Good evening Jo
Good morning everyone else.
I am on Google, not Yahoo now. It takes a couple of more clicks, but the result is the same.
I get to Choose both Gamecocks & Boilermakers in the football pool this week.
I will deal with that later.
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Morning, Chas. Glad to see that you figured out how to get on and visit us.
The teacher meetings were good today. Especially the one that was supposed to last for 45 minutes and went for over two hours. We were talking about depression in teens and then got to sharing things that were hard for us. A doctor did the teaching and he knew what we were all dealing with.
Good Morning Everyone. I am trying to work from home at least half of today. I am going to meet one of my agents for lunch today because she is discouraged and ready to leave the company and I truly believe she has what it takes to be successful.
I had a mini meltdown at work yesterday due to frustration. We had a calendar planning meeting a couple of months ago, and I wrote it on my calendar to put an event together on the 18th. I reminded someone of it yesterday and only one other person had it on his calendar. I also let the receptionist’s manager know that she was back to her silent treatment and refusal to speak with me. He had the nerve to ask me what I wanted to do about it. I asked him if he was familiar with the stages of grief and told him I had moved to the anger phase and am not sure any relationship between the two of us can be salvaged. That breakdown in communication is where the disconnect is happening.
Next weekend I am treating myself to a women’t retreat on the beach. We will be using the book Perfectly Yourself https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/684382.Perfectly_Yourself
Morning all. Well I went to bed early, but got up due to some leg pain. So I had to eat and take advil. Then I finally answered the email about shortening my time at home. I said that I would be unable to do so and gave my reasons. The date that was mentioned is the day before school gets out and then we have a five week break. I simply cannot sit here for five weeks with nothing to do. Everyone leaves, no one will be at school. I need to be with my family and friends. The doctor doing the presentation today said that he would give me a doctors note. He said it jokingly, but we all knew that he meant it. I feel good about my response.
Good morning from Georgia where it started out the day in the 40s.
This has been such a week of social events for me. The big dinner tonight and on Saturday another ladies’ gathering. I enjoy it all, but feel pretty drained.
Your retreat sounds perfect, Kim. Sorry to hear that Sour Suzy is back at the same pit of gloom. She needs to twist her head back on straight.
I have a fairly busy weekend as far as the calendar is concerned. I may not end up fitting it all in (and two “events” overlap, so in fact I can’t), but last night was my every-other-week Bible study, and tonight is the every-week one (and we didn’t go the last two weeks, and the week before that he and I actually did go, but no one else did, so we cancelled it . . . so I have to go tonight, though tonight also is the annual meeting of our condo association, so my husband will go to the meeting and I will go to the Bible study). Then Saturday is a Psalm sing at the home of one of our church families, with a husband who is musically trained; they hosted one last year and we weren’t able to go, so I really want to go to this one. But it’s at 2:00 p.m. and at noon is the funeral for the 19-year-old girl who just died. Though I never met her, the girl’s mother asked our pastor to preach it because “after he visited her in May [when she professed her faith in Christ], she was different.” So I think it’s a good idea to have some of our church people there loving that family.
And then of course there is Sunday, morning and evening services. Generally I’m a two-events-a-week person, max (Sunday services don’t count), but all of these are important in some way, and though I can’t attend the annual meeting, I’m going to try to do the rest of it. The funeral may have to go, I don’t know.
The cardinal in the header: Cardinals are very, very common in southern Indiana. As soon as I looked around at the scenery down here, when we were preparing to move here, I knew that they would be. They nest fairly low (three to twelve feet above the ground), and so areas with a lot of undergrowth offer a much better opportunity for them. I have at times walked along the trail near our home, just half a mile of it, and seen eight or ten cardinals in the course of the walk. In the spring, when I would see one male cardinal chase another (establishing territories), almost invariably a third male would come along, too. There are so many of them they live really close together.
Ten years ago I wouldn’t have imagined that the day would come that I would be walking along a trail with a camera that can zoom in well on birds and I wouldn’t even bother focusing on a cardinal since I see so many of them. But that is true. I usually end up getting a shot or two if I see several of the birds, because one of them will be in a pose worth getting. But now I pretty much only photograph them if they are in a good location, like this cardinal against the greenery.
