? Life in Christ Jesus. Did Jesus ever give the Holy Spirit anything else to do? He said, "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. John 16:13. He is not going to talk about Himself - He is going to talk about Jesus. That is all. He was going to bring back everything that Jesus had said to them. When that occurred, the disciples were so absolutely amazed, the said, "if only we had our life to live over again. We spent three and a half years with Him and we didn't even listen to Him. We heard Him say these things, but oh what a difference it would have made if we had believed Him!" They heard, but they didn't hear. Have you ever done that? We read, but we don't perceive. That is exactly what their condition was. But now, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to bring back to their rememberance so that they would know what it is to live the life in Christ Jesus.
That is sanctification. Walking with Jesus every moment of every day. God gives to us a much more detailed account of exactly what it is.
2 Thessalonians 2:13, "But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth."
1 Thessalonians 5:23, "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; (completely) and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Walking with Jesus every moment of every day.
It is the God ordained process to retain justification.
7 Bible Commentary, p. 908
Justification means the saving of a soul from perdition, that he may obtain sanctification, and through sanctification, the life of heaven. Justification means that the conscience, purged from dead works, is placed where it can receive the blessings of sanctification.
Sanctification has a preparatory work of justification. That preparatory work does something for us by helping us to relate properly to sanctification.
Ellen White makes a statement to the effect of, "Sanctification is God's process whereby we retain justification." It is the God ordained process to retain justification.
With this thought in mind, we will look at what happens. Last session, we talked about the will. I don't want it to disturb your thinking, but I want it to be part of this.
Desire of Ages, p. 38
None but Christ can fashion anew the character that has been ruined by sin.
It is not part of God and part of you.
Satan does not want us to know this. He does everything he can to keep us from believing this.
None but Christ can fashion anew the character that has been ruined by sin. He came to expel the demons that had controlled the will. He came to lift us up from the dust, to reshape the marred character after the pattern of His divine character, and to make it beautiful with His own glory.
You remember that Adam surrendered to Satan the will of the entire human family, and hence yours and mine, when he yielded to sin. Ever since, Satan has been doing according to his pleasure in the will of man. When you understand this, it is only Christ who can expel these demons. You can take your will out of his hands and then Christ expels these demons out that had controlled the will. I am not a believer in demon possession, per se. But I do know that everyone of us is controlled by Satan, because Adam surrendered the will of man to him. He surrendered for you and me. We were born with a sinful nature.
Desire of Ages, p. 466
Every soul that refuses to give himself to God is under the control of another power. He is not his own. He may talk of freedom, but he is in the most abject slavery. He is not allowed to see the beauty of truth, for his mind is under the control of Satan. While he flatters himself that he is following the dictates of his own judgment, he obeys the will of the prince of darkness. Christ came to break the shackles of sin-slavery from the soul. "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" sets us "free from the law of sin and death." Rom. 8:2.
In Romans 8:2, we learned that Christ in reality sent the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's work is to guide us by helping us to understand what "life in Jesus" is all about.
Desire of Ages, p. 805
The Holy Spirit is the breath of spiritual life in the soul. The impartation of the Spirit is the impartation of the life of Christ. It imbues (satureates) the receiver with the attributes of Christ.
That is what the Spirit does. It does not give you some euphoria or feeling. It gives you the peace and joy and fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ, walking with Him moment-by-moment, day-by-day.
Desire of Ages, p. 762
The law requires righteousness,--a righteous life, a perfect character; and this man has not to give. He cannot meet the claims of God's holy law. But Christ, coming to the earth as man, lived a holy life, and developed a perfect character. These He offers as a free gift to all who will receive them. His life stands for the life of men. Thus they have remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God.
This is justification. Now the transition. Justification is absolute, wonderful, perfect and complete. We can have complete confidence. Sanctification does not add anything. But justification is a legal work taking care of my record and not changing me.
Desire of Ages, p. 762 (cont.)
More than this, Christ imbues men with the attributes of God. He builds up the human character after the similitude of the divine character, a goodly fabric of spiritual strength and beauty. Thus the very righteousness of the law is fulfilled in the believer in Christ. God can "be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." Rom. 3:26.
If He is building a human character, we must take careful note of this and make this transition in our thinking. If He is building a human character and He begins with sanctification to build and saturates the human character, yet I do not have a new character, this becomes a total impossibility. For He has already told us in Romans 8:7 that the carnal nature is enmity against God and is not subject to the law of God, neither can be. There is no way God can do anything with it. That nature has to die before justification and then Paul tells us that all things become new. We are new creation, new creatures.
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Then you and I must reckon it to be a fact and keep it there - not because Satan has the ability to bring it back, but by causing you to sin, he works to destroy your faith in justification.
Do you know it works. It works hundreds and thousands of times. People then say, "this righteousness by faith business works for some people, but it doesn't work for me, because I keep on sinning." Because they sin, they take this as evidence that they aren't reborn. Now the new birth doesn't guarantee sinlessness. God says through John in 1 John 2:1, "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: "
This must become habitual in us. It must become absolutely habitual. Now what is natural is to protect self - to defend what we have done. We think we can hide behind it and blame someone else for what we have done. David says that is not the way we should do it. That is what we must learn also.
The followers of Christ become like Him by the grace of God. What did we learn that grace is? The charcter of God.
Christ's Object Lessons, p. 271 - the only place in all the writings of Ellen White that I have found that grace, or justification is defined.
"To learn of Christ means to receive His grace, which is His character."
Great Controversy, p. 469 defines Sanctification.
The followers of Christ are to become like Him--by the grace of God to form characters in harmony with the principles of His holy law. This is Bible sanctification.
6 Bible Commentary 1117
The sanctification of the soul is accomplished through steadfastly beholding Him [Christ] by faith as the only-begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth. The power of truth is to transform heart and character.
Justified Life, p. 9 (Also in The Faith I Live By, p 119)
Bible sanctification does not consist in strong emotion. Here is where many are led into error. They make feelings their criterion. When they feel elated or happy, they claim that they are sanctified. Happy feelings or the absence of joy is no evidence that a person is or is not sanctified. . . . Those who are battling with daily temptations, overcoming their own sinful tendencies, and seeking for holiness of heart and life, make no boastful claims of holiness. They are hungering and thirsting for righteousness. Sin appears to them exceedingly sinful.
Desire of Ages p. 312
The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.
Justification is imputed, sanctification is imparted. We have the imputed - credited to, and the imparted - given to, actually, practically. So the attributes of Christ's character are given to - actually, literally. The image of the divine begins to shine.
The faces of men and women who walk and work with God express the peace of heaven. They are surrounded with the atmosphere of heaven. For these souls the kingdom of God has begun. They have Christ's joy, the joy of being a blessing to humanity. They have the honor of being accepted for the Master's use; they are trusted to do His work in His name.
