Something to Think About

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took
only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people
demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail,
before cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or
less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.

I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty
people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do
likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have
the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1. Term Limits.

12 years only, one of the possible options below..

A. Two Six-year Senate terms

B. Six Two-year House terms

C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social
Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social
Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.


The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.
Pasted from an email I received:
Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s),
then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only
take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message.
Maybe it is time.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree with the above, pass it
on.

Time

There never seems to be enough time to get it all in. Personal...Work...Devotional. Always active never coming to completion.I have made color coded calendars. I have set don't forget to take care of yourself goals. I have organized to just find my order fulfill the law of thermo-dynamics.

I am beginning to think it is all a myth. That people who regularly go to the gym, eat perfectly, have a tidy desk etc. just need more to do.I would like to give up but the neurotic me cannot. I still desire ORDER. I still want to be thin. I can't even blog regularly.
So I ate a Sonic burger and a diet coke for lunch. I am going to address my OU/OSU calendars and then get the stuff I took out of the closet to make room for my niece put away and if GOD wills get my garage ready to paint. I still need to fold towels and clean the shop. So much for self. Although, I am very fulfilled when it gets done. So who knows maybe work is more relaxing than Yoga to some of us more.............uncentered folks. If you read this you are welcome to pray for me to become a balanced individual. Or you can buy me a session with Caesar Milan.  

Ramblings

You know you haven't blogged in a while when they have changed the screen.It is really hard to blog when one has already talked to people all day. No matter how cleaver and uplifting my content may be; it is worn out by the end of the day.
Maybe that is why so many do quiet time in the morning instead of night. Perhaps God does prefer it that way. I always thought he wanted us to converse pretty much all the time. I thought quiet time was like a diet. As long as you eat the same calories in a 24 hour period your fat glands do not really care that much when you eat them. But perhaps I am wrong.
Maybe God wants to hear it all the first time; unedited, unscripted and fresh. Maybe if I spent quality time with Him in the morning HE could edit a lot of the content. Perhaps then my conversations with others would be cleaner, crisper and sweeter. Perhaps he could cause my brain to work better.Instead of having to hear a lot of problems, confessions and whining.  He could enjoy praise and adulation about how well His ideas worked. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... I think we have a plan.
Thanks Jesus!
What does this have to do with blogging or the lack therof? Not sure................

I was driving home a few days ago on one of those unseasonably warm days. The warmth felt like a gift from heaven. Then pulling into the drive I noticed these sweet flowers poking their little heads up out of the deadness of the rest of the bed. Some white some purple. Alongside them even those annoying weeds brought the cheer of life. Green is always better than that dismal lack of color that winter imposes on us.

Winter makes us appreciate Spring all the more. We notice that which we would not as a blessing.

Hmmmm. A picture of life. As we look and acknowledge the blessings we see our eyes are opened to even more. The tulip shoots under the tree. When you feel the gratitude of life. When you see the hope of a new era, dont' forget to keep looking. The tulip shoots are there.

Although, I knew another day would bring 29 degrees back to us. I know God is watching and knows our limits. Cool huh?

Just another snowy Friday.

I used to think a hard winter was when it was cold three weeks in a row. By cold I mean 30 degrees. This year it is like we live in the north country. I guess compared to when I was a girl it is the north country. But I have lived in Oklahoma for a very long time and this is only the second time we have had so much white on the ground for so many days running. Okay I will admit it is pretty. But so it the Carribean and you do not have to wear four layers of clothing.

I am working on my website today. Something I have put off for a while. If I can just figure out how to get the font on some of the pages to be any color but yellow I will feel like a total success. Everything else seems to be doable.

So I had better get back to that.

The next thing will be...dare I confess...take down the Christmas tree. I am pretty sure you are labeled as the neighborhood nut if it is still up in March. Maybe it is so cold no one will notice. Maybe they are all inside counting the days until flip flops and scuba gear. I am sooo ready. But for now I look out the office window and see medium sized flakes are still falling.

