I Choose To Follow HIM : )

I couldn't believe it when I saw this on youtube, I had looked for it on the web for a long time, Finally I bought the LP. This is one of my all time favorite songs. The message is amazing and I love the 70's sound.



The artists are the "J.C. Power Outlet" the song song is from their 1974 album "Forgiven"

Helping People Remember

Fightin' Side of Me

I hear people talkin' bad,
About the way we have to live here in this country,
Harpin' on the wars we fight,
An' gripin' 'bout the way things oughta be.
An' I don't mind 'em switchin' sides,
An' standin' up for things they believe in.
When they're runnin' down my country, man, They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me. Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me, Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep..
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me..


I read about some squirrely guy,
Who claims, he just don't believe in fightin'.
An' I wonder just how long,
The rest of us can count on bein' free.


They love our milk an' honey,
But they preach about some other way of livin'.When they're runnin' down my country, hoss,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.


Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.



Sung By: Merle Haggard,

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Two of my favorite Irish actors (no not John Wayne) Maureen O'Hara and Victor McLaglen.







Together in Rio Grande, Mr. McLaglen playing my favorite character of his,
Sgt. Maj. Quincannon


Ladies first, Maureen is about as Irish as they come. She was born Maureen FitzSimons
August 17, 1920 in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland. She'll be 91 this year :)

Well, I just read something about Mclaglen, He's NOT Irish! But he played Irishmen in most of his movies:).He was born Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen December 10, 1886 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK.
How 'bout that for a name??

How to pronounced Mclaglen: Muh-clog-len, not Mack-loff-len(which I've been doing most my life:).



And a song, just finish off the day.



Just a couple more of Maureen in color to show off her hair.


"The Queen Of Technicolor"

~ What a Day That Shall Be ~

There is coming a day when no heartaches shall come
No more clouds in the sky, no more tears to dim the eye.
All is peace forevermore on that happy golden shore,
What a day, glorious day that will be.

Chorus
What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see,
And I look upon His face,
The One who saved me by His grace;
When He takes me by the hand
And leads me through the Promised Land,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
There'll be no sorrow there, no more burdens to bear,
No more sickness, no pain, no more parting over there;
And forever I will be with the One who died for me,
What a day, glorious day that will be.


Chorus
What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see,
And I look upon His face,
The One who saved me by His grace;
When He takes me by the hand
And leads me through the Promised Land,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
What a day, glorious day that will be!

In Memory of Deputy John David Norsworthy

The Solid Rock

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

Refrain:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

His oath, His covenant, His blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.

When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

I'm thinking of the Norsworthy family right now, and praying that they know the Solid Rock (Jesus!!) and are leaning on Him.

They will lay John to rest tomorrow, what a hard day for all those who knew him.
I did not know this man but I am so grateful to him for his service to our community.
My heart aches for the family.

Deputy John Norsworthy..

..He is a Sheep Dog who was injured while on duty and is in the hospital. He and his family need our prayers. But I do think that they may know the Lord as their Saviour. His sister mentions this song in a resent post on the blog about Deputy Norsworthy (Link: http://www.jd3006.blogspot.com/ you can read about it here), so I looked it up and thought I'd share it (Of course I chose an oldies version :).



You'll just have to ignore the talking, I couldn't find this version without :)

Merry Christmas

This one of my Favorite Christmas songs



Another awesome song from Evie :)

Thank the Lord Day!

I was just thinking about Thanksgiving 1945. We had been at war for 5 years, now there was peace at last and the (some of) boys were back! What a special thanksgiving day that was : )

'Tis enough

My faith has found a resting place, Not in device or creed;

I trust the everlasting one, His wounds for me shall plead.

I need no other argument, I need no other plea,

It is enough that Jesus died, And that He died for me.

WHO???

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Who wrote this... nobody knows really. Some people say it was Winston Churchill or it's from the poem "Tommy" by Rudyard Kipling, or of course there's the people who say George Orwell.

I just spent probably an hour or more trying to find the truth, I didn't find it.
So if you do know the auther... tell me!

Whoever the auther, he had it right.

Favorite Crime Show Quotes

"Get this and get it straight! Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave. There's no other way, but they never learn."

Philip Marlowe



"This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm a cop."


"Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent."


"We could've piled up a hundred years of great policemen and great detectives: men with honor and brains and guts. You tore down every best part of them. The people who read it in the papers, they're gonna overlook the fact that WE got you; that we washed our own laundry and we cleared this thing up. They're gonna overlook all the good. They'll overlook every last good cop in the country. But they'll remember YOU. Because you're a bad cop".

Sgt. Joe Friday



"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of man... the Shadow knows (evil laugh)"

The Shadow

(Marci note: truly only the Lord knows the hearts of man)



If you mess with me or any of my family, I'm gonna scatter your brains from here to the white plains, sweetheart. Kojack

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Decoration Day

Remembering those who gave their lives for our country.... God Bless 'Em All.

