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Great Song. I think I could have written the lyrics more suitable to me though .

For the Christian, the center from which the Divine design proceeds within the fabric of our own lives- and through which we begin to discern the beauty of God’s perfect plan - is the Cross of Jesus Christ. It is the central patch of cloth from which the pattern proceeds. It is also where the pattern returns. However, seeing this pattern requires ongoing conversion. We need the eyes that can only come through living faith. We need the strength to pull ourselves up by grasping the wood. It is only there where we begin to see that the threads all...

Does Contraception Foster Love? — Part 2 of 6 July 22nd, 2008 by Christopher West We continue a series of reflections on the issue of contraception in light of the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae. When Pope Paul VI issued this document on July 25, 1968, it fell like a bomb. Many people wished the issue would just go away. It hasn’t. And it won’t. In fact, it can’t “go away.” This encyclical takes us to the very foundations of human life (humanae vitae).In the last column, we looked at how contraception has played a key role in the cultural...

Dancing With the Baby Stars - The Amazing Feats of Fetal Development You may not think of yourself as the next Kristi Yamaguchi, but long before you could walk, you could dance. Not on the floor, mind you, but in the womb. If you want proof of an unborn baby's dancing ability, check out http://www.yourdevelopingbaby.com/sampleChapters/7.htm. There, under the headline "Baby aerobics," you'll see a baby 15 weeks after conception, doing a unique form of hip hop. The incredible video comes courtesy of two Harvard radiology professors, Peter Doubilet and Carol Benson, a married couple who have written an eye-catching book...

"CHRIST OUR HOPE." Pastor F. E. Marsh (Of Sunderland) (At the Nottingham Conference, May, 1894) As a key-text, will you turn to the first epistle of Paul to Timothy, 1st chapter, 1st verse: "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our Hope" now, wherever we have hope in the objective in the word of God, it always refers to the Lord Jesus Christ coming for His people. Christ is coming in power to put down every opposing force before He can set up his kingdom on earth. He...

In the course of human events it is necessary, now and again, to dissolve our political bands with the ninnies who keep abandoning our founding principles. It used to be self-evident that our government’s role was primarily to protect certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It used to be that our government did the bidding of the people – that any power it derived was solely through the consent of the governed. It used to be our country believed in limited government – that government at its best was a necessary evil and should...

It is my hope that the art of conversation is not inborn as much as learned, because I frequently find myself feeling out of place in social situations. I’m not good at being funny on the spot, and I’m extremely poor at feigning interest in things that just don’t interest me. In fact, the only two things I really enjoy talking about, besides myself, are sports and politics. Sports and politics, what strange bedfellows. This worries me because sports – although I adore them and can rationalize more value from them than anyone alive – do not matter the way...

Last Wednesday, as California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger prepared to tell a biotechnology industry convention in San Diego that his state “is one of the best places to set up shop”, Kári Stefansson was opening a letter that had just landed on his desk at deCODE genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland. The letter read: “It has come to the attention of the California Department of Public Health…that deCODEme Genetics is in violation of California law” for failing to have a clinical laboratory licence in the state and offering genetic tests to consumers resident in the state without a physician's order. It gave...

Once an Embryo… June 23rd, 2008 by Fr. Frank Pavone The US bishops have issued a very clear statement on embryonic stem cell research. It does not dwell upon the scientific nuances of the issue, but rather assists the reader to focus on the moral issues involved. The statement is not marked by condemnation, but rather by explanation. It is not a rejection of research or of those who stand to benefit from research, but rather a call to pursue the well being of those very individuals by preserving the moral standards that protect their dignity and that of the...

Ancient_antarctic_microbes_2_2 The unusual properties of frozen water may have been the ticket that made life possible. Over the decades, several notable scientists have began to suspect that life on Earth did not evolve in a warm primordial soup, but in ice—at temperatures that few living things can now tolerate. The very laws of chemistry may have actually favored ice, says Jeffrey Bada, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. “We’ve been arguing for a long time,” he says, “that cold conditions make much more sense, chemically, than warm conditions.” If Bada and others are correct, it would...

How to Get the Oil Out of Your LifeEileen Gunn 06/20/08 - 10:38 AM EDT Oil is everywhere. The ubiquity of petroleum as a manufacturing raw material is mind-boggling. There is petroleum in your kitchen, living room, bedroom, home office, den and car (aside from the fuel and oil tanks). Household items that have petroleum derivatives that you might not expect include health and beauty products (lip balm, moisturizer, diaper cream, eye drops, styling gel, hair color, nail polish and all kinds of make-up), clothes, house paint, CDs, bug repellents, serving and storage bowls, detergent, luggage, golf bags, bicycle and...

