30 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-6-16”

  4. Beautiful composition and pleasing colors in your header, AJ.

    Good evening, Jo. Good morning, to the regular early birds listening to birds about now. Miss Bosley has been watching birds and flicking her tail for a bit.

    I have lost another fairly important paper. Should I blame it on Miss Bosley? Although a cat, she frequently transforms into a scapegoat.

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  6. Good Morning. I have joined a group of women who are looking to make changes in their lives. We will be meeting every other Tuesday for 12 weeks. I am working on building up my confidence. I sent my resume to another company yesterday. I remind myself that everyone in my life thinks I am in an abusive relationship work wise. I start building up some confidence and he manages to deflate me.

    Our agent who was hit by a car while she was walking is going home from the hospital today. We have set up a “Take a Meal” account where people are signing up to make sure she has what she needs. The president of the company is doing a fish fry benefit for her next Friday. The doctors said she will have a severe headache for the next few weeks (3 or 4) and she can’t drive for a while. The good news is they think she will make a full recovery.

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  7. I actually had a student claim her dog ate her homework. She says the dog eats other papers too, like the papers her mother has form the college classes she teaches. I can’t imagine going to class and telling a student: I’m sorry, but my dog ate your homework.

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  9. Yep, that’s a male American goldfinch. He’s in the process of molting from his drab winter colors to his vivid summer ones. Goldfinches don’t nest until late summer (most seed-eating birds switch to insects to feed their young, but goldfinches insist on feeding seeds, and so they wait till seeds are plentiful to nest).

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  10. I am happy to report that, thanks to WAMS and WUNCCIL, several families will be getting into their new homes this month. WAMS (Western Anabaptists Mission Services) and WUNCCIL (Wildfire Unmet Needs Committee serving Clearwater, Idaho, and Clearwater counties) stepped up to the plate with lots of volunteers and supplies provided by local building supply stores and mills to provide help to some of the folk who lost their homes in the fires last summer/fall. They looked at cases and ordered them according to need, starting with the uninsured, children, elderly, and disabled. Pretty neat to see. Perhaps FEMA is involved somewhere, but a lot of these folk would just as soon work with their neighbors to get it done. One couple thought the fire was done by their house and were helping their son evacuate from across the river when they saw the flames bearing down on their house. They raced back across the river, she got her two horses into the trailer, he got one of his into the trailer and lead his other from the driver seat window. She and son headed out in one vehicle and before he got through, the fire had crossed the road so he had to drive through a tunnel of fire. He said it got warm but he did not have time to get scared as the horse on his right kept catching fire. He would bat that out and cinders would start burning the seat next to him. Bat that out and back to the horse and its burning hair. But they made it and all is well, though they lost everything but the horses and vehicles. They have been married forty years and now have a nice new house. Neighbors are a good thing.

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  12. It’s always a pleasure to speak with THE Poorest Man in America. I was confirming his email address because I had to give emergency information for BG and me to JH Ranch. He told me that he “hopes all this money YOU are spending isn’t a waste”.
    I spoke with a travel agent who handles things for the ranch earlier today. He is going to get back to me with information. It is all coming together. We will of course need lots of prayer while we are there that this is the experience I am praying for.

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  14. We got a pretty good frost last night and two of the tomato plants lost their milk cartons. We may have lost them but the others all appear to be hale and hearty and snug as a bug in a rug. The loss of two is more than made up by the gain in production if the others are able to keep a good start.

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  16. Pop pop, fizz fizz, it is a delight to walk into the kitchen and hear the happy sound of cabbage fermenting. Sauerkraut is on its way! Doesn’t your mouth just water? But not for another three or four weeks…..patience…

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  17. Just got a personal tour of an old (1920) building that once featured a speakeasy & bordello. Now in the process of being turned into a hip dining spot.

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  18. Kim – Something I often see people advise is that we should find our confidence, security, etc. in our identities as beloved children of God. Unfortunately, it is too easy & tempting to compare ourselves to other women (or other people in general), & find ourselves wanting. (I am very guilty of this myself. 😦 )

    Praying that God will minister His love to you in a very special way.

    Isn’t it strange that we dismiss all the assurances from those you know us well, & focus instead on the one person who makes us feel bad about ourselves?

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  19. oh, the fog is clearing. I looked at the gray wall and thought, there are hills behind that. Wisps of fog lowered down and lots of low clouds with the shades of green between. Our ever changing land and skyscape.

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  22. It has been a busy day with a WMU meeting in the a.m. That’s the Southern Baptist women missions group. You may recall we recently lost our beloved leader, Mary. We think all her records got thrown away in the haste of relatives clearing her apartment. She did everything for our group. Lesson learned…one person, no matter how capable, should not be taking care of most everything with no one else having a handle on anything. Now it seems doubly sad to have lost her and to have to start from scratch trying to reconstruct the group.

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  23. Looks like R may be out in California for a while. Maybe he’s moved out there? Not sure. He didn’t say goodbye to Forrest, at least not as far as I know. It seems he is staying with a friend out there, who lives in Huntington Beach.

    Donna, is that near you at all?

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  25. A job opened up 10 minutes form here at a small college. I might have another job next Fall and not have to put up with immature high school students. I will miss the mature ones though, that 10-20% who actually want to learn.

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  26. Emily tells me that R did stop by to say goodbye to Forrest, but Forrest really didn’t understand, so he wasn’t all huggy-huggy as R would have liked.

    One story he told Emily was that he was running away from some serious trouble. Another time he said he was just going out there for work (to get work, I assume, because he doesn’t seem to be working now).

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  27. Not far, Karen — it’s south, in Orange County, nicknamed ‘surf city,’ it’s where the guy who does my taxes lives and has his office.

    There’s a very nice dog beach there, too

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