It’s Wednesday, so don’t forget to pray for The Gambia.
Anyone else?
Psalm 42
¹As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
I didn’t sleep much again, and that’s unfortunate because this morning is my hearing. I’d hoped for a decent night because I need my head clear and my mind working, but it didn’t work out. PTSD and thunderstorms are a bad combo for me. The hearing is at 9:00AM and I could really use prayer. Thanks.
You got it AJ. I remember that you have PTSD. Do you mind sharing what caused it? Oldest stepson has it. Sometimes the things he says are scary. His is from losing a civilian in Afghanistan.
I would like to ask for prayers for BJ. She has some tests to take in Summer School Math today. We worked on solving problems until about 10:30 last night. I refrained from telling her that not even once in my adult life have I been called upon to determine the volume in a cylinder or cone. I managed to get through Pre-Cal in graduate school. Somehow in high school I could come up with the right answer but not the way the teacher wanted and sometimes couldn’t explain how I got it. Instead of being more curious how I managed that without copying it from a classmate she just marked my problems wrong—thus starting a lifelong cycle of math anxiety
My father came through his procedure fine and the surgeon told me it was successful (I accompanied my father to the hospital and drove him home). However, my father is not used to staying still so long, and has made his incision bleed twice. Thankfully, both times it was stopped quickly. I have to keep a pretty close eye on him.
It’s good hear that Phos’s dad is doing well.
Did you learn why BG was upset the other night Kim?
My dad used to tell how he was in the seventh grade and had a test. He had to figure out how much wood it would take to build a chicken coop. He said that it was stupid. He would just build the coop[. He didn’t need that.
He quit school in the seventh grade.
I think he regretted that. But really he didn’t have much option anyhow. In those days they had to go to work.
Not sure if the hearing is still going on for you, AJ, but I am praying. May the Lord bring blessing out of this.
Roscuro, your father sounds like my husband. It is very difficult to keep him still. He had his wisdom teeth extracted after we’d been married a year or so, and decided to clean out an under-stairs closet upon coming home. Which of course made the bleeding worse. Encouragement to take it easy tends to fall on deaf ears with him. 😉
I understand, Roscuro. My dad was out hauling a log out of the woods with IV’s in! After his last surgery, the surgeon told us he was sure he would not have to remind my dad to take it easy. We disabused him of that notion. I did take him at his word that my dad was free to eat whatever he wanted. My dad was able to stay home and take care of himself and my mom until he died in his sleep, though, so perhaps THEY are the wisest. 🙂
That is odd 6Arrows. Every mathmatically inclined person I have known including a college professor who was doing extensive research said their is a relationship between music and math and music can me mathmatically measured and graphed.
I defy the odds, Kim. (I think there’s something mathematical about that statement, though.) 😉
I do enjoy counting rhythm in music. I’m playing a Chopin Nocturne that has a place where the left hand plays 6 notes beamed together over a 3-beat period (easy), while the right hand has 20 notes beamed together over the same 3-beat section (yikes!). Fortunately, this is Chopin, and his music isn’t meant to be put to the metronome. 🙂 So I can pretend I know what I’m doing mathematically, and sound expressively at liberty at the same time. 😉
I can definitely agree, however, that I do not like the idea of finding the volume of a cylinder or a cone. Or algebra. Or geometry. Most schoolish math beyond the four basic operations, fractions and decimals are the parts I can’t stand. And, for the record, you exhibited a lot more self-control than I would have, Kim, in refraining from saying you’d never had to use in your adult life what BG was having to solve for in her math problems — that would have been the first thing out of my mouth, probably, and it wouldn’t have been under my breath, either. 😉
Thank you to all who prayed. It’s all over with, I thought it went OK but we’ll have to wait 1-3 months to find out the judge’s decision. So the waiting continues……
The last month has been pretty rough. Between the knee, hip, back, and lack of sleep it’s been hard to concentrate and focus on much else. It’s so draining. The sleeping pills I have help me get to sleep, but only for a few hours and then once I awaken, I can’t get back to sleep. But then all day long I feel like I just want to go to sleep. It’s made me cranky and irritable, and I’ve been a bit of a jerk at times. Even more than usual. 😦
It’s also why I’ve been kinda mailing it in on the news thread lately. I just can’t. I want to, but I can’t get interested. Even worse, I love the news as you all know, but lately I just can’t get myself to care about it at all.
If you’re still in a praying mood, my wife could use some too. Poor thing has been putting up with me and keeping everything else together, as well as working to support us. It’s weighing on her and I’m useless. And I know she’s disappointed because we’d hoped for something more conclusive today, at least so we know how to proceed, but that didn’t happen. It breaks my heart to see her sad.
So sorry, The Real, and praying. It is very natural that the news should have no interest for you right now – sometimes, one has to take the time to work through one’s own worries, without adding the worry of the rest of the world. The burden is too great to bear, otherwise.
I told my father about K’s father dragging a log with an IV. He winced at the mental picture. I winced too, as having been trained in IV’s, I know just how much that kind of activity would mess one up.
