I've been working real hard and just finished adapting my novel INOCULATION ETERNITY into a screenplay. I am really excited because it is 10 times better than the book.
I do encourage any writer to educate themselves in screen writing...
Anyway, I need your prayers. I always keep this community of believer's in mine... You are all so special...Thanks for your continued support. I have been on this journey for over 7 years and I know there is still a long distance ahead...I can't endure it without you.
Please know that even though I may sometimes be absent here... there are no boundries in the Spirit -- and you are always with me.
Godspeed,
Michelle
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Below is the OPENING ACT for the MOVIE -- A preview for your eyes only. Please be honest and send a REVIEW to my GUESTBOOK ... I will put all reviewers names in a hat and on August 1, 2008... my grandson will pull one blessed persons name from the hat -- That person will recieve a signed copy of the original novel...Thanks in advance to all who take the time to participate.
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Godspeed,
Michelle
INOCULATION ETERNITY
Part One
by
Michelle D Starr
Draft Dated:
April 27, 2008
Registered: WGA/e
Copyright 2008
INT.FADE IN:
IN THE THIRD REALM OF ETERNITY
LIGHT YEARS BEFORE EARTH
"THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT"
EXT. ETERNITY -- SKY
A TRUMPET IS BLASTING. An aerial view reveals a massive ivory structure surrounded by vividly colored landscaping. A RIVER sparkling like CRYSTAL, flows through the property in an open meadow. FIREWORKS shoot forth from the structure, quickly engulfing the PURE WHITE SKIES of ETERNITY -- A virtual parallel to future Earth... devoid of evil -- or negativity.
EXT. IVORY MANSION - COURTYARD
The trumpeter is MICHAEL, a humanlike ARCHANGEL and CHIEF COMMANDER of THE SERENITY ARMY. His presence is like a GREAT ROMAN WARRIOR. Long gold hair flows out of an ANCIENT KING TYPE HELMET. Wearing a white tunic covered with a muscular shaped platinum breastplate -- its ENGRAVING depicts the face of a BRILLIANT BLUE EYED WOLF.
The trumpet sounds off an ALARM that is heard throughout all of Eternity.
EXT. CITY OF HOLY OF HOLIES
Several humanlike ANGELS stroll down the STREETS OF GOLD, near the raging CRYSTAL RIVER'S shore.
They hear the trumpets sound and look up to decipher its meaning.
EXT. SUN -- ENTRANCE GATE
Two CHERUBIM GUARDS leap to attention, their eyes fixate toward the sound and see streams of fireworks flooding the sky.
EXT. MILKY WAY GALAXY -- VENUS -- BANDSTAND
A GROUP OF MUSICIANS lay down their instruments to watch and listen for the signals meaning.
12 SUCCESSIVE BLASTS alert MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL and THE SERENITY ARMY it is a STATE OF EMERGENCY. EVERYONE else is unaware of the alarms meaning and return to their activity.
EXT. IVORY MANSION - COURTYARD
GABRIEL stands transfixed observing the sky next to Michael. He's an archangel, CHIEF SCIENTIST and THE ANCIENT ONE'S HERALD. Short bushy light brown hair, large round hazel eyes defined with long lashes give him the air of a simple but respectable young being.
Standing behind them are 23 MEMBERS of THE ELDER COUNCIL and their MAJESTIC looking white WINGED HORSES. Long flowing white hair, baggy white tunics and GOLDEN CROWNS distinguish them as ELDERS.
THE COUNCIL consists of 24 MALE MEMBERS representing FOUR RACES; 6 ASIAN, 6 AFRICAN, 6 ANGLO and 6 MEDITERRANEAN. They are WISDOM-KEEPERS, purposed to record and preserve the ancient knowledge and traditional life-way.
The Elder's IVORY MANSION is a massive structure. Huge ivory columns are carved into scrolls outside the entrance points to THE MANSIONS 24 wings. Surreal looking shrubs, fruit bearing trees, flowers and turf make up the landscape. THE COURTYARD is covered with open latticework, embellished with grape vines and other creeping plants. The sound of rushing water from the CRYSTAL RIVER reverberates throughout the luscious property.
