Thursday, January 7, 2016
Blog 7 Lighthearted
Appreciate every single thing you have. especially your friends. Life is short and friends are few.
Sing this golden oldie, "What a Friend We have in Jesus.
I have been to many places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently you can't go there alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. I've also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there.
I have, however been in Sane. They don't even have an airport. You have to be driven there. I have made several trips there, thanks to my family, friends and work. I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to jump, and I'm not much into physical activity anymore.
I have also been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go and I try not to visit too often.
I've been in Flexible, but only when it was important to stand firm. Sometimes I'm in Capable, and I go there more often as I'm getting older.
One of my favorite places to be is in Suspense! It really gets the adrenaline flowing and pumps up my old heart! At my age I need all the stimuli I can get. I have been in Continent, and I don't remember what country I was in. It's an age thing. :) lol, haha, teehee and uffda!
Moving right along in my Notebook I came to this description of a new ice cream flavor,
Barocky Road, in honor of the 44th president of the US. It's a blend of half vanilla and half chocolate and surrounded by nuts and flakes. The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually denied as an ingredient. The nuts and flakes are very bitter and hard to swallow. The cost is $92.84 per scoop, so out of a hundred dollar bill you are at least promised some change.
When purchased it will be presented to you in a large beautiful cone but after you pay for it, the ice cream is taken out and passed to the person standing in line behind you at no charge. You are left with an almost empty wallet, staring at an empty cone and wondering what just happened. Then you realize that this is what "redistribution of wealth" is all about. Aren't you just stimulated? Uffda again!
I'm a teacher and it's time for closing Blog 7 so let's do so with this 3 word quiz. Complete the quotation or identify the source of the following:
In the beginning
In the beginning (not a typo, there are two)
When in the
If I speak
The Lord is
Blessed are the
In those days
Four score and
It was the
Twas the night
'Neath the spreading
Father and I
Oh say can
Now I lay
We the people
On the eighteenth
Give me your
Answers in Blog 8. See you later in Suspense or Sane or maybe even in Cahoots. Perhaps in dreamland it;s gettin' to be about that time. Roses are red and alyssum is white so I'll say my prayers and bid you good night.
Post number 6 titled 'Back in the Saddle Again'
Taking up where I left off or to quote Gene Autry, I'm Back In The Saddle Again. Blog 6 ta-da!
Do you recognize this signature song belonging to that good old Saturday matinee kids' movie idol, Gene Autrey? (spell check doesn't like either way I do his last name, with or w/o an e) Here's some more lyrics: I'm back in the saddle again, Out where a friend is a friend. Where the lonely cattle feed on the lowly jimson weed, I'm back in the saddle again. I'm back in the saddle again, totin' my old forty four, Where I sleep out every night and the only law is right, I'm back in the saddle again.
Now in 2016 it's a sad commentary on the times here in the good old USA that Gene would be in trouble for 'totin'.
But I like my 'floral tribute' openings better. Sing it; Roses are red my love, violets are blue oo oo, Now I am back my dears, Writing to you. (Yuck that's sweet enuf to make one sick!) But it rhymes.
So I haven't written for over 2 years and I think the reason is it's because there are so many word games to play, so many FB posts to click on and You Tube channels to watch and so many books to read and crossword puzzles to do. I'm busy. Busy doing nothing some might say, but. some I say, 'It's what I enjoy so go fly a kite!'
The weather is running true to form for winter. Twenty three degrees above and snowing. The forecast is for one to one and a half inches by tomorrow. Looks like it's coming true. But we live in this swell house all snug and warm so 'Let it Snow, Let it snow, let it snow!' Love u Lorel!
Lalon enjoys playing solitaire on his Ipad and even checks out emails and FB once in awhile. He also likes to read but he limits his reading time to 30 or 40 minute segments off and on during the day to prevent eye strain. Even so he gets through a couple books a week. He is missing the football season but he won the family's Fantasy Football League so that made him sort of bright eyed and bushy tailed, also a happy camper, and a jolly good fellow. 2016 for him is off to a good start eh?
