The Rise & Fall & Rise of Motherhood In America

Excellent article on motherhood:

Only Women Can Be Mothers Have We Forgotten This Fundamental? By Douglas Phillips Only a woman can carry in her body an eternal being which bears the very image of God. Only she is the recipient of the miracle of life. Only a woman can conceive and nurture this life using her own flesh and blood, and then deliver a living soul into the world. God has bestowed upon her alone a genuine miracle — the creation of life, and the fusing of an eternal soul with mortal flesh. This fact alone establishes the glory of motherhood. Despite the most creative plans of humanist scientists and lawmakers to redefine the sexes, no man will ever conceive and give birth to a child. The fruitful womb is a holy gift given by God to women alone. This is one reason why the office of wife and mother is the highest calling to which a woman can aspire. This is the reason why nations that fear the Lord esteem and protect mothers. They glory in the distinctions between men and women, and attempt to build cultures in which motherhood is honored and protected. In his famous commentary on early American life, Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville explained: Alexis de Tocqueville Thus the Americans do not think that man and woman have either the duty or the right to perform the same offices, but they show an equal regard for both their respective parts; and though their lot is different, they consider both of them as beings of equal value. They do not give to the courage of woman the same form or the same direction as to that of man, but they never doubt her courage; and if they hold that man and his partner ought not always to exercise their intellect and understanding in the same manner, they at least believe the understanding of the one to be as sound as that of the other, and her intellect to be as clear. Thus, then, while they have allowed the social inferiority of woman to continue, they have done all they could to raise her morally and intellectually to the level of man; and in this respect they appear to me to have excellently understood the true principle of democratic improvement. De Tocqueville contrasted the American understanding of women, with European sentiments: There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike. They could give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things — their occupations, their pleasures, their business. It may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded, and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women. The War on Motherhood America’s glory was her women. De Tocqueville believed this when he wrote: As for myself, I do not hesitate to avow that although the women of the United States are confined within the narrow circle of domestic life, and their situation is in some respects one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen woman occupying a loftier position; and if I were asked, now that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. But this birthright would be exchanged during the last century for a mess of pottage. Perhaps the greatest legacy of the 20th century has been the war on motherhood and biblical patriarchy. Feminists, Marxists, and liberal theologians have made it their aim to target the institution of the family and divest it from its biblical structure and priorities. The results are androgyny, a radical decline in birthrate, abortion, fatherless families, and social confusion. Incredibly, the biggest story of the 20th century never made headline news.[1]Somehow we missed it. It was the mass exodus of women from the home, and the consequent decline of motherhood. For the first time in recorded history of the West, more mothers left their homes than stayed in them. By leaving the home, the experience and reality of childhood, family life and femininity were fundamentally redefined, and the results have been so bad that if this one trend is not reversed, our grandchildren may live in a world where the both the true culture of Christian family life and the historic definition of marriage are the stuff of fairy tales. Many “isms” have influenced these trends-evolutionism, feminism, statism, eugenicism, Marxism, and more. But in the end, the philosophical gap between the presuppositions of the Atheists, eugenicists, and Marxists of the early 20th century, and the presuppositions of the professing Church in the 21st century, have narrowed dramatically. The goals of the state and the goals of the mainstream church have so merged, that the biblical family with its emphasis on male headship, generational succession, and prolific motherhood are a threat to the social order of both institutions. Less than one hundred years ago, the architects of the atheistic communist Soviet state anticipated the death of the Christian family. They explained the need for destroying the Christian family with its emphasis on motherhood, and replacing it with a vision for a “new family.” Lenin wrote: Vladimir Lenin We must now say proudly and without any exaggeration that part from Soviet Russia, there is not a country in the world where women enjoy full equality and where women are not placed in the humiliating position felt particularly in day-to-day family life. This is one of our first and most important tasks. . . Housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman. . . The building of socialism will begin only when we have achieved the complete equality of women and when we undertake the new work together with women who have been emancipated from that petty stultifying, unproductive work. . . We are setting up model institutions, dining-rooms and nurseries, that will emancipate women from housework. . . These institutions that liberate women from their position as household slaves are springing up where it is in any w ay possible. . . Our task is to make politics available to every working woman. In his 1920 International Working Women's Day Speech, Lenin emphasized: The chief thing is to get women to take part in socially productive labor, to liberate them from 'domestic slavery,' to free them from their stupefying [idiotic] and humiliating subjugation to the eternal drudgery of the kitchen and the nursery. This struggle will be a long one, and it demands a radical reconstruction, both of social technique and of morale. But it will end in the complete triumph of Communism. Lenin’s comrade Trotsky played a key role in communicating the Marxist vision of what he called the “new family.” Lenin and Trotsky believed in the overthrow of Christianity by destroying the biblical family. They sought to build a new state, free from historic Christian presuppositions concerning the family. This meant denigrating the biblical notion of male headship and hierarchy within the family. It meant eliminating any sense that there should be a division of labor between man and wife. This required delivering women from the burdens of childbirth and childcare. It meant adopting tools like birth control as guarantors that women could be free to remain in the workforce. Trotsky said this: Leon Trotsky Socialization of family housekeeping and public education of children are unthinkable without a marked improvement in our economics as a whole. We need more socialist economic forms. Only under such conditions can we free the family from the functions and cares that now oppress and disintegrate it. Washing must be done by a public laundry, catering by a public restaurant, sewing by a public workshop. Children must be educated by good public teachers who have a real vocation for the work. Then the bond between husband and wife would be freed from everything external and accidental, and the one would cease to absorb the life of the other. Genuine equality would at last be established. . . The most disturbing part of quotes like those above is how similar they sound in sentiment and spirit to voices today from individuals who claim to be a part of the Church of Jesus Christ. Even more disturbing is how many of the anti-family social reforms are presuppositions of modern Christians in America. Presuppositions which have been fully accepted. How America’s Conscience Was Seared Toward Motherhood But motherhood is not easily defeated. It was here from the beginning and it has always carried the Church and civilization forward. Motherhood not only perpetuates civilization, it defines it. At first Jamestown was a bachelor society struggling for survival. But she became a civilization when the women arrived. Plymouth, on the other hand, began as a civilization-families of faith committed to fruitfulness and multiplication for the glory of God, an impossibility without motherhood. Motherhood is not easily defeated because God has placed reminders of its importance in the very bodies of the women He created. To defeat motherhood, the enemies of the biblical family must do more than make it a social