There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sam_walton.html#e6IWJxxCjkQucSlf.99
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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Good Morning!
The weekend has arrived! And not just any weekend, it’s opening day of trout season here in PA. 🙂
Today’s header photo is from me.
On this day in 1638 the first permanent European settlement in Delaware was established.
In 1867 the British Parliament passed the North America Act to create the Dominion of Canada.
In 1943, rationing of meat, butter and cheese began during World War II.
In 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed in June 19, 1953.
And in 1973 the last U.S. troops left South Vietnam.
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Quotes of the Day
“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.”
John Buchan
“There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
Steven Wright
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/fishing.html#H8oAPOVAeq1mVApH.99
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Today is Brian Free’s birthday, so Gold City.
Next up, it’s 20 fingers, 4 hands, 4 feet, 2 people to turn the pages, and 2 pianos for Richard Rodney Bennett’s birthday.
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Anyone have a QoD?
Wandering Views 
Good morning everyone.
It’s Saturday, so everyone is sleeping in. I couldn’t get back to sleep; so here I am.
😦
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Glad to see you are up and at em, Chas. Right on time.
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It’s about time for everyone else to get stirring about now.
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Regarding Vietnam:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jeremiah-a-denton-jr-vietnam-pow-and-us-senator-dies/2014/03/28/1a15343e-b500-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html
Nice header photo. Recently I was watching Bizarre Foods America and Andrew Zimmerman was in Pittsburgh. I watched closely because I have a friend from school who lives there. We communicate constantly on FB
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I think the photo has something to do with fishing. Am I correct, AJ?
Fishing is fun if you at least get some nibbles. You can hope all day and over and over on nibbles, but no nibbles after a few hours and it gets a bit dull. AJ probably doen’t even know what I am talking about because he probably always gets the big fish that got away from someone else.:-)
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When I was a student at the Naval War College, the President, and one of my instructors was Vice Admiral Jim Stockdale. Stockdale was a co-prisoner with Denton. Stockdale received a Congressional Medal of Honor for his resistance to the N. Vietnamese. Denton was honored too, but not with the CMH.
My year at the NWC changed my attitude about the war. There were lots of guys there who had been in the war. (This was in 1979) I asked them, “How do you know when you’ve won?”
Nobody knew what victory consisted of.
This is true also in Iraq and Afghanistan. We should have wiped out the Taliban, killed Ben Laden and left. We have been at war with radical Islam since the Beirut barracks bombing and no one realizes it. We can’t establish democracy, nor win the hearts and minds of Islam. Only the Lord can do that.
Stockdale will always be remembered for, “Who am I and what am I doing here?”
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I hope you are feeling better today, Kim.
I hope tenants are completing their move, Karen O.
I hope all goes well for 6 Arrows performance.
Lots of hopes that are prayers, too!
It is Hobby Lobby day, so I did an online order. It’s so much better than getting in the crowds with all the illnesses going around in Atlanta these days. Shipping is expensive, but not so bad when considering time and gas saved.
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Chas, I have not studied war and history is not my strong point, but I gather the overall point you are making is that the objectives of the “wars” you mentioned were never fine-tuned and anchored to a specific target that was obtainable.
Perhaps that was why when we were young my brother always beat me in a game of Stratego.
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Janice, most wars are “An old man’s war and a young man’s fight”. If you have no clearly defined enemy and no clearly defined goal, you cannot win a war. One thing I respected about George H. W. Bush when he declared the Gulf War was that “this will not be a Vietnam”. Unfortunately his son “W” put us in a Vietnam type situation. It is with much soul searching that I have changed my mind on this war we are currently in. Perhaps the fact my husband was stationed in Cuba, perhaps having a step son who served in Afghanistan who suffers PTSD, perhaps a second step son who was about to be sent back over there, perhaps many things have changed my mind. I am as patriotic or more so than the next person out there, but this mess we are in has no clearly defined enemy, no clear goal, and is not winnable. What are we? Thirteen years into this mess?
I agree with most that WWI was a misunderstanding that should have never escalated to war. WWII had a clearly defined enemy and a goal. The United States could no longer win a war of that caliber again. People wouldn’t make the sacrifice.
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Good morning! Thank you for the prayers and well-wishes for my performance tonight, Janice. I appreciate that so much.
