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Our Daily Thread 12-8-14

Good Morning!

17 Days Until Christmas!

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On this day in 1765 Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, MA.  

In 1776 George Washington’s retreating army crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania. 

In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South.  

And in 1941 the United States entered World War II when it declared war against Japan. The act came one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Britain and Canada also declared war on Japan. 

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Quote of the Day

“It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.”

Ben Stein

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 I think it’s time for some TSO.

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Anyone have a QoD?

34 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-8-14”

  3. Chilly with a snowy white sky here in Atlanta. It feels right for Christmas shopping. I need to get wrapping the little gifts that I send in the Flat Rate box to my friend in CA. We have been doing this for years, and this year is probably our last to do this. I think we are going to pool our gift money and do something charitable from now on together.

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  5. The worst thing that could have happened to the South after the Civil War was for Lincoln to be killed. Unfortunately we are still feeling the effects of it to this day. Reconstruction wasn’t pretty.

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  11. Lots of “why” questions this morning.

    Jo, I like that idea of “pooling” the gift money you spend together on a donation.

    I have a 9 a.m. interview with the port director on my may in to work today, the first day back after having a week off. Sigh. It was nice — but at least I’ll have another week off next week.

    And today’s the day when the neighbor from down the street comes over to build & replace my back gate — he thinks it can be done in day, but I’ll have to lock the dogs inside. Hoping I can scoot home a little early.

    He thought redwood (or cedar) would be best to use so I gave him the money last night to buy the materials.

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  12. This is the house I toured with my cousins yesterday, built in 1906 and decorated in the fashion of a Victorian Christmas.

    Among the elements left intact on the property are the old carriage house & an aviary — now with only “fake” birds inside. And Santa Claus was a she. So it was all very ‘California’ …

    There were carolers on the wrap-around porch who were very good.

    http://www.lbheritage.org/index.php/bembridge-house/bembridge-house-tours

    Fun day, but I sure missed being at church, it didn’t even feel like a Sunday to me. 😦

    Still, nice to get together with what’s left of the family — we ate at a nice fish house afterward so it was a fairly long day.

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  15. I was not surprised when BG was little and was jumping on the bed and I said, “When you break your neck, we can’t sew it back on”.
    Now did anything thin that sentence make sense?

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  24. The store clerk at Marshall’s was wearing cross earrings and a gray shirt with dull metallic sequins on the front in the design of a cross. Still she said, “Happy Holidays,” to which I replied,”Merry Christmas.”

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  25. I found a collapsible dish drainer to help with the Cat – astrophysics (Smartphone changed my Cat – As trophies to that which also works, LOL) in the kitchen. I hope it will make a good difference.

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  26. I had friends long ago who considered their cats to be the first phase of their dishwasher. They would let the cats clean the plates before putting them (the dishes, not the cats) into the dishwasher. Bosley only likes her cat food so that is not an issue for us.

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  27. The young people in my church’s arts program put on quite a nice musical show last night. I liked it all except that at one point an electric guitar duo was performed of Purple Haze. It was well played, but seemed so inappropriate for a Christmas themed program. Of course it got the biggest applause and hoots. I just don’t understand why that was included. Some things are way beyond my capacity to understand.

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  30. Last summer I got some photos of a great heron from underneath (it was in a tree at the zoo–a wild bird, it just happened to have come to the zoo). I could tell as I took the photos how it can see what’s under its feet while it stands in the water. It was really kind of odd, like that photo. But God made them with the tools they need!

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  33. Scary indeed, Janice.

    Also scary is that many married “Christian” young women writers are now writing about their choice to keep putting off child-bearing, maybe indefinitely, and some of them explaining how many more good things they can do if they don’t have children. Scripture specifically tells older women WHAT to teach younger women, and it includes loving her husband and loving her children. An older single woman can still be a teacher, and so can an infertile woman. But a woman who chooses not to have children should not be considered a Christian teacher. She has flunked the basic course in understanding what she is to teach!

    (By the way, I think a woman can also teach how to grow a garden, or groom a dog, or wash a pet . . . but if her “teaching” is how to choose other things instead of having a family, then she is teaching error, and no Christian company should accept that.)

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