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Our Daily Thread 6-13-15

Good Morning!

Welcome to the weekend!

And I believe 6 Arrows and her husband are celebrating Anniversary #29 this weekend. 🙂

🌼 💕 So Happy Anniversary!! 💕 🌼

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On this day in 1777 The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help with their rebellion against the British.

In 1888 Congress created the Department of Labor.

In 1898 the Canadian Yukon Territory was organized.

In 1943 German spies landed on Long Island, New York and were soon captured.

And in 1971 The New York Times began publishing the “Pentagon Papers”. The articles were a secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam.

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Quote of the Day

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.”

William Butler Yeats

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Not many birthdays today, so Lindsey Stirling with Pentatonix, covering Imagine Dragons. From Lindsey Stirling

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Anyone have a QoD?

69 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-13-15”

  1. Happy 29th Six and spouse!
    Seems like, in answer to Mumsee’s question, that all the bridges are replacements.
    Makes sense. All the bridges to somewhere that needs to be accessed, have been built long ago. If there’s no bridge there, no reason to go there anyhow. .

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  3. I got one! I got one! Here is a bridge story. Listen carefully and you will know why there haven’t been many built lately between costs, environmental impact studies and whatever else. There is a wreck in the I 10 tunnel almost every day. Traffic backs up for miles. I usually use the Causeway, but something like that would never get built today because it HAS effected the environment on Mobile Bay and caused erosion.

    http://www.local15tv.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/wpmi_design-plans-i10-bridge-project-21215.shtml#.VXwiKPm6eM9

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  4. Day Seven of No Lulabelle.
    Amos continues to enjoy his renewed status as an only dog. He has turned back into quite the snuggler. He has been able to have his smaller toys out to play with, without them being destroyed. He has been able to run and fetch and play the “get you get you get you” game. This is where he has a toy and I chase him and we play keep away. He loves it when I catch him and he gets scratches.

    We have gotten updates on Lu. She likes to stick close to the trainer. She has a sweet disposition and is learning well. She just needs to learn to calm down. She is two. She is part Lab. It is probably going to be another year or two before she really calms down, but training helps. I still worry about the training her human needs. He defends her as being social. Both of them need to know that not everyone likes dogs and no one wants one harassing you and forcing themselves on you.

    Last night we went to The Windmill Market and had pizza. We sat outside and listened to the music. A woman walked up with a beautiful, quite noble looking German Shepherd. I have a real soft spot for Shepherds, I was around one as a small child and I was her “pup”. I climbed all over her and she herded me around. Anyway, he had a partial muzzle on, but could still open his mouth. She tied him up outside in the shade and went inside to order her food. There were lots of children there last night and they discovered the dog. German Shepherds have gotten a bad reputation of late, and even though I love them I respect them. Both Paul and I watched the children and the dog rather than anything else. I am not sure which adults were the parents but none of them spoke to the children and told them to leave the dog alone. Amos is 10 pounds and has a Shi Tzu underbite, he can hardly get his mouth open to bite someone, but I would never want children who don’t know him around him without me introducing them and holding on to him. I would feel terrible if he snapped at a child. Parents need to watch their children!!!!

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  6. We had a gorgeous half Golden Retriever, half German Shepherd. My first dog. My husband brought home the adorable puppy the Christmas I was 7 months pregnant and had a diaper-clad 2 year old.

    You can imagine what I did for the next six months.

    Knowing Diggory would be big and having no experience, I took him to obedience school, where he seemed to do fine.

    My husband, of course, started going out to sea for long stretches of time.

    Time. What a magic word.

    We loved that dog and have fond memories, but there was something off.

    One of the hardest days of my life for a variety of complicated reasons, not all related to the dog, was when, sobbing, I had to take him in to be put down

    He had attacked visiting children, twice, and despite valiant and expensive training, could not be trusted.

    One of several reasons I was so broken during that engineer tour.

    I think all four dogs I’ve owned have ended tragically with me sobbing in the vet’s office.

    But the Lord sustained us and we still like dogs–well-trained dogs.

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  7. New bridges: I found a website yesterday saying there were over 1700 new bridges since 1992. According to a federal transportation report. And they were new bridges, not repair or replace.

