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Our Daily Thread 2-16-13

Good Morning!

Happy Saturday! 🙂

What’s going on this weekend?

Quote of the Day

“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”

Mark  Twain

Music? Sure. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD for us?

79 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-16-13”

  2. Nothing much in the Chas household.
    I ordered a book from Amazon, and when I went out for the paper this morning, the paper hadn’t come, but the book was on the doorstep. Evidently it came sometime yesterday and we never saw it. Most of our in-out is via the garage.
    We had been talking about Christian/Muslim eschatology. So I ordered a book about it called The Last Trumpet. I can’t comment because I haven’t even opened it yet.

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  4. Can you imagine the conversations that wouldn’t have been started but for the weather? I know dozens that started with “How much rain did you get?”
    BTW, people here are braced for snow. Slight chance. No accumulation expected.
    But it’s something to grouse about.

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  9. Tychicus, a lot of conversations in the South have been started with “Hot enough for ya?” or “It looks like we’re gonna be blessed with a little more rain”–We are the masters of the understatement.

    I am Pensacola to Houston and Houston to Dallas today. I don’t know if I am going through Hobby or International. I once had a SIX hour layover at International. The only thing to do was ride the trolley through all the terminals. I won’t have that much this time.

    I am finding it difficult to pack business attire in one bag for carry on purposes but I also thinki it is ridiculous that in addition to charging for a flight they now charge to check a bag. On our way back from Annapolis last month they threw away BG’s perfume!!! I likened it to being herded on a bus but now I am thinking it is more like being herded on a cattle trailer.
    Oh, and I hate it about myself that I feel that way because me father used to say that I would ride a fence post wrapped in barbed wire if I could just GO SOMEWHERE!!!! He also accused me of “have toothe brush, will travel”.
    So all in all I am glad I am not driving to Dallas, although I would have more room for luggage.

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  10. Kim, I know it isn’t far, but I don’t understand why you need to go to Pensacola. Unless you don’t want to cross the bridge. It seems to me that Mobile would have lots of direct flights to Dallas.
    There used to be a big AFB in Mobile. Brooks AFB.

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  11. Yesterday, somone called Anonymous linked an article calledTop 10 Reasons Our Kids LEave Church. Today, I found this article in an email. Read through this, and maybe, like me, you’ll be surprised at how long ago this was written. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

    Eight Symptoms of False Teaching Today

    Many things combine to make the present increase of false doctrine especially dangerous.

    1. There is an undeniable zeal in some teachers of error–their “earnestness” makes many people think they must be right.

    2. There is a great appearance of learning and theological knowledge–many think that such clever and intellectual men must surely be safe to listen to.

    3. There is a general tendency to completely free and independent thinking today–many like to prove their independence of judgment by believing the newest ideas, which are nothing but novelties.

    4. There is a wide-spread desire to appear kind, loving, and open-minded–many seem half-ashamed to say that anybody can be wrong or is a false teacher.

    5. There is always a portion of half-truth taught by modern false teachers–they are always using scriptural words and phrases, but with unscriptural meaning.

    6. There is a public craving for a more sensational and entertaining worship–people are impatient with the more inward and invisible work of God within the hearts of men.

    7. There is a superficial readiness all around to believe anyone who talks cleverly, lovingly and earnestly, forgetting that Satan often masquerades himself as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14).

    8. There is a wide-spread ignorance among professing Christians–every heretic who speaks well is surely believed, and anyone who doubts him is called narrow-minded and unloving.

    All these are especially symptoms of our times. I challenge any honest and observant person to deny them. These tend to make the assaults of false doctrine today especially dangerous and make it even more important to say loudly, “Do not be carried away with strange doctrine!”

    — J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)

    As Solomon said in Ecclesiastes, “There is nothing new under the sun.”

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  12. We have about an inch of snow here in Stewartstown and it continues to fall lightly and gently. We have an awesome view and nothing pressing that needs to be done today. All in all, a great day ahead. Of course Emmy has already stated, “Snowing. Rain boots. Bear sled. Poppy push” so Poppy does have something pressing he needs to do. At age two she already knows that Grammy doesn’t do outside in the cold.

