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Our Daily Thread 4-6-13

Good Morning!

The weekend has arrived! 🙂

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On this day in 1789 the first U.S. Congress began regular sessions at the Federal Hall in New York City.

In 1909 Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson claimed to be the first men to reach the North Pole.

In 1917 the U.S. Congress approved a declaration of war on Germany and entered World War I on the Allied side.

And in 1987 Sugar Ray Leonard took the middleweight title from Marvin Hagler.

And I still think Hagler was robbed.

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Quote of the Day

“Hollywood lost touch with their audience a long time ago.”

John  Ratzenberger

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Today is Mr. Haggard’s birthday. And I must say, the impressions are good.

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Who has a QoD for us today?

87 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-6-13”

  2. How could someone on the west coast be first?
    I guess lotsa lazybones on the east coast.
    I’ve had trouble getting on-line. I had to go through the BellSouth recovery routine.

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  5. It looks like it’s just me an Donna, alone on the blog.
    Soon rumors are going to start.
    Fortunately, my wife doesn’t do computers; so I’m safe. 😉
    😦 I have to trim the bank. First time this year.
    So, Donna will have to find another for a while.
    She can do it.

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  6. Hi all!
    Just stopping in to say hello in between getting all the stuff done I need to before leaving for a business trip to Philadelphia.
    I don’t spend much time on the computer lately except at work. Partly because my son is often playing online games with my husband, partly because I’ve been spending more time reading. And just not finding as much that interests me online, perhaps.

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  9. Good morning everyone. Last night Mr. P and I went uptown to First Friday Artwalk. We had a glass of wine and pizza at Red and White, then wandered over to the Rotary table where they were giving away bowls of gumbo for a donation to charity. I caught a beat down the street and lo and behold one of my favorite local bands were causing people to dance in the street, children included. Above is about the best video I can find of them to share with you. Eventually we roamed on down the street becasue Mr. P can’t dance yet. We finished the evening off with bread pudiding at R Bistro where I made new friends. Small towns and small restaurants are fun that way.

    Adios when you get back to P’cola this band plays a lot at Seville Quarter. They really are fun to watch live.

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  10. We have a First Thursday Art Walk in the town where I live, lots of gourmet food trucks, live music.

    I may have to take a nap today, for some reason I woke up around 3:30 or 4 and could not get back to sleep. So I’ve been reading, took a shower, got the laundry started … Almost fell back asleep once, but not quite. 😦

    So what is “trimming the bank”? And how often are you supposed to do that in a year?

    Hi Pauline. We miss you. Have a good trip.

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  11. I went back to sleep after posting everything.

    Now I’ve started some laundry and am waiting for one of my favorite times of the day. Coffee time! 🙂

    Hi Pauline.

    Bye Pauline.

    Mornin’ Chas, Donna, Kim, and John Boy. 🙂

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  14. Fun video, Kim. The guy in the hat looks like the pastor who married hubby and me. (Does that sound right? I can’t think of a better way to say it — how about, the one who pronounced hubby and me man and wife? Better? He didn’t get married to us, is what I’m trying to say, LOL!) (And it seems the more I try to explain myself, the more trouble I’m going to get into. None of you would start any rumors now, would you? That wouldn’t happen here, surely.) 😉

    Dancing in the streets…brings back memories of having worked in a music store during college. One of my coworkers and his wife had a band, and on summer nights, they would have “street” dances in the parking lot behind the store. Hubby (who was “boyfriend” at the time) and I would go to these dances and have a great time. S & J and the other band members knew how to live it up 😉 and they had quite a local following.

    Puts a smile on my face thinking of those times. 🙂

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  15. Coffee. I knew something was missing. I haven’t had any all week so maybe I’ll make some this morning. Not that staying awake is my problem today … 🙄

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  17. I did my first lawn mowing this past week. And the fourteen year old trimmed the bank. I don’t think it was illegal, though when Chas says it, it has a certain ring.

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  18. The fifteen year old should be on his way home and get here tomorrow. He has done Disneyland, an Ethiopian restaurant, Chinese, planted garden, driven an Avanti, gone to the beach, etc etc etc. Should be ready to settle back into real life.

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  21. mumsee, do you have a lawn tractor? I saw them advertised and thought they look kind of fun.

    Maybe Chas can share what he trims with some of us. ? 🙂 Unless he got caught and is in the hoosgow.