AN ORATOR shouts over the trumpet's blast. The orator is ANDRONICUS, NUMBER ONE of the 24 member Elder Council and THE ORACLE for ANCIENT OF DAYS.
ANDRONICUS (O.S.)
This is the STATE OF EMERGENCY we have dreadfully anticipated!
Andronicus stands with his fists clutched over his head SHOUTING toward the sky, beneath the courtyard's massive archway. A deep articulate voice of authority, bronze skin, electrifying blue eyes, long wavy white hair and beard give him the air of a kind but wise man of great stature.
ANDRONICUS (CONT'D)
Everyone proceed to your designated bases! It is imperative that we Elders meet with THE ANCIENT ONE to discuss CONTAINMENT!
CHERITH a CHERUBIM rushes toward Andronicus.
CHERUBIM are HALF HUMANLIKE, HALF LION creatures of all RACES, GENDERS and AGES.
Cherith is CHIEF GUARDIAN over the SUN'S GATEWAY -- a wormhole connecting THE THIRD REALM OF ETERNITY to THE MILKY WAY GALAXY... sporting a silver goatee, long bushy white dreads, piercing green eyes...he is strong and mighty despite his aged appearance.
CHERITH
What has happened?
ANDRONICUS
One of our beloved committed an act of sedition.
CHERITH
How can this be?
ANDRONICUS
He entered into the forbidden place!
CHERITH
What can be done?
ANDRONICUS
Cherith, unfortunately we have been preparing for this event ever since The Oracle was delivered. By now, most members of The Security Council should be en route to the Sun's round table chamber. When your roll call is complete, seal up the Sun's passage without delay. I am sending Gabriel as a Herald. His word is law! Tarry there until he receives word from The Ancient One regarding containment procedures.
Andronicus calls out to Gabriel in an attempt to capture his attention. When Gabriel looks toward Andronicus, everything FADES TO BLACK -- except Andronicus's REFLECTION in Gabriel's EYES.
FLASHBACK: Now, the reflection FADES IN...REVEALING...
THE PLANET LABYRINTH -- MUSEUM OF ART
The image in Gabriel's eyes now reflect a SWORD AND SHIELD moving across an assembly line with flames glowing behind them.
Everything FLASHES BACK to a pivotal event in Gabriel's memory. He is standing in the MUSEUM OF ART on his home planet LABYRINTH located in the THIRD REALM OF ETERNITY. His eyes are fixated on the SWORD and SHIELD moving across an assembly line, Its engraving depicts the face of a BRILLIANT BLUE EYED WOLF.
GABRIEL is talking to SAGE and ZACHARY, the museum curators and outfitters for the SUN DANCES. They are identical twins, except totally opposite in their appearance. SAGE projects a tattered young working mans image and ZACHARY is well groomed.
The Museum of Art is full of humanlike angels from Gabriel's sect. They are HARD WORKING, jolly creatures singing a SONG to synchronize physical movement for the assembly line.
SONG
We'll sing with our friends at THE GATHERING
What a wonderful time it'll be
We'll sing with our friends at The Gathering
What a wonderful time you will see
We'll sing and praise THE ANCIENT ONE
His glory we'll share over there
Sing glory to The Ancient One
His glory we witness to bear
Sing glory to His Majesty
What a wonderful time it will be...
Experts in all aspects of SCIENCE and the ART OF WEAPONRY, this particular group works on glowing hot steel with hammers, pounding out elastic metal that sculpts into beautiful, functional shapes.
Gabriel looks around awestruck at the magnificent displays of art inside the museum. Myriads of SWORDS, SHIELDS, BREASTPLATES, HELMETS, BELTS and SUITS OF ARMOR of all sizes -- SUSPENDED IN SPACE.