I woke up this morning feeling pretty crummy. I’ve not slept well the last three nights (for reasons having nothing to do with the performance), and now it seems to be catching up to me. I awoke feeling really jittery about the show tonight, even though the music has been going well and I feel totally prepared. Talking about that with my husband this morning helped me feel a lot better, though. He assured me I know the music and once I start, I’ll be fine. His confidence in me and his encouragement helped a lot, and I’m feeling much better at this point. Praise God for an understanding husband!
AJ, you couldn’t have picked a better day to post that piano duet video. It brought back wonderful memories of my college days. We had student recitals on Wednesdays, and there was one recital where my piano instructor and I played Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto (I on the piano solo, and he on a second piano playing the orchestral reduction), and we were the only ones on the program. There were two large Steinway grands on the performing arts building main stage, arranged like the two pianos in the above video. It was so much fun playing that piece! I’d look across my piano to my instructor, facing me on his piano, and enjoy his very animated and showy style at the piano. It definitely brought out the joy in music-making for me, being on stage with someone who thoroughly delighted in the art of music performance.
That’s what I want for tonight — to simply be able to play with abandon, sharing how much I love playing classical music with an audience who enjoys listening to it, and not have nerves get in the way. It seems so silly to even feel nervousness under those circumstances, doing what I love for appreciative recipients. What’s to be scared about? 😉
God’s blessings to all of you on your day today!
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Good luck, 6arrows! I’m sure you’ll be bathed in prayer–and I know you’re well-prepared–so I have confidence in you, too! May it bring you great joy!
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Hubby and Becca just went to get flowers and tomato plants. Today is planting day…
The girls have hair appointments at 1:00. We should get home around 2:20 and then I’m taking L. shopping for a dress for the eighth grade formal. Becca-boo will stay home with Dad, so L. and I can have some special one on one time. I don’t really like to shop, but I am looking forward to spending some alone time with my eldest. I enjoy her company– she’s turned the corner from child to young woman– and i treasure our time together. She starts high school in the Fall and will only be even busier than she is now! We recently joined a mother/daughter charity organization that requires X hours of community service each semester. You do the volunteer work alongside your daughter. I think it’s kind of a Junior League wanna-be organization. So far, it reminds me of being in a sorority with all the silly rules and regulations, but L. was very eager to do it–so we joined. I am looking forward to the actual volunteer hours — I am a social worker by education! And, I think the work will provide some great opportunities for some really special memories for me & L.
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Not sure I will be having any extra flowers this year with husband gone. But this morning I had time to transplant some more of the seedling tomatos and peppers into larger pots. They cannot go out for another six weeks at the earliest. We have about one hundred fifty seedlings coming up. I like growing things.
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Annms, that sounds like a great volunteer program. Is it with a national group that I could suggest to my Sunday School co-teacher who has dsughters?
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6 Arrows, so thankful your husband knows the right things to say to help. A supportive spouse is priceless.
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Break a leg, 6 arrows!
Agreed about the wars. I remember Vietnam because those were my teen years. And the final rush out of there occurred when I was in college, remember all the helicopters trying to airlift people out? Jane Fonda had spoken at our university a couple years earlier, I remember covering the speech for the college newspaper. We also had a couple students attending the college who were from North Vietnam whom I interviewed, seems like they were caught up in a deportation mess of some kind which played out in hearings in downtown LA.
So Vietnam was a constant in most of my younger years. I also remember working in the high school office one summer and opening a letter informing the school that a graduate from a couple years earlier had been killed in the war and to make a note of that in his file. 😦
By the time we were about to turn 18 they were significantly cutting back the number of boys being sent over, thankfully, although I remember my cousin who was just out of high school had one of those lottery numbers that worried all of us at the time. He never got called.
I’ve seen the opinion since that Vietnam served a purpose in the holding the line more or less of communism during the cold war. Not sure that’s true, but it was an interesting argument. Still, so many lives lost in that war that also caused such strife among Americans at home. We went in thinking this would be a traditional kind of battle and it was anything but.
Which also brings back memories of a story I did some years ago on maritime museum exhibit going up — a man had salvaged much of the bunk-area interior of a ship used to transport new soldiers to Vietnam from America and it was fascinating to read the graffiti and notes and see the drawings the guys had scribbled on the walls as they headed off to fight a war in the jungles. 😦 How many of them never came home to those girlfriends whose names were scrawled on the ship wall inside drawn hearts?
