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Our Daily Thread 4-3-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

And it’s the Good one too! 🙂

So I’m breaking out the Easter colors. 🙂

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I’m always of two minds today. When I think about the cross, the nails, the coarse, heavy wood, and the horror of death by crucifixion, it makes me want to weep. The fact that He would do so for a wretch such as me overwhelms me a bit. I better than anyone know how undeserving I am of such an honor, yet He offers it freely to me. I can’t cover what I’ve done, can’t hide it, but through Him, and His death, my sins are washed clean. It’s humbling, and should be, right?

But at the same time, I’m pretty happy about the whole affair because I know how it ends. 🙂 So I can’t help but be excited too. 🙂

Am I the only one?

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It’s been fun the last few days open threading the music. Let’s stick with that, and make it the QoD.

Do you have a favorite song for this time of year?

Don’t laugh, but this is one of my favorites. I remember the first time I heard it watching with my wife and daughter. It almost made me cry. 

I said almost. 😕

It tells the story perfectly. It’s so simple, even a child can understand it. 🙂

From VeggieTales Official 

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51 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-3-15”

  2. Good morning, AJ, and all. It rained and stormed yesterday and we may get more today. The clouds and water are a bit overwhelming this year.

    Glad to hear things went well yesterday, AJ. Occasions like that go into our long term memories with super glue. Blessings on you all for a peaceful day and weekend.

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  4. Thanks for your reflection on what Good Friday means to you, AJ. It is a somber time of considering what Jesus took upon himself, how obedient He was, and how sad his followers were, not only in disappointment from his death, but for the loss of hopes and dreams for a better future with him. A sad departure of light and hope. Thankfully, as you said, God gave us the rest of the story.

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  6. Not my favorite. I suspect I will like Kim’s June Carter clip better when I go back to listen to it. But I was listening to this version of Willie Nelson’s “Uncloudy Day” on the way home from the Y. So: This is it.

    You can skip the commercial.

    It is Good Friday and we don’t have Lions today.

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  11. Thanks 6 I had forgotten about this version of Were You There. I believe you will have made two of us happy when Chas shows up. His “other woman” is in the video. She does have quite the pipes.

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  18. OK…so I went on a Youtubing Adventure with all these songs that have been posted. I love Jim Reeves voice and I was looking for an appropriate gospel song by him and stumbled across this one. My apologies to the Real AJ but I had to share this one…

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  21. Speaking of grief, be forewarned it comes in waves and hits at the most unexpected times. I gave myself permission to cry and be sad–because nearly the worst thing had happened to me and I had a right and, really, an obligation to mourn.

    Tears are a good thing– they honor the dead and the importance of your relationship. I don’t know, can you tell a man to cry away?

    It helped me.

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  22. Tychicus: Thanks for that one. I like the additional verse Keith Green added to the Annie Herring song. I just wish she hadn’t named it what she did. I prefer the name “Resurrection Day”, since the term “Easter” came form the pagan goddess “Ishtar”.

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  23. I have never seen VeggieTales before. Was that really on commercial TV? I doubt they would do it now.
    Not having Lions today, I have 2.5 unplanned hours. So I listened to every song posted this time. Lots of good stuff. Thanks to all.

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  24. It’s a vacation day for me, at long last — one of my oldest friends (and former roommate) is coming over today (she lives an hour away, in the northern reaches of LA, I’m in the southern reaches) for our very belated Christmas get-together.

    I was working feverishly through the holidays which were an especially busy news time for us this past year, oddly, and she was busy with family so we never got our holiday visit planned, bumping it to when she’d be off (she’s a public school teacher) for spring break.

    Now I have to find the Christmas gifts I picked up for her and get them wrapped …

    And do some cleaning and picking up around here (although she isn’t coming until the afternoon).

    It’s warm here today but it should cool off again this weekend.

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  26. Well, since we’re talking Good Friday, Easter (Resurrection Day), and even Christmas on this thread 😉 … I thought I’d post this video, of O Little Town of Bethlehem, with the story of Jesus’ birth, death and resurrection drawn on the screen as the music progresses…

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  27. This is long but a fascinating read, an interview with a “closeted” Christian professor

    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-post-indiana-future-christian-religious-liberty-gay-rights/

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    “I’m very worried,” he said, of events of the last week. “The constituency for religious liberty just isn’t there anymore.”

