PRAYER REQUEST SEPT 20. 2008

NEW REQUEST

LETS REMEMBER ALL OUR PASTORS WIVES

MRS OKIE
MRS ROLPH
MRS FONG
MRS COUCH
MRS NORMAN
MRS AEA
MRS GLEASON WHO IS PREGNANT
MRS BROWN
MRS WALDEN
MRS CENTORIAN


JEFF AND KAREN STEWART

ALSO CAROLYN WHO HAS CANCER AND HAVING CHEMO.

I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO ADD BRIAND OF FROM THE ASHES BLOG. HE WORKS HARD ON TWO BLOGS

REGULARS

CHOSEN
EL
IDAHO GIRL
BAD MOON RISING
BLESSED

OUR PASTOR FRIENDS

OKIE PREACHER New Church would grow.
STEVE BROWN
RYAN COUCH
CHRIS GLEASON
DAVE ROLPH
ODEN FONG
AEA
BILL WALDEN
CHRIS NORMAN
CENTORIAN
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY MORE REQUEST.

PRAISE REPORT
RACHEL GOT THE JOB SHE WAS WANTING YIPPPEEEEEEEE

EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE DAYS

MY DAY STARTED OUT GOOD. i WENT TO A BIBLE STUDY AND CCLAGUNA OK I WILL CALL IT KINGSFIELD THAT IS THE NEW NAME. THEN I CAME HOME AFTER MY LESSONS AND THERE WAS A MESSAGE ON MY HOME PHONE FROM A MAN WHO LIVES IN MICHIGAN THIS MAN WAS MY DAD'S BEST FRIEND. HE ALSO WAS A PARTNER WITH MY DAD SOMETIMES WHEN IT CAME TO ME. OH FIRST I NEED TO TELL YOU THAT WHEN I GOT HOME A PACKAGE CAME FOR ME IN THE MAIL WITH NO ADDRESS ON IT AS TO WHO IT WAS FROM. IT WAS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A SHOE BOX. SO I OPENED IT. AND INSIDE WERE PICTURES OF WELL LETS JUST SAY THINGS MY DAD SHOULD NOT OF BEEN DOING TO ME. HOW IS THAT FOR NOT BEING TO GRAPHIC. THEN LATER IS WHEN THE CALL CAME IT WAS ___________ HE SAID DID YOU GET MY PACKAGE. THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE SENT CHILLS UP AND DOWN MY SPINE. I JUST FROZE. THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE BROUGHT BACK SOME REALLY OLD FEELINGS I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO BE SICK. MY STOMACH STILL HURTS AND MY NERVES ARE STILL ON PINS AND NEEDLES RIGHT NOW. HE DOES NOT HAVE MY CELL NUMBER SO I AM ONLY ANSWERING MY CELL PHONE I TURNED MY HOME PHONE OFF. I HAVE TRIED TO PUT IT OUT OF MY MIND I REALLY HAVE. BUT I JUST KEEP HEARING HIS VOICE OVER AND OVER AND OVER. FINALLY I SPOKE TO HIM AND SAID HOW DID YOU GET MY NEW ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER HE SAID ______GAVE IT TO ME I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO HER ALL ALONG I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE AND EVERYHING. OK THAT SCARED ME AND STILL DOES. WHEN I MOVE MY SISTER WILL NEVER KNOW WHERE I AM AT. HE SAID HE WAS IN CALIFORNIA AND WANTED TO SEE ME. I SAID THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN HE SAID LIKE I SAID I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE. SO I CALLED THE POLICE AND THEY HAVE A REPORT I TOLD THEM I DO NOT KNOW IF HE REALLY IS HERE OR NOT, BUT WANTED TO REPORT IT ANYWAY. THEY ASKED WHO THIS GUY WAS AND I TOLD THEM AND THEY SAID IF I WANTED TO I COULD GET A RESTRAINING ORDER BUT IT TAKES 3 DAYS.

