46 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-22-19”

  2. New baby. Beautiful scene.
    Good morning Kim. What are you doing up so early?
    Good night Jo. Sleep tight.
    Good morning everone else. Elvera had a couple of coughing spells during the night. But otherwise everything is well in Greensboro.l

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  3. Morning, Chas and Kim. We have had two days with no rain and today was sunshine. I feel like I am in shock it has been so long. What a blessing.

    I think I left my phone that isn’t a phone here, at school. So that is the only one that gets our family group texts, so no Easter pictures. I sent individual texts to each one and got some responses.

    They are fixing up my house in California now that the renters have left. Please pray for new renters. It would be nice to have some renters for the next two years.

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  5. Yes, those are the Adorables and their baby sister we were praying for.
    I have lots to do today. I am off to the P-Cola. I won’t be home until about 6 tonight.
    I am going to have to have a difficult conversation this week. When I say difficult, I do mean difficult. I already know the other person isn’t going to take it well and I don’t know how to make it any different. It is something I have to do. It feels like a crushing weight on my chest.

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  6. Good morning from Atlanta!

    Such Adorables! Very nice photo of a special time.

    My eye surgery (YAG laser) is tomorrow. It will be good to have that done.

    I did not attend the service yesterday. I watched it later in the day. I did not want to bother anyone for a ride home since there was a brunch between the two services. I don’t mind so much asking people for a ride on regular Sundays, but people have a lot going on for Easter, and I did not want to add any more stress. I had a bit of a pity party and cried a few tears about how tax season always interferes with our Easter. I shared a leftover fried chicken thigh with Miss Bosley for Easter lunch. I could have made plans to do something with someone, but I don’t want to invite myself into someone else’s plans. I did not even hear from Karen yesterday. Art came home right before dark and we drove by the community garden so I got a few photos, and then we went by Wendy’s to get burgers.

    This morning I saw that Art rolled the garbage can to the street. He never does that, so I knew he wanted to be kind to me. I had told him yesterday that I had wanted to do the sunrise service at Lookout Mt. like we did when Wesley went to Covenant but I knew not to ask him. Then I said I would have gone by myself but I can’t drive. Yes, it was a poor pitiful me moment. Even so, I still feel the joy of the Lord in knowing what Jesus did for me.

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  8. Morning! A precious sister photo up there…may they always cherish one another and help each other along on their journey through this life 💕
    It is a very foggy damp morning here in the forest which accentuates the scent of the pines…with coffee in hand how can it get any better?! ☕️ 🌲
    Kim praying the Lord will give to you the words needed and the grace to go along with your delivery to the person needing to be dealt with. This sounds like a hard situation and I trust He will give to you calm in the midst of it all.
    Janice I smiled when I read Art took the garbage tote down for you…it’s the little things sometimes that cause us to know others see and care……praying for your procedure tomorrow knowing it is the beginning of independence for you once again…. 🚗

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  9. She’s still so tiny, but that was her sisters meeting her for the first time.

    Yesterday Ellie was 4 weeks old we took a photo with her in the midst of all the Adorables.

    They rang from her tiny 5 pounds 7 ounces to her 11.5 year old cousin– who is close to 5′ 9″ and kind of reminds me of Jimmy Stewart!

    Time is so curious.

    Anyway, that joyous photo is a thank you for your prayers.

    Thank you.

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  10. Good morning. I am almost 3 hrs into the first day of my second job. It will just be for the summer, so not bad. It is doing EMS at the racetrack. It entails a lot of standing around, waiting for a horse wreck. I am going to take the standing around time to work on homework. We gave the ambulances a good cleaning and have met lots of other workers. I have had almost all the socializing I can stand so have my books out, ready to study.

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  12. Nightingale is 5’9″, and she says that short women should not be allowed to marry tall men, as that doesn’t leave enough tall men for the tall women. 😀

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  15. One of my Christian Facebook friends is commenting on one of my Christian-themed posts, and he is once again bringing up his belief that the Bible teaches that Jewish believers are saved in a different way from gentile believers. Or at least that something different is required of them.

    He comments in such as way as to try to draw me into the discussion, which makes me a little nervous. Of course, no one is obligated to reply to comments, but when asked direct questions on one’s own post, it does feel like an obligation. And I feel that he has steeped himself into the “reasons” for his belief more than I have thought about the issue.

