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Morning Devotional...




He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts.... --Ecclesiastes 3:11

We take it for granted and we are not surprised at all about the eternal nature of God but the greater wonder is that God has seen fit to put His own everlastingness within the hearts of men and women....

I believe that this is the truth about our troubles and our problems: We are disturbed because God has put everlastingness in our hearts. He has put a longing for immortality in our beings. He has put something within men and women that demands God and heaven--and yet we are too blind and sinful to find Him or even to look for Him!...

Men and women need to be told plainly, and again and again, why they are disturbed and why they are upset. They need to be told why they are lost and that if they will not repent they will certainly perish. Doctors and counselors will tell troubled men and women that their problems are psychological, but it is something deeper within the human being that troubles and upsets--it is the longing after eternity!
Dr. Tozer in Christ the Eternal Son, pp. 52-54

"Lord, we long for eternity, but there is so much commotion, activity, and noise in our world that that longing is too often drowned out. Help me to break through that madness with the message of Christ today. Amen."

From the Writings of Dr. Tozer

Pat I was wondering......

I do enjoy reading Tozer.  Thank you for that. 

Thanks, Pat ... Something to thnk about.

Quote from: JudyB on August 24, 2009, 12:54:14 AM
Pat I was wondering......

What were you wondering?

You had said you were not well....Would you need someone to cover you?

Hi everyone.  I got up a little earlier than usual today so have had time to get caught up on my e-mail and now reading the message boards.  The only thing on my schedule after coffee and walking this morning is my Monday men's luncheon.  I have several new projects here at my desk so won't be bored today. 

Janet, it sounds like everything worked as you would want it to.  I am sure John's visit will lighten the days for Beth and create many new memories for her, not the least being her special birthday party.  You are so thoughtful towards her and other people.  I am glad to have you as my friend, although we will probably never have the opportunity to meet in person (but you never know).

Pat, thanks for the devotional.  It is another good one. 

A friend sent me the following and I felt it was too good not to share:

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an
audience, raised a glass of water and asked,

"How heavy is this glass of water?"

Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.

The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't
matter.

It depends on how long you try to hold it.

If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.

If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my
right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call
an ambulance.

In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I
hold it, the heavier it becomes."

He continued,

"And that's the way it is with stress management.

If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later,
as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be
able to carry on. "

"As with the glass of water,

you have to put it down for a while and rest before
holding it again.

When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the
burden."

"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of
work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up
tomorrow.

Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down
for a moment if you can."

So, my friend, why not take a while to just simply
RELAX.

Put down anything that may be a burden to you right
now. Don't pick it up again until after you've rested
a while Life is short. Enjoy it!

Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens
of life:

* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some
days you're the statue.

* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case
you have to eat them.

* Always read stuff that will make you look good if
you die in the middle of it.

* Drive carefully It's not only cars that can be
recalled by their maker.

* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to
be vague.

* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person
again, it was probably worth it.

* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply
to serve as a warning to others.

* Never buy a car you can't push.

* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
because  then you won't have a leg to stand on.

* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up
and dance.

* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the
bird, sleep late.

* The second mouse gets the cheese.

* When everything's coming your way, you're in the
wrong lane.

* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the
longer you live.

* You may be only one person in the world, but you may
also be the world to one person.

* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

* We could learn a lot from crayons...

Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull.
Some have weird names, and all are different colors,
but they all have to live in the same box.


*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery
on a detour.
   
  Have an awesome day and know that
someone has thought about you today

[/bI] have made breakfast for John and he has gone to see Beth.  Darrel has a chiropractic appointment this morning; also the auctioneer will be out later to talk about when he can do the auction for us.  I will go out to Beth's and start working again as soon as I finish here.  Sounds like a Monday, doesn't it?  

Larry, thank you for those kind words.  I certainly thank God for your friendship as well, and look forward to meeting you, either here on earth or in our heavenly home.

Pat, I enjoyed the devotional this morning, and Larry, thanks for sharing the stress management thing.  Lots of truth in both!

I did get rested up yesterday afternon, napped and read a whole book!  Most unusual for me, but it felt good.

I will likely be back later to see who else is doing what else today.  [/color]

Awesome Sunday.  Church, Sunday School, Red Lobster, and back to church for a wedding reception.  I love Sundays. 

Today Kitty, another lady and I are going to the State Fairgrounds to pickup our photos.  Yesterday was the last day of the State Fair.  I didn't get to go this year...Ivalou is still getting over her gout and I just didn't feel like I wanted to do all that walking.  After getting our photos we are going to Don Pablos...a tradition now, I think.  Then home. 

Maybe Kitty and I will go swimming tomorrow!

Bright and sunny in Indiana.  A little cool but I like that!!

Larry thank you for those words, I am going to print it out, and post it above my desk.

