Convenient Rules!!!

There's a little boy I watch that LOVES to play games AND he LOVES to make up new rules to add to the game, AS LONG AS these rules work FOR HIM, he's happy!!! Buuuuuut the moment one of these rules go against him and it means he loses a turn or he's out, weeeeeelllll let me tell you something everything goes DOWN and then he wants to change the rules yet AGAIN!!! He only likes rules as long as they are CONVENIENT for him.

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Convenient means: fitting in well with a person's needs, activities, and plans. However, there is really no such thing as a convenient rule, a rule is SUPPOSED to be a rule, NO MATTER WHAT!!! However, our president seems to like, CONVENIENT rules!!! Therefore, gay marriage is now legal in every state...

 

 

However, although people have pushed their agenda through, they can NEVER push they're agenda through to change God's laws! It doesn't matter if TWO people of the same gender THINK they are married, in God's eyes, they are STILL just two sad people living in sin!!!

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And just because my country has passed another law that I do NOT agree with, this does NOT mean that I am no longer proud to be an American! I STILL love my country and I still believe this is THE BEST country there is to live in!!! Yes, Bishop Abbott, you have taught me well about this my whole life!!! :)))

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If you think about it, this NOT the first thing our country has done that we don't agree with. Starting out with something early, early on was SLAVERY!!! Yes, owning another human being was once LEGAL in this country!!! And now more recently there are other things...Alcohol, pot, divorce...

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 In 1973, ten years before I was even born, it became legal in this country to KILL YOUR BABY!!! Yes, that IS what abortion is, its ending the life of your unborn baby...I can't imagine how saddening this must have been for so many people!!! How can you say its OK, to kill your baby...its A BABY!!!

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However, just because American government is pushing thru convenient laws, this does NOT mean that the laws of God are changing!!! Sin is sin is sin is sin is SIN!!! If your wondering what sin is, sin is do anything that goes against the laws of God.

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I've never been more disgusted than in my college "Marriage" class!!! They talked about EVERY kind of marriage and relationship possible other than just a man and woman vowing to love each other FOREVERRR!!! They talked about, open relationships, polygamy, second marriages, gay, transgender oh you name it and they talked about it!!!

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One day we were divided into two sections to have a class debate on gay marriage... they were all like, well if two people love each other that's all that matters...well I decided to bring out a very valid point...what if someone decides they love their dog???? Everyones like, that's GROSS!!! I'm like, weeeeeeelllll buuuuuut if they love each other!!! They were like, yeah but that's not NORMAL!!! I'm like YEAH, and neither is GAY MARRIAGE!!! There is NOTHING normal about two men getting married!!! You can't just marry anything, what if someone wants to marry their stuffed animal or a sibling???  You can't just decide what marriage is, GOD DOES!!!

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Mr. President, you may have decided to change the rules because they were no longer convenient for you, buuuuuuuuuuut in God's eyes they're STILL THE SAME!!! You might be powerful, buuuuuut your NOT more powerful than MY GOD!!! Yes, that's right, GOD, the one that this country was founded on!!! You'll NEVER change God's rules!!!

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"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." (Hebrews 13:8)

 

"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever." (Isaiah 40:8)

 

"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." (Matthew 24:35)

 

"For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven." (Psalm 119:89)

♥Mary Frances :)

Underneath the green grass...

This past week, while at A Mountain Apart Camp, I found this secluded, peaceful little spot underneath this beautiful weeping willow tree near the pond. It was soooo pretty and quiet I just liked to sit there sometimes and think and just contemplate on things. 

Weeeeelll the spot that I was sitting on the ground beneath the tree was really dry and barren of much grass. While I was sitting there, I looked out and saw this BEAUTIFUL, tall green grass just blowing gracefully and I thought that I might like to move over there and sit in it and enjoy its luciousness, but then I changed my mind and thought NO I like it where I am all just stay where I am, but the WHOLE time I kept looking out and noticing how pretty that grass over yonder was.

After a few minutes, someone on the little bride across the pond saw me and yelled out to me. So rather than have a conversation yelling across the pond to each other, I jumped up and started walking over to her. As I was walking around the pond I thought, OH, I'm going to walk through that beautiful, willowy, green grass, just so I can feel it against me.

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 Well as I began walking through it, much to my dismay, I felt a wetness and as I continued to walk, my feet began to squish into mud! UGH...all over my ADORABLE flip flops...YUCK!!! And     I tried to get out but I kinda sunk a little and even started to slip before I got out of it.