inconvenience, they must teach women to despise themselves by viewing their own wombs as the enemy of self-fulfillment. This means minimizing the glorious gift of life which is only given to womankind. It means redefining what it means to be a woman. But even this is not enough. To defeat motherhood the enemies of the biblical family must sear the conscience of an entire generation of women. This is done through the doctrines of social emancipation from the home, sexual liberation, birth control, and abortion — all four of which cause a woman to war against her created nature. Instead of being the blessed guardian of domesticity for society, she is taught that contentment can only be found by acting, dressing, and competing with men. Instead of being an object of respect, protection, and virtue, she sells herself cheaply, thus devaluing her womanhood. Instead of glorying in a fruitful womb she cuts off the very seed of life. Sometimes she even kills the life. Years of playing the part of a man hardens a woman. It trains women to find identity in the corporation, not the home. It teaches them to be uncomfortable around children and large families — the mere presence of which is a reminder of the antithesis between God’s design for womankind and the norms of post-Christian societies. But women are not the only ones with seared consciences. Men have them too. Consider that fifty years ago a man would have winced to think of female soldiers heading into combat while stay-at-home dads are left behind changing diapers. Today’s man has a seared conscience. He no longer thinks of himself as a protector of motherhood, and a defender of womankind. He comforts himself by repeating the mantras of modern feminism, and by assuring himself of how reasonable and enlightened he is — how different he is from his intolerant and oppressive fathers. But in his heart, modern man knows that he has lost something. He has lost his manhood. To be a man, you must care about women. And you must care about them in the right way. You must care about them as creatures worthy of protection, honor, and love. This means genuinely appreciating them for their uniqueness as women. It means recognizing the preciousness of femininity over glamour, of homemaking over careerism, and of mature motherhood over perpetual youth. But when women are reduced to soldiers, sexual objects, and social competitors, it is not merely the women who lose the identity given to them by the Creator, but the men as well. This is why the attack on motherhood has produced a nation of eunuchs — socially and spiritually impotent men who have little capacity to lead, let alone love women as God intended man to love woman — as mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters. Motherhood Will Triumph There is an important reason why motherhood will not be defeated — The Church is her guardian. As long as she perseveres — and persevere she will — motherhood will prevail. The Church is the ultimate vanguard of that which is most precious and most holy. She holds the oracles of God which dare to proclaim to a selfish, self-centered nation: “Children are a blessing and the fruit of the womb is His reward.” Psalm 127:3. The Church stands at the very gates of the city, willing to receive the railing complaints of feminists, atheists, and the legions arrayed against the biblical family, and she reminds the people of God: “Let the older women teach the young to love their children, to guide the homes.” Titus 2:3–5. It is this very love of the life of children, this passion for femininity and motherhood which may be God’s instrument of blessing on America in the days to come. As the birth rate continues to plummet, divorce rates rise, and family life in America dissipates to the point of extinction, life-loving families will not only have an important message to share, but thy will have an army of children to help them share it. The Question Teacher: Susie what do you want to be when you grow up? Susie: I want to be a doctor. Teacher: How wonderful! And what about you Julie? Julie: I want to be a soldier. Teacher: How commendable! And what about you Hannah? Hannah: When I grow up I want to be a wife and mother! Teacher: [dead silence] . . . After years of society belittling the calling of motherhood, something wonderful is happening — something wonderfully counter-cultural! In the midst of the anti-life, anti-motherhood philosophies which pervade the culture, there is a new generation of young ladies emerging whose priorities are not determined by the world’s expectations of them. They have grown up in homes where fathers shepherd them, where children are not merely welcome, but where they are deeply loved. Some of these women have been home educated, which means that many of them have grown up around babies and their mothers. They have learned to see motherhood as a joy and a high calling, because their parents see it that way. And when asked about their future, these girls know their own minds. These are the future mothers of the Church. Young women who are not afraid to say that the goal of all of their education and training is to equip them to pursue the highest calling of womanhood, the office of wife and mother. The Cost of Motherhood Once a lady went to visit her friend. During the visit the children of the friend entered the room and began to play with each other. As the lady and her friend visited, the lady turned to her friend and said eagerly and yet with evidently no thought of the meaning of her words: “Oh, I’d give my life to have such children.” The mother replied with a subdued earnestness whose quiet told of the depth of experience out of which her words came: “That’s exactly what it costs.” There is a cost of motherhood. And the price is no small sum. And if you are not willing to pay this price, no amount of encouragement about the joys of motherhood will satisfy. But the price of motherhood is not fundamentally different from the price of being a disciple of Jesus Christ. In fact, Christian mothers see their duty as mothers flowing from their calling to Jesus Christ. And what is this cost? Christian motherhood means dedicating your entire life in service of others. It means standing beside your husband, following him, and investing in the lives of children whom you hope will both survive you and surpass you. It means forgoing present satisfaction for eternal rewards. It means investing in the lives of others who may never fully appreciate your sacrifice or comprehend the depth of your love. And it means doing all these things, not because you will receive the praise of man — for you will not — but because God made you to be a woman and a mother, and there is great contentment in that biblical calling. In other words, Motherhood requires vision. It requires living by faith and not by sight. These are some of the reasons why Motherhood is both the most biblically noble and the most socially unappreciated role to which a young woman can aspire. There are many people who ask the question: Does my life matter? But a mother that fears the Lord need never ask such a question. Upon her faithful obedience hinges the future of the church and the hope of the nation. In 1950, the great Scottish American preacher Peter Marshall stood before the United States Senate and he explained it this way: Peter Marshall The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge — that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other kind of women — beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career woman, talented women, divorced women, but so seldom do we hear of a godly woman — or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else. It is a much nobler thing to be a good wife than to be Miss America. It is a greater achievement to establish a Christian home than it is to produce a second-rate novel filled with filth. It is a far, far better thing in the realm of morals to be old-fashioned than to be ultramodern. The world has enough women who know how to hold their cocktails, who have lost all their illusions and their faith. The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right that socially correct. As we approach America’s national Mother’s Day celebration, lets remember that we are fighting for the Lord, and it is He who prioritizes motherhood and home as the highest calling and domain of womanhood “that the word of God be not blasphemed.” Titus 2:5. May the Lord fill our churches with faithful mothers. Douglas Phillips, President, Vision Forum Ministries [1] In his 2002 book Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News , Bernard Goldberg wrote: “They don’t report the really big story — arguably one of the biggest stories of our time — that is absence of mothers from American homes is without any historical precedent, and that millions upon millions of American children have been left, as Eberstadt puts it, ‘to fend for themselves’ — with dire consequences.” p. 166