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Jehovah Witness group just stopped by. I spoke with them through the closed door. I am sure they appreciated that since I was in the midst of draining the juice from a can of salmon so Bosley could enjoy the juice. I had also been chopping onions so they would have been knocked over by a strong smell had I opened the door!
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I’m thinking of planting some new flowers/plants this year. I’d like to make another stab at some low-maintenance gardening.
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A close friend in high school had a boyfriend whose helicopter got shot down, and he was killed. Very sad time.
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I have thought of something I can use for the planting of the clematis vines. I have an old metal baker’s rack that should work nicely for them to climb up if I can figure out the best place for it. Then I can put other potted plants on it to fill it in.
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Donna, had any good earthquakes lately?
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Janice: it’s called the National Charity League (NCL). I know very little about it as I’ve yet to attend the first meeting. Everything starts in April. But, many of my daughter’s friends are in it, so….she wanted to join.
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I take it AJ “has gone fishing.”
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Thank you, Annms.
AJ, is that a fish hatchery? At one point I works for the Ga. Dept. Of Natural Resources doing Federal Grants accounting (that was when the Feds gave the states grants for certain projects). One division of DNR was Fisheries. I always wanted to know more about what they did out in the field. I knew they did work with the hatcheries. I also got to do accounting grant work for endangered plants and animals like the loggerhead sea turtles. And I remember being in a meeting with the division that administered historic sites. That was the last position I held before I became a stay at home mom.
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Now that you mention it, mumsee … 😉
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Rollin’ Rollin Rollin’ …
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Lunch with a friend and a new dress.
Oh Donna! I have been to our favorite store!
http://www.jjill.com/jjillonline/product/itempage.aspx?BID=461772725&rPFID=10&item=HM010A&h=M&sk=M
I figure I will live in this dress all summer.
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JJill! 🙂
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🙂
I just got a call from Sawgunner. I asked him to join us here.
He said he would.
He is stationed in San Antonio.
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I just started reading a book about kittens and it was making me wish I could know more about Bosley’s origins. It was also making me thankful we did not have to go through the difficulty of picking a kitten from a litter. Of course I never would have done that. 🙂 Only God knows the depth of love and compassion in a heart.
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Glad to know Sawgunner will be on here. We have lost a few unless they are lurking around unseen. Does anyone have a way of being in touch with NJL? Seems I recall Kim made contact with her at one point.
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That dress is beautiful, Kim! I love that color.
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The first 20 minutes of trout season was like the first quote. The last 2 hours was pretty much the second. But add rain. 2 small ones, that’s it. But there’s always tomorrow.
The pic is what’s known locally as the forks of the Delaware. It’s where the Lehigh dumps into the Delaware. What you see there between the red buildings is the old entrance to the Lehigh Canal behind it. Near the left building is the exit for the fish ladder which is for shad to use in an effort to re-introduce them into the Lehigh.
Catfish, smallies, and carp in the deep holes of the Lehigh. Smallies, stripers, shad, and musky in the Delaware below. 🙂 Half a mile up the Delaware is where the Bushkill drains. That’s where the trout are. It’s a great area to live near if you like fishin’. 🙂
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Ann: Thank you for your vote of confidence. 😉
Janice: “A supportive spouse is priceless.” Amen! and yes he is.
Donna: If I break a leg, I’ll try to make it my left one so I can still use the damper pedal with my right foot. 🙂
Well, show time in about two hours. The organizer is opening the building one hour prior to that, so I’m going to head over then and play a little before the show, maybe work out a few jitters ahead of time. 😉 On the other hand, I’m feeling good about the whole thing right now, so maybe I won’t have to deal with much nervous tension when it’s time to play. Your prayers and those of other people I know are praying for me are helping. 🙂 Thank you.
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I wonder if 6arrows has played yet?!?
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Found daughter’s dress in less than two hours! And, we had fun together! It’s pretty and age appropriate, though a little short–but not overly so. It’s a beautiful coral color that looks great with her skin tone. And, she absolutely loves it, which is the most important thing.
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She is playing now.
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I was told today that coral and periwinkle are THE color’s of the season
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My former bike was periwinkle. 🙂 The one I have now is vanilla.
