What You Didn’t See On The TV Networks
By Alan on May 24 in Blog tagged actions, adversity, bitter, choices, disappointments, humility, kicked the door, Obama, patience, poor, President, responses, sadness, stormed out, tantrum, trials | No Comments
What You Didn’t See On The TV Networks
President Obama Had A Tantrum
President Obama leaving a meeting with Congressional leaders
after Cantor told the president
“Republicans would not vote for his proposed tax hikes.”
Obama picked up his toys and stormed out of the meeting,
kicking the door open!
“Through patience a ruler can be persuaded,
and a gentle tongue can break a bone.”
Proverbs 25:14-16
As part of Heavenly Father’s plan of redemption, all people experience adversity during their lifetime. Trials, disappointments, sadness, sickness, and heartache are a difficult part of life, but with the help of the Lord they can lead to spiritual growth, refinement, and progress.
Each person’s success and happiness, both now and in the eternities, depend largely on his or her responses to the difficulties of life.
Adversity comes from different sources. Trials may come as a consequence of a person’s own pride and disobedience. These trials can be avoided through righteous living. Other trials are simply a natural part of life and may come at times when people are living righteously. For example, people may experience trials in times of sickness or uncertainty or at the deaths of loved ones. Adversity may sometimes come because of others’ poor choices and hurtful words and actions. Suffering may also come through a loving Heavenly Father as a tutoring experience.
When some people face adversity, they complain and become bitter. They ask questions like “Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this now? What have I done to deserve this?” But these questions have the power to dominate their thoughts. Such questions can overtake their vision, absorb their energy, and deprive them of the experiences the Lord wants them to receive. Rather than responding in this way, people should consider asking questions such as, “What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial?”
Different kinds of adversity require different responses. For example, people who are stricken with illness may simply need to be patient and faithful. People who suffer because of others’ words or actions should work toward forgiving those who have offended them. Victims of abuse should seek help immediately. If a person’s trials come because of disobedience, he or she should correct the behavior and humbly seek forgiveness.
“Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might,
mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day…
And faith, hope, charity and love, with an eye single to the glory of God, qualify him for the work.
Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness,
godliness, charity, humility, diligence.
Ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Amen.”
D&C 4
Marlon Snow
For The Family
OBAMA And The Seuss-quester
By Alan on Feb 22 in Blog tagged budget, congress, cuts, house, news, Obama, Pennsylvania Avenue, President, Senate, sequester, Seuss, spending, taxes, washington, welfare | Comments Off
Obama and the Seuss-quester
by Amy Payne with original artwork by Glenn Foden
On Pennsylvania Avenue, right near the end, there lived a President who wanted to spend.
He knew spending meant power, so hour by hour, he thought up more spends from his Washington tower.
“I’ll spend without limits; I’ll spend without blame! Raising taxes to pay—that’s the name of the game.”
Down the street, though, a House filled with thriftier folk had a budget to pass, or the country’d go broke. “We can’t spend all day; we’ve got bills to pay! Let’s keep deficits and higher taxes away.”
The Senate next door to the House just refused. “We don’t like your budget. We’ve got some bad news: The President says we can spend all we want, and we’ll simply raise taxes whenever we choose.”
So they spent and they spent and they borrowed some more. And when all that was spent, they spent same as before.
But not everyone thought the spending was nice. In the House and the Senate, some spenders thought twice. “We’ll cut down on spending. We have a bad feeling…” then—SMACK!—right on schedule, they hit the debt ceiling.
Then the President’s office, confronted with debt: “If it’s cuts they want now, then it’s cuts they shall get. We’ll threaten such cuts that NO one would take, and show them that cuts are not smart to make.”
“This will make Congress move. We’ll just float out a tester… broad, haphazard cuts that we’ll call the sequester.”
The Senate and even the House said, “Okay! That will motivate us to find a good way. We’ll figure this out and stave off those cuts—to allow them to happen, we’d have to be nuts.”
So the deadline was set, but the spending went on. A year and a half had soon come and gone. The House passed a budget; the Senate said no; the President very much enjoyed the show.
“Spend higher! Spend faster! Grow the welfare rolls! Soon, love for the spending will show up in the polls.” He even raised taxes, but it wasn’t enough—the levels of spending grew too fast to keep up.
“Don’t you mind the sequester,” he told Capitol Hill. “You said you would fix it, and I’m sure you will.”
But they could not agree on ways to cut spending, and before they knew it, the sequester was pending.
“Oh no!” they all cried. “We can’t let these cuts stand!”
And the President said, “WHO thought of this terrible plan?”
They didn’t remember his plan all along. He distracted them with his spending-cut song. Now he returned to save them from harm, and to keep them forgetting all but his charm.
So the President said with a glint in his eye, “You tried to cut spending. I saw how you tried. But it’s just too painful—I’m sure you can see. From the beginning, you should have listened to me.”
