30 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-3-17”

  4. It’s FRIDAY!
    You know what that means?

    I started on Michelle’s book last night. I have some comments when I get them together in my mind.
    Maybe after breakfast. 🙂

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  6. Re: Michelle’s book:

    Michelle ends her prologue with the question: But what kind of woman would accept a proposal like that?
    Immediately, something said to me:
    Elvera Collins!

    It was equivalent to that. She knew that when I graduated from Carolina, she would marry me. Then we would both quit our jobs and move a house trailer to Fort Worth.. We would look for appropriate jobs and she would help me make it through seminary. Then, she would be a pastor’s wife, whatever that meant. It was a step of faith on both parts. She didn’t have to do that. But she did.
    Her husband never went into the ministry. He – they were led to a different path.
    But she didn’t know it at the time.
    It wasn’t a spiritual decision on her part, but a commitment.
    I never thought of it in those terms until much later, after I had retired from my job.

    A lot of things occur to you after you are free of the responsibilitys of a job.

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  7. Well, the truth is that I think women were created to trust the man himself, not the details of what he offers. If he offers little because he is lazy, she is likely to turn him down. If he offers little because he is just starting out, or he has life priorities that limit his earning potential (ministry), or he has little because of physical handicaps, those won’t deter her.

    My sister was once in a conversation who believed that one should limit the number of their offspring to the number one can send through college. Knowing the joys of a large family, but having had only one year of college (which she paid for herself), my sister said bluntly in reply, “There isn’t one of my siblings I’d trade for a college education.” Likewise, any woman who would trade her poor husband with good character for wealth is a poor woman indeed.

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  8. Good Observation Cheryl
    Biddy Hobbs chose to follow a man wherever his service led him. I was cogitating about that in bed before getting up this morning.
    Most marriages are like that.
    A young woman marries a man graduating from the Naval Academy faces the same choice.
    Marriages where two individuals are pursuing two different dreams have problems from the beginning.
    The situations vary ad-infinititum. But the plot is always the same. Marriage may be defined as two people charging into life together.

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  9. My you people get started early. I was awake at 4am but chose to try to go back to sleep until 5. I gave up, got up, let Amos out, (Lulabelle is a slug a bed), made the coffee and read for a while before getting dressed. Now I am ready to leave when I need to, but a few things first.
    We have had enough bad news lately that I am thrilled to be offering some good news although it isn’t mine.
    One of the young men who works with me moved to the area because his mother was given 6 months to live 4 or 5 years ago. She had cancer and went through an experimental trial treatment. She wasn’t doing well, so she was put on hospice. In the mean time his father had a stroke that left him unable to handle their finances. This young man moved from Ohio here to care for his parents. Ever since I have known him (June, 2017) there has been one crisis after another he has had to deal with. His mother got up in the middle of the night and fell. He said she should have been dead long ago, but she was hard headed. They spent a few days in the hospital. She was sent home, but fell again. They ran all sorts of tests but nothing was wrong. She kept complaining of pain so the hospice nurses upped her pain meds. Nothing was helping the pain. She started sleeping all the time so the family was called in to say good bye. Somehow she ended up back in the hospital where upon they found that she had broken a portion of her hip and that was the cause of the pain. They ran more tests. They found NO cancer and she received a partial hip replacement!!!! NO CANCER!!!!! They are now stepping her down from all the pain medicine and he says he has his mother back.

    Yesterday was a little emotional for me. W left and is headed to Boca Raton. I have a job there if I can ever convince my husband to leave the area 😉
    As good byes were said and various things were discussed, the broker of the office (who is training me to take her place) told me that if the higher ups didn’t keep me, she was walking out the door. While none of us knows what the future holds and I would not really expect her to do that, just by saying it, she showed a faith in me that I haven’t had in a number of years—if ever. No one has offered to put themselves “on the line” for me professionally in—I can’t remember when. That kind of statement made me feel confident and competent—something that I struggle with almost daily.

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  10. Chas, your statement reminds me of something I have thought about often. In “certain” circles the word codependency is used, and not in a positive light. To be “codependent” is the worse statement that can be made about a relationship.
    What is marriage if no co-dependent? If I don’t “need” and depend on Mr. P what is the point in marrying him? If he doesn’t “need” and depend on me then why did he offer to take me on? I am not the best of wives by my own admission. (Poor Man had to text me last night to bring him home some dinner!)
    There were a few years in my life that I joked that I wasn’t codependent because I didn’t have anyone to depend on!

