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Good morning Aj, and anyone else who might be up already.
But it’s past seven already.
Get to it.
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Love the kitty pictures!
Good morning everyone!
Not sure what’s on the agenda for today. Lindsey has her car back–with a working stereo!
My sister will be in Houston July 18!!!
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Good Morning….and we all know the most important feature of a teen’s car is the stereo, right Ann? 🙂
Paul is heading to Silverton for Hardrock 100…these runners are like little kids on Christmas morning when it comes to the big race…he is still 10 on the wait list so it looks like he will be manning one of the aid stations up on the mountain…but he will be amongst “his people”…which makes him happy!
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I have the “tune” of “In Christ Alone” (I think that’s what you call it”) in my head and it won’t go away.
I’m sure some of you like the song. I don’t care for it. The words are good, but it doesn’t have a tune. It’s more of a chant. The same note at least seven times.
And it has 1724 verses.
I really don’t know. It doesn’t have a print version. It’s projected on a screen.
If you don’t have a projector and screen, you can’t sing it.
Evidently the young people like it because they seem to sing it a lot.
We had a “mixed” service. That’s how I know.
Middle GD’s husband runs the projector. Seems everyone in my family is doing something in that church. Seven year old Addison was helping the usher hand out the bulletin last Sunday.
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My daughter and company in Nicaragua saw 425 patients on Tuesday–the second highest total ever in the 12 years our church has been ministering there. The number is significant because only 8 people went this year and they only had one Peace Corps translator.
They were able to draft a teenager to translate leaving them with three total translators, my daughter’s rudimentary medical Spanish and several experienced volunteers. A good trip. They’re sight seeing today in El Castille and will travel tomorrow to the Pacific Ocean side for a weekend at a resort before returning to the states Monday.
Daughter is going straight to LA, so we won’t get to hear her stories directly from her, but it sounds like they’ve had an excellent trip–as usual.
Off to dance!
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I went over to my friend’s place to care for her cats around 6:30 a.m. since my street will soon be totally closed off for some hours while work is done on the sewer system. I still have not seen the cats except for Rocket early on. They sure know how to hide and keep quiet. Only empty food dishes and full litter boxes let me know they are okay.
Nice header photos, today. If that cat starts eating lasagne and gets fat, it will look like Garfield.
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Not too long ago there was discussion here along the lines of this article. It is long, and at the end is a good list of books for further reading.
http://www.bpnews.net/47216/mens-and-womens-roles-is-biblical-battle
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Chas: I love “In Christ Alone”. It is an attempt to return worship music to hymn-like roots. Here are the lyrics. Print them off and take them with you. (There are only 4 verses, as you can see.)
This is one of the Keith and Krytyn Getty hymns. Here is their website so you can see what/who they are. http://www.gettymusic.com/. A quote form the “About us” link-
“Keith and Kristyn Getty occupy a unique space in the world of music today as preeminent modern hymn writers. In re-inventing the traditional hymn form, they have created a catalogue of songs teaching Christian doctrine and crossing the genres of traditional, classical, folk and contemporary composition which are sung the world over.”
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I like “In Christ Alone,” we sing it quite often at our church. And I also like the ancient Christian chants. 🙂
What I don’t like are the much less substantial songs where you’re asked or prodded by ‘worship team’ leaders, if that’s what it takes (“one more time”), sing the same line over and over and over and over and over and over ….
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In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
this Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
when fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
here in the love of Christ I stand.
In Christ alone! who took on flesh
Fulness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones he came to save:
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied –
For every sin on Him was laid;
Here in the death of Christ I live.
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain:
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave he rose again!
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me,
For I am His and He is mine –
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.
No guilt in life, no fear in death,
This is the power of Christ in me;
From life’s first cry to final breath.
Jesus commands my destiny.
No power of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand;
Till He returns or calls me home,
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand.
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Well there you go, great minds think a like, eh roscuro? Guess we cross-posted there.
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Another puzzle.
If there are only four verses, why does it take ten minutes to sing it?
