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Our Daily Thread 4-2-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida.

In 1889 Charles Hall patented aluminum.

In 1917 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presented a declaration of war against Germany to the U.S. Congress.

In 1982 Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.

And in 1984 John Thompson became the first black coach to lead his team to the NCAA college basketball championship.

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Quote of the Day

“My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.”

Hans Christian  Andersen

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And since it’s her birthday, Emmylou gets the honors today.

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Now we need a QoD. Anybody?

56 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-2-13”

  3. AJ, I meant to thank you for the gospel readings from Mark and Matthew that you put up with some of the prayer threads last week. I do enjoy the Psalms, too, that you post regularly, but the gospel passages were especially fitting for Holy Week.

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  4. Six arrows reminded me of two T-shirts I saw at Myrtle Beach One kid was wearing “First Brat” another “Second Brat”.
    We went down Friday for our annual spring break. We didn’t know it was Easter when we planned it. We planned that week because Elvera’s youngest sister (76) is gpomg on a cruise in a couple of weeks.
    But it worked out well because Chuck sold his house and is having one built “His retirement home”. And he is living in a small apartment for six months.
    So, there is no place for us to stay in Greensboro.
    I came home yesterday and Elvera’s two sisters came down for the remainder of the week.
    It’s just another trip for the youngest. It’s the only one the oldest ever gets.
    Lots of New York and Ontario license plates around town.

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  5. I’m trying to decide which two of mine could wear those shirts Chas saw. Hard to narrow it down… 😉

    Just kidding! My arrows are pretty good most of the time. Now if it had been for two of the children in my family of origin…hmm, if I had had a twin, that would have been easy. 😯

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  6. Saturday night, we were sitting in Crabby Mikes, a seafood buffet in Surfside.
    And I though of this song:

    If you followed the story to the end, you see that she has a daughter, with the nickel in her locket.
    But we know that this doesn’t mean anything to her. She has her own young life, and for her, it’s a different world.
    That’s the way it’s supposed to work.

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  7. Because of the way I grew up I do not enjoy debate and conflict. I am the peacemaker and try to make everyone happy so that everything rocks along peaceful and serene.
    You may have noticed that I do not join in the arguments around here for the most part. I will let you think what you will and if I disagree I will acknowledge that we all have our right to our opinions. I may even say, “You may be right” to end an argument with the unspoken being that you may also be wrong.
    Over the weekend a long time “friend” accused me of being sexist and informed me that she knew more about the subject than I did. Of course she is my age and goes to college as a hobby and watches BBC all day long. If I could have that life I would too. Then I was retelling a story and was accused on bordering on racism and making someone uncomfortable.
    These two things have gnawed at me for several days. I will not be condscended to by someone that doesn’t have to work for a living and I still don’t know what to think about being called a racist. My tendency is to shut out people who hurt me.

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  8. So I’m sitting here this morning trying to answer the age old question “Are the bananas ripe enough to eat yet?”

    They were really green when I bought them, but that was all they had. They look mostly yellow now, but still green at the top around the stem. I want to eat one, but if it’s not ripe, I’ll throw it away because I don’t like unripened bananas. But the rest is yellow, and since I’m the only one who eats them they’ll go bad if I wait too long. There lies the dilemna.

    I wish I had a monkey. He’d know.

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  13. QOD: Mark or Luke. I would want them to start with a Gospel and I find those two to be the easiest to follow. Mark is the shortest and simplest. Luke has the great telling of Christ’s birth.

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  14. My QoD answer would be the Book of Mark, because I think it’s good to start with a gospel, and Mark gives a succinct presentation of the gospel message.

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  15. Looks like I copied you, Ricky. I was off somewhere else and came back without refreshing the page, and there was your answer — pretty much what I was thinking. 😉

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  16. Kim, “Racist” and “bigot” are the new McCarthyism. The people who throw those words around are counting on the other person being so afraid of being branded that they will cave to anything they say.

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  17. 6 Arrows: The Gospel of John. Mark and Luke are more biographies. John is more about the purpose of Christ’s mission on earth. John, then Romans.
    Stay out of the OT for now. There is no reason to confront this person with Jericho and Ai, and David and Bathsheba. It isn’t for babes of any age.

    Kim, a friend doesn’t do anything to hurt another. It’s possible to shed a friend.

