34 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-24-16”

  2. Though there are more threads, it still doesn’t take as long to catch up on the weekend.
    Less chatter on Sunday afternoon/night.
    Off to breakfast.
    Good morning Aj.
    Good evening Jo.

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  3. Morning all. Just finished the last bit of the book order! Whew. I just placed an order of 1,110 Aud that was all teacher credit from the $5550 cash order. I used up every penney of our credit. Actually each teacher gave me their credit order. I did order a couple of surprises for two teachers that I just heard mention something they would like. Also I did not tell my aide that I was ordering a book for each of her children and for my friend who is a teller at the store. Now we just have to wait and see how long it takes to arrive. Hopefully in 3 or 4 weeks.
    I even finished the transfers, which is how most folks her paid. It is on someone’s credit card and then I had to reimburse them by transferring from each person’s account into their account. Are you beginning to understand why it took so long???

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  5. Who won the football pool?
    I see on Yahoo that South Carolina fans created a world’s record by making the longest towel chain during the Massachusetts game. Those towels you see waved on TV. I wonder how they organized that?

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  6. I spent the night in the hospital with Karen. In a bit they will take her for her procedure. It is an interesting time to be in the hospital. Because my parents and Art’s parents were in hospitals all around the Atlanta vicinity we have seen many hospitals. This one is really good. I am glad Karen is getting such good care.

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  8. I woke up to the sound of the street sweeper about half an hour ago. I can still hear it wandering the neighborhood.

    I find it interesting they decided to clean the relatively clean streets the day it’s supposed to rain. I’m sure they’re on a schedule, but everything should be clean and neat by tomorrow morning!

    Finally, a day home to just work. First one in several weeks.

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  9. they don’t clean our streets in my section of the city for some reason.

    But we’ve had thunder and lightning all through the morning, meaning I’ve had a border collie on my head since then.

    Well, she’s off now but crowded into the bathroom with me as I showered and is generally now my unshakable shadow. Poor Tess.

    The rain has been light but steady, and we’re not unhappy about any rain we get. This was kind of a bonus as it hadn’t been in any of my phone forecasts that I saw yesterday (well, it did say 50% chance in the mid afternoon only).

    It’s saying we’ll get rain again on Friday.

    Tess and I will go into the kitchen so I can get some coffee now.

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  10. Good Morning…it is a beautiful day and I am hoping some of the CA rain makes it to CO…however I see none in the forecast….
    I have an entire day to stay home and hopefully accomplish tasks needing to be taken care of around here…this past week has been way too busy and I need to sit on my front porch and read…and relax…and breathe!! 🙂

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  11. Our sermons are continuing in Romans (interesting as we’ll hit Rom. 13 (on the role of civil government) in the next week or two).

    Yesterday we were in Rom. 12:17-18, one of my favorite passages.

    Things I jotted down:

    Do we have a spirit of retribution/retaliation? (think about in the small things)

    Paul speaks of having a disposition of living at peace with all men ‘so far as it depends on us’ — Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good

    We may say “but I’m the victim” – not the perpetrator

    But:

    1. We’re all perpetrators – when others fall short at our expense, we are to acknowledge our own sin and the depth of it and extend grace. We all have the ability (tendency?) to think more highly of ourselves than we ought.

    2. We are called to imitate Jesus when we are offended. (1 Peter 2:21-23) Have we been insulted or slandered or falsely accused? (The truth about us is much worse)

    3. The evil that comes our way is part of God’s sovereignty. The Apostle Paul’s thorn in the flesh was perceived by him as a means of humility. If we are in Christ, even our worst days will be cause for praise in heaven.

    There should be a sweetness, a contentment in our lives — that should be the “aroma” for others.

    While we are to be at peace so long as it depends on us. the Christian will be at odds with the world and we should not shirk that call. Too many now are calling evil good in order to be liked, popular, accepted in our culture.

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  12. Re: retribution or retaliation (or vengeance) – I can honestly say that my desire for Mr X to “do some time” for what he did to Nightingale (& Little Guy as a witness) is not from a wish for vengeance. It comes from a desire for justice, yes, & for him to learn a lesson, to realize he cannot get away with, or schmooze his way out of, everything. (He has gotten away with a lot, such as a second DUI that was treated as a first offense because it was over the border in Massachusetts, & he’s had another couple arrests for other things, but he got off easy on those.) I truly believe that if he gets off, or only receives a slap on the hand, he will end up being more dangerous.

    On to something funny. . .Nightingale had left her tent up for much of the summer. Hubby has been asking her to take it down, but she hadn’t gotten around to it yet. (She intended to, but other things would come up.)

    Yesterday we had very strong winds, & the tent eventually was loosened from its moorings (wrong word?) & blew over the neighbors’ tall wood fence into their yard. 🙂

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  13. How would you describe political correctness to someone who thinks it really only means being respectful & kind to people who are different from you? (And thus, people who rail against it are “really” saying they just want to be offensive & unkind by saying racist or sexist things without getting into any trouble with anyone.)

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  14. Our pastor said a desire to retaliate hasn’t been one of the things he’s struggled with a lot, but said once when someone said something false about one of his kids (and treated them badly), he was gathering the weapons — a letter, maybe a lawsuit … 🙂

    He mentioned road rage and other situations that so often grab us in the heat of the moment.

    But the other day, someone on a FB thread (re the homeless issue in our town — I’d posted a past story that I thought would help clarify the discussion, nothing more), someone lashed out at me, saying she was (in caps) APPALLED that I would post that story which was FALSE yadayadayada 🙂 She went on to say that my ‘twisted stories’ had even divided some churches in town back in the 1980s.

    I covered religion in the 1990s and did quite a few (mostly pretty positive) stories about several churches, though sometimes tough issues had to be written about (like when an interim pastor at the mainline Presby church spoke against homosexuality at the funeral of a young man who had grown up in the church and died of AIDS — probably not the right time or place and it left friends and family shaken and outraged; and my subsequent story interviewing the incoming permanent pastor of that same church shortly afterward and having to broach the subject of his views on homosexuality, which he ducked as I recall; and on a pastor who was accused by one of his daughters of molesting her years earlier).

    Tough stories.

    But if anyone could have approached these stories more sensitively (and with more actual background on the issues as they were playing out in the faith) I don’t know who at that time it would have been.

    This person who was accusing me is a Christian and is a homeless advocate, I’ve picked up a very prickly personality from her in the past but last time I saw her — at a conference unveiling new homeless #s from the county — we walked together for a while and we both were friendly enough with each other. She doesn’t know me, really.

    Anyway, I was able to let it go (thank you God), it somehow didn’t bother me much as it was so out of left field and I knew my stories were fair and accurate. I ducked out of the thread at that point and I noticed later that no one “liked” her comments and that she did get some blowback for it from others.

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  15. Well Kizzie, I would say that political correctness would be the opposite of “calling a spade a spade” but that isn’t PC. I guess you say that it is being so overly conscious of not trying to offend anyone that you can’t say anything at all.
    I mean look at all the things you guys say about Southerners an how thin skinned I am about it. Political correctness could mean being so open minded your brains fall out, or it could be being so unoffensive that you never have really stood for anything. But, see I am using stereotypes and cliches so my words are ineffective.
    Personally I would rather people just say what they mean and I can make my own judgement on how to take it. At least that way you would know what you were dealing with, rather than someone “paying lip service” and you dealing with a “wolf in sheeps clothing”.

    Political Correctness is the art of going through life never offending anyone.

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  16. On political correctness, I remember when we used to get some really crazy comments on our stories online (it was when we first started allowing reader comments and some of them were doozies), what upset most of my liberal colleagues most were comments that in any way were deemed (by them) as “racist.”

    For me, it was the comments that personally attacked people who had been quoted — not for their views, but more personal things.

    If comments were “racist” (but didn’t use bad language or were otherwise completely out of line and offensive), my view was let them stand. But my colleagues said even comments that hinted of racism (many of these cases had to do with stories on immigration) had to immediately come down. That was the topic one didn’t dare cross the line one.

    Free speech means there will be offensive speech. That’s kind of the point of having that standard.

    I should always be respectful in my own speech, but I’m not going to try to censor someone else’s comments that I feel are offensive (against anything, including my faith).

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  17. And yes, as Kim pointed out, I’ve often heard “things” said about the south by these same reporters who are horrified at any perceived negative comment against immigrants.

    I’m all for a call to civility in speech, that would be a good thing all around. But we’re also a country where we are free to let it fly, as it were, and I hate seeing the liberal movement that is trying to (one-sidedly) “control” what other people can and do say.

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  18. There’s still a snide condescension among some people when it comes to what has long been called ‘fly-over” country in the U.S. It irks me to no end. I know some people who have only been to both coasts and nowhere in between — something that probably fosters that kind of attitude.

    Go Iowa.

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  20. I would much rather hear some political incorrectness that hear all the cursing that is on these days. I am convinced some of these shows add bleeps that shouldn’t even be there to make you think there was cursing.

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  21. Now, the weekend. Mrs L and I took a long drive South to Springfield, MO for a wedding, staying with friends in Sedalia, MO on the way to and from. It’s like 400 miles to the opposite end on Missouri, and Sedalia is only 110 miles form there. Anyway, it was a lovely wedding. We’ve known the groom since he was 4 years old, but only met the bride a couple of years ago. For the ladies: it was a fall themed wedding, with autumn leaves and gourds decorating the church. We threw lavender buds at them as they left.

    The message at the wedding was good. The pastor pointed out that a Christian wedding is not one at a church, or with a pastor performing the service. It is one that is based on Jesus Christ as the center of the relationship.

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  22. Miss Bosley wants cuddle time.

    Art and I stopped at the famous Varsity for lunch. It is right around the corner from the hospital, in the vicinity of Georgia Tech. No one was there since it was before 11:00 a.m. We had never been when it wasn’t crowded. So now we know to go there for brunch. One of the workers said it was a zoo on Saturday with such long lines because of the Duke/GA Tech game.

    The temp in our house is down to 59. A warm cat is welcome company.

    I hope to hear good news about Karen’s cardioversion. It was good I stayed overnight. Her husband got stuck in traffic this a.m. and had to backtrack and find another route in. I glad he got there for the procedure. I did feel badly sitting at the Varslty having onion rings, slaw dog, and chili steakburger which Karen was in for her procedure that will leave her in pain, but will correct her rhythm hopefully.

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  26. Political correctness is stepping out of the race if a habit of corruption is the norm for a candidate. That of course would be legitimate political correctness. I think of “political correctness” more like illegitimate political correctness, trying to give the appearance of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

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  29. Almost five hours!
    I killed the thread !
    I was off to a Lion’s meeting. we took the ladies tonight. Women can be Lions, but we don’t have any. We had our wives tonight.

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  31. Didn’t they used to have “Lady Lions” as a separate club?

    Got word today that the bathroom window will be ready by 11/11 (a friday), so ready for installation that day or the week after that.

    That means we finally have a (rough) time line we can work with, so I’m hoping the workers can begin the bathroom work around that time. It’s all cutting terribly close to Thanksgiving. There goes that dinner party of 20 I usually host (cough, cough).

    At this point, if the workers are ready, I’m ready, the sooner the better.

    Meanwhile, there’s lots of angst at work over our 2017 medical benefit plan which isn’t so appealing (in other words, more $$ for us). So I need to weigh going full on into Medicare (I’m officially qualified with this next birthday in November) or ??

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  32. Oh, and Carol calls today to declare she’s made a personal goal for herself — to live until 2041. She’ll be in her 90s. Said the number just came to her.

    I said, “Ok.” 🙂

    I just don’t want to outlive my money or the house repairs I’m making at this point.

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