Motivation Monday: MountainWings Prepare To Fly

MountainWings is the daily inspirational email that helps you conquer The Mountains of Life. You can go to MountainWings.com,click Past Issues, and read many past issues of MountainWings. Each issue of MountainWings is very different, you can't judge MountainWings from one or two days. Watch the difference it makes in your life in 7 days.

At times MountainWings will be silly, hilarious and fit for a comedy show. There are times when we just need to laugh. At other times MountainWings will be serious and thought provoking. There are times when we need new perspectives on old things. No matter what the flavor of the day is, MountainWings helps you.

When you are blessed, please refer others to MountainWings.com.
Life has tough mountains to climb, it helps if you have Wings.

Prepare to fly,
MountainWings.com

I stumbled upon MountainWings.com in I believe 2003. MountainWings has inspired me, motivated me, made me laugh and made me cry. Often times on Motivation Monday I will post a story from MW. My hopes are that you too will experience a MountainWings Moment.

Today is Motivation Monday. Every Monday there will be some sort of post intended to motivate and inspire.
Please note that blog theme days may change without advanced notice.

Super Sunday: Random Acts of Kindness

SUPER SUNDAY!!!!

New blog entry format starting today!

Super Sunday: super posts..need I say more?
Motivation Monday: posts to help motivate and inspire
Tip/Tutorial Tuesday: assorted tips (anything I can use to teach you stuff)
Whatever Wednesday: whatever I wanna post
Top 10 Thursday: top 10 lists (sometimes more than 10 items listed)
Freebie Friday: free stuff (from music available to free samples/items and much more)
Saving Saturday: tips on how to make/ save $$$

Got ideas for posts? Great! I'd love to hear them. Post them anytime in any entry or on my fan page or just email them to me here. Wanna be a guest blogger or contributor? Awesome! I'd love the help! Email me here and we can talk about it and go over ideas. *FORMAT SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT ADVANCED NOTICE*

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
http://www.givesmehope.com

My eight-year-old sister overheard my mother yelling at me because I'm not Christian.

Before bed, I watched her kneel and pray. She told Jesus that she was sorry, but she couldn't believe in him any more. When I asked why, she said "When I die, I want to go where you go, not Heaven."

I cried the hardest I ever have. Kids give me hope.

Just an Introduction :)

Before I make a full on guest post I thought I would introduce myself.

My name is Sami and I was asked to be a contributor :) I am 20 years old and I am a student at Eureka College where I am majoring in Psychology. I have my own blog (reasonablerants), it is just as the title suggests, random. I make post about my life in general and issues I come across, some serious political issues, others just issues with people being loud down the hall.

I write very informally, and I am a horrible speller, so hopefully you will be able to figure out what I am talking about! |I do have spell check on Firefox...thank goodness|. I also like to end with a question, I LOVE feedback :)

Which is somewhat what I was asked to bring here to Randomness Rocks. I will do a little bit of it right now!

I am a major believer in LGBT rights. My mother is a lesbian, my boyfriends brother is gay and so are many of my friends. As some of you may or may not know the 20th of this month |maybe next I could have it wrong, but I am not in facebook to look at what month it is| people will be wearing purple in remembrance of 7 young gay men who took their own lives because recently because they saw no other choice.

Why do you ask? Because each of these young men where being harassed and bullied everyday for being gay. From what I understand |based on the news| one boy was only 11 years old and had never made any indication to his parents he was gay, other boys in school just taunted him saying that he was.

I joined the event and saw that so many people where posting hateful things on the site. One person said "who cares they where all fucking faggots, seven less I have to put up with"

I just find this all horrible. I find it disgusting enough that there are people out there that think and act the way that these bullies do. It is even worse that 11 year old boys are thinking this way, because you know they are being taught the behavior.

I personally believe that all of the bullies involved should have some legal punishment. They need to be held accountable for their actions. I of course believe it should be much less for the 11 year olds |they are not yet able to understand the concept of the impact of their actions and the serious repercussions of them til they are about 13| but none-the-less they need some punishment.

What do you think? How severe should the punishment be? The young men all made the choice to take their lives, but the bullies played a huge part. So I guess the question is how do you punish somebody for somebody else action?

The Girl Without a Face

This comes from the October 6th, 2010 episode of The Rachael Ray Show.


After a devastating accident left a young woman literally without a face, Chrissy (seen below) beat the odds with a medical breakthrough and went on to make her biggest dreams come true! Then, seven years after John Ritter’s death, his wife Amy Yasbeck is opening up about how her family copes with the change. It’s a powerful episode that will leave you inspired!


For more on these inspirational stories, click here.

Game Time! (Get Involved and Have Fun)

Firstly, I would like to post something I found on the facebook profile page of one of my favorite (former) radio dj's. It made me laugh, but it explains how so many of us who are unemployed (and have been for a while) feel!

Kris Stevens I've now become a burden to society. So unless you want to keep paying my unemployment benefits, I suggest you hire me. (ok, I'm done venting)

Ok, now it's Game Time!

Let's play a game. It's called the alphabet game. We are "going to the park" and each person brings the first person, place, or thing that comes to their mind. The first person starts with A, the next B, then C, etc. When playing in real life (a great way to pass time) each person is to repeat everything said before them beginning with "I'm ...going to the park and I'm going to bring..." A, B, and C. If they forget anything they lose the game and start a new game with the letter A. 

 

A fun variation on this game is what I like to call "The Game That Never Ends" This is because it has the potential to go on forever! The first person starts with A and whatever letter that word ends in the next person begins with. This time you don't repeat everything said before you because this variation can last very long and most of the time you will repeat letters quite a few times although you still are not to repeat words. 

 

For example, I'm first and I say "I'm going to the park and I'm going to bring an apple." The next person says "I'm going to the park and I'm going to bring an elephant." The third person then must come up with a word that begins with "T."  You are absolutely aloud to look around for things beginning with that letter. It is a great help when you get deep into the game and repeat letters multiple times.
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I'll start and well play the original game so the second person with start with "B."Don't forget repeat everything said before you!

I'm going to the park and I'm going to bring an apple.