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No, Pat, but I'm ready to go home!  Have to stay today to get Abby to and from school.......but tonight I will go home!  Yea!!  

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!

Aren't we a talkative bunch today!

hahahhaha....I love the new picture of Pat!

I am actually kind of speechless.  I can't figure out what to say.  I guess I am a bit tired still.  

Woooohoooo...karma! 1000 posts!

Have a good one!
Sonja

Interesting post today at Creation Moments"...


Sin Stinks!

Genesis 1:31

"Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day."

New findings about how the human nose works may help explain why a world that was perfect when it was made has come to have so many stinky things in it.

Humans and mammals hold the record among all creatures, with about 1,000 genes for odor receptors. But with only 1,000 different kinds of odor receptors, how is it we can smell over 10,000 different kinds of scents?

For example, nonanoic acid uses the same receptors as nonanol, plus two others. Nonanol literally produces the smell of a rose. Yet those same receptors, plus the extra two that nonanoic acid activate, will produce a cheesy odor. Even more amazing is the discovery that virtually identical molecules can produce very different scents. Octanol produces a rosy, orangy scent, when octanoic acid produces a rancid, sweaty odor. Yet the two molecules are identical except for an extra side chain of atoms.

This may go a long way in explaining how a perfect creation of vegetarian creatures came to have rotten smells and to be meat eaters. A minor modification of a "good" scent can turn it into a "bad" scent. This seems to be confirmed by the discovery that the same receptors that allow mice to smell grain and seeds allow rats to smell meat. The decay man's sin brought to the creation didn't mean that God had to make new things. "Good" molecules simply decayed into a slightly different form with "bad" effects. We thank God we have a Savior in His Son Jesus Christ Who will deliver us from the decay that is in the world!

Prayer: Dear Father in heaven, we thank You that in Jesus Christ, You have delivered us from the decay in the world which is a result of our own sin. Amen.

REF: John Travis, Making Sense of Scents, Science News, v. 155, April 10, 1999, p. 236

That is very interesting!  I need to start listening to creation moments again.sniff

Good Morning. Thank you  Pat for the devotional this morning.

I am off to Arcata this morning to Bea's house, her son is going to work on the car window again to try to get it working. He doesn't think it is the motor.

It has been warmer here this past week and last night I had to take one of the blankets off the bed. I slept much better with one less blanket. I was so grateful that I slept all night without waking up once. What a nice surprise. Thank you Jesus.

About my car, I love my little car even if it is old. I don't really want to get rid of it, it is very dependable, I just want it fixed so the rain won't come in.

TTYL

Gosh Pat, funny you popped i  to mention "Scent"  or to put it crudly "smell"..

I was very impressed this morning by the Electric man when he came to read the meter....just a nice young man doing his job....b ut he smelt absolutely lovely...perfume like flowers...can't have been after-shave.  The Lord put him on my heart and I knew he was a Christian!

That's all...just to share...it meant something to me!

Jenny X

Hi everyone.  We are blessed today with another beautiful, sunny day.  It is suppose to get up to 80 today.  After coffee this morning I had to go and have a hair cut before my wife mistook me for a dog.  

Today is Calvin Cove day and I think we will be singing hymns today and have sung old time secular songs for the last two weeks.  Then this evening I have to go next door to attend the postponed homeowner's assocation meeting.  I do hope it will be a short meeting but doubt that will be the case.  Unfortunately, I don't think our association president has ever heard of "rules of order" so the meeting just rambles on.

Interesting discussion this morning on the devotional.  

Pat, glad to read that the swelling is down this morning and that you have probably had the last extraction you will need to have done.  

Karma, congratulations on your 1,000th post.  

Janet, are you working at the election pools today or just going to vote?  Sure you will be glad to get back to your own home.

Ken, I do understand what you are going through.  Have you had to have another angiogram done?  Do hope you are feeling much better.

Jenny, stay warm today.  

