51 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-16-16”

  2. Good evening, Jo! Good morning to the rest of you’ins. I am not sure if I spelled that NC version of y’all correctly, and I don’t know how they got it unless it is short for you youngins\young ones. In which case I believe it accurately addresses all who congregate here 🙂

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  3. If you needed to find someone to share the Good News of Jesus with, where would you find that person? Today is John 3:16 day with the CLI group I volunteer with and I have a small Bible tract message to give out. Just curious how others would decide how to pick someone.

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  5. Morning, all. Hope you have a good day.

    And the birthday tree looks great. 4 more days until Spring officially starts, though we’ve had Spring-like weather for a while now.

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  6. Good Morning ya’ll! What beautiful blossoms!! Nothing blooming around these parts. We have had beautiful springlike weather, but, this morning we awakened to a snow covered forest floor….it’s cold out there!

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  7. you’uns
    A term used in southern and central Appalachia and adjacent areas to address a group of people. Is pronounced a number of ways varying from you’uns and yuns in rural Appalachia to yins in the Pittsburgh area. Supposedly originated from the phrase “you ones” used by Scots-Irish immigrants.
    You’uns gonna be round for supper?

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  8. In dealing with anything Appalachian always look for the Scottish then the Irish roots.
    Into the 1990’s there was a more isolated area of North Carolina that when they researched the accent and dialect traced straight back to Elizabethan England. They have probably lost it by now, because no one wants to be any different from the way people sound on TV and there is nothing more grating on earth than some actor trying to fake a southern accent.

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  10. Janice, I am so glad you put the birthday tree up today (or AJ did). I have been telling Mr. P that I would like to plant one in our back yard. It gave me a reminder to show it to him and explain what I wanted.
    His sister arrived safely last night. We were up until almost midnight! The alarm still went off at 6:30 this morning, but on the bright side, I didn’t wake up in the middle of the night and stay awake for an hour or so. Perhaps some of my fellow insomniacs can benefit from that knowledge. 😉

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  12. Your thought for the day:

    Galvanized

    When George Martin first met the Beatles and became their producer, he liked their sound and their energy, but he didn’t think they could write songs. So he licensed a song, handed it to them and had them record it. John and Paul hated doing this, so they asked if they could write one. That became their first hit. Faced with opposition and competition, they became better songwriters.

    Sir George didn’t think much of Pete Best, their drummer, and he said so. He wanted to hire session musicians as drummers. Faced with a loss of cohesion and control, John, Paul and George took action, fired Pete, found and hired Ringo.

    George didn’t think there was a chance this Ringo guy was any good, so he had a session musician sit in for the first recording. Ringo brought his A game on the next track and that was the end of session musicians sitting in.

    Often, our best work happens when we’re in a situation we wouldn’t have chosen for ourselves. The hard part is choosing to be in that sort of situation in the first place, the uncomfortable one where we have no choice but to do better work.

    Find a galvanizer if you can. If you care.

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  14. Have visitors? Sure!

    Stay up late having MEANINGFUL conversations instead of garbagey thoughts? Sure!

    Was doing better by turning off the computer at dinner time and not returning to it, but that didn’t work last night. 😦

    Off for the morning excitement.

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  16. Beautiful blooms — I knew it had to be a photo by Janice. 🙂

    So today we find out (maybe) if our newspaper is chosen to purchase the other group of papers in 2 other counties. Looks like we’re in line to get it so that would help us (if not immediately, in the longer run).

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  17. I own a lot of green clothes, so I may well wear green tomorrow, but not in honor of St Patrick’s Day. My own ancestors (both sides) came to the States through North Carolina, from Scotland, and Mom wouldn’t let us wear green on St Patrick’s Day since she said it was the Catholics’ color. Protestants wore orange–the one color I refuse to wear. It made it rather tricky, though, since my arm would get so sore from being pinched all day, sometimes from the same kids repeatedly. Other kids who had forgotten or neglected to wear green would lie and say they were wearing green underwear, but I just endured the pinches. If it had been up to me, I would have worn green just to avoid that. Mom might have counted it as persecution had she known how bad it was, I don’t know, but it wasn’t persecution, it was just kids being kids to the point it was cruelty, but not any one child inflicting it.

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  18. Good morning. I just finished my defensive driving class…ugh! It was so boring and redundant. Glad to have it behind me!

