Is just how we got our new horse Chance. I saw him on freecycle and emailed the gal and it all worked out for us to get a great horse for free.
He is 24 years old (so not a spring chicken), old trail, show horse. He is a racking horse. Great chestnut color with a lighter mane and tail. Very gentle, nice horse. He has come to live out his retirment on the farm. We are trying to get him back into shape for some riding of him. The kids especially will be good for him as they dont weigh as much. DH and I have ridden him just a little too. He is a giant for sure!! But we are giving him a second Chance out here on the farm!!
I assigned categories for the pieces of health information that I plan to write about. These categories focus mainly on the acronym NEWSTART. I have added a couple other categories which really do not relate to the NEWSTART acronym, and may continue to add a category or two as necessary.
The NEWSTART acronym is described below:
N- Nutrition
E - Exercise
W - Water
S - Sunshine
T - Temperance
A - Air
R - Rest
T - Trust in God
Remembering the different parts of NEWSTART can help one to remind themselves of the areas that can improve one's health. We hardly ever fall apart because of ONE problem, but rather it is usually a combination of health struggles. Making changes in one area may show improvement, but it likely is not going to be a lifelong answer to our struggles. NEWSTART can help us towards a healthier lifestyle. It isn't about diet to lose weight, or sleeping pills to get our rest, but simply getting back to what we were designed to live by.
DISCLAIMER:
A disclaimer that I want to add is that some of us have bodies that are far along in disease processes. Changing late in the game is likely not going to cure us, however, we may see decreased symptoms by making healthy lifestyle changes. A diabetic may still be a diabetic, but their blood sugar levels are easier to control. Also because of sin, our bodies have become run down after generations of misuse. That means our children can have problems like allergies or other horrible diseases that are not caused by how they are living, but rather a compilation of problems in our own genetics that we have passed down to them, or problems caused while growing in the womb...not to mention the exposure of so many things that are just considered normal these days... (chemicals, pesticides, immunizations, pollution, etc.) that can adversely affect one even though many others can take those exposures without much of a symptom at all. So, do be realistic in making changes, they won't cure us overnight and they may not cure us at all. Some changes may relieve us of some symptoms, but some changes could be detrimental to our specific medical condition.
What does that mean? If you have a medical condition or your children are sick, please read for guidance of where to go for information, not to substitute for medical treatment. Making changes without your medical doctor's knowledge can cause big problems. Medications you may be on may become too strong when making changes to a healthier lifestyle and without some guidance from your doctor on how to wean from your medications, you may end up sicker trying to live healthier than when you just lived "as is" with your medications. Also, if you are ever feeling concerned or overwhelmed with a situation, do not try to do it on your own, just because it is healthier. Our gut feelings are there for us to seek help. And sometimes we do not notice something going terribly wrong because we are untrained in knowing what to look for.
Now, I do not want this to deter you from trying natural remedies or lifestyle changes. Just when you do it, make wise choices and if under medical care, take it to your doctor to explain what you are wanting to try. Some doctors are not supportive of healthy lifestyle/home remedies... in that case, find one who is and one who knows what you are talking about because not all doctors know what home remedies even are as many are not trained in that area or they have seen disasterous cases from one trying to cure themselves on their own. Often a person will misdiagnose a problem and the "cure" they are using will never work, but only cause the problem to continue without restraint.
Many medical missionaries treat others with home remedies and teach unschooled mothers and fathers in treatments where medical facilities are too far away or too expensive. These treatments are taught and used all over the world and have improved lives. Why we don't use them here in America boggles my mind. With medical care so expensive and drug treatments sometimes noneffective or the side effects so damaging, we need to go back to some simple ways of healing.
In summary, I do not feel anyone should be afraid of remedies or lifestyle changes. Many changes are as simple as not eating cheetos and eating a whole grain cracker instead. Some home remedies you can practice even while on medications and see increased results above what just the medication alone will do. As your skill improves, you will feel more confident. As time goes by, you will understand how our bodies work and see why something will or will not work in a situation. Be wise in your decisions; pray and ask for guidance.
