50 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-16-16”

  4. Good evening Jo.
    It’s still early here, but late for a Saturday.
    They’re saying on the radio that we have lots of accidents caused by black ice this morning.
    It rained all day yesterday and the temp is below freezing out there (34 degrees on my deck).

    My SS teacher is on his way to catch a flight to Calgary, in Canada. He is teaching a semester at a seminary there. Dale Z and I will be filling in. I teach the rest of the quarter. Teaching Matthew. Dale takes the lessons on Acts starting in March.

    So? I need to prepare a lesson on Matthew 5:17-45. The Sermon on the Mount, as you all know.

    Several years ago, over 20 now, Chuck was living in Charleston, SC. Attending Ashley River BC. Chuck was teaching a class, and I was visiting. So, he was my teacher. Of course, he asked me some questions. He was teaching on the Sermon on the Mount. He asked me, “Do you think Jesus really said all this?” I said. “Yes. But that’s not all he said and not the only time he said it.” Jesus was an itinerant preacher. And this is heavy stuff. Sermons are preached on each of the Beatitudes alone.

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  6. Good morning. Becca-boo and I are the only ones up; she’s on her new laptop and I’m still drinking coffee.
    It’s 45 degrees here, with a high of 65 predicted for this afternoon. We’ve had an extremely mild winter thus far–which is great with me as I dislike the cold.

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  7. Beautiful header! White snow against a really blue sky is lovely, but in my experience snow like that is more commonly seen against a flat gray sky.

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  8. Good Morning…I think it will be a two cups of coffee morning for me. 11 degrees, a fresh inch of snow on the forest floor and I’m a bit chilled ( but it is warmer than the -44 in Kare’s neck of the woods!) The stark blue sky as a backdrop to the frosty flocked trees is a sight to behold….thanks for sharing that photo!

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  10. It is a four day weekend here. At least for the public schoolers. Here in the home school, it is six days of school, as usual. Anybody notice anybody else getting fifty seven or anything like that lately?

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  11. I had a dream I was in college again … And it was the first day of the semester … And I had a class to get to early in the morning … And I had no idea where it was. 🙂

    An oldie but a goodie.

    It’s cloudy and cool here, there’s talk of maybe some rain over the next few days, but nothing spectacular.

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  13. Those trees are on our property and are covered in hoarfrost. Right now those same trees are just bare sticks against a beautiful blue sky. But blue skies in winter usually mean very cold temperatures – I’m freezing 🙂

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  17. We are having a restful Saturday so far. I need to go get a new kitchen light bulb so I can see to wash dishes.

    I have heard nothing yet about the delivery of the pastor’s grandchild. Both the pastor and the other grandfather are in our church.

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  18. Donna, I, too, have those school (college) dreams where I can’t find my class or it’s halfway through the semester and I forgot I was suppose to be taking a math class all along.

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  19. Those dreams seem to be pretty universal — can’t find the classroom, there’s a test and you didn’t know about it, you’re sitting in the wrong class (um, except I actually did that once in college, I was just a little spacey back then).

    I hadn’t had a dream like that in a while, though.

    I also dreamed I had my beige VW bug again and was going to get it painted pine blue-green. The shop said it would only take 2 hours.

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  20. On the plane waiting to leave Baltimore. At the airport Master S told me he did not want us to go home.
    I asked Grandpa if he wanted to smuggle them both in our luggage. He said no.

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  28. Michelle, I really enjoyed that, and noticed the sly quotation of the Imperial March (Smallest Nephew hums it all the time, having picked it up from his brothers). I sometimes mash-up hymns or carols when I do arrangements for offertories or other special music, but it takes real talent to be able to pick up where composers could blend with each other.

    Donna, the Anglican decision has left Canadians a bit perplexed – even the national broadcaster commented on it. Not because of their decision to suspend the Episcopal Church in the U.S. – Canadians on both sides of the gay marriage issue are confused. You see, the Anglican Church of Canada holds a similar position to the Episcopal Church. Individual Anglican churches have broken away from the main body in protest, and placed themselves in alignment with African bishops, as the Anglican Church of America has done. However, there was no similar action taken toward the Anglican Church of Canada – they aren’t even mentioned. It shouldn’t be surprising as Canada is often forgotten (this can be demonstrated by reading a world history book); but it does mean that whatever message they were sending to the Episcopal Church isn’t being sent to its Canadian counterpart.

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  31. I’ve played a lot of that music, Chas, and it cracked me up how Bach kept showing up to run the bass line, and the Imperial Death March after some of the elgies was funny to me.

    When we were in Salzburg last March with Stargazer, I tried to buy a music box that played “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” but was told by a disapproving shop keeper that Mozart didn’t write it . . .

