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Our Daily Thread 1-9-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

Today’s header photo is from Janice.

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On this day in 1793 Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first successful balloon flight in the U.S. 

In 1894 The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company put the first battery-operated switchboard into operation in Lexington, MA. 

In 1905, in Russia, the civil disturbances known as the Revolution of 1905 forced Czar Nicholas II to grant some civil rights.

And in 1972 the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. 

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Quote of the Day

“When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.”

Richard M. Nixon

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 Today is John Knowles Paine’s birthday.

And it’s Crystal Gayle’s too. So here she is with some help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fdG0sTh3U4c

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Anyone have a QoD?

43 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-9-15”

  4. I’m awake – much too early and with a fitful half night of sleep. Sigh.
    Our new camp director prospect and his family are coming for a site visit and job interview tomorrow – my brain was spinning as I thought of how I could make their stay in our chalet more comfortable than an institutional room with plastic covered mattresses. I’ve dug out some mattress pads, some touristy pamphlets, I’ll add some water bottles for convenience and find some nice cushy towels in the clean lost & found. (our campers leave behind such nice towels!) I may stop and get some fresh flowers 🙂
    Please pray for a good visit/interview and that God will provide clear leading to the board and this family.

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  5. Daughter in law is taken an exam this morning as the next step in earning her certification in her field. Please say a prayer that she can remember what she knows.

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  7. It’s Friday!
    You know what that means?

    Kim, I was going to post this on the news thread, but since you brought it up………
    The terrorists say they want to die as martyrs.
    I would tell them we are happy to accommodate them. Just come out shooting and we will take care of the rest.
    It would be good to capture them and get some information, but they won’t talk now matter how nicely you ask. So, this is the next best thing.

    I can’t imagine, though I try, how a martyr feels betrayed when he finds him having to explain himself before God’s judgment seat.
    The mullahs told him he wouldn’t have to do that.

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  8. First: Correction to a statement I made to Michelle a couple of days ago. I said Mary would have been in her mid fifties at the time. By the time Paul was thrown into prison in Caeserea, she would have been around seventy Still anxious to talk to Luke.

    Speaking of Luke, he says in ch. 9, v. 6 “they went out preaching the gospel”
    I have often wondered about the content of their message. John the Baptist was preaching abut one who would come, but the essence of his message was to keep the law and be fair to everyone. The disciples did not yet have the gospel message that Peter had when he preached at Pentecost.

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  10. Good Morning…it is cold and icy here this morning…all the schools are on delay start…the pines sure are pretty this morning 🙂
    Kare that is so sweet to want to make the family feel at home..it’s those little touches that mean so much…bless your heart! ❤ Praying this morning for you

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  12. Good morning, all!

    I get to meet Kim today! What fun! But first, I have an appointment at 10:00 to discuss Becca’s testing results with her tutor. I’m anxious to hear what he has to say about them.

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  14. Chas- It seems the early gospel message was “Repent!” Mark 1:4 tells us “John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.” Then it says of Jesus in 1:14-15, “Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

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  17. Hey Kim: We’re planning a trip to Florida by way of Louisiana this summer. We’d be passing through Mobile on the way. Would a lunch meet up work? We could work out the details when we know. It would be either early June or early August.

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  21. Donna and I will just huddle out here in the far west. oh, but now we have Jo! And Bob Buckles is here! A San Diego trip might turn up Adios and Lynn . . . Who I saw on FB yesterday– her son enlisted in the Navy.

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  22. Happy Friday. I’m hoping for a not-too-hard day, I filed a preliminary online version of a story following a night meeting last night — so today I just need to add a bit to it since deadlines dictated it couldn’t run in the print edition until Saturday.

    Drinking coffee right now …

    Looks a little overcast today, our temperatures are dangerously dipping into the 60s in the coming days.

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  23. Read another chapter of The Last Battle. Played another game of Sequence with the younger three. Moved the chest freezer which eighteen year old accidentally moved too close to the upright when she was cleaning the garage and bumped the freezer with a ladder (how does one accidentally move a fully loaded chest freezer by accidentally bumping it with a ladder?) Oversaw the chores. Ate breakfast. Chatted with some folks. Teased some others. A typical start to the morning lately. Now the olders and husband are off to town. He to talk with some person in charge of something or other. They to talk with the local college about getting started and then off to karate for some extra training as they prepare for their black belts.

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  24. Wow, Kim, you’re doing pretty good! I’ve only met three (and a husband and The Kid and two blog dogs), one of whom hasn’t even been around in years . . . I think you and Chas are racing to see who can meet the most of us. 🙂

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  25. In my enthusiasm to wash dishes, I opened a cd my husband gave me for Christmas. The cd is Shalom Jerusalem! by Paul Wilbur. The little oldie but Goldie cd player sits a little high on a shelf in the kitchen. I dropped in the cd to start the joy and the chore. When the music began it sounded different than I expected, not so much like Messianic Jewish. I thought, I did not realize Paul Wilbur played a jazzy piano, but that is just the intro and the typical Paul Wilbur will start soon. As it got into the second piece, I thought maybe they packed the wrong cd in the cover so I took it out. It was on top of my son’s cd, Erroll Garner, “Concert by the Sea,” now there is an interesting Mashup made in heaven.

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  27. Donna, since you are the resident Smartphone expert:
    How do I get a translation from a foreign language on Twitter on my Smartphone? I have a new follower from India and I don’t know what language his post is in. I posted a picture of a wooden owl today and tweeted the second of the ten commandments. I just want to be sure he is not some radical Hindu or worse.

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  31. Chas hasn’t met nearly as many as Kim. And I am a jinx.
    The only ones I have met have not show up lately or have dropped out with the WorldMagBlog.

    Cameron and her husband
    Tim.
    Sawgunner and wife
    Make it man.
    Not nearly as many.

    Donna, as the resident smartphone guru, How do I delete something from the map app?
    Mine thinks I want to travel to Cupertino, Ca. I never knew where that was till I found it on my Google map.
    I don’t want to go there.
    It has me on “1 infinite loop”
    😦

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  33. I actually went down into the basement of this house today. I have two file cabinets down there that I could not find anywhere else to store years ago. I am going to slowly go through the drawers and get rid of things. Made a good start on half of a drawer. Lots of teaching things to throw away. They will never be used. Also found something belonging to a friend that she had asked me about.

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  38. We had to pull over for the night. Staying in Lafayette and watching CNN catching up on the day’s events. I had to laugh I passed Iowa and Roanoke and never got off I-10. 😉

    Checked in on the Girls. DIL said they are going to miss us in the morning.

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  42. Chas- I think Jo means that now she is in the US so the daily thread isn’t showing up before she goes to bed like when she was in PNG.

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