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Our Daily Thread 12-7-12

Good Morning!

What should we talk about today?

Quote of the Day

“A  friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old  guitar. I don’t know where he got it, I don’t know how long he’d had it, but he  knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we  proceeded to go crazy over music.”

Charlie Daniels

And the man can play.

Also, since I forgot to mention it earlier,

Today is Pearl Harbor Day

A tribute to the survivors.

64 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-7-12”

  3. It’s Friday!
    You know what that means?
    Not only the Y, but a busy weekend for me.
    Today the Lions have the VIP party & I”m part of that.
    Tomorrow we have the Children’s Filf Festival. We show two children’s films. Our biggest fundraiser.
    And I have to pick up mail, & some other things this afternoon to catch up on a week’s backlog.
    HAND everyone.

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  6. Insomnia for me as well. 😦

    Lying awake since three, I’ve had plenty of time to review yesterday’s errors and to reflect on how the log in my eye wasn’t very helpful to a fellow believer. 😦

    I had quite a run in the confession and humility department yesterday.

    What a relief the Lord’s mercies are new every morning! 🙂

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  7. I don’t have any easy quick answer for Tychicus’ question today. Over the years I have been with all of you, first on World and now here I have learned quite a lot.

    I will report to all of you that I had a fantastic day yesterday! I had Women’s Council of Realtor’s. I was an outgoing officer. We had installation of new officers and our Christmas Jubilee. We charged vendors $25 for a table and they donated a door prize. There was also a large prize for members who had recruited new members. I called someone on my team and got her to go online and join yesterday so my name could go in the hat.

    I won a gift card to WalMart,
    A bag of nutritional items,
    4 really pretty polka dot juice glasses from Pampered Chef,
    AND
    The WCR prize! A cruise for two! Granted we will have to pay $198 each for port charges and for any extras, but the lodging, food, and something else is paid for. It will motivate us to go and do.

    I have to admit I started to wrap it up and put it under the tree and “re-gift it” to Paul but I could hold on to not telling him.

    Chloe and I went to a guided meditation class last night. All that new agey, touchy feely feel good stuff sort of freaks me out a little bit. I have control issues. I was a little worried when we got there but I asked God to protect us from anything bad. I was a little distracted when one person next to me started snoring, but it was worth it for what happened when we got in the truck. Chloe wanted to tell me all about her guided meditation experience. I had thought about a doe and a fawn that used to sleep at the gatepost under the trees “up in the country” at the cabin my family had. My dad used to wake me up early in the morning and take me out on the front porch to see them. The doe came back every year. I thought how peaceful. Chloe also thought about a deer and thought about faith.

    Later she came to me and told me she was going to bed, she hugged and kissed me, and told me she loved me. On another postive note I fell asleep at 10pm and slept until 5:30 this morning. None of that awake from 2-5 garbage that has gone on all week.

    I know this isn’t the prayer thread but I ask that you continue to pray for us as we navigate through all that is going on with her. She saw her therapist again yesterday and she will see her endocrinologist today.

    Have a GREAT day everyone!

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  8. Now I’ve figured out who Anonymous is. 🙂
    I liked the picture better.
    I didn’t remember that it is Pearl Harbor Day until I got to the Y.
    We fly our flags at half staff here. I don’t remember that we did that on 9/11.

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  9. We give all the VIP’s who attend the luncheon a $50 WalMart card. Walmart has always subsidized that for us for about half. I don’t know what it is now. It’s been six years now since I was president.

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  10. QoD: Hmmm, that brain science can explain the why of the things God tells us to do. We accept and do them by faith, but the reasons for doing them, according to neuroscience, is fastinating.

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  11. Good Morning, Y’all!

    Today is the anniversary of the day my twins arrived( also Pearl Harbor Day).

    Charlie is the real deal, AJ! A great musician and a good man.

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  12. It’s dark and foggy here, I got up a little early to make sure to take the trash out as today’s pick-up day. The trucks usually start rolling through the neighborhood around 7 a.m., but sometimes later.

