Thoughts for the Week~July 18

[Janet]

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Quote of the Week

You must give something to your fellow men--
even if it's a little thing, do something
for others--something for which you get
no pay but the privilege of doing it.  

Albert Schweitzer

Morning Devotional...






Scripture: Matthew 7:16
"Ye shall know them by their fruits" KJV

The story is told of a briar growing in a ditch --- it was a tangled mass of prickly plants. There came along a Creative Gardner with his spade. As he dug around it and lifted it up the briar said to itself, "What is this maniac doing? Doesn't he know I am a worthless briar --- I'm a tangled mass of prickly plants that no one is interested in?"    

But the Creative Gardner took the briar into his garden and trans-planted it amid his flowers. All the while the briar was saying to itself, "What a mistake he has made planting me among these beautiful roses."

Then the Creative Gardner came once more and made a slit in the briar with his sharp knife. He grafted it with a rose and when summer came lovely roses were blooming all over that old briar. Then the Gardner said in polite conversation to the briar, "How beautiful you have become --- but your beauty is not due to what came out --- but what I put in."  

And so it is with my relationship with Jesus. What a tangled mess I am, but for any beauty or fruit at all, it is for what Jesus has put inside me.

Prayer:  Father thank you for sending Jesus to transplant me into what YOU desire. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!

[JudyB]

Thank you Janet.... for this reminder.

[JudyB]

Janet your story reminded me of this chorus.

BEAUTY FOR ASHES

He gave me beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness
That we might be trees of righteousness
The planting of the Lord that He might be glorified.

[Jeanne Lee]

Janet, thank you for that reminder that any good that I am or do is not of me, but of Him.

[Marilyn]

Amen!! Thank you Janet for the devotion for this week.

[Carol]

Janet:  Nice to see your devotion this week.  Grateful for our gifts of internal beauty - roses among the thorns.   

Hugs and prayers have been working today and I send thanks to all.  We did go to church and sat at the very end of the aisle and no nosebleeds this entire day so that is really great.  Don wants to go up the hill and work at the cabin but wants to have at least one full day of no nosebleed before he takes off.  He also invited two couples over for breakfast on Thursday - he loves to make biscuits & gravy.

[Marilyn]

Carol Would you please FedEx me some of those Biscuits and gravy?

[Janet]

Thank you all for your kind comments on the devotional.

Carol, praise God!  I'm so happy for Don, and for you as well.  May the LACK of nosebleeds continue!

Today is our 29th anniversary!  We didn't do anything special.  I spent the afternoon getting things ready to enter in the fair.  John brought Beth  out, and she wanted to enter some of her things, so I had to find them, then I made out all her cards.  After they left, I decided to get some things ready to enter for myself.  It's surprising how many things I found that were on the list of collections.  You only need three of the items, so that isn't too hard.  I am working Mon, Tue, Thurs and Fri. this week, and working at the fair on Tuesday afternoon, all day Wednesday, and Sat. afternoon.  So I had to have things ready if I am to enter anything!  I finally ran out of entry cards, must get more tomorrow.

I am tired, so will be heading to bed soon.  5 AM comes might early!

[Ruth Ann Bice]

Hi, friends, well, it's the end of a nice day.

I had so many comments about last week's reading I've been catching up on. Janet, try to make certain that John has Skype installed on his computer, and that it is activated on Beth's. That way, they can speak with each other completely free on Skype's free internet software.

The only kind of voice activated software I know about is "Dragon", but I have no idea how it works.

Well, it's kinda late, so I'll close for tonight.

May God's richest blessings be on all who come here.

Ruth Ann

[Gord Brown]

   Hi to all.   Janet:  Thanks for the great devotion and it is powerful.  If people would read this type of devotional and think a lot about what it is saying they would be different people.

Larry:  I am sorry to here that you have not been feeling to well I do pray that the Lord give you strength to continue.

PAUL AND Pat: I am so glad to here that you are feeling some better and that you are able to drive again now you know what it feels like when I could not for two years.  Look after yourselves. Love ya Sis.

Al:  I amsorry to here that you have been sick also please look after yourself and I hope that you wife is o.k.

