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Our Daily Thread 5-23-15

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from Chas.

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On this day in 1430 Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundians. She was then sold to the English.

In 1785 Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals.

In 1873 Canada’s North West Mounted Police force was established. The organization’s name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.

And in 1945 Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide while imprisoned by the Allied forces in Luneburg Germany.

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Quote of the Day

“The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.”

Jeff Miller

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 I figured this weekend you folks can pick the music and post it in the comments. 

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Anyone have a QoD?

63 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-23-15”

  1. I think the Jeff Miller you’re quoting is the local guy who originated the flights to visit the WWII monuments in Washington. I can’t bring the name of the flights to mind right now.
    Jeff ran for Congress from our district, but didn’t make it because Asheville is part of the district.

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  3. I thought it would be a good Memorial Day photo.
    The B-29 is “Rock Happy” She came to us from Bermuda. Taken in 1952 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.. Obviously getting ready to go out on a mission. You can tell by the commotion around her, and the fact that I am out there.
    I can tell that it’s “Rock Happy” by the painting on the nose. All the planes had a name.

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  7. Mr. P was in the Air Force for 4 years. Came out for 6 years and went back into the Navy. So I have covered two of the songs. I could claim the Army through Oldest Son and the Marine Corps through Middle Son.

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  8. My SS teacher and a couple of others went on one of the first Honor Flights.
    Jeff Miller is a big name in the area. He owns a couple of dry cleaning establishments here..

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  9. We have a 90-year-old man in our church who flew and was taken on an honor flight last year. And we have a B-17 at our airport that can be taken up for a pretty hefty fee; church people have gotten money together to send our senior saint up in it in early June, which means someone has to sit at home with his wife, since she is never left alone and he is her caregiver. He’s still strong and hearty, no cane, but she is nearly blind and uses a walker.

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  11. I think all of the WWII Veterans they could identify in my area have gone. I think it is a really special thing to do for our veterans.
    I have to get ready to attend a funeral. The gentleman played golf the very day he ended up in the ER. He had developed some sort of lung disease that hardened his lungs. He died peacefully at home on Thursday morning. His stepdaughter wrote the most amazing tribute to him.

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  13. It’s a bird from Chas!

    That is awesome — and I guessed pretty quickly it must be from him. 🙂

    I was really tired last night (stayed up a tad late watching “Speed,” which I’d seen before but not in a long time).

    Lots of big things going on in our area for Memorial Day (and I don’t have to cover any of them this year, yay). The Battleship Iowa will be hosting a major day-long gathering on Monday, including several radio shows that will be broadcasting live from the ship (Dennis Prager among them).

    And the Vietnam Moving Wall also is visiting our area again and has been set up for our largest Memorial Day event at the local cemetery. The wall is open 24/7 through Tuesday morning, volunteers are staffing it in 3-hour shifts to help people find names & take rubbings. I covered the replica wall when it last came here, in ’08, it always draws thousands of very emotional Vietnam veterans. It’s truly overwhelming when you see all the names. 😦 Everyone who sees it usually responds just in silence.

    I’m Navy, in memory of my dad who served in WWII. Anchors Aweigh.

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  17. Jo, I took the picture with the new 35mm camera I bought at the PX
    I wasted lots of film taking pictures of Pakistani mountains and other stuff. I threw most of those 35mm slides away.

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  19. Interesting thought that popped into my mind: Years ago, our adult class Sunday School teacher said that if a man (or woman) training to be a missionary dies before he can get to the mission field, he will still get the reward of a missionary because he was acting in obedience. following the call.

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  20. Oh, thanks Karen, that show actually sounds like my kind of thing. 🙂 And now that all the other TV shows have broken for summer, I’m looking for something like that … Love those mysteries!

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  21. I still have my old Canon 35mm camera, but of course haven’t used it in many years. Bought it in college for a photo journalism class and it served me well for over a decade after that.

    I was covering an assignment yesterday where I was one of the few (writer) reporters amid a lot of TV and print camera guys, including our photo editor, and they were all comparing notes on the latest cameras coming out, something about a new Canon Mach (number?) that one of the guys was especially excited over.

