I just wanted to say thank you so much for all the presents and well wishes from my DA friends. sss. I was almost overwelmed by the love you all showered on me.

I had a wonderful day yesterday, even though I had to work (it was the first day of the summer session ). When I got home hubby kept me so occupied that I never got a chance to get on the internet last night. He took me out to a very nice New Orleans style restaurant, and then to see Ironman (which really rocked btw). At home I was treated to chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate (sugar free of course). What floored me to the max was that my estranged daughter called, JUST to wish me a Happy Birthday. She hasn't remembered my birthday for about three years. I guess miracles do happen!

I wanted to share what hubby bought me for my birthday (a few days early). I really love that man!




In other news, I opened a second DA account where I intend to post photomanips and stock items. It’s in case anyone is interested. I made several sets of fractal wings, which I am going to put up as stock items. I haven’t exactly decided which account I will post them in yet, so if anyone has an opinion please voice it. I don’t want to flood this account with a lot of non-fractal items. I probably won’t be writing many journal articles or doing features from that account because I really don’t want to pay for two subs.

The Top Ten

A little something I picked up from *Fraxa. I will display three deviations from the first 10 people to reply to my journal. There are two catches. You must have several items in your gallery to choose from, and you must post this in your own journal.

So get ready to pay the love forward

1. *n8iveattitude1



2. *MzKitty45601 (because I wanted to)



3. ~Medusa92



4. *terrye634



5. =laurengary




6. *jennabee25




7. ~Plushiemode



8. =Rickbw1





9. Anymore takers? Last call for a feature.

10.


I'm going to be very busy the next couple of weeks as the semester comes to a close, so please forgive me if I fav and run.

A couple quick notes:

made me a very pretty stamp. It really made my day!



Thank you so much sweetie


I'm buried under tons of genetics problems at the moment, so please be patient if I'm slow to comment and forgive me if I fav and run. I only have two more days until spring break. I'll still have papers to correct, but it sure will be nice to relax. I plan on hanging around to do some much needed spring cleaning, although I may take off with hubby to do some fishing when the weather is nice. My husband is a high school teacher and he's got spring break too .



3-23-08

I wanted to wish everyone a Blessed Easter.

I don’t usually get preachy about my faith, but on this holiest day of the year, I find that I cannot remain silent. Jesus said that were we to be silenced, even the stones would cry out His praise. I’m not going to be bested by a rock.

I was raised in a Christian home, so some would say I only believe what I was taught to believe. However, I am also a scientist, and as such, my faith is not blind. I went through a period where I examined what I believed against what I was told to believe by other biologists, and came out the other side because I am in complete awe of the world God has created. The more I study the complexity of the chemical reactions going on in a single bacteria, the more my faith is strengthened that all we see in nature didn’t just come about by accident. Master workmanship begs for a designer.

Why do I believe in Christ? His life fulfilled more than 300 prophecies about the Messiah found in the Jewish scriptures, some of the written hundreds of years before he was born – down to the price Judas was paid for betraying him. Some of these are confirmed by non-Biblical records. The chance of a single man’s life meeting even 40 of these prophesies is astronomical. However, that is nothing to the evidence I see when one that is lost comes face to face with the Savior. My hubby was one whose life was changed overnight by the power of Christ’s love. I have personally witnessed a crack addict whose addiction disappeared without one day in rehab when he lay his life at the foot of the cross. That is power my friends.

C.S. Lewis said this of Christ in his book Mere Christianity: "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman, or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

So I call Him Lord, and have never had one moment’s regret. I will admit there have been times that I have been angry with some of the things he has allowed to come into my life, but that is my human failing and he forgives me and loves me just the same.

And the Lord I serve is living! Forgive me those of you from other faiths, but what I say next is merely recorded history. Mohammed's grave is in a mosque in Medina. Confucius was buried in the city of Ch'uFu. The followers of Buddha will tell you he ascended into heaven, but historical records indicate that he was cremated and his ashes scattered.

Roman writers attest to the execution of Jesus of Nazareth. Many believe his body was stolen, but soldiers guarded the grave of my Lord to prevent that. Yet his tomb was found empty and more than 500 people at one time witnessed his living presence. Nevertheless, greater evidence is found in what happened to his followers. Most of the disciples, the writers of the gospels, two of his own half bothers and Paul himself suffered horrible deaths rather than renounce their faith. Would you be willing to go to your death for a lie?

I know most of all because the life I live is Christ living in me - guiding, comforting, giving me peace. It is a thing that is very hard to explain to those who have never experienced it.

I wish for all that read this to share the saving grace of God’s most precious gift.

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
John 11:25


With this knowledge I shout to the heavens:

Christ is risen!!