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7/3/2009 Celebrate Your FreedomThis is an Email message I received today titled Today’s Verse: "You have been set free from sin…" (Ecclesiastes 9:10, NAS). I’ve added (Romans 6:18, NIV). Today’s Word: This weekend, we celebrate Independence Day in America. July 4, 1776 was the day America declared independence from Britain, but the battle for freedom went on until 1783—seven years later. Even though the people declared their freedom in 1776, they had to stand and fight for many years before the British would accept and recognized the United States of America. In the same way, we have to declare our freedom and determine to stand against the opposing forces in our lives. We have to declare our freedom from addiction, poverty, sickness, and lack. We have to stand and fight until we fully experience that freedom and peace that God has promised. I love what the early colonists did once they signed the Declaration of Independence. They read it out loud in public. They published it in the newspaper. They spread the word. They continued to declare and celebrate even though they were in the midst of the battle. Whatever battle you may be facing today, declare that you are free. Declare that you are an overcomer. Celebrate the victory that is on its way! As you stand strong and celebrate your freedom, you will experience His victory and true freedom all the days of your life! Prayer for Today: Heavenly Father, thank You for setting me free in every area of my life. I declare today that nothing can hold me back. I declare that I am free from sickness, poverty, lack, and addiction. I declare that You have set me free and thank You for freedom in every area of my life. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
I really liked what Joel’s Email message had to say, Thanks for Listening, Jeff 7/2/2009 Emotional Freedom I started reading a new book called “Emotional Freedom”: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life by Judith Orloff, and as many of you may or may not know that I suffer from negative thinking. I use writing in my blog each day as writing therapy. In fact my first full year of blogging I used the theme of Looking for an Epiphany in 2007 and I attempted to write about my emotions. In that post I listed all the different emotions from the Wikipedia page and tried to write about my feelings. Without really feeling like I had achieved my goal of writing about all I’m really enjoying reading this new book because it is easy to understand what the author is saying with her words of wisdom. Who doesn’t want to be emotionally free? I’ve talked many times about my paranoia of writing my thoughts in my posts from my very first blog entry. And I still, to this very day, find it very difficult to write something each and every day. But the fact of the matter is that I find writing my thoughts on the page to be great therapy and very beneficial to me! I find this quote from the book inspirational: ”They (emotions) refine your soul, which is your reason to be. There is nothing more important.” I watched this video Judith Orloff on "Emotional Freedom" and she asks people, “What does Have a Great Day and Enjoy Life! Thanks for Listening, Jeff 7/1/2009 Wireless Connections Are Working! I still haven’t figured out what the problem was yesterday when I wrote my Wireless Connections Are Out! And I want to say, “Thank It reminds me of the bureaucracy that exists in a lot of large organizations today where people can keep pointing their fingers at other organizations and not have to be held accountable for their own actions. When one person does something wrong they are held accountable for their actions. If you don’t know, who or what caused the problem, whatever it may be, we don’t even know who to blame for whatever the problem was, making it very frustrating for us. And there seems to be a lot of this kind of thing happen in today’s world: What’s up with that? The problem that I was having yesterday with my wireless router is an excellent example of this kind of trouble. I’m going to try and clearly write the My two laptop computers the Compaq and the Toshiba wouldn’t connect through the wireless Linksys router yesterday, see yesterday’s post for Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/30/2009 Wireless Connections Are Out!
Windows Windows tried a repair but a problem still exists. Cannot communicate with Primary DNS Server(64.233.217.5). Network diagnostics pinged the remote host but did not receive a response. Reset the network adapters "Wireless Network Connection" Resetting the adapter can sometimes resolve an intermittent problem. So needless to say I’ll be posting this entry today by using my phone modem on this computer and by accessing my AT&T Worldnet account on the phone lines. I called my ISP, which is a broadband connection, about the problem I’m having today. The Dell desktop computer, which is wired directly in the cable modem is working fine, and I could have written this post from there, but I’m stuck in a rut and prefer to post from my usual location in the living room. I’ve been having a lot of trouble staying connected to the Internet lately, but today with this DNS Server error on my wireless computer have taken me off line. I might have thought that this problem was some how related to the Windows Vista operating system, but my Windows XP laptop is also not working. This is a picture of the error on that computer: Internet Explorer What you can try: Diagnose Connection Problems More information And it just keeps running the diagnostic program over and over and says restart your computer, but it doesn’t solve the I don’t have any idea what the problem is with my wireless connections but I’ll let you know if I can figure it out. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/29/2009 What Was I Thinking?
