A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....10-28-02

dansangel and Billie

[dansangel]

A Few of FR's Finest.....
......Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I can no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I've been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.

Still that doesn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why, in addition to seeing FR's Finest Military Personnel every day, I thought it might be fun to feature a different FReeper (or FReepers) each day. If you would like to be pictured, or know someone who would, please FReepmail me and we'll turn the spotlight - on YOU - for the day!

And do let me know if you'd like your picture added to the groups of Veterans/Active Military below. I will keep this page updated, and continue to add them to the comment section of the original Veteran's Day thread as well.

TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete
MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1

TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet

MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga

BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc

TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette

MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid

BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf

TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP

MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian

BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma

TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68

MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797
BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack

                     

Salvation Freeper since December 19, 2000

Salvation was born and raised in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. She attended elementary, high school and two years of college there. After earning her Associate's Degree in Education, she taught second and third grades in Dix, NE. A few years later, she wound up moving to California, near Anaheim, and it was there that she met her husband-to-be on a blind date. They were married a year and a half later and moved to the Bay area.

During the next few years, Salvation's husband Dave worked first as an auditor for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and then as Controller for what was then called Central California Federal Savings and Loan in the main office in Auburn, CA. Also during this time, Salvation had given birth to three girls and a boy. While Controller for Central California Federal, Dave had the pleasure of meeting Ronald Reagan during a trail ride on horseback sponsored by his employer.

Ronald Reagan, lovingly rendered by our own Billie (c)2001.

Desiring a change, Salvation and her husband flew to Salem, OR to look at a child care center that was for sale. They decided to purchase the child care center, licensed for 50 children with a staff of five adults and two teacher aides, usually high schoolers. Two years after moving there, their youngest son was born. Salvation's husband Dave worked for the State of Oregon as a fiscal analyst for the Child and Protective Services. He also handled all the bookkeeping for their daycare center.

What appeared on the surface as a life of bliss as parents and business-owners, in reality caused stress leading to the request for a divorce by Dave. Salvation signed them both up for a Marriage Encounter weekend without Dave's knowledge. He consented to go, however, when the weekend was finally scheduled. It turned their marriage around. Subsequently, they went for training to be a presenting team couple for Marriage Encounter weekends - as if they didn't already have enough on their plates! They did that for about five years, and also presented several Family Weekend Experiences for families in the Salem area.

Their children were active in Little League; Dave served as League president and umpired games for the region. In high school, their daughters were involved in Spanish Club, dance team and soccer. The boys went out for football and wrestling. During this time Dave was also the campaign treasurer for several Republican candidates in local elections. Salvation says she was "still too busy to get into the politics of it all, however."

Then, in 1985, as Salvation puts it, "the big bomb hit. It may as well have been a bomb, because I was devastated. We found out that my husband had lung cancer in April and he died the last week of August of that year. I am thankful that the Lord gave me those four months, don't get me wrong."

It was a year later that Salvation attended her first Beginning Experience weekend. She returned a year after that for another weekend and relates that her life has never been the same. It was as though God was preparing her for her next painful experiences. Over the next 6 years she experienced four more deaths in her immediate family. Drawing on her strength and her deep faith in God, she became an active member in her Catholic parish (Disciples in Mission) and during Lent she is on the Pastoral Council.

This all leads up to Salvation joining Free Republic. She credits her late husband with her Republican "conversion." She was brought up in a Democratic family who believed in government subsidies for farmers. Dave helped her to see that the subsidies, by and large, did not really help the farmers at all, while taxing all of the other citizens of the nation.

Salvation's actual Free Republic membership began by lurking during the hearings after the presidential election and the subsequent Democratic election fraud fiasco in Florida. She ended up tiring of being a lurker and signed up. She is pro-life and anti-government-takeover of privately-owned land. As a former business-owner (she no longer owns the daycare center, having sold it in 1991), Salvation feels that when a person's income depends on the land they own (such as in the farmlands surround the Klamath Basin in Southern Oregon), "it is vital that we all stand up and speak out."

Salvation is proud to be a Roman Catholic and contributes to threads in the religion forum on a regular basis. She also posts the "Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings" on FR each day and the "Sunday Mass Readings" on Sunday. She also tries to post the "Radio Address by the President to the Nation" each Saturday morning but is not always so successful in getting it posted. She says that is due to her "laziness," but with all of her accomplishments and raising 5 children to boot, it is very difficult to believe the word "lazy" even exists in her vocabulary.

Salvation's five children are all grown and live in Chicago, Phoenix, Cornelius, OR, Salem, OR and her youngest son is a student at Portland State. Salvation also has "three and almost four" grandchildren. Two grandsons are in Phoenix and a granddaughter is in Cornelius. Salvation feels it is important that "I also try to enjoy the each day as the Lord gives it to me. Smell the flowers, gaze at the sunset."

Finally, Salvation cites the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi as her favorite:

~Prayer of St. Francis~

Lord, make me and instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are both to eternal life.

St. Francis of Assisi.

Please join me in giving another deserving FReeper a warm welcome to FR's Finest...

Today that Finest is
Salvation!

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10-26, 27-02 "A Few Of FR's Finest" Weekend Thread

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[LadyX]

What a beautiful presentation for our Finest of this day, dansangel!
Salvation, it is a joy to read about your life and what you have made of it with God's help.
It reminds each of us of how He is present in every situation, guiding us toward the purposes for which we were born.

In these precarious times with concerns for our safety with terror abounding and wars in the making, something reached me through my mail this day that bears placing here.

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"Fear is a magnifying lens that exaggerates whatever it looks at. The devil is a master illusionist who uses fear to take our eyes off the Lord. The result is that our stress level increases and anxiety brings death into our world. Indeed, the more we talk about what's wrong, the greater the wrong possesses us.