    Like me, what unnerved Prof. Kingsfield is not so much the details of the Indiana law, but the way the overculture treated the law. “When a perfectly decent, pro-gay marriage religious liberty scholar like Doug Laycock, who is one of the best in the country — when what he says is distorted, you know how crazy it is.”

    “Alasdair Macintyre is right,” he said. “It’s like a nuclear bomb went off, but in slow motion.” What he meant by this is that our culture has lost the ability to reason together, because too many of us want and believe radically incompatible things.

    But only one side has the power. When I asked Kingsfield what most people outside elite legal and academic circles don’t understand about the way elites think, he said “there’s this radical incomprehension of religion.”

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  35. Thanks for those videos, RKessler! And I, too, am enjoying all the music posted here today. 🙂

    Chas, I finished Stonewalled this morning. Great book. Thank you for mentioning it here. It certainly does open one’s eyes to a lot of deception in government. Not that I didn’t think there were dishonest people in high places — that’s always been true — but the extent (that Attkisson discovered) of, to borrow from the book’s subtitle, “the forces of obstruction, intimidation, and harassment in Obama’s Washington”, and all the “astroturfing, controversializing,” etc. that she points out made for very engaging (and sometimes disturbing) reading.

    I think the author would be one very interesting person to meet. 🙂

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  37. The “He’s Alive” video would be much better without the actor portraying”Jesus”. That always has bothered me. But that is one of my favorite songs of all time. Another is Dallas Holmes’ “Rise Again”. (The video is from the Bill and Gloria Gaither TV show back in the 80s.

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  40. The Veggie Tales were always direct to video or DVD. BG and I watched them. We were really good at singing “God is bigger than the boogie man, He’s bigger than godzilla or the monsters on TV…”

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  43. Kim, the RA is flaring hard for husband again. As the effects of the anasthesia wear off, he is getting worse again. He can still move though, so that is good. He has lost thirty pounds through this. Not good pounds but it does take weight off of his joints some.

    The Nest is doing well, it survived our absence. The boys did fine. They kept up with their schoolwork, and the house, and the chores, and sports, and work. No negative word from the sheriff so that is good. The boy who stayed with the neighbor thoroughly enjoyed being spoiled rotten for two weeks and wept and wailed at having to return home. That is good. I mentioned to him that what he had there was not normal. I suspect he got more time from the two adults there during that two weeks than they had spent with their own children in a year. Most normal families do not spend every moment of every day entertaining the thirteen year old. But he had a good time and I am glad. They will probably do it again for the second knee.

    The children that went with us also had a great time. Their older brother took them to the park a lot, played with them, watched a movie with them, and saw that they were fed properly. Overall, a good time by all. We are still in recovery mode, getting people back on track.

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  45. Emily was showing me those pictures of the ladies with grey hair earlier. The thing is, they are young women, so no one is going to look at the “grey” hair as grey hair. Emily suggested they should call it silver, because most of the shades shown have more of a silver look to them.

    Maybe if I thought that look would stay in style for a few years, I could start dying my hair that kind of silver-grey, & then eventually let the real grey color take over.

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  47. Donna – I’ve been a bit surprised to hear that your friend Carol was at an assisted living center while on state aid/insurance (Medicaid?). Here in Connecticut, assisted living is not covered by Medicaid or other state aid, because it is so expensive.

    One of Gov. Malloy’s proposed budget cuts would affect elderly people who currently have nurses (paid for by the state) check on them periodically in their own homes. This particular cut to the budget would mean that people who otherwise can live mostly on their own, but need a little help, would have to go into nursing homes. And yet, paying the nurses to visit is much less expensive than full-time nursing home care.

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  51. Yeah, those “gray” haired models were pretty much young knockouts. So, yeah, they carry it off well. But they’d carry most any look off well. 🙂

    Karen, maybe it’s because Carol is on full disability so the assisted living is covered due to that. It’s not free, they take a chunk out of her check every month of course. But I’m thinking that’s why she qualifies.

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