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Our Daily Thread 1-30-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

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On this day in 1649 England’s King Charles I was beheaded. 

In 1844 Richard Theodore Greener became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.  

In 1933 Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor. 

And in 1948 Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered.

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Quote of the Day

“In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.”

Francis Schaeffer

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 On this day in 1956 Elvis recorded this….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lZM0eSPHI&feature=player_detailpage&x-yt-cl=85027636&x-yt-ts=1422503916

And on this day in 1969 the Beatles made their last public appearance as a group, on a rooftop.

The performance was for the movie “Let It Be.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=85027636&v=en-liwDGzaw&feature=player_detailpage&x-yt-ts=1422503916

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Anyone have a QoD?

52 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-30-15”

  4. Good Morning….oh Kim I am so sorry to hear you,too, are sick. Hoping it isn’t Donna’s flu! Remember everyone to use your Purell before typing on your laptops…or touching the screen on your ipads…seems as though it just might be catching 🙂 Praying for quick recovery for you and Donna ❤ Morning Ann…I've been missing around here too…I need to go back and catch up

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  5. IT’S FRIDAY!
    You know what that means?
    I need to go re-read Kim’s confession. I only caught that she ain’t thirty no more. But we knew that.
    And that she has a treasure stashed away in Barbados.
    OK so I’m exaggerating a bit.
    but I do need to go back and read it. 😉

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  9. Or maybe the Mickey Mouse Club or Spanky and Our Gang. Any suggestions?

    I was just on the Georgia state government site looking up telephone numbers for my Representative and Senator at state level. The first thing that appeared was a flu report for the state. It said we now have minimal cases, but said people still need to be careful since it is still out there.

    Feel better sooner rather than later, Kim and Donna.

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  10. Of course, the issue is not WHAT was lied about, but WHY. That helps open up some real discussion. Prayers for good discussion that leads to even greater intimacy and love for you, Kim.

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  14. Some of the funnies comment on the deflated footballs in the AFC championship game. One of the others in my carpool is a referee on Friday nights, and says the whole thing is questionable, since the refs on the field should have noticed the reduced air pressure, since at least one of the refs holds the ball every play.

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  16. Go ahead and laugh Chas. I laughed when I read your comment.
    It isn’t often that I use being the adult daughter of an alcoholic mother as an excuse for why I do things but as I was driving home last night the reason for the money thing came to me in a rush of memories.
    Some one once said of my mother that daddy brought the money in the back door with a teaspoon and mother hauled it out the front door wit a tablespoon. I grew up with everything I wanted and a lot I didn’t want. When daddy finally realized the hole he was in financially he took charge in a brutal way . There was no money. He gave me 100 dollars to buy clothes to go to public school at Christmas he gave me another 100 that I thought was to buy other people gifts so I did. It was really all he was able to give ME for Christmas.
    Ex husband is still the poorest man in America and there is never any m I new with him. This is still evidenced be the texts I star getting around the 6th day of every month wanting to no when I can make a deposit in his checking account (it is child support money and I agree that it should go with BG).
    We all know the financial mess I got myse l f into when the bubble burst. Through it all and all the embarrassment of it I just thought if I could have a litake money hidden I could breathe.

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  17. I am sure there is a way to make sure that you have a little money of your own, so that you can feel a little more secure, Kim. Nothing wrong with that. You may find down the road it was totally unnecessary. That will be a good thing.

    It is interesting to think about why we do things or why something seems so important to us . Years ago, I reacted strongly to my father making fun of my daughter’s fear of a bee. As I later thought about it, I realized that, as a child, I was not ‘allowed’ to express (or admit) those feelings. It was an eye-opener for me.

    A woman in a diet group with me told us she realized she was still eating as if she were at a table with all her brothers. She had to eat what was there quickly or her brothers would gobble it up. It was a new thought to her, that all her food would not be GONE if she chose not to eat it at that time. She could leave it for later. (I realize if you have teenage boys this may not be true!)

    Sometimes the knowledge helps make some good changes to our behavior AND our thinking.

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  19. The whole air pressure thing is a joke.

