April 25, 2008

  • What a difference a few hours make

    Yes I did get the apartment clean for Shabbat.

     

    on 4/22 some teen knocked on my door.  He had my name, my address, and my dad's phone number ((which is listed in my name...long story))....he wanted to ask me about my view on stem cell research...well obviously he already knows my view, he either got my info from the vote we had in 2006 ((yes they know how you vote, the card you punch has a number and they write it by your name/ID when you check in)) or maybe I've signed a petition...which I'm debating to not do if they want my address/phone number....even having my name is scary enough.  I asked who he was working for and he saif the coalition for life saving cures...poor thing yeah I'm sure they'll heal a few poor sick people at first so we'll all say "yes let's start human life and kill it at about 10 days so we can grow new organs"...then it will turn into all about who can pay for it as everything else is all about --MONEY.  insurance companies will say it's not covered by them so if you can't afford it only the rich will be killing babies and the poor ladies they sucker into donating their eggs.  oh and of course you know we've got to clone so and so in hollywhore for generations to come..  :rollseyes:

     

    I did restate to the young man that adult stem cell research is fine....emryonic stem cell is a big no-no ... the kid even filled in that it is un-humane ... so not sure why he's taking money from the enemy.

    Due to some Spirit pricking, I just went to the store for some canned goods and such and some lady in the parking lot asks if I'm a registered voter and would I sign some petitions.  one was for more funding for some school district and the other for gov't funding so we can have alternative ways to heat our homes.  My response was that the people can pay for their own alternative sources and stop raising tax payers taxes to do it ((to me it makes sense...just pay for your own...after all raising money to get a hand out to then pay for it seems round about)) and as far as the school district, schools are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo messed up no amount of funding can fix that.  It's not about money....it's because the G-D of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has been removed.  What is it with asking for more gov't money....don't people realize the money actually comes from their own pocket...just donate right to the cause and/or fix it yourself....DUH

     

  • The work week ends

    thoughts:

    I really wanted it....

    You don't want me to have it....

    And that's the part that hurts the most.

    Reading:

    KJV wise- Judges and Ruth and this weeks Parsha

    Lesson wise Exodus 20 via TorahClass ((deep...I suggest you do the same))

    Harback wise - Sacred Influence ((recommended to me by another Torah observant wife/mom)) to be shortly followed by Sacred Marriage  with subtitle what if G-d designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?

    Good Shabbos to ya!

April 24, 2008

  • Gender and food

    as seen on the news here recently: article found here

    Mom's Diet May Play Role in Whether Baby Is Boy or Girl
    Last Edited: Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008, 6:07 PM CDT
    Created: Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008, 4:42 PM CDT

    By LINDSEY TANNER
    AP Medical Writer

    CHICAGO  --  Snips and snails and puppydog tails ... and cereal and bananas?

    That could be what little boys are made of, according to surprising new research suggesting that what a woman eats before pregnancy influences the gender of her baby.

    Having a hearty appetite, eating potassium-rich foods including bananas, and not skipping breakfast all seemed to raise the odds of having a boy.

    The British research is billed as the first in humans to show a link between a woman's diet and whether she has a boy or girl.

    It is not proof, but it fits with evidence from test tube fertilization that male embryos thrive best with longer exposure to nutrient-rich lab cultures, said Dr. Tarun Jain. He is a fertility specialist at University of Illinois at Chicago who wasn't involved in the study.

    It just might be that it takes more nutrients to build boys than girls, he said.

    University of Exeter researcher Fiona Mathews, the study's lead author, said the findings also fit with fertility research showing that male embryos aren't likely to survive in lab cultures with low sugar levels. Skipping meals can result in low blood sugar levels.

    Jain said he was skeptical when he first heard about the research. But he said the study was well-done and merits follow-up study to see if the theory proves true.

    It's not necessarily as far-fetched as it sounds. While men's sperm determine a baby's gender, it could be that certain nutrients or eating patterns make women's bodies more hospitable to sperm carrying the male chromosome, Jain said.

    "It's an interesting question. I'm not aware of anyone else looking at it in this manner," he said.

    The study was published Wednesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a British medical journal.

