55 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-12-16”

  3. Good morning, all. Scott is at a friend’s new deer lease this weekend, helping get everything set up. Becca had a sweet new friend from dance spend the night last night. They went to an open gym from six to nine-thirty. They were still going strong when I picked them up.

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  5. Chas’ car clock works.

    I’m amazed and impressed by this. 😉

    And not only that, he’s changing his clocks already. I’ll change maybe one before I go to bed tonight (my watch most likely which is still my first source of checking what time it is); the rest will get changed here and there on Sunday and maybe Monday. 🙂

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  10. I leave the clock in my truck alone and remind myself it is an hour ahead. Now I will have to tell myself it is on the correct time. Why oh why can’t we leave time alone and not fall back later? I like this time.

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  12. It messes everyone up. They had a segment on the news that heart attacks and strokes go up after the time change. Why don’t we leave it alone. No one likes it. It makes no sense to do it.

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  13. Donna said last night that she loves both oceans and mountains, so she lives in a good place for that. Me, I pulled back the blinds this morning, and briefly the trees on the horizon looked like mountains, and I was homesick for Arizona. (I haven’t been back since my mom’s funeral in 2003.) I love mountains, the desert, creeks, and landscapes filled with trees. I had the first two in Phoenix, the last two in Nashville, and the last one here. In Chicago, I loved the buildings–I’d never paid attention to architecture until I lived there–and I loved the mix of people, the museums and restaurants. But I hated having minimal access to nature (piles of dirty snow didn’t count). I mean, I was finally living in a region where the trees changed color in the fall, but on my half hour daily commute I had just one lovely tree! I had to drive to Indiana if I wanted to see autumn color, so I did that several years.

    Anyway, each region has its own beauty. Chicago was the only place I’ve ever lived where the landscapes and wild creatures played no role in the beauty to be found, which was part of the reason it was always a matter of time before I needed to escape permanently.

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  14. I also wish they would leave it alone..
    Leave it at standard time.
    The children have to go back to going to school in the dark.
    Elvera thinks she loses an hour of her life.
    Seriously, if she dies before we change back, she will have thought they took an our out of her life. No. I can’t explain it. I tried.
    I’ve changed everything I’m going to change this early.
    Now, I have to change batteries in the smoke detectors. I’m probably wasting 9-volt batteries by changing twice a year, but it’s worth it to avoid having to search a “beep, beep” and then fix it. This way, I have a battery changing routine.

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  16. Agreed on the time change. Either leave it standard all year or Daylight Saving Time all year. Just don’t give us all jet lag even when staying home.

    BTW- Arizona doesn’t change to DT. Only did it the first year back in the 60s and decided it wasn’t worth it.

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  18. Cheryl knows this, but Indiana didn’t change either. Not in the eighties anyhow.
    If is so far west that the sun wouldn’t go down until 11 pm. if we ran the clock ahead.

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  19. Car accidents also increase on the Monday after the change to DST in the spring. Furthermore, this report shows an increase in accidents in the early-morning hours on the Sunday of the time change back to standard time in the fall.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11152980

    The sleep deprivation on the Monday following shift to DST in the spring results in a small increase in fatal accidents. The behavioral adaptation anticipating the longer day on Sunday of the shift from DST in the fall leads to an increased number of accidents suggesting an increase in late night (early Sunday morning) driving when traffic related fatalities are high possibly related to alcohol consumption and driving while sleepy. Public health educators should probably consider issuing warnings both about the effects of sleep loss in the spring shift and possible behaviors such as staying out later, particularly when consuming alcohol in the fall shift. Sleep clinicians should be aware that health consequences from forced changes in the circadian patterns resulting from DST come not only from physiological adjustments but also from behavioral responses to forced circadian changes.

    I think they should just leave it alone.

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  21. Peter, according to my mom, each year the Arizona governor signed something saying they weren’t going to change the clocks that year, or some such thing, but anyway it was something they had to do annually. One year he forgot, and they had daylight savings, and after that the legislature passed a law changing it permanently.

