48 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-26-17”

  1. Good early morning, fellow wanderers! The house is quiet–it’s just me and the dog…. I have to leave by eight for a doctor appointment—so I’m having coffee and praying….

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  4. Good Morning All….as I enter my third week of driving 45 minutes each way. I have yet to download any books to listen to, but I have discovered some things on youtube that I can listen to on my phone. Like today’s lesson. I tried to listen to it yesterday on my walk, but it kept getting jiggled with my swinging arms so today it can stay in the passenger seat and I can listen.
    Today is also the first Market Center meeting when I will be introduced to everyone.
    I am also slipping more into my “sales manager” role this week. July and August are probably going to be financially tight months until I have some commissions working, but we will get through it somehow.

    Oh, and this morning I heard a commercial on TV that reminded me of this:

    Grandpa, how much do you love me?
    A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.

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  6. Good Morning! It is good to be alive and I am thankful
    I love you a bushel and a peck was in Annie Get Your Gun…my Daddy would sing that to us all the time…he sang it to us in his last moments of this life…I still cry when I see the sign or hear the words…he also sang “kiss me once kiss me twice kiss me once again”…I cry when that comes on the radio as good ol Bing croons away 🙂

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  7. Those of you on Facebook probably saw my posts about this weekend. The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod had a celebration concert for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Choristers from churches all over the U.S. gathered Friday night and most of Saturday to practice and then we performed at Carnegie Hall on Sunday. It was a wonderful, uplifting experience. There are just no words to describe it. I took my dear DIL, a friend of hers (these two didn’t sing, so spend their time enjoying NYC), and a friend of mine (who did sing).
    In between, on Saturday night, we saw “Aladdin” on Broadway, which was fabulous. I was amazed at the special effects they could pull off in a live show. It was a weekend to remember.

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  10. Good morning! The garbage truck already came by for pickup so it must be Monday.

    Reviewing and making comments on the inmate Bible study lessons felt similar to homeschooling and grading son’s various lessons. Now I have to go to the post office and get the packets weighed for proper postage. I send their reviewed lesson along with their next lesson. The only difficulty I can see so far is having to decipher handwriting and creative spelling. I think the gremlins in my phone have prepared me for this.

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  12. I was out mowing a couple of days ago and noticed the cats got another rabbit. I don’t mind them getting the rabbits, which there is no apparent shortage of around here, because they do a lot of damage, but I do wish they would focus on the mice.

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  13. My husband, as a boy, convinced his cat she wanted to catch gophers when he fed one to her. After that, he often saw her crouched near a hole just waiting . . . . Perhaps if you served mice to the dogs, they might get the hint?

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  14. Ah, yes, Annie get Your Gun. It taught me bad manners: “Anything you can do, I can do better! I can do ANYTHING better than you!”

    It was the first and only time I attended the theater by myself; a Navy wife friend was playing in the orchestra and I stood around talking to her during intermission and reading a book I brought with me.

    My husband, of course, was out to sea.

    🙂

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  15. It appears I did not miss anything by not watching that show.

    I think one could say that about most musicals. They would only be 1/3 as long without the songs, but need the songs to make them more interesting, since most of the plot lines are too predictable.

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  16. We watched the neighborhood cat catch a squirrel at my daughter’s home. The cat looked like those big cats on the nature shows. It took quite awhile to stealthily move closer. I missed the actual catch by looking away at the wrong second.

    I also shot one for them. They have been over run and I decided to give it a try.

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  17. I dreamed I was covering a hearing about badger attacks. There was a group testifying to defend and save the badgers.

    We’ve had uncomfortably warm weather (over 80) in the past few days but it’s supposed to break by Tuesday or Wednesday. The fans in my house are getting a workout. I was hoping that the new insulation under the new roof & the new sliding glass door and large window in the back of the house (which replaced thin, rickety, aluminum framed models with gaps) would help keep the back of the house (western half) a bit cooler this summer, but I guess not. 😦

    The new ceiling fan in the bedroom helps, though.