Your pastor friend just needs to remember that while we cannot see the spirit world with our eyes, Christ has opened our eyes that there IS a spirit world all around us. If we pay attention to it we can “see” it. We sort of see glimpses of it through the corner of our eyes; we can see the spirits, both good and bad, especially if we put on “the whole armor of God.” Daily. And pay attention to our spirit, the Holy Spirit, when He calls attention to what is going on around us.
That pastor knows all he needs to preach and teach about that less visible spirit world. Many Africans will have an easier time “seeing” those spirits. They have not been taught that there IS no such thing by science. Our whole society got rid of those superstitions with the Salem Witch Trials. (I may be related to the Sheriff who did the arresting, and maybe to one of the three accusers!)
I’m feeling ‘slow’ this morning. I have a 2 p.m. interview and am doing a couple stories that aren’t really very demanding today and tomorrow, unless something else breaks. So I’m hoping for an easy rest of the week. On Monday we have staff meetings to discuss the digital subscriptions so I’ll be going into the office for that; then Tuesday I take the cat to the vet for the expensive dental surgery. Groan. Then the following day I believe is our editor’s last day so it’ll be her going-away lunch and I’ll be at the office again that day.
I added some tiny orange lights around my outdoor pumpkins and on my fall wreath on the front porch last night, but am afraid it now looks too “Halloween,” not so much “fall harvest.” Oh well, there are no witches or ghosts or “scary” face pumpkins or other overtly Halloween items on the porch or patio, just the plain, uncarved pumpkins now with little lights (and some faux maple leaves mixed in). The lights are tiny battery-operated ones. Maybe I should have used plain warm white lights.
I am looking forward to handing out candy this year for a little while, the first time in quite a while as I typically never made it home from work (in my commuting days) much before 7 p.m. And by then it always seemed too late, the festivities were half over with and I needed some time to unwind — plus I usually hadn’t bought candy for those very reasons anyway; so I’d just keep the lights out in the front and skip the whole thing. But now that I’m working from home, I figure I can be ready for the little ones in the early evening at least (I probably will turn the lights out a bit later when the throngs of rowdier older kids and teens start running the streets — we typically get a lot of trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood and the door-knocking goes on until 9 p.m.).
I heard back from my friend in Colorado whom I’d mentioned yesterday (it had been a month and I failed to answer her last text to me), so I was glad to know all is well. She said she is getting more tired in general, but she must be about 90 now. She’d had a return after many years of breast cancer in the past year so they did a localized surgery. She tried some followup chemo but could not tolerate it and her doctors told her not to worry, her cancer is a very slow-growing kind and, for now, remains gone; the effects of the chemo simply weren’t going to be that much of a benefit in her case.
She said she’s still driving during the daytime but not on freeways — which is a little bit of a concern as some of us worried about her driving even when she was still living here. She’d been getting into some semi-regular fender benders and has had at least one that I know of since moving to Colorado. She was raised in Minnesota so is snow savvy although it had been many years since she’d had to deal with it (and I get the feeling she’s not so fond of it — I don’t think she goes out in the ice or snow). She and her husband settled early on in one of our local beach cities, raising their 3 children. It was a modest house and was a very modest, middle-class neighborhood when they bought; but they got over $1 million when they sold it several years ago. That particular city has some of the highest property values in the area now. Those who bought homes many years ago, in the ’50s, certainly reaped big financial benefits over time.
Peter, I get it. We watched those games, and seven runs in the first inning was a particularly bad ending to being swept. The Cardinals succeeded in keeping our Cubs out of the post-season (losing them their manager in the process–the Cubs should have had a better season than they had, really), and then the Cardinals went down in flames. But the Dodgers not making it to the World Series is more surprising.
Catholic cousin sent me a book that describes what we are dealing with very closely. The author wants people to check for physical causes and mental illness and work with docs and psychiatrists as needed but also to consider that we are all oppressed to some extent. Temptation comes through the world, through the flesh, and through demons trying to sidetrack us from Truth. Interesting. He says that demons, like a bully on the playground, seek out the weaker ones. Those with mental illness or childhood trauma, etc. Sound familiar?
