Memorial Day 2010

My name is Audrey, also known as Jesse Hutton, and I am Robin’s granddaughter. I love to write short stories and have fun with my best mates. My favorite things are soccer, celtic woman, chocolate and sci-fi shows. I hope i’ll be able to post some of my stories and get to know you, hopefully without driving grandma insane.:p

Happy Memorial Day, everyone!  Today is a day to remember the men who fought and lost their lives for our country. Most kids around my age just see this day as a vacation day, and  think nothing of it, and that is very sad. This is an important day to remember.

Recently at a convention I attended a family was pulling a skateboard around with a little gnome statue holding a mask in its hand, a face of their son, who is currently serving in the army. They said they’re taking pictures of people holding the gnome and sending then to their son, since he was homesick, and they thought it would be a great way to celebrate memorial day.  Me and my buddies all took pictures with the gnome, and when we met up with the family later that day they told us they had a total of 486 pictures to send their son. Boy will he be surprised to find an envelope full of that many pictures!! I hope those will make him smile.

Let us remember our men and women fighting for us. Some may never come back, like many others in the previous wars throughout history. We need to be thankful, for freedom is privilege given to us by God. Many other countries do not have things such as freedom of speech, or freedom from slavery, or freedom from tyrants. Most importantly, the freedom to believe in God and share the gospel with other people. People in China and India do not have those freedoms at all. If those men hadn’t fought in Gettysburg or in WW II, we probably wouldn’t be able to do the things we do today. Every one of those men and women who didn’t come back from those wars were someone’s brother,  or someone’s son,  or someone’s aunt, or someone’s husband. They fought for future generations, like me. I hope you understand how important our nation’s liberties are.

Peace out and God bless.

Jesse Hutton.

Do You Have A Contagious Smile?

In a class of 30 students, what percentage of these students do you think would agree that mathematics is a great subject? Would you answer that “around 10 to 35%” is all you think would love mathematics? True, most children and even adult students today are not thrilled to solve mathematical equations.

In a similar way, our daily activities do not mean 100% joy and 0% problems. At times, we have considerable more problems than joyous occasions to deal with in our daily lives. This of course does not take into account today’s climate of fear and panic. Fortunately, some individuals are skilled in handling problems in a way that allows them to continue to be happy.

These seemingly “carefree people” as some might call them have one thing in common, optimism. Try remembering a colleague, a relative, a friend or someone from your community who has the brightest smile at the start and end of the day. How many times did you see that person frown? “Carefree” people are fun to be around because their attitude is contagious. When we display this kind of happy disposition, it can be good for us as well as others in the group who are affected by our “shiny” disposition. When you see a person that has such a cheery demeanor, why not take a chance and ask them what makes them feel the way they do? You may be pleasantly surprised in what you find out.

Tony Greene