I wish for us all to join together to pray for our country. Each day I will have a new prayer from the website in the previous post. Go there to see on join me here - whatever you do, please pray for God's will.
My posts keep getting blocked and messed up but I am trying to stay diligent and so here goes...
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For Members of the Media to Remain Open, Forthcoming and Truthful
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body. --Ephesians 4:25
Loving Lord, You are the God of all Truth, and there is nothing impure or false in You. You bring all things to light, and nothing is hidden from Your sight. Before You all things are laid bare and every detail, whether large or small is known. All praise and glory to You, O Mighty God!
I ask You to move and work among the members of the media this day, O Lord, keeping them from any form of falsehood. Let them lift up only what is true in these campaigns, Lord, that as a nation we may be discerning as we consider those whom we will elect to the offices of our government. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
I pray your week has been blessed in all things. We have been busy working away on homeschooling and homekeeping. We've had some training issues here at home with the kids and have been working on that also, mostly discontentment and sibling rivalry.
I'm so thrilled that we have finally worked out a homeschool routine that is working for us. We have managed to do school and be done by lunchtime or shortly after all week. Partly because I'm giving each child a time limit on how long I let them do their work before moving on. That way if I have a dawdler, it won't hold us all back, and they will have to finish their work on their own time, which seems to be a big motivator to get it done.
I've been feeling extra tired this week, needing to go to bed early or on some days take an afternoon nap, but amazingly, I've still been able to keep up with the house even while feeling so tired, and that in itself is one of my biggest blessings this week. It always seems when I'm not at my best, that my home suffers immensely, and takes so much more time to get back in order.
I still need to finish working in the family room today, but we've been maintaining what's done. My bedroom has become such a sanctuary for me, especially on these days where rest is so precious to me. And it takes me less than 5 minutes to straighten it before heading out of their in the morning.
Today and tomorrow holds much more cleaning and work around the house. I'm hoping to finish up the family room, and clean the bathroom today, and tomorrow I would really like to work on the laundry room and outside. But I've learned to just work where I feel led to, and not stress about it. I know tomorrow is a big football game hubby is wanting to watch, so I'm not sure what we'll be able to get done.
Well, I better get back to the school table for now. I pray your day is blessed and fullfilling!
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Matthew 6:27
I heard a preacher talk of a fish in the vast Pacific Ocean thatwas afraid that it would run out of water. What a foolish thoughtfor that fish!
Often we get carried away with worries. All we see and feel istrouble. Recently I read these words from a book: “People worry alot in fear of the future. Yet there is no guarantee that these thingswill even come to pass. Worry for the past doesn’t in any way alteror erase it.”
There is only one worry that a person should consider: “Am Iright with God?” That settles it all. Nothing is more important thanthat. Having all your past forgiven by the blood of Christ is imperative.Then you can look forward to the future with confidence.
“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: andthis is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith” (1John 5:4). This is faith anchored in the fully furnished treasures ofGod. Look around. Before we ever felt cold, He began storing upoil, gas, and coal to warm us. Before we could see, He created thebeautiful moon, stars, and sun. Before we got hungry, He providedfertile fields and numerous lakes and oceans filled with all kinds offish. He gave us enough air to breathe and many places to go. Today,whatever the pressing worriesthat hang heavily on yourheart, come to Jesus with allyour needs. Remember, you donot need to worry, like the fish
in the water, that your needswill empty the stores of God.
I say Fab because the weather is just that, fabulous! It is cool but not cold, the kind where you open up your windows and the breeze blows the curtains around, LOVE IT!
Grinding was suppose to start today but they have pushed it back until Monday, which is OK with me. Hubby can take an extra weekend to relax before he starts working nonstop for the next three months. The money is great, but he gets tired of it after a month or so. I don't blame him either, I worked grinding several years in the scale house, and it does take a toll on you. Seven days a weeks for weeks and weeks.
