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Our Daily Thread 5-8-13

Good Morning!

Looks like May showers today.

On this day in 1794 Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen. Good thing too, otherwise what would we breathe? 🙂

The United States Post Office was established on that same day as well.

In 1847 the rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson.

In 1886 Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called “Coca-Cola.”

In 1914 the U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. 🙂

In 1958 U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.

In 1967 Muhammad Ali was indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.

In 1978 David R. Berkowitz, known as the “Son of Sam,” pled guilty to six murder charges.

And in 1985, “New Coke” was released. And as I recall, it tasted awful. 😦

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Since today in 1945 WWII ended in Europe, the President at the time, our 33rd, get’s the nod.

Quote of the Day

“And when even one American–who has done nothing wrong–is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.”

Harry S. Truman

August 14, 1951, in a speech to the American Legion

It’s an interesting speech, much of it as true now as it was then. The link is to the Truman Library and has the whole speech if you’re interested.

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Since it’s not the weekend, I won’t get all loud on ya’s with Alex Van Halen who has a birthday today. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to. 🙂

So I guess we go with this guy.

And here’s one with him and some other guys. This one’s a fun clip. 🙂

Makes me wanna ride a horse. 🙂

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Who has a QoD for us today?

47 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-8-13”

  2. Chas,

    Sometimes I catch a mistake or mis-spelling. When I edit it, it makes the page unavailable until I finish. Since you’re here early while I’m doing it, that’s what happens. Sorry. It’s my fault, it’s nothing wrong on your end.

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  4. Chas and Roy,

    I just added another news story at the end of the news post about a Coast Guard Admiral. Despite the new military nonsense on expressing your faith to other soldiers, this man stands up and does what’s right for his men. I think you’d both enjoy it.

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  7. Everyone wants me to behave!
    I didn’t know that AJ, it wasn’t a problem, but I was confused by it.
    I finished reading Captive in Iran last night. I’ll comment on it later. I just returned from the Y. Haven’t even had coffee yet. 😦
    A bright sunny day in Hendersonville. I hope it stays that way; I have work to do.

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  8. You early birds. I’ve had my shower & am making some coffee (it’s my ‘early’ cop-call shift today), but I’d love to just fall right back into bed about now, I can barely keep my eyes open.

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  9. Good morning! No coffee for me, thanks. 😉

    How about this for a QoD? Exercise: regular, hit-and-miss, or non-existent?

    For me, hit and miss, although I’ve been wanting to get back to regular running. I should probably at least get to regular walking first, though. I’ve never been good about staying on a regular exercise program. I hope to change that.

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  10. Actually, Lavoisier didn’t discover oxygen – that was done by Joseph Priestely, an English clergyman – he discovered that it was the oxygen part of air that we consume as we breathe, among many other important discoveries in chemistry. Then, most scientists supported themselves in other professions and Lavoisier was a tax collector, which was what brought him to the attention of the Republic.

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  11. Walking is easier on the joints. 🙂 Lots of folks I know who have been runners already are needing knee replacements. 😦 Just sayin’

    But I need to exercise more, I’m hoping to extend the dog walks as a start. I took a long one the other night and it felt good. And, of course, the dogs really liked it.

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  13. I’m glad I’m reading this in the daytime rather than at night, or I’d probably have a dream about somebody chasing me!

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  15. Knee replacements — ouch. Maybe I’ll rethink the running, then. I sure have fond memories, though, of losing myself in a long run and feeling like I’m running on air for a while. Good and bad in all of it, I guess.

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  17. Hi. AJ- You have a quote from HST but forgot to mention it is his birthday. All state offices in Missouri get the day off.

    My exercise is hit-or-miss. In the summer I walk a mile and a half once a week behind the lawn mower, as well as walk giving cave tours. Otherwise, the rest of the year is almost non-existent.

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  19. Good Morning, Y’all!

    The Truman Home is about 3 blocks from my Grandfather’s house and as a youngster I saw him on his porch occasionally. Even got waved at a couple of times.

