Happy Valentines day from God! All of his creation for you!
Get Faith
Colossians 1:9-10 I pray daily for my family and friends and everyone on the earth. I pray for your health and well being because I love all of you. I love the earth and the wonderful diversity of all of His creation, it is awesome. God is my true Valentine - "This is the deep desire of your heart, your holy dream, and today my great joy, the fruit of knowing you." My dearest God.
On this day
2003 It was a Friday and after work and school, Mom, Nicole, Craig and I packed up and drove to Roscommon to spend the weekend with Andy and Alice for Winterfest. It was REAL cold up there but we were undaunted then. Craig and Nicole played euchre every night with them.
2003 - In Madrid, Spain, a ceramic plate with a bullfighting motif painted by Pablo Picasso in 1949 was stolen from an art show. The plate was on sale for $12,400. Wow, great Valentine gift!
Family
My favorite valentines memories are the boxes or sacks we decorated in school and everyone would give everyone a valentine card they had brought from home, hand made or store bought and labored over to decide who got which card. You knew by the card how much someone liked you. My mother talked often about a girl that gave her a valentine card that I thought she misread, but she said she never talked to the girl after that. I remember years of cards,gifts and flowers from loved ones and baking cakes and cookies for all the guys at the shops I worked at and heart shaped pizzas. The best love is the comfortable love you have with family and friends that you share everyday, I think. Happy Valentines, and if you have a special Valentine - enjoy that!
Nepal
FAMILY STRUCTURE AND NURTURE IN NEPAL AND IN THE USA
The meaning of family varies from place to place and from culture to culture. One all-encompassing definition that describes every type of family across the board does not exist. For instance, in places like China children can be raised apart from their father and mother in a group of women, but still count themselves a family. Alan C. Acock in his book Family Diversity and Well Being states that a married couple with no children is not considered a family (122), but some married couples may contest this theory. In fact, there are more variations on modern family structure than ever before, including non-traditional families where grandparents raise their grandchildren, adoptive families, foster families, and blended families with children from two or more sets of parents (“Power Tools”). Despite the challenges faced by many families today, I believe that the children of the current generation—known as Generation Y—can thrive as long as they receive nurture and enrichment from their family members. As a member of Generation Y myself, I speak from first-hand experience. In the following paragraphs, I will give an account of my own upbringing in Nepal that led to my current status as a college student in the USA. I will also briefly describe family structures in America, and compare them to Nepali family structure. In the end, I propose that nurture is the key to producing well-adjusted children today, regardless of family type or where the children are raised.
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable! Happy Birthday ! Sue, Jacki, Shane!
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