Xapa to the World

Category: Short and Sweet

  • Midterm Election Voting Tool

    This year, WordPress along with The Pew Charitable Trusts has unleashed a great tool to help you find out what you need to know for midterm elections. Just type in your address below and you will be shown your voting location along with voting resources and who will be on your ballot. That’s amazing! For my voting district, it gives me a link to the county Board of Elections website where I can look up any issues that will be on the ballot as well.

    Now, that’s all well and good if you’re just looking for the names of candidates, but if you’re doing any research to decide who you will vote for, I would recommend checking out a site I’ve mentioned before:  Project Vote Smart. just type in the name of a candidate and then select the Bio, Votes, Positions, Ratings, Funding, and Speeches tabs at the top for more information. They try to be as comprehensive as possible and biased. The site provides mostly the raw data leaving you to decide what to do with it.

    VoteSmart.org

    As always, voting is a right under our US Constitution. It’s no good to just complain about things. If you don’t vote, even if you just vote in the Presidential elections, you are not putting your thoughts into action. Educate yourself and then go VOTE!

  • He Keeps Me Singing

    by Luther B Bridgers

    There’s within my heart a melody;
    Jesus whispers sweet and low,
    “Fear not, I am with thee, peace, be still,”
    In all of life’s ebb and flow.

    [Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
    Sweetest Name I know,
    Fills my ev’ry longing,
    Keeps me singing as I go.]

    All my life was wrecked by sin and strife,
    Discord filled my heart with pain,
    Jesus wept across the broken strings,
    Stirred the slumb’ring chords again.

    Feasting on the riches of His grace,
    Resting ‘neath His shelt’ring wing,
    Always looking on His smiling face,
    That is why I shout and sing.

    Tho’ sometimes He leads thro’ waters deep,
    Trials fall across the way;
    Tho’ sometimes the path seems rough and steep,
    See His footprints all the way.

    Soon He’s coming back to welcome me
    Far beyond the starry sky;
    I shall wing my flight to worlds unknown,
    I shall reign with Him on high.

    Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
    Sweetest Name I know,
    Fills my ev’ry longing,
    Keeps me singing as I go.

    ——-

    Psalm 40:3

    “He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.”

    ——-

    The Story:

    This song is written by Luther B Bridgers, 1884-1948. He met and married his wife, Sarah Vetch, in 1903. They had 3 sons and while he was preaching a revival about 7 years later, she and the boys stayed at her parents’ house. Luther got a call late that night that there was a fire and his wife and sons were all killed.  Out of the grief and tragedy, he wrote the lyrics and melody for this song.

    For whatever reason, the song was playing on repeat in my mind tonight. Though our hearts make poor instruments, the Master Musician can make sweet music from the broken strings and even repair them. That healing love is wonderful.

    Source: The Gaffney Ledger. http://www.gaffneyledger.com/news/2008-03-28/columns/045.html

  • Insta-Post: Pre-Thanksgiving and More Recap

    131208 instapost 01131208 instapost 02131208 instapost 03131208 instapost 04131208 instapost 05Great gift-wrapping/decorating post

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