Finally Some Pictures!

Montessori at DailyLearners.com Here are my beautiful children having fun! Whitney builds a little house, Cole found a horned toad and Brett picked it up! Land pictures of the kids...

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Wal-Mart, Big Chain Stores, Making Americans Lazy!

I recently responded to an article on MSN about how opening Wal-Mart stores seems like a good a idea for the short term, but not the long. After I read the article I made a post below titled:


Making Americans Lazy



Big box stores like Wal-Mart have turned our value as gifted human beings to low quality. Everyone has a gift something to give to our country and world, and it's not to work for pennies at a Big Box Store! These big corporations have made Americans lazy, and by that I mean, many will not become educated and seek out the gifting they really do have by opening their own business or by contributing their passions to the world. People count on these low prices so they don't have to work so hard. This doesn't push people to success to become all they were meant to become, it only helps the top billionaires. It keeps Americans dependent on them! Don't let them fool you, bring American back to how it use to be. Become skilled at something you are passionate about and even if you don't become a huge success, you will at least be free supporting smaller business owners and all of our own freedoms. Wal-mart wants to support this health care reform because it's another way for all of us to be dependent on them and government. Don't let them push you to become stupid dependant slaves, we are not cheap, we cannot be bought with your cheap dollars! It's time to stop thinking like we need them because everyone is struggling. We can use goodwill stores recyclable products and get help from each other if we really need to. We will be OK, we will survive without them, actually we will thrive more as a country and people.


Well that was what I posted...I am also against this healthcare reform that President Obama wants to put into play. I don't want a socialized country, do you?

Well have a great day!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

The Truth About How to Have a Godly Marriage!

I said I would share more about my marriage "role" beliefs earlier, so here below is my journey.

When I first got married I believed my husband was the "head" of the home to protect us and provide for us. I would hear from many Christian married women that wives are supposed to submit to their husbands and that the married man lays his life down and loves her like Christ loves us all. Well that sounded great, until it seemed I got a hold of some marriage books that said to obey my husband and even others I knew would say things like this and other similar comments, "He/my husband can't lead if you don't follow." And other comments where spoken to me like, "Oh he( meaning my husband) will be ultimately held responsible." And that was a response from someone, when I asked my husband if he could get the kids jackets out of the car when it was snowing cold out before we all got in...he stood their and really didn't feel they needed it, and as we went back and forth, the by stander said, "Oh that he would be held ultimately responsible."

That is like saying I should just let go of all my motherly GOD GIVEN responsibilities and follow this just ONE HUMAN MAN MY HUSBAND! Oh, that makes me so mad! Don't let anyone tell you to back off as a mom from protecting your children, EVER! God doesn't see us women as MORE GODLY if we always leave this "ultimate decision" in the hands of our husbands. If fact it is quite foolish. We are created to be helpers to our husbands, which means an ezer in Hebrew to help hold our man accountable too! We aren't created to just serve and help only our husbands MISSION and DREAMS in life.

In fact, if you don't speak up and hold your husband accountable to ungodly things and think you are always to just be quiet then that is the more foolish thing to do! My husband had a very hard time that I had a "voice" in our marriage as it grew over the years, and even a voice to say, "No, I don't want to do that, or no I don't want the kids to watch that."

Wow this can get long, I have had so much bottled up about this issue and it's time to let it out, and I hope I can help other Christian women realize you are not crazy if you desire a mutual respect, want to be best friends, and work as "CO-HEIRS" in Christ with your husband! God has been revealing this truth to many Christian couples that most Christians are taught backwards to how a marriage should work. Most say that the women is to just submit and never say "NO" to sex and do it even when their husbands have been jerks to them! And then your husband can lay down his life down for you. Well, the truth is that the husband is the "head" but not in the way we have all been taught. The part of the husband being the "head" means SOURCE, he is the source of life, he is suppose to bring life to his wife and children not dictatorship! Being the "head" doesn't mean he has authority over you! He is the one that is suppose to lay down his life, get this..."FIRST" he is the MAN and women are responders! What women would not want to love on her GODLY MAN if he truly laid down his life for her! Yes at times we as wives can give lay down what we want and yield (submit) too, this is a good thing, but it has been so overrated, actually called OPPRESSION for women.

