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Our Daily Thread 5-22-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

And a Happy 33rd Anniversary!!! to Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. ♥♥♥

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Today’s photos are from Donna. 🙂

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On this day in 1761 the first US life insurance policy was issued in Philadelphia.

In 1859 the creator of “Sherlock Holmes,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born.

In 1872 The Amnesty Act restored civil rights to Southerners.

In 1900 The Associated Press was incorporated as a non-profit news cooperative in New York.

And in 1997 Kelly Flinn, the Air Force’s first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepted a general discharge, thereby avoiding a court-martial on charges of adultery, lying and disobeying an order.

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Quote of the Day

“I write music with an exclamation point!”

Wilhelm Richard Wagner

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Today is Wilhelm Richard Wagner’s birthday. 

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Anyone have a QoD?

44 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-22-15”

  6. Good morning! Last day of school for the non home schooled grandchildren. Now the rotations of Cingular to Grandma’s can begin. 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  9. What are your spiritual gifts?

    If I teach a Bible study on this subject, where are the possible controversies! (Exhausted from angels and just counting the costs.)

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  10. Michelle, I think one of the possible problems with teaching on spiritual gifts is that often once people know their gift(s), or think they do, it’s seen as a limitation on their service; “I don’t have to do that, because that’s not my gift.” I heard it pointed out years ago that all or nearly all of the spiritual gifts are also actually biblical commands. (I think that all but the sign gifts and maybe the preaching gifts are also commands.) So I would say part of a solid look at biblical gifts should probably include a look at the commands as well: not all of us have the gift of hospitality, but all of us are commanded to practice it. We are all commanded to give, tell others of Christ, teach our children and younger men or women, encourage one another, etc., whether or not we are specifically “gifted” to do so.

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  11. Good point, Cheryl.

    The ladies in my Bible study range in age from roughly 65 to 97! They’re dynamic women who’ve walked with God a long time (I think they regard me as an idiot savant young ‘en Bible study teacher, but they put it up with me with affection).

    One of my goals is to remind them of how important they remain to the body of Christ no matter their age and abilities. They’re all pretty sharp, just physically slowing down (especially the 97 year old. She just got glasses about three years ago!).

    This angels study has been terrific, as it has required so much more preparation than I expected–and they’ve been pretty startled, too. It also has provoked wide-ranging and excellent discussion, which as I’ve noted before, is the point of this type of study.

    Thanks for any insight!

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  12. Happy anniversary to the Ls. It’s shocking how quickly life zooms along. Two of our kids turn 35 this year, which is totally unacceptable because I’m pretty sure I was just 35 the other day. 🙂

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  13. Hahaha. I remember for a while I was dating a guy who was 40 (I was maybe 37 at the time). My mom said it rather stunned her when she realized he really wasn’t “too old” for me. 🙂

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  14. Age is a funny thing ….

    The hummingbird feeder was at the hiking trails & park I visited last Saturday with the dogs — image isn’t great as it was taken with the phone (the battery in my “real” camera was dead).

    And the photo of annie was taken from the Jeep parked at the curb in front of my house as the dogs and I getting ready to head off to the dog park. She was on the steps to greet us when we returned home. She really would like to come with us someday.

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  15. And the other photo, showing the L.A. high rises in the distance, was taken from the bench at the park mentioned above where the dogs and I decided to stop and read a while. 🙂 It was a cool day, one of our “Gray May” days, almost looked like it was going to rain at times but it never did.

    I may take the dogs back there this weekend to explore one of the other trails.

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  18. Donna, there’s a 17-year gap oldest to youngest in my family. My older brothers are 7-14 years older than me, and I have a younger brother and sister. My brothers had a bit of a hard time accepting us as adults. I think the key turning point is when my sister got married; she was 26 and her husband 27. One of my older brothers admitted that when he met our brother-in-law, his first thought was, What is this MAN doing marrying my little sister? That’s when he realized since there was only a year between the spouses, and he was accepting the man as an adult male, it was probably time he recognized his sister(s) as adult, as well. Now, as far as I can tell, we are accepted as full equals among our brothers. (They grew up together, so they share a bond we do not, and the three youngest share a bond the older ones do not. And we have some differences in the ways we think, my baby boomer brothers and we who are of the next generation. But I don’t see any condescension in the way they relate to us now.)

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  20. I was speaking of being discombobulated: 🙂

    Thanx Peter.
    Chas has been discombobulated today. Overslept, stupid dream, no Lions, and partially exiled from his room.
    You may not understand this Donna, but what you are talking about is the REASON for the pet rock. I think I mentioned this before. When I was nine, I had this dog named Rex. He was my buddy. He died of something a vet could cure easily now. It’s hard on a kid when his buddy dies.
    Then, when I was about eleven. I had another dog named Pal. He/we fell into a pool of water and he caught distemper and died. I had no idea that people took pets to doctors in those days.
    I have never, since then, had a pet. Chuck has always had one since he left home. He spends more on that dog than my parents spent on me, even adjusted for inflation.
    Elvera gave me that pet rock as a prank.

    I saw that Ted Cruse video from Anon last night. I have changed my preference from
    S. Walker, Cruse,-Carson to Cruse first. I like the way he fights back. We need someone who calls it right. Does that video have a link? I would like to pass it on.

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  22. Chas, yeah, I remembered your childhood dog stories and why the Pet Rock “works” for you. 🙂

    I haven’t watched the Cruz video — in general, I find him a bit hard-edged, to be honest. (And my apologies, this is the former poli-sci major in me coming out, but candidate ‘likability’ isn’t a small factor in getting elected — think Reagan.)

    Both Rand Paul & Cruz strike me as not particularly likable, but maybe that’s just me. I wouldn’t want to hang out with them, in other words.

