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Our Daily Thread 9-21-13

Good Morning!

It’s Saturday! Yay!

On this day in 1784 “The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser” was published for the first time in Philadelphia. It was the first daily paper in America.

In 1893 Frank Duryea took what is believed to be the first gasoline- powered automobile for a test drive. The “horseless carriage” was designed by Frank and Charles Duryea.

 In 1897 The New York Sun ran the “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” editorial. It was in response to a letter from  8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon.

In 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” was first published.

And in 1957 “Perry Mason”, the television series, made its debut on CBS-TV.

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Quote of the Day

“What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.”

Mark Levin

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Today is Faith Hill’s birthday.

Today is also William John Paul “Liam” Gallagher’s birthday.

And on this day in 1996 Hank Williams III made his Grand Ole Opry debut. I think I found it too.

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Anyone have a QoD for us?

62 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-21-13”

  1. Welcome to Saturday you all. Got most of my comments written for parent teacher conferences done today. At least all of Mondays are done, just a few left for Tuesday. Had just a little bit of rain, hope it clears the smoke out of the air. Lots of fires to burn off the tall grass.

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  5. Hey Chas! I’m here for now. But I can’t think of a QoD of anything profound. So, since tomorrow is the first day of Autumn, how about:

    What’s your favorite thing about Autumn, other than football and colorful tree leaves?

    I like the brisk mornings, even though they foreshadow frigid winter days. But they are a welcome relief from the heavy, overbearing summer heat.

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  6. I have seen Hank 3, as he now calls himself, perform live. You miss something when you just listen to his music and not see him perform. He interacts well with the audience. I even talked to him after the show and he had someone take our photo with my cell phone.

    I have a friend who argues that the newspaper article Yes, Virginia is a fake. She argues that no child, even in the the 1800’s would have referred to “her little friends”. She is the wife of the man who ruined the Little House books for me by saying Pa was a ne’er do well, who couldn’t keep a job and moved his family in search of the elusive dream. He also said Laura found a man just like her father and her daughter had to write the books for her so they would have money in their old age.

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  8. I always miss Jo.

    And I’m even up super early (for a Saturday) — the cat wanted out at 5 (typical). She wanted back in at 6 (typical). Then I couldn’t go back to sleep.

    So. Worried about the U.S.? Yeah, aren’t we all. This is an interesting interview with John Piper who reflects on where we are (see the last few chapters of Judges) and where we’re headed … Unless …

    “I’m not optimistic, but I do believe in the absolute sovereignty of God who could be pleased in the eleventh hour of our self-destruction to move like a tornado through this land and cause people to wake up and say, ‘We’ve been insane.’ It’s insane to kill babies. It’s insane to define marriage as two men having long-term sex with each other. God could move through our culture and cause people to say, ‘We’ve been in a fog, under a darkness, so that we couldn’t see you don’t kill babies and you don’t call that marriage.’ That could happen. I will pray until I’m dead that it will happen.”

    http://theaquilareport.com/our-national-insanity-an-interview-with-john-piper/

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  12. Wow Donna you are right about the comments. There are alot of hard hearts out there. It just hit close to home and made me cry. My oldest daughter gave her first child up for adoption. That is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, letting her make the decisions and take the responsibility and consequences of her sin. When she signed the adoption papers, we thought we would never see her little girl again…But God is so merciful to us. Her adoptive parents decided it would be an open adoption and now we have a whole other family to love and be a part of. My beautiful Caralea is going to be 11 in November. She has a wonderful family. My oldest daughter had a chance to get her act together. She celebrated her 10th anniversary this summer, has 2 little boys, work, goes to school and is just an awesome person…..Getting my kleenex now…;(

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  13. Part of me can’t believe the comments on the video. The other part isn’t shocked. As the mother of a 16 year old girl, I try not to think about things like this happening. I pray all the time that she doesn’t make a decision that will cause her to have to make other decisions. I don’t ever want to have to eat any words on what I would or would not do if my child told me she was pregnant.
    As a woman who had difficulty having the above mentioned 16 year old, I pray for pregnant young women who will choose life and give the baby up for adoption.

    One question I would like to ask someone though, is how is a “legal” abortion safer than childbirth when one is a medical procedure and one is a natural procedure?

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  14. The morning after pill is not so safe and easy either..We have had several ladies come into the ER after using it with cramping and uncontrolled bleeding. I am not sure what the abortion provider told them would happen, but hey certainly weren’t expecting that.