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Once I got out and I was walking over to talk to my friend I thought MAN, that grass looked sooooooo pretty but it SURE was a BIG HASSLE walking through it. Really, it was NOTHING but a buncha trouble. It had looked soooooooo pretty  and perfect from the surface, buuuuuuuut I had NO way of knowing what was underneath.

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Meanwhile, my hard, dry little spot across the way seemed like it truely was the perfect little spot. Because, despite, its dullness and hard barren ground, it was safe. 

ANNNNND of course it got me to thinking about life. Sometimes in life, the ways that are right can seem sooooo boring and dull. You can look out and see something in the world that just seems like it is oh so beautiful and perfect and you want it. Maybe it goes against everything that you have been taught...but all you can see is the surface beauty of the matter, underneath there is MUCK but you can't see it because its covered by the beauty. 

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The Bible says, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." (Proverbs 16:25) You can't see what's underneath. You have NO IDEA the harm that the choice can bring you. Its a slippery, sinking path. Your gonna loose your footing and its going to bring you down.

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I'm telling you, if any choice your considering to make, it doesn't matter HOW wonderful it may make you feel, IF it EVERRR goes against the word of God, it  is wrong! It is wrong! IT IS WRONG!!! Don't leave the safety of God's haven. No matter what you may be seeing out yonder, God's ways are ALWAYS right. God's ways are strong. His ways may not be glamorous and pretty but they are safe and secure. The ways of God will keep you. You can depend on God's way. God's way will NEVER fail you. 

You know what I did WHEN I was done talking to that friend?

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I WENT BACK!!! I went back to my safe little haven beneath the beautiful willow tree. BUUUUUUUT...This time I WALKED AROUND the tall willowy grass and I thankfully and happily sat down on a dry, bland, rather UGLY ground...BUT it was secure and it was SAFE!!!

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Don't leave God's way, BUUUUT if you have, If you've messed up, made a mistake, made a mess, you don't have to stay there stuck in the muck, JUST GO BACK. Go back to what is right. Go back to the safety of God. 

"Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure..."

(2 Timothy 2: 19)

"The name of the LORD is a strong tower: 

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the righteous runneth into it, and is safe."

(Proverbs 18:10)

♥Mary Frances :)

A different connection...

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So the other day, as I told you all about HERE, an electrical line on our street broke, blew, caused and fire and we had a HUGE power shortage in our neighborhood. Everyone on our block and for about 15 blocks around us had NO eltricity. So my sis and I decided instead of stayin in the dark that we should go for a drive.

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We decided to take a ride to Frys by our house. Its like HUGE and they have this awesome lounge with couches and EVERTHING and we just chill there for a little while. After an hour or so we headed back home to see if the the electricity had been fixed. So we're drivin back and all the houses are still dark and i'm like AWWW BUMMMMMER!!!

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Then I see this house with a light shining and i'm like, YES!!! I say to my sis, THERESA look, the lights ARE back on!!! My sis is like, Oh  no, Mom and I were drivin around before and we saw that man's house and we stopped to talk to the man of the house. He said that his house and their whole block didn't lose their electicity.

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I was what?! Thats cRaZy!!! All the houses on the blocks behind that block had lost their electricity. All the houses on the blocks in front of that block had lost their electricity. However, there stood that block of houses, smack dab in the middle of all the darkness, with their lights shining bright. Aparently, that one block of houses was connected to a different electrical source than all the other blocks of houses around them.  They had a DIFFERENT CONNECTION.

Christmas present dream...

Soooo I was talkin with my sis the other day and she was like asking me what I want for Christmas, and I was like, oh nothing really and she asked me if I wanted something and I was like oh no, I don't really care what I get for Christmas, hair accessories or whatever, there is nothing that I really NEED!

But in my head I was thinkin, YOU know the ONE thing that I would, really, REALLY love to have is my own computer in MY ROOM for my writing! That would just be soooo AWESOME!!! Because, first of all, I kind of hog this one and second of all its like REALLY hard for me to concentrate when people are home and anywhere around me...I know this is gonna come as a SHOCK to you all BUT I am REALLY, really, REALLY easily distracted!!! I mean like, I can't even listen to music while I write, because the next thing I know, I am singing at the top of my lungs, swaying to the music and before I even know it, I'm up dancing...LOL...FOR REALS! :) So yeah, I have to have TOTAL silence and I figure a computer in my room...WITHOUT the internet...bahaha...would be GREAT for me!!!