Out of the Coma

Funny how life can
get
off
track.
I took a sabbatical for several months and am now back in the game of life. I took off from July to December. It was not really intentional. One day turned into two, then a week, then a month and then six months. If I had planned it I would have filled it with activity. I am guessing God must have planned it. A time to refresh, reevaluate and get a handle on how to do all the things I feel compelled to do with out catching the undertow.
I feel refreshed and ready to go.
I have developed some NEW RULES to live by. Everyone knows how much I love rules.
1. Ask God First Act Second
2. Worry more about what God thinks and less what everyone else thinks.
3. Let those people that do not want to be in my life go. Hanging on just makes one crazy and feel like a worthless toad.
4. Be the best I can be under God.
5. Carpe Diem
6. Love others: let God fix them, nag them, reason with them, explain things to them, give them a heart of forgiveness or whatever pleadings performed in the past that haven't worked.
7. Remember what Daddy always told me. He was right 99.995% of the time.
8. Do not second guess my best intentions. Do not be a door mat.
9. Laugh a lot.
10.Love Dan, Eric, Mark, Zack, Ben, Aleksa, Rebecca, Kevin, Jason, and Summer.They are gifts from God that will always hold first place in my heart.
GO

Memories

I love hearing my daughter recount the antics of her boys. Mostly because it reminds me that I took some childhood disruptions way too hard.
Yes, we do have to correct but often times we can laugh in our spirit as we correct. I wonder if that is what God does with us. Does he patiently watch as we walk into that wall, knowing that the brick prints on our heads will teach us to stop next time before the blood runs down our foreheads? I feel fairly certain that he doesn't let us ruin His day.He doesn't get stressed out. He doesn't fear parental failure.
What a lot we can learn.

My e mail reply to Obama's e mail request for support for his health plan.

Respectfully Mr. President,
Emphatically No!!!!
What is important to me is freedom. So that I can be a productive citizen, providing for my own needs with as little Government interference as possible. The government has already stolen my FICA and self-employment tax contributions and created an unfunded liability instead of setting up the trust that was supposed to be for my retirement. If I had put that money in a low interest CD, I would be wealthy now. Instead the so called representatives of the people are destroying our REPUBLIC and creating an elitist regime. Americans would rather take care of our own and let the government protect us from attack of other countries. We want you to protect our freedom! Not steal our money and control our steps under the guise of helping us.

Corruption, lies, immorality, hidden agendas; that is what the ones in Washington want to practice.They are not even paying their own tax obligations! They put rules on others that they refuse to put on themselves. Are they somehow more human than we? Tell me, why should I trust them with my health, my money or my environment?

The United States was founded on honoring God and yet our leaders are practicing wickedness in His face. I would suggest you read the biography of a man named John Calvin who, at 27 years old, wrote principles much like our Constitution. It is believed that the framers of our constitution followed much of his thought in the writing of our constitution. They may not have all agreed on every point of theology but they were all keenly aware of the fact that God was superior to them. And that they would be held accountable.

Men will always rebel against God and God will always use the wicked to get the attention of His people but woe to the ones who destroy the people of God.

No government is not the answer. Those in charge do not even know the question. Yet they want to put the citizenry under their total control.
My rights are not under the government, however. As a citizen of the United States of America my rights are provided by God and not this or any government.
Do you not realize that God is sovereign and that you or anyone else cannot thwart His plan. You do not want to be His ignoble vessel. Please, stop this insanity. Many have died for a free America.
Stop worrying about the "whatever" mouse. God has him covered. Worry more of the souls of men. You were appointed by God for this time to be president. Do you want to advance the agenda of a Sovereign almighty God who created everything? A God who can of His own volition speak and we are dust or elevate us to the position of ruler? Or do you want to advance your own agenda or even worse that of the very enemies of God?
Do you want to advance the agenda of communism or freedom? Truth or a lie? Do you want to build or tear down?
Whatever you and those around you choose, we as a citizenry are somewhat at your mercy. But you will be held accountable by the one true God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Learn of Him and He will help you.
Thank you,
Kathy Presley

Another with my name.... definitely not me.

I noticed when googling my name that their is another Kathy Presley that is not me. She seems a bit or maybe a lot gutsier than me. We definitely have different approaches to life. So if any one out there is curious. I do not have an alter ego. I do not know that lady. I am sure she is very nice but not me.

Are we ready?

Are we ready for what is coming? It appears that a large crowd of our fellow citizens are not happy living in a free country and would prefer it be changed to something akin to the ideolgies of Marx or Lenin.I am not sure why they want someone else to call the shots. I cannot fathom why one would want another to be responsible for their welfare. I kind of enjoy making my own mistakes rather than have someone else make theirs at my expense.

Failure is a great teacher. It instructs us to never do it that way again. Freedom allows for failure. Government dominance demands freedom to fail.

Are we ready to check in with the great society before we come or go; before we buy or sell? Do we want them to decide our careers for us? How many children we will have? When we can live or when we must die?

I do not. Do you?