Didn't wake up till 11:00, that is really late for me.  Feels good to have the extra rest.

The local farmer is hay cutting/raking/bailing.  Not too sure which.  sometime he is a little inefficient.   He just takes life a little easier than most people.  A few years ago his wife died of breast cancer.  It wasn't diagnosed soon enough.  so he and his son work the farm.  He is a really kind "old"  gent, loves to have the girls go our and ride the tractor with him. 

Got to go I have beans to can and then off to the hospital.  The girls have been wonderful in keeping the house up.  I am really proud of them.

Good devotional, thanks Pat.

A beautiful day here on the island.  Sure can't find much to complain about in that dept.

How nice that John has come to see Beth.  What book did you read Janet?

I wonder JudyB. if you might have some advice about a small Dachshund that barks when visitors are in the house....and even when the owners are alone and move about.  It is not lacking anything, love, attention, company of another wee dog, just barks for no reason.  They spray with water, say Quiet, all that stuff and now are going to try my suggestion of time out each time it barks, no punishing, simply into the laundry room for a while.  My friends are getting stressed!!! 

I have been having dizzy spells for sometime and it seems to be getting worse.  Not feeling too swift.  Will see the doctor on Friday.  Strange things are happening!!

Quote* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some
days you're the statue.

True words, Larry.  I can relate.

Read a cute smile:  "If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late."

Does that mean if we sleep late, the above applies?

Pleasant Day/Evening and God Bless.

Liz

Liz, Go to a good quality pet store and get a bark collar.   They nay have to use it constantly for a few days, but as the "no bark" kicks in, They will be able to start taking the collar off.  But when he starts to bark again the collar goes back on.  It will get to the point that all they will have to do is take the bark collar out of its place and the dog will be quiet.  This takes patience....but it will work.

We have spent an enjoyable evening going through photos of the past 40 plus years.  What wonderful memories.  We found pictures I had thought we had lost.

Now to start sorting them into people, years and topics.  The work has yet to begin!

We are heading to bed.  Night all.

    Good evening or good morning to all.   Again I have not been on the site for a while as it seems that so many things are going on.   Since I was last here we went to a cottage with our whole family and had a wonderful time except I got hit on my ankle at the golf course and it was a very bad bruise and the swelling is still not gone completely and it does hurt a lot if I am on it to much.  So I have had to stay of my feet a lot and keep my knee elevated/   At the cottage it is the first time that we have had all our kids together for a long time and also the grandkids most of the time when we were there the weather was not to bad and the kids had a great time.    Well it is late and I should get to bed tomorrow is an other busy day and would ask for prayer for my son Danny as he had a job interview today and will find out if he gets it next week so please pray for him.

Larry:  How are things with your kids hope that your daughter is doing better.

Well Good night to all other on C.P.  Gord.

Hi everyone.  Another fairly early morning but want to write before my day really gets started.  This morning after coffee I have to make a quick stop at the bank and then head down and pick up our daughter.  She is coming out to see the chiropractor and to spend the night with us. 

Gord, she is doing OK in some ways but not so good in others.  She describes the pain in her bad foot as being like a knife sticking into it all the time and takes very strong pain medication.  She has trouble controlling her blood sugar and her heart rate but constant back pain.  She has come to the conclusion that she will never be able to drive again and know she is worried about how long she will be able to live alone.  However, these are things to think about on another day, not today.  We will just enjoy having her visit with us.  Glad your family had such a nice visit together and sure hope your son is hired.  Getting hit on a golf course doesn't sound like a very good thing to have happen.

Yesterday I had a glorious afternoon.  My daughter and her two children are at their summer home, about 25 miles from me and I spent the afternoon with them.  This is the first time in more than a year they've been here - they live in North Carolina and it's about a 13 hour drive so not a trip they take for a weekend.   

Now today more mundane chores loom, the first of which is to fill my gas tank - and there goes the bank account! 

Kitty, Rachel and I had a great time yesterday at the State Fairgrounds.  I got home fairly early in the afternoon and I played on the laptop.  I made some 'slates'/backgrounds to upload on the church computer.  When I do 'images' I also print them and we have a binder that whoever can look in it to see what they want to put in the cue list instead of having to look at tiny thumbnails.  So I used my 'new' printer.  Excellent printing.  I am really going to enjoy this printer! 

Today Kitty and I are going to play Euchre with a classmate and then we are going swimming.  She wants to take flowers to her mother's grave, I want to go to Michael's and of course, we will eat out somewhere. 

Bright and sunny and to get to 84° today.  Great day for swimming!

Edit:  Hi Jeanne.  I see you were posting as I was composing!

Gord I sent you an email last week.  Did you get it?

This is a cool day today.  A little overcast and breezy.  If it had been a hot summer this would be welcomed.

