Seriously? You’re kidding me Right?!?

As i sat checking my email this morning i saw a picture of a cute little polar bear staring at me in Yahoo’s news feed.   I clicked on the link to read this cutie’s story! 

Have you heard of Him his name is Knut…he was a four year old polar bear residing in the Berlin Zoo.  Here is just one ofmany news links you can find concerning KNUT

I think Animals are great.  i have been an animal lover my entire life.  i remember my dirst trip to a zoo and all of them since them,

knut died this past weekend, and the outpouring over the death of this bear has my head swimming and not for the best reasons either. 

i for the life of me cannot comprehend the emotion that the death of this four year old bear brings.   the type of mourning that is being reported is that of someone who has lost a best friend, a spuse or a child.  not an animal they viewed at a zoo. There was no persoanl connection with the animal, there was no daily contact with it as there is with a family pet.

One woman was quoted as saying ” she went to see the bear everyday and that the bear helped her through the mourning  of her husband’s death”

How is this possible?  i am not quite sure how i can see this as being useful!!!  ITWASA POLAR BEAR IN A HABITAT!!!!!  She didn’t get to pet him like a dog or cat.  She didn’t get to cuddle with it as the elderly get to with rehabilitation animals and it didn’t  save anyones life like a serive dog is trained to do!

As i looked at the pictures i asked myself a couple of Questions.  i don’t the answers to them NOT by ANY means BUT it is something that needs to be asked!

1.  Why has a bear taken the placde of god?  I mean really that woman I mentioned found her solace in a bear…Yet the bear did’t doefor her sins and the bear Will NOT get her to heaven Yet her peace was the bear….Seriously Are you kidding me?

2.  Since when is a bears life more important than a child’s either born or unborn?  Do you know how many children are aborted in a day in Europe?  and yet i hear no weeping for them.  i see no national or international media about them…..and what about the children who have been born?  those who are lft to starve to death because they have down’s Syndrome or some other serious illness ?   WWwwhat about those children.  Did you know that some European coutries deem these as NOT HUMAN.  Wwell I have news for them…this bear was not human either.  And for another thing UNBORN BABIES AND THOSE CHILDREN with disabilities ARE Humans  and yet their ethics are so messed up that they choose to elevate and mourn the loss of a bear….Lets look at Germany’s  abortion rate shall we!!

in 2009 the were 110,694,,,that is about 302 abortions a day
info found here

Oh and we Americans’, lets not think that we are “not as far gone ” as our couterparts over sees.  It was only a short while ago that something similar happened at the Seneca park Zoo in rochester NY where an unborn ellefant calf died before it was born.   And oh my the outpouring of grief which is just sickening…..

So what do you think the Abortion rate here in our country?
In 2008 there 1.21 MILLION abortions…that is roughly 19.6 abortions per 1,000 women (taken from fox News)

As i did the reseasrch for this i realized that the current year ending will not be released for another 2 years.  Apparently it takes that long to figureall this out…..SOOO all this being saidI would like to point out one last thing…..THERE SHOULD NOT BE CARDS AND LETTERS AND FLOWERS given to a bear.  they can’t read….they can’tunderstand.  yes they feel pain but really…They have no soul…  People do andi am so grateful that god saw fot to send His Son to die for my sins.  because the animal thing didn’t work.  read the Old Testament….Christ had to be the only sacrifice worthy of god’s acceptance! 

  

TWO GREAT GROUPS MEET LIKE NO OTHER!!!

LIFE has been busy, not just for us but everyone.  But one of the things I had the oppertunity to do two weeks ago was see this group in concert….AMAZING The one word I have to describe this group and OH YEAH I got to meet DENVER!!!!!

I chose this song because this awesome group will be pairing with Go Fish in a kids CD releasing this summer and as a HUGE fan of both groups….here ya go!

And as a wife of a trumpeter…I love this group and their HUGE talent!!!

GO BIBLE!

What is a Go Bible?  
Well It is a very valuable Piece of tecnology…..especially for me!!!
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Yes it is an Mp3 player….with the entire Bible on it….Mine has the NIV version on it But you can purchase other version for it as well.

I have the Go Bible Voyager which comes with 3GB of sapace to add music or Mp3 version of books.  Oh and every month on the Go Bible website they give away a free book.   You can also buy a version with no added space..Just the bible.  You can also find many public domain music and books to put on your Go Bible!!  It comes with the black felt case, ear buds and the player..if you get the voyager you will also get the USB cable to hook up to the internet!

You can also hook up the player to speakers which you can either purchase from the company OR as we do it Hook it up to an old set of computer speakers!!

Even if you already have an Mp3 player you can set up an account online WITHOUT making on a purchase and you can still get the free monthly book!!!!

You can go to www.gobible.com

I will say this as a person who has had a visual impairment for over half of my life, this tool helps me to achieve the goal hubby and I have set for ourselves to read the Bible in 4 months.  I am a mom of four kids and a pastor’s wife as well so life could not be any crazier!  This tool helps me be in God’s word more often!!!  

Life can be a challenge sometimes…

the last few weeks have been a huge challenge to say the least.  I have had numerous friends go through some terrible experiences, I have prayer, cried Prayed and cried some more.  The scary thing is I still have some great people in my life going through some horrendous things.

Over the last two weeks I have seen a friend who lost her husband who waged an incredible battle with non-hogkins lymphoma. 

Last week the young woman who sang at our wedding lost her first and only child.  She knew all along that she was going to loose her  baby as soon as she was born and yet she was courageous and looked at each day with her baby was an incredible blessing.

Tonight my flower girl lays in the hospital tonight.  She has sickle cell anemia.  See has lost sight in her one eye and they are working o save her vision.  

Also tonight we have a lady from our church who is also laying in the hospital PRAYING her baby can stay in her tummy until Friday.  When the baby will be 32 weeks.  She is battling pre-eclampsia.   And her blood pressure keeps skyrocketing.

Never before have i felt so bombarded…I have spent so much time praying for all of these people.   It hurts so much and yet.  My faith has not sunk nor wavered..  Amazingly it has soared.   I have watched these two incredible women walk away from their personal battles in losing people they care about SOOO deeply and they have relied on God to carry them through!  It by no means that they have not struggled in their own ways but their stregth is not their own and it is quite evident.

Even though I live LONG distance from these people I still have learned so very much from them and their grief along with giving God the glory though everything they have faced is an encouragement  to me.  And their stories can be an encouragement to you as well.  Will you let them?