tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62689120426972508672024-03-13T07:13:26.453-05:00Marching To The Beat Of A Different RealityA blog written by Jenni L. White: Christ Follower. Wife. Parent. Homeschooler. Teacher. Writer. Farmer. Individual Liberty Lover. Big Government Opponent.Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-48418015960990858212022-01-06T18:07:00.007-06:002022-01-09T16:29:29.557-06:00January 6th, 2021 - A Requiem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjc0dRvlMD2mWWxGXJnH8wj2NchPGHxGt2yOZ9xCxth7mjPWkhsLaXKprna9EIY1SslymqIxWp0LybaRWM_nTAFUqU-UbS1UultIKQLqXMY4knfvpjvv1OMpZahaiDZTJd3fGh4hBvb0ZYk1oPEbWw4vLYPdM6JHh_4UY6tJL9-46D2Vh4-Rwvzs0kO=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjc0dRvlMD2mWWxGXJnH8wj2NchPGHxGt2yOZ9xCxth7mjPWkhsLaXKprna9EIY1SslymqIxWp0LybaRWM_nTAFUqU-UbS1UultIKQLqXMY4knfvpjvv1OMpZahaiDZTJd3fGh4hBvb0ZYk1oPEbWw4vLYPdM6JHh_4UY6tJL9-46D2Vh4-Rwvzs0kO=w640-h480" width="640"></a></div><br><p><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-size: x-large;">This morning I opened my Bible app to discover it was
January 6</span><sup style="font-family: Raleway;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-size: x-large;">. Though I’d mentally wrangled with this date several
times after Christmas, I realize I hadn’t thought about it recently until that
very moment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></p><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-6th-2021-requiem.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-70473552692301254932021-08-13T11:14:00.036-05:002021-08-13T11:14:00.203-05:00Christians Are Not Called To A Life Of Ease, We're Called To A Life Of Spreading The Gospel - Whatever That Looks Like<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-01WZdXgvhSw/YQq9-iLr89I/AAAAAAAANbs/qoiM1WsrHxQBGezXacx3Bz19K9oyEz24wCPcBGAYYCw/s520/1463137677281.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="520" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-01WZdXgvhSw/YQq9-iLr89I/AAAAAAAANbs/qoiM1WsrHxQBGezXacx3Bz19K9oyEz24wCPcBGAYYCw/w400-h225/1463137677281.jpg" width="400"></a><br><br><span style="font-family: Cabin; font-size: large;">It can be exhausting just trying to stay on top of everything today. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span></span></div><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2021/08/christians-are-not-called-to-life-of.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-38347607338657192942021-08-11T11:03:00.001-05:002021-08-11T11:03:00.551-05:00Rational Thinking In The Midst Of Chaos Is The ONLY Thing That Can Produce Rational Results<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DzXHM51kbVk/YQq65cxNiGI/AAAAAAAANbk/AZbHmSoYxWYTzifYopHpKCuJA3r61j6GQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20180701_095801.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DzXHM51kbVk/YQq65cxNiGI/AAAAAAAANbk/AZbHmSoYxWYTzifYopHpKCuJA3r61j6GQCLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/20180701_095801.jpg" width="300"></a></div><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br>This morning I read </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2057&version=CEB" target="_blank">Psalm 57</a>. David had fled to a cave to escape persecution by Saul and there he sings praises to God. He tells God all the things he's feeling about his situation and how much he loves Him.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Many of us are feeling persecuted right now. We feel helpless. No one in the human high places created to help us in such circumstances seem to want to help us or even acknowledge our persecution as a reality. </span><div><span><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2021/08/rational-thinking-in-midst-of-chaos-is.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-7159495004493653402021-08-06T14:42:00.003-05:002021-08-06T14:42:00.197-05:00Is The Emasculation Of Men Meant To Destroy Society?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B4IwUS08tJI/YQMGr3xbKkI/AAAAAAAANac/DChDGdR0jpgJEYmJFx5QZ9kkThjgPtcWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/football%2Bplayer%2Bin%2Bmask.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="430" height="471" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B4IwUS08tJI/YQMGr3xbKkI/AAAAAAAANac/DChDGdR0jpgJEYmJFx5QZ9kkThjgPtcWQCLcBGAsYHQ/w337-h471/football%2Bplayer%2Bin%2Bmask.jpg" width="337"></a></div><br><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">The sight of a healthy, red-blooded, American man wearing a disposable, made-in-China, completely ineffective, pseudo-scientific piece of man-made fiber over his face ostensibly to 'protect himself and others' from a virus so small only a level 4 HAZMAT suit provides appropriate protection (and even that level of protection didn't protect workers in the Wuhan lab where the outbreak started) makes me sad. Why is there such a push to emasculate men?<span></span></span><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2021/08/is-emasculation-of-men-meant-to-destroy.