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Our Daily Thread 3-17-15

Good Morning!

And Happy St. Patrick’s Day! :mrgreen:

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On this day in 0461 Bishop Patrick, St. Patrick, died in Saul. 

In 1756 St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated in New York City for the first time. 

In 1776 British forces evacuated Boston to Nova Scotia during the Revolutionary War. 

In 1917 America’s first bowling tournament for ladies began in St. Louis, MO. Almost 100 women participated in the event. 

And in 1966 a U.S. submarine found a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean off of Spain. 

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Quote of the Day

“Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.”

Dave Barry

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Some Irish music seems appropriate. From Jepousseuncri 

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Anyone have a QoD?

60 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-17-15”

  1. I asked Elvera if today is a special day of some sort.
    She said, “Yes, it’s Argeree’s birthday”. You can have your Pi day, Ides of March and St. Patrick’s day. But if it’s somebody’s BD. That’s important.
    Argeree turns 87 today. Her oldest (remaining) sister.

    Good morning everyone.

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  4. Janice, when I do a long post, I write in on my word processor and transfer it. That way I not only have insurance against that kind of error, but I have a record of what I said.
    It has been helpful many times.

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  6. The header photo reminded me of this little piece of lore that happened in 2006. While on the one hand it could be quite embarrassing, we Southerners do like to embrace a good crazy happening and own it. This little clip gave rise to quite the cottage industry with the leprechaun drawing being marketed almost everywhere.
    Here is your laugh of the day.

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  7. There was some discussion yesterday abut the time some of us arrived at this site, starting with the WorldMagBlog where this originated.;. I mentioned that I had found a copy of a post from March 2004, which meant ten years.

    I remembered a game that was started. I forgot the name, but World gave us a four letter word. The idea was to change one letter and make another word. Several of us took the challenge and went for a couple of months. We had over 2000 posts, if I remember correctly.
    Does anyone remember when that was?

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  9. 🙂 My maple tree is putting out buds, like it wants to make leaves.

    😦 I’m afraid I’m going to have to cut grass before March is over.
    :_( I need to make a trip to the landfill to deposit some brush I’ve collected this winter.

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  12. AJ–I know, right?

    I went to see Mama Ruth this morning. The University of South Alabama Hospital is in that neighborhood and GPS took me in the back way. I didn’t see no leprechaun, Thankfully I don’t think I saw a crackhead either…lol

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  13. Happy Birthday to Argeree and happy St. Patrick’s Day. I understand he was actually quite doctrinally sound from a Protestant perspective — and was originally Scottish, of course. 🙂

    I’m really loving the “New Morning Mercies” devotional I’m using this year by Paul David Tripp.

    Today’s starts out with this: “Facing disappointment and failure? Don’t be surprised — you’re still flawed and your world is still fallen. For this, there’s grace.”

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  15. Lovely music today. But, oh, I am haunted by the face of the violinist. She resembles a friend of mine who died a few years ago. The violinist, though she broke a smile a few times during the performance, appeared to be very deep in thought, in a serious, maybe troubled way.

    I saw that look on my friend’s face a lot in her final months. A quiet, gentle smile at times, but more often an indication of something that was probably far below the surface, mostly indiscernible but with the subtlest of hints registered in her expression.

    Difficult for me to put into words, but this video took me back in time to when my friend was still with us.

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  16. Or, like me, you could be a rebel and wear whatever. 🙂

    I’m currently wearing blue sweats and a blue long sleeve tee. 🙂

    Hey, I’m part Irish on both sides, so I’m grandfathered or something….. 😆

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  17. AJ, I have on navy blue sweats, too! Perhaps you need to consider putting out a line of blog wear! I have on a York Peppermint Patty t-shirt with no green, but maybe the “Patty” counts for something? I’d love to have a Wandering Views t-shirt!

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  18. I just lost a fairly long comment on World, too. With this small phone pad and screen, I think I sometimes just accidentally hit the wrong place in my posting haste and that is how I lose things.

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  19. Donna, I always like the Paul David Trip posts I see on Twitter.

    I n my devotional reading this week, Hannah Whitall Smith says, “i am afraid a great many people are so taken up with Christian doctrines and dogmas and are so convinced that their salvation is secured because their “views” are sound and orthodox, that they have never yet come to a personal acquaintance with Christ himself.”

    I know that quote most likely does not apply to any here, but what do you think? Have you known anyone that the quote makes you think of? Since I am in the church library now, if I happened to meet someone of this appearance, what resource could I recommend?

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  20. I’m dressed head to toe in black :mrgreen:

    I may have some Irish – me father’s ancestors came from the Ulster Settlement to Nova Scotia two hundred and fifty odd years ago. However, the Ulster Settlement was just that, a settlement in the mid 1600s of mainly Protestant Scottish border folk, to keep down the rebellious Catholic Irish. Leastways, that’s the simplified version of what it was. As we know now, that Settlement and the resulting rivalry between Protestant and Catholic in Northern Ireland, was to cause all sorts of trouble until 2007 when the Butcher of Belfast, Ian Paisley (Free Presbyterian), and the leader of Sinn Fein, Martin McGuiness (Roman Catholic), finally formed a coalition government. My ancestors were well out of that mess, thankfully; but I suspect that a some Irish blood mixed with the Scottish in the hundred years or so that they were in Ireland.