We have an appointment in town with Kassie.  Then on to see if we can get her orthotics.  Hopefully that will correct her ankle problems.

I have made a deal with Doug.  I will supply him with a bushel of Spy Apples and flour and shortening, and he will make apple pies for me.  For every pir he makes I will bake him a loaf of bread.  The bread can be Zucchini, white, brown, or raisin.  They love the bread I bake and we love his apple pie.  So this works for both of us.  I will be freezing the pies for future use.

Got to go,
JudyB

     Hi Judy B.  I did receive your email and I thought that I had replied to you but I apoligize to you if I did not.

Hope that John is looking after himself. and what is the actual problem with his leg.  Pleases email me and tell me.

Al:   How are you doing I hope that your legs are getting better and that you will be able to get your proper sleep in a bed.

Larry:   Thanks for the reply.  God bless.

Good afternoon.... I did something, this morning, that I haven't done in a very long time!  I went to a movie.    Every 4th Tuesday, a local bank sponsors free movies for Seniors (those 50 or better, as they say).  Today I saw Julie and Julia (or is it the other way around?)  I really enjoyed it and the theater was full to capacity!  I do believe I'll go again.  My neighbors said they'll be going next month.

My neighbor is currently working on my saggine back porch ... he found it to be all rotten along one edge from years of rain running in there.  He has already taken care of most of the rain leakage problem but then he was concerned about the "soft spots" and afraid I'd fall through one day.     He is hard at work on that project now .. having to replace a lot of 2x4's and sheets of plywood.

Hello, friends.  My day was a lot different than lately.  Instead of working on Beth's place, I worked on ours!  Got a lot of cleaning done; also went to the care home to finalize plans for the birthday party on Friday; ordered the ice cream cakes, and then worked on Beth's scrapbook for a couple of hours.

The auctioneer came yesterday to look over what we want to sell, said he will check his calendar and call us with a date.  We are shooting for mid-October.  Darrel spent two days repairing water lines in Beth's trailer.  I have gone through all her stuff, but am having a hard time making decisions as to what to do with a lot of it.  

Liz, the book I read on Sunday was titled Just Breathe.  Now I am reading one of the series Brides of Lancaster County,  titled A Merry Heart.  But it will be read in shorter bursts.  I feel guilty if I sit and read very much (leftover from childhood punishments, I believe.)  I always read a while before I go to sleep.

The lawyer called me yesterday to double check some dates, and we are happy to know he is working on the case.  I keep hearing more and more stories about this doctor, none of which are good.  

Time to sign off and go read a while.  Good night, everybody!  Good night, moon!  

Hi everyone.  This will be another busy day as have to make another trip to Atlanta to take our daughter home this morning.  She has an afternoon doctor's appointment so needs to get back to her apartment by noon.  Then this evening is choir.  I will go to coffee in a few minutes.

Tomorrow morning I go to the hospital and will have the bi-lateral hernia surgery done at 1 pm (or at least that is when it is scheduled).  I will be glad to have that behind me although can't say I have worried about it.  What I really dread is the necessity of my wife having to make the long trip to the hospital and then do the walking in the long corridors of the hospital.  I am glad it is summer so the daylight stays around longer.  I certainly want her to get home before dark. 

Janet, it sounds like you are getting things lined up well on several fronts.  Do you feel like a General or the private doing a lot of the work or perhaps both? 

Jane, good for you getting out and going to the movies.  It has been years since I went out to a movie.  It is more comfortable and more economical to watch them at home.

Judy, that sounds like a good deal on the apple pies and the bread.

Etta Sue, having your book of slides is a good idea.  It is hard to tell much from a thumbnail.  Glad you like your new printer.

Jeanne, so nice to read of your time spent with your family.  I know you have been looking forward to their arrival for the summer by what you have already said. 

Good morning!  It is such a beautiful morning here, nice and cool.  But it likely won't last long.

I have been to the chiropractor and to the care home already.  Stopped and bought some doughnuts, just what we needed.  

I'm not exactly sure what to tackle today.  But it isn't for a lack of things needing done.

Pat, where are you?  And how are you?  I miss you.

Larry, I guess I feel a little like both a private and a general.  So many decisions to make.........

Guess I'd better see what I want to tackle next.

Jane ~ Wasn't 'Julie and Julia' a great movie?  Meryll Streep played Julia Child to a 'T'.  I am thinking that they had her standing on something most of the time to make her appear much taller than the others. Meryll Streep isn't that tall!  (I learned from my husband to notice things like that in movies...like items that are in the wrong era and such)

Kitty and I had a good time playing Euchre and got to the swimming pool at 5pm.  Not too many people swimming so we had plenty of room to do some laps. Then we went to Don Pablos.  Monday I got a rewards card and registered online.  So we got a free Dip Sampler.  Four kinds of dips for our tortilla chips.  Then we went to Michael's for some items and didn't get back home until 8:30pm.  I thought I was going to go to Kitty's sister's near Ft. Wayne today but that has been cancelled. 