    I find our trash pickers annoying, they rattle up and down the street with their shopping carts in middle of the night rummaging through everyones cans, especially the recycled items — which is why I prefer to hold off putting everything out until morning. Most of them are harmless & are just looking for cans and bottles they can get a few cents for, but others have been known to search of ID theft info. I try to shred everything, even if only by hand, but …

    So I had extra time to clean the litter box (eww, something I don’t miss when Annie’s able to go outdoors — vet put her on 10 more days of indoor isolation with frequent use of the cone; she now has staples in her wound which seems to be healing, thankfully).

    Kim, congratulations on the cruise. Where to? Out of Florida?

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  24. So now Kim gets to go on a honeymoon. Exciting!

    (I’d just like to point out how God thinks of everything when we’re committed to spending money HIS way. $400 is nothing for a week long eating frenzy on a ship, right?)

    I get to spend the entire day at home and I’m so very pleased. I’ll FINALLY edit my novella. Of course it’s cold here, I’ve got a hat on while I type, and so I’m going to light a fire in the wood stove and snuggle in with my pencil, manuscript and The Flip Dictionary to help me!

    I’ve been looking forward to this day all week!

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  27. Michelle,

    Very well done. A very good piece. Thank you.

    I left you a comment, but it’s awaiting moderation.

    It’s been awhile since I was moderated, not since World as a matter of fact. Being the administrator has it’s perks huh?

    🙂

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  28. Kevin Beresley, I noticed your question about your eyes on yesterday’s daily thread. I have had ocular migraines. My vision was like looking through refracted glass with many facets. They lasted about several minutes and then were gone. They were few and far between. I had no actual pain with them. They did scare me, of course.

    My doctor told me I couldn’t have them without pain. My eye doctor said I certainly can and they might last up to 20 minutes.

    At other times, I can suffer from blurry vision (and know others who do) and it seems to be from allergies. I don’t know if it is pressure from the sinuses or what.

    Of course, with your history you would want to have it checked out. I am just sharing what I have experienced.

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  29. You’re cleared, AJ. 🙂

    I don’t know why it moderates some and accepts others . . .

    I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the desire of some to flee the wickedness of our nation. We’ve talked at home about moving to a “better” place than California. (And then my husband got an offer to move to Colorado . . . )

    But my reading this week in Ezekiel and John, made me think that our desire to live in a better, safer, easier place probably is not in line for what God calls us to do and be as representatives of his kingdom.

    In Ezekiel 40, the prophet references the 25th year of exile to Babylon. It’s just to tell us when his vision occurred, but he did not complain about that exile. That’s just where God had him at that time with his people.

    Similarly, Jeremiah spends an awful lot of time in dreadful situations trying to turn God’s people’s hearts back to God. He doesn’t flee, he remains at his post.

    Indeed, Jonah is the most famous prophet who fled and look what happened to him.

    I believe we need to remain where God has called us to stand in the gap and be lights to the world. If the salt and the light all congregate in one corner, the meat tastes awful and everyone else wanders in the dark.

    It’s no surprise to God that you were born in this time and place. He puts us in history for HIS purposes, not ours. He uses circumstances in our lives to teach us the things he wants us to know, while we present our bodies as living sacrifices wholly and acceptable to God–which is our spiritual worship.

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  30. Meanwhile, over in John 15 and 16, mostly, Jesus prays for you and me while commenting on the situations we live in. He recommends us to abide in the vine of life–which is Jesus–and to remember the world hates Jesus, and thus us as his representatives.

    Jesus talks a lot about being IN the world but not OF the world. That’s our peculiar lot in this life. He expects us to live, breathe, interact and weep over the society in which he has placed us. He breaks our heart so we will pray for those lost in darkness. He admonishes us to be confident–in the world we WILL have tribulation, but we can be of good cheer because Jesus has overcome the world.

    When Jesus walked the earth, he did not collect his disciples and huddle together along the shores of Galilee and enjoy sweet fellowship. He sent them off–two by two so they had each other to encourage and to pray with–and walked among the lost himself.

    He told us he had to leave so we could have the Holy Spirit–who will live in us and teach us all we need to know. Do we believe that? Do we ACT like we believe that?

    I’d love to live in the Garden of Eden where the rose has no thorn, I won’t ache and make mistakes and where I can walk with God in the dew of the evening.

    I’ll get there, probably sooner than I’d like, but in the meantime I need to walk with God/Jesus/the Holy Spirit every day so that I can do what he created me to do and be.

    And if it’s here on the outskirts of Sodom and Gomorrah?

    Well, so be it.

    God is always good.

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  32. Good Morning….all of Colorado is quite giddy over the prospect of SNOW this weekend! Oh an answered prayer that would be…and yes…Colorado is a beautiful state…(perhaps it benefits from enhanced beauty when you are smoking pot!?) Our Governor has thirty days in which to declare pot is legal here…we are in for a world of hurt when it gets the official stamp of approval… 😦

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  33. I suspect Colorado is a lot like California was, politically, ten years ago. It’s just a matter of time. 😦

    I have to say, too, that those who voted to make marijuana legal, really should have visited Ukiah, California before they voted. It’s terrible what has happened up there, and it’s only medicinal marijuana that is legal.

    A friend recently posted high school kids are paid $10,000 a summer to camp at the fields to guard them. The drop out rate is soaring and the only “industry” is marijuana cultivation.

    The church is weak, many people without hope. A tragedy, and marijuana, right now, is the only “positive?”

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  37. Peter,

    Your wrong on both counts.

    Shouldn’t it be a rave that your wife is coming home? Rants are the bad ones.

    😯

    Army. All. Day. Long.

    But it would be nice if they threw the ball once in awhile.

    Beware the Black Knights!

    🙂

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  38. Michelle, I agree about much of what you say about finding an ‘easier’ place to live. However, there are also places in scripture where people were told by God to leave a place. They were told this for various reasons. I think you could make a case for both scenarios. Motive is another thing all together, of course.

    Of course, we never know what we, personally, will run into wherever we go. I well remember how worried everyone would get when a young person went off to college or to live in the ‘city’ or a bad area of a large city. All those children were fine. One who was raped and then murdered lived in small town, USA, where such things were ‘unheard of’. We all know the stories.

    There is no safe place, but any place we are in can BE safe for us–according to God’s purposes. It can also be unsafe, physically, for the same reason. I so agree with you that our thoughts must be on His will for us, wherever that may be.

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  43. I’ve been missing being here on the blog! Things have momentarily (I hope only momentarily) gotten too busy (Toobizy) to be here. My computer at home is still having connection issues, and I am still having some pain in my leg so I would not be very good company, anyways; just saving y’all some grief!

    Our son has just finished up his classes for undergrad so I had to help him bring some things home. It is a bittersweet time. He is looking at grad schools and discovered some applications are due this week.

    For the question of the day, I am in the midst of doing a study of a book, 40 Days to a Joy-Filled Life by Tommy Newberry, with a good friend. We are learning so much from the book by doing daily e-mails of the drills in the book. I have also been finding out how easily people who have known each other for a long time can still miscommunicate and have hurt feelings. I am thankful that this book is helping my liberal friend to have spiritual growth and have understanding of some of the principles of free enterprise that she would never have gotten from me. The author is a life coach and knows his stuff. He presents it in such a way that it is palatable to a liberal. Miracle working material.

    I need to go back and read through the threads since I have gotten so far behind.
    I also did not get a chance to say thank you to Kim on the idea to use the Deco Poly ribbon at the mailbox. I checked out some videos and saw some awesome decorations. I did decide to decorate the barberry bush that surrounds the mailbox by putting three dozen little red bows in it along with eight clear acrylic (looks like cut glass) birds. I got some ribbon and hope to cover the post and box with that. That has been another time consuming project, but much more rewarding than the single red bow I have used every year. Thanks, Kim! I am sure my whole neighborhood would sing thanks to you, too! Prayers for you and BG.

    Also thanks to Donna for info about the cover for the Paperwhite. It has not arrived and may be on back order.

    For Sunday School this past week we put up a tree in the classroom. I brought in my popcorn maker (air popper) that shoots out popcorn. The children had never seen such a popper so it was pretty exciting. They got to string popcorn for the tree which was something they had never done before. Some said they had never sewn before (I never thought of stringing popcorn as sewing, but it is training in using a needle and thread). So if anyone is looking for something that children will enjoy, just go back in time and find what was pleasant to do before we all went so techy.

    I hope to find more time to hang out here. All of you are such a blessing to chat with daily. I miss that!

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  48. A couple of days ago, you were posting favorite Christmas songs.
    Here’s one you may not have heard. One of my favorites.
    A fifteen second commercial before Como starts.

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  53. Well Chas, I thought I had heard all of Perry Como’s music…I had never heard that one however! He was a favorite of my Dad’s and he had all of his albums…thanks for sharing that one 🙂

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  54. Thank you for the Pearl Harbor tribute video, AJ. I’m going to show it to my dad when he’s here for our family Christmas celebration (he doesn’t have internet at home). My dad’s only sibling died in WWII, although not at Pearl Harbor, but I know Dad will be moved by the video nonetheless.

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  55. Okay, it’s nit-picky. I admit it. But, it ANNOYS me to no end that our culture portrays angels as adorable or beautiful, winged, human FEMALES. In no place in the Bible do angels appear as anything remotely resembling sweet, adorable, pretty girls.

    While angels technically have no gender, they always appear as fearsome, mighty, and MALE. They are God’s messengers and God’s warriors. They are scary. The first thing they always say (when not appearing incognito as human men) is “Fear not!” or “Do not be afraid.” Why? Because they are magnificent and SCARY. Not namby-pamby, glittery, effeminate humans.

    I think it says something very poor about our culture that we have feminized and “prettified” angels to the point that the Archangel Gabriel is usually portrayed by a girl in most Christmas plays, because no one would consider having a boy play him. 😦 (BTW, when I taught in school, we did the Christmas play, and Gabriel was always a boy … dressed in armor and carrying a sword, although we did do wings too!)

    Grumble. Grumble.

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  56. And, while we’re at it. My wise men are NOT ALLOWED in the stable. They did not come to the stable. They came later to a HOUSE. So, my wise men figurines have to be on the other side of the table, on their way to visit. 🙂

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  57. Actually, Chas, Price did have some suggestions on where to go, one of which he and his family followed. (They are now living in South America.)

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  58. Sorry I posted it, Tammy. I thought about posting it yesterday, had second thoughts about it, and posted something different. Today I guess I should have followed my original instincts of yesterday.

    😦

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  59. Okay, technically, there is one passage in Zechariah where two women with wings *might* be angels . But, that is it. They are not expressly identified as angels. But, they’re either angels or some other form of spirit (they do have wings, after all).

    However, all the archangels; all the named angels; all specific appearances as humans — they all appear as male.

    Again, they likely have no gender (based on what Christ says), and I’m sure that they can appear as either men or women if the situation demands it. But, they are incorrectly portrayed as invariably female in popular culture. 😦

    Grrrrr.

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  60. 6 arrows: I’m really not at all upset with what you posted. It more just reminded me. I’m more upset that my church is doing a nativity play, and my kids are in it, and they are having girl angels … of course, and the wise men coming to the stable. SIGH

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  62. I understand, Tammy. I’m just sorry it served as a reminder for you. (And it was a reminder for me that I should be consistent from one day to the next when I decide against something and have no compelling reason to change my mind, which I did not in this case.)

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  64. Tammy, we have a girl angel as Christmas tree topper, and when I first saw her last Christmas I mentally did the math, “How many years till the girls are out of the house and I can get rid of her?” Stuff that’s part of their Christmas “tradition” I’d rather just let them keep till they have their own households, but I don’t like it, and I know my husband would not choose such a thing today, either. (He has a lot more theological insight now than he had six or seven years ago.) But basically someday I’m going to want to let the girls take with them what they want from the Christmas stuff, rather than be stuck using stuff I don’t want. For now, it isn’t a hill I want to die on.

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