Dear Readers, I received a letter this week that is written in Greek that I have translated and would like to share with you. It is from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and it is addressed to: all my brothers and sisters living in the 21st century. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For many years I have longed to see you. I have heard a great deal about you and all the marvelous things you are doing.

News have reached me that your scientific and technological advances are phenomenal. You have at your disposal automobiles so luxurious that the average man in my day would never have conceived such a possibility. I have heard about your ingenious skyscrapers and huge builders. I understand some folks become a bit dizzy and faint, just looking up at them. It boggles my mind just contemplating the fascinating achievements you have attained.

It is my understanding that your medical strides has made it possible for you to cure in the twinkling of an eye, the plagues and diseases that would destroy us by the thousands. All of this is wonderful. You can do so much more in your day than I could do in the Greco-Roman world of my day. Your educational facilities and advantages are superb and beyond compare to any other time in human history. You can travel distances in 5 days that in my day, required 5 years. All of this is marvelous.

And what is this I hear about that high-tech deluxe jumbo jet called Air Force One. I’m told it’s a floating mansion with sophisticated and extensive electronics. You have computers and cellular phones that make it possible for you to contact just about anybody in the world while cruising tens of thousands of feet in the air. All of this is simply fabulous.

Let me not forget to mention that I have also heard, but can hardly believe, that scientists have successfully cloned animals and human cloning is not far off.

I am a staunch believer in progress. I believe in development, I believe in growth and advancement. I think all of these are splendid. But I wonder if your moral and spiritual progress has kept up with your scientific and technological progress. From what I have been hearing, your spiritual progress lags far behind your technological progress. It seems to me that you have plenty of talent - but very little ethics; lots of gossip - but little Gospel; prey on bad news - ignore God’s good news; play too much - pray too little; fine houses - very few homes; lots of lust - very little love; talk too much - testify too little; lots of churches - few temples of God; lots of formality - little spirituality; lots of beliefs - no faith. And what are these Situation Ethics I keep hearing about? In my day it was, children obey your parents. But it seems like you all have changed it to; parents obey your children.

I am proud to hear America, that through your political genius you have managed to make your world a neighborhood. I understand that you have been able to establish working relationships with far away countries and that is beautiful. But it is tragic that with all you have at your disposal; you have failed to make it a Brotherhood.

Oh yes, my brothers and sisters, you have managed to produce the ultimate in scientific knowledge. In my day in my wildest imagination, we never would have thought of the invention of nuclear bombs; that deadly weapon that can be dropped from a plane on the heads of millions of people and can set the whole world on fire with the press of a button.

You live in an age of technological genius. But I also heard the other day that you live in an age of longing, age of anxiety, age of suspicion and fear. You live in an age in which people are afraid to defend the faith for fear of offending disbelievers; an age of compromise and acceptance and tolerance for the intolerable. You live in an age where all representations of Christianity in the work place, schools, community and government offices are considered inappropriate and to be reserved for the private home environment only. So it seems like you have plenty of genius but no wisdom. Therefore I find it necessary to write to you to remind you; in the midst of all your great knowledge and advancement, of the responsibility laid upon you to represent Jesus Christ in the times in which you live.

In a time when man’s inhumanity to man has reached chaotic proportions and destroying the very foundation of ethical values, we need those who are willing to take a stand for Jesus Christ.

You are the salt of the earth; you are able to be a light in the midst of a dark world. You have become one the richest nations under the sun. You live in a land that flows with milk and honey. You have eaten from grapes that you did not plant; you live in homes that you did not build, and yet I hear the painful cries of people all over the world dying of starvation.

Therefore I, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, deem it necessary to write to you to inform you that God is still sovereign Lord. It seems to me you depend more on pills than you depend on God. I understand you have invented pills to come in all shapes and sizes, all colors and taste. You have a pill for just about everything. But it is strange that out of all those pills, there is not one that will prevent a person from lying and cheating, stealing and killing.

Well, that being said brothers and sisters; I encourage you to take a stand for the Lord. Live or die, survive or perish, stand on the solid foundation of Jesus Christ. “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. (Ephesians 6:10-18. NIV)

Now to him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen. (Romans 16:25-27 NIV).

Rev. Saundra L. Washington, D.D., is an ordained clergywoman, social worker, and Founder of AMEN Ministries. http://www.clergyservices4u.org. She is also the author of two coffee table books: Room Beneath the Snow: Poems that Preach and Negative Disturbances: Homilies that Teach. Her new book, Out of Deep Waters: A Grief Healing Workbook, will be available soon.

Breathing Out

Often first timers exhale directly back into the bong, after sucking in. This of course is a fatal mistake to make as it will push the water back up the pipe giving you wet smoke.

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This is a good way to begin smoking if you are new, remove the reservoir from the pipe, thus exposing the tube to the outside air pressure, this allows you to inhale easier. This will result in a better high.

Please note: Some plastic bongs will have this aperture separate from the tube.

