Good Morning!
On this day in 1911 Major Jimmie Erickson took the first photograph from an airplane while flying over San Diego, CA.
In 1920 the League of Nations ratified the Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I with Germany.
In 1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt sailed from Miami, FL, to Trinidad thus becoming the first American President to visit a foreign country during wartime.
In 1949 vinyl records were introduced by RCA (45 rpm) and Columbia (33.3 rpm).
And in 1951 Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet on a trip from Chicago to New York City.
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Quote of the Day
“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”
George Washington Carver
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Today is Jim Croce’s birthday.
It’s also Ronnie Hawkins’.
It’s also Michael Schenker’s, of the Scorpions and UFO. But this one is him paired on guitar with Warren DeMartini and Ratt for an acoustic show. Covering Fleetwood Mac and CCR. Gotta love YouTube, you can find anything there. 🙂
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Yesterday I mentioned some photos I took of the Lehigh river. Here are a few.
The 1st is the section where the ice jammed up, causing it to stack 6 feet high in some areas. This jam up caused the water to back up and rise about 18 feet. The 2nd photo is the flooded, frozen road. The 3rd is the entire river covered by ice further downstream. There was a car frozen up to it’s door windows further upstream because the lady driving it ignored the road closed signs and had to be rescued, but you couldn’t get to it.
Just click the pics for a larger view.
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Wandering Views 
Hey, am I going to be first at almost 8:00?
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I know. Where is everyone?
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Good morning!
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I was here earlier, but had to leave. The man on the radio this morning asked “Is there any ritual that you go through each morning? Something you have to do?”
Most answers had something to do with coffee and/or a pet.
I figured I didn’t have anything. But I go to the Y every MWF, first thing. But it isn’t a ritual.
Then, at the Y, I thought. YES. Every morningn I come in, check the temperature and turn on my computer, then I have breakfast, then I come back and check my mail and come to this blog. Happens every. Except Sat & Sun, I may check before breakfast because I have a different schedule.
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We’re still waiting to hear from/about Mary. Little Graham was due yesterday.
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Chas- I’m surprised at you forgetting your usual “ It’s Friday, and you know what that means.”
Yeah, I’m early today. I didn’t want to get on here a 5PM and see all the complaints about not having the Friday funnies. Does anyone remember which WORLD moderator started this?
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lynn Vincent? She was our moderator for a long time. Then she wrote a book with Sarah Palin, got rich and forgot about us.
I wonder is she still has the septer that MIM made for her?
I wasn’t thinking about Friday today. I was mostly thinking about getting back on schedule.
Though, I did think about Lions.
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In case you’re wondering, Peter hid the link to the funnies under the word “means”.
😯
A habit, or routine, is not the same as a ritual. Most of the responses to the radio man were habits or routines.
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Fascinating link about atheism : http://mikeduran.com/2014/01/atheist-privilege-checklist/
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Lynn does still have the scepter, remembers the blog fondly, has collaborated on several best sellers, has been miserably ill for years, has been through very difficult trials and is as friendly and chipper as ever. I saw her at a retreat last Palm Sunday weekend and we had a good time together. I’ve not had any contact with her since.
But, this week she’s been on my mind. Let’s pray for her.
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Good Morning EVeryone. There is a difference between a ritual and a habit.
Lynn Vincent was recently on my mind as well. They have made a movie about Heaven Is For Real. It will be in theaters in May. I hope they treat the subject respectfully and don’t Holly-weird it up.
My vegetable beef soup turned out to be pretty good. Not the best I have ever made–something is off with my tastes and skills–but my husband loved it, so as long as he is happy I am too.
Our temps are headed back into a range I can tolerate. I am doing open houses all weekend. Today and tomorrow 10-5 and Sunday 1-5. I really don’t like working on Sundays but until I have enough business going on…
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Peter hid the link to the funnies under the word “means”
I wasn’t being mean. The entire quote is the link. It’s just that this blog theme makes links green without the underline, making them harder to find.
