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Our Daily Thread 4-5-16

Good Morning! 

The kingfishers have moved on, and the swallows have moved in. 🙂

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43 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-5-16”

  2. Good morning. I awoke at five with a major headache and chills…Fun times. Scott’s going to drive Becca to school (hooray!). Lindsey isn’t up yet but was still suffering late yesterday…

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  3. Chas is home alone, we expect to hear lots from you today, Chas.
    First day of the term tomorrow. Prayers appreciated.
    I believe the new boy will be there. from Holland.
    One student is in Cairns Australia with her family, back next week.
    And, yes, one student’s, a little girl, mom died this week. So prayer appreciated as I handle all of the emotions. The little girl won’t be there, but to mention it to the class will be difficult. The little girl has been raised by grandparents so they feel more like family to her, but still, so much grieving.

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  4. Good morning, at least for those who are not sick with the flu. And for Jo, well, it’s a hello and goodnight!

    Those little birds in the video are so quick. My eyes were spinning watching it, spinning like I could be in The Exorcist Remix movie. Good filming, AJ. And good duck shots, too! Donna’s header was still up but you may have changed it by now.

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  5. Miss Bosley is in her morning cuddle spot. She curls up in my left arm with her head on my shoulder so I hear her loud purrs right next to my ear. She has gone to sleep so is quiet except for her little breathing sounds. My arm is aching with her weight on it. She is so sweet in the mornings and seems to need this special time. I think she will always be a baby at heart since she was so young when we got her. I don’ t think she had the normal break away time from her mom and siblings. Look

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  6. I wasn’t trying to get duck pics, they just happen to be there. It’s the swallows I was after, but they’re so fast it makes it tough. In the header the swallow is in the left side of the pic. In the third, you’ll see two, one at the bottom and one nearly on top of the left duck. 🙂 They’re fast and hard to get a decent shot of, as you can see in the video.

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  9. I asked my friends last night what did they consider my strengths. Below is what one of them wrote. You have to know that this man is gay so comparing me to Julia Sugarbaker is among the highest of compliments. Every time I read it I smile. It is just exactly what I need to keep repeating before I go on this job interview.

    You go on. And on, and on.
    You bear the weight. You bend, but never break.
    You’re stronger than you think. You’re more beautiful than you think.
    You hang on long after other people would have let go.
    The universe owes you one. It’s coming.
    You’re smart, you’re funny, and you are a Lady in a world of “cougars” and tissue thin cutouts of what real women should be. You are 10 years shy of being Julia Sugarbaker.

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  11. I posted this late yesterday and Chas said he has never heard of it. I did not see a reference to it when I googled it. Just wondering where this came from?
    “Brother just told me of an unusual activity that some young people participated in when my mother was young. A young person would go to a house, knock on the door, when it was opened, the young person would walk in uninvited and take a seat, sit there, and not say a word. They called those who did it ‘dry sitters.’ Brother said one came to my mother’s home and that her brother got the shotgun and threatened to shoot if they did not speak or leave. This was in NW Alabama about 50 miles from Mississippi. Has anyone ever heard of that? Maybe Michelle in all her research?”

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  12. I think the dry sitters were the beginnings of the zombie culture.

    When brother asked if I had heard our mother speak of the dry sitters and I said no. Then I asked if they were like a dry wet nurse. 😯

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  14. I never knew anyne who could sit still long enough to be a day sitter.

    When I asked my friends what my strengths were, they just looked at each other.
    Thankfully, nobody said anything..

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  15. LOL. 🙂 Your sense of humor is one of your strengths, Chas. 🙂

    Good morning, afternoon, evening to all. Thanks for passing along my email to Jo, NancyJill. Lovely to see Jo’s newsletter in my inbox this morning. 🙂

    Blessings, everyone.

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  17. Swallows. They return to one of our old missions every March, my grandfather from Iowa — a bird watcher — was fascinated by this and loved going there for the much-anticipated event whenever he was out here visiting.

    https://www.missionsjc.com/about/swallows-legend/

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    The miracle of the “Swallows” of Capistrano takes place each year at Mission San Juan Capistrano, on March 19th, St. Joseph’s Day.

    As the faithful little birds wing their way back to the most famous mission in California, the village of San Juan Capistrano takes on a fiesta air, and visitors from all parts of the world and all walks of life gather in great numbers to witness the “miracle” of the return of the swallows.

    At dawn on St. Joseph’s Day, the little birds arrive and begin rebuilding their mud nests, which are clinging to the ruins of the Great Stone Church of San Juan Capistrano. The arches of the two story, vaulted Great Stone Church were left bare and exposed after the roof collapsed during the earthquake of 1812.

    The Great Stone Church, said to be the largest and most ornate in any of the missions, now has a more humble destiny — that of housing the birds that St. Francis loved so well. …
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  18. According to the article, these are cliff swallows who come north from Argentina and like to stay near the water. They return to Argentina in October.

    We have very dense fog this morning it’s just a solid gray when I look out the window.

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  19. California’s missions have long been standard classroom fare out here, 4th grade I believe? The lessons usually involve making miniature missions as a craft project.