God's word tells us, "In repentance and rest you shall be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength" (Isa 30:15).
Be quiet. Compose your soul. Don't let your unbelieving words deplete your spirit, for the more you talk, the more peace you lose. Keep your soul focused upon the Lord.

Turn your heart toward the strength of God. Those who believe, enter His rest and from the place of rest, hear His voice.

If you know who God truly is, anxiety will fade into trust. Therefore, cease worrying! God cares for you. Those who trust Him have peace that surpasses all understanding. Talk to the Lord and then quietly listen.

As you do, your spirit will soar, your heart expand and ascend into His Presence.

It has been truly said, "Fear is the darkroom where Satan develops our negatives."
Therefore, renounce fear. Divorce anxiety.

Beloved, the Lord is good. Trust Him with your battle.

Yes, it's time to cease striving and know that He is God."

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~ Pastor Francis Frangipane ~
www.inchristsimage.org

May He continue to bless you, Salvation, and all those here.

[Flyer]

Hope your trip to Call is safe. Is that far from you?

It was less than 300 miles roundtrip. And I got home about 15 minutes before the hail storm hit!

[Salvation]

**Bless you, glad you're here at FR, it's simply the best little news-cafe in the whole world.**

You are correct, jwfiv!

FR had moved me closer to being more active in the Republican party in Oregon. We have a long an uphill fight against all the liberals, here........(ggrrrrroooooannnn)

One thing I loved yesterday when I came out of church was that someone had plastered "Pro-Life and Pro-Family" voting guides on EVERY vehicle.

Might be a suggestions for others in this elelction.

Have a great day!

[Salvation]

Beautiful!! With Mt. Hood in the background! Wow!

[Salvation]

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older.

I'll vouch for that!

Thanks for that reflection. Copied and saved in my collection of quotes!

[Salvation]

And here are a couple for you:

THE VALUE OF TIME

Imagine there’s a bank which credits your account each morning with 86,400 dollars, carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course.

Well, everyone has such a bank. Its name is Time. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it wipes off, as lost, whatever of this you had failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdrafts. Each day it opens a new account for you; each night it burns the records of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back; there is no drawing against tomorrow. You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success. The clock is running. Make the most of today.

To realize the value of one year, ask a student who has failed his final exam.

To realize the value of one month, ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week, ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one day, ask a daily wage laborer who has ten kids to feed.

To realize the value of one hour, ask the lovebirds who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute, ask the person who has missed the train.

To realize the value of one second, ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond, ask the person who has just won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Treasure every moment and use it wisely.




Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

There is an appointed time for everything,
and a time for every affair under the heavens.

A time to be born, and a time to die;

A time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.

A time to kill, and a time to heal;

A time to tear down, and a time to build.

A time to weep, and a time to laugh;

A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them;

A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.

A time to seek, and a time to lose;

A time to keep, and a time to cast away.

A time to rend, and a time to sew;

A time to be silent, and a time to speak.

A time to love, and a time to hate;

A time of war, and a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:9-15

[Salvation]

Glad to meet you, dutchess.

I will be helping with a new program at our church tonight entitled, "Catholics Can Come Home Again". It is based on a book by the same title authored by Carrie Kemp out of the Basilica of St. Mary in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

It is so exciting to be a small part of these people's lives. The Holy Spirit gets most of the credit, however! LOL!

[lodwick]

Oregon's trails infomation & pics

[Pippin]

Hi, AGG!

I read your comment and I know how you feel. The same thing happened to me on another thread witch I'll not name here. But I find it frustrating, expecially when they get this way and you're not sure what brought that animosity on!

you take care of yourself and may God bless you! :^)

[Pippin]

Amen to that!

[dansangel]

Thank-you for getting me pumped up for the trip tomorrow! I can't wait!

We expect it'll take us approximately 5-6 hours. Not a bad ride, really, just lo-o-o-o-ng!

[dansangel]

It's not just you, Billie. :-(

I deleted all 4927 temporary internet files (!) hoping it would speed things up, but I'm afraid it's FR.

Why is it we accumulate so many "temporary files" that never seem to go away all by themselves???? I just emptied all the folders out two weeks ago!

[dansangel]

Thank-you for sharing that beautiful passage with us, LadyX.

I often wonder how anyone can "live" without God in their lives!

{{{{{{{{{LadyX}}}}}}}}}}

[dansangel]

Oh my goodness! You've had quite a day already!

Thank God you're back safely!

{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}

PS...please keep the hail over there...it's bad enough that you keep sending all that rain over here!! LOL!!

[lodwick]

The entire internet could be under attack also - I'm having a bumpy ride where ever I visit'

If you want to see my latest weapon discovery, it and a link are posted on the Glocktober thread. I'm going to look at one tomorrow: for sale by individual. ;-)

[Aquamarine]

Congratulations. The positive way that you handled the stuggles in your life are an inspiration to all of us.

[MinuteGal]

Things look pretty good for Jeb, at least in my neck of the woods (central gulf coast). Of course, there's still the other side of the state and all those Dimrat counties! Keep Florida in your prayers, dear Salvation. I know you will!

Leni

[dansangel]

.45MAN told me that last Monday's Internet glitches were due to an "attack" on something like 7 of the 13 servers that run the whole kit 'n caboodle. Have you heard anything about that?

Internet terrorists have too darned (I have used extreme control over my language!) much time on their hands!!!

Going to check out your "maybe" acquisition right now!

[lodwick]

I read the same thing that dh told you - 7 0f 13 servers were brought down. Dipwads.

[lonestar]

That's the kutest kitty!