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  15. rkessler65, we have a semi-open adoption in that we send regular reports and photos to the agency and they pass them on to the birth mother. An open adoption benefits the adoptive parents as well, because it is a blessing to be able to honestly tell you child that his birth mother loves him and has not forgotten him.

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  16. Good morning all,

    QoD: I love the smells of Autumn, apples, pumpkin, cinnamon . . . And I love when we have big waves in a good Santa Ana wind.

    And football. I was hiking the Napal’i coast, we were way out in the rainforest, hardly anyone on the trail when we pass a couple coming the other way. The guy was wearing an Auburn hat. As we passed I said, “Roll Tide.” We heard the canipshun (sp?) fit for another quarter mile. “No matter where I go . . . “

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  17. kBells, sometimes that’s a blessing and sometimes it isn’t. When the birth mother is really messed up (on drugs, promiscuous), sometimes it’s better to have some distance from her, and esp. from her potential influence on the children.

    I know people who adopted two children a little older (pre-teens), and both kids ran away at 17 (subsequent years) and rejoined horribly dysfunctional birth families. So, it’s a blessing if the mom does get her life together; otherwise, not necessarily.

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  18. How can one ask the best thing about fall other than autumn leaves? That pretty much sums it up, the beautiful color; I don’t like a lot of other things about this season. Except that my anniversary falls in October.

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  20. Fall gives some respite from “always something to do in the yard”. The leaves are pretty fora while. But it’s too cool to sit on the deck. And you have to wear heavy clothes. And winter’s coming.
    But winter doesn’t present the challenge in NC that it did in Va.

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  22. Adios, loved the Auburn fan story. When we were at Disney world several years ago, we we past this guy in a Q line who pointed at us and said “Hey, mixed family.” Thinking he was referring to our bi-racial son we looked at each other like; “Did he really say that?” When we past him again he said to my husband, “How do you think we’ll do this year.” That’s when i realized he and Hubby were both wearing Auburn hats and I was wearing a Bama shirt and that’s what he meant by “mixed family”.

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  23. Adios, Mr. P will love your story. KBells you have what is referred to these days as a mixed marriage. No one in Alabama cares anymore if you are married outside your “race” but that Alabama/Auburn thing is something else.
    I am a little distraught moving into a larger house and letting Mr. P get the rest of his things out of storage. He has a hard time resisting buying anything that is red and white with an A on it. He has a houndstooth table!, a print of THE Bear and Sabin, I could go on….

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  25. I even heard “roll tide” on our very left leaning public radio, CBC, the other day. I totally forget what they were talking about but I remembered the “roll tide” because of you guys! 🙂

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  26. I don’t really enjoy fall, except for the short-lasting colours, because I know what’s right around the corner. A friend just posted that 29 years ago they had had to cancel plans because of a bad snow storm on this date.

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  29. Autumn…cool brisk mornings, enjoying coffee on the porch in the mornings, the intoxicating smells of the turning leaves of the aspens…people are burning wood in their fireplaces once again…love love love Autumn!
    rkessler…so incredibly blessed reading your story…thank you so much for sharing….
    Our adoptions were closed…we have been blessed to find our older daughter’s birthmom….we have never met, but, Abi does have a long distance sight unseen relationship with her birthmom…it’s all good…
    Hannah’s birthmom hasn’t contacted us, through the agency, since Hannah was 3 and a half…I sent pictures and a letter telling her how Hannah was doing…and thanking her once again for loving her and us so much….her situation was not so wonderful and I do believe a “reuniting” would be a bit traumatic for Hannah….she hasn’t shown any interest in finding her birthmom…and I don’t suggest it…if she does, I will be supportive…and protective!

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  30. I never heard “roll tide” until I met you all either. I only barely understood Adios’ story.

    I don’t often shop at Walmart but went there for something today and decided to wander around a bit. I seemed to always be in someone’s way. And the middle-aged clerk seemed to be new, he took forever.

    Heaven knows I shouldn’t complain — I’ll probably wind up working there myself someday. 😉

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  33. Donna, we miss in the evening/morning, but you are the one still around in my afternoon before everyone seems to disappear. Plus I love it as you are on the same time zone as my children!

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  38. Actually, Chas, you’ve lost more than two now. As of the afternoon games, five of us have five of six games correct, including the defending “perfect ten” Kim. All of those five missed the Boise State game.

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  39. There was a huge bank of fog rolling in off the ocean late today, giving us a cool, misty breeze. I walked the dogs up to the park where all the ducks and geese hang out.

