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What gospel can be related to Saint Maria Goretti?
None. Gospels are written by Apostles or Early Fathers.
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Do you wish to improve as a leader?
Leadership has been defined by many different people in many different ways yet all essentially saying the same thing. I particularly like the definition and explanation from the book "Leading like jesus" by Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges..."Leadership is a process of influence. Anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of people in their personal or professional lives, you are taking the role of a leader."
Now take a moment and ponder that statement; Do you influence thinking? Are you a parent? Are you a teacher? Are you speaker or a salesperson? Are you a manager or a business owner? You see everyone in some space or another is a leader by this definition. Everyone has some influence over some group of people. It may be a very small group or a growing group but everyone leads some.. If you wish to improve as a leader we must begin at the very foundation which is to say, let's begin with leading a really small group. A group of one; Ourselves.
Leaders need to first lead themselves:
You may be asking how do I lead myself? I believe we lead ourselves by following the right leadership. I'm not trying to be clever, just logical and honest. If I am to lead, I must follow something or someone. I must have a clearly defined set of principals. I must have desired goals and methodology in obtaining the goals. It is really simple - How can I lead if I do not know where I am going. Now for the Christian it is clear. If I am to lead, I must be following Jesus.
Jesus modeled for us a leadership, but a radically different kind of leadership, "servant leadership." Remember when jesus said "the Son of Man has come to serve and not be served" this is critical to understand and to personally, intentionally embrace and practice. It all begins here. Don't miss this do not ignore this.. It is vital! Here is where we are going to begin and yet end this article. I would like to begin this series with a question.
First: Are you willing to really, follow Jesus as your life leadership role model?
Second: Are you leading by serving?
Ric Bender
Your life, Alive.
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Author, Speaker, Pastor
As a Senior Pastor for more than 20 years I spent a great deal of time, teaching, encouraging and helping others to live in the fullness that God desires.
Our ministry continues to so each day. May God bless you. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Piano players and other musicians who desire to learn the foundations of purely American music should start with the blues. This music form began over a century ago. Today's jazz, hip-hop, rock-and-roll and rhythm and blues owes a debt to it.
Certainly, the word "blues" evokes a sense of the mood of being blue. The music has those qualities, but in its own way it is also capable of being very uplifting. Many blues songs are cries of hope for better days to come.
The blues form developed out of the African-American experience. The music we call blues is a touchstone back to their struggles in America and their growth as a people to more freedom. Blues songs are rooted in work songs, field chants, singing and talk. They also have their basis in spiritual songs and country ballads.
The first blues emerged out of the Deep South, in Texas, Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta. The music sang of the struggles of the worker and the impoverished lives many of them lived. Their great toil and sacrifice had articulation in stories, with many of them presented in song form.
A big boost to the stature of the blues came in 1912, when William Christopher Handy transcribed and published the song "Memphis Blues." He was an African-American dance orchestra conductor. He gave himself the name "Father of the Blues" because of his tireless efforts to write, transcribe and publish blues music to get it to the masses.
The blues progressed from the Deep South to the north and entrenched itself in cities such as Chicago and Detroit. The music changed as it moved northward. No longer all about the poor conditions in the south, the music began to speak of the urban environments African-Americans were now living in.
The blues changed even more in the '40s and '50s as radio continued to spread its songs all over America. New electronic innovations lent the blues a different sound, with electric guitar at the forefront. Musicians carried this fresh electric sound with blues elements into the rock and R & B genre, which developed.
Those who hear that blues sound in much of today's music may not understand that the music is very basic in its construction. A piano player desiring to learn the blues can understand its elements quickly with a little bit of study.
The most common blues heard and played are the 12-bar blues. Blues musicians found they could express their thoughts fully in a mere 12 bars or measures of music. However, there is room in these 12 bars for much creativity, whether musical or lyrical.
Almost all of blues music is in 4/4 time. This means there are four beats in each bar. Within a bar, each quarter note receives one beat. Further, a 12-bar blues song is broken down into three sections of four bars each. Musicians usually build blues chords on the first, fourth and fifth notes of an eight-note music scale. These form the blues chord progression. The first chord is typically prominent in the first four bars. The second four bars normally highlight the fourth chord of a scale, and the last four bars highlight the fifth chord of a scale.
