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If anyone would have asked me where cranberries were grown, I would have never thought of Canada.  Seems to me they should grow in a warmer climate.  Learned something! 

Jane ~ I prayed for ya and will continue!

Church was great today.  So glad that Pastor Steve is back after his heart attack.  I am still taking photos that need to be turned in before March 1st...but if I go to Florida, it will be before that.  Since people are signing up for the photo setting in the Senior classroom, our Sunday School class is in the sanctuary.  Later six of us women went out to eat.  A real nice day.

It's going to be a busy week this coming week.  I have something to do every day. 

Ivalou and I are trying to talk Marge into going with Betty, Ivalou and I to Florida.  She still works so she needs to let them know she wants time off from work.  We have a time slot of Feb 24 thru Mar 5 for our trip.  I am thinking 8 days at the most.  Surely she can handle that.

Thank you Etta Sue.

Still praying about the situation in Australia.  Really bad there.

Quiet day here.  I am not sewing just having a "day of rest".  May even lay down and have 40 winks.

Have a great day everyone.

Thank you all for the Birthday Greeting and wishes.

Jane I am praying for you.

I had a very nice birthday weekend. The Mexican dinner was absolutely wonderful.
Keith bought me a German Chocolate cake, the kids came over on Saturday for Cake and Ice Cream after Forest's basketball game.They gave me a hooded pullover Humboldt Sweatshirt. I have been wanting on of those for some time. I did find a sip up the front hooded sweat shirt at place that give away used free clothes.

 

Good morning, Everyone.  I read something this morning that I had read long ago, but found it still so relevant.

"He who would pray, must obey. He who would get anything out of his prayers, must be in perfect harmony with God. Prayer puts into those who sincerely pray a spirit of obedience, for the spirit of disobedience is not of God and belongs not to God's praying hosts. An obedient life is a great help to prayer. In fact, an obedient life is a necessity to prayer, to the sort which accomplishes things. The absence of an obedient life makes prayer an empty performance, a mere misnomer." E.M. Bounds

1 John 3:22 "And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we KEEP His commandments and DO those things that are pleasing in His sight."

In His Grip,
Kevin

Yawn......I was so drowsy I just lay down and took a little nap!  Now I'm up and at 'em again!

Good to see your post, Kevin!  I have missed you around here.  And those words are so, so true.  As I see and hear more these days which tells me "the time is near, even at the doors," I am trying to be more and more obedient to the Word.

Jane, I think I probably understand your feeling of recent days maybe better than anyone else here, and I am praying for you, dear sister. 

Church was awesome today.  The pastor felt an overwhelming burden to pray for the people, and that is all that was done during the worship hour.  Many went forward for prayer for their needs.  I just basked in the glory of the presence of the Lord.

Ruth Ann, it is so good to read your posts now and be able to tell how much less stress there is in your life these days.  And congratulations on the coming great-grandchild!!  I have one of those, and she is so sweet!  (Naturally---what else?) 

We are not getting the rain that was predicted for this area.  Still warm and dry.

The death toll in Australia a few minutes ago stood at 108.  What a terrible, terrible thing those fires are.  I am praying for everyone there.

I actually laid out my suitcase on the spare bed and put a few items in it today!  The countdown is on! 

I need to order Darrel another pair of compression stockings before the trip.  I found a site, for any of you who are interested.... it is www.ForYourLegs.com   That didn't change colors, but anyway, that's the name of it.  I'm going there now!

I hope you all have a pleasant evening, and God bless!

I am heading to bed.  In a lot of pain tonught, Nothing I can't handle but rest is the best "handle" for it.

That is a real mess in Austrailia.  Been watching the news.  So sad.

Night all

Hi, friends,

Yes, the stress has begun to lift. After many years of working difficult jobs that required more than 8 hours a day, followed by the recovery from both retirement and the knee replacement, then having the move laid on me was nearly more than I could bear. Thanks for upholding me in prayer while I was in crisis mode.

My granddaughter in law has started a blog about the Bice baby-to-be! What fun to read her entries. They've already heard the little one's heartbeat. Wow, I don't think I had even gone to the doctor at approximately the same time during my pregnancies. It's amazing what we've learned, isn't it. For all the stresses and for all the strains, I think I prefer these days to the "bad ole days." 

Y'all have a great evening.

Got up this morning to a red sky.  I guess we are in for some not so nice weather. 

Girls are off to school, lunches were made last night so they were ahead of the game.

Have a good day folks.

Good Morning, All is well here on my home front. It rained last night, there was a full moon and boy is it ever cold this morning, My shoe stuck on the iron grate on my porch after I walked across the crunching lawn. It is not as cold here as other place where some of you live.

As you can tell there is not much new here and I don't have  anything intelligent to say. 

Bye for now

Kevin I really appreciated that exerpt from
E.M. Bounds.  I have been trying to get this point across to my girls.  He said it well.  Again thank you.

The latest news I heard on the Austrailian front is that some of these fires have been deliberately set.  How terrible.  Whatever gets into their heads.