    Peter L mentions one of them in his area. An old bridge, still in use, with a newer bridge and now an even newer one. That would qualify. We had a new replacement put in ten or so years ago. Interestingly, they forgot hundreds of people up in the mountains and closed them off, had to buy a large hillside from the Tribe, and pay a bunch more to redo the bridge to let those folks come in for their groceries.

    Just wondering, with all the “bad” bridges in serious need of repair, where all the money is going and where all of these new bridges are.

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  8. After that downer comment, I can tell a happier more up-to-date dog story!

    Our nephew the soccer player has a very well trained Boston Terrier. Rambo is larger than most Bostons, probably 30 pounds, and he was unable to go with the family when my nephew was traded to Montreal.

    The plan was for him to move to California with my in-laws, but they already have three dogs, so over my daughter-in-law’s reluctance, my son and three children took him in. They live around the corner from my in-laws anyway, so the four dogs (three Bostons) meet regularly.

    Rambo is such a pleasant, well-behaved dog who doesn’t mind being bathed all the time, that my daughter-in-law has come around. She likes him.

    My son mentioned the other night Rambo had not been particularly happy that day: he’d spent most of the afternoon dressed up as a gladiator dog in mail with a helmet. “I finally told the kids to take off the costume and make him happy.”

    DIL laughed. “He spends most days dressed up in one costume or another. He’s great with the five-year-old, letting her do that.”

    “And I haven’t had to sweep up the floor under the table since he moved in,” my son laughed.

    Then they sobered. “We’re going to have trouble when Eric wants him back. A (the 5 year old) will be devastated.”

    He also climbs trees. You can see the video on my FB page. LOL.

    Or on his FB page: Rambo Kronberg. https://www.facebook.com/rambo.kronberg?fref=ts

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  9. The last bridge I remember that was not a replacement was the Cabin John Bridge (not it’s real name)I across the Potomac. It was I-495, part of the Washington Beltway.

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  12. Michelle, I can so understand the sobbing. I have had 4 dogs. Snoopy, who was part German Shepherd, part Collie. He was Smoky’s Grandson. There was a bad blood line somewhere and he attacked my dad, my grandfather, and many a mail carrier. He bit me once, but being a child, I didn’t know any better than to turn around and bite him on the ear. My dad had him put down after Hurricane Frederick in 1979. He lied and told me he had sold him as a guard dog. I begged him to go back and bring him home. I was devastated when he FINALLY told me the truth.
    George and I got Bud when we were dating, but he was hit by a car in front of my mother in laws house. Beauregard the Duke of Marlowe was also known as “Mama’s Little Tax Return”. I bought him for George a few months after Bud was killed. MIL and I looked every where from Jacksonville, FL to Houston, TX for a litter of Golden Retrievers and finally located them 3 houses down from her. He was a blond Golden and was so fat he could hardly walk. He was our first “child”. He was the smartest dog I have ever been around. He was 7 when BG was born. MIL laughed the week before BG arrived at the indignity the poor dog suffered having his feet wiped off when he came in from outside. She told him ,”Marlowe, in another week they won’t even know you have paws”. The first night she was home, she cried all night and Marlowe walked in circles whining. He would look at us and then at her like “Can’t you DO something?” I have written here before about having to have him put down February 19,2003. BG went to Nana’s that weekend and George and I sat on the sofa with Marlowe’s “baby book”, his baby collar, his last collar, and his “pitiful duck” and sobbed.
    Losing Marlowe hurt so much that I never wanted to put myself through that pain again. I was never going to get another dog. EVER!!!! Famous last words. I have come to realize that the unconditional love they give far out weighs the pain when we have to say good-bye.

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  13. I’m back. Did anyone miss me?

    My husband and I spent ten days in the South. And yes, it felt like I was going back home. 🙂 Two days in Nashville (home), where we had a creek across the street from our hotel and I got some great bird pictures, including goldfinches on thistles and at least two species I’ve never photographed before, one of them with a chick. More importantly, I saw several of my Nashville friends, including having supper with three couples with whom I ate lunch every Sunday, and two meals with my best friend from Nashville.