    Lindsey goes back to the neurologist this afternoon…I’m pretty sure she’ll be cleared to return to school next week. She seems to be doing much better…way fewer headaches and the morning nausea is finally gone.

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  20. I never knew about the orange until well into adulthood. Of course I am surrounded by the Catholic church. Even in Christian School they never taught us about the Protestants wearing orange.. We all wore green.
    I have nothing green to wear tomorrow. Someone, who I am sure meant well, put my only green top in the dryer and it is never going on this body again. 😦

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  22. According to the family history research by my cousin, we originated in France….Huguenots who fled France and immigrated to Ireland. We always wore green on March 17th….I guess it was just the thing to do. I do recall Mike Blizzard, a kid I went to school with, wearing one orange sock and one green sock….an equal opportunity kid he was!

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  23. My mom once made the center pieces for a church dinner taking place in March. They featured both green and orange. Someone asked her if she was making a statement about peace. She said, no. She just thought orange and green went together well. She never even thought about the political implications.

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  24. I suspect the orange tradition has long faded by now (except in Scotland, probably!). And orange is not a very good wardrobe color — why didn’t those Protestants pick a better, more flattering hue?

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  26. On Green v. Orange: For a long time in Ontario, especially in Toronto, there was conflict between the Orangemen and the Catholics. The Orangemen even practiced apartheid type practices in jurisdictions where they had pre-eminence, blocking Catholics from holding certain offices and even forbidding entrance into certain neighbourhoods. Dickens visited what was to become the province of Ontario (then called Upper Canada) and the city of Toronto when he visited America (1842):

    It is a matter of deep regret that political differences should have run high in this place, and led to most discreditable and disgraceful results. It is not long since guns were discharged from a window in this town at the successful candidates in an election, and the coachman of one of them was actually shot in the body, though not dangerously wounded. But one man was killed on the same occasion; and from the very window whence he received his death, the very flag which shielded his murderer (not only in the commission of his crime, but from its consequences), was displayed again on the occasion of the public ceremony performed by the Governor General, to which I have just adverted. Of all the colours in the rainbow, there is but one which could be so employed: I need not say that flag was orange.

    I do not include any old Ontarians in my ancestry, since my father’s family come from Nova Scotia (I have mentioned my mingled Scottish and Irish heritage on that side before), and my mother’s family were more recent immigrants; but the feeling of the Orangemen is still to be found amongst established Ontarian families. For a while, there was such an old family in our church, who supported one Ian Paisley of Northern Ireland in his Protestant opposition to the Catholic interests in that horrible conflict (They left before his eventual alliance with the Catholic Sinn Fein leader, so I never knew what they thought of that). Strangely, the new pastor has an admiration for the erstwhile Reverend Paisley, which I can only attribute to his training in a Toronto seminary and former attendance of an old Torontonian church.

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  27. Donna, the Orange colour was the heraldic colour of the house of Orange. The house of Orange’s most famous founder, William the Silent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Silent), was the head of the Protestant opposition in the Netherlands to Catholic Spain’s oppression, during the series of conflicts between Protestant and Catholic which convulsed Europe in the 1500s and 1600s. After the English Civil War, in which the unfortunate Charles I lost his head (he was the son of James I of KJV fame, who was son of Mary, Queen of Scots and successor to Elizabeth I), and the failed Protectorate of the Puritan Cromwells (Oliver the father, was more successful than Richard the son), the English had restored Charles I’s son, Charles II to the English throne.

    Charles II, despite his many liasons (or perhaps because of them) failed to produce a legitimate male heir. His younger brother James II succeeded him. James’ first marriage, to a Protestant, had produced two daughters, Mary and Anne; his second marriage was to a Catholic, and resulted in his conversion to the Catholic faith. When James II began to attempt to reconvert England and his second wife bore a male heir, the English had had enough. They turned to James’ eldest daughter, Mary, who had married the great-grandson of William the Silent, who was also called William of Orange. William and Mary took the throne of England (and thus the throne of Scotland and Ireland) after the Glorious (and nearly bloodless) Revolution of 1688. However, there were pockets of Catholic opposition in Scotland and Ireland. The now legendary efforts of the Scottish Highlanders to restore James II’s son, Jacob, and then grandson, Bonnie Prince Charlie, to the throne are well known.

