Monday, December 28, 2009

Fake Conservative

LIAR!! I'm a big fat liar. And I didn't even know it. 'Til I asked myself a question and gave myself a really good look in the mirror. You heard this if you watch Glenn Beck or Hannity. You heard about the hand outs given to low income families. How they were all lined up and excited about getting $ from Obama. It went something like this:

Reporter: So, why are you here?
Some Lady: To get some money.
Reporter: From where?
Some Lady: From Obama.
Reporter: And where did he get it?
Some lady: I don't know. From his stash. From the Obama stash. That's why
we voted for him!!

I was extremely irritated at that. I was so ticked off, that someone would show up some place taking the $ I worked hard for. That Obama would take it from me and give it to a loser who didn't work for it. A lazy good-for-nothin' bum!! I was ranting and raving on the inside.

Oopsie!! Then I was like. "Kim!! You little hypocrite!! You liar!! Look at yourself."
When Obama got into office I was like, "Ok, well. Maybe I can work this to my benefit and just take what he hands out. Maybe we can refinance the house and get a good deal. Maybe he'll give us $." HA!! HYPOCRITE!!

After all, we bought our house as a major fixer upper in Southern California for $245,000. Maybe he can help out with this. We did what was right. We didn't buy what we couldn't afford. Every year we fix something else on our house. Last year we painted and stained. Year before that we replaced decks. This year we may have to do some plumbing and get our laundry situation fixed. So, I myself was looking for a hand out. We work hard and don't have much. So?

I look back on why my thinking was in that direction. Why I thought it was ok to be taking whatever Obama hands out. Now, I know that I SAID I was a Conservative, but I really wasn't. My mind needed to have a great big turn around!!

A lot of things have changed for me this year: I have a returning soldier husband, kids growing up, and especially repenting and changing my mind on what being a conservative actually means. I was very wishy-washy in my thinking. Spiritually, I was such a dork. Still am, I guess. My mind was all over the place. I was of the wall. I was definitely a liberal. A progressive, liberal, numb-skull. I wasn't benefiting anyone but me and what made me feel good. I went after the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and especially, the pride of life. My kids suffered for my ridiculous thinking and neglect. Well, NO MORE!! I'm done with it all. I'm much more sober in my thinking and, others benefit for it.

I believe the Tea Party movements go deeper than protests, too. They go deep into the soul. Many of us have reevaluated our lives, our thoughts and minds, and have actually become more conservative, because we have CHANGED OUR MINDS. We think it's stupid to take hands outs. We can do it ourselves. We do not need any $ form "Obama's stash" to help us out. We can get off our butts (which seem to be spreading the more we sit), and work hard to love our children and show them the ways that are good and right. It's good for our kids to see us work.

I'm the momma. The leader. It's me. I teach them what the LORD has to say about EVERYTHING!! That is the role of parents. Our God-given role. It's not the school's responsibility to raise up our children in the way they should go. It's mine. MINE!! All mine.

We scrape the bottom of the barrel, so I can stay home and be the parent at home. We don't have a fancy car. We absolutely don't have a fancy house. I don't have fancy clothes. By the way, I need some jeans, so I'll be hitting the thrift store for those ... two pay checks from now. We have other bills to pay first. I make left overs out of left overs. We live on hot dogs, ground beef, and maybe a chicken. I plant a garden. I learn how to bake bread, sew clothes, and mend tares. My kids have really cool jeans. Those patches are really neat!!

So, if, like me, you're a liar, then maybe you ought to repent, change your mind, and be free of Obama's stash. We don't need any of his stuff. We can make it on our own. My grandmother did. Grandpa died when my mom, the oldest of 3 was just 4 years old. She got by just fine. So, let me pick myself up, and you too, and let's not accept hand outs. Lets do it ourselves and be true Conservative capitalists. Your kids my have the coolest clothes in town, too, because they have some really cool tattered patches on their jeans. Or the best bed spread made from old clothes, or the best mom who stays home and reads them books, and teaches them the Words of the LORD.

I don't need anyone but God, my husband, and my church to get done the things I need to get done. And I don't need a government hand out. Maybe I need a HAND once in a while, but not a HAND-OUT. Lincoln says, "It's wrong for me to do for someone what the CAN and SHOULD do for themselves." I say that, and I'll say that 'til I die. Since Obama loves Lincoln so much, maybe Obama should start saying and believing the same thing.

God bless Obama. God bless America! Now stand up and do what's right. Get off your spreading butts and build something, make something, invent something, practice something, paint something, and most of all, love someone!!

AMEN and AMEN!!

Friday, December 25, 2009

Peace of Mind

Just a little tid bit:

Isaiah 26:3 (KJV)
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee because he trusteth in Thee.

Many in today's society search for peace. We have depression, anxiety, fear, and many other debilitating mind problems. Certainally I do not go above a doctors orders, and I'm certainally not an expert in mental illness, but I know from experience that when I get my focus off God my life is full of anxiety.

Two things:
1. A mind that is focused on the LORD is at peace.
2. The soul that trusts the LORD is at peace and thinks about God and His ways.

I said I wanted the LORD to teach me about the salvation He has in store for me. He has been faithful. And He is faithful to all generations. Worry not for your children. The LORD will take care of them. He has taken care of me. He will them. Do them right and teach them the ways of the LORD. We can not make them follow the LORD, but God can. He has been faithful. He always will be.

Love the salvation He has given. Look!! One day we will see the Glory of God. It will be bright, but not irritating. We will be warmed and at full peace before Him. I can not wait to be with Him and see His ways. It will not be like any other day. In a moment we will be changed.

That was my little tid bit: Those whose minds are on the LORD because they trust him are people who are at peace.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Glory of It All

I've been asking God to help me to appreciate His Salvation that He gave me way back when I was 7. I remember: I was going to a Christian day school, and my teacher made it a point to have devotions with us K-1st graders every morning. I remember. I knew the verses: "For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son.... For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.... The wages of sin is death..... And if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus that He was raised from the dead......you will be saved." [totally paraphrased]

It suddenly dawned on me as a little 7yo, that I was in big trouble with God, and only Jesus could fix it. I cried. My teacher, Miss Borthwick, wanted to know what was the matter. I told her I needed to get saved. So, we sat on the stairs outside the little room, and it was there that Jesus came into my heart and saved me from my sins. It was all God's doing. He drew me. I am so so so saved, and I love the LORD for saving me early, so I don't have to spend too much time without Him. I pray that for my sons every day. Sometimes I feel like a failure, like I don't preach at them enough, like they don't get enough knowledge from the Word of God, or I don't love them enough, or don't teach them the basic things in life very well. Almost makes me want to take them out of school, take them home, and home school them. After all, the home is ordained by God. The home is ordained. The church is ordained. And I'm debating that maybe the nation of Israel may be ordained by God, but I'll have to do some research on that one.

Anyhow, lately, seems like I've lost the gumption for the love of my salvation, what it all means, why so many of the apostles and teachers focus much of their letters to the churches on it, and especially looking at the helmet of salvation. Why the Apostle Paul thought it was so important to have this helmet of salvation, I wanted to know why. So, I've been praying to the LORD that I'd love the salvation He gave me a long time ago more and more. Instead of just going about my life in la la, wishy washy land. And so may of us are doing that Right now. It really has to stop. THE CHURCH NEEDS TO WAKE UP!! Sound the shofar!! Wake up!!

This falls in very closely with our society right now. There aren't as many gifts under the tree this year, our economy seems to be screwed, our country's values are going down the toilet, our freedoms are being taken away, DC is full of fat cats, lobbyists, and whore houses. America today is not the America 100 years ago. Pride, selfishness, and lusts of the flesh, eyes, and heart are prevalent. Even in our churches and spiritual leaders. There's so much unhappiness and unholiness to think about. But, what I've been studying lately has not been in cahoots with how America is going now. THANK GOD!!

I'M HAPPY!! Yes! I am. I am so excited about the salvation given to me, the salvation that is MINE, the salvation that can not be taken away. Since we've (or I) have been studying 1 Peter 1, and yes, I'm still on that chapter 1, the LORD has been faithful and has given me great excitement that Obama, my bank, my doctor, my health insurance can never take away!! Never ever. Oh, look at 1 Peter with me. This is so exciting!!

1Peter 1:3-5
Praise be to the God and Father of out LORD Jesus Christ. In His great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. Who through faith shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is already to be revealed in the last time.

So may of these words stand out to me: "shielded by faith" (shield of faith), living hope (the glory that will come to us in the end! We will see His face!! AMEN and AMEN!!) "Praise" (he righteous will naturally rise up and praise the LORD!!) "Power" (I do not go about living in the wisdom of men, but under the power of God), "an inheritance that will not spoil or fade" (Obama and other socialist can not take away the salvation God has given to me), "the last time" (God almighty will have the last AMEN!! Yes He will!!)

I know Who is in the throne. Certainly not Obama. Although the "anointed one", so Glen Beck calls him, might think he's o on the throne, he is not. Have you ever noticed Obama's swagger. How he saunters in a room and presents his lovely self to the world. Hopefully, he's being humbled like I have. It's good to be humbled. I have a tendency to have a swagger myself, but that's another story for another day. Today's topic is about the Salvation and that even though nations crumble and fall into the sea, the LORD is still on the throne, and that is where we bend the knee.

Ps 100
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all ye lands!! Serve the LORD with gladness!! Come before His presence with singing!! Know that the LORD, HE IS GOD!! It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise.......

At the start He was there. In the end He'll be there!!

GLORY OF IT ALL
-David Crowder Band

At the start He was there, He was there.
In the end He'll be there, He'll be there.
And after all our hands have wrought, he forgives!!

CHORUS:
Oh the Glory of it all is:
He came here, for the rescue of us all
that we may live!
For the Glory of it all!!
Oh the Glory of it all!!

