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Our Daily Thread 3-10-15

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from Janice.

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On this day in 0049 BC Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.

In 1656, in the American colony of Virginia, suffrage was extended to all free men regardless of their religion.  

In 1804 the formal ceremonies transferring the Louisiana Purchase from France to the U.S. took place in St. Louis.

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” 

And in 1969 James Earl Ray pled guilty in Memphis, TN, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated the guilty plea and maintained his innocence until his death in April of 1998. Today is also his birthday.

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Quote of the Day

“Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.”

Jim Valvano

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Today is Norman Blake’s birthday. From GtrWorkShp 

 And it’s Tom Scholz’s birthday too. Instead of Boston, I found something with Tom Scholz performing with Stryper, but covering Boston. And Dee Snyder MCing. 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdPH3Cl-a2U&feature=player_detailpage

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Anyone have a QoD?

29 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-10-15”

  3. We had a pounding rain most of the night last night. Thank you, God, that it is beginning to look like Spring. I really was to the point with Winter that if it didn’t get warmer soon I could not be held responsible for my actions. I looked out the windows this morning and several trees have budded out like the Birthday Tree above. I was going to drive to work by way of the Oreo Cows so that I could look at the pecan trees and see if they were budding, but remembered I needed to get gas this morning and had to take a different route. I will let you know tomorrow if the pecan’s are budding. They are always the last and many a Southern Mother has told her offspring they cannot go barefooted until the pecan’s bud out.
    I am about to post on the Prayer Thread and would appreciate all of you offering up a prayer or two today.

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  5. Good morning. We’re headed home this afternoon. I’ve had a sweet morning snuggling with Becca-boo while Scott & L. sleep. I slept horribly last night, but am now highly caffeinated, so feel fine. I can sleep on the three hour ride home. It’s finally supposed to be a dry, beautiful day here…after raining our entire visit. Oh well. L. loved The University of Texas and expressed interest in attending, saying, “I can’t wait to go to college!” That attitude is what we were hoping would result from this trip, as she’s been on the fence about attending college at all. School is easy for her, but she’s not a serious student, so only has about a 3.8-when, with just a little bit of effort, she could easily have a 4.2 (you get five points for an A in an AP course in Texas). Anyway… We’re hoping she’ll now have a little more desire and be willing to apply herself more diligently.

    Hope y’all have a fun day!

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  6. Ann, I really think that the invention of a way to get more than a 4.0 on a 4-point scale was a stupid idea. It makes it impossible to judge a student’s true grade. But it seems to me that a 3.8 is an excellent record, as long as the school doesn’t give easy A’s.

    I myself was a good student to whom school came very easy (which put me in for a rude shock my first semester in college, where for the first time in my life I had to study before a test, but that’s another story). I wanted to go to college, but wasn’t gung ho, partly because I really just didn’t see how I would afford it. So I had several years between high school and college. Personally, I’m glad I did; by the time I went to college, it was very important to me, and I think I learned a whole lot more than the kids who came straight out of high school and were tired of school. I also had the motivation I needed to carry both a full-time course load and work nearly full-time in order to put myself through. If a girl isn’t “ready” for college her first year out of high school, that’s OK. In fact, I’m really not a big fan of the idea of college being the automatic next step after high school, especially for a girl. (I detest the idea of a young wife and mother being forced to work because she has college loans to repay.) If a person can afford college without large loans and really wants the education (a knowledge of history, literature, philosophy, etc.), then college is great. If college is necessary for a specific line of work, and the girl prefers to stay single or is likely to stay single long enough that the benefits of the job outweigh the costs of the college degree, then college is great.

    I needed my B.A. to be an editor, and I wanted a Bible-college education. And I was single till I was 44 and had graduated from college debt free, and I got a career in my field of study, so financially it was the right call. College was also life-changing for me. For me, it was absolutely the right thing to do. But two of my siblings (one brother and my sister) haven’t needed to have a degree, and one or possibly two more siblings have a degree but they haven’t really benefitted from it–in one case because he was enough of an entrepreneur that his career success had little or nothing to do with his college degree (though I think he probably “needed” the college training for his initial profession) and in the other case because he really hasn’t had success in his entrepreneurial career path, and would have been better off just taking a good job and working hard at it.

    But rather than just assume that going to college is the next step after high school, I’d be inclined to want to know what a person plans to do after college, and how (and if) college fits into that, including the costs involved.

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  7. I loved college & never really planned to go. 🙂

    I’m tired, I was up until 11 p.m. filing that followup story on the kidnapping and now I’m just punchy. Plus one of the dogs was sick last night, I have some spots to clean up on some throw rugs. But no time or products in the house to do it this morning, I did what I could in the middle of the night with wet paper towels. I’ll have to buy some spray carpet spot-cleaner today.