Hardy Boys,The Power boys, Brains Benton and Beyond....

I love old (40's - 60's) teenage fiction, And I just read this post that was really good (funny too, so true about the story lines of these old books:). Anyway, I thought I'd share the link, so ya'll (whoever ya'll is?) could read it too :).

http://thepenningtonpoint.com/2010/05/the-space-eagle-operation-doomsday/

Marci

Courageous

Well, looks like the movie "Courageous" will be out in 2011. They are filming right now. You can read more and watch videos at their website http://www.courageousthemovie.com/



This one (from the makers of Fireproof) will be about fatherhood, being a Godly father. I can't wait for it to come out, I'm really looking forward to seeing it in the theatre:)

By the way if you didn't already know the characters in the movies will be Police Officers.

I just thought I'd add my new photo of some of Houston's Finest (and some crazy cowgirl, whose friend convinced her to get her picture taken:). They really look like vets don't they?

One more thing, Guess what next week is??? National Peace Officers Week!!! May 9-15, So fly the Blue! Royal blue is the ribbon color to show support for your Police. If you want more info this site has the facts http://www.jupiter.fl.us/jpd/police_week.cfm and the http://www.nleomf.org/ is the site for the National Police Memorial. And don't forget Armed Forces Day is the 15th :) :) :)

~Marci~

for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake. Romans 13:4-5

Because of God...

Ah, I just spent 3 hours working in the great outdoors with my hands in the soil :). It is a beautiful day, nice breeze.

The book I'm reading(for the second time:) has a chapter entitled " Because of God". It's a beautiful scene where a child is telling a man about bees; the different types of bees, their jobs and how they are so excellently equipped for the jobs, why they do what they do. One thing mentioned is that the books (about bees), the wisdom of men so to speak, don't know why the bees do as they do, and the child says it's Because of God. So simple, but it's the answer the world in all it's wisdom misses all the time. Just like it says in the first chapter of I Corinthians of the bible.

1Co 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.


The title of the book is "Keeper of The Bees" by Gene Stratton Porter, if you ever see a copy (it's hard to find) you should pick it up and read it, it's an amazing story very, very well written.

The Other Coast

Gotta LOVE Teddy

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

~Theodore Roosevelt~

How to Simulate Being a Sailor...

1. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for six months.

2. Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls.

3. Repaint your entire house every month.

4. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the bathtub and move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you turn off the water while you soap down.

5. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high.

6. Once a week, blow air up your chimney, with a leaf blower and let the wind carry the soot onto your neighbor's house. Ignore his complaints.

7. Once a month, take all major appliances apart and reassemble them.

8. Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them.

9. Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week.

10. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off. On Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they use too much water, so no bathing will be allowed.

11. Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling, so you can't turn over without getting out and then getting back in.

12. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack."

13. Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc. Re-qualify every 6 months.14. Have your neighbor come over each day at 0500 , blow a whistle so loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout "Reveille, reveille, all hands heave out and trice up."

15. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 0600 while she reads it to you.

16. Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 1500.

17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not. "Now sweepers, sweepers, man your brooms, give the ship a clean sweep down fore and aft, empty all garbage cans and butt kits!"

18. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering the rest.

19. Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one-- the same one every night.

20. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone shouting "Now general quarters, general quarters! All hands man your battle stations!

21. Make your family's menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry or refrigerator.

22. Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have dried ham or hot dogs.Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for hot dogs.

23. Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off.

24. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. (Midrats)

25. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night. At the alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose and put out a simulated fire..

26. Every week or so, throw your cat or dog into the pool and shout "Man overboard, port side!" Rate your family members on how fast they respond.

27. Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup, "Stove manned and ready." After an hour or so, speak into the cup again "Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoe box.

28. Make your family turn out all the lights and go to bed at 10 p.m. "Now taps, taps! Lights out! Maintain silence throughout the ship!" Then have an 18-wheeler crash land on the roof of your house every two minutes. (For aircraft carrier sailors.)

29. Build a fire in a trash can in your garage. Loudly announce to your family, "This is a drill, this is a drill! Fire, Fire, Fire!!! Class Alpha Fire in hangar bay one!"

30. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand in front of the podium for 4-hour intervals.Best done when the weather is worst. January is a good time.

31. Next time there's a bad thunderstorm in your area, find the biggest horse you can, put a two-inch mattress on his back, strap yourself to it and turn him loose in a barn for six hours. Then get up and go to work.

32. Bring your lawn mower into the living room, and run it all day long.

33. Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot, and let the pot simmer for 5 hours before drinking.

34. Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears.

35. Pack twice as many people into your car as you can comfortably fit. Drive for 6 months. Make it worse by calling it something fun like a "Cruise".

36. Add 1/3 cup of diesel fuel to the laundry.

37. Take hourly readings on your electric and water meters.

39. Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you'll take them to Disney World for liberty. At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.