OK MY DEAR FRIENDS HERE ON THE BLOG I NEED SOME PRAYER, I HATE TO ADMIT IT BUT WHEN I LEFT TO GO TO THE STORE I WAS LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER NOW AND I KNOW GOD DOES NOT WANT ME TO WALK IN FEAR. THIS IS ALL A BIT TOO MUCH CONSIDERING SOME OTHER THING THAT HAPPEN IN THE LAST MONTH. OK SORRY I WILL STOP RAMBLING. OUTSIDE OF TALKING TO JESUS ABOUT IT. I KNEW I COULD COME TO YOU ALL. FOR ANYONE WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE STORY OF MY DAD YOU CAN GO UNDER OLD POST IN MARCH AND READ MY TESTIMONY PART ONE AND TWO AND YOU WILL SEE WHY I AM SO AFRAID OF THIS MAN.

THE LOVE OF GOD

LITTLE HISTORY OF THIS SONG
~The Love of God (1)


Frederick M. Lehman, author and composer, wrote a pamphlet, in 1948, entitled History of the Song, The Love of God. It tells about the origin of this beloved hymn—

While at camp-meeting in a mid-western state, some fifty years ago in our early ministry, an evangelist climaxed his message by quoting the last stanza of this song. The profound depths of the line moved us to preserve the words for future generations.

Not until we had come to California did this urge find fulfillment, and that at a time when circumstances forced us to hard manual labor.

One day, during short intervals of inattention to our work, we picked up a scrap of paper and, seated upon an empty lemon box pushed against the wall, with a stub pencil, added the (first) two stanzas and chorus of the song.

Since the lines (3rd stanza from the Jewish poem) had been found penciled on the wall of a patient’s room in an insane asylum, the general opinion was that this inmate had written the epic in moments of sanity.

Actually, the key-stanza (third verse) under question as to its authorship was written nearly one thousand years ago by a Jewish songwriter, and put on the score page by F.M. Lehman, a Gentile songwriter, in 1917.

—Selected

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The Love of God



(1) The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell;

It goes beyond the highest star, And reaches to the lowest hell;

The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win;

His erring child He reconciled, And pardoned from his sin.



CHORUS:

O love of God, how rich and pure!

How measureless and strong!

It shall for evermore endure

The saints' and angels' song.



(2) When years of time shall pass away, And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,

When men, who here refuse to pray, On rocks and hills and mountains call,

God's love so sure, shall still endure, All measureless and strong;

Redeeming grace to Adam's race-The saints' and angels' song.



(3) Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made,

Were every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade,

To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry.

Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky.





~The Love of God (2)

The beloved hymn The Love of God had its roots in a long Jewish poem written in the eleventh century in Germany.

The Jewish poem, Hadamut, in the Aramaic language, has ninety couplets. The poem itself is in the form of an acrostic. It was composed, in the year 1096, by Rabbi Mayer, son of Isaac Nehorai, who was a cantor in the city of Worms, Germany.

The Hadamut poem also speaks of a certain miracle. There are three opinions as to the contents of this miracle.

The first opinion is that the miracle was the giving of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Incidentally, it is for this reason that the poem is still read on the first day of the Feast of Shavuot before the reading of the Ten Commandments.

The second opinion simply states that we really cannot know with certainty, from the references, what the actual miracle was.

The third opinion believes that the miracle took place in the city of Worms, home of the rabbi-poet. It is thought that there was a medieval, German priest who once spoke evil of the Jewish community.

The king called upon the Jews of the city to produce a representative to argue and defend themselves against the priest. If the Jewish spokesman was successful, then the Jewish community would be spared mass genocide. But if the anti-Jewish priest proved successful, then all of the Jewish community of Worms would be put to death.

The story has a happy ending, as the Jewish representative was successful in the defense of their faith, and the community of Worms was spared.

Throughout the poem, the theme of God’s eternal love and concern for His people is evident. One section of this poem, from which the present third stanza of The Love of God was evidently adapted, reads as follows:

Were the sky of parchment made,

A quill each reed, each twig and blade,

Could we with ink the oceans fill,

Were every man a scribe of skill,

The marvelous story, Of God’s great glory

Would still remain untold; For He, most high

The earth and sky Created alone of old.

—Kenneth Osbeck

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UNKNOWN MOZART FRAGMENT FOUND

Unknown Mozart fragment found in French library

By ANGELA DOLAND – 1 hour ago

PARIS (AP) — It's a forgotten melody, sketched in black ink in a swift but sure hand. The single manuscript page, long hidden in a provincial French library, has been verified as the work of Mozart, the apparent underpinnings for a Mass he never composed.

The previously undocumented music fragment gives insight into Mozart's evolving composition style and provides a clue about the role religion may have played for the composer as his life neared its turbulent end, one prominent Mozart expert says.