I’m another musician with very little mathematical ability. I liked geometry but I was by no means brilliant at it; and there is a natural antipathy between algebra and I. I tend to view letter characters and number characters as existing in different dimensions, so it aggravates me to see them all jumbled together in an equation.
I taught 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade math in a college prep school.(Saxon Math) I also taught 2nd and 4th grade for 2 interim positions and Kindergarten while a teacher went to China to pick up her baby.
BG never would listen to me or let me help her before.Google is my friend. I think my own struggles with math made me a better math teacher…I didn’t get frustrated with the students “just didn’t get it”. We counted popsicle sticks, cubes, whatever and put them in to 4 groups of 5 and 5 groups of 4. We did mental math 12×12- 12×10= 120 BIG Plus 12×2= 24 120+24 = 144 . We did math art—I can’t do an example of that here but I had a great resource book I gave away. We learned the square centimeter of our feet by drawing an outline on graph paper and counting the blocks. We had fun with math
I’m sorry there wasn’t closure today, AJ. And I am adding your wife to my prayers, too.
I want to thank all of you who have been praying for me with my frozen shoulder. I am able to do many more things than I could 3 weeks ago before starting physical therapy. At my appointment today, my PT took measurements again, as he had done at my initial visit 19 days ago. The numbers have doubled, so there is very good progress in my range of motion, especially with bringing my arm straight up over my head as I lie on my back. His goal at this point was for me to at least get my elbow up to chin level, and it’s gone beyond that, where I can get it to the top of my head. He was impressed, and I am thankful for the measure of healing God has brought.
My range of motion overall is about half what it should be, so there is more work needed (especially with side-to-side, inward and outward motion, and reaching behind my back — upward and outward in front are greatly improved) , but at this point, it will be mostly home exercises, with a follow-up appointment and re-measuring in a couple of weeks.
Thank you again so much for your prayers and encouragement to keep up with the exercises.
Husband had an excellent report from his surgery doctor. The doctor was very pleased with the progress and, though he made him an appt for six weeks, says he can cancel if he is not having any problems. The arthritis doc says he has arthritis. What a surprise.
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I didn’t sleep much again, and that’s unfortunate because this morning is my hearing. I’d hoped for a decent night because I need my head clear and my mind working, but it didn’t work out. PTSD and thunderstorms are a bad combo for me. The hearing is at 9:00AM and I could really use prayer. Thanks.
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You got it AJ. I remember that you have PTSD. Do you mind sharing what caused it? Oldest stepson has it. Sometimes the things he says are scary. His is from losing a civilian in Afghanistan.
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I would like to ask for prayers for BJ. She has some tests to take in Summer School Math today. We worked on solving problems until about 10:30 last night. I refrained from telling her that not even once in my adult life have I been called upon to determine the volume in a cylinder or cone. I managed to get through Pre-Cal in graduate school. Somehow in high school I could come up with the right answer but not the way the teacher wanted and sometimes couldn’t explain how I got it. Instead of being more curious how I managed that without copying it from a classmate she just marked my problems wrong—thus starting a lifelong cycle of math anxiety
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My father came through his procedure fine and the surgeon told me it was successful (I accompanied my father to the hospital and drove him home). However, my father is not used to staying still so long, and has made his incision bleed twice. Thankfully, both times it was stopped quickly. I have to keep a pretty close eye on him.
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It’s good hear that Phos’s dad is doing well.
Did you learn why BG was upset the other night Kim?
My dad used to tell how he was in the seventh grade and had a test. He had to figure out how much wood it would take to build a chicken coop. He said that it was stupid. He would just build the coop[. He didn’t need that.
He quit school in the seventh grade.
I think he regretted that. But really he didn’t have much option anyhow. In those days they had to go to work.
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Not sure if the hearing is still going on for you, AJ, but I am praying. May the Lord bring blessing out of this.
Roscuro, your father sounds like my husband. It is very difficult to keep him still. He had his wisdom teeth extracted after we’d been married a year or so, and decided to clean out an under-stairs closet upon coming home. Which of course made the bleeding worse. Encouragement to take it easy tends to fall on deaf ears with him. 😉
Glad your father’s procedure went well, though.
Kim, BG has my prayers. Math and me don’t mix. 😉
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I understand, Roscuro. My dad was out hauling a log out of the woods with IV’s in! After his last surgery, the surgeon told us he was sure he would not have to remind my dad to take it easy. We disabused him of that notion. I did take him at his word that my dad was free to eat whatever he wanted. My dad was able to stay home and take care of himself and my mom until he died in his sleep, though, so perhaps THEY are the wisest. 🙂
Praying for all the above, too.
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That is odd 6Arrows. Every mathmatically inclined person I have known including a college professor who was doing extensive research said their is a relationship between music and math and music can me mathmatically measured and graphed.
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I also have noticed the connection between math & music.
Math and writing, no.
No, no, no.
Praying.
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There is no connection between math and me. Nor is there a connection between music and me. Or writing and me.