Hope everyone has a great day.  I know there were some other things I wanted to say as I read through the messages but now have forgotten so will sign off for now.

Thanks for the reminders about the Christian Book Exchange.  It has been very dormant for some weeks and there are certainly some fine titles available.  Just click on the link under my name and you can review what is available.  

To our new folks, check this out as we exchange the books just for the postage reimbursement once the book is received.  Unfortunately, for our friends in Europe this is probably not feasible.

Hi, Wow Jane it is a small World..It was a very good meeting last night.
What church do you attend where you live? The church I attend is called Victory Gardens Fellowship-Its a brand new church and so we meet in our Pastors Home..Its in the beginning stages which is awesome to be a part of a beginning of a church-
Have a great day.
Hugs in Jesus
Rachelle

Quote from: Jane Walker on October 21, 2003, 02:55:36 AM
Hey, JOYFULHRT~ You mentioned the prayer centers in Spokane ... my daughter lives in Spokane, and I remember my pastor Bev talking about going to those centers at different times.  Another of my daughters used to live in Sandpoint, ID ... I've been through Post Falls ... small world, eh?

She took...an ark...and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Exodus 2:3
How could Moses' mother be so calm in the face of such a crisis?
Her precious child was the target of an evil tyrant, yet she calmly placed her precious son in the ark and into the river.

This devotional it is very heavy on my heart today. I know this story of baby Moses. I know God was with him and found for him a home and a family to love him. With this gift of family Moses he did the wonder work of God.

I pray each day that children will all know the love of family. I cry each night for the mothers that must leave their child in a basket and never know of them again.  

Mr Ken, I pray for you today.

Papa John I pray for you.

Ms Pat, I hope you are well today.

Ms Karmat (((hug)))

Back at ya, meeks (((hug)))

Moses's mother put him in a basket to save his life.  Perhaps God has plans for those babies whose mothers had to leave them in the basket as well.  And God is a big God.  I, too, pray Mieka for those mothers.  Especially one.

Hi, Mieka!    

Rachelle~I also worship with a small fellowship, but little is much when God is in it!    In just another week, it will be 3 years since I moved here to Coos Bay, Oregon.  I didn't start attending (regularly) at the Church of the Open Bible for several months.  I didn't go any place else, either, just there and that intermittantly because I was in need of some deep healing and cherished my alone time with the Lord.  Also, I felt myself becoming too "involved" with the lovely people there <especially the pastors> and would pull away again.   "Involved?"  Now, I am on the Board of Elders, host the Women's Ministry group, and make the bulletins every week!    God had other plans, I think!  

[Our Women's Ministry is different from the one Marilyn spoke of... we call it that because it is for women to minister to one another ... or I should say for the Lord to minister through each woman to the others.]

It seems to me that I should be here at night time.  Seems there is a party going on nearly every night!!!!  You guys are having way too much fun!!!

Mieka, I love the picture of Pat.  

Karma, a 1,000 posts!  You go, girl!  

Sarah, I love it that you are posting and telling us about your schooling and mainly about trying to please your Mom.  You go, girl!  

I had an hour and half of sleeplessness early this morning.  But I didn't get out of bed until 9 a.m.  That is really late for me.  I have found that as soon as I sit in this chair, my arm starts hurting.  The only way it stops is to lower my chin.  That works great but not with bifocals!!!!!  I am far-sighted but the monitor isn't far enough away to see it clearly.  So everything seems to be a tad out of focus.  Not good.  Hopefully, if I rest that nerve in my neck, it will go away!!  

Lots of 'want to do's' today.  I want to get caught up online.  I want to rearrange the furniture in my living room and sweep the whole house.  Also I have to get ready for our small group meeting tonight and attend it.  Then I am taking Jerry to his home.  Pray that his hot water heater will be fixed soon.  Saturday after getting a new heating element, he couldn't get the old one out.  Pray that his strength either returns or someone helps him fix this problem.  