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Chas, do they repeat some of the verses (another annoyance of mine)? Otherwise it shouldn’t take 10 minutes, although if you’re not fond of the song it might *feel* like it to you?
At some point, “worship” became synonymous with singing, oddly, and so you have some churches that will go on and on and on with the songs, it feels like it will never end. The (short) sermon and rest of the gathering after that is almost relegated to an afterthought.
It’s why many of us came to yearn for the more historic worship patterns that offered some order and balance to all the elements, including weekly communion, that I think are rightly included in the corporate gathering of the church.
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I probably need to send Annie’s Coyote book to that cat in the header. A little knowledge about your enemy that could be lurking in the bushes never hurts …
Thinking back on Cheryl’s post about the animals in the garden and how later, due to the fall, they became fearful of us made me think of something that’s become an issue lately — feeding wildlife.
Such a fun thing to do (there’s the cutest red fox that some people feed several blocks away and I see how hard it would be to resist, what a cutey he is). But it really does mess up the whole dynamic that ultimately protects us from potential predators becoming too comfortable around us (which is not good for them, either, because then we’re all crazy with trying to trap and kill them, understandably).
I’m sure some folks feed coyotes. Then there’s all the unintentional feeding that goes on via garbage, left-out pet food, fallen fruit, bird feeders …
Not to mention the alligators.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/14/emails-asked-firefighters-to-stop-feeding-gators-near-disney.html
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I didn’t post the verses, Peter did 🙂
Chas, ‘In Christ Alone’ actually follows a classic hymn tune pattern, called A, A, B, A, with A representing one melodic line and B representing another melodic line. Many classic hymns follow this pattern, such as ‘There is a Fountain’, ‘Amazing Grace’, ‘Love Divine’ (Wesley), ‘Day by Day’, etc. The reason ‘In Christ Alone’ is a little longer is merely a matter of tempo (the speed at which it is sung) and the way most musicians play an interlude between the verses. ‘In Christ Alone’ really does not have many repeated notes in a row (I have the sheet music for it) and the melody has the sound of an Irish folktune, as many of the Getty-Townsend collaborations do. The reason it is a bit harder to sing is that the melody dips down below middle C and then rises over an octave above middle C, making the melody more than an octave in overall range. This is fine for trained singers, who can have ranges up to three octaves, but the average person in the pew has difficulty. Ideally, the tunes for congregational hymns should not have over an octave range and go no lower than middle C and no higher than the E that is an octave and two notes above middle C.
*An octave in musical terminology is any eight white notes in a row on the piano and is based on the mathematical regularity of sound vibration. The same note is repeated at every eighth note, only at a higher or lower pitch.
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Definitely, Donna, the perceived length of a song is inversely related to how much you like it.
A few years ago I was working on the Sunday morning tech crew next to a 20-something fellow. We sang “Wonderful Grace of Jesus”. Not exactly a “high church” hymn, but an oldie that I’ve loved for many years. We sang three verses and the chorus once after each verse. It couldn’t have taken more than three minutes.
My young friend wasn’t familiar with it. He complained afterward that it was very repetitive and went on forever.
A few minutes later we sang a contemporary song with which I was not familiar. I don’t remember now what it was. I did not care for it. I don’t know how long it really was, but it felt like ten minutes. I told my friend afterward I thought it was very repetitive and went on forever. We had a good laugh.
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Oh, right, Peter. I didn’t recognize him now that he’s moved into the new house I guess.
Irish folk tune … Yes, I think that also is what makes it sound appealing to me (along with the words, of course).
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For comparison, here is a contemporary arrangement of ‘There is a Fountain’, using the traditional tune. Notice the interludes that the musicians insert between the verses:
https://youtu.be/b25-LJjrGQA
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Here are the Gettys performing ‘In Christ Alone’. It is actually shorter in length than the previous clip. The only thing I do not like, is the way they modulate up to a higher key towards the end – to quote a venerable authority on organ playing in church, Harold Gleason, “Using an interlude to raise the pitch for the last stanze is unmusical and theatrical” It is indeed unmusical, as the first rule of composition is “End in the same key in which you began”:
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I’ve never heard that perspective before, Roscuro. Going up on the last verse was so common when I started attending churches (and IVCF in college) as a young adult that I’ve always thought of it as very normal. Whose first rule of composition is that?