    We also took field trips to some of them, I still have a couple of the little commemorative bells that they sell, including one from Capistrano, our closest local mission.

    Not sure it’s still studied the same way in public schools due to all the religious complications that schools would fret over now.

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  21. Good Morning….it was that chocolate milkshake I consumed at 8:30 last night that had me awake at 2 AM!! I did thankfully fall back to sleep for an additional couple of hours…I’m certain I will get a nap in today! The sky is a deep blue and the contrast of the deep pine green against it takes my breath away….time for a walk about with Lulah in the fresh morning air…..
    Kim I feel like I know you even better now that you are Julia Sugarbaker personified ! 🙂

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  22. I was not awake at 8:30 to have a milkshake.

    Our public school goes to St Gertrude’s Monastery and museum. A lot of Catholics around here.

    Husband is off to second day of class. It is good for him to have a hobby. He was going stir crazy and too focused on his condition.

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  27. I don’t get many cookbooks on Kindle, but I decided to get the Wolfgang Puck Makes it Easy for .99 from Amazon. It sounds like it has good shortcuts to get the gourmet flavors and uses easy to find ingredients.

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  28. This is a valuable analysis of a prevalent problem – one that I have long been aware is one of the causes of the low marriage rate among my generation. The connection between sexual immorality and the occult is one that Aji suun and I have discussed within the context of the after effects of suffering sexual abuse: http://www.russellmoore.com/2016/04/04/why-porn-kills-sex/

    Pornography kills sexuality because porn isn’t just about sex and because sex isn’t just about sex.

    In the ancient city of Corinth, the warning was given about prostitutes in the pagan temples of the city. The prostitutes were paid for sexual activity, disconnected from covenant. They were part of a cultic system that ascribed almost mystical powers to the orgasm. How is that any different from the pornography industry of today? The Apostle Paul warned that the implications of immorality with these prostitutes weren’t just a matter of bad relational consequences or a bad witness for Christ to the outside world (although these were no doubt true too). The one who joined himself to a prostitute participated in an intangible spiritual reality, by joining Christ to the prostitute, by becoming one with her (1 Cor. 615-19). Since the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, sexual immorality is not just “naughtiness.” It is an act of temple desecration, of bringing unholy worship into a holy place of sanctuary (1 Cor. 6:19).

    Pornography is not just immorality; it’s occultism.

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  29. I do remember a California mission craft from fourth grade, Donna. It wasn’t 3-D, it was various materials glued onto posterboard. Doggone, some years ago I got rid of all that stuff my dad had saved, otherwise I’d post a picture. I think it had a kidney bean outline for the building and some kind of fabric filling it in. And a pretty blue paint color for the sky overhead.

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  30. Janice you know I am a history buff and a nerdy researcher. I have never heard of that custom. I have never heard anyone talking about it. It must have been a localized thing to do in a small town. Even in your mother’s era people would have run the risk of being shot.

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  31. If I recall right, we studied California history and culture in 4th grade, US history in 5th, and world history in 6th. That was when elementary school went through 6th grade. We had a report each year. In 4th grade I did one on the Coachella valley, in 5th grade on the state of Montana, an in 6th grade on Denmark.

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  34. I’ve never heard of the sitting project either.

    I attended fourth grade in California and do not remember the dreaded mission project–it was a surprise to me when I moved back to California as a mother and my child had to make one. Maybe two of my children, two different times.

    Now you can buy the cut out forms at Michael’s saving everyone without crafty skills a nightmare.

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  35. I started teaching a ten week study of the Apostle Paul, it’s a character study. The ladies enjoyed today’s lesson because we read through Acts 9 paragraph by paragraph, stopping to discuss just what was happening as we went.

    They tell me they enjoy my leading because I bring a novelist’s eye to the process.

    (In that, I paint the scene for them, rather than leaving it just words in the Bible).

    I enjoyed the prep a great deal and got two blog posts out of it already. Here’s today’s–I didn’t know we had a physical description of Paul, did you?

    Who was the Apostle Paul?

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  36. Why do some people enjoy trying to make you feel stupid? The president of our company called and asked me to do something for him. I told Guy what I was doing and he told me to make sure the president of the company knew I didn’t know anything about the building…”he may assume you do because you work with me , but you don’t”

    I tell people I have zero self confidence and this is why

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  37. Michelle, @ 3:03
    Most scholars I’ve read believe that Paul’s thorn was poor eyesight.
    The evidence is pretty strong that he did have poor eyesight.
    But it doesn’t explain the thorn in the flesh.

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  39. Ann, I sent my newsletter to the address I had for you, must be an old one. Private message me on facebook the email you want me to use.
    Thanks for the comments everyone.
    and thanks for your prayers today as I head off to school in an hour or so.
    only 6:30am now, so a little early 🙂

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  40. Thanks for asking. My arm is doing well. I’m still icing it and using ibuprofin, but I’m going to live. I’m just so thankful for not hurting anybody else in a class which is usually packed with dancers. I may even return tomorrow! 🙂

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  42. Kevin, I once mentioned to a guy that in South Carolina we had to know the names of all 46 counties in the state.
    He said, “Why would you want to know that?”
    I said, “So we could go to fifth grade.”

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