I am praying that everyone has a God Blessed day!

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"Our only glory is not in never falling, but in rising each time we fall."

Yes Pat i go first to my school class and try but now i know

Ken i keep you in my prayers

When my son Marcel was a little boy i always must
read for him about Moses as baby But in in Children Bible there is also a picture of little Mose in his rush
little basket. He love that but when i was readdy he
started with crying and he say Mam is little Moses still
in the little basket then he will be cold.
It is very lovely how little children are thinking
sometimes i am missing that time
Bye for now
RIA

Hello, everybody!  Wow, there's been a lot going on in here already today, so I won't try to respond to everybody individually.  

Etta, I sure hope Jerry gets that water heater fixed.  I'm praying that someone will help him with that.  

Hey, Mi.  How are ya?

Lee - I'm personally convinced that the idea to put Moses in the basket came from God.  That doesn't mean that God ORDERED his mother to put him there, but I think it is an intelligent deduction that it was God's plan for Moses to be in that basket.  I agree with Al that there is no indication that God specifically spoke to her to put him in the basket.  I think Pat is right in that she knew to do it based on her communion with God.  However, I'm not sure God let her in on the master plan.  Maybe, but I've never had that impression.  My point is that God does lead us with a small still voice sometimes rather than using handwriting on the wall.  As well, He very often leads us without telling us where we are going.  Good discussion.  

Good day to all!

Wow.  I've got 23 posts.  Okay, 24 now.

How am I gonna keep up with my wife?  Hmmmm.

Lol Bernard, that's doubtful....otherwise you have a lot of catching up to do

Hey don't try to keep up, just be yourself!  You keep on with the wise answers and you will be doing good.

Ria you are so right,  children have a totally different way of looking at things.  They usually don't have the guile to taint their thoughts.  (Two new words for you to look up!  If you have a problem with them let me know and I will send the definitions)

It is a cold damp day here in the north.  The dampness seems to seep into the bones.

Pat are you still taking trips to Hamilton?  Will they be starting again?  How is your neighbour?  Have I missed these answers?

Jenny.  Love you sis.  Keep on keeping on. I covet your prayers and you can know I pray for you too.

Janet.  {{{{{HUGS}}}}}

Talk again later
Judy

OK ,Ok ,  I give up!!!

Impossible to read all the postings while I was gone.

Pat is right; I just have to hook up my internet service in Penna. as well as Jersey.

I know I am missing a lot of good postings.

Look at Lee, just started and has beaten me already with his postings.

And Karmet, way to go!!!

Welcome to all newcomers while I was away.

I am going to prayer forum and will try to get back if I get a chance.

Take care and as always,

Love in CHrist,

Joyce

 
Did Moses mother put him in the basket because of fear?

Did God make this poor child Moses a phrophet because his life was now a gift to the water? Did his mum only have a hope that he will be found as so many others are given to hope.

Or did she have this calm because she did know it was the wish of God? Is it written or is it only the wish of many that she did know her child is in the hand of God for glory. Or was it a calm of great pain to place her child to the hand of God for his death?    Did she give away the life of her child to save her own life from the evil king?

Was she a good mother to her child?  

Joyce Start at today and as you have the time go back to the past NEM's.  The Have You Prayed About It gives the important news that we need to pray about.  

Meiks.  Wow what a lot of thinking you have done on this matter of Moses.  If you read further into the chapter you will see that Moses mother  set his sister to watch over him.  Miriam was probably a smaller child in build, and could hide easier.  When the Pharohs daughter found Moses his sister told her that she knew a nurse for the child.  Moses mother then raised the baby in the knowledge of the I AM.  Was she a good mother?  I believe so.  Was she afraid when she put Moses in the reid basket? I don't know, I would have been.  You can ask her when you get to heaven!  I hope this helps.

