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There is neither any Rock like our God


Ezekiel 6:1-14

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols: and I will scatter your bones round about altars. In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. And the slain shall fall in the midst of your, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered throught the countries. And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe them selves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them. Thus saith the Lord God; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say alas for all the evil abominations of the houses of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. He that is far off shall die of pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate then the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.


A great many times, the phase comes up. and they will know that I am the LORD. Also all threw out the Old testament this phase comes up. The Jews know what he meant when that was said. That meant The One True God, all powerful, all knowing, is in charge. Not them. God isn't like any other gods or those we think up. Psalm 96: 4-8 tells us that gods are just Idols. that have eyes but see not, that have ears, but hear not, that are useless to everyone. God on the other hand, has no eyes, but sees all, has no ears but hears all, has no body and is everywhere, has no head but wears the Crown, has no legs but sits on a throne. Nobody is like our God. No other god has kept there people threw each struggle, who has righteously judged his people, kept his Word. neither has he removed them from the World, he's protecting them keeping them threw his power. And this passage I just wrote clearly tells us that he is just, he is holy, he is not going to tolerate sin. Also says there that he is going to keep a remnant of his people for the last day, when he will bring Jerusalem back together and set up his kingdom.

Well lets go to psalm 100:1-5

Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are this people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.


There's so much written there in such a little chapter about the LORD. Make a Joyful noise, Serve the Lord with gladness: We are to sing unto him, giving praise ever, as it says in 1 Thessalonians 5:16, Rejoice EVERMORE, pray WITHOUT ceasing, in EVERYTHING give thanks. and also note at the end of it, ALL ye lands everyone everywhere is called to praise him. Because he is Holy, He is Just, and as we will see later on his other works.

Then the Next point: Know ye that the LORD He IS GOD it is He that has made us and not we our selves; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Right there should tell us all Christians, that he deserves all honour, all praise, all glory. In Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. and also chapter 5:12-13b saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing. Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. So we see that God is worthy, and that HE is the LORD.


For the LORD is good; and his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations: that right there also states that he is and has and always will be in charge of the world, and everything that happens in it. His word stands and will always be true, to all generations. so we know that the same God that kept his people, and kept his nation, is still today with love and mercy watching over us



Here in these chapters is written each thing that the Jews knew to be true, and yet turned from him, what are you Christian, who has a better way and understanding then that of the Jews had, going to spend your life. will you also turn away, or go fully after him as the psalmist did, and love him with all your heart soul and mind.

All things were made good

All things were made good



Beautiful is the clouds and the moon that show
Beautiful is the stars and the sky that glow
Beautiful is the ground and the trees that grow
Beautiful is the water and the reflections that flow

Beautiful is the people and the feelings that know
Beautiful is the speach and the words that go
Beautiful is the feet and the walk below
Beautiful is the hands and the fields they hoe

Beautiful is everything, that God has made
Beautiful is His love that cannot fade
Beautiful is His Law that he hath laid
Beautiful is everything, that God has made

Something I will pray when I have a son

A Father's Prayer
by Douglas MacArthur



Build me a son, O lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Build me a son, whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know thee--and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.
Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.
Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men, one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.
And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength.
Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain."


Douglas prayed this each morning while he was over in the Philippines, fighting the Japanese.

To lazy right now to think of anything better to name it

Well today started rather rainy, but that doesn't stop hockey soooo.... still happy :D I got to cancel the bothersome asthma attack test thingy, one reason is the only point in having it is to find out the intensity of my asthma but I already know why and what it is and does so I don't care to waste an hour attached to a machine getting stuff put into me that just makes the same thing happen when I'm exercising. two I really don't like having to go really anywhere on a day I don't have work lol. Friends and such are different. At the moment I'm waiting for food, its 6 o clock and I'm pretty amazed its this late. either that or they forgot I am in the basement.


Well there was my 25 minute pause for eating. and they hadn't forgot about me, just happened to have all the food ready at 5:15 and had a phone call for was talking for about 40 minutes and then had to reheat it all. all in all it still tasted good.
The weather and sunset I always love to see

Hockey today was pretty sweet we had a lot of older people there and really good stacked up teams. probably one of my favorite hockey games. Along with that note Habs have won each game so far. woot!

2 poems I wrote

Questions

Who am I, O Lord
Will I learn it from your sword
Will I come to see your face
Or stay in sinners place

Who are the earthly ones
Who are your chosen Sons
Am I to stay with your sheep
Or live in this world's deep

What is this wondrous land
Made by thy own glorious hand
Am I to stay with you sure
Or live here and endure

I know of the blood and your name
It showed me that I'm lame
I will praise his wonderful hand
For He hath saved me for his land



Teach Me, O Lord


Teach me, O Lord
The way of thy Word
Give me understanding
And I will keep it till the ending
I shall keep thy law
In thy word what I saw

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies
And not unto this worlds covetousness
Turn away mine eyes from vanities
Quicken me in thy righteousness
"repeat after last verse"

I shall observe thee
Not this worlds vanity
Behold I have longed after
Thy precepts are even better
Turn away my reproach
You are to be mine coach

Original words from Psalm 119:33-40

I was thinking of another one but I lost the words of the thought while walking back from work.

Doctor Appointment

The Doctor said to me that I have physical asthma. asthma that only kicks in when doing something physical. So I'm going to be getting a puffer to take before anything exerting. and I also have to get a chest Xray, blood test, and a breathing test at the hospital. lol that sounds more serious to me then it is. anyway hopfully this will resolve the problem.

Words of the Preacher

Words of the Preacher
Wisdom

If we look into Ecclesiastes thru out the whole thing as well as Proverbs, we run into a lot on Wisdom, those here who don't want to be of the company of fools heed the words of the preacher, I just want to say this *will* bother some people. But remember in corinthians 6:9-11 states such were some of you. Thank God for the "were" some of you. He will teach and help each of us to learn from these things.


The first time the word wisdom is found in the book of Ecclesiastes is verse 13, talking about himself. as we know him to be the wisest of man(besides the Lord Jesus). It says in verse 13: "and I gave my heart to seek and to search wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith".
Heh.. no one said it's easy right? well heres solomon the wisest of man saying its hard. whats that tell us today? That means don't go about it thinking you're going to just learn it. or that you will do better then those before. and if we don't seek God for the wisdom to understand then we won't ever get it. Proverbs 16:3 says

Proverbs 16:3

Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.


Now look back to the verse, it said "to seek and to search after wisdom", you know what that means? that means if we don't search or thinking we need wisdom, if we don't go for it. whats that make us? fools. Now before you start throwing stones. realize I'm not speaking out of highness but what God is teaching to me and thru me. I'm part of this group. So I can say this is preaching to me. Now also remember in this lesson. I'm not raising up Solomon higher then God. He is still a man like us. we all have our falls. as solomon did.We find out later in the books of the kings that Solomon was overcome with many wives and there gods, so don't let you're guard down. Back to the main point tho. As someone seeking out wisdom, dont be content with just the wisdom you have now. You can't sit back and let pride say "I know all I need to know". Because we see those who think they know everything are some of the first people to fall into pride and as I said before, being part of the company of fools. Also know this is more then just wanting to know more then the next guy. But you can set a goal to be like one of the wise men of old. those are good goals to set. but as I said before don't be content with the knowledge you have, and think you're one of the people that is a goal for others. because those who think they know it all are the fools. Yes God will use your knowledge to inspire others but that doesn't mean that you need to go around pointing out you're self as some great person. Proverbs 16 and 27 tells us about that.

