I am (revised on May 24, 2010)

I am an experimental learner who draws on furniture with sharpies

I wonder if I encountered my guardian angel

I hear the sound of the blind seeing light in the darkness

I see sounds bouncing off invisible molecules shooting into the sky

I want to go on a mission trip to see the intensity of worshipping our King

I am an experimental learner who draws on furniture with sharpies



I pretend I am a director for a GREAT movie

I feel others pains and worries

I touch the Garden of Eden in the moonlit night

I worry that more fall away from the presence of the Holy Anointed One

I cry for the soldiers who are fighting for us

I am an experimental learner who draws on furniture with sharpies



I understand that not everyone will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven

I say I am loved by the Creator of the universe

I dream thousands will receive the power of the Holy Ghost

I try to gain knowledge of this world through the Word

I hope for peaceful nights of sleep in the Arms of Jesus

I am an experimental learner who draws on furniture with sharpies

His Heart - written in Feb. 2009

with His arms outstretched

the winds blow the crisp night air

His whiskers dance in the cool wind blowing from the east

the light of His face shines

Hoping you will see the glory of whom He is

He cries when you take Him forgranted

He mourns for you when you walk away

He weeps when you can’t see who He really is.

He groans when you rather go participate with occultic idols

He shouts when you seek after Him

He dances when you find Him and accept His love

He glows ever brighter when you draw nearer and nearer

He dances and shouts when you burn with passionate love

He kisses you when you go after others and show them Him

He picks you up in His lap and showers His love upon you when to seek His face.

Weldin Lady

The sparkle of fire hits the air around me like fireworks on the Fourth of July. I feel like I am on fire in this scorching heat of working long hours. The labor tears at my skin and wears me down in a welding environment. Welding is the part of me I love most. As I stand there working, I am wearing protective gear: a welding hood, leather gloves, safety glasses, and a good work shirt to protect myself. The gear protects me from the flying sparks and the slag. Many people say welding is messy, and that is why men do it. What these people don’t know is that women welded in the shipyards during World War II. Yes, there is a dirty and dangerous downside of welding, but that does not matter to me. My idea of the upside just might be the downside to others. I know a woman can weld as well as a man any day or millennium. Like my father always said, “You ain’t done any work unless you can show it by getting dirty.” Growing up, I always played outside, getting grass stains on my knees and mud all over my jeans. Playing wasn’t work. When I weld sparks, from putting the rod to the metal, they fly and hit upon me. The sparks are a dirty mess, leaving stains of brownish black on my shirt. Also, when I finish a bead on a project, I must properly get ready for another bead. The way to get ready is beat off the slag from the weld that was caused by the coating on the electrode, or also known as a rod. I then grab my chipping hammer and start hitting the slag off, and behold it reveals a bead, a finished weld. The dust from beating on the slag will carry its way to my pants legs by the way of my gloves. I usually hit my gloves against my pants to get a little dust off them. The dust gets on my gloves when I beat the slag off. My leather gloves used to be beautiful dove white gloves; now they are black from welding. Not all women are scared to get dirty and to wear out what they paid over 50 dollars for. As a lady in a trade with few other women, I get little sympathy. The sparks, if they get hot enough, penetrate through my work shirt, making a little hole. The sparks, when welding overhead, are not the only splatter coming down. Little pieces of hot dripping metal along with these sparks can burn through a typical thick denim jacket, causing small burns on my skin. The burns are battle scars of good welding. Most women are not even afraid of getting hurt on the job. Yet, when I get a leather-sleeved welding jacket to wear, the sparks and molten metal can no longer navigate their way through and burn my forearms. Most men perceptions of women are wrong because women will do a dangerous job. Quote that I am not afraid of getting burned and ruining my tan; even though, I do not have one. As a young woman, I do take a little pride in my hair. I wear a welding hat, which is like a stretchy cloth hat with a bill. The bill is used to put over the ear, when the ear is toward the direction welding. It protects the ears from having sparks go into them. When welding, I stuff my ponytail into the hat to prevent it from catching a spark causing a discomforting fire. Many men in the industry of welding have long hair also. These men take a little pride in their hair as women do and also stuff their hair either into their hat or workshirt. I have even caught on fire from a spark, several months back. I was welding on a vertical T-joint one day. I used the E6010 electrode to weld with, and it was very messy. It splatters sparks everywhere. The sparks fly up and down, and side to side. When I was finished making a bead I put my left hand on my side, and I felt extreme heat going through my gloves. I started thinking, “Boy, it’s hot in here. My upper thigh sure feels a little extra hot.”Then I lifted up my welding hood, and lo and behold, flames were making their way slowly around the bottom of my denim shirt. I dropped the electrode holder out of my left hand. Then I started to beat out the flame. I did, finally, after it scared me. I was a little shaky from then on, but I kept working. The front bottom left of my shirt was gone. Part of my pants turned blackish brown from the small breath-taking fire. Fires may happen while working on a project in a fabrication shop: which is where I would like to work one day. Catching on fire and dealing with it shows that women welders are able to work as men do. As a young woman in welding, I have encountered the problems of staying clean. I love to weld and getting dirty in the process is just part of the job. I got over the part of getting dirty. I love seeing the accomplishment of working with my hands; even though I may have caught on fire in the process. When I seeing something I put together, it makes my heart jump for joy. For me, there is always an upside of welding. Men aren’t the only ones who don’t care about getting dirty. Women in the welding industry is the upside of welding, because we are not afraid of getting a little messy during a job.

