Holiday Season

Well, its that time of year.  Time to bake cookies, make gifts, and pull out the decorations.  I love Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years celebration.  My problem with it is the rush, the gimme-gimme attitude.  Its supposed to be time to enjoy family and be full of joy, but people have pulled it totally out of wack.  They have lost the true meaning of the season.  The joy of family, friends and a new year.  I love that part of the season and I don't think anyone has that anymore.  Do you?  Do you slow down and enjoy the season?  Do you have any fun holiday family stories?

Unique

We're all Weird

Because..

We're all Unique

Lets be Different

Lets be Freaks

Lets be Strange

We're all Weird

 Because..

We're all Unique

Lets be Emo

Lets be Goth

Lets be Scenic

We're all Weird

Because..

We're all Unique

 Lets be Girls

Lets be Boys

Lets be Us

Because We're all different

We're Weird to each other

So lets be Unique

-Charlotte

Know Me

They don't understand

 That I am me,

Just because I'm different

 They make decisions about me,

Without really knowing me

 And who I am,

I may be different from you

 But that don't mean I'm bad,

They see how I look

 And think they know me,

Just because of how I dress

 Without really knowing me,

They don't understand

 Who I am,

So this is to them

 The ones who judged me,

Without knowing me

 And who I am,

I won't get mad

 And I won't go,

I'll just explain who I am

-Charlotte

Here

Get out of here

Take your negative attitude out of here

We're being positive here

So keep the negative out of here

We're making ourselves better here

We don't need your Pessimism here

We're serious about living here

We are working here

So take your playing out of here

-Charlotte

Dreams

A broken wing

A broken dream

Keep dreaming

Keep trying

Because life's not over yet

-Charlotte

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.

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.

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

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).