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com027309 OK-102, Tecumseh, OK 74873, USA35.186738 -97.04809499999998928.319976066795107 -105.83715749999999 42.05349993320489 -88.259032499999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-63715183066523195792021-08-04T14:30:00.003-05:002021-08-04T14:30:00.204-05:00We Don't Have To Give Up Our Principles To Love One Another as Jesus Commanded<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bavKB6-jGdw/YQMCaltxfgI/AAAAAAAANaQ/w9omnyZDFWIVbqFXNgvw3fJ6hgjhkS69wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20201007_075725.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bavKB6-jGdw/YQMCaltxfgI/AAAAAAAANaQ/w9omnyZDFWIVbqFXNgvw3fJ6hgjhkS69wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/20201007_075725.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I'm horrible at holding a grudge. Seriously. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t trust everyone who’s acted toward me with bad faith – but I don’t wish them ill or hold hate for them in my heart. This is partly because my temperament doesn’t function that way, but when I find my mind spooled up over something someone has done to me, I use prayer and reason to pull myself out of that trajectory.<br /><br />In John 13:34, Jesus gives us a new commandment; “Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”</span></span><div><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reading that statement, it sound so easy. In reality the concept stings from the hurts so many of us are faced with daily. Today, those of us who claim the Christian faith are persecuted for having personal businesses in which we choose to express our beliefs, we’re told we’re intolerant and called names like “homophobic” because we hold tight to Biblical principles, we’ve even been forbidden from worshiping together because the ‘state’ says so.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><br />How do we ‘love one another’ and not be swallowed up by those who hate us and want to silence us? <br /><br />First, we recognize that what Christians are facing today has already been identified by the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:12: “We aren’t fighting against human enemies but against rulers, authorities, forces of cosmic darkness and spiritual powers of evil in the heavens.” (Common English Bible). Realistically then, we’re not going to win THAT kind of a battle on our own without some kind of spiritual help. Without entreating upon the name of our Lord and channeling the power He gives us to fight, we’re going to get nowhere fast. So, there’s that. <br /><br />Secondly, we must realize we’re not the first generation to have to literally fight for our freedom against the tyranny of man. The Bible contains at <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">least 86 verses</a> testifying to the wickedness of man. Without God then, man is but lost. To think humans should somehow rely on humans to do the right things on their own when written records extending back thousands of years speak to us of the history of man’s inhumanity to man, is simply nonsensical. Only God can change any of that (Ezekiel 36:26) – which is why we must pray for those who curse us (Luke 6:27-28). <br /><br />Thirdly, there are instructions for how to deal with a Christian friend who has wronged us (<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">Matthew 18:15-17</a>) and we should use those instructions because God has given us friends here on earth to keep each other accountable. “Just as iron sharpens iron, friends sharpen the minds of each other.” (Proverbs 27:17 – See also Galatians 6 – CEB). For those who are not Christians – and those who are unable or unwilling to be reconciled with you, do as Paul and Barnabas did in Antioch; shake the dust off your feet and move on (Act 13:5). Scripture doesn’t say to be ugly, or fight with them, or otherwise curse them, it just says, essentially, “move on”. Paul and Barnabas were “bold” in the way they confronted the people, but once the people did not heed their message, it was time to “move on”. <br /><br />Lastly, fear breeds hate and contempt and every possible bad human trait. If we can’t have faith that, no matter what happens around us or to us, God is with us and has plans for our future (Jeremiah 29:11), we’ll live constantly in fear, dealing with humanity from a position of anger and hate. Anger hurts only ourselves. It puts us in a position where we can’t reason properly and we can’t be victorious over any form of evil if we use only emotion because the “heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9). <br /><br />No, the human side of us doesn’t want to love anyone who hurts us, but we’re not talking brotherly, friendship love, we’re talking about the kind of love we have for people because God made us all – a love for HUMANITY. A love that keeps us from descending into a place where lack of reason rules our every move and forces us further away from an ability to see how to push back the evil that presses down around us, but forces us further away from God, family and friends. <br /><br />Jesus wasn’t ‘friends’ with the Pharisees. He pushed back against them mightily, frequently calling them vipers and hypocrites (Matthew 12:34) – we even saw Him get righteously angry with money changers in the Temple and turn over their tables (Mark 11:15-18). Being Christians doesn’t mean that we tolerate those who try and hurt us. We may act with ‘<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">righteous’ anger</a>, but we cannot allow hatred and anger to rule us. We must act with self-control always and attempt to speak the truth in love – hating the sin, not the sinner. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Remember, a house divided against itself cannot stand (Mark 3:25). In order to do the MOST good against evil, we must do our best to use the Fruits Of The Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) and work with others of the faith, avoiding petty differences, loving one another as humans, even if we can’t as friends.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0Point 12, Oklahoma City, OK 73165, USA35.3711876 -97.357162520.454258121208266 -114.9352875 50.288117078791728 -79.7790375tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-62952117711622957732021-08-02T10:28:00.000-05:002021-08-02T10:28:00.224-05:00 What’s A Christian to Do When Confronted with Drag Queen Story Hour at Tax-Payer Supported Libraries? Apparently Nothing.<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QOFajiGLxps/YPmQyVf2Z-I/AAAAAAAANY4/NJMnkNn89_sxSKvWMW85bJ5RtUI-WsUHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/drag%2Bqueen%2Bstory%2Bhour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1000" height="394" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QOFajiGLxps/YPmQyVf2Z-I/AAAAAAAANY4/NJMnkNn89_sxSKvWMW85bJ5RtUI-WsUHwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h394/drag%2Bqueen%2Bstory%2Bhour.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-size: large;">Most Christian Conservatives would rather quietly live their lives and let others live theirs, but this one thought process is the ultimate fulcrum upon which societies fail.</span></div><p></p><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2021/08/whats-christian-to-do-when-confronted.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-10470494626894959662021-08-01T18:19:00.000-05:002021-08-01T18:19:37.454-05:00Special Guest Post: "How Is Oklahoma GOP Chairman John Bennett Wrong By Invoking The Jewish Star Regarding Vaccine Mandates/Passports"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a1Z_h54NA14/YQcBtShT-GI/AAAAAAAANbE/OBlWu3Hm2yk-9cmdm17QJQ-dRGIHRH2JACPcBGAYYCw/s489/OKGOP%2Bjewish%2Bstar%2Bpost.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="489" height="216" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a1Z_h54NA14/YQcBtShT-GI/AAAAAAAANbE/OBlWu3Hm2yk-9cmdm17QJQ-dRGIHRH2JACPcBGAYYCw/w400-h216/OKGOP%2Bjewish%2Bstar%2Bpost.jpg" width="400"></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">What follows is a Special Guest Post about the furor resulting from an OKGOP Facebook post July 30th, 2021. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cTTcJYKuc1o/YQcBtV7SCuI/AAAAAAAANbI/Q1zwKNAoAxIo5aDdiUHv1O6pRdwTxJVZwCPcBGAYYCw/s715/star%2Bof%2Bdavid%2Bpatch.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="454" height="627" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cTTcJYKuc1o/YQcBtV7SCuI/AAAAAAAANbI/Q1zwKNAoAxIo5aDdiUHv1O6pRdwTxJVZwCPcBGAYYCw/w398-h627/star%2Bof%2Bdavid%2Bpatch.jpg" width="398"></a><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">I'm not including the identity of the Special Guest Post-er at my discretion. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">America, once world-renown for its tolerance of Free Speech and Religion, has nearly thoroughly succumbed</span><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;"> to its current Marxist Overlords who are bringing to bear the Power of the State over the sanctity of the Individual at a rapid pace. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">I have no interest in seeing a friend persecuted for an OPINION Americans are to be CONSTITUTIONALLY granted - whether or not our Marxist Overlords daily subvert and spit on the protections found in that document or not. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">For the record, I agree with the author's assessment or I would not have published it here</span><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">.<span></span></span></span></p><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2021/08/special-guest-post-how-is-oklahoma-gop.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-84879469449550942682021-07-30T10:22:00.005-05:002021-07-30T10:22:00.189-05:00When You Are Truly And Sincerely Needing Help, You Have Only To Ask To Receive<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yY6YQbwAMD0/YPmNWwT9MvI/AAAAAAAANYw/kWAlREug3ccCCppNSDpPK518qrlZxgS6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/rose%2Bwith%2Bchronicles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yY6YQbwAMD0/YPmNWwT9MvI/AAAAAAAANYw/kWAlREug3ccCCppNSDpPK518qrlZxgS6QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/rose%2Bwith%2Bchronicles.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">Two times in my life I have cried out to Jesus for help in utter absence of an ability to do anything under my own power. Both times I have been answered. <a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2014/08/losing-marshall-finding-jesus.html" target="_blank">One was when we lost our son</a>. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span></span></p><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2021/07/when-you-are-truly-and-sincerely.