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Our Daily Thread 10+4=14

Good Morning!

And Happy Saturday!!!

This weekend’s header photos are from Roscuro.

On this day in 1535 the first complete English translation of the Bible was printed in Zurich, Switzerland. 

In 1777, at Germantown, PA, Patriot forces and British forces both suffer heavy losses in battle. The battle was seen as British victory, which actually served as a moral boost to the American forces. 

In 1893 the first professional football contract was signed by Grant Dibert for the Pittsburgh AC. 

In 1895 the first U.S. Open golf tournament took place in Newport, RI.

And in 1957 “Leave it to Beaver” debuted on CBS-TV. 

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Quote of the Day

“To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.”

Rutherford B. Hayes

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My wife sent me this. 🙂 It’s called “Competitive Foursome,” from Salut Salon.

If you like them, click their name, there’s plenty more. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

35 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10+4=14”

  1. The last post on yesterday’s thread by Karen.
    “What do you think was Jesus’ primary message, “the spirit” of the New Testament?”

    Faith. Not the undirected faith as in the song “I Believe”. But an active faith in God. And in His death and resurrection for the redemption of mankind.,

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  2. Good morning! It is pretty chilly here and windy. Time to enjoy the warm clothes season. We are having another coat drive for Appalachia at church. Since they realize we may have depleted our closets in the last two years, we are now being asked to request donations from friends and family.

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  4. We do coat drives and blankets for my home church. A couple from our church moved to Portland many years ago. They ended up starting a ministry called Blanket Coverage and they cover the homeless. The minister to the elderly homeless and get them off the streets. They say it takes five years to build a relationship and get them off the streets.

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  5. I understood from yesterday’s posts and the CT article that some Christians really don’t like its portrayal of Christianity. I really appreciated the movie. I think people who see it will find themselves desiring to know more. People need to be ready with answers. So if those who are so down on it would get ready to address the unsaved who they never would have had opportunity to converse with otherwise…

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  8. Good morning, all. Evening, Jo. Hubby and I are at our ranch in Centerville for the weekend. Connie’s at home with the girls. It’s so nice to have a place to escape to for some respite and relaxation.

    I have big news: We enrolled Beccca in a small private school last Monday. I sincerely think it was the right thing to do. She was fighting me so much at home and it was negatively impacting our relationship. I am happy to report that she loves her new school! She got ready each morning without a struggle and has already made a number of friends. The school is willing to work with her deficits in math and the principal is wonderful. I had a concern Thursday and called the principal to discuss it. She addressed my concerns, spoke with the teacher and called me back, all in the same day. It is a small, secular, private K-8 school that’s been around 40+ years. There are 13 kids in Becca’s class. They have a petting zoo and a garden.

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  10. Hello, all. I like Chas’s answer to Karen’s question, I would add one thing to it: grace through forgiveness. The OT has grace in it, but that is not the focus. Jesus offers us unmerited grace in His dying on the cross. He gave us a second chance.

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  11. Glad to hear you found a place you are all happy with, Ann. I hope it works well for all of you.

    Yesterday, I was ready to sign eight year old up for public school as he refused to do his math because he did not want to. A very simple math page of adding one to each number. It had lots of problems on it (about eighty) but we are trying to get him to grasp numbers. I had given him the sheet the day before but he was called away to go help the neighbor with her corn crop. He said he would not do schoolwork, I said he would not get off his chair or play with his sister until he did. After a while, I removed the paper and told him to let me know when he was ready. Meantime, his little sister was given the same paper and had it all done in less than five minutes. Three hours later, he told me he was ready. He had the entire page done and done with no mistakes, in under three minutes. He can do math, he just can’t say it. He counts, “1, 2, 3, 4, 12.” Cannot seem to get five. But he understands the concepts. I am just trying to speed it up a bit and get him to recognize the numerals so he does not have to consult his ruler or measuring tape or number line or whatever each time. But we have been working on this for four years.

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  12. Mumsee, could you try letting him count objects and make the first four mundane objects and then he can have the super duper fifth object if he calls it by the number ‘five’? Maybe if he can think of numbers in terms of personalities, etc. it might click.