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  22. Miss Bosley was thrilled that I got kitchen table totally cleared and put a clean table cloth on. She was so thrilled she dived onto it, slid the cloth and herself off the table and onto an unsuspecting chair which immediately toppled to the floor. Miss Bosley ran away from the scene of the crime and left me holding the dirty tablecloth.
    I suppose this should be on the rant page.
    😦

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  23. Gremlins in son’s phone just did text, “Waiting in sorrow,”for “Waiting at airport.” Said he once tried texting a friend asking for address and the text read, “What is your Aztec?”
    Oh, the joys of super smart/dumb phones.

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  27. Wow, Wayward Pines, Idaho, is a scary place alright.

    Microchips, duct tape, baseball bats — and Bill Clinton is still president. Horrifying.

    And I always thought Idaho was a nice place.

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  28. Since the other lady, who has been missing for only five weeks, thinks she’s been there for 12 years, Agent Burke should ask her who the president is.

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  31. U.S. Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke awakens from a car accident on the outskirts of Wayward Pines, Idaho. After entering town and collapsing in a coffee shop, he recalls driving with Agent Stallings, searching for Agents Hewson and Evans. Beverly, a bartender, gives him a note with an address where he finds the decaying corpse of Agent Evans, which he reports to a disinterested Sheriff Pope. When Ethan is subsequently hospitalized, psychiatrist Dr. Jenkins suggests surgery, but Beverly helps him escape. In Seattle, Dr. Jenkins meets with Ethan’s boss and tells him everything is going as planned. Ethan’s wife Theresa wonders if he has run off with Agent Kate Hewson. Ethan finds Kate in Wayward Pines, but she claims to have been there for 12 years. He steals a car to leave town, only to discover that a high fence surrounds the town. Sheriff Pope tells him that he cannot leave.

    I can google with the best of them….

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  37. Come on up and live some real life. The piggies are in. One of the seventeen year olds picked them up last night. He commented that they were able to get through the fence so I told him they needed to be in the little pig pen. This morning they were still in the large pen but when daughter went up to feed them, they were out. We caught them and moved them to the little pig pen. We could have used your help. Nothing like chasing little black piglets through the fog and wet grass in snake country, to give you a taste of life.

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  40. I can see it’s a mighty quiet weekend around here. Here’s my contribution to the music, for no particular reason, other than it’s fun:

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  44. I see you have been up to your your usual antics.
    We are going to some friends “down by the Bay” in a little while.

    Have I told you that Lulabelle is going away in two weeks to doggie boot camp. Hopefully they can teach her to be a good dog.

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  45. Referring to Friday’s post, I see the question of spiritual gifts was raised. Now, I am highly suspicious of identifying spiritual gifts as if they were some sort of personality test. Gothard talked a lot about spiritual gifts and even had a test which greatly resembled the personality colour test that I completed when I was in nursing school. When I read Paul talking about spiritual gifts, I don’t see him giving the limits of what gifts there are or how those gifts function. Rather he is helping people work together. Paul himself was not only an apostle, but also a healer, a teacher, occasionally a prophet, and a missionary. In other words, you may find yourself doing more than one thing. Also, as your season of life changes, your functions and use of your abilities may change. There is no doubt that we differ in natural abilities and in our outward circumstances. The goal of Paul’s words is not to tell us the slot we fit into, but to view ourselves as part of a living body, each helping as we are able.

    As to what makes or disqualifies a nurse, I’m an introvert, soft-spoken, painfully shy, sensitive, asthmatic, small, and, when it comes to physical strength, the weakest in my family. I am naturally grossed out by bodily discharge of any kind and hearing some one vomit makes me gag. It is strange though, because when I am needed to help someone in any distress, whether in the operating room, with its heavy equipment, the stench and sight of blood and body tissue, and the long periods of standing clad in surgical gear unable to touch move your gloved hands outside of the sterile field; or in a clinic, cleaning up a labouring mother’s vomit, urine, excrement, blood, and amniotic fluid so the baby has a dry spot to land; or in a patient’s home, peeling away stained dressings to expose the stinking ulcers to be cleaned and dressed; or in a nursing home, shifting a patient to wash and change their soiled linen – in all those situation all of my natural tendencies are pushed aside. Someone needs more help than I do and I can ignore the signals of my own discomfort for theirs. I am terrified nearly every time I go to face those situations, but I pray, and God always gives me the strength to do it.

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  47. When a church ceases to be a church

    http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/21/proposal-for-transgender-baptism-to-go-before-church-of-england

    “The Church of England is to debate plans to introduce a ceremony akin to a baptism to mark the new identities of Christians who undergo gender transition.

