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If anyone has already transcribed it or knows where to find either of the two, I would love to know as I’m looking to play it with my band?

You can try free-scores.ney and search it

There are a lot of christians who say you will experience immediate joy after becoming a Christian, however it seems like a lot of hard work and a lot of "rules" you must follow after becoming a Christian. Is it really possible to be happier when I have a lot of things to worry about?

I think you are blurring joy and happiness. Happiness is situation conditional, while joy is not. This is why so many Christians were fed to lions, burned at the stake, hung from the gallows, all the while singing and praising God. Their current situation could not negate the joy they had, knowing that they would be in heaven.

James 1:2-3

2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Faith is having patience in God. Sometimes God tests our faith to see how we respond to a trial. We should consider it joy. Because it is our learning process in trusting God. And once we learn from that trial, we learn patience, which increases faith a great measure.

When one has great faith, he can survive anything this life throws at him.

Also consider this. Jesus said consider yourself bless when people speak false evil against you. And persecute you for the sake of the name of Jesus.

One may say, " how can I rejoice in this? " For one it confirms that you are a child of God. And a child of God has an inheritance into the kingdom of heaven. Yes and this is the gift of God.

Therefore one can rejoice in this know what is ahead. Knowing that if it is in God’s will that you are persecuted for the sake of the Name, you are a child of God. And the pain of being slandered, hurt, or persecuted is nothing when compared to the joys of heaven ah ead.

of God’s infinite love ? That’s when all around us we see sickness suffering and death and when we know that many souls are going to be eternally lost how much happiness should we have ? Isn’t it rather selfish to rejoice in our good fortune while we know that other will perish??

God wants us to pray for those who are lost, prayer is the most powerful gift God has given us. Pray that the lost will come to know Jesus, it’d be nice if everyone would come to know Him but many reject Him.

Sympathy
by Paul Laurence Dunbar

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opens,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals–
I know what the caged bird feels!

I know why the caged bird beats its wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting–
I know why he beats his wing!

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,–
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings–

"Sympathy" was written by Paul Laurence Dunbar in 1899, right at the end of the Nineteenth Century. It is a poem about the caged bird who wants to be free and tries, tries and tries again to break out of its cage. Each time, it is unable to break free and instead only injures itself, adding to injuries left over from past escapes. Dunbar depicts the bird’s desperate and unsuccessful struggle for freedom and images of nature, that beckon outside. The first paragraph touches on the situation that black people faced at the turn of the century.

I was for many years a Catholic but am now Christian Baptist. The reason being i spent many months reviewing scripture and find that the Catholic religion is completely littered with corrupt teachings, everything from confessing your sins to a priest instead of Jesus to worshiping the Pope is all false.The bible warns dozens of times about false teachings and false prophets. I have found dozens of websites that back me up all using scriptural evidence of how corrupt and wrong Catholicism is. For instance "Revelations 22:18: "I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.". Catholics have gone as far as creating their own bible. Again "Revelation 15:4 "Only God is Holy". Catholics refer to the Pope as Holy Father they are literally calling the Pope God’s name and again ""Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God…" -Exodus 20:4-5. That verse clearly states it is wrong to even admire and look up to anything but God himself. I could literally go on all day which is the reason i’m no longer catholic and above all that i always felt awkward and uneasy in the catholic church but at my new church for the first time I’ve felt an unspeakable Joy and Love that just overwhelms me and the people there are more Happier, Loving, Caring and Thoughtful then anyone I’ve met in the Catholic church. This to me is undeniable and I fear for all Catholics when the end times come for i am in firm belief with scripture to back me up that Catholicism is against God and they don’t even know it. Here’s just one of the websites explaining this. http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Roman%20Catholicism/catholic_devil_worship.htm

You must have left the Catholic Church while still a small child to have so little knowledge of Catholic teaching and practices. Let me see if I can tear down that false straw man you have built here. You spent months reviewing Scripture and most of us who have converted to Catholic Christianity have spent decades studying the Bible and testing Catholic doctrines. What we have found is a fullness of God’s truth without any corrupt teaching but instead a Church that follows God’s Word perfectly and has been for 2000 years.

The only way that was taught by Jesus to confess our sins was to a priest and He even states clearly in Scripture that the priests have the authority and direct commission to act in persona Christi to forgive sins:

http://fiatvolvntastua.blogspot.com/2009/07/confession-to-priest.html

We do not worship the Pope. Never have and never will. We are forbidden to worship anyone or anything but God. If you had been a Catholic you would have known this. there are no false teaching or prophecies in the Catholic Church. There never has been and never will because Jesus promised that His Church will forever be the "pillar and foundation of the truth".

