65 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-2-16”

  1. Good early morning! I awakened at 4:30….just couldn’t sleep anymore…..guess I’ve had a lot on my mind lately…. I fall asleep fine, but keep waking up extremely early……

    Had a frustrating conversation with one of my brothers yesterday….He’s not a believer–and he told me my hope that mom stays off the bourbon is a sickness in itself and I need more therapy…..Fortunately, after our conversation, I spoke with a dear friend who reminded me where my hope comes from (she gave her heart to Jesus at age seven and has never looked back).

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  2. Good morning Ann and Aj.
    Good evening Jo.
    It is not a sickness to want someone to stay sober. I don’t know where that comes from.
    But I never had hat problem, so I can’t advise.

    Nothing significant about Wednesday, Nov. 2 that I know of.
    Except it’s unusually warm, 57degrees, for this time of year.

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  3. Ann,

    As the son of an alcoholic who finally quit late in life, let me just say this.

    You’re brother is wrong. It’s never wrong to show compassion and hope for the best, especially where your parents are concerned. You don’t need therapy for that. You’re not sick, and your heart is in the right place. What you need, and your brother didn’t give, is a little reassurance, compassion, and understanding. He’s the one that could use some help with his attitude, your’s is fine. Keep hoping and praying for your Mom, and your brother too, because that is always the right thing to do. You’re good to go. 🙂

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  7. It ussta be, in all my life before, I would look at my hair and say, “Charlie, you’re going to need a haircut soon.” And sometime later, I would decide to go to the barbershop and sit down and wait for a barber.
    Here, I say, “It’s almost time for a haircut” and make an appointment. Then a haircut becomes an event. I have an event at 10::00. Still strange.
    But I like the fact that I have never had to wait over five minutes.
    Elvera always made appointments to have her hair done. Women do different things with their hair.
    But it’s still strange, all my life I just needed to “show up” Now, I need to be there.
    So? Lemme get ready and go.
    .

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  9. Well,after the Cubs eked out a stay-alive win in game 5 (3-2) and roared through a decisive win in game 6 (9-3), tonight’s Cubs/Indians game is the game of the century. Cubs haven’t won the World Series since 1908, Indians since 1948, and one of them will win it tonight!

    If the Cubs win it all, it will be the first time in 108 years. And if they win it, each team will have one just one game “at home” in this matchup of best of seven. 🙂 Indians saved their strongest pitchers for tonight to make sure they win, but they’ve used their pitchers heavily since two of their main pitchers are injured. Tentatively I say advantage Cubs, but I’m definitely rooting for the Cubs!

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  12. I have no opinion about baseball, except for rooting for the team that won the year Biddy visited America and fell in love . . . 🙂

    (I did follow the final inning on Twitter last night.)

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  13. My brothers dismissed the efficacy of prayer, too, Ann. Well, maybe they felt a little guilty about saying it, but they had to “do something,” and while OC tells us “prayer is the greater work,” they didn’t feel that way.

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  15. Praying Ann. And what everyone else said.

    I had so many vivid dreams last night and woke up a little later than usual, feeling despair about the house and bathroom that I think might not now get done until 2017. (Seriously.)

    If I’d known then what I know now I would have tried to hire someone to help move this along faster. But it’s too late for that now. Oh well, just have to adjust to living with all this through the holidays most likely. Defeated.

    Today I’m working on an election roundup for one of our more closely watched local races, then will stop at Home Depot on the way home to look at moldings to try to make the final decision on what (I think) is the final piece I need — but then ordering & getting it all will take a few weeks from the sounds of it. Sigh.

    At least I got the Jeep serviced yesterday — and another bunch of stuff picked up by the Salvation Army, so that’s done. Onward.

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  18. Home from the hospital. The effect of prayer is quite evident in my friend’s dire situation. It calms her and takes away horrible anxiety and fretting with tears. She is able to sleep through the power of God’s presence felt in prayer. It is a beautiful thing to witness.

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  19. I keep forgetting to take my hairbrush to the hospital. The recliner hair is not quite as bad as bed head because there are not as many ways you can turn in your sleep.

    Karen is not having a procedure yet. They are waiting to get more fluid out of her body.

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  20. Roadtrip !

    http://www.inspiremore.com/the-ultimate-us-road-trip/

    “Discovery News partnered with Randy Olson, a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University, to plan the perfect American road trip. This route takes you across the continental US and lets you stop at all the famous landmarks in each and every state.

    “If you actually plan to execute the trip, you should budget 13,699 miles of driving — or about 224 hours. …”

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  23. The reporter says this route “lets you stop at all the famous landmarks in each and every state.” I hope that’s the reporter’s ignorance and not that of the person who created the route. It comes nowhere near all of them. I’d have to take a few side trips to pick up famous places I want to go. I couldn’t possibly bypass Seattle.

