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Our Daily Thread 9-24-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1789 the U.S. Congress passed the First Judiciary Act. The act provided for an Attorney General and a lower federal courts.

In 1869 thousands of businessmen were financially ruined after a panic on Wall Street. The panic was caused by an attempt to corner the gold market by Jay Gould and James Fisk.

In 1934 Babe Ruth played his last game as a New York Yankee player.

In 1957 President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, AR, to enforce school integration.

In 1960 the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched. The USS Enterprise set out from Newport News, VA.

And in 1968 “60 Minutes” premiered on CBS-TV.

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Quote of the Day

“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Today is Gerry Marsden’s birthday.

It’s also Juan Devevo’s.

And this song was released today in 1977.

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Anyone have a QoD for us?

61 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-24-13”

  1. Evening all. Parent conferences are done and I am officially on school break. Time to get ready for next term and need to work on a newsletter. Have a good day.

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  4. Good evening, Jo. Good morning, Chas. I’m up helping Becca get ready for school. She was home yesterday with a very mild case of the vomit virus, but is all better today.

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  5. In 1957, while this stuff about school desegregation was going on:
    I had just graduated from Carolina.
    We had just gotten married.
    Elvera and I quit our jobs.
    We moved our little house trailer to Ft. Worth.
    I started to seminary.
    Each of us got a job.
    We had one car.
    We had a small B&W tv set that didn’t have a good picture.
    Most of the things going on in the world passed us by.

    I suspect that’s what’s happening to young people today. All this talk about bombing in someplace in Africa., Something about health insurance. Gonna take somebody’s guns?
    It’s just one more thing that doesn’t affect my life right now.

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  8. I know what you mean Chas. A lot of the Civil Rights events happened here in Birmingham when I was a child. I honestly didn’t know any of it was going on until they integrated my school when I was in the 6th grade.

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  9. Not only that KBells, but we were having trouble with the Russians. We had directives from USDA (for whom I worked part time) about what to do in case of attackl I wondered how Russia could get to Fort Worth. But I did watch B-36’s land at Carswell. We were just east of the flight path.

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  10. I saw 6 Arrows question about homework. I suppose my best answer is that it depends on each individual child. I don’t believe in busy work, but some children take longer getting their work done because they daydream and maybe take detours to focus on what’s interesting in what they are learning. My good friend said she had to work much longer than others when she was young to absorb what she needed to know to make good grades. I, personally, prefer for children to have plenty of time for sports, time in nature, time with friends and family, and of course, time with God. It is a matter of being good at balancing the activities of life.

    The Shack is a book I would not recommend to anyone for reading. For the new or non Christian it can lead astray, and for mature Christians, there are so many other good books that can be read for edification. Why spend time reading something that distorts God’s message? But then again, our church had a few week’s program on it to be able to engage people with God’s message as the book might make people more open to learning the truth about God.

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  11. I have been up posting on Craigslist to generate some business. I also have reposted information on Facebook about condo prices on the Gulf Coast going up. I made the coffee, let the dogs out, fed the dogs, got semi-dressed (hair and make up) and am now checking in with all of you.

    I posted a prayer request last night with the permission of a friend. Her sister is in ICU from complications of drug abuse since the age of 15 (she is now 48). My friend is worried that her sister does not know Jesus as her Savior. She is spending the day in the ICU with her praying that somehow her sister will call out for Salvation. Please say a quick prayer for them today as you have time.

    I have to get breakfast and finsih getting dress. It is muggy/rainy today. That means the roads will be slick so I need to get on them soon to be at work on time.

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  12. I also did not like the Shack. With the encouragement of Pauline, I finished it. I did some research into the author and understood more of why he wrote the book the way he did, but I still didn’t like it.
    There have been several “Christiany” books I haven’t liked. Like the Prayer of Jabez and that whole name it and claim it mentality. Yeah, I gonna just claim the winning lottery ticket with the promise that if I win multi millions I will give 90% to God and live on the 10%. Better get moving so I can run across the state line to Florida today too.

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  14. I did like The Prayer of Jabez. I think it was misunderstood to be only about prosperity. It spoke of enlarging one’s territory so that can be about enlarging the outreach for spreading God’s message. I think it was totally unexpected how that little book got such a huge reception in the marketplace. I guess it just hit at the right moment to align with what was going on with the prosperity gospel.

