I'll try to find a harder one this time! :-)
Jennifer
Saturday, January 30, 2010
You guest it!
Alright, alright... that one was too easy ( I didn't think so but you guys are smarter than I thought!). :-)
I'll try to find a harder one this time! :-)
I'll try to find a harder one this time! :-)
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
What's going on at our house....
Well.... I just found out this morning that my sleding days are over!... :-( I told mom, " My sleding days are over, time to get 'chickens musles' ( as me and my firends call them) He he..
I've been pretty busy lately with.... school, chickens, and cleaning.. etc.
A couple days ago Daddy cleaned the furniture with a steamer...
Today: were gona give slurpee (our dog) a bath and haircut! He's not looking forward to it... :-)
He's named Slurpee because he was born at 7:11 am.! How creative is that! =D
I have guitar lessons tonight so I'm getting all practiced up for that.
Tomorrow I have a Science test... but then we are done for 3 weeks!!!! YEAH! Our family is going on a trip to see practically everyone in our family!! Can't wait! :-)
And we are so excited for our friends that there Dad is coming home from Iraq!!!! Were going to meet him at the airport on Wednesday!
Well, that's what's going on at our house these days!
Serving Him,
~Jennifer~
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Be and example!
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.
~1 Timothy 4:12
~1 Timothy 4:12
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
1 Peter 1: 23-25
...since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for "All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass
The grass withers,and the flower falls,
but the word of the Lord remains forever.
~ 1 Peter 1:23-25
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Jennifer... thinks this is crazy!
( this is an artical that mom found and it was very interseting to read! "The ideas of this world!" :-) )
New Revelation About Noah's Ark
This ship shape discovery was made by Irving Finkel, an expert in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) at London's British Museum. While translating a 3,700-year-old clay tablet inscribed with Babylonian cuneiform script – passed to the museum by the son of a British Air Force man, who picked it up while serving in the Middle East during World War II – he spotted an "extremely exciting" reference to the ark's "circular design." This was a revelation, says Finkel, not only because he'd never thought of the ark as round, but because this was the first-ever ancient description of the ark's shape. Neither the Bible nor other Babylonian documents featuring the great flood offered any guidance of that sort.
The usual depictions of Noah's ark, like this one from the 13th century, are all wrong, according to a newly translated Babylonian tablet.
"When you see paintings of Noah's ark, it always has a prow and a stern, and it's an ocean-going vessel that could get you from A to B," says Finkel. "But the poet who wrote this version conceived the ark as a giant coracle, which have steep sides and a rounded bottom." These highly stable boats, he notes, were used to float goods and animals from one side of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers to the other, and are still sometimes used in Iraq today.
"I think when the rains came and the waters covered the earth, the idea was that this boat would keep everybody safe," he says. "They'd bob around on top of the water and then when the waters went down, everyone could get out safely. It didn't have to go anywhere. It just had to be unsinkable."
The hero of the newly translated tablet – which is slightly bigger than a cell phone, and is inscribed with 60 lines of cuneiform text – isn't Noah, but a possible historical predecessor named Atram-Hasi. It begins with a mischievous Babylonian god named Enki telling the wise, kind and holy Atram-Hasi how to escape a great deluge planned by his rival deities. (They were apparently fed up with noisy humans, who interfered with their sleep.)
"Wall, wall! Reed wall, reed wall!" says Enki. "Atram-Hasis, pay heed to my advice, that you may live forever! Destroy your house, build a boat; despise possessions and save life! Draw out the boat that you will built with a circular design; Let its length and breadth be the same."
Like an ancient DIY guru, Enki gives his chosen man precise instructions: He's told to use plaited palm fiber, waterproofed with bitumen, for the hull, and advised on how he should build cabins for the people and wild animals. The episode ends with Atram-Hasis commanding an unfortunate boat builder, who will be left to die on land, to seal the door once everyone is safely inside: "When I shall have gone into the boat, caulk the frame of the door."
