52 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-12-15”

  5. I finally made time to read that review of Sarah Young’s book. I have never even picked up the book as far as I remember and got the Bible by mail order so it was unseen until I got it a few weeks back. It sounds like I would not care for a good portion of the devotional parts of the Bible. I guess logically I feel like based on what Jesus says in the Bible His words are not nearly so many as what she has written as received through listening prayer. So there is that inconsistency I gathered from my first observation. It is nice to have the NKJV right beside her words so the truth can shine forth. A long time ago I purchased a little devotional that was done as if God spoke directly to the reader. I did not really care for that style back then. It almost seems like Sarah Young’s writing was so personal it would have been better left unpublished because it was meant for her alone like a diary of sorts, and not for general purposes. That’s my early first impressions.

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  6. Janice- Disposable cloths? Aren’t they all eventually that way? I had thought of putting the whole bag into a Goodwill box I saw along the way home, but I suppose they would want them washed first. And who would want used underwear? I cringe at the thought.

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  8. We had a little drama at our house this morning. That boy, the ex-boyfriend, his friends called and sent text to BG this morning waking her up a little before 7. Then she showed me where one of them who lives in our neighborhood was standing outside our house in the street calling her and sending her text. She said he was messed up on something. Mr. P is at home, so I left, making her promise not to let the guy in the house. As I backed out of the driveway he was turned and walking away from the house. I circled around the loop and he was headed back towards my house, so I stopped and told him that he needed to go home and leave BG alone. He told me he didn’t know what I was talking about. Yeah, right, you need to go on home.
    That is his warning. I have told him to stay away from my house and leave my daughter alone. Next time I call the police.

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  9. Teenagers. It’s often just not a pretty stage of life.

    I had a late night covering the tiny houses meeting, opinion is divided and sadly gets polarized all too quickly (someone on a FB thread actually compared those opposed to the houses to Germans getting ready to exterminate the Jews).

    I’ll drive by the houses this morning, but LAPD indicated they’d have to be taken off the public streets so they’ll either already be gone or on their way out sometime today. Meanwhile, the City Council’s homeless committee meets today so I’ll listen to that by phone as I’m sure this will be part of the discussion.

    Our temps are warming up later this week (which is pretty normal for this time of year). It’s felt like a very long summer to me, I’m ready for it to be gone.

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  10. The problem with summer being gone for the rest of the country is that it gets cold.
    Summer heat may be uncomfortable for many and dangerous for a few.
    Winter cold is dangerous for everyone who doesn’t prepare for it.

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  11. Just saw where our sister paper in Northern California picked up tiny houses story from us. The guy who started the movement in LA, sporting an eye-catching mohawk, was at the meeting last night, we are supposed to talk by phone today.

    Chas, I hear you. Out here, summer is just too much of a good thing. We may lose some of our food crops to frost in cold winters, but otherwise we’re pretty temperate year-round on the left coast.

    Meanwhile, all the students & teachers in LA are bracing for their return to school (next week, I think). Some are less happy than others. 🙂

    I’m still hearing big, mysterious booms. Weird. Someone thought it might be the sound traveling from exercises being conducted at the air force base to the south.

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  12. Lots of smoke in the air this morning, very low visibility. We walked the dogs and could not see much. The Fish and Game folk and other firefighters are all around still. If I was a social person, I would have asked them how things are going. Husband will handle it.

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  13. You can all laugh and shake your head at me but I LOVE the Summer. Spring and Summer are when I am at my happiest. Autumn and Winter depress me. I can find the beauty in it, but it isn’t my favorite.

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  14. Good morning! Canned peaches again yesterday. Fun having so many cousins sitting around the table working up fruit. Had a good visit during and after. Daughter and I washed jars and kept the canner going.

    Drove other daughter’s car yesterday. Started acting weird on the way. Stopped and checked fluids. Transmission fluid not even registering on dipstick. After stopping at 3 places found some fluid, not the right type. When I got to my destination, SIL took car and had it serviced with proper type of fluid, and told us what to watch for etc. Felt very blessed to have been driving car, as I think daughter has just been ignoring the problem. Blessed to have such a sweet SIL who takes good care of us.

    Got to hear the sweet story of granddaughter’s conversion.

    Saw a copy of “Jesus Calling” in daughter’s car. Will read a give an opinion later.

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  15. I’ll go ask them mumsee. 🙂

    Sounds miserable, hope the smoke and air clears soon.

    Kim, I saw a news report last night on how some people experience a definite seasonal depression in the summer. They recommended staying indoors a lot, avoiding sunlight and other bright lights. 🙂 (One of the reasons they listed for summer depression: figuring out how you’re going to pay for that vacation 🙂 )

    There’s also the letdown, they said, with thinking you ought to just be having more fun at barbecues, etc. Fun-fun-fun in the sun, everyone seems to be having more of it than you.

