Jun 23, 2011

The Revolutions

 Written today on my facebook page, to someone talking about a new revolution in the country.  This illustrates my feeling on that subeject.

 I think the reason a revolution hasn't started is that people are not fully awake. They do not entirely see the picture. I hope and pray they will soon, before it is too late. 

I grew up in the 50's and I can tell you the changes that have taken place in this country since then are staggering - and except for some of the most awesome technological advancement, the society has been in steady rapid moral decline. What I have learned lately tells me that the changes began even further back, at the turn of the century. 

I am the grandchild of Italian/Swedish and English immigrants. They came here to a wonderful country, where opportunities were abundant,, where becoming an American Citizen was a dream come true, one they thanked God for every day of their lives. They found it a blessing to integrate into the great society in a new land. Since then progressive/socialist agendas have infiltrated the courts, the schools, the media, the movies, the government, it has eroded at a great pace the American dream along with the wearing away of the American Constitution.

I hope, I pray, and I work with all other American Patriots in the battle of our lifetime, to turn the tide, to return to our great American virtues, and values. I believe there are many who's eyes are opening and who's hearts are eager to return America to its greatness. And Robert, your one of those Patriots!! and there are many more and we will find them, ours is an honorable fight and God is with us!! So here's to the future and a lasting free Nation!! God Bless you and all of us in our great Godly efforts to save the USA!!
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May 17, 2011

I'm Here to Tell you that You're not Alone

I'm Here to Tell You That You're Not Alone

Do you ever feel like you're lost in the crowd?
Do you ever feel like everyone's pushing you around?
Like down and down you go you hit the ground!
Do you think they're telling you to do things
you don't want to do? Do you?


Do you think the music playing now's too loud
and your head's exploding like a bomb
Do you ever feel like you've sold your soul
To get the house, the car the piles of gold
until your brain is fried and all the tears are cried
Do you feel like you'll fold in two and that
there's nothing left inside of you?

I'm here to tell you that your not alone.
I'm here to listen to your prayers and tears.
I'm here to hold you through the pain
so dear - pass it to me gently now 
let me make you whole again.

The world is an illusion in a dream
nothing really is the way it often seems
we blindly follow in confusion 
unaware it's all illusion
the magic in the silver moon 
mysteries and fantasies or utter doom
where dark held secrets hide at night
but come to life with me, my love, 
I will restore your sight.

Do you want to stop the deafening sound!
Want to keep from spinning all around
Till you can't hold on, you can't hold on
spinning out of control till your body hits the ground
crashed to a million pieces and you can't be found!

I'm here to tell you that your not alone.
I'm here to listen to you prayers and tears.
I'm here to hold you through the pain.
so now pass it to me gently,
let me make you whole again
fall into my arms and into my love
I will lift you to the sky above.
out of the living and the living dead.
j. marie milici
may, 2011
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Apr 8, 2011

Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place quotes

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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
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"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
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"Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open."
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"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest."
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"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."
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"This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)
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"Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."
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"What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden."
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"It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts."
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"Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves."
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"Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able."
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"Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you."
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"There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans."
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"Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself."
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)
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"Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty."
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"Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here."
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)
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"And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?"
He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off the floor and set it on the floor.
Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?" he said.
I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning.
It's too heavy," I said.
Yes," he said, "and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you."
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"There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no placess that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!"
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)
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"Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.
There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel."
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"Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."
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"You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have."
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"Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear."
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"Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way."
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"when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus"
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"God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us."
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"If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands."
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"Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future."
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"The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day"
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"There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still."
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"Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in. "
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"And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him."
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"Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings. It's something we make inside ourselves."
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)
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".....joy runs deeper than despair."
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"Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small."
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"We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground."
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"How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point."
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)
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"And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive."
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"(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue."
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"In darkness God's truth shines most clear."
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"Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do. "
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"Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work."
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"Love is larger than the walls which shut it in."
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"Childhood scenes rushed back at me out of the night, strangely close and urgent. Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do."
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"No hatred"
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"Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see."
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"Never be afraid to trust your unknown future
to a Known God"
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"You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family."
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"All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there."
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"No pit is so deep that God's love is not deeper still."
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Apr 2, 2011

I came here tonight to find a Mr. William Grey. His Son was Killed in Iraq today.

this was posted on Facebook by support our troops, unknown who wrote this story, but it is amazing.


"AN AMAZING STORY" I came here tonight to find a Mr. William Grey. His Son was Killed in Iraq today.

 

I came here tonight to find a Mr. William Grey. His Son was Killed in Iraq today.

"JUST STAY"

 

A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. "Your son is here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.
Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement..

The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed.All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile.
He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.
Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.

Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her. "Who was that man?" he asked. The nurse was startled, "He was your father," she answered. "No, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life." "Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?" "I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn't here.

When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son,
knowing how much he needed me, I stayed." I came here tonight to find a Mr. William Grey. His Son was Killed in Iraq today, and I was sent to inform him. What was this Gentleman's Name? The Nurse with Tears in Her Eyes Answered, Mr. William Grey.............

The next time someone needs you ... just be there. Just Stay.

WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY HUMAN EXPERIENCE. GOD IS SO GOOD.
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Mar 31, 2011

If I Could Give the World a Gift

If I could Give the World a Gift
j. milici copyright march 2011

If I could give the world a gift
it would be LOVE
I would wrap it in the stars of heaven
and tie it with the bond of brotherhood.

If I could give the world a gift
it would be PEACE
I would hold it in my nested palms
softly like a white dove for all to see.

