Email Forwards Fun!

I have received many email forwards, then I have forwarded them to people on "my list". I love these touching, warm, funny emails. I started saving them on my computer, so I would never lose them. I decided to create a blog to hold all these email forwards, so others can enjoy them and so I can easily refer to them when I want. I hope people who love email forwards as much as I do, or like reading funny and inspirational readings will find this site and share it with others.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Bono’s Bold Take On Jesus:

You’ve probably never seen a celebrity declare their faith like this.
You've probably never heard a rockstar at this level talk so open about their faith. When a reporter asked U2 frontman Bono to talk about his faith and belief in God, he didn't flinch. This is about as bold a take on God, Jesus, prayers and miracles as you'll ever hear. Take 2 minutes today and WATCH

Bono's light and truth!

by Wilson Tuesday, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:51 PM EDT

Bono’s bold take on Jesus: You’ve probably never seen a celebrity declare their faith like this
You’ve probably never heard a rockstar at this level talk so open about their faith. When a reporter asked Bono to talk about his faith and belief in God, he didn’t flinch. This is about as bold a take on God, Jesus, prayers and miracles as you’ll ever hear. On Prayer: I pray to get to know the will of God, because then the prayers have more chance of coming true — I mean, that’s the thing about prayer, isn’t it? We don’t do it in a very lofty way in our family. It’s just a bunch of us on the bed, usually, we’ve a very big bed in our house. We pray with all our kids. We read the Scriptures, we pray. Sometimes if we go to church on Sunday, we’ll go after church has ended, we’ll go on our own as a family for peace and quiet. And we’ll pray usually for people that we know who are struggling with something. On Jesus: It’s a defining question for Christian. Who was Christ?I don’t think you’re let off easily by saying he was a great thinker or great philosopher. Because, actually, he went around saying he was the Messiah. That’s why he was crucified. He was crucified because he said he was the Son of God. So, he either, in my view, was the Son of God or he was nuts. Forget rock-and-roll messianic complexes. I mean Charlie Manson-type delirium. And I find it hard to accept that all the millions and millions of lives, half the Earth, for 2,000 years have been touched, have felt their lives touched and inspired by some nutter. I don’t believe it. On Miracles: I have no problem with miracles. I’m living around them. I am one

Masterful quotes

How appropriate are these quotes from Thomas Mann to our world today?
(Nobel prize winner and author who escaped Germany and became an American Citizen)

Tolerance is a crime when applied to evil.
-- Thomas Mann
How often do we hear evil scream for tolerance and demand acceptance?

Peoples behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
-- Thomas Mann
People claim that Obama's behavior doesn't make any sense, YES IT DOES when you consider that he is making a transformational change to our Constitutional Republic!

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
-- Thomas Mann
Enough said!

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory.
Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
-- Thomas Mann
Yes, because democracy clamors for equality for all, and is incompatible with freedom for the individual, a Constitutional Republic as guaranteed by the Constitution.

UK Judge Rules BBC Had Advance Knowledge Of 9/11

Here is WTC building seven report by the BBC 25 minutes before it was brought down!
Please explain this Pres. Bush and PM Tony Blair!

To See Article and watch video - please click on the link

http://www.globalresearch.ca/bbc-foreknowledge-of-911-collapse-of-wtc-building-seven-british-man-won-law-suit-against-bbc-for-911-cover-up/5438161

A Good Question

Government service as an elected official was not intended to be a lifetime or permanent job, it was to be of SERVICE!

A Neurosurgeon's Experience With Near-Death

Neurosurgeon's Near-Death Experience Leaves Him Questioning His Stance On God

July 4, 2015

Dr. Eben Alexander didn't believe in the afterlife or in the concept of eternal souls. He had heard about near-death experiences in the past, but had considered those stories to be the result of fantasies or hallucinations. After all, he had devoted much of his life to his neurosurgery career, and that path had made him doubt the existence of heaven or God. However, one fateful night changed his perspective dramatically.

Alexander recalls waking up in the middle of the night in extreme pain, likening the feeling to "being struck by a freight train." What he thought was just a muscle spasm, however, turned out to be a rare case of bacterial meningitis infecting his brain. The neurosurgeon fell into a coma before he had even reached the hospital. The next seven days were a harrowing experience for his family; Alexander was showing no signs of brain activity, and doctors had already informed his wife of the possibility that he might not wake up. Things were looking grim on the outside during this week, but his family had no idea that Alexander's beliefs were being shaken to their very core.

During a period of time when his brain was essentially shut down, Alexander describes having been guided through the afterlife by a mysterious force, learning about his purpose until being told to return to his life. On the seventh day of his coma, he woke suddenly and made an amazing recovery. From a medical perspective, that turn of events is beyond extraordinary, but Alexander's account of that time is nothing short of miraculous. To hear more about what happened beyond what's covered in the video, be sure to check out his book "Proof of Heaven," a New York Times bestseller in which he goes into more detail.

