BrDevon
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See? Smoking doesn't look so cool.
And see how grumpy this smoker looks?Soon you'll have more energy to play with your kids.
Your clothes will smell cleaner.
(yeah... couldn't resist. 
)You'll definitely save money.
No, really save. 
You can do this.
We think you're super. 
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If you can admin this place for 9 years, you have more than enough will power to deal with anything in life.
Carry pics of your kids. If you haven't yet thrown out the packs opf cigs, tape pics of your kids to the cig pack. That way each time you reach for one, you have that pic staring at you to remind you why you wanted to give it up.
Other people have a cuss jar... start a cigarette jar. Take the money you would throw into smoking and toss it in the jar. Watch the money grow, and treat yourself with the cash. Better yet, treat yourself and the kids. Then everyone can enjoy the benefits of your healthier life. Want a great motivator to keep going, look at their smiles when you can treat them and share your success. It will also help drive their desire to support you.
All the best. You got this.
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I send the power of healing energy to him. Continue to support him. I have confidence that he has the strength to weather this crisis and come out well.
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Sadly, the only instrument I can afford is my own voice. Since my hearing is not normal, to say the least, I consider it very much an instrument in the amount of effort I have to spend to keep it tuned to make it sound pleasing to those who have normal hearing.
Despite my progressive deafness, I still love to sing, and chant, especially the Latin hymns around Easter (Salva Festa Dies) and Christmas (Veni Emanuel, Adeste Fideles, et al).
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Wow, Thanks for that BrDevon...!!
Her voice and that mandolin were made for each other...
"penny for my thoughts - I'll sell them for a dollar" sticks with me....
"Funny how when you're dead people start listening...."
Let's hope people learn to listen before they lose.
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And I thought I was bad with this song stuck in my head:
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Remember, you have a home here, and people who do care about you.
And if you think your ministry doesn't affect anyone, let me tell you about the time that sealed my fate as a member of clergy.
My family thought my ordination was a joke. Just go on the 'net abe become a minister... sure. They do not understand the concept of ordination by proxy, which the ULC, and the church I grew up in both use. It is a legal matter... you do not simply become clergy because you decide to, the church must ordain you, and there are real people in Modesto who witness this request, stand for you, for me, and all the others who seek ordination through them, and then record it in the church records.
Anyhoo... back to the life changer.
I had my little place on the internet, and thought no one gave a good hoot about my site. Then I got the email. A young man sent me a note that his parents did not believe in an Almighty and forbade him to go to church. He went to my site because I supplied him the same service he would have gotten had he "escaped" and gone to church. This poor kid (at the time) woke himself up at 2 am once a week just to read the service I posted. Most kids his age were surfing porn instead.
That was over 8 years ago. Not too long ago, I heard from this young man, now a bit older, who is now on his own and is interested in becoming clergy himself.
That's the thing about being clergy: you rarely know whose life you may affect for the better. Trust me in this, though - you have made someone's life better, and I promise you'll never know who, or when, until you face your day of judgement (if your belief includes such a thing - I have to quote from my beliefs, it's all I know).
All the best,
Br. Devon
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Raven:
Just an outside look that I hope sheds more light than heat -
If I read correctly, you are ordained. Unless you have done something seriously wrong, and I don't think you have, the only one who can change that status is you. So, in that sense, once clergy, always clergy.
There is a difference between "being" clergy and "doing" clergy. That is, one can have the status and do absolutely nothing with it, or one can do quite a bit. Choice is yours.
You seem to have been knocked about by the winds of life. Those storms can hurt badly. Take a moment to reflect. You have been perfectly candid on what made you first move to become clergy. Could it be you find your needs have changed, or perhaps there is a need you find yourself called to serve? Let yourself listen to that guiding voice within you. Perhaps you are not even acknowledging a need that is calling you in a voice so soft it is hard to hear in the noise that is life.
My favorite saying as regards clergy life. You may not feel like anything, but to someone you might be everything.
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wow, that must of cost like..hundreds of dollars to produce.
Somehow it seems the budget for that was MUCH lower.
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Happy Murphday!
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Consider it done.
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Gave it a shot... no luck.
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For some reason, my computer sees it as a dead link, even on the blog site. All I see is the text around it, a space where a graphic would be and the famous red X in the upper left corner. Alas.
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Link is not working for me.
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One of the nice things about working in a retirement community is that the staff remember to thank our veterans. Some of them have forgotten when and where they served, but that's okay. They served. It is because of their work and the work of many Americans that we are all here free to say thank you for what you did. As one of the residents at my community said, there are painful memories, and there were things seen that nice people don't talk about, but the fact that so many people can forget our troops is only due to how well they did their jobs. (Sad, but true.)
I plan to say thank you to every veteran on my section of the building - many who have no family left to visit them and who have outlived their friends and fellow veterans. I will help the nursing staff make sure medals are pinned straight and true and uniforms stay clean and nice. When I serve their tables (I work in the dining room), I will make sure their plates are fitting a veteran, and I will lastly remember my own father, who served in WWII, and hope that in taking care of these special people whom I serve, I also honor his memory.
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What is deeply disturbing is I have a mental picture of a room full of people doing the Electric Slide to this.
(If you aren't old enough to remember, don't ask... you really don't want to know.)
Worse srill, for those who remember the bus stop, that would work, too.
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My daughter is ASL for her school and work. I had no idea about how music applied to the deaf...funny thing is I have ZERO ASL knowledge, yet if I turn down the sound and just watch, I can almost tell it's a song, not words. The motions and signs, if paid attention to are wonderful and so expressive!
Captain Valor is great and the Owl City song "Fireflies" WOW! New theme song for sure! "rather hard to say, I'd rather be awake when I'm asleep...I'd like to believe the Earth turns slowly" tooooo cooool. The whole song was incredible. TY for posting these Bro sky and BrDevon!...and of course the others post were awesome as well.
Blessings of Peace,
I love the way Captain Valor (Steven) sings in ASL. He doesn't do what so many interpreters do and simply transliterate a song word for word (or as closely as one can), but he honestly takes the time to convey the concept and tries to maintain the integrity of the message. By using full body language, which is an essential part of Sign, anyway, he manages through his timing and enthusiasm to construct a parallell to the concepts of musical beat. I have worked with certified interpreters who have not done nearly as well.
Artistic Signing is an art form, and unfortunately there are circles that do not embrace it. I understand that to a "purist" any time the Hearing and Deaf cultures combine, there is an inherent fear that the Hearing person will somehow claim his or her culture as superior, as if "those poor Deaf folks are missing out." Steven levels the playing field and simply sings in Sign, as much as if he had studied French as his language and chose to sing the song in French.
I give him a lot of credit, and for this person who is has a foot on both side of the deaf door (part hearing, part deaf), I appreciate when anyone does what Steven has done and shares a gift of bridging the cultural gap. It is even more of a gift when you can see the obvious joy with which he shares his gift.
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a beautiful swedish prodigy and some awesome 80's Australian Pop..
Cool! BrDevon you may be expanding my horizons.....
[more entertainment....
she said " hang the rich.."
Jinx!
I almost posted that one last night and decided it was too obscure.
Loved that song, even though I don't think I have ever really totally heard it (ya know... the hearing thing...). I think the one guy in the background that sings the response line "Somewhere down the crazy river" (can't think of his name off hand) sounds like he's had someone's hands around his neck a little too long. But that's one opinion.
Okay...so...quitting Smokin.
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That's one for Murph Facts:
Murph is so powerful, he even has an app to make packages arrive through email.