A Tearful Video, Please Watch

I have linked another video on my post tonight. I found it on GodTube.com. It's about a little baby boy named Eliot. He was born with a disease that placed a hole in his heart and gave him a bad lung. It's titled 99 Balloons. It's so sad but very impressive to any parent by the strength of these two loving and fearless parents. Please watch. Just click the green arrow in title box.

Funny Pictures :)

Ever Heard Of Laminin?

I have put a video on here for all to watch. Please watch it, it will amaze you. We watched this video in Bible class one Sunday and it blew me away. The preachers name is Louie Giglio he is really good. Click on the green arrow in the title box and it will link you to this video.

Everything is Beautiful

I have recently found a Christian radio station called Air 1. I have fell in love with this station over the past year and I have got Shannon listening to it. I just felt the music on the other stations were just getting to vulgar for me to listen too anymore. Even country music is just not fulfilling to me anymore. I don't want to hear about beer drinking and one night stands in my music. So I tuned this Air 1 station on last summer and just found it fulfilling to hear about things that will put my mind on the good things of God.

This band Starfield has really grown on me lately. They have a song titled "Everything is beautiful." It's chorus goes, "Everything is beautiful, even when the tears are falling, I don't need a miracle to believe. Even in the crashings down I can feel redemption calling. Everything is beautiful to me."

Good thoughts for all of us, even when things are at there worse all things are beautiful. Because God is there and will deliver us from all the horrible happenings of life. We will go through bad things, but we need to know God is just a prayer away and Christ will be at our side wiping away our tears. Check out this radio station or go to their website and find out where it's located on your radio dial. Trust me it's a good station, it has changed my life!

Ahh....... Di Carlo's Pizza!

Yes right now I am absorbing my taste buds with the greatest taste and smell known to mankind. I am eating Di Carlo's pizza in Arkansas. Thanks to Carrie Wells for bringing it back to me. There is nothing better than this moment, ever. You could lace it with poison and I would still eat it!

Memorial Day 2008

There has been 11,780,042 soldiers that have died since the American Revolutionary war. I sometimes wonder what those men and women could have accomplished in their lives had they not gone to war. We may have sent the person who might have cured cancer to war and they were killed and never got their turn to shine. But then I think what might the world be like if they hadn't gone to war and defended our freedom by doing their duty.

I'm not a war person and I never will be. I don't believe killing is the answer. Every Christian should feel that way that war is not the answer. But sometimes it is very necessary. It's a mixed emotion for everybody in our country and across the world. When it comes to evil leaders like Hitler there is no choice but to take him out of such a position.

I'm thankful for those who have served our country and defeated the realms of evil. They didn't have to do it, but their love for their country they had to do it.

Continue to pray for our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Whatever you feel about this war good or bad choice remember they are their because they feel a great duty for their country and their fellow Americans.

Gas Prices of Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow : (

Gas prices in 1970.
Gas prices in the 1990's.
Gas prices today : (
Gas prices tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Holy PepTalk

Every game that has taken place in our country and around the world has had to have a pep talk in the locker room. Your favorite team is down by a touchdown, a run or a goal. You know what needs to be done for that team to bounce back to win the game, a pep talk. Or it's the biggest game of the year and nerves are rattled and excitement is in the air for both teams and the coach has to get his team focused. He needs their full attention away from the crowd and all the media hoopla. What does he do? He gives the team an unforgettable talk. It gets their blood flowing and their focus back on the matter at hand, the game and getting that win or championship.

There have been many times when the Steelers were losing or winning a game I would wonder what the jaw of Bill Cowher was saying to his team. We can only imagine. I read a chapter in Luke the other night that made me think of the pep talk. It's Luke 9: 1 - 6 I believe it was Jesus giving his disciples a true pep talk.

When Jesus had called the twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. He told them " Take nothing for the journey- no staff, no bag, no money, no extra tunic. What ever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town. If people do not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave their town, as a testimony against them." So they went out from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere.

I believe he needed to give his fearful disciples a good talk. I couldn't imagine somebody coming up to me and telling me," I want you to go out and do some preaching for me, but you can't take your car, your family, your wallet with no money or debit cards or your cell phone. You can't make any hotel reservations you can't go to Walmart (that part I could handle, I hate going to Walmart.) You must have faith in the people and God." How would we feel? Very fearful! But you know that is what the twelve disciples felt like. They had no clue about what they were getting into, but yet they trusted Jesus. He equipped them with more than material necessities, He gave them the authority to drive out demons and to cure diseases.

