Back to School: Milk and Cookies Party

Welcome to my bloggy milk and cookies party.

 

With the summer coming to a close, and the fresh start of a new school year, what's a better way to celebrate than an old fashioned milk and cookies party, with neighbors and school friends.

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Serve muffins with mini cookies and milk bottles on top, homemade cookies and milk. You can decorate with apples, and have some cut up as a healthy snack.

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For entertainment, bring out the board games. Games like scrabble (or words with friends) will help refresh the memory of words forgotten over summer break.

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Happy school year to you!

 

High hearts are never long without hearing some new call

 

High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service. And, looking higher still, we find those who never wait till their moral work accumulates, and who reward resolution with no rest; with whom, therefore the alternation is instantaneous and constant; who do the good only to see the better, and see the better only to achieve it; who are too meek for transport, too faithful for remorse, too earnest for repose; whose worship is action, and whose action ceaseless aspiration.

— James Martineau (Unitarian, clergy, theologian)

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Sentimental Saturday: Sleepless in Seattle Houseboat

Remember Sam and Annie in the 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle?

Jim and Loretta bought the houseboat featured in the romantic comedy in 1993, and married six months later.

Twenty romantic years on, they still live an idyllic life on the Seattle houseboat. Here it is today!

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It's one of my all time favorite sentimental movies. Not to mention Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are two of my favourite actors, here's a movie trailer.
 

 

Enjoy!

Heaven is a Place on Earth

I often ask myself, why I reminisce so much.

 

Is it looking at the past with nostalgia?

 

A glimpse of the future with trepidation?

 

Or is it hope that our dreams will somehow stitch themselves together?

 

Nowadays, everyone has an opinion on who to blame, what they would do, where it all went wrong, and when things changed.

 

Instead, why don't we "be the change" as Gandhi once said.
 

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Most likely, because that would take work, an act of effort on our parts...and what the hey, it's easier to form an opinion than to practice what we preach.

 

'What would heaven on earth look like to you'?

 

By writing a private journal, you can formulate your thoughts. Do research, cross past thoughts out, and re-write, almost as if your a student in college...because after all, we forget, we're students our whole lives.

Those of us in America (as well as other first world countries) are born more fortunate than those in third world countries. We are blessed with a lot of basic needs.

Remember the video by Micheal Jackson, 'We are the World'? It's one of my favorites, listen to the lyrics closely.  

 

Although, we can't save the world, we can give our most precious gift, our hearts. A second favorite, is the Christmas song, 'Do they know it's Christmas time again'.



The gift we get in return from other countries is an opportunity to see how different cultures work, have developed and what does work as opposed to what doesn't work.

In America, serving God, and the middle class family is what we all strive for. The American dream! Somehow, it's slowly slipping away, and thus nostalgia sets in.

What we do have to remember, is that along with 'the way we were' a lot of progression has occurred. And regardless of wealth, race, gender, or orientation an ideal is that we learn to love.

Love, you see, is blind (no pun intended).

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Once we give love, we can recieve love. That's the first step to heaven on earth.

 

Then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind.

- 2 Chronicles 6:30