    The Saturday trip to the dog park before that was fun, except somehow I wound up with two circular blobs of muddy drool on my sweatshirt — positioned exactly on each breast. Looking good.

    🙄

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  42. I’m glad I didn’t put the family fortune on those games. 😦

    Today the sun crosses the equator going south. I don’t know exactly what time.
    Elvera stopped wearing white shoes after Labor Day. Since it’s 55.8 degrees, I’m still wearing my summer suit.

    Boilermakers played a terrible game. I’m going to stop betting on them. Maybe that should have gone on the rant page.

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  43. Usually, this time of day on a Sunday, I’m reviewing my SS lesson. Today’s lesson is on John 3:1-16. I could almost recite this conversation by heart.

    Radio station WTZQ started the seven o’clock hour with the National Anthem. None of you are old enough to remember this, but radio stations used to go off at night, except for very few (WCKY, WOR, WWL, KONO, WSM, etc.). Some would come on around 6 a.m. playing the National Anthem.
    When in the AF, I used to drive at night a lot when going on leave. I would put the the radio on WHO, Des Moine and leave it there as I traveled hundreds of miles.

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  44. AJ, no, it’s not the leaves. It’s the time of year when everything is dying. What’s to like about that? Plus I don’t like the cold, and it means that winter is just around the corner. In our old house, hubby put off turning the heat on as long as possible. He would have waited until Christmas if it weren’t for me. At least here in the new house, Son controls the thermostat and keeps it comfy for the babies.

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  45. Michele, I finished “The Kitchen House” yesterday and am curious about why you didn’t like the ending? Was it the way the story, itself, ended or was it the writing style of the ending? To me, it seemed like she got tired of writing all that detail and just ended it with a quick “and this happened and that happened and we all lived happily ever after.” I’ve read several this year in which the author seemed to have done that. But in this case, it didn’t keep me from appreciating the rest of the book. Seems like she did a lot of research and created a viable story. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.

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  46. Happy Sunday, happy fall.

    I was up early again, have already done a load of laundry, had breakfast, and did some reading/writing from a book on sanctification I’ve been making my way through for the past couple months, off and on, rather slowly I’ll admit. 😉

    The author talks about how Christians often fall into practical or functional disbelief, noting that all sin (including thoughts and attitudes, from envy to anger to worry) is a lie that we somehow choose to believe rather than God.

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  47. (continuing) … So there’s this gap between what we say we believe on Sunday and what we do — how we think, react, even behave — come Monday. The purpose of sanctification is to close that gap between the two.

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  48. Went to the Harvard/USD football game yesterday. My nephew plays for Harvard so we took advantage of a rare west coast appearance. Fun game. The Crimson won handily. But it was very different from a USC, Boise State or Alabama game. Not a lot of fanfare. Instead of holding up a D and a fence, Havardians yell, “Sudue them, subdue them, make them relinquish the spherical.”

    Not to be too technical, but while you can call a football a ball, I am not sure you can call it a spherical. But that may be me just straining at gnats 😉

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  50. Good morning, everyone. I awoke at 5 with a migraine, so I was unable to make it to church. I really wanted to go, as we missed last week due to L.’s party and will miss next week b/c we’ll be out of town visiting my sister, but…it’s impossible when you’re vomiting. I’m feeling quite a bit better now, thanks to Imitrex and Phenergan.

    My sister was scared to death yesterday by the terrorist attack at the mall in Nairobi. Her children attend boarding school there and have permission to go into Nairobi on the weekends, and that is the mall they frequent, so when she first heard the news, she was terrified. Fortunately, they were on the premises of the boarding school and were completely safe. She had been at that mall a couple of weeks ago buying school supplies. She is flying to Nairobi on October 8. Please pray for her safety.

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  51. I mentioned familiarity with John 3:1-16 earlier. Our teacher started the lesson by asking, “Is it possible to be too familiar with part of the Bible?” I answered, “Yes, as in the 23rd Psalm. You think you can’t learn anything else from it.” Confess. None of you thinks you can learn anyting new from Psalm 23.
    We had an interesting lesson on John, 3, but I didn’t learn anything.

    I see that Tychicus won the football pool.
    I still don’t know the outcome of the Tigers’ game.
    I certain that the Tigers won.

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  52. How scary that must have been for your sister when she heard about that terrorist attack, Ann. Glad the children weren’t there when it happened. Prayers for safety over there.