I agree with Bob B. and Mumsee that there are real demons(And I might add, real angels, -I have encountered mine.) in the world. They work on whoever is weak or otherwise vulnerable. My dad was led astray for years after my brother was killed
I in the last several years, come to believe that the spiritual world is more real than the temporary existence we are dealing with now.
But this is all we have at the present. We have to deal with it.
We are in the physical world, but we also deal with the spiritual. We have the Holy Spirit living in us, making us like Him. We have Scripture to read and meditate on, we have prayer. We need to be about the business and aware that others are about theirs.
After hours of listening to yelling and telling God to get out of her life, and telling Him to remove His sweet Spirit from her, she has settled down. I was able to talk about a few of the things we know about demons and told her that she, the real her, is a believer and God will not remove Himself from her or let her go. She calmed down and decided to go watch a movie. But not before telling me she thinks I am correct because every time she tells God to leave or tries to flee from Him, He holds on to her and will not let her go. And she is good with that.
Part of what we mentioned yesterday is that this centre is under spiritual attack and, yes, they are going after children as that removes the whole family.
Wandering Views 
Good evening Jo
Good morning everyone else.
I am on Google, not Yahoo now. It takes a couple of more clicks, but the result is the same.
I get to Choose both Gamecocks & Boilermakers in the football pool this week.
I will deal with that later.
.
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Morning, Chas. Glad to see that you figured out how to get on and visit us.
The teacher meetings were good today. Especially the one that was supposed to last for 45 minutes and went for over two hours. We were talking about depression in teens and then got to sharing things that were hard for us. A doctor did the teaching and he knew what we were all dealing with.
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Good morning!
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Jo, that sounds like a good time of deeper discussion.
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Good Morning Everyone. I am trying to work from home at least half of today. I am going to meet one of my agents for lunch today because she is discouraged and ready to leave the company and I truly believe she has what it takes to be successful.
I had a mini meltdown at work yesterday due to frustration. We had a calendar planning meeting a couple of months ago, and I wrote it on my calendar to put an event together on the 18th. I reminded someone of it yesterday and only one other person had it on his calendar. I also let the receptionist’s manager know that she was back to her silent treatment and refusal to speak with me. He had the nerve to ask me what I wanted to do about it. I asked him if he was familiar with the stages of grief and told him I had moved to the anger phase and am not sure any relationship between the two of us can be salvaged. That breakdown in communication is where the disconnect is happening.
Next weekend I am treating myself to a women’t retreat on the beach. We will be using the book Perfectly Yourself
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/684382.Perfectly_Yourself
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Good morning, though rather dark yet.
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Morning all. Well I went to bed early, but got up due to some leg pain. So I had to eat and take advil. Then I finally answered the email about shortening my time at home. I said that I would be unable to do so and gave my reasons. The date that was mentioned is the day before school gets out and then we have a five week break. I simply cannot sit here for five weeks with nothing to do. Everyone leaves, no one will be at school. I need to be with my family and friends. The doctor doing the presentation today said that he would give me a doctors note. He said it jokingly, but we all knew that he meant it. I feel good about my response.
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Good morning from Georgia where it started out the day in the 40s.
This has been such a week of social events for me. The big dinner tonight and on Saturday another ladies’ gathering. I enjoy it all, but feel pretty drained.
Your retreat sounds perfect, Kim. Sorry to hear that Sour Suzy is back at the same pit of gloom. She needs to twist her head back on straight.
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Beautiful bird! We don’t have them that color out here. Enjoy the retreat, Kim. You need it!
As do many of us!
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Look what one of my talented people did. Who wants to visit P’cola?
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/39272161?adults=1&ref_device_id=a883c1fcd16f4bd33d88f15e9b897197a1e8d2fc&user_id=301499701&fbclid=IwAR1e_oG68_4i0xXKVg2q3gS2LEGUTa9ATia5Pkc4jgbFjkcYug5_-Sbhsl0&_branch_match_id=713382891987348236&source_impression_id=p3_1571321964_lp2Jsc4TfMgN2aOJ
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Pretty! Been there, done that, no thanks.
