Saturday!!

Had a great Saturday today- my mom, dad, and sister came in for the weekend, so we went shopping yesterday, to the apple orchard today, and then came back to Verity for some games and things before heading to the barn for Harvest Fest. Had a nice Thanksgiving-style meal there (I think over 300 people came, total- students and guests), followed by a fun talent show of songs and skits! I was in one skit which did kind of a combination between Jane Austen and Rogers and Hammerstein- we were the Bennet sisters from Pride and Prejudice, and we sang "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music, with some talking and acting added in. I then finished up the evening with an hour and a half dishpit! I'll post pictures later- I didn't take any, so I have to wait to get some from my sister. :-)

My days have been filled with...

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Iced coffee drinks of sorts :-)

Riding my beautiful horse

Random pictures

Awesome clouds!

Roping

More random, yet cool pictures

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Cool pictures! :-)

Random Pictures

I haven't posted in so long, that I have quite a little stock of pictures just waiting to be posted! So, here's a typical random photo post... :-)

Strawberry coffee milkshake- yum!! :-)



It's been raining a lot in Kansas- goes right along with all the tornadoes we've been having here in the Midwest...

A cute little chipmunk decided to come visit... :-)

My cat Midnight was keeping an eye on the chipmunk for us. She wasn't too happy that she couldn't get to it!

"You leave it, you lose it!"

I tried out a new recipe for Ultimate Turtle Brownies (minus the nuts) for a steak dinner at work. They turned out amazing! :-)

We found our screened-porch table like this one morning... It had happened around 11 o'clock the night before, and we all went out to investigate, but of course it was too dark for pictures, so that had to wait 'till morning. We're not sure what happened- it just collapsed! The glass of the table wasn't even sharp on the edges, really- it more of cracked internally, or something. We're guessing it must have been something in the air pressure, but don't really know what caused it to do this.

Messing with depth of field on my point-and-shoot. I can't decide which one I like better- what do you think? Do you like the table or the piece of glass in focus in these pictures?

My inquisitive horse Velvet finally stood still long enough I could get a clear picture of her :-)

Nerds- yum! :-)

May 21, 2011, at 6 o'clock PM...

...the world was supposed to end.

When I first heard about this idea that "the world will end on May 21,2011 at 6:00 PM", it seemed rather laughable, and hilarious that anyone could seriously think that they could predict the day of Christ's 2nd coming!

But as I read up on the issue, a feeling a sadness came upon me, and I began to feel sorry for those who believed this lie. The Bible says, in Matthew 24:36-44:

"36But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh."

It's so simple to understand. Yet these people have a very twisted perspective of the Bible. In fact, on the website for Harold Camping, the man who started the whole idea of May 21, 2011, I found this statement:

"The language of this verse [1 Thessalonians 5:3] describes perfectly all of those in the world who on May 21, 2011 are still following any church. Because churches teach many things that are not true to the Bible, including a plan of salvation that is contrary to the Bible, and the Holy Spirit has abandoned all churches, those still following any church on May 21, 2011 are not saved. Nevertheless churches teach their members that:

1. They as confessing members of their church are safely in Christ’s care.

2. No man can know the day or hour of Christ’s return. Therefore, they are certain that Christ will come as a thief in the night.

These dear people do not realize at all that they, themselves, are in spiritual nighttime, a condition that guarantees that when Christ comes they, themselves, will be destroyed in the Day of Judgment. How awful! It is the true believers who know the time (the hour) and much about Judgment Day (the day). They are not in the nighttime of spiritual darkness."

Rather than it being us who are the "dear people" who they feel so "awful" for, it should be the other way around. They have become so infatuated with analyzing the Holy Scriptures past anything that God ever intended that they have persuaded themselves into believing all sorts of lies.

I read most of the information from that website, and there are so many loopholes in the information that they provide- I could list several things wrong with their statements, with barely a glance at the page. But that is not the purpose of this post.

But rather it is to encourage myself as well as all of my readers to be praying for those who believed this fallacy, that they may come to know the real truth, and God's timing, which will never be understood by man. Jesus Himself doesn't even know the time of His returning (Mark 13:32)!

So instead of laughing over what others think, ask yourself this: If the world did end tonight, would you be ready?

Would you be ashamed to meet your Saviour in heaven right this minute?

How about all those souls you had a chance to reach for His glory- did you even try to reach out to them?

In discussing the May 21, 2011 theory, did you stand up for God and state the truth, or did you laugh it off with others, and let them keep thinking one way or another?

I don't want my Lord and Saviour to be ashamed of me because of what I have or have not done. How about you?

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think about this event in America. :-)

All Scriptures used in this post are from the KJV

Oh, I also forgot to mention something else- there are people running "post-rapture pet cares", where non-Christians (or in one case, a "Christian" started it) offer to take care of your pets for you after you have been taken to heaven after the rapture. How sad it is, that these people willingly accept that they are not going to heaven, openly admit it, and don't even care? They need our prayers!

Mud and Goals

Here in Kansas, it's muddy. Very muddy. And, as my family owns horses, and they have gone out into the pasture some, even with all the mud, I have had to walk through the pasture in thick mud... My boots are incredibly muddy, and need a good cleaning! However, as I was walking one of our horses to the round pen in the middle of the pasture, a thought came to my mind, and I wanted to share it with you. :-)

Life is like mud in some ways. Especially when it comes to goals. When you're walking in mud, you can see your big goal- you can see the spot you want to go. But you also have to watch where you are walking. If you don't, you will most likely fall flat on your back (or face!). Those are the small goals. In order to make it to your big goal, you have small goals to get you along. For example, if you have a big goal of memorizing all of Colossians, you have little goals to get you there- a little goal of one verse. Then you take another step closer to the big goal- one "paragraph" of a chapter, then another goal and another, until you make it to your big goal. It's possible to not have your "little goals", but just like walking in the mud, you're a lot more likely to slip and fall on your way. Little goals keep us motivated, and the more little goals we get done, the closer the big goal is.

What about you? Does it help you to have little goals, or do you prefer to stick with your big goal?

"It is time for us to realize that we're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope. We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."
~Ronald Reagan

Hello again!

Hello again after my nice, long break of no blogging... I finally got my computer back earlier this week, so I figured it was about time to post again! :-) I've been busy sorting through files every day, deleting thousands... Only about a dozen of my documents work, a few dozen pictures, and at least a few hundred videos (I haven't counted- but I've deleted more of everything than I kept). But I have come up with something interesting to do on my blog, now that I have my computer back and can work on some things on it! Since so many of my followers and viewers have been asking about my book that I wrote during NaNoWriMo last November, I have decided to post a short scene from my book every week, until either 1. I run out of scenes, without giving you the whole book, or 2. The book is ready to read. I actually have not read my book all the way through since I wrote it, but... I'm working on editing it now, as well as Hannah Jean, so hopefully it'll be a little closer to being done before too long! I also have to write more scenes. But for now, you'll get little teasers from my book- enjoy! :-)

P.S.- please comment and let me know what you think about my book excerpts! :-)