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  22. Weeds are growing like . . . Weeds. I’m offering $10 an hour to pull them: no takers.

    My husband, who makes considerably more than that managing global energy products, says he’ll pull some today.

    I may pull for awhile, too, though my hands can’t manage the work for long and I’m on a deadline of sorts.

    I prefer to hire teenagers for work experience like this, but my supply of kids who will work has narrowed considerably. 😦

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  26. Ugh, weeds, exactly what I was grousing about this morning, Michelle. A major downside of spring in my book, I’m afraid. When will it be Christmas again?

    I have some especially tall weeds that are new this year — they’re obscuring my pretty flowering bushes in front, so I really need to get those out of there.

    And in the backyard, the return of the foxtails. 😦 😦

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  28.  Pauline finds us boring.
     😥

    “Trim the bank”
    We went through this last year.
    There is a drainage ditch behind my house. Most of it is on my property, but it makes a natural, though not legal, boundary between my house and my neighbor. My property goes beyond that.
    Starting in the springtime, the sides of the ditch start growing up with weeds.
    It is my job to keep the weeds down.
    That means that I need to go out with the weedwhacker and trim the bank down so that the weeds don’t get too big. It takes about half an hour, about once a week. It wouldn’t be difficult for a younger man, nor if it were level. But this old codger has to hold the weedwhacker up over wastehigh to get to the top of the bank.

    What took so long today is that I had to get the equipment ready, make a 50:1 gasoline/oil concoction, etc. But it’s done now. I have to cut the back lawn this afternoon. It’s too wet now. I didn’t care how wet the weeds were.

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  30. Michelle, do you have any sort of homeschooling co-op in your area? My sisters’ kids would love to do some hard work and earn money for it, and I imagine that other kids in conservative families that don’t lavish “things” on their children would have the same thought.

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  31. Hey AJ, I know this is a silly question, but how do I get wanderingviews on my new laptop? I have gone missing since getting a new on as this old one was in the shop and now belongs to my kids. Any suggestions?

    Adios

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  32. Morning all. No mowing yet, but the grass is green and the first daffodil is blooming.

    I’m off to lunch with a semi-RINO. If you hear of some crazed “Tea Party” maniac in Missouri taking on a US Senator, don’t worry, it will be I of whom they speak. And I am not a member of the Tea Party, but did attend a rally back in ’09.

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  33. The daffodils have been blooming for three weeks. The tulips are getting ready. The lilacs are getting ready. This should not be happening until later but here we are.

    Yes, I do have a riding mower from before we reintroduced the animals and when we wanted to be able to see the rattle snakes. Now we have the animals so it is not so needed. But Mike is keeping the children so busy they don’t have time to mow and I just hop on and mow what I can and then use a different mower for the tight spaces. It is fun. And then there are the weed eaters. We try to use all five acres so it is all in need of attention. Whew. Makes for a busy but enjoyable summer. I don’t let the children use my riding mower until they prove themselves. Only one has and he just gets to do a little. That would be the fourteen year old mechanic.

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  35. Each day I wonder, who will go demented first; who will die first; my wife or I? A few weeks ago I had a TIA. Yesterday, I walked four miles. I picked up trash as I trudged. People claim to love our beautiful wooded country roads. To prove their love they throw beer cans, whiskey bottles, even a suspicious looking needle, out their truck windows. This morning my wife had a headache. She is off to a “spin-in” where women spin wool and gab happily for hours. Was the headache the first sign of a brain tumor?

    Imagine that, two atheists close to dying. Will one of us succumb first to saying, “I believe in God! I believe in Jesus!”

    I doubt it . Hell, here we come.

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  36. We have the same problem with trash around here. Husband walks around the block, which is about four miles. And on the way he fills garbage bags with trash. Every day. And we live in the middle of nowhere. Do people come out here specifically to dump their trash?

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  37. Adios,

    Here’s what I would do. Copy the address while on the old one and email it to yourself. Then open that email on the new one and the link should take you here. I know that sounds weird, but it works.

    I don’t really know why your new one wouldn’t be able to search it out. My tablet had problems initially as well. But it recognizes me from either now.

    Let me know if it works.

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  39. Oh, poor Yankees’ fans. Welcome to the world of 4-A farm teams like the KC Royals. Whenever a good player comes along, the team can’t afford him so he gets sold to a contender.

