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Dad has accident with machete, four year old daughter saves his life

Here’s a story of a brave little girl who saw that her daddy had an accident with a machete. Ya, there was blood. Pops was dying.

Last week — when she was still three — her dad was out back cutting up a tree that had fallen in the ice storm. He was using his machete on some branches. He accidentally cut his right arm near the wrist — his artery, nerves, tendons.

The mom, Andrea Powers, was at work. The neighbors were not at home.

The little girl’s name is Elisha. And Elisha had a little sister.

Shawn ended up sitting on the front porch with Elisha and her younger sister, Elaina. He was trying to stop the bleeding with his left hand, and unable to pick up the phone with either hand to call 911.

But he and his wife had taught Elisha how to do it.

“I knew she was my only option,” Shawn said, “my last option, basically.”

She called 911. Teaching her how to unlock the cell phone and dial the number was a good idea, I guess. They had just taught her too. She was describing what she did. She also said this:

“I put [the phone] in Daddy’s ear and then he talked to the police and then I was crying. And then I was really brave.”

Her dad also said this:

“She did great,” Shawn said. “I mean, she was very calm the whole time. I could see her, she was tearing up and everything, but she wasn’t crazy crying, screaming and everything. It’s like she knew there was something important that she had to do and she was going to do it.”

“I remember her saying, ‘I don’t want to lose my daddy, I don’t want to lose my family,’ it’s like she knew this was a way that she could help me. So I was really, really proud of her.”

It’s a good thing she kept her cool. The morale of the story is: It’s never too early to teach your kids how to function in an emergency. Sure, they’re young. You can only pray that, in the right moment, they’ll be able to pull through with their “training”.

The whole story can be read here.

-DALANEL

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Wednesday Word: Don’t Steal

Yes, it’s one of the ten commandments. Don’t steal. And yet, we as a people, struggle with this. Watch the video:

Good stuff in there. My thoughts:

Stealing is the result of something. In order for us to avoid stealing, we need to understand why we steal. We steal because we want. And, in most cases, this want takes the form of greed. Or lust. Or whatever type of desire.

So, if we can manage those types of emotions, we are less likely to steal. You don’t take the risk of stealing if you really didn’t want it.

Of course, some people steal because they can. They may steal simply because they are that controlled by the devil’s voice. Yes, the devil cannot make you do anything. But, he’s a smooth talker.

So, as the end of the video calls for, let’s give.

-DALANEL

Monday Motivation: Eat a little healthier

Aw shucks! We could use a healthy meal.

Eat something healthy today. I mean really make an effort to learn the nutritional value of what you’re eating.

Screw the diet. It really is a lifestyle change. Okay, so I have mentioned in the past how the sooner I get to heaven, the better. However, I’m sure there are a lot of you people that would love to be 100 and strong. Eating right, right now, is the best way to go.

*decides against apple a day keeps the doctor away joke that would be so bad WordPress would just shut DALANEL down forever*

I can’t tell you what to do. Only you know if you really shouldn’t be eating what you normally eat. Remember this though: All things in moderation.

Peace…of cake…

Oh darn, a bad joke!

-DALANEL

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Daniel’s Opinion: Do you think the male sex drive will slow down?

Yo, what’s good? It’s ya boy, Danny, taking over the opinion post for this week. And a couple of things before we get started. For one, Dante’s opinion is useless. Trust me. You’ll love my thoughts. Second, Dallas T may have the most liked opinion piece on the blog; but that’s about to change.

Yeah, it’s on.

This question is from JustSaying2000:

When will robots finally replace humans?

I see it more and more, i go to factory’s and i see robots doing the jobs that humans once did! For example go to any grocery store and you will see automatic cash register’s instead of a human cashier, although there is still one human monitering the machines so they do not malfunction. I used to work at factory’s and i ask about the machines that they run, and the older senior’s in their 40’s and up tell me how there used to be 60 people running a line and now there’s like 12 to 20 max on a good day sense the machines do the jobs that workers once did, the packaging and wrapping of products, even in restaurants the dishwasers are being more and more replaced by automatic dishwashers. You don’t even need to go to the bank and talk to someone about a withdraw since there are atm’s. It’s almost scary how fast technology is replacing humanity, the more we advance the less we need some TYPE of humans. I guess you could say in the future only a few select human’s will be able to survive in this technological world, we wont need this so called worker bee’s like in nature, let’s face it some humans are just grunts or worker bee’s in the future their mundayne work will be replacable by robots that will do it for little to no cost and more effective. When will we expect such an obvious transformation to take place?

Ya know what? I’m not sure. Some could argue that there will always be people around to monitor the robots. I’m not convinced. I bet one day, robots will eliminate humans. Humans are going to make the robots too sophisticated and then it’s all over. I recently read somewhere that there’s some work going into a robot that could deliver pizza. Right to your front door. F that.

When? I don’t know. I don’t think in my lifetime though and I’m pretty young.

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Wednesday Word: God is with you

Okay, it’s time for anther Wednesday Word. Let’s get started with this video:

Good stuff, Adrianna. Alright, so she talked about how, no matter what, God is with us.

One way to look at it is that it’s the Holy Spirit. For Christians, when we say yes to Jesus, His spirit comes to live in us. So, He’s with us wherever we go. Like she said, even in our darkest, loneliest hour, God is right there.

She nailed it. Just remember that not only is God with you, but He’s in you.

-DALANEL

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Monday Motivation: Give Something

Today, we’re going to attempt to give something. It can be a kind word. It could be money. A hug. Give something that you wouldn’t mind receiving.

That saying “What goes around, comes around” was always corny to me. But, if it helps you give a little more, then use it until you drop.

So go! Give something special. Not special. But, you better mean it.

Those are the rules.

-DALANEL