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Our Daily Thread 3-9-15

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from Kim.

And I believe today is Janice and her husband Art’s 30th Anniversary!

Congratulations! 🙂

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On this day in 1788 Connecticut became the 5th state to join the United States.  

In 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon flight in North America. The event was witnessed by President George Washington.  

In 1822 Charles M. Graham received the first patent for artificial teeth. 

In 1863 General Ulysses Grant was appointed commander-in-chief of the Union forces. 

And in 1965 the first U.S. combat troops arrived in South Vietnam. 

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Quote of the Day

“Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.”

Mickey Spillane

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 For Janice and her husband. And I insist they play it and dance at some point today. 🙂

And it’s Mickey Gilley’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

58 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-9-15”

  1. Good morning. If no one jumps in while I’m typing, “First!”
    Donna and 6: Thanks for the shampoo idea; I just ordered it on Amazon.
    Anon: I read “The Beloved Daughter” recently; it is excellent but hard to read.

    I am worried sick about my cat, Bruce (and he is MY cat); he is just laying on a chair – didn’t follow me to the bathroom, nag me for treats, or eat any when I put them down.

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  2. AJ! Thank you. I have searched for the Anniversary Song for years. It was on an album my parents owned. Somehow when my mother redecorated the cabinet stereo ended up in my room and I played all sorts of music growing up. I don’t know that it was Pat Boone singing it…seems like it was a woman…but this is the same tune.

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  3. Does anyone have a recipe for potato & hot dog soup? I found a couple online but none seem to look like the soup my mother used to make. Any favorites out there? I’d like to make it for this week’s Lenten soup supper.

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  4. This is a section of my weaving. I went prepared with the prayer Janice helped me write so it is further down in the beginning of the weave. The one you see there in the gold and lavender is an additional prayer I wrote giving BG back to God.
    The back ground of the weave is green because that is the color of ordinary time in the liturgical calendar and we spend so much of our lives in ordinary time.
    It was so interesting to see what the women wove in. Everyone there got as many times at the loom as they wished. There is even a prayer for all of you. When it is finished and hemmed it will hang in the prayer room at my church.

    A wonderful young woman came from Nashville to lead our worship music. She brought her best friend from NYC who played the violin. This young woman has a food blog called the Yellow Table and has written a beautiful cookbook by the same name. The yellow table was her mothers and she grew up around it and loving to cook. For college graduation her mother gave her the table which is now in the apartment in New York.

    One of the songs that was sung touched me deeply. I am going to post two videos, one of the woman who led our music and another of the song and it’s writer. You can google The Yellow Table blog if you would like to know more about that.

    It was a great time for me and I loved it. There is a prayer request on the prayer thread for today and tomorrow.

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  7. It’s a pretty rug Kim. But I don’t know what lavender is. I think it’s a kind of purple.

    We’re back early. I was at the Y, just started my workout when Shirley (lady at the front desk) came back and said somebody wanted me on the phone.
    I couldn’t imagine who would know I was there and want me so earl yin the morning. You really worry for a few seconds. But I went to the phone.
    It was Mel, Elvera’s bro-in-law. He said our security alarm went off and the company couldn’t reach me, so they called him and said the police were on the way. So. We came back home.
    I met the sheriff on the way back. He said everything was OK.
    I told him that I was sorry for the commotion.
    He said, It’s ok. It’s his job.
    I’m sorry for the commotion, but our alarm system got it’s first real work out. I’m happy about that.
    Elvera called her sister, Polly, to tell her that everything is OK. They’ve been talking about 20 minutes now. Another 20 before it’s over.
    No! She just finished. Record time.

    When I was in the Air Force, I read every book Mickey Spillane wrote.
    He has since converted, became a Christian and retired to an island off the SC coast.

    I did a lot of reading in in those days. I always took a book on a flight because, as a radio operator, my task only took about five minutes out of every hour.

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  8. Mumsee, I see in today’s Times-News that the EPA is banning wood fires because they pollute. But it also says that Michigan and Missouri aren’t going to help them enforce the ruling.
    I suspect that any EPA enforcer who shows up in Idaho or Montana is likely to be shot.

