Friends, Magazines, and the Yahoo/Google battle

Friends
Wow, my internet friends are awesome. They made me feel so much better yesterday.
First, Karla shared this scripture with me. I have some of them underlined in my Bible now.

Proverbs 19:15 and following:
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless man goes hungry.
16. He who obeys instructions guards his life, but he who is contemptuous of his ways will die.
17. He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward him for what he has done.
18. Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death.

Certainly I am teaching my son the importance of hard work so I can bring hope to his life (through my recent discipline of him during his Eagle project). My husband and I exclaim all the time how it seems the younger generations are just not taught to work hard. It is so evident in so many ways. Of course, we cannot lump all of the people into this, but we see evidence of it being more common in younger people.

Of course, we can teach our boys to be hard workers and we can be examples of that, but after that, it is out of our hands. We can only hope that what we teach our children sinks in.

Verse 16 indicates the importance of obeying instructions. Taken out of context, this verse would speak to my son to obey me (I thought it interesting that yesterday I used the word “instruction” several times and now that word is here in God’s Word). But that is not what it means. Leaving it in context, it points us to God and the Ten Commandments. Those are the instructions that were given us. By “life” and “die” it is referring to separation from God forever after our bodies die. We must remember that these are Old Testament verses and God’s promises to us in the New Testament of life eternal through believing in Him surmount any failure in obeying the commandments. However, we should still obey His commandments.

And in the end, this verse the just leads us to the commandment to obey your father and mother.

Verse 17 also speaks to me. It helps me remember that what I do for others, I am doing for the Lord. This will be a great verse to share with the boys as I encourage them to get to know my Little.



Next, Lori made a layout for me yesterday to encourage me. When I saw it, it brought tears of warm fuzzies to me. Here it is.







Magazines
Last night we had a discussion in the Yahoo group regarding three changes coming to the scrapping magazine world. It seems that the magazine world is finally catching onto this digiscrapping craze.

1) It appears that the magazine Scrapbook Answers will be issuing it's last publication in November.

2)Creative Memories is closing a traditional scrapbooking facility and making the move toward putting out a digital scrapbooking magazine.

3) Simple Scrapbooks has purchase Clara Wallace's magazine.

Just as I posted about Google swallowing up Youtube, I wonder if someday in the near future the bigger magazine companies will swallow up some of the current online digital shops. With the way our economy works, I believe this is a strong possibility. Some of these ladies who started their online shops from nothing in their own homes may someday be very happy people with big pocket books.

However, as pointed out in our group, with the ability to create our own elements so easily, surely they cannot drive the prices of scrapping kits and elements up. I would just create my own instead.

Yahoo/Google Battle
One last note for this morning. When I logged into my Yahoo e-mail this morning, I was again offered to test out the beta e-mail. I switched back last time only because everything was so small and I could not read it. They have made a few more changes, though. For instance, they now have RSS right in your inbox. I have that on my Outlook now, but that might be handy to set up on Yahoo where it can go with me anywhere.

Here is the website to see the previews. It appears that the Yahoo vs. Google wars continue.

When I get time, I will post a page about RSS. I know many of my friends do not know about it, but I love it!