Oct. 6, 2008 - Set the Example

Thank you so much for all the encouraging comments on my last post! I am slowly getting used to Eyebright’s absence.

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Jul. 31, 2008 - Fingerprints of... Who?

Just a few minutes ago I was listening to Fingerprints of God, by Steven Curtis Chapman.

Every time I hear that song it makes me think, do people see the fingerprints of God on me? Can they see that he made me, and that I am his. That I believe in him, and worship him? I sure hope so.

Yesterday was the first day of fair for us. Since a few of the family members had entered something we decided to go see how they did and check everything else out.

Both Eyebright and I left saying, "There are a lot of scary people in this world."
To tell you the truth, I do not see any of my Lords fingerprints on someone who is showing more skin then needs to be seen, has more then I can count body piercings, with a purple mohawk.

I don't see anything in that person that glorifies God. I don't see his fingerprints anywhere that say, "I molded this person into who he is. He is my creation."
All I see is Satan's work, and I don't know about you, but I would much rather have God's thumb print on my forehead, then Satan's.

Who's fingerprints our on you?

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Jul. 29, 2008 - The Color Green

Realizing I had not posted for awhile I searched my puny little brain for something to post about.

I finally decided on the color green. No really, I'm going to write a whole post about green.

To start with I'll have to get you strait on one thing, my favorite color is not blue. I know the title of the blog is Out of the Blue, I am Bluejane and my blogs base color is blue. The reason for this is simple because my family often describe my as out of the blue. A lot of the times after I say something they will all just look at me and say, "well that was out of the blue."

I guess I should move on now before this whole post turns out to be about blue.

As you may have guessed by now. My favorite color is green. It has been for a long time. I think I first decided green was my favorite color when we went to visit my Aunt in the valley. The valley is a very green place. The whole place is simple covered in green because plants our everywhere.

I think before this my favorite color was yellow, probably because that's my Dads favorite color and I wanted to be just like him.

It's funny, if you take the color people describe me as (blue) and mix it with my old favorite color, (yellow) you get green. My favorite color now. How interesting.

Now more about the color green. To read about what Wikipedia has to say about green go HERE.

You can live in the city of Green.

There is even a rock band called The Color Green.

According to the Sensational Color website this is how the color green effects you.
1) It soothes you.
2) Relaxes you mentally as well as physically.
3) It helps to alleviate depression, nervousness and anxiety.
4) Offers a sense of renewal, self-control, and harmony.

In my opinion that's all hog wash. I have never felt soothed while looking at the color green, I am hardly ever relaxed mentally, or physically. I must admit I have very little self-control.

Anyway, I've got to bring this post to an end as I've got some things that need done, but please, let me know what your favorite color is!

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Jun. 23, 2008 - I am a Witness for God

Witness.

I am a witness. That sounds pretty important, but it is even more so when you add, for God, to the end of it.

I am a witness for God.

Wow! Can you imagine what would happen in today's society if you stood at the front of a public school class room and said that to everyone there?
I don't think I want to know.

When I hear the word witness in that context I think, "Someone who tells others what they believe, in this case, about God."  If you think about it a little longer though, it takes in a whole new meaning.

Being a witness does not just mean going door to door and handing out tracks. It doesnt mean that you have to go on as many mission trips as possible, and starting new ones when you have enough time.

These things are great, but just because I'm not doing them right now does not mean I'm not a witness.

I am a witness for God, but by saying that I don't mean I have to walk up to people and just start talking to God.

You can be a witness by simply smiling and saying, "Have a great day", to the lady at the checkout stand or by dressing modestly.

You can be a witness by refusing to do what you know is wrong. By caring for those in need.

You don't have to be holding a Bible to be the kind of witness I try to be.

All you have to do is let God's love shine through you.

I am a witness for the Lord.

Are you?

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Jun. 2, 2008 - Wow! What a Promise!

One of my favorite verses is is Isaiah 41:10.

Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

I think the biggest reason why I like this verse is because of the promise it has in it.

I am with you.

I am your God.

I will strengthen you.

I will help you.

I will uphold you.

See a pattern there. God does not say, "Well I'll be with you, but only if you..."

"I'll be with you if the sun is shinning, but as soon as it starts to rain, I'm out of here."

"I might give you strength, I'm not sure though."

HE WILL! He IS my God! He WILL help me, and the sentence ends there. That's it. He WILL uphold me.

That promise means so much to me.

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Mar. 22, 2008 - How Can you Not Believe?

I have really been trying to pay a lot of attention to science, because I admit, it's not one of my best subjects.

Anyway I was studying the human body. Yeah! (I'm really trying to get into this)

The last module was titled The Human Digestive System, and I learned about,  (You won't believe me when I tell you) the human digestive system!

Getting on with it, I was so amazed at how complex the whole thing is!

This module I am studying the human respiratory and circulatory systems, again, I can't believe how intricate the whole thing is!

In this module you look more closely at the human heart.

The other day we listened to a silly country song and the singer said "you touch every place in my heart" I said,
"That would be the right atrium, the left atrium, the right ventricle, and the left ventricle."

