Salt of the World Tuesday, Jul 22 2008

This past week, while taking a short family vacation DH and I had the wonderful opportunity to visit a salt mine. We rode in an elevator 650 feet into the earths surface to take our tour. There is a salt flat that runs from the top of Kansas down through Oklahoma and into parts of New Mexico and Texas. They have been drilling it out for over 30 years and have enough slat to keep mining for over two hundred years. While down in the earth I was reminded of the powerful preservative power of salt. It is so good at preserving thing. There is a company who uses the mind out areas for storage. They store all kinds of records along with the original film for just about every film ever made. When a company says “they have gone into there vaults and digitally restored it.” That means they have temporarily retrieved the original from the Kansas Salt mines. They had a newspaper down from the day after President Lincoln was assassinated. It was in Pristine Condition. looking like it had only been printed a few months ago. If you have ever been to the hospital or applied for a loan or a credit card, your permanent paper records are stored 650 feet under Kansas.

It is no wonder that in Mathew 5, The Lord Commands us to be the salt and light to the world.

13“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.

14“You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

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Laundry Wednesday, Jul 9 2008

So to day I truly earned the creative Genius award. I’m one of the worlds worst about getting laundry done in a timely fashion. Yesterday, I worked really hard at getting all of the laundry put away. I’m really good about getting it washed. Medium about getting it dried and lousy at putting it away, there was over a weeks worth of laundry clean and dried just wrinkling away while it sat in baskets. I am trying a new system for doing laundry one load a day first thing in the morning. We will see how this works out.

Now, on to my award. This morning when I went to put in the load of towels. I noticed that the washing machine was at the end of a pre-wash cycle not a wash cycle. That is right Yesterday, I pre-washed, dried, and put away clothes, that never got washed. Oh, well, I guess what people don’t know can’t here them. Good thing DH is a pharmacy student and not a farmer.

Tell me, what are your tricks for staying on top of the laundry?

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Independence Day Friday, Jul 4 2008

Today, is an important day in our Nation’s history. Independence Day the day that we remember the price of Freedom. In High School I had To memorize the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence it is on a day like to day that these words ring true.

Preamble to the Declaration of Independence

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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Welcome Sunday, Mar 30 2008

Welcome to Help Mates.

This is a blog set up to help you fulfill your most important role, that of being a help mate. We have put together several moms in different stages of life with different passions to help provide information for you as you raise your family to be all that God would have them be. We do not expect you to agree with everything we say at times we will not agree with each other. So let us know what you are thinking or have questions about. We would love to help you find the answer.

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