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  21. We had a visiting missionary from Kenya & Uganda speak for a while yesterday at church. He & his wife had been baptized in our church many years ago, & are related to one of our ladies.

    They have chosen to live among the poorest of the people, where they, & their nine (soon to be ten) children are the only white faces for miles around, living just as the people do. They started with only one true convert after one year, then more the second, & now there are 50 house churches throughout the area. (The people were all converted out of Islam, so must keep a low profile. There are even three former imams among them.)

    Marc told about how they have an all-night prayer every week, & how God has been moving mightily, that they are seeing things like in New Testament times. They see miraculous healings on a regular basis, & they also see demonic activity that needs to be prayed against. He asked us specifically to pray against witchcraft, envy, & jealousy (which he said are all connected), & to pray for protection.

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  26. I liked Howard Keel. Recently saw Show Boat on our local PBS channel, & I think I’ve seen all the movie musicals he was in. A special favorite is Seven Brides for Seven Bothers, which was my dad’s favorite musical.

    Yeah, the plots of many musicals are fairly simple & predictable, although some are pretty dark. But their plots are not the main point of watching them; the singing & dancing is where the fun is.

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  27. DJ, As you may recall, we moved to a more local church a few years ago and since the new pastor arrived, it has been challenging. He makes comments about “what idiot would believe such and such” and then does not say why that thought is error. He refuses to have a conversation about theology. He talks about it from the pulpit but won’t talk in a give and take conversation with anybody about it. Sunday School is the same way. We used to attend when it was teaching and discussion. Takes away from the worship experience and is quite distracting to me. And then the snow came and our driveway was impassable in my van. And then the church and parsonage flooded with an ongoing rain problem and the mildew and molds are so bad, they finally had them tested. And that explained why eleven year old seemed to have an awful lot of asthma problems when we went. So, we are attending a Baptist church with about fifteen to twenty other folk. It was started here after we began attending the Kamiah church so we stayed there until things went awry. Then we went to the Christian Church because it was centrally located and the pastor (a retired Air Force chaplain) did not fixate on the minutiae that people like to argue over, but kept true to the Word. It was in the background but not his focus so it was a good cross the board worship time. It was a time of healing and restoration for the family and we were welcomed and cared for. We also went there as our children were at an age and stage where we did not want the added peer pressure of the children attending the Baptist church. Those children have grown and moved on so we are maybe going to make that our church home. It was always our first choice in doctrine though we are not Baptists. Choices are limited here.

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  28. I don’t know that either my mom or my dad ever went to a movie. I know my dad does not watch them and neither of them did while we were growing up. Next time I see dad, I will ask him if they ever went to a movie. He watches CSPAN and a book review show and golf and tennis and baseball and Jeopardy that is about it. He does not watch sit coms or any of that. Though he used to watch the Bob Newhart show.

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  29. The Bob Newhart Show was very funny. Watched it with my parents.

    Then there was Newhart, in which he played an innkeeper in Vermont. The series finale of Newhart is a comedy classic!

    For those who don’t know. . .His innkeeper character gets hit in the head with a golf ball. Then he awakens in bed, as his old psychologist character from his first show, next to Suzanne Pleshette, the actress who played his wife in the first show, in their old bedroom set, & tells her about this weird dream he had about being an innkeeper in Vermont. It may not sound so funny in the telling, but for those who watched both shows, it was hilarious.

    Hubby & I have been watching the old comedy series Barney Miller (on Netflix dvds), another really funny show.

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  30. Before cable became so widespread, many TV stations played the good old movies, which is how I saw many of the classic musicals as well as other classic movies.

    Every July 4, some channel or another (sometimes more than one) would play the classic Jimmy Cagney movie, Yankee Doodle Dandy, in which he played George M. Cohan. Haven’t seen that movie in several years now. I should look to see if it’s available on Netflix.

