Vote for Heisman AND learn about St. Patrick

I have two blogs for today and I don't want either of them to get put off a day. So here they are:

~ BLOG ONE ~

VOTE FOR JOSH

Okay, so I know I had a vote thingy on my blog yesterday for my niece Grace, but I just had to add another one today. As you know my cousin Josh is a singer. (Actually he goes by "Heisman".) Anyways, Josh's song "Walk with me" is on a website called Indieheaven and continues to go up the charts.

Can you take a second and give Josh's song five stars?

Just go to: http://www.indieheaven.com/go.idh?section=radiochart.

Look for the song "Walk with me". (If you want you can just hit "Ctrl + F" and search for the word "Walk".) Then, if your volume is up, Josh's song will start playing. Scroll to the top and give it five stars.

Yesterday when I looked it was like 76. Now it is 52. Let's get it even higher! Please just take a second to vote. This is a great song.

~ BLOG TWO ~
JB EDUCATES US ON ST. PATRICK

Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. There have been four names given to St. Patrick. The first is British, the second Roman, the third Arabian, and the fourth Celtic (Irish) - his sainted name of Patrick. Three of the names fit with well established history.

He was born somewhere along the west coast of Britain, which was under Roman control in these times, in the year 386. This was most likely in the little village of Bannavem of Taburnia which has never been identified with certainty. One suggestion is the settlement in Northamptonshire, for raiders captured him with "many thousands of people" according to Patrick's autobiographical Confessio, and sold them as slaves in Ireland. It was here that he learned the native Celtic language of Ireland. He learned the customs of the druids, and many think he was a druid in training, for his master was a druidic high priest. While he was raised in a Christian home, he was not that religious at this time. If anything, he may have been dabbling in druidic earth magic.

He escaped Ireland when he was twenty-two. Some believe he spent the next 10-15 years at a monastery in France. Other historians do not think he was a Christian at this point. Due to his Arabic name, they believe that he joined a crusade for adventure, went to the Middle East, and was either captured or befriended by the Muslims living there. Many think it was here that he began to see the teachings of Christ as truth, and began to live his life as a witness of Jesus' love. Again, based on more speculation, some believe he was either set free or allowed to leave on his own due to his character.

One night, either on his way home or while in Britain, he heard Celtic voices begging him to return to Ireland to tell them about Jesus Christ. He adopted his imprisoned name of Patrick, and he became one of the first, and the most famous, Christian missionary to his old captors, the Celts of Ireland.