    Not only should the refs have noticed it on the field, they inspected them pre-game. Or did they just give them a cursory glance and if something was up, they should have caught it.

    Second, even when the refs changed the ball at halftime because the Colts whined, it didn’t matter. The Pats were up 17-7 at half. After the change to the other “correctly inflated” balls, the Pats beat up on them 28-0 in the second half.

    The Colts lost because they have no defense and their offense is suspect. They weren’t the best team that day, regardless of air pressure.

    That being said, I’m predicting Sunday will be “The Tom Brady Show.” He’ll win his record tying 4th Super Bowl, as well as his, I think 3rd MVP. He’s good, maybe the best in this generation. If he wins, he’ll be 4-2 in the only game that matters.

    His only knock is he can’t beat Eli and my Giants in the Super Bowl. 🙂

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  21. AJ- Agreed. And the weather conditions affecting the balls was a joke as well. Why didn’t the Colts’ balls deflate?

    Anonymous- The air pressure in a ball matters because if it is under-inflated it is easier to hold because it is softer.

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  22. I have a tummy bug. I ate something that did not agree with me.
    Now g I r a fun story. One of the lover of my life aka my 6th grade boyfriend who still holds the record for the largest heart box of chocolates I have ever received is a make up artist in that other LA (my home of Lower Alabama being one too) . Several years ago we were joking and texting photoa among the four of us and my conttiburon that da ay was to walk out on the beach and take “thong shot” which was my fwet in a pair of thon sandals. G very quickly sent a photo of Blue Suede Shoes for LMP. He was going to do Lisa Marie Presley’s make up for a photo shoot or interview and was wearing his blue suede shoes. He won that day and I had thought me in a thong on the beach was so much more clever 😉

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  23. I seem to have some issues with my phone. G was never a lover of mine although I do love him bunches just not That way
    we used to plan to retire and grow old together. He wou l d wear a seersucker suit with a bow tie and white buck shoes. We had not planned my wardrobe just that my makeup would be flawless every day. We were going to sit on the veranda and gossip.
    Now we will have to incorporate Mr P into the plan. Perhaps he can make us behave

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  24. This morning the cat, Miss Bosley, got let out of the bag.

    The wind has been up with a cold front that blew in overnight. When I was going out to put the litter box clumps in the garbage can at the street I saw an empty plastic grocery bag swirling in the wind in our yard. I determined to catch it, not minding looking like a fool running around the yard trying to catch a bag that would momentarily settle only to rise up and fly again as I almost got it. By the fourth try I nabbed it. It was clean so I brought it in to put with my collection that I use for clump removal. Well, as stated before, anything new that comes into our house is automatically assumed by Miss Bosley to belong to her. I heard her rattle a bag. Then she took off like a streak, up the stairs, down, and all around the house. She was running so fast that I could not tell if she had captured the bag in her mouth or if it had captured her. I tend to think she thought it captured her and she was unsuccessfully running to get away from it. Finally the bag was left down on the floor and Miss Bosley did not hang around to see if the bag was okay.

    Lively morning with an empty grocery bag that acted like it had been resurrected and brought to life by the wind. 🙂

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  25. Chas (8:49), lol

    I decided I was near death last night. Feeling only marginally less so this morning. This thing really whips you. Thankfully the prescription cough medicine allowed me to sleep, but at one point I was up at around 4 a.m., I think, and coughed so hard (from the toes up, it seems) while I was walking through the hallway to the bathroom that I almost went down on my knees in pain.

    More cough syrup.

    You’re only supposed to take it at night, but I took another does here at 10 a.m. when I got up and (again) was still getting rib-crushing, painful coughing jags.

    Oh, and in between coughing there now seems to be a cat living in my chest who “mews” every time i breathe in, very Alien-like. I’m not kidding when i say I actually thought it was Annie next to me in bed the first time I heard it.

    Took me a few breaths to realize it was just me wheezing.

    Took my Tamaflu this morning … maybe by tomorrow I’ll turn a corner. It can’t last forever (but I did see where it’s now considered to be spreading at epidemic speed in the country).

