Jesus on the Beach ... Thx Tom Q!

  Jesus on the Beach  

 

This is Awesome! There are 3 pictures and then a message. Be sure to page down all the way. 

 

Jesus on the Beach Pictures below are from a beach in Maryland. Isn't the artwork awesome?  Be sure to open up your screen all the way. The man creates new ones each day, as the ocean washes away his work every day.  

 

This is Chuck Ritchey, Sr.  I have watched this man work on the beach at Ocean City, MD.  Each time I watch him I marvel at his talent and 

fortitude because it is true that his works get washed away with the tide and he does them again.  He is certainly a witness for Jesus Christ as thousands of people, in the course of a day, view his work and watch as he crafts his treasures. 

 

May his message be viewed by many.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Laura Hollis ... University of Notre Dame ... Thx Paul C!

Subject: Professor Laura Hollis.....NOTRE DAME
PROFESSOR OF LAW SAYS WE ARE NOT SUBJECTS   
  Well stated. My feelings
expressed by an esteemed Norte Dame law professor. One of
her basic messages is the we are "sheep being led to
slaughter.     NOTRE DAME PROFESSOR OF LAW SAYS
WE ARE NOT SUBJECTS    
 
WOW! A University of Notre Dame graduate, and after an
illustrious career at a couple of other Midwestern
universities, Laura Hollis returned to her alma mater to
teach entrepreneurship and business law. She also writes an
occasional column. This is one of her latest, about the
Affordable Care Act, which has gone viral via the Internet.
Her thoughts are challenging, regardless of one's
political persuasion.   
Laura Hollis is an attorney and teaches entrepreneurship and
business law at the University of Notre Dame . 

She resides in Indiana with her husband and two
children.  
WE ARE NOT SUBJECTS ... AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS ABOUT
OBAMACARE  The unveiling of the dictatorial
debacle that is Obamacare absolutely flabbergasts me. It is
stunning on so many levels, but the most shocking aspect of
it for me is watching millions of free Americans stand idly
by while this man, his minions in Congress and his
cheerleaders in the press systematically dismantle our
Constitution, steal our money, and crush our freedoms. 
 The President, Joe Biden, Nancy
Pelosi and Harry Reid (with no small help from Justice John
Roberts) take away our health care, and we allow it. They
take away our insurance, and we allow it. They take away our
doctors, and we allow it. They charge us thousands of
dollars more a year, and we allow it. They make legal
products illegal, and we allow it. They cripple our
businesses, and we allow it. They announce by fiat that we
must ignore our most deeply held beliefs - and we allow
it.   Where is your spine, America
?   
Yes, I know people are complaining. I read the news on the
internet. I read blogs. I have a Twitter feed. So what?
People in the Soviet Union complained. People in Cuba
complain. People in China complain (quietly). Complaining
isn't the same thing as doing anything about it. In
fact, much of the complaining that we hear sounds like
resignation: Wow. This sucks. Oh well, this is the way
things are. Too bad.  Perhaps you need reminding of a
few important facts. Here goes:  
 
1.. The President is not a king. Barack Obama does not
behave like a President, an elected official, someone who
realizes that he works for us. He behaves like a king, a
dictator - someone who believes that his own pronouncements
have the force of law, and who thinks he can dispense with
the law's enforcement when he deigns to do so. And those
of us who object? How dare we? Racists!  And while he moves steadily
"forward" with his plans to "fundamentally
transform" the greatest country in human history, he
distracts people with cheap, meaningless trivialities, like
"free birth control pills"! (In fact, let's
face it: this administration's odd obsession with sex in
general -- Birth control! Abortion! Sterilization! Gay guys
who play basketball! -- is just plain weird. Since when did
the leader of the free world care so much about how people
have sex, who they have it with, and what meds they use when
they have it? Does he have nothing more important to concern
himself with?)  
 