Watch the video below to hear about Alexander's incredible experience, and be sure to share your thoughts on this story with us in the comments section. What do you think about his journey?

Chicken In A Blizzard

Birmingham, Ala. Chick-Fil-A owner Mark Meadows (Courtesy Lauren Dango)

SOUTHEAST

Chick-fil-A gives free food to motorists stranded in Southern snowstorm

By Todd Starnes

Published January 29, 2014

FoxNews.com

A snowstorm in the South is about as rare as a glass of unsweetened tea at a church supper. Folks around Birmingham, Ala. weren’t all that worried though. The storm was only supposed to dust the city – not even enough powder for a Southern snowman.

So when the first snowflakes began to fall, no one paid all that much attention. But then, the flakes kept falling. Before too long folks in places like Hoover and Inverness realized it was much more than a dusting. By that point, it was too late for anyone to do anything.

Icy interstates and highways soon became clogged with cars and trucks. Thousands of motorists soon found themselves stranded with nowhere to go – including many stuck on Highway 280.

But a good number of those stranded motorists were able to find shelter in the storm thanks to the kindness and generosity of Chick-fil-A restaurant employees and the restaurant's owner, Mark Meadows.

Once the snow started accumulating, Meadows closed the restaurant and sent his staff home. But a few hours later, many of them returned – unable to get to their homes.

“Our store is about a mile and a half from the interstate and it took me two hours to get there,” manager Audrey Pitt told me. “It was a parking lot as far as I could see.”

So Audrey left her car on the side of the interstate and joined a flock of bundled up drivers trudging through the snow.

“At one point there were more people walking than driving,” she said.

Some of the drivers had been stuck in their cars for nearly seven hours without any food or water. So the staff of the Chick-fil-A decided to lend a helping hand.

“We cooked several hundred sandwiches and stood out on both sides of 280 and handed out the sandwiches to anyone we could get to – as long as we had food to give out.”

The staffers braved the falling snow and ice, slipping and sliding, as they offered hot juicy chicken breasts tucked between two buttered buns. And Chick-fil-A refused to take a single penny for their sandwiches.

The meal was a gift – no strings attached.

For the frozen drivers, it was manna from heaven.

“They were very excited and extremely thankful,” she said. “People were thankful to get something to put in their stomachs.”

Audrey said they were especially surprised that the sandwiches were free. Why not make some extra money during the storm? It’s not like anyone could go to another restaurant. Chick-fil-A had a captive crowd of hungry customers. So why did they give away their food?

“This company is based on taking care of people and loving people before you’re worried about money or profit,” Audrey told me. “We were just trying to follow the model that we’ve all worked under for so long and the model that we’ve come to love. There was really nothing else we could have done but try to help people any way we could.”

Lauren Dango was one of those stranded motorists. She’s known Meadows for years and she was stunned when she saw him walking from car to car with Chick-fil-A sandwiches.

“I looked up and I’m like, what is he doing,” Dango told me. “He had a catering order and it got canceled, so he pulled over and started giving away food.”

And if that wasn’t enough, Meadows helped a driver maneuver along the icy road by pushing a car up an incline.

Dango was so touched by Meadows’ kindness, she sent a letter to Chick-fil-A’s corporate headquarters.
“Kudos to Mark Meadows for not only preaching the "second mile" concept, but actually living by it,” she wrote.

It’s no secret that Chick-fil-A was founded by a Christian family. And it’s no secret that they run their business on biblical values. What happened in Birmingham is an example of how those biblical values are played out.

“We just wanted to be able to help,” Audrey said. “Yesterday was such a hopeless situation. We wanted to do something to make people feel a little bit better. We were here. We had food and there were people outside who needed food. So it just made sense to do something for them.”

But Chick-fil-A’s generosity didn’t stop there.

“We opened up our dining room to anyone who wanted to sleep on a bench or a booth,” Audrey told me.
And this morning, the weary staff members fired up their ovens and began preparing chicken biscuits. The only thing that is closed – is Chick-fil-A’s cash register.

“We’re not open for business,” she said. ‘We’re just feeding people who are hungry.”

I’d say the Chick-fil-A team blessed a lot of people in Birmingham – but that’s not how Audrey sees it.
“It’s a blessing to us to be able to help people,” she said. “It really is.”

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat,” Jesus said in the Gospel of Matthew. “I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.”

It was a Sunday school lesson illustrated on a snowy winter day along Highway 280 in Alabama with a chicken sandwich and a side of waffle fries.

Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. His latest book is "God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values." Follow Todd on Twitter@ToddStarnes and find him on Facebook.

Let's Talk Truth

This is one brave gal who 0WNS the truth! She lived it, and understands it!

HEATHER BARWICK

PARENTING
Dear Gay Community: Your Kids Are Hurting
I loved my mom’s partner, but another mom could never have replaced the father I lost.