    The research involved about 700 first-time pregnant women in the United Kingdom who didn't know the sex of their fetuses. They were asked about their eating habits in the year before getting pregnant.

    Among women with the highest calorie intake before pregnancy (but still within a normal, healthy range), 56 percent had boys, versus 45 percent of the women with the lowest calorie intake.

    Women who ate at least one bowl of breakfast cereal daily were 87 percent more likely to have boys than those who ate no more than one bowlful per week. Cereal is a typical breakfast in Britain and in the study, eating very little cereal was considered a possible sign of skipping breakfast, Mathews said.

    Compared with the women who had girls, those who had boys ate an additional 300 milligrams of potassium daily on average, "which links quite nicely with the old wives' tale that if you eat bananas you'll have a boy," Mathews said.

    Women who had boys also ate about 400 calories more daily than those who had girls, on average, she said.

    Still, no one's recommending pigging out if you really want a boy or starving yourself if you'd prefer a girl.

    Neither style of eating is healthy, and besides all the health risks linked with excess weight, other research suggests obese women have a harder time getting pregnant.

    The study results reflect women at opposite ends of a normal eating pattern, not those with extreme habits, Mathews said.

    Professor Stuart West of the University of Edinburgh said the results echo research in some animals.

    And Dr. Michael Lu, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and public health at the University of California at Los Angeles, said the results "are certainly plausible from an evolutionary biology perspective." In other words, since boys tend to be bigger, it would make sense that it would take more calories to create them, Lu said.

    Still, Lu said a woman's diet before pregnancy may be a marker for other factors in their lives that could influence their baby's gender, including timing of intercourse.

    "The bottom line is, we still don't know how to advise patients in how to make boys," he said.

     

    I found it interesting because when I had my son, I was supposedly hypoglycemic which would indicate low blood sugar and also about a year ago a natural path doc did tell me that because my body did grow a healthy boy it did take a lot more from me to do so and is a harder strain on the body and can take longer to recover from.

     

    So any of the rest of you notice if any of these findings may be true?  I know my aunt said with both of her daughters, before she conceived and early in the pregnancy, she ate mostly fruits and veggies.  I've heard it said meat and milk to be the diet for a baby boy.

     

     

April 19, 2008

  • Our First Pesach

     Yesterday DS and I read Exodus 12

    Today we read some from Matthew 26 and 27

    This evening a Seder with our Intro to Jewish Roots class, my mom is coming! and I've got to be there at 5pm to help set things up.

    Tomorrow at 11am is class and then 3:30pm the 2nd Seder with our HavDalah group and PRAYING dh can come!!!

    Tomorrow Night we will read about The Resurrection and Start the Omer count. 

    Next week is our "spring" break in honor of the Feast of Unleavend Bread (Matzah).  We will only read daily from the Family Guide to Biblical Holidays and DS is excited to not have to do the 3R's for a whole week.  ((because 9 math  problems, 1 letter/1 word/1 sentence of printing, and 48 words to read are soooo much :rollseyes:))

    Below are some photos of our table this week and centerpiece.  the soup containers are DH's so not mine but DH was like what a whole week without leaven??????

     

     

     

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April 17, 2008

April 13, 2008

  • Pesach Approaches

    I have so many questions.

    ok so  when do we partake of the Seder?

     

    Numbers 28:16-17

    16And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.

     17And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

     

    to me this sounds like just before the 15th starts .... but the calendar is having us do the at home w/ family Seder at night on 4/19 ... 

    I would think according to the above passage we should hold the Seder on the evening of the 14th but again is that as it's turning the 14th or as the 14th is leaving and the 15th is starting

    Number 9:3
    In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

    ok so if they hold Seder as the 14th is starting, then the daytime of the 14th or the next day, would then be a preparation day for Unleavened Bread ... but this day you also can't eat leavening?  the day you do the final sweep thru of the home or is that on the 13th?

    I know for us on 4/19 we are attending more of a teaching Seder.  I do not want to overthrow authority in my home and DH is not interested in these things.  My mom is attending this one as well..although horseradish makes her vomit so she will be passing on that.   I will also, with permission, only have 1 glass of grape juice in 4 sips ... too much sugar in fruit juice and I tend to have hypoglycemic and insulin resistant bouts. 