Get A Little Sun This Summer -- It Could Help Save Your Life, Researcher SuggestsExperts still agree that a fairly modest amount of sun is enough -- perhaps 10-15 minutes of exposure on your arms and face about three times a week. Sunburn should of course be avoided and a tan clearly isn't necessary -- but some real sun exposure probably is. (Credit: iStockphoto/Robert Churchill) ScienceDaily (Jun. 18, 2008) — As summer comes and people across America get ready to start slathering on the sunscreen, a note of caution is in order – a little sunshine is good for you....

TANROW, June 13, 2008 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) - A Polish volleyball star who was buried on June 9 is being compared by local Catholics to Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla because of her heroic sacrifice for her unborn child. Agata Mroz, who was originally known for her athletic prowess, was buried in her hometown of Tarnow. Mroz was pregnant with her first child when doctors discovered she had a fatal case of leukemia. After consulting with her husband, Mroz delayed a bone-marrow transplant until after she gave birth to her daughter Liliana on April 4, 2008. Polish fans dubbed the national team...

- In Sweden that is. All the same, if various experts are right, the Nordic countries are not only the richest part of the world, but also global leaders in the domain of QUALITY of life. Therefore, living in this part of Stockholm is probably as good as life gets, or? The article: "The Stockholm suburb of Danderyd is the best municipality in which to live, according to a new ranking by the magazine Fokus. Lund and nearby Lomma in southern Sweden follow closely behind. Ljusnarsberg municipality in the Bergslagen region of central Sweden ended up in last place. The...

Just saying... :)

A young boy performs a flip for the camera as he and his friends enjoy swimming at the al Jadida public swimming pool in Baghdad al Jadida, eastern Baghdad, June 7th, 2008. U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian D. Lehnhardt. FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY — Scoring a refreshing blow against impending sweltering summer temperatures, Al Jadida officials decided to get their feet wet and dive headfirst into meeting the needs of the local populace. A nearly three-month project to renovate Baghdad Al Jadida Pool Complex was officially complete when the swimming pool reopened to the public June 7.A mixture...

It is not surprising that most people in Christendom believe that they have an immortal soul residing within them and that “it will never die” – which is the meaning of the term “immortal.” This is a longstanding “tradition” in most church bodies; Roman Catholic, Protestantism, Baptist, Methodists, Lutherans, Evangelicals, etc. Jesus started His Church with inspired men setting it up and teaching its beliefs. But nowhere did they teach that man has an immortal soul residing within one’s body. As time progressed, un-inspired men introduced the pagan idea of an “entity” residing within one’s body that will never die,...

The Food and Drug Administration has finally acknowledged that it needs more resources to protect consumers from tainted food and drugs. Unfortunately, it took the deaths of 81 people, a browbeating by members of Congress and a report detailing the FDA's woeful inability to expand overseas inspections before top agency officials would ask for more money. It was a puzzling situation and one that has to make you wonder whether the Bush administration was putting the bottom line ahead of the health and safety of the American public. Last week, FDA Commissioner Andrew C. von Eschenbach finally wrote Congress to...

"...Oncophage, developed by Manhattan-based startup Antigenics (AGEN), is a vaccine that recruits the patient's immune system to fight off cancer cells. It may keep the cancer from recurring for up to two years. "This is undoubtedly a major victory," says Loran" "Russia is the only country that has approved Oncophage. The data was not conclusive enough to convince the U.S. Food & Drug Administration" "...the agency should overhaul its methods for reviewing cancer drugs much as it did in the late 1980s and 1990s for AIDS drugs"

A poll conducted by Knowledge Networks found that 66 percent of the 1,100 people responding favored legalizing assisted suicide. The most popular candidates for the procedure according to an open-ended question on the poll were an annoying spouse (23 percent), insane boss (16 percent), nosy neighbor (11 percent), the driver who cut me off (5 percent), unspecified others (11 percent).

ScienceDaily (May 19, 2008) — An improved artificial cornea, which could restore the vision of more than 10 million people worldwide who are blind due to diseased corneas, finally is moving toward reality, scientists in California conclude in a new analysis of research on the topic. Curtis Frank, Christopher Ta, David Myung, and Jennifer Cochran point out that disease or injury to the cornea -- the clear tissue covering the front of the eye -- is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. Although treated in developed countries with transplants from donors, cornea transplants are unavailable in many parts of...

5/15/2008 - NANGARHAR, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- Airmen from around the world and Soldiers from Pennsylvania, Texas, North Carolina and Virginia arrived in Afghanistan in early March to improve the lives of the people of Nangarhar Province. After two months on the ground, the team has gotten its bearings and is working to build strong relationships with its community. "Seeing smiles on the faces of the Afghan children is by far the most rewarding experience, and knowing that our team is working to provide a better future for the kids is tremendously important to me," said Lt. Col. Paul Donovan, Nangarhar...

