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Our Daily Thread 3-28-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1774 Britain passed the Coercive Act against Massachusetts to quell “commotions and insurrections” in the Colonies.

In 1885 the Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.

In 1917 during World War I the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded.

In 1933 in Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.

And in 1979 a major accident occurred at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. A nuclear power reactor overheated and suffered a partial meltdown.

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Quote of the Day

“If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.”

George  Burns

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QoD

Do you have any Good Friday or Easter traditions at your house?

41 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-28-13”

  1. Good morning! We are headed to the ranch for the long weekend today. The girls have off today and tomorrow.

    QoD: Every year we have brunch with my MIL at her country club. We also go to our ranch where we have an Easter egg hunt and read about Jesus’ resurrection. We dye eggs (lots of them! )– and eat a yummy breakfast casserole Easter morning.

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  3. AJ’s This date in History about Three Mile Island reminded me of something a friend posted on Facebook the other day, “I am a nuclear engineer, I can figure out mathematically how long a reactory has until it would melt down at current usage, but I can’t figure out my income taxes. Something is wrong.”
    I personally have never tried to figure out either. My dad could listen to a ball bearing, do a few math calculations and tell you how long it had until it needed to be replaced. I, on the other hand, pour milk out on it’s expiration day.

    Last night Mr. P and I went to the local bar/pub-the only place in town that was running an all you care to eat special on crab legs and boiled shrimp. We started chatting with the three ladies who were seated at the two tables next to us. First one said to her friend something about growing up and eating breakfast, dinner, and supper. My ear caught that and we discussed as to how supper was usually what was left over from dinner that day. The third lady’s 92 year old mother had recently died and this was her first time to do Easter by herself and she needed to know what sized ham she needed to buy. We thoroughly discussed that and I let her know that the Publix brand ham was actually a Smithfielf ham. We later sent her off with great confidence in her ham buying skills. We also covered how cooking in cast iron was becoming the thing to do. It is better for you. We also covered how you should never use soap on it. Mr. P was quite amazed at all he learned. Sometimes it’s nice to talk to strangers. You can learn so much!

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  5. Thanks, Aj. I hope you have a blessed Easter as well!

    As you know, my sister and her husband are serving as medical missionaries with Samaritan’s Purse in Kibigora, Rwanda. My sister, Linda, wrote about a boy who has severe problems with his feet (I don’t know what the problem is called, but it causes growths on the feet that look like cauliflower, which makes him unable to walk). The boy’s brother carries him around on piggyback everywhere he goes. Anyway, Linda & Tim decided to pay the medical bills for this boy to be treated at the local hospital, as the parents didn’t have the ability to pay. The kids are not in school, as the parents can’t afford the costs of the uniforms (approximately $25.00/child). I spoke with Scott about it and he agreed we could give some money to this family. I heard from Linda this morning, and she said the money we have agreed to give will be enough for all five of the kids to attend school for more than five years and provide some livestock for the family. It is so exciting to think about how much good our money will be able to do; how much suffering it will alleviate for this one family; how it will give these five children an opportunity in life.

    I’m not telling you this to toot my horn, I’m telling you because I’m so excited about it! It brings me much joy. We have been so richly blessed, it feels good to share with those less fortunate. Anyway, just wanted to share this!

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  6. Today’s humor from facebook is a cartoon of sorts with an older person proclaiming “When I was your age Easter eggs were twice as big and came with a free pair of pantyhose”.
    My grandmother used these eggs for the “prize” egg!

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  8. So where’s LindaS this morning?

    Down 4 starters with a bunch of minor leaguers on the field and the Yankees still beat the O’s. 😯

    All is right in the baseball world. 🙂

    4 days until opening day!

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  9. QoD, Sometimes before Easter the Kid and I make a Peep cake. We also dye eggs. Sometimes after Easter, I use left over eggs to make a dish Hubby and I like called Green Eggs and Ham. Other than that, our holiday depends on weather Hubby is home or weather we get invited to someone’s house. Otherwise it is just Memmaw, the Kid and I hiding eggs and eating ham.