    My strongest proof for Irish ancestry is my love of their music 😉 Here is my favorite music group, the patriarchs of the Irish folk revival, The Chieftains (the young lad playing the fiddle and later dancing with his brother is actually French Canadian, from Ontario :-D):

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  22. Wearing a green top & green earrings. 🙂 Couldn’t find any orange. My mom used to dress me in green but then pin something orange on me (for our Northern Irish Protestant ancestors) when I was in elementary school.

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  24. I think my eyes are a bit on the green side so I have it covered! But Miss Bosley is dressed in black and white so I’ll have to give her a big pinch…Not…unless I want a big paw scratch.

    I think some of our ancestors are from the border area, too. McCaig and Kirklands, I believe. Am I related to anyone here? Also, maybe some Browns from England? My brother does the ancestors history scene so he knows all about these things. He tells me about this, but I am more of a visual learner than auditory so it is difficult for me to keep track of.

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  25. Nice to see the sun today, but it’s deceptively cold outside. Temps in the mid-40s, and a breeze that makes it feel like the upper 30s. I sat on the deck floor just now, knees drawn up to my chest. I wore a heavy hoody over a T-shirt, and wrapped myself in a large, heavy blanket.

    The wind couldn’t get to me as bad, and the sun felt warm on my face.

    And with that, I dozed off. 😉

    Thank you, Lord, for rest and renewal.

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  26. My mom never let us wear green for St Patrick’s Day, since she said it’s Catholics who were green (and I’ve never owned any orange clothes). I’d get pinched so often my arms would get sore. The same kids would pinch me repeatedly, every time they passed me, not just once.

    But as an adult, quite a large percentage of my wardrobe is green, and on any given day I’m quite likely to be wearing green. Today I have on a long-sleeved green shirt.

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  27. I guess that little snooze on the deck was only Part 1. I took the blanket I’d wrapped myself in back to the bedroom, then just decided to lie down for a bit.

    One hour later…

    I don’t call them Tired Tuesdays for nothing.

    Green — a lot of my clothes are green, as several shades of that color work well for an Autumn, as I am. I’m not wearing any green at the moment, but one of the new tops I bought Saturday is green, and I’m going to change into that before my piano student arrives tonight.

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  28. I wonder where Michelle has been today. Or maybe it’s tomorrow by now for her.

    Hey, Mumsee, I heard yesterday that my niece had traveled to Idaho last week. Did you see her?

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  29. Well, now that I think of it, I do seem to recall….wasn’t she the one who….oh, excuse me, I need to go see to something…..

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  30. My mom never let us wear green for St Patrick’s Day, since she said it’s Catholics who were green
    I’m waiting for the conspiracy theorists to link Irish green and Islamic green and form a whole theory around it. It seems strange, and sad, that we humans constantly form such artificial distinctions. Wearing the wrong colour in Northern Ireland on the wrong day in the wrong place could be potentially deadly during the Troubles.

    Apparently, Patrick has never been officially declared a saint and only has had a saint’s day (believed to be the date of his death) since the 1600s. The history of the Irish and British churches has a lot of twists and turns. When the Angles and Saxons, who were pagans, overran England, Britain was mainly Christian. The Celtic Britons retreated into Wales, and were cut off from the mainland European church. Patrick was a Briton who went to Ireland as a missionary, and later, Irish missionaries went to Scotland. Rome sent St. Augustine (different than Augustine of Hippo, who wrote The City of God) to convert the Saxons in the 590s. The Venerable Bede’s History of the English Church and People records a good deal of conflict between the Celtic churches and the Roman church. It was mainly over the time to celebrate Easter and the way the monks shaved their heads, and they used pretty harsh language to one another. It took about a hundred and fifty years to settle the question in favour of the Roman customs. On the other hand, private penance was apparently a Celtic custom which Rome took up.

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  34. Good news Kim.

    Janice, regarding your earlier question, not sure I do — but the study of sound doctrine and good theology should always lead us to a closer personal relationship with Christ. If that’s not happening, we need to re-examine ourselves.

    And ever wonder about those imprecatory psalms? I have — and I found this to be a pretty balanced approach. Thoughts?

    http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/should-we-pray-the-imprecatory-psalms

    ” … we must recognize God’s sovereignty in acting out his own justice on evil. To be sure, until that judgment, Jesus commands us to love our enemies, to pray for them, even to bless them (Luke 6:27-28; Rom. 12:20; 1 Pet. 3:9). Jesus spoke more about love than bearing the sword (Matt. 10:34-35; Luke 12:51-53). In similar fashion, Paul instructed Christians to “bless and do not curse” our persecutors (Rom. 12:14).