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  15. Beth Moore is not like Joyce M. except that they both have an evangelical message. Beth M. Is with the First Baptist Church in Houston. I did her study on the fruit of the spirit a number of years ago and it was solid.
    There was only one point that gave me minor concern and I don’t remember the specific but it seemed a verse was applied to the readers of the study that I understood to be meant for the people in the Bible passage. I have not heard of anyone else noticing that so maybe that was just an isolated occurrence.

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  16. I agree with Janice about The Prayer of Jabez. I don’t think it was about personal prosperity. It was about trusting God to give you success in whatever ministry He has called you to..

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  18. My husband and I were in on a Bible study group with Bruce Wilkinson right when Jabez was hitting the best seller list. He gave out the books to those in attendance. We got invited because I had sent a letter to Walk Thru the Bible about how much the Daily Walk Bible had meant to me. So we were on the list and actually got to be in the filming of the Jabez video series. Walk Thru did not have their own studio at that time so it was filmed at Turner studios.

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  19. Good Morning…..my own curiosity Qod….are the leave changing where you are? They aren’t here as I have noticed as I drive into town, but, the aspens are a glorious gold in the mountains….

    I did not like Prayer of Jabez nor do I like the Jesus is Calling devotional…I read My Time With God devotional in the mornings….books and writings can be so personal…what ministers to one may not to another….the Bible is always a go to source 🙂
    I know many of my friends like Beth Moore Bible studies…she’s kind of hard for me to listen to….

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  20. While I agree that the Prayer of Jabez was not about prosperity, I found it promoted a formulaic approach to prayer, similar to a Catholic repeating the rosary or other prayers. “If in trouble, say this prayer and God will work for you!” Sorry, prayer is from the heart, not the memory.

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  22. Yes, Peter, I do agree mostly, but there is room for some repetitive prayers as long as that is not the only prayer and it must be said from the heart as it would be from a true Christian. When I was a child I learned to repeat the Lord’s prayer but I did not say it from the heart as I do now. Is it said only as a chant or is it a sincere pleading over and over to make God realize this thing is really important to the person asking. We are given the story of the lady with the judge for a reason…

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  24. I never read either The Shack or the Prayer of Jabez, but remember hearing criticisms of both which is probably why I never picked them up.

    Beth Moore. The problem with her, as I understand it (and I have read one of her books and for the most part enjoyed it), is that she grabs a verse here, a verse there to illustrated her own very specific points she’s making. Thus the verses are yanked completely out of context and may not mean what she’s using them to mean.

    I’ve never heard her, sounds like she has quite the accent? But once when I was down I picked up “Get Out of That Pit” and found myself helped by parts of it (and it did make me laugh).

    If your own doctrine and theology is sound, you can read some of these things and take what you can from it, recognizing the parts that simply are “off” and moving over them.

    Still, I’d rather have a theologically sound author any day. I’ve found writers like Elyse Fitzpatrick and Lydia Brownback to be excellent when it comes to Christian books (nonfiction) aimed at helping women.

    http://www.elysefitzpatrick.com

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  25. I’ll bet most of you think spreading a yard of mulch is an easy job.
    After all, you can cover a yard in two easy steps.
    A cubic yard is exactly what my ranger holds.
    It takes me a long time, and lots of energy.
    I’m resting and waiting for lunch now.
    No. I already knew it, that’s why I’ve been putting it off.

    The leaves are turning and falling in Hendersonville.

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  26. As for repetitive prayer, it can be useful for focus — and another way to use that is to say each line and then add your own prayers, elaborating on the original thoughts. It can help prompt us in biblical prayer.

    Right now I’m going through prayers from a book by Henry Thornton (“Devotional Prayers”) that is just rich in its morning and evening prayers every day. I find they remind me of what I *should* be praying for and about in terms of my own spiritual condition and growth. In that sense they’ve been so helpful.