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  13. Annms, each family has to do what works best. The only way you find out is by trial and error. I always did homeschooling with an open mind each year to see if it was good for another year. I am glad you have the resources for private school. I hope you all can be a Christian influence with those you meet in the school who are not believers. Maybe that is God’s reason for making this opportunity open up for Becca.

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  14. Phos, some day I am going to see a sugar maple in all its fall glory. Tim was in Ottawa a few times in the fall and sent back pictures and brought home some leaves, but it’s just not the same. We do have glorious red high bush cranberries here, but they are relatively small compared to the forest of golden aspen.

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  15. Karen: in response to your question, I think it’s about Jesus’ enduring, unconditional love for His people and His desire that we would truly love one another, pointing each other to a saving knowledge of Him and the Father.

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  16. In short, I’d say Jesus’ message was fully embodied in his life, death & resurrection — the gospel, to save those who were lost.

    Sounds like a good school, annmsw.

    I’ve got a cold or something, I guess, noticed it yesterday when I got up with a scratchy throat and then started sneezing a lot in the afternoon. By the time I came home at 8 p.m. (another long day), my head was stuffed.

    I don’t feel too bad this morning, so it may be a slight cold, but I definitely still have something, so am hanging out at home today I guess — where I have some needed picking up to do anyway.

    We’re supposed to hit the 90s today, I think, the hottest day of our current autumn heat wave. At least it’s cooling off at night into the 60s, that helps. And it’s a “dry” heat, which seriously doesn’t feel as hot as that horrible heat-with-humidity spell we got a few weeks ago, some spin-off weather from that Mexico hurricane.

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  17. Love those talented musicians.

    Good call on Becca, Ann. She needs to be loved unconditionally by you and for some kids having a mom teacher would be a challenge. It was part of the issue for me–why I did not homeschool.

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  18. Mumsee, I can’t help but think of Watership Down, in which one of the rabbits is named Fiver. Why? Because rabbit parents can’t count past four, and so if they have more babies in a litter than four, all of the others are “five.” Which makes me think they really can’t count past five, but what do I know?

    When my little brother was learning to count, I remember it took him the longest time (in my humble opinion) to get past 19, and he always transposed 14 and 15. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19. That “fifteen, fourteen” used to drive me nuts.

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  19. Karen’s QoD: Himself, Jesus Christ – “who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by Him were all things created… and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the pre-eminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself” (Colossians 1:15-19)

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  20. Janice, the trees were too far away to identify – I think some of them may have been ash, as the ash turned before the maples and this was taken a couple of weeks ago.

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  22. Morning all. I suppose I’d better get some sleep as I am planning on going to market at 6:30 in the morning. I went on Friday, but now that they are planning on closing the market, I need to stock up. I am going to try freezing celery and green peppers.

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  24. Jo, I found that freezing peppers whole and alone worked great. Just set them in the freezer. I thaw them for a couple of minutes and the cores come right out and they chop easily.

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  25. And Jo, assuming the peppers are going to be used for cooking, I have found that chopping them and freezing them also works. I freeze them in Ziploc bags and then I can add just a little to a dish. Celery might be better dried and then frozen (or dried instead of being frozen) . . . but I’ve never tried it.

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  26. Not feeling well this morning, so I stayed home from church. But I’m listening to the online service, which keeps going out.

    Had quite a start to the morning yesterday. Sitting down in the living room with a cup of coffee, out of the corner of my eye, I saw what I thought must be a dog run past the back porch. I went to another window to see what the “dog” was doing, & it turned out it wasn’t a dog at all.

    It was a cute little naked boy, about two years old. Then I glanced back towards where he came from (the parking lot of the apartment house next door which abuts our backyard) expecting to see a parent come running after him.

    No parent in sight.

    I ran to my room to put my shoes on, left Forrest with Chrissy, & went out to the little boy. I asked him to show me where he lives, & he indicated that he lived in that direction. There are two apartment houses that share that driveway, & I was hoping he’d take me to the right place.

    The little cutie kept pointing at his bare feet, saying “Duhty!” (dirty). He took my hand without my having to ask. 🙂

    He started towards the white house, but then veered toward the grey house. He took me inside the house, to a door on the first floor, then opened the unlocked door & walked in. I called out “Hello!” as I walked in. There was a young girl, about six or seven years old, & a couple younger boys. I asked if there was a grown up around (yes, two grown ups) & if the little boy lived there.