    And, no, I didn’t get the flu shot, I’m very hit-and-miss with those anyway (since I don’t often get the flu) and this year’s sounded like it completely missed the mark in terms of the strain that’s now going around.

    Still, I may be a little better at getting it in the future, provided it looks like they’ve accurately targeted the strain. This has been really miserable.

    I’m anticipating a weekend in bed, pretty much, hoping I’ll be well enough to drag back to work on Monday.

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  27. The secret to financial peace is don’t spend more money than you have. It can be done.
    We started out as a family living in an 8 X 35 ft. house trailer. I was fortunate to have a thrifty wife. I got a job for $1.45/hr part time at the USDA Soil Conservation service and Elvera got a job as a secretary for NYLIC insurance company. We were doing ok until those words, “Charlie, I think I’m pregnant”. I always remember those as life changing words
    But it worked out. It took me 4.5 years to get a three year degree.
    When Elvera went back to work, we always put her money in a separate bank account. Her money was always hers. The reason for that is because we determined to live off whatever I made because we didn’t want another pregnancy to be so disruptive. So all the living expenses came from my salary. We used hers for vacations, she bought her car, and clothes, etc. But all living expenses were mine. It worked well.
    Bottom line? We are comfortably retired. I have a fairly good annuity, but all the money in the family belongs to her. i.e. I used my money to live on and send Chuck to school. She saved hers. She still has her own accounts. (But I mostly manage them. She would have every penny in a checking account if was left to her.)

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  28. I started out explaining something, but my mind went astray and I said more than I should, and meant to do. I meant to say, they credit is your enemy. Except for a house, maybe a car, everything should be pay-as-you go.. I use a credit card for convenience because I seldom carry more than $30.00 in cash. But I pay the bill every month.
    I learned that from my dad. He didn’t do that. He was an electrician and made a good working man’s salary. But he was always broke. He always had a late model car but never owned one. He misunderstood money. He thought it was a medium of exchange. i.e. You use it to buy things. What money really is, is a store of value. That perception changes the way you handle it.

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  29. Yesterday afternoon my husband and I saw “Unbroken.” As background, I read the book and watched for the movie to come out; I’ve been wanting to see it since before it came out. Meanwhile my husband knew about it only (or at least mainly) from me, so I guess he was sort of humoring me.

    He and I usually see maybe one movie a year. I guess I mean he and I separately saw about one movie a year. The year before I met him was a rare year in which I saw two, though I might have had another year or two like that in the first two or three years after college. Still, I saw my first movie at 18 and I’ll be 48 later this year, and I have seen fewer than 30 movies in the theater. He and I saw two together year before last, and he saw an additional one with our older daughter. He also saw one with his sister and brother-in-law last year.

    But I wanted to see “Unbroken”; we saw “The Hobbit” in December and it had a trailer for “Paddington,” which we plan to see next week; and my husband saw some write-ups on “The Imitation Game,” which we saw Tuesday. Add some lost-in-space flick that we saw a few months ago, and it looks like we’ll have seen five films in less than that many months. And I finally had my first-ever movie popcorn (it’s $2 on Tuesdays).

    Anyway, “Unbroken” was intense but very good. He said it isn’t one he would want to see again (and I agree); once is enough. But it was very well done. And I often have a bit of a hard time following a movie story line even if I have read the book (if it varies too much from the book), but on this one I remembered a lot of it from the book, and remembered brutal stuff from the book that wasn’t seen in the film. I did think the way they handled his “conversion” was wimpy, as they simply made it his own resolve to keep a promise and not God’s converting and strengthening him. I suppose they decided he was the good guy and didn’t need repentance and conversion! But that’s sort of a minor gripe, considering the film was told by unbelievers and naturally they wouldn’t understand. It deserved every bit of its PG-13 rating and was hard to watch (though indeed most of the violence was off-screen), but it was good and worth seeing.

    When we saw the film we saw on Tuesday, we asked how much longer “Unbroken” would be around, and the manager said it’s consistently doing well, so probably another two or three weeks. Remember it was a Christmas day release, so it has obviously been a success.

