Violet Yates's Blog, page 4
April 10, 2018
Matthew 24
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eaglesbe gathered together. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe (Noah) were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him hisportion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
April 8, 2018
Help me bring my cat, Sibeal, back to Hawaii
https://www.gofundme.com/bring-my-cat-back-to-hawaii
I am attempting to bring my beloved cat, Sibeal, back to Hawaii with me, as I am very ill and cannot spend another winter here in Upstate New York. Hawaii has a bunch of regulations about bringing animals into the state, as there are diseases that don’t exist there, such as rabies. I recently discovered that her first vaccine is expired and she needs two vaccines to enter the direct release program. Quarantine would cost me at least $1000, if she doesn’t get both. She only had one shot and it’s expired, which invalidates the shot for Hawaii. There are a bunch of other steps, such as blood tests and microchip, to be done in a certain order. Also, there are processing fees to pay to state of Hawaii. I am disabled on a fixed income and some of these things I will have a difficult time affording.
My baby means so much to me. Sibeal is my one constant in my life, my emotional support, and it would break my heart to leave her behind. If anyone can help, I would be so grateful. You would be helping keep a family together.
Aloha and God bless you.
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April 3, 2018
October 21, 2017
October 16, 2017
Me too
Me too. #metoo
If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote “Me too” as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.
[If this applies to you and you feel comfortable doing so, please copy to your own status.]
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: awareness, enough, sexual assault, sexual harassment, Weinstein
October 14, 2017
Drawing a Line in the Sand
I watched Eminem’s freestyle rap against Trump on the BET Awards the other day and loved it. He really hits the nail on the head with his lyrics. Anyone who has really listened to Eminem knows that he raps about topics such as social injustice and drug addiction. He speaks truth. With this rap, he is speaking of things which millions of people have been already saying, but with his voice, it is amplified. He is in a sense speaking for us all: those of us who are sick of the way things are going in this country.
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: bet awards, eminem, Las Vegas, NFL, trump
October 11, 2017
Writing and Depression
It has been a long time since I have blogged, or written anything, really. See, I suffer from depression and it’s often hard for me to find any words to say. I used to at least write poetry. But it seems that in the last couple years even poetry doesn’t work for me. I take antidepressants and I feel it stills my creativity. But if I didn’t take them, I wouldn’t be able to function.
Lately, I have been fighting this lack of writing by signing up for a writing class. So far, it is slow going and the ideas aren’t exactly flowing. I feel stunted and flat. This struggle is real, yet I will keep trying.
Depression is like a deep, dark hole that my mind and body gets sucked into, like a time warp where nothing else exists. That’s without medication. But even with it, it’s hard to do simple things, like prepare food and clean the house. I keep my life pretty simple, try not to add a lot of stress to my day. I am part of an online support group. It helps to be able to talk to people who are going through this.
Filed under: Uncategorized
August 28, 2016
Left Behind
Try as I might
I cannot fight
This feeling of a broken heart
Lost to distance, torn apart
Struggling through the days
Trapped in so many ways
Memories on fire
Striking chords on the wire
Wishing to embrace
Longing to see your face
No longer to delight
In your presence, your sight
Nor to experience your beloved eccentricity
In effect, to be absent entirely
I stare at the world out there
Strangers without a care
And miss the beauty I left behind.
Filed under: Writing
May 17, 2015
Silence
You come around
With all your sweet lies
And I accept them
In between sighs
Knowing that I
Soon
Will have to fortify
Against them and you
Since I am aware
You are untrue
In some fashion
For how am I to believe?
When you do not receive
Myself
When I am presented to you?
You instead provide passable regard
One would provide an estranged friend
Little affection or love’s reward
Why should we not end?
Filed under: Poetry, Writing Tagged: disappointment, estrangement, goodbye, lies, loss, love, poetry, sadness, Violet Yates