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  13. And this quote from the pastor/friend who died last November:

    Pride is the last thing to go before conversion and the first to return. If you want to please the devil, then admire yourself.

    – Bob Jennings

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  14. Chas, the Mobile airport is not at Brookley Field.(which would make TOO much sense) Many years ago some “fine upstanding men in the right social circles” had some worthless land way out in West Mobile (read almost Mississippi) and that is where the Mobile airport is. You can take Airport Blvd with 8 lanes of traffic and MANY stop lights or you can take a road off of I-10 and drive a two lane road for 20 miles. With Pensacola I hop on I-10 take it to I-110 hop on Airport Road which dead ends at the Pensacola airport. Mobile would take about an hour and a half. Pensacola takes about an hour.
    I have found that the Mobile airport is really only convenient for those who live in Mississippi 😉

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  15. AJ asks “What’s going on this weekend?” and then asks if anyone has a QoD.

    So, D2 is coming over and she, D3 and my niece are planning a slumber party. There is also a book sale at the public library this morning we’ll probably go to. Good way to find books at a cheap price.

    And Tychicus asked a QotD. My answer is that since in the 118th Psalm we read: “This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

    I believe this is an admonishment to rejoice in whatever God sends our way. We can rejoice in God while not liking the weather. To complain about the weather isn’t a sin anymore than complaining about the taste of some food we don’t like. God made our taste buds, and if the food is unpleasant we can complain. Now, the Children of Israel got into trouble for grumbling and murmuring against God because of the diet he provided. I don’t think saying, “I hate the cold weather” is the same thing. It is a preference for warmth. It’s not saying “I hate God for giving us cold weather.” No, blame Satan for deceiving Eve. If it weren’t for that, we would all be comfortable in our skin, enjoying the fruits of the Garden of Eden. Back then, the temperature must have been a constant 70 or so, since Adam and Eve had no garments to protect them from extreme weather.

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  16. Love it, Peter!

    My husband countered Mark Twain’s words with another idea: “If you’re going to lie, don’t believe your own lies.”

    We used to laugh about that while playing bridge.

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  17. Anonymous is Michelle! How could you forget me so fast?

    In other news, we’re having a memorial service at church today for a 14-month-old. SIDS. They buried him yesterday and someone posted a photo of the flower covered basket.

    It totally did me in. Cried my eyes out with my friends the grandmother and great-grandmother (who is in my Bible study. You think it was easy to teach Job with her there on Tuesday? But she was resonating with the Scripture).

    I’m taking sandwiches for he reception ut not attending. I cannot imagine a more grueling experience that today’s service.

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  18. I think Peter L got that right about complaining about the weather.

    We never know what other things (not good ones) might be happening rather than the bad weather. Bad weather keeps people off the roads and out of the skies.

    I think the Psalms has some complaining along with the praising. God is probably happy to see us turn our complaining into praising. That means we are reflecting on Him long enough to realize the benefits He gives us even in bad suffering times.

    I must be related to Goldilocks because I want my weather “just right.”

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  20. Peter L: I think expressing a preference about the weather (or food) is certainly different than complaining about it. When we complain about the weather, we’re actually complaining against God who sends it to us (He causes His sun to rise, He sends the rain), and actually deprive ourselves of the peace that comes from recognizing His sovereign control over it. I suspect that most of us have fairly nice weather, and therefore also tend to take it for granted.

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  21. We are blessed with a lot more nice weather than bad weather or what we consider to be bad weather. And the different weather that we have certainly gives us times to do things other than what we might do otherwise. God gives us a time for this and a time for that. He is good beyond what we know.

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  23. This morning, Mr. klasko and I ran some errands to get home befoer the possible snow. DD brought her greyhound up for us to dogsit for the day and overnight. We are planning an “in” day for the rest of the day. Low key, low stress. 🙂

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  24. I have been reading through, in piecemeal fashion, a book called If the Allies had fallen, Sixty alternate Scenarios of World War II”. Not the entire book, just parts of interest. The essence of all this is that most would not have changed. e.g.
    What if Hitler had permitted withdrawal from Stalingrad?     Lots of Russian and German soldiers would have died in later battles. It wasn’t decisive in any way.
    What if Hitler had permitted Rommel to relocate his panzers near the Normandy Beachhead? Rommel could have driven the invasion forces back, but his tanks would have become targets of massive naval gunfire from battleships and cruisers supporting the invasion. Lots of casualties, but the invasion would have succeeded.
    Etc.
    The biggest blunders were Hitler’s invasion of Russia rather than concentrating on the Mediterranean. He wanted oil.
    Japan’s biggest blunder was Pearl Harbor. America was in no mood for war at the time.
    Pearl Harbor changed that. And the bombing was a disaster for Japan. Rather than destroy the infrastructure they sank some WW I ships and replaceable aircraft.
    What if no A-Bomb had existed or, if so, none had been dropped? Quoting, p. 236:
    “The bomb shocked the enemy into surrender and galvanized the peace faction around the emperor to intervene decisively in the peace process. Dropping the bomb shortened the war, gave Tokyo a face-saving device to surrender, and reversed the urgency to get Stalin into the war. It allowed Japan to face the new era as a nation under an emperor symbolizing unity. It changed the entire structure of postwar Japan. …”
    Japan had sent out peace feelers several times before through Russia. But Russia didn’t process them.
    There was internal strife in Japan about surrender, even to the end.
    Everyone agrees that there would never have been an invasion of Japan.
    Midway was a turning point for the US in the war. But if Japan had won, they wouldn’t have had anything. Like Wake Island. Or the Aleutians. Never a factor in the war.
    Britain’s biggest blunder was not preparing for a war that many knew was coming.
    Hitler’s biggest, other than invading the Soviet Union, was declaring war on the US. It would have been difficult for Roosevelt to bring the US into the European war. But he likely could have done it.

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  25. Oh Michelle, this will be a hard day. 😦 And we’re left with so many ‘whys’ in deaths like that.

    We’re having ourselves a little hot spell — it was in the high 70s yesterday “supposed” to get up to 80 today. And dry. Those desert winds, my hands are chapped.

    But then by Tuesday-Wednesday we’re going to be back in the 50s for daytime with rain. Go figure.

    It’s the time of year when it can’t decide what season it is.

    Greyhounds are very nice dogs — and actually very good “apartment” dogs, they’re pretty calm. Probably easier in an apartment or small house with limited outdoor space than say a Jack Russell Terrier.

    And they’re fun to buy collars for. I have a friend who makes dog collars and she specializes in these wide bands using beautiful materials — they’re meant to be shown off on a very long neck without all that long hair other breeds have that would just cover them up.

    The Scottish festival is today and tomorrow but I’m thinking I’ll pass and maybe try to go to the bigger one in May to the south of us this year.

    So today’s schedule is quite light: Stop in to get my bangs trimmed up and drop some shoes off at the shoe repair. Maybe a trip to the dog park, of course. 🙂 Oh, and the kitchen floor needs cleaning. 😦

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  27. Women serve in the military? That doesn’t seem right. Let me know when you find the missing post. This I have to read. Next, you will tell me that women serve as police officers and as firemen. What is the world coming to?

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  28. I agree that comments on the weather are frequently a conversation starter. While, technically its not weather, here in SoCal many a conversation begins with “Was that a 3.4 or 3.5?”

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  30. All I have is Women in the Infantry. Somebody posted a link to the blog or whatever it was. I messed up and only printed the first three pages. Will I ever know the rest of the story? And Random can’t wait until it is found so he can comment on it, but he will just have to wait.

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  32. Nope, I read that one and had it up on my computer the same day as the Women in the Infantry article. Not sure they were posted the same day and I think it might have been Ricky or Joe who brought it to our attention, but don’t know.

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  38. I just went to Walgreens to get some cold meds and Kleenex for my son who is sick. While there I saw the Sports Illustrated magazine and complained to a store employee that I won’t shop there if they continue to display it.

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  39. Chas, sounds like an interesting book. I read a very small book that I found in a church library one time written by a man who discovered conductive material of some kind during WW2. It seems both sides were rushing to find this for some purpose. (As you can see, I read this many years ago!) The author asserts that the idea he came up with came to him in a dream and he credits God for the Allies getting the idea before the Axis powers. He believed if they had gotten it first, the war would have ended very differently. It was a very interesting book, but I have no idea the name and don’t attend that church anymore.

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  40. I need to go to CVS to pick up a prescription today. Now I’ll have to look for the Sports Illustrated cover. #curious.

    Mumsee’s really funny when she’s by herself, huh? We should just let her go sometime, we can all stand back and see where it all leads.

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  41. Donna, It’s probably the soft-core porn issue known as “The Swimsuit Edition”, which usually comes out this time of year.

    Janice- Another reason not to shop Walgreens: they have told their pharmacists that they have to sell RU486 regardless of their pro-life convictions. Or at least I think I heard that on the radio a while back.

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  43. Swimsuits already?

    I haven’t looked at magazine racks in a while, but I do see the tabloids at the checkout stands, they’re hard to miss. Seems like the line in modesty and good taste was passed by a bunch of publications a long, long time ago.

    The best magazine displays are at the Petco checkout stands.

    You get all the cute-cute puppy dog and kitten magazines to look at. 🙂

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  44. The book If the Allies Had Fallen also tells about “the Battle of Kansas” where the B-29 was developed & produced. There was an experimental B-19 before that. (I remember that. It looked like a humongous B-17. It was never put into production.) The B-29 was rushed into production before being fully tested. It was the first of its kind, ever; with pressurized cabin and a fire control system. I operated radios on a B-29 for eight months. It never was a good airplane, but it did its job and arrived in time to make a difference. The modified B-50 was just a better version of the B-29.

    They also speculate what would have happened if Hitler had pushed the Messerschmidt Me-262 jet fighter into production. They say that it would have controlled the air for a short time, but before long the P-80 would have been on the scene. (I remember the P-80, it was our first jet fighter. Neither were supersonic. But they were fast. )

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  47. But Donna, what if the dogs had their own scandal of some sort? My husband suspected that the reason they needed a runner-up in the Westminster show this year was in case the winner posed naked in some magazine. . . .

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  48. Well AJ I hope you’re happy. I just purchased all kinds of Piano Guys music. What I couldn’t get on Amazon, I got on itunes! (I had a bunch of giftcards leftover from Christmas.) 😀

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  50. Well, the Sports Illustrated must have sold out. All I saw at the pharmacy stand were the usual women’s magazines (Lose 50 pounds this week!).

    I stopped in to get my bangs trimmed but the gal who cuts my hair was off today. So one of the other stylists, a guy, says if I don’t mind waiting he can do it. I had my Bible with me so I settled in and read through much of the gospel of John by the time I realized I’d been waiting a really long time.

    He had one gal in foil space horns and another older lady waiting by then (meanwhile he’d disappeared from his station), so I decided to just give up. I don’t mind waiting (and realize I came in with no appointment). But they really should let you know if it’s going to be an unusually long time. Bangs take all of 2 minutes.

    So since I’m working next Saturday, I think I’ll just cut them myself. 😮

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  56. My parents used to buy me an annual subscription to Sports Illustrated each Christmas. My wife would always throw away the swimsuit issue before I ever saw it, so I have no idea if it is all swimsuits or if there is any sports tucked in between the pictures.

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  57. Eldest son bought younger sons a subscription. They would bring it to me with their eyes covered and faces averted and tell me I needed to check it for advertisements. The swimsuit addition never made it to them. Though one of the boys, who likes to draw pornography, seems to use their models for his work.

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  60. I’ve mentioned that our pastor is preaching a series on the Walk of Faith.
    This morning, it was “Walk in Prayer”.
    It was icy driving into church this morning, and I nearly slipped walking in from the parking lot. (Temp. was 22 degrees.)
    I thought a good topic for today would be “Walk Carefully”.
    🙂

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  61. Yes, it will be an icy drive to church this morning. Husband has all ready gone and we are getting ready to follow. The older ones go to Sunday School and I bring the ones who are not behaving.