Proverbs 16:5

Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished

Proverbs 27:1-2

Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

A good thing for people to look at in proverbs says that the wise man looks at every point or seeks to understand each side of things, every angle. Make sure you look into the full thing of a problem, make sure each part of a buildings plans are set, make sure each part of your families needs are met and lives are right with one another.

Now lets look at Ecclesiastes again. In verse 2,14,18. We read in verse 2 Vanity of Vanities all is Vanity. In verse 14 is Behold all is Vanity and a Vexation of the Spirit. Then in verse 18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. You say "get me out of here this is to hard". I say read the middle part of verse 14. The works that are done under the sun. Now what do you suppose that means? that means anything not of God. So if you're life isn't under his rule, your life is vanity. it's living for self, which we know won't last or matter in the end. Remember the verse. All have come short of the glory of God. None can do right without God. If you're not living for him you're wasting your life away in your own wants to your own destruction. We still know God uses the lost to teach His sheep. or use them in some way to wake us up. but they are still fit for destruction.

Now lets look at verse 4 of Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever.

So Fathers, Mothers, Grandparents. is your generation wise. Is it living for Christ. can you walk thru out town and not have to cover your eyes at sin. can you look at people without a pain in your heart for them, cause you know there saved. if not why can't you do something about it? your own self is the only thing stopping you. there is no other excuse. and if you are old or can't get out to witness to others. then you better make sure your children are fit for it. teach them, instruct them. don't let them go into the world like everyone else did and get lost in the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. because then your own children become an abomination to God. and as the parents your the ones responsible for them. some day your going to give an account for your children. Men it's your very position to lead the family. if your family doesn't have its bible times. it's family times. prayer. singing. your family isn't going to grow right. it won't have the right element of God's love left in your children. also do they see the joy and peace in your life from God. or is it something they see as something you dread teaching. God teaches his Church. and his own words are there to teach them. You as fathers are supposed to use that same word to teach your families. because God has the best way and it works in his Church it will work in your families. God will use it in there lives to save. Who are we to limit the outcome of works blessed by God to mans level of knowledge thinking possible. God is all powerful. all mighty, all knowing. don't you think he knows what he's doing if he can control the whole world at the same time? Hallelujah he is in control not man. He who made the world and everything in it is in control of each detail. study his works and use them to teach others in the same way. then stand back and image the vastness of his wisdom and power. the God who kept this world together and his precious word each step thru history to teach us of times to come and how we are to act. and even this statement is only a pinch of his power. I could spend all day explaining this and still not even come close to really touching the vastness of His glory.

The next verse that I felt I should speak about is verse 9. The phase "there is no new thing under the sun" comes up. what that means is things of the past will happen again. to different degrees of course with different means. but same general happening and style of it happening with the same solution to fix them. hey think that means by learning the past you gain insight on the future. and you know how to protect your self from happenings. and we can learn from all history things that happened and know that God is in control so what can we learn from it, to keep us safe today. Also another thing is parents your kids are going to follow some of the same things you did as a kid. or follow the same bad paths others have. or copy the same evil work. so make sure you teach your kids right, after God's way in the Bible. And remember it has to be out of love your instructing them. because if it's not out of love then what do they do? They build up anger and hate inside them about it against you. and then they tell worldly friends and people there age with same problems and it supports the same evil thinking of rebelling against parents rule. now that will normally happen anyway but if you pray with them make sure they know you love them. they won't side with there friends instruction. and more and more they will listen to you more. Help them to see what happens when certain rules aren't kept. and the Dangers of them. like different high physical sports. or running thru the kitchen and such. those things that aren't really listed as sins but are to be kept because we know if you do them you can get hurt. now you know as well as I do that kids side with kids so this isn't something new and unheard of by you. and yes I know not all kids are the same. Kids who read this, Understand your parents do love you and each bit of instruction they give isn't to make you mad. or push down your thoughts and wants. but to show you what isn't right and the right way of thinking. its love that they teach you holiness. Work for righteousness those who are saved, those who aren't let today be the day you wake up to your lost state and turn to God's wisdom and love. come to him he can save today. know that going by just what you want isn't going to save you. and it's only going to set you on a course to hell. Hell is calling you each day, and God is calling you. see that hell isn't going to wait for your answer it's just going to pull you in. know that also God isn't waiting for your permission. Pray to him, Beg him for forgiveness of your sin. he is mighty to save. All your sin will be washed away by the blood of the Lamb. Hallelujah!

Newest poem

This Land

There is a Shadow over this land
Because of Canada's wicked demand
God's people wait and pray
For His coming great day
When Christ will come again
And Save us from the Lion's Den

Canada, Follow His Hand
Canada, Obey His command
Canada, Get out of the clay
He can save you Today

This land is going deeper
It's dying along with it's leader
O for grace to save this land
That it could see His merciful hand
I will rejoice in His will
And Bare this land still

Canada, You're not your own
Canada, God's on the thrown
Canada, Wake up from ease
Remember He's got the keys

Some of Canada's beginning

This is some history work, I've found to be of interest.


Just because Canada exists doesn't mean it ever was founded. In fact, the whole notion of founding a country is alien to Canadian experience. Founding is something undertaken by a Machiavellian "new Prince," but Canadian sovereignty has devolved historically from the very old British crown. The Americans and the French, with their fancy republican ways, speak easily enough about their founding fathers - Washington, Madison, Robespierre, Marat and all the rest. Canadians don't.

True, we use the same patriarchal language and speak of the fathers of Confederation, but nobody talks about the fathers of Canada, which indicates clearly enough that Confederation was an episode in Canada's evolution, not a brand new beginning. A few intellectuals might indulge in loose talk about the Canadian founding, but they ought to know better.

Usually the act of founding is accompanied by a heavy traffic in high-minded ideas intended to make the new citizens feel good about the violent things they are doing. Truths are held to be self-evident. The founders promise liberty, equality and sisterhood, or peace, bread and other people's land. None of that has ever happened in Canada, though political parties, such as the New Democrats or Reform, have staged founding events to haul themselves into existence.

Unfounded though Canada is, our early political life was not hostile to ideas. They were not expressions of grand new principles but, as contemporary politicians would have said, embodied "well known" ideas. They were well known because they were part of a tradition the origins of which were discreetly shrouded in the mists of time. Chief among them were the principles of parliamentary government and of liberalism. They remain important today. Indeed, many of our difficulties, as well as our successes, are a direct reflection of the extent to which we have maintained liberal and parliamentary government, or drifted away from it.

At the closing of the first session of the first parliament of Upper Canada in 1792, Governor John Graves Simcoe reminded his advisors, "that this province is singularly blest, not with a mutilated constitution, but with a constitution which has stood the test of experience, and which is the very image and transcript of that of Great Britain."

The sentiments were recalled in the British North American Act of 1867, when Canada received "a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom," and, in a more muted way, in the 1982 constitution as well.

In fact, parliamentary government in North America began long before the American Revolution. In its primitive form, elected assemblies could not control the executive. After the publication of Lord Durham's famous Report, the course toward responsible government and today's parliamentary institutions was set, at least in eastern Canada: the Crown is advised by a council that is supported in an assembly that in turn raises and spends money. Parliamentary government is finely balanced between executive decisiveness and the need for prudent and public justification of policy before the sceptical eyes of a "loyal opposition", which is also a government-in-waiting.