So what did they do? They went out from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere. Amazing faith and one amazing pep talk. Guess what I believe that team of twelve won the championship, an eternal one.

Prayers For Hannah

Hannah is a teenage girl that goes to college church and is the daughter of one of the faculty members at the Academy Darin Mathews. She was out riding on a golf cart the other night with friends in the neighborhood and was thrown from it. She suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. Right now she's slowly coming to and is responding to verbal commands. I ask for prayers for her and her family and a quick recovery.

God Answers Those Who Call On Him.

If you have any questions for God and you don't think He answers your prayers, you need to look closer and deeper and see that He has already answered your requests. I was reading on Ethan Powells website and saw the blog posted by his dad. It will enlighten you a lot if you read it and are wondering if God will ever answer your prayers.
They are going through some rough times with their loss of Ethan and have been wondering when things will get better and he is trying to find answers somewhere to ease their pain. Go to http://www.ethanpowell.com/ and read the post dated on the 19th. It made me feel alot better for them to finally get an answer to something. God bless the Powell's and may He bless us in our times of distress.

The Full Moon

The moon has captured my interest lately. One reason Cayden loves the moon, he looks out the window every night and says "A moon, daddy a moon." It's become our nightly ritual the past couple of weeks to go outside and look at the moon before he goes to bed. He just gets so excited to go out and see it.
Another reason is that I take for granted the light at night that God has given us. Another reason to believe in a Creator. To see a floating ball of rock and dust and to see that He made it a beautiful sight by shining the sun upon it. The moon has been a guiding light for many people of this planet. Just think about how it has led many through the complete darkness. It's time we all look to the night time sky and see God's beauty.

Well I am excited to see the Penguins going to the Stanley Cup finals. Did they ever deserve it by knocking the snot out of the Flyers by a score of 6-0. WOW! Go Pens!

Last nights post was a little cruel but it is what I feel. Remember it's Clint's thoughts and it's my opinion. You don't have to agree with what I said, everybody has their own opinions on every situation. But it's funny after I wrote the post I headed to bed and opened my Bible to read. I decided to just open it and I surprisingly landed on Romans 1: 18-32. Read it and you'll be surprised by what it says. Coincidence ? I think not! I don't hate the gay community I have friends that I have worked with in the past the were of that social group and I respect them as people. But I don't tolerate their behavior and they probably don't agree with me either. They didn't push their beliefs on me and I didn't progress my Biblical beliefs on them. It wasn't a war I was going to win and they knew they couldn't change my opinions either.

But the one girl I worked with on a growing farm here in Searcy a couple of years ago became a good friend of mine. She was gay and had a partner and she was constantly trying to justify it to me and I just listened and never said anything to her. It was as if she was feeling guilty about her choice of lifestyle. I just had nothing to say, there were things I could've said, but I just didn't get involved. I just felt bad for her and wished I could've have said the right thing to make her change her mind, but I couldn't think of anything to say to be the perfect life changer. Maybe I fouled up, but now she is disabled from a bad back surgery. And my prayer for her now is to be able to live pain free and maybe one day she will see the light and change. Who knows?

The tornado comment may have been over the top. I should've said I hope change will occur in San Francisco before God steps in. I had a comment from somebody who basically said I hate gay people because of the tornado comment. Which is far from the truth, I don't hate anybody. Those of you who know me know that's true. So "Anonymous" I rejected your comment because I thought it was inappropriate.

Same Sex Marriage Wins in SF, But Lose Their Chance In The Heavenly Court!!!

