40 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-18-17”

  1. Good morning.
    I got here by accident. I was headed over to the Politics thread to say:
    “A democracy will last until the people learn that they can vote themselves benefits from the treasury.”
    That isn’t original. But I forgot who said it..

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  3. Good morning and even better because it is crispy cool.

    Maybe because I was born in December, I must have quickly learned the difference between feeling cold and feeling cozy in warm clothes.
    I enjoy the clothes of fall and winter more than those of summer. I know Kim is different in that respect, but that is probably because of that coastal climate difference. I even enjoy walking on the beach all bundled up against the frigid ocean breeze.

    I cooked a chicken in the crock pot overnight. It’s nice to warm up the house with cooking now that it is cooler.

    My friend, Karen, has been quite upset lately because her mother is having problems living by herself. Poor Karen wants to be there for her, but Karen’s health is not such that she can be there for her mother. I am trying to help Karen overcome her feelings of guilt and helplessness.

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  4. Good Morning…and I was going to attribute that quote to Reagan 😜
    Oh Janice how I love the cool temps of autumn…turtle necks, boots, scarves…woolen blankets thrown about the house…. 🍂
    I’m off to coffee with the ladies…make it a good day and smile!

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  5. Just yesterday, I was discussing that quote with sixteen year old daughter as we were visiting on our walk outside the hospital. She was talking about how silly it seemed to her for people to change their clothes every day and having enough clothes to do so for weeks at a time. We were discussing consumerism in America, the trash she picks up along the roadside, why do people do that, and another of other topics which all seemed to come under the header of we want what we want when we want it.

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  6. My daily Bible reading has me in the book of Ruth, one of my favorites.

    I was thinking of some parallels in my own life. (Don’t worry, I’m not taking this too far, or thinking it exactly fits.) Although I am a widow like Naomi, I am not bitter like she was. Nightingale is my Ruth, & Chickadee is more or less my Orpah (except being daughters, not daughters-in-law). Now I am praying for a Boaz to come along for my Nightingale-Ruth. 🙂

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  7. Good morning! I love fall, but it brings lots of work! Currently, I have 2 beefs hanging, and the remainder of a cabrito to take care of. We have 4 hogs to butcher within the next 2 weeks, plus firewood for the winter. We have a friend coming today to help with that.

    Many prayers going out to Kizzie, Michele, and Mumsee.

    God has been very good to us. Will report details later today.

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  8. We got our firewood in last night. Our neighbors have decided to move to warmer climes but didn’t decide until after their wood was delivered so we were able to top off what we had with theirs and are good to go.

    Do you butcher your own stuff or take it in? We have butchered goats, sheep, deer, poultry, but not steers or hogs.

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  9. I’m with nancijill when it comes to loving the cool weather and cool weather clothes and styles.

    But fall and summer are battling it out something fierce here, with temperatures dipping slightly this week, only to surge back up into the 90s by they weekend, according to the weather reports. Fall usually wins out by November. But not always completely, and summer has been known to make brief comebacks some years right around Thanksgiving and even into Christmas.

    I have to cover a speech today since I didn’t get tapped (for the 3rd day in a row) for jury duty. I was hoping, but no such luck. Maybe tomorrow, but today would have been perfect just to get me out of covering this speech. Actually, I could really use a sick day about now, just a day to read and rest. I’m feeling stressed and worn out again from the house projects resuming on Thursday and anxiety at work combined. I’ll be able to take some time off toward the end of the year, but until then it feels like a forced march (in sandals because it’s so crazy hot!).

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  13. I remember when I was a kid, the men butchered a hog and cooked it all night to make Bar-B-Cue for Fourth Of July celebration.
    My ancestors on my father’s side were in the sausage business. An uncle owned “Shull’s whole hog sausage.” That is, they didn’t sell the ham and pork chop sections separately like most sausage makers do.
    They were successful for a long time, but eventually sold out and the new owners didn’t make good sausage anymore and it ended.

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  17. Stellar day, having to cover aftermath of a gang shooting at the Taco Bell last night (about 10 blocks straight down the hill from me while I was walking the dogs later than usual, can’t figure out why I didn’t hear any of that) — now followed by politician’s lunch and speech. Oy

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  19. We have a tradition that every Wed & Fri I take Elvera to the Adult Center where she stays for four hours. I pick her up about 1:30 and take her for coffee and ice cream. We were doing that today. Linda (DIL) was with us at McDonalds.
    Linda asked “Where is your ring?”
    Elvera didn’t have her wedding rings on!
    She has had them off once is the last sixty years when she had Chuck. They weren’t allowed.
    I was afraid she had lost her rings.
    But when I got home, I found them on the dresser.
    Her fingers have shrunk so that the rings are loose on them now.
    I didn’t know that.
    So? We’ve taken all of her rings off her fingers until we can resize or do something. We don’t want to lose those rings.

