70 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-12-16”

  3. Lunch was easy do this morning since Art had brought home half a pan of lasagne from the office.

    Okay, someone has to say it,
    It’s Friday and you know what that means…

    I did not say it in bold so it can be said again with strength and gusto!

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  5. It’s not lichen, it’s suet. There’s an old fellow who comes to the park everyday to watch the birds. He spreads that stuff on the trees to lure the birds in. This is really useful for me as well. I just look for the trees with it on, then wait for the birds to come in. Works every time. 🙂

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  9. Good Morning….oh no woodpeckers again!! 😛 I’m having nightmares with the prospect of them returning and destroying my house!!
    It’s dark out here and the one cup of coffee just isn’t going to cut it today!! Work should be busy today, hopefully with husbands coming in to purchase lovely jewelry for their Valentine ❤
    Having a good one ya'll….

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  11. Good Morning Everyone. I overslept this morning. It is the receptionist at work’s one year anniversary with the company so I am taking her to lunch today to celebrate. She has become a good friend. It is a warm 55 degrees here this morning so I have the back door from the kitchen to the patio open for the dogs to come and go as they please and I can hear a bird chirping. I have a feeder out but so far none have used it much. I don’t know if it is too low or what. I need to figure that out. I like for my little beggars to visit.

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  14. I see it’s Friday.

    I was up early to haul out the trash.

    Glad this week is over, it’s been unusually hard to slog through for me, for some reason. But tomorrow will be very busy with a lot of driving, I promised Carol I’d go up to help her return her 30 (!!) library books (why do they let people take out so many??); and then drive her to Downey for an afternoon visit with her boyfriend for an early “Valentine’s” Day since his family members seem to always flake out in driving him up to see her since she moved more than a year ago. I think they’ve followed through once in all that time, but every other promise to drive him up there gets reliably broken. 😦

    So lots of time coming and going on LA’s freeways for me tomorrow, I’m afraid. 😦

    Cute bird. He’d match my pet collection, being mostly black and white and speckled.

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  15. So, Chas, you always say “It’s Friday! You know what that means.” Yet you rarely tell us anything more than your weekly YMCA trip and a couple of other tidbits. So, let’s ponder what “Friday” could mean, besides your posts and these attempts to get us to laugh at the political world.

    Let us see what we can glean form Wikipedia:

    The name Friday comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ, meaning the “day of Frige”, a result of an old convention associating the Old English goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures. The same holds for Frīatag in Old High German, Freitag in Modern German and vrijdag in Dutch.

    So, we are basically honoring the goddess of love, “Eros” in Greek. Based on the above definition, we are naming a foreign god when naming the day of the week. But then, all the days are named after false deities in English. At least the Spanish use sábado (Sabbath) and domingo (day of the Lord) for the weekend.

    I believe it was Menno Simmons, founder of the Mennonites, or one of the other early reformers, who refused to say the names of the months or days that were named after deities, since the Old Testament tells the Israelites not to do so. He would say “the 4th day of the week” or some similar.

    Anyway, enjoy your viernes.

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  16. I don’t know how to answer that question Janice. We haven’t had many opportunities to get together with our husbands outside of work. Mr. P’s physical limitations have made that hard. Her husband has joined us a couple of times for lunch. Both of them are the type of people that are just funny. He was recently involved in a multi car wreck. She sent me a text that she was freezing at the ER, so I took her a fleece cape. He had been telling the nurses she was just his girlfriend, so when I walked in he told them “Oh no, my wife just showed up”. We all laughed and the nurse knew enough about him by then to laugh too.

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  17. Peter – Aphrodite is the name of the Greek goddess of love that the Romans turned into Venus. Eros was the Greek god of love, with Cupid being the Roman equivalent.

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  18. Janice & Kim – Sometimes we don’t know if a friend from work is a real friend until we no longer work with them. Same goes with friends from church. We may have good intentions on getting together, but then life gets in the way, & the friendship fades.

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  20. Here’s my last late comment. 🙂

    On the question of whether or not going to Bible school would draw one closer to the Lord:

    Our former interim pastor, Pastor John, told about how he had gotten saved in high school, & how his faith grew as he became involved with ministry of some sort (I think with the youth). He continued to grow in his faith as he continued to be involved.

    But when he went to Bible school, he spent his time studying (& probably working, too, I think), & was not involved with any ministry. He found his faith growing somewhat cold & stagnant, even while getting such a deep, biblical education, & attending a good church.

    At some point, someone in his church asked him to help out with something. It was something very practical, like setting up chairs for a group meeting every week, or helping with the sound system, or something similar. He found that when he was involved in some kind of ministry (& helping in practical ways is a ministry, too), he grew in the Lord, but when he wasn’t, he didn’t.

    Now, of course, that’s just one man’s experience, & won’t necessarily be true for everyone. But “head knowledge” is not what helps us grow, although it can certainly be part of it. (IOW, I am not knocking learning all we can about the Bible.)

    I’ve seen & heard of people who went to Bible school or seminary who seemed to end up with cold hearts. It all probably depends much on the heart of the individual.