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Kevin, ‘Wonderful Grace of Jesus’ is one of the longest hymns. It isn’t really one of my favorites for congregational singing, as nobody knows how to sing the harmony for the chorus, and the tenor line takes the melody for a large part of the chorus, while the soprano is singing a harmony line. When I play it for our church, I have to play the tenor line in the soprano to keep people singing. I think it was originally written for one of those men’s quartets. That is one of the problems with much of the contemporary church music – it was originally written for trained performers, so when a congregation goes to sing something like Chris Tomlin’s ‘Ten Thousand Reasons’ the complicated timing on it throws them completely off. I know, as I had to play ‘Ten Thousand Reasons’ as a wedding hymn, and very few people were following along enough to sing it.
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Kevin, it is one of the rules of classical composition. Now, of course, in the 20th century, even the classical composers broke, deliberately, all the rules. Raising the key for the last verse has the effect of heightening the drama, which is why many film scores use the technique at a dramatic point in a film – the score just repeats the theme in a higher key, raising the emotional tension. That is why Gleason said it was theatrical. My personal opinion that, like all dramatic devices, it should be used sparingly. Just as people get jaded after seeing too many dramatic films, so people can get jaded when all the hymns raise the last verse for dramatic effect. Also, one criticism that those who prefer traditional hymns level at the use of contemporary worship music, is that contemporary music created artificial emotion. Yet, the traditionalists don’t realize that doing things like raising the last verse of a hymn is also creating an artificial emotion.
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The reason for beginning and ending in the same key, is that, as I said, modulation creates tension, and that tension needs to be resolved. The way to resolve it is to return to the home (the key the piece starts in) key. That creates a sense of rest and resolution.
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I only had a couple of basic music classes, which were required for elementary education classes. I did have to compose a short piano piece. One of the things I did wrong was note end on the right note, according to my teacher. She changed it to end on the ‘proper’ note and asked me if that wasn’t much better. Of course, I was clueless, but said yes. I was not THAT clueless. 😀
I have since learned a lot about music simply by listening to my husband and others. I do like “In Christ Alone. We never sing it in my church, but do in each of my daughter’s churches, so I get to enjoy it then.
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I have a question for anyone who might have some input. The big craze for Pokémon has brought out the old “it is of the devil” teachings of some Christians. I know this was an issue, but I never looked into it, since I had no one interested in it way back when. Now we do, so I would appreciate any thoughts any of you have about it (if any!)
I know some churches are using the craze to their advantage.
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I really like In Christ Alone. I like the words and the music.
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😀 Huh! That was supposed to be NOT not NOTE.
Roscuro, I can hear that lack of resolution now. I could not when I had my class. Listening is so important to learning about music!
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Mumsee – Regarding our conversation on yesterday’s prayer thread: I agree that we should not make R out to be a bad guy. But what do we say when Little Guy himself says he is? If we say no, he isn’t, wouldn’t that be like disregarding his feelings?
One thing I thought of was to say, “Daddy’s not a bad man, but he did a bad thing.” Or vice versa. The only problem with that is that I feel like I would be lying, because he really is a bad dude, at least the way he is now. (Ever praying for God to get a hold of him & turn him around. What a testimony that would be!)
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When Donna joined me at church two weeks ago, I was dismayed that worship was led by a guitarist and a girl singer– and we sang the lines over and over again. I kept thinking, “What happened to the four-part harmony hymns they sang here 40 years ago?”
I could hardly stand it, frankly, and wondered if we would ever sing anything with substance.
Ah, Amazing Grace, but the newer version– which is fine, if you don’t keep repeating the verses.