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  12. Speaking of baseball, the Kid had his first kid pitched baseball game Monday night. He made me proud and not just for the running, fly ball catch. In the first inning the coach sent him to center field. This was our first game and the catcher was having some problems, resulting in 8 runs by the other team (most of them from stealing home). The third-baseman (and his mother) began to loudly proclaim that he could do better and that he should be the catcher. When the coach pulled him off the field and in the resulting lecture I overheard him say that The Kid had played first base for five years and didn’t say a word when he was sent to the outfield. It’s nice to hear my son used as a good example.

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  13. Our only traditions involve going to the church services. Sometimes we do sunrise services. Recently I have done sunrise service on top of Lookout Mountain. That isn’t in the plans for this year.

    One year when our son went to a church sponsered Easter egg hunt instead of catching an egg, he caught a chicken as in chickenpox. He and another boy were diving in to get the same egg so they had close contact. Later that day I got a call that the boy had just come down with chickenpox. About two weeks later our son came down with it, just before he was scheduled to have the chickenpox vaccine.

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  15. I am happy to be able to make my puff pastry with french creme filling this Easter. That has been our tradition, but I haven’t done it for a couple of years. Our traditions are now in transition with our children being grown. Since one of them will be home with her family, I will make one this year. 🙂

    We always do a ham with brown sugar glaze. My SIL will have to suffer. Although he hates any glaze, everyone else likes it. He suffers quite loudly, in silence. 😉

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  17. Good morning! Kim, Paul and I got quite the chuckle from your post on FB..about the eggs…oh how I recall purchasing Leggs…. 🙂
    Qod…not on Friday…but, I do always reflect upon the day…For Easter we have always had an egg hunt with the Grandkids…we will do that again this Sunday…and I will take an Easter basket filled with healthy stuff for them 🙂

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  18. Good Morning, Y’all!

    No real traditions I guess. Mrs. IBNO usually makes a little basket for the kids (not really kids anymore!). I like to do ham, but I like ham anytime!
    I also like black jellybeans. I was always disappointed as a kid that I never got very many black ones…once I realized that Mom also liked them, I got it. In my teen years she discovered entire bags of nothing but licorice jellybeans so she made up for my childhood deficit…

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  19. We had a Passover Seder at church last night. It was quite enjoyable. This was my second time to attend one. Every table had to have a “mom” and “dad” to fill their roles. The mom lights the candle at the table and reads the first words. Later the dad serves the various parts of the seder. The one who was to be the “dad” at our table was the real dad of a boy who had just had a mishap on the playground and had to go to the emergency room. They needed another man to be the “dad” so my son got to do that part (my husband was not with us since it is busy at the tax office). So I guess that was my first opportunity to be a “grandmother.” 🙂

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  21. The orange are mine! 🙂

    They’re the only ones I eat. My wife had some digusting jelly beans last year or the year before, from JellyBelly I think. Flavors like popcorn and stuff. Nasty.

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  23. Kbells, good job. 🙂

    Wow, Barry Manilow. I had a roommate who loved him. And when she got married, she married a guy who looked like him. So weird.

    No major traditions for me either, even when I was growing up the main tradition was SS/church and a ham dinner — Oh, and yeah, I guess I do remember hunting Easter eggs in the backyard (and candy).

    One year I remember having a new yellow dress. Well, it was yellow and chocolate before the day was out.

    I remember going to a seder one year with some friends, it was sponsored at a local church and put on by a Jewish Christian congregation.

    And I love going to Good Friday services but I haven’t been in a number of years due to work schedules. I’ve missed it. So this year I’m hoping to make a 7 p.m. service with a friend.