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  21. So an Old English goddess was named Frigg. Could that be where the word “frigging” (often used in place of the other “f-word”) came from?

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  22. Well, according to Dictionary.com, there are a couple possible origins for “frigging”:

    “1425-75; earlier, to move about restlessly, rub; late Middle English friggen to quiver.

    (in the sense: to wriggle): of uncertain origin; perhaps related to obsolete frike strong, or to Old English frīgan to love (This is the British definition.)

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  24. I did the seminary lecture yesterday. I took some notes, but did not review them or look at the slide download before taking the short review quiz. I am not an auditory learner. I only got 2 out of 5 of the questions right. I have a lot to learn 🙂 It does give a good outline, and the presentation is excellent.

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  25. Karen- Thanks. I never studied mythology, so I sometimes don’t know the gender of some of the gods and goddesses. And I was thinking the same thing about “frigging”, though around here people say “fricken”. Either way, I don’t use the word because of it’s other option. For the same reason I try not to use the variations of God and Jesus that people think acceptable.

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  27. Karen, I don’t think so.” frigging” irritates me beyond belief. We all know what you intended to say so using this word instead of that word … Ugh.
    Mr P likes to watch Gold Rush on whatever channel it comes on on Friday night. Sometimes I watch some of it because I love Grandpa Schnabel who turned over land to his grandson Parker.
    There is another group the Hoffmans. They named their mining company 3:16 Mining. They are constantly praying and Todd is constantly saying “frickin” In my mind either clean up your language or stop dragging the Bible and God into everything you say and do. (this from a self confessed [former?] potty mouth)

    AS one person put it about the Hoffmans and 3:16 Mining:

    “Todd, either clean up your language (James 1:26) or take the 3:16 reference off your logo. Come on, man, you chose to mine in a tough place, but, man-up and clean up your mouth. Millions are watching. The Lord didn’t start saying, “I hate these fricking nails and this fricking cross and those fricking Pharisees and Roman guards with their fricking whips and rods.” Add in a few hel! this and dam# that’s and you get my point. I get that no one is perfect, but you put yourself in front of the camera and you are profiting handsomely whether you find gold or not. Be a man and show some discipline.”

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  28. My mother, not a believer, used to say that your education is your responsibility and as in any school, you get out of it what you put in.

    Your point about isolation is well taken, which is why Oswald Chambers put together a residential Bible Training College–note the deliberate choice of a name. He believed students “caught” more than they were taught and having to live out their lessons with 23 others every day affected them more than any book learning.

    I finish the series today with what happened to five of his students, along with the results of the seven people I interviewed (including one of us) and their observations about what they learned at Bible school.

    FYI: http://michelleule.com/2016/02/12/what-happened-to-oswald-chambers-students-part-iii/

    And of course, there are countless students who threw away their lives and turned their backs on God. Prime example: Joseph Stalin. 😦

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  30. I’ve known that Friday was named after Frigga, or Freda/Frytha, for a long time; and that Wednesday is Woden’s day and Thurdsay is Thor’s day. It has never bothered me, and more than that the planets are named after the Roman gods. Removing the pagan names of the week would make no more sense than the Taliban blowing up the ancient Buddhas or ISIS shattering the bulls of Assyria. There is a Proverb which says, “Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.” Having pagan origins for our names of the weeks and months reminds from whence we came. It reminds us not to think more highly of ourselves and look down on ‘pagan’ nations because that is what we were. I have a couple of FB friends who are always putting up links to demonstrate the pagan origins of this or that – the latest was how Easter and Lent were pagan :eyeroll: . Well, when you get right down to it, democracy is of pagan origin, because the Athenians certainly weren’t Christians. Wiping out the past won’t change the present. To paraphrase Santayana, we need to remember what was done in the past in order to progress into the future. One only needs to look at ISIS, who forbid the teaching of history, to know that those who reject their past become savage.

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  34. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KARE!
    Since her shortened name rhymes with dare,
    I triple dog dare you to take a slice of her cake before she shows up!!! 🙂

    ROWS&ROWSOFANDESMINTS
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    BrownieCakew/crushedstarlight
    mintcandypiecesmixedinthebatter
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    *sweetenedwhippedcreamfilling*
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    SoftChocolateFudgeFrostingLayer
    over Brownie & crushed mint cake
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    TRESPASSERS BEWARE OF GUARD BEARS!!!

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  35. By the way, the Spanish day names aren’t free of the taint of paganism: lunes – Moon day, martes – Mars’ day (Roman god of war), miercoles – Mercury’s day (Messenger to the Roman gods), jueves – Jove’s/Jupiter’s day (Head of the Roman gods), viernes – Venus’s day (Roman goddess of love). Since Spanish is a Romance language, it is not surprising that the name days are Latin derived. The French names are nearly identical, lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi, dimanche.

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  39. Happy Birthday, Kare!