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  27. I think I’ll run a commercial that starts, “This is Charlie S., former Republican candidate for president.”
    Yes I was. Remember in 2008 I proved that I was more qualified than Obama, and decided to run for president.
    “But you didn’t get any votes”, you say.
    Maybe so, but I probably got more than Ron Paul.

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  28. The telephone situation at the hospital was interesting. Late last night, maybe around 1 a.m. Karen and her husband were trying to be in touch. His cell phone did not ring or indicate a call from her. It went directly to voice mail. That was very distressing. When I was praying with Karen her husband called so the prayer ended abruptly. I never got back to that. They have a land line so that was how he knew she called or else he was just calling to check on her. The point is undue stress was added by cell phone shenanigans. Then this a.m. when he arrived I started calling Art to come pick me up. My calls went straight to his voice mail. We were not going to connect so I called neighbor’s and the church and pastor and someone from my church. Everything was going to voice mail. Finally Art’s pastor called me and I told her I was trying to be in touch with Art so he could pick me up. The church is only five minutes away so she dropped by to let Art know. He called on his phone and had no indication I had called. Something really fishy is going on with all that stress provoking nonsense.

    I saw a post on Facebook from Karen’s sister,who is in town from FL, that they will try another conversion, and if not successful they will consider a pacemaker.

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  29. You know if is dangerous when I go “youtubing”. A few weeks ago I posted Little Jimmy Brown. I went back today to listen to it. The Browns also recorded Down in the Valley. Every version I have found before didn’t sound the way I learned to sing it. This version does so you must suffer. Truthfully I do not sound as good as they do.

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  30. I’ve had similar problems with my phone, Janice– with my husband standing next to me and calling then going directly to voice mail. My phone never rang.

    (Ironically, we were on our way and then at Stanford hospital).

    He looked at my settings and somehow I had turned off roving.

    But it had picked up a call and hour before . . . Very odd, particularly in the heart of Silicon Valley. 😦

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  31. Things that make you go Hmmmm

    Scientists confirm a structural similarity found in both human cells and neutron stars

    http://phys.org/news/2016-11-scientists-similarity-human-cells-neutron.html

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    … “That similar phases of matter emerge in biological systems was very surprising to me,” said Savage, a professor at the University of Washington. “There is clearly something interesting here.”

    Co-author Horowitz agreed. “Seeing very similar shapes in such strikingly different systems suggests that the energy of a system may depend on its shape in a simple and universal way,” he said.

    Huber noted that these similarities are still rather mysterious. “Our paper is not the end of something,” he said. “It’s really the beginning of looking at these two models.”
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  33. West Baden Springs Hotel? That’s all he could come up with for Indiana? (For the record, neither of us has ever heard of it.) I guess it was just “Indiana doesn’t have anything, so what’s on the route we’re traveling.” To which I’d say we actually do have some stuff worth seeing (including the Indianapolis 500) . . . but it’s fine with us if the whole country doesn’t know about them.

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  34. I am convinced that our phones, as our computers and emails, have been bugged. Not that kind but the irritating “we never know when they will cooperate and when they will act on their own” type. I sent an email to the superintendent yesterday but he never got it and it has not been sent from my computer. Yet other times, people hear from me when I have not sent them anything. Sometimes the phone messages get through, sometimes they don’t. It is dangerous to depend on them, yet we do.

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  38. We have 2 landmarks to see in California, according to that list:

    48. San Francisco Cable Cars, CA

    49. San Andreas Fault, CA

    Someday, my 1923 bathroom will be added.

    But not this year.

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  39. Hello everyone. Well-said sentiments expressed to Ann — beautiful. You and your family continue to be in my prayers, Ann.

    I enjoyed the road trip link. I’m not super close to any of the landmarks, but if anyone tries it, I’m less than an hour from one point along the road. 🙂

    Feeling much better today, in fact, totally back to normal. Thank you again for your prayers, kind friends.

    Piano lesson day today. I am grateful for the opportunity to teach the two students I have — my youngest daughter, and the high-school student who studies piano & composition with me. They challenge me and keep me creative as I explore ways to meet their unique musical needs.

    I’ve been praying for more students to help bring in some extra funds and take some pressure off my husband, who works many hours. And now, with 1st Arrow moving out, we won’t be getting rent money from him anymore.

    Maybe we could rent out a room to a college student or something. But probably not. We really need to get our younger son into his own room, since he sleeps in the living room now. His older brother’s soon-to-be vacated room would be just the thing for him.

    Lots of transitions. It will be interesting to see how God orchestrates it all.

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  40. So, everyone, are you a read-one-book-at-a-time kind of person, or one who has several going at once?

