LET'S TALK ABOUT REINCARNATION...

OK, let's not. I just wanted to get your attention so we could talk about some other stuff.  Please read.  Anything!! I was randomly looking at statistics again today and found this:

Illiteracy Statistics

• 42 million American adults can't read at all; 50 million are unable to read at a higher level that is expected of a fourth or fifth grader.
• The number of adults that are classified as functionally illiterate increases by about 2.25 million each year.
• 20 percent of high school seniors can be classified as being functionally illiterate at the time they graduate.

Source: National Right to Read Foundation

I started writing my blog as a way to start every ones day off in a kind of cool way, thinking about things they may not think of.  I was trying to get different topics out there and have fun thinking of things randomly.  When I came across these statistics, I stopped dead in my tracks.  It was kind of selfish at first thinking, "That is 42 million adults that can't read my blog."  OMG!!!  I am going to pray to God for the state of our country.  Lord PLEASE help those who cannot read to drop their pride and get help.  Reading is so important. Lord, if there are some out there who I can help, please send them to me and give me the guidance to know how and where to find help for them.  Thank you for my life and thank you for the gift of reading.



Help stamp out Biblical illiteracy

LET FREEDOM RING....... excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's, "I Have a Dream", speech.........

Happy anniversary Mom and Dad!!
Godspeed everyone.  I believe that everyone is very familiar with Dr. King's speech but have actually never read it.  The "I Have a Dream..." portion of the speech is fantastic, but the rest of it is pretty amazing as well, and that is why I chose these excerpts to share! Enjoy your day off and "Let Freedom Ring!!
...we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition...Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of  racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children... and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together... With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.  This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."...And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

The chorus to this song is fantastic!! Take a listen...

Martin Luther King Day 2011

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is tomorrow.  What a great man.  He was a baptist minister, and in 1964 became the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  His work and hope to end racial segregation was unparalleled. He was a gentle spirit and his, "I Have a Dream" speech will be remembered throughout history as one of the greatest speeches even given.  Honestly I never gave him much thought in my life until the last few years.  I was 8 when he died.  I was probably outside playing and didn't realize what was happening. After some reading and research, I began to realize what an impact he had on our culture and the world.  Today, Lord I pray in Jesus Name that we all have the heart of that great man and continue his work as peacemakers.  Thank you for making me color blind and please do that for others!!