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  12. Good morning. It’s still dark here and I’m listening to some Gregorian Chant. Real Estate Guy is coming over to collect some money, cement pouring for the foundation is scheduled to start Saturday, tomorrow. I’m so relieved that I spotted the source (or close to it) of the leak under the kitchen sink and it looks simple. Coming from a pipe, not the wall, thankfully.

    Although I hesitate to call anything around here “simple.” A simple problem is clearly an anomaly for this house.

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  15. We were forced to begin school late this morning because of snow. Well, forced may be a bit strong. Ten year old had a burning desire to go back out and play in the snow after breakfast and chores and before school. I am such a pushover…..

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  17. Meanwhile, Mumsee, I have to spend the whole month of November reminding myself it will snow soon, but hoping that it doesn’t “cheat” and try to start before we get to December. Then when it comes I can acknowledge its beauty. But I don’t want to see it in November.

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  18. We have had snow for a week or so. I love it. Far better than the gray things would have looked without it, since all the leaves are gone. We have the grayish pine green and various shades of red/orange of crabapples to add a bit of color. The snow brightens it all up.

    Chas, my husband was also headed to seminary when we married. We also went a different direction. Like you, he has never stopped studying the bible. God needs people in a lot of different places.

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  19. Chas Take the Kimberley (South Africa spelling) B as in Boy and Hurl -that Air Force Field in Florida at gmail dot com Or you could think of it as Hey! BURT! I think I’m going to hurl

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  21. Hello! The weather is warm and sticky here, again. We had a few sprinks earlier as Art calls them. They don’t last long enough to be actual sprinkles of rain. I got the grass mowed yesterday since I knew it might rain.

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  22. Miss Bosley is entranced by a bird just outside the window.

    I picked up my new glasses earlier from Sam’s. They don’t help my vision a lot. It will be interesting to use them in the evening while driving and see how much difference they make.

    Today I have thought about Kizzie a lot and know that for awhile the whole situation of Leon being physically absent will be so unsettling. There is so much to adjust to.

    In the tax business, especially since many of the clients are well up in years, we see a number each year who have lost their spouse. It is an individual trail that people have to travel, and we all know it is best when God is allowed to travel that trail with the one left behind.

    My brother is taking classes to become a tax preparer. I am thankful for that.

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  23. I have not kept up with all the threads and don’t even know where I should post my question. Awhile back I heard that there is suppose to be something like an uprising/revolt in our nation from some radical types. For some reason I was thinking it was suppose to be on Nov. 4th. Does anyone know anything about this? I just noticed a few houses from mine that a Black Lives Matter sign has been put up. We already have had a sign like that on the other end of our portion of this long street. Atlanta seems ripe for something. Has anyone heard anything?

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  25. Funny thing to me is that while living in Greece and Italy and watching the anarchists in action, I was disgusted and glad America had outgrown such activity. Oops.

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  27. I fell in love with a long haired engineering student and married a shorn Navy ensign. Curious where love will take you, is it not? 🙂

    Which just goes to show, listen to what God suggests and follow His lead.

    I hope you enjoy the book, Chas.

    We’re off to the annual pregnancy counseling center dinner. It’s a blustery day and I’ve been gone up until 20 minutes ago. I’d love to stay home with a fire and my book but . . . that’s not tonight’s call. 🙂

    At least I’m not cooking dinner!

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  28. Spent the day in Florence with the hubs…nice fall day, window shopping and topped it off with great coffee and fresh…fresh I tell you…apple pie at the coffee shoppe. Best pie I have ever eaten…good thing I live over an hour away from that place.
    I’m going to go out on a limb and say that photo up there was take somewhere in KY? Horse, jockey, winner’s circle?
    I’m not cooking either…leaving in a bit to meet daughter #3 at Chick fil A for quick dinner and catch up 😊
    Janice I read that event was a hoax…but then again…ya never know what is going to happen in this out of control world.

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  30. Chik-fil-A is good and we have many of them around us, but I seldom eat there for some reason. I don’t eat fast food very often, but when I do it’s either McDonald’s/Del Taco (easy drive-throughs) or Subway.

    So I did a story today on a new on-campus football field being constructed by one of our parish high schools (which means they’ll play their final game tonight at the community, city-owned field where they’ve played for 63 years). How can the football season be ending already in high school? Didn’t it used to go at least all the way through November?

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