WONDERFUL DAYS: WHO, WHY, WHAT, WHERE AND HOW?

• Wonderful Days: Who, Why, What, Where and How?
• Texas Public School Distributions
• 42 U.S.C. 710 Abstinence Funding
• Section 28.004, Texas Education Code (re: sex ed and abstinence)
• Student Internet Program
• The Laver (Hey, Where did all of those women come from?)

Who? Wonderful Days is a Non-Profit Corporation which provides its booklet, A Sneak Preview of The Two Most Wonderful Days of Your Life, its abstinence video presentation, and its website to our nation's youth in order to encourage abstinence. Wonderful Days encourages and supports our National-State Abstinence Education Campaign, 42 U.S.C. ' 710.

Why? Wonderful Days exists for the sole purpose of helping young ladies experience the two most wonderful, revered days of their life and helping young men experience character building and the very best in life with their female friends and their wives-to-be.

What? What brings out the very best in a young woman more than that most special day in her life -- her wedding? Her wedding is the day when she will be the most beautiful person of all those in attendance -- not even a movie star can up-stage her. What greater glory for a young woman than when she brings her first child into this world -- a true miracle of life unprecedented by anything in this world. And, what greater honor than to have trained, during their courtship, her now husband in the character trait of self-control? She helps train the men of our nation to use self-control, and to not, after their marriage, run off after the first flirt that comes along, abandon his family when the going gets tough, abuse his wife by failing to exercise self-control, and abuse his children by failing to exercise self-control?

When does she train him? During their courtship days. How does she train him? By letting him know that she is a pure virgin, will remain such until her wedding night, and that she expects him, if he is going to marry her, to exercise self-control, take responsibility for not placing them in a compromising situation, show respect and honor to her by not asking her to lower her standards, and by being the man she can look to, respect and follow should they later marry. The young girls in our nation have an essential role. They are extra-special. If they fail, then future families and our nation will fall. If they succeed, families, communities, and our nation will stand and will stand strong. They are a nation's last line of defense! Need proof? Leviticus 19:29.

And, what brings more respect and honor to a young man than marrying that perfect young lady whom he can love and cherish all of his life and whom he can trust to be the mother of his children?

Where?

Wonderful Days
3200 Riverfront, Suite 100
Fort Worth, Texas 76107

Email: norman@ftw.com
Telephone: (817) 335-5000
Fax: (817) 335-5013

How? How can you help encourage sexual purity and strong families among our youth? You can:

Wonderful Days will give a maximum of five of its booklet, A Sneak Preview of The Two Most Wonderful Days of Your Life, to you if you will commit to distribution of the booklet within sixty days from your acquiring such. While Wonderful Days does not charge for the first five (5) for its booklet, it certainly does not turn down contributions. :-) Copies in excess of 5 are $1.00 each. You are also welcome to copy, use and distribute the booklet in your abstinence-only programs. How can you distribute the booklet to public schools? You must first determine the laws, rules and regulations in your state for distribution of "sex education" material or programs to public schools. (We would like for you to submit a summary of what you find to Wonderful Days so we, in turn, can post it on our website. This will help others within your state.) Texas, the home state of Wonderful Days, requires that sex education (and abstinence education) materials be first approved by the local school board and local health and education advisory council. The following is a sample of how the distribution would be arranged in Texas. Your state may have similar laws, but, on the other hand, there are probably some variations. Hopefully you can also arrange for showing of the video at the same time.

TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRIBUTION

[DATE]

[DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT]

[SCHOOL]

[ADDRESS]

Dear [MR./MRS./MS.] [LAST NAME]:

Abstinence education on a nationwide basis is now being encouraged and even funded by our federal government, pursuant to Title 42, U.S. Code ' 710, part of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. A copy of the section is enclosed. We would like to show a sexual abstinence presentation video and give the enclosed booklet, A Sneak Preview of the Two Most Wonderful Days of Your Life, to your students. The booklet is designed to encourage young women to choose sexual purity and its resulting benefits. Hopefully, you will find that the enclosed booklet does just that, and you may want to read it now before continuing this letter. The video of the sexual abstinence presentation can be viewed by you prior to showing your students.

The booklet is available in English and in Spanish. It also has an Internet website, a source of student involvement and of continuing abstinence education and training to your students. Hopefully, your students will become excited about and participate in the student abstinence essay, speech, song, poem, cartoon, art, and media critique program. Their input will be most helpful to abstinence education providers.

If you would like for your students to view the video presentaion and the booklet, here are the State of Texas guidelines which you may find helpful:

Thank you for this opportunity to serve you, your students, and our community. We trust the video program and booklet will be a motivating factor for your students to truly enjoy the two most wonderful days of their lives, unencumbered by the problems of premarital sex.

Sincerely,

[YOUR NAME]

Enclosures: 42 U.S.C. ' 710

Booklet

' 28.004, Texas Education Code

' 28.004 Checklist

Sample Presentation

Suggestions for Essays & Speeches

(Aug. 14, 1935, c. 581, Title V, ' 510, as added Aug. 22, 1996, Pub.L. 104-193, Title IX, ' 912, 110 Stat. 2353.)

As Passed by the

74th Texas Legislature

Sec. 28.004. HUMAN SEXUALITY INSTRUCTION. (a) Any course materials and instruction relating to human sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, or human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome shall be selected by the board of trustees of a school district with the advice of the local health education advisory council established under Subsection (e) and must:

(1) present abstinence from sexual activity as the preferred choice of behavior in relationship to all sexual activity for unmarried persons of school age;

(2) devote more attention to abstinence from sexual activity than to any other behavior;

(3) emphasize that abstinence from sexual activity, if used consistently and correctly, is the only method that is 100 percent effective in preventing pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, infection with human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and the emotional trauma associated with adolescent sexual activity;

(4) direct adolescents to a standard of behavior in which abstinence from sexual activity before marriage is the most effective way to prevent pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and infection with human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome; and

(5) teach contraception and condom use in terms of human use reality rates instead of theoretical laboratory rates, if instruction on contraception and condoms is included in curriculum content.

(b) A school district may not distribute condoms in connection with instruction relating to human sexuality.

(c) A school district that provides human sexuality instruction may separate students according to sex for instructional purposes.

(d) The board of trustees of a school district shall determine the specific content of the district's instruction in human sexuality, in accordance with Subsections (a)-(c). A change in health curriculum content or instruction may not be made before considering the recommendations of the local health education advisory council.

(e) A school district shall establish a local health education advisory council to assist the district in ensuring that local community values and health issues are reflected in the district's human sexuality instruction.

(f) The council's duties include:

(1) recommending appropriate grade levels for human sexuality instruction;

(2) recommending the methods of instruction to be used by a teacher in human sexuality instruction education; and

(3) recommending the number of hours of instruction to be provided in health education.

(g) The council:

(1) must include persons who represent diverse views in the community about human sexuality instruction;

(2) must include parents of students enrolled in the district as a majority of the council; and

(3) may include teachers, school administrators, students, health care professionals, members of the business community, law enforcement representatives, senior citizens, clergy, or other interested persons.

(h) A school district shall notify a parent of each student enrolled in the district of:

(1) the basic content of the district's human sexuality instruction to be provided to the student; and

(2) the parent's right to remove the student from any part of the district's human sexuality instruction.

(i) A school district shall make all curriculum materials used in the district's human sexuality instruction available for reasonable public inspection.

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(1) an increase in activity associated with the desire for independence, and
(2) an increase in activity related to adjusting to adult realities.

(1) Intuition - the act or faculty of knowing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition;
(2) Empathy - understanding so intimate that the feelings, thoughts, and motives of one are really comprehended by another;
(3) Sensitivity - the quality of being capable of perceiving with the senses;
(4) Subjectivity - pertaining to the real nature of something; essential, proceeding from the mind, unaffected by the external world; and
(5) Spirituality - the state of being spiritual. Spiritual - having the nature of spirit, not tangible or material.8 Dr. Anchell states that these remarkable feminine qualities are inborn and represent the "eternal core" of the feminine woman, and for these qualities to be effective in later life, the feminine nature must be strengthened throughout puberty and adolescence.

And, what are the required attributes9 for a serving woman and a servant's heart in the abstinence movement? Empathy, intuition, sensitivity, subjectivity, and spirituality! If a nation does not have women with these attributes, that nation is in trouble.

Therefore, why are women indeed ideally designed to serve in these "gateway" issues of life (e.g., abstinence from fornication, Acts 15:20, 29, pro-decency, pro-life, pro-family, etc.)? Because these fundamental, all important gateway issues require an abundance of intuition, empathy, subjectivity, spiritualization, and sensitivity! Why? In order for each person to be imparted with necessary skill, knowledge, understanding, wisdom and talent so that they, in turn, can properly deal with life issues. And, could it be that if young women do not develop these character traits (which, as Dr. Anchell points out, can be destroyed by "comprehensive sex education" and premature exposure to sexual matters which cause these young women to prematurely turn inward, so that their personalities fail to expand and develop into all for which they were designed), then men and women within a nation will not be empowered to overcome the "gateway issues" of life. If these young women fall, does the nation then fall? Deut. 20:1- 510, Lev. 19:29.

Laver. "...he made the laver of bronze..." Strong's no. 3595 describes "ki- yown," the laver, as a washbowl and also a pulpit or platform. A platform, among other things, is defined as a formal declaration of principles on which a group . . . makes its appeal to the public. Is this washbowl or pulpit a picture of the platform of Yahweh's standard of purity by which He, via the movement, appeals to the public? And, how important is this platform or laver? The laver and its water were used only for washing of the High Priest and his descendants, and for those who were in union with (one with) this priest, Exodus 30:18-21. If the priests did not properly wash at the laver, they would die, and there would be no one to guide others to the Holy of Holies. These believers had to be clean in order to minister to and for the public, and they had to use the laver made from the mirrors of the serving women for their washing. Nothing else would do. When we give up our programs and visions (our mirrors) is when Yahweh, via those born of Him (Bezalel, the flame/light), will use such to make His cleansing platform (laver) which will hold the cleansing water of life, Yahushua Himself, John 4:10. Without the laver and the cleansing water, the priest would die and be unable to serve, Exodus 30:17-21. Without the vision (mirrors) of these serving women, the modern day "priest" will die and be unable to serve the people. How will this unclean priest "die"? If he "waters down" the Word, as represented in the Laver, and removes the vision of sexual purity. Where there is no vision, the people (and the priest) perish, Proverbs 29:18.

There are no direct biblical instructions given on how to build the laver and its stand, or pedestal. Round, deep, shallow, square? The instructions were only given as part of the pattern for the tabernacle and its furniture shown by Yahweh to His servant Moses while "in the mountain."

See, he says, that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain. Exodus 25:9

Therefore, we, men and women, His modern day priests (1 Peter 2:9), must be "in the mountain," that is, in Yahushua, the Word (John 1:1) and the Mountain (Daniel 2:35, 45) in order to know how to build His "abstinence lavers" of today. We must be in tune with Him. As we stay in the Word/Mountain first and foremost, then we will know how to build abstinence presentations which function today as did the laver and His tabernacle of old.

Base/Pedestal. "...with its base of bronze..." The laver was supported by a base or pedestal. The Hebrew word is Strong's no. 3653, a stand, i.e., a pedestal. A pedestal is defined as any support or foundation, and as a position of high regard or adoration. Sexual abstinence until marriage builds the character trait (pedestal) of self-control–a foundation, a position of high regard and adoration. Without self-control a person is unable to develop into a kind, firm, compassionate, complete individual. Self-control is a person's foundation of support. Yahweh's position of sexual abstinence until marriage is this position of high regard, a position of adoration which builds self-control. Adoration means an act of worship, profound love or regard. Adorable means worthy of or enlisting worship. It also means delightful, lovable, and charming. Does the purity of the wedding gown and the delightful, lovable, charming virgin bride and her wedding picture this? We are to worship Yahweh only, but does the beauty of a pure bride in her wedding gown bring out worship of Him, our Creator?

Strong's no. 3653 is also the same word as no. 3651 which is defined as to set upright, rightly. It comes from a word meaning proper and to be erect. Yes, virginity until marriage is upright, right, proper, and it is erect. It is all of the above! It is the base or pedestal, the foundation, on which abstinence programs stand. Virginity until marriage produces self-control. Self-control produces good character. A nation with its base, pedestal, or foundation of self- control will endure. A nation out of control will fall.

But, what about abstinence teachers who themselves did not save their virginity for marriage?

Bronze. "...the laver of bronze with its base of bronze..." This word, Strong's no. 5178, sometimes rendered "copper" or "brass" in our scriptures, is defined as copper, but figuratively it means base (as compared with gold or silver). And, Brown, Driver, and Briggs states that it has the uncertain meaning of lust and harlotry. The laver and the base or pedestal were made of bronze mirrors. The point? Yahweh can take a person of lust and harlotry (pictured as bronze) and turn that person into a beautiful laver for washing of His priests. Consider, for example, the woman at the well (John 4:18, 19, and 39), Mary Magdalene from whom Yahushua cast out demons (Mark 16:9), and the woman caught in the act of adultery (John 8:1-11). A lot of folks in the abstinence ministry have, via the saving grace of Yahushua, turned their former baseness of lust and harlotry into a cleansing laver. Yahushua will use this former baseness to set children upright and help them become just, right, proper, and erect (as pictured in the pedestal).

Copper and bronze are ductile and malleable - excellent conductors of heat and electricity, and widely used in parts either pure or in alloys. Abstinence presenters are such. They are to render the hearts of the kids capable of being easily molded and shaped into a pure good heart, soft and pliable. Hard hearts are hurtful. Soft hearts are kind. The presentations are to produce a malleable, soft heart - capable of being shaped and formed into a beautiful person of self-control by our Maker Himself. The presentations are to be conductors - conducting people and kids (via their union with the High Priest Himself) into the very Holy of Holies.