But I'm like, well there is just NO WAY I am going to ask my family for something like that...but WHATEVER...I'm not gonna worry about it! My MAIN concern is ACTUALLY having the money to get all of my family members decent presents from ME!!!

Well this past Saturday, my sister and I met up with the ladies from our church to go to some community yard sales in a kind of ritzy part of town. So my sister and I were basically having a grand time at these yard sales, finding all kinds of deals and stuff after a couple of hours, the other ladies from our church decided to get a bite to eat and then hit the consignment shops, BUT me and my sis decided to keep going to yard sales.

 So as we are driving back around with no clue as to where we are going...my sis was like oh we haven't been over before have we? so I was like uh I don't think so...then my sis is like, OH no we HAVE this is like the first house that we went too, that were selling beanie babies 5 for a $1.00, I'm like OOOO yeah. Sooo i'm like oh yeah, and for some reason my sis decides to stop, then she sees these kids camping chairs that only 1.00 and i'm just sittin in the car and the people were like, we're gettin ready to close up just name a price if  you want something. So I get out and am lookin at some Pampered Chef thing and then we're about to get back in the car and my sis is like, OH, how much is your computer? They are like, $50.00...I'm like...whoa, whoa, whoa....oh there must be something wrong with it!!!

BUT no!!! The man had it all plugged in and everything so people could try it out...it had all the Microsoft office tools on it AND Microsoft Word which was MY MAIN CONCERN!!! I'm just standing there like, with my mouth like half open I havn't even stated that I want it yet and my sis is just like, well I don't need it but thats a good deal on a computer she is like, I'm not sure I have enough money between the two of us...i'm like ummmm...OH YEAH...I have MORE MONEY in the van so i like run...and like this other lady is coming over like, oh WOW thats a good deal...and i'm just like HANDING OVER the money and My sis is like, I didn't even know you had the money, i'm like OH YEAH! LOL

So he carries the computer to our van and I'm just sitting there holding the screen in my lap and Im just like, seriousley in AWWW that I got my own computer and my sis is just like, okaaaaay THAT was God!!! I think HE really wanted you to have that for your writing!!! I'm like I KNOW!!!! I cant believe it! COMPUTERS ARE EXPENSIVE!!! $399.00 was the cheapest Dell I could find online and PLUS you have to buy all those Microsoft programs seperately!!!! I had a FEW technical difficulties putting it together that night...just cuz i'm NOT exactley computer savvy and I could NOT figure out what wires went WHERE so it wasn't starting at first and I was like...WHAT??? OMW!!! NOOOOOOOO! Its gotta work!!! I KNOW this was a blessing for God!!! AND it was, I just had to figure it all out!!! HAHAHA! So yup, on the floor in my room is my computer...I need something to put it on now...LOL!
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It was just SOOOOO cRaZy!!! I mean it was THE FIRST yard sale we went to and then without even trying, while drivin aimlessly, we ended up back there, BUT it wasn't really aimlessly, because GOD was directing us!!! AND to think that ALL day long NO ONE else bought it!!! God must have blinded everyone else's eyes...like...WOW!!! AND I hadn't even prayed about it that I can even remember, just kind thought about it...BUT God was looking out for me!!! It's like God just had it sitting there waiting for me...like He was saving it JUST FOR ME!!! WOW! WOW! WOW!!!
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Plus, I've been really trying to figure out what God wants me to do next in my life. There are sooo many things that I would like to do, but what does GOD want me to do? Even just the other day, I was praying, "God what's next? What do  you want me to do NEXT in my life?" and I was laying out all the different options and possibilities and when I got that computer, it just kinda seemed like God was telling me...WRITE...JUST WRITE!!! I mean, I guess it should be pretty obvious to me, that, that is what God would want me to do since HE gave me the skills, BUT i'm kinda an airhead, and I kinda NEED the affirmation and God sure does have a way of doing that!!!

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All day long I just kept saying, Jesus, you blessed me! Jesus you blessed me! LIKE WOW!!!!

Kinda just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know that God looks out for me like that!

Soooooooo I got my Christmas present ALREADY!!!

THANK you Jesus!!!

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,

saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil,

to give you an expected end.

(Jeremiah 29:11)

CURED!!!

Yesturday, my brother went to Oncologist for his routine check up and the doctor said that he was officially considered CURED of cancer. I was soooo happy when I heard this! I can't believe its been FIVE years now that he has been in remission!!! He ONLY had a 40% chance of surving with chemo and if that didn't work he had a 10% chance of surviving with a bone marrow transplant....BUT here we are TODAY!!! WOOOOHOOOO!!! God is sooooooooooo GOOOOOD!!!

