Thursday, January 28, 2010

A Good Song

When I was finishing up my masters degree, I had the privilege of  meeting David Wilcox.  He came and  met with one of my classes for about 2 hours in a laid back, question/answer type setting. There were about 40 of us in the class and he answered our questions with more songs than words. This was my first introduction to his music and I have been drawn to it ever since. Tonight I came across the song below and it reminded me how a good song can be healing to the soul. This song  is one that resonates with my personal story.....like the words were meant for me. Like Manna.

Show the Way (From Live Songs and Stories)

By: David Wilcox 

 

You say you see no hope, you say you see no reason

We should dream that the world would ever change

You're saying love is foolish to believe

'Cause there'll always be some crazy with an Army or a Knife

To wake you from your day dream, put the fear back in your life...


Look, if someone wrote a play just to glorify

What's stronger than hate, would they not arrange the stage

To look as if the hero came too late he's almost in defeat

It's looking like the Evil side will win, so on the Edge

Of every seat, from the moment that the whole thing begins

It is...


Chorus:

Love who makes the mortar

And it's love who stacked these stones

And it's love who made the stage here

Although it looks like we're alone

In this scene set in shadows

Like the night is here to stay

There is evil cast around us

But it's love that wrote the play...

For in this darkness love can show the way


So now the stage is set. Feel you own heart beating

In your chest. This life's not over yet.

so we get up on our feet and do our best. We play against the

Fear. We play against the reasons not to try

We're playing for the tears burning in the happy angel's eyes

For it's...

Sunday, January 17, 2010

YouData


I frequent a couple of different blogs, and I began to frequently see a side bar with the title of YouData. It was a widget for a site that promises to help you make a little extra cash just by clicking on websites. Too good to be true, right? I was curious about why so many of the bloggers that I have come to "trust" in the blogger world had this widget, but I was skeptical that I could really make any money from it. Well about a little while ago I bit the bullet, and it really does work. It is a super easy way to make a little bit of money. The best part is that you get paid every Friday whether it is just a $0.01 or $10.00. It has been great to have a little padding in my paypal account for those late night ebay purchases.

Here's how it works.
  • First Click Here
  • You must have a paypal account. Use the same email address that is associated with your paypal account when you register
  • You must provide your cell phone number for a confirmation text message, but I have not gotten any other text message from the company.They will send you conf. number to enter on the site.
  • You will get paid to your paypal account automatically every Friday whether you have $0.01 or $10.00 of earnings.
  • You do NOT have to download anything.
  • Create your MeFile (the more you answer, the more $$)
  • Then click "Adgets"
  • I only check once a week on Thursday, so that I get my Adgets clicked for pay day!


Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Making Free Money!


When I was a little girl, I had a money tree. No Joke! On my third Christmas, my grandparents gave me a fake tree with one hundred one dollar bills attached to it. (And the husband wonders why I have such a hard time believing that money doesn't grow on trees.) Anyway, I didn't touch the money on this tree for a few years, as a three year old I didn't really need it yet, but as I grew up I was allowed to take money from it whenever I wanted. WHAT!?! I know. This really does explain so much. Anyway, this I think started my quest for free money.

Recently I was invited by a friend to join an opinion website where I would supposedly make "money" for filling out surveys. Now, as you now know, I like free money, but I was pretty skeptical that this would really deliver all it advertised. Well I was pleasantly surprised because...IT WORKS!  I have already redeemed points for Amazon Gift Cards. Now I have done other things like this in the past, examples Swagbucks and My Points, and though they work too, this by far has given me the better rewards in the least amount of time.

Just in case you too want to make some free money, here is the link to the website. The surveys will begin coming as soon as you fill out your info. They usually take 15-20 minutes to do.


Another really great money making site is YouData. This one is slow, but consistent; and you get payed every Friday, even if it is $0.10. All you have to do, and I am not joking, is click on websites. You get like $0.05 a website. I have only made about $5.00 on this one, but it took me a total of 5 minutes to make it and it was delivered to my Paypal account on Friday without any problems.

Happy earnings, and take it from me, it is not a good idea to give your kids a money tree.


Saturday, January 9, 2010

The Quest

I recently came across the following poem by Eliza Scudder. I was deeply moved by the honest struggle of doubt, yet hope in God that I read within her words. After reading the poem, I researched this author and found that Eliza was a woman who for one reason or another wrestled with the companions of restlessness and doubt along her journey. Her words, in many ways, resonated with my own journey toward trust and rest in the Savior, reminding me that I am not the first to struggle and I can not lose the One who holds me in His hand.

The Quest

By: Eliza Scudder 1821-1896

I cannot find You! Still on restless pinion
     My spirit beats the void where You do dwell;
I wander lost through all your vast domain,
     And shrink before Your light ineffable.
I cannot find You! E’en when most adoring
     Before You, I bend in lowliest prayer;
Beyond these bounds of thought my thought upsoaring,
     From farthest quest comes back: You are not there!
Yet high above the limits of my seeing,
     And folded in the inmost heart so far,
So deep, below the deeps of conscious being,
     Your splendor shines, and there, O God, You are!
I cannot lose You! Still in You abiding,
     The end is clear, how wide so’er I roam
The law that holds the worlds my steps is guiding,
     And I must rest at last in You, my home.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Happy New Year!

So here it is, 2010. What is it about the New Year that gives us the feeling that we too must start over like our calendars have? There is something that is so appealing to me about starting over. An opportunity to begin again with the hope that maybe this time I will get it right. This time I will get fit, get organized, get spiritual, get financially secure, get perfect. The hope that this will be the year I finally do it, and this is my opportunity to begin. I think that this innate desire in me points me to something deeper about myself: my constant need for do-overs and my constant longing for redemption, for all things to be made right. It reminds me that no matter how hard I try and work toward something I will always fall a little short of mine and others standards, but nevertheless I will still hope that my failings will be redeemed.  I am thankful for New Years, to remind me of  my need of redemption.


A sunset that the husband and I saw on New Years Weekend.