A new defination to TERRORISTS.

I just read this and it made my insides do a flip / flop.
Sad oh so very heart moving. If this is correct I may be having a new set of fellings for al-Qaeda terrorists.

Here is the link to the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7221639.stm.

I would really like to read your feeling about this news article.

Mervi

A Nice quite ride.

One of the things I so enjoyed was a trip to Tehachapi Ca. There is a glider school located at the airport in Tehachapi. This little glider field was good enough to be a NASA training point. Several times I was able to go there just for the thrill of being able to ride in the front seat of a glider. These craft have NO power supply, no motor of any kind. You are hooked to a Cessna 182 by a thirty-fife foot steel cable and under or a little to the side of the front seat is a leaver. The pull plane would get you air born and moving toward the Tehachapi mounts at about sixty knots (about sixty-five to seventy miles per hour) and five hundred feet in the air. The pilot would let you know when to pull the lever, releasing the cable and everything changed. The forward motion almost stops. The nose of the guilder dipped just a little as the pilot would roll a little one way or the other, looking for an up draft to carry us higher. Quite and still it is so very quite, there are only two sounds. One is the popping of the fabric wings as they make their way through the air. The other sound is the whistle of the wind as the craft movers through the air that is caring it. You seem to be hanging in the air. The sense of motion is very close to gone. Have you ever stood and watched a bird of pray as it glided through the air, or circles. This is the closest I can describe how you feel, the ground just passes below you so quite with only your shadow now and then, as it moves alone the mountains to show that you are moving. The guilder moves in a slow circle as it comes closer and closer to the mountains. All at once the whole craft seems to jump straight up. As the pilot rolls the gilder into the updraft that we have just found. You just guide in a large circle, just a lazy circle as you go higher and higher, then you just seem to float, like sitting on top of a mound of whipped cream, the upward motion has stopped. You have reached the top of the updraft. Such a smoothness as you move through the air without effort, without power and without sound. Once more you float along just watching the hills and valleys pass quietly beneath you. You move through the air with the feeling that no one or nothing can hear you on the ground as you effortlessly move along the mountains. One day it was a little cloudy, you just moved through these mounds of whipped cream quietly and effortlessly. I could not help but think of the large birds I have seen in the air. I can remember as a child outside of Bakersfield seeing a huge brown bird in the air. You could stand and watch them for what seems hours and they never moved their wings, they just floated on the element we call air. Later I learned these huge birds were Condors. And here I am riding in the same elements as these huge birds just floating in the air no sound almost no sense of movement, only a passing shadow seen now and then on the ground below us. A time when you can consider the glory of our great God, reflect on what little problems you are having. As you look from one side to the other and enjoy the beauty and the glory He has allowed us to not just have but to see and enjoy. To float among the clouds of God and enjoy the thoughts of His glory and Majesty that we are allowed to get pleasure from His creation. To sit with your back to the pilot and allow the tears of gratitude to roll down your face as you reflect on Him and rejoice in knowing Him.

How strong is your HEART (?)

Take a deep breath, calm your heart and click this link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4E2q4B7uug&eurl=http://www.komando.com/videos/

I will take no blame for what happens next!!

Mervi

A definition of working together!

I was reading in a book last night about Jimmy Durante. some will no idea who he was. He was a great comedian during the 40's and 50's. He was asked by the CSO to perform at a hospital. His was response was that he would do it but because of a previous commitment he could only stay a few minutes. They accepted and he went on stag for five minutes, tuned into ten, the ten to fifteen and finally after thirty minutes he walked off stage. They asked him, “Jim you said you could only stay a few minutes but you gave a full thirty minute show why? Well if you will look in the very front row there are two soldiers one missing his right arm and the other his left. Man you should see them clap.” Was Mr. Durentie’s response.

It’s called team work!

Asking for your thoughts please.

During my college studies I have had one comment tossed at me very often. “There is no such thing as a real measure of right and wrong.” My question, “should you take the mission,” how would you respond?
Thank you for your thoughts.

Mervi

ps
Yes, the pictures are mine.

One GREAT question

The question should never be WHO is right.

But WHAT is right.

THE TEN BEST THINGS TO SAY IF YOU GET CAUGHTSLEEPING AT YOUR DESK

10. "They told me at the Blood Bank that this might happen."

9. "This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the time management course you had sent to me."

8. "Whew! I guess I left the top off the Whiteout. You probably arrived here just in time."

7. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new business strategy."

6. "I was testing my computer keyboard for drool resistance."

5. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress.
Are you discriminatory towards people who practice Yoga?"

4. "Man! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out how to handle that big accounting problem."

3. "Did you ever notice sound coming out of these keyboards when you put your ear down really close?"

2. "Who put decaf in the wrong pot? Double duh!"

And the NUMBER ONE best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk:


1. Raise your head slowly and say, "... in Jesus' name, Amen."