Have a good Saturday evening Jo. Abut the time you come back tonight, it will be Sunday morning for you.
I had several things to rant & rave about this week, but I think I posted all of them before.
😦 The winter killed several of the shrubs around my house.
😦 I had to dig three big bushes out by the roots.
🙂 I finally got it done.
🙂 I bought three azalea plants to put in their place.
😦 I need to put them in the ground today.
😦 My old self propelled lawn mower conked out on me.
🙂 I bought a new one. It has a feature the other one didn’t have. On the handle along with the “dead man switch”, there is another one that disengages the drive. That means that when going downhill, I can disengage the drive.
😦 Said lawn mower cost $330.
😥 Everything that is going on in Washington and the rest of the world.
We are in a precarious position.
I’m afraid we are losing our country and apparently very few care.
🙂 God has everything under control
🙂 Lee had another PSA test done. With the medicine he is on, it has come down from 90 to 56! Praise God!
(That is still very high, but better than 90! Hoping the med reduces it even more.)
😦 Next Wednesday, Lee has an appointment to see the doctor who prescribed the med. Since an office visit with this doc is $500, & we are self-pay, he was hoping to just keep refilling the prescription. But the doctor cancelled the prescription until Lee would come in for an appointment.
I understand why a doctor might have to do that, but it kind of seems like blackmail. He’s been diagnosed, the med is working, so why does he have to see the doctor?
Chas – I have found that when starting a line with a smiley (or frowny), you have to hit enter three times, instead of two, to make the proper break between paragraphs. Sometime I forget, though.
I got in the mail yesterday, one of those advertisements for a book. It’s 63 pages advertising a book that will tell you how to do everything. The ad book doesn’t tell you how to do it. It tells you that they know how.
But there is one interesting thing. In the middle of the book, there is this:
“Top cardiologist, bill Gavin, MD, tells how the world’s simplest diet helped him lose 45 pounds at last: Eat No White At Night”.
Elvera had a brother who was extremely overweight. He had to go on a diet, and did, indeed, lose a lot of weight. Someone asked him how he did it. He said,
“I don’t eat nothing white.”
😦 I think my dogs are bored with their lives. Maybe I can get them out to the park today.
😦 The outdoor spigot in the back won’t turn on. It’s frozen. I wanted to plant some things back there this summer but I can’t do that until I figure out how to get water back there again. I bought some WD40 and pliers. If that doesn’t work I guess I have to get it replaced. It shouldn’t cost a lot, I don’t think. ?
🙂 I am enjoying some time on the patio lately. I’ve never used it much for some reason but now I find it’s a very peaceful end to the day — I take my Bible or iPad or another book out there and just sit in my cheap drug store chair (made more comfortable with cushions), watching the birds or squirrels, enjoying the quiet time.
🙂 I have an uncut leftover birthday cake from last night’s choir party. Impromptu birthday party at my son’s house today, noonish! No gifts, no cards, pizza! (And the cake) Feel free to drop by as birthday month continues . . .
🙂 Decent night’s sleep for once.
🙂 Using up a Coldwater Creek gift card today before spa closes, so I get my second massage in two weeks. Score! #Feeling decadent!
🙂 First third of novel rewritten; on track to being done by June 30!
🙂 Thanks be to God!
😦 Spiritual warfare continues but 🙂 God is triumphant!
🙂 Ribs have healed, fingers were only first degree burned, slept two nights in the last week, have five days off work to write the end of the month, and the computer is working fine again.
🙂 After Kim’s bible study prayed for me Monday night, I woke up Tuesday morning with the key to the book, I think. Seems to be working . . . .
😦 Hillary is only at 30% of her funding to return to Sicily. She sees the Italian consulate on June 26, but if she doesn’t have 90% of her funding in place by then, Christian Associates will not “allow” her to return to the mission field, thus invalidating the VISA requirements. I’ll put this on the prayer requests, too; she’s pretty discouraged.
🙂 Other than that, and the lack of rain, life is terrific!
🙂 A really, really wonderful family reunion this past weekend.
🙂 I volunteered to put together the photo books about the reunion, which will be a lot of work, but I enjoy it. (And this time it will be more than just me buying copies of a book I make.)
🙂 My husband and I had a really good visit to the zoo yesterday. Highlight for me was getting photos of peacocks in a tall tree. (How do you fly in a really long dress?)
🙂 It really was so precious to get all seven of us children together for the first time in ten-and-a-half years, Mom’s funeral, and most of the grandchildren and great-grands, as well. Since Dad lived just six years longer than my oldest brother is now, and we get together in full numbers so seldom (and our family has lost a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law, and my husband his first wife, all of them several years younger than my oldest brothers), we just can’t take for granted that we’ll ever all be together again.
