33 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-2-16”

  1. It’s Friday!
    You know what that means?
    Not much. It’s a messy day in Greensboro. But we aren’t having the trouble with the hurricane.
    I put mu comments about last night’s game on the Football thread. I figured no one here would be interested.

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  2. Fridays don’t mean much for me in Greensboro.
    Today starts the Big Apple Festival in Hendersonville and the Lions are preparing for a breakfast and parking lot fund raiser. Busy day for them.

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  3. Good morning, Chas.

    Purr buddy is having her morning cuddle. I got to read my Bible, but not my devotional yet. Miss Bosley nuzzles in between my face and my reading material and that makes it near impossible to read.

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  5. Very pretty flower, AJ! Nice for a Friday treat.

    Art and I saw Social Network last night. It was about the founder and the startup of Facebook. I feel the movie delivered on the subject, but it was disturbing to get the background and see the deception, betrayals, and general lack of morals that created this very successful virtual social club. I was reminded of why I never wanted to join Facebook, even though now I see how well it works for business promotion. I did not know it all started at Harvard. It is worth seeing to better understand an important part of many people’s lives today. But it’s not a movie I would want to watch again simply because it shows the negative side of humans without any balancing with good, and God does not play any role in the movie. It does portray the pitfalls of living life without seeking God’s wisdom.

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  7. The intervention has been cancelled for today. The “team” met last night and we decided to go a different direction. She is avoiding us, but has a court date coming up soon for breaking and entering, assault (it amazed me to hear that she beat up two grown men- but an angry violent person can do a lot and men have been trained not to fight back). She has lost custody temporarily of her youngest child. The boyfriend and her ex-husband will be in court to confront her. The interventionist will be writing a letter to the court that instead of jail time she be given the opportunity for enforced treatment.
    The thing that hit me the most is that she was sexually abused by a step-father and didn’t tell until she was 18. She told me she finally told to protect her younger (by 6 years) sister. It turns out that wasn’t what made her finally tell, but that is a different story. She has led a very promiscuous life of which I never knew. She has a 6 yr old daughter who has either witnessed some things she shouldn’t have or had some things done to her that shouldn’t have been done. That hit me hardest last night. I freely admit to not being the world’s best mother but I was absolutely insane about ever leaving my child with any man that wasn’t wasn’t her father. It just didn’t happen. When I left her with my dad and stepmother it was with strict instructions that she never be out of Papa’s eyesight. For a mother who had been sexually abused herself to allow this to happen to her own daughter is beyond my comprehension.
    Today I am disappointed in myself that I was not a good judge of character and allowed an addict to bamboozle me. I will now do everything I can do to protect a little girl who is only 6, even if it means turning my back on her mother or getting outside of my comfort to confront her mother and get her help.

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  8. Sounds like a lot of problems, Kim, and I’m glad the intervention was canceled.

    Got the trash out & I’m waiting again for the handyman company, story of my life.

    And I have three stories to write today for the long weekend, we’re all under the gun to feed the beast of 4 days’ worth of blank local news pages to fill. Lots of photo assignments are in, too, though, so that’ll help.

    Janice, I saw that movie with my cousin when it came out in the theaters a few years ago, pretty interesting back story — although I recall that there were even more disputes between the original partners (of course) over the film’s accuracy and who was (unfairly!) made to look worse than the other guy. Messy.

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  9. I am back from a fantastic trip to one of my favorite places seeing some of my favorite friends. On my way to work now, a mountain of laundry awaiting me, a skit to perform in 13 hours, and that author questionaire still requiring plenty of attention (I’m choosing to take the granted extension over the weekend to get it right, but the perfectionist is itching to send it in today, the original due date.).

    Oh, and the new memory hasn’t arrived for the lobotomized computer and so I’m limping along–okay at the moment–on it but with the alpha computer guy back in the house there’s hope . . . 🙂

    Later

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  11. So heartbreaking, Kim. I pray she will finally get the help she is resisting and so desperately needs. So many sad situations like this. I am glad we have a hope bigger than it all.

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  12. Along the lines of “don’t arouse love before its time” and don’t harm the children, the sexualization of children has many longterm affects. Lying, anger, promiscuity, are only the tip of the iceberg. A victim of child abuse often has little problem putting her child into the same situation. Maybe not intentionally, but due to the broken thinking process she has.

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  14. So the above situation has caused me to turn inward and reflect this morning. There is a concept in psychology called “learned helplessness”. While the strict definition doesn’t apply to the Young Woman I can see it in her mother who set this whole thing in action. She has worked for many years in ministry and part of that time in children’s ministry. So if she saw and knew some of the things that were happening why hasn’t she taken any steps to rectify it? She has been married multiple times to 1. an alcoholic, 2. a child molester, and 3. currently married to a drug addict who is in treatment. Could the daughter be repeating the patterns of the mother? Yet, the mother comes across as utterly powerless to fix any of these situations and has drawn another woman and me into this tornado of trying to help the Young Woman. Bottom line is the Mother wants us to DO this FOR her.
    So, if I borrow words from Michelle and “turn the prism” I have to look at myself. Where have I learned to be helpless? Where do I try to manipulate people into doing for me what I should be doing? (I was told once by a therapist in an alcohol treatment facility that I was a master manipulator. Since I was 17 I have been trying to prove him wrong). My father used to laughingly tell me I was a con artist. When I would spot someone else’s manipulations he would tell me that “you can’t out con a con”. Part of what bothers me is that with Young Woman is that she has conned me. Part of me wants to be angry with myself that I bought what she was selling and didn’t see through her. The other part realizes that it would be a pretty cynical life if I lived on high alert and expected everyone to be manipulative.

    Thank you for letting me work through this with you.

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  15. Handyman showed up, said he couldn’t do the windows (unless I want to just replace them with vinyl frames & trim, which I’m really trying to avoid).

    Bathroom estimate will be emailed.

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  16. Kim, you can be a lot of help if you work with this as an outsider.
    What I mean is that you shouldn’t get emotionally involved. Even with the child. She needs someone who thinks with her mind rather than the heart.

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  17. That’s the problem Chas. The daughter of an alcoholic identifies with a little girl who doesn’t yet know she is the daughter of an addict. She just knows some things have happened that she doesn’t understand. It might be time for me to step away for a bit.

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  18. … and on a lighter note since I have dominated the thread today…
    Yesterday I posted a link to The Pioneer Woman’s Italian Pot Roast. I wasn’t really sure about putting artichoke hearts in a pot roast, but I did it anyway. I am happy to tell you that it was really, really good. Mr P liked it too which prompted me to tell him how lucky he was to be married to me. 😉 You have to keep a man like him on his toes you know.

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  19. Kim – I showed Nightingale that photo you shared on Facebook, of you & Amos.

    “She’s pretty,” Nightingale said.

    “Yeah, but she doesn’t know it,” I replied.

    🙂

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  22. A $1500 cat???????????????????
    We got all ours free.
    Same for the dogs.
    Chuck pays money for his.
    His kids do too.
    I’m sorry I didn’t raise them better.
    But that happens.

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  23. Was this what Rkessler was referring to yesterday?

    http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-couple-3-children-perish-in-fiery-crash-on-way-to-missionary-training-169006/

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    A beloved Christian couple from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who were preparing to move to Japan for long-term missionary work, perished with their three children in a fiery crash in Nebraska on their way to finish missionary training in Colorado.

    Nebraska State Patrol confirmed in a Fox 9 report in August that Jamison and Kathryne Pals, both 29, and their three children, Ezra, 3, Violet, 23 months, and Calvin just 2 months old, all died in the multiple vehicle crash involving a semitrailer on westbound I-80 near Brule in Nebraska.

    The Omaha World-Herald reported at about 11:30 a.m. on July 31 that the semitrailer truck driven by Tony Weekly Jr., 53, hit the back of the Pals’ westbound 2007 Dodge minivan and the collision pushed the semi and van into three other westbound vehicles. Another victim, identified as Terry Sullivan, 56, also died as a result of injuries suffered in the crash. …
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  24. Sorry that the link did not work. It was a video of a man riding a motorcycle with a black and white cat plastered to his back going along for the ride. That cat and man must have double times nine lives!

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  26. Fifteen year old showed up in several classes with slightly worn supplies, not from the office or teachers. The mystery continues. Nobody knows where he is getting them. Did some good Samaritan give them to him? Is some small child crying to his mommy that a mean kid stole his books on the bus? Will we ever know?

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  27. Late this afternoon as I was once again working on my guest blog post on prayer, I heard a big crashing sound as part of a tree fell. It was what I had previously wanted to get cut down. It seemed a miracle that it did not bust through a window. Of course, I can’t see that part of the roof where it may have hit. Two things it definitely hit were a cherry tree which it broke the top out of, and the neighbor’s wooden fence which has a section without fence now. These are the neighbors we don’t know, of course.

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  28. Standing firm. That is what you and Mike are doing. I often pray for endurance for you and that you will continue to stand firm. That phrase is often used in scripture. Now it seems to leap off the page when I read it.

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