Just awhile ago my jolly good fellow folded a load of clothes for me whilst I was struggling to do the floral tribute thing. I'm thinkin' he did the better job!
We still worship on Sundays at the Senior Center but are considering an offer of a church building near Medicine Lake whose congregation disbanded a few years ago. They left everything in it and all we need is a piece of land to put it on and the $ to pay for the moving etc. What a great opportunity.
Several women from church are meeting here again in 2016 for fellowship and to study the Bible on Wednesday mornings. We listened to Dr. David Jeremiah on the topic of Spiritual Warfare this week. It's a 10 or 12 week course. The main text was from Ephesians 6 about putting on the whole armor of God and having done so to STAND, for the enemy the roaring lion goes about seeking whom he may devour. ( My thought here: may not can. May implies permission, can, ability.) The lion wants to come up behind you and snap your neck in his jaws,severing spinal cord. If you look/stare him in the eyes, keeping him in front of you at all times, he will back away defeated. Another point Don't Run! Stand! Don't underestimate the adversary...The believer is his enemy. He and his minions seek us out to destroy us by any and all means.
That's another of my dislikes. Minions. So popular now on FB. I've never heard the term applied to any other but the devil. Webster's Collegiate says, ;a servile follower or subordinate. Anyway the word leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The devil's minions are not funny to me and no amount of cutesy one-eyed characterization will make them so in my thinking.
I can't seem to make this Blog # 6 be very lighthearted. Why is that? I'm sort of in a preaching warning mood. Like anyone but me will ever read this anyway so i may as well vent and be done with it. I've copied things in my ;notebooks that I'll record here.
No. 1: Norman Matton Thomas Nov.21, 1884 to Dec. 19,1968 Leading American Socialist, Pacifist, and six times Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party of America in a 1944 speech said this: "The American people will never knowingly accept socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing that it happened." He went on to say, "I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist party. The Democrat party has adopted our platform.
No.2: From The City On the Hill date Nov. 25 2012---Today's Saphire, Before Leaving the Mayflower.
They'd come across the Atlantic Ocean through rough seas and storms 66 days locked up in small quarters. Finally they came to solid ground. It was Saturday afternoon. Despite their eagerness, hunger and seasickness, they didn't set foot on land until Monday. Why? They knew before they embarked on this new life they had to begin in prayer and worship. And it was from these weary but faithful travelers that came the civilization known as the United States of America.
The USA isn't perfect but think how different the world would be without it. Without America there would likely be no Israel in the world. Millions of the poor and persecuted would have perished and the world would be ruled by Stalin or Hitler or their followers.(minions?) And it all began with prayer and worship!
Before we set foot in our new day, new job, new relationship, new ministry, let's be wise pilgrims and do as they did in the Mayflower.
Find time and dedicate it to the LORD, seek His will and all these things shall be added unto you. Seek ye first the kingdom of God...
I'm thinking Blog 6 is long enough and some funny stuff is showing up in my notebooks. Blog 7 may be lighthearted! Hooray!
Do you recognize this signature song belonging to that good old Saturday matinee kids' movie idol, Gene Autrey? (spell check doesn't like either way I do his last name, with or w/o an e) Here's some more lyrics: I'm back in the saddle again, Out where a friend is a friend. Where the lonely cattle feed on the lowly jimson weed, I'm back in the saddle again. I'm back in the saddle again, totin' my old forty four, Where I sleep out every night and the only law is right, I'm back in the saddle again.
Now in 2016 it's a sad commentary on the times here in the good old USA that Gene would be in trouble for 'totin'.
But I like my 'floral tribute' openings better. Sing it; Roses are red my love, violets are blue oo oo, Now I am back my dears, Writing to you. (Yuck that's sweet enuf to make one sick!) But it rhymes.