Who do I think I am anyway? And what difference does it make what I write about? There, I’ve come right out and said it, and I feel relieved that it is out and in the open now…The psychological aspects, of me, trying to put my thoughts into words on the page, and to communicate them to you, in writing, is something that I find very troubling to me. But you’d have no idea that these thoughts were present without me telling you this: Now would I find these types of thoughts very frustrating to me personally, but my blog theme for this year is Writing just to Write, and that’s what I’m doing here today. When I write something like this, I’m left thinking that I should have tried a little bit harder to come up with something better to write, in this post. But that’s also frustrating because I don’t know what that would be. I’ve got my writing practice done for the day now, and I feel like I could have written something better, but I don’t know what that would be: So that’s it! Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/28/2009 Putting Action Behind Your Faith!
These are my notes and they aren’t meant to be a transcript of Joel’s words. Its just my way of recording parts of his message that I was inspired to write down. You’ll have to watch or listen to him yourself to find the words that will inspire you to put action behind your faith: Do something to show God what you are believing for in your life with your actions; What really causes God to act is your actions, and your steps of faith showing Him that you are stepping forward; By putting a smile on your face rejoicing and saying, “This is the day the Lord has made,” showing your happiness by putting action behind your faith! Joel quoted these verses of Scripture: Are you doing anything to show God your faith? By your actions you are demonstrating to God what is important and what you want to achieve; You are closest to your victory when you face the greatest opposition; Have a never say die attitude; Where there is a will there is a way; Let God see your faith and then demonstrate it with action; Making an effort by moving forward in your faith and by your actions and what you are believing in; Dare to put action behind your faith; Take the first step in your life and in the desires of your heart showing God your faith! You may feel foolish by expressing your faith and stepping out and showing what you believe in; God will see your faith and bless you for it; Faith without action is dead, and by showing God your faith by putting a smile on your face, you are honoring Him; Miracles happen every day; You’ll feel God’s presences in your heart from within; Do something to demonstrate your faith, you may not see how it could ever happen, do something out of the ordinary to show God you’re serious about your faith! Show God you’re serious by believing in Him! Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/27/2009 This post is really Important?
So the idea with today’s writing is to summarize a few of these thoughts: This all started with Constructive Complaining! and this quote: "Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it". by Mark Twain And my post on Earth 2100: ABC News' the Final Century of Civilization? Then I wrote about our But really, all of this can’t be news to anyone. Can it? So that’s the reason I’m asking if, “This post is really Important?” And I guess the answer is “Yes” because its important to me. If nothing else I’ve at least got my writing therapy and writing done for the day…I am at peace with the world! Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/26/2009 Alpha Inventions at the ClubhouseBuild Creativity Using Random Brain Stimulation I want to talk to Everyone today about “Alpha Inventions at the Clubhouse” the Alpha Inventions New Feature: “Write a nice post on your blog about alphainventions.com or how it works and your blog will be added to the reading cycle automatically. Your blog will remain there until I’m obsessed with staring at my statistics page and I’ve seen Alpha Inventions show up many times before and have had as many as 21 people at my site while my page was being Proud A New Windows Live Community Thanks for Listening, Jeff My Unique Life in Windows Live Space Windows Live Tags: Clubhouse, Story, Windows Live Spaces, Interactive, Join the Clubhouse, Blogging every day, Alpha Inventions 6/25/2009 Ozone Action Day
