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Our Daily Thread 5-14-15

Good Morning!

Today is this young fella’s birthday. 🙂

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On this day in 1643 Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

In 1804 William Clark set off the famous expedition from Camp Dubois. A few days later, in St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis joined the group. The group was known as the “Corps of Discovery.”

In 1897 “The Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled.

In 1948 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end.

And in 1973 Skylab One was launched into orbit around Earth as the first U.S. manned space station.

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Quote of the Day

“There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don’t say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.”

David Ben-Gurion

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I pretty much have to play this one, which is good because I like it. From The United States Navy Band

And this is because it’s one of my favorite songs/bands, plus it’s the birthday of the rather strange lead singer, David Byrne. 

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Anyone have a QoD?

45 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-14-15”

  6. Janice, I said “amen” to your prayer.
    It might be good to paste it on today’s thread.
    Some, like me, don’t revisit the prayer thread later in the day, (unless, there’s some reason to do so.)

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  7. Female oriole! Cool.

    I’m going to post a link later to photos of a walk I took yesterday with my husband, a trail we had never hiked that turned out to be exquisite. We saw multiple species of birds, some turtles, wildflowers everywhere (including dogwood, redbud, wild geraniums, triliums, and honeysuckle all in profuse bloom), some butterflies (including AJ’s comma, but it wouldn’t sit in any one place long enough to be photographed), and finally even my first sighting of a mammal I’ve long wanted to see: a beaver. The trail wound around a swamp, so whether you like to hike near water, in woods, or in a meadow, we did it all, and under blue sky with white fluffy clouds with a high around sixty. Maybe the best hike I’ve ever taken in my life. My left foot is sore this morning, but it was worth it. There were quite a few benches and my husband stopped to rest periodically as I took photos; he has less stamina than I and was worn out by the end.

    The highlights of the walk didn’t all get photographed. We saw a flying pileated woodpecker fairly close, a beautiful view, and we saw one indigo bunting flying that we asked each other “was that an indigo bunting?” and it almost certainly was, but in the light it was blue-black and not clearly blue. But sometime later my husband saw another, six feet away, and I missed it.

    But one very real highlight, not only of the day but of this spring, was the sighting of what appeared to be a young male Baltimore oriole; not only did I see him, and photograph him, but he stayed in trees near the path and I followed him, taking photos as I got a chance, for 16 minutes. (That’s based on the time stamp on my first and last photos of him, so it might have been a couple minutes longer, and I could still see him when we walked away. Usually they aren’t anywhere near that cooperative.)

    It tells me it will take two more hours for all my photos to upload (it’s only the best 110 or so, not all five hundred I took 🙂 ), so it will be a while before I can send a link, even assuming it doesn’t crash at some point, but I thought some of you might want to “come along with us” on a beautiful spring walk.

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  10. Thank you all.

    A female oriole huh? I think it’s the first I’ve ever seen. We have tons of males though. I thought it looked like an orange parakeet. 🙂

    But she was fast moving, so I only got the one shot.

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  11. Happy Birthday AJ!

    I dreamed I decided to get an alligator as a pet — and was regretting it.

    Everywhere I walked in the house, there he was, blocking my way, jaws open wide. I had no idea what to feed him and he just generally freaked me out.

    I know it really means something, but I’m too tired to figure it out — I have an early (for me) morning assignment today and am desperately trying to wake myself up with coffee.

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  16. Chas – Prayer requests & updates are posted at various times during the day. I keep a tab open with the Prayer Request thread open, & check it occasionally throughout the day.

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  18. Last night on the Prayer Request thread, I posted about a disturbing phone call from R. A bit later, I had a thought, which felt like a “heads up” from the Holy Spirit.

    As a narcissist, R is a master manipulator. Both Lee & I have, at separate times, told R we are praying for him. He may be using our compassion for him to manipulate us to feel sorry for him, to turn us in his favor & against Emily. Emily says he has not been saying these things to her, as she believes he knows she doesn’t fall for his manipulations anymore.

    So we need to still pray for him, still feel compassion for him, but keep a healthy dose of wariness.

    “Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.”

    Speaking of Prayer Requests, Lee asked me to post one for him, so that’s what I will do now.

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  19. All right, anyone who wants to go with me and my husband on our gorgeous spring walk yesterday, check out the link at http://www.picaboo.com/?share=eaeeb3075fbee7c939b45260272184fa&version=545185&siteID=ViaPreview

    Click on the link, wait 30 seconds or a minute for it to load, and then it should let you flip easily from page to page. Lots and lots of spring blossoms and spring trees, birds (including an oriole), turtles, and even some imperfect photos of the first beaver I’ve ever seen. I narrowed my photos down to just over 100 (out of the 500 I took), 48 pages of a “book” I made just so I can show the photos to my friends (not so that I can order it).

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  28. Karen, in giving thought to how you have mentioned several times about Chrissy preferring the other family, I totally believe it is more a rejection of true Christianity in favor of the false god the other family chooses to name as Christian. It is, IMO, pure spiritual warfare. Keep pressing forward in praise of God and what He can do to defeat this situation. As far as the four girls sharing the room, it sounds like it could be a campus dorm room at a party college. Maybe in considering that, at least perhaps she is in a more protective environment where she won’t be date raped, etc, which happens a lot on campuses. I do keep on keeping on in prayer.

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  30. We had the first hummingbirds come by yesterday and the first orioles today. The orioles don’t stay. They also seem to prefer the hummingbird feeder to the one designed for them.

    We have gotten lots of rain, so everything is very green now. We are ready for some sunshine now, thank you. 🙂

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  33. Roscuro – Yay! Congratulations! I know you were very nervous about that.

    Janice – Yes! I have had the same feeling. It is like she is in the enemy’s camp, & I am praying for God to rescue her, & deliver her from those influences & from the lies of the enemy. (I have hesitated to write that, because I don’t want anyone to think I am calling the McKs themselves “the enemy”. But the daughters, at least, seem to be doing his bidding.)

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  35. I enjoy children. I was out weed eating while eight year old was cleaning the rain gutters and seven year old was sleeping the deck. Then we went around to the porch and did some more cleaning. They are fun.

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  38. Heidi! 🙂

    And more good news coming our way (maybe):

    ” … Scientists confirmed Thursday that an El Niño condition, which can trigger the rain-producing Pineapple Express, has taken hold in the Pacific Ocean and there is a strong chance it will last through the year.

    “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center said there is a 90 percent likelihood the El Niño will last through the summer and an 80 percent chance it will endure through the winter. … It could bring some relief to thirsty California, which is suffering from a four-year drought. But it is too soon to know how this ocean warming episode will play out, Halpert said. …”

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