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Our Daily Thread 4-18-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1521 Martin Luther confronted the emperor Charles V in the Diet of Worms and refused to retract his views that led to his excommunication.

In 1775 American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that “the Regulars are coming out.” Later, the phrase “the British are coming” was attributed to Revere.

In 1847 U.S. troops defeated almost 17,000 Mexican soldiers commanded by Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo.

In 1906  San Francisco, CA, was hit with an earthquake. The original death toll was cited at about 700, but later reports put it at 3 to 4 times that.

In 1923 Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, NY. The Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1. 🙂

In 1955 Albert Einstein died on this day.

And in 1983 the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a suicide car-bomber.

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Quote of the Day

“One morning, there was a rap on my office door. I looked out and there was a tall young man with blond hair and we shook hands. He was 21 and I was 31. It was Billy Graham and he had traveled in from Wheaton College on a train just to say ‘hello.’ He said he listened to my morning hymn show called ‘Hymns From The Chapel.’ That’s how we first got acquainted. I came into this work with Mr. Graham in 1947 after we had exchanged letters and talked on the phone. He said he wanted me to be his gospel singer. I thanked him but told him the only gospel singers I’ve ever heard about would sing a verse or two and stop and talk a while. ‘Would I have to do that?’ I asked him. He chuckled and said, ‘I hope not.’ With that, I said, ‘Well, I’d like to come with you.’ That was in November of 1947 and I’ve been with him ever since.”

George Beverly Shea

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The music today is in the post on Mr. Shea below. 🙂 It was the obvious choice.

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Now who has a QoD for us today?

39 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-18-13”

  1. I can think of lots of things to ask or to talk about in the wee small hours of the morning when I cannot sleep. Awake and half a cup of coffee later…not so much.
    I have to go to Tuscaloosa Saturday to watch a spring football game and I have to go to Baton Rouge on Sunday for a seminar on Monday.

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  2. Have a nice trip Kim. It might be good for you to get away for a couple of days.
    We’ll miss you, and I’ll but someone else will too. But he’s probably the reason you’re going to Tuscaloosa. I can’t think of another sane reason.

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  5. In LA for the Q conference the last couple of days. Great time; it’s like TED for believers. It provoked this thought so it might make a good QoD:

    When do you feel most alive?

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  7. I was reading my Bible this morning, and my mind wandered away, which I’m sure seems strange to you. Anyhow, I thought of a time in Arabia, when I was in the AF. I listened to a station called “Radio Ceylon”, in what is now Sri Lanka. It must have been a powerful station. When it signed off for the night, its final song was “God Be With You ‘Till We Meet Again”. It was a beautiful rendition on a steel guitar. I have tried to find that on a steel, but couldn’t, not on Youtube nor iTunes. I found one by a guitar. It’s pretty good, but not like the steel.

    You can find lots by organ and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. But to me, it isn’t that kind of song. It’s a solo from someone to someone. If you’re interested, there is one by Jim Reeves, posted buy a guy who lost his daughter and wife. He dedicated it to them.
    That’s the kind of song it is.

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  10. I had some crazy dreams last night. Must have been because I watched some of that explosion coverage right before going to sleep. In one of the dreams, my neighbors and I were watching as a plane in the sky over us went belly-up and then crashed, just about a block away.

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  11. Alternative Question of the Day; When did you get your first period? How well were you prepared?

    I ask this because my non genetic granddaughter with two mommies in Seattle and two daddies in Chicago is probably a couple of years away. My wife and our daughter (non birth mother) were talking on the phone last night about preparing Random Granddaughter for her period. I asked my wife if she had been prepared. “Not really. And I wasn’t prepared for how much it hurt.”

    RG is not a leader. She’s a follower. So our daughter (co-mommy) is going to have her go with a friend to watch a movie.

    The other question is whether she will become a believer (she has some tendencies that way) or become an atheist, as I strive to make her, so she can be ready to go to Hell. You do believe in Hell, don’t you? If you do, and you are wrong, think how much useless fear and misery you created. Are you proud of yourself?