Responsible government, parliamentary government properly speaking, came to the old colonies of British North America around the middle of the nineteenth century. On the prairies, however, it was delayed "for the purposes of the Dominion" until 1930, when the provinces gained control over resource revenues. The timing could not have been worse. A decade of severe deflation, followed by the massive centralization of wartime, meant that political leaders in the West were deprived of practical education in the ways of parliament that their colleagues in the east had experienced for a least a generation before 1870.

In consequence, while liberalism in the West has been robust, it is also often extra-parliamentary. From the nineteenth-century agrarians to today's Reform Party, populist liberalism has mounted a serious challenge to the conventions of parliament. When sovereignty is thought to be vested in "the people" and not in the crown, the implications for cabinet, the executive and for the assembly are huge. Populist measures - the initiative, referendum and recall, for example - are in fact incompatible with parliamentary government. You can have one or the other, not both.

As a result, the populist liberalism of Canada's west has been a recipe for distress. Sometimes it has been dismissed as a reflection of the unwillingness of Parliament in Ottawa to respond to the interests of Westerners. From the National Policy of Sir John A. Macdonald to the National Energy Programme of Pierre Trudeau, evidence to support this view is not hard to find. But more than interests are involved. Injured pride, not neglected interests, lies behind the ambivalence of many Westerners towards parliamentary government and "Ottawa."

Pride matters. Indeed, human beings are especially proud when they rise above their interests, which is why the pride of Westerners is especially insulted when the beneficiaries - easterners for the most part - are so palpably ungrateful.

In so many ways Quebec is a mirror image of the west. There "Ottawa" carries the same ambivalent symbolic charge, but for quite different reasons. In Quebec, the levers of parliamentary power have been energetically grasped, but diverted to distinctly non-liberal purposes.

It is useful to recall that in Quebec liberalism came ashore with the soldiers of General Wolfe in 1759. In those days, its most important element was freedom of religion, which opened the way for non-Roman Catholic and often English-speaking traders to settle in the newly acquired colony and to prosper. Once again the effect of this infusion of liberal enterprise led to the recommendations of Lord Durham. But many French-Canadians were less interested in individual liberty than in sheltering their community from the malign outside forces that the entrepreneurial English liberals seemed to represent. This is why Durham's name is still mud in Quebec.

The same religious solidarity of the eighteenth-century resistance to liberalism could be detected in the writings of Abbé Lionel Groulx fifty years ago. With the massive and rapid secularization brought about by the Quiet Revolution, the words changed, but the music remained the same. The elegant Hegelian rhetoric of a sovereigntist such as the late Fernand Dumont, for whom every distinct society achieves fulfillment and proper form as a state, or the claims in favour of "deep diversity" made on behalf of Quebec by a federalist such as Charles Taylor, resonate with the same anti-liberal communitarian survivalism pioneered by François-Xavier Garneau a century and a half ago. Garneau's long poem, Louise, as his multi-volume Historie du Canada, were as much a littérature de combat as anything from the pens of contemporary Quebec nationalists, whether sovereigntist or not. Plus ça change. . . .

In fact, many things have changed since the days of Simcoe, Durham and Macdonald, but the principles they espoused can still be detected without too much effort. And yet, pure parliamentary liberalism has never worked in Canada. All Canadians, and especially those in the unmovable centre of the country, Ontario, should be grateful for the impurities supplied by the communitarian realities of Quebec and the extra-parliamentary populism of the west. They provide the colour and flavour to Canadian politics, the leaven that makes federalism work, even though it violates not a few of the explicit intentions of the fathers of Confederation.

Canada has been informed from its beginnings, back in the aftermath of the American Revolution, by two principles: liberalism, and responsible or parliamentary government. After Confederation, the Canadian version of responsible government was modified by the addition of a heavy dose of federalism. These are, I believe, the principles that will guide Canadians into the next century.

Liberalism means many things. In my first article, I referred to Lord Durham's splendid Report. Bob Rae referred to it in his first article as well, but did not praise it. According to him, it was "disastrous, but fortunately short-lived." Au contraire! It was a splendid piece of work and so filled with of foresight that even today it informs Canadian political life at its best. To see why, we must understand Durham's liberalism on its own terms, removed from what present-day liberalism has become.

Lord Durham was a confident, strong, and spirited liberal. He believed liberalism was worth defending and was eager to criticize its enemies. Conventional readings of the Durham Report praise the author for recommending responsible government, but criticize his proposal to assimilate French-speaking colonists. In these days of official bilingualism and semi-official multiculturalism, this looks intolerant, and -- because contemporary liberals can tolerate anything but intolerance -- to some it looks illiberal as well.

But consider the circumstances in which Durham found himself. Following the Rebellion of 1837, he was faced with a "fatal feud" between the French- and the English-speaking colonists of Lower Canada. He also had to consider the dissatisfaction with British rule in the other colonies. Only by adapting to a common North American way of living, he believed, could French-speakers enjoy genuine liberty and equality. Thus did he advocate equality of opportunity and British constitutional practices for all colonists. Thus too, his liberalism: According to Durham, no religious cult, no clan, no caste, no nation, no collective, no faction, and no king, should usurp the right to legislate on behalf of others.

Existing practices, Durham was convinced, would ensure that "the great part" of French-speakers would remain "labourers in the employ of English capitalists," and so poor, dependent and resentful. He was not in error. The French-speaking colonists did not, he said, wish to "remain stationary", but had been held back by a misguided policy that both permitted immigration of aggressive English-speaking entrepreneurs to Quebec and maintained the old seigneuries. Because the seigneuries could not easily be sold, the French-speakers' economic competitiveness was reduced. Regardless of whether British policy was inspired by a goodhearted desire to maintain the noble but vanishing life of the ancien regime, or by prejudice against the Catholic and French inhabitants of the colony, the result was identical: the English-speaking minority prospered while the majority of French-speakers did not. It was a recipe for strife. It was also the reason the colonists on both sides argued in terms of "race." That is, the English-speakers sought to protect their group privileges, and the French-speakers challenged them on the same grounds.

Durham was also perhaps the first to notice the mauvaise foi of nationalist rhetoric. It was designed not to resist assimilation to a liberal, British political order, but to protest the exclusion of French-speakers from the prosperous, liberal society of the English-speaking merchants. Durham therefore opposed legal protection for a "distinct society" in Lower Canada - he called it a society of ancient virtue - because, like the "separate but equal" institutions of the American South, it violated his faith in equality of opportunity.

Much like the sovereigntists today, the Patriote rebels of 1837 were not as dedicated to preserving the ancient virtues and cultural traditions of their ethnic garrison as is sometimes assumed. Although they invoked nationalist sentiments to justify their position, their appeal to the pre-modern and pre-liberal habitants was intended to gain electoral support — a thoroughly modern, liberal objective — in order to effect liberal reforms against the discriminatory laws supported by the English-speaking faction. The Patriotes were moved by ambition, not nostalgia.

Likewise today's sovereigntists, no less than today's federalists, share liberal political habits. This is why the sovereigntists become so irritated when their opponents criticize their pure laine rhetoric as ethnocentric, and worse. And yet, like the Patriotes of 1837, they do make archaic and anti-liberal appeals against, for example, "money and the ethnic vote," to use the unforgettable phrase of Jacques Parizeau.

