Names

If I had a child one day what would I name it? Glad you asked! I just happen to have a list, for starters at least. You should try name making, it's great fun! I have a special meaning (italic) for each name, and a verse that goes with it...then for a few of them I have a special person (in bold) that goes with the verse and meaning whose life inspired the name or meaning of the name. Meaning their life displays the verse predominantly or they have been a major factor in teaching me the significance of the verse.

1. Jonathan Cade -- gift from God, pure *Jonathan Traylor
   

“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing…Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.” James 1:2-4,17

2. Alaina Zelene – bright, sunshine *Rachelle Traylor
   

“Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 5:16

3. Stephen Garrett – crowned one, to watch

“But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; and he said, ‘Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.’” Acts 7:55-56

4. Lynda Ruth – beautiful, companion friend *Linda Schmidt
   

“Then the King will desire your beauty. Because He is your Lord, bow down to Him.” Psalms 45:11

5. Faith Destiny – to trust, for which you were meant *MWS II

“Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be established.” Proverbs 16:3

6. Mercy Lorén – compassion, crowned with laurel *Charissa Traylor
   

??? not sure, still gathering thoughts on the verse here.

7. Joses Timothy – who pardons, to honor God

“For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.” Psalms 86:5

8. Havilah Koren – land of great worth, maiden

“The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.” Genesis 2:11-12

9. Ada Grace – prosperous happy, grace of God *Mom

“The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph's charge because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made to prosper.” Genesis 39:23

10. Kadin Trace – companion, brave *Dad

“Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16

11. Kyla Michelle – lovely, who is like God? *Misty Schmidt
    

“How lovely are Your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts!” Ps. 84:1

Here I abide

I saw to what God has called me
I rejoiced and ran ahead to embrace it
But quickly faced what appeared to be
a cliff, drop off, chiseled rock

My spirit gasped as I stopped in my tracks
Suddenly my joyful smile left me void
It really seems my faith lacks
This was your idea remember, Lord?

Anxious to move ahead,
Pushing on with the progress
I have nothing to dread!
Let's get this show started

"Lord I know You have a plan"
My prayers plead to silence
"Lead me and keep me in your hand"
And I moved on with my ideas

In search I turned to the left
Right into a dead end road
But I mustn't go back to the cleft
For that would take much too long

Heading to the right
I found storms of every kind
Maybe taking this road wasn't so bright,
So I turned back bruised

Tired and worn I crawl back there
And see his plan, my desire ahead
I'm getting nowhere! I cry in despair
Why did You think I could do this Lord?

This is the end and I'm not this strong
To expect me to continue here is beyond me
I've prayed for your help for so long
Why are You so deaf to my plea?

Alas the Lord turned to me
And I realized His silence had a purpose
He was waiting on my heart to be
Ready to listen, to be broken

"Be still child, have I not promised
To get you to the other side?
Then just wait and let me lead
Stand still, I will move in time."

So in this desert I make my abode,
And here I shall remain
Until the time is, and He builds a road
Or gives me wings
-Jessica Traylor-

Home Schooler

You might be a home school graduate if:

My thoughts are in (parenthesizes)