If I could give the world a gift
it would be JOY
I would place it gently on the happy wind
to float into the hearts of every living soul.

If I could give the world a gift
It would be A SONG
I would sing with power like an angel
A melody of harmony and truth.

If I could give the world a gift
it would be FRIENDSHIP
We would embrace each other
As brothers – as sisters – as family.

If I could give the world a gift
it would be FAITH
I would say a prayer with you
and He would come and sit with us.

If I could give the world a gift
it would be TOMORROW
on the wings of a glorious dawn
with golden sunshine and rest from pain.

If I could give the world a gift
it would be A NEW DAY
We would all wear radiant white
And dance together amid the clouds

And there would be PEACE
And there would be LOVE
And the earth would shine like a diamond
And wouldn't that be so wonderful!
If I could give the world these gifts!
And you and I could rejoice together!
For once and forever!
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Mar 25, 2011

When Will There Be Freedom

When Will There Be Peace
*copyright 3/2011 j. milici, all rights reserved

When will there be freedom
When will there be peace
When will there be showing
the love each human seeks?

I know one day there will freedom
I know one day there will be peace
He holds the world in open palms
Waits and wants to heal us.

My heart is bleeding, bleeding,
I am pleading tearfully pleading
Might that day dawn to stop the parade
of dead in coffins silent passing while
the world weeps and mourns?

There is no peace when there is war
There is no love where hate is heartless
There can't be joy amid the blood of babies
Or from a suffering mothers wails
unnoticed in the silence.

I know one day there will freedom
I know one day there will peace
He holds the world in his open palms
Waiting to heal us.

There's no rest for the weary traveler
who sees the blood of bomb blasts
soak white sheets red in the slaughter
that drowns out all our laughter with
the sound of deathly silence.

I cannot see the sunrise
or know of others sorrows
or hear the cries of widows
screaming pity in my ears!

I can't sleep tonight and
I can't keep silent vigil
I can't awake to hear fright
death's numbers on airwaves
or murdered soldier tolls
the wails of orphaned babies
or feel a mothers emptiness
inside her aching soul!

When will it be finished?
When will the world find Peace?
How will we find each other
In a place where only hatred keeps
the angry hearts alive to die
while history speaks in lies?

I know one day there will be freedom
I know one day there will be peace
He holds the world in his open palm
Waiting and wanting to heal us.

Will we let Him?
Will we let Him heal us?

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Another War, Another Tsunami, Another Earthquake, Another Bombing

I don't even know how to begin writing again.  Since last I wrote, Australia was hit with an awful earthquake, thousands dead; then, Japan hit with the worst quake in history and a tsunami that killed over 10,000 and they still counting.  In addition, worries about the nuclear reactor and damages that are cause leaks of radiation.

This past week I sat before my tv and witnessed something I never dreamed of.  I actually watched as the President said "We have entered into a third war".!! Nearly fell of my chair!! Can't believe he has done this, his is the most evil president this country has every known!!

We are still in Iraq and Afghanistan, now we are also in Libya.  Every day more soldiers die, more innocent by standers die.  Nothing seems to be ending, just esculating.

On Tuesday, my friend in Gaza lost 3 members of his family from the bombing there.  The children were 11 and 16 and there was 8 more deaths. How my heart aches for that family.   The bombing was in retaliation of the murder of a family that was stabbed to death in Israel; mother, father and infant brutally stabbed one night.  Also, the Palestinian are sending suicide bombers and this week blew up a bus killing a British women and wounding many many more!

Is this not the Last Days? How could one doubt! There are wars and rumors of wars, famines, earthquakes, and tsunamis.  Everywhere there is suffering, and the worst is the suffering of the children, the world's children!

I feel at a loss, unable to even express the sorrow I feel.   This month however, I did send a huge box of clothing to Afghanistan for the children there.  I sent money for school supplies.  But it is so little, and I wish I could do so much more.  My prayers everyday are for peace, to end the suffering, but I knowing my heart until the Savior comes again there will be no peace at all. It's a sad day. It is a very sad day. Maybe tomorrow will be brighter, maybe.
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If I Had Wings and Could Fly

(copyright) march 2011, j. milici
this is a song I wrote for a friend of mine
to put to music.


If I had Wings and Could Fly 

My lost love-
need you so much
need you like air to breath
need your warm touch
need your whispers of love
need the smell of your hair
need you to heal my heart
my heart you broke
like a porcelain doll
slammed on cement
shattered in a million
splinters.

If I had wings
If I could fly
I'd fly to the moon
through midnight sky
to search for you.
I'd fly to find you.

Are you somewhere
out in the dark
lye'n in the dark alone?
lye'n on the ground
as cold as stone?
I'd fly to you now
If I only knew how
I 'd follow the star
to where you are.

You left one night
left me alone
left me afraid
afraid in the dark
Now I can't stop
by bleed'n heart
from wantn' you again
to heal my tortured soul
to set my spirit free
to release me
out of this place
out of this prison
out of hell.

If I had wings
If I could fly
I'd fly to the moon
through midnight sky
to search for you.
I'd fly to find you.

The blade of your knife
cut to my bones
cut through my flesh
cut out my heart
then cut it apart and
left blood on the floor
when you walked out
when you walked like
a statue of ice
out the door.

If I had wings
If I could fly
I'd fly to the moon
through midnight sky
to search for you.
I'd fly to find you.

I think of you
pray to heaven
and cry
wonder'n why
why'd you leave
why'd you go
I loved you so
didn't you know?

Didn't you know
I loved you so?

j. milici 3/16/2011 copyright, all rights reserved
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