They consider it a joy to be
The issue is that we have to get rid of self. We are so conscious of what the blessings of God will bring to me. But that can only be a blessing to me as He uses me to be a channel to be a blessing to others. Only then is it a blessing to me. But it doesn't come to me unless I am a channel through which it goes to someone else. Do you believe that? "They have the honor of being accepted for the Master's use; they are trusted to do His work in His name."
This is the only thing that God
God takes the old nature and destroys it. The new nature, instead of having hatred against God, develops a hatred against sin. This is the only thing that God intended that we have hatred for. Jesus hated sin and loved people. Satan makes us hate people and love sin. Don't tell me that he hasn't given you a sample of it. That is his plan. God turns this completely around. We are told that in no being was that hatred developed in such
When we see all the things that are accomplished in sanctification, we see that it is utterly impossible.
6 Bible Commentary, p. 1080
We see by experience that in our own human strength, resolutions and purposes are of no avail. Must we, then, give up our determined efforts? No; although our experience testifies that we cannot possibly do this work ourselves, help has been laid upon One who is mighty to do it for us.
6 Bible Commentary, p. 1080 (cont.)
But the only way we can secure the help of God is to put ourselves wholly in His hands, and trust Him to work for us. As we lay hold of Him by faith, He does the work. The believer can only trust. As God works, we can work, trusting in Him and doing His will.
2 Peter 1:1-9
1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
This is to those who have obtained like precious faith. This is a general epistle - who is he addressing this epistle to? those who have been justified. They have accepted the righteousness of Jesus by faith. These are justified believers. Peter has a burden for these individuals.
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
Grace (God's Character) and God's peace be multiplied to you. Ellen White tells us that God works on the basis of multiplication, while we work on the basis of addition. He multiplies while we add to. Don't get confused when we say that we "add to". In reality, we let Him add to - and He does both the adding and the multiplying.
Acts of the Apostles, p. 529 - 534
"The work of transformation from unholiness to holiness is a continuous one. Day by day God labors for man's sanctification, and man is to co-operate with Him, putting forth persevering efforts in the cultivation of right habits. He is to add grace to grace; and as he thus works on the plan of addition, God works for him on the plan of multiplication. "
"through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord" - isn't that what Jesus prayed in John 17:3, "this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." This is life eternal - that they might know God. To know God is to love Him. To love Him is to serve Him. That is life eternal. Walking with Jesus Christ. What an absolute clear picture!
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Whereby - for this purpose, for this reason - that we might obtain a knowledge of Him and be partakers of His nature - God has given us precious promises, that involve this kind of relationship.
If you want to connect this with something interesting, go back and study this in connection with Romans 7. You will understand why Paul said, "For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." (Romans 7:9) The law, when it came to me and it showed me lust ("for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Romans 7:7) Read what Ellen White describes as lust, and you will discover that Paul was talking about something that plagues everyone of us, for he was talking about an illicit desire for anything.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
Justification is the only perfection you will ever attain. That is what you will be judged by.
Sanctification is a vital part, because it keeps justification current. It keeps it valid.
Ellen White tells us that justification is our title to heaven. Sanctification is our fitness for heaven. The first is imputed, the second is imparted.
The Faith I Live By, p. 116
The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven. {FLB 116.2}
I find difficulty in defining it, but I like to put it this way. Suppose you own a piece of property. You have a title for it, a clear title deed. There is an institution called the government that has a process that they say demonstrates your fitness to be the owner of the property. You need to recognize it once a year, or else you will find that someone else owns the property and you still hold the title.
It is possible to hold a title to heaven and never be able to claim it. Just the same as you could not claim the property, after you refused to pay the taxes.
God says, "You must walk with Me." Walking with God is the way God has designed for me to show my appreciation for what he has done for me in justification. It is saying, "Thank you Jesus, for that unspeakable gift." That is what it is all about.
In the handout, is a small portion of Ellen White's commentary on these verses. (Acts of the Apostles, p. 529 - 534). The other ladder handout there are 2 ladders with many quotations and verses listed. (To enhance your study time of this handout, the complete verses and quotations of the ladder handout are online in the page "ladder details.")
Ellen White, in Great Controversy, p. 470
Peter sets before us the steps by which Bible sanctification is to be attained: "Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. . . . If ye do these things, ye shall never fall.
This is the process by which Bible Sanctification is to be attained. I am glad that God does not leave us in the dark as to how we receive justification or sanctification. He makes it crystal clear. All of the argumentation would cease if we would simply accept God's plan. Man cannot change it no matter how long he argues. He can do what ever he wants to, but he cannot change it. This is still God's only way. I believe it because inspiration has given it to us.
Acts of the Apostles, p. 530
These words are full of instruction, and strike the keynote of victory. The apostle presents before the believers the ladder of Christian progress, every step of which represents advancement in the knowledge of God, and in the climbing of which there is to be no standstill. Faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity are the rounds of the ladder. We are saved by climbing round after round, mounting step after step, to the height of Christ's ideal for us. Thus He is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
A keynote is the note that keeps everything in harmony. God's plan of sanctification is the note that keeps the whole plan of salvation in harmony, and in reality, righteousness by faith becomes a harmonious picture if we understand this.
"Every step of which represents advancement in the knowledge of God" - to know God is what sanctification is all about. To know God needs to be done in a gradual way. If God were to reveal Himself to us in all of His glory and beauty, all at once, we wouldn't be able to take it. Gradually He reveals Himself to us, and gradually we are drawn to Him in that knowledge.
Every step of which represents advancement in the knowledge of God, and in the climbing of which there is to a lot of resting spots -- NO. No standstill. It doesn't mean that you graduate from one step to the other and you say that you have attained. I like to think of it as a rope ladder that as you go up you pick up the step with you. When you get to the top, you have all of the rungs with you and the steps keep multiplying. God keeps revealing Himself to us in each and every one of life's circumstances.
"We are saved by climbing round after round, mounting step after step, to the height of Christ's ideal for us. Thus He is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption."
Acts of Apostles, p. 532
Before the believer is held out the wonderful possibility of being like Christ, obedient to all the principles of the law. But of himself man is utterly unable to reach this condition. The holiness that God's word declares he must have before he can be saved is the result of the working of divine grace as he bows in submission to the discipline and restraining influences of the Spirit of truth.
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, p. 71
The Father's presence encircled Christ, and nothing befell Him but that which infinite love permitted for the blessing of the world. Here was His source of comfort, and it is for us. He who is imbued with the Spirit of Christ abides in Christ. The blow that is aimed at him falls upon the Saviour, who surrounds him with His presence. Whatever comes to him comes from Christ. He has no need to resist evil, for Christ is his defense. Nothing can touch him except by our Lord's permission, and "all things" that are permitted "work together for good to them that love God." Romans 8:28.
