What is a Christian?

Hi everyone,

In my  first post I think it was, I mentioned that when I started my blog I  had the idea to respond to questions about my faith. Then even though my faith is my life, I wrote, I decided to change to doing what I have been doing the past couple months. I also said that I would talk about my faith or faith in general sometime. Well I think this may be that sometime :)

In my last post I said that I had been trying to decide what to write about and mentioned some options. One was the topic What Is A Christian?  (thank you to those who left comments there) My reason for thinking of this for a topic is that there should only be one answer to this question. Right? A Christian is someone who believes in Christ and follows his teachings. That is the basic answer. Some how over the years the definition of a Christian has changed to: A Christian is someone who believes "the same as I do." So, if someone of a certain faith believes 'this' and the next person does not then that person "is not a christian." Who has the right to say that someone who believes in Christ and his teachings, but not in the same way as the next guy, is not a christian?  People are being called unchristian just because they don't believe in the creeds that were written centuries after the death of Christ and the Apostles.  Jesus and his apostles didn't believe in them either. Are THEY not christian ?

This was just something that I have been thinking about lately because I am seeing it happen. It is very sad.  Why can't people get along? 

I do enjoy your comments. Have a great Friday. Take care

Decisions, Decisions.....

Hi everyone, I have been wondering what I should write about. I have thought of several topics.  I think that was my first mistake. LOL  To think of more than one topic.  First, a while back before Christmas, I was thinking of,  Christmas-To Have Or Have Not, and ohhhh I just thought of this, I don't know why...What Is A Christian?...Well I do know why. Just don't know why I thought of it right now.  Then I thought,  oh, I don't remember the other topic from before Christmas...shoot.  lol  Then tonight I was thinking of maybe writing about Princess Downy. :)  Or maybe about our place in the mountains that I miss so much.  This is just too much for my poor little ol' brain. LOL

You decide? Those of you who choose the Christmas or the Christian topic, let me know your thoughts, ok? If you want to leave a comment here that is ok. And if you'd want to comment further, you can write to me here at throughthewoods2@yahoo.com Vicki, remember you said something in a comment about 'making you think'?  :) I guess I might be doing it again with this one, huh? :)

Ok, the weather here has been like springtime.  Sunshine and temps in the lower 40s.  Very nice. But very unusual. It will be like this through Friday then Saturday we are to get snow. But not much. We will see what happens. :) Don't know why we are not buried in snow. We usually are by this time. I hope it comes soon and in HUGE amounts. We will need it.

Daddy and Princess Downy have gone to bed.  I get to stay up for a little while longer, I think. lol  It is almost 1am.  AND I think I have the time thing figured out.  Don't know why it was showing the time of a different time zone. I'm sure I set it correctly in the beginnning. Strange.

I just want to tell all of you how much I love reading your blogs.  And how much I appreciate you all reading mine. I love reading your comments.  I know that when I leave comments I sometimes write a lot.  I hope you don't mind.   I love to get nice long comments. So if any of you feel so inclined, go for it. :) I also love the short sweet comments that I receive.  You are all amazing....

Have a great Thursday. Take care ((((BIG BIG HUGS))))

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Have a Happy Tuesday

Hi everyone, well as you can see I have another background. I just can't seem to decide on the one I want.  I have copied the codes for several from several different sites.  I kinda like this one but it may be hard on the eyes. The dark brown background and the color of my text.  If this is hard for any  of you let me know. If you have an idea what color the text should be I'd like to hear from you ok? It is a little hard  for me, but I like the border design. :) Please let me know what you think, ok?

I have loved reading your blogs today, as always.  And again I'd like to say I am amazed at your talents.

Have a great Tuesday. Take care  PS  Maybe this black is better, hmm? :)

Happy New Year

Wow, I just can't believe that it is 2012.  The past year just flew by.   For the most part I am glad of that. lol.  We just had too many stressful things going on. As I know some of you have. I pray for you all to have a better 2012. :)

Hmmm, thinking of some wonderful words of wisdom to impart to you to start the new year off. LOL  Me??? Imparting words of wisdom?? Never mind. lol.  Silly me, WHAT WAS I thinking. :)

Well, I rang in the New Year with my all time favorite food..CHOCOLATE :)   I had some Hershey drops or whatever they are called....yummmmm.  Later I had few chocolate chip cookies. That is what I call starting the year off right. Heehee.

Today on the very first day and first Sunday of the year I went to church. That was wonderful as always.  My two top goals this year are to go to church every Sunday....and to read my scriptures every day. These are always my top two goals.  I need to do better this year.

It used to be that NOTHING stopped me from doing these things. Now it is different because of health problems. :(  I need to focus.  I love church and I love the scriptures. These are two things that if they are a priority in your life, if you put them first, then the rest of your life seems to come together. You may still have troubles but you are better able to deal with them. Putting the Lord first is the key. 

Hmm, maybe that was my words of wisdom for the new year. :)

Take care everyone have a great Monday and a wonderful week. ((( BIG NEW YEARS HUGS)))

Awwww and OUCH!

Awwww, is this sweet or what? Made me smile. I found this on another blog. Tanya I hope you don't mind that I copied it. It is just too cute.

Ok, I know that I have not posted since Monday. This is one of the reasons why....On the Thursday before Christmas I had a tooth pulled. I decided that since it had been bothering me a little for 3 days that I should go in and see if it should be pulled.  I didn't want to have it bothering me during Christmas weekend. Well, I would have been able to handle the little annoying pain of that compared to the HUGE EXCRUCIATING pain following the removal. 

My goodness!  I don't know what happened but I was taking tylenol like crazy for 5 days.  My dentist was out for the holiday til Tuesday night.  I even went to the ER at 5am Monday morning after not sleeping at all cause the tylenol decided to stop working. They gave me a stronger pain killer and I went home. Tuesday afternoon I was able to get the hole packed with some chewing tobacco. lol  The dentist said that is what it looked like.  I had to see it cause I didn't know what chewing tobacco looked like. To me it looked like a brown hair ball . Yuck, and he put that in my mouth?? lol Anyway, I am doing better now.

Well I should go. It is late or early whichever you'd like to say, 2:14 am.  Have a wonderful Friday. Thanks for stopping by.  Take care

HAPPY MONDAY!!

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. :)

This post will be short. It is 3:38am.  I really should be in bed. I will try to write more later.

HAPPY MONDAY!!

Take care all, ((Hugs))

Merry Christmas

Hi there,   It is now 2:14 am.  I haven't turned into a pumpkin yet. lol  And I guess Santa won't come til I get to bed. Oh well.  I am up making chocolate cupcakes to surprise my husband when he gets up. They are for me too. I am a chocoholic. They will have white frosting, yummm.  And I will probably get most of them since he shouldn't be eating them.

I am also talking to a friend on the computer. He is talking about the prophecies of Daniel and Revelations.

This Christmas it will just be my hubby and I. We usually read from Luke of the birth of our Savior.  I am so grateful for his life, for his teachings, his example. He loves each one of us so much. It is amazing. 

I would like to say to each of you my new friends...Have the Merriest of Christmases. I pray that you all feel the PEACE that Jesus can give you this day and always. 

(((((Christmas Blessings and Hugs)))))