All is lost, find him there, find Him there.
After night dawn is there, dawn is there.
And after all falls apart He repairs, He repairs!!

CHORUS

It's a new day!! It's a new day!!
O everything will change!
We will never be the same
We will never be the same
We will never be the same

Is that not exciting?? Will not the LORD have the LAST AMEN?? Will He not come in the cloud at one time and on a white horse at another? Peter is all excited about it!! David Crowder is excited about it!! So am I. I am happy.

Today, I'm not in pain either. Some days I am in pain. Today I rejoice. Maybe tomorrow, I'll have to rest in the arms of the LORD because of pain. Still, even there, the glory of God is. And even in pain we can see the cross much more clearly!! But today is a day of no pain. Today I rejoice and know that the salvation given me, the helmet on my head, guards my mind.

1Peter 1:13
Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.


This is the day that the LORD has made.
I will rejoice and be glad in it.
For we will one day see His glorious grace.
Surely we'll see Christ face to face.
-Bible and Kim Snover (copyright 12-2009)


I hope you are blesses with this blog. The LORD blesses me, so I hope you will be blessed to.

DARKEST OF DARK
Tis in the darkest of dark
Tis in the blackest of skies
That we can see the stars so clearly.

Tis in the darkest of dark
In our moments of woe
That we cn see the cross of Christ so dearly

So take up your cross
And follow Jesus now
YAH YAH
So just take up your cross
and follow Jeus now
His grace is sufficient for me
His grace is all sufficient!!
His graceis sufficient for me
-copyright: Kim Snover 6-2008


Grace to you!!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Anxiety vs. Peace

Ever since Saturday, where I did a craft fair selling my "junk", I've been feeling anxious. It was exciting talking about the art of crazy quilting and getting people to buy my stuff, but it was also stressful. Why? I mean, I spend all year stitching stuff, and try to sell it in one day. Truly, my mind was not focused on God's business. No. But, my it's also not sinful for me to be selling my stuff.

But I've been feeling anxious. Been reading 1&2 Peter and learning about proper thinking, but it didn't seem to apply. I prayed good and hard last night for everything: for my neighbors, for people in town, for my kids, for my home and DH. I finally fell asleep.

Then this morning, I got the answer. I thought I was making my kids sit down and get some "wisdom form the book of Proverbs, but I'm the one who got the "swift kick". Then again, I got another smack from Colossians 3!! It was great. Maybe, in a way, I'm a bit of a masochist. Being put in my place, where I'm supposed to be, is a good place for me. Being in a stupid selfish place really sucks. Sin, and selfish thinking brings anxiety. Here are the verses from Proverbs and Colossians. Maybe you'll get out of them what I did.

Proverbs 28:25-28
A greedy man stirs up dissension, but he who trusts in the LORD will prosper.
He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them, receives many curses.
When the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding; but when the wicked perish, the righteous thrive.

Colossians 3:15
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

Colossians 3:1-2
Since then you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above. Not on earthly things.

Tis the season for earthy things. Tis the season for greediness. Tis the season for me me me and then myself, and then me again. Tis the season for tinsel, sparkle, Oooooh-la-la!! Tis the season for sweets, cakes, and candy. I get all caught up in it all. That is where my anxiety is coming from. Go, go go! Hustle bustle!! Buy, sell, fun, "make ones spirit bright!!" Decorate he tree, make the lists, and put out the lights. My spirit is getting all fed up with it all already, and it's only December 2nd. I'm tired of listening to it all. My goodness!!

Then I went preaching at my kids this morning about thankfulness, that we're not going to have as many gifts this year, and that we need to think of others instead of ourselves. What I've gleaned from these Scriptures this morning is:

1. Trust the LORD. Don't be greedy.
2. Be thankful.
3. Jesus Christ is the reason for this season. Set our minds on things above!!
4. Have a lot of family time this season and give to others who are in need.

I have a seasonal devotional book that's absolutely great if you love to bake or cook. It's called 31 Family Devotions for Christmas. It's written by MariLee Parrish. I have absolutely no idea who she is, but I just may have to Google her to see what she's all about. Anyhow, it's got devotions for 31 days, recipes for the season, and great fun times. When my boys get home from school, we're gunna make the first recipe in the book: Banana Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake. Mmmmmm! Doesn't that sound great!! And I just thawed some smashed banana just yesterday. I have a baggie of chocolate chips in the pantry, too. We'll bake it, cut it in half, and sent it to a neighbor. We're gunna share so much love this season. My boys are going to be thrilled with all the love that's going to come out of our house. This season, I want my home to be exploding with thoughtfulness, Charity, and love for others!! To be a light on top this mountain. Doesn't this sound like so much fun? I think so.

May grace follow you. May we raise up our children to love others, to know the LORD, trust Him, and not be greedy. Now I am at peace. This season will be a party of love.

Grace to you!!

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Southern California, United States
This log is about being a Conservitive Christian Mother in a "progressive" liberal world. Basically, my constant question will be, "What does the Bible have to say about that?"