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I got to thinking, “What IS the difference between a habit and a ritual” so I looked up the definition of the latter: “a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.” So I suspect that unless you are a nun or a priest, you have no morning rituals and the guy on the radio really meant “habit.”
Ours is that as soon as we get up (we both get up at the same time), we make the bed. If we don’t make it right away, it will soon be filled with cats (sorry, Mumsee) and we won’t be able to make it without disturbing them (sorry again, Mumsee).
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“Hollyweird” I lie that. I may steal it.
As Howard Ruff used speak a lot. He once said about using someone else’s qote, “Once I’ve sotlen it, it’s mine.” 😉
It may just be my computer, but I can’t detect a difference in Peter’s post between the first part and the quotes in his post. I just noticed when the cursor’s arrow turned to a finger. That lets me know that I have something.
I’m sorry Lynn is doing poorly. She was one of my favorite moderators because she contributed. e.g. She was one of us.
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Linda,
We have one of those too, even though we don’t allow cats upstairs. We ban them to help keep Cheryl’s asthma under control. She needs a cat free place to sleep. 🙂
We solved the problem by putting a half-door at the top of the stairs.
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In modern parlance, “ritual” is something a person feels compelled to do.
Some have to have a cup of coffee.
Some take a shower, though he isn’t going anywhere.
Some guys wear a particular shirt to go golfing or to a football game.
We used to go out for dinner every Friday evening. It was part of Friday.
That’s a ritual.
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Linda has rendered mumsee speechless.
First thing I do is let the animals out. But then I go back to bed. 🙂
I’m glad it’s Friday.
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I get up, turn on the computer, and go outside to warm my wife’s car. After she leaves it’s coffee time, and then I post the days threads. Then I read the paper on-line and get my daughter up for school. Saturday I don’t warm the car or wake my daughter and usually go back to bed for a while. Sunday I get up, make coffee, get dressed, and go to church. I’m pretty predictable I guess. 🙂
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This week I got two new books I created. Wednesday I got a book with my notes and photos of foster care–back in 2007 I collected them, thinking I could make a book someday, but with no idea of how I’d do that. I had those little girls for six weeks, two different placements, plus a pair of little boys for respite care for three or four days. It was a precious but very hard few weeks, and I’m glad I now have a print “journal” of sorts.
The other one, the book I got today, is photos of trees. They have more or less been my “specialty” through the years, though as an animal lover I never turn down a chance to get photos of animals. Years ago I put together a photo album of tree photos, which I’ve rearranged and added to through the years, but I wanted a real book of the photos. Anyway, this one is 240 pages, my longest book of photos (most book companies won’t even make a book that long), but it has got photos in it dating back to when I was 12. The vast majority were taken with my digital camera, but several dozen photos in it were taken with earlier ones. But it’s so much nicer to have an actual book (complete with dust jacket) than an unwieldy photo album stamped with my maiden name. And I got it at a good enough discount that basically the foster care book and the shipping were free.
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Linda went deeper than I was going to go. I was just going to go with a series of actions that had to be done in a certain order….
I love red wine, more specifically Pinot Noir. I love the ritual of drinking wine. I love opening the bottle with a pretty wine opener. I like pouring the wine into a beatiful wine glass. I like using either a pewter or glass stopper to “close” the wine bottle. I like inhaling the aroma of the wine. I like sitting down with the glass of wine and sipping on it for up to an hour, tasting the different flavors in the wine. I like sharing a glass of wine with a friend and chatting. I like the relaxation of it at the end of the day.
Unfortunately a 5 oz glass of Pinor Noir has 120 calories and my clothes are getting tighter these last couple of months. I told everyone over the Christmas Holidays that come January 2, 2014 I was giving up wine. What to do? I told you I love the ritual of pouring a glass of wine.
It transitions my day from work to home. It is a way to unwind and relax.
