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It turns out it was the slider bar. Thank you for all your help!!! Finally...something is working for me. Have you ever had one of those days...weeks...months....

Hi everyone... I really need some help from those that know computers. Here is the problem...(besides letting my kids use it and mess it all up!!!) The words and graphics seem too long... The words and graphics look blurry... When you open the internet, the page is too big to fit on the screen and you have to scroll to the right to read it all. So annoying. I deleted everything these kids have been using, I tried to restore to default settings, I have tried to change the zoom, I have tried EVERYTHING. Please help me!!! Thank you!

Those pictures are Awesome!!!

Thank you scarlet! When I named my boy Elijah, I had no clue he was a prophet but it totally fits him so perfectly. he is always telling his friends about church and telling me what he learned in kids church. Marley, is of course, after Bob Marley and Lucy is in honor my husbands grandmother who passed away the year before she was born.

Thank you so much!!!

I know I read somewhere in the New Testament where Jesus told a man what the two most important commandments are. I want to get it right for my kids. Can anyone help me? Are they - To have no other God before me and Not to bear false witness against your neighbor? Thank you!

Last night I read the Bible for an hour - much longer than I normally have time for. I read it until I was ready to fall asleep. I was on Psalm's but it was so slow going that I switched to Proverbs and I will tell you... I got SOOOO much out of it. I mean, I realized things about myself that I never thought about before. Thanks for all your replies!

Thanks Glory....

Hi everyone, I haven't been a Christian too long - about four months. I have turned myself around 180 degrees as I heard my pastor say about himself. Well, today I have found myself slipping up and resorting to my old ways. This is what happened...I was in the dunkin donuts drive through and all of a sudden I heard the roar of the fighter jets from our local air base. These were no ordinary jets, they are visiting from England. It was AMAZING - three of them flyin real low wing to wing! I quickly got my phone out to tell my husband they were headed his way and then it was my turn in line. I would never normally use the phone at a time like this, but I had to tell him! I was trying to juggle the coffee, the change and the kids muffin all while telling DH to go outside. I'm not too coordinated as it is and I was fumbling around. As I was pulling out, the server at the window says, as he was turning away (really scarcasticly) "Don't drop your phone..." Well, I slipped up. I was so shocked to hear that from him that I said, "Thanks for the advice A-h-." I immediately regretted it, but still feel like a jerk. I asked for forgiveness and later my daughter told me she also asked God to forgive me. How's that for setting a good example?

Funny this topica came up again! I was baptized this past Sunday at "my church" - how far I've come in such a short time. Wow...

That was REAL cool!

I just burned everything! It felt good to do it, a relief they aren't in the house anymore.

Thanks...I never considered myself Wiccan. I just sort of read the spell books, fooled around with it and read tarot cards for myself. I will burn them. Thanks everyone!

I just keep thinking that I feel blessed!

Hi all... I have a bunch of old books - wiccan spell books and tarot cards that I really feel the need to get rid of. How should I do it? I am thinking chimnea for some reason but I guess I could just toss them in the garbage, right? I can't explain why I feel embarassed about them either. Maybe because I am ashamed of some of my past? Thanks!

Hi everyone... I talked about this a few weeks ago when I asked where you all got baptized. Well, my daughter and I got baptized at our Assembly of God this morning. It was awesome!!!!

Yes! Thank you so much!!!

Hi everyone, I can't find this particle line in the Bible so I thought I would post. "The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone." Can you tell me what book and chapter it is in? Thanks!

I would somehow try to find out more about this, and see if there is some way you can help. I was concerned about this and my daughter told me the lunch monitor always makes sure she gets a lunch. Thank you for your advice and prayers everyone!

I'm thinking a play date would work. I will try and find out the girl's name because my daughter can't remember her last name! Thanks for all the advice everyone. I am really trying to teach my daughter to treat others the way she wants to be treated and she realy does a god job of it. It makes it hard when other people aren't showing her the same respect.

I remember that smell...my 6th grade teacher made fun of me because I was the only one smelling it! I always thought I was weird...I am glad to know I am not the only one who did that! Not that you are all weird or anything....

Thanks everyone. I will leave the decision up to my daughter, and so far she shrugs her shoulders towards no at this point. I will let her think about it until Wednesday, when she will be back in school and needs to have her decision made. You all gave me some things to think about, thank you!