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  32. Mozart didn’t write “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”? That’s almost as disheartening as learning Santa is a myth. Well, maybe not.

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  33. Well, to be fair to the shopkeeper, Mozart didn’t write the original tune. It is from a French children’s song, Ah, vous direz-je, maman. He just wrote a set of twelve variations on the theme, which is why it is now linked to his name.

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  35. Ever notice that the Alphabet song is to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star?

    And the Barney theme (“I love you, you love me. . .”) is a slowed down version of This Old Man (“This old man, he played one. . .”).

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  36. My family has little musical talent. My sister did, however, figure out which numbers on a telephone could be used to play “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” and she thought it would be fun to have a phone number starting with those digits, and see how many people figure it out.

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  37. When I said “little musical talent,” I should have clarified I was talking about the family I was born into. My husband can play the piano OK, and one of our daughters is a gifted player.

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  39. Mommy? Where is Mimi? I want Mimi. Mommy, Mimi was mean to us, she only let us have seven hundred gummy bears. Mommy? When is Mimi coming back, we like her. Mommy, where is Poppa? He’s nice. He watched puffer fish with me. I miss him. Mommy? Mommy? Will you let us swing from the chandelier? How come? Poppa always does…..

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  40. Karen, ‘Baa, baa, black sheep’ is also to the tune of ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.” The French words are actually quite a wry and witty comment on childhood.

    Ah ! vous dirai-je, maman,
    Oh shall I tell you, Mother,
    Ce qui cause mon tourment.
    What is causing my torment.
    Papa veut que je raisonne,
    Papa wants that I reason
    Comme une grande personne
    Like a big person.
    Moi, je dis que les bonbons
    Me, I say that candy
    Valent mieux que la raison.
    Is much better than reason

    Ah ! vous dirai-je, maman,
    ce qui cause mon tourment.
    Papa veut que je demande
    Papa wants me to ask
    de la soupe et de la viande.
    for soup and meat
    Moi, je dis que les bonbons
    Me, I say that the candy
    valent mieux que les mignons.
    Is better than those.

    Ah ! vous dirai-je, maman,
    ce qui cause mon tourment
    Papa veut que je retienne
    Papa wants me to remember
    des verbes la longue antienne.
    words in an ancient language
    Moi, je dis que les bonbons
    Me, I say that candy
    valent mieux que les leçons.
    Is better than lessons.

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  42. You can borrow ebooks from my local library–my husband read Unbroken on the Kindle this weekend. It throw me because when you “check it out,” and click, it takes you to Amazon which allows you to download the book for free.

    In our case, it was the best way to get a book that was physically IN the library, but not available because they library’s hours are limited. Great deal for me.

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  43. The nice thing about ebooks from the library is no need to remember to take it back. On the due date it deletes itself, or in some other way is made such that you cannot read it anymore. At least that is what I am told, as our library doesn’t offer ebooks yet.

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  45. Speaking of Mommies & Mimis: Forrest got a little boo boo on his knee earlier today. I guess Mommy must have said it was no big deal, & didn’t need a bandage, because he came downstairs to show me & ask for one. Being the dutiful Mimi that I am, I helped him wash it off, put a little bit of antibacterial ointment on, & put a bandage on it. 🙂

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  46. I keep trying to convince Carol to borrow only electronically from the library (and she does that), but I guess she likes the feel of “real” books … But it’s a problem in getting them returned on time because of her physical limitations.

    Went to my friend’s daughter’s baby shower — way up in the foothills above LA, long drive but kind of nice — and enjoyed it. There had to have been 50 people there, it was packed, and she got a major haul of girly stuff that should carry her through for the twin-girl event coming in March.

    Interesting crowd there, this is the girl who married a Muslim from Bangladesh so there was his family (his parents and younger brother live with them in the house they all bought together) — though I did notice one of the younger Bangladesh relatives was wearing a “Feel the Bern” shirt. 🙂 And I saw a “Bernie” bumper sticker on the drive up there, no others.

    Watching the debate tonight, Hillary seems to have sharpened her game in light of Sanders’ poll numbers giving her a real run for it.

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  47. My friend showed me a painting in the home, apparently Jesus and John the Baptist are in it, along with Mohammed — the idea being we all believe in “the same” God of course. 😦 Ugh. But I nodded and said “Interesting” (we’ve had the discussion before and I provided her several years ago with a Ligonier book on why Christians & Muslims do not worship the same God; I think she knows the truth, but obviously is caught in the middle here).

    I’m sure the kids will be raised Muslim.

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  50. oh, don’t worry, I have worked it out… The wifi in my kindle is off. I download to my computer.
    Must be an ants next around here somewhere. in my chair?? my computer?
    every time I sit down I find an ant crawling on me.

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