Acts of Apostles, p. 532 (Cont. from above)
Man's obedience can be made perfect only by the incense of Christ's righteousness, which fills with divine fragrance every act of obedience. The part of the Christian is to persevere in overcoming every fault. Constantly he is to pray to the Saviour to heal the disorders of his sin-sick soul. He has not the wisdom or the strength to overcome; these belong to the Lord, and He bestows them on those who in humiliation and contrition seek Him for help.
There it is again. "The part of the Christian is to persevere in overcoming every fault. " Right back into works. Anyone who believes in works will grab that say "There you are. I knew that you are not preaching the truth. "
"We must persevere in overcoming every fault." Ellen White is speaking the truth. But notice the next sentence. Have you ever heard anything about persevering in prayer? "Constantly he is to pray to the Saviour to heal the disorders of his sin-sick soul. He has not the wisdom or the strength to overcome; these belong to the Lord." So his perseverence and his strenuous effort must be applied where? on his knees in prayer. "He bestows them on those who in humiliation and contrition seek Him for help."
Let's read the next paragraph. (AA p. 532)
The work of transformation from unholiness to holiness is a continuous one. Day by day God labors for man's sanctification, and man is to co-operate with Him, putting forth persevering efforts in the cultivation of right habits. He is to add grace to grace; and as he thus works on the plan of addition, God works for him on the plan of multiplication. Our Saviour is always ready to hear and answer the prayer of the contrite heart, and grace and peace are multiplied to His faithful ones. Gladly He grants them the blessings they need in their struggle against the evils that beset them.
There are those who attempt to ascend the ladder of Christian progress; but as they advance they begin to put their trust in the power of man, and soon lose sight of Jesus, the Author and Finisher of their faith. The result is failure--the loss of all that has been gained. Sad indeed is the condition of those who, becoming weary of the way, allow the enemy of souls to rob them of the Christian graces that have been developing in their hearts and lives. "He that lacketh these things," declares the apostle, "is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins."
Who is the one laboring for man's sanctification? God! God labors for my sanctification. He is the one who accomplishes my sanctification. He is the one who accomplishes my justification. He is the one who is doing this job. "Man is to cooperate with him in putting forth persevering efforts in the cultivation of right habits." Here it looks like works again. I thought we had it all lined up - now we have it all flubbed up.
Let me ask you. If you were to cultivate a right habit, what would you do? Have you made a New Year's resolution? I know it didn't work, but you tried. What did you try? (answers from audience.) I hear somewhat the same thing. You do it over and over again. You decide what you are going to do, and then you school yourself into it.
You know, I am convinced that Ellen White chose words very carefully. She says that she was dependent for writing on the vision that she had seen, but yet the words that she wrote were her own. She chose words that depicted the very thing that God pictured for her. Here she uses the word "cultivate." If we want to understand it, all we need to do is change one word. If I said to you, how do we cultivate carrots? Would you have any problems? You know how to cultivate carrots, don't you? You break up the ground, you get rid of the weeds. What do you do with the carrot? You pet them and love them. "You say, "Lord, I've done everything I can. They are in your hands." He makes the carrots grow. He is the only one who can.
My two children, (who are now grown), when they were small, they loved to have a garden beside mine. One day they would plant the seeds, and the next day they would go out and uncover them. They wanted to see what was happening. When they saw a sprout coming up, they would try to stretch it up, to help it up a little bit more. They never did raise a garden. It didn't work.
You have to leave it in the Lords hands and take out only that which we are capable of doing.
Desire of Ages, p 250
He who loves Christ the most will do the greatest amount of good. There is no limit to the usefulness of one who, by putting self aside, makes room for the working of the Holy Spirit upon his heart, and lives a life wholly consecrated to God. If men will endure the necessary discipline, without complaining or fainting by the way, God will teach them hour by hour, and day by day. He longs to reveal His grace. If His people will remove the obstructions, He will pour forth the waters of salvation in abundant streams through the human channels. If men in humble life were encouraged to do all the good they could do, if restraining hands were not laid upon them to repress their zeal, there would be a hundred workers for Christ where now there is one.
God will do this if we remove the obstructions.
In another place, (1 Selected Messages, p. 124), she says,
There is nothing that Satan fears so much as that the people of God shall clear the way by removing every hindrance, so that the Lord can pour out His Spirit upon a languishing church and an impenitent congregation."
Obstructions and hinderances. That is what weeds are. So God wants us to cultivate these out. The problem is, we already learned that we don't have the capacity to do this. We can't get rid of these habits. We can't get rid of these weaknesses or bad characteristics - she already told us that we can't, yet we are to put forth persevering efforts in cultivation of right habits.
This is why we need to understand the power of the will. All God expects you to do is to recognize a weed from a carrot, and not call a carrot a weed and a weed a carrot. You say, "That's easy." No it isn't. I was giving this message in another place, and the next evening a man came in holding a wild carrot enclosed in his hands. The top looks like a tame one, and he asked me, "Is this a weed or a tame plant?" I told him, "You are going to have to open your hand before I am going to be able to tell you."
We must know the difference between a weed and a carrot. We must know a hindering factor and recognize it. The hindering factors are in our habit patterns that have been there for generations of time, and have been protected and covered, nourished and we have excused it by saying "I inherited that - my dad was like that, and his dad was like that, and it went clear back. You can't expect me to be any different."
When I choose to be free from this, God says, "You've just opened the door now. Now I will take it away."
God is waiting for us to recognize those things that are hindering Him from working in our lives. As soon as I recognize it, we must say, "Lord, I've been that way, and I've always protected it. But now, I see it as sin. I simply surrender it to You. I can't get rid of it. I've tried and tried. I'm helpless."
That is why Ellen White said, when men see their nothingness, then God can work.
Special Testimonies for Ministers and Workers, # 9, p. 62
What is justification by faith? -- It is the work of God in laying the glory of man in the dust, and doing for man that which it is not in his power to do for himself. When men see their own nothingness, they are prepared to be clothed with the righteousness of Christ. When they begin to praise and exalt God all the day long, then by beholding they are becoming changed into the same image. What is regeneration? -- It is revealing to man what is his own real nature, that in himself he is worthless. {SpTA09 62.1}
I see my helplessness - my total abject helplessness, God says, "I want to take it away." Then in a few days, or hours, He reveals another problem. I must face that the same way. As long as I face the problems as David did, then I am growing, growing, growing. Step by step.
1 My Life Today, p. 92
The trials of life are God's workmen to remove the impurities, infirmities, and roughness from our characters, and fit them for the society of pure, heavenly angels in glory. . . . The fire will not consume us, but only remove the dross, and we shall come forth seven times purified, bearing the impress of the Divine.