    AJ, it’s easy to tell. Chiquita says it in her song:
    “When they are flexed with brown and have a golden hue,
    bananas taste the best and are the best for you.”
    They need some brown spots.
    Don’t try to eat green bananas.
    UgH.

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  19. Chas, a close friend of mine, who led a Bible study on the book of John, would agree with you on starting with that book.

    I hadn’t thought about what would be a good second book, but I think Romans is an excellent choice, now that you mention it. Chapter 8 might be my favorite chapter in the whole Bible. The preceding chapters all build so beautifully toward that victorious chapter, and I would think it would be such a comfort for a new Christian to read early on (and for all Christians to meditate on regularly).

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  21. I just finished reading Eyes of Justice, a novel by Lis Wiehl. It’s an interesting book; easy to read. The good guys win, but she left some minor issues unresolved. Obviously written by a woman who knows the business. Lis has a Juris Doctorate from Harvard, teaches law, is a FOX News legal analyst. Her husband is a lawyer and her father is an FBI agent. She spends a bit of time on relationships to increase word count the way Clancy does the nomenclature of weapons.
    It isn’t Christian literature, but only a Christian would write the way she does.

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  22. AJ, it depends how ripe you like them. My husband and I prefer them before they develop brown spots, but he likes them just a little earlier than I do and he’ll stop eating them a day before I will. My trick, if I don’t know if they’re ripe enough yet: I try to peel it. If the stem resists enough that it will bruise the banana to force it or you’ll need a knife, then wait one more day.

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  25. I would suggest reading Luke first for its general clarity and form of writing style which most people are familiar with from their other reading material, then read John and next Romans. I find that in teaching it really helps to link to what people already know and understand. Also, Luke was written by a Gentile for the Gentile population.

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  26. By the way, you can also slow down the ripening of bananas a little bit by taking them apart. My hubby read that last summer, and since bananas ripen too fast in the summer, we took them apart as soon as we got home all summer, or sometimes we’d leave some together and separate others. I didn’t experiement to prove the theory, but it seemed like it wouldn’t hurt.

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  27. 6 Arrows, I wouldn’t want a new Christian to wait very long before going to Genesis, honestly. If I were teaching an unbeliever, I’d want to start with Genesis and not the New Testament.

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  29. I haven’t heard “homophobe” as much lately, I suspect it’s been replaced by the harsher “bigot.” (homophobe suggesting someone “fears” homosexuals; bigot saying they flat-out “hate” them).

    Sigh. Political correctness is a horrible trend that we seem to be caught in. It’s among the biggest threats to free speech in a long time.

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  33. Wow. Talk about something that’s hard to get you mind around … A younger colleague of mine just said his grandparents used to “drop acid.”

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  37. On political incorrectness, ethics and the mess we’re in now:

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/344435/bible-vs-heart-dennis-prager

    “For well over a generation, we have been living on ‘cut-flower ethics.’ We have removed ethics from the Bible-based soil that gave them life, and we think they can survive removed from that soil. Fools and those possessing an arrogance bordering on self-deification think we can long survive as a decent society without teaching the Bible, and without consulting it for moral guidance and wisdom.”

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  39. If anyone ever tells you that you can save money by making your own cards, laugh. (Some advertising brochures will say that. And I suppose if you limit yourself to construction paper and crayons, it’s probably true. Otherwise, it isn’t.) I just finished birthday cards for two friends. I counted how many products and tools I used. Before I wrote notes in the cards or addressed and stamped the envelopes, I had used 15 different tools and products to make each one! Sometimes I use a third that many, and possibly I have sometimes used more. But it’s definitely more complicated than I would have imagined. (It’s fun and satisfying as well.)

    But now back to work. . . .

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  46. The Truth of the Cross by R C Sproul is free for Kindle on Amazon at least for today.

    Those flying penquins went south looking for their long lost relatives, the flying monkeys. 🙂

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  48. Dog class tonight: walking backwards, putting paws on pails, musical mats (to the Carpenters’ “I’m on the Top of the World”).

    And the fog really curled my hair (which I had cut shorter w/more layers a few weeks ago). When I got home tonight, I thought it looked really cute (and I don’t even like curly hair).

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  49. Janice, I got that free Kindle Sproul book last week, I think they were also promoting it for Easter. Can’t go wrong with Sproul. 🙂

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  50. Got that song in my head now, Donna:

    “I’m on…top of the world lookin’…down on creation
    And the only explanation I can…find…” 😉

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