So I haven't written for over 2 years and I think the reason is it's because there are so many word games to play, so many FB posts to click on and You Tube channels to watch and so many books to read and crossword puzzles to do. I'm busy. Busy doing nothing some might say, but. some I say, 'It's what I enjoy so go fly a kite!'
The weather is running true to form for winter. Twenty three degrees above and snowing. The forecast is for one to one and a half inches by tomorrow. Looks like it's coming true. But we live in this swell house all snug and warm so 'Let it Snow, Let it snow, let it snow!' Love u Lorel!
Lalon enjoys playing solitaire on his Ipad and even checks out emails and FB once in awhile. He also likes to read but he limits his reading time to 30 or 40 minute segments off and on during the day to prevent eye strain. Even so he gets through a couple books a week. He is missing the football season but he won the family's Fantasy Football League so that made him sort of bright eyed and bushy tailed, also a happy camper, and a jolly good fellow. 2016 for him is off to a good start eh?
Just awhile ago my jolly good fellow folded a load of clothes for me whilst I was struggling to do the floral tribute thing. I'm thinkin' he did the better job!
We still worship on Sundays at the Senior Center but are considering an offer of a church building near Medicine Lake whose congregation disbanded a few years ago. They left everything in it and all we need is a piece of land to put it on and the $ to pay for the moving etc. What a great opportunity.
Several women from church are meeting here again in 2016 for fellowship and to study the Bible on Wednesday mornings. We listened to Dr. David Jeremiah on the topic of Spiritual Warfare this week. It's a 10 or 12 week course. The main text was from Ephesians 6 about putting on the whole armor of God and having done so to STAND, for the enemy the roaring lion goes about seeking whom he may devour. ( My thought here: may not can. May implies permission, can, ability.) The lion wants to come up behind you and snap your neck in his jaws,severing spinal cord. If you look/stare him in the eyes, keeping him in front of you at all times, he will back away defeated. Another point Don't Run! Stand! Don't underestimate the adversary...The believer is his enemy. He and his minions seek us out to destroy us by any and all means.
That's another of my dislikes. Minions. So popular now on FB. I've never heard the term applied to any other but the devil. Webster's Collegiate says, ;a servile follower or subordinate. Anyway the word leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The devil's minions are not funny to me and no amount of cutesy one-eyed characterization will make them so in my thinking.
I can't seem to make this Blog # 6 be very lighthearted. Why is that? I'm sort of in a preaching warning mood. Like anyone but me will ever read this anyway so i may as well vent and be done with it. I've copied things in my ;notebooks that I'll record here.
No. 1: Norman Matton Thomas Nov.21, 1884 to Dec. 19,1968 Leading American Socialist, Pacifist, and six times Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party of America in a 1944 speech said this: "The American people will never knowingly accept socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing that it happened." He went on to say, "I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist party. The Democrat party has adopted our platform.
No.2: From The City On the Hill date Nov. 25 2012---Today's Saphire, Before Leaving the Mayflower.
They'd come across the Atlantic Ocean through rough seas and storms 66 days locked up in small quarters. Finally they came to solid ground. It was Saturday afternoon. Despite their eagerness, hunger and seasickness, they didn't set foot on land until Monday. Why? They knew before they embarked on this new life they had to begin in prayer and worship. And it was from these weary but faithful travelers that came the civilization known as the United States of America.
The USA isn't perfect but think how different the world would be without it. Without America there would likely be no Israel in the world. Millions of the poor and persecuted would have perished and the world would be ruled by Stalin or Hitler or their followers.(minions?) And it all began with prayer and worship!
Before we set foot in our new day, new job, new relationship, new ministry, let's be wise pilgrims and do as they did in the Mayflower.
Find time and dedicate it to the LORD, seek His will and all these things shall be added unto you. Seek ye first the kingdom of God...
I'm thinking Blog 6 is long enough and some funny stuff is showing up in my notebooks. Blog 7 may be lighthearted! Hooray!
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