    If I were an EPA wood fire enforcer, I would stay in Miami, New Orleans or Loa Angeles.

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  9. What shampoo suggestion?

    Chas, banning wood fires nationwide, or what? Sorry, they can’t do that–and it’s silly to try!

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  13. I have been thinking about the discussion about salvation. Someone had a quote about living as though you are not ‘once saved, always saved.’ I think that is a big mistake. The gospel is the power for salvation. I do not believe that means just at the moment of salvation. Learning to live in the reality of that and all that brings into your life is more powerful than any puny effort on our part. We receive the Holy Spirit. We are to decrease (or die to self) as He increases. As we renew our minds with scripture (and the help of the Holy Spirit), we will more and more walk in the Spirit. We realize more and more the truth about the flesh and the devil: that we are not slaves to them anymore, but to God.

    More and more I see sin in my life, but it show me more and more the utter greatness of that gift of salvation. I have more and more gratitude to the Lord. It is precisely realizing it is salvation by faith that frees me to really live as I ought. That thought and the more I realize all that is given with this gift stops me short, just as ordering the cheapest meal (in spite of what I really want) after inheriting a million dollars should.

    I realize this is a huge discussion and don’t want to argue about it. Just want to leave some more food for thought. I need to be off for an appointment now.

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  14. Chas, did you read the sequel to Agenda 21? Firewood burning is definitely restricted in towns and we gave up our old really good wood stove for a federally approved one. It is nice and it keeps the house warm (above forty in most places) but it is not hot like the other. It is also safer with children as touching it does not result in instant burning.

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  15. In Sunday School yesterday, we were discussing being a slave to sin and becoming a slave to Christ. The pastor commented that that sounded kind of harsh to give up one slavery for another but I pointed out that over the years, slavery to Christ has been a wonderful thing. He agreed, but to the casual observer who seeks freedom, it does not sound good.

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  17. Kathaleena: I agree with you. I delight in the idea of “once saved, always saved.” It gives me great comfort when I massively mess up. And, I’m so grateful the Holy Spirit didn’t reveal all my sin to me at once–I couldn’t have dealt with it all–but, rather, reveals it over time as one grows closer to Jesus.

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  18. 🙂 I finally got my SSA-1099. I went over to the office and they printed one for me.
    I know all of you were worried about that.
    So. That’s taken care of. You can worry about wood fires destroying the environment now.

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  19. Ann go to Moonshine for lunch.

    Kathaleena and others. I am the one who wrote that I was taught to “Believe once saved always saved, but live like you can lose your salvation”
    What it was was a way to end an endless argument. Believe with your whole heart that you are always saved, but that doesn’t give you a license to go out and do as you please.
    Just because I prayed the sinner’s prayer in 5th grade doesn’t mean that I haven’t sinned and have been Pollyanna perfect my entire life.
    Just as I was born into the Black family, there have been times I had nothing to do with my father’s family…it doesn’t make me NOT a member. I will always be a member of that family no matter what I do. Upon salvation I was adopted into the family of God. My choices determine whether I am an active participating member of the family or not. I can’t be UN-adopted. I can choose to live in communion with the family or I can choose not to but my obituary will always read Kimberley (nee’ Black) …..

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  20. We frequently have “blackout” days where “they” say we can’t burn wood in our fireplace due to the pollution levels. I suspected it would become full time, all the time, in pretty short order.

    I don’t often use my fireplace, but it does seem to have a gas hookup (though you need a gas log then, and those are expensive — that’s a business that will do well from now on, I suppose, so maybe we should all buy stock in that).

    shampoo: Shikai — http://www.shikai.com/products/color_reflect.htm

    chas, maybe your pet rock set that alarm off. You don’t know what he does when you’re gone.

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  21. Linda, hope your kitty feels better — maybe just an off day? Cats are hard to read sometimes.