In recommending equal opportunity for all the colonists, Durham's message was simple: wherever ethnic, linguistic, or religious differences are politically institutionalized, there one finds injustice. This liberal principle has endured in Canada because it guarantees the dignity of all citizens, whatever language they speak. That is what makes Lord Durham such a great liberal, and why his Report remains an enduring statement of Canadian liberalism.

In the context of Durham's arguments rightly understood, it is correct to observe, as Mr. Rae did last week, "Canada is a federation, not just a nation, and that says it all." It doesn't quite say it all, but it says a great deal: We are a "political nation," to use Cartier's formula in the Confederation Debates, and we are a federation. It is not, however, "cookie-cutter" federalism, as Mr. Rae has suggested, to treat the provinces as formally equal. Acknowledging the reality of equal provinces has become a political necessity, largely for the same reasons Durham made plain as day in his Report. A liberal society permits variety, indeed, requires variety for its survival. Federalism, a mode of governance that enhances liberal "experiments in living", is the institutional expression of variety concentrated.

Today few would dispute that Quebec is more distinct from PEI than Saskatchewan is from Manitoba, but the two prairie provinces are not cookie cut-outs either. Here is where the former premier of Canada's most populous province is too timid in his understanding of what federalism can do for diversity in Canada.

There are good reasons for Quebec to take pride in its own language laws, and even its own sign laws, whatever English-speakers in British Columbia might think. By the same token, there is no reason Saskatchewan should not take pride in its own gun laws, regardless of what the good burghers of Montreal might think. Likewise, Alberta can take pride in its own health laws, despite the disapproval of the bien pensants of Toronto. B.C. would certainly take pride in formulating its own salmon laws.

That, after all, is the point of federalism. It encourages the kind of variety that is both the foundation of liberal society and its fullest expression. Quebec's sign laws, no less than the existence of Nunavut, are experiments. In both places, citizens are able to use local or regional government for their own purposes, to organize their common life without being intimidated by a remote and massive central government, and to take pride in their achievements. Federalism encourages these liberal experiments by promoting government that is not just responsible, but also responsive.

As Canadians head into the new millennium, they can be sure that new political necessities will require new political experiments. And they can be confident that the tested principles of liberalism, responsible government and federalism are equal to the challenge. No I didn't write this, and back then liberal wasn't what it is today. Anyway I hope this is of some interest to other people. not only me, and I hope u enjoyed you're history lesson for the day. : ) Come back next time for questions lol.

Ok today wasn't as bad as I thought the rest would be

The Rest of Today was really fun, I got to work with my dad on chopping wood and stacking it, as well as cleaning things up, soccer afterward with chris nate and my dad. that was kinda insanely funny, I mean its messing things up on purpose trying new ideas of kicking it way out of the air. Suddenly Chris, or I would come flying out of no where and hit the ball out of the air into the net, or really off into some other direction. we really need to work on our aim, it was soooo horrible. Nate would randomly launch it in a weird direction. I would mess up my air shot. or Chris and I would go into long fighting fests. lol I know this is short but I just wanted to show that it wasn't all bad today.

Today has to be the worst disgrace of Canada and God "I've" seen

Okay today was not good... What was good was the praying we had, and the fact that people read the signs.. but.. HOW can u possibly do that to the Canadian Flag. they changed the red for the rainbow on each side of the Flag. plus they had shirts for it saying this is what True love is. Not to mention they took the song O Canada for there own. saying that this fully backs us up. DO THEY NOT KNOW WHAT CANADA WAS BASED ON???? they said our signs are soooo hateful, but they purposely stood and said hallelujah God bless. how does that make any sense....... They want God to bless but not obey him. They think there serving him but don't want his Word... Talk about hard to love them..... But Come on, Adding Canada into there works, as if it's something to be proud about. what there doing is this "It's a feeling I like doing, so lets make it something to press as legal and has to be so that we are loving and Equal". why don't they take any feeling they like doing and press to make it legal. Like people like to steal, live for self, they like drugs. does that mean those who can't stop doing it have to press and make it legal so we are this so called "Free Nation" that we are all "Equal"... Bah redefining sin is all there doing. Parents, Don't let your kids go into this world untaught. Love them, teach them, Instruct them in the ways of God. Youth don't fall for the sin of homosexuality. and those that are taught right work with your friends. those around you. if we want to save this generation we need the right way taught.

No Such Thing as Slowly Down

Today wasn't the easiest day for me, but then again my normal mind would say to keep going anyway and *then* I end up stressing my self out more when its not something I like doing. at the time of pain I normally act as if I only have to stop if someone asks me to do something, not if I'm trying to please boredom by biking or exploring. but if I *Have* to do it then I try to back away.

Well, now that I finished sounding like a complete whiner, of which you are probably all tired of hearing from me. I can explain the day in more detail.


Last night the normal happened. I was told at 9 pm that we are going on a hike Saturday, I ask when and all I get is we don't know yet. Then by morning I'm supposed to get up early so we can leave at 9:30. No I wasn't told that time till it was to late for me to get ready. now I wasn't the only reason for us leaving late. but I'm not going to say any names. On the trip Nate explained a bunch of things about his radio.... well.... i only got like half of it. and then he showed me how it isn't smart to recharge my mp3 player with the battery i had in it. It says right on the side, may explode or leak if recharged... *phew* .... Chris almost got hit 2 times on the ride there once we entered Ottawa. The Hike wasn't the same as the Youth Group hikes. No racing after Ben to keep him with the group. no slowing down to ask parents for some water. no such thing as short way. you know all those things that make the youth hike what it is. :) We Climbed King mountain. walked around Pink lake, and stood at the different look outs along the sides. to avoid cig smoke above I climbed down each look out and stayed on the side of it. then came back up to the surprise of some people. Then what we had when we got home was a cook out, in which I think I outdid my normal meal..... I must of had more then half of a 2 liter bottle of rootbeer. almost around the same time... meaning I don't feel to good.... kinda like touch my stomach and I will probably hurl... "note to self: don't pick something off the ground with a full stomach of carbonated drink".


Now that everyone is gone I would be able to think more, but I've already written a post so I think I'm done. Good Night. Hopefully mine won't be a exploding night....

Not Sure Anymore

Because of how I have been used of the lord to others online and also thru books, I'm starting to wonder if a missionary might be a better thing for me to head for. I've been praying and reading on it. studying what I know and more into the Word now then I ever have been. But what ever God has for me I will be content and live for him.


More and more of my days seem to be taken up with something else. I don't think I have had a day for my self in months. and due to many things on my mind. Work, Families spiritual condition, my future for God, friends needing me, people to witness to. Pray that I keep a good mind thru all this and don't try doing something without thinking first. the song keeps popping into my mind.

I am not skilled to understand what God hath willed, What God hath planned, I only know at his right hand is one who is my Saviour.