GABRIEL
I can't believe the vast amount of art you have produced since I last visited!
SAGE
You have given us our orders to complete from on high.
ZACHARY
We dare not disappoint the Old Chap...now would we?
Gabriel picks up THE SHIELD with the image of THE WOLF coming off the assembly line -- totally fixated on every facet of it...he mumbles in a delayed response...
GABRIEL
...No...not a good idea at all.
Zachary leans towards Gabriel in an attempt to hear his delayed response.
ZACHARY
What has you so distracted?
GABRIEL
These pieces of art.
SAGE
Do you find them flawed?
GABRIEL
No way! They are forged into sheer perfection. I was just wondering what their purpose is other than art and the Sun Dances.
ZACHARY
Many of us often wonder the same thing...we dare not ask though. I'll tell you a little secret about the one you are holding.
SUDDENLY, Gabriel hears a VOICE and jumps. It is ANCIENT OF DAYS -- same voice as Andronicus...He is attempting to enter into Gabriel's mind with a telepathic message.
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
Gabriel...I need to speak with you privately.
GABRIEL (ALOUD)
Surely, as you wish...my Lord.
ZACHARY
MY LORD?
SAGE
What has gotten into your head Gabriel? Are you OK friend?
GABRIEL
Forgive me my friends. I am totally distracted and my imagination has me arrested. I must return to my laboratory now.
ZACHARY
Don't you want to know about that breastplate?
GABRIEL
If it is a secret, than let us just keep it that way for now...I am sorry but I really have to go...NOW.
ZACHARY
Well..that had to be the shortest visit we ever had.
SAGE
Too bad you have to go...but work is work and right now we are all privileged to have an abundance of it.
ZACHARY
Speak for yourself Sage...I'd rather be at my leisure in the Sun Dances or doing anything other than this kind of hard work.
SAGE
Leisure...work...work...leisure, it's all the same to me...I enjoy it all! We have forever and eternity to do whatever we want. Ancient of Days only knows what would happen if we get bored. Variety is the spice of life big brother.
ZACHARY
Yes...yes..yes, whatever you say my little brother. Well Gabriel...I guess the next time we see you, it'll be at The Gathering?
GABRIEL
Perhaps...but hopefully sooner my friends.
Gabriel turns to the exit path and with his thought navigation, morphs into a funnel of light that instantly takes him to his laboratory.
INT. LABYRINTH -- GABRIEL'S LABORATORY
GABRIEL'S LABORATORY is basic in appearance. Shelves line the walls with a vast library of SCROLLS. He finds and creates data with his mind -- TELEKINESIS.
Gabriel re-manifests standing in the center of the lab in front of his glowing gold tone desk, with BLANK SCROLLS, a FEATHERED INK PEN, a SIGNET RING and WAX SEALS on top of it.
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
Gabriel, go find my son APOLLYON and make sure he attends the next Gathering.
Pacing to and fro, Gabriel is obviously upset.
GABRIEL
(thinking to himself)
This must be serious...I wonder what is going on?
GABRIEL (CONT'D)
(aloud)
Surely...as you wish, my Lord.
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
To answer your question Gabriel... It must be understood by all of my children -- It is never acceptable for anyone to be absent from the collective body during The Gathering Ceremony.
Gabriel sinks his face into his hands. Frustrated and embarrassed -- he is unable to hide his subconscious thoughts from the Ancient One during times of telepathic communication.
ANCIENT OF DAYS (CONT'D)
Do not be embarrassed my son. I know your motives are pure.
GABRIEL
FORGIVE ME for questioning you my Lord! You are always welcome to commune with me freely. Being endowed with an inquisitive brain compels me to understand what this sense of urgency is emanating from your spirit.
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
I purposed you and everyone after me to be freethinkers. You should desire to know the truth at all times and that desire will help you to remain free.
GABRIEL
Free???
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
All truth will be revealed in due season my son. For now, I need you to stay focused on this particular situation. I will help you -- and you will help all of them -- through me.
Nodding in somber agreement...
GABRIEL
What damage did Apollyon's absence from The Gathering cause?
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
His spirit energy completes our spirit energy and Life's Resurgence. His physical absence from our circle of fellowship caused an electric arc to jump after him into the Milky Way Galaxy.
GABRIEL
How does this impact us?
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
It blew open a void inside us that threatens the soundness of some of your bodies and minds.
GABRIEL
Why does this void only threaten some of us?
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
It occluded an artery within me that constricts the flow of my lifeblood from disbursing evenly through some of you.
GABRIEL
Will you tell me how many of us are threatened -- and what you are doing to resolve this imminent catastrophe?
ANCIENT OF DAYS
I never indicated this to be a catastrophe -- just a threat Gabriel.
GABRIEL
OK Father...I'm moving forward. May I ask about this void you speak of? -- Is it kind of like the forbidden place?
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
YOU NEED TO SHARPEN YOUR SENSES FOR WHAT IS TO COME MY SON! THE BLACK HOLE is a topic of discussion reserved for a later age. It is my challenge for you to keep studying and show yourself approved.
Shaking his head in an immediate capitulation...
GABRIEL
How shall I proceed with Apollyon in light of this potentially grave situation?
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
Simply tell him what has happened... He will understand.
GABRIEL
Where shall I find him my Lord?
ANCIENT OF DAYS (O.S.)
CONDITION YOURSELF GABRIEL! The answer is right before you.
Biting down on his lip, Gabriel takes in a deep breath and exhales slowly.
GABRIEL
Yes...of course it is! I have an idea where to begin my search.
The telepathic communication ends and Gabriel's eyes quickly zoom in on a shelf containing Apollyon's logs. The logs float off the shelf into his hands and the pages turn until he finds maps and information about some strange anomaly in The Milky Way Galaxy. According to the map it's next to Venus -- a third distance from the Sun...in the middle realm of Eternity.
Turning from his desk toward the exit path, he morphs into a funnel of light -- his thought navigation sets the course to the anomaly.
EXT. - CITY OF HOLY OF HOLIES - FELLOWSHIP ARENA - MOVING
Traveling in the form of light, Gabriel regards the sight of THE CITY OF HOLY OF HOLIES. Purple, yellow and red smoke is rising up from Ancient of Days roofless PRESENCE CHAMBER in the center of a humongous white, oblong structure. It sits perched like an eagle's nest high on top of an incredible ivory staircase above the city's outer courtyard. Outside the limits of the courtyard are city streets made of shimmering gold. Wrapped around the entire city is FELLOWSHIP ARENA, venue for THE GATHERING CEREMONY -- a humongous Roman Colosseum type of structure.
EXT. - SUN'S GATEWAY - MOVING
Re-manifesting for a moment in his natural form, Gabriel yields for the gate at the SUN'S PASSAGE and waves to the gatekeeper...Cherith. The flaming gate and wormhole open... he bolts through like a shooting star into the MILKY WAY GALAXY.
EXT - MILKY WAY GALAXY - MOVING
The MILKY WAY GALAXY looks like a white cloud with no darkness or fixed stars during this age.
GABRIEL passes the first planet -- MERCURY... shining like a jewel, with an orange glow painting its atmosphere. VENUS follows... glowing in bright purple tones, mixed with magenta.
Arriving at his destination, GABRIEL re-manifests next to APOLLYON, who is fixated on the strange anomaly. A deep soothing voice, intense emerald green eyes, long flowing jet black hair give him an inviting presence. His muscular physique is covered with a white lab coat.
GABRIEL
Hey there my friend.
Apollyon jumps to attention and looks at Gabriel.
APOLLYON
Master...you startled me! I would never expect you to venture out here. What is going on?
GABRIEL
The ANCIENT ONE has a mandate for me to deliver to you.
APOLLYON
It must be serious for you to have left the lab...Have I done something wrong?
