Thanksgiving 2017

 

 

 



Learning, Learning, Learning...

Olympus Stylus

All the rests are Nikon
 

 

Some More Pics and An Upgrade...sm

Hubby told me to just go have fun....Love that man!!!

 

 

 

UPGRADE!!! 

 

 

This Time of Year....

This time of year always brings out the worst in me. 

 

Now, please don't get me wrong.  I love seeing the glorious fall colors that our Lord, Jesus Christ, creates.  I see His hand in fall, but I hate the conflict that I always find myself in with the 'world' and with other Christians.  Celebrate Halloween?  Noooooo.....As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.  It is as plain as day for me.  One of the easy decisions to make.  But, I always find myself at adversary with a brother or sister in Christ because they choose to celebrate Halloween.  God's word says, "My people perish for a lack of knowledge..."  Hosea 4: 6. 

 

2Co 6:14  Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 2Co 6:15  And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 2Co 6:16  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 2Co 6:17  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 2Co 6:18  And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

 G169

ἀκάθαρτος

akathartos

ak-ath'-ar-tos

From G1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G2508 (meaning cleansed); impure (ceremonially, morally (lewd) or specifically (demonic)): - foul, unclean.

 

Many instances of human sacrifices are found in ancient writers, which may be compared with the description of the Old Testament of the manner in which Molech was worshipped. Molech was the lord and master of the Ammonites; their country was his possession, Jer_49:1, as Moab was the heritage of Chemosh; the princes of the land were the princes of Malcham. Jer_49:3; Amo_1:15. His priests were men of rank, Jer_49:3, taking precedence of the princes. The priests of Molech, like those of other idols, were called Chemarim. 2Ki_23:5; Hos_10:5; Zep_1:4.

 

Mo'lech. (king). The fire-god, Molech, was the tutelary deity of the children of Ammon, and essentially, identical with the Moabitish Chemosh. Fire-gods appear to have been common to all the Canaanite, Syrian and Arab tribes, who worshipped the destructive element under an outward symbol, with the most inhuman rites.

According to Jewish tradition, the image of Molech was of brass, hollow within, and was situated without Jerusalem. "His face was (that) of a calf, and his hands stretched forth like a man who opens his hands to receive (something) of his neighbor. And they kindled it with fire, and the priests took the babe and put it into the hands of Molech, and the babe gave up the ghost." 


These people have done the work.  I ask you to please, please read what they have written and understand that - WE, The Church, will never ever reach the world for Christ by participating and being part of the world.  God is very clear in His Word that we are to come out from among them and be different

 

http://www.av1611.org/halloween.html

http://www.logosresourcepages.org/HalloweenBook/history.htm

all scripture, Bible commentary, and dictionary is from e-sword. 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's Coming....

Facing the Turkeys....

 

So I woke up this morning to see that a turkey hen had flown in to our chicken pen.  Not just one hen, but two, and they were beginning to clash with the one chicken we have left; where life's circumstances have reduced our flock of chickens down to one hen.  I thought to myself...hmmmm...just like this to happen while my husband happens to not be at home.  Why is that? 

 

I then proceeded to start taking pictures because:  1.  I wanted to prove to my husband that there was a Tom turkey...(see photo below)  and, 2. So I would have proof that we did not lock a wild turkey into our chicken pen.  Anyhow, it was a dilemma and I was not sure how it was going to play out.  As long as Chickie, our chicken, stayed on her side of the pen, it was fine.  If she moved over to the larger area which she considers her area to face the giant turkeys, things began to go downhill fast.  She was outnumbered, outsized and basically, the battle would be over before it even began. 

 

I texted my husband and he was like:  "Go be bold and deal with it."  I remember stories my father used to tell me "Watch out for those Tom turkeys.  They can be mean."  So I'm like - "Ummm...No, I'm not going."  Then as I watch - Chickie began to face the turkeys.  She was ready to take them on.  I start telling myself - "If Chickie can be brave, I can be brave."  "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13.  So I take a rake, in case I have to get physical, and put a jet streamer on the end of the waterhose and proceeded out to the chicken pen.  I have to give it to the Tom.  He stayed until I was about 10 ft. from him, but the hens ran away as soon as I started in that direction except the two in the pen.  One smart hen flew out right away.  The Tom took off as soon as I hit him with a water spray.  Thank you, Lord!  I was very happy I would not have to battle it out with the Tom.  The other hen got in a panic and just ran around.  She ran all over the pen.  I did not want to have to go in to the pen and struggle getting the big gate open.  But she just would not calm down....a perfect analogy of us in our struggles of life.  We panic.  We do not calm down.  We do not stop to think and pray for God to help us, to intervene in whatever circumstance we are facing or whatever Goliath might be in our path at that moment. 

 

I proceeded to open the big gate, lock Chickie in her small pen and had to come completely away from the pen as the turkey hen would not calm down.  Finally, she got a bit of courage and proceeded to fly in my direction - Thankfully, not directly towards me and flew out of the pen.  Whew!  What a way to start a morning....facing the turkeys. 

 

 I am happy to say, the turkeys are out of the pen and have moved on...Chickie is happy.  Peace is again ruling in the Kingdom. 

 

Be bold and be brave.  Face those giants.  You can do this!  All before 9:00 a.m. this morning...

 

 

Bunny Talk...

Light Play

 

 

 

 

 

 

The difference in light and dark was the inspiration for this photograph.  The day was overcast.  The light in the grass was easily seen and appeared almost luminescent.

I love the Wild Life!!!

Pine Cones, A Lonely Hummingbird...and A Rose for Good Measure!