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  53. I think a lot of us have become calloused to the terrorism and evil that goes on around the world. I read about the attack on the mall in Nairobi. but it wasn’t real to me until I read that AnnMS has nieces and nephews who could have been there. The attack on the Navy Yard was easy for me to put out of my mind until College Boyfriend’s uncle called to tell me he was OK, the attach was in the building where CB works. He had not made it to work yet when the attack happened. THEN it became real to me.
    We really need to guard against becoming so calloused to these things.

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  54. Kim, that is so true. I notice the same things – if I don’t know someone who has been there or could be there, it’s easier to say “how sad” and then promptly forget about it.

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  55. The attacks on Christians are becoming beyond troubling — there was another church attacked today in Pakistan, killing 78, I believe was the latest figure, with 110 wounded.

    Dennis Prager often brings this up, asking why western Christian churches aren’t doing more to bring more attention to the issue (like demonstrations). We’re not a bunch that’s naturally inclined toward demonstrations, I suppose, but one really does feel so helpless and upset by it all.

    Annms, glad your family is OK, that is really scary — and it’s STILL going on. Apparently they were specifically targeting non-Muslims.

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  56. It is hard to feel that the rest of the world out there is real, especially in this quiet spot. However I heard of some unrest and fighting in the valley this week. Praying for peace.
    Monday morning here and off for parent conferences.

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  57. Our pastor has outdone himself over the past several weeks in his sermons on Romans. I come away moved, convicted and re-committed. His sermons are always good, but these last few have been simply outstanding.

    My Sunday car companion says it’s because, well, it’s Romans after all — which to some degree is true, obviously, what a rich book it is. But he’s doing such an amazing job of teaching and preaching the gospel through it that I come away in awe. Maybe it’s just what I need to be hearing right now, too.

    We take only a few verses each week (this week’s was 6:15-17, titled “Sin to Death — Obedience to Righteousness”).

    I truly to do love the Lord’s Day — the sermons, the Lord’s Supper, the hymns and songs — it is such a high point of the week.

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  58. I went to a prayer retreat this weekend. I have not yet had a chance to catch up on the posts. Hope everyone is having a good Sunday. It was good to be at the retreat, but it rained so I could not get out into nature as I desired.

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  59. From Newsmax in my e-mail. Turns out George Soros is getting married again. The bride is likely around forty.

    Soros, 83, married Tamiko Bolton, a healthcare consultant who is nearly half his age. She is his third wife. It will be a short honeymoon,

    Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/soros-wedding-nuptials-pelosi/2013/09/22/id/527030?ns_mail_uid=42135&ns_mail_job=1538575_09222013&promo_code=14F4D-1#ixzz2ffIpMO9l

    I’ll bet it will be. 🙂

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  60. Chas- The Tigers won the game to which you refer. And the Tigers won the other game in Indiana. In the one down South, it was the purple and gold Tigers, while up North it was the black and gold. Neither of the teams in red won.

    Adios- Funny cheer. Earlier my daughter read us the description of a new book of the Star Wars stories written in Shakespearean style.

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  61. Linda– You hit the nail on the head with The Kitchen House. After investing so much time in such a detailed book, the ending was a sore disappointment–everything resolved in three pages. That’s what I resented about it.

    I just finished slogging through The Daughters of Mars by Schindler’s List author Thomas Kenneally. It’s a WWI saga, 520 pages long WITHOUT QUOTATIONS MARKS to indicate dialogue. Okay, maybe there were 100 pair in the entire book, but it made it so difficult to read.

    He also killed the main character off three pages from the end.

    If I hadn’t been reading it on my Kindle, I would have thrown it across the room. You don’t make me wade through that detailed torture of the war and then kill the heroine. And I don’t care if I’ve just given you a spoiler.

    I did, however, pick up details I’ll use in my own novel, so it wasn’t a complete waste.

    Of course, I couldn’t mark those spots in my ebook . . . ! 🙂

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  62. Another view on the fact that we don’t pay a lot of attention to distant event unless we know people involved: we were not created to know about, and feel emotions about, the sad things that happen to billions of people we have never heard of. “News” tells us we should keep track of what is happening in L.A. even if we live in Colorado, to care about Taiwan even if we live in Saudi Arabia. But God made us for community, not for keeping track of the entire world.

    Recognizing that gave me freedom to stop trying so hard to keep up with “the news.” Unless I can do something about someone’s suffering (which might include praying), what difference does it make if I even know about it? We’re supposed to hear and do something, not hear as mere “news.” Neil Postman, not a believer, has a lot of wisdom in his Amusing Ourselves to Death, about media as entertainment. Well worth reading.

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