Still_Small_Voice

Miami, the pictures you posted made we weep. I pray these horrific murders stop and we do something about this. That is nothing but pure evil and murder.

I read these Christians who are being driven out have had a community there in Iraq for about 2,000 years. Very sad how they were driven out as their ancestors had lived there so long. They are being persecuted and attacked for their religion.

Airstrikes on Iraqi towns held by the Islamic State terror group commenced Thursday night, the New York Times reported. A senior Iraqi military official added to CNN that the Iraqi air force had carried out attacks against suspected Islamic State targets. The report came as President Barack Obama was set to make a statement Thursday evening after meeting with his national security team earlier in the day. The Pentagon, however, strongly denied any involvement in the reported bombings. Multiple media outlets reported that the U.S. military had begun humanitarian air drops for the thousands of displaced Iraqis trapped in the mountains. Read the rest of the article here: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/07/report-u-s-military-bombs-isis-targets-in-iraq-pentagon-denies/

I heard of another rip off that is going on, though I think it is more rare. Some thieves are tying cans or something to a car. When it makes noise as the person is driving the driver stops the car and then gets out. When they are out of the car looking at their vehicle a car thief jumps in and drives off. Don't leave your car keys in or your purse sitting on the front seat with the doors unlocked. Most important though, be aware of your surroundings.

They were also detained four hours for simply taking a picture according to this story. If this is true I hope the officer who pointed the weapon at the Boy Scout's head is dismissed from employment. We do not need people like this with a gun, badge, and in a position of authority in the ranks of our law enforcement. When I heard the comments on this story about "a great lesson in civics" I also shook my head in disgust. This situation was completely unnecessary and just wrong. It seems to be a story about someone who delighted in how big and shiny his law enforcement badge was.

I think here is some more information on the subject: Experts: If Ukranian Rebels Shot Down Passenger Jet, They Likely Lacked Technology to Identify It http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/19/experts-if-ukranian-rebels-shot-down-passenger-jet-they-likely-lacked-technology-to-identify-it/

To me forgiveness means leaving God to deal out justice. We trust that the LORD will deal out justice to those who perform wicked acts and not harbor hate in our hearts for the offender. But this also does not mean that we are to become a carpet that anyone can just wipe their feet on.

Job 31:1 reads: “I made a covenant with mine eyes. Why then should I think upon a maid?" We men tend to be more visually stimulated than women. Be careful what you let your eyes see. Let the Holy Spirit guide you in how you should act. One cannot prevent a bird from flying over his head, but he can prevent the bird from making a nest in his hair.

I think a preacher said the following paraphrased that I found amusing: I'd like to find that fruit that made Adam and Eve realize they were naked and pass it around to people again.

My understanding of terrestrial law is the very basic commandments of God. Honour your father and mother. Thou shalt not covet. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not steal. Do not lust after others in your heart. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Flee fornication. Thou shalt not murder. Love your neighbor as yourself. Celestial law deals with the LORD's laws and covenants between men and God. Terrestrial law does not seem to deal with covenants between God and men. But there is no authority to deal in sacred ordinances which include covenants such as baptism and sealing outside the LORD's kingdom. This is my understanding of celestial versus terrestrial law. All who live a terrestrial law will not be burned at the Messiah's Second Coming,

Hello there. I am sorry. I am having difficulty understanding your original post. If you could please go through and edit your original post to make it more readable. Use periods if you can and rephrase your words. If you want to know how I can move on from your past sins here is some information for you. These are quotes from the Prophet Spencer w. Kimball: "Likewise, repentance must be consistent and continuous. To repent of a sin and then to tamper with it again or permit it to invade, even slightly, is to lose the repentance and its beneficent effects, and the former sins return, saith the Lord God." (See Doc. & Cov. 82:7) "Very frequently people think they have repented and are worthy of forgiveness when all they have done is to express sorrow or regret at the unfortunate happening, but their repentance is barely started. Until they have begun to make changes in their lives, transformation in their habits, and to add new thoughts to their minds, to be sorry is only a bare beginning." "True repentance incorporates within it a washing, a purging, a changing of attitudes, a reappraising, a strengthening toward self-mastery. It is not a simple matter for one to transform his life overnight, nor to change attitudes in a moment, nor to rid himself in a hurry of unworthy companions." "True repentance must include restitution. There are sins for which restitution can be made . . . but then there are other sins that cannot yield to restitution. . . One of the requisites for repentance is the living of the commandments of the Lord. Perhaps few people realize that as an important element; though one may have abandoned a particular sin and even confessed it to his bishop, yet he is not repentant if he has not developed a life of action and service and righteousness, which the Lord has indicated to be very necessary: He that repents and does the commandments of the Lord shall be forgiven." You can also review the steps of repentance here: https://www.lds.org/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-19-repentance?lang=eng&query=repentance