I really don’t know much of anything about the ozone so I thought I’d try and write a few words about my thoughts on planet Earth’s life. I watched this YouTube video movie titled Home, and I’m a Christian, so I don’t believe that life on earth evolved from amoebae. But I thought the movie was very educational as to where humanity is heading by how the plant is being treated, the movie is rather long, but the photography is great. Who can predict the future? Scientists only understand science and they tell us what they think…Who can even fathom the mind of God? Well, I’ve digressed as I usual do from my title today, but I feel like I’ve accomplished getting my writing practice done. Like I said, “I don’t know much about the ozone or anything else about what is happening here on plant earth.” But it was fun to share a few of my thoughts today with all of you about Ozone Action Days, and I’m sure that I’ll have more opportunities: As it seems to be just the beginning of one hot summer! Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/24/2009 An inspirational writing Day
In this post What is Inspiration? I’ve tried to express the feeling on that day, but today I have a different thought about the feeling of I have to divulge the inspiration for my writing practice today came from Happy Flower’s comment in my Guestbook: “Hope it was an inspiring day of writing :)” And although I’m still looking for Finding the twist for your short story Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/23/2009 More pictures of the Detroit ZooI'm writing about “More pictures of the Detroit Zoo” today because Valerie has made this post about photo albums. And she made this beautiful collage photograph of some of my pictures: The pictures in the collage photograph are from this photo album of The Detroit Zoo! This opportunity to display this collage photo to
I’m not really sure but I think that this group of Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/22/2009 Writing practice for Monday! It is another beautiful day here in Michigan, and I seem to have trouble with my “Writing practice for Monday!” Actually, I have trouble writing on It is about journaling my thoughts into words among other things…But last year on this date I wrote No Questions and Michael has asked me one in his comment on Why complain And speaking of great questions Jodi over at the Write Anything site has some great questions for writers in her article titled Productive Nostalgia. But because I don’t even consider myself to be a writer, and I find her questions difficult for me to answer, at the moment, but I’ll be thinking about them. I guess I could answer her first question: “What have you started? What have you finished?” My answer, and I Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/21/2009 Having Uncommon Faith: Happy Father’s Day and the First Day of Summer!
These are my notes from Joel’s message today plus me trying to work the other topics into my writing practice for today: Believing in God to do anything by give us the wisdom, knowledge and creativity to do uncommon tasks in faith; Radical faith in God gets radical results in our lives; God wants us to prosper in life, you have not because you ask not; Joshua asked God for more daylight so that he could complete a task, and today being the June solstice, or the beginning of summer is the longest day; Being bold enough to ask God for His supernatural power is an extremely uncommon request of releasing our faith! Joel quoted these verses of Scripture: We are all God’s children and what wouldn’t our Father (God) do for us? Believing in God by faith is so important. God gave His only Son (Jesus) to die on the cross for our sins, so that we may have everlasting life with Him in heaven. What an expression of love an a extreme sacrifice. Our biological fathers, too, have sacrificed a lot for us and let’s not forget to thank them on this Father’s Day and every day of the year. God can do Nothing in our life is impossible for God; Are you stretching your faith? I couldn’t believe it today when Joel talked about Elisha because I wrote a little bit about the prophet in last week’s post Being Excellent in the Workplace. Is that just a coincidence or is there something more to it, it makes me wonder? I feel like I’m thinking bold! Should I dare to believe in the impossible? God has a way when you think there is no way; If you’ll stay in faith God is up to something; When you believe all things are possible; What you thought was the end is going to be a new beginning! Have a blessed Father’s Day and Enjoy Life!    Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/20/2009 Constructive Complaining!Yesterday I wrote Why complain about Life? and in the comments of that post were these words and today’s title “Constructive Complaining!” I’ve "Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it". by Mark Twain According to this Wikipedia page article about Charles Dudley Warner: “This was quoted by Mark Twain in a lecture, and is often attributed to I often find it difficult to really tell when I’m writing if I’m making a constructive complaint or just whining about something to put words on the page…But the reality, I guess, is that it really makes no difference if no one’s reading what I write about. Now that’s exactly what I was talking about with the question: Is that a complaint? Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/19/2009 Why complain about Life?
I read this article Complaining and it made me want to complain about how I can’t seem to write as many words as this author has, but what purpose would I watched this Is complaining healthy? video that I found when I read this article Are ya kidding me?! No complaints for 21 days. And I think that I would have a real problem trying not to complain or any other of these numerous other synonyms like whimper, whine, and yammer from the page. But really I just don’t get it why it is so I think that I’ve reached a new low here today with my writing about Why complain about Life? and my complaint about complaining: Have a Great Day and Enjoy Life! Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/18/2009 Writing about Nothing! Do the words writer’s block mean anything to you? To me, it is just a psychological issue that my fingers won’t let me type what’s on my mind so today I’ll be ”Writing about Nothing! And I just love And I could go on and on with all the days when I didn’t have anything to write about, but I wrote Oh sure, I try to write some things others may want to read, but really my blog is more about journaling whatever is on my mind. It is my writing therapy and I can’t even call myself a writer because of the psychological pressure the title imposes on me. Instead I’ve come to use this quote that makes me feel like there is no pressure: "I consider myself a writer only by default: Because I am writing this and you are reading it, then I guess that makes me a writer." Now I’ve had a great time putting all these words on the page today, but really I can’t imagine what you are thinking about all this…And that’s just fine with me because just like yesterday’s post I feel relieved just to express myself in writing! Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/17/2009 Being at peace Thoughts I really don’t have anything on my mind to write about today so “Being at peace Thoughts” sounds like a good writing prompt. I enjoy putting my thoughts into words and having them show up on the page each day. My blog theme for this year is “Writing just to Write” and being at Do you understand what I’m saying? I find it difficult to be at peace with my thoughts when I’m writing them down for everyone to read. There is a part of me that just loves sharing what’s on my mind, and then there is another part of me that is paranoid and doesn’t want to share. The thing of it is; this won’t even matter when these thoughts I’m writing today go off peacefully into storage. Think of the odds of someone doing an Internet search on “Being at peace Thoughts” and you’ll understand exactly what I’m saying here. Like most of the things that I write about in my blog Once these words are no longer on my front page they will be lost in the blogosphere forever…Well at least that is what gives me peace in knowing that these words will end up as part of my journal. I’ve really enjoyed my writing today and I hope, if you’re reading this, that you liked it too! I’ve written about this subject about being paranoid of people reading what I write about over and over. I have found peace with my thoughts today and put them into words on the page: I feel relieved! Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/16/2009 Ideas about Future car Technologies
The problem is that no one wants to step out and get away from this crowded field of car builders and try something new. As a general statement I’ve said, “That you can’t tell one vehicle from I envision a vehicle that would be much smaller than today’s autos and a cross between an ATV, go-cart, motorcycle, snowmobile, and yet still I even sent copies of my post to all the Big Three, and need I even tell you, that it was not very well received…I bet they all had a big laugh about A picture of My 1993 Ford Ranger Splash 4x4 Thanks for Listening, Jeff 6/15/2009 The Detroit Zoo: Again!
I have such a hard time choosing a name or a title Detroit Zoo ~ Zoo ~ Andean Condor ~ Bald Eagle ~ Camel ~ Chimpanzee ~ Elephant ~ Fox ~ Giraffe ~ Hippopotamus ~ Lion ~ Monkey ~ These are the new photos that I’m adding today to a new album titled The Detroit Zoo!: These are the words from the photo of the “Michigan Historical Marker at the main entrance” of the zoo: Detroit Zoological Park  When it opened on August 1, 1928, the Detroit Zoological Park was unique and progressive in its design. The Detroit Zoological Society commissioned Boston landscaper architect Arthur Shurtleff to draw the plans for the park. Shurtleff did so according to the practices of landscape designer Carl Hagenback of Hamburg, Germany, who promoted the construction of zoo exhibits without bars. Rather than being caged, the animals roam freely in outdoor habitats bound by moats and "rocks" made of reinforced concrete. Carl's son Heinrich came here to supervise and build the exhibits. The Detroit Zoological Park is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Thanks for Listening, Jeff My Unique Life in Windows Live Space 6/14/2009 Being Excellent in the Workplace: Flag Day!
It is great to honor God on Sundays but we should honor God every day of the week by having good work ethics and excelling Joel quoted these verses of Scripture: Having a spirit of excellence ever day and going the extra mile will show the quality of your work and your character! Don’t just do a good job when you know someone is watching you, excellence should be the norm; Excellence is doing the right thing even when no one can see you, even when you don’t think that it is necessary; You’ve given your word, live up to it, and do the right thing; You may not want to do something a certain way, but do it unto God and be all that He’s created Excelling in your chosen career will bring praise to God, because you have shown by honoring Him that your accomplishments are making you your best, do more than expected! Pray to God for the guidance in making important decisions in your life; God rewards excellence; Do your work to the best of your ability; Every dream that God has put in your heart will come to pass; Believe in God and have faith that He’s going to take you to places you’ve never even dreamed of, Thanks for Listening, Jeff Happy Flag Day
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and I thought I’d share it with all of you today about 
the different emotions, but I did the best that I could and felt like it was good writing practice!
