Hey everyone! I have been trying to get comments out to everyone who responded on the last discussion. I sort of  stoped doing this blog because school was taking most of my time. However I am done with most subjects so I hope to start some debates and discussions soon.  Thank-you to everyone who responed in the last topic,and I am sorry I left you hanging

I hope everyone had a very merry christmas and if not my sympathy is with you. I have a new topic. Adoption. Lots of people talk about abortion but adoption is alot less talked about,but  it isn't less important. Children die everyday because they didn't have a good enough  home. I feel very strongly about this point. There are many aspects to it of course.  Like foreign vs domestic adoption. Foster care vs just adoption. I think both are great, but people have there  ideas on them. I hope to break those to down  in the next couple of weeks. 1 jame27 says"Pure religion, undefiled before God  the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. "

    Job 22:9-10 says You have sent widows away empty,
      And the strength of the fatherless was crushed. 10 Therefore snares are all around you,
      And sudden fear troubles you,

 These verse lead me to believe that we should help them. I feel that if I am going to have a family and homeschool children then I couldn't do that without bring a orphan or fatherless child hope and if everyone felt the way I think  we could save alot of those children. I don't mean to just bring them in your home and take care them but to love the and teach them about God as well as we would are own children. I understand that not everyone is meant to and some people are hindered because of aliments but if we all had the same   knowledge about adoption I believe we could accomplish alot.

I thought it would be fun to see what you all think is the most important tradition when it comes to thanksgiving ? Also....

 The proclamtion of thanksgiving by Abraham Lincoln

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth."

Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, 3 October 1863.^[7]

So are election has come and past , It was a good fight. Unfortunately we lost and Barack obama is The elected president. This is sad new for America that once was so proudly established on free roots and by christian founders, Some people think we won't survive his 4 yr term, some think we will have a christian revival. Others think we are living in the end times. What do you guys on hsb think? Is America going to get worse. Does  it scare any of you since we are the next generation? What can do to insprie a better world? 

Prayers and blessings,

What do you  guys think of women in the workplace. It seems that women in the workpalce think that stay at home moms are of lesser vaule when in fact raising children is a full time job just as working is. I have nothing against women who feel it is a calling to be in the workplace instead of raising a family, but when women try to do both It is the children that end up hanging in the balance. What do you guys think?

Wrapped in his love,

Rebecca 

 Is it important to have a job while you are in highschool. Is it even a good idea. Why  or  why not?

 Rebecca

  MaidenCapitolaBallot  has been wondering about  courtship.  She was wanting all of are opinions.

I have been doing a lot of thinking on courtship.

 I think it is something modern Chirstians often over look. I know many who avoid the subject by saying they will never marry, I was one like that. However, God changed my heart and though I may not be ready to marry now, I feel He might want me to someday. This opened a bunch of questions for me.
Does God have only one person in mind for us? One friend asked once, "What if He has different people, growing closer to Him is up to us, what if He has a person in mind for every stage in our growth? Depending on how we grow?"
Is it possable for two people, both loving God with their whole beings, to marry and in turn love each other so that they would never fight, disagree yes, fight no?
Is it possable for a man who loves God with all his heart and does all God wills, to fall in love with the wrong girl, a godly girl that he loved not only for her sweetness of spirit but for her love of God?
Does anyone really fall in love at first sight? Or is that from fairy tales, I mean don't you have to know their character first?
How can we know when we meet the one we are to marry?
Love is a matter of will, so is it possable for two to marry who aren't in love, and then to, I don't want to use force, but for lack of a better word, force themselves to love?
Anyways, those are my questions, what are your thoughts on them? Heather

Arya is not here this week,so she asked me to post this;)

This is defiantly a controversial subject, and I want to point out that we will need to show a lot of respect for one another's opinions in this discussion. My question for you this week is: Which do you think is the biblical way, if not both? Why do you think one way or the other? Your denomination may do either voluntary or infant baptism, but you might not know why your family and you believes in one or the other. Take the time this week to find out, and come back and share your thoughts on this subject. Please provide verses to back up your conclusions. Thanks! ~Arya~

Friday September 26  was the first presidential Debate between John Mccain and Barack obama. Thursday October 2 was the first vice presidential debate. So what did you guys think? Who would you say was the best speaker and knew more about the topics?Honestly.

ps. Remember to keep the election in your prayers. They are approaching fast.

Teenage pregnancy is a continous problem, So how should  it be dealt with. In this modern time when I hear of a teen being pregnant I fear they are going to keep the child and be  a single parent. There parents are going to help them and they are going to still get to go to school  and have a normal teen life, so in other words they won't really have alot of earthly consequences except maybe there reputation.  In old generations this "modern way of thinking" would seem unexceptable. Teenagers who  found out that they where pregnant would have to get married very soon. In more conservative familys they  would be sent away to aplaces for unwed mothers where after 9 months. They would have to  give there babys up for adoption. Some of the  reasons for this being  that they didn't want  the younger siblings to see this example,and to think it as ok. Keeping the baby wasn't really  a choice because they where children themselfs. My  point in this  discussion  is that  what way is best ? Do think modern is better or is old school thinking better? What beneifts the child? What benifets the teen? Should they have consequences?