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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Hymn to the tune of Edelweiss

The Edelweiss flower growing high up in the Swiss Alps

Source: http://www.ofspiritandsoul.com

What are the words of the hymn sung to the tune of Edelweiss?

I spent some time looking for this particular hymn sung to the tune of Edelweiss that I remembered hearing.

It took quite a bit of searching but I finally found the lyrics to this unique hymn, along with a few other church songs and blessings which can be sung using the popular Edelweiss tune.

If you are a fan of The Sound Of Music, then you will know that "Edelweiss" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The original song is named after the edelweiss, a white flower found high in the Alps.

Unto You Who Believe

These are the words of the hymn"Unto You Who Believe" which is sung to the tune of Edelweiss.

Unto you who believe,

Jesus Christ is precious.

He's the same yesterday,

This day and forever.

He's the Way, the Truth, The Life

He's the King of Glory.

Praise the Lord, O my soul,

This day and forever.

God Of Love

Another hymn that can be sung to the tune of Edelweiss is "God Of Love" -

God of Love, God of Love,

Fill my heart with your pleasure.

Let me share, let me care,

Let me love without measure.

Mother of Love, let me be like you:

Kind and true, forever.

God of Love, God of Love,

Love me now and forever.

God of Light, God of Light,

Hold my life in your keeping,

Let me find peace of mind,

Guard me waking and sleeping.

Father of Light, guide me every day,

All the way, forever.

God of Light, God of Light,

Lead me onward, forever.

Other blessings sung to the tune of Edelweiss

This is another blessing sung to the Edelweiss tune -

May the Lord, Mighty God

Bless and Keep you Forever,

Grant you Peace, Perfect Peace,

Perfect in Every Endeavor.

Lift Up Your Eyes and See His Face,

And His Grace Forever.

May the Lord Mighty God,

Bless and Keep you Forever.

Similar Benediction sung to the tune of Edelweiss -

May the Lord, Mighty Lord, bless and keep you forever;

Grant us peace, perfect peace, courage in every endeavor.

Lift up your eyes and see His face, and His grace forever.

May the Lord, Mighty Lord, Bless and keep you forever.

Eidelweiss Table Grace

There's also a couple of versions that you can use for singing Grace to the tune of the song Edelweiss-

Bless our friends, bless our food,

Come, Oh Lord, and sit with us.

Make our talk grow with peace,

Come with Your love to surround us.

Friendship and peace, may you bloom and grow,

Bloom and grow forever.

Bless our friends, bless our food,

Bless our homeland forever.

Amen.

Bless our friends, Bless our food,

Come, O Lord, and sit with us.

May our talk glow with peace.

May your love surround us.

Friendship and love, may it

Bloom and grow,

Bloom and grow forever.

Bless our friends, Bless our food,

Come, O Lord, and sit with us.

Amen.

The distinctive white mountain flower served as inspiration for the famous song "Edelweiss" which is sung in The Sound Of Music.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Waking Up At Your Own Funeral

Read these articles about people waking up during their own funeral...

Woman wakes up during her own funeral and dies of shock - http://www.newser.com/story/121844/woman-wakes-up-at-own-funeral-dies-of-shock.html

'Dead" man wakes at his funeral - http://www.smh.com.au/world/strangebuttrue/dead-man-wakes-up-at-his-own-funeral-20120513-1ykcl.html

Boy wakes up at his own funeral and sits up in his coffin - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/dead-boy-wakes-up-at-his-own-funeral-864816

- also read Waking Up During Autopsy and Waking Up During Surgery.

Waking Up During Autopsy

People who have woken up during their own autopsy...

"Dead man" wakes up during his own autopsy in pain - http://funkydowntown.com/dead-man-wakes-up-during-autopsy-because-of-unbearable-pain/

Man wakes up to find himself on the autopsy table - http://digitaljournal.com/article/285463

Man waking up during autopsy - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-482705/Dead-man-wakes-autopsy.html

Waking up at the morgue - http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/dead-indian-man-manas-deo-wakes-autopsy-car-accident-article-1.196890

Tales of people coming back from the dead - http://theweek.com/article/index/228986/7-bizarre-tales-of-people-coming-back-from-the-dead

- also read Waking Up During Anesthesia about people who have woken up during surgery, and Waking Up At Your Own Funeral.

Waking Up During Anesthetic - Anesthesia Awareness During Surgery

Anesthesia awareness, or unintended intra-operative awareness occurs during general anesthesia, on the operating table, when the patient has not been given enough of the general anesthetic to render the patient unconscious during general anesthesia. These articles will tell you all about waking up during surgery and experiences of what anesthesia awareness feels like.