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing," pp. 23, 24
The trials of life are God's workmen, to remove the impurities and roughness from our characters. Their hewing, squaring, and chiseling, their burnishing and polishing, is a painful process, it is hard to be pressed down to the grinding wheel. But the stone is brought forth prepared to fill its place in the heavenly temple. Upon no useless material does the Master bestow such careful, thorough work. Only His precious stones are polished after the similitude of a palace.


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Seasonal affective disorder aka SAD .
A lesser known depression , or so I have found in my experience.
I personally don't suffer from SAD but I do know a few people who do .
SAD doesn't just mean you're just sad in certain seasons . It genuinely means you get depressed as the darker seasons come in .
This is due to the change in weather .
SAD comes around when there is less sunlight .
Symptoms of SAD can include:
A persistent low mood
A loss of pleasure or interest in normal everyday activities
Feelings of despair, guilt and worthlessness
Feeling lethargic (lacking in energy) and sleepy during the daysleeping for longer than normal and finding it hard to get up in the morning
Craving carbohydrates and gaining weight
Here's a few little facts I have found about SAD and what causes it .
The main theory is that a lack of sunlight might stop a part of the brain called the hypothalamus working properly, which may affect the:
Production of melatonin – melatonin is a hormone that makes you feel sleepy; in people with SAD, the body may produce it in higher than normal levels
Production of serotonin – serotonin is a hormone that affects your mood, appetite and sleep; a lack of sunlight may lead to lower serotonin levels, which is linked to feelings of depression
Body's internal clock (circadian rhythm) –your body uses sunlight to time various important functions, such as when you wake up, so lower light levels during the winter may disrupt your body clock and lead to symptoms of SAD
It's also possible that some people are more vulnerable to SAD as a result of their genes, as some cases appear to run in families.
So how can you treat SAD ?
There are many ways .
The main treatments are:
Lifestyle measures, including getting as much natural sunlight as possible, exercising regularly and managing your stress levels
Light therapy – where a special lamp called a light box is used to simulate exposure to sunlight
Talking therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) or counselling , antidepressant medication, such asselective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Studies have also shown that upping your intake of vitamin D and Omega 3 can help you and SAD .
So salmon is highly recommended for Omega 3 🙂
Other foods like Berries are also recommended . They help prevent the release of cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal gland.
When stressed, cortisol heads towards your hippocampus, a major portion of the brain that stores memories, provides emotional responses, and navigation.
Folic Acid
Vitamin B12
Dark chocolate
And Bananas are also recommended as a way to help SAD.
Although SAD is seasonal , it should still be treated like any other depression , when it comes to others .
Just because people don't suffer with it for 12 months a year , does not mean that they don't have depression , or that they don't understand it .
I found it interesting reading up on SAD and learning a little about it .
I now know a little more about my friends illnesses .
I thought I would blog as I went along 🙂
I hope this is somewhat helpful to others too .
Thanks for reading !!


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Mannara Chopra is an Indian film actress and model who predominantly works in Hindi and Telugu films. She is the cousin of famous actress Priyanka Chopra.] She made her Bollywood debut with the film Zid (29nov 2014).
After completing her education, Mannara moved to Mumbai, where she started her career in modelling and moved into advertising. She made 30-35 commercials, three of them alongside her cousin Priyanka Chopra,including one for Dabur Amla Hair Oil, which she said won her "instant recognition" and landed her an offer in Telugu films. She had also appeared in Amit Trivedi's song '"Bas bajna chahiye", the theme song for Gaana.com. Besides, she has worked as a fashion designer and as an assistant choreographer, being trained in dance forms like hip hop and belly dancing.Done 4 more films post ZID .


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Chinese Food
"Chinese food" is the very popular food on earth, but true Chinese food has lots of differences with Japanese food! Listed below are 15 or so more details to educate and jolt you.
1. World's Largest Range of Flavors — It Is Not All the Same!
Did you know that Chinese food has 5 Key Flavors that has to be balanced based on Traditional Chinese Medication — sweet, salty, sour, sour, and hot?
Flavors change considerably across China. By way of instance, Sichuan cuisine is famed for sweet spiciness, Hong Kong cuisine is sweet or sour, northern cuisine is salty, and also southern minority cuisine is sour.
2.The colder, dryer north favors wheat generation, therefore northerners eat dumplings, wheat noodles, steamed buns, and packaged buns mainly.
From the south, Chinese eat foods of rice or rice noodles with virtually every meal (also as far greater types of fruit and veg), and just sometimes eat wheat.
3. Chinese Eat Practically Everything That Moves!
Foreigners are usually shocked exactly what Chinese eat.
Watch Unusual Ingredients in Coffee That May Shock You.
Know more about this 5 Weirdest and Many Unique Chinese Dishes. Enormous Amounts of Vegetables.
4.Different vegetables in a marketplace.
Chinese consume a lot more fruit/vegetables than at the West — roughly twice as much dietary fiber… leading to bowel motions twice the magnitude of Western people!
5. Crazy Vegetable Variety.
Crazy number isn't confined to China's "meats"… Lots of China's veggiesand fruit that you won't have noticed or heard of before, such as pomeloes, sour cucumber, yard-long yams, shrub parasites, as well as heaps of untranslatable weed-like plants.
6. It Has to be New in China — Canned/Frozen Food Spurned.
Wet markets (in which live/freshly-butchered creatures and recently picked foods are offered) abound in China — nearly one per city block. Many Chinese move daily. Fridge freezers are catching on, but new veg remains essential. Tins are loathed.
Additionally, based on Chinese medicine meals has to be consumed in year to fight a lot of yin (cold weather) and yang (hot weather), dryness, or dampness. E.g. enormous white radishes (with higher yang) are remarkably common in winter.
7.Chinese do not like waste, therefore entire animals are often functioned.
E.g. fish aren't filleted, only gutted, with bones and head intact. Occasionally bones are soft enough to chew up; occasionally they need to be de-mouthed (on a side plate).
Chinese consider meat close to the bones would be your best, which marrow is quite nutritious, therefore bones are intentionally sliced to splinters to publish the marrow — see while eating. Bone broth is a favorite.
8.Chinese do not eat with forks and knives, traditionally, that can be regarded as violent or barbaric, but using chopsticks. As chopsticks do not really chop, all meals is quite soft or chopped into bite-size bits before cooking.
9.That is an unremarkable average of 3 or 2 pairs per month because of its upcoming 1.4 billion people. The government has levied a disposable chopstick taxation to decrease usage.
Many (disposable) chopsticks are bamboo or fleece, so that is about 100 square miles or that the region of Queens of trees/bamboo… or even 50,000 tonnes — envision trucks of chopsticks lined up intact for 30 miles.
10. The Identical Thing Could Be Cooked a Dozen Ways.
11.Chinese food chefs, especially Jiangsu cuisine specialists, go overboard online demonstration. Dishes are served in exact patterns or lifelike contours, typified by elaborate vegetable carvings and cosmetic herbs.
