38 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-6-17”

  3. Good morning. I was at the office all day yesterday. I have a meeting this morning and must get ready…still without the shower drain working. Calmly remembering this is a small thing in the grand scheme. I hear my neighbor guy outside with a horrible hacking cough. At least I got a small but of writing done for my critique group. I hope you all have a good day!

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  5. Good morning.
    I just posted on the prayer thread–but am also posting here as the request is time sensitive. Lindsey needs to raise her score on the SAT by 60 points for admittance to her first choice college….please pray she’s able to do that today (test began at 8:00 and goes to 12:00). Thanks!

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  6. I have a phone call coming sometime this morning about another job. I am cautiously optimistic. I don’t know the details yet, but it is someone I have worked with in the past and she has told me that if everything comes together she wants me.

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  7. I think I slept really, really well last night. My husband went to bed about 10:00 and I wasn’t sure I could sleep but I had finished my tasks and figured I might as well try. I’d read about a mental trick that you can help your mind wind down to sleep by choosing a four-letter word (DUCK, for example) and thinking of as many words as you can that start with the first letter, then moving on to the second, and so forth. I read that you might not even get to the second, but I got to the second and had several words for it, and thought, “With my luck, I’ll get all the way through and still won’t be asleep.” But that’s the last thing I remember thinking except for one dream until I was lying in bed awake this morning after 8:00.

    So that trick might be something some of the rest of you will want to try. My sleep was iffy or really bad for several days and then I had a night with melatonin (which was a good night, not great but good), and then one or two other nights that were OK, and then last night, my best sleep in months.

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  8. I’m crowing because I got 9 hours, which is the best I’ve slept in months. I’ll keep the duck in mind . . . 🙂

    I guess my question is for DJ. The fifth friend in the last two months has lost an elderly pet. Is this an epidemic? Pets die all the time and maybe I’m sensitive because three close to me have gone in this time frame, but I’m surprised.

    Full day today with a possible Adorable baseball game. I try to attend one sporting event each season because, frankly, I don’t like to watch kid sporting events. The best part is chatting with those around me while I watch.

    My daughter didn’t like it when I did that, but I like to remind her I was there.

    I also get to replant my garden–the one that was devoured by snails and slugs. In one case, they mowed down the peas as they inched from their seed. Awful.

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  9. My neighbors hav 5 grandkids now and whenever their car is gone all day Saturday I know they likely are doing the round of games. 🙂

    I slept well last night (even having had a 2-hour nap earlier on Friday), too, though I *usually* do. All the garage work this week made sleep feel especially nice.

    Losing pets … Yes, so hard. I’ve been part of several ‘groups’ at the dog park through the years and you watch the young dogs growing older and eventually hear they’ve died. My college boyfriend’s parents refused to get another pet after losing their much-loved little dog and I never could understand that. But now I’m beginning to — you just don’t want to go through the heartache again.

    So today will involve some more garage work, I think — there are items still to be boxed on the patio (mostly Christmas type things that I think will go in one of the large containers). I obviously want to avoid putting much into the garage now that it’s all so nicely cleared out. 🙂

    It’s supposed to rain today and tomorrow — not a lot, but it’s a cooler, late-season storm coming through — so that may determine part of my day. There’s frankly plenty to do inside, too.

    I’m not thrilled about going back to work Monday, could really just take a month off to finish everything around the house which would make me very happy. But, alas, that’s impossible.

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  10. Cheryl – I came up with a similar thing to help turn my mind off of wandering thoughts to get to sleep. I go through the alphabet, thinking of words or names that begin with each letter. The words usually have a category, like foods or animals or things in a kitchen. It usually works pretty well, if I remember to try it instead of letting my mind wander to other topics.

    I have added some tweaks to it at times.

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  11. Speaking of sports. . . Soccer & basketball has finished up for Little Guy, & now he is trying lacrosse.

    Have I told you that Little Guy has a preferred clothing style now? He prefers “sporty clothes”. 🙂 He’s such a cutie!

