Reflections of Christ

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The Church is True! THere is no doubt!

Tim Hawkins, my new fav comedian!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0
"The Government Can"
Make you laugh......Make you cry.........

Sad but true!

The Radio

So, Late last night, I was driving in the middle of the desert, ( coming back from a delivery in Green River, UT.) and could hardly get any radio stations. Finally, after scanning the radio for a few minutes, this station came on. It was a Christian music station called KLove. I thought, okay this will be better than static so I let it play. There were a few songs, very nice, uplifting music...I love LDS church music to begin with, so this wasn't much of a change. Then this song came on, and it brought tears to my eyes, and I thought sharing it would be a great idea because of how women look at themselves these days. It's by Johnny Diaz.

More Beautiful You

LITTLE GIRL FOURTEEN

FLIPPING THROUGH A MAGAZINE

SAYS SHE WANTS TO LOOK THAT WAY

BUT HER HAIR ISN’T STRAIGHT

HER BODY ISN’T FAKE

AND SHE’S ALWAYS FELT OVERWEIGHT

WELL LITTLE GIRL FOURTEEN

I WISH THAT YOU COULD SEE THAT BEAUTY IS WITHIN YOUR HEART

AND YOU WERE MADE WITH SUCH CARE

YOUR SKIN YOUR BODY AND YOUR HAIR

ARE PERFECT JUST THE WAY THEY ARE

THERE COULD NEVER BE A MORE BEAUTIFUL YOU

DON’T BUY THE LIES DISGUISES AND HOOPS THEY MAKE YOU JUMP THROUGH

YOU WERE MADE TO FILL A PURPOSE

THAT ONLY YOU COULD DO

SO THERE COULD NEVER BE A MORE BEAUTIFUL YOU

LITTLE GIRL TWENTY-ONE

THE THINGS THAT YOU’VE ALREADY DONE

ANYTHING TO GET AHEAD AND YOU SAY YOU’VE GOT A MAN BUT HE’S GOT ANOTHER PLAN ONLY WANTS WHAT YOU WILL DO INSTEAD

WELL LITTLE GIRL TWENTY-ONE

YOU NEVER THOUGHT THAT THIS WOULD COME

YOU STARVE YOURSELF TO PLAY THE PART

BUT I CAN PROMISE YOU THERE’S A MAN WHOSE LOVE IS TRUE

AND HE’LL TREAT YOU LIKE THE JEWEL

YOU ARE SO TURN AROUND YOU’RE NOT TOO FAR TO BACK AWAY

BE WHO YOU ARETO CHANGE YOUR PATH GO ANOTHER WAY

IT’S NOT TOO LATE YOU CAN BE SAVED

IF YOU FEEL DEPRESSED WITH PAST REGRETS

THE SHAMEFUL NIGHTS HOPE TO FORGETS

CAN DISAPPEAR THEY CAN ALL BE WASHED AWAY

BY THE ONE WHO’S STRONG CAN RIGHT YOUR WRONGS

CAN RID YOUR FEARS DRY ALL YOUR TEARS

AND CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THIS BIG WORLD

HE WILL TAKE YOUR DARK DISTORTED VIEW

AND WITH HIS LIGHT HE WILL SHOW YOU TRUTH

AND AGAIN YOU’LL SEE THROUGH THE EYES OF A LITTLE GIRL

This is a TV show not a Talent Search...American Idol Auditions

"Remember this is NOT a talent search, this is a TV show. You may be great but just not what we're looking for." Producer from AI

So, most of you know that I am a singer. Nothing fancy, but I love doing it. I love harmony, singing and making music with others...all the time. I've somewhat gotten out of the "groove" of singing the past few years. I've shyed away from it, not really sure why, probably because I don't think I'm that great.

Anyways.......

Ever since American Idol came on, I thought it would be cool to try out. Never thought I'd get the guts up to do it. (GO figure it would be after I STOPPED singing for a while!! lol) But I just thought now or never.

I went to Denver, got a wonderful hotel via our friends..THANK YOU BRYNN AND ROBERTS family! As soon as I got there I registered immediately...well funny thing...

I felt really gross when I finally got to the mile high city, so I decided I had time to make an effort to look nice. I didn't know what to expect. So I got all ready, and went...all I had to do was get a stupid wristband and ticket! I could've gone in my PJS!!!

10 min later, I was back at the Marriot, got some room service for a yum yum breakfast and slept for only a few hours.

This trip was stressful, I hardly slept at all!

I tried to watch TV, but all I did was sing and kept downloading songs because I didn't know what I wanted to sing...finally about 3 hours before it was time to go to auditions, I finalized my song, Amazing Grace, and I knew it inside out already, and I felt pretty good about singing it....Thank You LeAnn Rimes for being my hero.

(Oh, I also went shopping in denver...Bass Pro Shop and the mall there, very fun.)

I got ready, and I just wore jeans and a cute shirt, nothing fancy...I just wanted to be myself. I was going to wear boots and jeans but I kinda forgot my boots.....whoops!

Auditions is just a whole lot of waiting around. It's not anything fun, you can't eat, sleep or relax...plus when you first get there, everything is for the show, repeating lines constantly, and singing songs for the camera..

