Flowers bloom and are beautiful. I would Love to smell and see mine before I am buried in the soil which the flowers grow.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Valentine's Day
February has long been celebrated as a month
of romance, and is like a mystery.. Valentine's Day, as we know it today,
contains a traces of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition.
Saint
Valentine is recognized in the
Catholic Church with at least three different saints named Valentine or
Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. Valentine was a priest who served during the
third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made
better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for
young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius
and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's
actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.
While some believe that Valentine's Day is
celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of
Valentine's death or burial--which probably occurred around A.D. 270--others claim
that the Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine's feast day
in the middle of February in an effort to "Christianize" the pagan
celebration of Lupercalia.
Celebrated at the ides of February, or February 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the
Roman God of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.
Lupercalia survived the initial rise of Christianity and but was outlawed—as it was deemed “un-Christian”--at the end of the 5th century, when Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day. It was not until much later, however, that the day became definitively associated with love. During the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds' mating season, which added to the idea that the middle of Valentine's Day should be a day for romance.
Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, though written Valentine's didn't begin to appear until after 1400. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. (The greeting is now part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England.) Several years later, it is believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois.
Lupercalia survived the initial rise of Christianity and but was outlawed—as it was deemed “un-Christian”--at the end of the 5th century, when Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day. It was not until much later, however, that the day became definitively associated with love. During the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds' mating season, which added to the idea that the middle of Valentine's Day should be a day for romance.
Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, though written Valentine's didn't begin to appear until after 1400. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. (The greeting is now part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England.) Several years later, it is believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois.
Valentine's Day Greetings In the United States Valentine's Day began to
be popularly celebrated around the 17th century. By the middle of the 18th, it
was common for friends and lovers of all social classes to exchange small
tokens of affection or handwritten notes, and by 1900 printed cards began to
replace written letters due to improvements in printing technology. Ready-made
cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when
direct expression of one's feelings was discouraged. Cheaper postage rates also
contributed to an increase in the popularity of sending Valentine's Day
greetings.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Praise
Praise is
honoring God for what he has done for you. Praise
can be given by lifting of your hands, yelling out, crying and a Holy Ghost
dance. Well, most would say “we don’t have a reason to Praise God”. If he woke you up this morning in your right mind, if
you have a roof over your head, if he healed your body, if you have clothes on your
back and food on your table. Then you owe God “Praise”. Glory!!!!!!
Monday, January 28, 2013
The "Holy Ghost"
Once you open up your heart and let the “Holy Ghost” in. It
goes to places within in you so deep. It awakens the inter depth of your belly;
A place where nothing else can dwell. Only the Spirit of God can communicate
with you on this realm. It gets in touch
with things no others can. It gives you guidance in your life if you
listen. The Holy Ghost can sweep a room
and at that moment everyone and everything is in sync. It gives you a feeling just for a moment what
“Heaven” is like. It’s that feeling inside of you when you know you're about to do
something wrong but something deep inside is noying at you saying; don’t do
it!! Don’t do it. "The Holy Ghost" Try it, you’ll like it.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Just Saying!!!!!!
"The Word of God" is the same all over the world.
Jesus is Love
Jesús es amor! Spanish
Jésus est son amour! French
Иисус есть Любовь!
Russian
Do you love the Lord!
¿Usted ama el Señor!
Aimez-vous le Seigneur!
Вы любите Господа!
The love of money is the root of all evil!
El amor al dinero es la raíz de todos los males!
L'amour
de l'argent est la racine de tous les
maux!
Любовь к деньгам есть корень всех зол!
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
alléluia
аллилуйя
Monday, January 21, 2013
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