B.I.G. Love Cancer Care - Brooke's Incredible Gift ---SUPPORT

Dear Friends,

I know you have probably been asked to vote for different things at various times...I know I have. And you think, I don't have time right now. About two months ago, I submitted a grant to Pepsi Cola in their Refresh Everything contest - and as of Friday April 30, I have been notified that BIG Love has been accepted to compete. Now, the rest is up to us. We are competing against 300ish other organizations (from Animal shelters to school programs) for the top 10 votes. Yesterday, we were ranked in 189th place…today we are 105th. Great success for one day. Join our BIG Love family in keeping the votes coming each day!! J

BIG Love will use the money to provide weekly groceries to cancer kids and their families.

Just last week, after delivering groceries to one of our teenage cancer patients, we were overwhelmed with the purpose of what we do. This young lady emptied all the contents of her Wal-Mart bags onto her hospital bed until everything was encircling her. As she looked at all her goodies...she started to sob. This family, due to pressing medical expenses, had been unable to afford simple things for their daughter. They were so grateful. Grateful for Oreo Cookies and potato chips!!

Another Mom, last week, told one of our volunteers with tears streaming down her face, "BIG Love is faithful. Always here for us. Here for us when everyone else has quit calling and quit caring. BIG Love is my constant." Each week, in Arkansas and Texas , BIG Love is making a difference.

We need your help to continue this service. Simply go to the website listed below and click the button that says vote for this idea. Follow the simple instructions that follow. It should take you under a minute to complete.

www.refresheverything.com/biglove

After your initial vote, I ask you to post a "reminder" to your electronic calendar reminding you to vote for BIG Love each day through the month of May. And I ask you, to post this message to your Carepage, facebook and send to your email contacts. If we win, this would have been the easiest and most cost effective fundraiser we will ever do!!

So grateful,

Chaney and Jessica Phillips

B.I.G. Love Cancer Care - Brooke's Incredible Gift

P.O. Box 10386 - 107 Wanda Gail

El Dorado, AR 71730

870-881-0547

www.biglovecancercare.org

Serving Cancer Kids and their Families at Arkansas and Texas Children's Hospitals.

Hindered? Take Authority. Be Creative.

Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind, and with all your strength. (Matthew 22:36-38, Mark 12:29-31, Luke 10:26-28). We are gonna work backwards with this verse in Scriptures.

The mind is a very indescribable concept of our human self. It is solely missed by all people of how powerful it really is.

Is your mind evil or good? Seriously though what do you spend most of your time thinking about?

How evil can our mind get?

- Well if you look back over time there was a man named Adolf Hitler. Yeah that guy had a brain. He used it and his horrid ideas to persecute the Jews and killed countless by standers.
- Also in 1973 abortion became OK to do. Abortion is the 2nd Holocaust rampaging across our own nation like an epidemic.

How good can our mind be?
- Konrad Adenauer tried to make everything right again after the fall of Hitler and the Holocaust and tried to move Germany forward.
- The Pro-life movements in America are standing up for the right to live life and have the chance of a lifetime to change the world. One of those children that were abortion could’ve been the doctor who would have found the cure to cancer.

