Glenn Bleck Loses Mind and Calls President Obama Racist

I really think Glenn Beck is a moron.

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U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinny & 20 other human rights workers kidnapped by Israel

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Set Yourself Free

I haven’t posted anything on this blog in a long time.  In about a year…

I came up with this last night:

 

A photo captured has no purpose if it simply stays within the camera.  The photo has to be exposed for the greatness to be fully revealed.  The same is true with knowledge.  The same is true with goodness.  The same is true with truth.

 

set yourself free

reveal yourself

you shall see

 

- Having knowledge without sharing it is as if one knows nothing.

- Having goodness without sharing it is as if one has no good.

- Having truth without sharing it is as if one is allowing falsehood to spread.

What a Journey

I’m writing off the top of my head right now.  I’m suppose to be sleeping. I just have a lot of thoughts running through my mind and someone suggested to me that I start writing again tonight. Thanks friend, brother.  I’m actually gonna have a new blog soon, but I’ll be anonymous on it.. because I’m going to express myself more through writing and some of it is kind of personal.. especially poems and pieces I write sometimes.  Some are really depressing…which is how I felt at a certain moment in time…while others are things I wrote when everything was good. Honestly, most of my poems are really depressing because I tend to write whenever I feel terrible.  It really helps to get my emotions out on paper. When the way I feel is put into a rhythm..like a poem.. it helps me to focus my energy to what’s going on and really express the way I feel.  As most writers know – when it comes..it really just comes and your pen is just trying to keep up with what’s coming out. It’s truly amazing.  It really is when you think about it. 

I was just thinking…there are so many times in our lives that we just forget and lose focus. As a Muslim I know my main focus should to submit to God. In order to do that I have to learn the ways of submission. There are many different ways to submit and worship God. There’s Prayer, there’s fasting, there’s so much more. Even smiling at your neighbor can be submitting to God. Whenever you help make someone else feel better when they’re feeling down.. that’s a huge thing.

With all that we know we need to do… we have to set priorities and decipher which things are more important to work on … on our list of things to improve. I know that in the past few years a huge thing for me has been to get over what other people think and not be afraid or shy around others.  Now as it’s been said… shyness is a good trait..it’s modesty and modesty is good.  Well, it all depends. If I was too shy to defend a poor dog someone was throwing in the cold Mediterranean..then how is that good? Indeed no one else made the evil guys stop abusing the dog… but why didn’t I step in?  You know.. that’s not good shyness. And that’s what I want to step away from. ..being too afraid to make a stand. To let something that isn’t right happen or to let someone say something that’s just not right and not saying anything.  In the future inshallah I won’t let a dog or any creature get abused in my sight if I can help it.

In recent weeks I’ve been thinking a lot..reflecting a great deal… I’ve got a birthday coming up… yeah so I’m feeling older and I’m thinking..what do I really have to show for it.  Yeah I’ve been here and there and I’ve really had quite an interesting life. It’s been one heck of a roller-coaster. There have been times that I absolutely thought I was going to die because life just was so terrible. Yet other times I’ve been high as a kite so to speak because I got to experience some amazing things. I never thought in my life I’d ever even leave the United States..no matter how much I desired to travel. But I’ve been to Canada, the UAE, and even lived in Egypt. I’ve touched the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Erie, Niagara Falls, the Persian Gulf and the beautiful Mediterranean.

I’ve been to ancient Native American mounds, I’ve met some amazing people, I’ve climbed a pyramid.. I’ve just done so much..compared to a lot of people where I’m from. I should be so thankful for it and I am.  Still something more is missing.

I know that I’m not quite content because I don’t have the career I want yet and I don’t have someone to love me. When I was a little girl at age 7… I remember my twin asking me what I wanted to be when I grow up. I knew what I wanted then.  I wanted to be a school teacher and a wife to someone. I wanted to help people and I wanted someone to love me basically.  The best of both worlds. Well, I’ve tried the teacher thing and I really admire anyone who teaches. But I’m not 7 anymore and I really don’t think it’s my calling.  However, we teach people all the time without even realizing it…so in a way I’ll always be a teacher as well as a learner. As far as being a wife goes.. well even though I’m older I haven’t grown out of wanting that of course.  Who doesn’t want someone to have, to hold, and to cherish?  I want someone I can always grow with. I want someone who’s willing to stand up for me and I’m willing to stand up for them. I want someone who is loyal and compassionate. Who doesn’t? (some ppl don’t , but they just really need help). Anyway, that’ll come in time inshallah.  God’s the perfect planner.

Like someone once said, ‘This life is a journey … and this journey is a test’ .. wow is that ever true, you know?

This life is such an amazingly awesome journey.  Every day comes something new. Everyday is also a test. And our main goal should be to pass the test. We’re  given certain situations (from God) as a test. Rather or not we past the test depends on how we handled the situation.  Take the instance of when I was on the beach in El-Agami and those guys were outright abusing the dog.  Everyone in my group saw it – yet we did nothing more than comment on how awlful those guys were. What was our problem? And we definately didn’t pass the test that day.  Subhanallah.

But for instance, you are walking down the street and you see a child that just looks really sad for no reason …and you smile at them .. you may just warm their heart and make them feel better. That child could be a child that is abused in some ways (like the majority of children on this earth) ..rather it be from a bully at school, their Mom’s boyfriend coming to their room in the middle of the night to do things no little girl or boy should ever go through, or rather it’s their father putting scars on their back from a belt.  ..whatever the case is.. making a child or anyone else feel better is definately a good deed and is helping you on your journey. It helps you to help others. Now..we can’t all give in really huge ways…we may not have the money to really help in a certain area or we may need to really fix ourselves before trying to fix others. But even if you’re a broke human..either financially or just need worked on in other areas… you can still do little things to help the people of the world.. as I just suggested..smiling. Being friendly to others.. like last week when I was in Braum’s..an ice-cream shop.. a man bent over and his money fell out of his pocket, but he didn’t noticed.. No one said anything.. so I got up and told the man his money fell out of his pocket. That’s a little thing, but that could have been his money to pay his house rent or something.  It could have meant a huge deal to him.

These are just little ways to please God and help ourselves as well as others at the same time. What a great thing.

In conclusion,  we never stop this journey ..it won’t stop until we’re all called up on that day..and even then I guess it’ll still be going on, eh. There’s just too many thoughts that I have write now … I’m really tired and should have went to sleep ages ago.  Maybe I need to fix the fact that I ramble on too much. 

With that..I’m off to sleep inshallah.

Feel free to comment and share your thoughts.

Thanks for being a listener.