What are some thoughts you have had lately, looking around at our culture today, about motherhood and how you "fit in"?

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Homemade Cough / Cold Remedies For Children

A mother is many things.  Among one of the most important is a nurse.  Sicknesses are inevitable with children.  I am thankful for the opportunity to nurse our children to health.  They need extra doses of love and tender care that only a mother's touch can give.  My children want me close by when they are sick.  They feel vulnerable and need the reassurance that everything is going to be fine.

I will be sharing various quick, easy remedies I have used with my children.  Here is one I use for cough and colds.

You will need:

1 Cup raw honey (local honey is best)

1 cup lemon juice

1 purple onion

1 head of garlic (not one clove)

2 purple radishes (optional)

Instructions:

Blend all together in a blender.  Store in a glass container in the refrigerator.  Administer one spoonful 3-4 times a day for at least 3 days.   Depending on the coughing, you can give it more frequent.

This remedy anti viral, anti bacterial and boosts the immune system.  As a matter of fact, it is good to always take it, even if they are not sick.  Try it, it is not bad, my children like it!

• In addition to this cough syrup, I give them our homemade Elderberry Tincture.


• If I see an infection, like green mucus coming out, I add a homemade echinacea goldenseal tincture formula.


• I sprinkle kelp (children's pepper as we call it) and powdered rosehips (children's cayenne) on their meals for vitamin C.


• Chicken soup, bone broths are excellent too for congestion.


• In the night, I rub their chests, backs and sole of their feet with a homemade vapor rub and put socks on for the night.


• I keep an aroma diffuser and humidifier with lavender and/or eucalyptus oil.
  


• Calming baths with epsom salts, for aches.


• Herbal teas like chamonmille, peppermint and spearmint are great too.  In the morning I like to have cinnamon tea.


• A garlic lemonade to sip through the day too.


• Don't forget the cod liver oil and coconut oil.


• And their regular homemade multivitamin and mineral tincture.


• Remember the most important ingredient is lots of Mommy love.

What are some remedies you do for your children when they are sick with cough or colds?

 

 

 

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The Home: A Place of Economics - Part 9

I really want to inspire women to come back home and make it their center for economic affairs.  It can be their source, not a sacrifice.  I wish to debunk the myths about why a woman needs to work outside the home to make it financially and bring in another paycheck.  Although I do not know every situation, impossible and by all means, God is in control of every one of our lives, I would take the topic biblically.  You take your situation to the Lord.  Hopefully, husband will also do all he can to have wife at home.

1. Every member of the family is a contributor

No free riders here.  So many teenagers have been so spoiled with their parents providing everything for them without asking anything in return.  The teen earns some money for his own pleasure.  The young adult starts work for his own interests as well.  Of course, each child can save for personal expenses, but the family has one bank account.  We are so used to seeing each other very individualistic that we have forgotten that we are part of a family unit.  We all work together toward the same goal.

It was well said of years past that the bigger the family the better well off they were financially because each member of the family contributed to the family economics.

It is important that children are trained to understand about bills and being resourceful.  They can contribute by being conservative in consuming utilities.  They should also have work assigned to them that they are responsible for.  I tell my kids everyday, “if you don’t work, you don’t eat.”  Even before breakfast, they have had to do some type of work I assign for each of them.  We don’t give allowance because we don’t believe in free money.  We earn it by working.  If the children want something, they find ways to make money.  Of course, we also give gifts.  We love giving gifts but the gifts are well thought out for a purpose.

Training the children to contribute

At our home, I hold tea parties on a weekly basis.  We call them entrepreneurial tea parties.  After preparing the yummy dainties together and learning manners and respectable behavior, I also tell them in advance to bring all their business ideas.  I write them on a board to brainstorm.  We are impregnated with ideas, tons of them.  We are always pretty busy working on something.  Our home is a booming place of industry.   I like instilling in the children an entrepreneurial spirit.  They get creative and really start going on what we can make to sale and services we can provide.  It is really fun.  It changes their thinking from expecting Dad to be the sole income provided to everyone being actively at it.  We are a six-income household.  That’s right even baby is included in businesses.  Our little Liberty makes great photography poses.

What Can Mom Do?

At this point of my life, I am consumed with the training of my little people.  So I inspire them in business endeavourers and help them make it a reality.  It is part of our home education.  We make things together and sell them.   I also help my husband in whatever I can.  I am overwhelmed by the potential we have at home to generate income.  All we need is creativity.  Other things we can do is to save, stretch the money that comes in.  Practicing frugality doesn’t mean living cheap; far from it.  Many times being frugal for us means living healthier.