At that point I knew I had become an old cranky blue haired church lady and I felt so very, very sad.
What a relief when someone told us later the pastor was on summer sabbatical and the service was not usually like that one. Sorry, Donna!
But, at least it gave me a bad attitude to confess!
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Okay, I have to admit “Wonderful Grace of Jesus” doesn’t just take three minutes. I ran through it and it takes four minutes. So if you don’t like it it probably feels like 15.
I do see how it’s difficult for congregational singing. I like the part where the tenor gets the melody because I usually try to sing tenor.
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Daughter just texted they saw 1000 patients. They’re tired but exhilarated!
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@ 10:30 I started thinking I wouldn’t like it. But I did except for the drums. Not a theological thing, but I don’t like drums in hymns.
Not the same genre, but I had a chance to hear Anita Carter after that. I agree with Johnny. The most beautiful voice I’ve heard. Her and Katherine Grayson.
I told you this before, i think, but I once asked a music professor at Southwestern Seminary why all the hymns were written in such a high pitch. He said that it started in the middle ages when all the singing was done by boys.
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Pokemon, We were in Okinawa when the Pokemon cards were being traded. We stuck with baseball cards. Some of our newer children were/are very much into anime. It has caused much trouble here. I don’t believe it belongs to Satan, but I do believe it can be, and is often, misused. Sort of like the Harry Potter stuff. Just an okay story but with a struggling mindset, can cause problems.
I was told by a prison guard that they don’t allow anime in the prison because of the strong relationship it has with child porn. The prisoners were misusing it.
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The cat’s name is Carlos. I call him Carlos Danger. Not because he looks like NY Rep. Anthony Weiner, (who used that screen name to send his inappropriate photos that led to his downfall) but because he likes to stand in the middle of the road and make cars come to a complete stop before he moves. He’s the neighborhood speed bump. 🙂
He’s a stray that one of the neighbors grabbed off the street. They neutered him, clipped his ear to identify that he is neutered, put a collar with a bell on it because he was killing neighborhood birds, and turned him lose again. He’s a good cat, friendly, and he tries to come in my house like at least twice a week. 🙂
The neighbor with the bird feeders has another name for him, but I can’t share that here. 😯 She’s not a fan. 🙂
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I started out to say that I just sing along, and drop an octave when the high notes come up.
You can tell I’m not a musician.
But I’m an expert on what I like. 🙂
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Karen, it is a tough position. We look at the character in our children and find something positive to attribute to the parents. Most of them are very kind. Some are quite artistic or mechanically minded. Others, it can be challenging to find anything but we find something.
Remember that he too is made in His image. That matters.
We also remind them that the drugs and alcohol and addictions played a big part in the parents losing their children. We don’t discuss what kind of parent gives up their children for drugs, as there but for the Grace of God, go I.
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I heard that as well, K, that Pokémon is the Japanese word for devil and that the Pokémon creatures were possessing the human character in the anime series and giving them power. Now, there could be well some truth as to the word’s origins. After all, the genie or djinn of the Arabian Nights tales is from an Arabic word for demon. Then again, fairies, sprites, elves, pixies, brownies, etc. are remnants of European animism. For example, in Iceland, there are rocks that Icelanders believe are inhabited by elves, and it is true that when people try to move these rocks, things go strangely wrong: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/25/iceland-construction-respect-elves-or-else. Having some knowledge of animistic spirit activity in West Africa, the Icelanders’ claims do not sound far fetched. There is a spirit world, we know that and the god of this world hates humans. However, the way to give such spirits power is to pay attention to them and treat them with respect. The villagers in West Africa have asked if the tubaabs (white people) are not bothered by the spirits because we don’t believe in them. Of course, we reply that no, it is Christ which gives us power – also, we did experience spiritual oppression, but not in the same way as they do. However, neither do we seek to placate the spirits the way they do, by wearing charms, and pouring out the last of the water in one’s drinking cup (reminded me of the custom of throwing salt over your shoulder for luck), and holding ceremonies before cutting down trees (reminded me of the ancient European belief in dryads), etc. I think that it was the presence of Christians which reduced once feared spirits to the level of legend and fairy tale. One cannot accidentally invite spiritual forces into one’s life simply by reading a fairy tale or playing Pokémon Go. To claim that is silly, which is the point this satirical story is making: http://babylonbee.com/news/man-accidentally-performs-yoga-pose-is-possessed-by-horde-of-demons/. Those who become possessed by such things have deliberately sought them out and given themselves over. Also, if I encountered someone, say a Christian child, who liked to play Pokémon, I would not burden them with the knowledge I have acquired. Paul, when he talked about meat offered to idols, admitted that there was demonic activity behind the idol, but also said that an idol was nothing at all, and that is how I view it. I don’t play Pokémon Go, because I haven’t the time or technology to waste on it, not because of the origins of the name Pokémon. I will however, occasionally read a fairy tale with elves or genies.
