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I have long been impacted by character.
Growing up, I saw inimately the idea of switching in a moment. My Mum would be madder than a hornet at me, spitting mad in fact and in my face. If the phonoe rang or someone happened to kncocked at n the front door, immediatly a different person would emerge and sound and look lovely, sweet.
Time after time I expereinced this behavoire. It continues even today with the loved one not even acting as though they remember an event where they raged, said inappropriate things and hurt an already non existant realtionsihp.
Growing up with that as my baseline for normal, I am very affected when I see this type of behavior. it shows up in diferent places at different times and looks diferent in the lives of different people.
I care about what someone does when no one's looking. It matters to me, because as I read the old and new testaments I see it matters to God, too. Not that doing well can subsititue for knwoing beyond a shoadow of a doubet that you're adored; that HAS to come first or we struggle with all srots of things.
When I came to understand I was loved by the Creator af all good things, I soon realized there was a LOT I didn't know about basic living. I wasn't exactly raised in a barn, but my parents were very busy with other things and mostly left me to learn on my own.
Quest for Character by Charles Swindoll
Mr Germann forver changed my life during that one semester (okay..two) in bible college. Oh, how he was passionate about character and about ROTC. I felt SO challenged by him to keep reaching for excellence in my life God's daugther.
Paul Washer made me shiver with his messages given at a friends' bible school. WOW did he raisse the bar for me in a bunch of ways.
Later in life as I sought to undertsand my loved one's switching (going from calm to horratiously angered in a split second), Arthur Burk shed a lot of light on the subject and gave me some tools to begin understanding how to deal with the switching in my midst.
I have a lot of patience for something things...but COVERING UP what we're really like in provate is something I have very little tolerance for. I don't mean I think evertyhing should be braodcast; I just mean knowing who we are and what our weaknesses are should be something we can handle and share with others.
We're all weak in some ways. That's okay. Those who grew up in families where weakness was despised end up turning out not so great. Well, they might look great from the outside, but once you see within what's going on, behind the facade of perfectioin is a lot of pain, woundedness and inability to deal.
I say all this to expalin a bit why I am sharing some of these tid bits about a former very important female figure. Hilary seems to have the lurking issue of some pretty bad stuff inside of her as this article shines a bit of light. Maybe Hilary suffers from D.I.D. If she does, it isn't fun.
Showing ourselves to be something we are not makes my stomach churn with disgust. I am an exorting type person and love showing the best foot forard...apprearcnes matter to me but mostly I care that the apprearances be transparent. I remember a friend suprorising us one christmas. I was very discouraged about a good many things and felt no joy whatsoever abou tthe chaos of a day of gluttony and frivoloty. I had let eveyrthing go, including myself, certain NO ONE would see. THEN CAME THE KNOCK.
My friend was gracious and I was horrified; I don't think I had EVER had I let my home get so bad. Recovering from two near death experiences after bringing twin boys into the world via cecearian, I was not in a good place in my life.
I don't really know my neighbors. I wonder once in a while what our life looks like from their perspective. I don't much care what they think, as I am busy to bursting with handling exuberant life with six children under toe; there is almost always more toys (etc) in the yard than I'd like; and I'm certain my occasional raised voice echos throughout the woods and neighborhood.
What I don't want to be is phoney. I don't want to represtent myself as one thing and be another. I don't always know HOW to be myself and am on an exciting adventure liearning, about it (link to Who Am I post) . I was very used to people who represent themselves one way yet are different behind closed doors.
Character matters. How we treat people is of utmost imporance. I have known people claim to do and be and believe all sorts of things who act like apes to those they perceive as being weaker. I am espcially disgusted by that and work much to lift up those around me who are weaker. I submt we are all weak and all strong. SOme of us are good at something while being dafta nd inept at other things. That's just life. When we're plagued by fear someone will discovere we aren't really as strong as we pretend, we are living a very dark life.
I ahve always apprecaited popel who are honest about thei rjunk and struggles. It's so refereshing to hear a wife say, "I really love my husband, but I'm having a hard time respecting him." BINGO! Being honest doesn't solve the problem but it sure makes friendship feel more comfortable.
It takes some time to be able to know our wekenssas and have wrods fro them. I am on that journey, too. I'll share more about that another day.
I don't recommend these books if you're wanting to get dirt on someone who is running for office, but instead rather to give you a change to reada bout her characher. You decide if she's really DOING things based on who she is, or if she's putting on a show. You decide. To me, it looks as though she spends a lot of time talking down to people who she deems beneath her.
As I have had that experience throughout my life, that is not the kind of leader I will follow. I think it's important to have certain criteria for selecting leaders to do the work which needs to be done.
Dr. Ben Carson shares about some of the background with HIlary's reasons for doing what she does in public. While I think the entire speech is certainly worth your 15 minutes, to hear the bits about her, go forward to
For further examination:
The journalist gone filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza who made 2 films on Barack Obama was imprisoned for 8 months afterward. Then he learned about Progressivism. His new film, "Hillary's America" opens tomorrow (Friday) in select theatres. If film does well this opening weekend, more theatres across the nation will show it. Anybody going? To my TC friends, new Carmike theatre has 5 show times.
Click below to watch the short but jam packed official movie trailer for
"Hillary's America, The Secret History of the Democratic Party" which opens nation wide in select theaters tomorrow, July 22, 2016.
To see show times, find theater locations and buy tickets, click here.
Rush Limbaugh shares his shock at being wrong about Dinesh D'Souza.
For further research:
Stay tuned for part 3.
~Kate M.
