Cooperation is a big word

The kind of music I grew up with listening at home as a kid.

This was one of my favorite songs. If you grew uop Adventist and are about my age or a little older you might have grown up with it too.

From the Songs for Kids album from the King’s Heralds. (Although I grew up more with the spanish album which I found yesterday by the way)

Big different in styles of music from today. Although not applicable to this song, I remember most Children’s church songs being filled with Bible stories etc. Today I see a much stronger emphasize on the attributes of God. Though that is good, just as needed are the reminders of God’s acts in history. Children need to learn early on (even though they will be unaware of it) that God is not transcendent but a personal and historical God.

Your Mower isn’t a Motor Vehicle

The Supreme Court of Georgia says that one’s mower doesn’t count as a motor vehicle.

Nov 23, 2009 – Atlanta

It all started when Franklin Lloyd Harris was convicted of a felony; motor theft.  He took a riding mower from Home Depot into his van and sped off.  He got a sentence of 10 years in prison.  His public defender says that he should not be charged with stealing a car just theft.

The  prosecutors says that by state law a riding mower is a motor vehicles as it is a “self-propelled” device.

The court agreed with the public defender (WOW! a miracle in of itself). It says that the purpose of a mower was to cut grass and not transport people (amazing!  a mower is to cut grass.  I wonder who that it was necessary for the state to know that a mower is used to cut grass.)

link to article

My question: how does a case like this find itself all the way to a state supreme court?

Hymn: And Can it Be

It’s a great hymn.

Enjoy.  though I’d add a little music to the day.
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#198 in the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal.

And can it be that I should gain
an interest in the Savior’s blood!
Died he for me? who caused his pain!
For me? who him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

Refrain
Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

2
He left his Father’s throne above
so free, so infinite his grace!;
emptied himself of all but love,
and bled for Adam’s helpless race.
‘Tis mercy all, immense and free,
for O my God, it found out me!

3
Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
thine eye diffused a quickening ray;
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
my chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed thee.

4
No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in him, is mine;
alive in him, my living Head,
and clothed in righteousness divine,
bold I approach th’ eternal throne,
and claim the crown, through Christ my own.

Paris: Women banned from wearing trousers

Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Interesting article I came across.

As the heading title says, there is  ban on women wearing trousers in Paris, France.  While not enforced it’s interesting that it technically still exists.  The author of the article points out that in the strictest legal sense, Paris is stricter than Sudan.

It was introduced in the 1800 to stop women from dressing like men.  It has survived many attempted to repeal it.  There was a relaxation almost a hundred years later for women who were riding a horse.  In the early 1900’s it was less strict that it allowed women to wear them if they were “on a bicycle or holding it by the handlebars”.

2003 was the latest attempt to get rid of this decree.  The response from the person in charge of gender equality was that: “Disuse is sometimes more efficient than (state) intervention in adapting the law to changing mores.”

Full link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionnews/6583074/Women-banned-from-wearing-trousers-in-Paris.html

Recap: Saturday of Festival de Fe

Long day yesterday (Saturday), which is nothing unusual, but this one was particularly more draining.

All started Friday  (most of the day I was catching up on school work which I am not in the least bit funny terribly behind).  At night, I head over to church for our Church Safe House pre-program social time.  Meet some vistors all good and then the program.  After that lot’s of talking.  I get home around 11:30.

Wake up for church.  Head through the different children Sabbath School rooms.  Then it’s Children’s Church.  Since we had so many visitors for la Festival de Fe I had to take a table and chairs to the Senior pastor’s house.  Potluck had to be quick because we had a youth federation meeting and then at 2:30 I had to be at Village Church our our meeting.

In between having two different program schedules, people wanting to switch order and placement of singers (my wife and I are MCing) and also singers who tell me what they are singing and I announce and and they sing something else.  I was a hetic day.   But a wonderful blessing and all our hispanic churches reported what had happened during this year and the fruits that God has blessed us with (PowerPoints, Photos, Music, Videos, etc) .  Lot’s of people from all our different church.  The best part was at the end when all of us standing at the front sang the chorus to “La Paciencia de los Santos/The Patience of the Saints.  Well actually better for me was the unofficial and prelimary report form the Ministerial Director who said that if his memory served him correct, in talling up the baptisms reported that day the hispanic district had 20 percent more baptism at this point than all last year.  PRAISE GOD!!! After that was a light supper,  during that supper was a another youth federation leaders quick meeting for Secret Santa.  Then help put away all the  chairs and tables.

Finally we headed out to go bowling.  Fun time (I think I bowled my worst 67 – somehow I wasn’t last place) and second game 91

My wife who was just as busy I was was if not more (because she had to help out with the whole potluck at 1 oclock) got super sick was we got back home.