Trusting in the Lord for our finances

I have experienced the hand of God on our lives as we have chosen to obey His Word about being a keeper at home, taking the responsibility of training our children, and being a helper to my husband, not some other man at work.  We have had no income for over three years now and we have lacked nothing.  In fact, God has provided over abundantly many times.  We don’t know where our food is going to come next month.  How are we going to pay our bills?  It is interesting that the Lord gave us all four of our children in the times of lack.  When my husband was laid off, our firstborn came.  Then his business close and the last two were born.  During these last three and a half years, we have story after story of God’s Providences over our lives.

I am not the only one to have this testimony.  I know others, and have heard of miracles God has done as mothers decide to stay home and raise their children.  Even single mothers have been able to do it in various creative ways.

If you work outside the home and have a longing to come back home to be with your children and really be a helpmeet to your husband, pray, pray, pray.  God will meet you according to your faith.  He is Faithful.

Do you have fears or concerns? 

If you have creative ideas to share I would love to create a community where we help each other generate sources of income to bless our family and others.

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Friday Family Fun: Free Play In The Great Outdoors

What child doesn't like to be an explorer in nature?  I remember when I was a child; I loved hiking.  Anything to be surrounded by trees, bubbling streams, bugs, the sound of birds and the gentle breeze were my favorite and still are.  Who said you have to grow up from some things?  This week my children were so happy because we discovered a running river at the end of the property we live in.  It is surrounded by nature, tall trees, birds, sand, all sorts of beautiful and interesting rocks, bugs, flowers, and herbs to learn about.  They can't wait to go  for this exploration walk daily now.  The education they can get by just being in nature is really endless.  By observing the surroundings, we talked about the evidence of a flood that happened.  This led us talk about the geological evidence of Noah's world wide flood.



Then there was the water.  Well, children and water go together.  I tried to refrain them because, I wasn't prepared with clothes, towels, etc.  and I was concern of "germs", ha, ha!  "Just try not to get wet".  As you can guess, we came back home soaked.

 



Children need to have a daily dose of free play outside.  Aside from getting their sun kissed Vitamin D, it allows the to interact with their environment.  They build their physical strength, and encourages to use creativity to solve problems.  I can see their minds turning and coming up with all sorts of adventures.  Danielle started building a raft to cross to the other side.  Noah was fishing with a stick he picked up.  Destiny was fascinated finding interesting rocks that she believed were washed up and deposited here as a result of Noah's flood.  She noticed the layers on the rocks and said they told the story of the Grand Canyon.

Then there is the beach.  Oh, the sand!  Noah and Destiny would run to the sand and roll on it laughing like  saying, "here I am, I missed you".  There is not much to the beach: sand and water.  But my children say that God thought of children when He made it.  They can spend there all day and never get tired.  They get cold, itchy from the salty water and we eat our food with sand all over.  As much as I try to prevent the sand from invading our food, I've not been successful.



 

Then there is the marvelous snow.  How blessed we are here in California, to have all these three, the mountains, the beach and the snow, so close.  It is amazing how they don't get cold.



The best way to kill the creativity in children is to keep them indoors.  No doubt there is a lot we can do indoors to encourage creativity, but there is no comparison.  That is why even in my busy schedule, I make the effort to take the adventure walk in nature with my children.  I get my exercise in, my vitamin D from the sun, homeschooling done by studying what we find, and release stress by enjoying the breeze, birds, and the calmness that comes being surrounded by the giggles of children and nature.  And then, I am so glad I did.



 

I like educating all day long.  And these nature walks are excellent.  We can do scavenger hunts, paleontology excavations, study rocks, recognize wild herbs and their medicinal properties, geology and rock formation, botany, physical laws with water, skipping rocks, collect bugs, interesting specimen we can look under our microscope, build bridges, fish and cook it over a campfire, etc.  The spiritual lessons are always tied because God is the Creator.  This has given my children a love for learning.

Do you take nature walks with your children?  What are some of the ideas you have for this free play?

 

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The Home: A Center For Discipleship - Part 6

 

When we gather as a family to brainstorm for ideas to do or make for others, our mission is always before us.  Christ charged us with the Great Commission, “Go ye and make disciples of all nations…”   Therefore, everything we decide to make and do has that in mind, “to make disciples”.  That is the purpose of this site, too.  In the home, we focus on discipleling our children as they also watch us, parents, how we try to imitate Christ and be His disciples.  This aspect of the home is so critical.  It is parenting by intent rather than by default.

Parenting by default is also parenting but with no purpose or vision, just let life go by and do what you have to do to survive.  You know, sleep, eat, go to school, get a job, get married and have kids so they can go to school and continue the cycle.  Parenting by intent is having a purpose.  Our purpose for every Christian home should be to point our children to the Savior so they can have their personal relationship with Him.  Jesus commands us to let the children come to Him.  Wow to us is we are stumbling blocks for our children to come to Him.  The way we present the Gospel, our prayer life and even the way we read His Word will communicate a love for God or religion.

The home is the place where children meet and encounter God.  It is a place of Evangelism.  It is not Sunday school, youth group or children’s church.  It is the home.  The home needs to be supplying the church with the leaders, pastors, teachers, evangelists, apostles and prophets.

How do we parent intentionally?

The answer is very simple:  Just being with your children.  As Deuteronomy 6:4-6 teaches us, when you rise up, when you sit down, when you walk by the way, and when you lie down.  Everyday, there are many opportunities to disciple our children in the ways of the Lord, which is the way they should go.

I have mothers coming to me asking me to have play dates with them so their children homeschooled or toddlers can grow in their social skills.  I do like to get together with other moms who are homeschooling or have little children.  But, I am also always concerned because small children tend to learn from each other’s sinful natures.  Parents misunderstand that their children don’t need other children their age to learn social skills.  On the contrary, children need to be with older adults or mature older children who can teach them good social skills.  What is a three year-old going to learn from another three year old?  Proverbs 13:20 says, “Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.”