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  30. The subject of Dave Ramsey’s books came up on a Facebook discussion yesterday. The original post was kind of making fun of some top-selling “Christian” books. One of those mentioned was Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover.

    In the comments, some said that Ramsey’s book shouldn’t be considered a Christian book because it is merely wise advice with some scriptures sprinkled here & there. Others (like me) said they believed that it can be considered a Christian book because the advice he gives is indeed biblical advice.

    Here’s the link to the post that was shared (by the lady we used to know here as Cameron)…

    http://adam4d.com/2014-bestsellers/

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  31. FWIW, Ramsey, himself, doesn’t consider it a Christian book. I happen to know that because he was recently talking about his latest one, “The Legacy Journey,” and said that it was the first Christian book he’s written.

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  32. Cheryl– skip Paddington. There are clever scenes with Paddington but the movie is ruined by the Nicole Kidman subplot that has nothing to do with the books. Indeed, I couldn’t believe this skin-tight dressed vixen was standing over Paddington with a knife, ready to kill him so she could stuff him for a museum. What has that got to do with the charm of this whimsical bear?

    I’m sorry I took the adorable grandchildren to see it.

    And is it appropriate to have this villain knocked off a roof in a snowstorm, even if she is inappropriately threatening the entire hero family, and have people cheer and laugh?

    Left a very sour taste in my mouth. I won’t take the adorables to see another movie I haven’t screened in advance. 😦

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  33. Eeek, karenO. Scary link.

    Just goes to show that anything can become idolatry, even for christians, including good things like maintaining “happy” relationships & using sound money management principles.

    That’s not the gospel.

    A top reading list for Christians just shouldn’t look like that. 😦

    Glad you enjoyed “Unbroken,” cheryl — I had a similar take on it — I thought it was well-cast and well-executed, definitely worth seeing.

    The book was better and I, too, felt the conversion wasn’t well articulated, unfortunately, although that wasn’t a surprise. I think it was a World Magazine link that pointed out how unbelievers don’t really understand conversion, it’s a foreign language, of sorts, it’s something that really doesn’t speak to them. So it was clearly a difficult part of the story for filmmakers to deal with. Personal courage and overcoming odds they understand; God’s strength displayed despite human weakness isn’t easily grasped from the outside.

    I was flipping through the earlier book written by Louie himself (with a ghost/co-writer), “Devil at My Heels,” and was interested to see how adamant he was about his Christian conversion being kept in any future film made of his life; if I remember right, he even said he’d turned down a couple proposals because that wouldn’t be part of the story.

    But he seemed to have a lot of trust in Jolie & the producer this time around; I suspect he’d have wanted something a bit stronger in the end, but … I suspect God will use the film either way. 🙂

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  34. Michelle, is that much different than 101 Dalmatians? We aren’t taking any minors to see it, and it does seem that most films (most stories) have a villain. Thanks for the heads-up; we would definitely be careful if we were taking children. (I honestly don’t think most movies are fit for children, personally, including most of the ones made with them in mind.)

    I haven’t read the book(s), actually, so “different from the books” won’t bother me, though it does when I have read the book.

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  35. The books are all about this whimsical bear trying to adapt to British modern life. He walks around with a suitcase full of marmalade sandwiches and falls into one silly escapade after another. Light, comfortable and somewhat based on the misunderstandings children themselves have.

    The beginning is just that way and we laughed and thought, “hey, this will be fun.” But as soon as Nicole Kidman arrived on the scene it was downhill and the fun disappeared. Fortunately, I doubt many children in the audience, and certainly not ours, understand was a taxidermist is.

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  36. BTW, wash your hands when you’re done at the computer. I’m pretty sure I’m coming down with Donna’s cold. I just hope that’s all it is, but I’ve got movies and novels to last the weekend just in case this turns bad. 😦

    No flu shot for me, either.

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  38. Michelle, I’m pretty convinced I have the flu, not a cold — fever (as of last night still, I haven’t taken my temperature today), muscle aches, constant headache, rib-crushing cough, complete fatigue, no voice anymore … I’m next to dead. Really. 😉 And now the sinus congestion is starting, along with scary sneezes.