I have a collection of teapots. One belonged to my great grandmother, one to the lady who lived down the street when I was growing up (it belonged to her mother so is probably close to 80 or so years old), another two cup teapot belonged to ex husband’s grandmother, and some I bought. I have tea balls, and loose tea strainers. I have pretty cups from all the various china I have and one that comes from Mr P’s mother.
Now instead of dropping a tea bag in a mug, adding water, and putting it in the microwave for two minutes I choose a teapot and a pretty cup, I boil the water in a kettle, I put the tea in the warmed pot, I steep it, and I sit down with a cup of tea and relax. I have exchanged one ritual for another.
I am also happy to report that the pants I am wearing today are looser than they were the last time I wore them.
The HABIT I am looking to acquire is going back to the gym. I am not going to start that until later in the month so that the “regular” gym members won’t compalin about me being one of THOSE people, you know the ones who make a New Years resolution to get in shape and hog all the equipment the first two weeks of January and then don’t show up again until next January.
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I have had the most amazing week of fellowship this week and last week on New Year’s Day. I have been so encouraged by others. I have been to two Bible studies and met new folks. One fellow came up and shook my hand and told me that he had been praying for me and I had never met him. Last night I was with dear friends and met a new couple who are going through hard times. Their circumstances are so similiar to what I went through when I couldn’t find a job, it felt special to encourage them. Times like this haven’t happened before. God is doing a new thing in my life and I am blessed.
Oh, and my kids have decided that tonight is my birthday, so another special occasion. Actually my birthday is next month.:)
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Happy Birthday Jo! 🙂
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I am trying to keep up with my Bible reading I committed to doing. I am no closer to understanding why Abraham keeps telling everything that Sarah is his sister than I ever was and I am just as repulsed by Lot’s daughters as I ever was. 😦 I guess some things never change. 🙂
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This has always been one of my favorite Jim Croce songs. I also like Leroy Brown and Superman’s Cape but will refrain from posting them here. As a child my mind casually changed the word in one song from D^%$ town to Downtown.
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Have a nice celebration tonight, Jo!
Good day to all of you! It’s 30 degrees here today. Heatwave! I walked down to the mailbox to mail bills without putting a coat on. 😯 (I was wearing a sweatshirt and fairly long skirt, and those were warm enough for a short trek in the outdoors.)
Those of you who offered dietary suggestions for me on the prayer thread the other day, you’ll be glad to know I bought myself a couple gluten-free bread mixes yesterday when I went grocery shopping. Then today when I was cleaning out a kitchen cabinet, I found another GF bread mix I’d forgotten about. On the bag it said, “Best when used by January 10, 2014.” So there you go! That’s the one I’m making today. 😉 (And I’m well-stocked with peanut butter, too.)
Interesting discussion on habits/routines/rituals today. I have a written schedule, but I fall off the wagon frequently. I haven’t even done my Bible reading yet today, so I should get off of here and do that.
One link before I go: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/12/31/marriage-died-in-2013/
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I think that my habit/ritual is to go straight from bed to my Bible. The computer is such a temptation to connect with everyone, but He is first. And it took me a while to develop this discipline
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Kim, at Southwestern Seminary they told us not to preach our doubts. It isn’t a doubt, but like you, that story always bothered me. Not so much that he did it because there is likely something about the culture in those days that I don’t understand. He might have feared for his life, in which case, he had no business going there. Also, he was going to trade of his wife for this fear. Isaac did the same thing. A lack of faith for both of them.
However, if Genesis is chronologically correct, I wonder about the status of Sarah at that time.
Genesis 18:11 “Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age”
Now, in chapter 20 is the Abimelech incident.
I’ve often said that Elvera is the prettiest one in Adult IV, but I have never feared that a guy from the young adult department might run off with her. I’m puzzled that Sarah would be attractive to Abimelech.
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Kim,
I soooo wanted to put up Bad Bad Leroy Brown. But I refrained for obvious reasons. Superman’s Cape too.