A library in Nantes, western France, has had the fragment in its collection since the 19th century, but it had never been authenticated until now, partly because it does not bear Mozart's signature.

Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, said Thursday that there is no doubt that the single sheet, the top third of which has been cut off, was written by the composer.

"His handwriting is absolutely clearly identifiable," he added. "There's no doubt that this is an original piece handwritten by Mozart."

Leisinger said the work had been "entirely forgotten." Such a find is rare: The last time unknown music in Mozart's handwriting came to light was in 1996, when a portion of an aria was sold at Christie's, Leisinger said.

The library does not plan to sell, but if it did, the single sheet would likely be worth around $100,000, the expert said. In all, only about 100 such examples of musical drafts by Mozart are known.

There have been up to 10 Mozart discoveries of such importance over the past 50 years, Leisinger said.

The sheet was bequeathed to Nantes' library by a collector in the 19th century, along with one letter from Mozart as well as one from his father. Both the letters were published in Mozart's complete correspondence, said Agnes Marcetteau, director of Nantes' municipal library.

In an annotation dated Aug. 18, 1839, Aloys Fuchs, a well-respected autograph hunter who collected works from more than 1,500 musicians, authenticated that the handwriting was that of "W.A. Mozart."

But strangely, the work never attracted much attention, partly because it did not bear Mozart's signature and partly because the catalog notation about it was extremely brief and bland, Leisinger said.

The library contacted Leisinger to authenticate the work last year.

Some of the first part of the fragment is in D minor, while the second is in D major and marked "Credo" — a major clue that the work is a sketch for a Mass, which typically includes such a movement, said Robert D. Levin, a professor at Harvard University who is well-known for completing unfinished works by Mozart.

Circumstantial evidence, including the type of paper, suggests Mozart did not write the material before 1787, said Leisinger. Mozart died in 1791 at the age of 35.

"What this sketch leaf confirms in a most vivid way is Mozart's true interest in writing church music toward the end of his life," Levin said.

Mozart had planned to become the choir and music director of Vienna's main cathedral, although he died before he could take up the post. But because Mozart had become a Freemason, some have questioned the sincerity of his interest in religious composition at that period of his life, Leisinger said.

Mozart's famous Requiem, unfinished at his death, was commissioned by a mysterious benefactor. But the rediscovered fragment likely stemmed from inspiration alone and suggests "to a certain degree that being a Freemason and a Roman Catholic was not a real contradiction" in Mozart's eyes, Leisinger said.

For anyone who wants to try sight-reading the fragment, a bit of detective work is required. Musicians must work out the key signature and clef based on other clues in the music. The tempo is also mysterious. And there is no orchestration.

"It's a melody sketch, so what's missing is the harmony and the instrumentation, but you can make sense out of it," Leisinger said. "The tune is complete."

Philip Gossett, a music historian and a professor in music at the University of Chicago, urged caution about interpreting the fragment.

"It is certainly not something that can just be scored up and played as Mozart's," he said.

Nonetheless, modern-day composers are going to take a crack at an orchestration. And in January of next year, the Nantes library says, Mozart's 18th century Mass is expected to have its first performance.

IM STILL CRYING AS I POST THIS YOUTUBE

NO COMMENT BY ME NEEDED

LOOK EL I GOT MY NAILS DONE

I ONLY PUT ONE HAND UP HERE BECAUSE I CAN NOT HOLD THE CELL PHONE CAMERA AND TAKE PICTURES AT THE SAME TIME. IT SILLY I KNOW BUT IT MADE ME FEEL BETTER TO GET THEM DONE. MY FRIENDS OWNS A SALON AND TOLD ME TO COME IN A GET THEM DONE. wHAT A BLESSING.

PRAYER REQUEST

I HAVE A PRAYER REQUEST I HAVE BEEN HAVING SOME THINGS GOING ON HERE THAT I REALLY NEED PRAYER ABOUT, I DON'T WANT TO LIST IT ON THE BLOG, BUT WOULD APPRECIATE SOME PRAYER. PART OF IT IS THE DEPRESSION AND PANIC ISSUES, BUT THERE IS MORE. THANK YOU SO MUCH I KNOW I CAN ALWAYS COUNT OF YOU GUYS FOR PRAYER AND THAT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME.