Went to the MVA in Glen Burnie to swap out my transponder which was not working. Must remember to call the EZ Pass folks on Friday to transfer those charges from full rate to commuter rate once they show up.
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Chamilton Log – Thursday 1/4/2018
My thoughts are on getting fit and of course loosing weight. There needs to be a commitment and an emphasis n actions.
My joints are killing me. In order to address this I want to address several key physical attributes. The first is my weight. I know that my most comfortable weight is going to hover around 200 lbs. I am currently at 280 lbs. That is morbidly obese.
Diet and exercise are key here to achieving a comfort level. I understand this from experience and personal success stories. In order to make it happen it will take a commitment to rise at 5:30 AM each morning and get a stable workout. I will also need to be committed to eating correctly. This means a high protein low carbohydrate diet with a prepared lunch.
Another aspect for driving toward better health is taking advantage of supplements. I want to participate in a regiment of Glucosamine Chondroitin MSM.
Osteoarthritis: What Is It?
Also called “wear and tear” arthritis or degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis (OA) is the progressive breakdown of the joints’ natural shock absorbers. This can cause discomfort when you use the affected joints — perhaps an ache when you bend at the hips or knees, or sore fingers when you type. Most people over 60 have some degree of OA, but it also affects people in their 20s and 30s
The third thing is financial health. I have noticed that when I worry it impacts my weight. It also impacts my ability to focus on my good habits. It becomes a downward spiral that results in me not carrying for myself. In order address my financial health there might be several things I can leverage.
The first is consider filing bankruptcy. In order to file chapter 7 I would have to be making less than $90,000 / year. Chapter 13 is an option but it appears they simply organize you into a payment plans. However with Chapter 13, after 3 or 5 years all dept is wiped out.
Another option is to switch employers. By doing this I wold take my 401K money, pay the tax penalty and then use the rest of the funds to pay off all outstanding debts.
The final method is to simply stay the course. This is not a good option because after 5 years the creditors will still be there. The not knowing is what impacts my health. Plus it prevents me from being a proper giving in church.
Isabel Age 3 Gallery
A really fun year.
It can be difficult growing up in the household of your grandparents. Isabel has known nothing else. It was about when she was three years old that she began to ask questions about the family unit. If course at this point, having been conversing clearly, interactive in conversations, she began to first recite our titles. “Isabel, mamma, nannah, auntie, pop pop, chewy (our dog), carter (our fish) and .
Isabel tells me that she loves her family and feels very comfortable ruling the house – having her own way where every she walks. Of course when you have a daddy and mommy that aren’t married there are times when you go away for a weekend to visit daddy and his family. On these visits you get to meet other people, children your age, a little younger, sometimes a little older. You learn to understand, “this is my brother.” or “this is my cousin”. This is my other nannah and my other pop pop. My daddy doesn’t live with my other nannah, he has his own house. My other nannah and my other pop pop, don’t live together. So many variations. What is this home that you all speak of? How do I wrap my mind around it?
Mommy and nannah work very hard to get Isabel registered into Pre-K and Isabel loves it. No more spending the day at the day care givers home with these one-on-one relationships with people, I have become familiar with but I don’t really know. I am spending the day with kids my own age. Boys and girls. And we have a teacher, Ms. Braswell. We get homework and I have a backpack. We get books to read, we learn new songs, I learn about the aphabet, she teaches us sign language. It is so much fun. I get to dress up. I leave for school the same time my mommy leaves for work and my nannah leaves for work and my pop pop leaves for work. I am part of the active family.
But there’s one curious thing that I come to hear as all of my classmates talk. Mrs Braswell asks us about our families. Sometimes she asks us what chores we do at home, how many people are in our family, what games we play when we are at home, what time is bed time, and many other questions like this. As my classmates answer I come to hear that some of my friends don’t live with their nannah and pop pop, some of my friends don’t have a daddy and they only have a mommy, some don’t have mommy but they have a daddy, some have two daddies and some have two mommies. Its all mixed up and not the same as my house.
So I ask my mommy, my nannah, my auntie and my pop pop why some families are different. I share with them what I found out at school. I also share with them that I have fun when I go visit my daddy but sometimes its not fun at all. Sometimes I am lonely. When I ask if I can go home my daddy tells me that its not time yet. Sometimes I just wish that my daddy and my mommy lived together like some of my friends at school
Museum of African American History
God is Seeking You
Show of hands – How many people here believe in God? Don’t be shy. If you believe in God raise your hands.
I want to share with you a very brief life story…
When I was in the second grade on occasion some of us boys were in the fashion of handing girls notes that would say “Do you like me? Y or N”. Now if they circled Y “and that may have been perhaps 10%, then we would be play mates during recess – swing on swings, hang on the jungle gym, if we play kickball make certain you are on the same team. However when recess was over so was what we knew of as “The Relationship”.