    Chas, my husband says that most of Indiana didn’t have daylight savings, but the regions near big cities in other states did. That is, for example, that the parts of Indiana that are bedroom communities for Chicago changed along with Chicago. To me it sounds messier to do it that way than just to have the whole state change or not change. But I heartily wish they’d just leave it alone–I got spoiled living my first 22 years in Arizona. I don’t see why other states choose to participate. Now, in the years when my mom was still alive, and then in the months I was talking by phone to a man from Phoenix, I had to remember which parts of the year they were an hour different from me and which parts they were two hours different (I was in Central time), but if the whole country followed their better example, we wouldn’t even have that issue!

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  22. Actually, the Western part of Indiana changed so as to be on the same time as the Eastern part, which stayed on Standard time. That makes sense. Missouri is trying to get the states around it to stay on Standard time, because we want to be smart and not mess with the clock. I think the only reason we have it is so people can get out and do things after work in the summer and have plenty of sunlight. Personally, I think it’s so the politicians and businessmen can get in a round of golf in the late afternoon and not miss work. So blame those rich white guys like the Liberals do.

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  24. Changing the subject- a pastor/evangelist I know has written a biography of a man who has had a great influence on us and most of the Christians we know. Here is a link to it: http://www.conradmurrell.com/. Brother Conrad, as we call him, is from Louisiana, and used to travel around and build up churches. He traveled with Leonard Ravenhill for a while. Right now the book is on sale for the pre-publication price of $24. It’s worth it if you want to read about a (still) living man of God who isn’t well known, but well loved.

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  25. You’d think that since we’re becoming a nanny state the government would get smart and change the law, since there are so many health risks involved in the time change.

    Oh, wait, did I put “government” and “smart” in the same context?

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  26. I changed my clocks shortly after getting up & dressed this morning. That way, I get used to the idea that it’s later than it seems, & maybe I can trick my mind into going to bed & getting to sleep at what will seem to my body like an hour too early. Maybe I’ll take a Benadryl to help me get to sleep tonight.

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  27. For me for the most part these days I get up when I get up, though I make efforts to go to bed at roughly 11:00 each night. (It varies a bit since sometimes I’m simply not sleepy, and sometimes I’m quite sleepy earlier.) But on Sunday morning, I have to get up at a set time. Since my husband gets up earlier, he wakes me if I’m not up on time, so I never wake to an alarm–yay. So the time change doesn’t affect me very much, but I do still hate it and find it unnecessary.

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  28. We start work late so I never have to use an alarm either. I naturally wake up to let the animals out sometime between 6 and 6:30 a.m. (because it’s getting light by then and I won’t let the cat out before then due to the coyotes); then I’m typically up myself by 7-7:30 which is in plenty of time to be ready to leave for work when I need to (mid-morning).

    But now it’ll seem earlier (and will be darker later in the morning) so I’ll have to struggle with adjusting my internal clock to keep getting up at 7. Luckily, I can sleep until 8 and still be fine with having enough time to get to work, but it makes for a shortened morning which I don’t like.

    This “spring forward” time change takes a toll on me for a good week, at least. But probably a good idea to change clocks now to better adjust and maybe make it easier to go to bed earlier tonight (not that that helps, really).

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  32. I just tried to explain the time change to a 6 year old. Not easy. D1 and SIL reset clocks this afternoon and put the children to bed by the clock. The oldest wonders why. Oh, well.

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  41. I thought Chas was talking about becoming wolf men … But I realized he was referring to the time change.

    I woke up at 6 but it was way too dark to let the animals out. I woke up again at 7 and let them out, went back to sleep for 30 minutes and then got up. Drinking coffee now.

    Maybe I’ll take a nap this afternoon. On the plus side, the late crew at the dog park can show up later in the day now, which means my weekend afternoons are longer.

    Did you all follow that?

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  42. I am so happy it is this time. There is more day light at the end of the day. Yippee. I was awake at 6, made it to 8 o’ clock church. Such a small, intimate group. I knew everyone there. Now we are readying the house for Mr. P’s sister’s visit. She will be here Tuesday night.

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  43. I reminded Art of the time change, but even so I still forgot to change my watch, LOL. So I got up and meandered and made him egg salad sandwiches before I realized that I needed to be at church in a few minutes. I managed to get there. Yay! The pastor did an excellent sermon on prayer based on the passage in Luke where Jesus prays for Father God to remove the cup.