12. Dish Titles Could Be Misleading
Chinese prefer to contribute to dishes tricky names. Some titles don't have anything to do with their own ingredients.
13.Chinese attach specific meanings to particular foods based on shapes, colours, pronunciations, and legends.
Superstition and heritage dictate specific foods must be consumed for specific festivals/events to invoke a boon.
By way of example, ingot-shaped dumplings mean prosperity at New Year, and around mooncakes signify family reunion at Mid-Autumn.
14. Dishes Are Common Lazy-Suzy-Style.
In traditional Chinese foods, dishes have been shared communally. Dishes are served at the midst of a desk, and people sit with their rice bowls round it.In restaurants, particularly for tables seating 10 or 12, there are normally idle Susan turntables to allow easy sharing among diners. Watch What Restaurants Are Just Like in China.
15.The honored guest is seated furthest in the door using the fish, poultry, duck… heads pointing his manner.


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Transcendent meaning: An attempt of a part of you, you as a whole again with the nature, the earth and with that what is natural, to connect. Psychologically: Aviation are depreciated as a rule as ugly and tiresome, - that they just as the ants play an important role in the process of decay, it is overlooked with pleasure. Aviation in a dream require from the dreaming that he must argue with certain aspects in his life which he holds for exclusively negative which have, however, nevertheless, also a positive side. Because only single insects move aimlessly, an insect dream, nevertheless, not, indicates an aviation dream in the dream that the dreaming is more actual and more effective if he joins in certain situations of a group. Insects of all kind draw the attention of the dreaming as a rule to primary instinctive behaviour which is important to survival. What threatens the dreaming, threatens him at a basic level. Fly often appears with irritated, nervous and moody people who should try then to stabilise her nerves. Other interpretations are possible above all from the following accompanying circumstances in the dream: tiresome people or things which we would rather like to forget also however circumscribe aviation. aviation can catch on the fact point out that one has got involved in a useless underpinned and will thereby take damage. flypaper promises either that one will achieve a success without own strains, or warns about too much gullibility with which one threatens to fall for the tricks of others. Many flies in a room can point to informal problems and disputes. one interprets fly in a drink traditionally as a warning of quarrel and annoyance. Spiritually: At the spiritual level symbolise aviation in the dream soiling and warn about illness. Popular: (arab).: aviation and mosquitoes mean news of enemies and illness, - also: one will deal it with disagreeable people, Dreaming of the emperors, it whirred where he stays, bad news which arrives about his war people grief, worries and bitterness will prepare dreams of aviation and mosquitoes near, for him, - the same interpretation applies for the generals. Dreaming this a pauper or my husband, will approach him misery, illness and a bitter end. If it seems to one as if aviation or mosquitoes crowd in in large amounts in his mouth or in his nostrils, he will experience with torment and pains the setting of enemies. one has of penetrating aviation or mosquitoes in large quantities in an area one, there the inspiration of enemies and the torture of the inhabitants to gewärtigen. see: go for your enemies from the way, many see on a heap: a big frustration approaches you, at the window see: you must count with a cold time, on dishes see: some of your friends are parasites and use you, are swarmed by many: if tells annoyance and incommodities in which originate from Klatschereien catch: remain on the right path, so that you do not come to damage, - also: you are decided, however, you must soon decide, see catching themselves: one should allow to make not nervous from his occupation or his environment, are stung of it: is on the alert for swindlers, beat to death: you know how to meet your enemies, - you can hold disagreeable people from yourself, - also: Signs for the attempt to remove adversities from the way, however, without success! (pers).: The fly warns the person concerned about the acceptance, his behaviour is not transparent for other. Though the people of his surroundings cannot look by the mask, but they see the mask themselves. The dreaming should pay attention very much to what he says and how he acts because his call stands at stake: Several people already doubt his integrity. (European ones).: mostly on nervous irritations, - can also be an expression of disagreeable mood, - also: be threatened by a contagious illness or be surrounded by enemies, see: one becomes sad and are offended, - a being close person uses your good nature since some time, one finds out who is it and carries on a conversation, the clear relations create, many see flying around: means that you have violent enemies, they try to slander you and to cheat, catch and kill: registers that one will remain a winner about hostility and Widerwärtigkeiten, - one will remove an opponent, agree in the mouth: one will get to act with a cheeky person, on a flypaper see sticking: if a lot of success promises without big trouble, of A young woman forecasts this symbol to misfortune. If she can kill the flies or expel, it will win back the love of her chosen. (ind).: want to catch: you will get by own guilt in need, in the room: Subordinates the luck will stand aside, see in a food or a drink: Danger and fright, are bothered by them: Hostility, kill: you will step aside incommodities, many flies see: Discord, - you have enemies. (See also insects)


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I've been hearing the name 'Migos' for years now. But just like alcoholism and heroin addiction, I did my best to avoid it even though it's everywhere. I've heard my share of shit rap and can pretty much predict how shitty the newest shit on the radio is going to be. Migos, however, blew my mind.
Migos is a "rap group" (quotes absolutely required) made up of three guys. Their unique rap style requires three people even though they "spit rhymes" at the breathtaking speed of one word per 1.5 seconds. Kids who recite the alphabet in school or count numbers are learning the same rap style that Migos uses. It's easy to break down their style; one guy says one word, second guy makes a random sound and the third guy says a word later. They need three guys and autotune for their spasticated rap. Even 'Twinkle Twinkle Litter Star' requires a faster flow than these guys have. If rap is art then these guys are kids with crayons.
They even collaborate with other one-word rappers like Lil Yachty (Cheetos-haired burnt turd looking dude with annoying voice), Lil Uzi Vert Yachty (Cheetos-haired burnt turd looking dude with annoying voice) and Post Malone (Teenage girl with a fake beard and annoying voice pretending to be a rapper).
Their videos have hundreds of millions of views each on Youtube, making them the most economical rappers of all time. These guys are easily making the most money any rapper has made while using the least number of words possible, even if you double their word count by considering sounds like "kah" and "skrrt skrrt" as words.
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Their style only makes sense if you consider that they're asthmatic rappers and only have the lung capacity to say one word at a time. The most amazing part is that despite talking slowly, people have a hard time understanding what they're saying. I've been listening to hip-hop for a decade and I've listened to every Migos track I could find but I still have no clue what they're trying to say. They must be consuming some combination of weird drugs like cough syrup and scorpion venom to come up with such stuff because I have no other explanation.
People get worried that these mumble rappers are the future of hip-hop music. Migos is not the future of hip-hop because Migos is not hip-hop. Music like this is different genre that I call 'starter-kit rap' or 'disabled rap'.