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  62. “All I saw at the pharmacy stand were the usual women’s magazines (Lose 50 pounds this week!). ” Usually next to a picture of a chocolate cup cake.

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  66. Happy Birthday Mr. Klasko. AJ, you’re torturing our blog friend Cheryl — who somehow married someone who hates split pea soup. I mean, really. What questions do people ask each other nowadays when considering a good match? You’d think that would have been high on the list of compatibility issues. 🙂

    Our guest preacher today was Dr. Henry Krabbendam who spoke on the 2nd chapter of Acts and the importance of remembering that it is the Holy Spirit who convicts of sin and who provides the power in our preaching and prayers, Amen? Amen.

    Excellent talk, he was just filled with joy which made his sermon so delightful. And and who cannot love those Dutch accents (he was born in the Netherlands)? He’s a professor at Covenant College and has been active in missionary works throughout Africa (and was even a consultant on the Disney film “The Prince of Egypt”).

    Altogether a good morning in worship (which I needed as I woke up at 5:30 a.m. after a stressful dream about work and could not go back to sleep, worrying too much about things that may never happen). 😦 Oy.

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  68. I dislike pea soup. I make it for my husband anyway. I divide it up into many small servings, which I freeze. He loves them for lunch. His lunch is almost always some kind of left-overs. He’s had a hankering for a macaroni, cheese and chicken hotdish I make, but we had used up all the left-over chicken. I roasted one yesterday, so we will have enough for all kinds of meals. He had the left-over chicken gravy etc today and I had a chicken wrap. I love left-overs sometimes.

    Sometimes it is good if only one person likes a certain dish. There are all kinds of ways to work that out with the microwaves and freezers we have. 🙂

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  70. When I make tuna salad I make egg salad first to which I add the tuna. I take out enough of the egg salad first so my husband can have that since he does not care for tuna salad. There are ways to work with the likes and dislikes so everyone is happy.

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  71. I made some buckwheat pancakes yesterday morning to which I added orange juice and blueberries. I used yogurt mixed with the orange juice instead of milk They were very good in case anyone is looking for something a little different for breakfast.

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  72. I’m baking a chicken tomorrow. Then soup broth with the carcass, and maybe chicken orzo soup. Chicken salad with the leftover chicken. Since it’s only 3 of us, we get a lot of meals out of a bird.

    Even though it tastes like frog, we like it. 🙂

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  77. I dislike pea soup. When my wife makes it, I eat it.

    I’ve ridden with the police a couple of times. (I was too dumb and clumsy to be a cop. I surely would have shot myself.) When I rode with the cops, the K-9 officer (not my vehicle) had trained his dog to bark into the mike when his car was called. By coincidence, the first night I rode, we spotted an escape felon/carjacke/mugger (all happening just that day) and pursued him light show & sirens all over South Seattle, finally cornering him (a dozen black & whites, not just mine) in a McDonald’s. After the officers dropped off me and my companion (a student of mine either interested in a career in law enforcement or in law breaking who had to use me as her duenna because when she showed up at the station with her brother, he was arrested on various outstanding warrants–not that she cared much as she just wanted her class credit for community service and was perhaps glad to see bro in hoosegow), anyway after escaped felon was hauled back to prison, officers let us out and said, “We’re sorry to cut your night riding with us short, but we have a lot of paperwork to do.” “It’s all right,” I answered. “We got our money’s worth.”

    The next time I rode, about forty years later, the most excitement was stopping a couple of cars and giving them warnings. In fact, I am sure if a real (exciting) call had come in, they would have made me get out of the car before engaging in pursuit. Everybody’s chicken these days. Even our chickens are chicken.

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  79. Chas, my husband is the one who sent me the link, and he was laughing at it again this morning. I told him I posted it on here yesterday and “warned” you about it, but that I knew you’d go to the link. Then I opened up yesterday’s thread and here you are. 🙂

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