Wow!! Yes, it's really been 3 months since my thoughts have been penned to this blog and I am ashamed! I can tell you that amidst all the traveling seeing family and friends, the hectic and loved daily tasks of keeping house and rearing an almost 2 year old, attending various meetings and studies while vying for time with my husband and friends, I have written no fewer than 100 blogs in my head. And it's time to get these thoughts to you!
Be on the look out for various ramblings! Have a happy day!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Going Green
Well, this 'green machine' that seems to be swiping our nation may be just the answer to many of our problems. However, when large corporations begin buying out the more eco-friendly, organic companies, we need to keep a close watch and a steady eye on their endeavors.
It was recently brought to my attention by a good friend of mine that Burt's Bees, a more natural company, was bought by the Clorox corporation. My first response: YIKES!!! I would NEVER buy bleach and I'd never put it on my lips! (not that the bleach is in the Burt's Bees products, but that is what first came to my mind) B/c the FDA doesn't regulate personal hygiene products, this makes me even more nervous!
I read this article tonight and became increasingly interested in researching the "standards" for "natural" based products.
Below is a little of the article explaining more:
It was recently brought to my attention by a good friend of mine that Burt's Bees, a more natural company, was bought by the Clorox corporation. My first response: YIKES!!! I would NEVER buy bleach and I'd never put it on my lips! (not that the bleach is in the Burt's Bees products, but that is what first came to my mind) B/c the FDA doesn't regulate personal hygiene products, this makes me even more nervous!
I read this article tonight and became increasingly interested in researching the "standards" for "natural" based products.
Below is a little of the article explaining more:
"LATELY, Burt’s Bees has started to police its industry. The company’s research lab is full of competitors’ products labeled “natural,” and employees of Burt’s Bees test those assertions.
Burt’s Bees has also led a group of companies that have teamed up with the Natural Products Association to create a standard for natural personal care products, complete with stickers to label items that make the cut. To qualify, brands must create products that are at least 95 percent natural and contain no ingredients known to be harmful. The stickers will make their debut in April.
Consumers “walk down the aisle in the grocery stores’ health and beauty area, and they’re confronted with ‘natural’ at every turn,” says Daniel Fabricant, vice president for scientific and regulatory affairs at the association. “We just don’t want to see the term misused any longer.”
To prove his own bona fides, Mr. Replogle grabs a bottle of Burt’s Bees avocado butter hair treatment, squeezes some onto his finger and dramatically licks it off. He then passes the tube to two Clorox executives so they can have a taste."
taken from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/business/06bees.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Why I really am considering...
BECOMING A VEGAN!!!! It's hard to trust large corporations who are motivated by increasing their revenue! Check out this article.
Poor and needy?
Recently my husband finished reading a book titled Jayber Crowe that has inspired him in to view earthly belongings as gifts and not necessities. How often do we count earthly belongings as pure treasure and not borrowed treasure? How often do we strive for more, living in a way that aids us in gaining more and subliminally neglecting what truly matters? What we treasure is synonymous with what our heart desires. May we think upon that which is greater and truly desire what is lasting...everlasting.
As I read over a friend's blog this evening, I was reminded again of the deep agonizing desire within me to have more...all at the cost of missing Christ's power through the resurrection of souls. Here is the reading that caused me to think upon greater things:
excerpt taken from http://www.cold-water-news.blogspot.com/
excerpt taken from Cold Water News.
As I read over a friend's blog this evening, I was reminded again of the deep agonizing desire within me to have more...all at the cost of missing Christ's power through the resurrection of souls. Here is the reading that caused me to think upon greater things:
excerpt taken from http://www.cold-water-news.blogspot.com/
Sunday, May 25
Thoughts from Jamie Crampton
I asked Jamie to jot down some thoughts from the past couple of days. Jamie is a sixteen-year old that I attend church with in New Albany. He and his brother Joseph are two of the four guys that accompanied me on this trip. Please forgive the format...we are dealing with 3rd world technology.
Unsearchable Riches
There is more poverty in this land than I could have imagined. There have been many times that I have wanted to sit down and weep. But the riches of Christ shine brightly in the face of poverty. The poor and beggarly souls are invited to stretch out their poor and withered hands to the Savior.
The bitter cup of poverty is a small taste of the emptiness of the soul, and the hopelessness of the poor is nothing compared to the hopelessness of the enemy of Christ. To be without God is to be without hope. But God, who is rich in mercy, is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.
We have been given so much; we have been given all things in Christ. Why are we so slow to take up our crosses and follow Him? When He commands us to leave all and follow Him, it is like telling a prisoner to leave His chains, the debtor to leave His debt, and the beggar to leave His scraps so that He might come to the feast. Oh, that we might live as beggars and pilgrims in this life that we might be kings in the next. We might beg ourselves rich by the grace that is in Christ.
Ultimately, the rich have nothing more than the poor. Either we have Christ, or we have nothing. What are all the treasures of this life when we die?
Christ is all in all. "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal." (Matthew 6:19-20) We who have nothing are freely offered to buy the pearl of greatest price.
Look to the face of Christ, not the hand of providence. The LORD is all love to His people. There have been moments were I questioned the sovereign love of God to the Christians in Ethiopia. But it is high treason against the King to lodge bitter thoughts about Christ. Circumstances may be dark to our eyes, but the Sun of righteousness is all light. "Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!"
excerpt taken from Cold Water News.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
well, i think it is time
to get this blog activated!! It's been one year and I have nothing to show for it. That all changes this minute.
This blog will reveal all those little pleasantries, quirts, factoids, and musings that keep me going. Often I wonder if others are feeling the same way I feel about various things in life. I write to inspire and to be inspired. Enjoy as I share with you all of the thought provoking ideas, concerns, challenges, questions, realities and ponderings. Hope you like what you read....or better yet, hope you are inspired by what you read.
Cheers!!
This blog will reveal all those little pleasantries, quirts, factoids, and musings that keep me going. Often I wonder if others are feeling the same way I feel about various things in life. I write to inspire and to be inspired. Enjoy as I share with you all of the thought provoking ideas, concerns, challenges, questions, realities and ponderings. Hope you like what you read....or better yet, hope you are inspired by what you read.
Cheers!!
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