So for lunch hubby wants to go to his favorite eat out, Pizza Hut. I personally don't care for them but he loves it, so Pizza Hut it is. Then it's off to see mom for a bit at the home, a quick stop at the grocery store for a few items, and then home to wait for my dear friend Debbie who is coming for a weekend visit. With the holidays kicking up soon, we are getting a visit in before things get too hectic for visiting.
So thats pretty much me weekend, chatting, swinging, porching, garage saleing, malling, eating out, and did I mention chatting. The guys will be doing some hunting. So I hope everyone else is going to have a great weekend ahead. Call you BFFs and chat some.
We 'public schooled' thru the 6th grade.
5 star school rating.
Middle class part of town.
Low crime rate.
Brand new high school.
It looked great, on the outside.
Inside?
No physical science. Nope none. Only "social science".
Anti-American projects for grades.
The removal of the National Anthem.
The feminization of the boys.
The masculinaztion of girls.
My daughters 5th grade teacher was SO STONED when we did the parent teacher conference, I told him next time he showed up that high I was gonna call the police.
He laughed.
13 pregnant 6th graders (650 total 6th graders, you do the percent)
Porn is not seen as disgusting.
I could go on and on....
So. We prayed, together, every single day when I dropped them off..........every day for one school year.
God said "GET THEM OUT".
I said "Ok".
Funny you mention unkept, nonverbal kids.
We don't do home school groups, co-ops, youth group, or any "group" activity.
My daughters were just complimented the other day for their ability to carry on an intelligent, and interesting conversation with adults. She went on to say that most kids she encounters they talk with their heads down, and mumble............
Hmmmmmmm
Mine were raised from the time they could hold their heads up........EYE CONTACT.
So I guess this falls on the parents.
If they don't train the children to be IN the world, not of IT, they are doing them a huge disservice. And they are not doing what God has asked of them...........which we all know that's not going to end well :-)
I see your point. It's a good point.
Public School and God's Word didn't line up.
He called, we answered.
And I take "train them up in the Way they should go"........seriously.
1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
Muslim fingerprints in Obama's history
By Janet Porter
I've misspoken before. I've misspoken before on national television. I've mixed up words, reversed orders, but I have never once misspoken concerning my faith and the God in whom I trust. Even in the most heated debate on Islam, never did I ever utter the words "my Muslim faith." Nor, even when talking about Buddhism, have I ever slipped up and referred to "my Buddhist faith." Ever. Why? Because my Christianity is so ingrained in me, so a part of who I am, that the thought of adhering to a false religion is so foreign, so blasphemous, that the words would never cross my lips.
Not the case for Mr. Obama. On ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, Obama said:
"Let's not play games, what I was suggesting – you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come."
Matthew 12:34 says: "For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."
Notice that Obama didn't correct himself. He was "corrected" by George Stephanopoulos who interrupted Obama, with the words: "Christian faith."
Let's just say he misspoke. Did Obama misspeak when he told the New York Times that blasphemy was one of the "prettiest sounds on earth at sunset"?
That's right. In a Feb. 27, 2007, interview with the New York Times' Nicholos Kristof, that's how Obama described the Muslim call to prayer. That prayer, which Obama recited with a "first-class [Arabic] accent," begins with this:
Allah is supreme!
Allah is supreme!
Allah is supreme! Allah is supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet ...
Really? No god but the false god Allah is the prettiest sound on earth? Really.
Speaking of slip-ups, here's the clip of Obama saying he's visited 57 states. He's such a "global citizen," perhaps the 57 member states of the "Organization of the Islamic Conference" was more second nature to him than our own 50 U.S. states.
While Obama's campaign site declares: "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim" and "was not raised as a Muslim," the records say differently.
As was documented by Jerome Corsi in his best-selling book, "The Obama Nation," in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at his primary school under the name Barry Soetoro. Even the Associated Press has released a photocopy of the document where Barack Obama is registered as an Indonesian citizen of the Muslim religion. (Listen to Dr. Corsi on yesterday's Faith2Action radio program at www.f2a.org discussing it).