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If you've been following my blog, you'd know by now that I have a very creative 3yr old with an incredibly active imagination! The days of her stripping, pulling her poopie diaper off and finger painting on the wall are gone. The bedroom has been emptied of anything that she could possibly have fun with during naptime. The lamp has been removed, so she can't wear the lampshade on her head as she dances around the room. The toy bin is gone, so she can not line up her dolls and stuffed animals, then cover them with band aids. Most of the art has been removed from the walls, so she can't rearrange it.
So what is left for her to do doing during naptime? Sleep, I would think, but now who am I kidding! So now really what is there left to do???? Well, to take apart her bed, of course and "paint" the walls with Vaseline! As I stared in wonderment at her room. I keep thinking how could this happen? I had removed everything that I thought she could get! The only thing I had left in the medicine closet of her bathroom was a small jar of Vaseline. A small jar of goo, aka Vaseline, would be way too appealing for my daughter. And now how did she reach the medicine cabinet? Well, she had opened each drawer of the bathroom vanity to create her own steps!
She explained to me that she was "cleaning" and the furniture needed to be polished. As I assessed the situation I see that she had "polished" the entire bed, 1/2 the wall, her bedding, and the mirrored closet doors. Yes, she was a busy bee! To top it off she pulled out the decorative flowers on her bed that covered the screws that hold her bed together. I am positive if she had been able to rig something together to get the screws out, she would have!
After all said and done the room is back to normal. It did take several washings to remove all of the Vaseline from the linens. The only hint left from the crime scene is the shiny patch of paint on the wall that now looks like a day glow pink!
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After the party broke up, Dexter said goodbye to the Pruetts and got ready to go back to the rental house. Naturally, Sasha was not ready for him to leave just yet and suggested they go for a walk before he left for good. There was a taxi stop around the corner where Dexter had arrived that afternoon, so they walked toward it and talked along the way about the music they were listening to at the moment.
He stopped walking and said, "This is the spot where I heard your music."
"Yeah. I was walking down this hill, and I was admiring all the trees and flowers and just all the life that Willow Creek has when I heard it. Then I saw the rocket, and I was like no way!"
"That's funny. I wonder if all legacy families have rockets," she said.
He shrugged his shoulders. "Probably."
The conversation lulled, and Sasha felt anxious. She wasn't ready to let him go yet. "I feel like you did the last time we saw each other."
"Heh, not fair, right?"
She smiled. "Not at all! Are you sure you can't stick around for another day or two?"
"Yeah," he said with a smile. "Ever since learning I am to be the heir, I've felt even more responsible for my family. I feel like I need to get back to them and have some conversations with my dad so I can do this heir thing right."
Sasha was slightly disappointed, but she understood. He saw that look and wanted to make her happier although he knew she wouldn't be unless he agreed to stay. "I want to stay and hang out with you. I haven't had this much fun since…since the concert! There is something about you that puts me at ease…I can be myself around you and…I enjoy that. I wish I could experience that kind of freedom all the time."
She took pleasure in knowing that he didn't want to leave. She wanted so badly to tell him how much her feelings toward him had changed. Perhaps if he knew how she felt, he would stay. She opened her mouth to tell him, but she couldn't do it. It would not have been right, and she knew he took his heirship seriously and needed to get back home. Instead, she said, "You're always free to come back," she said. "Or, I could come visit you again."
"We will see each other again soon," he said. "We won't let years go by again. I promise."
"Me too."
They stood there staring at each other as if they were trying to memorize every crease and curve of their faces. Perhaps years would not go by, but it would be long enough before they would be in each other's presence again. Tonight, their existence went back to silent letters on a screen accompanied with a still face.
"Let's take a picture," she suggested.
"Good idea!"
She took out her phone and they huddled close together and smiled.
She snapped the picture and they promptly inspected it. "Can I tell you something, Sasha?"
"You can tell me anything," she said with a hint of hopefulness.
"I think you're beautiful!"
She wasn't sure what to think or how to respond. What did it mean? Was he simply stating a fact, or was he attempting to convey something else? She didn't want to jump to conclusions and simply replied with "thank you."
"I wish could stand out here and talk to you all night. I should probably get back and get some sleep though."
"Yeah…you're right," she said with lowered eyes. "Will you let me know you made it home safely?"
"Of course," he said and embraced her for the second time that day.
"I'll miss you," she said. "More than you know…"


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John Legend Performs 'Love Me Now' with a Chrissy Teigen Cameo
John Legend gave fans an exclusive listen to new music from his upcoming album, Darkness & Light, via Facebook Live.
Legend performed his new ballad "Love Me Now" on Thursday (Oct. 6, 2016) and answered 20 questions from listeners. Though he did not provide an exact release date for Darkness & Light, Legend said that it is due out later this year and will feature collaborations with artists including Chance the Rapper, Blake Mills, and Brittany Howard from Alabama Shakes.
"The music is really, really, good," said Legend. "I think it's my best work yet."
The new father says that his latest music is inspired by happenings in his life, experiences with his wife, Chrissy Teigen, and their daughter Luna, who has a track dedicated to her on the album.
Catch Teigen's brief appearance in Legend's performance on Facebook Live below and watch the lyric video for "Love Me Now" at the top of the page.


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Whiskey and Cigarettes Country Radio Show is happy to announce the airing of their exclusive interview with Billboard Country Singles Chart-topper, Johnny Lee. Mr. Lee joined award-winning host, DJ Nik Bernitz Pizzigoni, to discuss his illustrious career, including the best-known of his FIVE #1 Billboard Country singles, "Lookin' For Love" from the Urban Cowboy movie soundtrack.
The interview with Johnny Lee will air this coming Sunday, May 28th, 2017 between 11am ET-3pm ET. The live show airs on Military Brotherhood Radio at http://www.militarybrotherhoodradio.com. Whiskey And Cigarettes is also re-broadcast on internet and am/fm syndicate stations, and their affiliates around the world. The show is also available on demand, on Soundcloud and at www.whiskeyandcigarettesshow.com.
Johnny Lee is an American country music singer. His 1980 single "Lookin' for Love" became a crossover hit, spending three weeks at number 1 on the Billboard country singles chart while also appearing in the Top 5 on the Billboard Pop chart and Top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. He racked up a series of country hits in the early and mid-1980s. From 1982 to 1984, Lee was married to Dallas actress Charlene Tilton, with whom he had a daughter Cherish (born 1982). He later had a son with ex-wife Deb whom he married in 1986, named Johnny Lee Jr. (1990-2014). After Johnny Lee, Jr. died at the age of 23 of a drug overdose, Lee became active in combating the illegal drug epidemic. In the fall of 2008 Lee began performing regularly in Branson, Missouri. For more information, please visit http://www.theofficialjohnnylee.com/.