    Kim, I think that’s why we’re also told in Scripture to examine ourselves and to make sure of our calling. If we find ourselves seriously wandering or adrift, it is cause for us to re-examine whether or not we truly believe and ever were in the faith at all — sobering, indeed.

    Beautiful wall hanging, by the way. 🙂 Sounds like you had a good time.

    Now I want to see what that yellow table looks like, nice story.

    Happy anniversary Janice (who’s probably doing fierce battle with Bosely right about now, stuffing her into that carrier for the trip to the vet … )

    One word: Bactine.

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  22. In other words, it’s fair to ask ourselves in those times if we’re a wheat or a tare — for it is, as we know, possible to outwardly appear to be one of God’s family — going to church, outwardly professing & conforming — but have it all be superficial, never worrying much about the true state of our souls.

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  25. Happy Anniversary, Janice and Art!
    The radio station we listened to growing up used to play the Anniversary Song every once in a while. The tune is based on a piece of light classic music, a waltz called “The Waves of the Danube”. I have the sheet music for both the waltz and the Anniversary Song. I sometimes play the latter for my parents; it is in one of those old Reader’s Digest Anthologies of popular songs. I wish they still published them. My piano teacher used to have the whole set which we frequently borrowed, and she told me that she wanted me to have her sheet music when she died. However, when she died, all her estate gave to us was a set of classical music records (yes, real records). It would have been useful to have had the sheet music, as I sometimes get asked to play for one thing or another, and having a stock of the oldies helped to cover any gaps.

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  27. Thank you for the song, AJ, and anniversary wishes, y’all.

    Miss Bosle went gently into her carrier. I should have known it was going too smoothly. She hardly meowed on the twenty minute trip. Another warning of saved up trouble.

    The visit ended up being traumatic for us both. The nice vet could tell Bosley was keyed up. I just thought she was her usual self. But when getting ready to do her shots they decided after some hissing to put something like a space helmet on her and hold her wrapped inside a towel to protect from biting and scratching. Well, I have never heard such a lot of growls, yowls, and suffering from a cat. Finally I even whimpered as I got teared up. And they had only managed one shot and trimming her scratchy claws. The vet suggested for me to bring her back next week for her two other shots…after giving her anxiety medication.
    She also gave me a syringe of some med to give her today (oral med) to help with muscle soreness from the big fight she was in as they tried to restrain her.

    She stayed under my chair hiding for a bit, but then went gently into the carrier for our ride home. I have never experienced a vet appt. like that. The vet is great, my favorite ever, and cats are her specialty.

    What a day it has been. I am afraid to try and give the oral med to Boz. She is enjoying a nap in my lap now.

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  29. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been reading through the writings of the early church. I’ve got to Justin Martyr (c.110-165 A.D.), who was educated in Roman philosophy before he became a Christian. His extant writings include two Apologies, written to two Roman emperors, pleading for Christians to be treated with justice (it seems that at that time, it was a crime even to be called a Christian) and using Roman philosophy to argue for that justice. I’m reading the first, written to Emperor Antoninus Pius, and I thought this passage was apt for this time of year:

    And everywhere we, more readily than all men, endeavour to pay to those appointed by you the taxes both ordinary and extraordinary, as we have been taught by Him; for at that time some came to Him and asked Him, if one ought to pay tribute to Cæsar; and He answered, “Tell Me, whose image does the coin bear?” And they said, “Cæsar’s.” And again He answered them, “Render therefore to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Whence to God alone we render worship, but in other things we gladly serve you, acknowledging you as kings and rulers of men, and praying that with your kingly power you be found to possess also sound judgment. But if you pay no regard to our prayers and frank explanations, we shall suffer no loss, since we believe (or rather, indeed, are persuaded) that every man will suffer punishment in eternal fire according to the merit of his deed, and will render account according to the power he has received from God, as Christ intimated when He said, “To whom God has given more, of him shall more be required.”

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  30. time to fly with these ‘children’ back to Portland. Prayers for the flight appreciated. Also, my van had battery trouble last night, so I may have to purchase a new battery today. I hope to fly home tonight.
    A very long day.
    I turned the tv on this morning so I could pack while they watched !!