Hi all

Thank you for your prayers. I had a few twinges after a long hill walk. (may have overdone it a bit  ) Good news is twinges seem to have gone and the blood tests and two ECG's I had in hospital showed I was ok and could go home.  They suggested it was lack of blood to the chest  muscile due to artery that was taken to supply blood to the heart. I hope they are right!!

God bless you all

Ken

Sounds like good news so far Ken, we'll continue praying for you.  Take it easy though, don't overdo it.  God bless you.  Jen.

wow it's been an interesting day and the surprising thing is instead of being tired like i usually am i'm actually very awake but i'll prolly crash sooner or later.(i'm leaning more towards sooner since i got up so early!)
Janet no i don't like infomertials they bore me but it was all that was on this morning and i needed some sort of noise cuz the silience was killing me!!
fair warning i really and truely cannot spell. this sunday we leave for kingfisher for NHS. it will be a fun trip! 5 out of 6 of our members are going!
well i'm going to check u pon what i had read this morning ttyl (talk to you later)
Pat i will soon be send u some pics if i can ever remember to do it!

so anyways bye for now or as tigger says ttfn(ta ta for now)
Sarah

IN HOLLAND IT IS 10.05

I WISH YOU ALL A GOODNIGHT

TILL TOMORROW
LOTS OF LOVE  RIA

Well ... I've been to the doctor (as ordered by my good friends) and he has prescribed a brain MRI for next Tuesday, and I will be required to wear a heart monitor for a while <they will call me when one is available> and then I will have a treadmill test.  Thanks a lot you guys!!        I feel they will not find any problem, but I am also very confident in the thoroughness of my doctor to be taking all this precaution.  I guess one never knows what might be lurking behind the scenes, and he is going to rule out all of it!  

I had a couple phone calls from my youngest daughter yesterday/last night and she is having a few problems and wants her mommy to be with her for a while.  I told her I don't know how I can untangle myself from the responsibilities (and now doctor appointments) that I have here.  I will be praying for her, her situation, and for guidance as to what the Lord wants me to do.  I'd appreciate your prayers as well.  Thanks.

Love you all ....

Dear Mieka, dont worry so much,  the Christian life is not a life of worry and stress, but a life of implicit trust in God to keep us and guide us all the days of our lives.
Read Hebrews chapter 11, a life of faith.
The mother of Moses was a very brave woman, who after much prayer, entrusted her son to God's care, feeling sure that he was a special child, just as you are, and that God had his (Moses)  life mapped out for him.
God knows us from the womb (see Jeremiah ch. 1)
We are all very special to God, our Father, that is why He saved us from sin, the world and the devil, sending our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to take our punishment on that cruel cross, which has now been transformed into a symbol of God's grace and love for us.
So you see, if you really can believe that every hair on our head is counted, (Matthew ch 10, )and that He chose us from the foundation of the world, (Ephesians ch. 4.)
Then why worry about where we are being led, or why, or what lies ahead.?
God is the most loving, caring Father that anyone could ever have!
And I write this as someone who never knew his father, and in the beginning of my walk with Jesus I rejoiced that at last I HAD A REAL PERFECT DAD WHO LOVED ME TO BITS!
Realising this fact set me completely free to be myself, and to trust Him totally.
Praise the Lord.
Love to you, from "Him who loved us and washed us in His own Blood,(Rev ch. 1)
Chris.

Jane~I am so glad you went to the doctor.  Hope you can make it through all the tests now.  

Ken~Glad to hear you are ok!!!  Take it easy on your next walk.  

The above letter is also to Jane and others who like me, sometimes wonder "what's happening Lord? "

I don't know Lee-My husband is a big talker too ..LOL so Men can be quite the talkers too LOL.
Rachelle

Quote from: Lee Kirkwood on October 21, 2003, 01:19:43 AM
As for October 20..........

This place has become a funny farm.        

Hey there Pat (Toofy) and Karmat, what's the big deal, all men know you women talk alot.

AND, at the same time.