I have been and seen many couples in these unhealthy Christian marriages, actually most have been in this old upside down way and it can range from severe obedience on the wife's part to more laid back, like, "Oh we always try to be in agreement on things and for the most part we really never run into that problem where "he" the husband has to "use" his authority, but if it comes down to it, he will make the ultimate decision! Nice try, some like to show that they are really loving to their wives and to make them feel like they are equal in the decisions by saying that. But I don't buy it and either does God. We know as women when we are truly valued.

Of course people will disagree with me on my beliefs and that is fine by me. I am just so happy I now know that I don't have to live in that lie anymore and can now truly grow closer and become best friends with my husband. And I am happy to say my husband agrees that this is the right way to view the marriage. We both have read the following books and I can say I agree with 90% of what it talks about. So I will recommend you read them and past them to everyone you know that is living the other way. And you may wonder, well what does it hurt if the couple both agree on the upside down way and don't mind it? Well I say still give it to the couple and pray for them to see the truth after all we are all trying to represent Christ and our loving God to the world. And I don't want the world to see Christianity as a women only submit first, and that the husbands are the final authority, because God should be the ultimate authority in the marriage.

READ BOOK 1 FIRST:


READ THIS NEXT BOOK 2


My husband and I have been married for almost this August 12 years, and even though I have known and believed in a more mutual submission and respect, we are just this year making some head way! HA, no pun intended! But really my husband is becoming more of the man of my dreams as I hear him admitting he has been at fault for the problems we have had in the past, seeing him becoming more humble, seeing him creating a safer environment to hear how I feel about life, and I love that he wants to be my best friend and I don't feel as though he is against me and having to not share "certain things" with his wife! We still have a long way to go, but we are on our way to an outrageously happy marriage! I can't wait to really feel I am in one of those! Thanks for reading again! And I pray for whoever read this that God would reveal His truth to you and your spouse or older adult children, friends etc.. what he really intended a marriage relationship to be...and that is OUTRAGEOUSLY HAPPY!





May God Bless Our Marriages!

Danielle

P.S. Here are the lyrics to the first two songs on my playlist!

Bryan Adams - Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman Lyrics

To really love a woman
to understand her
you�ve got to know what deep inside
hear every thought see every dream
and give her wings when she wants to fly
and when you find yourself lying helpless in her arms
You know you really love a woman

When you love a woman
you tell her that she�s really woman
When you love a woman
you tell her that she�s the one
She needs somebody
to tell her that it�s gonna last forever
So tell me have you ever really
really, reallly
ever loved a woman?

To really love a woman
to let her hold you
till you know how she needs to be touched
you�ve gotta breath her
and really taste her
until you can feel her in your blood
when you can see your unborn children in her eyes
You know you really love a woman

When you love a woman
you tell her that she�s really woman
When you love a woman
you tell that she�s the one
She needs somebody
to tell her that you�ll always be together
so tell me have you�ve ever really,
really, really ever loved a woman?

You�ve got to give her some faith
hold her tight
a little tenderness
you�ve gotta treat her right
she will be there foryou
taking good care of you
(you�ve really gotta love your woman) (yeah)
and when you find yourself lying helpless in her arms
you know you really love a woman

When you love a woman
you tell her that she�s really woman
When you love a woman
you tell her that she�s the one
She needs somebody
to tell her that it�s gonna last forever
So tell me have you ever, really
really, really, ever loved a woman?
Just tell me have you ever really,
really, really, ever loved a woman?
Just tell me have you ever really,
really, really, ever loved a woman?



Bryan Adams - Never Let Go Lyrics

Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live?
Can you take what you need, but take less than you give?
Could you close every day, without the glory and fame?
Could you hold your head high, when no one knows your name?
That's how legends are made, at least that's what they say.

We say goodbye, but never let go.
We live, we die, cause you can't save every soul.
Gotta take every chance to, show that you're the kinda man who;
Will never look back, never look down,
and never let go.