Some ways we disciple our children in a day to day basis is by simply pointing out what the Word of God says about issues that come up or about His Creation as we talk a walk.  When they disobey, I instruct the what God requires from them, to obey their parents.  When they are unkind to one another, I remind them over and over that Jesus commanded us to love one another.  As we study History, we draw lessons from His dealings with man.  As we study God’s Creation, we marvel at such powerful designs in plants, animals and the entire physical world.

Jesus certainly demonstrated it to us when he chose his twelve disciples.  They pretty much lived together.  They saw Him pray, eat, love, teach.  The disciples turned around and did the same.  It is my prayer that my children will do the same and even go beyond what we teach them.

How do you disciple your children?  How have your children encountered God in your home?

The Home - Part 7

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Allergy Season Symptoms, ChemTrails And Detox for Children

This year allergy symptoms hit even my little ones.

Unprecedented in my family, thus, we began to find out why everyone around us came down with the same symptoms.

Symptoms of allergy season include:

• Runny nose


• Watery, red eyes


• Wheezing


• Coughing


• Sneezing


• Drainage


• And all around feeling miserable.


• Tightness in the chest with difficulty breathing

This was several people we talked to in the same area.  Well, it was hard not to notice that there were at least 10 ChemTrail planes flying over our region for the last two weeks trying to control weather and bring rain.  Rain did come but at what cost.   This Chem Trail is a huge subject for another post.  I won't attempt to explain it here.  In the meantime,  we concluded that this "seasonal allergy" is also due to the pollutants in the air that are sprayed by these planes since this is also the season they focus on spraying.  They heavily saturate the air with aluminum, aerosol and others.  What do we do?

1. Try to stay indoors as much as possible


2. Purify the air inside your home by having an air purifier or, like  us, get a big fan and attach a good allergen filter to it.  In addition spray vinegar water all around and leave bowls with vinegar around your house.  This will neutralize acidic air and kill germs in the air as vinegar evaporates.


3. Detox.  It is always a great idea to detox at least once a year.

Our world is very different that it was 100 years ago.  Our children deal with so many toxins around the environment, food, water, products that it is impossible to get away from them.   This year I am trying these.

 Detox ways for Children:

1. Combining a mild laxative (such as aloe, prune juice, or fennel seeds) with a bulking agent (such as psyllium fiber for short-term use or ground flax seeds for a long-term solution).


2. A safe liver support agent is milk thistle, an amazing liver-healing herb. Use a high-quality product and give your child the recommended dose for one to three months once a year.


3. Drink a lot of purified water with lemon drops.


4. Move around to stimulate the lymphatic circulation and drainage.  A 20-minute walk every day to break a light sweat for about 40 minutes, 3—4 times per week.


5. Supplement with a good quality Multivitamin and a green foods powder.


6. Avoid bad foods-- I am guessing you know what these are.  Right, refined flours, sugars, hydrogenated oils, corn syrup...


7. Eat raw fruits and vegetables and greens every day.

 

Immune System Boosters For Children:

1. A blend of purple onion, garlic, lemon and raw honey.  Take one teaspoon a day or more as needed.   Also, elderberry tincture


2. Echenesia and goldenseal tincture for flu like symtoms only.


3. Cinnamon Sticks tea.  A great one to serve in breakfast, sweeten with stevia or raw honey.  A great tasting tea.


4.  Enjoy local raw honey and cinnamon powder.  Serve it over toast, muffins.


5. Combine herbs like rosemary, sage -good for coughing-, nettle, garlic, lemon, ginger, choose any combination you like with local raw honey.   Combine the herbs in a jar with the honey and leave it for 2-3 weeks.

Remember that honey is not for babies under 1 year old.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Blessed Motherhood

Oh, Mothers of young children, I bow before you in reverence. Your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever. You are preparing them for their immortal destiny and influence. Be faithful. Take up your sacred burden reverently. Be sure that your life is sweet and clean.--JR Miller

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"An Older Woman", an honorable title

It's true that in today's societal language, the term "older woman" may seem offensive.   Most woman spend countless of dollars trying to hide or at least slow down the showing of their old age.  Of course, we've never heard of a church ministry called, "the older woman's bible study".  Why, what would come to most people's minds are a bunch of old, argumantative, controlling, gossips, commando.  Who would want to go or even be a part of?

Nonetheless, contrary to our culture today, even our 20th century western church, an older woman's ministry is indespensible, biblical, much needed, extremely important and highly honored.  I am not saying that just merely age would qualify you to be in this type of ministry.  We all know that being older doesn't necessarily means you have become wiser.  Proverbs says it is even a disgrace.   I would qualify an older woman's ministry by the wisdom she has in the Lord.

I admire these woman who have suffered and sacrificed their own ambitions, if they ever had any, and gave themselves to serve God by serving their family, loving their husbands, loving their children, being keepers at home.  That is exactly what Titus 2 refers to.

I am very blessed to know some.  One of them is a widow of 105 years old, who by the grace of God, stands strong in the Lord.  This is a tribute to her.  Many may not know the countless hours, the short nights, the 12 children she raised, the honor she gave to her husband till this day.   Mama Sarita ministers to the soul of women in this generation by her humility, love, compassion, serving heart, joy and godly wisdom.  She belongs not to her own emotions, wants and desires, but only to Christ.  She prides herself in being wholy His and never belonging to the world's ways of rebellious attitudes.

One lesson I learned from her is the high honor and respect she holds towards her deceased husband.  Others have said (never heard from her lips) that he was not the best man or husband to her.  Nonetheless, if I had not heard other testimonies of her husband, I would have never guessed.  I regret it because that was never her wish.  She recounts the story of when he would be away from home at night.  Other gossip woman would put ideas into her head to wait for him at night as ask him where and with whom he had been.  He had done it countless times before, but she never thought any evil of him.   So she decided to listen to these women and she did.  She waited late at night for him.  He never came.  She went out in the crossway.  There was no sign of him.  Suddenly, she said to herself, "Sara, what on earth are you, a married woman, with children at home, doing in the middle of the night out in the street.  If your husband were to find out, what would he think of you?"  And with that thought, she hurriedly went home, locked the door and went to bed.  Of course, the thought of where he could be still lingered in her mind.  But another thought prevailed, "Sara, you are a woman with duties and cannot spare to waste precious sleep in worthess worries and thoughts.  That is pure devil.  If you dont' go to sleep I'm going to swat you."  Surprisingly, that is exactly what she did.  She got grabbed something within reach and swatted herself in the head to make herself fall asleep.  When morning came, and husband was found coming, not a word of rebuke did she spoke to him.