Really though, how on earth do people think that this all happened by accident.

BANG and would you look at that there's a beating heart functioning perfectly!

I just can't see that.

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Feb. 9, 2008 - I Still Wonder

First of all I would like to say that in no way am I trying to say the bible is not good enough, or that God did not do a very good job in putting it together.
These are just a few questions I had about the Old Testament, questions you could have at the end of every story.

At a church we once went to I really enjoyed my Sunday School Class. However it occurred to me one day that we had gone over the story of Jonah 3 to 4 times that year, and I mentioned this to my teacher. She told me that it didn't matter how many times you read the story you should always learn something new from it.
This is true, but I still wonder if the whale was sick for the whole three days Jonah was sitting in his stomach, or did he become vilently ill all of the sudden, on the third day.
My Sunday school teacher never  told me about that!

I just started reading Leviticus, and the other night I read the verse,

Then the priest shall take some of it's blood with his finger, put it on the horns of the alter of burnt offering, and pour it's remaining blood at the base of the alter.
Leviticus 4:30

It suddenly hit me, I wonder what Aaron's hands looked like? This guy's job was to burn blood and guts.
However it says in Exodus 40:32

When they went into the tabernacle of meeting, and when they came near the alter, they washed, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

So he must have been washing his hands more times a day then we probably do in a week.

I ask again, what must his hands look like?
I never learned that in school.

As somewhat of an animal lover I've got a few questions I could ask Samson.
For instance if you read Judges 15:4-5

Then Samson went and caught 300 foxes; and he took torches, turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.
When he had set the torches on fire, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as vineyards and olive groves.

I want to know if any kind soul took the time to stop, and put all those torches out, or if half of the foxes had to learn to walk backwards to make it to the nearest stream, and sit soothing their sore undersides, and if they ever got untied from one another for that matter?

I guess the guy I should be asking about animals would be Noah. I wonder if he had any trouble keeping his lions away from the zebras, or if God made all the animals friends for 40 days? Then again God could have made them all lethargic, I get sleepy on a rainy day.
When I brought the subject up with Mommy, she wanted to know if any of the animals ever got sea sick. I mean this wasn't just a pitter, patter type rain, the skies were opened up, you can read about it on my sister Eyebright's blog here. 

Well like I said, I just had a few unanswered questions.

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Jan. 21, 2008 - You're Talking to the Queen of Complaint

I could complain from dusk to dawn without stopping if I wanted to. I am not proud of this fact.

I complain unconsciously, I just say something then realize that I was complaining. I obviously need to think before I speak, not one of my better qualities.

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Oct. 11, 2007 - The Side Art of Blogging ~ Commenting

In my previouse post titled Blogging is an Art I told you I would write another post about the side art of blogging. As for the last post, I could go on forever, but right now lets talk about the side art, which is as I said, commenting.

The art of Blogging is not only learning to write good posts, but also learning to write great comments, and if you are a really accomplished blogger you will know how to use the HTML to make awesome templates and neat stuff like that, but for now we are talking about the comments.

One of the most importent things is responding to comments. I can not brag of being good at it, but here we go. 

It is just proper etiquette to respond when someone says something to you.

The same with comments. Someone is saying something to you. You should let them know your listening.

An easy way to remember to respond to a comment is to go to your last post, and answer all the comments there. This is the method I have been using, however, it dosen't seem to work, but maybe it will for you.

Another way is if you get the e-mails notifing you that you have a comment, save them to remind you to respond. This is the method my sister Eyebright uses. It seems to work.

Now that you know to respond, it's time to learn how to write a comment.

One like the following will not do.

yo that was so like cool.

you shold check out my blog it is awsome lol lol

First of all, you should use no slang like yo. I personally think when people use the word yo it is rude, and disrespectful. Act civilized when writing a comment, that is what will draw people to your blog.

A good comment would contain more about what had been posted about, and more about the person that you are commenting to. Remember that the comment is not about you, and your blog, but about them, and their post.

Here are a few things I look for in a good comment.

Spelling is just like it would be in a post. Try to make the comment so that it is readable.

Don't feal bad about leaving a long comment. Just so it's not several web pages long, I enjoy long comments, and I think other people do, too. This dosen't mean you have to leave long comments all the time, short and sweet is nice too, but if you have something to say, don't feel bad about saying it.

If you are a Christian, act like one. The way you comment is a big way for other bloggers to decide if you are someone they would like to have on their friends list.

If the post you are commenting on is a big "thinker" post, let the writer know what you think, even if you don't agree with them, just put it in a nice way.

Last, but not least, remember that you could be making someone's day, who was wondering why she still has no comments on the post she thought was great!

A great post to read about commenting, and blogging is on totustuus's blog, please stop and read it.

Please think about this the next time you leave a comment.

Thank you all for reading, and please, leave a comment!

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Oct. 3, 2007 - Blogging is an Art

If you think about it, blogging is an art.

A blogger will look for ways to get his/her readers to leave comments, or for a way to get friends. They do this by trying to write what they think their readers will enjoy reading.