    Turns out the little boy didn’t live there, but they knew him. I explained that he led me there & walked in, & the mom said he does that a lot. Then she said she would take him home.

    I was so glad that I didn’t have to go knocking on a bunch of doors, but I felt sad for the little boy. I hope his parents are not neglectful, but that he just happens to be a little escape artist as some kids are. He looked clean & happy, & except for some kind of boo boo on his back, he didn’t have bruises or wounds. But I prayed for him & his parents when I was back home again.

    A bit later, Chrissy said she saw him, now dressed in pajamas, with his dad, pointing toward our yard. His dad must have asked him where he’d gone.

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  27. Wow, Karen! That is scary for a child to be out alone like that.

    Jo, I use celery seed to flavor things if I don’t have celery. That could work for you if you can get it.

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  28. Glad you got him home, Karen, that is scary.

    I’m home from church this morning, too, still have this cold — not a bad one like last time, but I still have the sore throat and stuffed head. But I slept very late, which I think I needed, and was happy to wake up to a much cooler day today (apparently we had our coastal fog back this morning, which would account for the nice cool down).

    I was thinking I wished we live-streamed our service or could post a video, that would be a nice option although maybe they feel some people would start relying on that and not show up, I don’t know. We do have the sermons available on the sermon audio website not long after they’ve been delivered.

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  29. Your little boy made me think of my own story from a few years ago, when I was preparing to do foster care. I was in the park on a swing, and another woman was swinging next to me. Suddenly out of nowhere came a little boy (three or younger) and he knelt down to play in the dirt just in front of our swings. We both had a hard time stopping, but I was glad we were two adult women, since children wouldn’t have tried as hard not to hurt him.

    I looked around for a parent, since it seemed hard to believe a mother would have let him come that close to danger without making her presence known, and there was no one in sight who could be related to him. (As I recall, he was white and everyone else in the park that day was dark, Hispanic or Middle Eastern. The woman on the other swing indicated she had assumed he was mine.) I asked him who he was with, and he pointed at the field across the way, where a family was playing baseball. That settled, I left to walk home.

    I got about halfway home when it struck me–I really had better guarantee those people were indeed his family, since they were paying no attention to him and if they weren’t his, he was on his own. In addition, he didn’t look safe even if they were his people, since everyone else was on the baseball diamond and he was on the playground outside the fence of the diamond and some distance away. So I turned around and walked back. By this time there were two little girls on the swings and the father was somewhere else. I asked the girls if that was their brother and they said yes, so I left.

    I wondered if the man was a new widower or newly divorced man, off in his own world and totally oblivious to the idea of watching a toddler carefully. I know that men have a hard time mutli-tasking anyway, and he may have been so focused on playing ball with his girls that it never occurred to him his son had wandered off and might be in the parking lot for all he knew. But I was very glad I went back and at least verified that he was with family.

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  30. I was hanging out at one our parks on the ocean cliffs one afternoon last summer when the outdoor Shakespeare by the Sea play began just before sunset. I had the dogs with me and had been taking photos, ready to leave, but decided maybe I’d plop down on one of the peripheral picnic benches in the back and watch the opening scene before going home.

    Pretty soon two youngsters attached themselves to me, fascinated by my dogs (who, in turn, were fascinated by the kiddos as they had chips and other snacks in their hands). After a while, I asked where their parents were and they pointed a couple sitting on a blanket. They turned around and waved at one point, but were seemingly very content to be able to watch the play undisturbed while their kids chatted away with a stranger — who then couldn’t really watch the play, of course. 🙂

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  31. Thanks for the pepper ideas. I got a dozen and they are now soaking. Mumsee, I like your idea, but my freezer is almost full so I don’t think it will work. I may end up just slicing them. Also got an enormous broccoli for 5 kina and, of course, a mango. It is mango season you know!

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  34. That tree has such character. I love trees that have character.

    Jo, I’m going to chop and freeze my celery, too. It’s supposed to be good for soups and such as it will be soggy and not crunchy. We use celery instead of onions to add flavour to things.

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