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  23. Donna- I do the cave tomorrow, then don’t go again until June 1. Because of all the snow we got in March, I have school until next Friday.

    Chas- You’re welcome. As for Cruz, I like the way he stood up to that annoying reporter who had a one track mind. I wish all the Republicans showed some backbone instead of hemming and hawing their way around touchy questions.

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  24. I’ve been enjoying something cute here. We have a family of killdeer hanging out around here. From a distance it’s hard to tell which of them are adults and which are young, but there are at least five birds in the family. (I’ve seen at least one adult and at least three chicks, and a total of five–they run hither and yon in such a scattershot method, and they can settle down into a lawn and become all but invisible for a bit, so I can’t speak for the presence or absence of a second adult or any birds beyond five.) Until two days ago, I’d never seen killdeer in my backyard, though I had seen them behind our fence and in the next-door neighbor’s yard. I don’t know if Misten is old enough they feel safer this year than last, or if they just happen to have decided this looks like a good yard. The chicks are mostly grown, their one stripe separating into two but their bodies still a bit smaller and fuzzier than the adults, if you look closely or see them through a zoom lens.

    A few minutes ago the parent flew over the fence into the next yard, and three chicks bunched up against the fence, not sure how to go where she just went. Two figured it out pretty quickly, but the third ran up and down on this side of the fence, with no idea how to get through and join them. It took a minute or two to figure it out, but eventually it did.

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  25. Happy Anniversary to the L’s.
    Michelle,
    While I agree with Cheryl that we are to use all of our gifts, I do think it is nice to know what your “special” gift is and how best to use it. This age group of women sound like if they had a study on it, the could mentor younger women in the church on using all of their gifts.

    As someone who has sought to understand myself for a long, long time and as someone who flounders around not knowing where my talents lie…I would welcome a study on this.
    I have taken all the “tests” from Myers Briggs, to DISC, to the 5 Love Languages, and Spiritual Gifts and I still don’t know what it is I am supposed to do.

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  26. Kim, I think it is too. But it’s not “use your special gift” OR “love others, even if it’s sometimes outside your giftedness.” I can tell you right now that I’d make a bad nurse. Cleaning up vomit is not my spiritual gift. But when I had foster kids, it was part of my calling. And then I found out that was one task my sister left for her husband–here she was, married with five children, and avoiding that task, and I had to deal with a LOT of it it twenty minutes into my role as foster mom. There are a lot of things I don’t do well, and sometimes I just have to do them anyway.

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  28. Just watched an oil-covered California brown pelican get washed in a tub full of suds — Dawn liquid dish soap. Pelican seemed pretty irritated by it all.

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  29. HAPPY, HAPPY,HAPPY×11
    ANNIVERSARY to Mr.&Mrs.L!
    ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

    Guess how many hearts? Awe, that was too easy given the clues!

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  30. We did a recent study of spiritual gifts. We had lists of items to check off, give points and tally. Tests like that are interesting, but I feel God often gifts as needs show up. Sometimes we might not realize how a gift in one area can be modified for use in another area. People need to learn more flexibility to fill in the gaps where needed. I guess that goes along with what Cheryl said.

    Cheryl, your comment reminded me of when teaching preschool one year, one of the new boys in our class would cry and vomit each day at the beginning of class. I was relieved that he was attached to the other teacher so she had to deal with that each day for awhile. I felt sorry for her and him, but glad for me.

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  31. My house is quiet. I don’t hear Forrest down here getting into trouble, nor do I hear him running back & forth upstairs as he often does.

    And it’s not only because I took out my hearing aids. 🙂

    Emily & Forrest are off on a short (only two nights) camping trip. I am enjoying the quiet. 🙂

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  32. Cheryl, I join you in the lousy nurse category. Thankfully the two times that BG vomited:
    1. She was in the kitchen and I held the garbage can under her.
    2. She was asleep in my bed and I just rolled up the sheets and washed them.

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  34. Oh, that you do, Kim. And I remember we had our bird rescue folks from our here working in the gulf, too. That one was a doozy.

    And me three for being not nurse material.

    When I’m visiting someone in the hospital or in convalescence, I’ll leave the room in a flash and ask them to tell me when they’re done doing whatever they’re doing. I like the hallway.

    Growing up, my best friend’s mom used to joke that she couldn’t clean up throwup without almost throwing up herself. I think the dad got to do it mostly. 🙂

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  37. Happy Anniversary to you Peter and your bride….
    I have the next three days off…the rain continues…but it is too cold to garden or even purchase plants as of yet….I do look forward to seeing the sun again someday! 🙂

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  39. Cleaning up vomit gags me, too, & Lee would clean it up if he wasn’t sleeping when it happened.

    But I had to play nurse with my MIL when she lived with us. She came here after having had an emergency surgery to remove part of her colon, so I was trained by a visiting nurse to pack the wound (which was surprisingly quite large at first) with sterile dressings.

    As Mary’s physical & mental condition worsened, due to Alzheimer’s Disease, I had to “clean her up” in the bathroom, & also take care of the messes in her bed. I just did it, as it had to be done, not usually getting grossed out.

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  40. Kim – BG only vomited twice while growing up? Wow. You were lucky.

    I’ve also had to deal with Forrest’s vomiting when he got sick while Emily was at her night classes. Lucky me.

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  41. The oil spill is about 100 miles north of us, on the coast near Santa Barbara — but the bird rescue and treatment center is in our town, so they’re transporting many of the pelicans down here.

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  43. Wow, a guy from the natural history museum sent me an email saying a a new species of marine roly poly pillbug was discovered on our local coastline (he just wrote an academic paper on it). Love stories like that. On for Tuesday.

    Meanwhile, I’m relishing a rare 3-day weekend ahead …

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