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Our Daily Thread 1-31-15

Good Morning!

I took the header photo at the Pet Expo. 🙂

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On this day in 1606 Guy Fawkes was executed after being convicted for his role in the “Gunpowder Plot” against the English Parliament and King James I. 

In 1865 the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The amendment abolished slavery in the United States. It’s also the day General Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of the Confederate armies.  

In 1876 all Native American Indians were ordered to move into reservations. 

And in 1982 Sandy Duncan gave her final performance as “Peter Pan” in Los Angeles, CA. She completed 956 performances without missing a show.

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Quote of the Day

“Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.”

Zane Grey

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 Today is Franz Schubert’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

50 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-31-15”

  2. A lovely woman killed herself yesterday morning leaving family and friends devastated. Two of her daughters are the same age as BG. One of them was at home when it happened
    Yesterday was the same date as her father’s death. Her brother is devastated. They talked every day.
    Her husband was also home. He heard the shot but when he got to her …. Many of us are at a loss of what to say to each other. So so very sad.
    You just don’t know how people are feeling although I will give this warning she had been on an antidepressant one that you have to wean off of. She took herself off cold turkey.
    I know this isn’t the prayer thread but would you please pray for the husband and 7 children and family she left behind.?

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  4. I’m praying for them, Kim.
    Some time ago, pastor Steve had a rabbit chasing session entitled “Is suicide an unpardonable sin?”. He has it online at:

    http://www.rabbitchasing.org

    Click on “Listen” at the top, then click the “Pastor Steve Scoggins” to hear it.
    Several interesting topics there.

    I hope the link works.

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  6. Oh Kim, wow.

    One of my brothers, when he was just a teenager himself (maybe 18 or 19) had a teen girl who worked for him, who went home from work one day to discover her mother had shot her brothers and then herself. My brother didn’t see the scene and wasn’t close to the girl, but I’m not sure he himself ever got over that. Suicide has huge, rippling effects. One of my sisters-in-law lost a brother that way and then, years later, her own mother. Both of them made years of threats before they actually carried through. That same sister-in-law died of cancer, and I wondered if those huge, needless losses might have contributed to her own illness.

    May God comfort you, and may this family know Christ’s love and the comfort of others.

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  7. I was going to ask did “lost a friend” mean death or alienation . . . I guess kind of both. I am sorry for your pain on top of all the rest of it.

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  8. I’m attending a Christian youth workers’ conference this weekend – I’m pretty sure I’m the oldest one there (expect for a couple of the speakers) !!!

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  13. Good Morning…is deleted Donna’s new name?
    Oh Kim what a sad and painful situation….praying for all who loved your precious friend..I don’t think my Daddy ever recovered from the pain of his baby brother taking his own life…they were so close, yet Daddy had no idea of the demons my Uncle Don battled….all the emotions that follow…anger, frustration, sadness, guilt….we know only our Lord can carry us through these times….

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  14. To Cheryl and Karen, I agree with the gist of your comments. I don’t understand the leggings as pants thing. For the average person its not a good look, much better to throw an oversized knit sweater over it. However I do have to admire slightly overweight women who buck societal norms.

    I do think the modesty movement fails to make men accountable and even infantalizes them as helpless children who have no self discipline.

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  15. Deleted is Michelle today and I have no idea why . . . other than my Ipad doesn’t think my name and gravatar should be used. It’s that Apple thing again.

    I agree with HRW about the leggings. They feel GREAT and fun to wear because they, um, hold in jiggles and make you feel sleek and kicky. Kind of like a little girl again, and they’re comfortable.

    I try not to look too closely at big women in them, and while they’re fine under a dress, they’re just not “nice” enough to wear on their own IMHO. Of course, when stopping off to run an errand on the way home from the gym, I don’t think that. 🙂

    I’d kick up my heels and giggle, but I’m feeling this cold slam down and actually, am headed to bed for awhile. I have a lot of work to do today, but just am not feeling clear minded enough to do so with any confidence. 😦

    Maybe I’ll work on my Jeremiah Bible study. A soggy head might make it more understandable. Ha!

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  16. Header — and they’re still being abused, we see. 😉

    Really, cute shot, amazing what you can do with dogs. Such great animals.

    Kim, very sorry, what a horrible thing. Our neighbor shot herself several months after her husband died; her daughter was one of my best friends all through school (we were in our early 30s when this happened), I’m not in touch with her much anymore (she’s in Colorado), but I doubt she ever got over it.

    Hope you’re not getting this flu michelle — yesterday was horrible (again). I think I feel just marginally better today, after sleeping for 13 hours straight. But we’ll see. At least my chest is loosening up, but it is still so painful to cough, I must have pulled a few muscles in there …

    I’m supposed to be back at work Monday, meanwhile. At this point, I’m not sure that’s even going to happen. This virus is a beast.