    Don’t exercise like I should…but I am losing weight…

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  20. QoD: My work-outs are regularly hit or miss. I usually get in four a week, but don’t have them scheduled per se. I used to run–great way to get back to fightin weight after all my arrows–but knees and hips started to be an issue so I gave it up for power walking. Much better. I also do weights and yoga. Those are a must to keep surfing. Which I oddly never count as exercise.

    Donna, I thought we had raccoons galloping across our roof when it was actually crows. We have a neighborhood fox family, but they don’t get on the roof.

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  21. Exercise: hit or miss. I particularly like walking, but definitely don’t do it every day. (I wouldn’t mind doing it nearly every day, but we just don’t.) We also have a mini-trampoline/rebounder in the family room, and I try to use that daily but don’t.

    Make It Man, it looks like that particular tool may take less actual “skill” than you use in the work you do. But maybe I’m wrong.

    For me, through the years I’ve tried multiple forms of arts and crafts; several have proven to be beyond my skill level and/or interest to learn it well enough to do it well (e.g., watercolor, Sculpey clay). Others I’ve dabbled in and would like to have the time to learn it better (drawing and using colored pencils). I’ve learned to make cards using a bunch of different techniques (including some use of colored pencil), and recently have discovered a technique I like a lot (parchment craft), but has cost more money than I expected to spend, even though I’ve chosen to purchase only a fraction of the tools that are available. “If I had it to do over” I might have avoided starting the homemade card thing, and focused more on learning to draw well. But then, many have told me through the years that they love my cards, and I do enjoy making them and sending them–card making just has cost many times as much as I would have ever imagined, and has taken up more room in my house, too.

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  22. Mine is hit or not miss. Sometimes I hit my step quota, sometimes I don’t. But I don’t really miss it either way. 🙂

    I actually wear a pedometer every day now. I have a target, but don’t always get there.

    Excercise is hard when you have 2 bad knees, shoulders, hip, and back. Even bike riding is painful. Walking is OK, unless my knees act up, then it’s impossible. 😦

    It’s frustrating because I could easily lose the last 10 pounds I want to, if I could just excercise more. But my body won’t allow much. 😦

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  23. MiM,

    You do very nice work from what I’ve seen. Don’t sell yourself short.

    So good in fact, that when I take over the world, I’m gonna have you make my scepter and throne chair. 😉

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  24. Peter,

    I knew that, but for some reason didn’t mention it. That was why I picked him for the quote to start with. But then I got sidetracked by the speech and on this day part and forgot to mention it.

    Another “Duh” moment for me.

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  25. I finished reading Captive in Iran by Maryam Rostampour & Marzayeh Marizadeh list night. Not a fun book but, Kare, it does have a happy ending.
    We knew that from the start because they were in Atlanta when they wrote the book.
    Two young girls were converted to serve Christ and met in Turkey. They began witnessing and distributing New Testaments in Tehran. They were caught and sent to prison.
    This is their story. They take turns telling it from their separate viewpoints. It makes for interesting reading. I highly recommend it. Especially for the ladies. You will learn what it’s like for women in the Muslim world, especially places like Iran. It would be the same in Arabia and other places. But not Dubai and some others. Make it part of your education.

    Years ago, I read a book called The Persecutor by Sergei Kourdakov. I bugged a young woman named Janice to read it. ”Janice, this is not history; this guy is your age.” I was half way through this book before I realized that this is real time stuff and that I should be praying for some of these people as I read. The child that was born in prison is about four now, and all he has known is a prison cell. Except, they remove the children from their mothers at three.
    They never, until the end, knew their fate. But God used them in the prison. That’s where they belonged. Conversion from Islam carries a death penalty in Islam. However, they only execute men because a woman, according to Mohammed, has only half the brain power of a man and is incapable of rational decisions. Women get life imprisonment. However, you can reconvert. They tried to get the women to use a Muslim trick that allows a person to lie if it’s convenient. But they wouldn’t use it.
    Enough! Read the book.