    I’ve had the book for years, just “unearthed” it again from a neglected stack her recently. 😉

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  29. We have a gathering of leaves in our carport, the first place they seem to congregate at the beginning of fall. Maybe it is leaf purgatory 🙂 . They must come from all over since I do not generally notice leaves turning here yet.. I think our carport must be angled just right for when the wind blows it is the perfect dead leaf catcher. Just like cats like our coolest spot in the neighborhood front porch to sprawl out on in the heat of summer. Some things remain as mysteries, God alone knows about the leaves in our carport and cats on our porch 🙂

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  30. JaniceG 🙂

    This week I’m contemplating the phrase “Taking every thought captive.” It has been popping into my cluttered and often anxious mind frequently through the last few days. Hmmmm.

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  31. Donna, Tony Evans says that the thought is what invites the deamon to come in. He says that the thought, pornographic, alcohol, envy, hatred, etc. is what invites him to come in. He says that a demoin can’t come in uninvited.
    This in a study of Eph. 6:12f.

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  32. Years ago, Chuck had a puppy. We also had a large oak tree in the yard. When the leaves fell, we raked them into a large pile. We then took the puppy and threw him into the leaves. He looked frightend, but always came back for more. He would sink deep in the pile so his head was covered and he had to struggle to get out.
    But he had fun.

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  35. AJ, if we cut down every tree in our yard, we would still get the leaves in our carport. You are fortunate to be able to say they aren’t your problem. You might not want to broadcast that loudly and Bush’s fault although with a name like Bush, the Dem’s willfully with climate change and all. Never know when the winds of change will redirect and dump leaves on your yard. 🙂 . Blame it on Obama and Gore. 🙂

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  36. Ok, the post got scrambled again. Another mystery. Smart Phone is up to its tricks again.

    As I was saying, the winds of change may dump leaves in AJs yard. Blame it on Obama and Gore. But with a name like Bush, the Dems will surely say the leaves came from him.

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  39. I had to scrape ice once since 2001. I forgot where we were.

    I know, some of you are saying, “whatcha doin’ in here?”
    I ran out of mulch that’s why.
    I’m afraid I have to do another yard.
    However, the hard part is done. Henceforth, I have to push the whillbarrow farther, but all I have to do is dump and spread. I’ve been spreading around bushes. Hard and time consuming.

    Some of my neighbors don’t fool with that. They call some guys in who blow in the mulch.
    I’m too chincy for that.

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  42. Linda,

    Thankfully we’re not that cold yet. Although last night was pretty cold. You can keep that ice stuff down in your part of the state. 🙂

    I have a rule.

    No heat ’til Thanksgiving.

    And yet amidst all this global warming, I have to break that rule 2 out of the last 3 years. That can mean only one thing. The coming Ice Age. I understand Gore already has a title for his new book on the subject.

    It’s called
    “An Inconvenient Truth…. Is That We Were Wrong the First Time Around But We’re Sure We Got It Right This Time, Honest, For Real”

    🙄

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  43. The Real, I believe that is a standard guy-rule. And I hate it.
    I remember a co-worker years ago who came into work mid-September with a wool skirt on. I commented, “I see you got your winter clothes out already” to which she replied, “I never put them away.”

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  44. With me, the heat can come on any time after Fall arrives.
    Elvera has been turning on the fireplace in her area for about a week now.

    She can’t wear white shoes anymore. But last Sunday she wore some “bone colored” shoes that looked white to me.
    Just shows what I know.

    Sarah Palin has a fire in her fireplace.
    Some of you ladies explain to me:
    Sarah wears bangs so that some hair comes over her eyes. It bothes me if a single hair gets over my glasses or my eye so that I can see it.
    But she looks good with them.
    Elvera used to wear bangs, but they just came to the middle of her forehead.
    I never could understand how some women can wear hair over their eyes.
    Some movie star used to do that.

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  47. Mumsee is now home and the wedding was wonderful but I have to tell you…seven year olds…
    He went in to use the restroom. Suddenly there was a heart stopping shriek and he went racing out of the restroom into the foyer with his pants down around his knees. Seems he leaned forward on one of those automatic flushing jobs. Scared the daylights out of him. He said he was never going back into that creepy bathroom again. Sure got a start out of the security guard. One of the girls just told him the automatic flusher must have gone off and he (the guard) got a relieved grin. He eventually asked husband to take him back to the creepy bathroom so he could finish his business. Aw, the life of mumsee, never boring.