GABRIEL
Perhaps...but He knows your heart. You must know...it was never the Ancient One's will for anyone to be absent from the circle of fellowship during The Gathering Ceremony.
Apollyon's mouth opens wide in bewilderment.
APOLLYON
What have I done?
GABRIEL
He wants you to understand that the health of our body, mind and spirit is at risk when someone is physically absent from the circle.
APOLLYON
Master...just tell me...what damage did my absence do to us?
GABRIEL
I am burdened to inform you that your absence created a void within our collective body.
Shaking his head back and forth.
APOLLYON
OH NO! I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!
GABRIEL
How could you have known?
APOLLYON
Master...with all due respect...our purpose as scientists should be to understand such things.
GABRIEL
PERHAPS IT IS I WHO SHOULD CALL YOU MASTER. Ancient of Days did tell me to sharpen my senses for what is to come.
APOLLYON
WHAT IS TO COME? Did he happen to enlighten you about what he meant by that?
GABRIEL
His tone was somewhat dismal, though He did not share any details about what He was alluding to...You know how He is...He expects us to sum up our own conclusions for every situation.
Apollyon covers his face with his hands.
APOLLYON
Maybe I am wasting too much time over here...OH, how I regret my obsession with this strange little planet!
Gabriel looks to the anomaly while Apollyon is speaking and becomes fixated.
APOLLYON (CONT'D)
Master??? Are you still with me?
GABRIEL
(shivering)
I have to say APOLLYON...I do understand what has you so engrossed over here! I have never seen a planet in all of Eternity gestate quite like this one.
APOLLYON
YES...IT IS PRETTY AMAZING!
GABRIEL
I find it fascinating...that even though the core is set ablaze...there is what appears to be a living tissue forming around it. We should take a biopsy and examine its composition.
APOLLYON
I am beginning to wonder...
GABRIEL
Wonder what Apollyon?
APOLLYON
If this anomaly has something to do with what Ancient Of Days was alluding to.
A characteristic trumpet signal interrupts their conversation. Known and dear to every Pole, it
reverberates throughout the entire spaces of ETERNITY.
APOLLYON (CONT'D)
This is my cue to move in obedience to Our Lord's mandate!
GABRIEL
I agree!!!
They turn towards the Sun and suddenly...everything FADES TO BLACK, except Gabriel's eyes reflecting the Sun's fiery image.
Relient K escapes bus fire Friday, June 29, 2007 BY Dan Kane repository entertainment editor
Members of Relient K are (left to right) Dave Douglas, John Warne, Matt Thiessen, Matt Hoopes and Jon Schneck.
SOMERSET, Pa. Members of rock band Relient K had a rude awakening on the Pennsylvania Turnpike at about 3:20 a.m. Thursday.
Asleep on their tour bus, en route to a show in Illinois, they were roused by the bus driver yelling for them to exit the bus immediately. It was on fire.
While the band — which includes Stark County natives Matt Thiessen and Matt Hoopes — and crew members escaped uninjured, the damage was extensive.
Chief Terry Shaffer of the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department said the fire started in the engine compartment located just below the rear lounge of the 12-bunk tour bus.
"The driver told our people he was having trouble with the engine," Shaffer said. "They came up a steep mountain shortly before this, so they may have been trying to get to the next exit."
The fire happened just east of the Somerset exit on the turnpike. Shaffer said band members were "lucky to get out of the bus. The fire was going pretty good when (firefighters) got there."
The blaze and attendant smoke and water damaged or destroyed the band’s instruments, sound equipment and tour merchandise, plus the members’ laptop computers, cell phones, cameras, iPods, clothing and other personal items.
The flames were spotted by vocalist Thiessen and a friend of his, who were hanging out in the rear of the bus and alerted the driver.
"It was pandemonium. Everyone was screaming. We thought the bus might blow up," Thiessen said Thursday afternoon, phoning from Somerset.
"Flames were shooting outside all the way up," Relient K road manager Scott Cannon said.
