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Our Daily Thread 8-8-13

Good Morning! 🙂

On this day in 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic. The remainder of his life was spent there in exile.

In 1899 the refrigerator was patented by A.T. Marshall.

In 1945 the United Nations Charter was signed by President Truman.

In 1966 Michael DeBakey became the first surgeon to install an artificial heart pump in a patient.

In 1974 President Nixon announced that he would resign the following day.

And in 1999 some guy I never heard of named Wade Boggs got his 3,000th hit of his major league baseball career. 🙂

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Quote of the Day

“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith, but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”

C. S.  Lewis

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Today is Phil Balsley’s birthday.

It’s also the birthday of Mel Tillis.

And it’s also Scott Stapp’s, from Creed. They’re a bit loud, so I’ll go with this one. It’s about as soft as they get.

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Anyone have a QoD for us?

29 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-8-13”

  1. Dare I say that I am first? I have been up for a while. I am headed to Louisiana today for some training. Little known fact. If there is a class I will take it.
    This one is free so Mr. P is going with me to learn a little about real estate so that he can help me. Besides that he will drive and I won’t have to. See how sneeky I can be?
    I hope you all have a great day.

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  3. Donna, lots of points about a guy saving his dog first.
    One of them might be: “Don’t start getting lovey with me. Go crawl into bed with rover.”
    ;-(

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  4. Nice humor, Chas. Hope the rest of your day is better. 🙂
    Kim, nice benefit if you get to take a class with Mr. P
    Look for the blessings during this special time in your life.

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  5. I grew up listening to the Statler Brothers. I have always loved that one guy’s DEEP voice.
    I thought I would share this song and a story:

    One year George got in the Golden Circle or whatever his company called the top sales people. The year before they had gone to Pais, FRANCE not Texas and the year before that they had gone to Hong Kong. The year he won we went to Nashville, as in Tennessee. I was not happy but decided to roll with it. We went to the Grand Ol’ Opry and Porter Waggoner sang this song. I knew it and started stomping my feet and clapping my hands and singing along with everyone else. He looked at me disdainfully and proclaimed if he had known about that side of me he would have never married me. I got the last laugh because one of the first songs BG ever sang was “Dow won dow won wing a fiah”

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  10. Thanks to our lobbyist and big plywood manufacturers, and Congress, the war on imported plywood is negatively affecting the housing market and all the small businesses that depend on it.

    The war on imported plywood

    Thanks. Just as we were seeing some headway…

    Some days I’d like to wring the neck of all the CEOs of these corporations, their stinking lobbyists (may they rot in hell) and our benighted congress people (may they suffer indignities forevermore).

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  12. Good morning. It’s 8/8, party/party day, as my daughters say.

    A few comments about AJ’s histiry lesson:

    In 1945 the United Nations Charter was signed by President Truman. And I wish someone would get some real guts and pull us out of that monstrosity, and tell it to get out of New York and go elsewhere.

    In 1974 President Nixon announced that he would resign the following day. I remember the day well. It would be nice if we could hear the same words from the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

    And in 1999 some guy I never heard of named Wade Boggs got his 3,000th hit of his major league baseball career. You’re just jealous that he played for the Red Sox.

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  13. Since we’re commenting on the comments:
    If the refrigerator was invented in 1899, why did we still use ice boxes in the 1940’s?
    An Ice truck used to come around with blocks of ice. If you lived on the first floor, you drilled a hole in the floor for the melted ice to drain out. Otherwise, you emptied the pan. (I knew someone would ask.)

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  14. I’m packing up the kitchen today and we get the key to the new house this afternoon. Things are moving very quickly. My husband and I will camp out in the new place until all the furniture can be moved next Thursday. He’ll be there tomorrow to make sure the Wi-Fi gets set up so we can really live! 🙂

    In the meantime, here’s a comment from a pastor friend of mine, Bill Giovannetti, which is pertinent to many.

    The day you minimize your sins, you minimize your forgiveness.

    When you minimize your forgiveness, you minimize grace.

    When you minimize grace, you transmogrify the first wonder of the cosmos into a boring tolerance, fit only for theological slackers who insist everyone gets a trophy.

    Until you can look at yourself in the mirror and confess, “I am the chief of sinners,” grace will never be a big deal to you (1 Timothy 1:15). And your love for God – regardless of how busy you are for his kingdom – will be “little.”

    ~Grace Intervention, my work in progress, coming winter 2014

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  15. This is definitely a coffee morning for me. Lots to get done because I have tomorrow off — going to see my friend in the valley before she has to start back teaching school on Monday (LA starts very early this year!).

    It’s also her belated birthday celebration for us so I’d ordered a little inexpensive (but fragile) present from Amazon. It arrived in, oh, about 1 million pieces last night on my doorstep. Sigh. So I need to get that shipped off as a return today & find something else on a lunch hour (which I rarely take).

    And the story I have to write today involves an issue that has sparked several factions in town. So I’m always having to walk the tightrope between them as I often get an earful from each side about the other side while I’m trying to just do my job and interview people … More sighs.