Catholic Christians use the entire Holy Word of our Lord that has been used by the Church for 2000 years in the Old Testament and canonized the New Testament, combining it with the Old Testament, in the beginning of the fifth century. This is historical fact. The Protestants like yourself removed 7 books of Scriptures without any authority. May the Lord have mercy on them.

http://fiatvolvntastua.blogspot.com/2009/06/was-it-catholics-or-protestants-who.html

You bear false witness against the Church by calling us idolaters which again reveals your lie of having been a Catholic. We are forbidden to worship anyone or anything but God.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=1h&oq=cate&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS265US265&q=catechism+idolatry

The "Holy" in the title Holy Father refers to His office which was directly commissioned by Jesus. It recognises the authority and divinity of God and does not give praise to the one who holds that office but acknowledges the source. Again, had you been a Catholic Christian you would know this.

It is not surprising that you find joy at your Church. It is your own choice and has nothing to do with being obedient to our Lord that prayed we all be one in His Church. your statement clearly says that you are one of those who the Bible prophesied will no longer be able to endure sound doctrine and will gather around them false teachers that satisfy their itching ears.

SCRIPTURE DOES NOT BACK UP ANY OF THE ACCUSATIONS YOU HAVE MADE IN BUILDING YOUR STRAW MAN TO JUSTIFY YOUR DISOBEDIENCE AND PROTESTS OF CHRIST’S CHURCH.

Bearing false witness is a serious sin and you should verify your accusations before making them.

God bless!

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

What Joy, What Joy, What joy for those whose hope in in the name of the Lord
What peace, what peace for those whose confidence is Him alone

Those are the lyrics and I would love to find the song. Its also a Bible verse I think.

Google search for "What joy for those whose hope in in the name of the Lord" (with the quotes) turned up 9 references. Good luck.

I have to write my senior paper on a book that I study in detail over the next three or so months. Therefore, I want the book to have a lot of substance that I can work with in my paper. We have to choose off a list, and these are the ones that looked interesting to me:

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Kite Runner - Hermann Hesse
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
Obasan - Joy Kogawa
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
Going After Cacciato - Tim O’Brien
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
You Can’t Go Home Again - Thomas Wolfe

Which book(s) would you recommend??? I would REALLLYYY appreciate your feedback, this will be a huge part of my grade! Thanks!

JANE EYRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHARLOTTE BRONTE. JUST FINISHED IT THIS SEMESTER. ITS GREAT! IT KEEPS FOR ATTENTION, IT DOESNT DRAG ON AND IT JUST A GREAT BOOK.

I just recently learned that the popular Christmas hymn "Joy to the World" was actually written by Watts in celebration of the future return of Jesus. Apparently the first half of the verses were cut and now the hymn is sung to celebrate Jesus’ birth. I can’t seem to find the first half anywhere.

IF WE KNEW THEM THEY WUDNT BE MISSING

Well i want to know:

-Theme? (with some evidence)

-Lyric or Narrative Poem?

-Tone of the poem?

-Concrete or Abstract? (with some examples)

-Allusions? (And how does it contribute to the significance of the poem)

-Symbols? (And how does it contribute to the significance of the poem)

-Imagery?

-Figures of Speech? (Metaphors, Similes, Personifications, Apostrophes)(And how does it contribute to the significance of the poem)

-Sound? (Onomatopoeia, alliterations, rhymes) (And how does it contribute to the significance of the poem)

-Rhyme Scheme?

-Poems Form? (Blank verse, stanza, ballad, sonnet, etc.)(And how does it contribute to the significance of the poem)

And here’s a link to the poem:

http://www.slimcoincidence.com/blog/2003/04/perhaps_the_world_ends_here.php
Please keep info organized, Thank You
Joy Harjo’s (1994) poem, Perhaps the World Eats Here, is the model for teaching symbolism. In this poem, the kitchen table takes on symbolic meaning as the poet catalogues the events in life that occur around that piece of furniture. "It is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be/ human. We make men at it, we make women," says the poet.

Theme: Culinary arts - The world begins and ends at the kitchen table.

Genre: Narrative/ symbolism poem

Tone: jocular, comical amusing

Concrete:
we must eat to live
We chase chickens or dogs away from it
At this table we gossip, recall enemies and the ghosts of lovers.

Allusions:
Wars have begun and ended at this table.- alludes to conflicts and peaceful negotiations.
The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table - alludes to food and nutrition

Symbols: Kitchen table - source of life, the most significant furniture, cuisine

Imagery: metaphor - dreams drink coffee with us

Figures of Speech:
- place to hide in the shadow of terror. A place to celebrate the terrible victory
- At this table we gossip, recall enemies and the ghosts of lovers.
- while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.