Whiskey And Cigarettes Radio Show" is a weekly show, originating in Milan, Italy, hosted by the "Romeo of the Rodeo" Nik Pizzigoni. Nik is a Nashville Universe Awards Winner, International Music and Entertainment Association Award Winner, a New Music Awards Winner, AMG Heritage Awards nominee, and an Independent Country Music Association nominee. The show features a unique blend of classic, current and indie country, trivia, contests, artist spotlights and interviews and Nik's European charm. Previous guests have included Charley Pride, Hank Williams, Jr., Charlie Daniels, Steve Wariner, John Rich, Oak Ridge Boys, Lorrie Morgan, Bill Anderson, Luke Bryan, Bryan White, Travis Tritt, Lee Greenwood, Collin Raye and many others. www.whiskeyandcigarettesshow.com.


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Synthesis 20 percent project in action
Synthesis team will be selling raffle tickets before school for $1 for Cancer patients treatment. The raffle will be this Friday and winners can win one of the following gift cards to Starbucks, or Bread Co.
Student Council
Student Council is sponsoring a shoe drive for the Shoeman Water Project April 21st-May 9th. All types and sizes of shoes are accepted as long as they do not have holes in them. Please rubber band them together and place in a plastic bag before putting them in the collection box. Shoes are sold in countries where the people don't have access to clean water. The money made from the shoe sales is used to help build clean wells for the people living in the area. The collection box will be in the main lobby.
News from the library
- Keep bringing those overdue library books in this week and have your fine forgiven. That's just one of the ways to celebrate Hixson Library Week. And, if your account is clear, your name will be entered in a drawing for some great prizes. See the display in the library hall for more info.
- There are still 2 more days to participate in Hixson Library Week! Be one of those students who saves lots of money by bringing in overdue books and see your fine disappear! Clear your account and you could win a prize. Play library TicTacToe and sign up to read this summer!
Helping Hands have helped
The last meeting for Helping Hands will be tomorrow after-school in room 119. Please plan on being there if you were a part of the group. Thank you to the members and all who participated in the activities.
St. Louis Spirit
Last night the St. Louis Blues lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in overtime tying the series 2-2 and will play tomorrow. Therefore, tomorrow, Friday wear your St. Louis Blues attire.
HOWEVER, IN ORDER TO WEAR A HAT: either a Cardinal or St. Louis Blues Hat you will need to have a sticker and pay $1 which Harmony students will collect during 1st hour, all part of a students 20 percent project
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We invite suitably qualified persons to apply for the position of 'Sales Representative".
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Reporting to the Operations Managers, Electronic Security Solutions, the Sales Representative is generally responsible for marketing and selling the company's products and services.
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--
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When the kingdom discovers that their crown princess doesn't like cake, chaos ensues. How will the royal line ever continue? Cake is essential to a good marriage! (Not to mention, the rejection of his cake was deeply insulting to the baker-prince who proposed with it.)
Why I picked it up: I was expecting a cute fairy tale, but mostly I was really excited for a book about demisexuality. Asexuality (as in the umbrella term) in general is very rare in fiction, and demisexuality is even rarer.
The Princess Who Didn't Eat Cake is a fairytale written to explain demisexuality, and using cake as a metaphor for sex. The fairytale, however, is only about 40% of the ebook itself. Other contents include an essay by the author that explicitly explains demisexuality, with many popular culture examples – and there is also a series of recommendations with demisexual characters towards the end.
Overall, I am conflicted about The Princess Who Didn't Eat Cake, and by that I mean both the fairytale, and the entire book itself. As a fairytale, I did not find it very enjoyable – the cake metaphor was just painfully obvious, and in some places, downright uncomfortable when you replaced cake with sex (that is, the parts the princess is continuously pressured or even forced to try cake by various friends and family members). The essay about demisexuality also seemed unnecessarily lengthy to me at places, though that might be because I am already familiar with demisexuality – I am not sure what it would have been like to read that explanation if I've never heard of demisexuality before.
That being said, I still believe that this is an incredibly important book, and a recommended read for everyone who wants to understand demisexuality. Some parts of the metaphor/book also work for explaining asexuality, but the book makes it clear that the two are not exactly the same – I especially appreciated the part the princess felt like she had trouble explaining her feelings both to her cake-loving parents and her cake-rejecting friends.
I am sorry to say that The Princess Who Didn't Eat Cake is not a particulary great fairy tale – but that wasn't really the point anyway. The book (the tale, the essay and the recommendations together) do a great job of explaining demisexuality, and the recommendations on the end are especially appreciated.
Recommend: Yes. To everyone, basically. Despite my problems with it, I strongly believe this book is worth reading and an important take on demisexuality.
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This beautiful home has been recently renovated and sits on almost three acres of prime land overlooking the Caribbean Sea and neighborhood environs. The gardens are extensive and well manicured. There is a graceful driveway leading to the main house which sits almost entirely on one level.
There is a covered car port with direct access to the kitchen. The living room and dining room face the terrace which has shading from the trees littered in the flag stones. Glass doors and windows provide adequate light to filter throughout the entire home and corridor which accesses the bedrooms.
There is a guest ensuite which is the first bedroom, then two additional bedrooms separated by a jack and jill full bath. The master ensuite is very spacious towards the end of the hall and features a walk in closet and grand master bath. All bedrooms feature air conditioning and queen and king size beds. There is a laundry room and maid's quarters on the lower level. Available for long term rent inclusive of landscaping.


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Today, Citrix released VDI-in-a-Box V5.1. This release continues to focus on simplicity but it is packed with features to meet the needs of its maturing customer base. VDI-in-a-Box is geared to make it simple for a desktop IT administrator to stand up a production grade system in just hours. The features in release V5.1 further that ability.
Some of the features that address improved availability while making management even simpler include:
1) Virtual IP address allows administrators to provide end-to-end high availability with any end user device (e.g. iPads, thin clients) without requiring a load balancer. With V5.1, one server in the grid hosts the IP address and if it fails another takes over. An external load balancer is no longer required to direct the end user device to another server. This makes it even easier to setup a full production system while requiring less infrastructure thus saving both time and expenses.
2) Active Directory failover allows administrators to provide IP addresses of more than one Active Directory server so that if the primary fails, VDI-in-a-Box will automatically failover to another Active Directory server. This makes VDI-in-a-Box more resilient to outages in 3rd party systems. Note that Active Directory is only required if Windows Domains is used and is not required when using Windows Workgroup.
3) Integration with the latest Access Gateway from NetScaler to provide a dramatically simpler way to setup secure remote access to virtual desktops. The latest NetScaler Access Gateway provides a drastically simpler setup wizard and V5.1 integrates and works with it to make secure remote access simple.
4) A touchless VDI-in-a-Box agent which self-installs. Not only does this reduce the number of steps required to prepare virtual desktops it makes upgrading to future versions of VDI-in-a-Box truly effortless. The VDI-in-a-Box agent installed on older images are also automatically upgraded when you upgrade VDI-in-a-Box making it possible to stay current with little to no effort.