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  42. I cannot believe all the things that have broken down or caused us trouble recently. I am finally back online. We still have to look for a new washing machine. It bums me out, since I hear nothing good about the new ones. We are getting several inches of snow today and it does not look like spring at all. It is quite pretty, however.

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  45. I think I might get a washboard before I’d take an appliance recommendation from me . . . I’m happy with the Duet but . . . I’d like to get the black mold out of the front rubber gasket.

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  51. AJ, how ’bout them Red Sox?! :p

    Spring is coming to southern Maine, slowly. The crocuses (croci?) on the south side of the house have bloomed, but there’s still a little snow here and there on the north side.

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  52. Hey, AJ- What was that you said the other day about the Diamondbacks? Check out the standings. D-Backs: 4-1 in 1st place. NY Yankees: 1-4 last place. Even the Royals are a game up on the Yanks. Looks like a good year so far! (Actually, I grew up a Yankees fan, but not now.)

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  53. It’s a peaceful morning here with a cup of coffee before I have to start the day. Mr. P and I went to Fort Morgan yesterday. We toured the Fort and the museum then took our beach chairs and sat our on the beach. What he didn’t know when he planned the day was that yesterday would have been my mother’s birthday and Fort Morgan is where I spread my dad’s ashes on his birthday (December 2)
    It’s sort of funny how things work out sometimes isn’t it?

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  56. Good morning. I haven’t been feeling well since Thursday. I finally went to the doctor yesterday and found out I have the flu. No wonder I’ve felt so miserable. I haven’t had the flu in over a decade, so it didn’t even occur to me that that’s what it was. I’m really bummed, as I’m supposed to leave Thursday for San Diego for a mini-reunion with a bunch of girls I went to boarding school with in high school. Please pray for a speedy recovery. I’d forgotten how bad the flu makes you feel. Luckily, my husband has been super supportive and took over all domestic chores yesterday, allowing me to rest.

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  57. Feel better, annms. Kind of late in the season, you must have caught it on the tail end. Lucky you. But, yeah, it’s been ages since I’ve had the flu, too, and it does really knock you out good.

    Kim, sounds like a nice day, I looked at some of the photos on your link & it somewhat reminded me of an old WWII “fort” we have here, built into a hillside at the ocean, that is now a museum.

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  58. Pastor started a series on “God’s Perfect Ten” A 12 lesson series on the commandments. Said he never preached the ten commandments before. It’s strange how so many familiar passages are not really preached. I said last week, I heard my first sermon on over 50 years on John 3:16.
    “The commandments shine the light to show how messy the room is. They do nothing to sweep it up.”

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  59. Tychicus, I clicked your link to the article

    I’m Gay and I Oppose Same-Sex Marriage
    by Doug Mainwaring

    While religion and tradition have led many to their positions on same-sex marriage, it’s also possible to oppose same-sex marriage based on reason and experience.

    I read the entire article fairly closely and attentively. I am puzzled by your reason for posting the link here. I assume that everyone else except me and perhaps one or two other people agrees with you on opposition to to gay marriage, not for the reasons expressed in the article but because you believe in a non existent being who tells you whom it is OK to marry or not. So they don’t need to be convinced.

    On the other hand, are you posting it for my benefit? I can reply, in some detail, why I don’t find the article particularly convincing or illuminating, but my impression is that almost no one reads my comments, so I wonder, why bother?

    If you can answer that question, perhaps we can go somewhere. Though where, I am not sure, I am sure.

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  60. First and Third Arrow and I were the only ones who made it to church today. Everyone in our household except for me has a bad cough, but 1st and 3rd Arrows are starting to get over theirs.

    First Arrow was the PowerPoint man for the early service today. Our church is now putting the whole service up on a screen so the congregation has a choice between using the hymnals and bibles in the pews or just following the order of worship up on the screen. This was the first time 1st Arrow ran the PowerPoint (or however you say that). He did well, getting the slides changed at the right times. He even managed to get up to the front for communion and back in time for the first communion hymn for the congregation. The organist helped him out (though they hadn’t planned this ahead of time) by playing a couple solos on the piano at the beginning of communion, so son had an opportunity to take communion without having to change the picture on the screen for a while. My son noticed that the organist looked back into the sound room where the PowerPoint is run to see if he had returned from communion, and didn’t proceed to play the congregational hymn until he knew he was ready to get the verses of the hymn up on the screen. Very thoughtful.