I am also into the art if blogging, I try to improve my blog, I try to write what I think you would like to read.

In this way a painter paints, each time he paints he tries to find the exact picture that will sell well, he paints for his customers, what they will want.

Now, I not only write on my blog, but I read many blogs as well. I can't say to much on what your reader will want to read, but I know they don't want to read a post like the following either. I am Not Trying to Point ANYONE Out!

hi guies like whats hapen in youur life!!!! i hav not don anythg fun for like year's!!!!!        

lol lol lol rofl rofl rofl

so leave me a comnt okay PLESE comnt!! PLESE PLESE PLESE!!!!

This is not a blogging artist!

I feel like commenting on these types of posts and saying, Wow you finally found the shift key, and figured out how to capitalize something near the end of your post there!

On a side note, I can't stand it how people write lol, or rofl. I think it is okay once, or twice, but more then that is just to much.
My sister Eyebright and I got to talking about it one time, and I said, it sounds like the people who say that, laugh like that.
For example you walk up to some one and tell them a joke, when your done they burst out shouting LOL, LOL, with no feeling at all. Now if the joke was really funny they would lay down on the floor, and once again with no feeling say ROFL, ROFL!
Dosen't that sound silly?

Back to the main point. I'm not a blogger like Jocelyn who gets tons of comments, but I do know how to write.

Notice in the example post I gave you how many words were misspelled.
I can't say I am the greatest at spelling, in fact, you might have found a misspelled word, or two in a comment I left, but I try to get someone to check my post before it goes public.

Please remember that I was not trying to point anyone out by this post, and for those of you who do blog as the (a little bit exagerated) post above, this post (I hope) was just trying to push you in the right direction.

I hope to do a post about the side art of blogging soon.

Bluejane

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Jun. 12, 2007 - God and His People

I try to read in my Bible every night and right now I am reading in the book of Exodus. The last few nights I have been reading about a lot of the laws God was telling the Isralites to follow.  As I was flipping thru the pages of my Bible, I glanced at the little headline telling me what the next chapter is going to be about and it said, The Gold Calf. I thought about how many times God's people sinned. Every time God would just remind them that they where sinning, and then teach them to be obediant again.

I thought about how a horse is the same way. Say you're teaching your horse to stop the minute you say "whoa," but your horse just dosen't seem to get it, so to show him he's doing the wrong thing you might back him up a few steps as a reminder not to do that.

The rider is like God, and the horse like his people. They do one wrong thing after the next, and God punishes them to show them who's boss, so to speak, but He still loves them, and wants to teach them the right way to do things.

God got frustrated with His people many times when they wouldn't listen, just as we get frustrated at our horse.

As God got further and further along the road with His people He still loved them, and didn't destroy them.

As we get further and further along the road with our horse we have the choice to sell, and get rid of the horse because it's just way to much trouble, or to keep it and be patient with it.  Even when you're really mad at it, don't get rid of it but keep it, and teach it to do the right thing.

For those of you that don't ride or own horses this applies to many things. Like you and your dog, or even you, and your younger siblings (Only in this instance you don't have the chance to get rid of them.)

I want to be a rider like God, to always try to understand what the horse is thinking. After all I have been in spots like that many times only I was the Isralites, and my Mom or Dad was teaching me like God.

Trying to find out what a Bible story parralles in life helps me to understand better what God is trying to teach me, for instance I don't want to be like the Isralites or that disobediant horse!

Bluejane

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May. 30, 2007 - The Things We Take for Granted

A lot of people don't think about how important their keyboard is.
If it wasn't for my keyboard I would not be blogging, and you would have never of read this. If it wasn't for my keyboard I would not write my monthly newsletter, send e-mails to all my friends, or even be able to look things up on the computer!

The truth is a lot of people, take a lot of little things for granted, and the keyboard is one of those little things.

This was brought to my attention while staying with my Great-grandma. We were staying at my grandparents house, and I couldn't help, but notice what a nice keybored my grandpa has.

Our keyboard is rather old, and you really have to punch down on some of the keys to get them to work,while my grandpa's keys work with the slightest touch, and my hands danced over them. It felt nice to type, like typing on air.

Our keyboard is also dirty, over the years it has accumulated a lot of dust in between keys where it is impossable to get out, or where it has just been ignored. It has seen better days. My grandpa's computer is living its better days. It is nice and clean, and you don't worry about picking up germs from it because it is just so clean.

While I'm on the subject of things that you just can't blog without, lets talk about the mouse.

Unless you have a touch screen you can't get on the computer without your mouse. Another one of those little things people take for granted.

We have a trackball mouse. With a trackball it stays in one place, and you move the little ball on it to move the mouse on the computer screen where you want it to go. We have had this mouse for 5 to 6 years now, and I sometimes forget there is any other kind of mouse, but my grandpa has a regular mouse. I can't stand those kind of mouses (mice...meeces) I am so used to our mouse I can't figure out how to use a regular mouse, but I got used to it.  Then after the two weeks at his house I came home and it took me some time to get used to our mouse again.

So pay more attention to your mouse and keybored, they deserve it!

Bluejane

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