    So bah, humbug.

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  17. I am perfectly happy sitting in the sun reading a book and swigging iced water. The only disruption to my happiness is having to adjust to the dimness when I go inside to the restroom or if I am on a public beach having to hike it to the restrooms.
    The key is good sunscreen, good sunglasses and a comfy beach chair. I like one that sits low to the ground so I can stretch my legs out in the sand.

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  18. I like tiny houses very much and plan to live in one when I grow up.

    Seventh son went to football practice today and got the scoop on the fires. The neighbor on the other side had a close call last night and the next house along the canyon as well. We are set off of the canyon a bit so we had more room for the farmers to cut fire lanes. Nobody up here has lost a house but they are evacuating part of Kamiah and Greencreek. It is a very busy fire. There were a couple of fires started by Grangeville and they have crossed the prairie to Greencreek. So it is traveling not only in the canyons but also on the prairie. Continued prayer for the people.

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  20. Kim, I go back and forth on whether I like spring or summer more, but I really think it’s summer. I do find it hard to sit inside, though!

    This summer I’m dealing with that by taking frequent mini-breaks to go outside. My husband and I haven’t gone walking as often as we usually do in the summer, since the mosquitoes have been bad this year and he avoids them, but they should have calmed down now.

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  21. We have outlaws driving down to CA from Boise who had to be rerouted because of fire. Here, they’ve encouraged the new fire to head toward where the old fire already has burned in hopes of containing it.

    Big planes have been flying over my house north, undoubtedly to the fire, for the last two days. I’m not anywhere near the airport and rarely have planes overhead. Disquieting, but the fire is a long way away from me and headed northeast. Fortunately it’s mostly state-owned land, so the only ones really suffering loss so far (other than the woods, of course) are the illegal marijuana growers.

    It’s hard to be real sympathetic.

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  22. I like fall best, but spring is a close second. The transitional seasons seem to have the most beautiful colors of the four, and more favorable temperatures, at least here in Atlanta.

    I knew a Goodwill store was to be opening near us. I dropped by and saw a lot of construction and found out it is not just a store/donation site but will also be a job training center. It is suppose to open in December. A new Walmart has been constructed nearby, and I need to find out when it will open. Just when you start thinking the area is stagnating: hammer, hammer; saw, saw; and up shoots new buildings to renovate sites that have not been used much in the last fifteen or twenty years.

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  24. Now the fire is coming up another canyon around on the side that has not burned yet. But winds are carrying it north rather than west to us. Unfortunately, it could easily get into the tribal land where the nimipu have planted lots of pines. The farmers can’t cut fire lanes through that. So they are doing what they can to confine it where it is. No homes currently in the path of this one of one hundred fires started by lightning around here in the past three days.

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  25. Stay safe, Mumsee. Prayers for all in your area.

    Had another physical therapy appointment today. The previous one was two weeks ago, and the next one will be about a month from now, so things are winding down, as I continue to make good progress.

    There’s one particular motion that is still difficult, though, and, while there has been some progress on that front, it’s been fairly minimal. So I have some new exercises to add to my repertoire that help to target that area even more specifically.

    My therapist anticipates that after a month of these exercises, along with the others I’ve been doing (and a few new ones he’ll give me next time), I should probably be good to go, and after my September appointment, he says I will likely get to graduate. 🙂

    (I’ll continue with the exercises, of course, after my therapy is over, as frozen shoulder can often take 6-9 months, or even 12 sometimes, to completely recover from. But I’m so thrilled with all the things I’m able to do now that I couldn’t do when I started therapy nearly 7 weeks ago. Therapy has really helped, and I’m excited to keep working toward that day I’ll have my full range of motion back.)

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  27. Well, the winds have switched as the next storm system moves in with lightning but little if any rain. Fortunately, the winds are blowing south so the fires are going back into burned areas, but they are also being fanned which creates more problems and more fire jumps.

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  28. Michelle, we humans seem to want free will, but we seem not to want our choices to have any real power/ consequences. Man’s inhumanity to man is astounding to me, but Genesis 3 explains it better than any other explanation I’ve ever heard.

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  29. Praying for you Mumsee and all in your area….
    Autumn….I love the season…the aromas of the decaying leaves, the crispness of the air and catching a whiff of a campfire somewhere nearby…no better time to take a long hike on the trails….We have been taking all the summer merchandise out of the shoppe, replacing it with fall leaves, pumpkins, gourds….I can’t wait to break out the turtlenecks!! 🙂

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  30. I am way behind on reading the comments (just got to the start of yesterday’s daily thread), but I wanted to jump in with this…

    A Facebook friend posted something about Donald Trump not being a real Christian if he has never asked God to forgive him for anything. (I agree). A friend of his has been insisting that he can still be a real Christian, & as “proof”, says that because of the Reformed view of justification & sanctification (God choosing who will be saved), a Christian doesn’t have to ask forgiveness.

