On Eagle's Wings

Jun. 19, 2008 - 1st Amendment Rights... Or Not

I just read an article about a license plate that South Carolina is attempting to put into circulation (they have not as yet been told not to put them into circulation). The plates read ‘I believe’ and carry a cross superimposed over a stained glass window. A separation of church and state group is claiming that the plates violate their first amendment right.

I wonder though, do they really stop and think about it? Every day as I go about my business, I see people wearing head scarves and people wearing crosses or stars.

If we are allowed to show our faith by our clothing and jewelry, how is it any different than putting plates on your car? How does it violate someone else’s 1^st Amendment rights?

Please tell me if you have a clue.

~Eagle Eyes

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Mar. 2, 2008 - The Single Greatest Thing

Hey, everyone, I decided to come back. Maybe you've all deserted me, maybe not. But I do have somethings to say. Maybe not a lot on each thing, but something none the less. Todays is straightforward, something we can all relate to:

Every girl out there, it seems, is worried about their weight. I am too. While I could never claim to know everything about it, or very much, I have discovered something that just might turn to tide of our war against the pounds: go to bed. It sounds stupid, but it's true. Maybe I'm projecting but we do tend to eat more when we stay up late. Well, if we're in bed, how can we eat? Try it, I'm doing it too, and getting more rest in the process. And if you want to prove me wrong, do it too.

So, here's to all you in cyberspace, let's prove the world wrong.
Brachot,
~Eagle Eyes

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Aug. 3, 2007 - Tag You're It!

Apparently, I have been tagged by Earthling. I can only assume that this is payback for not posting for four months, or however many have past since April. I didn't really know what this meant until I went to Earthling's blog and read about it. So, here are the rules:

Tag Rules:

1).The player must state 8 random facts about themself.

2).The person who is tagged must post on his/her own blog his/her answers and post the rules first.

3).Then the player must pick 8 people and tag them. Also leave them a note on Message that lets them know that you tagged them.

So, here goes nothing.

1.) I am a very incident-ridden person. While Earthling can boast that she broke her leg in the doctor's office, I can boast that I left art at the National Gallery of Art, in the form of blood on the steps. And I have to thank Dr. Mitchell for that wonderful way of putting it.

2.) I am an aspiring figure skater. I trained for over a year in fact, only to fracture my ankle badly enough to need five screws and a plate and to throughly freak my mother out.

3.) I am in love with Patrick Henry College's Teen Leadership Camps. I can't say that I've gained leadership skills there, but I can say that I have learned a lot in all three fields of study that I studied while I was there. And PHC Clue rocks!

4.) I love to write. I have just finished my first draft of my first completed story and that was because I promised to someone. I have covered vast topics from Jedi Knights, to the Warriors of the Sodan, to gymnastics and figure skating, to terrorists, to world domination (Sort of), and to all forms of dance.

5.) I love to read. I am always devouring books, some I will admit are not the best books to read, but I must have sustenance! My favorite Harry Potter is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I like the Lily Series, the Elsie Dinsmore series, the Thoroughbred series, the Phantom Stallion series, and am in the midst of the first Left Behind book, which I am finding quite wierd.

6.) I love to dance. Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Irish Step, Stomp, you name it, I love it! The main form of dance that I do is a form of Folk dance known as Israeli Folk or Messianic. It can be easy enough that people with two left feet can do it, and can also be advanced enough that those of us who continue to do it will not get bored. Go Israeli!

7.) I am a Messianic Jew. Most of you won't know what that means except for what I've written here on this blog in the past. Being Messianic makes me both Jewish and Christian. To the Christians it is as though I simply follow another form of the religion, but to the Jews, I am labeled a traitor that is not fit to be Jewish. Well, that's the harsher version of reality. In truth, I add a handful of holidays, to my celebrations, enjoy Israeli Folk dancing, enjoy traditional Jewish foods, study and sing Hebrew. And randomly get proposed to by people I don't know. LOL.

8.) I am a baker. I am randomly called 'the bread girl' by young kids and have often heard people ask where my bread is bought. I love telling them that I made it. I make a traditional Jewish egg bread known as Challah. I try to do it every Friday, in preparation for the Sabbath but every once in awhile I don't do it and today was the first time in five weeks that I made it. So WOOT for everyone who will eat it tommorow.

Well, that's 8 facts and since I don't know the bloggers here very much, I can't tag anyone. So I'm leaving that job up to Earthling, my good friend.

This is Eagle Eyes signing out.