For the lyrics to a blues song, the AAB pattern is predominant. A singer will sing the first and second four-bar verses with the same lines sung in each. The third four-bar verse will have different lines. Therefore A and A refer to the verses with the same lines; the B refers to the verse with different lines.
There can be different 12-bar segments in a blues song. When one 12-bar section gets resolved with the last four bars answering the previous eight, a new motif can develop in the next 12-bar section. In addition, while the 12-bar blues are the most common form in the blues arena, there are exceptions to it for variety and experimentation.
In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a movement in Britain, which brought about the "British Blues." They were followers of the American blues tradition and very strict in following this form to a tee. This ended in the middle 1960s as the musicians from this country began to develop their own blues concepts and styles, although still based on the pioneering American blues school of thought.
The blues lends itself to much of the piano music available for playing today. Its influence is apparent in Broadway show tunes, film music and much music of the love-ballad type. Blues music can be a welcome addition to any pianist's repertoire.
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Christmas is just around the corner, which means now is the perfect time to start thinking about fun costume ideas for your kids – whether it’s for a Christmas party, a school play, or for a fun photo shoot. There are countless costume ideas out there, which means you and your child are bound to find a costume you love.
To begin, you’ll want to consider whether you’d like a more traditional Christmas costume for your child, or something more original. Sometimes, specific circumstances will determine the costume that your child will wear – for instance, if he or she is in a school play and has an assigned role. However, if you have more flexibility in costume choices, choosing between traditional and original costumes is a good start. Of course, either option has its perks; for example, traditional costumes are instantly recognisable, and make for easy yet festive fancy dress options. However, getting creative with Christmas costume ideas can be fun for both you and your child, and it’s sure to draw a lot of positive attention to your child’s costume.
If you’re opting to go down the more traditional route, some popular Christmas costume ideas include going as Santa, an angel, a snowman, a Christmas tree, an elf, or Santa’s reindeer. However, if you want something a little more quirky or out of the ordinary, consider dressing your child up as Christmas pudding, an ornament, mistletoe, a Christmas cracker, a life-sized stocking, a snowflake, a glass of milk for Santa, or a Christmas star costume, as famously adorned by Maggie in the pilot episode of The Simpsons. Whether you choose to veer towards traditional or novel ideas, your child is sure to emanate holiday spirit in his or her Christmas costume.
While you’re at it, why not consider picking up a costume for yourself? Whether you’re planning to attend a fancy dress Christmas party, or to take fun Christmas photos with your kids, Christmas is a great time of year to have fun with costumes. You might consider choosing the same costume as your child in an adult version, which can be fun if you’re taking photos or attending an event together. However, there are many traditional or novel Christmas costume ideas for adults out there – so don’t hold back on your holiday fun this year. Start thinking about Christmas costume ideas for you and your child now, and you’ll be ready to step out in fun, festive gear once Christmas arrives.
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Jonathan Wallace writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.
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Looking for a Christmas song...?
I need a Christmas song for a dance routine which has a very christmasy introduction and then becomes very UPBEAT/hip hop style. I'd appreciate if it didn't have any inappropriate lyrics.
Please none of the below:
All i want for christmas is you-By Mariah Carey
This Christmas by chris brown
Jingle Bells - Basshunter
Carol Of The Bells by Thrice
santa baby by willa ford
the christmas shoes by newsong
Happy, holidays, you *******- blink 182
Thanks
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easter kitchen towel
Bath time is the perfect opportunity for parents and children to really get to know each other and spend quality time together.
How you view "bath time" is up to you. Many parents choose to treat it as a chore and dread the evenings - as do their children. In many homes, bath time is about as boring as brushing teeth. You, however, can choose to turn bath time into something special, which both you and your child will look forward to every day. For a child, bath time should be a transition between the noisy, busy world of day and the peaceful, cosy world of bed. With very little effort on your part you can make it a magic time for both of you.
