We have the exclusive world premiere of Houston’s own gospel recording artist, author and radio show host Yolanda Adams’ new video, “Be Still”! Watch the video below as Yolanda gives us a glimpse into her day-to-day life while making sure she finds time to “Be Still”.

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The petition has already gained nearly 18,000 signatures since its launch. Weider hopes to get the attention of the magazine’s biggest advertisers and the Federal Trade Commission chairman. “I have girls writing me letters how Cosmo has negatively affected them. One of the biggest problems young girls face today is “the pressure to be sexual and sexy,”” Weider told The Christian Post. She said he has received over 200 letters from girls about pressure they feel from the magazine to have sex at a young age.”

“With our Change.org petition, we simply ask that the magazine admit its content is not appropriate for young girls, stop putting teens on the cover and put the magazine in a non-transparent wrapper. It’s that simple. If you aren’t marketing to teen girls, then this request shouldn’t be an issue.”

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To spotlight this, Weider pointed out that they most recently featured 17-year-old Dakota Fanning on this month’s cover, right alongside a cover line, “Too Naughty to Say Here. But You Have to Try This Sex Trick.”

Disney favorite 19-year-old Selena Gomez has also been reported as the cover model on an upcoming issue. Weider asks, “If the magazine is truly not targeting an underage audience, why would it put teen heroines on the cover?” She also cited the magazine’s new 2012 design, featuring less text, bigger font and brighter colors as proof that it is targeting young girls. Overtly adult content in magazines requires that publications be sold in non-transparent wrappers and only to consumers who are over the age of 18. Yet Cosmo, with cover articles featuring graphic sexuality and sex tips, claims that its publication is targeted to readers who are of age.

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Weider explained, “In recent issues the editors of Cosmo have urged their readers to sext, participate in anal sex, accept cheating boyfriends, have public sex, try three-somes, and visit pornographic websites with the URLS conveniently provided. This subject matter should not be available to minors.” Expressing frustration with the magazine, she said on her website, “As most of you know I’m a strong Christian; I really believe in God and I also believe in the devil and I believe in the enemy. This magazine has the devil written all over it because he wants to kill and destroy young girls’ hearts and minds and cosmopolitan is just a vessel for that.” You can check out her protest and how you can act on: Anti-Cosmo petition

The American Psychological Association’s 2010 study, titled “Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls,” suggests that the proliferation of sexual images of girls in the media is harming and impeding healthy development, self-image and body-image, and is now linked to common mental health problems including eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression.

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The trouble started a few days before Christmas, when the husband, Antonio, 99, was searching through an old chest of drawers and found some letters that his wife, Rosa, 96, had written to a secret lover. He became so upset by his discovery—even though the affair had happened way back in the 1940s!—that he immediately told Rosa he wanted a divorce. She tried to convince him otherwise, but there was no dissuading the cuckolded Antonio.

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The break-up will no doubt be upsetting to the couples five children, 12 grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild, who must have come to take their elders’ marriage for granted since it’s lasted for the better part of eight decades! Though they did have a small hint of trouble ten years ago when Antonio and Rosa hit a rough patch. Antonio briefly moved to live with one of his sons, but he moved back in with Rosa a few weeks later. This split—if it ends up going through—will beat the previous old person divorce record, which was held by a British couple, Bertie and Jessie Wood, who ended their marriage when they were 98. But they’d only been married for 36 years, which certainly pales in comparison to Rosa and Antonio’s 77-year union.

Wow,this is sad.

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Frank Gaffney, president of the American Center for Security Policy, didn’t mince words against the group — likening the OIC to a “multi-national Muslim mafia.It is 57 states and Palestine that have come together to promote what is fundamentally the agenda that is known as Sharia,” he explained.

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Religious rights groups say the U.N. resolution is really designed to prevent criticism of Islam and give cover to Islamic Sharia-based blasphemy laws like those in Pakistan.

Each day becomes an opportunity to gently take note of what you are discovering about where you are on your spiritual path. For just a few moments each day, take notice of the lessons you are exploring. For some it is owning up to our anger and pain, admitting imperfections. For others it is being more compassionate with yourself and others, and for many it will be learning how to get ourselves back on track.