..here's the BIG shocker...

Apparently Paula, Randy, Simon and Kara don't even come on the same day. You have to come back! (that's the word on the street, no verification, but so I've heard!)

My favorite thing about the auditions were the people. Not the extremeists, (although they were HYSTERICAL,) but the real people who really just want to make music and sing. Just like me.

I had so much fun singing with all kinds of people, making harmony and just enjoying my time with some extremely talented people. Alot of people who try out who are the best don't make it. The show is looking for such specifics, you have no idea what you are getting into.

10.5 hours later, I made it to the audition table....sang and stood back waiting for my answer...the two producers talked very briefly and asked us all to come up to the table. They told us there are two very good singers in our group, and only one who should keep trying and come back again. I was pulled aside and said I should try again next year because my voice was great.. This gave me a steriod shot straight to my ego...

But, I don't think I'll be trying out again unless they come to SLC or somewhere close...it's a lot and next time I'll be more prepared...It was a wonderful experience and I would do it again. Not for the fame and fortune, but because I love to sing!

Sara

Everything speaks His Name

Thought I'd share this beautiful and inspiring song with everyone! How could you deny that there is a God, and He has created everyone of us, everything around us!

I cannot believe this was all by chance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGJkyHDuyU

The Letter

GLENN: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. He writes an open letter to our nation's leadership: I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me? Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration.

Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.

Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there.

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me. Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now. Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave. I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington.

Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great.

They may surprise you.

For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when he will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.

Send this to your representatives...they need to know how you feel.

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A good politician.....suprised? It's Sarah Palin

So, Republicans, you're looking for people who can serve as faces of a party on the upswing. What qualities would we want to see in such people?Maybe these:

* They've served in public office and have actually governed effectively.

* Rather than just talking about fiscal responsibility, they've made it happen under their watch.

* When possible, they've made sure the private sector would take the lead in crucial initiatives.

* They've taken on corrupt, entrenched interests to make government more responsive to the people it serves, even when those interests were fellow Republicans.

* They pull no punches in criticizing Democrats, but they do so with a positive outlook and a pleasant demeanor.

* They're not intimidated by the inevitable crap they will catch from the media, celebrities and whomever else.

* They have an enthusiastic following upon which to build.

* Finally, if you've got all of the above, it can't hurt if you also look fantastic.Republicans, would you like people with some or most of these qualities to be the faces of a resurgent political party?

Damn right you would. Guess what. There's one person who possesses all eight.Sarah Palin.

The Alaska governor was once again in the news this week for a silly reason – her recent public spat with David Letterman. But she deserves to be in the news for a substantive reason: The way she governs Alaska represents a principled, serious approach that is missing in the conduct of far too many Republican officeholders. What's more, the way she talks about the excesses of the Obama Administration shows that she not only sees the problems we are creating for ourselves, but understands the alternatives we should be championing.

Once she found herself back in the national spotlight thanks to Letterman's idiocy, she shined in national broadcast interviews with her discussion of the coming Alaska pipeline project, of the perils of excess federal spending and even of events in the Middle East.Palin knows her stuff, backs it up with action and expresses herself with the perfect mix of substance and agreeable style.I am not writing this column to tout Palin as a presidential candidate.

Unlike most who write about her, I do not view everything she does through the prism of presidential aspirations she may or may not have. This column is about the importance of prominent Republicans who are serious about good governance and can serve as the face of a party that represents such ideals.Republicans should embrace everyone they can find whose track record in public office – and in the public eye – demonstrates the best of Republican governance. And no one fits the bill better than Palin.But do you know about Palin? The real Palin?

Certain Republicans fear Palin's prominence because their image of her is based on Tina Fey routines and background turkey slaughters. Others are obsessed with inside baseball like the nonsense concerning her invite/non-invite/acceptance/non-acceptance of a speaking role at a recent GOP fundraising dinner.If you read substance-challenged media like Politico, you think it's all about unnamed GOP operatives grumbling about the way her scheduler works, or GOP senators (who refuse to put their names on the record) finding her annoying.Have you ever listened to Palin talk about policy? Have you examined her record in Alaska? Do you know the political courage she has demonstrated achieving crucial goals there?It's especially important to listen to Palin's discussion of policy matters now, as compared with during the presidential campaign, because then she was hamstrung by the need to tout the McCain campaign's discombobulated message.

Now that she is free to craft her own message, and can base it on her own record, she is exponentially more compelling.Unlike their Washington counterparts, there are Republicans around the country who have done well in state and local positions, and they deserve to be the party's new stars. Wherever you can find them, put them in the spotlight. No need to take sides. You like Bobby Jindal? Mark Sanford? Mitch Daniels? Awesome. The more, the better.But start with Sarah Palin. It's about her record, her vision, her message and her sincere appeal. They are all top-notch, if you don't realize that, it's because you've been focused on nonsense instead of what really matters.

Make her the nominee for president? I don't really care, and I'm not sure she cares as much as you think she does. But by all means, make her a star, because the Republican Party doesn't have anyone who comes even close to fitting the bill like she does.