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Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts

Monday, February 14, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day?? ~~~The Celebration of Love ~~ What I mean when I say I love you !

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To me Love is the Ultimate Gift, as if it is going to grow and take over the relationship it has to mean a submittal and surrender of one's agenda, dreams and self in order to create a Union... and an "We, Us" mentality. I tend to give over too easily and not hold onto enough ground to have room for "the off days and a place to retreat" in the times that you do need a "Me place, or moment". I am a runner, when I get offended, hurt, mad, sad whatever and don't KNOW how the reaction is going to work out, so I can accomodate and play "chess" (have my next move ready so I am not "jumped" or "captured" and out of play. I tend to retreat, "go for a drive", "Go to Wal-mart, ha ha..." but instead of enjoying the solitude and freedom to do what I WANT, I NEED, I THINK... I am looking for things for others, and trying to figure out how to get back into the "game of life". But, always the giver, the "Loser" of things, points, wants ect.. makes for a gloomy and bitter individual. If you give something and intend to MAKE a reaction/response a certain way, it is "kind of" manipulative, yes, "everybody" (most people do it) but that does not make it right or healthy to a person or relationship. If you don't find your footing in relationships, the rocks get much bigger and sharper in Marriage if you get to that part.  

Your Love expression and Philosophy does'nt have to be Reactive/and responsive to what you receive, you can Choose to Love, freely, powerfully and your "reciprication" and what you receive is in accordance with HIM who made the covenant.  See I Corinthians 13:1-10 and then see the benefits of that kind of love, in Solomon.  That is God's Word to spark the relationship and His ways are perfect.  Vows are promises, they can also be helpful if used as guidelines and for those involved in Faith and Belief Systems, if thought of as covenants and precepts it gives each "lover" a guide to coming into the circle and then much like Abraham, after collecting all the "necessary" items for the sacramental sacrifice, he went into a deep sleep and the Covenant was completed by Jesus Christ so that it would not be broken and call for the death of he who broke the commitment. (Forgiveness is much like the "giving over to Christ and allowing Him to "Keep His Promise of Faithfulness and continued loved" that humans are not capable of keeping to the letter of the LAW!). "Its Not really a THINKING THING! it is more of a powerful inner river that carries us away and we are JUST in it!".


Once we can "appropriately and Authentically Sacrifice for the relationship" the results can be quite "Visibly Pleasurable" for both members of the relationship. "Steamy Windows" can keep a gentleness and classiness both are comfortable and can allow  still enjoying the "Intellectual tandem and affection exchange" that leaves you with the blushing and fullfilled feeling that keeps you hungry and busy making arrangements for the next, meeting!





That is Love in my book! ha ha... It can be fun and enjoyable even if it is still in the "building phase" Love is a process, it is powerful and it has risks and injuries around the bends but "cleaning up the collisions and bandaging the injuries can be so much of a healing and bonding experience even those are celebrated. An older mentor told me once, "It is your choice to "FEEL loved and appreciated" whether they mean it that way or not, even if you feel they are "taking more than was offered and/or they do not appreciate your sacrafices, remember you came to the circle in Obedience to GOD not your mate, and you willingly gave the items to GOD, and HE made your COVENANT! for you, so when you feel like you can't do it anymore, LET GOD do it, just stay in the circle! and focus on LOVE because that is what you receive from GOD on the other side of the triangle! and through the 3rd string of the cord!.". Words to totally live and LOVE by! 22 years and counting!

As for me and my heart, "We will live and LOVE through dedication to HIM and with admiration for the awesome gift, of him, whom I have loved and cherished and fought and irritated, and redeemed my errors as best as I can and then taken myself to the circle to wait for him to come and reaffirm the bond that was set for us as secure and the door to the ARK!.

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If you ain't feeling the love, maybe its not that I am not giving it maybe you need to come back to the circle with your items!.  I am doing my part, I am floating and contributing maybe it is just not the way you thought it should be and wanted it to be.  Look in my eyes and feel what is coming from my heart and see if it moves you.... (if not maybe my boxing gloves will and then you will FEEL ME!)

Friday, December 31, 2010

Dec EMBER 2010 Bye-Bye Baby Bye-Bye~~~~~

Dec EMBER  2010   Bye-Bye BABY  Bye-Bye  ~~~~~~~~~~~~

December is a month in a year of 10's... 
2010 was a year of learning, yelling and crying...
Bye-Bye Baby was uttered too many times this year
Too many tears, too many sad times, 10 X 10 ...
Every day is treasured if for nothing more than coming to an end. (usually bring to my knees more than once).

2010 was not a very good friend, but as a year that held many though times with dear friends, family, and many tears and fears.