"How are you Sara?" he greeted half drunk or really drunk.

"Not as well as yourself but fulfilling my duties.  I've fed the chickens, milked the cow, and got the children going." She responded without a frown or scorn.

"First gol", he replied, realizing he was quite a shameful sight. "Well, Sara, what do you think? The men are waiting for me for orders, should I go?"

"You know how make desicions for you are a leader, but under your circumstances, I'm not sure you can get much accomplish."

"Second gol," he said admitting his state.  And with that he took off again.

Sarah cared and honored her husband and would never think of giving him a scornful rebuke.  "He was my husband and I owe him respect." She would say.  An another instance, one of her boys was going through his father's wallet and found the picture of another woman.  Thinking he would tell on him and mother would handle it from there, he eagerly brought the picture to her astounded at the finding.  The boy expected a different reaction from his mother.  Instead, she turned to him with a dissaproving look and said, "where did you find it?  Shame on you for going into what privately belongs to your father.  That is lack of respect.  You need only to honor your father.  You better run right away and put that picture back where you found it".   She held her husband's position of authority high before her children.   She did settled the situation with her husband later.  Privately, she lifted the picture so he can get a look at it and said, "where did you find such an ugly picture, she is really a disgrace."  Then she continued soberly, "you are a father, you have sons, what image will they get of their father if they find this out?"  He shamefully hung his head and asked her for forgiveness and approved of her.

It is easy to honor and respect our husbands when they are loving.  But how about when they COMMIT ADULTERY?  How about when they DON'T COME HOME AT NIGHT?  How about when they are not BELIEVERS?   How about when it takes YEARS and they don't seem to change?  I am not saying woman are subjects to be doormats nor do I deny of the pain and heartache she would go through.  I cannot imagine the dreams shattered, the betrayal, the sadness and deep loneliness that a betrayed wife can suffer.  In my opinion, it is worst than being a widow.  Nonetheless, only by God's grace can woman under such circumstances would be able to maintain her dignity and be woman of strength.  In return, she will win the respect of her husband.  Just like Sarah,  in front of the children, he held her high and demanded obedience, honor and respect to their mother.  He lavished her with what pleased her and would go out of his way to grant her small wishes.  If this marriage was young and contemporary, even if she was a Christian, would receive sure sympathy from left to right for a divorce well deserved.

From her example, I conclude that a woman has influence over how her husband treats her.  The more she trusts in the Lord in honoring, loving him, and respecting him (even when it may not seem like the think he deserves), the greater the blessing she will receive from her Heavely Father.  Her submission is ultimately unto the Lord.  Sarah has now lived to see her descendents up to four generations and length of years has the Lord blessed her with.  Her years have not been easy, but rather hard and a hard life is a good life.

What a blessing to the Church is a Wise Older Woman who teaches the young wives to love their husbands in a way that even a pastor, elder or other church leader can't.  She can teach young mothers how to love their children in a way that a Seminary graduate pastor can't.  She can connect heart to heart for her pilgrimage has been the same and by the grace of God she has gained a heart of wisdom.  If older women would minister in such a way, we would have steadfasts wives and mothers, stronger families, stronger churches, stronger societies...you get the point.  I'm not saying she is the key to these  but a part of the Body that needs to come alive.

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We all Love our children, but do we enjoy them?

I've been among mothers with their children daily by spending some time in our community swimming pool while the summer days are hot.  It's the week when kids are returning to school.  Some mothers bring them after school to enjoy the water.   It's great to see how much children love water, and adults.  But for some reason children like to take advantage of it's "thereaputic properties" more than adults.   So here are the children having fun with their sibling(s) in the water while Mom sits on the phone.  The children love to show off to Mom, "Mom look at me!"  "Look what I can do!"  "Mom can you come!"  "Mom can you get me that flotie?"  After being ignored or rejected because they're interrupting Mom's phone conversation, they just go away and leave Mom alone.   Then they start bickering at each other and here comes Mom yelling at the top of her lungs, "If you don't stop that, we're leaving right now.  I'm tired of you all day and I have no more patience!!!!!"

What was more startling was the boy's response, "Be quiet!" and swam away and left her yelling.

I concluded by all the examples that the culture (and last generation parents) have raised a generation of selfish parents, who love their kids but don't know how to enjoy them.

What is more sad to me are the children who desperately want their parents to enjoy life with them and to discipline them too.   I've seen enough yelling and no proper discipline.  The fact that  dear mothers lack patience, maybe because they don't spend enough time together with their little ones.  I've found it to be the best training program for me.  God makes me and forms me into His likeness the more time I spend beholding Him through the precious eyes of my children.   Sometimes I feel selfish too because I think I'm getting the best of it.  But I know that they are more happy with a happy Mom too and learn the virtues as well.

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Doctor leaves practice to be a Stay at home Mom!

May the Lord continue to raise up godly courages women who embrace their highest calling.  Then and only then will they be truly fulfilled as women.

Physician Wholeheartedly Gives Up Medical Practice to Be a Wife and Mother of Eight Children for the Glory of God! from Douglas Phillips on Vimeo.

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Romeo, please save me

Finally, Romeo is understanding, beyond a fairy tale, when reality hits, unconditional love prevails.

” Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.” (1 Peter 3:7)

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Back to School Or Not

I've heard these arguments, "We send our kids like Jesus said, sheep among wolves",  "Our kids have excelled in public school", "My child is a straight A student", "We can't abandon the school system, the enemy will gain more ground".  And so on and so on.