    It was nice going to early service for a change. It’s too early for the whole family to get there, but today, since son had to be at the early service, we decided the others of us who went could go at the same time and save an extra trip to church. There’s a lot more of the day left after returning from early church. We were home by 10:00, when usually that’s about the time we’re leaving for late service.

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  61. 6Arrows, I’ve said this before. If a church chooses to use the video option, they need to prepare carefully with the pastor and worship leader. If the screen isn’t correctly coordinated, it can be confusing and worse than useless.
    It should be the same person every time. His/her job.
    Our church has two screens. One for the congregation and one for the choir and staff. That one has the time superimposed.
    🙂

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  63. Chas, this was my first time to hear a sermon on The Resurrection Body. My son was with me during the church service and he seemed surprised to hear me say that I had never heard a sermon on it. I think he heard it discussed or preached while at his Christian college.

    These are good days to be considering the new bodies we will be given.

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  64. These are the dreaded and dratted days leading up to the income tax deadline. I always feel a bit of momentary depression around this time each year. Prayers are welcome.

    I have not been at the office much this season because early on there was some conflict that seemed like it could partially be resolved by my not being there. This has also worked out since our son is home for this semester before he goes back to work at the college for summer and then he goes to Baylor. Even with me not at the office, I still feel the spillover pressures and worry about my husband’s health as he is under much stress.

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  65. Janice, I have never heard a sermon, nor taught a lesson on the resurrected body.
    Though I believe I could teach such a lesson.
    “We shall be like Him, for we shall see him as He is.”

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  66. MMacMurray,

    Hello! Good to hear from you Mac.

    And yeah, we stink right now. 😦

    Surprisingly the former Red Sox has been our best player so far. And I still hate the bat waving thing he does. But at this point we’ll take it.

    And we’re up 3-0 on Verlander right now. So I guess we win every 3rd game. 😦

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  67. Peter,

    At this point we just have to survive till June. With Jeter, Tex, Hughes, Kuroda, and the Grandy Man back in may, it’ll be at least June til they’re up to speed. Survival is the name of the game.

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  69. AJ- And we fans of KC (my third favorite team) have been surviving for years awaiting a contending team. Of course, there are the Cubs fans who have waited 105 years for a World Series championship. And I think there is at least one team that has never made it to the Series, or at least, has never won it at all. Perhaps one of the West Coasters knows of which team I speak/write.

    So don’t worry, AJ. At least the Yanks have a history to build on, instead of only a future to hope for.

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  70. Chas, the pastor talked about how Jesus, after resurrection, had a physical body (Thomas felt his wound) yet he could move through the walls so he was not so restricted as we are in our current bodies. He spoke about how people have questioned him (the pastor) about organ donations and cremation. The pastor does not think the body parts will be needed for our new resurrected bodies. These are some sermon notes we were given:

    “Differences in the earthly body and the resurrection body:

    One is perishable, the other is imperishable
    One is dishonorable, the other is glorified
    One is weak, the other is powerful
    One is natural, the other is spiritual

    There is both a natural body and a spiritual body
    We must have a new body for heaven
    Those alive when Jesus comes will be changed
    God is able!

    Therefore…stand firm and give yourself fully to the work of the Lord!

    This sermon is based on 1 Corrinthians 15:35-58

    We are going through 1 Corrinthians and this was a great time to cover it just after Easter.

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  74. Body parts will decay with the rest of us. It doesn’t matter what happens to the dead body.
    “Jesus walked through the wall.” It’s a difficult concept, but what happened is that Jesus APPEARED there. Where is Jesus? Wherever he wants to be. He is with the pastor held prisoner in Iran. He is with the missionaries in Gambia, etc. He is with the person who is dealing with depression. If only he will trust Him to be there. It’s a difficult concept. But it’s a promise. The conclusion is correct. He, and likely we, are not constrained by the laws of physics.
    What I have a hard time wrapping my little mind around is the fact that God knows about the eruption on a star a million light years away, and the bug I squashed yesterday. He know and is actively concerned.
    I can’t keep my dental appointment straight.

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  77. Also the resurrected Jesus felt hunger. It is over in Luke I belive where he asked the diciples for something to eat. It was in last year’s readings but this year’s readings dealt with Thomas not being there the first time Jesus appeared and making sure he was there with the other disciples in case He appeared again.