    “The Rev Chris Newlands, the vicar of Lancaster Priory, has proposed a motion to the General Synod to debate the issue, after he was approached by a young transgender person seeking to be “re-baptised” in his new identity.

    “The motion, which was passed by Blackburn Diocese last month, calls on the House of Bishops to consider whether it should introduce a new service to mark the milestone in the life of a trans person. A spokesperson for the Archbishops’ Council confirmed that the motion had been received, but said it would not be debated imminently. …”

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  49. We picked up son from the airport late last night. We probably made five go rounds of the circle before he made it out. Then we had a late meal at Outback. Thanks to those who prayed for safe travels.

    This morning at church our choir director gave notice that he and his family will be leaving us for another church in about three weeks. He has been great, but I think it will probably be better for their family to be in a smaller town for raising children. I don’t think I would want to raise children in this area at this point in time. Way too liberal.

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  50. We learned about a resignation at our church, too, this morning. The young man who is our worship leader & youth pastor let us know he is leaving to take another position. He assured us that he is not leaving us for any negative reason, & that he struggled with God about this, as God was leading him to move on, but he wanted to stay.

    He preached a good message about being fervent in prayer, listening for God’s leading, & investing ourselves into others,in particular, the teens & children of the church. He also mentioned that the Friday night youth group services were often more “powerful” than our Sunday morning services, with young people praying & weeping at the altar far past when youth group was supposed to be over. He urged us to love these kids & to be good examples to them of what God can do in one’s life.

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  56. Happy until they wind up on someone’s plate as crispy bacon one morning? 🙄 🙂

    We’re socked in with fog this morning. Still Gray May.

    It’s hard to go through a change in pastors. As far as I know, ours is staying put for the foreseeable future.

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  58. Janice, thank you, but I am not brave. I feel a little foolish for posting all that, but it just seemed to come welling up – therapeutic, I suppose. Many years ago, I memorized that verse which say Christ’s strength is perfected in our weakness, and through the years, He has been teaching me to lean more and more on Him. Lately, I’ve been thinking about another verse, “He has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise, and the weak things of this world; yes, the things that are nothing to bring to nothing the things that are.”

    I don’t know if you all know, but the team which I worked with has been reduced to only four on the field right now, and two are due for furlough. The other two are single missionaries, who are singlehandedly running the two branches of outreach. I’ve seen statistics that single women out number single men on the mission by as high as seven to one across all denominations. Women are frequently limited in what they can do – they cannot be pastors, and in many cultures, the men would not listen to them in any case. Yet, God calls them and in the place where I was they are the backbone of the outreach. Pray for them, they need His strength.

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  59. We’ve decided that when our current three pets (Heidi & the two cats, Angel & Rudy) die off, we will not replace them. Veterinary care is just too expensive.

    We have an emergency appointment at 3:00 today for Rudy. I happened to notice that he can’t pee. He keeps going to the litter box, but nothing comes out. The vet says this is not something that can wait until tomorrow.

    An emergency appointment costs $150. And if Rudy needs to stay in the vet hospital, that will be at least an additional $300. 😦

    We think Chrissy may be able to reimburse us, because she has a good deal of savings.

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  60. Oh, sorry to hear about Rudy … Yes, vet care has become extremely sophisticated AND expensive. I did a story on this trend some years ago and how it has become so hard for many owners. My vet told me also that this is a trend that primarily is centered on the two coasts, that vet care in the middle states, or especially in more rural areas, is still more down to earth.

    There is now pet insurance, but (at least in the beginning), it didn’t cover all that much and was yet another monthly expense to keep it in place.

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  61. Rudy did not have to stay in the vet hospital. The vet was able to palpate his bladder to make the urine come out. There may have been a small blockage due to cystitis, which was probably caused by a new food we bought. (Hopefully that’s all it was.) The vet gave us (well, we paid for it) a bag of special food for urinary health, & when that runs out we can try a similar kind available in stores. Rudy is on an analgesic for three days to help the pain from what the vet did to him, & liquid amoxicillin for a few days.

    Fortunately, Rudy will eat his wet food with the amoxicillin mixed in.

    I am so very relieved that it wasn’t something more serious.

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  62. Donna – Connecticut may be on the east coast, but our little town is considered semi-rural (there are rural sections of it, & suburban sections), & our vet also works on farm animals. So far, he hasn’t suggested anything sophisticated in the care of our pets. We couldn’t afford it anyway if he did.

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