32 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-4-12”

  2. Good morning everyone! I thoroughly enjoyed reading yesterdays thread. I love quotes.

    My eldest child is sick again. She’s already missed three days of school this year, all due to legitimate illness. I’m taking her to the doctor today as we need a medical note, although I think it’s just a virus.

    Time to get the little one up for school!

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  5. OK folks, my house looks like a tornado just went through it. Mr. P has filled a 10×10 climate controlled storage unit. The closets are full, my storage shed is full and my kitchen and dining room is full. We had to eat in front of the TV like slugs last night because no table had a clear space to put a plate!
    As I have posted repeatedly I have pared down and hauled a whole lot of my “stuff” to Goodwill and Ecumenical Ministries. I truly don’t have much left that I am willing or able to part with.
    He has told me to go through some of his stuff and take out what I want and throw away or donate the rest, but it’s HIS stuff and what if I throw away something he really wanted to keep?
    This is tougher than you think!

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  6. Now for the humor part of my life: For years I looked in the mirror and thought I was a good combination of both my parents. 8 years ago I got a driver’s license photo that I thought I looked a lot like my Aunt Elaine. I have a photo of my holding BG as a true baby girl that everyone says I look like my Aunt Gabriella, this morning I looked in the mirror and saw my Aunt Charlene.
    Genentics are kinda funny that way. Of course George used to call me the female Jimmy Black (he didn’t phrase it that well, he said “You are Jimmy Black with breasts)

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  7. Appears Mr. P is going to have to buy his darlin’ new wife a bigger house!! 🙂 Praying for a smooth transition Kim…I’m excited for you!

    Qod…I do believe the Lord delights in our time together…and I admit…sometimes the busyness of the day gets the better of me and I do not spend as much time “alone” with Him as I desire…that needs to change…I delight in my time with Him….it is my very sustenance…

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  8. Kim says, “This is tougher than you think!”

    Um, no, it’s not. 🙂

    Been there, done that, donated the T-shirt to Goodwill.

    Only in my case, I was moving into his already-full house.

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  9. I think (I hope) God delights in my trust in Him.

    Kim – What are you wearing for your wedding?

    Cheryl – Kim’s difficulty is in going through & making decisions on what to do with his stuff.

    My husband let me go through his mother’s stuff & make the hard decisions, because he knew he would probably keep almost everything out of sentiment.

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  10. I am not sure when God delights the most in me. Maybe it is when I step out of my comfort zone to do something to bring Him glory? Or when I use the creative abilities He has given me to do something unique to glorify Him?

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  11. I’m afraid God puts up with me more than delights in me.
    I understand what Kim is going through. In getting rid of things, books is my biggest problem. Elvera is good at sorting out my books for disposal. I have to go in to rescue more than half of them. She wants to get rid of my old photogrammetry and astrodynamics books, but not her Mary HIggins Clark Books or Monica’s Story. I disposed of lots of my school books when we moved from Annandale. But I stopped when she refused to dispose of her Gregg Shorthand book.

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  12. Karen, my note was supposed to be one of sympathy–yeah, it’s hard, and at least one of us here knows it is. (FYI, after Mom died, the three youngest of us had a total of two days to go through her house, with our older siblings helping us–once they arrived–for a few hours.) But my hubby and I still aren’t all the way settled in, because it’s hard to know where to put it all.

    (And no, technically I haven’t sorted through his stuff to see what to keep. But I have moved into a home the late wife–and mother of our girls–decorated, and had to figure out how much, and how quickly, I can change things to reflect my very different tastes. What does one do with first-wedding-gift dishes that even the late wife never used, for instance? I need to box them up and put them in the garage to allow space for my own dishes but also keep them for the girls, but that is easier said than done, too.)

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  15. This is Peter L. I can get this blog at school now! Hurray! Now I need to remember my log in information.

    Ree- Your green grass line reminds me of growing up in Arizona, when the city would paint the grass green in winter so the snow birds would feel more at home.

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  16. Ree 🙂 Ain’t that the truth.

    I had to go through my mom’s stuff pretty quickly after she died — and I kept remembering how she regretting letting go of some things of her parent’s way back when, so my theory was when in doubt set it aside and put it in storage (for now).

    Kim, I vote for a bigger house, too. 😉 So is he bringing a dog into the mix? Or just “stuff”?

    I think my obedience is pleasing to God but it’s hard to remember it doesn’t “earn” any “points” with Him, if that makes sense. I think also my confession of sin and fleeing to Him indicate at least to me that I’m on a good path (but again, it doesn’t make God love me any more than he already does). It’s complicated sometimes, isn’t it?

    Chas, I went through a Mary Higgins Clark phase a while back, too. Have lost track of any of her later books, though. I never keep novels for some reason, those are easy for me to send on their way after I’ve read them. But I tend to keep nonfiction books and I have my share of commentaries, etc., on the shelves here at my house still that I’d find hard to part with.

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  17. BTW- I just discovered that if you type your name in the second line below the comment box, it will appear as your user name in a post instead of “Anonymous”. But you don’t get your avatar. At least my quilt is not pink!

    And now that I can get this here, I will probably get less done at school.

    To the grind!

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  18. Good morning. I like the Kipling quote, that guy is very quotable.

    I think that God is most pleased with me when I step out on a limb to trust Him and when I show love to people that I can’t love with my own ability.

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  20. Good thoughts, Kathaleena, and Photoguy, about what pleases God. I have had two instances this morning while out and about in the community where I could have shown anger, but I was gentle in my response. I think exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit pleases God, too. That probably means when He sees more of Himself in us than He sees of our willful fleshly selves.

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  22. My house looks pretty storm-tossed, too. In our case, it’s due to having an active toddler & his messy mommy living with us. 🙂

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  23. Cheryl, Mr. P is wanting me to go through HIS stuff and discard what I don’t want. I gently suggested that we go through some of his stuff, keep what we want and then let his daughter in law and son pick what they would like to have. He nixed that idea.

    Donna, he is bringing Moe the cat. I have Amos the dog. Amos used to have his very own cat and she was quite patient with him. Moe has never had her very own dog and she is not impressed. I told him our “children” fought like cats and dogs. I have had Moe at my house since Hurricane Isaac.

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  24. Karen, I am not sure yet. I will have a better ideo on Saturday. I really can’t see spending very much money on a “wedding-y” looking dress that I will only wear one time. I have a white linen dress with blue embroidery that a friend got married in. It fits everywhere but the very top and it is strapless. I have a very pretty blue/green/white maxi dress I could wear but I have worn it before. I have a very pretty black and white cocktail dress I could wear but it has black in it and I am southern and that just isn’t done…of course if my mother rolls over in her grave chances are I won’t know.
    I found a very lovely dress at Ann Taylor but just cannot bring myself to pay the price for it.

    😉

    Buying for the first wedding was a lot easier because I had a checking account funded by my father. He isn’t around to sponser this one and it is amazing what just isn’t as important if YOU are the one sponsoring the event.

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  25. Not a love crime

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    PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A homeless man who pleaded guilty to firebombing a Pensacola abortion clinic will serve 10 years in federal prison.

    A judge sentenced 41-year-old Bobby Joe Rogers on Thursday. Rogers pleaded guilty in July to charges of arson and damaging a reproductive health facility.

    The New Year’s Day fire gutted the Pensacola’s American Family Planning Clinic.
    Rogers, a transient with a lengthy criminal history, told detectives that he had been living in a parking lot near the clinic and decided to set the fire because he was upset that abortions were performed there.

    The building was the site of previous anti-abortion violence, including a double-murder in 1994 when an anti-abortion activist killed a doctor and the doctor’s security escort.

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  27. OK, I’m not moving, I’m not about to get married and I don’t have a toddler. My house still looks like a hurricane roared through. 😦 😦

    Well, the kitchen is nice. The living room, though, currently needs significant work.

    Moe the cat!

    I take it he and Amos have been together already for a while, but when I brought Annie home (she was used to dogs but my dogs weren’t used to cats) I kept her separated for several weeks, introduced everyone very slowly and only with supervision.

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  28. I see this thread is less popular than the News thread. Well, I’ll wait until it is Friday here before linking something, since I can now get this at school. Our IT person quit and the one we had before returned. I think she is smarter than the short-term one we had. Nice guy, just in a little over his head.

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  29. Peter, I was so glad to hear you have access from school now for this very reason. I look forward to your post tomorrow.

    I suspect this thread is less popular only in the wake of last night’s debate, and will be lively again tomorrow.

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  30. Violence is never the answer….never…..

    I’ve never had to kill somebody in self-defence, and lack the skills to be good at it, but I would find find (at least intellectually, if not emotionally) violence in that situation as appropriate and justified.

    I’ve read many comments on WMG supporting capital punishment (clearly a form of violence). I am assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that quite a few people here at TV support it. As I’ve said previously on WMB, I oppose it, but on my “triage/priority list” of things to be upset about, it is fairly low. Unless you literally belong to the same school of thought as people such as Ghandi and Martin Luther King (who paid a fairly high price for their fidelity to their ideals), I suspect that your comment about violence is more hyperbole than very serious.

    Law enforcement personnel carry weapons and sometimes use them to deadly effect. These situations are frequently (if not always in these sensitive times) controversial, but it strikes me as silly to say that law enforcement officers should not be armed.

    Although our most recent military involvements (e.g., Iraq and Afghanistan) have been difficult and controversial, it strikes me as quite silly to argue that the United States should not have armed forces or that we should never use them to fight enemies.

    As you know, in my opinion, Christianity is not based on any supernatural events, and its long history contains a great deal of violence perpetrated on Christians and perpertrated by Christians on others. One does not have to believe in that dubious claim of “original sin” to recognize that human beings run the span from great kindness and altruism to great violence, cruelty, and viciousness. We are indeed a piece of work and Conrad’s immortal words still describe us very well in my mind: “The Horror! The Horror!”

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