    Then at 3:30pm 4/20 DS and I and maybe DH if he's not working  ((Please pray his on call schedule works out so that he can attend, I'd really like for him to experience these things also)) will be attending a Seder at the home of the people we get together with for Bi-Weekly Torah Study and HavDalah.

    Also when is FirstFruits?  this is important to me as this would also be remembering the resurrection and I also want to know when to start counting the omer ... I want that blessing

     

    so Anna, since you usually have Shabbat meal on saturnday nite, then this week will be a doubly special meal since it will include the Seder?

     

April 1, 2008

March 30, 2008

  • Let's get real

    I prefer to be called Swylv online.
    I have a husband of course and one son age 6.

    In Dec 2004 I was researching why I don't tell my son there's a santa
    and came upon some startling info regarding 12/25.

    After 12/25/05 I happened upon xanga.com/anna and a whole new world
    was opened up for me.

    At this time in my life I was leaving mainstream churches that met on
    sunday and meeting with a handful of people in a home church setting
    on thursday nights.

    Since then those that I knew at the regular old AG church have
    labeled me as cultish and strange and the pastor even has made it a
    point of pointing out to others that those in his congregation who do
    not hold to church doctrine are being lured into cults and are
    interpreting the Bible wrong.

    in June 2007 I attended the local big baptist church and they have 2
    sunday school classes on our Jewish Roots ... I started attending one
    and really learned a lot. Since then I've also met with some of them
    in one home for a bi-weekly HavDalah get together and I've been to
    one of the local Messianic Congregations about 6 or so times now but
    the people we get together with bi-weekly may be starting a Torah
    Observant ministry soon and hopefully it will be closer to home as
    the Messianic Congregation my son and I go to for Shul is a good 30
    miles or so away and gas prices ain't pretty.

    I am sad to admit my DH is not on board. I know many would say I
    need to just submit and do the sunday and 12/25 and bunny day thing
    but I know it's wrong for me and I just can't do it anymore. My DH
    also freuently tells me that stay at home moms are freeloaders and
    that he is not entirely happy in our marriage. He doesn't believe
    the Bible was written for our time so traditional roles as laid out
    in the Bible do not hold up for him this day. ( I did light heartedly
    mention that if that were the case how come women still bear
    children, if times have changed why don't men give birth LOL)) He's
    told me before he was happy living apart from Jesus at this time but
    since then says I can't judge him and say whether he is saved or not
    ((even though he admitted what he did)) He is constantly telling me I
    am weird because I'm Jewish or a Jewish wanna-be. And he also
    frequently lets me know he only attend the church he still does cuz
    his momma goes there and some of his buds.

    He messes with my emotions saying things like if we were on the same
    page with this religion stuff then we'd probably have more children
    as he knows this has been my prayer since June 2002 that my son could
    have a sibling(s). And then the next time he messes with them he
    says things like it's a good thing we don't have anymore children
    because we can't agree.

    All these things leave me in tears many a time.

    I'm very interested in learning with others on how we go about living
    the often quoted verses for why we home educate found in Deuteronomy
    chapter 6. I especially need some guidance because I'm a mom, who
    had no brothers, raising a boy and I know I can learn from others
    who've BTDT.

    Hopefully I'm not seen as that crazy lady that everyone wants to
    steer clear of now. Not many people in my in person life know all
    this about me. When people ask "how are you?" no one really wants to
    hear it all, they expect pat answers and as the saying goes, "Can't
    complain, no one wants to hear it anyhow"

    Swylv whose source of joy comes first and foremost from Yeshua and then my son


    struggling with at least going to Dh's church tonight for PM service
    since bunny season is over. but again I know how others view me and
    why would I want to go thru that torture.

March 29, 2008

  • Be Aware

    I wrestled with posting this.

    #1 it's Shabbat
    #2 I'm not sure I'm saying it right and don't want it to me mistaken

    However YHVH pressed upon me to post it anyway so here it is.