5) And finally, V5.1 uses the PVD layering technology available with XenDesktop to provide personalized desktops. With PVD, user installed data and applications are stored in a user specific layer that is used in conjunction with a base image. The benefit of this approach is that the user can install applications and personalize their desktop as they see fit while the administrator can continue to manage their desktop by administering and upgrading the base image. The result is personalized desktops for users coupled with single image management for administrators.
This is just a short list of the features available in V5.1. I hope you will take the time to try it out and let us know what else you'd like to see in the next release. Many of the above items are due to direct user feedback.


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FRANKFURT -- Germany's Deutsche Bank AG and Dresdner Bank AG have held exploratory discussions over a possible merger of their retail-banking operations, the two banks said.
But both banks said the talks are still far from any concrete merger negotiations. "We have had an initial exchange with Deutsche, on the expert level. It is one of many possibilities," Dresdner Bank spokesman Stefan Lutz said Sunday.


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4 Reasons You May Feel Fat
Have you ever worn a bra that was itchy and cut into your skin? You can't think of anything else except the moment when you can rush into your house and take that thing off. What we wear is important, but even more what affects us even more is what we wear underneath our clothes. How we feel emotionally about our body is not much different. To anyone else, our body might look just fine and the same as it did yesterday, but it doesn't matter what anyone else sees—some days we just feel "ugh…"
Fat is not a feeling. A defined emotion is frustrated, happy, sad, surprised, angry, but for some reason we reach for the inaccurate and insensitive word "fat." It doesn't matter how overweight, underweight, or completely normal a woman's body mass index is, she still has those days.
One way to overcome this big feeling is to break it down into small parts. What does it really mean to "feel fat"? I've listed four reasons below from personal experience, but please comment below (or email me at email@example.com) if you can relate in any other way. What we bring to light becomes light!
1. Out of Control
My fat feelings may be triggered by an extra jiggle that wasn't there before, the effort of squeezing shrunken workout pants over my legs, a bloated stomach, or catching a glimpse of my belly button poking out through the fabric of my shirt. My body has pushed beyond the limits of my clothing, so I feel out of control of my own body and its boundaries. A simple solution to this can be to buy better-fitting clothes. My stomach still sticks out from my ab separation, so clothes that are made of fabric that don't hug my body make me feel more comfortable. Another is to eat foods that agree with my body. Eating too much sodium, or foods that cause inflammation could cause fluid retention.
Other times, the root goes deeper than skin surface and I need to address my need to feel in control and my frustration of being unable to reign it all in. The Bible says that God is the one who is in control, so I don't need to feel like my world is falling apart when my stomach falls out of line. When I remember God keeps it all together, even when I'm sleeping, I can breathe a sigh of relief without worrying about how big the breath makes my belly.
God is in control:
"The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein" Psalm 24:1
"Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD is your keeper;
the LORD is your shade on your right hand." Psalm 121:4-5
He is good:
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' Exodus 19:5
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. Psalm 127:2
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Romans 8:32
2. Weighed Down
I looked down at our bathroom scale the other day, just curious to see what I weighed. I stepped on the scale and looked at the black and white numbers. That day, the numbers said to me, "I am a measure of gravity's pull on your body. Stuff yourself with the delightful food of this world, and it will reflect how much you are investing into your physical ties to the earth." I stepped away in detached disgust, knowing that these were just numbers and had no impact on my identity, yet they did reflect my decision to eat too many sweet potato chips the other day.
When I feel fat, I feel weighed down, both physically and spiritually. The scale might say I'm heavier, but my soul carries the brunt of the weight. The spiritual feelings range from anxiety to discouragement to shame depending on the day. But I know that God made me to stand upright, and to fix my eyes on heaven. There is so much language in the Bible about lifting us up out of the mire, out of the sea, out of the sticky places in our own minds. The Lord can us free from our own weightiness when we receive these words:
Anxiety: Let the Words of God speak kindness to you. "An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up." Proverbs 12:25
Discouragement: God is with you. "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9
Shame: When you look to the Lord, you can't also look at yourself: "Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed." Psalm 34:5
3. Discontent
If I'm feeling fat, I'm not happy with how I am. I'm focused on me, and I don't like what I see (or how I feel). I would never say this out loud within earshot of my two-year-old daughter, because I want to protect her heart. So what am I doing to mine? I say it in my head, or let it loose to my husband so I can justify being irritated at the little things that never bothered me before.
My discontentedness helps me empathize with the people in Nehemiah's time. They were upset because they just heard the words of the law. They were struck with their own incompetence to live up to God's goodness. Nehemiah encouraged them: "Don't be dejected and sad, for the joy of the LORD is your strength!" (Nehemiah 8:10). Maybe I'm discontent because, like the Israelites, I know how things should be and how they are not.
But joy in the Lord lifts my soul above the fog of discontentment, and hope anchors my feet in assurance. My body may not be perfect now, but I can bend my aching knees to the ground in humility, put my hands together in prayer, and point my fingers upwards and say with confidence, "on earth as it is in heaven." I can be grateful for what I have now (working legs! flexible arms with opposing thumbs! eyes to see and ears to hear!) and know that His work isn't even done yet! There is more life to live here, and infinitely more than we can imagine when Jesus comes back to restore us.
4. TBM (Temporary Bad Mood)
Sometimes this feeling of fatness is an unfortunate symptom of what I call a TBM (Temporary Bad Moo) . It can either be due to:
- Circumstances: strained relationships, financial need, work stress
- Physical origin: lack of sleep, poor diet, chronic pain, medication side effect
For me, it's usually a lack of sleep, food, water, or other basic human need that is not being met. Or more likely, my TBM could also be explained by an upcoming visit from Aunt Flo. Maybe all I need is a 20 minutes to lay down and close my eyes, a piece of turkey, or glass of cold water to snap me out of it.
When those bits of self-care can't displace the inner dialogue of "I hate everything (including myself)," I go to 1 John 3:19-20:
"And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence: If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things."
Even when my heart says I'm bad and fat and disgraceful, God is greater. He says I'm good because He is good. And greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world. Greater is He who is in you because you are loved. And you are not fat, even when you feel like it.
Reflect and Respond
- Do you have days when you "feel fat"?
- Can you pick out which emotions you are really feeling (angry, sad, frustrated, exhausted)?
- Can you place those emotions with the truth of the gospel? If you can't, put them in the proverbial trash. Don't let them take up room in your heart and weigh you down. Look to the face of Jesus and never be ashamed.


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This document is for anyone who wants to help their city or region transform into a truly sustainable one. You may be a mayor, a city manager, a community group or a business leader and want to initiate a sustainability plan for your area. It describes the process for co-creating a One Planet Action Plan with stakeholders.
If you are a government body and want to write a One Planet Action Plan for your own organisation, please also read the Goals and Guidance for Companies and Organisations – though of course there will be a great deal of overlap.
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