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  20. Make It Man & I have a mutual friend on Facebook who sometimes likes to discuss theology, & I am a little confused about his views. Recently, he posted:

    “Paul vs Peter:
    The *original* Reformation.

    The theology Luther converted us to, has always been found in the writings that Paul gave us Gentiles.

    People think Pentecost was Peter’s proclamation of the Spirit to the world. But it was an OT-covenant fulfillment to the “devout” Jews who waited for the Christ ; and through repentance and baptism they became Messianic Jews.”

    Have any of you encountered that view before?

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  21. There wasn’t any more discussion on his post. I was hoping there would be, so I could get a better grasp of what he means. (But I didn’t want to ask, because he can be a little too persistent about continuing a discussion.)

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  22. Karen, I don’t know what he means either.
    But Peter’s sermon was not “Peter’s proclamation to the world”. It was the Holy Spirit’s proclamation of Jesus. Each of the converts via Peter’s sermon converted to Jesus, not the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit never proclaims himself, only Jesus.
    “Messianic Jews” is not a scriptural term. I don’t know what all it means, but I think that it refers to Jews who are still looking for a Messiah to deliver the nation Israel.
    (Zechariah 12).

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  23. Messianic Jews are those Jews who are Christian. They know Jesus as the Messiah. Jews for Jesus is one group that believes that way. They have their services on Saturday. We have a congregation not far from us led by the brother of Jay Seculow who has a Christian legal/political oriented radio program and is on President Trump’s legal team.

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  24. Kizzie, my two cents for what it’s worth. I’ve never heard your Facebook friend’s view before.

    He is correct in some respects. It was mostly Jews who heard Peter speak and were converted at Pentecost. They were all from all over the world, but they were Jews who had made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the Old Testament feast of Pentecost.

    It’s also true that Paul was the most prominent apostle to the Gentiles, at least as recorded in Acts. He wrote to the Galatians, “They recognized that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised.”

    But I don’t see it as a conflict, as Paul vs Peter, just a difference in the focus of their missions.

    Nor do I see what it has to do with Luther. Paul didn’t “reform” Peter’s theology, just took it to a different audience.

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  26. Whew. At the last minute as the speech began, I had to use a new recorder app on my phone, somehow my older more familiar one vanished (maybe with a phone update recently?) and I had to scramble to use a new one that I’d never used before. Looked like it was recording but something told me it might have had a glitch when I tried to save it all at the end. We always take hand notes as well, of course, but most politicians (and regular folk) are hard to keep up with, word for word (Sen. Susan Collins is a wonderful exception, when she visited the port a couple years ago, I practically could take her words down in longhand she spoke so slowly and her diction was so perfect).

    So: the good news is that I found a fully transcribed version of the speech (our county supervisor, former congresswoman) in my email when I got back to the office, courtesy of her communications deputy. Rare when they do that, and in this case it was a huge help.

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  28. Oh, and Real Estate Guy wants to meet me at the house after work to explain what’s going to happen with the foundation — “so you won’t be surprised.”

    Can I just run away now?

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  30. It seems to me that this FB friend may believe that there is some difference in salvation for Gentiles & Jews. Not sure he’s ever come out & said that, though.

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  31. The apostle Paul couldn’t be clearer Jews and Gentiles in Christ are one body. (It’s why dispensationalism falls flat.) No one comes to the Father except through the Son, Jew or Gentile.

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  33. Oh, and the treehouse.

    Real Estate Guy also ominously requested that I give him the large tarp I told him I think I have so we can cover things up when work begins.

    It’s not going to be pretty, I take it.

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  36. Les Feldick has a television program and teaches the view that there was Jesus and Peter’s gospel to the Jews and then Paul’s (given to him by God) to the Gentiles. This requires ‘carefully dividing the word’ (he uses the verse that way) so that some books (Paul’s, for example) are for Jewish readers and others for Gentiles. The gospels would be for the Jews. I am summarizing, but think I have it in a nutshell. My husband and I have gone round and round about this. Although, some of what he teaches is true, I believe he goes too far. I am not trying to run him down, but just think this is where that teaching may be coming from. I could be mistaken, of course.

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  37. I do believe we need to read scripture with the view of the first readers in mind. That help keeps it in context and helps in understanding it. I just think he goes too far and it causes confusion.

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