The story may only be a work of fiction, built upon folk memories of great river floods long past, but it demonstrates the exceptional storytelling skills of the Babylonians. Finkel believes the tale deliberately ends on a cliffhanger – "You can almost imagine the theme music coming in as the door is closed," he says – to leave the audience craving the next episode, which would have continued Atram-Hasis' incredible odyssey.
And he believes that ancient Jews living in exile in Babylon at this time would also have been wowed by the tale. So much, in fact, that they may have transformed it into their own epic story: Noah and the ark.
New Revelation About Noah's Ark
This ship shape discovery was made by Irving Finkel, an expert in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) at London's British Museum. While translating a 3,700-year-old clay tablet inscribed with Babylonian cuneiform script – passed to the museum by the son of a British Air Force man, who picked it up while serving in the Middle East during World War II – he spotted an "extremely exciting" reference to the ark's "circular design." This was a revelation, says Finkel, not only because he'd never thought of the ark as round, but because this was the first-ever ancient description of the ark's shape. Neither the Bible nor other Babylonian documents featuring the great flood offered any guidance of that sort.
The usual depictions of Noah's ark, like this one from the 13th century, are all wrong, according to a newly translated Babylonian tablet.
"When you see paintings of Noah's ark, it always has a prow and a stern, and it's an ocean-going vessel that could get you from A to B," says Finkel. "But the poet who wrote this version conceived the ark as a giant coracle, which have steep sides and a rounded bottom." These highly stable boats, he notes, were used to float goods and animals from one side of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers to the other, and are still sometimes used in Iraq today.
"I think when the rains came and the waters covered the earth, the idea was that this boat would keep everybody safe," he says. "They'd bob around on top of the water and then when the waters went down, everyone could get out safely. It didn't have to go anywhere. It just had to be unsinkable."
The hero of the newly translated tablet – which is slightly bigger than a cell phone, and is inscribed with 60 lines of cuneiform text – isn't Noah, but a possible historical predecessor named Atram-Hasi. It begins with a mischievous Babylonian god named Enki telling the wise, kind and holy Atram-Hasi how to escape a great deluge planned by his rival deities. (They were apparently fed up with noisy humans, who interfered with their sleep.)
"Wall, wall! Reed wall, reed wall!" says Enki. "Atram-Hasis, pay heed to my advice, that you may live forever! Destroy your house, build a boat; despise possessions and save life! Draw out the boat that you will built with a circular design; Let its length and breadth be the same."
Like an ancient DIY guru, Enki gives his chosen man precise instructions: He's told to use plaited palm fiber, waterproofed with bitumen, for the hull, and advised on how he should build cabins for the people and wild animals. The episode ends with Atram-Hasis commanding an unfortunate boat builder, who will be left to die on land, to seal the door once everyone is safely inside: "When I shall have gone into the boat, caulk the frame of the door."
The story may only be a work of fiction, built upon folk memories of great river floods long past, but it demonstrates the exceptional storytelling skills of the Babylonians. Finkel believes the tale deliberately ends on a cliffhanger – "You can almost imagine the theme music coming in as the door is closed," he says – to leave the audience craving the next episode, which would have continued Atram-Hasis' incredible odyssey.
And he believes that ancient Jews living in exile in Babylon at this time would also have been wowed by the tale. So much, in fact, that they may have transformed it into their own epic story: Noah and the ark.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Verse to remember...
Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.
~ 1 Samuel 12: 24
~ 1 Samuel 12: 24
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Happy new year!!
Sorry it's late... :-) Thanks to Nana for sending this to me! :-)
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
Wishing you all:
12 Months of Happiness,
52 Weeks of Fun,
365 Days of Good Health,
8760 Hours of LOVE,
525600 Minutes of Blessings &
3153000 Seconds of Joy,
Happy New Year !!
Friday, January 1, 2010
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