    Then we spent two days with my brother who lives near Chattanooga (the only two days he wasn’t on the road), including some meals with my oldest niece and her family (three children eight to two), a visit to the lovely Chattanooga Aquarium, and later dinner with my niece and her middle child. At church, we met the mother and brother (and family) of a member of our church, and talked with the brother and wife (who were also in from out of town) for at least an hour . . . so out-of-town visitors were asked to lock up the church when we finished. 🙂

    The past week we have been at the PCA general assembly in Chattanooga. It was an extremely busy week for my husband, and one of the decisions made by the assembly quite discouraging, but he got to meet a lot of people who can help him with some things he is working on. I signed up for three events with the women, including a tea and a visit to the art museum. I also took the free shuttle downtown once to walk around by myself and take pictures of the river, sculptures, mockingbirds, and a wet blue jay. I also got a chance to do some drawing and a lot of reading.

    My husband really wanted to watch the horse race last weekend (I did too; we both thought there was a very good chance of having a Triple Crown winner) and my brother’s house didn’t get the reception we needed, so we ran out to supper at Applebee’s so we could watch the race. I hadn’t seen either of the other two that were in my lifetime, since our family didn’t have a TV yet (and we associated horse races with gambling anyway, not with the beauty of the speed).

    Anyway, we’re back home, ready to celebrate his parents’ 60th wedding anniversary with them this weekend.

    We had a long drive home yesterday, but it’s good to be home.

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  16. Welcome home cheryl — and happy anniversary to 6 arrows & to cheryl’s in-laws.

    I slept in today which felt wonderful, but I dreamed about Norma not doing well, I will have to try to call her again today. 😦 And my reporter friend with Parkinson’s had a birthday this past week, I should stop by the convalescent place to see him.

    And I should probably call the U-verse folks to re-negotiate the TV/Internet/phone contract.

    I dread doing that, but my first “regular” bill posted yesterday and it’s $70+ plus higher — per month — than what I had been paying for 2 years on their very reasonable new-customer deal. It’s typical & it wasn’t a surprise, they’re like every other company out there, they all do the same thing. But now’s the time to say I will leave! them and go back to my former cable company (and I will) if they don’t bring the monthly price back down to what it was (or very close to it). What a racket.

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  17. Lovin’ our weather

    LOS ANGELES >> Gray skies are blanketing Southern California thanks to a deep marine layer that is reaching far inland.

    Fog, drizzle and some rain have turned the region very damp Saturday morning under what the National Weather Service says is a typical June cloud pattern over the coasts and valleys.

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  18. Hello to all. Glad to hear Cheryl had a nice trip with her husband.

    I miss visiting Chattanooga. It was great to make the short trips when son was at college on Lookout Mt.

    I think it’s suppose to be the hottest this weekend that it has been all summer. I remain thankful God let the weather be pleasant for VBS.

    I am thinking there may be a new bridge going in around Waco over the Brazos River. I would have to find out for sure, but when we were last there I saw lots of costruction in that area.

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  22. Here’s the link to a video I shared on Facebook, expressing the feelings of the child first, & then from the dog’s point of view, leading up to the dog eventually biting the child. (It doesn’t show that, only implies it.)

    I read a piece from a vet who wrote how she hates seeing these “cute” photos of children hanging all over dogs. She told the story of having to put down a sweet St. Bernard who had seemed to have infinite patience with the family’s children, until one day he snapped & bit one of the children.

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  23. For the record, I lurked all last week on my husband’s laptop, so I did read most of the comments. I just didn’t join in the conversation myself, except to e-mail some of the people with celebrations to wish them well. . . .

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  24. Oops. It won’t show.

    Well, the child’s point of view was of how she & her dog were such good friends, how she sometimes dressed him up, played this game or that game with him, etc.

    The dog’s point of view was that he loved the girl, but didn’t want to do all those things. He tried to get someone’s attention, to tell them by the expression in his eyes, by his body language, etc., but nobody would listen, until one day…

    And then the two voices say together: “We never saw each other again.” (I think those were the words.)

    I think my Facebook friends can see it on Facebook.

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  25. All my pets so far, dogs & cats, have had to be put down for one disease or another. Some lived fairly long lives, others not so long. It is heartbreaking to lose a beloved pet.

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  27. For what it’s worth, we fought with DirecTV for a year about our bill. It ended up with me calling every month when the bill came for them to knock it back to the previous charge. After a year, they refused and raised it another $35. I didn’t think we watched $80 worth of TV every month and I refused.

