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Lamb or Lion

3/1/2014

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Do you dread March, the ides of March, the possibility that spring may not arrive on its appointed date in March?
The old thought of March arriving like a lamb meant that it would end like a lion.  Likewise, if arrives like a lion, it will exit like a lamb. 
Wouldn't you rather have it arrive like a lion and leave like a lamb in the freshness of spring and all that is reborn?
Today is a mystery.  Calm weather, warmer temps in my locale, clear roadways, and an approaching winter storm named Titan.  Titan. 

(The following  definition courtesy of http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary)
ti·tan noun \ˈtī-tən\ Titan : one of a family of giants in Greek mythology
: an extremely large and powerful person, company, etc.
Full Definition of TITAN1 capitalized :  any of a family of giants in Greek mythology born of Uranus and Gaea and ruling the earth until overthrown by the Olympian gods 2 :  one that is gigantic in size or power :  one that stands out for greatness of achievement

Titan is on its way to parts of the USA.  Frightened of this giant?  Nope.  Not this chic.  Storms happen.  Life happens.  It goes on.  Weather occurs.  We deal with it.  If you're used to weather changes, you're prepared.  If you live in a utopian climate-controlled bubble somewhere, then this storm might frighten you.  Good luck.

What I'm wondering, since Titan was predicted to arrive tonight, the evening of March 1st, does that mean March is entering like a giant lion and the end of the month will have sweet innocent lamb-like weather?
   Where does one draw the line on time-held hearsay of weather predictions?  Most of today has been calm.  What if Titan waits to arrive until March 2nd?  Does that count as the beginning of the month?

What does all this matter?  Lions.  Lambs.  Titans.  Giants.  Weather. 
Life happens with or without lion/lamb-like weather.  Life goes on.

Big things happen.  Small things happen.  Do we take stock of the big and the little things in life?  The rescue of your neighbor's when their house caught fire?  The whisper in your ear of your child's  scary nightmare with arms tight around your neck?  The first spring flower you spot by your door or along the highway on your way to work?  The reality of the store being sold out of toilet paper and milk/water just before a big storm hits?
 

Are you prepared for the storms?  Are you prepared for the renewed sensation of good days?  Are you prepared for changes in your life?  Are you ready for children in your family?  Are you ready for divorce?  Are you battening hatches against political oppression?  Are you stocking up for a lack of electricity and heat?  Are ready to grow up and get a job?  Are you ready to say 'good-bye' to your parents, a child, a grandchild? 

Are you, are any of us ever ready for big storms and small changes?  We try to be.  We think we are. 
In reality, no one human person is ever ready for such changes.  We can prepare.  We can stock up.  We can think it through.  Truly, though, the day of change arrives and we want one more second of sunshine, one more breath, one more second being single, another year of school, and so on. 

The only thing that makes us ready is stepping into the moment.  We face that moment and rise to the occasion.  Perhaps we do not succeed as we thought we would,  or perhaps we second-guess our preparations, our words, our decisions. 
Either way, the moment arrives like a winter storm, at a given moment in time that we cannot change.  It is up to each of us to weather the storm, to adapt, to become who we are meant to be. 

Lion or lamb?  Which will you be?  A giant, prepared and strong, or a lamb,
gentle and adapting? 

Didn't know you could be likened to a winter storm, did you?  Your life compared to the seasons?  Oh sure, we've all heard about May-December romances and the winter of our lives when we get 'old,' but from my humble perspective, our lives mirror the weather, the climate, the change of seasons.  Do we mature, do we wither?  Do we blossom?  Do we allow ourselves to create fruitful lives?

We make choices everyday.  The weather happens.  Do we live as the weather, just letting life happen or do we utilize our ability to make changes in our personal weather patterns? 

Do we allow ourselves to walk as thunderclouds, scaring those around us or do we walk in the light, spreading the seeds of good will to strangers as well as those we hold dear.

Our personal weather patterns are up to us.  Titan-like lions or Lamb-like souls......or lambs who know when to growl like lions?  Are you a giant of person?  The choice is yours.  Human life is short and fragile.  Make the best of it.  Shout your love like a lion and swallow your anger like a lamb.  Choose wisely.  You won't get a do-over on those final good-byes.