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  13. Michelle,

    “Are there two daily threads for today?”

    No, why do you ask?

    I did put up 5 posts today, which my be a record for me, but no duplicates that I can see. But I was up late, so it’s possible. 😯

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  14. When it rains it pours. Last year we had a drought. Today we had no school because of 4″ of rain and flooded roads. The Mississippi has been at almost record low levels all winter. Today it is supposed to be 5-10 feet above flood stage. I am glad God is in control and knows what He is doing with this crazy weather. Some say it is a sign of the end times. Well, since Paul said we were in the last days in his time, then tis has to be the last of the last days.

    Maranatha.

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  17. PeterL: “Some say it’s a sign of the end times.”
    I remember my parents saying that when I was a kid.
    My uncle in Charleston once said that when the azaleas started blooming in February.

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  18. QoD: I can’t decide when I feel most alive; it’s a toss-up between when I sing “In Christ Alone” with our congregation at church and when I play Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata on my piano at home.

    I felt really great, too, for the brief time I was training for a half-marathon in my 20’s. My training runs were 9 miles in length, and a couple times I hit the “runner’s high” about 8 miles into it. Incredible, indescribable experience, but it’s a strange feeling to be almost home and not be able to remember running past your neighbor’s house a half mile back. 😉

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  19. Donna, I saw that video of the Texas explosion you posted last night, and I, too, had weird dreams, which I don’t remember now. But I’ve had many dreams like the one you mentioned, watching planes fall out of the sky and land in the field across the road from us, or in our neighbor’s yard (or our yard, I think once or twice). I always wondered if that’s because I’ve never flown, and I have kind of a fascination with the idea since it’s unknown to me (in terms of personal experience — I’ve heard plenty of stories by those who have flown).

    OTOH, I have been on a train twice, once as a child, and once as an adult, and I used to frequently have dreams about train tracks running through the yard of my childhood home and my present home, with trains going on them. Those maybe stemmed from having grandparents that lived in town who had train tracks running right past their house, not more than a couple feet from the curb.

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  20. The train ran right past my grandmother’s house in Iowa, too — in fact I believe her house originally had been built for the rail company as an employee residence. As a child, I loved going out to wave at the guy on the caboose. 🙂

    End of times? In an overall sense, yes. But how soon the actual “end of the end” & Christ’s return comes, no one knows. Still, it’s probably wise to take note of what God may be saying and doing when crises come, whether they are personal or “writ large” on our society/nation/world as a whole.

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  21. Interesting, Donna. My grandfather had worked for the railroad… Hmmm, I’ll have to ask my mom about that house. They moved there when she was eight.

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  29. I’m here. The river’s rising, so the trains can’t run since the tracks are a foot under water. Don’t worry, though. The water has to rise quite a ways to get to my hou.. Glub, glub glub.

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  35. This is like listening to a baseball game on the radio, like my grandmother used to like to do. I can just *hear* “There goes the sweep” and picture the game.

    Even though I don’t know what Phelps or Logan look like. 😉

    Yikes, I’m participating in a sports conversation! Like I said, strange things happening here… 🙂

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  38. I’m trying to go to bed but can’t pry myself away from the cops & terrorist drama playing out in Boston tonight … 😦

    Boy, am I going to hate myself in the morning.

    Can I officially be 1st even though I probably won’t still be here when the new thread is posted?

    Or then again, maybe I will be still here … 😮

    Someone make me go to bed.

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  39. If you’re just waking up & missed it all:

    The recap: MIT shooting, Officer killed. Carjacking. Gun battle. Pressure cooker bomb tossed into the street. Mass chaos. A massive cast of characters — i.e. every law enforcement officer & journalist converging from within 500 miles. Chases. Searches. Spotlights. Perimeters. Hand-wringing. Panic. Occasional hysteria.

    As of now, one suspect killed. One (#2 with the white hat) still at large. And possibly one innocent guy plotting a lawsuit after being humiliated (forced to undress) and arrested for the cameras.

    To be continued.

    You can all tell me how it ends.

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