When people look into the Word what do they see. I think on that when I go to church and see someone new. I think what could God do for them, what do they think of the singing of the praying, of this Holy book being preached. how are we a witness to them. do we show as a Godly example? do other see Christ living in us. when a Christian looks into the word what do u see. I see his Holy book opened which was so wonderfully kept and bought for our teaching. I have been reading thru proverbs a good bit on wisdom. thru these readings God has renewed that mind of his word for it says, the Wise man hears instruction and the foolish turnth away. I had before in my mind that (I've heard these things before or I'm only hearing the same thing over and over) But God used this conference used these readings, that I'm hearing it moreso. He's speaking to me in a great way that makes me want to sing more and more. last night was a great blessing of his power in songs. i woke this morning at 5:30 not knowing why. but the only thought that came to mind without even trying was singing to my self, was praying, I had dreams before hand of God doing a mighty work in all of us. each of us praising him thru the whole day. and if it was my choice I would extend the conference another week. I've removed the web browser from my computer and I'm keeping my time on games and things to a small amount. also I've removed any games that have any aspect of magic in it, music that I shouldn't listen to. and also dealing with things that have been bothering me in a more "God's in control and head of my life" kind of way. I have faith and hope of revival coming and also that we will be used. (those of our youth) in a mighty way for God.

One more into the fold, One more to His timing, One more congregation to praising.

About 5 months ago I had the pleasure to witness to someone online in which they asked many questions to me concerning Hell, Heaven, God's mercy, and who and what sin is. About one week ago this person has come to know the Lord!! I'm continuing to witness to them and teach them more things. This person like sucks information all in really quickly.

Another person who was a Christian, who I've had biblical conversations and has show to be a christian. since i have been getting away from the computer the more often and left something that was taking a good bit of my time. he said that the lord has used me to show him to also use his time better and planning his days out for the Lord more. praise the lord.

Also for those who think I'm only wasting time on the computer playing games, no i am not. I spend most of my day witnessing to people. and i know God is using it. Yes I am planning my days out better too.


The Conference is going quite well. and i know God is moving. with us and i think it was planned good. Pastor David, and Pastor Scott. have been preaching and I've enjoyed it a good bit. I am praying and hoping that God will do a great change in our lives and quicken us.

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.

Sorrowing I shall be in spirit,
Till released from flesh and sin,
Yet from what I do inherit,
Here Thy praises I’ll begin;
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Here by Thy great help I’ve come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood;
How His kindness yet pursues me
Mortal tongue can never tell,
Clothed in flesh, till death shall loose me
I cannot proclaim it well.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.

Family Reunion Pictures 3

Nice Garden Pic with the cat to top it off.
Cool bug living in one of the many flowers they have around.
front picture of house
more nice flowers
Family Picture. no im not going to name them all.

Family Reunion Pictures 2

Kaylyn, Little Will and ok sry but names fail me for him at the moment.
Bring it on.
Big game with damaged rackets. soo the birdie got stuck into the racket countless times
other side. my uncle bill helping will play the game.
Really nice garden picture

Family Reunion Pictures

Me Relaxing
Dad, Uncle Bill, and Dad's cousin on the right tho I don't know his name.
Kaylyn and my Cousin
Inside picture with chris reading his book, im gunna have to ask him what it is.
another inside pic this time kaylyn relaxing

Long time no Post

Well I thought it was time i put something new on here. No that does not mean you're all gunna get more and more out of me on this I'm just putting something new since its been a while.


Family Reunion


The day started off kinda like this. alarm goes off but to tired to get up after it goes off. sooo I ended up having to face the annoyance of People singing as they came downstairs to wake me. Then have to deal with the rush of everyone else when I didn't really need to get anything at all. Shower had to be the most annoying because. i had to wait 5 minutes for the water to not be burning hot. and then once i got in they said time to go. Anyway i found out my problem about not being able to sleep on trips. I need a fan. I've got one on trips now and it helps. plus more space helps because being cramped in a full van isn't gunna work for sleep where i sit. I had seat in front of me down for a foot rest. and me seat leaned back, plus the whole back seat to my self. I read most of the trip there. slept some, When we got there everything was how it was the year before, or so i thought. the only difference was that the trees and plants and just about everything was taller. and to no surprise my family thought i was taller too. at One point there i walked outside to rest in a tree. only i guess i got to close to some birds nest. so it sat there and followed me making weird noises. everywhere i went until i went back inside then it shut up. sadly in whole thing i ended up with sap on me. Badminton, now that was fun we had Chris, Dad, Me, and Uncle Bill. that was great because we had 5 people watching, laughing and cheering at each mess up or each nice hit or dive for it. plus the rackets went in good condition so we would get the birdie stuck in it sometimes. drawing more laughter. Now in the whole thing only one thing made me annoyed. we didn't keep grandpa's tradition. we had no root beer and no rook game. no one seemed to notice but me. on the way home we kept one of his tho. we made sure to stop at a dunkindonuts. so that made me happy to keep. The way home was quieter and i slept more (couldn't read book for to dark). but later on near the end of the trip we all broke out in hymns and scripture songs. started with just me then Lia then we all joined in. it was a good family moment on the trip. Once again we got pulled over because my dad doesn't have a Permanent Residence card. but we got cleared threw after he went in and verified it all.

Thats about it for the day. I know i missed something but if i put everything in it would be boring. so read it comment if i wish. and maybe, just maybe i will think about continuing more posts threw out the summer. And Yes when i get the pictures i will put some on here for you all.

My BirthDay

Well Yesterday was fun... I felt light hearted about anything that happened even upsets or problems. even the slow wet rainy day didn't matter.. People Online made me a party, that was nice. and how much people go into for me is amazing. I got for my Birthday.

1. I am Getting a Bike this weekend
2. I got a Bike Chain
3. I got a magnet set thing that has almost nothing in it.
4. i got 2 books, 1 called kidnapped by robert louis stevenson, and the other pocket book of revalation.
5. I got For some random reason. a Senators beach ball.
6. I got a Chicken dinner. and I'm told a cook out sometime too.
7. 4 cards with a 20 dollar check in it... it feels small from what ive been getting... i had just cashed a 462 dollar check. lol change comes quick i guess.

Thank You Everyone that helped and gave me what they did... Just the thought of you guys being happy with me was enough to make my day, but you did more so. :D

Sports?

Today was supposed to be sports as we normally do. but this time is was more like. hockey for 15 minutes. then soccer for about 20. then grounders for a while. only most of us went around as monkeys and climbed high or was swinging around each part without touching the ground once. then later on we had fun around the table and climbed up into the roof covering it. then on I got on top of it. Then I tried getting on top of the building near by. which i also climbed with the help of a poll on the other side of the building. although I had to get down because people kept trying to follow me and there parents didn't want them too. I think we climbed and played grounders for a good hour. or so. 1 of us showed me a good tree to climb. sadly it hurt a lot too. I got cuts and marks up and down my arms. they went away quickly tho which was nice. All and all it was fun. and now we have Gab, and Sam here from the cote's. along with Emily from sports.

Lia is also starting soccer. so far she has lost a game and tied a game. and she is really wanting to play her friends team this next week. on that note. Wendy's is having a soccer game against Mc.D this Wednesday night. i wanted to play but then i saw when it was. oh well i just hope we win in more then just food. :)

Work as been good. Management like loves me its weird. Mike who is the boss stopped me randomly in rush and said good job on the grill. but nothing to anyone else. as he left he also said thank you again Joe. Rob who is head manager said your the man today. and other times he says good job, or gives me free meals or frosty. or mixed frosty or what ever kind. Dianna at work helps me out of any problems. then she thanks me afterward. i said no its because of your help i got this done. In the end i give God the praise for the help I get. he has been blessing my work. and helping me find people to talk too.

Now for a poem because my mom happens to want 1 out of me.....