Outside the bus, "We were just gawking and kind of laughing. It was all so cinematic," Thiessen said. "There was the night sky with all this light and this fireman kneeling and hacking at the top of the bus with an ax."
Fire engulfed the bus within a few minutes after the evacuation, Cannon said. A trailer being pulled behind the bus, containing the instruments and merchandise, also caught fire.
"The back half of the bus burned and the front half of the trailer," Cannon said, adding that firefighters closed the highway for about 45 minutes.
Cannon declined to give a dollar estimate for the losses. The bus and trailer were leased. "It’s going to be substantial. We’re sorting through everything right now at the lot where they towed the bus," he said.
Thiessen said his items alone, including a laptop containing about 100 unfinished songs, tallied up to about $7,000.
Relient K performed Wednesday night for an estimated 75,000 fans at Creation Northeast, an outdoor Christian rock festival in Mount Union, Pa. The fire caused the band to cancel its Thursday night headlining slot at the Cornerstone Festival, a major Christian event in Bushnell, Ill.
The band is planning to perform its scheduled concert Saturday night in Greeley, Colo., Cannon said, following a day in Nashville, Tenn., its base of operations these days.
Founded in Canton, Relient K has released five albums in seven years, three of them certified gold. On June 21, the band headlined the Alive Festival at Clay’s Park Resort.
With characteristic wit, singer-songwriter Thiessen assessed Thursday’s fire. "It’s funny to be onstage playing for 75,000 people having a great time, at the height of your element," he said. "Then hours later standing outside by a burning bus with no shoes on, feeling basically like a refugee."
Repository Assistant City Editor Veronica Van Dress contributed to this report.
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Even if you aren't a Christian this new law could effect your rights as an American too. You all need to pay attention to what is really happening in this country!!!
I felt an urgency to empower you with the following information. In the past I had posted a bulletin titled 'A return path to abortion' and I will be posting more issues as they come to my attention. We need to understand what is happening in the darkness behind the white washed walls of Washington with some of our elected officials. It seems we have the same dilemna as Ezekiel did back in his day...(see Ez 8:12-18 below)
12 Then He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel (USA) do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, 'The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.'"
13 And He said to me, "Turn again, and you will see greater abominations that they are doing." 14 So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the LORD's house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.
15 Then He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Turn again, you will see greater abominations than these." 16 So He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house; and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.
17 And He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
Thank The Lord He has given us a watchman (Ez 3: 17 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel;(USA) so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. 18 When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for [a] his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. 19 But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself.)
The following is an e-mail I recieved from my friend Jay Sekulow (our present time Ezekiel). He is a very important voice in Washington DC for all of us people of faith. His organization is the ACLJ, it stands for American Center for Law and Justice is a d/b/a for Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, Inc., a tax-exempt, not-for-profit, religious corporation as defined under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, specifically dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable, God-given rights. The Center's purpose is to educate, promulgate, conciliate, and where necessary, litigate, to ensure that those rights are protected under the law. The organization has participated in numerous cases before the Supreme Court, Federal Court of Appeals, Federal District Courts, and various state courts regarding freedom of religion and freedom of speech. A copy of their latest financial report may be obtained by writing to them at P.O. Box 450349, Atlanta, GA 31145-0349. As always, let them know of threats to freedom in your area by calling (757) 226-2489. And tune in to their daily radio program, "Jay Sekulow Live!"
Jay's e-mail to me:
When something is wrong, you speak up. In your family, in your neighborhood, in your church - and in the government. This is the American way.
But now Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the House of Representatives wants to curb your right to speak out. How? By re-defining the word ''lobbyist.''
Lobbyists are professionals whose job is to influence politicians. Their work is regulated by law, and rightly so. They have to register with the government and obey certain rules and pay certain costs.
But what if a Christian organization could be classified as a ''lobbyist''? What if your church could be put in that box?
Pastors would have to make a choice: either submit to enormously expensive and complicated government oversight ... or stop speaking out.