1. You went to school in your PJs.
2. Your biology lab consisted of assisting in your sibling's birth.
3. Your stacks of books to check out was taller than the librarian.
4. Your PE came from chasing little toddlers around.
5. Your school bus was a 9 passenger van.
6. You considered school work after lunch to be cruel and unusual punishment.
7. Your father ever told the check-out lady at Wal-Mart, "We're on a field trip."
8. Your social life was viewed by some to be one rung lower than that of a Benedictine monk.
9. Your teacher ever wrote your report card on a napkin.
10. You had to move dirty laundry off your desk before you could start school.
11. The signatures on your diploma all end with the same last name.
12. Everyone else in the world was referred to as "Non-homies."
13. Your Mother's wardrobe consisted primarily of denim jumpers.
14. Your first real date was on your honeymoon.
15. The word 'homework' sounded like a foreign language.
16. Your yearbook was also your babybook.
17. A snow day meant that you had to shovel the driveway after you finished your school work.
18. You enjoyed the pastime of watching public school kids walk home from school.
19. You had to look at the clock to see if you could call your public school friends yet.
20. You thought that "public-school-kid" was an insult of the highest degree. (HAHAHAHAHA)
21. Health class consisted of eating breakfast.
22. You had to decide what year you wanted to graduate.
23. You were always late but just called it "homeschooler time."
24. You can remember nearly every single day you went to public school.
25. The teacher could kiss the principal, and no one thought it was unusual.
26. You got to school and the teacher asked you if you've done all your chores.
27. You are one of the best people in the world!
28. Your friends talked about waiting in line for seven hours to try out the new roller coaster in town, so you went and waited five minutes on a school day.
29. Your school lunches contained any food item easily identifiable to a person without a microscope and extensive scientific knowledge.
30. You find it entertaining to listen to Beethoven while in math class.
31. Gym class was actually a fun activity like swimming.
32. You're on a first-name basis with the clerks at the local bookstore.
33. The closest thing to a bully in your school was your slightly strange two-year-old sister.
34. Your friends complained about a hard day at school, and you had to keep yourself from giving them "that homeschooling smile." (LOL!!!! This one is SO true!!)
35. You heard the phrase "socialization" and laughed because you had more friends and knew more people than your public school friends.
36. Your school dress code was: No Nudity Allowed
37. You could eat while you took a test
38. You were firmly convinced that high school causes brain damage (Yup! along with syncopation, hehe)
39. You slept in till 9 am on weekdays but got up at 7 am on Sundays
40. You have more siblings than sweaters
41. You knew what a 'Park Day' is
42. Your favorite author was Jane Austen, G.K. Chesterton, or P.G. Wodehouse
43. You have ever suffered through Saxon Math (amen, there should be some kind of tax credit for that...)
44. All birthdays were school holidays
45. You have ever finished your schoolwork before breakfast
46. You taunted high schooled friends during finals week
47. You spent more than 2 hours each day reading and writing....voluntarily
48. You are 16 years of age or older and still have never been on a date
49. You knew what "Unit Studies" were (totally!)
50. You had more than 2 science experiments going on in your room
51. You knew more than 1 Latin paradigm
52. You have ever spent the entire school day in pajamas
53. You regularly utilized words such as "malingering", "tedious", and "indubitably"
54. You considered sled riding phys ed
55. Your IQ is greater than your weight
56. You checked out more than 10 books each time you visited the library
57. You have ever attempted to teach yourself physics
58. When asked about your GPA, you said, "Oh, probably 4.0." ( *nods knowingly* )
59. You had no idea as to what rock bands were popular then...but you could recite all of the stages of cellular mitosis. ... (in order)
60. You believed that you were the most intelligent human in your age bracket within a ten mile radius.
61. You actually wanted to receive books on your birthday
62. Cleaning your room counted as Phys-Ed. (Yup!! Your assignment book consisted of "riding horses" "cleaning room" and "making bread")
63. Your field trip took you overseas.
64. Shop class included watching your brother fix his car.
65. Your track meet was riding into town to race bikes with a friend. (Yup!)
66. Your mom wished you'd stop reading and do something else for a change.
67. Your bedroom was your classroom and your bed or floor was the desk.
68. You stayed up till whenever, and not because you were doing homework.
69. You could get days ahead in almost any subject.
70. You recorded, planned and graded your own school work. (and make your own report card)
71. You forgot about the minor holidays until you saw your dad sitting home in sweats or your public school friends asked you over the weekend what you did on your day off.
72. You didn't know what spring break was.
73. Your mom counted watching a war movie as history and playing out in the snow as PE. (Totally!! Mom's are creative)
74. You had more friends way older and younger than you than ones your actual age. (yup)
75. You read for fun

Innocent?