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About demons:
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I have a fairly busy weekend as far as the calendar is concerned. I may not end up fitting it all in (and two “events” overlap, so in fact I can’t), but last night was my every-other-week Bible study, and tonight is the every-week one (and we didn’t go the last two weeks, and the week before that he and I actually did go, but no one else did, so we cancelled it . . . so I have to go tonight, though tonight also is the annual meeting of our condo association, so my husband will go to the meeting and I will go to the Bible study). Then Saturday is a Psalm sing at the home of one of our church families, with a husband who is musically trained; they hosted one last year and we weren’t able to go, so I really want to go to this one. But it’s at 2:00 p.m. and at noon is the funeral for the 19-year-old girl who just died. Though I never met her, the girl’s mother asked our pastor to preach it because “after he visited her in May [when she professed her faith in Christ], she was different.” So I think it’s a good idea to have some of our church people there loving that family.
And then of course there is Sunday, morning and evening services. Generally I’m a two-events-a-week person, max (Sunday services don’t count), but all of these are important in some way, and though I can’t attend the annual meeting, I’m going to try to do the rest of it. The funeral may have to go, I don’t know.
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The cardinal in the header: Cardinals are very, very common in southern Indiana. As soon as I looked around at the scenery down here, when we were preparing to move here, I knew that they would be. They nest fairly low (three to twelve feet above the ground), and so areas with a lot of undergrowth offer a much better opportunity for them. I have at times walked along the trail near our home, just half a mile of it, and seen eight or ten cardinals in the course of the walk. In the spring, when I would see one male cardinal chase another (establishing territories), almost invariably a third male would come along, too. There are so many of them they live really close together.
Ten years ago I wouldn’t have imagined that the day would come that I would be walking along a trail with a camera that can zoom in well on birds and I wouldn’t even bother focusing on a cardinal since I see so many of them. But that is true. I usually end up getting a shot or two if I see several of the birds, because one of them will be in a pose worth getting. But now I pretty much only photograph them if they are in a good location, like this cardinal against the greenery.
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Michelle,
Your pastor friend just needs to remember that while we cannot see the spirit world with our eyes, Christ has opened our eyes that there IS a spirit world all around us. If we pay attention to it we can “see” it. We sort of see glimpses of it through the corner of our eyes; we can see the spirits, both good and bad, especially if we put on “the whole armor of God.” Daily. And pay attention to our spirit, the Holy Spirit, when He calls attention to what is going on around us.
That pastor knows all he needs to preach and teach about that less visible spirit world. Many Africans will have an easier time “seeing” those spirits. They have not been taught that there IS no such thing by science. Our whole society got rid of those superstitions with the Salem Witch Trials. (I may be related to the Sheriff who did the arresting, and maybe to one of the three accusers!)
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I’m feeling ‘slow’ this morning. I have a 2 p.m. interview and am doing a couple stories that aren’t really very demanding today and tomorrow, unless something else breaks. So I’m hoping for an easy rest of the week. On Monday we have staff meetings to discuss the digital subscriptions so I’ll be going into the office for that; then Tuesday I take the cat to the vet for the expensive dental surgery. Groan. Then the following day I believe is our editor’s last day so it’ll be her going-away lunch and I’ll be at the office again that day.
I added some tiny orange lights around my outdoor pumpkins and on my fall wreath on the front porch last night, but am afraid it now looks too “Halloween,” not so much “fall harvest.” Oh well, there are no witches or ghosts or “scary” face pumpkins or other overtly Halloween items on the porch or patio, just the plain, uncarved pumpkins now with little lights (and some faux maple leaves mixed in). The lights are tiny battery-operated ones. Maybe I should have used plain warm white lights.
I am looking forward to handing out candy this year for a little while, the first time in quite a while as I typically never made it home from work (in my commuting days) much before 7 p.m. And by then it always seemed too late, the festivities were half over with and I needed some time to unwind — plus I usually hadn’t bought candy for those very reasons anyway; so I’d just keep the lights out in the front and skip the whole thing. But now that I’m working from home, I figure I can be ready for the little ones in the early evening at least (I probably will turn the lights out a bit later when the throngs of rowdier older kids and teens start running the streets — we typically get a lot of trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood and the door-knocking goes on until 9 p.m.).
