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Our Daily Thread 9-12-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1609 English explorer Henry Hudson sailed down what is now known as the Hudson River.

In 1814, during the War of 1812, the Battle of North Point was fought in Maryland.

In 1922 the Episcopal Church removed the word “Obey” from the bride’s section of wedding vows.

In 1953 U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.

And in 1954 “Lassie” made its television debut on CBS.

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Quote of the Day

“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”

Charles Dudley Warner

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Who doesn’t love Lassie? 🙂

Here’s the preview clip from the first episode.

Today is George Jones’ birthday.

And it’s Gerry Beckley’s as well.

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Anyone have a QoD?

41 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-12-13”

  2. That’s what started the ruination of the American home, when they cut “obey” out of the wedding ceremony.
    😉

    I never saw an episode of Lassie.
    I did see a movie called “Lassie Come Home” when I was a kid. I don’t rightly remember what it was about, except Lassie was a dog.

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  3. Good morning! Today is L.’s 14th birthday! It’s hard to believe it’s been fourteen years since we brought her home from the hospital. Weirder still that she only has five years left at home….

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  5. I agree in some ways Chas. It ruined the Little House books for me, when, in the last one, Laura was making sure that obey wasn’t in her marriage vows.
    However i also feel that no fault divorce cheapened marriage.

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  8. Jo, ponder this as you’re about to doze off.

    On Wednesday evenings, we are taking a Tony Evans course on Spiritual warfare from Ephesians 6:12f.
    It’s an interesting study. Not only is Tony Evans a good preacher, but his lessons have content. Last week, he mentioned that we each have a personal angel. This is not new to me. David said, Ps. 34:7, “The angel of the LORD encamps around us and delivers us.” Paul said, I Cor 6:3, “Don’t you know that you will judge angels?” And, Heb. 1:4, “Are they not ministering spirits, sent to minister to them who shall be heirs of salvation?” The new concept that Evans springs is that we each have a dedicated demon. I can’t find scripture to support that. Maybe you can think of some. But it makes sense. I believe I have met my angel and demon. (Both looked and acted like men.)

    Tony Evans is on Youtube.

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  9. I like Tony Evans; I listen to his broadcast every Sunday morning as I drive (50 minutes) to church. I also saw him in person years ago. However, every once in a while he comes out with some very strange theology.

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  10. A friend of mine wrote this and I am putting it here with his permission. I have removed his name for his privacy but I did not write it. I asked if I could share it and he said yes.

    September 11, 2001: The Day We Lost Our Oceans by R du M.

    September 10, 2012 at 10:56pm

    September 11, 2001 seems like a long time ago, but to me it was one of those few days in my life that I will always remember like it was yesterday. In addition to the tragic deaths in New York City, the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania of nearly 3000 people from 90 different nations – September 11 was the day our oceans disappeared. I’ll explain what I mean in a minute. In July, 2001, I departed the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise which was on a six month deployment to the Middle East to attend the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

    On that fateful morning of September 11th, I was sitting at a desk reading about the Peloponnesian War. For those of you who may not remember your ancient Greek history, the Peloponnesian War was fought between Athens and Sparta over 400 years before the birth of Christ. At the start of the war, Athens was the most powerful and prosperous nation in the western world. It was the leader in the arts, trade, philosophy, and democracy. Athens protected its wealth with the world’s most powerful navy and strong alliances with other nations.

    As I was thinking about the similarities between Athens and America, I could hear a television that was turned on in a nearby classroom. I began to overhear reporting that two passenger jets had flown into the World Trade Center. At first I didn’t believe it was real. I dismissed it as a fictitious scenario that was being used by the Naval War College as a case study for a class.

    So, I returned to thinking about ancient Greece. But as the reporting continued, I realized that the news WAS real. A horrifying thought began to form: The United States was under a massive coordinated terrorist attack. To give you an idea of how surprised we were, the Naval War College did not even teach any courses on terrorism before that day. The world watched and wondered: Just how many more planes had been hijacked and were heading to their target? If you would like to get a sense of what it was like, I highly recommend watching the movie “United 93.”