So I am going to play with the laptop and printer.  I am going to print some images on inkjet printable Shrinky Dink.  Then cut it out, punch holes for a key chain or O rings for earrings.  Then you bake it in the oven for 3-5 minutes.  It shrinks in size and triples in thickness.  Then I will have a pair of earrings and a key chain charm.  Sounds good...now to see if it works!  Here's the website that I got the idea from.

I see where Kennedy passed away.  I didn't realize he was that bad.  But then I don't watch the news.  I heard this from my classmate in Mexico!!

Bright and sunny in Indiana.  Really too nice to stay inside but I must!

Janet, I'm so glad you enjoyed the devotional.  Glad, too, that John has been able to visit Beth.


Larry, thanks for the "stress management" write-up!    Glad you enjoyed the dovotional this week.  I so enjoy Dr. Tozer.


Liz, how are your dizzy spells.  I was dizzy the other day and it really isn't a nice feeling.  I laid down for a wee while and it seemed to clear up.


Nice to see you drop in, Gord.  Just wish it were more frequent! 


Judy, how's the canning/preserving/freezing doing?  I have no freezer space left since turning off the power to the huge one in the fruit cellar.

Larry, will be praying for you tomorrow.  Sorry about your having to go through this.

"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever."  John 14:16

I thank God for the miracle of answered prayer.  I say to you, friends, I believe in a God who can do supernatural things through the prayers of God's people.  I have seen God do it.  I have had God do it for me.  I have had God work miracles in my life that are so delicate, yet so wonderful that I am almost reluctant to even refer to them.  But God is a miracle-working God.  God, my friends, answers the prayers olf people who pray for a clean heart and believe His promises.  Jesus said, "When I go, I am going to pray that God will send another."  Pentecost is a proof that God answers prayer.  Oh, thank God for answered prayer.

Talking about this "God is dead" foolishness.  It is such a ridiculous discussion that it is hardly worth talking about.  "Is God dead?"  This is the most ridiculous thing in the world.  Only someone with a "fluffy" head could ever discuss something like that.  Someone asked a lady what she thought about it.  

She answered, "I know that He isn't dead."

"How do you know?"

"Because I just talked to Him this morning!" was her reply.
-T.M.

Hi everyone I am checking  in here to let you all know that I am here reading even if I am not posting anything.

It is a beautiful day here in Oregon Sunshine and blue sky just the right temperature. We finally got all the wood into the backyard and in  the places it will stay. A few cords under the deck covered with plastic, about a cork in the shed and about the same  beside the shed.

Jane I 'm glad you enjoyed the movie, i would love to go next time too bad it is on the 4th Tuesday, I have some place to be on that day every month.

Pat How is Geordie doing? Happy gets so excited abut going on his daily walks with me. He is starting to have some trouble getting into the car and coming up the 2 steps to the small deck off the master bedroom. Bebe is doing fine she is 9 now to Happy's 12.

Yes, how is Geordie doing Pat?
I have been fighting a nasty bladder infection again and mostly staying quiet.  Can't take the standing presc. from the drugstore as last time(s) had terrible reaction to the medication.  Will see the dr. tomorrow...tho' that was not the reason I made the appt. in the first place.  Dizzy spells have held off at the moment....unless I move too fast.  Hah!!

That was a nice bit about prayer, Pat.  Sometimes we forget that God hears even a small one.  Like when my friend and I would have had a very hot two hour wait when it looked impossible for us to get on the ferry to come home from SaltSpring the other day.  I said a little prayer and we were the last to get on.....fit us in like a part of a crowded puzzle.  B. had said it would take a miracle to get us on.  I told her I said a little prayer.....she thought I was    This from a person who had attended church most of her life.  Oh, those of little faith!

It feels like fall here on the island.  I poked my head out for a few minutes and it has that 'feeling' in the air.  

Nothing of interest to write about so will wish everyone a : Pleasant Evening/Day and God Bless.

Liz

Hi everyone.  I had a good nights sleep and will go to coffee shortly.  Then we will head over to the hospital as I am suppose to check in at 11 am.  I am sure I will be fine today so haven't worried about it.  God will take good care of me.  If I don't post for a couple of days (which isn't likely) don't be alarmed.  I appreciate your prayers and expressions of concern.

We pray, Father, for our brother Larry as he goes in to this operation.  We pray You'll give special skill to the doctors, and we pray You'll keep them from all errors, etc.  We pray You'll bless the results as well, and that he'll be able to thank You for the entire episode.  Oh do these things, Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ.