Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Wednesday, July 07, 2021
My Fear
I had a bad night Tuesday night. I felt the need to call my son to take me to the ER. On Thursday I was able to relate the fear that I felt and what it did to me. on the way home, pain was also in with the fear. I'm so confused... why am I scared to death (and I mean I'm scared out of my wits) when I can't breathe?
I am afraid ALL the time; that I won't be able to breathe, that I'm going to die right now (right this second), that I won't be able to drive, that I won't be able to pay my bills with my non-existent pay check, or that I won't be able to tolerate my pain. My normal level of stress is "fear". I am hardly ever comfortable about my situation.
Now for the positive; I don't take my Christmas lights or tree down, they are up all year and I love them, my library is in the works finally, and I am SO grateful for that. I am grateful for my dedicated fur babies, especially Boots who cuddles with me ALL the time. There are times I don't move because she is sleeping next to me!
My therapist ask me what my fear looked like on Tuesday. I found a good picture for my fear.
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Be Kind to Yourself
Learn to be non-judgemental with yourself. I do not judge other people, but my goodness do I ever lay down the letter of the law to myself. I feel like I'm being irresponsible by not getting important things done. And I only have three things on my "critical" to do list. My living will, both our wills, and my celebration of life. Of those three things that I feel like I must do, only my celebration of life has been roughly sketched out. However, I am doing more harm than good by being so unyielding with myself and my "to do list".
I am exhausted! How can thinking about what is going on in my brain be SO tiring?? I need a nap!! I am giving myself permission to take a nap!
NON-JUDGING
Learn to be an impartial witness to your experiences. Just observe it, and step back from it.
PATIENCE
Develop the patience to let things unfold in their own time.
BEGINNERS MIND
Be receptive to new and unique possibilities.
TRUST
Honor your feelings and your intuition, and trust others to help you on your journey.
NON-STRIVING
Meditate. Be yourself. Do not introduce the idea that you are NOT OK right now, only express positive thoughts. Pay attention to what is happening right now.
ACCEPTANCE
See things as they are in the present moment. Do not waste energy in denying and resisting what is already a fact! Accept what is happening this moment.
LETTING-GO
Or letting things be. There are situations that our mind wants to hold on to, and situations that we want to protect ourselves from having. Learn to let things be without holding on or pushing away.
Broken Crayons
Even broken crayons still color!
When I think back to kindergarten, there were entire boxes full of broken crayons. They would snap, break when pressed down too hard. They would be left on the floor, stepped on, and broken in two, yet not broken enough to throw away. We would scoop them up at the end of the day and place them back in the boxes along with the intact ones. They would be used to color, just the same as if they were whole.
But they weren’t.
Trying
to color with broken crayons isn’t the same. They are often shorter
than the others, with weird jagged edges that make it hard to color in
small spaces. They flake and the wrapping paper has to be torn down the longer
you use them.I
can remember picking through the boxes to find the color of crayon that
I needed, pushing aside the broken ones.
Even as a child I realized no one wanted to
use the broken ones.
Trauma changes us, just like how a broken crayon doesn’t quite work the same way as an unbroken one, we are not the same person after we endure trauma. The person that we were before it happened is no longer there.
We were once whole and intact, like a crayon fresh from the box. But going through a trauma, any kind of trauma takes a toll on who we are as a person. It changes everything we know about others and ourselves. We are scare, scared of some trama happening again, scared that we can’t move past it. Remembering the trauma, reliving it, chips away at us. We become a shadow of who we once were, fractured and sometimes even broken.
Trauma does not define us, but it does affect who we are.
It seeps into the core of our being the way water seeps into the sand when the waves crash into the shore. It molds our insides and sometimes even our outsides.
We Are Not Less, Only Different
I don’t know what kind of woman I would have become if I hadn’t been forced to endure the traumas this life has handed me. Perhaps my anxiety wouldn’t turn my world upside down on occasion.
It’s ignorant to think that the negative events imposed on us don’t affect who we are as people today. Whether we want to admit it or not, what happens to us changes certain aspects of our lives.
I don’t want to say that I’m worse off then I would have been. Of course, I would have never wanted to face any of these difficult things that I have, but in a way, they have made me into a different person than I used to be. Just like the broken crayons, we are still who we are, we are just different now. Maybe our confidence is shaken and we are more guarded. But that only makes us different, not less. We are still people. We are still human.
We were once whole and intact, like a crayon fresh from the box. But going through a trauma, any kind of trauma takes a toll on who we are as a person. It changes everything we know about others and ourselves. We are scare, scared of some trama happening again, scared that we can’t move past it. Remembering the trauma, reliving it, chips away at us. We become a shadow of who we once were, fractured and sometimes even broken.
Trauma does not define us, but it does affect who we are.
It seeps into the core of our being the way water seeps into the sand when the waves crash into the shore. It molds our insides and sometimes even our outsides.
We Are Not Less, Only Different
I don’t know what kind of woman I would have become if I hadn’t been forced to endure the traumas this life has handed me. Perhaps my anxiety wouldn’t turn my world upside down on occasion.
It’s ignorant to think that the negative events imposed on us don’t affect who we are as people today. Whether we want to admit it or not, what happens to us changes certain aspects of our lives.
I don’t want to say that I’m worse off then I would have been. Of course, I would have never wanted to face any of these difficult things that I have, but in a way, they have made me into a different person than I used to be. Just like the broken crayons, we are still who we are, we are just different now. Maybe our confidence is shaken and we are more guarded. But that only makes us different, not less. We are still people. We are still human.
There is another quote that floats around the internet like the quote about broken crayons. It’s about an ancient Japanese art of fixing pottery with lacquer and gold called Kintsugi. The meaning is that what is broken can be repaired and it is a part of the object’s history. The Japanese don’t throw the bowl out, but instead repair it in a way that makes it more beautiful, seeing no reason to disguise that it was broken. Instead, the break is highlighted, with gorgeous metals that make it shine, embracing the imperfection.
I think of the art of Kintsugi as a part of the healing process. Like a bowl that is dropped and broken, we will never be exactly what we were before enduring trauma. The cracks are there, but they can be mended. Not only can they be mended but they can be made into something more beautiful than they were before.
We will never be exactly the same, but we do not have to let our trauma define who we are.
Finding a way to cope and heal, whether it be through therapy or journaling, reaching out to friends or turning inward and bettering ourselves, there are ways to heal. After Trauma, You Must Heal, not healing will hold you back.
medium.com
I think of the art of Kintsugi as a part of the healing process. Like a bowl that is dropped and broken, we will never be exactly what we were before enduring trauma. The cracks are there, but they can be mended. Not only can they be mended but they can be made into something more beautiful than they were before.
We will never be exactly the same, but we do not have to let our trauma define who we are.
Finding a way to cope and heal, whether it be through therapy or journaling, reaching out to friends or turning inward and bettering ourselves, there are ways to heal. After Trauma, You Must Heal, not healing will hold you back.
medium.com
Be the water!
I was asked to think about "being like water" in my reaction to situations or circumstances in my life. I decided that water is powerful but not necessarily strong.
I am often told how strong I am, or told to "keep being strong", and I think there is a difference between being strong and being powerful. People are often said to be strong; Rosie the Riveter is an example of strength. I relate people to being "strong", however I can think of water or other things in nature as being powerful and yet not necessarily strong. So, something can be powerful like water and air, movable and soft, yet powerful.
Water can turn stone into sand and a river carved out the Grand Canyon. Tree roots can turn mountains into gravel over time. The ocean is powerful, yet you can touch the soft water. Things that are powerful, exert power, while things that are strong hold fast and don't "move". Being strong, to me, means an unmovable object that is standing up against the circumstances of life coming at me like an unstoppable force. Cancer, health problems, family dramas, and death, to name a few. The goal is to be flexible, capable of being flexed, bent, bowed, twisted, or moved without breaking; to be pliable; not stiff or brittle.
Don't try to be the unmovable object, be the water!!
A note from 2001:
I will persist until I succeed!
I will not admit defeat!
Rain drops can wash away entire mountain....
Ants can devour a tiger....
Slaves built the pyramids....
The ax fells the mighty oak....
I will build my castle one brick at a time!!!
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Sometimes....
Sometimes you just have to leave something undone....
And I am no alone in thinking about things this way!
the-art-of-leaving-things-undone
This is why leaving things undone is an
art, spiritual practice or a discipline. If we can accept that things
unravel and break down; that projects may remain unfinished and
unstarted; that we lose our jobs or our loves or our health, then we can
better accept life itself and find inner peace and joy.
Sunday, June 20, 2021
Pearls
Unlike gemstones that are mined from the earth, a living organism produces a pearl and, in fact, their very existence is a freak of nature. A pearl is formed when an irritant, such as a parasite or piece of shell, becomes accidentally lodged in an oyster's soft inner body, causing it to secrete a crystalline substance called nacre, which builds up around the irritant in layers until a pearl is formed. Cultured pearls are formed through the same process, the only difference being that the irritant is implanted in the oyster rather than entering it by chance.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
The Infinite Bridge
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Schrodinger's Cat
This is from 100 years ago.... are we really moving forward??
The physicist Pascual Jordan, who worked with quantum guru Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in the 1920s, put it like this: "observations not only disturb what has to be measured, they produce it… We compel [a quantum particle] to assume a definite position." In other words, Jordan said, "we ourselves produce the results of measurements."
Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935, though the idea originated from Albert Einstein. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects.
The physicist Pascual Jordan, who worked with quantum guru Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in the 1920s, put it like this: "observations not only disturb what has to be measured, they produce it… We compel [a quantum particle] to assume a definite position." In other words, Jordan said, "we ourselves produce the results of measurements."
Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935, though the idea originated from Albert Einstein. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects.
The human mind and quantum physics
This is from an old post by Philip Ball, 16 February 2017. Almost three years.
But I think the article makes some valid points
Beginning of post:
The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles and paradoxes of quantum mechanics, the theory physicists use to describe the tiniest objects in the Universe. But he might as well have been talking about the equally knotty problem of consciousness.
Some scientists think we already understand what consciousness is, or that it is a mere illusion. But many others feel we have not grasped where consciousness comes from at all.
For one thing, the mind seemed, to the great discomfort of physicists, to force its way into early quantum theory. What's more, quantum computers are predicted to be capable of accomplishing things ordinary computers cannot, which reminds us of how our brains can achieve things that are still beyond artificial intelligence. "Quantum consciousness" is widely derided as mystical woo, but it just will not go away.
Quantum mechanics is the best theory we have for describing the world at the nuts-and-bolts level of atoms and subatomic particles. Perhaps the most renowned of its mysteries is the fact that the outcome of a quantum experiment can change depending on whether or not we choose to measure some property of the particles involved.
When this "observer effect" was first noticed by the early pioneers of quantum theory, they were deeply troubled. It seemed to undermine the basic assumption behind all science: that there is an objective world out there, irrespective of us. If the way the world behaves depends on how – or if – we look at it, what can "reality" really mean?
Today some physicists suspect that, whether or not consciousness influences quantum mechanics, it might in fact arise because of it. They think that quantum theory might be needed to fully understand how the brain works.
Might it be that, just as quantum objects can apparently be in two places at once, so a quantum brain can hold onto two mutually-exclusive ideas at the same time?
These ideas are speculative, and it may turn out that quantum physics has no fundamental role either for or in the workings of the mind. But if nothing else, these possibilities show just how strangely quantum theory forces us to think.
From: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170215-the-strange-link-between-the-human-mind-and-quantum-physics
But I think the article makes some valid points
Beginning of post:
The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles and paradoxes of quantum mechanics, the theory physicists use to describe the tiniest objects in the Universe. But he might as well have been talking about the equally knotty problem of consciousness.
Some scientists think we already understand what consciousness is, or that it is a mere illusion. But many others feel we have not grasped where consciousness comes from at all.
For one thing, the mind seemed, to the great discomfort of physicists, to force its way into early quantum theory. What's more, quantum computers are predicted to be capable of accomplishing things ordinary computers cannot, which reminds us of how our brains can achieve things that are still beyond artificial intelligence. "Quantum consciousness" is widely derided as mystical woo, but it just will not go away.
Quantum mechanics is the best theory we have for describing the world at the nuts-and-bolts level of atoms and subatomic particles. Perhaps the most renowned of its mysteries is the fact that the outcome of a quantum experiment can change depending on whether or not we choose to measure some property of the particles involved.
When this "observer effect" was first noticed by the early pioneers of quantum theory, they were deeply troubled. It seemed to undermine the basic assumption behind all science: that there is an objective world out there, irrespective of us. If the way the world behaves depends on how – or if – we look at it, what can "reality" really mean?
Today some physicists suspect that, whether or not consciousness influences quantum mechanics, it might in fact arise because of it. They think that quantum theory might be needed to fully understand how the brain works.
Might it be that, just as quantum objects can apparently be in two places at once, so a quantum brain can hold onto two mutually-exclusive ideas at the same time?
These ideas are speculative, and it may turn out that quantum physics has no fundamental role either for or in the workings of the mind. But if nothing else, these possibilities show just how strangely quantum theory forces us to think.
From: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170215-the-strange-link-between-the-human-mind-and-quantum-physics
None of us get out of being human alive!
It looks like it's been a LONG time since I have added to my Blogger posts.
It has been a rough year!! I got sick in 2018 and sicker in 2019. I have been diagnosed with Metastatic Breast Cancer, they say I have two to five years. It has almost been a year already and I am no where nearer being ready to go than I was in February this year.
Any way, I am trying to sort through my papers and belongings so my kids and my husband don't have to when I am gone.
Peace be with you all!
It has been a rough year!! I got sick in 2018 and sicker in 2019. I have been diagnosed with Metastatic Breast Cancer, they say I have two to five years. It has almost been a year already and I am no where nearer being ready to go than I was in February this year.
Any way, I am trying to sort through my papers and belongings so my kids and my husband don't have to when I am gone.
Peace be with you all!
Friday, October 13, 2017
THE MAN IN THE ARENA
Excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic
delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html
delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
What is Oath?
So Verizon owns AOL and now it bought Yahoo!
And now Verizon is selling it all to Apollo!
Verizon recently completed its $4.4 billion acquisition of Internet pioneer AOL. The deal comes 15 years after the company joined forces with Time Warner in 2000, which is widely considered one of the biggest business flops in U.S. corporate history.
According to Fortune, Verizon is a telecom giant. It is at #15 on the Fortune 500.
Verizon has 108.6 billion mobile connections.
While AOL may be most known for its dial-up services and growing content empire —which includes The Huffington Post, Engadget and TechCrunch—it also has put together a sophisticated suite of advertising technologies for online and traditional media that no other company (aside from Google and Facebook) can match.
AOL’s platform is particularly strong in video advertising—which CommScore says reaches more than 50% of the U.S. population. The Internet company's successful digital platform will also coincidentally assist Verizon's plans to launch its own Internet TV service, which it announced this year after buying Intel’s media assets in 2014 and video delivery network EdgeCast in 2013.
After Verizon scoops up Yahoo's Internet assets, what remains of Yahoo -- mostly investment holdings in Alibaba (BABA, Tech30) -- will be renamed Altaba. Mayer will step down from the board of that company once the sale is complete.
Yahoo as we know it may be done. But at least we'll always have Oath and Altaba.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Alienation and Exclusion
The campaign of 2016 was an education in the deep problems facing the
country. Angry voters made a few things abundantly clear: that modern
democratic capitalism is not working for them; that basic institutions
like the family and communities are falling apart; that we have a
college educated elite that has found ingenious ways to make everybody
else feel invisible, that has managed to transfer wealth upward to
itself, that crashes the hammer of political correctness down on anybody
who does not have faculty lounge views.
Alienation breeds a hysterical public conversation. Its public intellectuals are addicted to overstatement, sloppiness, pessimism, and despair. They are self-indulgent and self-lionizing prophets of doom who use formulations like “the Flight 93 election” — who speak of every problem as if it were the apocalypse. Alienation also breeds a zero-sum mind-set — it’s us or them — and with it a tribal clannishness and desire for exclusion. As Levin notes, on the right alienation can foster a desire for purity — to exclude the foreign — and on the left it can foster a desire for conformity — to squelch differing speakers and faiths.
But going forward we need a better establishment, one attuned to Trump voters, those whose alienation grows out of genuine suffering. The first task for this better establishment is to not make the political chasm worse . As the impeachment investigation proceeds, it’ll be important for us Trump critics to not set our hair on fire every day, to evaluate the evidence as if it were against a president we ourselves voted for. Would we really throw our own candidate out of office for this?
Over the longer term, it will be necessary to fight alienation with participation, to reform and devolve the welfare state so that recipients are not treated like passive wards of the state, but take an active role in their own self-government.
It’ll be necessary to revive a living elite patriotism. That means conducting oneself in office as if nation is more important than party; not using executive orders, filibusters and the nuclear option to grab what you can while you happen to be in the majority.
It means setting up weekly encounters to help you respect and understand the fellow Americans who reside across the social chasms.
Finally, it’ll be necessary to fight alienation with moral realism, with a mature mind-set that says that, yes, people are always flawed, the country always faces problems, but that is no reason for lazy cynicism or self-righteous despair. If you start with an awareness of human foibles, then you can proceed with what Levin calls pessimistic hopefulness — grateful for the institutions our ancestors left us, and filled with cheerful confidence that they can be reformed to solve present needs.
From: https://www.nytimes.com/
Alienation breeds a hysterical public conversation. Its public intellectuals are addicted to overstatement, sloppiness, pessimism, and despair. They are self-indulgent and self-lionizing prophets of doom who use formulations like “the Flight 93 election” — who speak of every problem as if it were the apocalypse. Alienation also breeds a zero-sum mind-set — it’s us or them — and with it a tribal clannishness and desire for exclusion. As Levin notes, on the right alienation can foster a desire for purity — to exclude the foreign — and on the left it can foster a desire for conformity — to squelch differing speakers and faiths.
But going forward we need a better establishment, one attuned to Trump voters, those whose alienation grows out of genuine suffering. The first task for this better establishment is to not make the political chasm worse . As the impeachment investigation proceeds, it’ll be important for us Trump critics to not set our hair on fire every day, to evaluate the evidence as if it were against a president we ourselves voted for. Would we really throw our own candidate out of office for this?
Over the longer term, it will be necessary to fight alienation with participation, to reform and devolve the welfare state so that recipients are not treated like passive wards of the state, but take an active role in their own self-government.
It’ll be necessary to revive a living elite patriotism. That means conducting oneself in office as if nation is more important than party; not using executive orders, filibusters and the nuclear option to grab what you can while you happen to be in the majority.
It means setting up weekly encounters to help you respect and understand the fellow Americans who reside across the social chasms.
Finally, it’ll be necessary to fight alienation with moral realism, with a mature mind-set that says that, yes, people are always flawed, the country always faces problems, but that is no reason for lazy cynicism or self-righteous despair. If you start with an awareness of human foibles, then you can proceed with what Levin calls pessimistic hopefulness — grateful for the institutions our ancestors left us, and filled with cheerful confidence that they can be reformed to solve present needs.
From: https://www.nytimes.com/
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Light Pollution
The Problems of Light Pollution -- Overview
Light pollution: Any adverse effect of artificial light including sky glow, glare, light trespass, light clutter, decreased visibility at night, and energy waste. Light pollution is not only a hinderance to astronomy, but it also impacts us directly.
Light pollution:
is a risk factor for cancer to people
is a disturbance to animals
is a waste of energy, resources, and money
is a security risk to your property
and obscures our view of the wondrous night sky.
Urban sky glow - the brightening of the night sky over inhabited areas. It is the "glow" effect that can be seen over distant populated areas. This light that escapes up into the sky is created by the combination of all light reflected off of what is being illuminated, from all of the badly directed light in that area, and from that light that is scattered (redirected) by the atmosphere itself from reaching the ground. This scattering is very strongly related to the wavelength of the light when the air is very clear (with very little aerosols). Rayleigh scattering dominates in such clear air, making the sky appear blue in the daytime.
http://cescos.fau.edu/observatory/lightpol.html
Light pollution: Any adverse effect of artificial light including sky glow, glare, light trespass, light clutter, decreased visibility at night, and energy waste. Light pollution is not only a hinderance to astronomy, but it also impacts us directly.
Light pollution:
is a risk factor for cancer to people
is a disturbance to animals
is a waste of energy, resources, and money
is a security risk to your property
and obscures our view of the wondrous night sky.
Urban sky glow - the brightening of the night sky over inhabited areas. It is the "glow" effect that can be seen over distant populated areas. This light that escapes up into the sky is created by the combination of all light reflected off of what is being illuminated, from all of the badly directed light in that area, and from that light that is scattered (redirected) by the atmosphere itself from reaching the ground. This scattering is very strongly related to the wavelength of the light when the air is very clear (with very little aerosols). Rayleigh scattering dominates in such clear air, making the sky appear blue in the daytime.
http://cescos.fau.edu/observatory/lightpol.html
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Sci-fi books and movies
Carl Sagan, Contact (1985)
From: https://purpleprosearchive.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/carl-sagan-contact-1985/
After all, the two authors who led me most strongly into my deep and abiding love of sci fi were Anne McCaffrey (and The Ship Who Sang) in particular, and everything by Ursula Le Guin.
Also:
Emma Bull. She writes both fantasy and science fiction, and is one of my favorite writers ever.
And just for fun, check out Shadow Unit. (Shadowunit.org). The website is an ongoing story by several writers-most female-and resembles a paranormal CSI. Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Evizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Amanda Downum, and others.
From: https://godardsletterboxes.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/100-sci-fi-women-63-dr-eleanor-arroway/
Friday, February 17, 2017
Friday, December 09, 2016
Revival Lyrics
REVIVAL
by ROBIN MARK
Copyright: 1998 DAYBREAK MUSIC LTD.
CD Title: REVIVAL IN BELFAST
Year: 1998
I hear the voice of one calling,
I hear the voice of one calling,
prepare ye, prepare ye the way of the Lord.
I hear the voice of one calling,
I hear the voice of one calling,
prepare ye, prepare ye the way of the Lord.
And make His paths straight, make His paths straight in the wilderness
And let your light shine, let your light shine in the darkness
And let your rain fall, let your rain fall in the desert.
I hear the voice of one calling,
I hear the voice of one calling,
prepare ye, prepare ye the way of the Lord.
Sure as gold is precious and the honey sweet,
so You love this city and you love these streets.
Ev'ry child out playing by its own front door,
ev'ry baby laying on the bedroom floor.
I feel it in my spirit, feel it in my bones,
You're gonna send revival, bring 'em all back home.
I can hear that thunder in the distance,
like a train on the edge of the town,
I can feel the brooding of Your Spirit,
lay your burdens down, lay your burdens down.
From the preacher preaching when the well is dry,
to the lost soul reaching for a higher high.
From the young man working through his hopes and fears
to the widow walking through the vale of tears.
Ev'ry man and woman ev'ry old and young,
ev'ry father's daughter, ev'ry mother's son.
I feel it in my spirit, feel it in my bones,
You're gonna send revival, bring 'em all back home.
Repeat chorus
Revive us, revive us, revive us with Your fire.
Revive us, revive us, revive us with Your fire.
by ROBIN MARK
Copyright: 1998 DAYBREAK MUSIC LTD.
CD Title: REVIVAL IN BELFAST
Year: 1998
I hear the voice of one calling,
I hear the voice of one calling,
prepare ye, prepare ye the way of the Lord.
I hear the voice of one calling,
I hear the voice of one calling,
prepare ye, prepare ye the way of the Lord.
And make His paths straight, make His paths straight in the wilderness
And let your light shine, let your light shine in the darkness
And let your rain fall, let your rain fall in the desert.
I hear the voice of one calling,
I hear the voice of one calling,
prepare ye, prepare ye the way of the Lord.
Sure as gold is precious and the honey sweet,
so You love this city and you love these streets.
Ev'ry child out playing by its own front door,
ev'ry baby laying on the bedroom floor.
I feel it in my spirit, feel it in my bones,
You're gonna send revival, bring 'em all back home.
I can hear that thunder in the distance,
like a train on the edge of the town,
I can feel the brooding of Your Spirit,
lay your burdens down, lay your burdens down.
From the preacher preaching when the well is dry,
to the lost soul reaching for a higher high.
From the young man working through his hopes and fears
to the widow walking through the vale of tears.
Ev'ry man and woman ev'ry old and young,
ev'ry father's daughter, ev'ry mother's son.
I feel it in my spirit, feel it in my bones,
You're gonna send revival, bring 'em all back home.
Repeat chorus
Revive us, revive us, revive us with Your fire.
Revive us, revive us, revive us with Your fire.
Franklin Graham Fesitval, Bakersfield California
A piece of my history!
I sang in the choir at this festival. It was the MOST incredible experience of my life! EVER!! I cried so hard it was difficult to sing!!! Over 3,000 people responded to the altar call.
The song we sang during the call was Revival by Robin Mark from the album Revival in Belfast! Powerful, powerful song!!! I will NEVER forget!!!!!!!!!!!!
During Spring Break at Bakersfield College the campus is usually deserted and quiet. But this past weekend, the college’s stadium was anything but hushed as nearly 60,000 people gathered for three days of music, fun, and truth at the Kern County Festival with Franklin Graham.
“I’ve never seen so much energy and unity in this community,” said local business leader and volunteer co-executive chairman of the Festival, Warren Carter. “This has been an amazing event for Bakersfield that brought hundreds of churches and thousands of members of the community together for one common purpose.”
The Festival which ran April 2-4 at Bakersfield College Stadium drew 59,365 people. The event featured nightly messages from Franklin Graham challenging the audience to put behind troubles in their past and allow God to lead their future.
“Many people think that religion will save them, or that if they can just sit in a pew long enough or own enough Bibles, that will save them, but it doesn’t work that way,” said Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. “It’s all about Who you know — and I’m talking about having a relationship with Jesus.”
During the event 3,491 people responded to Graham’s invitation to commit their lives to Jesus Christ.
Over the past year, more than 260 local churches and thousands of volunteers joined together, overcoming racial and denominational barriers to help organize the Festival.
In addition to Graham’s messages, the Festival featured a diverse collection of special guests, including: Award-winning musical artists Lee Greenwood, Jars of Clay, Joy Williams, Fernando Ortega, Dennis Agajanian, and The Tommy Coomes Band all delivered energetic and inspirational performances.
Bibleman — Saturday morning some 7,600 kids gathered to see the popular superhero Bibleman bring his fun action presentation of Biblical truth. Following the presentation, 1,120 children responded to the invitation to commit their lives to Christ.
Mayor of Bakersfield Harvey Hall greeted the audience and thanked Franklin Graham for bringing the Festival and a message of hope to the community.
1,600-voice choir comprised of volunteers from many area churches of varying denominations in the area performed during two nights of the Festival.Franklin Graham, 51, will hold his next Festival in Tijuana, Mexico June 10-12. In addition to his leadership role with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Graham is president and CEO of international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse.
I sang in the choir at this festival. It was the MOST incredible experience of my life! EVER!! I cried so hard it was difficult to sing!!! Over 3,000 people responded to the altar call.
The song we sang during the call was Revival by Robin Mark from the album Revival in Belfast! Powerful, powerful song!!! I will NEVER forget!!!!!!!!!!!!
During Spring Break at Bakersfield College the campus is usually deserted and quiet. But this past weekend, the college’s stadium was anything but hushed as nearly 60,000 people gathered for three days of music, fun, and truth at the Kern County Festival with Franklin Graham.
“I’ve never seen so much energy and unity in this community,” said local business leader and volunteer co-executive chairman of the Festival, Warren Carter. “This has been an amazing event for Bakersfield that brought hundreds of churches and thousands of members of the community together for one common purpose.”
The Festival which ran April 2-4 at Bakersfield College Stadium drew 59,365 people. The event featured nightly messages from Franklin Graham challenging the audience to put behind troubles in their past and allow God to lead their future.
“Many people think that religion will save them, or that if they can just sit in a pew long enough or own enough Bibles, that will save them, but it doesn’t work that way,” said Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. “It’s all about Who you know — and I’m talking about having a relationship with Jesus.”
During the event 3,491 people responded to Graham’s invitation to commit their lives to Jesus Christ.
Over the past year, more than 260 local churches and thousands of volunteers joined together, overcoming racial and denominational barriers to help organize the Festival.
In addition to Graham’s messages, the Festival featured a diverse collection of special guests, including: Award-winning musical artists Lee Greenwood, Jars of Clay, Joy Williams, Fernando Ortega, Dennis Agajanian, and The Tommy Coomes Band all delivered energetic and inspirational performances.
Bibleman — Saturday morning some 7,600 kids gathered to see the popular superhero Bibleman bring his fun action presentation of Biblical truth. Following the presentation, 1,120 children responded to the invitation to commit their lives to Christ.
Mayor of Bakersfield Harvey Hall greeted the audience and thanked Franklin Graham for bringing the Festival and a message of hope to the community.
1,600-voice choir comprised of volunteers from many area churches of varying denominations in the area performed during two nights of the Festival.Franklin Graham, 51, will hold his next Festival in Tijuana, Mexico June 10-12. In addition to his leadership role with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Graham is president and CEO of international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse.
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