    Please google the word fitna ... I don't know how long it will be available ... Rusty Humphrey has it at his website as well

    watch the 15 minute brutally true video WITHOUT your children near by - until you've previewed it and then after that it's your decision if you want them to see it

    one thing I'll let you know...the 3.5 year old disturbed me ... we don't teach our children to hate people based on race or religion or even gender preference. We teach them that we were once sinners as well until Yeshua atoned for our sins. We don't teach our kids that we are superior and everyone who doesn't worship/believe like us deserves death. Rather we teach to love their neighbors and be a salt and light to lead them to Yeshua.

    We watched this film tonight after Shul ((no children were in the room))

    Rabbi said he'd like to take it to the "moderates" in our area and ask which side they are on. Course they may not fess up and/or kill him for being so blunt. He informed us that our metro area is planned to be a major mega center for *sl*m and they are already infiltrating our area because they are getting on the housing boards and securing whole rental complexes as homes to bring their relatives and other radical followers over here.

    It's sad to see the hatred against freedom they have ... but I wonder do they really hate it or is it just because they've been brainwashed from birth?

    And let me just state that I do not dislike m*sl*ms ... I know they are not all extreme just as I hope they know all Americans are not void of morals as hollywood and the media portrays.

    It is sad that we can't embrace our similarities and also be allowed to express our beliefs as long as it doesn't involve killing someone just because they don't believe as you do.

    As of right now we have the freedom of religion and speech here ... will we always? Can others see the rightness in this?

    as the saying goes:
    "I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will fight beside you for your right to say it"

    Also our freedoms mean we are also responsible for our actions and we can't violate someone else's freedom or rights because there are consequences.

    again this is all just really sad and disturbing.

    There's a song so fitting Save Your People but I can't find lyrics or video or artist or not even sure that's the title

    also a reading:

    And I Said Nothing

    When the Nazis arrested the Communists,
    I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist.
    When they locked up the Social Democrats,
    I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.
    When they arrested the trade unionists,
    I said nothing; after all, I was not a trade unionist.
    Then they killed the Jews,
    and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
    -- Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1945

March 26, 2008

  • Whoa and AMEN and one thing I'd add

     

    --Public schools are destroying the faith of Christian children and the pulpits are silent.

    --Legislation is introduced to remove the rights of parents and the pulpits are silent.

    --Children are taught they came from apes and the pulpits are silent.

    --Millions of children are “medicated” to control their behavior and the pulpits are silent.

    --Gambling is promoted to pay for schools and the pulpit is silent.

    --Precious babies are being murdered in the womb and the pulpits are silent.

    --Planned Parenthood kills babies with our tax dollars and the pulpits are silent.

    --Judges make laws and the pulpits are silent.

    --Tolerance trumps Truth and the pulpits are silent.

    --Sodomy is granted legal protection and the pulpits are silent.

    --The institution of marriage is crumbling and the pulpits are silent.

    --Obama says the Sermon on the Mount justifies gay marriage and the pulpits are silent.

    --Government has replaced God as defender and provider and the pulpits are silent.

    --Faith-based initiatives invite the government into the Church and the pulpits are silent.

    --The IRS muzzles the voice of the Church and the pulpits are silent.

    --Taxes are levied to do the work of the Church and the pulpits are silent.

    --The Church locks arms with compassionate-conservativism and the pulpits are silent.

    --Children’s service agencies separate family members and the pulpits are silent.

    --Self-help books replace the Bible and the pulpits are silent.

    --A Purpose Driven Life is elevated above dying to self and the pulpits are silent.

    --G.W. Bush says Christians and Muslims worship the same God and the pulpits are silent.

    --The Constitution is ignored and the pulpits are silent.

    --Pagans pray to open a session of Congress and the pulpits are silent.

    --Our elected officials lie and steal and the pulpits are silent.

    --Private property is stolen by government and the pulpits are silent.

    --Mother Earth is protected more than Father God is defended and the pulpits are silent.

    --Illegal aliens over-run our borders and the pulpits are silent.

    --The entertainment industry celebrates debauchery and the pulpits are silent.

    And after you've repented go and sin no more ... how do we know what is good that we can do and what is bad that we should abstain from?  Torah!  If Jesus/Yeshua would have told us that we didn't need to follow/observe/obey/walk-in Torah, then HE would have been telling us to sin but HE did not do away with Torah, we are to obey and we are blessed when we do.