How do you inject some magic into bath time? Firstly, by prioritizing it. Fix a time for baths that works around meals, cooking, welcoming home your spouse, making evening telephone calls and relaxing - and establish that time for both you and your child. If the phone rings, leave the answer machine to pick it up. Try to do a quick tidy-up with your child before bath time, so that you aren't faced with a horrible mess afterwards - that way it becomes a transition between day and evening for you too. Make sure that you set aside enough time so that you aren't rushing and nagging your child to hurry.
Now, to make bath time fun! Here are some suggestions for adding magic.
Bubbles:
Have an assortment of bubble baths suitable for your child. As long as you don't choose anything too harsh, you don't have to stick to children's products, which can have very unnatural scents and colors. Include basic baby bubble bath and some therapeutic bath salts for energetic, sporty days. Display your different bottles and make a show of choosing which bubbles you will use each night. Perhaps if your child has been helpful tidying up, they can choose?
Essential Oils:
Two drops of lavender or chamomile essential oil (no more!) added to the bath and stirred in well will soothe and calm a fractious child after a long day. For variation, and to be sure that the oil disperses well, you can also add the drops to a cup of milk before adding to the bath. We sometimes use an unscented mild bubble bath with the essential oil.
Candle light for special occasions:
This is obviously only suitable for well-supervised bath times - but kids really do love the atmosphere of a candle lit bath. We would suggest that candles are lit only when the children are in the bath, and are extinguished before they climb out to be completely safe.
Warm towels and pyjamas:
Especially pampering in the winter months, children love to get out of the bath into a warmed towel and pyjamas! Little touches make all the difference.
Poetry night:
In our household, every Friday night bath time was poetry night. We chose Friday night because we often had other children round to play on a Friday afternoon and that meant that our kids were often over-tired and irritable when it came to bath time. We found suitable poetry in the library and on the internet, stored any printed pages in plastic file folders to keep them splash proof, and tried to introduce an interesting variety of poems to the kids. In reality, we read the same favorite poems over and over again!
Bath toys:
Rotate bath toys ruthlessly so that there is always something interesting to play with! Every so often you can raid the kitchen for suitable implements too - children love playing with sieves, whisks, measuring cups and jugs. Our kids would play endlessly with a plastic funnel, plastic bottles (some with holes punched in them) and a couple of plastic jugs. If you don't want to use your own kitchen equipment, you can find these things very cheaply at garage sales and dollar stores. A plastic colander doubles as an excellent storage basket.
Fun foam toys:
You can buy fun foam shapes in buckets, or you can buy the foam at the craft store and cut your own shapes. Perhaps you could change your shapes to match holidays and seasons - flowers for spring and summer, Christmas trees at Christmas, bunnies and eggs at Easter? There are many possible learning activities too: cut pieces to teach colours, shapes, numbers or the alphabet, and practice matching, grouping, sorting, ordering and so on.
Shaving foam sculpture:
Squirt a few large blobs of shaving foam onto the side of bath or into your child's hands (warn him to keep it away from his eyes) and let his imagination take over!
Music and story tapes:
Bath time is a good opportunity to introduce music of all kinds or to listen to a special story on tape or CD.
Blowing bubbles:
For a special treat, bring some bubble blowing mixture into the bathroom. Make sure that it doesn't get into anyone's eyes!
Colorful baths:
A few drops of food coloring will transform the bath into something exotic! Try orange or green at Halloween, red or green at Christmas, red for Valentine's Day and so on. Keep the bottle well out of children's reach!
Language night:
A friend used bath time once a week as "language night", teaching her kids French by listening to French tapes and singing French songs. She decorated the room with small colorful posters, made by cutting up old exercise books or printing pages off the net and laminating them, which she stuck around the bath with sticky-tack. Any bath toys used that night were objects that could be named in French (plastic vegetables from her child's shop, plastic boy and girl dolls, and so on).
Finally, remember that in a few short years the whole ritual of bath time will be long gone and your children will be old enough to shower or bath on their own - resisting any attempt from you to interfere! Have you noticed how eagerly a grandmother runs her grandchild's bath and splashes and plays for much longer than necessary? If you asked her she would tell you to make the most of bath time while you can. Whatever you do now to make bath times magic will be repaid a thousand times in memories for you and your children in the future!
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