    I have gotten caught up (almost) on my Bible reading when I’ve felt up to doing that — but mostly it’s been reruns of “Blue Bloods.”

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  39. Michelle, it sounds like they were changing it from a G movie that would appeal to children into a PG movie that would appeal to teens and adults (but wouldn’t be as good a movie). That’s too bad. Our older daughter has been looking forward to it since we saw the trailer, and my sister-in-law thought it hilarious, so I imagine we’ll still see it, but maybe with lowered expectations. As far as I’m concerned, something made for children can still be excellent, and I’ve never understood the desire to “adulterate” children’s fare, but that is what is usually done today.

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  42. Anonymous – From what I have seen, that poor lady has been ridiculed up one side & down the other. She never said that all women should stop wearing yoga pants & leggings, just that she felt convicted to not do so unless she also wore a long shirt that covered her derriere.

    One blogger wrote in her defense that it is a shame that any call for modesty these days is ridiculed, or deemed judgmental.

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  43. Cheryl- I’ve read the original 101 Dalmatians book and the movies are like it in that Cruella De Ville really does want to skin the dogs and make their pelts into clothing. Actually, I found both movies rather tame compared to the books.

    But with Paddington there is not any hint of an evil subplot in the books. It is all whimsical fun and it is a shame that this society cannot laugh at funny stories without having something “evil” to draw them to the theater. Read a few of the books sometime. You will enjoy them.

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  45. HRW, I don’t think anyone is saying men’s behavior is a woman’s responsibility . . . but women’s behavior is.

    Actually I think the “men in suits make me lust” is a creative piece that points out the absurdity of the extremes of the modesty police. (I was trying to think of a noun there to go with “modesty” to point out that some modesty fans are extreme; not all are.) When people insist that any woman who shows her shoulders is being immodest and is trying to attract male attention, they’re going overboard.

    At the same time, pointing out that today’s skin-tight pants aren’t exactly discreet isn’t an extreme statement. The last three or four years, I’ve bought most of my clothes a couple sizes bigger than I actually wear just to get them “loose” enough to be modest. Only my husband sees me in outfits that suit today’s fashions. I’ll be glad when this particular trend is over. Of course, when it is over, we’ll be back to super-short skirts, or deeply plunged blouses, or some other choice to show as much as possible of some part of the female anatomy.

    No thanks.

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  46. HRW – I agree with what Cheryl has written. Some of the modesty movement (if that’s what it is) has gone overboard, & often puts the onus on women rather than on men. But women should also try to at least be a bit careful about what they are showing to the world.

    One thing about the skin-tight style that has surprised me over the past few years is how even heavy girls wear tight shirts & pants. As one who has always been overweight to some degree or another, I always thought we chubby girls were supposed to wear things a bit looser, so as not to show our “rolls”. 🙂

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  47. Rough afternoon and evening. Lost a friend today. Several of us now have a pact to reach out to each other. Will share more tomorrow. In the meantime don’t anybody do anything stupid.

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  48. I thought the same thing about the movie, “Unbroken.” The emphasis was clearly on Louie being strong. I think it just reflects the world view of those who made the movie. They just cannot conceive the reality of biblical salvation. Sadly, such thinking can just hurt those who realize they are not strong. Sometimes, they just give up, instead of looking up.

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  49. An explosive device was found at my grandson’s school today. Fortunately, a student found the device, which had a counter on it that was counting down. It was in a bathroom. The students and staff were safely evacuated and the device dismantled. I am so grateful that no one was hurt or killed. I will be interested to hear the motive. It seemed quite sophisticated to me.

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  50. Part of the challenge also is the medium itself, kathaleena — it’s hard to portray biblical salvation on film, I think, especially one so action packed as the zamperini story.

    The action naturally takes center stage and you don’t have the nuances and character development that can be explored so much more naturally & deeply in book form.

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  52. They arrested someone, Donna. I am sure they will be able to find out a lot.

    I agree, Donna. A movie is limited in some ways. Also, it stopped the story when a lot of that would have taken place.

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