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2013

1/15/2013

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Let's see.........15 days into this 'new' year.  Have you broken those resolutions yet? 

I haven't broken a single resolution!  Yes, I am bragging!  It's been soooo easy!  Why, you may ask?  I didn't make any resolutions!!  Don't make 'em, ya can't break 'em!

Instead of the annual fuss over resolution, I truly want to just work on being a better person, every day, every year.  Some years I do better than others.  Some years I fail horribly.

I don't need the stress of imposing my own 'laws' on myself.  Our society does enough of that.   The media screams that we should be thin, that we should never offend (even if we disagree with others), that we should drive new fancy cars, that we should buy the latest technological gadgets, that we should recycle (yet throw out the tarnished in favor of new and shiny).

All these things make me wonder about our aging population, growing in size due to the retiring Baby Boomer generation.  I read in the news about the 45-year old twins in Europe who were recently euthanized because they were already deaf and potentially going blind; they felt they could not be useful?  What is the matter with this world?

Why do we no longer value life?  Our country seems to protect the right to kill the unborn child, yet we don't put guards at our schools to protect our living children.   When will our elderly become truly disposable commodities?  With the introduction of the new healthcare system, the day is not far away I fear. 

People are not inanimate items to be discarded or recycled.  We have life, we have value beyond measure.  We don't need resolutions, we need to have self-esteem.  Value ourselves, value each other. 
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Abortion and Birth Control

10/25/2012

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The following is derived from from my morning comments on Facebook.  I read so many things about Women's Rights.  I am a woman.  I have rights.  I am a human.  I have rights.  I am a Christian.  I have rights.  I am middle-aged.  I have rights.  Having rights does not mean I am entitled to having things handed to me on a silver platter at someone else's cost. 

  • All this talk of government-funded birth control.......makes me think.  Why should the government pay for a what is an individual responsibility?
  • It isn't medical care, it is a luxury for those who want to have sex without responsibility. 
  • Who remembers China enforcing the one-child-per-family rule to curb population growth?  You know, forced abortions, punishing those who did have more than one child, government-funded birth control.......
  • If this keeps up, soon we women won't have a choice over bodies, the government will have more control.....all under the guise of "liberated" women who want control of their bodies!!!
  • The women of this country need to get a grip on reality.
  • Fetuses are living human beings from the moment two cells join and multiply, scientific fact.  Fetuses are not tumors to be removed.  Each of us was once a fetus.  Fetuses are not constipation for which you need a laxative. They are living human beings in a growing maturing state.
  • Sex is an enjoyable act (except in such cases as rape and incest).  Sex can lead to creation of a fetus.  Birth control is available if one wants to prevent conceiving.  Men AND women are responsible for creating that fetus, both parties should be responsible in whether or not they wish to create a fetus.  IF neither party is responsible and has sex without birth control in place and conceives a child/fetus, then they are responsible for it's care and welfare.  Killing a child outside the uterus is not acceptable, nor is it acceptable in utero. 
  • The government has no place in my sex life or anyone else's.  Expecting the government to pay for acts I choose is morally wrong.  If one chooses to enjoy sex, that is awesome.  If one expects the government (or me, through my tax dollars) to pay for their luxury of birth control, that is morally wrong.
  • Sex is the individual's choice.  Birth control is the individual's choice.  Murder is also a choice.  Murder (aka abortion of a living human being in this discussion) is not healthcare.  It destroys the health of the child.  It goes against the doctor's hypocratic oath of doing no harm. 
  • If a woman does not want the government taking away her right to abortion, how can she possibly want the government to pay for her birth control.  Faulty faulty logic.
  • Sadly, any woman who is convinced she has a right to abortion is seriously misguided.  Her child has a right to life the conceiving parents have given it.  The woman loses her right to chose when she has sex and conceives.  She, and the father, have a moral commitment to that child.  IF they cannot honor that commitment, give the born child to someone who desperately wants a child. 
  • Killing is killing no matter how you look at it.  Treating a fetus as if it were a cancer to be removed is still killing.  When one has cancer, one seeks a doctor to kill the cancer cells.  There is an awful lot of society and media supported killing going on in this country.
  • Asking the government to pay for birth control as a preventive measure to the killing is equally wrong.  Individuals need to take up responsibility for their own actions.  Women and men alike.