    I am the latter, and have five books checked out of the library at this time. On the bottom shelf of the table next to my bed:

    How English Became English: A Short History of a Global Language, by Simon Horobin

    The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds that Make a Business Great, by Joel Peterson

    Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy, by Leslie Vernick

    Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World, by Dr. Kelly Starrett

    The Whimsical Home: Interior Design with Thrift Store Finds, Flea Market Gems, and Recycled Goods, by Sania Hedengren & Susanna Zacke

    Maybe I’ll report on some or all of them after I get further into the books, or finish them. I’ve started them all, but am not very far in any of them except for The 10 Laws of Trust, in which I’ve finished 8 of the 10 laws, and the book has quite short chapters. A good read so far, and applicable beyond the corporate world.

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  41. No you wouldn’t Janice. My joke is that I have had more than one husband tell me not to sing. The first turned the radio down and told me he had been meaning to tell me not to do that. The second one asked me who sang a particular song. I told him the name of the band. He said how about we let them sing it.

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  44. That is scary Donna…can you imagine?!! I’m thinking ya’ll need to reign in those critters soon!
    I have been in a tizzy today…stressed….sis in law and her husband will be coming for a visit the Sat before Thanksgiving…they will stay until the Tues before the holiday…the next day, Wed, I was informed my daughter and her family of four will be coming for Thanksgiving and will stay until the following Tuesday…my daughter and her family of 5 who live in the Springs will be here for Thanksgiving as well….I have to work the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving….the Sunday after Thanksgiving we are having our small group from church over for our monthly get together dinner….oh and did I mention we have to drive to DIA to pick up and return sis in law and we have to do the same for daughter and her family….I am feeling a tad bit overwhelmed…it will all be ok…but for now, I just want to run away…….

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  45. Nancy, is there some reason you can’t tell all those people that you can’t accommodate such a crowd?
    We’ve had that many people,, but they come and go.
    “Go” an important part of it.

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  46. I have seen five of the places on the list or maybe six if it could be counted in the distance.

    I’ve just had a little cry session about Karen, telling God over and over that I just want her to get well. I will call later and see how she is faring. They are moving her to CCU while they try a new medicine.

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  47. Daughter (lives in CA) had said they wanted to come but could not due to the price of airline tickets…meanwhile, sister in law (lives in FL) called and said they were coming to visit for 4 days before Thanksgiving. Daughter called today telling us she found airline tickets and is now coming the day after her Aunt leaves and daughter and family plan to stay for six days….tickets are purchased by all and I cannot tell them the cannot come. Neither party want to rent a car…all totaled that will be 8 hours of driving to and from Denver during that week alone….I love them all and really want to see them…just not all at once!!! 🙂 And yes…as my dear father in law once told me with a huge smile upon his face…”it’s great to see you all come….and it’s greater still to see you go!!”

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  49. That’s a lot of people for a lot of days, NancyJill. I’m not sure how my introverted self would handle that. I’ll be praying for you! May many blessings come of it all.

    Janice, my husband has cell phone trouble, too. It doesn’t always ring when someone calls. He also, for some reason, has trouble reaching us at home, too, on occasion. From his end, it sounds like the phone is ringing us up at home, but the phone doesn’t ring here, or show up on our caller ID that he tried to call us. That only happens once in a while, and we never know why.

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  51. Seventh game of the World Series just ended the ninth inning, tied 6-6. This is the made-for-TV version of the two games with the longest wait for a World Series win. Cubs had game one, then Indians games 2-4, then Cubs 5 and 6. Game 7 goes into extra innings.

    Go Cubs. Please?

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  54. That’s some game. Last I saw of it before leaving work it was 2-1. I got swallowed up into the giant Home Depot millery aisle after that and forgot all about the game.

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  60. NancyJill, Can you set aside the feeding and cleaning chores and just enjoy them? Simple meals for a crowd like that are fine. They are probably coming to see you, not overtax you. Stick to your regular bed time and get up time, let them have cereal for breakfast and let them put their dishes in the dishwasher. It may not be done just your way, but it will be done and you will have more time to enjoy them.

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  61. I did not stay up to watch the game. I got up to see if fifteen year old had gotten home yet. He has not. I suspect he is not planning to either.

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  62. Well, glad I was up. As I was typing that, I heard somebody trying the back door. Nobody there now but I also discovered ten year old was having a struggle with his asthma. So many things to get done at two o clock in the morning. No wonder I prefer to not be up now.

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  64. Yeah, you’re right about who won first. I was mostly just thinking about the fact that each team only won one game at home (which would have been Cleveland’s first home game and the Cubs’ final home game) and that the Cubs had three must-win games in a row (and extra innings on the last one) and managed to be the underdog that finally, finally won!

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