I've never written about this topic but I think I will. It makes me PUKE! Sick disgusting people, who think they deserve rights. NO,NO,NO & NO!!!!!!! They make themselves think they are an ethnic group and they deserve minority treatment. Not in my world! I won't let your sick perversion in!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't hate gay people but I know what the Bible clearly states about homosexuality. And I quote "clearly states." God doesn't except it at all!
God doesn't hate them either just their behavior and their choice on sexuality.
I may make some readers of this post but it's not what I think it's what the Holy Word of God States. It's wrong! They say they were born like that, no I don't believe God would create somebody to be something He doesn't FAVOR. But I know many churches have ignored what the Bible has said about this choice of life style and have allowed Gay priests and pastors in their pulpits. I don't know why they would choose this direction for their flock but they might as well take down the cross from their steeple and put a flame up there. The Devils has a made those institutions a den for his evil work.
I think San Francisco needs a tornado to wipe out the evil it has allowed in for many years. What a shame for a country built on Holy principles.

What If God Turned His Back On Us?

There is a song by a Christian band called Story Side B titled "Be Still." The chorus goes like this "Be still and know that I am here."

But what if one day he decided to turn His back on us. I know that He wouldn't because He doesn't change. But what if He did? What would become of us, would we just stop and quit working like a clock with dead batteries. Or would we feel a great emptiness that no one has ever felt.

I believe one person has felt Him turn His back toward him. It was Jesus on the cross. I believe his exact words were "My God why have you forsaken me." Can you imagine what Jesus felt at that moment when his own Father wasn't there for him. The pain he was going through physically and then the pain of being forsaken by the Creator. Through the cross of Jesus we have been saved from being forsaken by the living God.

With all the natural disasters that have occurred over the past week and months it seems like the world is facing a Holy demolition. With all the tornadoes in Arkansas and across the Midwest, the earthquake in China and the cyclone Myanmar. Lives have been torn, shredded, taken and completely turned upside down recently. I know many blame God for doing these things, but the many people here in Arkansas and Oklahoma haven't blamed God for any of it. They have dismissed the loss of their material possessions and have thanked God that everybody is alive.

"Be still and know that I am here." I believe is what God is saying to all of them. He is there all the way. He's not leaving. We all need to hear our Father in heaven saying that every day to us all. "No matter what everybody is saying I am here, Be still."

My Thought's 4 Today

I spent the day taking care of Cayden today. We were pretty much buddies all day long until I told him it was time to go to bed, then he started yelling for his mother. But we hung out all day together and played outside and went to Walmart and did our weekly shopping and he got his M&M's and he was satisfied. Never once did he cause any trouble. He never really does, he is a calm and peaceful little boy. I just love him so dearly. I just sat there today and watched him blow bubbles and grunt and talk and make his little sound effects. I just adored him all day long. I sat there and looked at my ankle deep grass and just blew it off. I have pushed it till Wednesday to cut it, plus Shannon was sick with a stomach virus so I couldn't do it anyway.

So we just soaked in the nice beautiful weather God gave us and put all things aside. I thought back to when Brayden and Macy were his size and how I enjoyed them just as much watching them play and just enjoyed them being little. Everything they do just amazes me. I couldn't live without them. The picture of Cayden I posted is my favorite picture of him, he saw it on the computer the other day and said "Fafer." Meaning he saw his pacifier, which he loves very much. What would life be like if something might happen to any of them? How would we handle it? Questions i hope I will never have to answer.

But one couple has too. I continue to read Ethan Powells website daily and read his father's blog and how hard it is for them to not have him there no more. He was a cute little boy who's life here was cut short. I put a picture of him on my blog tonight and just feel great hope for his parents and hope the sting of his departure will soon heal. Pray for them and the many other parents that are going through the same loss. Pray that they don't blame God or lose sight of God in all this. He's working for them and it's hard to stay focused on God when Satan is trying to tug them away in another direction. Pray for us young parents who are raising children in a completely different world. Pray that we might lead our children in the same way our parents led us.

Happy Mother's Day

I hope every mother had a great day today, you all deserve it.

I'm thankful for having a Christian mother who raised me in the right way. To bring me to church and lay a solid foundation for me to build on. Thanks Mom.

I watched the Passion of the Christ movie the other night and there is one part that moves me to tears every time. Jesus is almost to the hill and just can't bare the pain of carrying his cross any longer and he falls to the ground with the cross falling beneath him and he lands upon it straight on his back. Mary was needing to be near him and as he fell she goes back in time. She recalls a memory of Jesus falling as a child and goes running after him and picks him up and holds him because he is crying from the pain of the fall. As they go back to the cross and him falling she yells for him and he finds the strength to get back up. As he rises up she is hugging him and he says to her, "Mother, I will make things new." It's as if he had to make her understand his role on Calvary's cross, like she didn't understand his pain he had to go through. In that scene it seemed he needed her touch and her love one more time. Amazing love!

