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Our Daily Thread 5-15-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1856 Lyman Frank Baum was born. He was the author of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”

In 1862 U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In 1940 nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.

In 1941 Joe DiMaggio began his historic hitting streak of 56 games. 🙂

In 1948 Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon hours after declaring its independence.

And in 1972 Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD. Wallace was paralyzed as a result.

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Quote of the Day

“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.”

L. Frank Baum

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I pretty much have to now….. 🙂

This one is because my wife likes it. 🙂

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Who has a QoD for us today?

43 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-15-13”

  1. I will be in class again today so I won’t be able to keep you all straight. The class is Recruit, Select (the second part later this summer will be Train, Lead, Manage). Very interesting about working with different behavioral types and hiring the right person for the right job. What it means is that I am happiest talking to people over the phone. The interaction is quick and to the point. If I have to spend two days dragging them from property to property they make me miserable. I could go in the office and handle all the clerical details of getting a contract to the closing table but my eyes tend to glaze over. I am much better at making someone else a better version of themselves. I can rah rah and cheer you on. I think to stop and buy a Starbucks gift card for you when you are a team player. When I know those things about myself, I know I have to hire an assistant who fills in the gaps for the details that slip by me.

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  3. Good morning! Hubby is in New York on business until late Thursday. Girls and I had a fun evening last night. Connie (nanny) spent the night with us, which is always really fun for Becca, as she has a constant companion to watch her every move.

    I’ve got lots of errands to do today (yuck!). Hope everyone enjoys their day!

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  4. Our son and DIL have the settlement on their old house today at 10:30, preceded by a walk-through and followed by a celebratory lunch so I took the day off to watch the girls so they didn’t have to drag them along. They don’t usually wake up until 8:00 or 9:00 so I’m just chillin’ waiting for the fun to start. Emmy, age 2, is easy and a joy to be with. Sammy just turned 6 months and is crawling, jabbering, playing with toys, and just all-around enjoying herself BUT she’s a real mommy’s girl and will holler if Sarah leaves the room. Usually when I watch her she’s OK as long as she doesn’t actually see Sarah leave so I’m hoping for the best today. Sarah’s grandmother died on Monday and she and Stevie are going to NY for the weekend for the funeral and we will have the girls then, too (“please don’t leave us with the babies”). Of course it’s way easier when there’s two of us. Hubby offered to take off today, too, but I told him he didn’t have to.

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  6. It surely is slow today. I’m taking advantage of the nice weather and working outside. I had an interesting link form Newsmax that the IRS not only collected informatin, but released it to liberal organizations. That also, is illegal.
    These low level administrators? 😦

    The reason I didn’t post the link is that I got it im my email and when I link that it takes us back to my in-box.

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  7. I am at home today. I try to take Wednesdays off so I can be around for Bible Study and prayer time at church. My husband comes home early for his choir practice on Wednesdays but not early enough for my church actifvity.

    My computer here at home is still up and down, mostly down. I never know if I key in a long post if it will be lost in the transmission so I tend not to do as much posting.

    You know that any one of the scandals going on would have sunk Bush. How many things does it take before people will go back to square one and question the original question of “Is he eligible?”

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  12. Donna, I could hide whatever. Elvera doesn’t do computers. If something comes in that interests her, I print it.
    But I don’t know who might be here and would squeal on me. Maybe the IRS?

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  14. Beautiful day here. It’s our teasing summer weather right before May Gray and June Gloom set in. Our corn is looking good and our tomatoes are ripening.

    How about travel plans for the summer as a QoD?

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  15. I’m going to Mexico this weekend. Hubby and I are going to see the grandsons and the people that bore them Memorial Day weekend in June Lake (near Mammoth). Then I am home until Yokohama in July. Which might have a Cairo kicker added to it. All the foreign countries are missions related.

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  17. Tremendous mission opportunities in Idaho too. In fact, I just happen to know of a captive group of children who would love to learn to surf. Hmmm, where to do that….

    Chas, I needed to poison to make the driveway visible. And the rattle snakes.