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  25. We had a vacation home in Lake Tahoe when I was growing up and would see who was in town doing shows when we were there. My mom and sisters went to see Barry Manilow on a bit of a lark and then were surprised at how great a showman he is. Funny and self-effacing, it was very enjoyable. The man knows how to engage an audience.

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  26. QoD: Good Friday service for our church is in Downtown San Diego with the First AME church. We provide the music and their preacher preaches. Then they come up for our sunrise service on Easter they provide the music and our preacher preaches.

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  27. We’re singing a cantata at church on Sunday and are very excited. We have a niece coming this weekend who knows nothing about Christianity and I’m hoping/praying, she’ll come to the cantata (since her hosts are singing in it) and learning just who Jesus is. That’s actually a prayer request, I’ll post it there.

    We have the traditional egg casserole at church (I’ll make it the night before), I eat all the yellow and red jelly beans, plus break my chocolate Lenten fast by devouring chocolate easter eggs and we have a family dinner.

    This year because we have a vegetarian with us (that niece), I’m making stuffed portobello mushrooms in addition to my sister-in-law’s leg of lamb. It should be fun. Lots of kids, lots of noise, lots of people, lots of food.

    Oh, and God is so very good because Jesus, risen from the dead, will be there, too!

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  29. My husband says that Barry Manilow sings slightly off-key and he can not stand to hear him sing. I don’t have a musical background so I don’t know if it could be because my husband has damaged ears from all the listening to loud rock concerts when he was young or it Barry’s singing is slightly off-key. Any thoughts from those of you who have a musical background?

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  30. I guess I could say that one of our Easter traditions seems to always be that my husband is having to work through it because it is not only High Holy season but also high tax season (bummer). 😦

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  31. In today’s restaurant conversation I pointed out to the young guy the flaw in his argument that people who are sick and are prayed for get worse instead of better and that Benjamin Franklin wasn’t an atheisst and that Great Britain DOES have a de facto separation of church and state and that Western Civilization is based on Judeo-Christian tradition and that in order to understand a lot of literature, are, and music you need to know the Bible whether you believe it or not. The man who was with him was quite appreciative of my efforts. Not sure the success I had because by that time my take out was ready

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  32. I like the black jelly beans too. After that, assuming they’re Brach’s, red and orange ones. Last year I got black jelly beans not only for myself, but for my older stepdaughter, and I put “mixed” ones in the candy dish. Alas, after finishing her bag of black ones, she ate all the black out of the mixed. While I like the other colors too, black ones are the best ones in the mix, and I ended up throwing out quite a bit because the black are just necessary. (Since she had already eaten the best rather than just eating whatever she got, I ate the red and the orange and threw the rest away.) This year I want to eat all the mixed ones before she gets home from college. 🙂

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  33. Good afternoon. I like all the flavors of jelly beans. I’m not going to eat many this year because I am cutting sugars back drastically.
    Our Ressurection Sunday traditions are go to church and have a nice meal with the family, just like every other Sunday. On Saturday we will do an egg hunt. This year my father will be doing the hiding and the seekers will be all the ladies. That is four generations of us.

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  34. We were going to have an Children’s program Sunday morning at church, but they were late in getting it started and it was cancelled, because it was causing too much stress. Yapa was disappointed because it is her last year in the “children” catagory. Next year she will be a teen and the teens do not get to do the dramatic productions that the children do.

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  36. The teens have so many things going they do not have time for more. We plan to pick and choose what Yapa is involved in. The teaching and spiritual aspects we will always pick as well as service projects. But all the sports and entertainment stuff will be analyzed as far as if it is of interest and if it works with our schedule.

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  38. Yapa,

    And in today’s world, necessary. There seems o be so much for kids to join and do. Many people waste so much time running to this and that, and not enough just being a family together. A wise move, and one we are doing as well.

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  41. Black jelly beans – ugh. Purple ones too. All the others are yummy 🙂
    I don’t like licorice, but I love Tiger Tiger ice cream (licorice and orange flavour) go figure.

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