    Oh, and I checked that shampoo ingredient listing (for whomever asked yesterday, was it kare?) and it just says “natural scent.” 🙂

    I hope Bosley has calmed down from the vet visit — a friend has a cat like that, it’s always an ordeal to get him in to the vet as he fights and bites & hisses and scratches.

    Annie’s good, she doesn’t like being there, but she tolerates it without lashing out. She just curls into herself, her eyes as big as saucers, so it’s just kind of hard to uncurl her. The last time we were in, rather than drag her forcibly out of the carrier, the vet just unsnapped the top of the crate and that worked beautifully. I’d forgotten the carrier comes apart like that, very handy.

    I saw my crane fly last night, he’s managed to shed most of the dust bunny from his underside, he just had a string of dust hanging from him which I was able to grab off. 🙂 Annie likes watching him and he’s flying much better now that he’s not so weighted down. He makes brief and rare appearances only.

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  8. Interesting piece on the emerging Anglicanism (kim):

    http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/who-are-these-anglicans-in-tgc

    ” … Many have rediscovered the beauty of Anglican worship and been surprised by the strong Reformation doctrines that permeate the Book of Common Prayer and its Thirty-Nine Articles. The Anglican Reformers of the 16th century were closely linked with the continental Reformers, and Thomas Cranmer—martyr and author of the first Anglican prayer book—was not only greatly influenced by Calvin and Bucer, but also married the niece of Luther’s disciple Osiander. …”

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  9. Thank you Donna. I am in the Gulf-Atlantic Diocese and my priest is a Dean of our area. We are very much involved in church planting and bringing others alongside. We support a school in Africa, an orphanage in Haiti, a mission in New Orleans and are planting a church in downtown Mobile.
    Our mission is to restore people to unity with God, each other and all creation in Christ.
    http://www.cotamontrose.com/

    I have expanded my boundaries

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  10. While taking a walk with my mother today, we saw our first robin. The temperatures have been above freezing and the snow is beginning to melt.

    Donna, I thought that the Reformed tradition always had worked with Anglicans. After all, C.S. Lewis was Anglican. In England, they always distinguished between High and Low Church Anglicans, with the High leaning towards Catholic sacramental tradition, and the Low more influenced by Puritan teaching, but they worked together and ordained priests of both persuasions. Though I’m not surprised that there are differing views of whom one should fellowship with; as a Baptist, or Non-Conformist in English terminology, I have encountered all sorts of different persuasions of how to interact with the Protestant denominations.

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  11. Agreed , traditionally — my former pastor said it is the Anglican tradition that’s most closely tied theologically to Presbyterianism

    But with the advent of liberal Protestantism overtaking big sections of both denominations, it may nowadays be obscured and largely unknown or forgotten

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  12. Donna, thanks for remembering our kitty on the prayer thread. He was about the same today and stayed on the bed all night and all day. I just took him back the vet where they are hydrating him with an IV. The blood work was all normal but the vet was actually encouraged that he had a fever today, as that probably indicates a virus (and not something more severe).

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  14. You might note, Donna, that Rachel Held Evans has “given up” evangelicalism and embraced the Episcopalian church.

    Episcopalian, not Anglican.

    I’ve been very busy. My husband finally gets to take last year’s vacation and in an effort to be “present,” I’ve been writing blogs and tweets ahead of time. Three more blogs to go, out of nine total I had to write.

    Last night he told me he has to take his computer–budget cycle got moved up and he’s the answer man.

    Sigh. But at least I’m free.

    We’re taking Stargazer to the family homelands for his graduation present. We’ll see Hillary, hopefully my godson (whose brain I’ll pick about Yemen) and the non-English speaking relatives. We’re traveling much longer than usual and this has been a complicated trip to organize, but almost everything is in place.

    Except, how come I can’t seem to buy black socks anywhere?

    Funny.

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  15. We finished our LifeGuide study of Jeremiah today. We had to skip two chapters owing to scheduling needs, but it was an interesting study. It wore down the women–most of whom are in their 70s and 80s with my favorite 96 year-old–and I was asked to hurry up. 🙂

    We’re studying Angels next, which has everyone happy.

    Chapter seven of this study–the Cup of God’s Wrath, which we skipped–is one of the hardest passages I’ve prepared. Why does God use war to bring about his ends. Fascinating.