🙂 The family reunion included my first chance to play volleyball and Balderdash with my husband and children, and my first chance to meet a year-old grandnephew. (I still have one more infant grandnephew to meet, but it may be some time before I get that opportunity, as trips to California are rare.)
Peacocks can be hard on roofs. We have them here (not immediately in my neighborhood though) and they’re a constant source of arguments among people who either love or hate them.
They’re apparently easier to love from afar — when they’re not damaging and stomping across your roof and pooping on your car and screeching in the middle of the night. 🙂
They are beautiful, though. I remember driving home one day through the area where they’re prolific and having to stop as one trailed (slowly) across the road.
😦 We are losing our pastor. He has accepted a call to North Augusta (SC) BC.
I knew that a couple of days ago.
He described the event of his calling and acceptance in a sermon titled, “The Intersection of Mystery, Clarity and Delight”.
We hate to lose him, but I am convinced that he is sincere in his call.
If the Lord means for a man to leave a church, it also means that he wants someone else there. It always works both ways.
🙂 Happy for Lee, that the numbers are better. I have to go in for certain medications, too. Some meds affect the liver and tests must be done for those, too. Karen, be sure to tell the doctor you concern about the cost. He may not realize that and may be able to do something. It can’t hurt.
🙂 Lovely weekend visit with one set of children and grandchildren. We also were able to get a nice visit in with my folks. Since the grands live 4 hours away and the great-grands live an hour from us, it is not always easy to work it all out. My daughter has a friend who child was graduating and lives close to my folks.
😦 Mosquitoes. Covered head to foot and using spray isn’t even enough.
Kathaleena – Oh, he will mention that. As self-payers, we know to ask for a reduced rate. Most doctors & hospitals gladly oblige. We also are part of Christian Healthcare Ministries, & one of the requirements is to ask for a reduction. However, I don’t think office visits are covered.
Donna, in the SBC, each church is independent. When a church needs a pastor, they appoint a pulpit committee whom the church believes to be representative of the beliefs of the church, as a body. That includes all doctrinal points such as scriptural inspiration, spiritual rebirth by faith in Christ, believer’s baptism, etc. But it may include (what I think are trivial) beliefs such as imminent, pre-trib return of Christ.
The committee will perform an extensive search and even travel long distances, if necessary, to find the right person. They, presumably, put much private and corporate prayer into the mission and urge the church to participate in that. I’m sure the FBCHNC committee will also query about same sex marriage and similar positions.
When they have found such a person, they contact him. If he agrees, he is invited for an interview. Then, if things go well, he is invited to the church. He will preach and he and his family will meet the church, and let the church meet him.
The church will then vote at an announced time, by secret ballot.
It doesn’t have to be unanimous, but a pastor would be unwise to take a church without overwhelming approval. If there are dissenters, the new pastor will never know who they are.
Sounds messy, but it works. I believe it is better than a convention appointing a person for the church.
I never got past the initial interview stage. Wise pulpit committees. I could preach a reasonably good sermon. But I wouldn’t have made a good pastor.
In the meantime, there will be an interim. He will not run the church, nor be a pastor. He will likely be a retired pastor, professor, etc. who doesn’t plan to stay long. However, the process can take a couple of years.. It would be unusual for a church this size to fill the position in less than a year. He will do the preaching.
Meanwhile, we have:
Three assistant pastors,
Two “ministers of worship” -music directors to you and me.
Two associate ministers to students. They manage the Crosswalk.
Two ministers to children.
One Director of early education. She runs the Weeschool. (daily preschool if you haven’t guessed)
We’ll manage.
Our church had to ask a pastor to leave. We were so blessed by the godly man who preached in the interim. He was elderly and had had a church for 40 years and was now retired. He was just the right person for us and had such wisdom. May you experience the same blessing.
Prayers that it doesn’t take too long (which is what happened in the small church where I was a member once — the process became hampered & held up, apparently, by one of the more strong-minded people on the committee who was not very flexible).
Wandering Views 
🙂 I’m raving cause Aj is posting so much earlier tonight. It is only 8:10 pm here on Saturday night. I don’t even have to wait until 9! 🙂 ❤
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Have a good Saturday evening Jo. Abut the time you come back tonight, it will be Sunday morning for you.
I had several things to rant & rave about this week, but I think I posted all of them before.
😦 The winter killed several of the shrubs around my house.
😦 I had to dig three big bushes out by the roots.
🙂 I finally got it done.
🙂 I bought three azalea plants to put in their place.
😦 I need to put them in the ground today.
😦 My old self propelled lawn mower conked out on me.
🙂 I bought a new one. It has a feature the other one didn’t have. On the handle along with the “dead man switch”, there is another one that disengages the drive. That means that when going downhill, I can disengage the drive.
😦 Said lawn mower cost $330.
😥 Everything that is going on in Washington and the rest of the world.
We are in a precarious position.
I’m afraid we are losing our country and apparently very few care.
🙂 God has everything under control
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😦 WordPress doesn’t care about sentence and paragraph spacing.
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🙂 Lee had another PSA test done. With the medicine he is on, it has come down from 90 to 56! Praise God!
(That is still very high, but better than 90! Hoping the med reduces it even more.)
😦 Next Wednesday, Lee has an appointment to see the doctor who prescribed the med. Since an office visit with this doc is $500, & we are self-pay, he was hoping to just keep refilling the prescription. But the doctor cancelled the prescription until Lee would come in for an appointment.
I understand why a doctor might have to do that, but it kind of seems like blackmail. He’s been diagnosed, the med is working, so why does he have to see the doctor?
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Chas – I have found that when starting a line with a smiley (or frowny), you have to hit enter three times, instead of two, to make the proper break between paragraphs. Sometime I forget, though.
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Thanks Karen, I’ll try that.
I got in the mail yesterday, one of those advertisements for a book. It’s 63 pages advertising a book that will tell you how to do everything. The ad book doesn’t tell you how to do it. It tells you that they know how.
But there is one interesting thing. In the middle of the book, there is this:
“Top cardiologist, bill Gavin, MD, tells how the world’s simplest diet helped him lose 45 pounds at last: Eat No White At Night”.
Elvera had a brother who was extremely overweight. He had to go on a diet, and did, indeed, lose a lot of weight. Someone asked him how he did it. He said,
“I don’t eat nothing white.”
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Karen, with my blood pressure meds, I have to go in periodically because the meds have side effects they have to check for.
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🙂 Saturday.
😦 I think my dogs are bored with their lives. Maybe I can get them out to the park today.
😦 The outdoor spigot in the back won’t turn on. It’s frozen. I wanted to plant some things back there this summer but I can’t do that until I figure out how to get water back there again. I bought some WD40 and pliers. If that doesn’t work I guess I have to get it replaced. It shouldn’t cost a lot, I don’t think. ?
🙂 I am enjoying some time on the patio lately. I’ve never used it much for some reason but now I find it’s a very peaceful end to the day — I take my Bible or iPad or another book out there and just sit in my cheap drug store chair (made more comfortable with cushions), watching the birds or squirrels, enjoying the quiet time.
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🙂 Go California Chrome and the L.A. Kings. 🙂
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🙂 God is good, and I can fully trust in Him.
🙂 Good Christian books that uplift my spirit.
🙂 Nice conversation with son this a.m.
🙂 Bosley is being a nice cat im my company.
😦 Bosley made husband drop his chicken sandwich on the floor last night. A bad kitty moment.
🙂 Beautiful flower headers posted by AJ
🙂 Finally got back to the office yesterday.
🙂 God is good!
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🙂 I have an uncut leftover birthday cake from last night’s choir party. Impromptu birthday party at my son’s house today, noonish! No gifts, no cards, pizza! (And the cake) Feel free to drop by as birthday month continues . . .
🙂 Decent night’s sleep for once.
🙂 Using up a Coldwater Creek gift card today before spa closes, so I get my second massage in two weeks. Score! #Feeling decadent!
🙂 First third of novel rewritten; on track to being done by June 30!
🙂 Thanks be to God!
😦 Spiritual warfare continues but 🙂 God is triumphant!
🙂 Ribs have healed, fingers were only first degree burned, slept two nights in the last week, have five days off work to write the end of the month, and the computer is working fine again.
🙂 After Kim’s bible study prayed for me Monday night, I woke up Tuesday morning with the key to the book, I think. Seems to be working . . . .
😦 Hillary is only at 30% of her funding to return to Sicily. She sees the Italian consulate on June 26, but if she doesn’t have 90% of her funding in place by then, Christian Associates will not “allow” her to return to the mission field, thus invalidating the VISA requirements. I’ll put this on the prayer requests, too; she’s pretty discouraged.
🙂 Other than that, and the lack of rain, life is terrific!
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🙂 A really, really wonderful family reunion this past weekend.
🙂 I volunteered to put together the photo books about the reunion, which will be a lot of work, but I enjoy it. (And this time it will be more than just me buying copies of a book I make.)
🙂 My husband and I had a really good visit to the zoo yesterday. Highlight for me was getting photos of peacocks in a tall tree. (How do you fly in a really long dress?)
