October 17, 2008 at 1:05 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Children, dance, destiny, dreams, future, goals, God, happiness, heart, Jesus, life, love, peace, Religion
The world is still so blurry. She knew that there are many things to learn and see. The one thing she did not realize is what her mother did see in her. I did not believe that she was a girl up until the very minute she was born and I saw for myself. Still, when she was born, there was something about her. Her daddy was the first to hold her, embrace her. A few minutes later, when she was carefully handed to me for the first time, she made a strange growling sound, as though she just wanted to be held by him. I stared at her for days. This child that came from my womb looked different than my first. On the outside, she looked like one of those angelic looking people from the paintings of Leonardo DaVinci, which was strange enough. Her mother could see the outside difference, but still there was something on the inside I could not identify. She grew fast. Her head full of dark hair quickly turned into wavy blonde hair flowing down her back at only the age of two. She grew fast for her age, and her soul did too. Things came to her easily and naturally. She was content to play by herself, but also had a mischievous side. Deep thoughts ran through her head all the time. This was natural since this was the way she had been made, never realizing she pondered on things most adults never even come to realize. Here is one of the things I want you to know, names are of great importance. Her first name, Savannah, which means large grassy plain, was just pretty to us, and did not seem to have much significance. But, we ended up nick naming her Nana, because her brother could not pronounce her name right. Nana can have two meanings: Yaweh is gracious, and vegetables or greens, which of course represents life. Her name can also be traced back to mean “favor” or “grace.” The most significant part is her middle name, Amber, which is the color that represents the Glory of God. She is never aware of any of this since she is only four years old. A name is important. It can prophecy a person’s future, it can be a literal prophetic meaning in their life. So it was with her. She often played by herself, while her brother was at school. She would come into my room, and tell me things Jesus said. See, Jesus came to see her. Since Jesus is Lord, I guess she assumes everyone sees him and talks to him regularly, not knowing that what is happening is out of the ordinary. Jesus would even feed her french fries, how funny is that? She says he is so pretty and nice. He sits and plays with her. I know, surely the Glory of God is on her life. She was singing the song she has been into lately. “I can hear the rhythm of the Lion of the Tribe Of Judah.” Over and over she sang those words, and danced to the warring music. I watched her, and realized her dance was not of her. She was moving so gracefully and doing these strange hand motions that surely she could not come up with herself. I believe she was dancing before him, lost in a different realm, worshiping him. She, this little life, was dancing before her father, the Spirit leading and guiding her steps. Oh the Glory it did bring! I know the Glory is on her very life. What will become of her? What will she do? What is she destined for? This life is not yet consumed with the world, but of heaven. It dances with her. She is in two dimensions at once. I pray that she stays there. If we can just be quiet and listen to His rhythm, could we hear it too? Could our steps be taken over like hers? How can someone so little accomplish so much. “The way to the Kingdom is that of a little child.” Can an adult really learn such life changing lessons from them? I am constantly in search of him, and she is constantly living with him, interacting with him. Why do we not see? He is here, and he is waiting. Let’s be more like her, go to him with the heart of a little child. Lets dance with him, and get lost.
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October 10, 2008 at 5:58 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: addiction, death, drug abuse, govenment, intervention, life, love, Oxycontin, pain, saving our kids
I saw the accident on Chapman Highway last night and it was horrifyng. I had originally thought because of one person’s comment that it was a hit and run, but it was not apparently. Still, it immediately made me think about the drug problem that has become so clear to me in the past few years. I have heard around town that the drug of choice around here is often oxycontin, which is crushed and snorted and highly addictive. I know that these people who are so hooked on this drug have to be running the roads, puttting their own lives and everyone else’s in danger. If something does not get done about this soon, I am afraid we will see many more tradgedies to come. It is an awful thing even to talk about, but in my opinion, it is very important. Does anybody agree with me that the abuse of oxycontin is on the rise and becoming more and more of a problem daily? That helpless innocent people can and will be harmed or even killed if some action isn’t taken? I know that drugs have been around for years, but it seems to be intensifying greatly, especially in our area, crime and violence seems to be coming to the front. I do not want this to happen at all. These people need some kind of intervention before they kill us all. I am prayng for a breathrough in our community. I don’t think our kids deserve to suffer because of this. And, worst of all, I don’t want it to get into their hands.
TIME Magazine says: “OxyContin is a leading treatment for chronic pain, but officials fear it may succeed crack cocaine on the streets.”
A very information filled site you need to see about the drug oxycontin: http://www.oxyabusekills.com/stories.html
Page where 500 stories of people’s loved ones who died from oxycontin: http://www.oxyabusekills.com/victims.html
This IS a very serious problem that needs to be addressed now, a lot of the victims on the page shows that they weren’t even abusers, but had been prescribed the medicine for an injury, and were dead with in days.
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How Can You Help Stem the Tide of Deaths and Addiction to OxyContin??
DEMAND ACTION BY THE FDA!
In February 2005 Citizen Petition 2005P-0076 was filed with the FDA by Barbara and Kirk Van Rooyan on behalf of all those who have died or become addicted to OxyContin. (link to petition)
The petition requests that the FDA change the indications for OxyContin to use with SEVERE pain only from documented tissue disease. The petition also requests that OxyContin be temporarily removed from the market until it can be manufactured in an abuse resistant formulation.