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I just went to a play, The Pirates of Penzance, that some of the middle school students in our Sunday School class were in They did a great job. So I was praying for them and 6 Arrows this evening.
Anyone know if Karen O’s tenants compleyed their move?
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Tenants have 2 more days. 🙂
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Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers — the whole show went very well! I was so pleased to be a part of that! A lot of people in the audience commented how they loved the entire program (and we even had audience participation singing “This Land is Your Land”). I got a lot of nice comments about my individual performance, too. People were so kind. I was a little nervous while performing, but not bad, and though my hands were shaky (and my daughter and a couple of performers who were sitting near the front of the audience could see that, they said), the shakiness wasn’t so bad that it caused me to lose control and hit wrong keys, fortunately. I felt much more at ease than at other performances in recent years, and I KNOW your prayers made a big difference!
Chas at 9:04 pm — I may very well have been playing right when you predicted I was, or maybe slightly after. During the four performances before mine, if my mind started to wander toward “What if I forget some parts” and other things I shouldn’t think about, I would remember that I had people in all sorts of places praying for me, and that had a calming effect. Thank you all so much.
Oh, by the way, 3rd Arrow and I discovered that on the recordings we made yesterday during practice, I started just a little too soon, and a small part of the opening had some notes that didn’t get recorded. So she taped me again tonight, and I took a little more time at the piano before launching into the music, and we got a pretty decent recording of my performance tonight. So when I get this uploaded to YouTube, you’ll get the real thing, and not just a practice run. 😉
All in all a great night. Thank you for all the well-wishes going in!
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Yay 6 Arrows. 🙂 And you didn’t even have to break a leg!
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🙂 good job, 6 arrows. So thankful for the gifts God has given to you.
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so happy to hear that it went well. Chas reminded us all to pray and God heard. Your hard work paid off. I will listen next year when I am home.
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🙂 6 Arrows.
What color is periwinkle?
I know it’s periwinkle, dummy. What I mean is it supposed to be light red or green.
Or a mixture of purple and black? I know it isn’t Garnet and Black. 😆
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Chas, periwinkle is a blue/gray of course I could be wrong, but that is what I call it.
So loving term break. I can make my own plans for Monday. need to get a newsletter done and work on my portfolio. I did about a 100 transfers for the offering today. Glad that is done. Oh, yeah, I have to do my PNG taxes. Must not forget.
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Chas, have you seen the ground cover vine, Vinca? It is also known as Periwinkle because of the little bluish flowers. There is also a little wildflower which I believe is a Bluet which is also that color. If you go back and find wjere Kim posted the link to hrr new dress, it is periwinkle in color.
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love vinca, had lots of it as a ground cover.
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Aj, go to Bing, they have a duck for their picture today.
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Good morning everyone. Thankfully I got lots of sleep last night. I woke up on my own with no alarm….well Amos the Alarm Dog did walk up the bed and nudge me a little.
Yesterday I got to sit in the sun a little in the afternoon which brings me to a comment for my writer and editor friends here. My Kindle is not a Paperwhite so I haven’t figured out how to change the settings so I can read outside. I am very much like the commercial now playing on TV. I picked up a cheap little romance book at the used bookstore for 50 cents or a dollar. It was first published in 1982. The writing and editing is SO much better. No sentences end with prepositions. The sentences are complete. Paragraphs stick to the subject, What has happened to our language skills?
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Periwinkle is blue with a wash of lavender.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periwinkle_(color)
Tess woke me up at 2, the dogs had to go out. She’s so good about doing that. Sometimes I think she may wake me up when it’s just Cowboy who needs to go out. She can be very Lassie-like (sometimes she’ll jump on me in bed to wake me up, but last night she very gently put her front paws up on the side of the bed so her face was right near mine).
So I let them out, gave them about 5-10 minutes, then called them in again so I could close the doggie door and go back to bed.
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Here is a link to see Bluet flowers:
http://www.wiseacre-gardens.com/plants/wildflower/bluet.html
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🙂
Now I know what periwinkle is.
I think.
but I may not remember. I don’t think I’ve come across that before.
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Thank you kindly for your nice comments. 😉 I feel really good about this whole experience; energized, lifted out of my depression, eager to serve my family once again, and I thank you all for your prayers, support, and encouragement along the way. It means so much to me, and I thank God for your loving presence in my life.