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-1939474707212614412021-07-28T14:22:00.012-05:002021-07-28T14:22:00.202-05:00Chaos Is The Goal Because Chaos Must Be Controlled And Control Results In Loss Of Individual Freedom<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z9R25oZ8Vyo/YPh07hvxXSI/AAAAAAAANYk/u4TFcMIfbwomwlcsrgmyfuPLUGURkiIdwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/blaze%2Barticle%2Bon%2Btransgender%2Bbathing%2Bsuit.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="522" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z9R25oZ8Vyo/YPh07hvxXSI/AAAAAAAANYk/u4TFcMIfbwomwlcsrgmyfuPLUGURkiIdwCLcBGAsYHQ/w217-h400/blaze%2Barticle%2Bon%2Btransgender%2Bbathing%2Bsuit.jpg" width="217"></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VPHejtfiAtM/YPh07gQdpYI/AAAAAAAANYo/uOwcNvY_3Ic3TKRDuNR_p_aNbCoQqdcFACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/blaze%2Baricle%2Bon%2Btransgender%2Bbathing%2Bsuit.jpg" style="background-color: white; clear: left; display: inline; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="590" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VPHejtfiAtM/YPh07gQdpYI/AAAAAAAANYo/uOwcNvY_3Ic3TKRDuNR_p_aNbCoQqdcFACLcBGAsYHQ/w246-h400/blaze%2Baricle%2Bon%2Btransgender%2Bbathing%2Bsuit.jpg" width="246"></a></div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><br></span></div>No matter what the world says, this is not scientific truth.</span><div><span></span></div><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2021/07/chaos-is-goal-because-chaos-must-be.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-84142841260616656212021-07-26T14:11:00.014-05:002021-07-29T15:13:40.815-05:00If Scripture Is Simple And Easily Understood, Why Do People Make It Hard And Refuse to Understand?<span style="font-family: Roboto Slab; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GgHWYoYqgPw/YPhyRolHoeI/AAAAAAAANYc/HakaoWL8DQMh6gUCcBc5-3V0KDWqH9hxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1691/Ephesians%2B4.32.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1691" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GgHWYoYqgPw/YPhyRolHoeI/AAAAAAAANYc/HakaoWL8DQMh6gUCcBc5-3V0KDWqH9hxgCLcBGAsYHQ/w408-h640/Ephesians%2B4.32.jpg" width="408"></a></div><br>This scripture is exceedingly simple to understand, yet people refuse to understand it. </span><div><span style="font-family: Roboto Slab; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto Slab; font-size: large;">Why? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto Slab; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto Slab; font-size: large;">Because human beings become convinced that their actions have no consequences - they can do whatever they like with impunity and all will be well because "Jesus is love". </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto Slab; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto Slab; font-size: large;">This is absolutely not the case, so let's take the example of sexual immorality.</span></div><div><span></span></div><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2021/07/if-scripture-is-simple-and-easily.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-21570613700937156472021-07-23T14:07:00.013-05:002021-07-23T14:07:00.195-05:00No Matter What Happens In Life, The Bible Answers 'Why'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-orm8xmHfctg/YPhwvtfewfI/AAAAAAAANYU/NeUVJSnvBtUnflDlSFCKae-h4nW78ko7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210106_074533.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-orm8xmHfctg/YPhwvtfewfI/AAAAAAAANYU/NeUVJSnvBtUnflDlSFCKae-h4nW78ko7QCLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/20210106_074533.jpg" width="300"></a></div><br><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">The year 2020 was difficult for many humans in many different ways as government and media ramped up global control over our lives. Isolation, illness, income loss and inability to care for ourselves and our families in ordinary ways left few emotions or mental states unvisited as effect.</span><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;"><br>Like many, November, 2020, left me feeling unmoored from humanity, adrift in a world of questions without answers that shattered the bedrock of understanding I'd formed about my country, politics, psychology and human relations over the course of my adult life.</span></div><div><span></span></div><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2021/07/no-matter-what-happens-in-life-bible.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-20125282268186142142021-07-18T12:26:00.001-05:002021-07-18T15:21:43.968-05:00Oklahoma Senators Lankford and Inhofe Were Not Censured By The OKGOP - What Now For The Party Faithful? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IEDTPk2V3o4/YPRAQYwJdwI/AAAAAAAANUM/DEPOVrnffZc4QNR7BCxf71-ihGcU4oHcwCLcBGAsYHQ/s766/lankford%2Binhofe%2Bcensure.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="766" height="295" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IEDTPk2V3o4/YPRAQYwJdwI/AAAAAAAANUM/DEPOVrnffZc4QNR7BCxf71-ihGcU4oHcwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h295/lankford%2Binhofe%2Bcensure.jpg" width="400"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br></span></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">As many know, I'm fond of making lists of my thoughts. Here is my thought-list about the</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"> lack of Censure for our Senators following the January 6th electoral college certification vote.