Prison Chaplain, I thought you were talking about my backyard at first. The LORD wants all to follow Him. He called Matthew, a Roman tax collector, to follow Him and be one of His Apostles. Rather than stoning an adulteress woman, Jesus told her to: "Go and sin no more." The Prophet Joseph Smith wrote: "And the woman glorified God from that hour, and believed on his name." (See the Inspired Version of the Bible, chapter 8, verse 11.) Isaiah wrote: "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." - Isaiah 55:1

I am not a fan of General Motors or Dodge cars. I'd like to put it up against a Tesla electric car to see which goes zero to sixty miles per hour faster.

The Mazda 5 sports van is a good gasoline vehicle choice. It seats 6 including the driver. Maintenance records are pretty good on them. It gets about 25 miles to the gallon. I personally dislike vehicles that do not have good fuel mileage. I forsee $4.50 per gallon prices. I am looking into a compressed natural gas car since we have so many fueling stations in Utah. It costs about $1.75 per gallon equivilant presently to drive. Only downside is you cannot do a cross country trip with one. I think there is a future in natural gas. You can create it out of waste and feces and it burns so much cleaner than gasoline.

Recently my daughter's bike was stolen from our front yard. She cried a lot about it. When two ward members heard about it they both gave her bikes. Now she has two bicycles. One of the same ward members also gave my son a bike to replace his older one. My daughter was very happy about it as we go for bike rides several times a week. I was very happy about it as finances have been tight lately.

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I'm also for making executive orders for Presidents unConstitutional. This President has tried to use executive orders to go around passing laws through Congress. I am against any President doing this. It is too much power and upsets the checks and balances that should exist through all branches of the Federal goverment. Now another question is the following: are there too many people who will side with Obama in the Senate despite all the abuse of power to prevent impeachment proceedings against him?

If I were the parents I would sue the Massachusetts Department of Children and Family. I would make an example of an organization that does not know its place. They were very much in the wrong on this situation and hurt this girl and family. I would also move far away from Massachusetts when this was all done.

I am glad to hear Justina is returning to her parents. Her condition has only degraded and gotten worst since the Massachusetts Department of Children and Family took her away from her family.

A juvenile court has ordered the Massachusetts Department of Children and Family to return Justina Pelletier to her parents, the Boston Globe reports. “I find that the parties have shown by credible evidence that circumstances have changed since the adjudication on Dec. 20, 2013, that Justina is a child in need of care and protection pursuant to G.L. c. 199, 24-26.,” Judge Joseph Johnston wrote in the ruling, according to the Globe. “Effective Wednesday, June 18, 2014, this care and protection petition is dismissed and custody of Justina is returned to her parents, Lou and Linda Pelletier.” http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/17/judge-orders-massachusetts-dcf-to-return-justina-pelletier-to-her-parents-report/

I wonder if the ocean level would go up a mere foot or less if the ice melted in Antartica. The whole surface of the ocean is a very large place.

When Christy Duffy took her 17-year-old daughter to her local hospital in Michigan, she was stunned to see a notice posted alerting parents that a nurse will need to “have a short 5 minute private conversation with your child.” In a fiery blog post published on Monday, Duffy took a bold stand in favor of parental rights. She explains how the situation unfolded: I was there last week for an appointment for Amy. She hurt her foot, which makes dancing difficult, so we had to get that checked out. Amy is 17; I asked if this policy was in effect and if so, how could I opt out. The receptionist told me it’s a new law and there is no opting out. Working to keep my cool, I said, “I’m sure there is.” She said, “No, there isn’t.” At which point I asked if I needed to leave and go to the urgent care center because I was not submitting my daughter to such a conversation. That did not go over well Read more here: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/03/i-am-the-mom-it-didnt-go-over-well-when-a-hospital-allegedly-told-a-mother-theyd-need-to-have-a-private-conversation-with-her-teenage-daughter/