    We haven’t had television for more than two years now, but they send me letters, call and beg me to come back.

    I wouldn’t have left if I could get what I wanted for $40 (which included Internet), but they weren’t willing to leave it there and continued to annoy me.

    One man actually told me he was afraid my life was becoming stunted because I wasn’t watching television.

    “How very interesting,” I said. “With my free time I wrote a book that appeared on the NY Times best seller’s list.”

    “Oh, well maybe not you then . . . ”

    Can’t get me back, so why not insult me? LOL

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  28. Marlowe the Wonder Dog was the best dog ever. BUT….When BG was a baby if I walked out of a room for a second and left her on the floor playing I made him go with me. I never left the two of them alone. Sometimes when she was a toddler he would walk in her room to check on her but he never stayed. Once he gave me a look (and I think he may have made a low rumble, not really a growl) that said she had gotten on his last nerve. I rescued him from her. It would have killed me for him to bite her and me to have to put him down. He never bit anyone as far as I know, but it just wasn’t worth the risk.

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  29. Wait, Donna. You’re a journalist, isn’t having television and the internet tax deductible for you? Some of my writer friends claim it–they need to keep up to date for their work.

    That also may be true of the Internet . . .

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  32. We just got a video of our girl Lulabelle. She is being so good. On the video the trainer talks about what a loving dog she is, but she is just too excitable. I couldn’t believe it was my wild dog in the video. I would share it with you but they have a note about it being unlisted and to please think before sharing.

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  34. You may remember some time ago that a sixteen year old Muslim girl who had become a Christian ran away from home to Florida because she was afraid that her father would send her back to Sri Lanka where she would be killed. It’s legal there. She survived until she was eighteen and out of jurisdiction of her parents.
    She wrote a book about her adventure. Very good. Highly recommended. Because of the nature of the situation, i suspect the women would relate better, but it’s a good read for everyone.
    Hiding in the Light is the story of Rifqa Bary who was a Muslim girl who converted to Christianity. She kept that secret for two years but was discovered and fled to Florida. We know what happened because she wrote the book, but how it happened is interesting reading Former Governor Charlie Crist looks bad in this, but not intentionally on her part. The entire bureaucracy looks bad for that matter.
    She is still hiding. Hence the title. She’s attending college somewhere, but she doesn’t say where, nor where she lives.
    I got the book from Christian Books for little over $17..

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  39. I’ve been sick all day, some kind of acute gastro attack. Rare for me.

    I think I feel a *little* better now after sleeping a couple hours, but still spending way too much time in the bathroom. I haven’t been this sick (stomach-wise, not counting respiratory flu that knocked me down earlier this year) in ages. No fever or headache or other aches, but I probably should start drinking some fluids …

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  40. Yes, Donna, drink some fluids. Sorry you’re feeling so ill.

    *******

    Anyone have anything to say about SpeedQueen washers? Our appliance repair man mentioned that they are more expensive, but worth the price, as they are built better than most other washers.

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  41. Aw, thanks for the anniversary wishes. 🙂 Tomorrow is the day, and it is indeed 29 years. Or half of Chas and Elvera’s. 🙂

    Thankful for the blessing of a good man, and the opportunity to grow older together, through thick and thin, witnessing the marriage bond deepen by God’s grace.

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  42. Kim, I watched Lulu’s video on FB, you really can see a difference.

    Interesting piece about the loyalty of dogs:

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/your-enemys-enemy-is-your-dog-scientists-find

    “Dogs do not like people who are mean to their owners and will refuse food offered by people who have snubbed their master, Japanese researchers have said.

    “The findings reveal that canines have the capacity to cooperate socially – a characteristic found in a relatively small number of species, including humans and some other primates. …”

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  44. Good Morning Everyone.
    Donna, I was so happy to see the video of Lulabelle walking on a leash. I try walking her but she takes off like a racehorse trying to pull me along. I am nothing if not hard headed and I pull back on the lead. It is a dreadful experience for both of us. I would love to be able to walk both Lou and Amos at the same time because whichever one I take the other sits at the front door with the most pathetic look and saddest eyes. What you can let a little dog get away with to totally different than what you can let a big one do.
    I have often said the fatal flaw in a pit bull dog must be that they have to have 100% of the attention 100% of the time. Even the trainer has commented on how “social” Lou is. It will be interesting to see what she does this week.