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  48. 😆
    Mumsee, I can understand his problem. My experience was different. When I first saw an automatic flush, I thought it was broke. But I was grown by then.

    What I don’t understand is the faucets at the Y. You push it down to get water to wash your hands. It’s automatic, so you can’t turn it off. It runs almost a minute. Probably to save water.
    They would save more water water the other way because if I, and probably everyone else, saw a faucet running, I would turn it off.

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  49. Mumsee 🙂

    I don’t remember Veronica Lake, but I’ve heard the name 🙂 I wear bangs, but cannot stand them much past my eyebrows, much less in my eyes. Drives me insane!

    Thanks for your input on Beth Moore.

    I was at a conference once where Bruce Wilkinson was a speaker the first night. It was a bizarre sermon – to the point where I actually got up and left, I was so uncomfortable. Hubby stayed to the end and said it just got more and more bizarre. The conference leaders apologized the next night for what had happened the night before. I haven’t read anything by him since that time, and I won’t ever again.

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  50. Oh, and it IS hard to watch the DVD of Beth Moore speaking. I find most women preacher/speakers difficult to listen to. When women get excited or want to emphasize something I just hear yelling. I shut down and don’t hear what they are saying anymore. It’s also an older DVD and her fashion is quite out of date, which I also find distracting. So superficial am I. 🙂

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  51. The leaves are definitely changing up here. The chokecherry bushes have turned red and the aspen and poplars are starting to turn their beautiful golden colour. The larch needles haven’t started to yellow yet, though.

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  52. Chas, burning the hills and fields is just the way they do it here. I have no input. I think that they like fires.
    Nancyjill, that is a great and friendly picture of you with the grandkids!

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  54. They burn the fields here. They say it makes the Bluegrass work so they can grow the crop for people who have real grass yards. I don’t think I would care for one. I like my variety, Anyway, they also burn to improve the soil for next year’s crop and for weed control and to prevent wild fires. A real danger when the grass is so dry. Once the fields are burned, it is much less likely for a wild fire to race across the prairie. I admire the farmers, they are good at it though it is rather alarming to see the first few times. And sometimes other times when it gets a bit out of control.

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  55. This has been quite a month so far: a vacation in the Smokies that included a chance to see family and friends, last weekend a long weekend out of town (church business for my husband, but we decided to make it a weekend getaway, and it was a sweet one), and this week the local fair. We spent the day there today, enjoying the sights and tastes and so forth. And the craft piece that I entered won a blue ribbon! (I’m not sure exactly what that means, since there were several blue ribbons in the case it was in.) Later this month cider making (our neighbors have an apple orchard).

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  57. This might be a little late, AJ, as you’ve probably got your playlist established for tomorrow’s daily thread, but, if possible, could I make a couple requests? Tomorrow is the birthday of composer Jean-Philippe Rameau and pianist Glenn Gould, both of whom I enjoy. It’s also Dmitri Shostakovich’s birthday, who would be interesting. 😉

    If you’re already set with your music, that’s okay. Maybe I’ll just add a little bit to the thread. 🙂

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  58. After a 10-hour day I’m finally home (had to do a late story on a group of nuns local to us filing a lawsuit against the HHS contraception mandate). Complicated story.

    My typing teacher in high school used to tease the girl who sat next to me about Veronica Lake (we had no idea who she was). But the girl in class had long blond hair and she parted on the side so half of it fell over half her face.

    Congratulations on the blue ribbon, Cheryl. I guess it is county fair time.

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  59. feeling frustrated. Trying to set up a blog, well actually to move my blog, but the interne here is so slow. It has been saying ‘publishing’ for at least 20 minutes now. The picture is already uploaded and it is only one picture.
    Seeing lots of smoke out my window. Wish it was rain.

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  60. They burn fields here too, but we’re not in burning season. The rain is coming to an end so the days are steamy without the relief of the rain. The millet harvest is ready now and the peanuts will be ripe soon. No changing leaves here. Soon we will go from lushgreen to brown.

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  61. hoping to stay green here.
    proud to say that I fixed my deadbolt door lock all by myself. It wouldn’t even move, but I took it off and oiled it and then left it alone. Finally tried again and it is moving easily. Even got it remounted. Fixing the little things, but I also feel much more secure with the deadbolts working.

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