Find out why some people wake up during surgery - https://theconversation.edu.au/why-some-people-wake-up-during-surgery-7059

Read about this person who woke up during an operation - http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/26/11413296-man-wakes-during-surgery-my-worst-nightmare?lite

This man tells of his experience waking up during surgery - http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/man-wakes-pain-mid-surgery-unable-doctors-stop-operating-article-1.1067618

In this article the woman talks about her anesthesia awareness and being able to feel the surgeon operating on her - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453926,00.html

The woman in this article explains how she could feel and hear things while under anesthesia / anesthetic - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-537510/I-awake-feel--I-paralysed-speak-Pass-scalpel-said-surgeon-.html

This article explores how likely it is to wake up during surgery - http://www.news-medical.net/news/2008/02/17/35286.aspx

- also read Waking Up During Autopsy and Waking Up At Your Own Funeral.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

How To Get Rid Of Image Borders and Shadows In Blogger

Do you want to know how to remove the lines or border around the pictures on Blogspot? I was getting really frustrated with the messy looking shadow and outline around all my blog photos and I was looking to find out how do I remove the photo borders on Blogger...

Well, this is the easiest way that I found to make your blog look cleaner by removing the outlines on the photos you post on your blog. Many of the other methods I found were a lot more complicated and required you to remove lines of the html code and find and add bits of coding in different places... but this was the most simple method of taking away the photo borders on blogger that can often make your site pages look cluttered, especially if you post a lot of images on your blog. Follow these steps and you will have no borders around your blogspot images in a couple of minutes! I couldn't believe how easy it was after searching through so many complicated methods of doing it...

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All you need to do with this simple method that I found is to go to your Blogger dashboard, click the Template tab on the left hand side and then click the orange Customize button.

Now you will be in the template design sheet/page - choose the Advanced option link on the left hand menu and then scroll to the bottom of the new menu that comes up and click on "Add CSS". In the white box, just simply add (copy & paste) the following code:

.post-body img, .post-body .tr-caption-container, .Profile img, .Image img,
.BlogList .item-thumbnail img {
padding: none !important;
border: none !important;
background: none !important;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px transparent !important;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px transparent !important;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px transparent !important;
}

Just make sure you hit Enter after you put it in. Lastly, click Apply To Blog and you're all done! So easy to do! No real stuffing around with more code than you need to. Just paste it in and it's complete.

Monday, November 26, 2012

How To Put Links In Blogger Comments - HTML for leaving a link in the comment section of Blogspot blogs

Do you want to know how to put a link to your blog in the comments section of Blogspot blogs?

Here is a link to the html code (the link below has the text in bold red and is the easiest example to follow that I found after quite a bit of searching) that you can use to link your own blog at the end of the comments that you leave on your favourite blogs you read...

http://www.thebexter.com/2010/09/blogger-tip-how-to-put-link-in-blogger.html

It's useful also if you want to link to a particular post within your blog that pertains to the comment that you leave rather than simply a link to your home page.

Remember to also change the second lot of text that will be the text that will be displayed as the hyperlink - in most cases you will want this to be the name/title of your blog but you could also use My Blog or My Blog Link or anything else that you desire to point readers of your comment towards your own link.

Hope that was helpful. It always works for me. Have fun blogging :) Also, feel free to leave a link to your own blog here to promote your blog to others.

Friday, November 23, 2012

Rainbow melted crayon melting art colorful IPad MINI cover case

http://www.zazzle.com/rainbow_melting_crayon_art_ipad_mini_cover_case-256530067522322559?CMPN=addthis&lang=en&rf=238601235094569588

Rainbow melting crayon art IPad MINI cover case by scarletquill
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Click Frenzy website crash - Click Frenzy Gate

The Click Frenzy online shopping mega sale site website has been unable to cope with the massive amount of traffic upon launching about an hour ago and has been down ever since. Looks like it's back to bricks & mortar for Aussie retailers! Cyber Monday fail, Australia.

http://shopitsnazzy.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/click-frenzy-online-mega-sale-australia.html

Monday, October 22, 2012

If You Think I'm Cute You Should See My Auntie ...and... If You Think I'm Good Looking You Should See My Uncle tshirts

Looking for cute "If you think I'm cute you should see my Auntie" or "If you think I'm handsome you should see my Uncle" t shirts? You can find them on Zazzle.

These make the best gifts for nephews and nieces and they are available in a variety of baby, toddler and kids sizes. You can also choose from a great selection of colours.