    One of my oldest friends is coming to spend the weekend with me. Scott and Becca are going to the ranch to give us the run of the house. Lindsey was going until she missed another day and a half of school this week due to severe migraines….There’s no internet at the ranch and all her work is submitted on her school issued computer. And she has a chemistry project due Tuesday.

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  42. FB also says that it is Kare’s birthday – so it would seem to be official.

    6 Arrows, yes, there are a lot of February birthdays in my family too. Youngest sibling and her daughter, Baby Niece, as well as Second Sibling-in-law, and a few more among the outlaws and in-laws are Februarians (to coin a word), although none of them are leap-year babies.

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  43. Sorry I don’t get to this thread much anymore. Some day again, maybe, but life is too busy for now.

    I’m reading an interesting book by Matthew B. Crawford, entitled The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction. Deep stuff. The author is much more intelligent than am I, and it requires slow, careful reading for me to dig into it. I suspect I’m not getting half of what he’s saying, but I’m trying. 🙂

    I’m also getting accustomed to reading with a dictionary at my side for this book. Quite the vocabulary lesson I am getting, going through this book.

    Interestingly, in the book, I’m finding much application with my current situation with my former piano student’s family (and with someone else that I mentioned yesterday on the prayer thread that I need to call), so I’ve decided I will finish reading the book before I proceed further in those two instances.

    Back to more of the household routine now. (And a bit more composing. I got to measure 14 on a new composition last night, and this morning I added another five or six measures, but feel like what I’ve written is more introduction than anything. Not sure of how to proceed with the body of the piece. Ah, the creative life — sometimes wonderful, sometimes makes you want to tear your hair out!) 🙂

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  44. Roscuro, my son knows people who, collectively, have birthdays on every day of the first half of February, extending at least to February 14 (possibly the 15th). And my husband was born on his uncle’s (mom’s brother’s) birthday.

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  45. How close is your youngest sibling’s birthday to her daughter’s? It’s always interesting when a child is born on the same date as a parent. But close — as in the same month — is fun, too.

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  47. I forgot, my one surviving grandparent is also a Februarian! She has but four years to get to a century now. Baby Niece was born the day before her great-grandmother’s birthday, in the early part of the month. Youngest Sibling’s birthday is in the later part of the month.

    I’m probably going to have to change Little Niece and Baby Niece to second and third niece soon – although it isn’t certain – and it looks like I will have a fifth nephew, both in June. Little and Baby Niece are slated to have a little brother, and Second Sibling and spouse have a suspicion their first is a girl (it is the pattern among the siblings, as Eldest Sibling’s eldest is her only daughter).

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  49. Happy Birthday, Kare!! The cake looked yummy!

    Today would have been my dad’s birthday. He has been gone 11 years. I miss him.

    I am late to the thread today because of the beautiful weather. We have been gone all week, so have enjoyed being outside with the critters and chores etc. The setting moon was spectacular last night as we drove home.

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  51. Happy birthday, Kare!

    In my family growing up, there were nine birthdays (including my parents) and none earlier than April. We got two in May and two in October (none in September or November–so I guess that means we had only two between September and March, and seven in the other six months).

    My sister birthed all four of her boy children in winter (late December to mid-March) and her daughter in mid-July.

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  52. The eight of us have birthdays in four different months — two in each. Two of us 12 days apart, two 6 days apart (this week), two 1 day apart, and two the same day (our “twins born eight years apart”). 😉

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  53. Roscuro, Mumsee’s 1:48 was in response to my 12:46, which was in response to her 12:21. She calls me little brother because we share something important in common, but she is vastly older than I am.

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  57. The weekend is here! Nothing on my schedule, just some projects to begin.
    I plan to take a long walk once I change the battery in my fitbit. I put a new one in a month ago, but I will try again.
    I will go by school to print some verses for my Bible lesson this week and I want to pick up some of my favorite books, especially Baby Beluga, as I am working in the nursery tomorrow.

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  59. Roscuro- I am aware of the pagan names for Spanish days of the week. I was just pointing out that Spanish is ecumenical when it comes to naming the days, since they have the Roman, Jewish and Christian religions represented.

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  63. I’m late showing up for my own cake! Janice, you could NOT have picked a better cake for me! I LOVE chocolate and mint!

    Thank you, all, for the birthday wishes. I “liked” all of them, but it seemed to stop working part way through.

    I had a lovely day – phone calls from both my children – one of whom told me an awesome secret for my birthday (I’m so excited), ice cream sundae celebration with co-workers, and flowers on my desk when I arrived in the morning from my boss and his wife (he gave all the credit to his wife). Oh, and our cook made the most delicious corn chowder for lunch!

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  64. I am up late. I just finished reading The Elegant Entrepreneur. I saw they are giving away three copies on Goodreads if anyone wants to put their name in the pot. I got the free ebook from Net galley so I need to post a review.

    So glad you had a good birthday, Kare. I love chocolate mint, too, and thought I have not made one of those cakes. I have used crushed peppermint sticks in a chocolate cookie recipe. It’s a tricky recipe because the candy is sticky while trying, to lift the cookies off the still hot cookie sheet.

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