Blessings, friends.
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Pastor Ryan preached a good sermon this morning from I John 2:15f.
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world,” etc.
The title of the sermon was “Keep your boat afloat”. How to stay afloat on the stormy sea of culture around us. The main task is to keep water out of the boat.
The main problem is the MESS people get themselves into, caused by:
M=money
E=ego
S=sex
S=stuff
Good sermon.
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Thank you, 6 Arrows. It is the Christian’s pleasure to be used by God to encourage a fellow believer.
And we are so much looking forward to seeing the video of the live performance.
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That does sound like a relevant sermon, Chas. My pastor is going through the book of Luke and had gotten to the passage about fasting. He was relating how fasting can be a form of worship. Also, he spoke about the wrong motives of the Pharisees in fasting. And he spoke about the new wine in old wineskins. He did the dedication of his newly born granddaughter. Very sweet.
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Our associate pastor preached today on Luke 4:13-21 long with passages also from Leviticus & Isaiah. Focus was on how we are now living in the jubilee when God is restoring to His people now all over the world and of all ethnicities what they have lost — He is bringing redemption, renewal, liberty and release.
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Our sermon today was from John and the story of Jesus healing the blind man. Our priest had a very good sermon on how “I once was, but now I am”. He admitted that sometimes when he hears of what another church is doing he wonders “Why not here?” then he stops and thanks God that it is happening there.
From there Mr P and I went to Five Guys and had lunch, to Dick’s Sporting Goods for a new life jacket, and to Home Depot for 3 ferns and more bird seed for my Little Beggars. This afternoon I sat in the sun and finished my 1982 romance book. Oh my how times have changed, even with this author! In 1982 the heroine clearly talked about her faith, God, and how her faith wouldn’t allow her to do certain things. In one portion of the book her adoptive mother advises her to lean on God and her faith. The last book I read by this author I didn’t finish because the language. She got away from writing romance “novels” and started writing mysteries. Yep, Times have certainly changed.
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Kim, why do you think that author changed? Since you did not name the author, it could probably be said of quite a few. Do you think it was for the money, because of pressures from the publisher, because.of keeping up with other authors, boredom with plain old romance, a defiance of God, or something else? I know some authors write for the general market and become convicted of sin and do the switch to the Christian market.
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Janice. I think it is evidence of our world changing. We are no longer a moral nation. We have no sense if propriety. We have relaxed our values
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Another interesting discussion at the dog park which ended on the issue of gay marriage, etc. Man w/his son I was talking to framed opposition to it as “cultural”; I said well, no, it’s actually a matter of religious conviction. Anyway, discussion began with Fred Phelps & others who the dad said opposed homosexuality but were “exposed” to be practicing the very thing they condemned. I said I don’t know about that (with regard to particular people he mentioned), but I said there is a genuine opposing viewpoint that is NOT based on hate nor hypocrisy that is being silenced …
They probably figure me for a nut, but what the heck. They brought the topic up, I responded as best (and as gently) as I could … I realize this issue is lost in our popular culture for now. Gay marriage is a fact of life.
But I still think it’s important to put forth an argument that there needs to be some accommodation (and respect) for “conscientious objectors” on the matter when opposing rights (religious liberty vs. marriage ‘equality’) conflict and collide.
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Glad to hear you voiced some truth into the topic, Donna. When you said gay marriage is a “fact of life” I was thinking perhaps it could be said to be a “fallacy of life” since the word “fact” seems to indicate truth.
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You’re right, Janice. The father began the discussion with: “There’s nothing wrong with being gay,” then went on to talk about how the most adamant gay marriage foes have been proven to be ‘closeted’ gays.
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Don’t you hate (make that word dislike) being baited like that? It is a ploy to silence because if you say much against gay marriage then by his terms it would make you be one of the closeted. What is a good and perfect strategy against that? Only God’s word that is sharper than a two-edged sword. God’s word reads the same in the closet and outside the closet.
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I sense (living in L.A. & California) that most who begin these discussions assume that you’re in complete agreement with them, that they’re saying nothing that is controversial or would be considered unusual in the least.
It was interesting to me that he dismissed all opposition as “cultural” (as in throw-back ideas that just haven’t caught up with modern day/correct thinking).
The idea that opposition can stem from honest “conviction” of conscience seems to give them pause.
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