In War


In War the times seem failing
In War the days seem forever
In War you dwell on the dieing
In War you never forget them ever

In War Those once tall buildings stood
In War they fell as did your friends
In War you did as hard as you could
In War you try to make amends

In War the fighting comes on
In War the hiding done
In War the lines are drawn
In War you wish it never begun


Yeah i know it could use some work but hey.. it only took few minutes


Well I've got some exercise to do now. I hope you all have a good day.

To The Newtons/My Second Family

Thank You all newtons for the time you gave me this last 2 days i had fun and it was a nice break from the normal days.. i feel refreshed even if still hurt somewhat from Monday. thank you Mrs Newton for your help and encourages you give me. and thank you for giving me time to look after some kids to i like working with kids, even if im just following them. thank you elijah for wanting me over the night i had fun. the trampoline was the best. even if i cut burns hehe.. well thanks again. Your a Great family to learn much from, and i hope to come over more often in the summer.

As asked for.

I have had in the past as many kids should have... teaching from our parents on making a line between the World and Godliness. A line that shouldn't be crossed over. But because of his love and mercy those who do can be forgiven for crossing that line. I have set up a wall with my self online and on personal life, both are important. That I won't allowed of my self or say of anyone else I'm with. No Cussing.... No Sex jokes... Do not hang around friends that do this a lot. My friends have said somethings.. that I probably should of left because of. but as a friend I don't give up on them.. so I remind them, thats not right.. and I really don't want to hear it. I have also has Job had done set a watch on my eyes.. very important for boys... the majority of boys fall into self sin of the lust of the eyes. Also I have found as many other have that hanging around friends that talk these ways.. Will put the thoughts of doing it your self at times... so put those thoughts behind don't let them take you into sin. Prayer is needed at these times. And remember God is in control of your life. if He wants you away from your friends He will make it so... for me, God had me work and since then I haven't been hanging with my friends as much. same for the internet. I am able to witness to people and not have the cussing or jokes. I find God has opened that door to me. I'm failing in person on witnessing. but he is using me online and at the same time getting me away from my friends so I'm not around there talk. I still care for them and won't forget them in prayer and I do still visit them. For those that are in trouble with sins as these Prayer is needed.. confession is needed to who ever it is against don't let it sit inside you, hiding it will only cause judgment on you more so. At Work I have also had my share of "conversations". As I have also found the only way to with care to tell someone that you don't go out to parties.. or drink... is with Prayer before going to work. Start each day with prayer this is very important, it will change your whole day. Trust me on that.

I will write more on this another time

Working mornings... AGAIN!!!!

Yes this next week I'm working mornings. its bothersome to me to get up any earlier then 8 but that just happens to be when I have to start working. I don't mind it to much but as it happens I'm quite used to working later on in the day. I normally work mid-day. which is normally the most boring time of the day so thats why I don't really mind this work.


Chris and Nate are all moved in and left the house's. Now I do believe somehow girls in both families from which they came get the first bids on the rooms. so I'm still stuck with only half a room and Sarah and Kaylyn now have new rooms. Kaylyn needs the basement room for the Summer so that it doesn't get to hot at night for her to sleep like it does up stairs. Oh well maybe sometime I will be able to have one. The moving of his stuff was okay too. as I would say time consuming but productive. not to mention I also got some Wendy's food bought by Chris for my lunch. Now I do believe they got everything they need but most likely, knowing Chris and Nate, They probably forgot something at home. I think we still have some of Nate's stuff here.


Now for everyone who wants me to write more... To bad. I just don't write that much, and I'm sure some of you know what I'm talking about when I say I don't know what to write about or I don't really feel like it. I have been busy with work and school junk. and a bothersome Fever/Virus. So yea about that point. It took about 4 days for Fever to leave and about 1 week for the Virus to leave and let me eat right again. and the cough is still here which has lasted 2 weeks as the doctor said most likely would happen. But I'm well enough to do basically to do anything I normally would. except for eat as much as I used to.... Its sad I can't eat a up-sized Spicy Chicken Combo anymore.....


Funny quotes from People going threw the drive threw at work...

3rd place : Whats a Combo??
2nd place : OHH I thought you were that Girl's voice... (said to my friend Scott about the drive threw person who was a girl)
1st place : Yea. can I have a pizza?

Hymn history.....

Because he lives

In the late 1960s, Bill and Gloria Gaither, already well-known Christian musicians, were dealing with many personal struggles. Bill was recovering from mononucleosis, the couple had been accused of using their ministry to turn a profit and the family had been devastated by Bill's sister's divorce. Gloria was expecting her third child, but the couple was saddened by the thought of bringing another child into a world filled with racial tension, drug abuse and negative attitudes toward Christianity. After a friend prayed for the couple, they were both overcome with affirmation of Jesus' ressurection and assurance that God would take care of them. Inspired by the birth of healthy son Benjamin in 1970, the Gaithers wrote 'Because He Lives.'


What a friend we have in Jesus

"What a Friend We Have in Jesus" is a Christian hymn originally written by Joseph M. Scriven as a poem in 1855 to comfort his mother who was living in Ireland while he was in Canada. Scriven originally published the poem anonymously, and only received full credit for it in the 1880s.^[1] The tune to the hymn was composed by Charles Crozat Converse in 1868. William Bolcom composed a setting of the hymn. The hymn also has many versions with different lyrics in multiple languages, such as the Japanese version "Itsukushimi Fukaki" (いつくしみ深き, "Itsukushimi Fukaki"^? lit. "Deep Affection"), or a version sung during World War I with the line "When this bloody war is over" in place of the original title.^[2]


Just as I am

Charlotte Elliot wrote this song about how to find salvation through Christ. It has been used by many as the call to the altar at the close of services, as it brings a quiet simple message of sin, forgiveness, and salvation to all that listen. Just as I am

An elderly man asked Charlotte Elliott if she were a Christian; she felt insulted, and told him to mind his own affairs. But after the man left, she could not get the question off her mind, and she went back to ask the man how to find Christ. He told her to come just as she was. She did, and wrote the beautiful song, "Just As I Am." - By B. A. Scherr

Jill's birthday

Yesterday was Jill's bday and I went something like this at the start.



I wake up with just about nothing happening but my Mother said she had to go to a meeting soo I was here with Lia doing school.... I'm sorry to say this Jill but I didn't remember your birthday until you called... ok well with that said. Jill called and started singing happy birthday.. which confused me cus I didn't know anyone had one that day. then she wanted me to sing it for her. (Which then reminded me who's birthday it was) but I wasn't in the mood for singing on the phone so I just got her message about. cookies being made for desert. after Mom got home we went into things for Jill. I got cleaning the car. with my mom. Lia was making a picture board that looks pretty cool. even if the people don't look to great still.. its creative. I don't remember how many times I got myself wet cleaning the car. All I know is that I kept getting wet and it kept drying off before I got to see how much of me was wet. later on I got really wet on one leg and it stayed for sometime..... but all in all I got it done.. Mom got the inside done. neither of us did the front window mind you. we did the outside but.... that didn't help much. still it looks nice again. The car also passed the safety test... on behalf of Jill Thank you pastor for that work done to fix it up. Maybe next time your working a car I can watch and help...

For supper we had Pizza even tho I didn't.. I had potatoes and groundbeef with veggies. what I really wanted to talk about was the desert. frozen yogurt mint chocolate chip with apple pie... ^o^ sorry I'm weird.. lol

I don't really remember what she got for presents at the table. I would of named them too. but I'm done with this post. time to get back to reading my books from the Library.