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  16. Good morning from the middle of nowhere. A beautiful foggy day here.

    Oldest daughter is about five four and her husband is about six eight. Is that what you are talking about?

    Oldest son is about six two and his wife is about five feet.

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  17. Cute photo, it’s bigger here than it was on FB so is sweeter still. 🙂

    I had a late night struggling with finding the right setting to wash my mattress pad/topper — first time it came out still sopping wet, so I tried another setting (“Spin/Drain”) which did the trick as it provided a very long time of spinning and draining at the end. But the setting itself was long and I didn’t get to bed until nearly 2 a.m.! I wasn’t really tired, since I’d had a nap, but I’m sure feeling it this morning,

    I’m just stumbling around here whining that it’s Monday and wondering how I’m ever going to get through this day in the cubby. I tried to find a reason I could work from home but really couldn’t (it’s best if you have an interview set up or some local story to use as your reason).

    I did get some things sorted through in the garage yesterday, but Annie slipped in at some point so I had to leave the door open and wait for her to come out. When she emerged, she had cobwebs all over her head. And there was a dead lizard in the driveway.

    Maybe I’ll get something going this morning that’ll allow me to leave and work part of the day from home where there is ROOM to breathe and move.

    I need to go to bed early tonight — and it is a short week, I have Friday and Monday off (though I see online in our employee portal that no one’s approved those absence requests yet … hmmm)

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  18. Kizzie’s post reminded me of the article I read over the weekend on Dispensationalism from a former journalist who covered religion for many years:

    https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionqanda/2019/04/regarding-israel-and-the-end-times-what-is-dispensationalism-what-is-the-rapture/

    Regarding Israel and the End Times, what is Dispensationalism? What is the rapture?
    APRIL 5, 2019 BY RICHARD OSTLING

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    A March 31 New York Times article on how religion may influence U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s approach toward Israel had this headline: “The Rapture and the Real World: Pompeo Mixes Beliefs and Policy.” One key point was that the then-Congressman told a religious audience in 2015 that humanity faces “a never-ending struggle” until “the rapture.”

    The move of the United States embassy to Jerusalem, and U.S. recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over Syria’s Golan Heights, were thought to boost both President Trump’s evangelical support and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s April 9 election prospects. Analyzing those decisions, the Times explained that “white evangelicals,” Pompeo included, believe “God promised the land to the Jews, and that the gathering of Jews in Israel is foretold in the prophecy of the rapture – the ascent of Christians into the kingdom of God.”

    The Times wording was truthy but confusing, and the standard rapture belief is not taught by evangelicalism as a whole but only one segment. So let’s unpack some elements of these complex matters. …

    … Dispensationalism makes a sharp distinction between two peoples of God, Israel and the Christian Church, sees the Church period as something of a parenthesis between God’s dealings with Israel, and says some biblical promises to Israel are yet to be fulfilled. Some Christian literalists join Orthodox Jewish factions that cite the Bible to say God granted Israel perpetual rights to the lands from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea (see Genesis 15:18-21), which inspires Jewish settlements in the Palestinian West Bank.

    Despite Dispensationalism’s popularity, it is the minority view among biblically conservative Protestants. …
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  19. I really like the picture. Every tie I log on.
    It is good for the baby. I think that babies have a sense of “safe – unsafe” from birth. It is good for them to be held. And good for the girls to get to cuddle a newborn.
    Just a nice picture.

    I don’t get the gist of Donna’s 11:27.
    I believe in a rapture, but I’m not a dispensationalist.

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  20. DJ – Thanks. I’ll try to read that soon.

    Mumsee – Her dear friend Stacey is 4’10” and Stacey’s husband is 6″3″ or 6’4″. Her best friend Stephanie is short, with a tall man*. And even my not quite 5’4″ to Hubby’s 6’1″ didn’t seem fair to her. (Of course, without us being together, she wouldn’t be here. 🙂 )

    For the record, X is slightly shorter than Nightingale, and didn’t want her wearing high heels. She once bought a pair of fancy high-heeled sandals and kept them here where he didn’t know about them. (That was the beginning of her realizing he was too controlling, and finally beginning to break away emotionally and mentally.)