I have the shark to feed and sewing to get done.  TTYL

Good morning, friends,

I've enjoyed this morning. It's going to be lovely here in Nashville - about 70 degrees! Will be out and about. Hope to "hear" from y'all later today.

Walk with God.

Ruth Ann

The beginning of a busy week.  The church secretary gave me the user name and password for Shift Worship.  It is a site the church paid for to download still, motions, mini-movies and countdowns.  I downloaded all the mini-movies yesterday afternoon.  It is faster with my DSL than the church's dial up.  I put them on my thumb drive and put them on the computer at church.  I went to church to take pictures of Pastor Steve and Cherie, the secretary. 

Larry ~ Question.  'Sunday Plus' uses QuickTime Player and it is installed on the sanctuary computer but it is an older version.  That computer isn't on internet.  How can we get an updated version installed.  If I copy my Quick Time Player (C:>>Programs Files>>Quick Time) and put it on thumb drive and install it in the church computer...would that work? 

I have called the chicks for 60 Chix and now waiting for 3:30 to get here to go out to eat and to Guild tonight.  Pray for me to not goof up too many times showing how I make my frames in PSPP. 

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Good morning, Everyone.  I read something this morning that I had read long ago, but found it still so relevant.

"He who would pray, must obey. He who would get anything out of his prayers, must be in perfect harmony with God. Prayer puts into those who sincerely pray a spirit of obedience, for the spirit of disobedience is not of God and belongs not to God's praying hosts. An obedient life is a great help to prayer. In fact, an obedient life is a necessity to prayer, to the sort which accomplishes things. The absence of an obedient life makes prayer an empty performance, a mere misnomer." E.M. Bounds

1 John 3:22 "And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we KEEP His commandments and DO those things that are pleasing in His sight."

In His Grip,
Kevin

Kevin, thank you!

This is so important for everyone to read.  We should ALL read and memorize 1 John 3:22.  Let's print it out and put it on our fridge, on the bathroom mirrors, anywhere we can see it. 



I want to encourage you all too, to please keep reading the "Bushfires" topic in our Prayer area.

One of our very own members, Photobro lives there and has been updating us and he's got the family photos packed, some clothes, etc. ready to vacate.

The death toll is now 171!!!!

Here's the link:  http://www.christianphotographers.com/community/index.php?topic=8036.0 

PLEASE let's all encourage Rob in there.

No further updates from last night.  We must pray for his safety and his family's

Came to see what was new and now back to sewing.

Going to the Doctor to get the results of my lower back x-rays that we done last week.

Interesting comments this morning Pat and Kevin. Especially the highlighted parts.

Hope the X-rays turn out well Marilyn. YOu are right about the highlighted sections.  They are so important to remember to have a close walk with our Lord, and so easy to forget.  Then when our prayers hit the ceiling we wonder what is wrong.  At that point we need to go back to the beginning and dig deeply,  He never moves it is us that creep ever so slowly sideways , and often times don't even realize it.  Oh I have been there so many times.  I try to keep my heart lining up to the only yardstick that is worthwhile.  OK off my soapbox.

Unable to fix the zipper pulls on 2 little baby jackets.  I don't have the correct size pulls for a nylon zipper. 

Two t's that need to be taken in.  They are needed at AWANA tomorrow night.  I am at a loss to know why people deliberately buy clothing that is too big, then get upset when they have to pay to get it altered.  Oh well.

Judy I can emphasize with you doing the alterations, I did alterations when I worked for Mervyns and I also did custom sewing and alterations in addition to my job at Mervyn's. I worked in every department at one time or another and in alterations ½ day  on Tuesdays and Thursdays. When I left Mervyn's I was assistant manager in Boy and Toys. from there I went to  work for Office Depot and worked up to being the Administrative Assistant.

something called Lordosis in my lower back as well as Scoliosis which I was already aware of,  I have had scoliosis  since  was 12. I will be going to  the Physical Therapist as soon as I make an appointment.

Glad to have shared some of my morning readings from E.M. Bounds, and to see they were a blessing.

That was yesterday's reading.  This is what I read with my morning mug, from the same author.

In His Grip,
Kevin

The will must be surrendered to God as a primary condition of all successful praying. Everything about us gets its coloring from our inmost character. The secret will makes character and controls conduct. The will, therefore, plays an important part in all successful praying. There can be no praying in its richest implication and truest sense, where the will is not wholly and fully surrendered to God. This unswerving loyalty to God is an utterly indispensable condition of the best, the truest, the most effectual praying. We have "simply got to trust and obey; there's no other way, to be happy in Jesus-but to trust, and obey!"

Hi everyone.  This has been a very busy day for me but has been very pleasant one as it is about 70 degrees.  

After coffee this morning and walking at the gym, I hurried over to Wal-Mart to get some birthday presents for our great granddaughter, who will be 5 on Wednesday.  I rushed home and quickly wrapped them up.  I had an appointment at 11:30 and stopped at the post office on the way to get the package mailed.  From my appointment I went to lunch at Macaroni Grill with some men friends and didn't get home until after 2:30.  I rested a little bit and am now trying to catch up on my computer work.  We really had a good lunch today and I was able to bring about half of it home.