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  18. Let’s see…summer plans. Camping. Mowing. Watering. My family reunion, which is held every three years for one week at varying locations between Idaho and California. This year it will be SunRiver Oregon. We did that last time and we are getting the same home as last time. The only one large enough for us. The reunion has taken place every three years for the past fifty plus years. A fun time.

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  19. My son’s college has a May term so that always means they are out earlier than some. May terms are nice because students can take one condensed class for the whole month and get in a credit they might have trouble getting otherwise.

    Chas, I think if you go to the website where the e-mail originated you may find the information at the website and then use that link to get it on here. I know I have made the link to e-mail mistake before. Who knows who all saw what a lot of backed up e-mail I need to go through and delete? If anyone wants to look through all that which I have not been inclined to do, well, more power to them!

    No summer travel plans so far. We might go up to see our son where he is working on campus. Also, we could possibly be involved in helping him to move to his grad school in Texas. My husband is very backed up with his work so we won’t have much time to go anywhere. I may get together with friends from grammar/highschool for a girl’s trip. Have not heard on that annual trip yet.

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  20. The birthday girls had pretty good days yesterday. Fourth Arrow turned 12 and enjoyed going shopping with her 16-year-old sister and 23-year-old brother. 🙂

    Second Arrow had finals yesterday, but had a fun little surprise on her birthday. The night before, some friends of hers had stopped by her place, and one of them said she had left something in my daughter’s car; could she get her keys to unlock the car to get out what she needed. Fast forward to the next morning when daughter went out to her car to go to classes on her birthday. She discovered that her friends had kept her car doors unlocked, and sometime during the night had come back and filled her car full of balloons. 🙂

    And last but not least, hubby had the day off, and we had some nice quiet time while the older kids were gone and the younger kids were happily occupied with engaging activities to reflect on our 30 years together. I had had no idea when I met him how great and blessed my life would be forever afterward.

    God is good.

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  21. When my children were in a Christian school, one of the teachers objected to having “The Wizard of Oz” in the school library. That surprised me enough to check into the series a bit more. I read some interesting background on the author and his interest in theosophy. It made the book all the more interesting. Sort of like the :Star Wars” series, I suppose.

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  22. And now we only have one teen, as 2nd Arrow turned 20 and 4th Arrow won’t hit the teen years for another year yet. Third Arrow is right in the middle of it at 16.

    But you know what? I don’t really even like that term, “teen” or “tween” or any of those labels. “Adolescence.” Yuck. Limiting.

    I enjoy watching the fine young women and men my children are becoming (or have already become).

    There, that’s better. 🙂

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  24. Michelle, I wrote a nice long story for that site about a black neighbor who washed my car several times when I was 21 and my sister were just a little out of our element. (We had unknowingly moved into an apartment complex where we were just about the only females and the only white people. Since the only people we knew there when we moved in were two white girls in our youth group, that one suprised us, though we never felt unsafe there.)

    Anyway, it told me I “don’t own” my wordpress identity, so it didn’t let me post. Is there any way you can post “for” me if I write it again? 🙂

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  25. My husband sent me this link earlier. It’s an interesting essay by Machen, but far more interesting is a video clip in it, of Market Strret in San Francisco in 1905. A very interesting mix of pedestrians, streetcars, autos, horse-drawn conveyances, and even a bicycle or two. I didn’t even know good video was available then, 12 years before my father was both and 20 years before my mother. But if you are at all interested in history, it’s really a “must-see.”

    http://heidelblog.net/2013/05/j-gresham-machen-on-jaywalking-and-civil-freedom-watch-this-video/

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  26. Adios, now that I think about it, Lewiston is a seaport so maybe up the Snake to the Columbia? Should be able to catch some good waves. At least from the passersby.

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  29. Travel plans–my husband and I head for Chicago on a business/research trip. Family is going to a lake for four days; I volunteered to go to Australia with Stargazer to a astrophysics convention but my husband put down his foot. At some point I must be moving, but I have no idea where. 😦

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  31. Just outside our kitchen area, I have a screened porch that leads to the deck. The screen has a small hole in it, smaller than a dime. Almost every time I go out to sit on the porch, I see a wasp or hornet trapped inside the porch. I never know how he got there, but he can’t get out. I have seen them walk over the small hole, that would provide an escape, and not take it. I have never seen a hornet get out except those I’ve successfully got out the screen door. I may have mentioned that before.