Really, really really!  If your goal is to educate your children,  Public School has failed everytime, even if your child gets straight A's.  I was one of them.  Even since first grade I was the best student in class.  I'm not exaggerating, all the way through College.  My father taught me since very little not to be a good student but to be the best.  Soon, it just became a part of me to be excellent in everything I did.  I went through schooling just fine but gain no real education.  This is a big difference.  I did the right thing my teachers asked me, but was I learning truth that would change me?  No.  A few things I learned are, and your children are learning too:

1.  Betty Friedman was a hero


2. How to use condoms


3. Our Founding Fathers were atheist and deists


4. Hidden truths about George Washington.  History textbooks have been revised over and over to delete Providence interventions, miracles in the founding of America.


5. Planned Parenthood will take care of you


6. Homosexualism is another naturally biologica sex


7. In Elementary, you learn about fairies, Christmas is all about Santa Claus.


8. We came from monkeys


9. The earth is millions and millions of years old


10. Dinasours are millions and millions of years old


11. In the beginning there was a spec of dust and everything came from there


12. To believe what the teacher says is true, and not parents


13. It's ok to break every single of the 10 commandmants.

From friends you learn:

1. To be cool and hang out with them instead of with your parents or siblings


2. Sex


3. Inmodest, lustful dress


4. Spend a lot of money in cosmetics and toiletries and unfitting clothing


5. Laugh at foolishness


6. Tolerate sinful life styles


7. Experiment if you are bisexual


8. To talk like them


9. Bible is not relevant


10. Dating


11. Ungodly music


12. Waste time

And the lists can go on and on.  You can add to this list.

Here is the formula: 

Teaching academia truth + a little bit of poison mixed in it = A new pattern of thinking

"The tuth is that in the late 19^th century the government Marxist cartel overthrew home education because Christians were a danger to a Marxist utopia.  There were important political reasons to take parents completely out of the picture.  Once that happened, teachers replaced parents and diverged them from theology.  They began to school them rather than educate them into patterns of thinking and behavior conforming to a socialistic state.

The best minds of America have been conditioned to information that is not true about many things and education itself.  When we think of school we think with a compromised mind of Marxist schooling.  For example, it is false that public school have always existed in civilized country.  They are a recent failed experiment.  Before, literacy was almost 100% and now it has destroyed literacy and compromised students to think and created a deep moral paralizes.  Marxist say it’s a success because it has done just that.   It was their goal.

Psychologist John Dewey said, “high literacy is an obstacle to socialism.”  He proposed a system to reduce literacy in students through a forced public education system.  For over a century, the experts have institutionalized children. They’ve schooled them, not educated them.  They’ve limited their access to their parents and access to real education.  All this is necessary for a successful socialist economy.  Today social planners say, “schooling is the way children will be fit for life in the modern world.”  This is why so many parents are uncomfortable with the idea of home education.  They believe it will rob their children of success in this world.  And yes, it might.  There is the opportunity to build something different.  Educate our children to live for the kingdom of God and not the kingdom of this world.  A complete non socialist world." Insert by Geoff Botkin

Shall we conform? to the patterns of this world?  Or shall we follow God's Word on Educating our children?

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Thank You Lord for Motherhood

Thank God, O women for the quietude of your home, and that you are queen in it. Men come at eventide to the home; but all day long you are there, beautifying it, sanctifying it, adorning it, blessing it. Better be there than wear a queen's coronet. Better be there than carry the purse of a princess. It may be a very humble home. There may be no carpet on the floor. There may be no pictures on the wall. There may be no silks in the wardrobe; but, by your faith in God, and your cheerful demeanor, you may garniture that place with more splendor than the upholsterer's hand ever kindled. ~ T. DeWitt Talmage

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Education "by the way" for young learners

Deuteronomy 6:7 "...and you shall teach them diligently to your children.....when you walk by the way..."

Being gone through schooling all my years of school even through a teaching credetial program for the state of CA, I had been taught and conditioned that education is something to do rather than a way of life.   In my home education, a check list in my "to do list" would be something like "math", "read Bible" at a certain time.  And there is absolutely nothing wrong with schedules or scheduling activities, many times it's the only way you'll get things done.  But the way we approach each task in our schedule has a lot to say about how motivated children will be at learning.

I've experienced that with young learners love to learn new things.  They will be life long learners when we make education a life style rather than a task or chore. 

At first I would say something like, "Lizbeth, it's time for our writing, or Bible reading."  At first she would eagerly engage.  The next day, I would get a response like "uuuugh, I don't want to do it."  Rather than seeing disobedience, she was trying to tell me that it wasn't interesting or exciting. 

Now, she would go through anything on my "to do list", but without knowing it and with a totally different attitude.  First, I know what interests her.  She likes to draw.  So I say something like, "Lizbeth, let's read this story and illustrate it."  Wow! What a different response.  She is then off showing her Bible illustration to everyone.  Then she would be playing about the story. 

Recently she did this with Dad.  They read about those who enter through the wide gate and the narrow gate.  They illustrated it.  She shared it excitedly with everyone in the house.  The next day I found her playing and she told be, "Mommy, look, these people are going through this wide gate and these little girl is going through the narrow gate."

Now reading and writing is done all day long too.   She would read a recipe as we bake something or write our shopping list or do some math with the recipe ingredients.  And there, reading, writing and math was done  on my schedule. 

Lizbeth has just turned six and almost everything she has learned now has been by living life day by day and seizing every opportinity and every question she asks to instruct her in the subject.   This really applies to almost everything to a young mind.  This way the Word of God is  being lived and applied before us all throughout the day.

This is essential for her, as she is developing a heart of wisdom, to view learning as an exciting never ending treasure.   If there is something that I think is of value for her to learn and she is not interested, then it's my job to make it interesting.  It always works.  In our house the word "boring" or "bored" is forbidden.  I tell my children that when your soul is asleep, you're almost always bored.  But awakens our soul so we can use our imagination and be creative in any circumstance.