I heard back from my friend in Colorado whom I’d mentioned yesterday (it had been a month and I failed to answer her last text to me), so I was glad to know all is well. She said she is getting more tired in general, but she must be about 90 now. She’d had a return after many years of breast cancer in the past year so they did a localized surgery. She tried some followup chemo but could not tolerate it and her doctors told her not to worry, her cancer is a very slow-growing kind and, for now, remains gone; the effects of the chemo simply weren’t going to be that much of a benefit in her case.
She said she’s still driving during the daytime but not on freeways — which is a little bit of a concern as some of us worried about her driving even when she was still living here. She’d been getting into some semi-regular fender benders and has had at least one that I know of since moving to Colorado. She was raised in Minnesota so is snow savvy although it had been many years since she’d had to deal with it (and I get the feeling she’s not so fond of it — I don’t think she goes out in the ice or snow). She and her husband settled early on in one of our local beach cities, raising their 3 children. It was a modest house and was a very modest, middle-class neighborhood when they bought; but they got over $1 million when they sold it several years ago. That particular city has some of the highest property values in the area now. Those who bought homes many years ago, in the ’50s, certainly reaped big financial benefits over time.
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That was ‘me.’
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People around here aren’t feeling too happy about cardinals after Tuesday night. It’s too embarrassing for them to have their team lose in four games.
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Peter, I get it. We watched those games, and seven runs in the first inning was a particularly bad ending to being swept. The Cardinals succeeded in keeping our Cubs out of the post-season (losing them their manager in the process–the Cubs should have had a better season than they had, really), and then the Cardinals went down in flames. But the Dodgers not making it to the World Series is more surprising.
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Catholic cousin sent me a book that describes what we are dealing with very closely. The author wants people to check for physical causes and mental illness and work with docs and psychiatrists as needed but also to consider that we are all oppressed to some extent. Temptation comes through the world, through the flesh, and through demons trying to sidetrack us from Truth. Interesting. He says that demons, like a bully on the playground, seek out the weaker ones. Those with mental illness or childhood trauma, etc. Sound familiar?
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“But the Dodgers not making it to the World Series is more surprising.”
Oh stop.
Tell me about it.
It’s become a pattern — they have these great seasons and then choke in the end. At least they’re predictable.
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I agree with Bob B. and Mumsee that there are real demons(And I might add, real angels, -I have encountered mine.) in the world. They work on whoever is weak or otherwise vulnerable. My dad was led astray for years after my brother was killed
I in the last several years, come to believe that the spiritual world is more real than the temporary existence we are dealing with now.
But this is all we have at the present. We have to deal with it.
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We are in the physical world, but we also deal with the spiritual. We have the Holy Spirit living in us, making us like Him. We have Scripture to read and meditate on, we have prayer. We need to be about the business and aware that others are about theirs.
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After hours of listening to yelling and telling God to get out of her life, and telling Him to remove His sweet Spirit from her, she has settled down. I was able to talk about a few of the things we know about demons and told her that she, the real her, is a believer and God will not remove Himself from her or let her go. She calmed down and decided to go watch a movie. But not before telling me she thinks I am correct because every time she tells God to leave or tries to flee from Him, He holds on to her and will not let her go. And she is good with that.
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Part of what we mentioned yesterday is that this centre is under spiritual attack and, yes, they are going after children as that removes the whole family.
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Church of the Apostles sent me a link to my one-hour audio talk, “A Call to Prayer: A Case Study in the Lives of My Utmost for His Highest’s Authors.”
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/zalwec5iea6vrqr/190912-WM_A%20Call%20to%20Pray.mp3?dl=0
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half way through it, you did good!
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Deputy came, deputy left, she is still here. Nothing they can do.
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Kathaleena,
I sent you an email. You can respond there if you’re still having issues. Let me know what it’s doing to you.
Everyone else,
Kathleena is having issues commenting. Anyone else?
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Oh it is about 2 in the morning…let’s see if I can comment on here. I am guessing y’all are asleep 😊
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not everyone is asleep
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