It must be so lonely being you.
Everyone is always looking through you, not noticing you unless you are dirty or worse broken.
I can feel you pane.

I’m going to do a no-no and talk about one of the big two today, because its weighing on my mind.  You know, the two things they say never to talk about: Religion and Politics.

I have a serious question, and I hope this opens up a serious dialog (without BASHING!).

This is a hypothetical question, and any similarities to events you may know about are coincidental.

Hypothetical Scenario:
You are a member of a fairly large church for several years.  It is learned the Pastor/Preacher/Reverend of said church has been cheating on his wife.  You are not his wife, nor a member of his family.  You are simply a member of the congregation at the church where he happens to provide the sermons.  He then is removed from his position at the Church and no longer preaches.

Questions:
At the knowledge of this information would you then feel like he owed YOU, personally, an apology?  Would you feel the need to chastise him and belittle him and his family all over the internet, leaving comments like “you will burn in HELL!” etc. on his website, the Church’s site, his facebook, etc?  If so why? 

You see, instances like above are a lot of the reason I find I don’t go to church anymore.  I’m not saying I don’t believe in a higher power, because I do!  I need to!  What I am saying is CHURCH in itself to me, the concept does not meet the reality.  Its a hypocrites hideaway.  In my experience, what is said and done and attested to IN church doesn’t normally take hold once the people are outside the door. 

On the side: I do not think there is a human alive who has not sinned in some way or another, not even the Pope.   Yea, I said it.  No human is infallible.  It’s part of what makes us, human.

With the above scenerio as an example…

Couldn’t one argue that if you DID feel the Pastor owed you personally an apology:  that he had wronged YOU by stepping out on his wife, then you had faith in the MAN and not the Word?  Couldn’t you say that a truly faithful person (a Christian) would not be attacking the man and his family, they would be praying for his wife’s strength to get through the situation and praying that he would find his way back to the way of God?  Shouldn’t the fact that this said Pastor/Preacher/Reverend had brought hundreds if not thousands of people to finding their faith count for something?  Is all that good work moot since he, himself, strayed from the path?  What if him straying from the path and finding his way back was his very own test of Faith, and God is waiting to see if he passes or fails? 

I am not saying the above scenario is acceptable at ALL.  Cheating is crap.  He’s already lost his position in the Church.  I’m sure he’s dealing with the aftermath that is what’s left of his “home”.  What I’m saying is that why is it anyone’s business other then the man and his wife’s and their IMMEDIATE family?  He stepped out on his wife sure, why would that have any affect on how I carry myself or temper my beliefs in any way?  He is not my husband.  He did not cheat on me.

More so, it makes me really sad to see all the attacks on him, by so called “people of faith”.  {see my thoughts on hypocrites above.}  I don’t know what religion these people follow, but the faith I follow would never implore such behavior from its followers nor condone it.  err.. I mean, hypothetically speaking, of course.

People’s faith, beliefs, actions, and all the different religions and aspects there of REALLY intrigue me!  I’m leaving the comments open.  I hope you reply and voice your thoughts on this!  Even if you don’t normally visit my blog, I’m still interested in what you think about this.  However, overly (unnecessarily) mean/nasty comments will be deleted.

Now, let’s talk about it!

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Hi folks!  2 posts in one week, can you believe it?! haha.  I swear I’m trying to get back on some kind of schedule, its just not working yet. hahaha.

Surprisingly enough everyone got up on time this morning, even though I couldn’t sleep last night, so played around down in the studio until about 2:30 and I got another page done.

Created for the Aug Altered Photo Challenge.
Pretty simple page, I just duplicated the layer 4-5 times and played with blending modes until I got something I liked. Then I added one of my inky masks, the text, and whalllahhhh…
Supplies:
Inky Edges set 1 by me.

Sis’s gettin her craft on!

I haven’t showed off any of Sis’s creations lately, so these are a couple that are sitting on my desk right now.  I love that she is interested in something creative.  Drawing, crafting, “designing” clothes…. my kid is a whiz I tell ya!

I was thinking last night while I was cleaning down in the studio, and I can NOT believe it’s already been almost an entire YEAR Since Mel was here!  Even more, I can’t believe I haven’t really blogged about out trip to Graceland!  It’s on my TO DO list for September, I mean it!

Thinking about Memphis, also got me thinking about how freaking HOT it has been this summer.  So looking forward to days like this…

Days where the leaves cover the ground, and its just cool enough to make one want a jacket…

and no one gives a second glance if ya just decide to prop your feet up on the porch and have a little nap.

Yep, I’m looking forward to days like this… 

5 Fact Friday

Five Fact Friday is going to be pretty simple.  I’ll post a “theme” and you blog it, come back here and link it up, and you can visit the other folks who played along too.  Sound like fun?  I think so!

Todays 5 Fact Friday,  post 5 Things you just CANT STAND right now!

1. “Gonna Do’s”…  Don’t tell me you’re GONNA DO something and then the next time I hear from you be an apology as to why you DIDN’T Do. 
2. “Whoa is me!”  As your friend, I feel like it is my place to tell you that everything that happens on this planet is NOT based around YOU.  In fact, MOST things that happen don’t even know YOU exist so chill! 
3. “But she said…”  How old are you?  Stop the drama, stop the gossip, and mostly stop the ignorance.  REALLY!
4. “Did you get…”  Please, please.  Don’t email me, and then email me again 5 minutes later to see if I got the other email.  Contrary to popular belief, I am not online 24/7.  In fact, most of the time I’m on the laptop upstairs and I don’t pull email on there.  It’s pretty annoying to go down and look at email and see 5 emails all asking if I am going to answer the first email, AND it’s only been an hour since the last time I looked at my email.  ANNOYING!
5. PDA’s.  This lately, is driving me insane.  Why do people feel the need to grope each other in public.  Sometimes its just GROSS, and most of the time its totally inappropriate.   Like when I’m standing in line with my 9 year old Daughter! grrr!

So how bout you?  Let today be you venting day!  Want to play along? Blog your 5 ANNOYING FACTS, come back here and link it up, and you can visit the other folks who played along!

Dont forget!

DSV is closing at the end of the month.  I am sad to see it go, but happy too.  I am really looking forward to having a little TIME back in my life.  It’s very time consuming to run TWO sites where EVERYTHING is quality checked.  It really leaves NO TIME for anything else!  I will miss the team, but luckily for me: KimB, Gaye, Caryn, and Kalo Designs all also sell with me @ DSO!  So we’ll all still be together.

Anyway.  Since we are closing I am having a sale on all my goods at DSV.  I didn’t want my products to be on sale at one site and not the other so my entire store at both DSO and DSV are on sale for 50% off!  At DSV so are KimBs, Gayes, and Stacy’s!  That’s a lot of product on sale for 50% off!