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Apr. 11, 2007 - ...Be Mine...

Recently, I’ve been listening to two songs that have really impressed upon me just what those marriage vows mean. While I may not be married I do sort of have an idea about them. As many young girls do, I have dreamt up my version of married life, my husband, and my children. But is it as wonderful as I would dream? I doubt it. We young ones wish to dream of perfect children who are considerate, knowledgeable, and clean, husbands who never differ with us in opinion and always baby us.

My parents’ marriage is the exact opposite. My mother will tout her opinions strongly to us kids but will never dare to oppose my father, who is a very mild man. She babies him and pushes us to the breaking point. Oy vey. I don’t say all these things to insult my mother or to say that she’s a bad mother; I say it to point out how married life often is.

The first song that I have been listening to is Be Mine written by Rachel Rothspan and sung by Greg Botts, an up-and-coming artist. It is basically a song of proposal. It begins with the man, remembering how he met his wife. Then he goes on to ask his question ‘Be Mine!’. And he says that no matter where the road may lead he will be by her side. Then the woman comes in and remembers their first kiss. Then she asked her question ‘Be Mine!’. And she says that no matter where the road will lead she will be their by his side. The song continues with their pledges again. It is a very powerful song reminding all of us just what those vows mean. It brings to mind a scene where the husband pledges his life to his wife who had been diagnosed for some terrible disease.

The second song is one you’re more likely to know: Walking Her Home by Mark Schultz. The whole song is talking about a couple who meet at eighteen and the husband’s best memory is walking her home after their first date and falling in love with her. It ends with him walking her home to heaven. But a piece one often misses is the fact that they were married for sixty years. I hope that I have that long to love my husband. I also hope that I die before I get old and more particularly before I get tetchy (Which isn’t quite the word I want to use, but the other one, well, me Mam would have my head.).

This post is a little rambly, so in conclusion: That vow that they ask you: ‘Do you take this man to have, and to hold, in sickness, and in health, in good times, and in bad times, as long as you both shall live?’ is not a simple thing. For those of you who are on the verge of getting married, take a good look at the man you are engaged to or are dating and ask yourself, ‘Do I love this man enough to stick around when he’s deathly ill? If he has psychosis? When you’re poor?’

Even with all this searching I’m still looking forward to meeting, dating, marrying, and living with the man God has chosen for me. And also to have more kids than I can count. So Blessings to all of you, this is Eagle Eyes signing out.

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Mar. 16, 2007 - Proud To Be Jewish

Just recently, I was handed Parallel Journeys to read for school. Little did I know as I opened the book just how much every page would affect me. As I’m writing this my eyes are pooling with tears as I remember. I am proud to be Jewish. But now it means something else to me. All throughout history people have attempted to murder my ancestors, to wipe them from the earth, but why? Why have people come after us? Is it because we are Adonai’s chosen people? I don’t know. But I do know that I am special by birth.

According to Romans 1:16, “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then also for the Gentile.”, God came first for my people. Many people don’t know this. They believe that God came for everyone indiscriminately. That isn’t the case. When he came, he came for the Jews, but they turned away, unwilling to believe. Realizing this, he turned to the gentiles to drive the Jews to jealousy. It is slowly working. I am part of a remnant of Jews that believe in Christ.

Did you know that to be Christian is the one thing that makes you not Jewish in a Jew’s eyes? I’ve grown up with this. My father is a Reformed Jew; he married my mother, a shicksa, and in doing so he knew that, according to his standards, his children were lost anyway. According to Jewish law, one must be born of a Jewish womb to be Jewish. By Biblical Law, one must have a Jewish father to be Jewish.

The horrors of the Holocaust are remembered year after year by Jews in late spring. But, not until now, did they come alive for me. My heart breaks at the thought of what those Jews went through. I know full well that I would not be alive, if my great-grandparents had not left Poland in 1910. Perhaps, now, my past will come alive for you, my readers.

I’m sorry to all the gentiles reading this. It, most likely, will not make sense to you.

Each and every person on this earth is part of a culture, the Jewish culture, though diverse, is specific in that all Jews have been targeted in the past. Christians, in this day, and age, are the ones being targeted. As both a Jew and a Christian, I feel your pain.

Inscribed on a vault, filled with soil from the death camps of the Third Reich, is this quote from Deuteronomy: “Only guard yourself and guard your soul carefully, lest you forget the things your eyes saw, and lest these things depart your heart all the days of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and to your children’s children. "

My Blessings To All,

Eagle Eyes

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