    There was already unrest in Ireland between Catholics and Protestant, and had been since the time of Elizabeth I (she completed the Irish conquest that her father, Henry VIII, had started). James I had attempted to quell that unrest by resettling Protestants mainly from the Border region of Scotland and England, in the area around Ulster in Northern Ireland, and this resettlement continued throughout the 1600s. That is probably how my family name ended up in Northern Ireland. During the preliminary rebellions against Charles I and then the English Civil War, there was a brutal and bloody conflict between Protestant and Catholics in Ulster. So there was longstanding tension between Catholic natives and Protestant settlers by the time William and Mary came to the throne. Since William of Orange was Protestant, his colours became the symbol of those whose supported the Protestant government Ireland. These supporters eventually went on to become the Orange Order, commonly known as Orangemen. Of course, the region around Ulster would eventually go on to become Northern Ireland, and thus the end of a conflict started by Henry VIII was only seen in the early 2000s (and there is still unease in that part of the world).

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  28. Janice, your 7:50: when I was a child, my family handed out tracts quite a bit. My dad even wrote one. Sometimes we would go through a store parking lot during the Sunday school hour and put one on every car (our rationale: if you were shopping on Sunday, you probably weren’t a Christian). Sometimes we’d give them to people. When my dad was in the hospital the last two months of my life when I was 16, I’d write Scripture verses on strips of paper and leave them around the hospital waiting room. I think it drove the staff nuts, because I’d keep finding them gone and I’d leave some more.

    I think that God can and sometimes does use such means . . . but as an adult I don’t see it as an effective means of evangelism. Most tracts aren’t good, anyway, and they can be seriously offensive, annoying, and impersonal. So I’d rather get to know people and talk with them than hand them something they’ll probably equate with bad advertising.

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  29. I’m not a tract person…I,too, would rather chat and listen to someone, then enter into a discussion….however, as a young mother, living in a townhouse with no laundry facilities, I spent much time in the laundry mat….I would see Christian literature on the folding tables. I would pick it up and read it while clothes were washing and drying. I also saw Jehovah Witness pamphlets….which I tossed into the large garbage bin…..

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  30. I have prayed over finding a person, and the tract does not have to be used, but it is the most beautiful one I have seen, and I think it will be a great tool to reach people although it is meant specifically for the incarcerated.

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  31. This may belong on the political thread, but I’m not sure that it refers to polits.
    But maybe so:

    Proverbs 16:18 “Pride goeth before destruction and a hughty spirit before a fall.”

    I don’t know how to apply it, but I’ve been thinking about it for a couple of days now.

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  32. Jehovah’s Witnesses came by here this past week in voting me to a program they are doing about Jesus in a large arena. I told them I don’t believe as they do and that I already have a church. As they were leaving and still offering the invitation, her final words were, “Jesus said ‘Do this in remembrance of me'” Huh? I guess maybe that was who I should have swapped tracts with but, hanging my head in shame, iI didn’t. I did not want a long drawn out conversation with two against one on my home front 😬😕😣😇😈

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  34. Janice, since you are praying about finding a person, go out to where people are not in a hurry and see what God does. The laundry mat isn’t a terrible idea or benches at the mall. If the weather is nice, the park would work. Or make up a gift basket and take it to an older neighbor.

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  35. Chas, I have thought about that verse many times when I have heard prideful candidates make their promises never acknowledging that God may not go along with their plans.

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  36. Janice they would not have taken your tract anyway….they are forbidden to do so….they also will not allow you to pray with them….
    During my teen years, my Mother became a JW…..she had asked too many questions and they excommunicated her…the deception was revealed and thankfully she returned to our Lord…and He received her back into His loving arms…oh the joy that was felt by her….and me too!!

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  37. Growing up I always refused to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day. Just because. Sometimes I would wear it accidentally because I just didn’t pay attention to the holiday. My dad told me I just wear orange, but sorry. Redheads DON’T wear orange!

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  38. Oh but redheads do look great in green…..I was told never ever to wear orange, yellow or red….I do wear red now from time to time…but then again, my red hair has turned kind of gray/white 🙂

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  39. Yes, it is St. Patrick’s Day here!
    I was reading John 3:16 this week. It is a verse that children memorize and then I pondered the thought that the words were spoken by Jesus. They took on a much deeper meaning.

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  41. Jo, if I recall correctly it isn’t really clear whether Jesus spoke the words or whether they were an editorial addition. Remember the originals didn’t have quotation marks, and as I recall some red-letter Bibles put that in red and some don’t. (But my memory might be wrong on that one.)

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