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Babies, Children, Grown-ups

3/20/2012

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Babies:  Those tiny little creatures we love to coo to, love to hold and snuggle, love to spoil.
Children:  The inbetween baby and grown-up stages of same creatures.  They have learned to say "no," to sass, to think.
Grown-ups:  The enlarged version of children - many times portraying themselves a mature, but, in reality, still behaving as children who have not learned all they should have during their formative years.

Wherefrom do babies come?  The stork?  Under a cabbage leaf in the garden?  From Mama's tummy?  How in the heck did Mama get a baby inside her?  Does she eat children?  How did Daddy put a baby in Mama's tummy? 
 There's a lot to be said about babies and where they come from, isn't there?
And then there are those who want to argue about when life actually begins.  I've seen a couple picture on Facebook recently of fetuses (the technical term for the unborn baby) at 12 weeks gestation held in the palm of someone's hand.  Sure look like babies to me.
About Day 21 in the embryo/fetus' development the heart is beating.  Organs, details etc have been developing from the moment of conception.  The brain is is devloping.  And yet, people say this tiny creature is not alive.  Hmmm.....Must one be able to survive outside the womb to be considered a living organism?  What about anaerobic infections that survive without air?  They get treated with special classes of antiobiotics to KILL THEM.  So, if you think about it, other things are alive inside the human body and we kill them off.  Having the protective shell of the human does not mean you do not have life.

Now, I know there are horrific situations that yield pregnancy.  Horrific:  rape, incest, abuse.  Drug-induced stupidity.  Oh wait, that doesn't count.  Getting high, getting laid, and getting pregnant doesn't count as horrific.  That just counts as not thinking. 
I'm talking about horrific:  violent acts, sinister acts which end in pregnancy. 

Thankfully, I have not been a victim of rape or incest yielding pregnancy. 

I am a woman.  And, I can tell you, being female, I wouldn't want someone incapable of pregnancy (i.e., a man) telling me what I could do after becoming a victim of violence.  Hopefully, I could carry that child to term and let it go to a family which would not have that victimized predjudice towards that young being.  BUT, I don't know how I would feel.  I have not walked in those shoes.
I was the victim of a stalker who went to jail for a short time -- technically harrassment charges because of his mental challenges and intent is hard to prove in Pennsylvania.  I do know I lived in constant fear, sheer terror, lost weight, couldn't sleep, changed my entire life to keep him away from me.  I was terrified of any reminder of him for a very long time.  I cannot fathom if he had raped me and impregnated me, what my thoughts would have been.

I can honestly say I am Pro-Life, for all ages, all creatures.  I also know that sometimes horrific choices have to be made when it comes to life.  A military leader has to make the choice to send soldiers into combat facing possible and likely death.  Insects must be eliminated if humans are to have food to eat.  That said, if that unborn child would have an horrific life by being born, is the more Christian thing to let it go early?  I believe that is between the mother, the baby, whoever assists in the abortion, and God.  God will welcome the murdered child.  The woman will have to live with her choice for the rest of her life, wondering what would have become of that child had she let it live.  The "doctor" (sworn to protect and preserve life) must live with the failure to his oath.   And, in the end God will judge each one, there's no getting around that.  Judgement day will come.  Not by fellow man, but by God alone.

If I were to run for public office, some migth say that I cannot be on both sides of the fence.  I tell you I can.  As a stepmother who would have loved to have given birth to a child or children, but never knew how much I could love children I did not bear until I became that stepmother and would give my life to protect them.  I believe in adoption and step-parenting.  I believe in loving children.

I believe that when there is violence no man or woman can rule over the mother and baby as they ponder the baby's existence.  I believe there should be a support network to help the mama weigh the options.  Sadly, in today's global world, those networks have fallen aside in lieu of those who try to pretend there simply is no life until birth.

So, there you have it.  A tough topic no matter the day.  Just had to say something.  No doubt, I will revisit this subject again. 
My prayers to all who miss a child this day.

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