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  45. 🇺🇸 It’s Flag Day! Fly the Stars and Stripes! 🇺🇸

    Karen O- I’ve learned that if the appliance repairman recommends something, it is probably a good buy. However, if it’s a repair man you don’t know or don’t trust, get a second opinion. Speed Queens might be worth the money, from what I have heard. And they are made in the USA, so that is one thing that has my interest.

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  47. I haven’t seen a Speed Queen in years. Out here we’re all about HE machines. I bought one from Sears (with a warranty!) and have had no complaints. I was terribly disappointed with my Maytag Neptune (which replaced a perfectly fine 20 year old Maytag. We needed to conserve water, of course) and after replacing 3 motherboards swore we’d never buy another.

    But you all know my history with appliances . . .

    Blog post on Flag day for those interested, by moi: http://michelleule.com/2011/06/14/375/

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  53. Hoping everyone is having a relaxing Sunday.

    Our interim pastor told us that the minister who preached here a few weeks ago will be preaching again, this time as a candidate for pastor, in a couple weeks. I appreciated that his sermon had been challenging, not fluffy in any way.

    Here’s a question for y’all: How do your denominations (or individual churches) go about picking new pastors?

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  54. Karen, our church(es), (All of them I know have done it this way for the last sixty years. But, as I will show, each church does it its own way.)
    The church appoints a pulpit committee, and determining on the ability of the church to finance trips, the pulpit committee contacts prospective pastors all over the country. Almost every situation differs. Some pastors, because they want to relocate for some reason, let it be known that they are available.

    Our present pastor had been here before. When he learned that our church was available, he let it be known that he was interested.

    Our church became available when the FBC North Augusta, SC, contacted our pastor and asked him if he would consider coming. He told them (and us) that he was not looking, and that he wasn’t interested.in moving. His children were established in school, etc. However they and he prayed about it and it seemed that God was directing him to N. Augusta.
    We hated to lose him, but figured that if God meant for Ryan to leave, he had someone he wanted in Hendersonville.
    It seemed to work that way. Pastor Steve came back and the church lives him.

    My case was that I was a recent seminary graduate. The pastor of my church in Spartanburg (where we moved from Fort Worth) let it be known around that there was a preacher boy looking for a church.
    (I just looked at my records and discovered that I only preached 12 sermons in the Spartanburg area. I thought it was more.)
    Anyhow, the smart pulpit committees never called me. So, after exactly 18 months after leaving Fort Worth, I moved to Virginia for a real job.

    My experience during that time is another story. You all know me, a retired Physical Scientist, comfortably retired, apparently without any problems to speak of. You don’t know the turmoil, praying and soul searching that occurred during those years.
    But it worked out better than I could have imagined at the time.

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  55. HAPPY♡ANNIVERSARY
    6 Arrows & Husband
    ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡+
    ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
    ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
    29 hearts and counting

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  56. I hope you are feeling better, Donna.

    I am feeling in a bit of a slump right now. Being in VBS mode and then transitioning back to regular life does that to me. And being at VBS and outside a lot really makes it feel like summer.

    I just found out that the county code people are getting after church preschools and making them upgrade facilities to accomodate the physically challenged. I imagine some smaller schools might not have the money to meet code so that will do them in. Very sad intrusion of government.

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  58. My afternoon got away from me. After church, Mr P made brunch for us. Some sort of country ham and mustard grave over grits. Sounds awful doesn’t it? It was pretty good. Salty, but good. I put on a smocked sundress and slathered on sunscreen and sat outside to read. I only recently came inside. Lots of water and sunscreen. Also a hat and sunglasses.
    It has been a nice relaxing weekend.

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  59. Thank you again for the anniversary wishes. 🙂 And for the prayers from a few days ago. Going back to my blog fast after today, but knew I should check for possible anniversary wishes directed to my husband and me — AJ does such a nice job remembering the many birthdays, anniversaries, etc., I didn’t want to fail to acknowledge the kindness.

