Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Shelter Pets are Lovable Dogs as shown by these NHL stars
How do you prove that shelter dogs aren't unlovable, damaged goods, trouble, not worthy.....well, you kiss every single one. Great job guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWdVaEps0DY
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Tennis Anyone
For those that don't know me I have to say that I have had a tough two years when it comes to movement. I started off with plantor fasciatis, the had burr sack issues in my toes, then I fractured the Cuboid Bone in the same foot. I tore the ligaments.....then two years ago I also quit smoking. Yay me, the weightgain not a yay. So I am starting my get back into shape campaign with lots of tennis. We got out twice so far this week. Tonight my thighs are cramping because we hit for about two hours.
At 40 I don't want to be in a gym with all the young ones. I would rather get out on the court and hit with my daughter or hit with some other players. Looks like I will be doing both about three times a week through the fall.
At 40 I don't want to be in a gym with all the young ones. I would rather get out on the court and hit with my daughter or hit with some other players. Looks like I will be doing both about three times a week through the fall.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
It's Time
I am very happy to come "out of retirement" to play for New Hope tonight. Just ran through the last of my sets, great deal of singing so I hope my allergy ridden voice is gonna be alright, but, even when I worry it generally is. Some rest before we go is in order for sure.
I'm expecting God to meet me there, on that stage with the friends I have made there and talk directly to my heart about my doubts, about my fears, about my suffering feeling totally inadequate to do what I do, which is entertain, yet knowing that I am called to do just that. So......hoping to post some videos tomorrow from tonight. Hoping that sharing my life will help someone with their walk because there are so many distractions, I can't begin to tell you how many times I've wondered what on earth I was doing because of this or that. Why do I think I am "good enough" to entertain a shoe? Well, I am not and once I remove myself from this situation I see just that. It's not about me at all. A very special thanks to my neighbor Pat, who is like Jana's adopted grandmom, who sat and listened to me sing for the last half hour.
Time to pack it all up and hit the turnpike with my amazing family.
I'm expecting God to meet me there, on that stage with the friends I have made there and talk directly to my heart about my doubts, about my fears, about my suffering feeling totally inadequate to do what I do, which is entertain, yet knowing that I am called to do just that. So......hoping to post some videos tomorrow from tonight. Hoping that sharing my life will help someone with their walk because there are so many distractions, I can't begin to tell you how many times I've wondered what on earth I was doing because of this or that. Why do I think I am "good enough" to entertain a shoe? Well, I am not and once I remove myself from this situation I see just that. It's not about me at all. A very special thanks to my neighbor Pat, who is like Jana's adopted grandmom, who sat and listened to me sing for the last half hour.
Time to pack it all up and hit the turnpike with my amazing family.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
What If?
What If?
Out of retirement. Playing Saturday in Staten Island and decided to through in another song I haven't sung in a very long time. I think it speaks plenty to my heart and mind at this point, see previous blogs.
As a Worship leader we strive so hard to be perfect, all the time, in our life, in our faith. We try to deny that we ever have moments of wondering where God is in our life, of wondering if He truly loves us as much as we read he does, of wondering if maybe just maybe He is just too busy to answer our prayers. I mean there are wars and more important things going on out there. Tough, very tough questions that I think every believer goes through. The fact remains, we are human like every one.
The question then becomes.....am I going to lead regardless of how my emotions are running. We shrink away and leave the ministry given to us because we feel we can't do it, WE, not through faith, in our own strength, which we cannot. I have been out of ministry for a very very long time because I am struggling with my own personal cross of infertility. Again. So much fun the second time. Harder when you have a 10 year old who desperately wants a sibling and not to be alone herself. Very tough indeed.
I decided to add a few songs that are speaking to me at the moment (hoping I can pull these off by Saturday no less).
What If, Nichole Nordeman.......what if there's more? What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for? I've been running and looking for something to take away the pain I've been feeling. Now, it's time to stop running and to get back to doing what I am meant to be doing. Entertaining, ministering, reaching out to others.
Who You Are.....also Nichole Nordeman....I know I can't explain you. That is so so very true.
To Know You.....I think no matter how long we walk the walk, or fall off the walk, whatever the case, we are always trying to know God more.
I'm very excited for this be in New York again Saturday. In fact, I am hoping to get out to play more than I've been. I even started a facebook age for my music http://www.facebook.com/JacquiZollnerGodProject
God Project was the name of my bad before I had my daughter, Jacqui Zollner and the God Project.
Out of retirement. Playing Saturday in Staten Island and decided to through in another song I haven't sung in a very long time. I think it speaks plenty to my heart and mind at this point, see previous blogs.
As a Worship leader we strive so hard to be perfect, all the time, in our life, in our faith. We try to deny that we ever have moments of wondering where God is in our life, of wondering if He truly loves us as much as we read he does, of wondering if maybe just maybe He is just too busy to answer our prayers. I mean there are wars and more important things going on out there. Tough, very tough questions that I think every believer goes through. The fact remains, we are human like every one.
The question then becomes.....am I going to lead regardless of how my emotions are running. We shrink away and leave the ministry given to us because we feel we can't do it, WE, not through faith, in our own strength, which we cannot. I have been out of ministry for a very very long time because I am struggling with my own personal cross of infertility. Again. So much fun the second time. Harder when you have a 10 year old who desperately wants a sibling and not to be alone herself. Very tough indeed.
I decided to add a few songs that are speaking to me at the moment (hoping I can pull these off by Saturday no less).
