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Our Daily Thread 3-11-15

Good Morning!

 I wish my cats helped with the laundry like Janice’s cat Bosley does. Mine are more of the free-loader variety. 🙂

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On this day in 1665 a new legal code was approved for the Dutch and English towns, guaranteeing religious observances unhindered.  

In 1824 the U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

In 1867 the volcano Great Mauna Loa erupted in Hawaii. 

In 1904, after 30 years of drilling, the north tunnel under the Hudson River was holed through.

And in 1969 Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.  

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Quotes of the Day

“What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you’d like it to mean?”

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“There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.”

Antonin Scalia

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 Today is Lawrence Welk’s birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=D5EgASje8MQ

And it’s Jimmy Fortune’s too. From Gospel Hour 

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

Anyone have a QoD?

37 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-11-15”

  3. I have often wondered how a person could be named “Anonymous” or “Deleted”. The name appears under the picture.
    Elvera watches Lawrence Welk on the PBS station every Saturday .evening.

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  4. Good morning! AJ, if your cats are free-loaders then they can help with the laundry by loading the laundry into the washer and dryer.
    🙂

    It’s a foggy day here, so far. I will wait until the end of the day to check for a miracle bloom on the Birthday Tree.

    I have another theological type question. When was the first corporate sin committed?
    When Eve ate the apple, that was her individual sin, but Adam,given authority over Eve, at that point did not stop her, so I am thinking he sinned at the same time. Would that be considered corporate sin?

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  5. Good Morning Everyone. As most of you know there are days when I live under a dark cloud of depression, but then there are days I wake up and am happy and thankful over the slightest thing.

    This morning I woke up thinking about where I was 5 years ago as compared to today. Today happiness is being about to go to dinner with BG and really TALK. Last night she confided in me things she wouldn’t have a year ago. I now know that she leaves school some days at lunch and goes to get lunch—I also realize that this isn’t good because A, the school doesn’t know where she is and B., she probably isn’t always going to get lunch. I scolded her and told her she was only a Junior. I didn’t do that until I was a Senior. Another girl and I would get a pass to the guidance councelor’s office, drop by and tell him we were going to lunch and go to Max’s Cafe, He would always tell us to check back with him before 5th period.

    Happiness was also walking next door to Tuesday Morning and buying a $3.99 something she wanted and a $4.99 large, pretty bottle of hand soap for the guest bathroom without weighing where that $10.00 was better used some place else.

    Mr. P is going to spend a couple of nights on the beach with some friends, fishing and doing guy things. BG is coming to spend the night with me tonight and tomorrow night. We have big plans of snuggling up on the sofa and watching movies on Netflix that we used to watch together when she was younger. Wish us well!

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  6. I think Adam sinned individually as well. He was also instructed by God not to eat of the fruit. He had the free will to choose whether to partake or not. He chose to partake. He alone is responsible for his actions.

    Just imagine God saying in His best (maternal voice) “If Eve jumped off a bridge would you do it too?”

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  10. I could hire her out for a circus side show, and she could show off with a trapeze act, and leaping to catch paper balls thrown her way. Growing that mustache was nothing compared to her other feats. I told the vet I had seen my horror show for the week in that office, but that I never watch horror shows. I think we could have used an exorcist in the room!

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  12. Adam’s sin was corporate in the sense of how it affected us all. All sinned in Adam and hence, death came to all mankind, just as in Christ all can be made alive. Romans 5

    There was total sin in Noah’s day, but I am not sure it would be considered corporate. Once Moses led God’s people out of Egypt one person’s sin affected the whole company. Sin almost always affects more than the sinner. Leprosy and mildew are both symbols of that in the law given to God’s people.

    I am not sure this is what you are thinking about, Janice, or not..

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  13. Janice, I don’t understand the question. What do you mean by “corporate” sin?It was Adam’s sin and not Eve’s that brought the Fall; that is clear in Scripture. (And possibly echoed in the virgin birth.) What would have happened if Eve had chosen to eat and Adam did not, we don’t know, but it was Adam who took us all into sin.