    People.

    I started reading that free kindle book I mentioned last night … She has some points but I am disagreeing with her perspective somewhat.

    Time to feed the animals.

    Happy packing, michelle. Yes, WiFi is a must. Sit on the floor if you must, but keep those phones/computers running. 🙂

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  18. In 1974 President Nixon announced that he would resign the following day.

    That made the required high school US Government class I took for summer school that year memorable. For much of the six-week session we discussed impeachment, succession, and related matters. The day after President Nixon’s resignation announcement was our last day of class, so we got to spend much of it watching President Ford being sworn in.

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  19. Argghhh..

    Ever have someone (call them “A”) give you (call me B) a job to do, but habitually doesn’t give you all the information you need to do said job?

    It gets old real quick, especially when there are several people (lets call them C and D) doing different parts of the job and they all have to work together, and this person A (who shall REMAIN in control at ALL costs) tells C that B has the information, and tells B that C has the information. Finally D has to go in and INSIST that A give B and C the information, whereupon A gives D the information on a piece of paper that A had in their possession the whole time.

    Meanwhile we’ve all been running around trying to get the information from A for three days, and A wants to know why we’re not done yet.

    Stupid controllers.

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  20. Chas, I suspect (though of course I can’t be sure) that the man who saved the dog was figuring that he and his wife would each swim for safety, but one of them needed to take the dog, so he did so. (I didn’t read the article, but I’d think that was his thought process.) And some dogs are good swimmers and some are not. Collies are said to drown fairly easily since they aren’t strong swimmers and since their fur gets waterlogged and heavy very quickly. If one had a small dog that was similarly hampered, it might make sense to try to rescue it–though certainly you should first make sure your wife is ready and able to swim out too!!

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  23. Good afternoon. I have wi-fi at our beach house thanks to my daughter’s iPhone! Becca just got up from a two hour nap, while everyone else has been playing games. It is extremely hot! I felt faint when we were at the beach around noon. It’s over 100 degrees and quite humid, so we’re spending more time indoors than I’d imagined. But, everyone seems to be having a good time together–so I’m not complaining! It’s fun to have just girls (no offense to the men on here).

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  24. Chaeyl, @17:36
    I’m here messing with a sick computer. On a laptop now. but I hate typing on a laptop because I can’t be certain of the home keys. I have my old computer hooked up, but, though I can read the blog, it won’t let me post..

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  27. I was watching Shark Fest and Shark Week. 2 networks, lot’s of sharks.

    I like sharks, but they scare me, which is why I don’t swim in the ocean. I have a rule about making sure I’m always at the top of the food chain. It’s kind of a deal breaker for me.

    But I love shark week. And I believe I’ve seen every Sy-Fy channel movie with giant, killer, mutant, pre-historic sharks they ever made. Including Swamp shark, Megalodon vs. Crocosaurus, and the big octopus one, as well as the two-headed and octo-shark ones too.

    I’ve even seen most of Sharknado. Most. I can live with bad acting for cool special effects. It’s the trade off you make. But even I have my limits. Plus I never much cared for the 90210 guy sooooo…..

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  29. Some miscellaneous musings on discussions here this past week:

    Jo — Congratulations on the birth of your granddaughter! And born in the caul…that certainly doesn’t happen very often.

    Donna — Good reading at the link about “In Christ Alone” (and at other related links) regarding the hymn’s being kept out of the new PCUSA hymnal. I see the link you originally provided is updated now to say that the word “wrath” wasn’t the problem in the offending line, but the word “satisfied”, with its atonement theology implicit in the word. Wow.

    Cheryl — I can relate to your comment about bracelets and how you don’t wear them because of a small wrist. My wrist is 5.5 inches around, so I don’t wear them much. I do have a very nice bracelet my husband gave me a couple years ago, though, that I like to wear to church. It has a clasp, but I can slide it over my hand without unclasping it if I press my four fingers together and slide my thumb toward my ring finger. Then while I’m wearing it, if my arm is dangling at my side, the bracelet slides down past my wrist about halfway to my lowest finger joints and stops at the widest part of my hand without falling off. It would probably look better if it would stay around my wrist, but what’s a small-boned woman to do? It’s got a pretty heart-shaped charm on it that says “I Am Loved”, and since it was from my hubby, well, I’m going to wear it, small wrists or not. 😉

    Kare — Funny you should mention you had a dog named Kitten. My in-laws had a cat named Puppy. 🙂

    AJ — Regarding music requests, well, I always do enjoy classical music (using that term generally rather than specifically — any music from composers born in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries is great), but I like to expand my musical horizons, so I enjoy the variety of music you post. Keep up the good work. 🙂

    Well, I know I’m forgetting a lot of things I read catching up here, but my brain’s at about my limit tonight, so I’ll leave it at that.

    Oh, and Mumsee and AnnMS, many prayers for both of you in your family situations.

    And prayers for many others. I think about you guys a lot when I’m away from here.

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