    So? Why am I telling you this?
    This afternoon, I was taking a break, sitting on the porch and eating a Klondike. Sure enough, the hornet was there walking across the screen. I briefly thought of praying that this hornet would find a way out. But I instantly remembered how trivial that was. Praying for an escape for the hornet? So, I sluffed it of as being ridiculous. God has lots of other things to worry about. So, I forgot about it.
    I finished my Klondike, came in to check my mail, and the blog, as is my wont. I then took a shower and went back out to the porch. Thirty to forty five minutes had passed. The hornet was still there. Then, as I was watching, he found the hole and flew away.
    AMAZING! That hasn’t ever happened before, to my knowledge.

    I figured the Lord was teaching me something. Still do.
    1. Nothing is insignificant with God. Nothing.
    2. Even thinking about praying, might suffice as a prayer, if you’re serious about it.

    Random would say that was just a random occurrence. But as I watched that hornet fly away I thought I had seen a message.

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  32. All the time Kim, All the time.
    But that is not the thing you should worry about. You do the best you can under the circumstances. Your “full potential” has lots of areas, and you have to deal with all of them. Even those thing not in your realm of expertise.
    I’ve never lived up to my potential, but I have managed to do well in most of the areas.

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  33. Michelle, thanks. I rewrote it and posted it. I’ve used Word Press on other sites successfully after getting my account for this one, so I was stumped. (I don’t have Facebook or twitter accounts, so I’m always happy to see a WordPress option! Some sites I simply cannot post, since they require Facebook or twitter, assuming “everyone” has one of those.)

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  34. Kim, yes, I do wonder that. But how can we ever know what our full potential is? We can’t, of course. But still I find myself wondering whether I am living up to my potential.

    I agree with Chas that we simply try to do our best in the situations in which we find ourselves, and there will be growth. Maybe not in the way or the timing that we may think. It’ll all work out. God sees to that.

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  35. What on earth is our full potential? The point at which we have worked ourselves to death and die from exhaustion? when we never do anything that we actually want to do, never rest, but simply work all the time?

    Here’s reality: We live in a sin-cursed world, and we ourselves have limits. Furthermore, we are not just allowed but actually commanded to rest (the Sabbath, be still and know that I am God, etc.). We aren’t judged by how well we fulfill some unknown potential; we are called to love God and love people, and to rest in the knowledge that He has “done” it all and we are under His grace and mercy. And then, in gratitude for what He has done, we reach out again and love others more.

    Only Jesus fulfilled His full potential. And even He had times that He stepped away from the crowds to be alone. Trying to reach our full potential or change the world can be exhausting.

    In fact, here’s a link to a World article I marked just this week in case it was ever relevant in some conversation I was in. I’ve seen what he addresses in several books I’ve edited, so it caught my attention. (Note that “legalism” is his word; I’m not using it, but just recommending the essay for thought.) http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/the_new_legalism

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  38. I guess I know how men must feel sometimes. There was a problem. I gave a solution. More people got involved and I feel like I got my hand slapped and sent back to my room.

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  39. Glad the buzzing insect was guided out of the porch, Chas. 😉

    “Ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”

    Job 12:7-10

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  40. I think Kare’s son might be having a birthday today? Kare, if you’re around, am I remembering right? In any case, Happy Birthday somewhere around this time. 😉

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  42. Donna, that verse was so appropriate! Thanks, Holy Spirit, for bringing it to Donna’s mind to share. I feel blessed by Chas sharing his thought to pray, its outcome and then Donna’s remembrance. God gets the glory in the big and small things of life.

    Once my son, when young, had caught a praying mantis. He lost it in the house, and prayed he would find another one when he went outside. It seemed highly unlikely, but he did find one. I told a friend about it, and she told her husband who was an unbeliever. It seemed to have meaning to him about prayer and that just maybe there was something to it that he had not considered before.

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  43. Husband has a PBS program on about meer cats. This is better than some of the usual evening programming which can be pretty violent. But then again, things can get pretty violent in the animal kingdom.

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