Pat had a special get together this afternoon with the ladies in her quilting group from the church.  

Etta Sue, you can download the latest Quicktime Player software and save it on your memory stick and you should be able to upload it on the church computer.  Here is a link:  http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/  Thanks for the devotional for this week.

Marilyn, I never heard of that condition the x-rays showed in your back.  Hope it isn't too serious.

Thank you Kevin.  Keep these coming.  They are so good.

Etta Sue:  Thank you for today's devotions.  I hope you get to take your annual trip to Florida.

Pat:  I have been reading Rob's news from Australia and the regular news reports.  Such a tragedy.  Thank you for all you do.  You wrote that Paul and you had devotions over the phone and that sounded so sweet. 

I just tasted the kumquat jam that my friend and I made.  She has a loaded bush in her back yard.  The fruit trees are so colorful here but tonight will get to freezing once again so much has to be covered.  Don and I took a hard walk today against the cold wind and we can see snow on top of Mt. Lemmon.  That road is closed.  You should see - it really isn't a blizzard here but no one is venturing outdoors.  The locals must be freezing. 

taking a break from sewing - all the chairs in this house are so uncomfortable and we move around and stretch to try to keep our backs in decent shape. We went to a class on using the AED defibullator this morning - a good thing to be aware of in case of cardiac arrest.  One son told me that the insurance company for his huge building won't allow one because they believe it could cause lawsuits if used improperly or forgotten.  What a shame - easy to use & takes a few minutes. 

Larry Lordosis is the  curvature of the spine commonly known as sway back.  Scoliosis is the side to side  curvature of the spine. Mine is only seen on x-rays and is not  detected by looking at  my posture.

I'm here and have read all your good posts, but off now to a Valentine's banquet the youth of our church are having for us "older" ones!  See you later.  And only ONE MORE DAY to work!    

Hi everyone.  Know it was late when I posted yesterday but I have a busy day ahead so wanted to stop by and say hi.  It will be late this afternoon before we get back home.  Pat has a doctor's appointment in Atlanta, about a block from where Stacey lives.  So I will drop her off in front of the building and go down and park at the apartment and wait for her or may walk back up to the doctor's office and wait.  We have something to attend this morning and will take a lunch with us as won't have time to stop anywhere for lunch.  Fortunately I don't have anything I have to do tonight.

Marilyn, thanks for the explanation of your medical diagnosis.

Carol, sorry to read you don't have any comfortable chairs where you are staying.  Hope it doesn't stay cold there very long.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Good early morning, friends,

I have a brother in Christ who is coming to my house early this morning to help me put up pictures, do some other things I can't do to get my apartment set up properly. Isn't it wonderful when the men of the church can help those who can't do this stuff for themselves!

His wife is such a dear friend of mine. She calls me her "church mom" and last Mothers Day ladies breakfast, she introduced me as her "church mom" to her real mom. What an honor!

Well, gotta get going or he'll be here before I'm ready for him. Y'all have a God-filled day.

Ruth Ann

Hi everyone...

I have a sick doggie.  Geordie is just not well.  It's very sad to see.

Oh Pat Poor Geordie,  I know how you love him and what a great companion he is to you. You said you were taking him to the vet when you got back to Guelph, Did you find out what is wrong with him? Will he recover soon? I am praying for Geordie? And for you?

His vet visit was just to remove a small tumor from his lower eyelid as each time he blinked it was scratching his eyeball causing severe irritation and bleeding so it had to be removed.  He had a very small anesthetic but ever since, he's just gone downhill.  In the last year, he's lost weight and it wasn't very noticeable due to his long and bushy coat of hair.

Anyway, that's it.  Not sure what the outcome is going to be.

Awwww....please give Geordie a hug from me and tell my phone buddy that I will pray for him.  He's such a good, faithful and loving dog.

The banquet last night was nice.  The youth pastors are doing a good job with the kids; they now have over 20 who are active in the group.  The kids cooked (or helped cook) the meal, served it, did the cleanup, and also entertained us with a hand program, where they use white gloves and a black light--have any of you seen those?  There was one on you tube some time back.  This is the second one this group of kids has learned and presented.  They also went to a neighboring town last Sunday to present it.  Very impressive!  And before we left, each of the ladies was presented with a long-stemmed red rose.  Nice evening.  Oh....the menu was an appetizer (I couldn't tell what it was, something on bread, rather strange) salad, steaks cooked to order, garlic mashed potatoes, green beans or corn, rolls, chocolate cake.  They also had a chocolate fountain with all the goodies!

Ruth Ann, yes, it is wonderful when our brothers in the Lord are willing to help others with things.  A service to the Lord we love.  And I know that you help out in other ways---with things not so "physical."   

I have errands today, also will go eat with my youth friends at school.  I wish you all a most wonderful day with the Lord.