Good Morning!
On this day in 1788 Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution and became the 10th state of the United States.
In 1876 Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as “Custer’s Last Stand.”
In 1917 the first American fighting troops landed in France.
In 1962 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
And in 1973 White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
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Quote of the Day
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
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Today is Jody McBrayer’s birthday.
And it’s Ian McDonald’s too.
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Wandering Views 
Chas was officially first at the end of yesterday’s thread.
I suppose he has gone to the Y
Morning all. After so many naps, I suppose it is time to get some sleep
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Good morning/evening Jo. 🙂
Sleep well, and I hope you feel better when you wake up.
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Good morning! It’s a new day the Lord has made. Feel its freshness?
Even for those suffering various troubles and afflictions, He has put plenty of goodness in the day to rejoice and be glad in.
What is one thing today that you are feeling grateful for?
I am grateful for being a part of Wandering Views. It has enriched my life with friendship, Christian encouragement, music, pets, political and sports news, prayer support, virtual travel, a place to rant and rave, and so much more.
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Jo is probably sleeping again. I do hope and pray you will feel much better soon. I think a cold once over has been a good reminder of how good we usually feel. Without the cold we might overlook how wonderful it is to feel good, both physically and mentally. Those who don’t know Christ really. don’t know what feeling good spiritually is like. Don’t you feel sorry for them?
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Good morning. Wish me well please. I am teaching a class to some of my Mobile agents today then attending their monthly office lunch. I keep reminding myself that I have a Master’s degree in education and I should not quake in my boots over the thought of doing this, but teaching adults is much harder and they are much more intimidating.
Add to that I am not at my best right now. There are some things going on of which I have no control–not that I ever did really–and I am having to adjust my sails and hunt the wind.
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I’m grateful it’s the last day of school. 🙂
So is Liz. 🙂
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I’m grateful that God gave the world so much color. I mean, we don’t actually “need” peacocks and hummingbirds, sunrises and sunsets, violets and daffodils. But they sure are lovely, and they sure say “Open your eyes and remember your Creator.”
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I’m thankful for lots of things. But I can’t single out anything right now.
There was a movie about Custer’s last stand. Called “They Died With Their Boots On”.
When I first saw today’s picture, the alignment of the tree limb with the horse head made me wonder momentarily, “A horse with horns?”
Lots to do around here. Lots to do.
😦 😦
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I am thankful for family and a place to rear them constructively.
Usually I come on here with positive reports on the children but in so doing, it is possible people kind of drop praying for us. Today I will remind you that our children do have issues and we can use all of the prayer you can spare. There was an incredibly bad smell coming from one bedroom and I thought somebody had developed a dead mouse problem as had happened previously with the same child in a different bedroom. I kept telling him to search his room and find the source (he has very little in his room as he cannot handle more) but to no avail. Finally, I took advantage of some time to go in and look. In his closet, I found a shoe box and in the shoe box was a large kitchen garbage bag with a couple of quarts of urine (he has saved urine in the past in his closet). I also discovered some empty boxes of mac and cheese and ramen. He had tried to make one box of macaroni out of bathroom tap water and the other he had stuffed the noodles into a sock. He said he was not hungry, he just wanted to. I have no idea why he saves the urine. So, if you think of us, please continue to lift us up. We do need wisdom in dealing with these various challenges.
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Oh, why not give you the whole thing? Today’s My Utmost for His Highest:
As a saint of God, my attitude toward sorrow and difficulty should not be to ask that they be prevented, but to ask that God protect me so that I may remain what He created me to be, in spite of all my fires of sorrow.
Our Lord received Himself, accepting His position and realizing His purpose, in the midst of the fire of sorrow. He was saved not from the hour, but out of the hour.
We say that there ought to be no sorrow, but there is sorrow, and we have to accept and receive ourselves in its fires. If we try to evade sorrow, refusing to deal with it, we are foolish.
Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life, and there is no use in saying it should not be. Sin, sorrow, and suffering are, and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them.
Sorrow removes a great deal of a person’s shallowness, but it does not always make that person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in to complaining.
The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow. Why it should be this way is immaterial. The fact is that it is true in the Scriptures and in human experience. You can always recognize who has been through the fires of sorrow and received himself, and you know that you can go to him in your moment of trouble and find that he has plenty of time for you.
But if a person has not been through the fires of sorrow, he is apt to be contemptuous, having no respect or time for you, only turning you away. If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.
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Nice, pastoral picture. I do wonder why the horses have on the bridle, though. Why not take it off while they are grazing? Are those Amish horses?
I am thankful for quiet mornings to read the Bible and prepare for the day.
Except the last few mornings it hasn’t been so quiet, since the city is replacing the water line connections to all the houses, now that the new water main is in the ground. At 7 Am the tractors start their engines and digging. The worst is the warning beep when they back up. Someone told me that OSHA came along one day to a construction site and told the operators they had to put on a warning horn when backing up so others wouldn’t get run over. Then an EPA agent came along and told them they had to wear earplugs because of the excessive noise level. Figures, if true, that the government bureaucracies can’t work together. Imagine if one of the workers wearing earplugs got run over by a bulldozer backing up, because he couldn’t hear the warning?
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I am thankful for the ability and opportunity to make things. I am working on some curtains for my newly decorated room.
Mumsee, hoarding behaviours are usually a sign of anxiety. There may be a new stressful factor that is triggering flashbacks to past incidents in the child’s mind.
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Good morning — and thanks for all the upbeat, God-focused posts. I’m so grateful I know God (and that He, even more, knows me and calls me His own). What an amazing thing that is, really, when you think about it.
I snapped a photo with my phone of a couple on horseback while sitting at a red light coming home from work last night. The light was beautiful — it was somewhere between 6:30 and 7 p.m. — and I was stopped next to one of the horse rings where there usually are young girls practicing their English style jumps.