    Don’t get it.

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  17. “Fever and other symptoms can usually last up to 7 to 10 days, but the cough and weakness may last 1 to 2 weeks longer.”

    So I guess the fact that I’m still running a mild (99.5) fever isn’t abnormal, but sheesh.

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  18. HRW – I’ve also read – & agree with – articles that say that much in the modesty movement seems to blame girls & women for having curves, & can make them feel a bit ashamed of their bodies. There has to be a “happy middle” between putting all the onus on women vs. letting it all hang out.

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  20. Thanks karen, I kind of think the same thing — but I’ve never been out this long before, I will probably have to get another doctor’s note …

    I should have had the original one I had faxed over on Thursday just bump me over a couple additional days beyond Monday, just in case, but I thought surely it would be better than it is by now.

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  21. Sorry to hear how sick my friends are here. 😦

    An ambulance took my across the street elderly neighbor to the hospital yesterday. She had fallen again the night before and may have had a stroke. I need to call and see how things are going.

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  22. I’m pretty sure I’m running a fever, feeling pretty listless. They say the cough lingers for several weeks. 😦

    I’m not coughing and no aches, but I think I’ll be skipping church tomorrow.

    At least I got the 1099s out at work!

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  23. Mire came out today. One of her sons was giving her fits he had gone to stay with his dad in another state and it was ugly.
    We went to see American Sniper today. I don’t care what you belive about war or the people in the middle east I dare you to sir through that movie and not tear up at the end. Chris Kyle probably had many faults but there was a lot of goodness there as well.
    I have never been in the milItaly so I can’t judge.

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  24. Take care michelle, if it is the flu hopefully yours is a milder case.

    I am making progress (my chest finally is loosening up and I actually felt like eating today, made a grilled cheese sandwich for a late lunch/early dinner a little while ago). Drinking lots of water. And 13 hours of sleep helped.

    But it’s very slow going.

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  25. And I was all curled up in the comfy, over-stuffed chair reading “Isaac’s Storm” on my Kindle a little while ago.

    Then I got up to make lunch.

    I see now that the cat has commandeered the chair and taken over my spot. She’s curled up in a tight, black-and-white ball, her face tucked into her tummy, right in the middle of the chair.

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  26. Wow, a lot of bad illness around here, I’m finding out as I catch up on the blog. You guys take care. Sounds like some really nasty stuff.

    There’s a lot of it going around in our area, too; some with colds and flu, some with stomach issues. My husband felt like he was coming down with the upper respiratory stuff earlier this week, but it never materialized, thankfully.

    I’m pretty sure my headache and nausea, for which I requested prayers the other night, was brought on by something I had eaten that afternoon, and exacerbated by the smell of a strong glue my husband had used to fix our wash machine. The headache and sick feeling was gone by morning, however, fortunately. However, later that evening (the night after the headache), my vision in my right eye got weird. I was playing piano, and some of the notes appeared to be partially blocked by a grayish image. I stopped playing, and soon after, wavy patterns appeared in my peripheral vision (on the right side, which was the side that hurt the night before). I thought for sure I was getting a migraine.

    But after maybe a half-hour, my vision was cleared up, I could read again just fine, and I never got a headache.

    Other than that, I haven’t been sick with anything, and neither has my family.

    Thank you, BTW, for all who prayed for me Wednesday night, or after my request.

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  27. Hubby is visiting his dad today in the care center where he is. Yesterday was his 86th birthday. We wanted to celebrate his birthday today, when most of his eight children would be available (not the one who lives in a distant state, but hubby and the six in-state relatives).

    The staff told the family ahead of time, though, that only my mother-in-law and the eight “children” would be allowed because of there being so much flu and stuff around. So no grandchildren or spouses of the children.

    Hubby called home a while ago and said all but one of the in-state siblings were there today, and the wife of one of the sons came, too.

    Second Arrow is back around our area this weekend to attend the wedding of her former boss, so she swung over to the hospital to visit her grandpa. She’s kind of a rebel. 😉 She’s an adult, though, and, living fairly far away, she should be able to visit him when she’s in the area, if she’s healthy. (And she is, or she wouldn’t have come back this weekend.)

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  28. How very sad to read of the recent suicides you were talking about, Michelle and Kim. A young man we knew committed suicide the same way your husband’s former boss did, Michelle. Very troubling. He was a senior in high school at the time, and had been a good friend of my daughter’s. He’d been homeschooled for some of his earlier years, so we knew him through homeschool social activities. (He was also the brother of a former piano student of mine.)

    We went to his memorial service, and so many of his classmates talked about how he would always be there for them in their troubles, trying to console them and help them through their problems.