Can you lose everything, you ever had planned?
Can you sit down again, and play another hand?
Could you risk everything, for the chance of being alone?
Under pressure find the grace, or would you come undone?
That's how legends are made, at least that's what they say?

We say goodbye, but never let go.
We live, we die, cause you can't save every soul.
Gotta take every chance to, show that you're the kinda man who;
Will never look back, never look down,
and never let go.

Never let go, Never let go, Never let go

Gotta take every chance to, show that you're the kinda man who;
Will never look back, never look down,
and never let go.

We say goodbye, but never let go.
We live, we die, 'but you can't save every soul.
Gotta take every chance to, show that you're the kinda man who;
Will never look back, never look down,
and never let go.

Will never look back, never look down,
and never let go.

Never let go, Never let go, Never let go

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Attachment Parenting..Oh sooo beautiful :)

Oh how beautiful is a parent practicing attachment parenting. Oh how beautiful, content, and happy the child seem. A glow on their mom's and dad's face, a peace and love you feel around a family like this. I have seen a few families practice attachment parenting and that is when I learned from them that their was another name/label for the type of parent I was already becoming. And that name was, attachment parenting.

When I had my first child, Whitney I loved to breastfeed her, and hold her, and pick her up when she cried. I never listened to those parenting books that said you should let the child cry themselves to sleep or have a schedule breastfeeding time. I would pick her up cuddle her and nurse her on demand! She grew to be a happy and content baby. I did at first do the crib thing, but wanted it right next to my bed or a little away from it. Then one night I remember letting her fall asleep with me and it felt so right.

My second child came my first son, Cole. I remember when I was in the hospital and it was a few hours after I had him that a nurse saw I was trying to nurse Cole. I was gently stroking his head and tyring to get him to breastfeed, when the nurse came up to me and said, Oh honey you need to do this, and she started to rub his head pretty rough and shoved his face closer to my breast. I just took it for that minute and she left. But after she left I knew again to follow my mother's heart and continued to be gentle with my son. I did understand what the nurse's point was, she wanted me to wake my son more so he would nurse, and that is fine but you can do it more gently I thought. My point now is that I am so glad most of the time as I became a mommy again and again I just kept following my heart and being the mom God wanted me to become, and it went against the "norm" that's for sure. When I found out their was a label for the type of parent I was, I of course started reading books about pro-breastfeeding, attachment parenting, co-sleeping, baby carrying, positive discipline, relaxed learning/unschooling, home birth, natural preventative health. And the list may go on! I found out many other parents were raising their children like me as well and was very encouraged.

I am by far a perfect mom, I have had my issues with yelling, believing in spanking punitive punishment, only knew to believe in western medicine...and the list could go on again. It's interesting even though I was starting to practice attachment parenting and came to learn even more great things from reading more about it, the one thing I didn't hear of yet was positive discipline and because of my Christian religion I bought a parenting book that was a punitive method and taught about spankings and to do it in love. And as I started to live that out with my first child things did get more distant and I did not like it nor did I think it was a very natural or rational thing to do! It took me until my third child, my son Brett was a baby when I found Christians called the Gentle Christian Mommy's and they practiced positive discipline/grace based discipline. I was annoyed at first that I just believed what I was indoctrinated with as a child and never studied or looked up in depth the scriptures passages for myself. But there I was reading and learning what the true meanings of what discipline really meant AND how God/Jesus felt about being kind and loving to children. This also happened with me about what I believed my "role" as a wife was. I fell into the same trap of childhood indoctrination and believing what everyone else told me instead of studying myself, so I did start to study what a wife's role is and now I am at a much healthier place and so is my husband I might add to what we believe the marriage relationship should look like. But that's another story that I will share later... for now let's focus on my attachment parenting.