“I’ll save you all from the spend-cutters’ axes. You see, the solution is just to raise taxes.”
Gilbert Howe
For The Family
WE THE PEOPLE say: “HOLD CHECKS”!
By Alan on Jan 28 in Daily Inspiration tagged hold checks, house, Medicare, President, Senate, Social Security, soldiers, USA, we the people | Comments Off
WE THE PEOPLE say: “HOLD CHECKS”!
Jane P. Sorenson
For The Family
If Only Thomas Jefferson Had Been Alive Today!
By Alan on Jan 27 in Blog tagged Freedom, government, Monroe Doctrine, President, thomas jefferson | 2 Comments
A Voice From The Past To Guide The Future!
Thomas Jefferson
At 19, studied law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
At 23, started his own law practice.
At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
At 31, wrote the widely circulated “Summary View of the Rights of British America” and retired from his law practice.
At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence.
At 33, took three years to revise Virginia’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia, succeeding Patrick Henry.
At 40, served in Congress for two years.
At 41, was the American minister to France, and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.
At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
At 53, served as Vice President and was elected President of the American Philosophical Society.
At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions, and became the active head of Republican Party.
At 57, was elected the third president of the United States.
At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the nation’s size.
At 61, was elected to a second term as President.
At 65, retired to Monticello.
At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia, and served as its first president.
At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, along with John Adams.
Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today.
Jefferson really knew his stuff.
A voice from the past to lead us in the future:
John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement:
“This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property- until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
“We believe that religion is instituted of God; and that men are amenable to him, and to him only, for the exercise of it, unless their religious opinions prompt them to infringe upon the rights and liberties of others; but we do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of men, nor dictate forms for public or private devotion; that the civil magistrate should restrain crime, but never control conscience; should punish guilt, but never suppress the freedom of the soul.”
Doctrine and Covenants 134:4
John Greenhaigh
For The Family
What Manner Of Man Is This
By Alan on Nov 06 in Blog tagged believer, experience, Family, God, Heavenly Father, humble, leader, praying, President, secret, strength, United States, willing | Comments Off
What Manner Of Man Is This
He is a believer and a man who is like unto
other praying presidents.
Mitt Romney was secretly caught on this secret photo before he entered the arena to plead his case to America.
He is a believer and a man who is like unto other praying presidents. The picture of George Washington at Valley Forge comes to mind! 
Mitt Romney has been a successful man in every aspect of his personal, family, business, church, community and service life.
I believe Mitt Romney has the skill set and spiritual connections to keep this country from going over the brink financially, socially, and morally.
What’s wrong with the thinking of so many American’s who are willing to vote for such mediocrity when a man of integrity and experience is willing to put up with all the garbage being thrown at him and his family and is still found secretly praying to a loving Heavenly Father for the strength to continue on a quest that it must seem strange that so many don’t seem to want?
We truly are living in a scary time and in a few days we will know whether we are heading for a Yorktown or a Waterloo moment.
My name is Jim Ritchie and I proudly support this man for President of the United States.
“Heal Our Land”
The Osmonds Second Generation
May God “Heal Our Land”,
Paul Linford
For The Family
The President Should Take A Walk Around The White House
By Alan on Nov 04 in Blog tagged one nation, President, take a walk, Under God, we trust, White House | Comments Off
The President should take a walk around the White House.
One Nation Under God
For The Family
Ronald Reagan – Praying For A President
By Alan on Nov 03 in Blog tagged a plan, believe, God, prayer, President, Ronald Reagan, worship | Comments Off
Ronald Reagan – Praying For A President
May we all pray for our next President.
For The Family
Dancing With A Wounded Warrior
By Alan on Sep 25 in Daily Inspiration tagged dancing, heal, hero, President, wounded | Comments Off
Dancing With A Wounded Warrior
What a President should do for his wounded heros!
Heal their wounds.
“And it supposeth me that they have come up hither
to hear the pleasing word of God, yea, the word which
healeth the wounded soul.” Jacob 2:8
Marlon Snow
For The Family
BACK TO SCHOOL WITH OBAMA’S 3 R’S ?
By Alan on Aug 28 in Daily Inspiration tagged Mitt Romney, Obama, President, red tape, regulations, rules, three R's, USA, we built it | Comments Off
BACK TO SCHOOL WITH OBAMA’S 3 R’S ?
AMERICA SAYS ‘CHANGE’!
“WE BUILT IT”!
MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT!
DOING WHAT’S BEST,
FOR THE FAMILY
Mitt Romney – Doing Business The Mormon Way
By Alan on Aug 21 in Blog tagged charity, give, hard work, Mitt Romney, Mormon, not what we receive, President, way, what we give | Comments Off
Mitt Romney – Doing Business The Mormon Way
“It is not what we receive that enriches our lives, it is what we give.”
Marlon Snow
For The Family