But yesterday it was mostly cleared out except for a couple riding western style (with western cowboy-girl hats) along the outside ring toward the trails leading toward the ocean.
The many shades of green in the pepper trees that hung over them were striking in the late afternoon light, the dust gently whirling up behind the horses as they walked, all caught on my primitive phone camera. So peaceful …. Then the light turned green and off I went in my Jeep, homeward.
Jo, hope you’re feeling better.
I feel good after a full night’s sleep (following the night before when I wound up losing a couple hours in the middle of it all 😦 ).
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Got a call from my veterinarian yesterday & Tess’ blood work came back showing she has a low thyroid (and that’s somehow related to — or has triggered — some high cholesterol & the previously seen high liver enzymes). Anyway, not a big deal, but he’s put her on a little thyroid tablet (1/2 twice a day) and I’ll go in to get her re-checked for dosage in a couple weeks.
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Phos, his older brother is back.
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A.J. Is school just now getting out there. we’ve been out for over a month.
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Peter @ 10:38
Of course it would never occur to OSHA nor EPA to turn down the decibel level of the backup signal.
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Hi KBells, I am glad you are back.
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kBells!
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Paul and I were discussing this morning all that we have to be thankful for…one being that we have doctor’s who are friends….and deeply committed followers of Christ. My doctor and I were discussing yesterday the coming of Christ…and how we look forward to that day. My doctor prays for me before he enters the exam room…there is a brother/sister connection and for that I am truly grateful ❤
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KBells,
We homeschool, and I refuse to start before Labor Day. We didn’t start until the 3rd week in September this year. The local schools started the last week in August, and just finished a week ago, so we’re still ahead of them.
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I know a number of you deal with autism. Fascinating article posted today on FB by a friend whose grandson is on the spectrum. They’ve altered their diet the last couple years, not sure what difference it has made. The little boy is, of course, brilliant and knows all the answers during Children’s Chat at church!
http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/autisms-gut-brain-connection/4712.article#.U6rDyn2LfIg.facebook
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How do you respond to this saying: “women marry to have someone to go out with; men marry to have someone to come home to.”
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Every man needs a reason to come home at night.
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I would not say I got married for that reason. But it is really nice to have someone to come home to. I probably value that more as I get a little older and turn more into a homebody. When we got married, though, I was just happy to have someone to be with, whether out or at home.
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If I married for any similar reason, it was marrying to have someone at home with me. I’m mostly a homebody, and I don’t like living alone. The difficulty in getting (and keeping) housemates, and having good housemates, is a big part of what sent me online to internet dating sites.
(And the fact that several of my roommates weren’t people I’d want to live with the rest of my life–some were–helped me to be really careful and not just think “Marriage is better than singleness, so I want to get married.” When I was in college, a guest speaker one time said, talking about marriage: “It’s better to want something you don’t have than to have something you don’t want,” and that line stuck with me. Victoria once took issue with my saying that I’d once had a roommate so bad that I figured, “This is just a small taste of what a bad marriage must feel like. Note to self: don’t marry carelessly.” She thought I couldn’t compare a roommate to a marriage on any level at all . . . but to me, learning to live with other people is learning to live with other people. Just be aware that things that bother you a little bit in a roommate could potentially bother you far worse in marriage, since it’s for life and since you are actually bound to this person. A roommate can overspend habitually, for example, without it affecting you at all. Or if she has a bad temper, you can move out. In my case, I pre-screened roommates to see how much TV they watched, since I knew from experience that I just can’t handle having a TV on several hours a day. If I hadn’t thought to ask such a question of my husband, and it turns out he watches TV for three or four hours a day, we’d have a problem!)
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Cold still bad, but… I am thankful to be sick over the term break when I have nothing to do and no commitments. My aide already has so much done for next term. I went to school on Monday and got a lot done. I didn’t miss any school this year, which is such a help when we have so few subs. It might be time for my first nap as I have been up for an hour!
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Jo, keep getting your rest times mingled with the up times. You are probably keeping things flowing that way instead of having it all settle and cause an infection. I hope you are having fluids each time you are awake. And if you take Mucinex or something similar so it can thin the mucous that helps greatly, too.
My brother is still not well, but he headed back to work today. He was feeling some better.
A family friend died so I had to spend time selecting flowers today. The sprays have gotten too expensive so I ordered a basket. With delivery it is costing around $100.00. 😦
Brother and I will share the cost. Husband may send flowers to another funeral for a client’s wife. We are keeping the florists busy this week. 😦
I know the flowers will be appreciated by the family members. 🙂 🙂
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I had an anniversary yesterday and am grateful for my husband. I am grateful that God brought us through the difficulties we have had. I am grateful for my beautiful daughters and the love they give us. I am grateful for all my SILs and my grandchildren. I am grateful for this family given to me from my Heavenly Father.
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Happy Anniversary, Kathaleena.
I don’t know as I got married to have someone to come home to, as a dog or cat could serve that purpose. Companionship is good to have, though. But I agree with Kevin in that as I get older it’s nice to have someone here when I get home.
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Happy anniversary Kathaleena….isn’t it such a sweet blessing to be able to look back over the years and see what our Lord has brought us through together with our spouses….Paul and I will be celebrating our 39th next month…the Lord is good indeed!
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Kathaleena,
Happy Anniversary to you and your husband. 🙂
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Thank you, Peter and nancyjill. I guess I never thought of getting married for a particular reason. It just seemed the natural course. I know some would not find it natural. The bible points that out. For me, there was never another thought. I have been blessed to be able to be a wife, mother and grandmother. I never thought I was marrying someone to have someone to go out with. After all, many women go out together to all kinds of places.
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Thanks, Aj, to you, too.
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