I have long been impacted by character.
Growing up, I saw inimately the idea of switching in a moment. My Mum would be madder than a hornet at me, spitting mad in fact and in my face. If the phonoe rang or someone happened to kncocked at n the front door, immediatly a different person would emerge and sound and look lovely, sweet.
Time after time I expereinced this behavoire. It continues even today with the loved one not even acting as though they remember an event where they raged, said inappropriate things and hurt an already non existant realtionsihp.
Growing up with that as my baseline for normal, I am very affected when I see this type of behavior. it shows up in diferent places at different times and looks diferent in the lives of different people.
I care about what someone does when no one's looking. It matters to me, because as I read the old and new testaments I see it matters to God, too. Not that doing well can subsititue for knwoing beyond a shoadow of a doubet that you're adored; that HAS to come first or we struggle with all srots of things.
When I came to understand I was loved by the Creator af all good things, I soon realized there was a LOT I didn't know about basic living. I wasn't exactly raised in a barn, but my parents were very busy with other things and mostly left me to learn on my own.
Quest for Character by Charles Swindoll
Mr Germann forver changed my life during that one semester (okay..two) in bible college. Oh, how he was passionate about character and about ROTC. I felt SO challenged by him to keep reaching for excellence in my life God's daugther.
Paul Washer made me shiver with his messages given at a friends' bible school. WOW did he raisse the bar for me in a bunch of ways.
Later in life as I sought to undertsand my loved one's switching (going from calm to horratiously angered in a split second), Arthur Burk shed a lot of light on the subject and gave me some tools to begin understanding how to deal with the switching in my midst.
I have a lot of patience for something things...but COVERING UP what we're really like in provate is something I have very little tolerance for. I don't mean I think evertyhing should be braodcast; I just mean knowing who we are and what our weaknesses are should be something we can handle and share with others.
We're all weak in some ways. That's okay. Those who grew up in families where weakness was despised end up turning out not so great. Well, they might look great from the outside, but once you see within what's going on, behind the facade of perfectioin is a lot of pain, woundedness and inability to deal.
I say all this to expalin a bit why I am sharing some of these tid bits about a former very important female figure. Hilary seems to have the lurking issue of some pretty bad stuff inside of her as this article shines a bit of light. Maybe Hilary suffers from D.I.D. If she does, it isn't fun.
Showing ourselves to be something we are not makes my stomach churn with disgust. I am an exorting type person and love showing the best foot forard...apprearcnes matter to me but mostly I care that the apprearances be transparent. I remember a friend suprorising us one christmas. I was very discouraged about a good many things and felt no joy whatsoever abou tthe chaos of a day of gluttony and frivoloty. I had let eveyrthing go, including myself, certain NO ONE would see. THEN CAME THE KNOCK.
My friend was gracious and I was horrified; I don't think I had EVER had I let my home get so bad. Recovering from two near death experiences after bringing twin boys into the world via cecearian, I was not in a good place in my life.
I don't really know my neighbors. I wonder once in a while what our life looks like from their perspective. I don't much care what they think, as I am busy to bursting with handling exuberant life with six children under toe; there is almost always more toys (etc) in the yard than I'd like; and I'm certain my occasional raised voice echos throughout the woods and neighborhood.
What I don't want to be is phoney. I don't want to represtent myself as one thing and be another. I don't always know HOW to be myself and am on an exciting adventure liearning, about it (link to Who Am I post) . I was very used to people who represent themselves one way yet are different behind closed doors.
Character matters. How we treat people is of utmost imporance. I have known people claim to do and be and believe all sorts of things who act like apes to those they perceive as being weaker. I am espcially disgusted by that and work much to lift up those around me who are weaker. I submt we are all weak and all strong. SOme of us are good at something while being dafta nd inept at other things. That's just life. When we're plagued by fear someone will discovere we aren't really as strong as we pretend, we are living a very dark life.
I ahve always apprecaited popel who are honest about thei rjunk and struggles. It's so refereshing to hear a wife say, "I really love my husband, but I'm having a hard time respecting him." BINGO! Being honest doesn't solve the problem but it sure makes friendship feel more comfortable.
It takes some time to be able to know our wekenssas and have wrods fro them. I am on that journey, too. I'll share more about that another day.
I don't recommend these books if you're wanting to get dirt on someone who is running for office, but instead rather to give you a change to reada bout her characher. You decide if she's really DOING things based on who she is, or if she's putting on a show. You decide. To me, it looks as though she spends a lot of time talking down to people who she deems beneath her.
As I have had that experience throughout my life, that is not the kind of leader I will follow. I think it's important to have certain criteria for selecting leaders to do the work which needs to be done.
Dr. Ben Carson shares about some of the background with HIlary's reasons for doing what she does in public. While I think the entire speech is certainly worth your 15 minutes, to hear the bits about her, go forward to
For further examination:
The journalist gone filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza who made 2 films on Barack Obama was imprisoned for 8 months afterward. Then he learned about Progressivism. His new film, "Hillary's America" opens tomorrow (Friday) in select theatres. If film does well this opening weekend, more theatres across the nation will show it. Anybody going? To my TC friends, new Carmike theatre has 5 show times.
Click below to watch the short but jam packed official movie trailer for
"Hillary's America, The Secret History of the Democratic Party" which opens nation wide in select theaters tomorrow, July 22, 2016.
To see show times, find theater locations and buy tickets, click here.
Rush Limbaugh shares his shock at being wrong about Dinesh D'Souza.
For further research:
Stay tuned for part 3.
~Kate M.