But as today comes to a close so does the 2010 year! and to that I say.. BYE-BYE baby... Bye-Bye!  I will not cry for you as I am moving on and ready to Glow...







                                                     ~~~  December 2010~~~~

Goals, plans and Dreams for 2011!  I am gone to get supplies to start at Midnight...out with the OLD, into the New Year, filled with God, Promise and HOPE..  I am not to worry, struggle to achieve, only Trust and Obey, Stand and Walk and Talk with Him, the only one who KNOWS and LOVES ME every hour, every day, no matter what I do, (AMEN!!).  He calls me Friend, "Child of Mine", and I am HIS beloved bride (Finally a princess!) can't wait to seal the lessons and memories into my books tonight and release all the failures, wants and needs that were left on the list.  A NEW DAY is coming with renewed promise and new "Precious Moments" with the people He choose for me to have in my life.. (LUCKY THEM ha ha..., they must be praying to deepen their prayer life, patience and compassion :)  ~~~Prayers are answered in mysterious and "Dotty" ways :).   Wishing you a fabulous 12 hours~~~  all things must come to an end...

D discernment, diligence, Dedicate, Determine, Drawing, Digitalize, DEBT-FREE@, Display, Dispose, disassemble, DIGG!!, Deer, Dallas, Disney


E exchange, employ, executive, encouraging, Environmentally concerned, Essential, Exercise, ETERNAL

C cooperative, commemorate, collaborate, celebrate, CAN-DO!, Continuing Education, CPC, Complimentary, compassion, caring, chicken, Creation Museum, California

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E Excentuate, Excell ™, Energize, Educate, Eggs, Esteem

M Me!! :) Memorize, Model, Marriage, Make, Memories, Mementos, Mambo

B BE…. Benefit, Bags, Believe, Baltimore, Boston, Brussel Sprouts, “Bang on my drum all day”. Beach music., Ballet, Boxing

E excitement, entertainment, Energize, Enlighten, exemplify, expand

R Reclaim, rein, Reuse, recycle, receive, revisit, research, recover, repair, remove rust, riverboat, River (Indian), row.


Light my fire and let me BURN!!  Burn the hiding places and the supidity off and reveal the ( SILVER )  ~~~~~ that is more precious than Gold!, for it is You.
 
Like God's Love, I will pass it on!  * I *

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Thanksgiving is not just a one day holiday it is a state of mind..This is the Seaon to be Thankful and Share

For so many Thanksgiving is the day celebrated on the Last Thursday of November before the biggest shopping day of the Year, Black Friday.  However, Thanksgiving is a state of being and if it is explored and expressed it can make the hour, day, week, month and year of not just the person expressing it but for everyone around them, and that comes in contact with someone that has been around them.



Have you notice the colors of Thanksgiving and AUTUMN/FALL are ones found nature and in the Wordless Book? http://berean.org/bibleteacher/wbpage.html Coincedence ???  NO!!!!  Read on and find out why!......

Have you ever done the experiment of looking for grouchy, complaining and just "not happy" people and simply smiling at them, giving them a simple "Have a good day" and then see them change their deameanor and the next person they meet receives the benefit of a gentler approach, and sometimes a completely changed person.  If the person is a regular, can you imagine the "breath of fresh air" that must flow when the usually negative person takes a break from their expression and gives the gift of a smile. The next person gets a wonderful gift of a new moment and can then choose to continue the flow of friendliness and positive attitude without having to dig deep and the affects can be seen throughout the store.


Thanksgiving is related to joy, which has nothing to do with "feelings", circumstances, or anything superficial and temporal.  Thanksgiving is a decision to "BE" thankful.  As Christians we pride ourselves on being  followers of Jesus Christ.  Well then we need to be THANKFUL, because..


HE WAS!  He was Thankful and Blessed the bread and cup at the last supper!!  Remember he was fully aware of what was going to happen before they left that place, he knew what was going to happen while he was praying in the Garden, He knew he was going to give HIS life for the betrayor, for the soldiers that were going to come take him, beat, mock, and KILL Him.  So that His father who art in Heaven could extend a relationship to all those who would come, believe, accept the gift and give their life to receive the ETERNAL LIFE he fully intended for us to have that had been stolen from us by the Sin of Adam and Eve, and all those that descended from them. 

God started over with the most faithful and his descendents who were dilligent and believed, Noah and his family the the animals they loaded on the ark to preserve them when the Lord flooded the earth. And... the list goes on.  Yet God perserved, and Loved and continued to extend ways for people to have a relationship with Him, but it did not cost them much and therefore they could not make the decision to be faithful and decided to continue to give and share the awesome heart that He gave them upon their acceptance of His gift, His Son Jesus Christ... Why didn't He just give up?  Why didn't Jesus Christ grumble "WHY ME????" "WHY DO I HAVE TO DO THIS FOR THOSE PEOPLE????!!!"