What If, Nichole Nordeman.......what if there's more? What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for? I've been running and looking for something to take away the pain I've been feeling. Now, it's time to stop running and to get back to doing what I am meant to be doing. Entertaining, ministering, reaching out to others.
Who You Are.....also Nichole Nordeman....I know I can't explain you. That is so so very true.
To Know You.....I think no matter how long we walk the walk, or fall off the walk, whatever the case, we are always trying to know God more.
I'm very excited for this be in New York again Saturday. In fact, I am hoping to get out to play more than I've been. I even started a facebook age for my music http://www.facebook.com/JacquiZollnerGodProject
God Project was the name of my bad before I had my daughter, Jacqui Zollner and the God Project.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
When you are lost and struggling back it just doesn't take much
I can't say as a Christian I have had any relationship with the Lord in quite some time. Maybe that's why I writing this blog, trying to publicly put it out there hoping it will make sense or maybe someone will say something that I haven't heard a million times to make how things work in this world make any sort of sense. I doubt it.
I am just to the point where nothing matters anymore and I am just playing the role. I can't remember the last time anyone has heard me say that I'm praying or what i believe but what I did believe I no longer do. Make sense?
1. I believed that God was concerned with every single detail of our life. From when we wake to when we sleep. I no longer do.
2. I believed that prayer made a difference. Seriously? I can't believe that I believed that. Now I totally realize that what happens happens and whether we pray or not the decision is already set so what difference does praying make? It just doesn't. Not sure why that is so stressed, no amount of prayer will every change what our path will be and I will never believe differently.
3. And most of all, Christians are no different than anyone else. They talk a great game but act no differently that anyone else.
4. I'm still spinning trying to figure it all out. Trying to figure out why He listens to everyone else but I continually get screwed. From career to children, just seems like I'm knocking on the door and nobody is home and all the while it is rubbed into my face, repeatedly. Never gets easier.
And really, nobody truly gives a rat patooty about my rants of injustice.
I am just to the point where nothing matters anymore and I am just playing the role. I can't remember the last time anyone has heard me say that I'm praying or what i believe but what I did believe I no longer do. Make sense?
1. I believed that God was concerned with every single detail of our life. From when we wake to when we sleep. I no longer do.
2. I believed that prayer made a difference. Seriously? I can't believe that I believed that. Now I totally realize that what happens happens and whether we pray or not the decision is already set so what difference does praying make? It just doesn't. Not sure why that is so stressed, no amount of prayer will every change what our path will be and I will never believe differently.
3. And most of all, Christians are no different than anyone else. They talk a great game but act no differently that anyone else.
4. I'm still spinning trying to figure it all out. Trying to figure out why He listens to everyone else but I continually get screwed. From career to children, just seems like I'm knocking on the door and nobody is home and all the while it is rubbed into my face, repeatedly. Never gets easier.
And really, nobody truly gives a rat patooty about my rants of injustice.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The growing concern of eating meat
MAY 14, 2011
Health Risks Of Meat
5:40 AM Vegetarian
Meat Too Tough to Eat by Neal Barnard, M.D.
It's come to this. In mid-August, the Food and Drug Administration approved the spraying of live viruses onto poultry and meat products. The virus spray, manufactured by a Baltimore company called Intralytix, contains six different viral strains designed to kill listeria, a germ that sickens an estimated 2,500 Americans yearly. Meat companies do not have to inform consumers which products have been treated and which have not.
As a doctor, I would like to call for a reality check.
Decades ago, we learned that the fat and cholesterol in meat boost the amount of cholesterol in consumers' blood. And that leads to heart attacks. So doctors advised us to cut back on meat and get to know vegetables.
Then it was carcinogens. As meat is grilled, cancer-causing chemicals called heterocyclic amines form on its surface, suggesting an explanation for the higher cancer rates in meat-eaters, compared with vegetarians. Chicken turned out to produce much higher levels of carcinogens than beef.
Then it was chemicals. Studies showed that mercury, other heavy metals, and various pesticides show up in animal tissues. Suddenly, fish was our worst nightmare: State and federal monitoring agencies issued strong warnings, especially for children and for women in their reproductive years. Vegetables could be washed or peeled, but that wasn't possible with fish or other meats.
Health Risks Of Meat
5:40 AM Vegetarian
Meat Too Tough to Eat by Neal Barnard, M.D.
It's come to this. In mid-August, the Food and Drug Administration approved the spraying of live viruses onto poultry and meat products. The virus spray, manufactured by a Baltimore company called Intralytix, contains six different viral strains designed to kill listeria, a germ that sickens an estimated 2,500 Americans yearly. Meat companies do not have to inform consumers which products have been treated and which have not.
As a doctor, I would like to call for a reality check.
Decades ago, we learned that the fat and cholesterol in meat boost the amount of cholesterol in consumers' blood. And that leads to heart attacks. So doctors advised us to cut back on meat and get to know vegetables.
Then it was carcinogens. As meat is grilled, cancer-causing chemicals called heterocyclic amines form on its surface, suggesting an explanation for the higher cancer rates in meat-eaters, compared with vegetarians. Chicken turned out to produce much higher levels of carcinogens than beef.
Then it was chemicals. Studies showed that mercury, other heavy metals, and various pesticides show up in animal tissues. Suddenly, fish was our worst nightmare: State and federal monitoring agencies issued strong warnings, especially for children and for women in their reproductive years. Vegetables could be washed or peeled, but that wasn't possible with fish or other meats.
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