I am reading through the Old Testament these days and a couple of days ago I was in 1 Samuel and it was talking about when the Philistines came and took away the ark of the Lord and took it to their camp and set it up by their "dagon god" ...then you know the story, dagon fell down before the ark and they set it up again and the next night it fell down again and broke its arms and head off, so just the trunk was left. So that got me to thinking about why his arms would be up by his head, I mean unless he was reaching up or something then his stone arms would have had to supernaturally move up as if they were bowing to the Lord, as he fell...so I looked up the god dagon online and found out that he looks like a mermaid. (merman) That didn't really answer the arm question, but I found it very interesting that there is an idol who looks just like Ariel. So I looked up the connection between Ariel the Disney mermaid and the god dagon. I found out that almost every pagan culture has a god who is half man half fish, and there was one merman who was supposedly the father of most of them and he was the big macho king of the sea and sun who married his sister and they populated the sea with mermaids. The goal of a mermaid was to get a soul, and theoretically the only way they could do that would be to marry a human or kill a human and steal their soul. (actually I think they also may could have just been really good and earned a soul but I didn't read much about that so I'm not sure) The mermaids then mixed with other stuff and populated the sea with sirens, who where wicked and would misuse their supernatural seductive abilities to sing sailers to their doom so they could steal their souls. (which was what the witch was trying to do in the movie by getting Ariel's voice) The stories behind it are a little different for each culture, but relatively that's the jist of it. Ariel's Daddy if you remember is the king of the sea, and he even has the same name as the (greek? version of the) dagon god, Titan. The voice that was so important in the movie, it had supernatural seductive abilities and would lure men to their doom. However, Ariel decided she wanted to get a soul by marrying a human, instead of killing one. Of course they have made it acceptable to our culture, it's a children's cartoon; they didn't tell you that her voice was satanically seductive or that she was searching for a soul, and they made the witch want to marry Eric instead of eat him and of course they appropriately stuck her in a bra. Plus America wasn't ready yet to accept a real mermaid story, now in fact they do have a horror movie named She Creature about a man eating mermaid, but back when the Little Mermaid came out America wasn't ready for that. That was just the ploy to get us use to the idea. Basically the Little Mermaid is a watered down play off on a god myth, which came to the world many centuries ago through demons.


Furthermore, apparently the makers of the Little Mermaid were into the Da Vinci Code. They made Ariel to be the picture of who they think Mary Magdalene was...the lost bride of Christ. For many centuries Mary Magdalene has been associated with mermaids. (and I'm not sure why, but I'm guessing because the mermaid has long been a symbol of prostitution, as they think Mary was the woman who the pharisees tried to get Jesus to condemn, just as Ariel was condemned by her father unjustly) From her hair color, to her skin, (being dark as the woman in Song of Solomon who was a picture of the bride of Christ who they think is Mary Magdalene) to the book and mirror that she carried, (apparently that had some kind of significance I don't know much about the Da Vinci code). The name Ariel even means "Jerusalem" the bride of Christ. If you remember in the movie Ariel even goes down to an old wrecked ship and looks at human stuff and finds an old painting of a woman with a candle...that is an old painting of Mary Magdalene. That is just blasphemy! In fact my Aunt told me yesterday that she's read the Da Vinci code book and it praises Disney for incorporating so many of their ideas in their movies and being a major factor in bringing the worship of Mary Magdalene to the United States. From what I understand the Catholics originally took Jesus, Mary his mother, and Mary Magdalene and made them into their sun god; kind of a trinity of their sun god reincarnated or something crazy like that, and they've been worshiping those three ever since. It's interesting to note that in some cultures the sea god came out during the day and became the sun god, which leads us back to where we began; the worship of the sea god. All that said do you think the Little Mermaid is simply innocent children's entertainment? I think not! From what I'm seeing the Da Vinci code is the modern cult version of the old worship of the sea god/demon, and that the Little Mermaid is a big asset in pushing their agenda.

Hmmm, makes you wonder about other Disney movies?

Things we leave behind

There sits Simon so foolishly wise
Proudly he's tending his nets
Then Jesus calls and the boats drift away
And all that he owns he forgets
But more than the nets he abandoned that day
He found that his pride was soon drifting away
And it's hard to imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behind

Matthew was mindful of taking the tax
And pressing the people to pay
But hearing the call he responded in faith
And followed the Light and the Way
And leaving the people so puzzled he found
The greed in his heart was no longer around
And it's hard to imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behind

Every heart needs to be set free
From possessions that hold it so tight
'Cause freedom's not found in the things that we own
It's the power to do what is right
With Jesus, our only possession
Then giving becomes our delight
And we can't imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behind

We show a love for the world in our lives
By worshipping goods we possess
When Jesus says, Lay all your treasures aside
And love God above all the rest
'Cause when we say no to the things of the world
We open our hearts to the love of the Lord
And it's hard to imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behind

And when we say no to the things of the world
We open our hearts to the love of the Lord
And it's hard to imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behind

And it's hard to imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behind
--Michael Card & Scott Roland--