Thursday, October 18, 2012
Music to glorify God
God called for all music to glorify the Him. Yet look at whats in music these days - cussing, talking about women, idolizing money - is this really glorifying him? I don`t believe that. The Bible says to keep your mouth clean, for men to love their wife's, sister's, mother's and daughter's, and one of the ten Commandments is not to idolize anyone or thing accept God. You listen to this stuff and eventually it will come out in your lifestyle. If you listen to that music because of the beat or rhythm, there is music out there that has a great beat or rhythm. Check out Lecrae, Trip Lee, Toby Mac, KB, Pro, Andy Mineo, or Cannon. They are rappers that rap for the glory of God and are great rappers. You should check them out.
Monday, September 17, 2012
What The World Sees
The world looks and sees a kid
The world sees a kid
Livin` in the inner city
The world sees a kid
Surrounded by sin
The world sees a kid
Tainted by sin
The world sees a kid
Up to no good
The world only knows
Whats on t.v, in music and in movies
The world only knows
What it wants to see and what it sees....
Its all wrong
The world stereo-types us
Because of what it sees and where we live
The world thinks it knows us...
It doesn't
The world knows what it sees
On t.v, in movies, music and printed word
The world's too busy seeing whats not here
To see us
A small poem on what the world 'sees' and does not really see. The inner city (against what many think) is not as evil as its shown on t.v, in movies, in music and in the news. Yes, the inner city has problems, but so do the suburbs and rural areas. The news is making a bigger deal about the problems today and how bad its gotten when in fact its been like that all along. The suburbs and rural areas have those problems too, but they have the money to hide them. I'll be posting a lot of poems and I hope they'll help you.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
More on Slavery
There are
four primary areas of slavery into which children, as
well as adults, are trafficked (or sold):
THE SEX-SLAVE TRADE
Primarily
young women and children, including toddlers,
are sold into pornography and prostitution. There
are thousands of these victims enslaved in the
United States, Sudan and throughout Western Europe.
CHILD SOLDIERS
CHILD SOLDIERS
In Africa
thousands of young boys and girls are forced into
military camps where they are trained to fight
as rebels and are often beaten, raped, and malnourished,
as a means to training children to be young killing
machines.
FORCED MANUAL LABOR
There
are agricultural and manufacturing forced manual
labor camps both in Western Europe and in the
USA.
PROFESSIONAL BEGGING
This
is Mafia organized begging. The children are forced
into begging on the streets, and they retain none
of what they collect. They are often forced to
live in sewers, cellars or dark gutted apartments
where many of them are crowded into a small room
under lock and key with little to eat.
And those are just four primary groups, there are a lot more. A couple of sites I found on Slavery: Make way partners (where I got above info), and Women`s rights without frontiers (please be careful on Women`s rights without frontiers, some very graphic photos of whats going on in the world).
And those are just four primary groups, there are a lot more. A couple of sites I found on Slavery: Make way partners (where I got above info), and Women`s rights without frontiers (please be careful on Women`s rights without frontiers, some very graphic photos of whats going on in the world).
Monday, June 11, 2012
Golden Ciphers
So if you have`nt noticed I posted about going to The Undergound Rialroad Freedom Center with a place called Golden Ciphers. I know I gave a link to their web page, but I thought I`d tell you a little bit about it. Golden Ciphers is a non-profit African American grassroots organization that is here to help the youth (ages 12-18) in the inter-city of Cleveland. Golden ciphers has programs everyday of the week: Monday is EET (or Entrepreneur Employment Training), Tuesday is Black Butterflies (girls group), Wednesday is Leadership, Thursday is Young Men Emerge (boys group), and Friday is Drumming as well. To learn more go to their web site: www.goldenciphers.org
Slavery
On May 23, 2012, I went with Golden Ciphers to the Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
At the museum I learned what slaves had to go thru. Africans where taken from their homeland, marched across fields on foot, and put on a slave ship bound for the Americas. There was very little room on the slave ships. Slaves crouched in the holds with no where to lay down or go to the bathroom. They sat there in their own waste. Conditions where so bad that the slaves jumped ship knowing it was better than slavery.
When the slaves got to the Americas the where auctioned off by slave traders to the highest bidder. Babies and Children were ripped from their mothers arms and families seperated! Slave traders made around $800,000 a year!
Slavery was abolished by most countries (America being one of them), but its still going on! Some types of slavery are: Sex slaves, Child Slodiers, Forced laborers, and many more. The ones mentioned don`t happen as much in America (as far as I know) but there is slavery. A couple of the ones in America are Threats and Fraud.