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To be a spiritual person means to keep your eyes open for how to become an even finer vessel in the future. This year’s holiday stresses will give you some valuable information–make sure you aren’t numbed out by food, drink, or shopping binges so that you can notice and build upon the insights you will be receiving at this often-advertised “most wonderful time of the year.”

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Here are five ways you can exercise it:

1. Stop ignoring the evil you encounter. The older I get, the easier it is to close my eyes to poverty, pain, injustice, and evil. I can order my life, so that I am never put in a position of seeing anything unpleasant. I can look without seeing. I’m continue to pray daily that “God gives me eyes to see and ears to hear.” You can’t be a change agent if you don’t perceive the needs around you.
2. Stop over-thinking your response to it. I have an author friend who has a policy about giving to homeless people. He told me, “Every time I used to encounter a homeless person, I would go through all kinds of mental gyrations. If I give money to this person, will they just use it to buy alcohol or drugs? Why don’t they just get a job? Maybe it would be better if I offered them some work rather than just give them money?”Then he read the words of Matthew 5:42, “Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.” He then decided to make a deal with God. Now, whenever he encounters a homeless person or a beggar, he gives them all the cash in his pocket. Sometimes that’s two dollars. Sometimes it’s a hundred. Regardless, he decided to stop over-thinking it and start living the Gospel. The money he gives is his gift to God. While I may not be able to do everything, I can do something. And something is usually better than nothing.
3. Stop complaining about your lack of resources. Erin couldn’t get the school to give books to her students. So, she got a second job and bought the books herself. The students wanted to bring Miep Gies, the Dutch woman whose family hid Anne Frank and her family, to the school to lecture. The school didn’t have the budget, so the students held a series of fund-raisers to come up with the money.What’s my excuse? No matter what my station in life is, it’s easy to think I don’t have enough resources. My guess is that even Bill Gates feels inadequate in the face of the needs he encounters. Resources are never—and I mean never—the problem. The biggest challenge is simply my will to act.
4. Start asking, “What is the right thing to do?” Let’s face it. The world needs heroes. It needs people who will be courageous and act on principle. But where can we find such people? Maybe the answer is closer than we think. The truth is it can start—and must start—with us.God has providentially put each of us exactly where we are. We need to ask, “Why am I here?” “What does God want me to do in this situation?” “What is the right thing to do?”
5. Be in the moment and act. I can’t afford to wait for my circumstances to be perfect. I will never have enough experience. I will never have the resources I need. I need to stop whining and just do it! Someone else is waiting for a hero. I may be the best opportunity they have. I may be their answer to prayer.

So, you may not be able to help everyone. But you can help someone. You have more power than you can imagine.

Here are stories about people  “Doing Something” in their world this  year.

• Walmart Gives Back: Huge Gift To Catholic Charities To Reduce Poverty
• Cable Companies To Offer $9.95/Month For Internet To Poor Families
• Community College Of Philadelphia Creates Center To Help Black Male Students
• “Courageous” Calls Men Of Honor To Stand Up In New Movie
• What You Can Do To Support Black Marriage?

Michelle and her husband Jim Bob Duggar will hold a funeral service for their unborn child and give it a name. Is it appropriate to do this? Express yourself in our poll, and get more of this story at HuffPost.

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An affirmation is a great way to start training your mind toward a positive way of thinking.  Coupled with other positive thinking exercises, a positive affirmation will help you overcome any obstacle that is put in front of you.  The object of these positive thinking exercises is to ensure that you train the most powerful muscle in your body: your brain.

Here is your affirmation for today which can help keep your day in alignment with your desire to make conscious, appropriate and wise decisions.

Affirmation For Today: I Make Conscious, Appropriate, And Wise Decisions

Write the affirmation down

and / or program an alert in your phone /computer to repeat throughout the day

for inspiration to your brain.

Affirmation For Today: I Make Conscious, Appropriate, And Wise Decisions

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