    I blinked at the book in front of me and tried to make sense of it all. It occurred to me that just as I was studying the events that had occurred over 2000 years ago in ancient Greece – future students would read about the events of September 11, 2001. But what would they read – what would we do? What could we do? My next thought concerned the USS Enterprise and her crew. I wondered what my friends and shipmates might be doing that terrible morning. Months later, I learned that from the middle of the Arabian Sea the crew had been watching the news reports of the attacks live as they occurred on the televisions that are located throughout the ship.

    Enterprise happened to be heading home after spending months in the Persian Gulf, but when the Captain saw the news on the television, he immediately turned his ship around. No one knew who was responsible yet, but whoever it was, the Captain suspected that the nation would need USS Enterprise. And he was right – less than a month later using information provided by U.S. Special Forces riding on horseback, USS Enterprise launched 700 strikes against Taliban and Al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan a 1,000 miles from the sea.

    At the Naval War College, we knew right away that September 11 was destined to be one of the most significant dates in American history – and not just because of the tragic loss of life. You see, while China had its Great Wall and England had its Channel for protection – the United States had two great oceans to protect her from attack. Through a century of war – World War One, World War Two, Korea, Viet Nam, and the first Iraq War – the Continental United States had been safely out of reach of our enemies. Only the threat of nuclear attack from the Soviet Union during the Cold War pierced the wall of protection provided by the mighty Atlantic and Pacific.

    But on September 11, 2001, our oceans disappeared and no longer protected us. On the first day of this war, the front lines were in our office buildings and on our passenger planes. Our soldiers were firemen, policemen, flight attendants, and passengers. Our mighty military could destroy an entire nation, but we were not attacked by an entire nation. At first, we were like a heavy weight boxer swinging wildly at a swarm of angry hornets – unable to land a blow. And since we could no longer count on our oceans for protection, like the ancient Athenians, we erected new walls around the most vital parts of our nation – airports, sporting events, ports, and government buildings. Before Sept 11, 2001, you did not have to take off your shoes before boarding an airplane.

    Since then we have steadily improved our ability to stop terrorists before they strike and that swarm of hornets is much smaller now. However, the price has been high. Since September 11, 2001 the United States and two dozen of our allies have lost over 7,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines in the Global War on Terror. Nearly ten times as many have been wounded. So, today it is fitting that we remember them as well as the 3,000 who died on September 11.

    Looking forward, we all want to know: When will all of this end – and more importantly – how will we know? Only God has the answer. Until then, we can pray for those who have been killed or wounded, for those who continue to risk their lives every day for our security, and that one day, we will finally get our oceans back.

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  11. When will it end? I’ll speculate on that later–

    Interesting post Kim, The first thing I studied at the NWC was the Peloponnesian War. It is a classic study about warfare by the master of the sea (Athens) and the great land army (Sparta). A long war that Sparta eventually won.
    But your friend is correct. We have been at war thirty years now, since the Beirut bombing on Oct. 23, 1983. We never realized it, but we have been at war and lost almost every encounter. America was a world power. No nation could stand against us.
    But jihadist could. We never understood the enemy. We still don’t.
    I fear the ramifications of this are more serious than those of us who are paying attention understand.
    The latest Tom Clancy book, Locked On, tells how terrorists connive with drug cartels to transport weapons to America to shoot commercial planes from the sky. Five at one time to disrupt commerce.

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  13. You can’t win a war by “bringing the culprits to justice”. They haven’t committed a crime, they have waged an undeclared war against us. A war that we’re afraid to define.

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  14. Driving from Murfreesboro to Indianapolis today. Everyone assures me the weather will improve.

    Interesting finds and poignant moments in Lebanon, TN yesterday.