Towards the end of the second grade my father passed away. Although a sad event in my life, as I look back there were some blessing delivered. First I was introduced to Death which made me more aware of Life – becoming more mature. Additionally I grew closer to my mother and my mother has a close relationship with God so I gained a relationship with God through my mother. I was baptized July 29, 1975 at Camp Hunt.
Now my home congregation in Schenectady NY had a vibrant youth group. Full of leaders such as Doris Polnich, at this time we had a strong youth group. We had rock stars like Joe Hamilton, Charlotte Hamilton, Doris Polnich, John Fender, Aaron Feur, Laurie Lantz and many more. They would do things like get together just to sing and praise God, knock on doors, meet twice a month for Youth Meetings, travel around the state to Youth Rallies at sister congregations, attend events at NCJC. They were on fire. I was not yet a teen but I benefited from this. I would hang with them.
As I became of age those individuals moved on and the dynamic as well as those who were leaders of the congregation changed. A typical Sunday morning for me was to rise early and participate in the bus ministry. When classes started I would conduct the children’s worship service while adults attended class. During worship service I was the song leader. After services I would continue my work on the bus ministry. This continued on through my Senior year in high school. In my senior year King Bernie with a group of young folks from Texas came to NY and started a Campus Crusades for Christ movement on the local college campuses. They wanted me to go to college locally and join their forces.
But by this time I was feeling exhausted and just want to get away. Away from the Church scene. Away from the work. Away from the service and ministry life. So I went to the University at Buffalo. It was there that I met this girl. We started dating.
I recall on one of these dates we were going to see a movie using the public transportation and at a bus stop on Kensington Ave in Buffalo it was cold. So cuddling together to keep warm during a quietness of the moment I started singing the song – Jesus, Jesus. She wanted to know what that was all about. I told her that it was just a remnant from my past – don’t concern yourself.
Later that year we went to visit my Mother and my girl friend had all types of questions. Of course my mother had all types of answers – divulging my experiences with service to the Lord.
When we got back to Buffalo, Tessa, now armed with my history, wanted to start going to church regularly with me. I said sure – but I am not getting involved. We can just be observers was what I was thinking.
Now if any of you know anything about church services you will know that there is some singing, some praying , the Lord’s table is served, some more singing, some preaching and then an invitation is offered and during the invitation the preacher will say “come forward as we stand and sing”. It is at this time all those that want to leave early, go to the rest room, stretch their legs get up and if they are sitting on the preachers right they turn left out of the pew or if they are on the preachers right they turn out of the pew and head toward the back.
Well Tessa was taking that opportunity but instead of turning left – she turned right to the sound of Just As I Am. Instantly I realized what was happening. My eyes began to well with tears of joy. An elderly woman sitting in back of me tapped me on the shoulder and stated to me “Don’t cry. Would you like a tissue? ” She handed me a cloth to wipe my tears.
That moment – I will never forget. It change my life. My whole perspective about God’s purpose for me in my life and about my dedication.
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In Exodus there was a man named Moses. Moses, a Hebrew by birth, raised along side the privileged of Egypt knew who his kin were. While out one day he witnessed an Egyptian treating a Hebrew person harshly. Moses rose up a killed the Egyptian and buried him.
Another day Moses was out in the population and he noticed two Hebrews at odds with one another. As he attempted to mediate, one of the Hebrews said to him, “Are you going to kill us as you did the Egyptian?” At this point Moses knew he was in trouble because what he had done was known and he would have to pay for his actions with the Egyptians. Moses fled into Midian where he married.
While Moses was working in the pasture an angel appeared to him as a burning bush that was not consumed by its flames. Then Moses heard the voice of God who told him first to remove his shoes because where the bush burned was Holy Ground. Then God requested of Moses to return back to Pharaoh in Egypt because God remembered his people the Hebrews and the hardship they were experiencing at the hands of the Egyptians and to tell the Pharaoh to let the his people go.
Moses gave God several excuses why he shouldn’t go
- Who am I? I am a nobody to make such a request.
- Whom should I say sent me.
- They will never believe I am having a conversation with Almighty God.
- I am not eloquent in speech.
- Please send someone else.
Cerebral Palsy is a debilitating disease. I know that when parent see children running and playing, active – it must grieve their heart. To know their child may never run and play and be active in such a way.
It must grieve the heart of our Father in Heaven to see us stumbling around like babies sometimes. As Christians we don’t want to share the love, we don’t want to share the joy, we don’t want to share the gospel of our blessed Lord Jesus and the life he offering all because we might be embarrassed, we lack the courage, we don’t think it is our ministry, because we’re lazy. Now if you are a new Christians you need to be afforded all the patience and time to grow properly from milk to meat. But if you are a mature Christian regardless of your age…
Why did Jesus come to Earth. There were several reasons.
- To fulfill the Law (Matt 5:17)
- To Reveal the Father
The KKK and Saul the murderer
The assertion is that biblical Saul like the KKK is just mis-understood. Altruistic. Desiring to do good but by circumstances, end up doing wrong.