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  33. I tried holding Annie once to give her a liquid medicine.

    She flew out of my arm, knocking the medicine out of my hand and all over the floor.

    I’ve learned since that the easiest way with a syringe is to grab them gently by the scruff of the neck and shoot it into the side of the mouth. Do not — repeat, do not — try to pick her up to medicate.

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  38. Yes, Paul talks in Romans about whether or not one can just go off and sin. He was accused of teaching that and rejected the notion.

    Many people here heat their homes with fire. We used to do so, but needed an alternative heat source more reliable. We relied on it at the time; cutting free wood designated by my husband’s former employer. It can save people a lot of money. Many will go cold if they cannot use wood. A resource is also wasted.

    Having a family with a history of asthma, I do realize the clean air issues. I argued with my dad about whether his wood fire was good for his health. He enjoyed it immensely until he died. I am sure he felt any detriment was well worth it. Whether one is in the country or a crowded neighborhood would make a difference. Often, though, bureaucrats seem to fix what really is not broken. Or they try to make things more perfect than they need to be.

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  39. Well, Mumsee, if I can catch a mouse, I can do that trick of getting Bosley to take her medicine the easy way. Thank you for that idea. It also solves the problem of Bosley going after the tv. Do they still sell mice in pet stores? I would be more likely to catch one of those. 🙂

    I was still feeling badly about our earlier ordeal at the vet’s office and shed a few more tears. I was in no way expecting that episode. She is definitely a high maintenance creature. I am thinking Pet Rock the next time a kitten shows up on our doorstep.

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  40. Happy Anniversary Janice! ❤
    Talking about dogs…or cats…or mice….Babe…the dog…hasn't eaten since yesterday morning…she is currently taking cough pills 3x a day…our vet called while I was out with test results and he hasn't returned my returned call yet….a "mass" showed up on two xrays he took last week…one view appeared to be a fuzzy "blob"…the top view appeared as a more solid mass in the lung…lots of tears and hugs going on around here 😦

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  42. I took Brucie to the vet. He eliminated everything he could, gave him an anti-nausea shot (he said the constant lip-licking was a sign of nausea), and took blood work. We wait until morning for an answer.

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  46. I’m so sorry, Nancyjill 😦

    Janice – happy anniversary!

    Linda – 😦

    Re: wood burning. We almost exclusively heat with wood. We do note a difference when burning pine – it apparently gives off more toxins when burning than other woods. I definitely notice a drier, sometimes sore throat, and more random coughing with pine.

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  47. Interesting shampoo. I’m guessing they have a scent though as I didn’t see “fragrance free” or “unscented” anywhere. 😦

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  51. I just sniffed my shampoo — a little bit of a scent, I guess, but a clean one, not overpowering. I honestly hadn’t noticed it before.

    Busy day with an Amber alert (estranged boyfriend/father attacked the mother’s current boyfriend with a knife and is now missing with their 1-year-old son and considered dangerous and possibly suicidal). I interviewed the mom, she’s only 20, very distraught, of course.

    A messy situation but with a biblical world view I am much more prone to compassion — we are a mess sometimes, we fallen human beings, and we create pretty big messes.

    Was thinking about that on the way home after reading a comment from someone saying something like the father didn’t deserve to take up space on the planet or something to that effect.

    But there but for the grace of God …

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  54. Nancyjill: I’m so sorry. You’ll be in my prayers.

    Donna: wow! We humans do make messes, don’t we? I’m so glad you’re able to feel compassion for all involved. Only God knows the heart–something I think too few people remember in these situations. My heart aches for all involved and I will pray.

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  56. Good news, the baby is OK & the dad was arrested without incident, apparently — in Tijuana. I spoke briefly with the mom, she was definitely happy & relieved, sounded like LAPD was going to drive her down to pick up her son.

    annmsw, yep — don’t we make messes! I find that the longer I’m a Christian, the more compassion & mercy I have for everyone, believer or not, just trying to get through life. We are all made in the image of God and it helps me to always remember that …

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