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  14. All thoughts are helpful. I read a devotional yesterday that spurred my questioning. It was about Adam and Eve and I really did not fully grasp or think in the same way about that original sin. The devotion is in A Gentle Spirit combo journal and devotions. I have LOVED and agreed with all previous devotions. I don’t know the author of this one, Jane Hansen. The first line I appreciated, “Right things from wrong sources constitute lusts.” Yes, I agree. But then she goes on to talk about how a woman objectifies a man and expects he will provide only what God can provide. And yes, that can happen. But the supporting verse for the devotion was, “She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” I did not grasp the divide between the verse and her devotional point. Then I thought,Eve sinned then Adam sinned, but maybe it was corporate sin, not premeditated together, but because of the timing? I asked my son about it and he gave an answer similar to Kathaleena, that it was corporate in that it affected all mankind (short version).

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  15. Was this picture taken before or after Bosley’s Last Stand Battle with the vet and his evil office minions who dared to think they could just manhandle her like they did?

    Both Adam and Eve were guilty.

    We’re going through the Westminster Confession of Faith at church on Sunday nights — it’s short, written by some of the smartest, most careful theologians of their time (1600s). There are others, including Heidelberg, etc. Some of those historic confessions with their many Scripture references in support can provide great outlines of the faith.

    Of the fall of man, Westminster says: “Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. This, their sin, God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it for His own glory.”

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  16. Kim, I love Tuesday Morning. Have fun with BG

    We’re taking our assistant city editor out for a goodbye lunch today — she’s going to work for a community college doing social media. That leaves our city editor alone again, bearing a much-too heavy work burden for one person. 😦

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  18. My paternal grandmother used to love Lawrence Welk, we always had to make sure it was on whenever she’d visit from Iowa.

    My maternal grandfather, on the other hand, was partial to Queen for a Day, a daytime game show of the era that took women who were struggling and awarded them with new washers or dryers or other appliances. The winner always cried when the robe and crown were placed on her.

    He also watched Barbara Walters, the young, groundbreaking TV newswoman of her day who came on every morning.

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  19. Good article on Scripture and when we disagree:

    http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/one-bible-many-interpretations

    ” … There are all sorts of things on our end—ignorance, hard-heartedness, sin, rebellion, unbelief—that might prevent us from understanding what Scripture says quite clearly. In fact, when Jesus interacted with people who had misunderstood something he’d said, either in Scripture or in person, he never blamed the Word of God for being unclear, confusing, or obscure. Instead, he always said it was something to do with the readers or hearers …

    ” … It’s easy to see how, in all kinds of situations, misunderstandings could be our responsibility. I might disagree with you about baptism because I’m stubborn and mired in my tradition. I might disagree with you about the end times because I’m ignorant, or proud, or naïve. I might disagree with you about spiritual gifts out of fear or hard-heartedness. (Of course, we might also disagree about something because Scripture doesn’t speak clearly about our particular questions. It doesn’t tell us whom to vote for or whether to drink tea, for instance.) But whatever the reason, we can all agree on this: the problem is probably at our end, not God’s.

    “When I teach theology courses, I always make a point of telling my students that a number of the things I’ll teach them will be untrue. I never intend to teach wrongly, of course, and I work hard to ensure my teaching is as accurate and helpful as possible, but the reality is that I will teach some things that are incorrect. When that happens, though, I don’t want anyone to think it’s because the Bible isn’t clear where it intends to be. It may be that the Bible wasn’t intended to address the particular question I’m asking, or it may be that I’ve been waylaid by some combination of ignorance, carelessness, and sin. It certainly won’t be because the Scriptures are an incoherent mess.

    “ ‘Your word is a lamp for my feet,’ the psalmist wrote, ‘and a light to my path.’ When you’re walking along a dark and narrow track, you can’t always trust your judgment. But you can always trust the light.”

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  20. One of our cats (okay, we’ve only had two in 37 years of marriage, so I guess I’ll name her), Cleo, used to jump in boxes when the packers were at our house. I’m not sure how many times we unpacked her before sealing them up and sending them across country!

    One of our packers actually packed a container of brownies. We found it seven months later, not even moldy–that we saw. Of course I threw them away.

    Just in time for leaving, my galleys arrived. I’ll be in Nebraska this afternoon getting them organized for publication in June.