🙂 It really was so precious to get all seven of us children together for the first time in ten-and-a-half years, Mom’s funeral, and most of the grandchildren and great-grands, as well. Since Dad lived just six years longer than my oldest brother is now, and we get together in full numbers so seldom (and our family has lost a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law, and my husband his first wife, all of them several years younger than my oldest brothers), we just can’t take for granted that we’ll ever all be together again.
🙂 The family reunion included my first chance to play volleyball and Balderdash with my husband and children, and my first chance to meet a year-old grandnephew. (I still have one more infant grandnephew to meet, but it may be some time before I get that opportunity, as trips to California are rare.)
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Peacocks can be hard on roofs. We have them here (not immediately in my neighborhood though) and they’re a constant source of arguments among people who either love or hate them.
They’re apparently easier to love from afar — when they’re not damaging and stomping across your roof and pooping on your car and screeching in the middle of the night. 🙂
They are beautiful, though. I remember driving home one day through the area where they’re prolific and having to stop as one trailed (slowly) across the road.
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😦 Too bad, California Chrome.
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😦 Oh no. The Kings are losing too?
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Go Boise!
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🙂 Yay Kings! Longest game ever?
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😦 We are losing our pastor. He has accepted a call to North Augusta (SC) BC.
I knew that a couple of days ago.
He described the event of his calling and acceptance in a sermon titled, “The Intersection of Mystery, Clarity and Delight”.
We hate to lose him, but I am convinced that he is sincere in his call.
If the Lord means for a man to leave a church, it also means that he wants someone else there. It always works both ways.
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🙂 Happy for Lee, that the numbers are better. I have to go in for certain medications, too. Some meds affect the liver and tests must be done for those, too. Karen, be sure to tell the doctor you concern about the cost. He may not realize that and may be able to do something. It can’t hurt.
🙂 Lovely weekend visit with one set of children and grandchildren. We also were able to get a nice visit in with my folks. Since the grands live 4 hours away and the great-grands live an hour from us, it is not always easy to work it all out. My daughter has a friend who child was graduating and lives close to my folks.
😦 Mosquitoes. Covered head to foot and using spray isn’t even enough.
🙂 Flowers, green grass and sunshine.
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What’s the process for calling a new pastor in your denomination, Chas?
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Kathaleena – Oh, he will mention that. As self-payers, we know to ask for a reduced rate. Most doctors & hospitals gladly oblige. We also are part of Christian Healthcare Ministries, & one of the requirements is to ask for a reduction. However, I don’t think office visits are covered.
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Donna, in the SBC, each church is independent. When a church needs a pastor, they appoint a pulpit committee whom the church believes to be representative of the beliefs of the church, as a body. That includes all doctrinal points such as scriptural inspiration, spiritual rebirth by faith in Christ, believer’s baptism, etc. But it may include (what I think are trivial) beliefs such as imminent, pre-trib return of Christ.
The committee will perform an extensive search and even travel long distances, if necessary, to find the right person. They, presumably, put much private and corporate prayer into the mission and urge the church to participate in that. I’m sure the FBCHNC committee will also query about same sex marriage and similar positions.
When they have found such a person, they contact him. If he agrees, he is invited for an interview. Then, if things go well, he is invited to the church. He will preach and he and his family will meet the church, and let the church meet him.
The church will then vote at an announced time, by secret ballot.
It doesn’t have to be unanimous, but a pastor would be unwise to take a church without overwhelming approval. If there are dissenters, the new pastor will never know who they are.
Sounds messy, but it works. I believe it is better than a convention appointing a person for the church.
I never got past the initial interview stage. Wise pulpit committees. I could preach a reasonably good sermon. But I wouldn’t have made a good pastor.
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In the meantime, there will be an interim. He will not run the church, nor be a pastor. He will likely be a retired pastor, professor, etc. who doesn’t plan to stay long. However, the process can take a couple of years.. It would be unusual for a church this size to fill the position in less than a year. He will do the preaching.
Meanwhile, we have:
Three assistant pastors,
Two “ministers of worship” -music directors to you and me.
Two associate ministers to students. They manage the Crosswalk.
Two ministers to children.
One Director of early education. She runs the Weeschool. (daily preschool if you haven’t guessed)
We’ll manage.
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Our church had to ask a pastor to leave. We were so blessed by the godly man who preached in the interim. He was elderly and had had a church for 40 years and was now retired. He was just the right person for us and had such wisdom. May you experience the same blessing.
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Sounds similar to our process Chas.
Prayers that it doesn’t take too long (which is what happened in the small church where I was a member once — the process became hampered & held up, apparently, by one of the more strong-minded people on the committee who was not very flexible).
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Donna, after a while, the church would get another committee.
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