    Meanwhile, back home, my daughter headed back to college having finally emptied her girlhood room to leave my son and his family in their new home. I asked my husband if they were happy.

    “I don’t know about the parents, but the three year old was running around, naked, in her new room.”

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  15. I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son. But, imagine this scenario:

    The Middle East is in chaos, no strong leadership, except from Iran. Suddenly a contemptible person (Dan. 11:21) arises and brings order to the area. He has under his control: Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Libya and possibly Jordan and Lebanon? (Plus some insignificant African countries.) This man has tremendous power, supported by Russia. He controls the Straits of Hormuz and the Suez Canal.
    There is OTOH, the USA and Israel. (Europe appears not to be a factor in this.)
    Now, on the other side of the world, there is China. China doesn’t want to conquer America. They only want Taiwan and hegemony in the South China Sea. Remember, that’s all Japan wanted. Nobody wants to occupy the USA.
    Libertarians, like Ron Paul think we should abandon all commitments and withdraw to Fortress America. Some, OTOH, (McCain & Graham) believe we should intervene with power.
    This is an astounding dilemma for an intelligent person with knowledge of the world. Yet, we have a community organizer in charge with no one on the other side with any better insight. They are mightily concerned with reelection.
    I would be very afraid if I hadn’t read the back of the book. Yet, I see turmoil in the immediate future. I fear for my grandchildren. I really do.

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  17. Jo, I’ve had rather interesting conversations with myself late at night on some of these threads. 😉

    I sense America is heading into one of its more ‘isolationist’ cycles, and understandably so. But I was raised by parents who came of age in WWII and the dangers of isolationism were driven home to me.

    What the answer is, I don’t know. I do know that we have a president who I think is unable to deal with any kind of foreign policy crisis we encounter. This really is his first test and so far — well, it’s not going so well. 😦

    Now we have Russia pretty much running the show for us — and you know Putin’s enjoying it to no end.

    I (of course) loved Lassie. One of my co-workers said her parents finally had to forbid it in their house since she wound up in tears every week when she watched it as a kid.

    I still remember the episode when Lassie went missing. It was a two-weeker and I sat in front of the TV just crying as Timmy dug a hole on the farm and started burying all of Lassie’s toys, convinced by then she wasn’t coming home.

    When all of a sudden, in the distance — limping over the hillside, bedraggled and dirty, comes … LASSIE!!!

    Timmy began to run, Lassie limped a bit faster, until they met and melted into a boy-and-his-dog heap of tears and dog whines.

    Ah, good stuff.

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  18. My daughter is back to school now. We’ve already started the new year’s lessons, and it looks like Science will be quite a challenge for her. She has so many experiments to do, I’m worried she may become a mad scientist in the process. 🙂

    And I’ll be Igor I guess. 🙂

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  19. I posted a prayer early this morn on yesterday’s prayer thread for some of the mentioned requests. I hope things are going better for all those with needs.

    I loved Lassie, and Timmy was the sweetest. Who would not want such a sweet boy for their son?

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  20. I am hesitant to even tell this…but… I share my sorrows with you so I should share what is hopeful as well.
    My friend who is also a real estate agent has been handling the rental of a house for a friend of hers from high school. We were talking this morning about totally unrelated things when she mentioned that the friend had told the renter to get out. She had been asking $1,100 a month for the house but had lowered the price to $850 to keep the guy in it but he has gotten behind on the rent. When she found out I may be interested she kept the price the same for me. When I factor in what we are currently paying for a storage unit and that this is a 3/2 2000SF house with a DOUBLE garage, it just makes sense to do this. It has a fenced in yard for the pups. This just sort of fell in my lap.
    It is in a really nice older neighborhood. The house was built in 1962 but has been updated and a nice addition put on the back.

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  22. Good Afternoon, Y’all!

    Kim…Older neighborhoods on the coast aren’t older they’re “seasoned”! Hope that works out to your satisfaction.
    Chas…well said on the Middle East…

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  25. The article concludes:

    Allowing this week to become the status quo is unthinkable. A 40-month run of Laurel and Hardy’s America will endanger everyone.