The FDA may act on either or both of these requests but instead has chosen to IGNORE all requests.
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein has twice written the FDA requesting that they act upon Citizen Petition 2005P-0076. The requests thus far have been IGNORED. (link to Feinstein letter)
If a U.S. Senator or Representative from every state in the nation wrote the FDA asking for action on Citizen Petition 2005P-0076 it would be virtually impossible for the FDA to continue its silence!
So, please take the following steps:
1) Find your U.S. Senators’ and Representative’s phone numbers at:
http://www.senate.gov/
http://www.house.gov/
2) Call and ask for the name of the congressmember’s legislative aide in charge of health issues. Ask to be connected to their office.
You will almost certainly get voicemail.
3) Leave a message that you have important information concerning OxyContin and a Citizen Petition currently in documents management of the FDA. Let him/her know you would like an opportunity to discuss the issue and/or e-mail or fax them a copy of the petition and other pertinent information. Ask for a call back so that you may get e-mail and fax information.
4) Most aides will call back, will listen and will read what you send. HOWEVER, it is important to follow up and follow up and follow up. Once you have the e-mail address for the legislative aide you can begin educating and asking for the senator or representative to send a letter to the FDA in support of the petition. (you can send Feinstein’s as an example). Send information about the Purdue plea agreement and sentencing and other pertinent articles frequently, then follow up with phone calls to see if the aide has received, read them and had a chance to discuss with the congressmember.
It took 3 years and the final clincher of the plea agreement to bring Senator Feinstein on board but I think now that she has supported the petition other members of Congress will be easier to persuade. But they do need to hear from YOU and have you ÅSK for their support.
THE FDA CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE IN SILENCE AS PEOPLE CONTINUE TO DIE AND BECOME ADDICTED TO OXYCONTIN.
We need at least one person from every state in the nation contacting Congress and asking for support for Citizen Petition 2005P-0076.
Thank you.
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October 6, 2008 at 12:15 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Abiding Glory Ministries, Glory, God, Jesus, Miracles, Religion, ryan wyatt, The Habitation
I want to give a testimony about Abiding Glory Ministries because of something that personally effected me there yesterday. I have known since I found it that is is a miracle. I never thought I would find such a glorious army of believers here in Knoxville Tennessee, and I have been so blessed because of this ministry being here. I had felt alone for so long, then I found a home that is truly after God’s heart. My sister in law has been a drug addict for quite some time, constantly struggling, desperately wanting to be free. She is in a bad situation in her home life, which keeps her down in the dirt a lot. I had been spending the past few days with her ministering to her, and it was miraculous. God’s glory came in the midst of us and got though to her. We prayed, and I had not realized that she was not saved, and she didn’t either I don’t think. I am sure she had prayed the prayer for salvation before, but she told me she knew she had just been reborn. So her soul was saved. If that wasn’t wonderful enough, I was with her the next day,and she got even more. With my personal experience, I tried for three years to “get” the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues, but couldn’t get anywhere. I never realized that I got it the first time I asked for it, and I made it the hardest thing in the world, thinking you had to be good enough to get it, and something must had been wrong with me. One day I realized how easy and simple it was and that I had been Spirit filled a long time, and in August of ‘06 I just got revelation of it and my prayer language flowed easily. I had tried to work so hard for something that had already been freely given. Five minutes with her, five minutes compared to my 3 years, and she was speaking with other tongues. To see the look on her face, such shock and happiness. So she was saved and Spirit filled in two days. To top that when we went to the Habitation(Abiding Glory Ministries) on Sunday Morning, God blew her out of the water. She lives with a critical, judgemental, religious spirit at home, and this person would never accept that this “good for nothing drug addict” would be good enough to be Spirit-filled, so I knew she had been questioning her “worthiness” from what she feels at home. I felt the thickness of God’s presence in the middle of worship, and when the time came for testimonies, she leaned over and whispered, “I’m about to do something that will blow your mind.” And with that she got up and went up front. She testified to everyone that she was a drug addict and believes that she has been delivered and that she had been Spirit filled recently and believes that she is gonna be used to reach out and intercede for other drug addicts. I remember all the people standing up and clapping and rooting for her like four times. Susan hit everything on the dot when she got surrounded by people with prayer. She spoke of the pain in her childhood, her insecurities, everything, and that hit her so powerfully because this woman knew nothing about her past. They wacked her, man! They got her higher than a kite. I had been telling her there was no “high” like the most high, and she defintely got “high.” She is so used to being condemned and feeling unloved, and she got loved on so much yesterday. I know she has never felt that before in her life, she was literally blown away to be shown the Love of Our God like that. Then the message was like it was meant just for her, he even called out her name multplie times. I mean, she recieved so much yesterday, I know her cup is overflowing. This beat down person came in and was freely given more love than she had ever had. She recieved a family yesterday with the greatest Daddy in the world. Words can’t even express. A life was literally forever changed yesterday, and I just wanted to share. I am so full of joy, it hit me on such a personal level, because I know she has struggled for so long. She says that I am the only person who hadn’t given up on her, that believed in her, and now she has a whole army of believers backing her all the way. Now she KNOWS she is not alone, and that she can do this. It is soo awesome. She doesn’t need drugs now, she has a new addiction, the best one, Jesus.
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