Hi everyone... There is a new girl in my daughter's grade, not her class but they still sit in the same group at lunch (5th grade by the way!). She has been very nasty to my daughter on several different occassions and I have told my daughter to just let her vent and just let it go. There isn't anything she can do to change how the girl feels about her so just take it and then let it go. Maybe not the best advice but I don't know. I am trying really hard to be Christian about it, so that's what I told her to do. Honestly, my first instinct was just as nasty, but I kept that one to myself as best as I could! I did tell her she couldn't invite her to her party - we would just invite girls in her own class. My daughter also told me sometimes the girl doesn't have lunch or anything to eat so I think some of her lashing out at my daughter is a jelousy thing. For some reason, she also tells my daughter that I am wrong about what I teach her in the Bible. Why would a child get so defensive??? I have my ideas why I guess. Anyway, we drove around Marley's sleepover party invites yesterday and there was some discussion about it today at school. The other girl wanted to know where her's was and what does my daughter tell her? "My mom said since you were mean to me you can't come." Oh boy...now I feel bad and I told my daughter we could invite her if she wants to because Jesus says to forgive and forgive... So my question is, should I go through with it and invite her? I am torn on this. It isn't really excluding because we did only invite girls from her class but maybe if she comes over she will get a better feel for how we live and lay off Marley a little. My daughter also told me she doesn't want her to come because she is scared of her (like she fears the other girl will hit her or ruin her party!) Please....any advice woul dbe truly appreciated!!! Jolene

Teachers...(or even administrators) I am FREAKING out. I am enrolled in an online MS in K - 12 studies program at Capella. I was in Psychology but changed since I really truly just want to be a classroom teacher. Well, I am starting to freak out because most of the classes are geared towards those that are already teachers or those that have access to a classroom. I have neither. Why do they make it so hard to do what you really love in life? Since having Hyperemesis Gravadium (a pregnancy disease) back in 2005 I had to quit my job as a teacher's aid and haven't been able to go back because of the cost of day care. All I want is to finish this degree and be able to take the Praxis when my youngest is old enough for elementary school so I can get a job in a school. I am so desperate here and not to mention getting depressed due to all the money I seem to be wasting with this schooling. It feels like I am wasting money because I am not getting anywhere. I am trying my hardest but can't seem to pull ahead. What I am asking for is a sort of mentor I guess to sort of observe in the non traditional way through email and telephone if necessary. I know you all are busy, but it would be no more than an email or two a week - if that. This term is mostly based on school wide goals. If anyone is willing to help me I would greatly appreciate it. I don't want to give up on this, but I won't be able to continue unless I find help! Thanks!!

Well I can see you received some tacky responses at best, so I'll try to give you some structural answers to your question. While the Catholic Religion face soem dire reconstruction, one of the things that distances itself from other religions is that it has seven other books incorporated in its beliefs that even the bible doesn't recognize. And that's where it appears to venture off into "false doctrine" when compared to Christian beliefs. For instance, the Roman Catholic Religion, acknowleges Mary , the mother of Jesus as also the Mother of the Chruch and therefore allows its community to "pray" to here to reach her Son, Jesus. The Bible does not entertain this premise, as it teaches to pray to God through Jesus, God's Son! Catholics also revere and pray to Saints mentioned in the Bible for certain request which the Holy Bible doesn't acknowledge as well, and there are many more beliefs that the church supports that the Bible seems to disagree with although we really don't know if God approves of some of them or not! Once of a time, the Catholic Church appeared to discourage the reading of the Holy Bible because it claimed that "most could not comprehend" or discern its meaning or interpretations to begin with. That was probably its biggest mistake with me and many others who distanced ourselves from the Church many years ago. Thanks for the information. I had no idea that the Catholic Church did some of those things...added seven books? Which books? I get now what the Bible means by false idols. As for the other posts...some of what you all write is just too deep for me to get. I am new to this and haven't even finished the Bible yet. When I have a question, I usually ask for a simple answer because honestly I just don't get those long drawn out responses about this and that...I am just not there yet. It's fine to debate it back and forth among yourselves, but of course I am not going to respond to something I don't get. Thanks for all your advice...whether I got it or not. It was nice of you all to try to give me information on a subject I asked about. Oh, and I don't think my question was wrong or should have been phrased another way...