Jo,
I prefer reading it right before bed. It gives me something other than worldly problems to ponder while laying there before sleep. It seems to help.
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This is kind of fun — what’s the best movie filmed in your state?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/01/10/whats-the-best-movie-set-in-your-state-this-map-will-tell-you/
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I posted on the Prayer threat about my worry over Mr P and his sweet tooth. I even asked my friend Leesee NOT to make me a birthday cake this year!!!
So in honor of Jo we will have my virtual birthday cake. Go google a Lane Cake and read the ingredients in the filling, then read recipe for a Coconut Cream Cake and imagine the layers stuffed with the Lane cake filling.
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Oh Yea! I got To Kill A Mockingbird.
For those of you who saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind…I drive by that house quite often. I have never seen the movie…might have to Netflix it.
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I see Fargo is listed for my state. Very disappointing. We had a few movies filmed here or close by here. I would not have considered that one at all.
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Kim, diabetes is nothing to guess about – why doesn’t he consult his doc? There is a blood test (A1C) that can tell you what your average blood-sugar was for about the last six months and there are pretty standard thresholds for what is normal.
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Here is a list of films set in the U.S., categorized by the state in which they were set, which may or may not necessarily be where they were filmed. There’s probably a list for that, too, somewhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_the_United_States_by_state
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Linda, he was at the doctor not too long ago and told me all of his blood tests, etc were normal. I learned a long time ago not to trust the men in my life with their health. They ALL say they are fine when they aren’t.
I think Monday may have scared him a little as well.
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The movie link is for movies that are supposed to be set in that state, but not necessarily shot in that state. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was actually shot in Spain.
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Re: Sarah & Abraham – I have read a suggestion that the Abimelech wasn’t driven so much by Sarah’s looks as by the desire for an alliance with her wealthy brother. That being said, they must not have aged as quickly back then, as she was 60 when they went to Egypt and still considered extremely beautiful. She was probably around 80 by the time Abimelech saw her and, considering that tribal rulers are generally elders, Abimelech himself probably was around the same age as Abraham and thus might well have found Sarah an attractive proposition.
On Lot’s daughters – it is a nasty story, as are several others in Genesis and other books of the OT. However, I believe God put them in to show that He could redeem the worst situations. In one of the little churches I had the opportunity to attend while I was away, the missionary pastor was preaching, for Advent, on the five women in the Matthew genealogy of Jesus. They are Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba and Mary – now stop and think about the first four:
Tamar tricked her father-in-law to sleep with her in order to bear an heir.
Rahab was a Canaanite prostitute, a tribe so perverted by sin that they were to be exterminated to the last person.
Ruth was a Moabitess – thus, a descendant of Lot’s eldest daughter – of whose tribe the Law forbade them ever to be let into the congregation of Israel (Deuteronomy 23:3).
Bathsheba committed adultery with David, which lead to her husband being murdered by David.
All of these women who are named in the genealogy violated the Law of God, yet they are specifically named when no other woman is named – so there must have been a reason. I think of how it says that Christ was made a curse for us to redeem us from the curse. God deliberately used those situations to show us that He can cleanse the filthiest fornicator, the most twisted perpetrator and restore those ruined lives for His glory. There is a fascinating passage in Jeremiah, where God pronounces destruction on the tribes who were enemies of Israel, among them the two that descended from Lot’s daughters, Moab and Ammon. At the end of each pronouncement, He says, “Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days.” [in the next passage it is: “…of the children of Ammon”] (Jeremiah 48:47, 49:6). There is no one outside the reach of God’s redeeming grace.
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Thank you Roscuro. I like your explanation and it makes sense to me.
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Ruth and Boaz had Obed
Obed had Jesse
Jesse had David.
Ruth was the great grandmother of David. She may have cuddled him.
The mother of Boaz was Rahab. So Rahab was the great-great grandmother of David.
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The ticket booths on our harbor bridge also are in Close Encounters.
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