    In the late 80s & early 90s, the cable channel TNT (which was freely included in our basic cable package) played the classic old movies from the “Golden Age” of Hollywood (1930s through 1950s), & I recorded a whole bunch of them. Often I was watching movies I’d recorded a month or more ago, as there were so many good ones to see.

    Now the place to go for those kinds of movies is TCM, but we don’t get that included in our very basic cable package.

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  31. Oh Kizzie we are huge Newhart fans…we even contemplated hunting down the inn and staying there for our anniversary…did it ever bother you to see that one shutter is missing on the upstairs window to the right?….on am I the only one who notices such an oddity?!! 😛

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  35. Thanks mumsee, sounded like you’d made a change. Glad this is better.

    Newhart (in whatever he did) — classic.

    New book that looks interesting (paperback & kindle):

    https://cruciformpress.com/two-sins-deeper-than-pride-and-easier-to-kill/

    ______________________________

    Prideful sin is no small matter. The biblical warnings against it are bone-chilling. And none is more frightening than this: “God is opposed to the proud” (James 1:6).

    We’ve been told over and over: Pride is the root of all sin. Kill pride and your other sins will topple, too. Sounds easy but it isn’t. Pride is slippery. As soon as you think you’ve got a grip on it, it pops up somewhere else nearby—usually closer to your heart than it was in the first place.

    Frontal attacks against pride usually fizzle out. Have you noticed that, too? If so, try the indirect approach I learned while working on a recent book on spiritual warfare. …
    ______________________________

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  36. I heard a song on the way home this afternoon that I will share with you tomorrow.
    I also received a text this afternoon from one of the guys in my class:
    Kim
    Great class today. I really enjoyed working through the scenarios. It was great seeing how much confidence the class has grown in.

    That made the last two weeks worth it.

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  37. I loved the original Bob Newhart Show. I watched very little TV in the 80’s so missed out on Newhart. I heard about the finale episode and think it must have been the best series finale every, though I have never seen it.

    It’s funny that the subject of Bob Newhart would come up here today because just yesterday I rediscovered an album of him doing stand-up comedy. It was from the early 60’s, about 10 years before he had a TV show.If you’ve never heard him doing stand-up, it’s worth looking for. He’s very funny.

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  39. My mother used to hum the first couple of lines of ‘A Bushel and a Peck’ occasionally. It would have been a popular song in her childhood.

    The name of Bob Newhart was not familiar to me, although I have heard of other comedians of that era. However, I came across this routine, which my father had a recording of among his many tapes and which we children would listen to:

    N.B. Coffee was not introduced from the New World to Europe, rather it came from Ethiopia, was brought into Italy via trade with the Ottoman Empire.

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  40. Kizzie, quite a few of the old classic films are available to rent through online media suppliers like YouTube and iTunes, but not all of them unfortunately. My family is constantly on the lookout for copies of Deanna Durbin films, which are extremely difficult to find. We found a DVD set with a few of them, but not her best ones. It is irritating that people can buy up the rights of those old films and then sit on them, not making them available in any way to the public.

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  41. My mom had one of Newhart’s albums, it included a hilarious bit where Newhart was either a driving instructor or examiner taking a ‘woman driver’ through her paces.

    I also missed a lot of tv in the ’80s but I did see that Newhart finale, very well done!

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  43. I liked the original “Newhart” show, didn’t really like the innkeeper one–though I saw that final episode and did think it was brilliant.

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  46. I never watched much TV as an adult, but the times I’ve seen Bob Newhart, I thought he was funny.

    Weird things going on with my email. I go to the site, and I get a big bright red screen that says danger, and other things. There’s a “Go Back to Safety” button or something, too, but I just X off of everything. I can access my email without a problem through my daughter’s account, though, so I check it on there. When I come here from there, then I (6) am Anonymous.

    I’ll call my IT son after he gets back to his place tomorrow from a short vacation. He is in Kathaleena’s neck of the woods at the moment.

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