The New Royal Family and my other random thoughts

Can I just say one thing, "Whoopie doo doo da da day." So these two former adulterers are now married. Each cheated on their spouse for years with each other and now have decided to marry.

Let's give them a hand, shall we.......Am I the only one not clapping here? Oh well, call me a poor sport.....

I may be more excited now, if this was Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky getting married then I would have to go buy every tabloid and laugh

And of course, I would buy that couple a perfect wedding gift, or maybe its a honeymoon gift, but they would get a fresh new box of cigars!!

I do think it to be way odd that Camilla's ex husband was one of the 30 guest to attend the wedding, whatever floats your boat, I guess. Now if he decides to join them on the honeymoon, look out National Enquirer, I am buying every issue.

So now on to another odd topic in my random thoughts,

I saw a very interesting program on Discovery Health this morning. It was about transplant recipients who seem to know info about their donors likes and dislikes and even feel a, shall we say, medium psychic connection to their donors who have passed on.

I actually found it quite interesting, only because I too see so many of my "angel" blessings from Matt since he has journeyed on to heaven.

What made me really start to think was, it took a year before we were able to know who Matt's bone marrow donor was, and after his transplant Matt's taste in food changed. He became very interested in horses and was thrilled when he was invited to Churchill Downs as their special guest for the day, getting to meet the jockeys and pet some of the Derby horses.

He would often say he wanted to become a vet. Imagine my shock, when his donor Phoebe told us that she was an equestrian veterinarian. That's a horse vet, for you who don't know.

So, I can't help but wonder if there truly is a type of connection with donors and recipients whether they be live donors or dead donors. Makes you go hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Or as the scientist said on the show, it has to be some type of cell connection that blossoms.

Take my random thoughts, or leave it............

The Pope

My own inner weird thoughts about the Pope

Am I the only one wondering just why is Pope John Paul in a pine box? Did anyone else notice that? Do they not put them in a normal casket? I think he deserved far better. Just my own wondering......

Also I have a hard time believing that the Pope would have wanted this much attention.

My other thought, When Jesus died on the cross, there wasn't this many people lined up down the streets to view him. And, I think there should have been.

I am not Catholic so I apologize if I offend anyone with my random thoughts but, I was totally taken back by listening to one of the fathers speak. He said on ABC news, "Before, I prayed for the Pope, now I can pray to him."

See this bothers me some, because the Pope is not God, you should be praying to God, not to the Pope. Now if you feel like you need to talk to the Pope, sure go ahead. I talk to my son who passed away in my head all the time.

Now, I too loved the Pope though, one thing that amazed me about this Pope is I have heard him several times mention the plan of salvation, not too many have done that.

And the Pope was one for forgiveness, even to come to the jail were his attempted assassin was. How many of us can forgive like that?

Forgiveness is hard, I know in my own life, I have yet to forgive for things done years ago. My mother always told me, you forgive but you don't forget. I believe this to be true.

I think we can all learn a lot from the Pope. I took this off of another blogger's post and it makes all the sense in the world in regards to the Pope, (Greg, I am highjacking your quotes you get again)*************************************************************************************
Micah Halpern suggests he was a visionary that we will remember for all the ages (Hat Tip PowerLine)."On most issues the Pope was a theological conservative. When it came to approaching Jewish issues, he was a theologically visionary.For the Pope, Antisemitism was wrong, plain and simple, wrong. Antisemitism symbolized the Dark Ages. Given his understanding of history and the Bible, the hatred of the Jew on the theological level was totally unjustified. Moving away from Antisemitism was moving the Church, finally, out of the Dark Ages. Theologically eliminating the hatred of the Jews was the perfect symbol of the modernization of the Church. It was a move toward modernity that neither touched nor eroded mainstream theological issues like marriage, homosexuality, and abortion, issues that might shake the foundations of Church teachings. . . .On his visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall the Pope, as tradition dictates, placed a note between the centuries old stones of the Wall. The text of the note was later made public. This is what he wrote, please note that it was addressed to "God."God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations: We are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer, and asking your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant.Those few words explain it all.In a few sentences the Pope transformed the Church's perspective of the Jew. Jews were moved from the world of persecution where it was accepted and even requisite to oppress them for their past and for what they had done and embraced in brotherhood. For the first time, Jews were recognized for their original contribution in setting the foundation of Christianity.How amazingly simple and correspondingly profound.The Pope was not only eliminating officially sanctioned Antisemitism because it is wrong. The Pope was bolstering, protecting and insuring the future of his Church. He was helping the Church confront future challenges.John Paul II. The Jew's Pope. Everyone's visionary. May his memory be blessed.A man whose life spanned loss of mother and brother at a young age, living in Nazi-occupied Poland and, of course, Stalin.He was a man who loved God and His people. Allpeople."
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Now if all of us can remember that we are all God's People!!!!!!!

Welcome to the new journal

Welcome all!! I decided to open yet another journal but this one is not related to my caringbridge one which is still at: www.caringbridge.org/in/angelbarneyboo
This one is for my own thoughts and feelings related to any issues whether it be political, religious, life in general, or my own thoughts. My whatever journal you can call it.

So, without further adoooooo........

I panicked when I read today that Pfizer was pulling Bextra off the market. Bextra has been a wonder drug for me when I have had pain with my multiple sclerosis. Its a non-narcotic, NSAID, drug. I have a strong sense that the next to be pulled off will be Aleve and then even Motrin and ibuprofen. Bextra's side effects that Pfizer has now published were a little shocking to me.

I believe these drug companies know from the beginning what harm some of these drugs can do. When I heard the side effect about the skin, I can't help but wonder, did this drug have anything to do with me getting skin tumors? Kinda makes you go hmmmmmmmmm........

I have always had one of those attitudes about drug companies because I believe that right now, there is probably a cure for some cancers, as well as other disorders. But do you honestly think that these companies are going to give the "cure". No way, imagine how many doctors that would be out of business, or how many drug companies who won't make their billions of dollars in revenue.

Just my opinion, take it or leave it.......

Darla

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