Judy B.  Happy belated Birthday hope that you had a wonderful time please say hi to John and the Family. How is the new baby doing. God bless all our love  Gord and Noreen.

To all others on C.P. Ihope that this week is good for all and that the Lord will give you many opportunity's to witness for him.  Don't be Shy for Jesus because he will give you the strength to do what ever you want to do for him


We had the op pertunity to go to Langcaster Pa. to the theater called Millennium owned by Sight and Sound and we saw a live Show called Joseph and it was like it jumped right out of the bible and it is so real and they have real animals  and they gave an invitation at the end it is so wonderful to see people doing this witness for Christ.     All the staff that work there have to give a written testimony before they get hired. We were so impressed.

[Larry Hanna]

Hi everyone.

Janet, thanks for the devotional.  I agree with Curtis that a desktop is probably best so that it doesn't walk off. 

I am feeling much better today.  About 6 pm last evening the pain stopped.  This morning I had to go to Home Depot to get a couple of things and decided I would save my energy and not risk bringing back the discomfort so used on the electric carts.  It sure helped as wasn't tired when I finished my shopping.  The aisles are so long in these big stores. 

Gord, that live show sounds very good.  Glad you got to see it.

Ruth Ann, I thought about the Dragon voice recognition software and know it works to get words on a document.  However, I wonder about being able to dial Skype or answering Skype.  I am sure such software exists but I haven't been able to locate it with a search. 

Janet, hope it cools down a bit this week for you since you are having the fair.  You really have a packed schedule this week. 

My only activity for the rest of the day is to go to my Monday men's luncheon.  We don't meet until 1 pm so after we are finished it makes a short afternoon.  The housekeepers were here today so everything is nice and clean and looks great.

[Marilyn]

Good Morning I have been to the gym and had a good workout. I stayed on the rowing machine for 2.5 minutes. The CD  loop for the amount of time we stay on each machine was the 50 second one when I got there changed it to the 40 second CD. I am working real hard to get rid of the love/fat handles around my midriff so I stayed a looong time on that machine. Going to Yoga class in a half and hour. That is all  so far this morning./

I don't have much on my agenda today, I'll walk the dogs,  sand work on stuff on my computer. It is a beautiful day that the Lord has made. Not overcast  not to hot and not cold the high will be 62°. Perfect weather.
for the ° mark it is  alt zero one seven six.  Alt 0176 on the ten key part of your keyboard.

[jimiam]

Hello guys, prayers to all for the new week.

Janet: Thanks for the wonderful verse and story with which to begin a new week. I am all too familiar with "tangled messes" I'm afraid. I praise God that no mess regardless of the tangles is too much for Christ Jesus, my Lord and my Master. That He would reach so low for me, He can and will do it for anyone who seeks Him. Thank you Jesus.

[Jeanne Lee]

Wow, Marilyn!  You sure made your point!     Doesn't help me, though.  There's no numerical keypad on my laptop so I'll just go on typing degree - which is really just as fast.   

[JudyB]

Marilyn I will continue to use the* as I can never remember the numbers,  There are too many other things I have to remember that I let this one go.

[Etta Sue]

Great devotional, Janet!  We all needed that reminder!

My talk at church was well received.  Several told me, 'Good job!'.  Now let's hope that I inspired others to receive the joy of giving as I have.

When I got home after eating out...no internet.  I made my dessert and went to my nephew's house for Ivalou's birthday.  When I got home...no internet.  I call their number...waited 24 minutes before talking to a human and then was told that my area is down because of a major component for internet that would not be fixed/back until the 20th!  But I noticed I had 4 lights on my modem at around 4pm today and here I am. 

I did get my photos all ready to take to the State Fair Saturday.  A couple from the photo guild is bringing her photos for me to take to the fair Saturday also.  My good deed of the year! 

It is so humid out...almost feels like rain but it is humidity!  Cooler today.  85°.  Jeanne, I have a Toshiba laptop and there is a Function (FN) button by my CTRL button.  I hold down FN and hit F11 and it turns some off my letter buttons into calculator numbers.  So with the calculator engaged, I hold down ALT and press M, J, 7, O and get °.  Now try to remember that all of you!!  Bet there were some of your VCR's that blinked 12:00 all the time!! Ha!