Abortion is back in the news yet, understandably, many women still find it difficult to talk about. Here Lucy Cavendish – who has been through it twice – offers a candid view Virtually every woman I know of my generation has had an abortion. The problem is that no one talks about it. It is hidden away as if it were a dirty secret. This week, however, every time I've opened a newspaper or turned on the radio, abortion has been the topic du jour. First, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries called for the legal limit for terminations to be...

BATON ROUGE, La. - A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk. When he turned in the winning ticket, Carl Hunter became the largest Powerball winner in Louisiana's history. He won the jackpot in January, but the 73-year-old small businessman waited nearly four months to claim the prize. An avid lottery player, Hunter said he already had bought a Powerball ticket on Jan. 16 at the gas station...

An animated butterfly’s flight to a rainbow and children sing and praise our one and only all mighty God.

This master teacher, theologian, Chief Pastor and Pope acted with precision, purpose, and profound care.

Beginning next Tuesday, Yale senior Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself ?as often as possible? while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages

Although I suspect that intelligent life is rare in the cosmos, I’m playing little more than a hunch. So it’s interesting to see that Andrew Watson (University of East Anglia) has analyzed the chances for intelligence elsewhere in the universe by looking at the challenges life faced as it evolved. Watson believes that it took specific major steps for an intelligent civilization to develop on Earth, one of which, interestingly enough, is language. Identifying which steps are critical is tricky, but in the aggregate they reduce the chance of intelligence elsewhere. A linguist at heart, I wasn’t surprised with the...

Advanced ground and space-based telescopes are discovering new planets around other stars almost daily, but an environmental scientist from England believes that even if some of those planets turn out to be Earth-like, the odds are very low they'll have intelligent inhabitants. In a recent paper published in the journal Astrobiology, Professor Andrew Watson of the University of East Anglia describes an improved mathematical model for the evolution of intelligent life as the result of a small number of discrete steps. Evolutionary step models have been used before, but Watson (a Fellow of England's Royal Society who studied under James...

This is an animated bullfrog video that depicts a moment in ones life. I believe this video is very funny but in the past others have disagreed. This one minute video is for all who like to eat.

Florida House Approves Abortion-Ultrasound Bill to Help Inform Pregnant Women by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor April 2, 2008 Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The Florida House has approved a bill that would allow women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn baby before having an abortion. Lawmakers sponsoring and pro-life groups backing the bill hope the measure will help further reduce the number of abortions in the state. The bill requires abortion practitioners to do the ultrasound and give women an option to see it. Women are not obligated to view the ultrasound but get a chance to sign...

Walter Youngers’ mother said it best in the play Raisin in the Sun. Youngers is an ambitious young black man whose wife tells him she plans to abort their new child. Youngers says nothing, but Mamma speaks up. Here’s the text taken directly from the play: “I’m waiting to hear how you be your father’s son. Be the man he was. (Pause. The silence shouts.) Your wife say she going to destroy your child. And I’m waiting to hear you talk like him and say we a people who give children life, not who destroys them — (she rises) I’m...

WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors say Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion. An indictment in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam's regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary. In exchange, Al-Hanooti allegedly received 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil. The lawmakers are not mentioned but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and...

This is an animated video of children and the abuse of a homemade weapon. As a child, I with a slingshot, 22 rifle and 12 gage shot gun, killed many kinds of birds just to see if I could aim good and bring the little creature to the ground. I didn’t kill for food but in adolescent behavior. It is so cruel and for this reason I created this video to show and teach the cruelty of this kind of behavior, live and let live.

ScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2008) — Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn have detected for the first time a molecule closely related to an amino acid: amino acetonitrile. The organic molecule was found with a 30 metre radio telescope in Spain and two radio interferometers in France and Australia in the "Large Molecule Heimat", a giant gas cloud near the galactic centre in the constellation Sagittarius (Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press).  Amino acetonitrile. (Credit: Sven Thorwirth, MPIfR) The "Large Molecule Heimat" is a very dense, hot gas clump within the star forming region Sagittarius B2....