Happenings and Music History

Well so far I am doing ok with wendys tho I would like saturdays off, because thats when everything happens that needs doing. Chris and Nate are trying to get a place of there own. and Chris is also trying to get a new job that won't take such a high toll on his body. He was going to stay home today but his boss asked him to stay.


I've had chances to talk to more people on salvation this last weekend. They told me they wanted to know more the next day and the next. so I've had good times of witnessing. They asked questions about Death, creation, the cross, Where God came from, How are we saved, and am I a sinner. So I told them about creation and the cross I opened up to Ephesians and Revelations. On how we are saved and How he is coming again and where his people will be going. so it was good. They said they would like to know more. Praise God. I've had something like 6 different people who I've had chances to speak to. and most received it well. I've been talking to the Scott(mormon friend) He asked more questions about the Trinity. Keep Praying for Scott and Kev my other friend who is also a Christian. there are a few more that dont give names. but that I would know what to say.

About the person who made Moment by Moment........ All the I's is meaning Dr. Murray I do believe I could be wrong.....

While I was at­tend­ing the World’s Fair in Chi­ca­go [Il­li­nois], Hen­ry Var­ley, a lay preac­her from Lon­don, said to Ma­jor Whit­tle: “I do not like the hymn ‘I need Thee ev­ery hour’ ve­ry well, be­cause I need Him ev­ery mo­ment of the day. Soon af­ter Ma­jor Whit­tle wrote this sweet hymn…[He] brought the hymn to me in man­u­script a lit­tle lat­er, say­ing that he would give me the co­py­right of both the words and mu­sic if I would print for him five hund­red co­pies on fine pa­per, for dis­trib­ut­ing among his friends. His daugh­ter, May Whit­tle, who lat­er be­came the wife of Will R. Moo­dy, com­posed the mu­sic. I did as Mr. Whit­tle wished; and I sent the hymn to Eng­land, where it was co­py­right­ed on the same day as at Wash­ing­ton.

In Eng­land the hymn be­came ve­ry pop­u­lar. Fall­ing in­to the hands of the well-known Rev. An­drew Mur­ray, of South Af­ri­ca, then vi­sit­ing Lon­don, he adopt­ed it as his fa­vo­rite hymn. A year lat­er Mr. Mur­ray vi­sit­ed North­field [Mas­sa­chu­setts], and while hold­ing a meet­ing for men in the church he re­marked, “If Sank­ey on­ly knew a hymn which I found in Lon­don, and would sing it, he would find that it em­brac­es my en­tire creed.”

I was very anx­ious to know what hymn it was, and when he had re­cit­ed it I said to him: “Doc­tor, that hymn was writ­ten with­in five hun­dred yards of where we are stand­ing.”

For years Dr. Mur­ray had his wife sing this hymn in near­ly all his meet­ings. It al­so be­came a great fa­vo­rite in South Af­ri­ca dur­ing the war.

Dying with Jesus, by death reckoned mine;
Living with Jesus, a new life divine;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine,
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.

Refrain

Moment by moment I’m kept in His love;
Moment by moment I’ve life from above;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine;
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.

Never a trial that He is not there,
Never a burden that He doth not bear,
Never a sorrow that He doth not share,
Moment by moment, I’m under His care.

Refrain

Never a heartache, and never a groan,
Never a teardrop and never a moan;
Never a danger but there on the throne,
Moment by moment He thinks of His own.

Refrain

Never a weakness that He doth not feel,
Never a sickness that He cannot heal;
Moment by moment, in woe or in weal,
Jesus my Savior, abides with me still.

Refrain

I can't think but why not write......

I know people have been asking me to write more often, one of them is my mom. I need write more but I can't feel up to it much so. I guess I will catch up some today.


I've been sickish for a good bit of this last week. but I try my best to fight that back, and it has been working. I got work done Monday and Tuesday. the week before as well. I got two checks last week which is good. I also got my debit card working finally. I before that had to pay back Rob at work twice. It made me annoyed that I might losing that I don't make debts but he said I could.

Well anyway I've reading books and listening to books. I found a random CD with a book being read out loud. which is what I'm listening to so I'm taking a long time to write this. but I've gotten problems fixed with my friends online, I also found another Christian online as well, who also is home schooled. so I get interesting conversation with him through out the day. as well as a good server to play with him on because there is no cussing allowed. so I like his server over all of the others.

Our wood here is lessening so I have to start getting more from the wood box. I'm not having to get as much anymore but I still get it through out the week. my arms have been getting more and more tired. I found out how heavy the boxes at were. there is 40lbs. and 36lbs which I carry two at a time, there is also others which are 26lbs. 35lbs. 22lbs. and as well the wood out side.

Years I spent in vanity and pride,
Caring not my Lord was crucified,
Knowing not it was for me He died on Calvary.

Refrain

Mercy there was great, and grace was free;
Pardon there was multiplied to me;
There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.

By God’s Word at last my sin I learned;
Then I trembled at the law I’d spurned,
Till my guilty soul imploring turned to Calvary.

Refrain

Now I’ve given to Jesus everything,
Now I gladly own Him as my King,
Now my raptured soul can only sing of Calvary!

Refrain

Oh, the love that drew salvation’s plan!
Oh, the grace that brought it down to man!
Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span at Calvary!

Refrain

Here is a song to be singing through the day. as I have.

A song asked for.

Crown Him with many crowns, the Lamb upon His throne.
Hark! How the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own.
Awake, my soul, and sing of Him who died for thee,
And hail Him as thy matchless King through all eternity.

Crown Him the virgin’s Son, the God incarnate born,
Whose arm those crimson trophies won which now His brow adorn;
Fruit of the mystic rose, as of that rose the stem;
The root whence mercy ever flows, the Babe of Bethlehem.

Crown Him the Son of God, before the worlds began,
And ye who tread where He hath trod, crown Him the Son of Man;
Who every grief hath known that wrings the human breast,
And takes and bears them for His own, that all in Him may rest.

Crown Him the Lord of life, who triumphed over the grave,
And rose victorious in the strife for those He came to save.
His glories now we sing, who died, and rose on high,
Who died eternal life to bring, and lives that death may die.

Crown Him the Lord of peace, whose power a scepter sways
From pole to pole, that wars may cease, and all be prayer and praise.
His reign shall know no end, and round His piercèd feet
Fair flowers of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet.

Crown Him the Lord of love, behold His hands and side,
Those wounds, yet visible above, in beauty glorified.
No angel in the sky can fully bear that sight,
But downward bends his burning eye at mysteries so bright.

Crown Him the Lord of Heaven, enthroned in worlds above,
Crown Him the King to Whom is given the wondrous name of Love.
Crown Him with many crowns, as thrones before Him fall;
Crown Him, ye kings, with many crowns, for He is King of all.

Crown Him the Lord of lords, who over all doth reign,
Who once on earth, the incarnate Word, for ransomed sinners slain,
Now lives in realms of light, where saints with angels sing
Their songs before Him day and night, their God, Redeemer, King.

Crown Him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time,
Creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime.
All hail, Redeemer, hail! For Thou has died for me;
Thy praise and glory shall not fail throughout eternity.

Thank you for asking for it I never knew there was that many verses to it. And if anyone else asks for any please speak up. I do love songs and Hymns all the more. For those who at nursing I wanted to be there. Don't think I was just skipping out on it. And for those who wanted me to write I am sorry for not writing as much, I have no excuse....