For so long before John was even diagnosed he was VERY SICK! I remember on his 16 birthday, he was getting this beat up pick up truck he wanted and we played the song, Something Woman like about a Pickup man or maybe its just called "Pickup Man"...LOLOL... I ♥ that song!!! BUT he was soooooo sick he couldn't even go out and drive it!  :( BUT he still managed to tell us that if he wasn't plannin on it BUT if he did die, that he didn't want a casket, he just wanted to be sitting at the wheel of his pick up in the drivers seat and buried like that...I was like OKAAAAAAAY seriousley?!?! Guys are sooo WEIRD! LOL

I remember when I first realized that my little brother might die. My heart felt soooo crushed. I remember just being at work and sobbing. I couldn't imagine life without one of my siblings. But you can't cry forever and so you just find the things to laugh at!

I think we really managed to have some "Good times" in the hospital, despite the circumstances. I guess i'll do some pretty STUPID things just to make people LAUGH! Like, dancing in the hospital room @ 2 am...HAHAHAHA!!! Ask my bro about that!!! Sometimes my brother would wanna switch beds with me cause he was bored with his hospital bed and felt like sleepin on the cot and the nurses would come in  just lookin, like they didn't like it BUT they weren't gonna argue with the patient! AND then a new nurse would come in and she would be ALL confused about who the actual patient was!!! HAHA! AND it would get CROWDED in that hospital room!!! HAHAHA! Imagine ALL the Ginty's, Bishop Abbott, the youth group...it got cRaZy!!! LOL

And when John's hair started falling out. Our big brother buzzed his whole head and I remember NO one was upset about it Including John, EXCEPT for my mom, she was crying!!! We're like uh mom, its NOT that big of a deal...HE IS A GUY!!! HAHAHA!

Oh and I believe it was in the hospital that I FINALLY told my little brother the WONDERFUL thing I used to do for him as a child. Okaaaaaay so my mom has this thing that the little kids couldn't have any sort of tortilla chip cause they would "CHOKE" on it!!! Lil John would say to me, "Mammy, I want some, peeze!!! Soooooo being the OH so luvin and kind big sis that I was I would get the chips, chew them up, then give them to him AND he LOVED me for it!!! "I wuv you Mammy!" He didn't seem to think it was quite soooo nice of me at 16! "He was like, I CAN NOT believe you did that to me!!!" I was like okaaaaaaaay you know what, I COULD HAVE EATEN those chips, BUT no, I SACRIFICED them for my lil brother!!! He was like, "Yeah and I bet you sucked ALL the flavor out of them before you gave them to me too!!!" HAHAHAHA! I soooooooooo DID!!! I'm SUCH a good big sister!!! :)))

Then this past April, John started feeling continually sick again! We were all soooo worried that it was the cancer again. I was ready to start packing my stuff to start spending the nights with him in th hospital again...Thankfully it was ONLY Mono!!! You thank God for things like MONO when it coulda easily been CANCER!!!

I think my little brother is SOOOO brave! The other day I was sayin something about how everyone better be puttin on sunblock so they don't get skin cancer and John just looks at me and says, "I'm not exactley worried about something like cancer!" I was like, awwwwwwwww! (But I only said the awwwwww in my heart cause he woulda said I was dumb if I had said it out loud!!! HAHA!)

But here we are FIVE years since remission, and we're all STILL here...in fact the Ginty's have NOT declined but are INCREASING quite rapidly! HAHAHA!!! Sooooo much has happened but what more can you say then, God is GOOOOOOOOD!!!!

Read John's story HERE I think its time to do an UPDATE on this story!!!

Look at Obama!!! Read ALL the way through!

"Awww! I don't care who you voted for, anyone with a heart must admit that this picture is criminally cute:"

I found this picture on another blogger's website and the above statment with it. I have to say that I totally agree with her! Look at our new president reaching out too all those adorable little kids!!! It really is a sweet picture, YOU ALL have to admit that!!! I for one would like to stand up and give him an aplause for taking the time to shake hands with "The Little People!!!"

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I just wonder if this picture was taken before or after he said a baby was a punishment?!?!

Hmmm...what do you all think?

"I've got two daughters, 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." ( Barack Hussein Obama Newly elected U.S. President)

Too bad there are some "Little People" that will never have the chance to shake his hand-because they are a "punishment."
I believe that ONLY God the creator is the determinor of when life should begin or end. If you believe the same PASS IT ON!!!-Started by Mary Frances Ginty-