Funnel Clouds Over Our House :(

This is what it looked like over our house about an hour and a half ago. This not the actual picture though. We had no idea anything was coming. I had been at work till 7 and I was heading to Walmart which is right next door to Lowe's. I thought the sky looked kind of odd as I was going into Walmart. As I was getting ready to get a gallon of milk, employees were telling all customers to go to the back of the store. I ran into a guy from church and he told me the sirens were going off. So I did the exact opposite I headed out the front doors. There was a huge wall cloud above the parking lot. So I dashed to the truck and went home. It was directly over our house and I could see the clouds going in a swirling motion. I'm praying and yelling at the person in front of me to hurry up at the same time.
So it passed over us and headed north to Bald Knob, from what we heard a tornado landed from that wall cloud in that town. 10 miles from us, pretty scary. That is the closest we have come to a tornado around our house. I've thanked God over and over for keeping us safe.
How about those Pens beating the Flyers 4 - 2. Three wins away from the Stanley Cup Finals. They are tearing it up right now.

2008 Harding Academy Senior Mission Trip To Africa Video

I have put a link to a video of the Harding Academy's mission trip to Africa. Hopefully it works, it's my first time to ever link anything. Just click on the green arrow beside the title in the box.

I had always said I would never go on a mission trip over seas because of selfish reasons. I don't want to fly over the ocean. I'm Scared! But if they would give me something to knock me out on the plane I would go. Kind of like they did to Mr. T on the A-team they would give him something to put him to sleep every time they would fly.

Anyhow, after watching this video I decided it might be worth it. If the plane went down at least I was on my way to do something good. Lol! Watch it all the way through, the ending is the best part. May God bless the work of all our missionaries.

Brayden has Glasses & Prayers For A St. Judes Child

Well Brayden got his glasses today and now he is officially headed down the path of Singer/Massey eyesight. He looks cute in them and now Macy wants glasses. Wouldn't you know it when one child gets something the other has to have it too. I told her hopefully she won't need them. She would break them the first day she had them. Lol!
I know since the passing of Ethan Powell I was going to place a St. Jude child on my blog for everybody to pray for. So here is the first child. His name is Andon Zehring, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor back in 2006. The tumor started to grow again in July of 2007. He has had numerous surgeries and is now on experimental drugs and taking Chemo. They on their way to Hilton Head, NC. So pray that their little child will be healed of this tumor and that their vacation will be successful and no sickness for little Andon while on their trip.

A Blah Monday!

Did you ever have a Blah day? I had one today. I worked around a bunch of grumpy people today at Lowe's. Everybody was in a foul mood, and their was no breaking them out of it. So it put me right there with them. I had things that had to be done and customers just kept bugging me with questions and things needed to be loaded and there wasn't any loader there today. So it fell upon me and another person in the garden department. That's when I thought to myself this is the exact reason I went into the insurance business. I don't work well anymore with other employees or managers. But I came home and left it there at Lowe's where it all began, at least I thought I left it there. I was still grumpy tonight when I got home and just couldn't kick the blah away. I came home and ate some dinner and the grumpiness went away finally and then I was so exhausted I just put everything in a careless mood.

I watched the news and they kept talking about the economy and the high gas prices and the possibility of more severe weather. I just said whatever I don't care right now, let the gas go to $12 a gallon, I'll just walk to work. The bills were way out of my mind, let them pay themselves.

The kids were pretty good but Macy was in her 10 thousand question mood and had to tell me who got in trouble at school today. Brayden wanted me to read his cartoons he drew today and Cayden wanted all my attention and wanted to watch Mickey Mouse clubhouse on the computer.

I just needed about 20 minutes of quiet and time to get out of my Monday mood swing.