    That is exactly what is likely to happen.
    Prov. 29:18. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
    All of this foreign stuff is getting in the way of Obama’s domestic agenda. That’s the problem.

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  27. AJ, I’ve learned a few things about kids becoming mad scientists from watching TV with my son. Check the attic, basement and shed periodically for a secret lab. Make sure she is not performing experiments on friends and siblings and watch out for mechanical or talking pets or a pet that wears a fedora. You don’t want to end up like the clueless parents of Jimmy Neutron, Dexter, Phineas and Ferb or the Test sisters. This sort of behavior is dangerous and tends to attract super villians to the tri-state area.

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  28. Happy birthday to L. My year from 13-14 was a hard one. I turned 14 on the day I graduated from 8th grade. I was glad the year was over, but sad that I might not see some of those friends again. In fact, I have had little contact with my jr high classmates. We ended up at four or five different high schools, since the Catholic parish where our parochial school was had boundaries that overlapped four public schools’ lines, as well as having a Catholic high school. My best friends went to the Catholic high school, which my dad could not afford.

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  29. Kim- How long do we have to get those postcards to your friend? I cannot get up to Iowa any time soon, and don’t know when I’ll see the daughter who just returned from Arizona.

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  31. Heaven received the soul of Daddy J about 4:30 this afternoon. It was peaceful as I wished. He was a GOOD man. His career was as a full time National Guardsman. Once when a guy I dated found out that my Daddy J was his “Top” I got a whole lot more respect and attention. 😉
    His daughters are with their mother. I have not gone over but they do know that I am available for whatever they need.

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  32. {{{{Kim}}}} I’d give you a real hug right now if I could, but a virtual one will have to do. Bless you for your love and availability to Daddy J’s family. Rejoicing in his being home with Jesus, while sitting here misty-eyed, knowing he was loved and will be missed. Praying for you and his family.

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  35. Kim: Glad it was a peaceful passing. Praying for you and Daddy J’s family during this time of loss. Congratulations on finding the house! Sounds like a good fit.

    L. had a wonderful birthday. I brought her Chick-fil-A for lunch (her favorite fast food) and made chicken spaghetti for dinner, per her request. We had a strawberry cake, too, which everyone seemed to enjoy. She had a riding lesson tonight, which also went well. Tomorrow night we’ll go out to eat at her favorite restaurant and Saturday night is her slumber party (where no one will be doing much slumbering!). Hubby is taking Becca to the ranch Saturday to keep her out of the big girls’ hair and so she can sleep. 7 girls have RSVP’d and they are a good group of kids. They plan to swim and watch movies and eat too much candy.

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  38. Kim, I’m so sorry about your loss. 😦 He sounds like he was very special to so many.

    I watched Lassie more in its later years, I guess, but I do remember “Jeff,” the first kid.

    CNN tonight has an hour-long special on the Syria crisis (hosted by jake trapper, one of their best).

    Such a mess — and it seems to me that Russia is in complete control (for now). Townhall had a funny cartoon about the president as a “student driver,” careening all over the road while simultaneously trying to read a big road map. That just about sums it up.

    And sadly, I don’t think he’s got too many savvy people around him when it comes to foreign affairs.

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  39. Hugs, Kim.

    After 2 intense days of siding, we’ve finished the difficult part – all 3 peaks of the house have been sided to the top, soffits and fascia also replaced. The end is in sight. I’m so thankful for the beautiful warm, dry weather we’ve been having.

    My dog is hilarious – he was being silly and jumping around and playing and just flopped over at my husband’s feet, so Tim took this picture 🙂

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  41. Kim, so glad it was a peaceful parting for Daddy J and especially thankful that you were at the hospital the other day. You were much more patient with the pastor than I would have been. So sweet that you had a time of sharing memories and giving back to her the story of them meeting.

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