So I just wanted others to know that understanding attachment parenting is a beautiful gift you can give to yourself, children, and family all around. I now have six children and hope to have more some day. I started co-sleeping more with my second and realizing I wasn't wrong or so weird, since I naturally started to with my first but knew it really wasn't in our American culture, so what was wrong with me I would think, I felt so different. Everyone else were getting cribs and convertible cribs, bumper pads, pacifiers. I was co-sleeping, breastfeeding on demand using no pacifiers and letting my children self-wean themselves when they were ready. I started to carry my babies more with the sling or the baby carrier I had. This just all felt so natural for me to do.

And now well the ages of my children are 11, 8 1/2, 6, 3 1/2, 2, 2 (twins). And I breastfeed my 3 year old still she loves to nurse. And I nurse my 2 year old twins and co-sleep with them mainly. The rest of our children will still co-sleep with us off and on. The other night my 6 year old slept and the bottom of my king mattress which is on the floor (easy for me and the twins to get on and off). It's funny how at the end of one end of our house we have four bedrooms, and how at times all of us a family of eight will be sleeping in only two of them or even one if daddy is away on business.

I am blessed to still stay home with my children after all these years. And even when we don't always have lots financially, still being with them far outweighs the money aspect of having to put them in a daycare, why have children if you aren't going to raise them yourselves? Do you want others to be the main influence on your child's life and instill their values or do you want your children to value your own? Well I am just saying I could not imagine not raising my children in this way. Being a mommy is the best gift ever, I just love my children and I just love all children they are such blessings! You know that feeling of how cute they just are? The feeling like you can't take it because they are so cute and innocent. My 6 year old the other day told his older sister as they were outside playing and trying to caught ladybugs..."Look Whitney, that lady bug is taking a ride on another one!" Oh how fumny I just started busting up laughing! Oh I need to write what funny things they say down more often!

I am posting a book I heard is a great read for attachment parents or for those wanting to learn more, it's posted below. I have not read it yet but I am excited to. Blessings and have a Happy breastfeeding, co-sleeping day and night!



Tuesday, June 30, 2009

My Learning Philosophies...

Hello all!
What is my philosophy on education? Well, I have studied different teaching philosophies. I do like a few IF I really were to home school my children with more of a structured program and schedule here is what I would choose: Charlotte Mason and Raymond Moore (Better Late Than Early) methods.

But since I am more of an relaxed "homeschooler"/ unschooler, I still use Charlotte Mason's and Raymond Moore's Methods but in a relaxed way and with a twist. For example, the Charlotte Mason way would teach reading using whole language, which I don't use when my children are ready to learn to read. We use the Spalding Method/Vertical Phonics, the Orton Gillingham, and the Ayers spelling list. This is a method that teaches children how to spell first while learning how to write the letters in manuscript or cursive, it also teaches on spelling rules. So while they are learning how to spell the child is learning how to READ their words, and write them as they are dictated to them. I like the Phonics Solutions CD-ROM for learning in this way, it's the best and most simple to use with this method. I am comfortable with this because I have used two other programs based on this method that was teacher intensive when we were trying to do homeschool(do school at home); and they are Spelling to Write and Read by Wanda Sansari and The Phonics Road by Barbara Beers. They both taught me a lot and I have taken what I have learned and applied the spelling song tunes from the phonics road to sing with the kids, underlining the phonograms when they do copywork out of a classic. So I don't use those programs anymore, and one could get by with just the Phonics Solutions on the CD-Rom and save lots of money too!

Anyway, back to my learning philosophy. Like I said above I am a relaxed homeschooler/unschooler, and a Christian one too! I say that because some think you really can't unschool if you are a Christian. Hey all I know is that everyone has their own definitions of what things mean, and to me I am learning to be more relaxed or learning to accept that is the best way to learn at home. I am trying to accept that I really don't "homeschool," I and my children don't do well with the "school at home" style. So it made me rethink what am I if I don't really homeschool my children?

Well there are a few names for families that choose not to be so formal and more relaxed with learning from home. Some of the names are relaxed homeschooler, unschooler, natural learning, and Christian unschooler. So I have realized I fit into any of those labels pretty well. To me the difference between a unschooler and Christian unschooler, is that Christian unschoolers are allowing more freedom for their children to follow their interest and not to be pushy on them compared to just homeschoolers, BUT compared to just unschoolers they don't have complete freedom still as even some unschoolers would say. And that is true with some Christian unschoolers, we have let go way way more, BUT again we unschool in the freedom of Christ. And that means we really aren't always so free to just serve, watch, or do just anything we want because we serve our Lord Jesus Christ and are under His freedom and not the world's freedom. I hope I am explaining that right.

If I didn't believe in God or was not a Christian I would be an unschooler allowing all this freedom to my children. But since I am a Christian I try to have a more relaxed, natural, unschooled, way of learning for my children and that includes positive discipline. Which yes includes limited choices for my children at times. For example, they for the most part can choose when they want to do the "Daily Learning List" during the day as long as it's done before bed. But sometimes their choices are more limited right down to for example, "You can take your cod liver oil now or in five minutes." And I know lots of unschoolers would think that is not truly giving your children the freedom they need. I still think I am giving them the freedom they need in Christ though, and I so far feel good about not letting them choose to stay up whenever they want or eat whatever they want.

I think Christians can use the learning philosophy from unschooling, and some are radical unschoolers and still Christians. But I am not there yet and don't think I ever will be. I just can't see for now how it fits to protect them as a Godly parent. But with all that said, I highly believe that just homeschooling (doing school at home) will burn a lot of moms out and kids and that their is a better way to learn than the traditional model. I would say being more relaxed to trust your children's interest is fun and so relieving and gives them a little power to love learning instead of always being told what to learn, how to learn, and when to learn.

Another thing I think is really the most important is using Positive Discipline in the home whether you homeschool or are more relaxed because this is a loving way to teach children to become self-disciplined in a kind and firm way. I really love what I am learning about positive discipline, and I am so not into the punitive/punishing methods. I use to think it was the Godly thing to do, but God has lead me to the truth about what discipline really means and it's not punishment, it means to disciple, to teach. More on this later....

So I should finish up on our learning philosophy...it looks a little like this...First just know we don't start or stop "school", we don't test or do grades, we are learning all year long in a relaxed natural way. I think we have been living this relaxed way since I began homeschooling, but still not really living it out to it's fullest. The reason we haven't lived this more relaxed way out to the fullest is because all I knew of was the traditional model of education and kept trying to fit us into that at home over and over again, even if we would go days as unschoolers learning in informal ways I would feel guilty. I would tell the kids we need to "do school" today and keep at it because we don't want to get behind. But in fact I am learning that you really don't need to compare your children to every other child. If they are learning at home they really are never behind or ahead of themselves. It has been said by the author of Raymond Moore that children can start an education at 13 years of age and finish high school in two to three years! I have seen this in action! When my 8 year old son was ready to learn to write in his time table he went must faster than when I use to demand he sit and learn it starting at 6 years old!

It feels good to realize that the kids and I don't have to feel guilty or bad about answering peoples questions about "doing school." Since we don't do school we can just tell stories of what we are interested in, what we like to do etc..learning happens everyday. And just because it's summer doesn't mean we are on "summer break," because we are learning all the time. Sometimes, yes it may look like some "school" is happening but basically it looks more like just sitting down with mom reading or doing a math lesson and asking for help when needed, or playing games together. The only curriculum we use so far is Math U See for math and The Phonics Solutions CD-ROM for penmanship, spelling, and reading; and which I might add these are programs the kids like and are simply a reinforcement so they can do other things of interest when they have a deeper knowledge on math or phonics.

Other learning resources we use are from living books, classic books they copy and read, and using the library. So we aren't against curriculum, I love it and love researching the best way to learn a subject but for the most part, unless the kids are interested in a certain history or science curriculum I am not on a hunt for curriculum anymore. If I think a certain curriculum will help reinforce something that they need I will buy it.

For example, my sons want to learn all about money and where it came from etc.. and my daughter wants to learn about why it thunders and what makes lighting, so I mentioned to them if they would like to get some books at the library about it and do a lapbook or notebook about it, and they were all excited! I was so excited myself, because when a mom can finally realize to follow her children's interests, you won't have to be up late creating what science or history curriculum YOU want to do or what the school system says kids should do at a certain age, then come to find out the kids can't stand it! What a waist of our time, and I don't even have their attention because it's not a subject of interest!

It's kind of like making a meal that YOU think they will love and you plan the menu out, go grocery shopping, create the dish, and you hear YUCK from your kids! So then I go back to the basics and try to remember what healthy and simple things they like so it's not a waste of time! So why can't we try to do this with their education? Why try to shove math drills in their face and make them sit there at 9am everyday when they could choose to do it and be encouraged later when they aren't so antsy. Let them go run around outside for awhile, or maybe they want to read a story first instead! It's just respectful to children, our homes our not institutions! Learning should just flow inside and outside of our homes!

I love it when I realized this, what a relief! Again don't shove peas or some nasty veggie down their throats if they really can't take it, make them a yummy smoothie with some green superfood powder instead and they'll get their greens! I know some things need to be done down to the fine line of very limited choices, especially when it comes to safety physically, or even emotionally with certain movies or video games. But don't sweat the smaller things I tell myself, use the very limited choices when it comes to bigger issues of health or safety whether physically, emotionally, or mentally.

I am there for the children to get them interested in things, to motivate, to let them see me learning, to be their to answer and research their interests, to encourage them to do the relaxed daily learning list that they know at any time they can ask mom for help with, they also have another list of ideas of fun and learning that is not required. I will print below what our relaxed daily list looks like and our other ideas list.

Here is our daily learning list, that I give the kids all day to complete.

Eat some superfoods, raw foods, and cod liver oil...
Pray during the day alone and ask mom, or your brothers and sisters if they want to pray with you.
Phonics Solutions CD-ROM on Computer (This is a great program to learn your phonograms, spellings, and spelling rules, and you will learn to read!)
Read to mom or mom will read to you. (Narrate the story to mom, this just means to tell me about what we read in your own words, and I will write it down or you can and put it in your notebook.)
Work on your Math U See lessons!
Copywork (Choose a Classic book of the shelf and copy a couple sentences or more onto paper and underline the phonograms. Put in your notebook to save it.) For little ones mom helps them practice cursive first or manuscript.
Mom will read with you your devotion
Come to mom sometime during the day with a piece of paper and pencil, and I will dictate a word, sentence, or little paragraph for you to write down and save in your notebooks.
Do your chores and bedroom as we all have decided on as a team.

And here is the other list the kids can look to for ideas, but is not required.

MECS computer program, science, math, geography,
Puzzles, floor puzzles
Art books, coloring, drawing, painting
typing programs on computer
sing and dance
play outside
play inside
play games with each other and mom, math card games, kitchen table math,
cook with mom
make raw foods with mom
library
research on the computer with mom a certain thing you are interested in.
read stories or have mom read them to you!
read stories to your brothers or sisters
ask mom any questions you are interested in...
and have fun, you are learning everyday!


Well this is just the beginning of accepting and realizing that we are relaxed homeschool unschooly people and now I am excited to live this out to it's fullest potential, instead of feeling so burned that we always have to be doing "school." We just need to LIVE and LOVE LIFE TOGETHER in a relaxed, natural, and positive discipline way!

Saturday, June 20, 2009

More Spiritual Revelations...

Hi all!

I study a lot of different topics and one I study a lot is about my beliefs in God, and religion. I have been studying Judisam just because I thought the roots of Christianity came from it. Well what I found out is interesting. Christianiy came from Judisam yes and no.

The Hebrews/Jewish people definetly were given the responsiblity to carry on the belief in the one true God of Abraham. God gave them this special task and the other 10 tribes or so were despersed throughout the world now known as the Gentiles and which I believe many are Christians. So even though the orginal hebrew scriptures were passed down through the Jewish people, the Jews also added on many tradtions within Judisam. For example, the night before the Sabbath the women of the house will light two candles and say a prayer at sunset. In the beginning God set apart the 7th day to rest but it didn't have to do with certain times when to start or to light candles. I am not saying if you want your sabbath table to look pretty it's wrong to light candles.

So as I have been studying and learning the Shema prayer and learning it in hebrew, Hear O Israel the Lord Our God the Lord is One. And have been thinking me and the kids should learn hebrew and the prayers of the Jewish people after all it's the roots of our faith right? Well not really I come to find. Singing scripture, or praying it isn't wrong either, but I come to find that being a Messianic really can find someone coming into the trappings of the religion of Judisam. I was starting to feel like the more jewish things I learn the better and closer to God's truth we become.

Then I realized and found that many other Christians and a few denominations also celebrate our Messiah Jesus through the Holy Days, and the Saturday Sabbath as well. I talked with a pastor from such a church for awhile on the phone and asked some of their differences compared to a Messianic place. It's was a very enlightening conversation. I was very excited to find a Christian place that didn't empasize Judisam not that they were anti-jewish but that their were people out there in the world reconizing what I have been feeling. I first must say that learning hebrew, learning the jewish prayers and songs are still pretty special because it's all based in the hebrew scriptures (Old Testament). But it isn't necessary to live that way.

To me it was overwhelming and I realized that the new covenant is much simpler much more freeing, living with grace. Not that grace takes away the law of the precious Holy Days, or real true Sabbath day. Jesus came not to abolish the law but He came to fulfill it. So we can celebrate in His grace. Praise God He didn't just end with the Old Testament! I realized as well in my studies that the groups that call themselves Messianics are a mixture of Christianity and Judisam. Messianic congegrations are still a form of Chrisitanity. I value the Jewish people but I don't want to get trapped in the old religion that the jews added on. I want to stick to the original days God told us to celebrate and which Jesus himself celebrated. I also went to a website called wwwjewsforjudisam.com and found it interesting that they are warning other jews of the Messianic places that will try to teach them about Yashua (Jesus) and convert them. They were saying how jews that believed in Christ use to call themselves Hebrew Christians. And that even they can go by the name Messianic Jews since they are still awaiting for the Messiah to come for the first time. I found that very interesting as well since I have been saying I am Messianic now or Messianic Isralite. Christians that accept Christ are engrafted in to the Jewish family, we are spiritual jews. I wish more Christian churches would turn form the roman pagan ways of celebrating our Lord and really see how God set apart the Holy Days to see the plan of salvation of Christ in them. Yes we would resemble the jewish people but we would still be set apart because we have accepted Jesus and are waiting for His second coming. Ok sorry if I have just been writing in circles, what is my point?

Well that you don't have to be a Messianic to be celebrating the Holy days, many Christians are doing this and have been for centuries.

Messianic congegrations are still a from of Christianity but mixed with Judisam, some more so than others I realize.

Wishing more Christians would read and learn and celebrate our Messiah through the Holy Days.

And realizing that my spiritual identity although yes we are engrafted as a Messianic isralite and spiritual jew, but overall I am a Christian! I believe and follow Jesus or some say in hebrew Yahshua and believe He is the one true God! We only have one true God to serve.

So I am excited to share once again were I have been led to spiritually. So I will be worshipping my Lord everyday and on those special Holy Days whether at home, or in a Messiainic congegration or even a Christian one that celebrates the Holy Days. And maybe I will be led all the way back to were I was at the beginning of being a Christian, I don't know. But I will continue to seek God's truth and even though it might change a little, He knows my heart and I love Him. So I will receive any new spiritual revelations that God brings my way and just want to stay open to His Holy Spirit. Amen!

Friday, April 10, 2009

Happy Passover and Feast of First Fruits!

Jesus-The Passover Lamb Pictures, Images and Photos

Happy Passover/Unleavened Bread
And

Resurrection Pictures, Images and Photos

Happy Feast of First Fruits the Ressurection
of our Messiah Yahushua!
Yahushua is our Passover Lamb!
And Yahushua is our First Fruits!
Our Messiah has fullfilled Passover!
I am so excited to celebrate the death, burial, and ressurection of our Elohim Yahuah!
Passover Pictures, Images and Photos
May Elohim Bless all of you and bring you joy during His Holy Days!!!

Monday, March 23, 2009

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