And yet we have trouble being thankful...  We go to church and listen to the teachings in Sunday School and scoff and scorn the Children of Israel for their hard hearts, ignorance and stubborn attitude to continue in their sinful, selfish and self-destructive behaviors that not only harmed themselves but their children and generations upon generations.  Hence the cautioning reminder, "The sin of the father will fall on their son"  how pointent of a comment.  Think for a minute, Joseph was the (step)father of Jesus Christ and because of his sinful nature, decisions, attitudes he and all his decendents were barred from being with God, (NO SIN can be in His presence).  His, Jesus Christ suffered this same demise if he continued to live on earth and remain in the family, therefore GRACE removed him from the plight of suffering and through his sacrafice of his life, He gave a way for Himself and everyone who would die to themselves and rise to the standards of the Father who art in heaven and Live with THEM in ETERNITY.

There is a famous poem that has a phrase about true love, "If it is love it must be let go and if it is True it will return to you". (Like the dove)

HMMMM... That is enough for me...  Celebrating the coming Christmas or Xmas which was the Greek spelling not Hallmark or a newspapers way for 'removing" Christ from Christmas, as only humans can do that, as it is a decision about what you are giving and what you are celebrating. 

Do you have purpose and thought about the decorations, gifts, parties, and activities you and your family do throughout the year?  Why not be even more diligent, dedicated and purposeful about Celebrating and Decorating our homes and mail and adorning our outfits with symbols of our true reason to be thankful and the reason we give.... "Because He gave to us"  He loved us so much that He gave His beloved Son, that all those who would believe in Him would live forever, AMEN!.

This the season to celebrate the reason.  The good news is our time is not set by Hallmark or Greenland or anyone, His time should be the compass of our days, weeks, months and years and therefore everyday can be Thanksgiving and Christmas (GOD is With us).  No matter who is using, misusing, ignoring, hurting your feelings, trying to take things that are rightly yours, unscruplous business practices that take your possessions, untruthful and unfair actions that cost you personal pain and loss, lacking of physical needs, sadness, illness, no matter what your circumstances are you can CHOOSE to celebrate HIM and HIS Promises and be Thankful for the life(Blood and Breath) you have and the one that is waiting for you at the feet of the Lord in heaven, that you will receive when you lay down your crown at His feet.

As for me, I will serve, and be Thankful and Celebrate!!!  For these are the days that the Lord hath made.....

Saturday, November 7, 2009

What is Thanksgiving and the History of Turkey? Mek asks as we are talking about the upcoming holiday, here is our response and some really good sites

Hosting is still going wonderful. Mek is learning alot about America, our cultures, foods, traditions. We are enjoying learning about Thailand, enjoying Thai food, spices and ways of doing things.

With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up we have been talking with Mek about it, since it is a holiday only in the US. We told him the history (the stuff the kids learn in school; the pilgrims came over had a bad winter, were starving and the Indians helped them, taught them how to farm, shared their food and they had a feast together. That was easy to explain, but then the question that I have personally wondered for years, when did the Turkey get added, and why???

Well, I did a little research and found these sites interesting:
History of Thanksgiving, turkey and Cranberry Jam recipe: http://www.good.is/post/how-thanksgiving-got-its-turkey/

Thanksgiving History http://www.christiananswers.net/q-wall/wal-g007.html

Pumpkin Pie and recipes: http://www.chiff.com/home_life/holiday/thanksgiving/pumpkin-pie.htm

Smithsonia Institute History of Thanksgiving: http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_si/nmah/thanks.htm

Very cool site with History of Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving around the world, History of Turkey, Activities, Recipes, and much more http://www.theholidayspot.com/thanksgiving/turkey.htm

I am so looking forward to having Thanksgiving with Family at my house, cooking the turkey and all the fixins like my mom did when I was little. Traditions and celebrations with family are so important and probably more so now that everyday is full of so much uncertainty and stress, these moments in time with family are more valuable then ever. Would love to hear what your Thanksgiving Traditions are, and how you came to your traditions. If you don't have traditions yet, there is plenty of time to make this year, the beginning of a new tradition.

Post comments here or email me I would love to hear from you :)

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving 2008



Thanksgiving 2008

Thank you Lord; for our extended family who makes me feel so “normal”.
Thank you Lord; for my husband and son, who make me feel needed.
Thank you Lord; for my house and truck which make we feel wealthy.
Thank you Lord; for giving us salvation that makes us--yours.
Thank you Lord; for our health and love for each other.
Thank you Lord; for our educational opportunities you have given Charles and me.
Thank you Lord; for Golden Corral that will make us full tomorrow.
And then most of all, they will do all the clean up!!!!