    He claims that the Reformed denominations teach that, although individual adherents may not realize this. I find this highly doubtful, but thought I’d pass it by you all. Is there a “rogue” Presbyterian (the name he specifically mentioned) denomination that teaches that asking forgiveness is not necessary for salvation?

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  32. Another question, before I completely forget about it…

    A couple or so days ago, bifocal contacts were mentioned. How on earth do they work? With bifocal glasses, one switches one’s gaze from top to bottom as needed. How does one do that with contacts on the eye?

    Another ‘nother question…

    Does our eyesight get so bad as we age that glasses don’t help anymore? The reason I ask is because of the need for large print Bibles & such for seniors. (I’m “only” 54, but find myself increasing the size of the text on most websites. Love that option.)

    I’ll catch up with y’all eventually.

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  33. still very cold here this morning with no way to warm up but put on layers and more layers. I am thinking that I need a space heater.
    Hearing of families with empty water tanks. We need rain!
    Our pump wasn’t going on last night, so need to investigate.

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  35. Contact don’t really move around that much in your eye. I think they may be slightly weighted to keep the boot on on the bottom. ( I’ve worn contacts for over 30 years)
    I do think your eyesight can degenerate to that point. Mu dad quit reading books. He loved to read. An artist friend has given up doing mosaics because of her eyesight.

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  37. I will go to the ophthalmologist tomorrow. When I return, I still won’t be able to read the small print I once did. As you get older, your eyes do not handle small print and din light as well as they once did. And the ophthalmologist doesn’t fix it.
    Bifocals are an easy adjustment. You switch from one frame (top to bottom) without thinking.
    It depends on what you’re looking at, your eyes see the right one.

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  38. My eyesight has definitely worsen over time, and I sometimes use magnification with basic large print. I decided lately that as my face gets less firm that my eyes are not open as wide and that is part of the problem. Droopy eyes mean less light enters for viewing so that makes things generally dimmer. Also, I forget to hold what I am reading farther away than I use to for better focus. I’ve heard some people have droopy eyelid skin removed to help vision if it is bad enough.

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  40. Karen (5:36) nope. 🙂

    In the order of salvation, the first move is God’s alone when we are first regenerated. But that change of heart then prompts us to acknowledge and repent of our sin.

    Contacts are weighted, if you look at them (at least the kinds I wore), there’s a tiny slash in each one and those float at the bottom.

    I’ve also noticed more vision issues with age which is distressing — I find it really hard to see when walking in from daylight into a darker room (theaters are the worst, but any indoor space). It’s better if I wear sunglasses but I forget them sometimes, especially now with transition lenses which cut most of the noticeable outdoor glare (but obviously don’t work like sunglasses).

    But generally, my eyes just don’t adjust quickly anymore from light to dark environments.

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  41. In the order of salvation, the first move is God’s alone when we are first regenerated. But that change of heart then prompts us to acknowledge and repent of our sin.

    I’d add that if the second doesn’t happen, you can be sure the first never did.

    While God elects his own from the foundation of the earth and is the first (and only) cause in our salvation, that sets off a spiritual response in us and results in repentance, a desire to know, worship and obey God — and ultimately a changed life (even if it’s slow and halting or in small ways only sometimes).

    We are to examine our lives for that fruit and for our own assurance throughout our lives.

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  42. husband put up a video on you tube if you want to see some of the fire from our deck, narrated by one of the seventeen year olds with the camera. It is called Funny Farm Fire. Very short.

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  43. AJ- I sent it again. I think the problem was that I was using the hotel’s computer before.

    If Trump is a Christian then my name is Mark Twain.

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  44. I asked my husband how his bifocal contacts work. He said they’re weighted on the bottom (slightly thicker) so they stay in place, but that he just looks where he wants to and he can see! Pretty cool if you ask me. He had been wearing reading glasses over his normal contacts and was just annoyed with having to put them on and take them off all the time.

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  46. Oh, and Funny Farm Fire ll which is long and boring though you do get to see some of the family, and Funny Farm Fire lll which is brief but has the 737 looking thing making its drop.

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  50. Those videos — holy cow.

    Well, I’m heading to my parents’ tomorrow, will be staying overnight and all day Friday, then will drive back home Friday night. The older arrows will run the show around here while I’m gone and hubby is at work.

    Then two parties to attend on Saturday — a graduation, and a (shh!) surprise. 🙂

    I’ll catch up with you all next week. No internet where I’m going. Wishing you all safety, good health and untold blessings in the meanwhile.

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