    (* Not sure what to call Stephanie’s “man”. They have lived together for several years in a committed – but not wedded – relationship, and have a daughter. So “boyfriend” doesn’t cut it, but he’s also not her legal husband. “Common-law husband” sounds more like what their relationship is, but I think that’s a legal term, and I don’t think Connecticut recognizes it.

    So what words would you use for the partners in this kind of relationship?)

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  21. Chas – I understand what you mean about believing in the rapture but not being a dispensationalist.

    It reminds me of how people who are not Reformed/Calvinist, are often labeled as Arminian (or accidentally, Armenian, which is funny). But there are beliefs that are between the two, which is where I have tended to fall (although I am leaning more towards the Reformed beliefs than in the past).

    My former pastor (at an Assemblies of God church) once explained about the differences between the two extremes, and that we didn’t fit into either one. So I was surprised when I started commenting on the old WMB and was labeled an Arminian.

    At this point, I am not sure if I still believe in a rapture, but I am also not rejecting the idea.

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  24. Chas, the rabbit hole of dispensationalism is found in fundamentalism, specifically Independent Baptist Fundamentalists. There are people is that group that claim that Jews do not need salvation through Christ. There are some really warped glorifications of Israel out there.

    Of course, on the flip side, I have discovered there are Calvinists that say that Jews are worse sinners than the rest of the world. This link speaks of something I came across yesterday, much to my consternation – https://www.gotquestions.org/pre-Adamic-race.html:
    ‘The concept of a pre-Adamic race is the idea that God created a race of humans who lived on the Earth before He created Adam, the first man. This hypothesis has been promoted by various scholars at various times throughout history. Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (circa A.D. 331–363) and Calvinist theologian Isaac de La Peyrère (1596-1676) are two notable examples.

    ‘We will look at two popular facets of the Preadamite Hypothesis: the hypothesis as it was proposed by Isaac de La Peyrère and the form which it takes in the “Gap Theory” (also known as the Ruin-Reconstruction interpretation). According to La Peyrère, God created the Gentiles on the sixth day when He said, “Let us make man in our image” (Genesis 1:26). He did not create the Jews until after the seventh day, His day of rest. At some point after the seventh day, God created Adam, the father of the Jews…

    ‘La Peyrère subsequently reinterpreted other passages of Scripture in light of his peculiar understanding of the Genesis account. Consider a very familiar passage, Romans 5:12-14: “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.”

    ‘This passage is traditionally interpreted as meaning that death began with Adam’s sin and reigned unchecked among men (even among those who haven’t actually eaten the forbidden fruit, those who have sinned but not “in the likeness of the offense of Adam”) until the Law was given to Moses. La Peyrère interpreted this passage another way.

    ‘According to La Peyrère, the pre-Adamic Gentiles sinned against God, but in a manner less egregious than Adam (which is why Adam’s sin brought death while theirs didn’t). They merely sinned against God’s moral will, while Adam sinned against His Law. Adam disobeyed God’s prohibition by eating the forbidden fruit. He broke what La Peyrère called the Law of Paradise. Thus, according to La Peyrère, the pre-Adamic Gentiles were those who “had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam.”

    ‘By now it’s obvious how misinterpreting one or two passages of Scripture can lead to all kinds of warped perceptions. The Scriptural problems with La Peyrère’s interpretations are numerous.’

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  27. Wonderful picture. My short husband is wonderful, too. He is only a couple of inches taller than me.

    Les Feldick preaches about “two gospels” and the difference between Jewish and Christian believers. I have an issue with this and it has brought my husband and I into some sharp disagreement. He watches him regularly. Lots he says is true, of course, but I think there is some lack of balance or misunderstanding, too.

    My sister and I got along for years, since we did not live close together. She is five years younger and I did a lot of mothering when we were younger. Our relationship is very difficult these days. We love one another and get along when we need to do so.

    My husband and I often comment how happy we are that our three daughters get along and make an effort to visit one another. The youngest and oldest are not quite an hour apart in distance. The middle lives a thousand miles away. Yet they all make the effort to stay in each other’s lives. The husbands are not as good about getting along-particularity two of them, but they suck it up when necessary. Our daughters are all very different. They are able to laugh at their differences, however, and accept each other anyway. We are so grateful for that.