Gay community, I am your daughter. My mom raised me with her same-sex partner back in the ’80s and ’90s. She and my dad were married for a little while. She knew she was gay before they got married, but things were different back then. That’s how I got here. It was complicated as you can imagine. She left him when I was two or three because she wanted a chance to be happy with someone she really loved: a woman.

My dad wasn’t a great guy, and after she left him he didn’t bother coming around anymore.

Do you remember that book, “Heather Has Two Mommies”? That was my life. My mom, her partner, and I lived in a cozy little house in the ‘burbs of a very liberal and open-minded area. Her partner treated me as if I was her own daughter. Along with my mom’s partner, I also inherited her tight-knit community of gay and lesbian friends. Or maybe they inherited me?

Either way, I still feel like gay people are my people. I’ve learned so much from you. You taught me how to be brave, especially when it is hard. You taught me empathy. You taught me how to listen. And how to dance. You taught me not be afraid of things that are different. And you taught me how to stand up for myself, even if that means I stand alone.

I’m writing to you because I’m letting myself out of the closet: I don’t support gay marriage. But it might not be for the reasons that you think.

Children Need a Mother and Father
It’s not because you’re gay. I love you, so much. It’s because of the nature of the same-sex relationship itself.

Growing up, and even into my 20s, I supported and advocated for gay marriage. It’s only with some time and distance from my childhood that I’m able to reflect on my experiences and recognize the long-term consequences that same-sex parenting had on me. And it’s only now, as I watch my children loving and being loved by their father each day, that I can see the beauty and wisdom in traditional marriage and parenting.

Same-sex marriage and parenting withholds either a mother or father from a child while telling him or her that it doesn’t matter. That it’s all the same. But it’s not. A lot of us, a lot of your kids, are hurting. My father’s absence created a huge hole in me, and I ached every day for a dad. I loved my mom’s partner, but another mom could never have replaced the father I lost.

I grew up surrounded by women who said they didn’t need or want a man. Yet, as a little girl, I so desperately wanted a daddy. It is a strange and confusing thing to walk around with this deep-down unquenchable ache for a father, for a man, in a community that says that men are unnecessary. There were times I felt so angry with my dad for not being there for me, and then times I felt angry with myself for even wanting a father to begin with. There are parts of me that still grieve over that loss today.

I’m not saying that you can’t be good parents. You can. I had one of the best. I’m also not saying that being raised by straight parents means everything will turn out okay. We know there are so many different ways that the family unit can break down and cause kids to suffer: divorce, abandonment, infidelity, abuse, death, etc. But by and large, the best and most successful family structure is one in which kids are being raised by both their mother and father.

Why Can’t Gay People’s Kids Be Honest?
Gay marriage doesn’t just redefine marriage, but also parenting. It promotes and normalizes a family structure that necessarily denies us something precious and foundational. It denies us something we need and long for, while at the same time tells us that we don’t need what we naturally crave. That we will be okay. But we’re not. We’re hurting.

Kids of divorced parents are allowed to say, “Hey, mom and dad, I love you, but the divorce crushed me and has been so hard. It shattered my trust and made me feel like it was my fault. It is so hard living in two different houses.” Kids of adoption are allowed to say, “Hey, adoptive parents, I love you. But this is really hard for me. I suffer because my relationship with my first parents was broken. I’m confused and I miss them even though I’ve never met them.”

But children of same-sex parents haven’t been given the same voice. It’s not just me. There are so many of us. Many of us are too scared to speak up and tell you about our hurt and pain, because for whatever reason it feels like you’re not listening. That you don’t want to hear. If we say we are hurting because we were raised by same-sex parents, we are either ignored or labeled a hater.

This isn’t about hate at all. I know you understand the pain of a label that doesn’t fit and the pain of a label that is used to malign or silence you. And I know that you really have been hated and that you really have been hurt. I was there, at the marches, when they held up signs that said, “God hates fags” and “AIDS cures homosexuality.” I cried and turned hot with anger right there in the street with you. But that’s not me. That’s not us.

I know this is a hard conversation. But we need to talk about it. If anyone can talk about hard things, it’s us. You taught me that.

Heather Barwick was raised by her mother and her mother's same-sex partner. She is a former gay-marriage advocate turned children's rights activist. She is a wife and mother of four rambunctious kids.

ANOTHER AMERICAN PUTS BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS....

Watch the 3-minute video !!! Never mind that Admiral James Aloysius “Ace” Lyons is old and frail… listen to his words!
James Aloysius "Ace" Lyons, Jr. (born September 28, 1927) is a retired Admiral in the United States Navy whose 36-year career was capped by serving as Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet from 16 September 1985 to 30 September 1987. Wikipedia

Don’t wait for this Admiral’s appearance on “ Meet The Press :
Watch him on this three-minute video and you’ll understand why.