    In this case, it was the Babylonians and my study picked up several interesting points from commentaries I read on Jeremiah 25:
    *While God would use Nebuchadnezzar to bring down God’s wrath, it doesn’t mean he approved of him and promised to destroy Babylon as well (just at a later time).

    *God’s wrath means time is running out and it comes when the response to the Word of God is essentially zero.

    *Iniquity is sin that can only be committed by a believer–they are consciously choosing to sin.

    *Judgment always begins with the house of God.

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  16. Donna, here in Canada, the Anglican church has always been the Anglican church (having no revolutionary disagreement to being affiliated with the Church of England). So here, as in England, there are liberal and conservative (in a religious sense, not political) Anglicans and I believe there was an actual split between the two over ordination or marriage – I can’t remember all the details. There are also more liberal and more conservative Presbyterians. What I find among Baptists, is that many tend to class all Anglicans and Presbyterians as being religiously liberal. Not all, however; my former pastor would preach in any church that asked him – he even preached gospel sermons in ultra-liberal United Churches – and so he knew people from nearly every denomination who he believed were truly Christians, although he disagreed with certain doctrines.

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  17. Ah! 60° at last! I got home from work, put a little air in the bike tires and went for a ride. Now I am a little sore in muscles unused for months, but it was a good ride. I forgot how many hills in my neighborhood, though.

    Last night someone mentioned the EPA abusing its power again by trying to outlaw wood burning heaters. So Missouri won’t enforce it. No surprise since a lot of rural Missourians depend on wood heat, and can even supply wood for others.

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  19. Day is almost done, and I am finally here. Miss Bosley did fine without the oral med. I hate to waste it, but, as I said, I don’t like to use meds unless absolutely necessary. It was nice of the vet/doc to be so concerned though.

    I’ve been doing some errands today, dealing with car tag, emission sticker, picking up office supplies at Sam’s, and doing a bit of yard work since the weather was nice.

    We did not do anything for our anniversary. I picked up fish sandwiches from Chick-fil-A which they are serving during Lent so it was something different. I did ask Art if we might go for Chinese food out at 9:00 pm but with the corporate deadline on the 15th he said he couldn’t, but he did feel badly. I don’t make an issue about it. When we got married his tax business was a sideline and he did not do corporate returns. There was a lull at this time back then between the early filers (Feb.) and late filers (late March and April) so we got married on the weekend right before his birthday. It was good timing for the earliest blooms of spring. But now for anniversary and birthday the timing is pretty lousy because of the work schedule. But we will have a time to celebrate later.

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  20. I did send photos of the Birthday Tree which looks like it will not bloom by tomorrow. If I see a miracle bloom, I will be sure to send a picture. Our tree is usually the last one of its type to start blooming, and today was the first time I saw one bloomed out while I was traveling around town doing errands. It was not in my neighborhood. The weather is quite warm, but the buds still look tight and not ready to burst open.

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  21. My neighbors daffodils are in full bloom now.

    While I was at Sam’s I had a call from the gal who issued my sticker at the tag office. She wanted me to check to see if she put the correct name on the paperwork. I said I was shopping and did not want to go back to the car leaving my buggy unattended in the store. When I finally got to check it, I saw she did have the wrong name on it. I could attribute it to a person with an “attitude,” but she is young and it seemed an honest mistake. But now I have to use extra gas and time to go back tomorrow to get it straightened out.

    Who was that SNL character, Rosanna Dana Rosanna or some such name that said,”It’s always something?”
    So I have added another “something”to my to do list.

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  22. I say that (“It’s always something”) a lot. 🙂

    I bought a bottle Resolve spot carpet cleaner to use tonight on the throw rugs, hoping that works. They’re not expensive rugs — and one is small/thin enough I can toss it in the washing machine — but there were a few giant spots (one of which I stepped in when I got up in the middle of the night when Tess barked to go out — ugh, yuck, blech!).

    It’s always something.

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  23. Did anyone else have trouble with the site earlier? I had like a 2 hour period where it wouldn’t load, said the server was down. I couldn’t get WordPress.com to load either. Is it just me?

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  24. We are back from the doctor’s, did you miss me? We (second son and I) went down to the funeral for our WWII veteran friend. Then we went to the burial in another town. Then we came home to learn that the thirteen year old had gone to the neighbor’s to build a rabbit trap where he sliced his thumb open with a serrated blade on a leatherman and it was deep and nearly cut his thumb off. Well, I have noticed a tendency to exaggeration so I was dubious but hopped into the car without checking it and drove him back down to the doctor before the clinic closed. It was a deep cut but fairly clean and required four stitches. So, it has been a full day and husband spent a lot of time awake watching the children. But all is well and most folk are home again.

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