emotional freedom mean to you?” and my answer would be, “Peace of mind in body & soul and contentment in knowing I can handle whatever obstacles are in my way, in life!” There are also a lot of 
You!” to all my friends who stopped by and left comments yesterday trying to help me. This thought came to mind this morning when my Linksys router was working again, Never Mind! I don’t know if I will ever really know what 
the problem was yesterday with the Primary 
words down to explain something that makes no sense to me. I have four computers in my home and only two of them could connect to the Internet through my 
respective errors, and today everything is fine. This makes absolutely no sense to me because why would the two desktop computers work, but the two laptops would not? And now today it is like nothing was wrong and it was all a bad dream. All I want to know is what happened? And who do I call if it happens again? When I don’t know what happened in the first place!
I am not having a very good day as my “Wireless Connections Are Out!” today as neither one of my two laptop computers can connect to the Internet through my Linksys router. This is the error message that I’m receiving from my Toshiba machine today: [3].jpg "Cannot communicate with Primary DNS Server(64.233.217.5)")
problem with the connection. 
This is really funny because I have this ![[Neobrain]](https://qhovfq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1mCDE_Y5E8YFsgqix4SmTDyVPdGgEYBUbwTuQj55mPdDPbhATHktuG4-WY11rdeYGqe55bKjB0Uora7TWaDKz_fggf5Veta4PDUPBrFMv1ZqR4UhPd6T41CBH87ay3Wv6Jmqqjn4ChJ-wO6NvUfBcVOg/[Neobrain][4] 68D94918.jpg "[Neobrain]")
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Not that just writing something each day isn’t important to me, because it is. But really do you want to hear about my Blah, Blah, Blah whatever I’m talking about? Probably not.
first 
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you?” mean anything to you! It sure was hot enough for me yesterday and today’s plenty hot too…It is really hard to think of 
photos concludes my uploading of pictures that I’ve taken at the Detroit Zoo. These are my two previous entries 
here today towards my commitment and this ![[Joel Osteen]](https://qhovfq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1mUu4rngxTxiUuTHec0gnmG0ageuSdUX94LIRAzE7X3UIogImZZfT9Tzf5xxargDKBOWbUo3PFcCrFf_b87BGx8XS6C4q8h4TVLUFHFbwYf9-OyORByjqOLDqkLIWtwPl6r483LNOlw5zlxV-5XOm0Hw/[Joel Osteen][6] 629FDE72.jpg "[Joel Osteen]")
that serve? Our thoughts create our reality as the 
make here today is this: If you build a better vehicle the world will beat a path to your door. I think that is the key to being the leader in the auto manufacturing business in America and the world!
another now days.” This streamline design that manufacturers are using to make their vehicles aerodynamic has their cars & trucks looking like they are made out of a cookie cutter. I liken it to this about the 
have all the automotive features that we are accustom to having in today’s vehicles. We have the technology to make such a vehicle but I feel like it will never happen, because no one’s willing to take a chance on designing and building such a machine. You probably think that I’m eccentric and don’t have a clue to what I’m saying here. But I talked a little bit about my ideas in this post titled 
my post, but who's laughing as thousands of auto workers are without jobs today? Not Me! We 
in America could be building the 
Album
for each photo. So I used Wikipedia to help me in deciding what title to use for each of the pictures. You know? The animal’s name or whatever the shot was and then “at the Detroit Zoo” on the end of the title. I thought it would be great and interesting to put all the links to the 
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Our life should give praise to God!
in whatever our job is; You’re not just working for people or for the company you’re working under God; He’s the One who is giving you your gifts and talents to do your best; Do your best at whatever you’re doing; You are working under God, not just for your employer, if you do your best God will bless you for your labors and your effort; Leading a good strong Christian life will set an example at work for your coworkers to follow.
you to be; Do your work as you’re told and don’t take the easy way out, develop your character and your skills. 
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