Most local churches, I can imagine, would have no real choice. They wouldn't have the money or hours available to follow the tangle of lobbying regulations.
They would simply have to fall silent.
Bottom line: The lobbyist re-definition bill that some in Congress are pushing contradicts the First Amendment to the Constitution ... and it will suppress Christians, silence churches, and stifle Christian organizations.
Our goal must be nothing less than to slam the door on this issue. Our constitutional right to petition the government - to speak out freely - must not be abridged.
Notable progress has been made. The Senate considered this idea first - we worked hard to oppose the lobbying re-definition - and we won this battle there, getting the most grievous of the regulations deleted from the bill.
But now, the fight centers on the House, where it will be even more difficult and intense. A faction of the House, led by Rep. Meehan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and others, is pushing very hard for the most dangerous and restrictive parts of the bill to be added back in.
I am personally leading three senior attorneys and our entire Government Affairs team, working with Congress, on this important issue.
This is America - not the repressive regime of some communist nation ruled by a heavy-handed dictator.
This must be stopped! But we have to act fast. Please don't wait on this. We've seen how quickly Speaker Pelosi is capable of striking. The ACLJ must be ready to act instantly.
There you have it my dear friends/family...Please spread this knowledge to as many people as possible. And join the ACLJ today and help Jay (our present day Ezekiel) fight this good fight.
Godspeed,
Michelle D Starr
Author
Inoculation Eternity
An Epic Trilogy on Life Before Mankind and Beyond
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1. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you..
2. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.
3. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
4. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
5. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
6. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
7 . To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
8. Don't waste your time on a man / woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
9. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
10. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened
11. There's always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.
12. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.
13. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
REMEMBER:
WHATEVER HAPPENS, HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
True friends: How many people actually have 8 true friends?
Hardly anyone I know! But some of us have all right friends and good friends!!! What kind of friend are you???
Word for the day:
Proverbs 18: 24
24 A man/woman of many companions may come to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother/sister.
These little girls know how to face the immensity of ocean waves. Alone they might be washed away, but together they stand strong.
Thank you for holding my hand somewhere along the way when I was facing a wave of my own. I hope you will reach for my hand when your own wave threatens.
" All of us girls... Old and young... Near and far... Hold special memories of good times we've shared. We've had our share of hard times when our friends were there to make us feel better. We've shared... our hearts our time our secrets our fears our hopes and our dreams.
Let us never break the chain of friends!
Pass this on to all of those girls that you are happy to have as friends. And if you get this back, then you know the chain of friends is strong!
BTW....Just a little note to the guys who might have ventured into this bulletin out of curiosity...We love you too, but this inspiration was not for you....I told ya it was for girls only!!!
I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is.
Here is a really nice ten second prayer:
"Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, our health, our homes, our finances, and all of our friends, in Jesus' name. Amen."
In just a few days we will be giving away another signed copy of my book. I need all the honest reviews I can get. I am in the process of writing part two and value your opinions.
Go to www.inoculationeternity.com and check out my book's official site. It is a safe link. You will definitely enjoy the soundtrack (it includes artists such as: Kutless, The Newsboys, Todd Agnew, MxPx, Alter Bridge etc., etc., etc).
To qualify you must read excerpts from all 10 chapters, click the CHAPTER link located on the first page. After you read all ten chapters, you must tell me what you think by posting me a review on the forum section over there (also located as a link on the front page). My daughter will place all participants' names in a hat to receive a complimentary signed copy of my book. You must leave me your JcFaith.com address in the forum so we can contact you if you win via shout-mail.
On 5/26/07 my 3 year old grandson will pull one name from the hat. The winner will be notified via shout-mail on 5/27/07. Winner publicly announced(with his/her consent)via my bulletin and blog . If your name is not picked this time it will remain in the hat for another chance each month that we are running this promotion...Good Luck and thanks for participating.
Godspeed, Michelle D Starr Author Inoculation Eternity An Epic Trilogy on Life Before Mankind and Beyond
" All of us girls...