    As our church has lost some members to death and moving to other locations, the worship leader asks members to move down toward the front so there is not such an empty area. So I am now sitting pretty close in. The lady behind me told me today I had taken Mary’s spot, the Mary who died. I knew she sat up in that area, but I did not know I was at the very same spot. That was so special to hear. ♡

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  44. Behind again, but jumping in with a question. . .

    On Facebook, in the course of a discussion on a friend’s post, she mentioned that Jesus told us to love our neighbors. Her cousin replied:

    “Jesus may have told us to love our neighbors, but really he was talking to Jews about Jews. The same with the 10 Commandments (ie, murder against a non-Jew wasn’t a part of the commands). He also said that he came to change no laws while Heaven and Earth still persists, which means that stoning someone for working on sundown Friday to sundown Saturday is moral. And violence and intolerance were a part of the code.”

    Now, Jesus did say that not one iota & dot, as the ESV puts it, would pass away, but then He also stopped the stoning of the woman caught in adultery.

    Here’s that passage, Matthew 5:17-18, from the ESV. . .

    ““Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”

    Would it be correct to say that Jesus’ death & resurrection fulfilled the “until all is accomplished”?

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  45. Good Sunday ya’ll….I am soooo tired….working the past two days, 9 hours standing on concrete floors (you remember we are not allowed to sit….ever…no breaks….) and we have had a very very busy couple of days with many customers….And now the time change….early to church (we visited a new church and will return next week). A gathering of Christian neighbor’s this evening…I don’t have the energy of my youth..it’s gone, kaput……ain’t around no more!! But on the bright side….the sun is shining, the air is warm and healing to the bones! 🙂

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  46. Karen, Jesus healed on the Sabbath. He didn’t rebuke his disciples for reaping and threshing on the Sabbath. The disciples, at the Jerusalem conference, determined that Gentiles didn’t have to follow all the Jewish laws, especially circumcision.
    Pastor Steve says that the only laws Christians need to follow are those mentioned in the NT.
    That means that we love everyone, even our enemies.
    Jesus wasn’t talking to Jews about Jews. He was talking to people about people.

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  48. Chas – Facebook really is a mixed bag, a lot of bad, but a lot of good, too.

    I know & understand about the incidents you mentioned, & reminded the cousin of one or two of those. But I’m particularly looking at Jesus’ words here: “…not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.” Do you think all was accomplished at His resurrection? Or was He referring to something else?

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  49. NancyJill – Doesn’t Colorado have a law about employees needing a break for every so many hours they work? That doesn’t sound right that you have to work nine hours without a break.

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  50. From Ligonier, if this helps:

    http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/not-one-jot-or-tittle/

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    Jesus does not nullify (the law), but comes so that everything in it will be accomplished (Matt. 5:18). He does this through His entire representative obedience. Thus, though the teaching of Jesus is challenging to the core, Jesus did not come to encumber us with impossibly heavy burdens (11:28–30; see 23:4). Only Jesus, the last Adam and perfect Son of God, is able to fulfill God’s law perfectly (3:15) and therefore is able to pour out His blood for the forgiveness of sins (26:28; see 1:21; 20:28).

    Christ frees us to obey (the law). Jesus’ disciples are called to a genuine love of God and neighbor (22:37–40; see 7:21). This is a lofty calling, but Jesus Himself embodied it throughout His life. Through His obedience, Jesus releases us from the burden of trying to earn our salvation. We are to be merciful because of the mercy Jesus has shown to us (5:7; 9:13; 12:7; 23:23; see Hos. 6:6; Matt. 18:33). In sum, the law of God is an abiding witness to the person and work of Christ, and through Him we are able to call this law our delight.
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  52. Thanks, Donna. These are things I understand for myself, but wanted to be “extra sure” of how to explain it to a non-believer.

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  53. We just got home from a rally for Ted Cruz. His father, Rafael, spoke. He was good. But better, was a Congressman that represents Tulsa, OK. He was great! He explained how government should work and that the resent government shutdown was Obama and Harry Reid’s doing, NOT the GOP.

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  54. Karen, I suppose there are laws, but, my neighbor, who owns the small business, feels they do not apply to her…..she is interesting. We get to eat lunch…but we eat on the fly…we stand eating and if a customer comes up to the counter, we stop eating and wait on them. I understand the need to wait on customers…it is a small business….but….our new place has concrete floors….and it is hard on these old feet and legs….not certain how long I’m going to last…..

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