This was suprising. I knew that in some countries (like India for one) there was still slavery, but it amazed me that its still going on in America. I thought it terrible that people don`t know and that is what this post is for, to inform you what is still gonig on in the world. When we don`t think its possible.
What do think? Is there anything you would add to this? Please tell me so I can inform more people.
Thanks for reading!
At the museum I learned what slaves had to go thru. Africans where taken from their homeland, marched across fields on foot, and put on a slave ship bound for the Americas. There was very little room on the slave ships. Slaves crouched in the holds with no where to lay down or go to the bathroom. They sat there in their own waste. Conditions where so bad that the slaves jumped ship knowing it was better than slavery.
When the slaves got to the Americas the where auctioned off by slave traders to the highest bidder. Babies and Children were ripped from their mothers arms and families seperated! Slave traders made around $800,000 a year!
Slavery was abolished by most countries (America being one of them), but its still going on! Some types of slavery are: Sex slaves, Child Slodiers, Forced laborers, and many more. The ones mentioned don`t happen as much in America (as far as I know) but there is slavery. A couple of the ones in America are Threats and Fraud.
This was suprising. I knew that in some countries (like India for one) there was still slavery, but it amazed me that its still going on in America. I thought it terrible that people don`t know and that is what this post is for, to inform you what is still gonig on in the world. When we don`t think its possible.
What do think? Is there anything you would add to this? Please tell me so I can inform more people.
Thanks for reading!
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Keeping the Faith (march 2-3)
Friday, March 2, I went to Cincinnati for a youth conference. 11 teens and 2 adults from my church (Trinity Church) went. It lasted 3 days - Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We stayed at Blue Ash Embassy suites, I think its a really nice hotel. They have a pool, a hot tub, a sauna, a work-out room and some other stuff. Like I said really nice. We got there at about 5:30am, unpacked and went to the room we were meeting in. We met all the other teens (30 or so, including us) and Session #1 started, we were told not to sit with the group we come with and to mingle (as in mix with the other tables - a bunch of the Trinity group sat together XD). The Pastor for my church was the speaker = fill in the blanks :). After session some of us went to a big group room and played games, while everyone else went swimming. Later on we went to our rooms, showered and went to bed.
The next morning we all had breakfast and went to session #2 and workshop #1. We then headed out to explore the mall. At the mall we had lunch and set of in small groups of 3-4 peeps. An hour 1/2 before we had to leave everyone met up and walked around together. We found out it was national platapuse day and the Disney store was giving out perry the platapuse hats. We all got one and went around telling people 'happy platapuse day'. We then went back to the hotel and got ready for session #3 and workshop #2. After session we went up to the big group room we had gone to Friday night. As we hung out we ate pizza and talked. We then all headed to bed.
Next morning we had breakfast and packed so we didn't have to later. We then went to Session #4 and workshop #3. After session we went to the cars and left on the 4 hour ride home.
The next morning we all had breakfast and went to session #2 and workshop #1. We then headed out to explore the mall. At the mall we had lunch and set of in small groups of 3-4 peeps. An hour 1/2 before we had to leave everyone met up and walked around together. We found out it was national platapuse day and the Disney store was giving out perry the platapuse hats. We all got one and went around telling people 'happy platapuse day'. We then went back to the hotel and got ready for session #3 and workshop #2. After session we went up to the big group room we had gone to Friday night. As we hung out we ate pizza and talked. We then all headed to bed.
Next morning we had breakfast and packed so we didn't have to later. We then went to Session #4 and workshop #3. After session we went to the cars and left on the 4 hour ride home.
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| the very messy living room |
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| the bathroom |
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| the hotel from floor #2 |
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| twin lamps residing over a very messy bedside table |
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| the kitchenette (far left) and couches |
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| Cascades the resteraunt |
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| a table in front of... a bunch of tables |
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| the evil turtle that lives in the hotel |
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| empty flat land |
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| more empty flat land |
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| my dear friends Destiny and Violet |
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| ME!!!!!!!! |
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Lightsabers
Friday, February 24, 2012
My book review
Just last night I finished book called The False Princess by Elisi (A-lish) O'Neal. Its about a girl who thought she was a princess, only to find that she isn't the real princess. The real princess was taken to a convent to keep her safe from murder. Right before the princess was born the King and Queen went to the oracle of the nameless god. The prophecy they are told is that the princess will die around her 16 birthday. And so the King and Queen switch her secretly for another baby at birth. But a distant relative of the King and Queen is after the throne and puts her daughter in place of the real princess. Its end is awesome. If you want to find out why its awesome read it. You'll love it.
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