    Today is my Dr. Stargazer’s birthday. I’m not sure how these kids got so old, I’m still . . . about his age! 🙂

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  25. Janice I can’t remember if you were around yet when I had Callie Leigh. She was abandoned almost before her eyes opened. She LOVED me and beyond that she was bad. She had litter box aversion, she wanted in and out of the house all day and night, she would hide if I left the house then use the bathroom in the house. She was also known as Houdini Cat because she could free herself from the carrier. She did let Amos drag her all over the hardwood floors
    A friend’s husband was my vet. He picked her up one day to take to the clinic for shots or something. They called me the next day and asked if I would come get her. I walked in the office and could hear her howling. Everyone in the office was afraid of her. I spoke to her, she calmed down. I reached into the kennel and got her and put her on her back on my arm. She was a baby kitten again. The staff stood a good distance back. The said she was Sybil Cat. I told them they were afraid of a “wittle ol’ puddy tat”.
    From then on, Tim brought home whatever needed to be done to Callie. She was known as a 4 tech, meaning it took 4 vet techs to handle her.

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  27. My sister’s cat got in her neighbor’s moving van and ended up in New England somewhere (from Annapolis, Maryland). A friend was driving back down and brought her home. She now has a GPS tracker on her collar and my sister gets an e-mail whenever she leaves the yard.

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  28. For those of you (us) who get two or three feet of snow a year and think that’s too much . . . http://www.weather.com/storms/winter/news/worlds-deepest-snow-photos

    But it’s melting, it’s melting, it’s melting!! We’re in the middle of a week of highs in the forties and fifties. At the end of the day Sunday there was still hardly a patch where the ground could be seen, at the end of several hours above 40 degrees. But now we can see roughly half the backyard and most of the front. The drift isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but by the end of the week we should have most of our yard back (though it’s muddy and undoubtedly filled with dog poop . . . and the mower broke at the end of last year’s mowing season, so the backyard never did get the last mowing of the year, and was pretty scraggly until it all turned yellow).

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  29. I had the seventeen year old not as troubled as he used to be one drive us to town for school for thirteen year old. His first time with a stick. Tee hee. I am sooo high on the pedestal!

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  30. Something always bothered my about the portrayal of escape from earthquake movies. I saw a similar scene form one of the “end of the world” movies some time ago.
    If you’re in an aircraft, escaping an earthquake, you want altitude, not distance. You can handle that later. Remember, you heard it here first.
    You can’t outrun an earthquake.

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  31. I, a native Californian boy, have always though there are 2 kinds of earthquakes. One where a fault will “slip” against it’s self. One side goes past the other, like putting you hands together and rubbing one hand toward you and the other away from you.

    The other kind where you put you hands together, one hand goes up and the other hand goes down. Usually this kind is not straight up and down but on an angle.

    Both kinds do not slip slowly or gently. Instead they jerk past each other almost instantly. Do they open up and swallow anything? Not so much!

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  32. Sorry to say that I still can’t get the header photo. I tried to solve the mystery about that, but nothing has worked so far. I think a lot of things are blocked on my phone for some reason.

    I bought a key lime pie to have for husband’s birthday treat. I also bought a lemon cake to send to the office, but was told to hold off until tomorrow to send it when more staff will be there. I was invited to come in for a meal they will get from the Olive Garden, but I said I rather wait for us to all go out after tax season. The office does get crazy even when they have not scheduled appointments because people stop by to pick up finished work, or bring by things they forgot at appointment time, or the phone is ringing, or any number of other happenings. I picked up food last year from Red Lobster and I think the disruptions were so many that it seemed a bit idiotic to do anything. I think my husband would rather wait, but of course people feel like they have to do something.

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  34. Cheryl – It’ll take a while before we see our grass again, but it is melting nicely.

    As the snows kept coming, I was watching the park bench out in our yard slowly disappear. It never totally disappeared, but the snow was over the arm rests on the sides, & only a few inches of the back remained visible.

    Now I’m watching it slowly reappear. The seat is visible now!

    Today we had temps in the 50s. Lee & I were out for a couple errands, & we went without jackets. I had a sweater on when we left, but took it off. It felt so warm!

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  35. I had my first Chick-Fil-A sandwich today. A Chick-Fil-A recently opened up in a town about half an hour away, where we do some shopping & such.

    It was delicious! Didn’t seem like a fast food type of sandwich at all.

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  36. the best laid plans…. I had decided to leave for Denver in the afternoon and have a relaxing day. My son just emailed that all those flights are full. So.. I will have to leave before 6am to catch the 8:30 flight. Can’t complain about the cost! just the timing

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  37. But it will be beautiful weather for your arrival Jo!! It is “Springtime in the Rockies”….until Friday…snow showers predicted…just for that day…then we return to Springy weather…welcome to Colorado!! 🙂

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