My company will be here around 6pm. so I had better get ready for them.

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[Jeanne Lee]

Etta Sue, I have that on my Toshiba, too.  But to find the alternatives for the various keys I need a spotlight.  They're on the edge of the keys and light gray against black.  Much easier to type "degrees" and be done with it!   

[Ruth]

I had a post already and the system ate it up

Ruth

[JudyB]

Etta Sue  You are right.  My radio's and VCR's flash 12:00 all the time or I start pushing buttons, till the flashing stops but the time is wrong all the time!  Mind you we have enough power outages that I really don't worry about it!!!

[Janet]

And........in the overall scheme of things, does it really matter if we type degrees or * instead of going to all the trouble to get the "Proper" symbol?  Not enough to yell about, methinks.    I posted just a little while ago, where did it go?  

I found it:  Not many posts today, I see.  I had a terrible night last night, finally got up at 4:30, so felt like a zombie at work; then the other gal didn't show up so I had to work a double shift.  Need I say I am tired?    But the good news is that I don't have to work tomorrow, since I worked longer today.  So I will have more time to get my stuff out to the fair.

And the bad news is that the handicapped van is acting up.  Not the engine, but the door and the ramp.  Now we can't even get the door to close.  John called us and we went to town and helped him get Beth back to the care home (he had taken her out to supper) and then I drove the van home with the back door wide open.  I had to stop and gather up things that were trying to blow out, but I made it okay.  We are hoping someone here can manage to take care of the problem.  Meanwhile, John is afoot.     Not a good time for this to happen.  Not at all.

Son-in-law Jeff is here visiting with us, I need to get off here. 

[JudyB]

I agree Janet. 

As to where your post went.........I really haven't been to cyberspace so I don't know!!!!!    Oh I see you found it!!!

[Janet]

Etta Sue, glad your little talk was well received.  Were you as nervous as you expected to be?  Good luck with your state fair entries.  We are just having our county fair here this week.

[JudyB]

Etta Sue good work on speaking in public!! I couldn't do that!

Janet I am curious.  What all are you entering? 

When we lived near Pat , she and I entered some things into a town fair.  It was fun and Pat won on some entries as did my father in law. 

[Marilyn]

I don't think I was yelling at anyone. I made the thing big so you would see it if you wanted to write it down.

[Janet]

Judy, I posted about this yesterday.  I am entering several things under Collections, and of course, some of my paintings, also some china painting.

[Janet]

Thanks, Marilyn, but if I did write it down, I would probably lose the paper!

[JudyB]

Sorry about that. I did read it, but life has been a little hectic.

[Ruth Ann Bice]

I searched for the character map and put a shortcut on the desktop for it. Then, when I want to get a character, I go to the desktop, open the character map, and can usually find it pretty quickly. Then all I have to do is copy and paste it into the text I'm using. Since I have tried for years to learn the various Alt key combinations without success, I surely was relieved to learn of the character map.

Y'all have a good afternoon.

Ruth Ann

How's this look? º

[JudyB]

Ruth Ann When I am in Word I can do it and do... But here I cannot remember the combination.  I have written it degree symbol combo down on paper, and promptly loose the paper.  So I have resorted to the * for the symbol.  

This is the most I have posted in a LOOOONG time. Good night all!

[Larry Hanna]

Hi everyone.  It is going to be hot here today but won't have to be outside after lunch.  Yesterday I bought some chemicals to put a barrier around the house to keep the bugs out.  We have used it for several years and it works very well.  This morning I went to the storage shed and brought the spreader to the house.  Pat then walked around the house spreading it.  When I got home from coffee I took the spreader back to the shed and back to the house and feel very exhausted.  I am going to have to build up some tolerance. 

Marilyn, thanks for the info. If it were 62 here I would have to put on a sweather.    I am like some of the others in not being able to remember that function key combinations.  I read something on Seniors & Friends this morning that what I had forgotten I had stored on a disk somewhere.  I think I will also continue to write degree and can do it as quickly as using the sign. 

Etta Sue, I just knew you would do well in your talk.  It is always a good feeling when we share some of ourselves with others. 

Janet, sorry to hear of the problem with the van.  Do hope it can be locally repaired quickly so John has transportation.