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Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, Love All

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How did Jesus celebrate? He gave Himself relationally – time, space, presence

Let’s buy fewer GIFTS (that the recipient doesn’t need and won’t even remember after a few months) and, instead, give our TIME. Let’s talk, eat, sled, bake, bike, read, play, create, craft, and ice skate TOGETHER!

Or, we can MAKE gifts ourselves.

Then, give away the money we would have spent to help people who will remember it for the rest of their lives (people in poverty).

If you don’t know where to go to help people in poverty, I can recommend World Vision. We started buying livestock and things like that a few years ago. I’d love to be like Ann Voskamp’s family who only gives gifts from charities like World Vision – i.e. no gifts exchanged among family members, just gifts given “to Jesus” i.e. to the poor, in Jesus’ name.

Everett videos

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This first video is of part of a session with E’s physical therapist Carla Reed. She is using the Upsee to work toward walking. It allows Everett to have the sensation of some weight-bearing, but she is bearing most of the weight, which prevents him from “compensating” – or having to contort his body in such a way that he learns an awkward posture (which would be problematic because compensatory postures are nearly impossible to “unlearn” down the road).

In the next video, I say that Everett is feeding himself because before I started filming Everett was holding the cup of yogurt and bringing it to his mouth by himself. But, I didn’t actually get that on the video. You’ll just have to take my word for it =)

 

 

Uh Oh: 47 Million Food Stamp Recipients Are Having Their Benefits Cut Back On November 1st

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Food stamp benefits to be cut – will there be riots like they are having in Italy right now??

Originally posted on TheSurvivalPlaceBlog:

Crying Girl - Photo by D Sharon Pruitt

By Michael Snyder

47.6 million Americans are about to have their food stamp benefits cut, and most of them have absolutely no idea that it is about to happen.  Needless to say, a lot of them are going to be very angry when they discover that they cannot buy as much food for their families anymore.  The reason that this is happening is because a temporary boost to food stamp benefits that was put in during the last recession is expiring.  But most of the people that are having their benefits cut will not understand this.  Most of them will just be very upset that the government is “taking money away” from them.  And considering the “mini-riots” that we witnessed earlier this month when the system that processes food stamp payments went down for a few hours, it is obvious that a lot of food stamp recipients can very easily…

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