2.. It isn't just a failed software program; it is a
failed philosophy. People are marveling that  Healthcare.gov was such a
spectacular failure. Well, if one is only interested in it
as a product launch, I've explained some of the reasons
for that  here . But the larger point
is that it isn't a software failure, or even a product
failure; it is a philosophy failure.   I have said this before: Obama is
not a centrist; he is a central planner. And this - all of
it: the disastrous computer program, the hundreds of
millions of dollars wasted, the lies, the manipulation of
public opinion, the theft of the public's money and
property, and freedom (read insurance, and premiums, and
doctors) -- IS what central planning looks like. 
 The central premise of central
planning is that a handful of wunderkinds with your best
interests at heart (yeah, right) know better than you
what's good for you. The failure of such a premise and
the misery it causes have been clear from the dawn of
humanity. Kings and congressmen, dictators and Dear Leaders,
potentates, princes and presidents can all fall prey to the
same imperial impulses: "we know what is good for
'the people'." And they are always wrong. 
 There is a reason that the only
times communism has really been tried have been after wars,
revolutions, or coups d'état. You have to have complete
chaos for people to be willing to accept the garbage that
centralized planning produces. Take the Soviet Union , for
example. After two wars, famine, and the collapse of the
Romanov dynasty, why wouldn't people wait in line for
hours to buy size 10 shoes? Or settle for the gray matter
that passed for meat in the grocery stores? But
communism's watered-down cousin, socialism, isn't
much better. Ask the Venezuelans who cannot get toilet
paper. Toilet paper! ¡Viva la Revolución! 
 Contrary to what so many who
believe in a "living Constitution" say, the
Founding Fathers absolutely understood this. That is why the
Constitution was set up to limit government power. (Memo to
the President: the drafters of the Constitution deliberately
didn't say "what government had to do on your
behalf." They under this. That is why the Constitution
was set up to limit government power. (Memo to the
President: the drafters of the Constitution deliberately
didn't say "what government had to do on your
behalf." They understood that that was the path to
folly, fear, and famine.)  
 
3.. Obama is deceitful. Just as the collapse of the computer
program should not surprise anyone, neither should we be
shocked that the President lied about his healthcare plan.
Have any of you been paying attention over the past few
years? Obama has made no secret of his motivations or his
methods. The philosophies which inspire him espouse deceit
and other vicious tactics. (Don't take my word for it:
read Saul Alinsky.) Obama infamously  told reporter Richard
Wolffe , "You know, I actually believe my
own bullshit." He has refused to be forthcoming about
his past (where are his academic records?). His own pastor,
Rev. Jeremiah Wright,  told author Ed Klein , that
Obama said to him, "You know what your problem is?
You have to tell the truth." Did Obama lie when
he said dozens of times, "If you like your plan, you
can keep it. Period!"? Of course he did. That's
what he does.  
 
4.. The news media is responsible. Had the media been doing
their jobs, we would have known a lot of this much, much
earlier. The press is charged with the sacred responsibility
of protecting the people from the excesses of government.
Our press has been complicit, incompetent, or corrupt. Had
they vetted this man in 2008, as they would have another
candidate, we would have known far more about him than we
do, even now. Had they pressed for more details about
Obamacare, Congress' feet would have been held to the
fire. Had they done their jobs about Eric Holder, Fast and
Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, NSA spying -- or any of
the other myriad betrayals of the public trust that this
administration has committed, Obama would likely have lost
his 2012 reelection campaign. (A fact that even  The Washington Post 
has tacitly acknowledged. Well done, fellas!) 
 Instead, they turned a blind eye,
even when they knew he was lying, abusing power,
disregarding the limits of the Constitution. It was only
when he began to spy on them, and when the lies were so
blatant that the lowest of low-information voters could
figure it out, that they realized they had to report on it.
(Yet even in the face of blatant, deliberate and repeated
lies, The New York Times has the audacity to tell us that
the President " misspoke .") They have
betrayed us, abandoned us, and deceived us.  
 