</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2021/07/oklahoma-senators-lankford-and-inhofe.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-13705693360487533952019-10-20T10:50:00.002-05:002021-07-18T12:38:35.744-05:00We Strive Not For Men<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently I was working in my sun room and stopped to really study this frame and it's contents. Back in 2013, Lynn and Julia and I were asked to speak about Common Core in Canton, OK. We left Oklahoma City in rain coming down so hard that we could barely see - truly treacherous driving conditions - but we always felt that if someone wanted to hear our research on the topic, we'd do whatever we needed to do to get wherever we were asked to go.<br></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"></span><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2019/10/we-strive-not-for-men.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-22578209251312838542018-06-17T19:01:00.001-05:002021-07-18T12:39:38.573-05:00Dad<br>
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June 17 is not only Father's Day this year, but the 16th birthday of my
oldest son. In addition to this confluence of events, I watched the movie “I
Can Only Imagine” before bed. Today I am thoughtful – ruminating over something
to do with the space between being a daughter and a mother and the long journey
from one to the other and the plethora of lessons I’ve learned in between and
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</span><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2018/06/dad.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-16457324058671675202017-09-10T10:14:00.002-05:002021-07-18T12:36:16.954-05:00Cultivating Love<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_fqn">
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ago, I bought a little vase for my grandmother. She LOVED roses and
grew them beautifully, caring for them as tenderly as ever she cared for
one of us. For years and years, there was simply never a time I
remember eating a meal without a bouquet of the most fragrant roses
adorning the table for the pleasure of anyone who dined there. Even
after she became ill - up to the time she just simply couldn't manage it
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Seeing pictures of women wearing 'pu**y' hats, and/or dressed as vaginas trolling up and down streets all over this country has sincerely made me sick to my stomach.<br>
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So self-centered - with such little concern for their fellow man - these women seemingly can't comprehend that THEY are the privileged few from across the entire world simply because they can stop their whole lives, travel to their state's capitol - or the nation's capitol - and take a day to do nothing but walk up and down a street with signs and goofy clothing.<br>
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<span></span></span><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2017/01/what-we-deserve.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-65115531222389253022017-01-23T14:50:00.001-06:002021-07-18T12:44:05.456-05:00Stepping Off Life's Treadmills<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> My big "for instance" here is public education. Most parents think nothing about sending their children to their local public school. We didn't. We even moved to a neighborhood with a 'better' public school for our babies to attend when they got old enough. In fact, it never occurred to either David or I there might be another option until our oldest son, suffering at the hands of classroom bullies - including his teacher - begged me to pull him out and school him at home.</span><br>
</span><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2017/01/stepping-off-lifes-treadmills.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-39378477888186831362017-01-19T14:40:00.001-06:002021-07-18T12:44:26.267-05:00Thoughts on Democracy From The Screwtape Letters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Having just read the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Screwtape-Letters-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652934/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484512610&sr=8-1&keywords=screwtape+letters">Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis</a>, I have made it rather my heart's desire to spread this 'gospel' as far and wide as I possibly can it was such an influential read for me. </span><br>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Toward that end, <a href="http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/Toast_CSL.pdf">I found a link to a PDF copy of Screwtape Proposes a Toast - a "Satirical Epistolary Short Story"</a> written by C.S. Lewis for the Saturday Evening Post, December 19th, 1959. This piece was included as an epilogue to the bound version of The Screwtape Letters, and was even more powerful than the book because of the inclusion of the ways in which public education and Democracy would be rendered completely useless by the devils machinations and the human's lack of brilliance in, not only not recognizing these, but falling for them utterly. </span><br>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I'm including the section on Democracy below. It is lengthy, and all I can do is lead a horse to water so to speak, but if you choose to read it, you will forever be better for the time you spent to do so. On to Lewis; </span><br>