    “But this instruction does not prohibit calling evil what it is, and desiring that God deal with it promptly and specifically. …”

    ” …. None of this counsel implies that praying imprecatory psalms is a light matter. Far from it. As others have pointed out, some consider it a spiritual ‘nuclear option.’

    “Nevertheless, ‘there is a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace’ (Eccl. 3:8). Lord willing, his justice will be meted out, and ISIS and similar perversions of the truth will be snuffed out swiftly and completely. But we may have only seen the beginning of this evil. While it is a terrible thing to desire God’s judgment to fall upon unrepentant creatures, it is worse still for evil to go unpunished. For that reason, I pray that Christians will exercise wisdom in their intercession for the persecuted church. As we do so, let us always recognize our own pardon from sin as creatures loved by God, and magnify the sovereignty and justice of the King of heaven and earth.”

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  35. Janice, your earlier question also reminded me also of the warning we hear frequently at our church — that belonging to a church doesn’t mean one is saved. I suspect that might have been more common in the past, but maybe not. I’m sure some think if you’re an upstanding member of a church, you’re good to go.

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  36. I didn’t go anywhere today…I did have on a pretty green turtleneck this morning and within an hour I had a spot on it…right smack dab in the middle of the sweater..I took it off, treated it with prewash and put it in the washer….I ended up with black fleece top and blue jeans all day! Daughter found Shikai Shampoo for me…can’t wait to try it tomorrow morning! 🙂

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  39. Jo. 🙂

    NancyJill, enjoy the Shikai! I sure do, since hardly any shampoo works well with my hair, so it was wonderful for me to find something that does. 🙂

    I had been out of Shikai conditioner for a while — using it isn’t a high priority for me — but yesterday I found a new variety of Shikai shampoo and conditioner (two separate products, not combined), with tea tree oil. I bought the conditioner and used it today. Very fresh-smelling!

    And the bottle is a nice green color, perfect for this day! (There’s also avocado oil in it, so something else green.) 🙂

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  40. My student and her dad were both wearing green tonight when they came to lessons.

    Boy, can that girl ever sightread! She just started in November, and began reading notes on the staff tonight for the first time in her piano studies. She told me she began learning note-reading in her school music class last week, so it’s all pretty new to her. I taught her three notes on the grand staff, and she could play them correctly, in rhythm, and even with both hands at the same time in the proper places.

    I’m in awe of how well she picks up new things.

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  41. I bought a book off the sale rack recently, it’s sort of a primer on reading music. 🙂 I had a similar book some years ago but don’t have it anymore. For some reason, as I was standing in line, it seemed like a bargain.

    I read only like a layperson — from years of singing.

    But I would (someday) like to try the guitar again ….

    Meanwhile, life in my hometown, just a few blocks from my neighborhood; the latest FB crime blurb: Man with a Gun. Person reporting a Male white walking with a backpack and a rifle. LAPD air unit en route

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  42. So, do any chains carry this amazing shampoo, or where do you get it? I’m guessing it isn’t found at Wal-mart. (I’m actually pretty happy with my shampoo, but changing it out periodically is supposed to be a good idea, and it’s also possible another would work better.)

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  43. Go for it, Donna (re: the guitar)!

    I’ve had adult students in the past, and I enjoy their perspective. One of them, to help herself remember where A, B, C, D, E, F and G were on the keyboard, made up and memorized a little silly saying she associated with their positions around the black keys.

    If I recall correctly, A-B-C was A Big Chicken; D-E, Dumb Egg, and F-G, Fat Goose. 😀

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  46. Thirteen year old vegan does not use shampoo. She does not want any chemicals on her body. I told her that she should then not put chemicals in her body. We discussed H2O.

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  48. Her hair is beautiful, though.

    When my stepmom was in the hospital and I went up to visit her, I had to take the entourage. They sat in the waiting room and she watched Animal Planet.

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  51. I remembered a game that was started. I forgot the name, but World gave us a four letter word. The idea was to change one letter and make another word. Several of us took the challenge and went for a couple of months. We had over 2000 posts, if I remember correctly.
    Does anyone remember when that was?

    Chas- That started in November 2008 and lasted until June 2009. Either you or I had the last post. Then I and Mark Roth both put the list on our blogs, but they soon fizzled out due to lack of interest.

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  52. Re: shampoo- Mrs L uses vinegar and something else (I forget what) to wash her hair.

    Re: green for St. Patrick’s Day- Mrs L also did some research when I mentioned the green wsa the Roman Catholic color and orange was Protestants. She found out that blue used to be the preferred color for St.. Patrick’s Day.

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  53. I buy the shampoo at Sprouts — I’m guessing it may also be available at Whole Foods & Trader Joe’s, or other healthy markets. I thought I saw where it was also at Walmart, but maybe not — it’s definitely not found at our regular grocery or drug stores, though.

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  55. Donna- Last night you asked if anyone has ever sold anything on Amazon or e-bay. I have done both. It is easy and secure. Why do you ask?

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  59. Peter, just checking it out as I’m hoping to unload things but some things are good to sell … sounds like they’re both comparable, although maybe for different things.

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