Obama also claimed he never attended a mosque. Not so, according to eyewitnesses. As was reported in WorldNetDaily, childhood friends and even his school principal said they saw Obama attend the mosque with their own eyes. In response, the Obama campaign issued another statement: Instead of claiming Obama was never a Muslim, as they had previously posted, they then claimed he "has never been a practicing Muslim."
Even in Obama's autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," he called his school "a Muslim school" and admits he studied the Quran during his formative years from age 6 to age 10: "In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Quranic studies."
He could have never made faces in Quranic studies if he wasn't studying the Quran.
So this weekend on national television, he referred to his "Muslim faith." Last year he said that praising Allah as the one true god was the prettiest sound on earth. He said he was never a mosque-attending Muslim, but eyewitnesses say otherwise. Despite what Obama and his campaign have claimed, by his own admission, he studied the Quran.
Add to the fact that on June 13, 2008, Obama's half brother, Malik Obama, who lives in Kenya, told the Jerusalem Post that "if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people despite his Muslim background."
In that same article was a picture of Malik with his half brother Barack in traditional Somali elder dress with a turban on his head in 1985. Like many pictures of Obama in Muslim attire readily available on the Internet, he was not between the ages of 6 and 10 when the photos were taken.
Let's pretend all of this is just part of some smear campaign. Forget everything that I've said and take a look of who's backing this guy.
According to Islamic expert Brigitte Gabriel, author of "Because They Hate, A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America" and her new book, "They Must be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It," there are some very interesting campaign supporters of Barack Obama. Beyond the support of unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, Obama has backing from some other notorious groups, from "al-Qaida to Hamas, to Hezbollah," to "Islamic Jihad" to the "Muslim Brotherhood," to "all the terrorists organizations" who "are coming out in force for Obama for president," stated Gabriel on the Sept. 3, 2008, Faith2Action radio program (on the "Archives" section of www.f2a.org).
On the same program, she spoke of the Muslim Brotherhood project for North America, in 1982, whose plans were to get Muslims actively involved in politics.
Gabriel claims that the Islamic websites and terrorist organizations are calling Obama the "first Muslim president of the United States."
As far as they are concerned, said Gabriel, these groups claim "Obama can say anything he wants to get elected – he is a Muslim." They claim that if he had renounced his Muslim affiliation declared early in life, he would have changed his Muslim name.
What is interesting is the Islamic world has not renounced Obama for becoming a Christian – a capital offense under Shariah law.
What is perhaps more interesting is that Sen. Barack Hussein Obama has never renounced his Muslim ties. He was too busy pretending they didn't exist until the documents and eyewitness accounts surfaced recently.
Let's not play games. By way of review, on national television Obama "misspoke" about "his Muslim faith." Last year he said the words "there is no god but Allah" were "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset." Then he said that he's been to "all 57 states" (57 states coincidently belong to the "Organization of the Islamic Conference"). According to eyewitnesses, he was a mosque-going, Quran-learning, Muslim (according to official documents released by the AP). His friends say so. His principal said so. His own brother said so. He wears the Muslim turban and Somali elder dress for photo-ops, apparently for fun. While he hasn't renounced any of this, not one Islamic extremist has called for his death as an apostate from Islam.
Obama is right about one thing. Sen. John McCain isn't talking about Obama's Muslim faith. But the rest of the country is beginning to.
Obama Nation? Abomination? Which is it? Or is it the same?
God delights to increase the faith of his children. We ought,
instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for
patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a
means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties, and sometimes defeats,
are the very food of faith.
I am a stay-at-home, Christian homeschooling mom. My husband and I have been married for 19 years. We have been blessed with three kids,ages 18, 10 and 8. We live on a family farm and have several animals. I`m just a simple farm gal, who loves her God, family, friends and life.