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I can see Pokemon Go leading to lots of accidents etc if people don’t get a grip.
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Michelle, I pretty much figured it was an out-of-the-norm service due to the pastor’s absence (esp having the ‘sermon’ be a personal testimony). But I was going to ask you what services were like when you were going there.
I believe the singing went on for 30 minutes and I hadn’t been in any Christian gathering that did that for a long, long time. It felt very ’80s and ’90s. 🙂
Still, always good to visit other churches from time to time.
Our church has, I believe, 4-5 hymns/songs interspersed (alone) throughout our Sunday service so there’s not a long period of singing song after song after song.
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Very handsome orange cat. I noticed the ear tip, Annie has that, too.
Annie used to wear bells on her collars but I removed them after hearing that coyotes learn to identify that sound. For them, it’s the dinner bell. 😦
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I should note, that I have relatives who are missionaries in Japan. I saw one of the family post on FB about seeing someone playing Pokémon Go, just chuckling over the phenomenon, and didn’t say anything about demonic origins. So, if missionaries who are familiar with the spiritualism of Japan (they often speak of sensing spiritual oppression) don’t see anything wrong with the game, then the connections are probably extremely remote.
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I don’t like or trust animae, see Mumsee’s post.
The game does look like fun.
Let’s see if my post will post this time:
We watched this documentary on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s trip to the Antarctic in 1914 last night on DVD. Here it is in YouTube, 90 minutes long, but very much worth watching:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyQRHHHXntc
The story is absolutely fantastic and inspiring. I’ve read the book and know the tale well, but my heart still raced during the final scenes.
This uses uses the fantastic Frank Hirley’s still photos to great effect, along with mesmerizingly glorious shorts of icebergs and the lands and seas they endured. It also has video Hurley shot, which Id never seen before. Highly recommended.
http://www.michelleule.com
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A good way to signal to the musicians and church leaders that there is too much singing is to sit down and quit singing. I have done it.
POKEMON GO; I am not doing any game that wants access to my Google Account. As far as being demonic. Remember I come from a background of Christianity that wanted me to bring a rosary to school so we could burn it and exorcise the demon that possessed it. Anything can be good or bad. It depends on the person. I would not impose demonic qualities on it although I did enjoy the FB meme yesterday with a photo of Willie Nelson that “when he was a kid if they wanted to chase imaginary creatures they got stoned like normal people”.
Grandson and his father. “Sweetheart, sometimes adults do bad things but that doesn’t make him a bad man. He needs help and there are people trying to get help for him. We love everyone, but we have to protect you and mommy.”
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My point is that forever and always grandson will be half of his father. If we say his father is bad we are saying half of him is bad. We don’t want to do that. It causes confusion (remember I have paid thousands of dollars in therapy for this information).
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Michelle and I will just have to dye our hair blue and sit down next time. 🙂
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I love “Wonderful Grace of Jesus.” I even like it that the tenor gets the melody so you hear something totally different from most hymns.