Bezalel. "Moreover, he [Bezalel] made..." Who was the one who was to make the laver and its base of bronze from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting? Bezalel. He was "the son of Uri whom Yahweh called by name to superintend the construction of His tabernacle, Exodus 31:1-11. He was not only filled with wisdom, but also power to devise cunning works, and to work all manner of workmanship," Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Number 1212. Also, in The Dictionary of Old Testament Names, Alfred Jones states that Uri (no. 221), the father of Bezalel, means light of God. Strong's says it means fiery. It comes from a base word, no. 217, meaning flame. Is not Uri a picture of Yahushua, the light of the world, the one who in Revelation 1:14 is described as having eyes as a fiery flame? And who are Yahushua's (Uri's) descendants, His children? We, His born again believers! We are born (again) of Uri, the light/flame of the Most High, Hebrews 2:13. Bezalel's name means in the shadow of El/God. We are to stay so close to our Savior and walk so close to Him that we never get out of His shadow. We are to superintend the construction of His tabernacle, that is, His people, in whom He dwells, 1 Corinthians 6:19, Revelation 21:3. Abstinence teachers are to be some of His modern-day Bezalels. And, as stated of Bezalel in Exodus 31:3, Yahweh gives us power to devise cunning works, "cunning works" to combat the cunning ways of the "safe sex crowd." Yes, when we give up our programs and visions (our mirrors) is when Yahweh, via those born of Him, the flame/light, that is, Bezalel, will use us and our works to build His platform or pulpit (laver) which will hold Yahushua - the pure water of life-virgin pure.

Tent (tabernacle). "...who served at the doorway of the tent..." The Hebrew word for tent, no. 168, "o-hel," means a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance). It comes from a root word, no. 166, "ahal," meaning to be clear. It should be clearly conspicuous to anyone that the issue boils down to sexual purity or sexual impurity, self-control or no self- control. Yahweh will only dwell with, and allow into His kingdom, purity. He will not dwell with, nor allow into His kingdom, uncleanness and impurity with its resultant hurt and harm. This should be as clear as the nose on our face. Therefore, true abstinence teachings are clearly directive in nature, directing people to purity.

Meeting/Congregation. "...of the tent of meeting (tent of the congregation)." Yahweh's tent is the tent of meeting, also called the tent of the congregation. The Hebrew word, no. 4150, also means an appointment. And, all of mankind has an appointment with our Maker. The reason for the appointment? To determine if we are pure or impure, holy or unholy. It derives from a word, no. 3259, "ya-ad," which, by implication, means to meet or to summon (to trial), to direct, and to engage (for marriage). The big issue? Are we, those summoned to trial, found worthy, found pure, for engagement to THE groom Himself, Yahushua? Are we found worthy for marriage to The Lamb? All of mankind has been summoned (called) to trial. Those who are found worthy (chosen) are then engaged for marriage to the Bridegroom. And, Yahweh will only take a pure, virgin bride for His son. Therefore, abstinence presentations should summon mankind to trial with teachings to determine if they are ready/qualified for engagement in marriage to the groom par excellence - i.e., Yahushua - the son of Yahweh, the eternal Father.

So, yes, women, serving women who give their mirrors/visions to His service, have a part, a big part, in helping people, especially children and youth, move into the very presence, the Holy of Holies, of their Maker, who, via His Son, desires to be their eternal bridegroom, husband and protector.

Roger M. Norman
3204 Sweetbriar
Fort Worth, Texas 76109
817-923-0648
1999

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1. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, James H. Strong, Baker Book House, hereinafter referred to as Strong's.
2. Holy. The Hebrew word for holy, Strong's number 6942, means clean.
3. Few. And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, "Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of the uncircumcised; it may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few." 1 Samuel 14:6.
4. Children. Matt 19:13-14.
5. Yahushua. His Hebrew name. It is often shortened today to Yahshua or Yeshua.
6. Psyche: The soul or spirit, as distinguished from the body. The mind, functioning center of thought, feelings, and behavior, and consciously or unconsciously adjusting and relating the body to its social and physical environment.
7. Harbinger: a forerunner, to signal the approach.
8. All definitions are from the American Heritage Dictionary, 1975 edition.
9. Attribute: a quality or characteristic belonging to a person or thing; a distinctive feature.
10. Deuteronomy 20:1-5. The word dedicate is the same Hebrew word for train up as in "Train up a child in the way he should go..." Proverbs 22.6.