Packing the Bong

When packing the bowl it’s important to consider:

• How much a person usually smokes? You don’t want your friends passed out after a few puffs!
• The quality of smoke? If the smoke is really good you will not need much, if its low quality, pack it in!
• How many are sharing? it’s dead boring having to wait an eternity for the hookah pipe to go round because it is over packed every round.
• Is there enough stuff available? How much time are you smoking for? It isn’t easily available and it sucks running out! If your supplies are low, reduce the amount used accordingly.
• Are you the host? Ask how much people want in each bowl Some people can get upset.

Golden Rules

Never knock over the bong, the water will stink for hours perhaps even weeks. Don’t forget, if you break the hookah pipe you will be in trouble! It doesn’t matter how much you breathe in, always treat the water pipe with respect!

Finish your load, you will know when it’s finished. The bong will be empty and the pipe is smokeless. Never waste any!

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Great writing transports one vicariously to realms that the reader would not otherwise experience.

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Another region is the pschological realm: Again great writing conveys us into the minds of characters giving us a better understanding of our motives, our passions, our wants, and our needs. Crime and Punishment is a good example.

Then there is the sociological realm where great writing gets the reader involved in the world of crime, or romance, or poverty, or wealth, and many other social situations, problems and solutions. Charles Dickens was such a writer.

The cultural region is another area where great writing has an impact, particularly authors from other ethnicities that help us to understand the mores and viewpoints that are different.

Finally we enter the political sphere. Here again, great writing points out the good and bad of different ideologies, political parties, governments. It introduces us to the search for power and influence, the good and the bad, the acceptable and the unacceptable.

Great writing occurs in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, etc. Great writers abound, and each reader has his or her favorite.

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Reading the screen differs from reading the printed sources. It may hurt the pride of online writers, but users seldom take pains to read their works attentively. As a rule, the users just scan text looking for the key words or phrases. The research of the five most popular writing styles at Sun Microsystems laboratory showed that the usability of an average web site increases by 53% if the text is brief and concise; by 27% - if the text is easy to scan, by 47% if the text is written in “informative” style and is not another piece of blunt advertising. The results prompt the web writers what text they should produce to be read. Another issue is how to produce it. This article gives several helpful recommendations in this direction.

First, remember five simple rules: present information in logical blocks; use clear and commonly-used words; write little, but to the point; give special attention to the first phrases of the paragraphs; allocate a separate paragraph to every new idea. Second, be cautious with humor. It is a tricky thing. People have a different sense of humor and that is why in every particular case a writer should have a clear idea what people make up the site’s audience. Knowing your target audience will help you to include relevant jokes and tell the story in the appropriate style. Surely it is not easy, as people of different ages, nationalities, religion etc visit your site. Sometimes it is risky to include puns in the text as the foreign users may not be able to understand them at all. Third, the text should be easy to scan. To save the search time, at first users just scan the text, but don’t read it as a whole. Scanning can be facilitated with headings, lists, hyperlinks in the text, graphics, italicized words, and main sentences, as well as list of contents. Users need to find and get the information quickly.

They have no time for verbose digressions. That is why the shorter text the better. You should come to the point from the first sentences of your text. According to the research many users like when contents or some kind of annotation precede the text. It is more convenient for them first to get acquainted with the contents and then to choose the necessary items and read them more thoroughly. Present news in the style of “inverted pyramid”. At first you present the news with conclusions, and then come the details. Such approach allows to get the necessary information immediately and captures the readers’ attention. Text and graphics make up a strong and efficient combination but only if they influence the reader’s perception in synchrony. Graphics that adds nothing to the text just diverts the reader’s attention.

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The largest online article submission website on the Internet recently started to include this data and I think it is really cool to see and compare for the authors. And as far as article views, perhaps what is more important is how often one’s articles are picked up around the internet and used for ezine newsletters.

For instance I only have 1.30 Million article views, but I have 21,000 ezine publisher captures so my true article views around the internet could be more like 10 million. And if other top authors who may have a niche which is so specific perhaps they may not have such a high number of article views, they would still be substantial for them and are probably super in that they peg the exact type of reader he intends to reach.

So if an author has over 100K article views and his articles are also all over the Internet, because they are great articles, then he could well be looking at a multiple of 10 or 1 million plus. Indeed this online article submission venue format that Ezinearticles has created and produced is exceptional in so many ways. Consider this in 2006.

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Every writer has to cope with dry periods. The creative mind has to be in a receptive mood before a piece of writing can be initiated. My favorite method to break the stalemate is to talk to strangers or friends, introducing various topics and promoting discussions. Every experience I have had in life can be matched by memories of another person. It is the different perspective that lends truth to a story and triggers the writing process. The more people you contact whom are willing to rap about their experiences, the more fodder you will get for your writing.

If your conversation partner absolutely disagrees with your personal opinions, you can write about the different sides of an argument. If they have had similar experiences to yours, you can write about serendipity or expand on the topic with refreshed ammunition. It always surprises me when I discover a stranger’s take on a situation, priorities that differ widely and results that stretch the imagination.

An empathetic attitude is helpful when drawing out personal experiences from a virtual stranger. No-one likes to be in the wrong or made to feel that they made a bad decision in life. Sympathetic noises fuel the conversation and prompt deeper revelations than otherwise likely. I have found that most conversations of this sort have opened up new vistas in my thinking and have even spurred me to higher levels of enlightened thought.

Just a newbie writer.