    I’m afraid that sometimes that deep need to help others that some feel makes it more difficult to ask for help when their own needs and emotions run very deep. To always want to be in the role of helper, rather than reveal one’s own need for help.

    There had been a fairly high-profile suicide in our area a number of weeks, or maybe a few months, before this young man’s death. That individual had been a motivational speaker, speaking to student groups and others. He also had ended his life on the railroad tracks. 😦

    Such a tragedy suicide is, with very far-reaching consequences, as others have rightly noted.

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  29. I sometimes worry that my Chrissy could someday be prone to want to commit suicide. I know she has had suicidal thoughts in the past. (Then again, so have I, & probably many of us here.) She feels very deeply, & when she gets upset, she gets very upset. I pray for God to protect her from taking those thoughts too seriously, or from acting on them. May she turn to Him whenever she finds herself in despair.

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  31. No church today. Last year we had three cancellations, and my husband said those were the first in the several years they’d attended that church. But last year we got snow every single weekend for the first 10 or 12 weeks of the year, and this is our first big weekend snow. But it’s a biggie, with roughly a foot expected. It actually isn’t snowing right now, though we have several inches on the ground and several more hours of inch-an-hour snow expected.

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  32. We’re expecting our next big snowstorm, which sounds similar to yours, Cheryl, to begin tonight, with heavy snowfall (1″ – 2″ per hour) throughout the night & through most of tomorrow.

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  33. Visible fog rolling in this morning on the West Coast. I could see it on the move, billowing past my open bedroom window. Looks like we’re in our 4th year of drought. 😦

    No church for me today, I’m still way too symptomatic and worn out to boot. We have a guest in the pulpit today, Dr. E. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance ( http://www.cornwallalliance.org ), who has spoken at our church before, described as “a scholar on the application of Christian worldview, theology, and ethics to economics, government, environmental stewardship, and public policy.”

    His text was to be portions from Ps. 104:

    Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. … May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works, who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke! I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD.

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  34. Isn’t there a big football game today?

    Posted by one of our ministerial staffers this morning on FB: “God First. Then Family. Then Community. Then Football.”

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  38. I feel better for about an hour after I eat, so I had breakfast and went to church, where I sat in the dark choir loft by myself to avoid contaminating anyone. Made it through the sermon and came home where I’m slowing down considerably.

    I was there long enough, however, to see this occur (FB friends have seen it already)

    Today in the children’s message at church the pastor used three photographs to help the dozen children understand fame. He held up one photo and only one kid recognized President Obama!
    (Incredulous laughter in the congregation)
    The second picture was a man I didn’t know, but four boys flung up their hands immediately.
    Tom Brady.
    A quarterback?
    All 12 got Jesus.
    Including me.

    Fading away, though I did get a great idea to work into the Egypt section of my interminable book . . .

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  40. I have this great mental picture of michelle in oversized sunglasses, gloves and wide-brimmed hat, looking rather Audrey Hepburn like, sitting alone — and looking very mysterious — in the dark upper reaches of the church …

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  41. I remember when sports seasons didn’t overlap. You had very distinct football, basketball & baseball seasons, all quite separate and distinct.

    Now it’s all just a hodgepodge of everything, all the time.

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  44. Karen that’s great

    I decided to get the dogs out to the dog park, I’m sick of being sick, but it’s pretty deserted, everyone must be watching the Super Bowl. Nice just to be outdoors, though, in the fresh cool air.

    It’s been a very long week

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  46. We are officially washing dishes in the bathroom sink, which makes me happy because it means the kitchen counter and lower cabinets are being ripped out and the new large window put in and the dishwasher installed!!!

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  47. Karen O, praying that buyer comes through for Lee’s route!

    Kare2012 — progress, yay!

    Progress report from here is that I almost have my solo memorized for the spring piano show I’ll be playing in toward the end of April. It’s so much easier to “hear myself” when I’m not tied to notes on a page. It’s easier for me to get the expressive aspects of the music just the way I want them without the music in front of me.

    The music is becoming very enjoyable to me now. Well, I did always sort of like it 😉 but even more so now.

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  48. We got our first big snow this weekend. We were visiting D1 and our former church as some missionaries we know were there. They changed the meeting to last night instead of this morning because of the predicted snow. Over there (west form home ~70 miles) there were 8-10″ by this afternoon. Mrs L. and I drove home, leaving at 2:00 expecting slow going, but the roads were just wet with occasional patches of drifted snow. I still drove slower because of possible black ice, and took a longer route since the normal one is a secondary road that isn’a as good in snow as the longer route. We got home in a little over two hours, when it normally takes just under 1 1/2. There was less snow here, only about 4″. I am thinking I’ll get a no school call in the morning as the wind has picked up.

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