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Demographic Bomb

"'Demographic Bomb' shows what happens when countries comprising 80% of the world's economy have plummeting numbers of workers, consumers and innovators - leading to falling consumer spending, and too few workers to support the elderly," McLerran disclosed.

Potential crisis situation in most countries (especially the developed ones, Japan being the leader) characterized by an increasing number of older people dependent on pension schemes a direct result of demographic transition. As the dependency ratio rises, the income of the working segment (comprising of a declining number of younger people) of a population comes under increasing pressure to provide support for the non-working (older and growing) segment.

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Demographic Winter

When the great social experiments of the 1960’s were launched, and when concern over a “population bomb” loomed large, we did not have the social science and economic studies we have available to us today.  So the world embarked unknowingly on a self-destructive course.

Demographic Winter: The Decline of the Human Family seeks to reawaken society to the importance of the stable, intact family, and engender a discussion and greater focus in the media, in academia, in the halls of policy makers, in religious circles, in the committees of civil society and in households around the world.  Our hope is that all of these circles will bring to bear on the problems facing the family the tremendous contributions each can uniquely make.  In this way, we hope to avert the storm that is now most surely coming on.

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Why Home Education?

Our number one reason for home educating our children is that it is God's way of fulfilling the command of Deuteronomy 6. 

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   We desire the best education for our children and that can only come from the Word of God.  Thus our main textbook is the Bible.


2. We pray for our children to gain a heart of wisdom.  That would only come from learning God's ways and not the wisdom of the world.


3. We have no time to waste.  Too much time is wasted sitting in classrooms listening to teachers trying to keep order in the class.  Education is far more than just academics.  We teach about life.


4. We are the primary responsible for our children so we need to discipline their actions.  We cannot do that if we don't know what they did or said all day.


5. We are the experts when it comes to our children because we know them best.  We know what they need and what they don't need.


6. Age-integrated teaching.  Children are not age segregated like in school.  The older ones will learn love, kindness and patience when it interacting and teaching the little ones.  The younger ones learn better and faster from the older ones.  No room for selfish attitudes or immaturity.


7. Nutritious, homemade food,  rather than cafeteria food.


8. No peer-presure, no humanistic teachings, unstructured


9. Go at our own pace


10. Te tell you the truth we just love being together and learning together about God and life all day.

The list goes on and on.....

Which other reasons do you have for home educating?

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Be Fruitful and Multiply!

We like to call it "Unplanned Parenthood", not that children are not planned.  They are planned by the wisest and greater, Creator mind.  For God knew every child even before they are born.  He knows best what we need and when we need it.

Here are a few reasons why it's best to "Be Fruitful and Multiply".

1.  It is God’s original intent since Creation.  It has been His first commnad to man since it's creation.  Wow, how much time did God think they needed to get to know each other before having babies.  No need for that in an unfallen world.  As newlyweds embrace Christ like characters, babies are always a blessing.

2.  God’s Word has something to say about  abstinence for married couples:  after birth and during menstruation.

3.  Psalm 127: Blessed is the men whose quiver is full of them.  4.  Psalm 128: Blessed is the woman

5.  Deut. 28 :4  “I will bless the fruit of the womb”.  Children are a blessing period, not an inconvineance or a curse or expensive.....

6.  God's commnad of  "Be Fruitful and Multiply" is against the Eugenics movement presently mascaraded as "population control" or "birth control"

7.  These are the 10 commandments of the New Age:


The ten commandments are as follows:

• Maintain humanity under five hundred million in perpetual balance with nature


• Guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity


• Unite humanity with a living new language


• Rule passion, faith, tradition, and all things with tempered reason


• Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts


• Let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court


• Avoid petty laws an useless officials


• Balance personal rights with social duties


• Prize truth, beauty, love...seeking harmony with the infinite


• Be not a cancer on earth...leave room for nature...

8.  Humanistic minds say: “Overpopulation is the world’s top environmental issue” ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2009)

9.  The Muslim culture that is not influenced by American Culture have a goal and a purpose.  Please watch:  http://www.youtubhttp://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=122103e.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

10.  God desires godly multigenerational seed

11.  God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob… God thinks Generationally.

 

12.  Children are highly desired in the biblical Hebrew culture:  Rebekkah’s sisters bless her as she marries Isaac: “May your children be millions and nations, and may the possess the gates of their enemies” Gen 24: 60

13.  A Holy Purpose: A key for Multigenerational Blessing. Isaiah 58:12

14.   The Feminist movement has come against children so as to make women feel like children are a burden.

15. The Enemies of God who are against this holy command:

Karl Marx 1860’s

Charles Darwin 1860’s

Robert Owen 1830’s

Margaret Sanger 1860’s

John Dewey 1930’s

16.  The Pill is an abortoficient invented to reject God's blessings of children.

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17.  We should pray to have several children and not limit God in how He wants to bless us.  We should aspire to see our children possess the gates of their enemies.  We should should study and prepare to raise them to be exemplary effective Christian warriors.  We should think ahead, not only to our children but to our grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  We must be passionately in love with our children.

Key FAQ’s:

1.  How can a couple enjoy a sexual relationship without the worry of getting pregnant?

This is the number one question we get.  The question itself is full of erroneous thinking and a western mindset.   Everytime a couple comes together they reflect the very image of God in becoming one and should submit the outcome of that union to God who is the one who opens and closes the womb and is Sovereign above all things.  And the consumation of Christ and His Bride in the coming Wedding of the Lamb of God.  This culture has perverted that which is only holy and created by God and has made it a sport of selfishness.

2.  Is it a sin to do family planning?

We're no one to sit in the seat of judgement for the salvation of your soul, but upon all the evidences listed above God's Word says that "if you know what's good and you don't do it, it's a sin (James 4:17). Why would anyone not want to get blessed?

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