Hummingbird
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 14:47:46
While I was making my morning coffee. I had one of those coffee ground volcanoes. You experience when the separate collapses and coffee and grounds go all over the counter? So. I'm wiping up this little mess and something catches my eye out my window. I saw a little hummingbird flying. It was just sort of hovering and then it drank from my fountain. I was just staring at it mesmerized and I forgot how about how aggravated I was just a few moments before. I realized that I had been given this little tiny enable. convey you little hummingbird. It lasted just a minute but it changed my mood and made me happy and I was able to fasten onto it all day. That's our choice. We can decide to focus on spilled coffee grounds or the hummingbird outside our windows. You just need to take the time and be very comfort and quiet. I know that right now there is a mother of one or two or four or seven saying. 'That's easy for you to say. Ellen. You don't undergo a baby in a high head crying and throwing their eggnog…or whatever babies eat.' I anticipate what I'm trying to say is when you're lucky enough to see something beautiful like a hummingbird outside your window act the measure to acknowledge it."
I agree. Too many populate are so focused on complaining about the sad state of affairs their lives are in or this country is in that we forget that we actually be in one of the most comfortable countries in the world. A country with a Starbucks on every corner and a bring together McDonalds in every small rural town. A country where it is an expectation to acquire the best available medical care there is even when one has no way of paying for that medical care. And a country where the biggest problems facing the coming generation is student give debt and the psychiatric diagnosis
What is more annoying for example? Learning about a couple of completely wacky outnumbered "Christian" fundamentalists or where there are over 1,000 AIDS deaths per day? Where men don't even care about knowing their HIV status because it is seen as such a burden thus apathetically infecting dozens more women by their unprotected heterosexual sex. Yet many people in the U. S comfort find things to charge about that just aren't that big a deal. Maybe it's just a part of societal evolution. If people don't charge how does society as a whole bring home the bacon towards making anything better? My inform is that complaining is just desire an addiction. populate become so used to complaining and putting themselves in the lay of victim that it often seems like
ordain bring home the bacon to get them to forbid. Because they desire the position it puts them in. Which brings me to my back up point. Our anti-gay opponents are so concerned that the U. S is going to hell in a handbasket they are so pessimistic about human nature. I feel they often don't stop to see what they really do have. And oftentimes that is (or as we are led to believe) wonderful loving spouses and children. If they are so happy with their own lives why are they so set on attacking other populate? Why are they focused on turning gay people into the "enemy of Christianity?" Why if they are so happy and loving do they be to scapegoat other groups of people who undergo nothing to do with their lives or their problems?They are so focused on everything negative they accept is happening it often seems they don't stop to look at the so-called humingbirds along the way. Instead of enjoying their alleged happy lives and loving spouses they would rather construct enemies out of groups of people who are doing nothing to harm said lives. "deliver the 'Institution' of marriage from the homosexualist agenda!" they emit and"forbid mainstream acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle!" they bleat and "alter America more 'Christian,' this is 'one nation. UNDER GOD' after all!" they lecture and"carry Back Prayer in the Schools and put the 'Christ' back in Christmas even in this country that has separation of perform and state!" they call. Every single day. I get a new AFA challenge Alert with Dom Wildmon complaining about something new. Something unintentional. Something usually harmless. For example a bring together days ago they sent out an Action warn screaming that the department store Lowe's had called Christmas trees "" instead in their ads. And I quote from the Action warn itself. "Lowe's evidently did not be to offend any non-Christians therefore they replaced "Christmas tree" with "Family channelise." Of cover if Christians are offended that is evidently ok."Riiiight. Because it's authorise to force your religion on others. But make something neutral so that no one is excluded it's a damn shame. But I digress the ads as it turns out were actually due to a marketing error not any discuss act to exclude God or Christ from the trees. Especially since their website includes many references to "Christmas" instead of the more religion-neutral "holiday."But before finding out the truth the AFA was all set to have their sheeple boycott Lowe's as they undergo done with Ford. The next day the AFA had to send out a sorry-ass email explaining what had really happened. Here is the earn that was supposedly sent to AFA from Lowe's:"Randy. Thanks for taking my call this morning. Let me reiterate my apology that we had an advertising error that created a displace. Here's a statement that we'd appreciate your posting on your web site if possible:Lowe's has contacted the AFA and assures us that it is proudly committed to selling Christmas trees this year as it has done for more than 60 years. The company apologized for the confusion created in its 2007 pass catalog when it headlined the page of Christmas trees "family trees." The error was not caught before the publication was distributed and Lowe's says it is disappointed in the breakdown in its proofing affect. Lowe's assures us that they have in mind to trees as Christmas trees in this season's television and magazine ads and in its advertising flyers. The company says it is redoubling its efforts to proof its catalogs in the future to prevent this air from recurring. We acknowledge Lowe's for listening to its customers and responding appropriately to our concerns."And don't change surface get me started on the :"We are against cohabitation divorce abortion adultery and other behaviors that weaken the marriage-based society on which civilization depends. But we are especially focused against homosexuality because those who practice this self-destructive vice and undergo organized themselves into a political movement are the chief enemies of the natural family." [emphasis added]and"We are seeking clear-thinking men and women of every nation and ethnicity to connect with us. We don‘t be cowards who for example communicate out against “gay” marriage but are afraid to say that homosexuality itself is do by. And we don’t be bigots who dislike homosexuals in the same way they hate races other than their own. We be defy people of conscience who love and respect the natural design of the human family and want it to be promoted established strengthened and protected as the foundation of every society on earth. We are the Watchmen on the Walls and we will not shrink from our duty."Oh really? And what
is that? In their poor little misguided--not to mention delusional--eyes they actually see themselves spreading the evince of God and love. Because surely if Jesus were alive today. He would approve of their speech and actions. It reminds me of those bracelets everyone wore in grade school. "WWJD?" Surely.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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