A red-shoulder animated hawk in observation of his surrounding preaches a very shot sermon. The video is less than a minute and the preaching is only a few seconds from the Bible scripture Isaiah 9:6 and Acts 3:15, Peace and Life. Revski

This is an animated rare parakeet named Perija and with a greeting and a bow quote the scripture, from the New Testament, Philippians 4:8. What a wonderful world if humans would only learn and practice this one bible scripture. Revski

Big boy rooster greets the hen with a whistle and the hen speaks her mind. The next day, the rooster and hen, in the morning, met again. The hen greets the rooster and he speaks his mind. Revski (o7jimmy)

“Norma McCorvey’s testimony is a incredible example of God’s redeeming grace. I commend Norma for her courage to speak out on the evils of abortion and pray that her redemptive story will touch hearts and change minds.” Alan E. Sears President, CEO and General Counsel Alliance Defense Fund

Capt. Gregory Curry II, commander of Troop A, 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division signs over a micro-grant to a general store owner in the Hawr Rajab area. Curry, of Walnut Creek, Ohio, said the purpose of the micro-grants is to improve and jumpstart the local economy. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Paredes. FOB KALSU — With security improving in Hawr Rajab, stores and schools are reopening and a number of programs are revitalizing a community once on the brink of chaos. In November 2007, al-Qaeda launched their last well-coordinated offensives into...

Bullfrogs have a message with an inspirational song. :)

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq, March 7, 2008 – Soldiers from 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team delivered 240 cases of bottled water March 5 to a town east of Baghdad. Members of the Sons of Iraq citizen security group of Narhwan, Iraq, unload drinking water provided by 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, March 5, 2008. Photo by Spc. Ben Hutto, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The soldiers brought the water to the “Sons of Iraq” citizen security group’s headquarters in Narhwan for distribution. “Water is very important here,” said Army Sgt. Lucas Walrod, from Panama, N.Y., a...

Bail was set Monday at $100,000 for a woman accused of killing her unborn child by using cocaine while she was pregnant. Charlene Denise Green, 37, remained in jail Monday night. She gave birth to a stillborn 27-week-old girl on the sidewalk of a Farrow Road Family Dollar in October. Authorities said Green gave birth seven years ago to a child who tested positive for cocaine but survived.

Key To Life Before Its Origin On Earth May Have Been DiscoveredFragment of the Murchison meteorite (at right) and isolated individual particles (shown in the test tube). (Credit: DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) ScienceDaily (Feb. 29, 2008) — An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of "handedness" in biomolecules. Researchers led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State University, found that some of the possible abiotic precursors to the origin of life on Earth have been shown to carry "handedness" in a larger number than previously thought. Pizzarello, in ASU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, worked...

A "neurotic" millionaire businessman who had a morbid fear of becoming a father was jailed for almost four years after he tried to kill his unborn child by feeding his wife abortion pills he bought over the internet. Gil Magira, 36, crushed the pills and put them in a sandwich and yoghurt for breakfast, and offered them to Anat Abraham because he did not want her 11-week pregnancy to continue. After eating them she fell ill and was taken to hospital - but both she and baby Matan survived, and he was born on 20 June last year. Today at...

CAMP FOSTER, Japan, Feb. 26, 2008 – Cameron Bonner’s life was in danger, and his best hope for survival came from a U.S. Marine stationed at this Okinawa base. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Austin Bonner, left, visits with his brother, Cameron Bonner, in Los Angeles. The lieutenant donated a kidney to his brother, who suffers from lupus. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Cameron’s brother, Marine Corps 1st Lt. Austin Bonner, is the training officer for Marine Air Support Squadron 2, Marine Air Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. He is one of two siblings who were...

Big boy rooster greets the hen with a whistle and the hen speaks her mind. A little funny.

Older People Are Happy: Life Begins At 40 And 50 And 60 ScienceDaily (Feb. 18, 2008) — Growing old is a happier experience than many of us imagine - that’s according to the findings of a study conducted at Queen’s University, Belfast, on behalf of the Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP). The study, which was conducted by Dr John Garry from Queen’s University, looked at young people’s attitudes to happiness in old age and how these attitudes affect their current health-related behaviour. Dr Garry said: “We have all heard the saying ‘life begins at forty’. But it seems that many people,...

FORT HUACHUCA — It was only a few days before students at the Intelligence Center would leave the post for home. The annual holiday break, known as “Exodus,” was coming. Pfc. Paul Cardenas and Pvt. Benjamin Gaines stood in line at Popeyes, an eatery at the post Exchange’s Mini Mall near Prosser Village, where students live. Both soldiers had just finished a combat lifesaver course and were waiting to order chicken for lunch when a man collapsed. “I was really paying attention to what I was going to order, when he fell down,” said 30-year-old Cardenas. People began to scatter,...

By John PiperJanuary 27, 2008   Psalm 106:32-48 They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account, 33 for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke rashly with his lips. 34 They did not destroy the peoples, as the Lord commanded them, 35 but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did. 36 They served their idols, which became a snare to them. 37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; 38 they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and...