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  28. The short woman to tall man principle does not apply to my family. Second in-law is over 6′, which suits Second just fine since she is the same height as Nightingale. Eldest married a man about the same height as her, about 5’4″. Youngest is in-between Eldest and Second in height, the same height as my mother, and her husband is about the same height as my father, just under 6′. I am the shortest adult in my family and bid fair to be shorter than my nieces and nephews, who are growing like weeds – so far the eldest niece and nephew have long surpassed me, and are now rapidly approaching the height of the tallest adult members of the family.

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  29. Cute picture.

    We’re watching grands while D1 and hubby go on a 10th anniversary trip. Hard to believe they’ve been married that long. Mrs L is going to satay all week, while I need to go back home to teach. D3 will help when he;s not working. Mrs L likes being with the grandchildren, but I hope they don’t wear her out

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  30. 6arrows, I had a wonderful friend who learned and played the piece you composed two years ago and sent to me. It is just beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing it with me. (It sounds so much better than when I played it and it was pretty sweet then).

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  31. Phos, I have never concerned myself with weird interpretations of scripture concerning sin and the last days. My difference with brothers in Christ consists of their belief that “Jesus might come before we finish this lesson.”
    I believe Paul tells us in I Cor. 15:52 that Jesus will come at the “last trump”.
    Now I turn to Revelation and read Revelation 11:15 that the seventh r angel sounds and everything changes.
    Not a lot to go on, but more than anyone else has. And Paul is pretty specific about such things in 2 Thess.
    We won’t break fellowship over this.

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  32. Cheryl, Art is still having to work on Sundays because he is still way behind. I could have gone to the office with him. He would have given me a ride to church, but then I would have needed to get a ride home and I did not want to bother with that since we were having a brunch. The lady who lives near me and most frequently gives me rides has been out of town for a month. I finally heard from her today. She got home last night. She is in her eighties and has a large family. She makes the rounds to visit family every so often. She is the only person at church right now who keeps up with me.

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  33. My husband is nine inches taller than I. I’m a couple inches about average for women, but he’s several inches above average for men.

    My brother who lost his first wife to cancer and remarried a year or so later is short, the shortest of my five brothers. (There is about a eight-inch gap between him and the oldest, and they are the first two.) His first wife was at most an inch shorter than he is, but he wanted a “short” wife the second time, and he got her. She’s about a foot shorter than he is (Filipino); I’ve heard different numbers for how tall she is, but she’s definitely under five feet, by three to five inches.

    What tall women say about tall men is approximately what I said about men my age in my last years of singleness: when I was 20, I would have considered marrying a 40-year-old, as I’m quite comfortable around people a generation or more older than I am, and I’ve had several friends 40 or 50 years older than I. But when I was 40 and the good single men were rare, I didn’t like seeing 40-year-olds considering 20-year-olds! I also had figured for several years that my most likely prospect was a widower with children . . . but then I noticed that most widowers married widows (if they remarried at all) and I wondered if I would get my chance. But my husband and I both got what we wanted: he preferred a woman who had not been married (fewer complications) and by the time I got married I preferred a widower to a bachelor (a bachelor of 45 or 50 would probably make a difficult transition into marriage, and he also wouldn’t have children).

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  37. Chas, I would not have concerned myself with weird interpretations had not people I know, particularly people who are related to me, concerned themselves with them. The weird interpretation of a pre-Adamic people is one I stumbled over just yesterday, coming from a certain in-law who has before subscribed to conspiracy theories that I have mentioned already on this blog. This is a serious matter to me, because the life of people very near to me are actually being affected by heretical teaching. As you have often said, there is no greater joy than to see your loved ones walk in truth. There is no greater sorrow, as Kizzie and others here could attest, to seem them walk in error and falsehood.

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  40. I’m the shortest adult in my family, and I think The Boy is going to catch up with me in the next couple years. He is already above my shoulder. (He inherited the tall genes.)

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  41. After getting to work this morning I realized there was a port event I had intended to cover in the early afternoon so I was able to scoot out of the cubby and do that for the afternoon, wrote the story from home.

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  46. Just got off work at the hospital. It was a low census day, so I had 3.5 hrs toward education and another 3.5 hrs on med/surg. That left me 5 hrs in the ER. Now I need my brain to shut off so I can sleep, as I have to be back at the track by 5.30.

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