I was still in that mood until about 30 minutes ago. I opened my Aflac email and read about an agent who was killed in a car wreck the other night after leaving an enrollment. He left behind three kids and a wife. WOW! Then I watched the news and they had interviewed an older gentlemen who lost everything in the tornadoes and he was crying for help from God. How sad for these folks and their families. My mood changed quick not because I'm glad it wasn't me, but because it was a moment that God will work for those individuals. He will comfort the family of the Aflac agent right now. He rebuild that gentleman's life and house through many loving neighbors and Christian people who have put their lives on hold to help those in distress. Right now he is working for us all. He's not a God who puts us on wait, things are rolling, plans have been in the works way before the the accident happened. Way before the tornadoes hit he had angels acting on behalf of the victims. And he gave me and everybody else who was in a bad mood time to see His blessings to get out of our bad moods and see that tomorrow will be better for us all. With God the wheels are always turning way before things happen. He has an answer because he is the answer. Be thankful for our Father in Heaven who is a Right now God. He's always up to date on things.

God Could Not Have Given A More Perfect Day!

What a perfect day God created for us here in Arkansas. 75 degrees no wind plenty of sun, just perfect to be out in His creation.
So I took the garbage out tonight and it was still perfect out. The stars were shining and the moon was out gleaming in the sun. So I just took about five minutes and glared into the sky and just wandered in the stars. It's amazing how little I pay attention to the stars but when you do it makes you wonder how amazing the universe is and how deep it goes. I stand in awe of our our Creator!
The pictures I posted are of Camp Takodah. Brayden had his outdoor education there last Thursday and I just love to go there and glare at the scenery. I forget I'm in Arkansas when I am there. It to me is probably the most beautiful place in the state. The river is so peaceful there, flowing so freely and the banks of the river are as green and scenic as you can get. Again who says you can't find God in nature.

WOO-HOO Go Penguins!

How about those Pittsburgh Penguins! 4 more victories and they are headed to the Stanley Cup Finals! We Penguin fans have waited a long time for another cup, and this team is loaded with young talent! Go Pens!

Burn Baby Burn! A Story From Hell!

If you have watched the news lately you've heard this story. If you ever wondered what the Devil looked like this guy is very close.

Josef Fritzl from Austria, kept his three kids in a dark cellar for 30 years. Never once exposing them to any sunlight, handcuffed the one daughter and raped her and is known to have had 7 kids with her. The 7 th child he burned in the oven, so he says.

Now the children are in shock from being let out of the windowless dungeon. The daughter is now 42 years old and has been sexually abused since she was 11 years old. The other two children just grunt to talk and their pigment in their skin is totally messed up.

What do you do with someone so perverted and sick? I say put him in the same dungeon he put his children in and let him rot.

We see things like this only through the eyes of the news. We don't really know what other people are up to. But God does he sees it all, every second, minute and hour. Can you even imagine what he sees every day? I don't want to see it, none of it, but yet we saw this. It gives you an idea of God's mercy for us all, even in this story of horror he still loves this man know matter what. Now that is love!!!!!!!!

Arkansas Tornadoes Today, 7 People Killed

Well we here in Arkansas were dodging storms and tornadoes most of the day. I didn't know anything was coming, they had said some rain and possible storms would be coming our way but not this. Searcy dodged the tornadoes again, but they were surrounding us pretty good. If we had decided to go about 50 miles north to Batesville we would have definitely seen a tornado and some massive devastation.

5 tornadoes have been reported so far and the lives of 7 people were taken from the result of this weather pattern. They have said this is the worst breakout of severe weather yet in Arkansas history.

Say a prayer for those who have lost lives and homes in these storms in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

The Mystery is Over, Maybe?

Well, sometimes you speak sooner than you should. I wrote about the house across the street yesterday and was saying we had no idea what was going on with it and why it was for sale. I found out today what has happened and I feel bad about it. But from what I heard isthat the husband had died in the middle of all of this going on. So we just don't know what is true about the situation. It's funny as I was writing this the phone rang and it was a neighbor calling to verify this. I told her not to state anything until it was confirmed.

I think this is quite a strange thing, because everybody is wondering about this house. I mean if I didn't live right across the street I would probably be asking questions too. I mean it doesn't take two years to build a house and it still be lacking the inside to be finished. It's weird!

Well, the Penguins didn't play their "A" game tonight. I think they just want to finish off the Rangers in Pittsburgh on Sunday.

I think I'm just going to call the realtor tomorrow who is selling the house and find out the real story, no sense in getting a rumor started and be wrong. But I didn't start it, I was relying on a source who told me. Rumors who needs them.