Skating today was fun I only wish my lungs didn't always fail me, Other then that I had fun. Antone (I think that is how you spell his name) Made soo many amazing saves on me, I mean I would of never thought he could do that. I just stopped and looked at him in disbelief at how he did that.

I am Canadian

I am Canadian but that is not something I am proud of. Todays average Canadian or thought by other countries is a Hockey loving Igloo living drinking person who says EH all the time. what kind of life is that. when I say I am a Canadian I am saying is I am going for what one should be, by the grace of God. I want to walk down the street without having to hide my eyes from all the wickedness, I want to walk and not see a bar or club. I want to listen to the music on the radio without hearing rock, pop, rap, jazz, heavy medal, fake christian music, trashy in the dumps country music. I want to go online without having to be careful at every site for pop-ups. I want to look at someone and know I will see them again someday not in pain but joy. When I think of all those people giving there heart out to God I say to myself. WHAT ARE YOU DOING GET OUT THERE TALK TO ANYONE, ANYONE JOSEPH. your friends, the strangers, the neighbours, the hockey coach, the worker, the druggy, the drunk. Why do I stay here and sit. Why don't the kids in services hear the word. They sit under teaching of God there WHOLE lives why are they leaving why are they dieing without help. Sin has ruined us. In everything we do in every thought we have. We are to comfortable in our rooms, and places when there is Souls TO BE WON. Oh that God will send revival, Oh that we as youth wake up, Oh that I may not just talk and write but mean it and do it myself, that I might follow someone as they follow Christ. and if not then take the stand myself to speak to this lazy Canada we live in.

A song that has gone through my head since Aaron.

All the way my Savior leads me;
What have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt His tender mercy,
Who through life has been my Guide?
Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort,
Here by faith in Him to dwell!
For I know, whate’er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well;
For I know, whate’er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well.

All the way my Savior leads me,
Cheers each winding path I tread;
Gives me grace for every trial,
Feeds me with the living Bread.
Though my weary steps may falter,
And my soul athirst may be,
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! A spring of joy I see;
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! A spring of joy I see.

All the way my Savior leads me
O the fullness of His love!
Perfect rest to me is promised
In my Father’s house above.
When my spirit, clothed immortal,
Wings its flight to realms of day
This my song through endless ages—
Jesus led me all the way;
This my song through endless ages—
Jesus led me all the way.

I would write something but My head hurts to much. sorry everyone feel free to comment or give me another song to look up for its full version.

Snow Camp

This last week has been fun and good learning time. Not to mention the pain from going through snow higher then my knees. (playing Hide and seek, and Capture the flag) I hurt also because I fought Elijah for fun, but I think I got hurt letting him hit me. he is fine and that is what I like in him, he can take a lot and keep going, same for Sarah, and Ben. You guys don't quit is seems and that I find is something we will need to bring over to our witnesses to others about Christ. not to quit.


Some many times I hear people pray to take away this or that so we don't need to go through it. What I find we need to pray is that God will give us strength to go through it not around it. The messages we heard at Camp should help us see that. People in the perilous times didn't pray for just the people to leave but that God would use them to save Souls, to go forward and not give up. God gave those people strength to say no to there own life and yes to God's call. Even in the face of death they said "WE WILL NOT DENY CHRIST OR HIS WORD". O that Christ may give me that strength in the face of danger.


I pray that David had a safe trip home as we did. and he said that he would like us all to pray for him and his Dad as they go to other countries to preach the word.I'm Sorry I don't have any pictures from camp. I didn't have my camera with me.

Snowed In but coming soon... Fire within

Sooo what most people who live in Canada know is we are having the worse snow storm in about 10 years. and it happens to be me who has to shovel it over and over again in three different driveways. OH FOR A SNOW BLOWER! I know others help but sometimes it doesn't matter. I still get lot of pain.



Then looking back.....

This week I dodged a work day on Monday. It was ice everywhere but that changed quick. but I still stayed home so that was nice to have a day off of monday for once.


Then Tuesday I got to go skating but the outdoor ice was no good so we played indoor. I almost didn't get to play hockey because there wasn't any helmets left that fit me. but after a bit and talking to the lady there in charge I got to play. and all she said was "its ok just have fun. and be careful" so that was nice of her and man was I happy to not need to wear one. those things stink so much after...... but I won't go there. just to keep you all happy. :)


Wednesday(It was also another snow day) It was more of those days that don't end and start slow. I think the only thing that day I had liked doing I think was church that night. Brought by Christopher. I liked it. It was about my Favorite chapter in the Bible and my favorite verse but sadly he never got to the verse. but anyway it was about True love. and how it is not just hugs its not just "I love you mommy(or daddy)" but also obeying what they say. and listening and teaching others.


Thursday (another snow day, man we get a lot of them) It was even more boring then Wednesday and just to show it I don't have anything to say about it really. but this... I'm only putting caps on the days because I hate red lines. moving on


Friday (Workday) I had to go to work and it was busy. I mean burgers just went on and on. I mean no end to it. even after I left they were still busy. later after work I had to shovel driveways, that made some more pain that I still have. After that bothersome afternoon came youthgroup at woodlavilla (spelling.. leave me alone about this) and it was interesting and if it were Pastor preaching it like normal I don't think It would of ended at 7:30 like the people wanted. not that I have a problem with that. but my Dad had to rush it a bit. the Singing was good as is all the singing I hear by my church and the youthgroup. I enjoy it more then I let on. and for real I like a lot of things that people don't know because I don't talk about it. and I don't like people working it out of me either that tends to make me mad (maybe its just that before was always my sisters doing it).


Saturday (another snow day, they just keep coming and coming) So Chris and me and Dad had more shoveling and I had more work at Wendys again that was interesting. I fear that I may need to leave my work sometime. because the conversation of most of the young people there isn't right. and.... this is something that nothing in life can ready you for. telling someone no when they like you. I fear that that may be an outcome sometime in work. anyways after a bit at work I heard the bell for the back door. but at night only management can answer the door(they both happened to be busy) so head management who was at the back door had to stand in the snow the walk around to the front. we all had a good laugh after that.


Sunday(ANOTHER SNOW DAY, man alive where does it all come from!!) we had to cancel church sunday morning and I had to shovel all morning and because of that I didn't get to have my morning reading of my Bible. so this night I was ashamed when I couldn't lift my hand. but I
'm working on it.

Looking ahead.... I said for the Title snowed in but coming soon.... fire within. by that I mean I am hoping for a work through snow camp and David Bane.(wow that took 4 tries to put the caps on the B) So I'm praying for a work there. another thing of prayer my friend only that is a Christian(I checked) his Dad is traveling so pray so safety.


Well thats it for the night I took longer then I meant to.

Joke of the Day

A doctor of psychology was doing his normal morning rounds when he entered a patient's room.

He found Patient #1 sitting on the floor, pretending to saw a piece of wood in half.

Patient #2 was hanging from the ceiling, by his feet.

The doctor asked patient number 1 what he was doing.

The patient replied, "Can't you see I'm sawing this piece of wood in half?"

The doctor inquired of Patient #1 what Patient #2 was doing.

Patient #1 replied, "Oh. He's my friend, but he's a little crazy. He thinks he's a lightbulb."

The doctor looks up and notices Patient #2's face is going all red.

The doctor asks Patient #1, "If he's your friend, you should get him down from there before he hurts himself"

Patient #1 replies, "What? And work in the dark?"

Good Night everyone. Have fun laughing.