Wonderful Photography Quote

My husband and I like to take pictures.  I’ve even photographed a wedding and got paid for it.  Right now my principle gig is shooting pictures at my sons’ football games, which I do eagerly and faithfully, through wind, rain, cold, etc.  I have many pictures of the outdoors that sometimes I wonder what to do with.  Well, I just came across a quote that has inspired me immensely and I want to share it.  What is the point of photography?  Why take pictures?  This is helping me to bring my photographic interests captive to Christ in a way I have never thought of before…

Photography is a powerful tool for communicating the CHARACTER of Christ.  I have a passion for using it to showcase the unique design He has for every part of His creation, reminding us that he has designed each of us to uniquely reflect Him.

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The Little Known Truth About the Confederate Battle Flag

As per a previous post, I was planning on summarizing various interesting points I have learned in my research on this embattled flag.  However, the reality is it’s football season, and free minutes to do such work have not been possible.  Instead, I’d like to direct your attention to a wonderful sermon on the subject by Pastor John Weaver at SermonAudio.com.  His sermon entitled “The Truth About the Confederate Battle Flag” is just excellent, and very eye-opening for this Northern born homeschooling mom who is wondering lately if she’s not Southern at heart.  Hold on…it’s not politically correct, nor is it anything I’ve ever been taught before.  Listen for yourself.

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Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson Never Went to Public School

Most of our Founding Fathers, including Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, like most average colonial Americans, spent few years, if any, in formal grammar schools of the day, yet they knew how to read and write well. Most voluntary local grammar schools expected parents to teach their children to read and write before they started school. Most colonial parents apparently had no trouble teaching their children these skills. At least ten of our presidents were home-schooled. James Madison’s mother taught him to read and write. John Quincy Adams was educated at home until he was twelve years old. At age fourteen, he entered Harvard. Abraham Lincoln, except for fifty weeks in a grammar school, learned at home from books he borrowed. He learned law by reading law books, and became an apprentice to a practicing lawyer in Illinois. Other great Americans were similarly educated. John Rutledge, a chief justice of the Supreme Court, was taught at home by his father until he was eleven years old. Patrick Henry, one our great Founding Fathers and the governor of colonial Virginia, learned English grammar, the Bible, history, French, Latin, Greek, and the classics from his father. Abigail Adams, Martha Washington, and Florence Nightingale were all taught at home by their mothers or fathers. John Jay was one of the authors of the Federalist Papers, a chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and a governor of New York. His mother taught him reading, grammar, and Latin before he was eight years old. John Marshall, our first Supreme Court Chief Justice, was home-schooled by his father until age fourteen. Robert E. Lee, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, George Patton, and Douglas MacArthur were also educated at home. Booker T. Washington, helped by his mother, taught himself to read by using Noah Webster’s Blue Back Speller. Thomas Edison’s public school expelled him at age seven because his teacher thought he was feeble-minded. Edison, one of our greatest inventors, had only three months of formal schooling. After leaving school, his mother taught him the basics at home over the next three years. Under his mother’s care and instruction, young Edison thrived. If Thomas Edison was alive today as that child of seven, school authorities would probably stick him in special education classes. Poor Thomas would waste his precious mind and be bored to death until they released him from school at age sixteen. So it turns out that many of the famous Americans our children now read about in their dumbed-down public-school textbooks were either homeschooled, never set foot in a government-controlled public school, or thankfully only went to a public school for a very short period of time. Article Copyrighted © 2005 by Joel Turtel.

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I need a history lesson…

“Does the Confederate Battle Flag offend you?  Then you need a history lesson.”

Well, I took the advice of this tee-shirt that I saw, and I’ve been doing my own little research project.  It’s fitting in really nicely with all the reading and listening (audio books & sermons) I’ve been doing on the War Between the States.  I’m giving myself a history lesson, because the Confederate Battle Flag did offend me…until now.  I feel blessed that I have been led down this path, because I truly believe it is an exercise in dominion, in redeeming the truth about things from the liberal /Marxist / politically correct revisionist propaganda, and in bringing everything captive to Christ.

It’s late and I’m tired, but I just had to put this quote up on this blog to get this started.  I hope to add information about the Flag over the next week.

This is a quote by W. Earl Douglas who was a journalist out of Charleston, S.C.:

If hate had been the prevailing emotion between the races, then it is a safe bet that the Confederacy would never have been born.  Fortunately, there was love, understanding, and compassion.  And the two greatest lies ever perpetrated by history are:

1.  That the South instigated the war.

2.  That is was fought by the North for the purpose of freeing the slaves.

The Negro was merely used as their excuse for the war, while the real reason for it is reflected in every area in our lives – for the tentacles of our government form the bars of a new slavery.  No!  Don’t furl that Confederate Battle Flag, let it wave all across the South to remind Americans that there exists here a yearning for liberty, freedom, and independence that will not be denied.  Let it fly as a testimonial to real men and real women who would rather work and fight than shed tears and beg for governmental charity.”

By the way,  Mr. Douglas was black.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of information I have uncovered about this flag.  I hope to share more of it with you soon.

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