Odd thought today

[joyfulpraise93]

Having grown up in and playing in the woods all his boyhood days, my hubby is an avid nature-lover! We try to teach our children responsibility for the world God has given us as well as show the beauty of it.

Hee-hee; we are majorly :hijack:

Not exactly....I guess I just took the nature theme and ran with it! Sorry!

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I'm good at hijacking and killing...it seems when I post on-topic in a thread the thread usually always dies. I don't understnand why...probably cause my posts are so dumb that people just don't know what to say. :P

[Truthseeking]

Another thought...people really do live in fear nowadays. That's why kids are so undisciplined. Parents are honestly afraid of being turned in.

Just today at the store there was a little girl and she was holding her rear, and her mom said, "Is your bum okay now?" I glanced at her, not really thinking anything, just looking, and the mom said quickly, "She fell on my cell phone." and went out of her way to make sure the child was ok although the child was obviously fine!

Its so sad that we as parents have to fear so much that we sacrifice our children for the fear.

Ain't that the truth.

[Truthseeking]

The thing is with our government there are people who are put in charge who have no sense at all, plus the authority they're given goes to their head and they abuse this authority.


Can you imagine what it would be like to be a child and be in a home were your abused and have been told what bad things would happen to you if you spoke one word about it to anyone? Please don't me naive, for there are real children in abusive situations here in America, sometimes even by their very own parents. These children deserve to be helped.

I know Jerry. I've been there and lived it. Its a messed up world we live in. It does'nt matter when it was, but it does keep getting worse and worse. I might of been different person today if I had spoken up, then again maybe not, but I have had the life I have for a reason. I think thats starting to slowly manifest itself, but its all somehow in Gods perfect plan.

[Truthseeking]

Pastor Jerry. Oh...I know that it was weighing heavy on your heart. I think that Joyfulpraise gave a wonderful post about nature. That seems to say a lot to me. My dad was a nature person...we were always out and about doing things like traveling and camping. It taught me so much about values and priorities in life. I am so glad that I had this firm foundation as a child from my dad. In fact...after he passed on in 1993 the family grew apart. It wasn't until my oldest brother's tragedy in February that the Lord Jesus Christ pieced us back together again. Although, each of the 4 kids have always had a connection with my mom. :smile My pastor likes to say that in a Christian home the mom kind of acts like to Holy Spirit, in a sense. You know, "When mamma aint happy...the whole family isn't happy." LOL.




LOL :goodpost:

[JerryNumbers]

I believe that joyfulpraise was posting at about the same time I was.

I grew up on the creek banks in rural Arkansas, well many times I was between the creek banks. The only thing I don't like about nature is chiggers, spiders, snakes, they can scare the living daylights out of me.

I still remember one time when I was about 14, a friend and I was wadding a creek and fishing, I happened to look down and to the left of me, a big water moccasin that looked at if he was 10 feet long was swimming straight towards me and a high rate of speed and was about 4 feet from me. I just nearly run on top of the water getting away from that snake, but that snaked come right out on the creek bank with me, he was not wanting me to get away.

My friend hollered, "What's going on," them when he saw the snake hit the creek bank behind me he said, "you better run faster than that, that snake is biting at your heels."

[Alimantado]

Great story, Jerry!

[deafnva77]

I used to handle black snakes growing up in the mountains. :bonK:

[Truthseeking]

I believe that joyfulpraise was posting at about the same time I was.

I grew up on the creek banks in rural Arkansas, well many times I was between the creek banks. The only thing I don't like about nature is chiggers, spiders, snakes, they can scare the living daylights out of me.

I still remember one time when I was about 14, a friend and I was wadding a creek and fishing, I happened to look down and to the left of me, a big water moccasin that looked at if he was 10 feet long was swimming straight towards me and a high rate of speed and was about 4 feet from me. I just nearly run on top of the water getting away from that snake, but that snaked come right out on the creek bank with me, he was not wanting me to get away.

My friend hollered, "What's going on," them when he saw the snake hit the creek bank behind me he said, "you better run faster than that, that snake is biting at your heels."

I love nature. Up here in Michigan we have some great country on the west part of the state. It'd be nice to go up that way again for a weekend or even up to Mackinaw. Never been that far north. Used to get into rock and shell collecting too.

[JerryNumbers]

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I used to handle black snakes growing up in the mountains. :

:saywhat :annoyed: :thumbdown

A snake handler! :roll

[deafnva77]

well, my dad pick one up, and let us sort of hold it.. while he had full control of it. It wasn't poisonous.

We get alot of snakes in our back yard, especially rattlesnakes. mom would tell us to watch out for them.

[deafnva77]

come to think of it, God must have be really looking after me, because I was a very adventurous little girl. I would go out in the fields and woods (hiking... but more of a going on an adventurous journey type of pretend) with my sister alot.. and we often have rattlesnakes and black widows. never got bitten. We would climb trees and I have fallen off of them, but never broken a single bone. We would walk across the big fallen tree where the creek used to be but never fallen off of it.

[JerryNumbers]

I still remember when I was about 6 years old I had climbed up into a tree, was hanging upside down from one of its lower limbs about 6 to 8 feet off the ground, grand mother walked out on the porch and saw me and screamed, when she screamed it scared me and I let go falling to the ground. Thankfully I was not hurt.

Later that day father cut down my favorite climbing tree.

I graduated to the sweet gum tree on west side of our place, it was about 50 to 60 feet high, never did fall out of it. Back them I surely loved climbing trees.