42 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-22-12”

  2. Good morning all. The start to another week. Being lazy this weekend wore me out. I am still tired this morning. Part of it comes from living in a frou-frou little town that can’t have trash cans full of trash looking bad during the day so my garbage is picked up sometime between 3-5am. The brakes on my particular truck squeak and the “arm” that picks up the trash can needs to be greased as well. The good news is trash pick up in the city costs me less than when I lived in the county. Now if I can just make it through the next 12 hours until I am home again, home again, jiggedy jig.

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  6. Chas I thought it was primordial slime, but in any case it’s you know, that life stuff 😉 I should have asked all the various science majors I hung out with yesterday at UCSD. I went to an Intervarsity gathering as a guest. It was quite a blessing to be with 200 or so college students who were meeting to learn more about how to share their faith.

    Oh and Chas, sorry about the Gamecocks. I was hoping they could pull off a win in Gainesville.

    Kim, that is crazy about the trash. Our garbage guys can’t start before 7:00am.m in residential areas.

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  7. In talking about settlement on a house, I immediately thought of JoeB, I forgot that LShaffer is moving to Pa.

    I think primordial slime is an invention of someone who doesn’t like the concept of God. The idea is that everything has to come from somewhere and we can’t wrap our minds around something not having a beginning. Either God, or something else. Something else is always more complicated than God. And makes less sense.
    I discussed this a couple of weeks ago when teaching on the incarnation.

    We believe the incarnation, but, we don’t really understand it. Like eternity and infinity. When did it start? It didn’t, it always was. When will it end? It won’t, the time to end never comes. What is beyond the limits of the universe? Nothing. Then what?
    Someday (day?) I may understand it.

    I was thinking this morning about the miracle of conception. Think of it. A sperm from one gender of a species seeks out the egg of another gender of the same species at a particular time and unites to create another unit of that particular species.
    Who would have ever thought of a thing like that? I mean, under what conditions could that evolve?

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  8. Good morning! I’ve had too much coffee; I drank the same amount (two cups), but it’s hit me rather hard this morning. I’m jittery. But tired. I couldn’t fall asleep last night until 2:00 and the alarm went off at 5:30…so, I’m physically tired but mentally keyed up. Oh well. Guess I’ll get the laundry started…

    Chas: I agree with you about the miracle of conception. I marvel at my children all the time. I remember when they were born, I thought they were such testaments to God’s existence. How else could an entire human being be created, if not by a far more intelligent Creator? I don’t know how doctors can be atheists; the human body is full of wonderful, intricate details. All of nature is. We recently got some caterpillars in the mail that we watched grow into butterflies. Just watching that is such an amazing testament to God! Unfortunately, after the butterflies emerged from their cocoons, Hubby left the door to our bedroom open and the cat got in, managed to knock the butterfly habitat sideways on the floor and proceeded to eat about five of the butterflies! Five minutes later, as we are frantically trying to catch the remaining butterflies, the cat vomits. Youngest daughter is, of course, bawling her eyes out, yelling at the cat for being so mean! I’m trying to explain that it is just a cat’s nature to eat bugs to a completely unreasonable little person (remember this is all happening around 6:00 in the morning…before coffee has kicked in…) while cleaning up cat vomit and attempting to secure the other four butterflies. Ugh! Not a good morning. But…usually, watching them spin cocoons and transform into beautiful butterflies is such a magical experience.

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  9. Good Morning, Y’all!

    Yep…primordial soup…and then “something happened” (lightning strike??) and life began…oh, and DNA spontaneously created itself so life could continue!

    I don’t have enough faith for that…

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  10. Actually, no one argues for primordial soup anymore–that’s ompletely dated. The question the biologists–the honest ones–is how did life begin? They’ll sidestep that one all day long.

    Reasons.org.

    We’ve had the first rain in six months, fall is here and the wineries have to finish up today (after the rain), if they are not now done. We are feeling self righteous because for the first time ever, we did the fall chores BEFORE the rain, yesterday. I even planted flowers!

    Amazing what a little space on the calendar and choosing to stay home, will do!

    I’m like, rested. 🙂

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  11. Michelle…making my DNA remark even more valid. I like the way they always have to fill in a blank…usually with some version of “something happened”

    🙂 Glad your rested.

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  13. I’m gearing up to rearrange the living room furniture sometime this week I think.

    Yesterday’s rain was nice. My car looks clean(er).

    Sorry to hear about the butterflies. 😦

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  14. 🙂 It’s our first anniversary.

    🙂 My hubby will finally meet one of my two brothers who couldn’t make it to our wedding, and his wife.

    :/ I wouldn’t have chosen to have the two events the same day, but we’re working together to get ready for them to come. And anyway, he bought me roses and took me shopping this morning for pants, and I made him a card and wrote a love note on a piece of stationey I decorated myself (by punching the words “one lovely year” along the bottom and “happy anniversary” along one side on a piece of vellum). And I wrote a “good morning, happy anniversar” note on the bathroom mirror with dry-erase markers, too. So we’re managing to simultaneously host company and have an anniversary.

    🙂 It really has been a lovely year. Amazing it has been a year already, but also amazing it has only been a year.

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  15. Happy Anniversary, Cheryl! It’s my niece’s 1st anniversary, too. And my baby sister’s 44th birthday. Lots of big things happened on this day. 🙂

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  17. Happy Anniversary Cheryl! Weird sometimes how events can seem both longer ago and just like “yesterday” at the same time.

    Reorganizing: Arrrg. Why does it always have to wind up looking so much worse … before it starts looking better? Sigh. 😦

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  21. A whole year gone by blissfully! Congratulations Cheryl!

    The years do go by so quickly. It’s hard to believe that when people call or come in to the office with a tax question the goodbye comment is something along the lines of “See you in a few months.” Tax time rolls around too quickly!

    I was having a senior moment trying to remember all the way back to our first anniversary and what we did. Then I remember we went to Edisto Island, SC not too far from Charleston and we got up really early and went out on the beach while it was still dark so we could use binoculars to search the sky for Haley’s coment. I had never even seen a shooting star so it was pretty neat. It was pretty small but I do remeber even after all these years.

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  22. That was suppose to be comet! Sometimes when I do comments that are longer part of what I have typed is covered up by my WordPress info so I can’t really see what I have typed to correct it.

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  27. OK, after several hours of “reorganizing,” I’ve managed to spin the living room into an overwhelming state of utter chaos. I am ready to run away from home now.

    Besides, it’s almost time to meet up with my friend at the dog park. 🙂

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  28. Donna, I have always heard things get worse before they get better! Sounds like that will be the case with your reorganization. I hope you have a good walk at the park. That sounds like fun to me.

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  30. I found this on Wikipedia:

    Halley’s Comet on March 8, 1986

    Our anniversary is March 9. I was trying to get the picture to post from the site. My mother-in-law got to see the comet twice in her long lifetime.

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  32. Happy anniversary Cheryl. It doesn’t seem like a year ago already.

    I came to share some good news. I have been approached about taking more of a leadership/manager role on the team. It would come with a salary rather than just hourly and would still pay me a portion of the commissions. I am pretty excited about it.

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  37. Congrats, Kim!

    Janice, yes, I keep telling myself that this is the period where it (temporarily) looks worse.

    I’m trying to reorganize the front of the house, especially because I have some ‘dead’ space there that could be better used. But this is also the area where all the random papers wind up. 😦

    When we came home from the park, Cowboy hesitated and actually pulled back when I opened the door. The way it all looks apparently scares him now.

    Can’t say I blame him.

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  38. It’s beginning to all come together in my mind, however. I want to change around the primary seating in the room and I’m beginning to have a vision of one option that just might work … to be continued. I have the whole week off to play with it.

    To some degree I’m locked in due to limited electrical outlets, three sets of French (nearly floor-to-ceiling) windows and the fireplace to work around.

    So who’s watching the debate tonight?

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