Spiritual Sunday "I Will Praise Him In Song"

The Lord Is My Strength And My Shield;
My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped.

My heart leaps for joy and
I will give thanks to Him, in SONG......
Psalms28:7

PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS BEAUTIFUL SONG..
YOUR HEART WILL REJOICE.
"HAPPY MOTHERS DAY."

Eden's Bridge - El Shaddai

My Great Grandmother Ellen Charles "SEPIA SATURDAY"

Today I am featuring my great grandmother Ellen Charles.
Remembered for Mothers Day... I am sure this will be her first.  

 She married my great grandfather Thomas in Australia on the 21st October 1874.
Both migrated with their families from Cardigan in Wales.
Her dress was brown silk and is now on view in the Narrandera Historical Museum, New South Wales. Australia.
Ellen Gave birth to eight children. Four boys and four girls.
My grandfather Samuel, my mother's father, was her eldest son.

Pictured in latter years with her daughters. She survived her husband..

Sadly I don't know much about the family. I think 3 of the girls were nurses. 

One story I do remember was that the famous Bushranger Ned Kelly, came to my grandmother kitchen to get something to eat. He was fed and went on his way. 

  

Ned Kelly was born in Victoria of Irish parents.

JIHAD: As American As Apple Pie

"Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea." So said American-born Islamic cleric Anwar al Awlaqi. He even bragged that 80% of the 3000 mosques in the United States are preaching jihad with anti-Jewish & Christian books under the auspices of Saudi Arabian money. And indeed, there has been a sharp uptick in jihad activity by U.S.-born Muslims since Barack Obama has become President. It seems some law-enforcement officials seem naive to the threat and the leftist media are determined not to notice or offend the usual suspects. And in this they are aided and abetted by American Muslim advocacy groups playing the "victim" card.

It took a scum-bag naturalized citizen, Faisal Shahzad (see photo), to park a car bomb in Times Square to get President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to finally use the word "terrorism." This is a major policy shift for a president who spent months telling Americans not to "jump to conclusions" after Army doctor Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly jumped on a desk, shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and began murdering 13 soldiers at Fort Hood. It's time Obama stops ass-kissing Muslim sensibilities. IT'S NOT WORKING! Their low-self-esteem-induced hatred is persistent.

This Muslim pond-scum, al-Awlaqi, was in contact with Hasan as well as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the African dead-shit who tried to bring down an airplane on Christmas day by blowing his testicles off! Evidence of U.S. Muslims engaging in terrorism grows every day. It's a testament of the stupid political correctness that pervades the government and will undo the nation's reputation and security.

A short list includes: In Chicago, Daood Gilani, participated in a plot to bomb a Danish newspaper for a cartoon featuring Muhammad. Last month a New Jersey Muslim, Sharif Mobley was arrested for ties to al-Qaeda. Before that, two American-born women, (calling themselves Jihad Jane & Jamie) both converts to Islam, were arrested for a plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks for his cartoon showing (quite appropriately) Muhammad as a dog.

Two months ago, a Muslim from Queens, N.Y. Najibullah Zazi, pled guilty to charges to a plot to bomb the New York subway system. While six months ago, Daniel "Seifullah" Boyd, another convert to Islam and 6 other Muslims in North Carolina were arrested with "conspiring to provide support to terrorists to murder and kidnap Christians and Jews.

Yet, three weeks ago, CAIR, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations began a campaign against a textbook that dared to say that some U.S. Muslims have engaged in terrorism--and the Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca denounced as "un-American" those who have criticized him for his close work with the group. Whats wrong with this picture?

The way I see it....lets stop confiscating sippy-cups from infants, wanding-down 80-year-old ladies and forcing people to remove their belts and shoes while putting computers and containers with liquid up for special screening before first profiling and harassing the middle eastern types of Islamic faith....first and foremost. I wonder if we can develop a security plan based on that approach; discrimination complaints be damned! After 19 foreign-born Muslims were legally admitted to the U.S., murdered 3000 Americans in New York and Washington in single day, isn't it long overdue that Obama's immigration people tighten up their admission policies toward people from countries still performing stonings, honour killings and clitorectomies?

Cinco de Mayo

This Wednesday is Cinco de Mayo (which in English means 5th of May). It is also called "Batalla de Puebla" which means "the Battle at Puebla." Traditionally, Hispanic families celebrate this day as a Holiday commemoratinig the Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862.

The French army, better equipped and far larger than the Mexican army, had been sent by Napoleon III to conquer Mexico.

GONE in a *FLASH*

One minute you are alive and here and the next moment you may be gone.

Of one thing I am absolutely sure. Death comes to all.

We have a stretch of highway near our town that is notorious for fatal accidents.

Last Saturday, I myself was almost killed on that road. I pulled out after checking to make sure nothing was coming. The traffic lights were in my favour so I was sure it was safe to go.

A semi was approaching slowly from approximately 100 metres away which encouraged my confidence. Unfortunatly another driver sped up and overtook, swinging into my lane and collecting my vehicle.

It all happened in a moment..... in what felt like an instant.  

Even now, one week later, I shake my head in wonder.

I am still here.... and my life continues.

Why was I spared?

I don't know?

But I do know, I might not have been.... 

Not so for a young nineteen year man, a couple of days later.

 He'd only just earned his Provisional Licence the day before. I say earned because it's a long journey of lesson hours with a log book before the final Testing.  

 If after that 'Provisional' year you get through without a blemish, you may proudly pocket a Regular Licence. 

He pulled out as I had, failing to see a Road Train (Double Semi) approaching.  

In a *FLASH* his car was torn in half, and his spirit departed. 

I cannot imagine the despair his family felt when informed?

The shock, the disbelief, the grief! 

He was only nineteen!

Questions arise?

Why him?  Why not me? 

I know I am ready to go!

I have a strong faith and no fear.  I have led my life. 

I married, gave birth, watched my children grow, returned to my profession and continued my education. I am now retired. I have travelled and I have done, much with my life...

It just goes to prove. Death can come at any age. 

Life sits on a precipice of time, where there are, no boundaries. 

We all need to ask ourselves, "Am I ready when my time comes?

How do I stand with God?

Have I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savour?

Or do I THINK, I have Plenty of Time."

John 3:16, deliver's a Message.

"For God So Loved the World, that He Gave,

His One and Only Son.

So that, whoever (Truely) believes in Him,

shall not Perish (go to Hell),

but will have, Eternal Life (In Heaven)."

   

Partnership in the Coral Reef: Clown fish and Anemone

Pictured above an anemone fish in a bubble anemone.The boys knowledge about the Coral Reef before we began our study on Australia's Great Barrier Reef was from the movie "Finding Nemo." They knew that the Clown Fish lived in an anemone but not why or how.The Clown Fish (also called Anemone fish) are small fish that live in the warm waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans, including the Great