I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down.

I strongly encourage you to read this article on keeping sights on what is really important.


We Are Doing a Great Work and Cannot Come Down

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Second Counselor in the First Presidency

From the Ensign of the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter Day Saints.

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

We recently discussed what inalienable rights are. We came up with this description (with the help of Jo)

A right is something that you have by being born. If you were born on a desert island all you would have is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Saying that the things you would not have and are not entitled to are:

Food
Shelter
Marriage
Children
Healthcare
Money
Power

These are things that you could work for. They are a privilege. They are incentive. In fact you should work for them. By working for them you get a sense of accomplishment. You should not be forced to work for them either. That takes away freedom of choice. (For those who are LDS it's the difference of Agency (with consequences) or everyone being able to get back again (force) to Heavenly Father.)

However, if they are given to you without you putting in the necessary effort you do not understand what is truly required to have them. If somehow your benefactor dies, or whatever, then you suddenly lose your benefits that you didn't really deserve in the first place because you were not willing to work for them. You are in a rut and you are screaming "injustice!" and you're right. You don't even know how to get those benefits on your own merit. That is truly injustice.

I know that there is a lot of corruption in the land. I think Democrats have Socialistic tendencies and "some" think Republicans have anarchy (no desire for any government) tendencies. With so much corruption who can tell.

So maybe I'm neither. I am for the liberty, love, the family, and all that is right and good. I believe that evil should not be called good, and good should not be called evil.

I believe people have the right to pursue their desires. I also firmly believe that we should not remove the consequences they worked so hard to receive. It is not fair to punish those who work hard and are good while rewarding the wicked or lazy.

That said. You probably think I am heartless. On the contrary. As I have researched Charities, Non-profit organizations, and donations I have discovered that American's are the most giving collection of people in the world. Why? Because we have education, religion, and family values. We desire that people do not live in terrible conditions. We want to share our education, our health, and our wealth. We want to help the less fortunate, sponsor the determined yet underprivileged, and invest in those who do not have the current means but do have the inspiration for something great.

We want to teach people to fish so they can feed themselves for a lifetime.

I am appalled at the resentment created in people, because they are taxed in order to help others, implying that they themselves are not good enough to do it on their own. So families are pulling apart and resent helping each other, because they think that the government should do it, since they are paying taxes for that sort of thing. This happens so slowly (over a series of 50-60 years) that we think it is normal not to cling together and support each other.

I believe that the founding fathers had a pretty good understanding of corruption and how government should run. The Federal, state, and city governments were to have a set of checks and balances so that no particular party or organization would get strong enough to bring in corruption. (Although Washington himself warned against separating into parties at all.) That way even though there is evil in the world people would be too afraid to put power/greedy hungry people in power because it would hurt the people.

Well, afraid to say it. FDR used the terrible conditions to open the door to socialistic thinking...with the promise that when the war was over and the people returned to normalsy that Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare would end and the powers of government would return to how they were intended. So, more power was given to the government. The people were so eager to sell out their freedom for a handout.

The power was too tempting. It still exists.

The city should take care of city dealings.
The State should take care of state dealings.
The Fed should take care of Freeways, International relations, and severe crimes.

So what can we do? Get involved.

As "Remy" said in Ratatouille, "the time to change is now." It is not inevitable if we do not make it so.

Awake from your slumber and do the research. Don't just research modern day government. Do what John Adams did. Go and research the history of the world. Read Karl Marx Communist Manifesto, Read Voltair, Candide, the history of Russia, Broken Glass Floats, the Hiding Place. Find the good-bad-ugly and sort it out. Only then will you truly understand how freedoms are slowly taken away and must be paid for again with blood.

Prevent the Pride cycle. Arise. Focus on all that you can do.

Here's the result

Chuckle. So, I used Photoshop...Kimberly...but it was only to make the backdrop darker and crop the picture. Torri did a really good job, and the lighting was nice outside.

Picture time!

So, as I was getting a head-shot, for my Mary Kay director, Isaac decided he wanted to come and have pictures taken of him.

DanceCore card

This is pretty much the card we are thinking of using to represent our company. It is simple and classy while saying exactly what we do.

We teach people how to move well.

I'm excited for our future role in sharing the knowledge about our bodies and what a great gift they are!

new blog...Dancecore!

So, I haven't written anything in it. I just spent much of my afternoon making the background in Photoshop. Check it out if you'd like.

thedancecore.blogspot.com

Happy looking!

Do what is right, the daydawn is breaking...

From George Washington's Farewell Address (as cited in this booklet of the constitution)
he states:

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.... Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be concede to the influence of refined education...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle"

So why does the separation of church and state seem so right? It is not the Atheist who founded this particular country. It is the God fearing and compassionate religious majority who escaped the tyranny of religious oppression.

Yet today we face a minority of Atheists who demand that we give up our rights so they may have theirs. In our country we are fighting just to say the Pledge of Allegiance due to the reference of God in it. A father in California said that it takes away his son's right to not believe in God to have to hear that every day in school. If it were true that there was not a God then he shouldn't have to worry that it would corrupt his son. But it is not true.

I know there is a God. I know that all science and feeling demonstrate that there is and must be a Father in Heaven who started and continues to monitor, intervene, and allow the progression of this earth. Shouldn't it be my right to be able to say that whether I walked into my home or into a school? Doesn't the freedom of speech protect that right?

In other countries Gays/Lesbians have fought for the right to call their union marriage and won. In those countries the rights of the religious population are being stripped from them. So, who is being tolerant? Not the Atheists, Gays and Lesbians.

George Washington also stated in (1792):
"I am sure there never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe, that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God, who ais alone able to protect them."
(The writings of George Washington, by John C. Ftzpatrick, GPO, 1931-44. vol. 32:2) As cited in the same booklet.

We always should do what is right. Most of the time we won't be popular. Some of the time we will be openly ridiculed and beaten. It does not change what is good and right.

This is our country and our Constitution.

We are ..."its only keepers, the people." -George Washington