5.. Ted Cruz was right. So was Sarah Palin. The computer
program is a disaster. The insurance exchanges are a
disaster. What's left? The healthcare system itself. And
this, of necessity, will be a  disaster , too. Millions of
people already have lost their individual insurance plans.
In 2015, millions more will lose their employer-provided
coverage (a fact which the Obama administration also knew,
and admitted elsewhere). The exorbitant additional costs
that Obamacare has foisted on unsuspecting Americans are all
part of a plan of wealth confiscation and redistribution.
That is bad enough. But it will not end there. When the
numbers of people finally enter into the system and the
corresponding demand for care vastly exceeds the cost
projections (and they will, make no mistake), then the
rationing will start. Not only choice at that point, but
quality and care itself will go down the tubes. And then
will come the decisions made by the Independent Payment
Advisory Board about what care will be covered (read
"paid for") and what will not.   That's just a death panel,
put politely. In fact, progressives are already greasing the
wheels for acceptance of that miserable reality as well.
They're spreading the lie that it will be about the
ability of the dying to refuse unwanted or unhelpful care.
Don't fall for that one, either. It will be about the
deaths that inevitably result from decisions made by people
other than the patients, their families, and their
physicians. (Perhaps it's helpful to think of their
assurances this way: "If you like your end-of-life
care, you can keep your end-of-life-care.")  
 
6.. We are not SUBJECTS. We have tolerated these incursions
into our lives and livelihoods too long already. There is no
end to the insatiable demand "progressives" have
to remake us in their image. Today it is our insurance, our
businesses, our doctors, our health care.. Tomorrow some new
crusade will be announced that enables them to take over
other aspects of our formerly free lives.  I will say it again:
WE ARE NOT
SUBJECTS. Not only is the Tea Party right
on the fiscal issues, but it appears that they are more
relevant than ever. We fought a war once to prove we did not
want to be the subjects of a king. The Boston Tea Party was
just a taste of the larger conflict to come. If some people
missed that lesson in history class, we can give them a
refresher.         

The Living Bible ... Thx Paul C!

The Living Bible

I hope this touches your heart and starts your day off right.  Be blessed.  Now this is the Living Bible.

 

His name is Tim.  He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes in it, jeans,  and no shoes.  This was literally his wardrobe for his entire four years of college.  He is brilliant.  Kind of profound and very, very bright.  He became a Christian while attending college.  Across the street from the campus is a well-dressed, very conservative church.

 

They want to develop a ministry to the students but are not sure how to go about it.  One day Tim decides to go there. He walks in with no shoes, jeans, his T-shirt, and wild hair. 

                                                                                   
The service has already started and so Tim starts down the aisle looking for a seat.  The church is completely packed and he can't find a seat.  By now, people are really looking a bit uncomfortable, but no one says anything.  Tim gets closer and closer and closer to the pulpit, and  when he realizes there are no seats, he just squats down right on the carpet right in front of everyone.  

                                                               
By now the people are really uptight, and the tension in the air is thick.  About this time, the minister realizes that from way at the back of the church, a deacon is slowly making his way toward Tim.                            
Now, the deacon is in his eighties, has silver-gray hair, and a three-piece suit.  A godly man, very elegant, very dignified, very courtly.  He walks with a cane and, as he starts walking toward this boy, everyone is saying to themselves that you can't blame him for what he's going to do.  How can you expect a man of his age and of his background to understand some college kid on the floor?                                                 

 

It takes a long time for the man to reach the boy.  The church is utterly silent except for the clicking of the man's cane.  All eyes are focused on him.  You can't even hear anyone breathing.  The minister can't even preach the sermon until the deacon does what he has to do.

And now they see this elderly man drop his cane on the floor.  With great difficulty, he lowers himself and sits down next to Tim and worships with him so he won't be alone.                                              

 

Everyone chokes up with emotion... When the minister gains control, he says, "What I'm about to preach, you will never remember.  What you have just seen, you will never forget."  
         
Be careful how you live.  You may be the only Bible some people will ever read!' 
 
I asked the Lord to bless you, 

As I prayed for you today. 

To guide you and protect you, 

As you go along your way.

His love is always with you, 

His promises are true, 

And when we give Him all our cares, 

You know He will see us through.

                                                    
Only if you feel led to, pass this to People you want God to Bless.
            I DID!