</span><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2017/01/thoughts-on-democracy-from-screwtape.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-75714585059891463042017-01-17T14:18:00.001-06:002021-07-18T12:44:47.675-05:00Is There Really Such A Thing As Coincidence? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Some time ago, I woke up about 2:30ish for some unknown reason. </span><br>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">For some unknown reason I picked up my phone to have something to do until I felt I could fall asleep again.</span><br>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I pressed the Facebook app and immediately found two prayer requests and needs. </span><br>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">My friend Molly, who had been struggling simply to live after being taken to the hospital with a disease of unknown origin, needed to be rested in order to get off her ventilator, but she was not resting.</span><br>
</span><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2017/01/is-there-really-such-thing-as.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-26409079417075194232017-01-15T13:58:00.002-06:002021-07-18T12:45:32.794-05:00What If Doing Unto Others Actually Practicing Narcissism?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif">Do unto others...Luke records Jesus' words from the Sermon On The Mount a bit differently than Matthew. Luke provides the phraseology we so often use to advise our children - as I was advised by MY parents; "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." (Luke 6:31)
Recently, I've been thinking on this edict and I have to say that, today, this admonition doesn't stand like it did decades ago when my grandparents - and even parents - used it.</span><br>
<span></span></span><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2017/01/what-if-doing-unto-others-actually.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-26014841319259412932016-12-31T09:42:00.001-06:002021-07-18T12:46:01.733-05:00Are You Using New Year's Resolutions To Pacify Behaviors and Issues Better Addressed During the Year?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And so we begin today knowing that tomorrow looms etherially on the horizon as the start of a new year waiting to greet us at the midnight chime of the clock.<br>
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For centuries, human beings have made the "new year" a holiday to itself. The age old renderings of 'baby New Year' assure us that we humans, we mere mortals, can redirect our lives at that point in time and begin again anew for yet another year.<br>
</span><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2016/12/are-you-using-new-years-resolutions-to.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268912042697250867.post-14080512790892854832016-11-17T16:43:00.001-06:002021-07-18T12:49:19.233-05:00We Don't Need Your Corporatist Or Progressive Education - The MIDDLE'S Here To Play!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IyXg3jzin7I/YPRpT3sJXQI/AAAAAAAANWU/fNrp09uquPYm8nPloqFZhLa3FaNdZCpowCPcBGAYYCw/s1648/Scale%2Bof%2BEducation%2BAuthoritarianism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="1648" height="486" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IyXg3jzin7I/YPRpT3sJXQI/AAAAAAAANWU/fNrp09uquPYm8nPloqFZhLa3FaNdZCpowCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h486/Scale%2Bof%2BEducation%2BAuthoritarianism.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br>Joy Pullmann at the Federalist
wrote a GREAT piece today on why <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/17/michelle-rhee-terrible-choice-education-secretary/">Michelle Rhee should NOT be named as theSecretary of Education</a>. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I loved it so much, I'm doubling down on it. </span><br>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">No,
neither Rhee nor anyone else of her 'ilk' should be appointed as head of DOE. </span><br>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In
case you don't know - or are somehow new to education policy (or heck - just
governance in the United States) - there is no middle ground anymore. NONE. Yes, there
is supposed to be a gradient of governance that tends to rest somewhere near
the middle of the ideological spectrum (ideally) in EVERY area of our lives the government
has usurped, yet - particularly in education - what you really have is this: </span><br>
</span><a href="https://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/2016/11/we-dont-need-your-education.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">This blog originates from Marching To The Beat Of A Different Reality"<a href="http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">http://differentrealitymarch.blogspot.com/</a></div>Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.com0