My sister used to go to a church that on fifth Sundays (meaning months with five Sundays on them, the fifth one) had a congregational lesson. They would get together and learn all the parts of a hymn they sang, so that next time they sang it in church, it wouldn’t be only the soprano part being sung. That sounded like a really nice idea!
I also really like “In Christ Alone.” It’s pretty meaningful to me, as well. My first Sunday after my mom died, I was back in my Nashville church, and a friend was sitting with me. When we got to the last stanza, it was really hard to sing. At that point, my friend put her arm around me and we both sang with tears running down our cheeks:
No guilt in life, no fear in death,
This is the power of Christ in me;
From life’s first cry to final breath,
Jesus commands my destiny.
Fast-forward three or four years. That same friend had been having abdominal pain, but without insurance she was doing the “Ignore it, and maybe it will go away” route. A doctor who was a church member finally told her that she simply had to go, and he would help pay for it. So she went to the doctor . . . to find out that her appendix had ruptured, and she landed in the hospital, where for a couple of days it wasn’t clear whether she would survive. By Sunday she was doing better and I was planning to see her in the hospital after church. But we sang this song, and at the final verse my emotions flowed again. (When I saw her an hour or two later, she told me “I could be standing before the Throne,” and I nodded. I think both of us were thinking the same thing–to depart is better for me, but if it’s God’s will for me to stay, that is good too. I’m glad God did spare her to us a few more years.)
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Kim – That’s a great way of saying it.
Knowing how children feel about their fathers, we have always sought to speak well of R, not say anything negative about him in front of Little Guy. When we would be expecting him to come pick him up, & then didn’t show up, we would tell the disappointed little boy that “something must have come up.” We pretty quickly learned to say “Daddy might be coming to pick you up today.”
Since the beginning, I have said what was said earlier, that he could turn against us some day if we denigrate his dad. I wonder if that works the other way, too – if R’s frequent denigration of 1st Daughter (& us, I presume) to Little Guy will cause him to someday resent his dad. (Not to mention what he has already seen & heard.)
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In all of this, from the time Little Guy was a baby, I have prayed for God to do a mighty work in R, to turn him into the godly man & father he should be. What a testimony that would be!
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Praying with you, Karen.
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Re: singing in church – I’ve never thought of it as merely singing. We used to be urged to “enter in” to worship, with the songs being a way to help us do that. When I am singing to praise songs or hymns at home, I often have to stop & raise my arms in worship, or begin to weep with joy & gratitude.
Re: Pokemon Go – I realize there are some people doing stupid things, not paying attention, but I’ve also read of some good things coming from it, too. Depressed people are feeling their mood lifted as they get out & walk around, as players are meeting new people, & getting more exercise. So, if they can learn to pay more attention to their surroundings, this could be a nice trend. Better than sitting & playing video games in the house.
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Thank you, Michelle (& anyone else praying). 🙂
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Karen, from personal experience I can tell you that after I was out of the house my father would say things about my mother. He would also say I was doing something just like she would. It was never good. I understand that she hurt him deeply as well as she hurt me. I finally had enough and whirled around and told him I was tired of hearing it. He CHOSE her and HE made her my mother. I (bold print and italics) didn’t have a choice in the matter. (We were like two war buddies who had survived the war that was my mother–I wouldn’t recommend just anyone speaking to him or to their parent the way I was able to speak to him).
Grandson didn’t choose R for his father. 1st Daughter did. Grandson is innocent in this whole mess. R has his faults and I am not his fan. I think I probably wouldn’t lift a finger to help him if I knew him, but he is the Little Guy’s father and the Little Guy doesn’t need to hear what the grown ups think. I also wouldn’t tell him something must have come up (more important than you) when R doesn’t show up. I would say something along the lines of “your dad tries, but sometimes he is just not able….” If the courts terminate his parental rights then I would let the therapist advise on how to handle it. THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON in this mess is the Little Guy. I don’t mean coddle or cater to him but protect him from the pain as far as you are able.