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  26. MIM does do beautiful work. We have a small cup that he gave to Elvera on a visit to our house. We have it on a credenza in the dining room. All he got was some brownies.

    Exercise, you all know by now that Elvera and I go to the Y three times a week. That’s all the real exercise she gets. I get adequate exercise during the warm months working around here. Too much for an old codger. I don’t know how much longer I can keep this up.

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  27. Chas, “All he got was some brownnies”? Could I get Elvera’s e-mail address, please? That seems like the sort of quote she might be interested in seeing.

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  28. How about your favorite Charles Ramsay quote for an Alternative QoD?

    Asked about the reward offered to help find Amanda Berry, “Give it to those women; I got a paycheck.”

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  29. Since toward the end of last year when I started having the leg/knee problem I have not gotten back on my exercise bike. I am doing much better with stairs now and walking is better but I am not in the routine I use to be in. I use to do fifteen minutes daily on the bike. At one point I did 30 minutes a day (a long time back). I try to get in some walking, and we have stairs in our house so they are pretty much unavoidable. I will be mowing the grass during the summer so that takes about 45 minutes of walking and slight pushing unless the bag fills up and then it can seem like heavy pushing until I empty it.

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  30. Let me adjust my halo–I’m just in from Zumba, where today we got birthday cake after class . . . 🙂

    I have a serious question. We’ve being whiplashed emotionally over the last week and I’ve really had to fight against letting some of my reactions go to personal shame.

    For those of you who have a better understanding of shame, could you educate me on
    1. recognizing shame
    2 reacting to shame
    3 dealing with shame

    Within a Christian context, of course. 🙂

    Thanks.

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  31. My husband jokes we should put a pedometer on 5th Arrow. That boy is CONSTANTLY on the move! I can’t imagine how many miles he must cover in a day. He eats a ton of food and is skinny as a rail, too.

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  32. AJ, as you know Mr P had back surgery in February. He has had a partial knee replacement as well. He cannot walk on sidewalks, asphalt, piers, or any hard surface for very long without experiencing pain. He is able to go to the gym and use the elliptical. It doesn’t put as much pressure on his back and he has lost 30 pounds since surgery. He also does a lot of pool exercises.
    (This all means my exercising has gotten more regular as he wants me to go with him. I refuse to get in the pool. It is attached to the local hospital and they keep the water warm…can you say germy?)

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  33. Love me some Charles Ramsey right now. His employer has made up T-shirts with his face and a quote to sell with proceeds going to the three women.

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  35. An observation about the power of a blog post. I post on Tuesdays and Fridays and work hard to stay on that schedule–even if it means the blog doesn’t get out until 11:55 pm!

    Yesterday was a challenging day on several fronts and I hadn’t finished writing my post–about POW camps during the Civil War, yet another cheery subject. And that was the problem, I hadn’t been able to do enough research to add some hope by the end.

    It was 8:30, I was exhausted, but I needed to put up my blog. So, I thought about what significant spiritual thing had happened and remembered the really dynamic Bible study I’d led on John the Baptist that morning. So, I wrote about that.

    In the study (Lifelight), the author asked a question about John’s expectations when he sent his message to Jesus in Matt 11–“are you the one who is to come or should we look for someone else?”

    So, I wrote about missed expectations. I posted it and thought, “another fill-in post,” and went to bed to toss and turn for four hours.

    Except, three of my regular readers posted comments–one young man is apparently suffering from a fatal disease and his hopes have been dashed. Two other regulars (one I know, one came out of nowhere) are pastors and reached out to pray for this young man and pass on some insight.

    Feeling weepy. This is the Holy Spirit at work and such a blessing to have had a small part in. We don’t know what our words can/will do. God calls us to be merciful. There is joy in doing so.

    Now I’m off to work–without shame! 🙂

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  45. Kare, I’ll be praying for your son, and for you, too. So sorry; that’s really hard. Is this the son that has mono? How difficult it would be to deal with both of those things at the same time, if that is the case.

    Pastor Roy, I’ll keep Nicholas in my prayers. Let us know the EEG results when you hear.

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