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I defy the odds, Kim. (I think there’s something mathematical about that statement, though.) 😉
I do enjoy counting rhythm in music. I’m playing a Chopin Nocturne that has a place where the left hand plays 6 notes beamed together over a 3-beat period (easy), while the right hand has 20 notes beamed together over the same 3-beat section (yikes!). Fortunately, this is Chopin, and his music isn’t meant to be put to the metronome. 🙂 So I can pretend I know what I’m doing mathematically, and sound expressively at liberty at the same time. 😉
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And I like balancing my checkbook, too, so I guess my “math and me don’t mix” statement is not entirely accurate. 😉
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I can definitely agree, however, that I do not like the idea of finding the volume of a cylinder or a cone. Or algebra. Or geometry. Most schoolish math beyond the four basic operations, fractions and decimals are the parts I can’t stand. And, for the record, you exhibited a lot more self-control than I would have, Kim, in refraining from saying you’d never had to use in your adult life what BG was having to solve for in her math problems — that would have been the first thing out of my mouth, probably, and it wouldn’t have been under my breath, either. 😉
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Thank you to all who prayed. It’s all over with, I thought it went OK but we’ll have to wait 1-3 months to find out the judge’s decision. So the waiting continues……
The last month has been pretty rough. Between the knee, hip, back, and lack of sleep it’s been hard to concentrate and focus on much else. It’s so draining. The sleeping pills I have help me get to sleep, but only for a few hours and then once I awaken, I can’t get back to sleep. But then all day long I feel like I just want to go to sleep. It’s made me cranky and irritable, and I’ve been a bit of a jerk at times. Even more than usual. 😦
It’s also why I’ve been kinda mailing it in on the news thread lately. I just can’t. I want to, but I can’t get interested. Even worse, I love the news as you all know, but lately I just can’t get myself to care about it at all.
If you’re still in a praying mood, my wife could use some too. Poor thing has been putting up with me and keeping everything else together, as well as working to support us. It’s weighing on her and I’m useless. And I know she’s disappointed because we’d hoped for something more conclusive today, at least so we know how to proceed, but that didn’t happen. It breaks my heart to see her sad.
Thanks.
Kim,
A head-on crash at 50mph. 😦
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So sorry, The Real, and praying. It is very natural that the news should have no interest for you right now – sometimes, one has to take the time to work through one’s own worries, without adding the worry of the rest of the world. The burden is too great to bear, otherwise.
I told my father about K’s father dragging a log with an IV. He winced at the mental picture. I winced too, as having been trained in IV’s, I know just how much that kind of activity would mess one up.
I’m another musician with very little mathematical ability. I liked geometry but I was by no means brilliant at it; and there is a natural antipathy between algebra and I. I tend to view letter characters and number characters as existing in different dimensions, so it aggravates me to see them all jumbled together in an equation.
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I will email you some information, AJ
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I taught 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade math in a college prep school.(Saxon Math) I also taught 2nd and 4th grade for 2 interim positions and Kindergarten while a teacher went to China to pick up her baby.
BG never would listen to me or let me help her before.Google is my friend. I think my own struggles with math made me a better math teacher…I didn’t get frustrated with the students “just didn’t get it”. We counted popsicle sticks, cubes, whatever and put them in to 4 groups of 5 and 5 groups of 4. We did mental math 12×12- 12×10= 120 BIG Plus 12×2= 24 120+24 = 144 . We did math art—I can’t do an example of that here but I had a great resource book I gave away. We learned the square centimeter of our feet by drawing an outline on graph paper and counting the blocks. We had fun with math
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Praying AJ. I hope the blog isn’t too much of a burden right now. 😦
mumsee, but you can manually take apart a drain.
Online banking is the best thing invented — automatic (and accurate! What a concept!!) balancing.
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The real, you sound a lot like husband. He spends most of the night awake, wishing he was asleep and most of the day the same way.
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I’m sorry there wasn’t closure today, AJ. And I am adding your wife to my prayers, too.
I want to thank all of you who have been praying for me with my frozen shoulder. I am able to do many more things than I could 3 weeks ago before starting physical therapy. At my appointment today, my PT took measurements again, as he had done at my initial visit 19 days ago. The numbers have doubled, so there is very good progress in my range of motion, especially with bringing my arm straight up over my head as I lie on my back. His goal at this point was for me to at least get my elbow up to chin level, and it’s gone beyond that, where I can get it to the top of my head. He was impressed, and I am thankful for the measure of healing God has brought.
My range of motion overall is about half what it should be, so there is more work needed (especially with side-to-side, inward and outward motion, and reaching behind my back — upward and outward in front are greatly improved) , but at this point, it will be mostly home exercises, with a follow-up appointment and re-measuring in a couple of weeks.
Thank you again so much for your prayers and encouragement to keep up with the exercises.
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Husband had an excellent report from his surgery doctor. The doctor was very pleased with the progress and, though he made him an appt for six weeks, says he can cancel if he is not having any problems. The arthritis doc says he has arthritis. What a surprise.
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AJ, praying for you and your wife.
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