    Have a wonderful summer, everyone. (And, Cheryl, I know I missed your birthday last year during my mid-June to mid-July media fast, so I will take the time now to wish you early birthday greetings. I hope you have a great day when it comes around!) 🙂

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  61. We also appoint a pulpit committee and then invite candidates to come and preach, spend the weekend with the congregation at meals, etc. When an actual call is being weighed, the rest of the congregation then weighs in at a congregational meeting.

    The system I don’t care for is the one practiced in Methodist and some other denominations (Episcopal?) where a minister is assigned and sent to a church by the bishops — and then moved out on their same decision.

    I’ve seen those churches wind up with a real mismatch – a young, liberal hipster minister enamored with the emergent church movement but assigned to a small, aging, traditional congregation that doesn’t know what to make of him, for example.

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  62. I slept all afternoon & I’m almost afraid to say I think I feel a little better. But I’ve thought I’ve felt better before in the past couple days, only to be plunged into the abyss — and the bathroom — again.

    I haven’t eaten anything since Friday night and finally think I can eat just a little something, though nothing in the house that’s safe, really. (BRAT diet recommendations, etc.) Maybe just a little toast or saltine crackers …

    So I think I’ll go out for the first time all weekend and make a stop at the grocery store — I’ll probably stay home from work tomorrow. Just in case.

    I can’t remember having this “stomach flu” as an adult, really. And I hope I never get it again — or at least not too soon. What a nightmare.

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  63. Donna, I’ve also heard of churches being assigned a woman as a pastor when they really aren’t sure they believe it’s OK for women to be pastors. Of course, they don’t have a strong enough conviction to leave the denomination, but they’re left uncomfortable by the choice. I read about one woman pastor who arrived at a church (or spoke to people at some church she was associated somehow, forget the exact details) who was told that the church was going to put in 12 stained-glass windows, one for each apostle. Her response was something like “60 percent of your church is women, and you’re willing to put in windows honoring 12 men?” Well, um, Jesus came to earth as a man, too, and the writers of Scripture were (as far as we know) 100% men. So maybe you’d better get over this “men can’t represent me, because I’m so special” nonsense.

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  64. I’ve not known many women pastors — only a couple I’ve interviewed and kind of gotten to know through stories I’ve done through religion the years — but the irony that struck me at the time was that they seemed much more orthodox with regard to the Christian faith than many of the male pastors in their same denomination who had strayed way off the reservation. Maybe that was an aberration, but I just found that interesting.

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  65. Still, I agree that scripture precludes female pastors. But if a church winds up with one, the two I knew may have actually been more grounded than some of the men in that same denomination.

    It’s hard for a fairly older, more conservative congregation to leave a denomination that’s drifting wholesale into liberal heresy. And many of the members have been there for decades, so up and changing churches also is hard. Sad and tough situation for many of these saints who are just trying to hang in there and keep the faith — but are probably hearing very little gospel being preached anymore. 😦

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  67. Donna, I’ve read some female pastors (through work-related stuff, not voluntarily) who are a long way from orthodox. A lot of icky feminism (Sophia worship, lesbianism) makes its way into the “church” through female pastors. I’m sure there are somewhat conservative female pastors too–I knew one who probably was–but for many, once they cross that particular line, many others get bridged too.

    I used to have a friend who was a Christian feminist, and initially she was fairly orthodox. But she was gradually drifting through the years I knew her (she disliked the apostle Paul, for example, seeing him as a chauvinist, and she also decided that the woman-as-pastor position was so fundamental that the freedom for women to be pastors determined what churches she was willing to attend). I suspect she has only moved further from orthodoxy in the years since I knew her. Once you start justifying stuff–I’m sure we all do this to some extent–more and more false beliefs look acceptable.

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  68. I agree cheryl, and I also realize there are some wacky things out there.

    It’s sad to see denominations go adrift like that. I know some professing Christians who have ‘bought into’ some of it and seem to delight (at least on FB) in mostly sharing posts that are critical of orthodox Christianity. Whether they’re believers or not, I don’t know. But I wonder when people who claim Christ seem to enjoy bringing to public light behavior or statements that dishonor the Christ and the church, essentially.

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  69. And of course, all heresy begins with “Hath God really said?” — once the authority of Scripture is questioned, it’s just a matter of time before churches begin to reflect the culture around them more than they do the true (and very counter-cultural) faith.

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