I find beauty in the weirdest places...reflective...the word ringing in my head which includes analyzing, contemplate, decide, choose, choices, making the best of what you have...Life in dead things.  God still speaks and He reassures me that He loves me.  He cares about me:  In the smallest ways and in the smallest things.  I know that this is My Father's world.  He will redeem the things that the enemy has stolen.  He will restore.  He will put right.  He will ....so I wait.  And I will wait. 

 

Waiting is hard.  Waiting builds strength.  It brings resolve.  I will resolve that even though He slays me, yet, I will still trust in him.  As the psalmist sings - I will extol your great works, oh God!  I will sing to you.  I will rejoice in you.  There is no one like you! 

 

 

 

 

Turkeys, Autumn Colors, Warm and Fuzzy....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strawberry Lemonade, Yummm!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debra H. Egleston, Content Creator, Photographer, Writer...

Rainbows and Hope!

Just Because...

Crow!



Multiple Chemical Sensitivities...It's No Joke and It's Not Just In Your Head!

Me Reacting to ??

 

Here I was sitting at my desk at home, minding my own business when I got a whiff of a very familiar scent.  We live fairly close to the highway and cars pass by all the time.  I recognized the scent as that orange antibacterial aerosol spray, (yea, you all know the one I'm talking about...) when I felt my face go all numb, then tingling, then pinpricks of pain, and then the nausea and the feeling that someone had just buried a hatchet in to your forehead.  The first picture was when I started reacting.  I was at home alone and I figured if this was it, the one that sent me over the edge, at least then my husband could know what it was that had happened to me.  The second picture is about 15 minutes after the exposure to the scent.  Imagine that, just sitting at home, inside your house, and you have to worry about these kinds of things.

  What do you do when you have told friends that you cannot 'tolerate' certain things which they think "It's all in your head," or take some kind of perverse delight in torturing you more because you have finally had enough and are trying to help others understand the issue and they just cannot believe that their scent would do this to you. 

 

Or better yet, imagine finally getting a chance to 'train' on the job and the company uses the heavily scented bathroom fresheners aside from having a no scent policy and the heavy scent of perfume is strongly in the air.  The job is already difficult enough as is and now, you have to try to wade through the brain fog of confusion as your body is just trying to keep you alive and kicking.  The nausea, the pain, the never-ending pain of a headache from Hell.  Not to mention you just don't want everyone to see you throw-up as you are looking for the closest garbage can to run to because you don't think you can make it to the restroom. 

 

Or, try this one, a co-worker who knows that you react to the above-mentioned orange antibacterial spray; has seen you go in to the ever not-so-lovely gagging asthmatic cough and still decides that they must layer the air heavily with this stuff.  So you get to work feeling good when - WHAM BAM, THANK YOU MA'AM, you now get a splitting headache within 15 minutes of arriving at work; trying to look through bleary-eyed, goopy mucus your eyes have created trying to flush this toxic exposure out of your body. Thus making it very difficult to see much less try to concentrate on your computer screen which you must be able to see to do your job.  Please, we all know the kind of pain that happens when blurry vision, headache and confusion are making you tense up even more so now that the reactive headache has turned in to a tension migraine. 

 

Educate yourself and please be kind to people who say these things make them sick.  They are not lying.  They are not making it up and it most certainly is more than just in their brains.

 

 

IRRITATED!!!

I NEVER WANTED TO WORK FOR MYSELF.  I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A LOYAL EMPLOYEE WORKING FOR AN EMPLOYER WHO APPRECIATED A FAITHFUL, HONEST, WILL DO THEIR BEST WORK FOR YOU EMPLOYEE. 

After sinking $5,000.00 in getting an education to transition my former career which is now defuncto due to technology, and now, technology is doing the same thing to that career, and looking down the tracks to see the train - Yea, that train she's a'comin...

I feel really irritated at the circumstances of life and people obliviously go around jumping through all the hoops, struggling to keep the little crumbs thrown at them because of fear.  Right is right.  Wrong is wrong.  There is no middle ground.  That means you, Mr./Mrs. CEO of a big corporation, you too will stand before God and have to give account for your actions.  I tend to speak for the older population as I AM OLDER.  But I also see the younger people struggling.  I see some, my own children, who have adopted the attitude - "Why even bother?  It's useless.  Hopeless.  No change.  No chance for a better life." 

When I look at the requirements for just getting in to a higher education facility, you young person - Jump through this hoop...Nope, not good enough.  Go over here and jump through this hoop.  Still not good enough, go here and put your left foot in, now take it out, put it back in.  Take it out and put your right foot in the middle.  Take it out.  Nope not good enough.  Keep going, keep going, keep going until....BURNOUT - No wonder we are seeing heart attacks increasing in the younger age population.  No wonder the suicide rates are climbing.  No wonder people are going postal...

Then let's add age discrimination to that mix and now we have people with no experience running companies and all the while the bar is getting lowered and lowered.  Companies want experience, but they do not want the older, more experienced, higher salary worker so they make the environment very unfriendly to those people.  Pretty soon, young person, they will drop the age even lower on you. 

"How can I say this?" you ask.  I watched my own father agonize over coworkers being let go as they neared retirement age.  What I did not realize as a child myself was that it had been happening even before my father's time.  I found this out when my father-in-law started talking about his father and some things the company had done to him.  It's true what the Bible say - There is no new thing under the sun. 

Ecc 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

 

I never wanted to have my own business.  I wanted to work for an employer who appreciated me as I did my best to give them the very best I could do for them. 

 

Unemployed old person looking for freelance work as a Content Creator...