How do ya think Starbucks got started? How the banks were created? How the first car developed? Where computers were thought of?

Our minds are the most creative tools in our society, culture, and life as a whole. We are the most innovative persons created to make this world a better place to live, grow, laugh, and love. We can inspire and encourage people every day.

The real question is: where is our mind when we worship our Lord God?

Sometimes we may think, “I wonder if the Hogs are gonna win the SEC division?” or “Geez I wish that guy in front of me would get a haircut,” or “Hey, that girl needs to get her hair one color and stick with it.” It seems to me, we always look at the physical during our time of worship and not in the spiritual and seek the face of God. We so got used to lifting our hands and forgot why we do it? Or we simply don’t care to worship God during the praise and worship times at church and just want to get on to the preaching. We have seriously forgotten why we worship. The whole church has forgotten what worship is. It is the way we need to live our life in no matter what circumstance stands before us or against us. King David had many circumstances in his life, but he continued to WORSHIP the Creator.

Oh right maybe we have a grand excuse of why we don’t have timeà THERE is NOT an excuse for why we don’t worship our King of Kings. He didn’t move. He didn’t leave. WE did. We have let the world grab us and pull us down from the lap of our Creator.

How did this happen?

We have gotten so caught up in our work, school, family, friends, and life in general. We have lost our gaze on the One that truly matters. Yes I am speaking from experience. I had a huge passion and desire to seek the face of God and somehow my gaze shifted. How? I can’t really say I don’t know because I do. I stopped reading and studying the Word of the Lord (Bible) and quit playing my guitar and writing to God and God alone. I slipped down from His lap. Satan and his schemes and lies caused me to slip. Why? I didn’t renew my mind as Scripture says in Romans 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Please I beg of you, the readers, don’t let the ways of this world stop you from seeking the face of God. Stay in the Word, pray and intercede for one another, sing, write, and praise Jesus Christ for what He has done. He has given us the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind (2 Tim 1:7).

Romans 8:9, However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.
But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. Since belonging to
the Lord we shall know that the Holy Spirit indwells inside us.
The only way to see divine truth is to have the Holy Spirit inside us and then the Spirit reveals to
us the divine truth.

1 Cor. 2:9-11, [9] but just as it is written, " Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him."[10] For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.[11] For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. See also 2 Sam. 23:2; Micah 3:8; Acts 1:16; Heb. 9:6-8; 2 Pet. 1:15-21; John 16:12-14.

We have the authority invested in us through Jesus Christ to rebuke the enemy and be victorious as we already are. But so many times we, as the vessel of God, forget we have that authority and Satan sees our weakness. Through that weakness Satan takes that opening in our armor and attacks (Ephesians 6:10-18).

AS we lose our focus in worship to God, Satan sees the opening for one of his plays to steal, kill, or possibly destroy us (John 10:10). Through his plays on us, we have built up a space between ourselves and our King Jesus Christ. That gap can and will be only filled when we realize we have moved and not God. He never leaves nor forsake His children (Hebrews 13:5). Remember to trust in the Lord and He will direct your paths (Proverbs 3:5-6). Also, renew your mind into Christ’s and worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:23).

Worship God, Seek His face, and be creative. Write poetry, songs, articles describing His love, draw, sketch, paint, journal your thought about Him, and dance and shout with joy.

todays valley going through the mountain

“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.” – Charles Spurgeon

the quote is very awesome.

for i am a soldier of the King whom is willing to fight the good fight of faith, as Paul said. And in every soldiers life there is a(n) obstacle(s) to go through.

for the Lord strengthens His people and raises them up on wings of eagles as said in Isaiah.

Through every valley and desert He walks with us and sometimes He'll carry us. (Psalm 23)

For When the three men went into the firey furnace, they knew it would be painful but they still went ahead and BANG! Jesus showed up and walked with them through the fire. (daniel)

While on the stormy sea the winds blowing and ship abeatin the waves, Jesus calmed the storm. (mark 5)

For one day through whatever storm or affiction our Jesus will be there. He'll never leave us nor forsake us. (Hebrews)


Love ALL,
pursue GOD,
God Blesses as We bless HIM,