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A treasure trove of rare gold coins discovered by a California couple out walking their dog has gone on sale, with one coin selling for $15,000 on Tuesday. The coins date from 1847 to 1894 and have been valued at $11 million. Several coins were auctioned at the Old San Francisco Mint at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, and one of them — an 1874 $20 double eagle that is usually worth $4,250 — sold for $15,000. Don Kagin, whose firm is handling the sale, says most of the remaining 1,400 coins had gone on sale on Amazon.com and Kagins.com after the auction. The couple, whom Kagin declined to identify, found them last year buried under the shadow of a tree on their rural Northern California property. Here are five things to know about the coins and their origin: Why are they so valuable? Experts say paper money was illegal in California until the 1870s, so it’s extremely rare to find any coins from before that period. Additionally, most of the coins are in mint condition, having been stashed away seemingly immediately after they were minted. They were valued by Don Kagin, a numismatist who is handling the sale and marketing of the coins. Some of 1,427 Gold-Rush era U.S. gold coins are displayed at Professional Coin Grading Service in Santa Ana, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. A California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across the modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree. Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service, who recently authenticated them. Although the face value of the gold pieces only adds up to about $27,000, some of them are so rare that coin experts say they could fetch nearly $1 million apiece. (AP/Reed Saxon) Some of 1,427 Gold-Rush era United States gold coins are displayed at Professional Coin Grading Service in Santa Ana, California, Tuesday, February 25, 2014. A California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across the modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree. Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service, who recently authenticated them. (AP/Reed Saxon) Who found them? Kagin says the couple — a middle-aged husband and wife — does not want to be identified in part to avoid a gold rush on their rural Northern California property by modern-day prospectors. They discovered the coins in eight cans buried in the shadow of an old tree on the property. They plan to keep a few of the coins themselves and use the money from the rest to pay off bills and donate to local charities. Money from Tuesday’s auction will benefit the effort to turn the Old Mint into a museum. Where did the coins come from? Most of the coins were minted at the San Francisco Mint, according to Kagin. It’s not clear, however, who put them in the ground or how they were obtained, though theories have abounded. Kagin says people have linked the coins to stagecoach bandit Black Bart, outlaw Jesse James and a theft at the San Francisco Mint, but none of the theories has panned out. What is in the collection? The treasure consists of four $5 gold pieces, fifty $10 gold pieces, and 1,373 $20 double eagles. Among the coins that will be on display Tuesday is the crown jewel of the collection — an 1866-S No Motto $20 gold piece valued at more than $1 million. How does this discovery compare to other coin finds? Kagin calls this coin find the largest such discovery in U.S. history. One of the largest previous finds of gold coins was uncovered by construction workers in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1985 and valued at $1 million. More than 400,000 silver dollars were found in the home of a Reno, Nevada, man who died in 1974 and were later sold intact for $7.3 million. Gold coins and ingots said to be worth as much as $130 million were recovered in the 1980s from the wreck of the SS Central America. But historians knew roughly where that gold was because the ship went down off the coast of North Carolina during a hurricane in 1857. Most of the coins were minted at the San Francisco Mint, according to Kagin. It’s not clear, however, who put them in the ground or how they were obtained, though theories have abounded. Kagin says people have linked the coins to stagecoach bandit Black Bart, outlaw Jesse James and a theft at the San Francisco Mint, but none of the theories has panned out. What is in the collection? The treasure consists of four $5 gold pieces, fifty $10 gold pieces, and 1,373 $20 double eagles. Among the coins that will be on display Tuesday is the crown jewel of the collection — an 1866-S No Motto $20 gold piece valued at more than $1 million. How does this discovery compare to other coin finds? Kagin calls this coin find the largest such discovery in United States history. One of the largest previous finds of gold coins was uncovered by construction workers in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1985 and valued at $1 million. More than 400,000 silver dollars were found in the home of a Reno, Nevada, man who died in 1974 and were later sold intact for $7.3 million. Gold coins and ingots said to be worth as much as $130 million were recovered in the 1980s from the wreck of the SS Central America. But historians knew roughly where that gold was because the ship went down off the coast of North Carolina during a hurricane in 1857. See pictures here: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/28/that-couple-who-found-a-treasure-trove-of-rare-gold-coins-while-walking-their-dog-just-got-a-major-payday/

I am posting an update on this story.

I am not for redefining marriage. It should be between one man and one woman. If Utah is for making "Civil Unions" for homosexuals who wish to solemnize their partnership I am not against it. I am personally for getting the government out of marriage. It is between a church who performs a marriage and the couple. But I cannot be for fornication, adultery, homosexuality, polygamy or any other acts that violate God's law of chastity.