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  80. Rev. 19:9f talks about the wedding supper of the Lamb. “Blessed are those who are invited…” This may sound silly, but I’v always wondered about the sanitation facilities in Heaven. Really, there must be something. I presume that we will be vegetarians then, as well as in the milleniam. But I don’t know that.
    But then I think of some weird things.
    We just finished a study of I Timothy in SS. I never said anything, but I wondered at some of the things Paul told Timothy. I mean, Paul knew Timothy from a lad. Timothy heard Paul preach for years. He should know all that.
    But then we never would know what Paul said.
    Still????

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  81. If Timothy was anything like some of the children I have seen in church settings, he was not paying attention to Paul’s preaching for years. 🙂

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  83. Chas, regarding the PowerPoint, it’s hard to get everything coordinated ahead of time at our church. We’re a big congregation (for our area), over 1,000 members, and have 3 pastors, about a half dozen organists or so, and three services a week, two on Sunday mornings and one on a weekday evening. So it would be hard to have just one person do the PowerPoint for all those services and get it coordinated with the various pastors and organists, which vary each week.

    The pastor who preached today stepped my son through the whole procedure a few days ago. Today there were good notes to work from, with a hymnal and bible back in the sound room for son to refer to if needed, a printed copy of the sermon, and notations for when to put various bible verses up on the screen to which the pastor referred during his sermon. First Arrow said Pastor didn’t follow exactly (word for word) his typed copy, so a couple times it was a little tricky getting a passage up on time, but the printed passages and Pastor’s referring to them were in the same order, and getting them up on the screen at the right time wasn’t as crucial as getting anything up on time that the congregation would speak or sing. The timing of all of that went well, although it was an interesting challenge for son to get from the last communion hymn to the liturgy that followed because there were 15 verses on that hymn, but communion was done at the end of the 5th verse, so son had to darken the screen, quickly flip through the remaining 10 verses, get the liturgy up, and turn it back on so the congregation could see Pastor’s one-sentence introduction to the post-Communion sung response! But he did it without a glitch. 🙂

    I still prefer to use the hymnal rather than the PowerPoint during worship, because I like to see the music notes and sometimes sing harmony, which I don’t do by ear very well. The PowerPoint has only the words, not the music. I also like following the Bible readings in my King James Version. Our church uses the NIV.

    I think I would have enjoyed having the service up on a screen, though, in my baby- and toddler-holding years. It was hard to balance hymnals, Bibles, and babies all at the same time. 🙂 It’s probably easier for visitors to participate in the service, too, instead of trying to figure out which hymnal we’re in (we have recently gotten a soft-cover supplement to our hardback hymnals we’ve been using for about 25 years) and what part of the hymnal we’re in — the front with little page numbers for the liturgy, prayers, etc., or the back with the large hymn numbers. Just makes for a more user-friendly experience, I think, for those who are not familiar with our services; trying to minimize the “Where are we?” feeling. 😉

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  84. 6 Arrows, I am really impressed that your son was able to be so coordinated to do that for the congregation. That takes some special talent, especially to do so well with the first try.

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  85. Indeed. Our worship team would practice for about 3 hours every Friday and then on Sunday we would make sure our audio/video person would practice with us for an hour before the service, reading along with the songs etc, and double checking for spelling errors or missing words. It drives me insane to be singing a worship song and the leaders are singing words that aren’t on the screen for the congregation. The slides also should be flipped well before the actual start of the next slide so that one knows where the song is going and can actually sing the first few words of the next line. We weren’t perfect in this, but we made a conscientious effort.

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  87. Long, long ago in a land far away…

    Actually, back in the WorldMagBlog days… 😉

    …I had a series of prayer requests last summer regarding our family doing battle against an institution in our area, a very unyielding, “This is the way it is, we will listen to no more from you, case closed.” institution.

    And so, we dropped it. (It wasn’t a lawsuit, BTW, just a wish to get our viewpoint heard and to get some things changed.)

    And we continued on, meeting their expectations. And lo and behold…

    …we won. Mostly. Not exactly in the way we thought, but almost. And not at all when we thought.

    God was with us every step of the way, bringing good out of a situation we had virtually written off. His works are amazing and far beyond our comprehension. He is working all things for the good of His people.

    Praise the Lord.

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