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I almost fell out of my chair when Chas posted that he had “In Christ Alone” stuck in his head this morning, because I did, too. I remember because I remember wondering how that happened, since we haven’t sung it in church for a very long time (we only sing contemporary hymns on the fifth Sundays). I figured maybe it played on the clock radio this morning before I was completely awake and it landed in my brain. I do like it (I also like “Wonderful Grace of Jesus,” especially the tenor part).
I don’t think anyone else mentioned this, but “In Christ Alone” is published in some hymnbooks and it does have music (notes). I pity those of you who worship with an overhead screen. We print the words and music in our bulletin but the music is only the melody so unless I am sure of the alto part, I always use the hymnal.
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Of course now I have “Wonderful Grace of Jesus” stuck in my head!
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Cheryl, our church did the part singing lessons one year during the SS hour. We have hymnals but also print the words (only) to what we’re singing in our bulletins each week — and now (thanks to our big remodel & despite the grumpiness over it by some of us traditionalists) we have the screens as well (words only though).
I seem to tear up a lot during the hymns. And I had the same response at that last stanza of “In Christ Alone” during Norma’s final months & after her death since we had sat next to each other in church for many years.
Of course, now we’re all humming “In Christ Alone” throughout our day, right?
Thanks Chas!
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Oh, well, except for Linda who’s now off on some different track altogether.
And singing alto, no doubt.
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I like having the words up on the screen because at our church a cross is right above–so I feel like I’m singing more to God than when I’m staring at the hymnal.
I also like to sing harmony and can find it myself, but if I don’t know the song, I always pull out the hymnal to sing the notes.
I meant to say about animae that 10 years ago, it’s what started my daughter down an ugly path that caused two years of horror for me and sent me to the counselor. She and a friend were sending each other animae stories that dealt with rape, limbs being chopped off and other horrors. I was appalled and shocked the other mother shrugged it off.
I made my daughter read through information about rape–to learn why it wasn’t something fun and games for sick Japanese animators drawing pictures of big eyes school girls in short dresses, but something horrible that happened to women.
I forced her to examine the Wounded Warrior website to see that chopping off limbs was not a healthy way to live and too many people were having to cope.
That all backfired.
She was getting up in the middle of the night to access the computer to watch the animae videos. We shut down AOL from 10 to 6 every night to stop that. It was horrible.
I never allowed Pokemon in my household, nor those wretched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Yeah, it may have been all in fun but I didn’t think my children needed to be exposed to the cynical humor of guys who dreamt it up while drinking beer and eating pizza one night and asking the question, “what is the most absurd idea we can come up with as a children’s toy?”
But that’s just me. 😦
Back to slogging away at the book. The computer troubles do not end. I’m a whining, hot, crabby mess. (But you probably knew that from my post.)
Biddy Chambers should straighten me out by the time an innocent family member comes home for dinner. 🙂
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I am still adjusting to a new computer. I cannot make my second monitor work right now.
And I ask you, who wants the SAME thing to be displayed on the second monitor? I want a different website or document on the second monitor so I can make adjustments or enter information or write contracts on the main one.
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Posted on FB by a frustrated LA resident:
So anyone I know here lives in Idaho?? Sounds like a good place to move to…
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On the Pokeman go… I came across this account from missionaries: https://www.facebook.com/notes/i-can-see-the-shore/bautista-and-pokeman/116762638389269
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Haha! When I came back to catch up on recent comments, I re-read my own to remind myself what I had written. I see I wrote, “What a testimony that would be!” in two different comments. Must have forgotten I already wrote that. 🙂
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That happens, Karen!
That happens, Karen:-)
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And speaking of coyotes …
How will L.A.’s mountain lions cross the road? It may take a $55 million bridge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/03/01/how-will-l-a-s-mountain-lions-cross-the-road-it-may-take-a-55-million-bridge/
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Only in California.
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No cost is too great.
Just back in the office from interviewing French nationals gathered at a local French restaurant that was throwing a Bastille Day bash tonight with free champagne. Everyone seemed a little shell-shocked. 😦
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Interesting, Yapa.
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