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  13. I’m usually like mumsee and tend to fall asleep fairly quickly. I read in bed before turning out the lights and will reach the point where I start to drop the book or e-reader — and then I know it’s time. 🙂

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  14. We moved the fridge to the warehouse. Husband is off to pick up a new one to replace the one that stopped working last fall. Frustrating as it is just the fan that went out but nobody could replace it and it was a fairly new big name fridge. But, as he likes to stock up and I don’t shop and it is getting too warm to keep things in the garage….I suppose it is time.

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  15. Duck, AJ I just filled your inbox, and you may have a lot of birds flying around your house (and rabbits leaping around) if you don’t open your mail carefully.

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  16. Ah, springtime. We have transom windows around our house (long windows between the top of the wall and the ceiling) and on some of them we have robins’ nests. the babies are hatching and it’s fun watching when the parent bird comes to feed them.

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  17. Fascinating morning going through the contents of that old chest in the garage — stacks of newspapers, most from around 1912-15 (many from ’15 when the front pages were focused on WWI), but also some from the ’40s. Found my grandparents’ wedding “article” in one of them, from 1914. 🙂

    One paper (they were all from Iowa, Chicago for the most part, but this one was from Omaha) had a huge layout of Billy Sunday’s recent visit with a list and re-publication of all his sermons. I’m guessing the paper was about this particular visit:

    http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/timeline/billy_sunday.htm

    Also stacks of family letters and other items (ration books and tickets among them). We were savers.

    It’s all a little overwhelming, I found myself lost in the past for several hours reading through it all (and I only skimmed the surface — and I have half the chest left to go through). I will need more archival storage boxes (and these newspapers from back then were huge, of course) although the chest seemed to do a family decent job of keeping them (mostly) intact.

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  18. Well, son is off to dinner and the prom. They are a lovely couple. Daughters of course, think it is not fair. But they had challenges this son does not seem to be facing.

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  19. In my critique group this a.m. one person had a theological problem with the prayer I wrote when I said, “We are awed and delighted to be Your adopted children.” She said adoption is being used as a replacement for born again salvation. Does anyone else know about this struggle?

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  21. Janice, Scripture speaks of us being adopted into God’s family, so that is well within the range of orthodoxy. My pastor in Nashville preached on adoption quite a bit, actually, and said it was an overlooked doctrine. I think he’s right.

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  23. I like the graph above. I want to deal with the “New birth/adoption” thing but we’re going to early service and I don’t have time now. Maybe later.
    They don’t contradict each other.

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  25. Janice – To me, referring to us as adopted children presupposes born-again salvation. But I guess it’s possible that there is a new strain of false teaching using the term “adopted children” that she is referring to.

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  27. I had a dissertation planned, but to summarize:

    Born again is the new birth that makes a person a child of God.
    Adaption means that we are brought into the family of God.
    At the church we attended in Falls Church, they always ended the Lord’s Supper observance, not with a prayer, but the congregation would sing the chorus of Family of God.

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  28. I wish I had talked with this person more. It does sound like she thinks some pastors are not using the term born again and just jumping on the adopted bandwagon. Maybe it is a new way of leading astray. I may include both in my writing so there will be no chance for misinterpretation. I do not think one excludes the other, and they are in sequential order with born again occurring first.

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  30. We started our new members class this morning and guess what graph was in our notebook…yep…that one up there…and btw I follow Tim Challies…good stuff on his blog 🙂
    Overcast today and it rained here while we at church…moisture…good for the forest…and the complexion…..

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  32. So garage door opener getting finished up. I was happy to head to church to let them do their thing. 🙂 They just have to pick up one more thing at Home Depot and then it’ll be done. It also comes with a smart phone app so you can operate it from that.

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  36. I mentioned during the Highlands prayer time yesterday that today was our annual field trip and we would be bringing cookies to the Director’s Office. Someone said that today was the visit of the American Ambassador to PNG and they would be having lunch and meetings with her. Not a good time to visit. Plan B!

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  37. Kare,

    Did you attempt to post today?

    There was a comment from your WordPress account that appeared to be spam. If you didn’t send it, you may want to change your WP password.

    If you did send it, oops, I deleted it. 🙂

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