Keep Working!

Most Americans and many others around the world commit this common mistake. The mistake is that they are always trying to do less work. They always are happy when they retire from work. Yippe they think. But they should not think that. Also when we are doing a project I always try to do my work fast to finish it. But Paul said that if we did not work we would not eat. So don't commit this mistake.

Is it Fun or History?

The cakes I just posted are part of a history assignment. My sister (Cara) teaches me history and we had to make a cake look like a map of Egypt. The blue line in the middle of the cake represents the Nile. The blue at the top is the Mediterranean and the little lines under it are rivers flowing into the Nile. I was also supposed to make little flags representing places in Egypt. Although they cannot be read on the computer, they say Cairo, Thebes, Karnak, Giza, Memphis, Nile, Upper Egypt, Lower Egypt, Abu Sibmel, and Valley of the Kings. It was also the tastiest history project I ever did!

Say cake! 

History cake! 

Rugs

The most recent pictures I put up are of rugs that my mom and I made. There are several names for that kind of rugging but we call them toothbrush rugs. It's neat to do and I have made 2 rugs, while my mom made 3 rugs amd 2 placemats.

What, Where,When?

The title is rather unusual but you will shortly know what it means. This post will tell you what I've been doing, where I've been doing it, and when I've been doing it. (Hence the title). I'll start from Thursday. Every Thursday I take piano lessons, and this time I got Pachelbel's Canon. (Or at least part of it in the easier form, but it still sounds magnificent). I love it! Then on every Friday I go to my great-grand-mother's house in the after-noon. We watched an Andy Griffith show then played pinochle. I won. Then we came home and watched the Scarlet Pimpernel which is about an Englishman who saved French aristocrats from the guillotine. Then on Saturday I worked on Latin, (I'm learning Latin), and that night I played Bible Trivia and lost.

My mom's rug 

A rug I made 

A Good Verse

Hi there, I'm back but I will not be writing today. My mom has been meditating on Matthew 7:7 and I've asked her to post her insights on it. So, it's all yours, Mom!

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

John and I have been reading a book on meditating on God's Word and John selected the above passage for us to work on. This past week, as I have meditated on these verses, I have found my questions to be more than my answers! However, he has asked me to share some of the insights we have been discussing. I noticed that the words "ask, seek and knock," are action words and require activity on my part. I have wondered if this passage reflects 3 separate actions or if it is encouraging a series of steps. I have realized that I often stop at the "ask" stage and have been considering the necessity to continue to "seek" and "knock." When I looked up the word "seek," I was delighted to find that the word can mean worship. It gave me a fresh look at the passage and directed me to more of a spiritual view than just the practical one that I was using to apply the passage. I truly have only scratched the surface of this marvelous scripture and am being careful to read the whole chapter and reflect on the passage in context. One thing I am finding is that my meditating is giving me such a hunger to read my Bible!

Thanks, Mom!

Will It ever grow?

We've been asking that question a lot at our house. You guessed it, we just planted grass seed. Actually, the landscaper did the front yard but we did the back. Besides watering twice a day with bad water pressure, we've been weeding and working on the rotten fence. I'm even writing this (on paper) outside where I just finished weeding. We're not letting the grass grow under our feet.(We're not supposed to be walking on the seed.)

A Fun Adventure!

Are you looking for fun and adventure? Then look for the Jonathan Park Series! Not only is it fun to listen to, but it also increases your knowledge about creation! The Vision Forum sells them and your bound to love them! If you buy them you'll learn alot. And you just can't hit the stop button. And as the Parks and Brenans say, "To God be the glory!"

Happy Birthday Dad!

I want to thank my father for being kind and considerate. But most for being a loving dad. He cares about me, and works hard so that I can eat and have things. Thanks, and happy birthday, Dad.

My Pets

My dog Tom is a very baaaaaaaad dog! But he's still cute. He loves to jump but only straight up. Then there's Jane. She's a scaredy-cat. If anyone new comes into the house she's upstairs and under the bed like a streak of lightning. Josephine is a food adoring cat. The only thing she likes more than food is Tom. Then lastly, there's Liselle. Most of the day she sits around and sleeps or growls at Tom. They don't get along very well. Well, that's all.

The big, lazy one, Liselle 

My evil, food-loving cat, Josephine 

My cat, Jane, posing for her picture 

My "elf" dog, Tom. 

Update

Due to uncontrollable circumstances (a nasty stomach virus) your regular blogger, John, has been out of commission these past several days, hence the reason for the lack of new posts. When fully recovered he will once again grace this blog with his news excerpts and thoughts on life.

~Tech support (a.k.a. Cara)

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

The Gettysburg Address was written by Abraham Lincoln
(the 16th president).
It can be called a speech or a poem. So here it is.

Fourscore and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth upon this continent
a new nation
Conceived in liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
testing wether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield
of that war.
We have come to dedicate
a portion of that field
a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives
that the nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do this.
But in a larger sense
we cannot dedicate,
we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here,
have consecrated it
far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note,
nor long remember,
what we said here;
but it cannot long forget
what they did here.
It is for us, the living,
rather to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work
which they have fought here
have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before us,
that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion;
to that cause for which they gave
the last full measure of devotion;
that these dead shall not have died in vain;
that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of freedom,
and that government
of the people, by the people, and for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.

NEWS RIGHT HERE!

This is another addition of News Right Here! So without further ado, let's get to it. A college graduate was fired for saying that corporate punishment should be allowed in the classroom.
Democrat legislators in Maryland have passed a bill saying that all businesses with over 10,000 employees in the State must pay 8% of their gross revenue in health benefits or to the State. They say that they are not targeting Wal-Mart, but Wal-Mart is the only business with than 10,000 employees in Maryland. Sounds strange, doesn't it? As always, you decide.

NEWS RIGHT HERE!
The pope is dead! Who will be the new pope? Will he be a cardinal?
Terri Schiavo is dead! Should she have died? Was she in pain? Could she think? Was she in a
vegetative state?
Former presidents Bush, and Clinton, with current president Bush, with others, travel to see
the body of the pope in Rome. Why didn't former president Jimmy Carter go with them? A
mystery?
A group of Vietnam veterans and others try to protect the Mexican border. Bush calls them vigilantes. Is that right? The Mexican President is angry that his people are being stopped from coming illegally across our border, and collecting benefits. Does that sound strange to you or what?
Write in with answers and news I've missed!

Welcome to John's Blog! I hope you enjoy your stay here. But before that, I feel some questions coming!
Well, you say, who are you, and why did you create this blog? Whew, that's better
I thought I felt a whole slew of questions coming! These are easy ones. First, I'm John (Josiah's
my middle name). And second, I just wanted to have some fun. And also I want you to have some fun to! So wether your looking at poems, essays, pets, the news, or even writing in, do just that!