This is Enouraging News to Me

This is encouraging to me that the Iraqi police are taking actions such as these.  It appears to me that the good people of Iraq are more in charge each day, despite the level of violence that is occurring daily.  Not only that, but corruption in Iraq has a new enemy, and it is the citizens of Iraq.  

In fact the violence that is going on in Iraq today, while so tragic in itself, indicates a  struggle among Iraq's own people to establish what their country will be.  The people of Iraq are fighting the Taliban's influence now in that country, not our own sons and daughters.  We must continue through our diplomatic efforts and programs, the push for establishing this new democracy, which has been bought at such a great cost.  To the Coalition Forces, thank you for your service.

 http://www.shafaaq.com/en/news/3280-baghdads-in-charge-for-the-biggest-trafficking-in-women-network-arrested-.html

No One is Ever Going to Believe this Story.... but I've Got Video!!!

History needs for Artists to Go to War, They Won't Let Me, I've Already Asked.

They are letting this guy, probably has to do with the Marine thing, and how good his work is.  He needs a little help raising the money to go, so as you help know you are preserving the record of this very long and difficult conflict.  You gift will be a part of "never forgetting."

His name is Rob Bates and I have been to his site.  He is one of those guys who has taken to heart, "once a Marine, always a Marine."  He is going to embed with the troops in Afghanistan, but must raise $5k to do so.  The National Museum of the Marine Corps obviously holds him in high esteem as several of his works are a part of this collection.  He is  a freelance artist/correspondant for WUNC, The War on American Public Media.

I know the reason from my soul that artists must go to war... we see things...  things that a camera has only a one in 10,000,000 or so chance to capture... Those things we see go to our heart and soul, and they must come out, we cannot rest until they do, because we know others see and feel them too.  God has not given to everyone the gift of "seeing deeply," and then somehow the ability or curse of being compelled  and capable of sharing "the seen" with others.
 
Below is the link to give if you can.  If you have the resources, I am sure God will bless your gift, and use it to preserve the record of all that has been given, by "the few, the proud, the Marines."

http://igg.me/p/216213

Did You See That Blue Moon Tonight?

                           OOOOOhhhh, AAAAAhhhh that Blue Moon thing....

Blue Moon

Did you see that rare blue moon tonight,

In the sky of the land where they fight?

As I gazed up I thought longingly of you,

When you saw it, did you think of me too?

War has taken you my Soldier, far from me,

You left, and I never knew how long it would be.

When you are gone it leaves a hole in my heart,

How I wish we never had to be apart. 

 Now I wonder will I see you sometime soon,

I realize sadly, only once in a blue moon.

I love you and miss you Randy.... 

 

Beautiful Sunsets From Lake Conroe Texas

I Love This Quote From Charles Spurgeon

They have no veils of ignorance or prejudice to darken their sight in heaven. Those of us who most candidly endeavor to learn the truth are nevertheless in some degree biased and warped by education. Let us struggle as we may, yet still our surroundings will not permit us to see things as they are. There is a deflection in our vision, a refraction in the air, a something everywhere which casts the beam of light out of its straight line so that we see rather the appearance than the reality of truth.  We see not with open sight; our vision is marred; but up yonder, among the golden harps, they “know, even as they are known.”  Charles Spurgeon

Speaking of Children School Starts Soon... Pray for Those Who Hold Our Future!

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists.  Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit." John Steinbeck