Saturday, January 01, 2005

This Weeks Hymn Lyrics


SINGING GLORY
Copyright 1907
by
L. R. Minor

I've something in my heart that Jesus gave to me,
It makes me feel like singing glory all the day
He found my captive soul and gave me liberty
And now I feel like singing glory!

My Savior loosed my tongue that I might speak His praise
Since then I have been singing glory all the way
I love to tell the lost of Jesus and His ways
And, oh, it keeps me singing glory!

My Savior Took my feet from out the miry clay
Since then I have been singing glory all the day
He placed then on the Rock that shall not pass away - -
I cannot keep from singing glory

O weary heart, and sad, O heavy laden soul
If you would feel like singing glory all the day
Just let the Savior in, and let Him take control
Then you will feel like singing glory!

Chorus

He makes the path grow brighter every passing day
He makes the burden lighter all along the way
His Word is my delight, His will I now obey
And all the time I'm singing glory!
The following is a post to the comments section of this page that I have chosen to post in it's entirety. I have gone to the web site Wendi Frieser and found nothing to refute or cast doubt on Mr. claims. I did see a CD that promised healing through hypnosis, as well as CD's that promised breast enlargement, hair growth, and penis enlargement. Please read this gentleman's posting and visit the web site http://www.wendi.com and take what, if any, actions you deem appropriate.

Stop Wendi, The Hypno-HucksterShe’s Deceiving Cancer VictimsBy Saying Hypnosis Might Heal ThemHi: My name is David Mark. I am a resident of Maplewood. I am also a leukemia survivor, thanks to an adult stem cell transplant at Hackensack University Medical Center in 2001. I am asking people to please call Air America Radio (646-274-4900), and reach either advertising representative Barbara Brown or East Coast advertising manager Leon Clark.Air America (1190 AM) takes advertising from Wendi.com, the company run by hypnotherapist (not a doctor) Wendi Friesen. I am trying to convince Air America that they should cancel their contract with this huckster, and replace her with any other advertiser. I have nothing against the capitalist system. I have nothing against hypnosis CDs. But I do have a problem with Friesen. One of the CDs she markets on her website (not on the radio station)is "Heal Your Body."

This is the pitch on her website:"One of our best selling CDs. Designed for those with cancer, chronic or other serious illness, this program inspires you to choose LIFE, stimulates your immune system to fight, and some say ... creates miracles. Three sessions, one will access your ability to heal, the second will strengthen your immune system, another will cleanse your body of bacteria, viruses and toxins. This process can help to speed the healing of surgery, illness, or even a cold or sore throat."I find this repugnant, and dangerous for anyone who decides Friesen's $29 CD is a worthy alternative to a trip to the doctor, a biopsy, mammogram, chemotherapy, etc. Friesen is spewing the lie that hypnosis can help you fight cancer. There is no medical evidence to support that, and there never will. For her uneducated clients, listening to the CD versus receiving medical attention could be a fatal decision.Phone calls from enough concerned citizens can make a difference.


Thanks.David R. MarkDavidRMark@aol.comhttp


Also see http://www.grandmadeece.blogspot.com for more information about what Wendi Friesen is trying to push on unsuspecting victims.

Friday, December 31, 2004

Reality or Revolting?

I'm not sure how many of you are fans of Reality Television, those shows whose basic premise that the situations they deal with could be found in everyday life. It seems to me though that the reality is that the events that are portrayed are completely contrived and orchestrated . How many of you dream of going to some island with nothing but the clothes on your back and spend the next five and one half weeks fighting for survival? Perhaps you would consider jumping a car off the roof of a building and then feasting on cream of maggot soup as the perfect weekend getaway. If neither of these is your cup of tea you can always choose a spouse by finding a group of possible mates, put them through various trials and after eliminating one each week until you agree to marry the “winner.” What better way to launch a life of wedded bliss? The fact of the matter is no one would do any of these things unless someone was waving the possibility of a huge payoff in their faces. Thus, the reality of reality television is not the various stunts or endurance trials, but the reality how much of a fool people are willing to prove they are for a big enough pay day, and the networks see an opportunity for their own sizeable paycheck.

As disgusting as this demonstrated greed seems, sleaze TV, officially known as The Fox Broadcasting Network, is about to launch a show that will lower television standards at the quantum level. Their new show, called “Who’s My Daddy” will feature a young woman trying to determine which of the eight possibilities presented to her is her biological father. It is difficult to know just what to say about this., it is just wrong on so many levels. The first thing that hits me is how and why would a woman subject herself to constant scrutiny while going through the emotional turmoil of finding her father and beginning the process of learning just what kind of person he is? Since I have never met this woman I cannot even guess as to what her reasons are and will leave this issue to individual contemplation.

It is however, much easier to formulate a theory as to why Fox is pursuing the commercialization of what is one of the most emotionally traumatic events a person can go through, they want even more money than they already have. The fact that they have gone to the trouble and expense of making this “show” proclaims clearly their disdain of human decency, and their pursuit by any means of the almighty dollar. I fully expect that during the broadcast of this show it will be claimed many, many times how “pleased” they are to be able to help these two long separated family members be united at long last. Right after this statement will probably be an offer to sell the Brooklyn Bridge to the highest bidder. OK, they probably won’t offer to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, but any statement of altruistic motives will be as truthful as any such offer would be. The Fox Network has only one motive here and that is making as much money as they possibly can, no matter how tasteless and disgusting the methods they have to use.

Even if the woman facing the task of figuring out who her father is was allowed to do no more than interview each gentleman at length and without interference from the show or its staff, this would still be one of the lowest forms of “entertainment” to be forced on the American public. We know however, in an effort to make it more “challenging” or “entertaining” the shows staff will give her false information, taunt her with hints, and in a wide variety of ways mislead her as to which of the eight possibilities is her biological father. This will be done for no other reason than draw out the process and hook viewers into coming back next week as they too try and determine which man is the “unknown father.” This will have one more effect though, it will clearly demonstrate how heartless the Fox network executives are. Her hopes will be built up each week as she thinks (hopes) she knows who her father is, only to be dashed at the end of each show. This is not entertainment, it is however, a systematic, methodical emotional and psychological method of torture geared to make as much money as possible and tease the imaginations of a few twisted and simple minded viewers.