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"To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: whichis Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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 "The pressures of life are the hands of the Potter. "
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Morning Devotional...


But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw His glory, and the two men that stood with Him. Luke 9:32


I often find myself reading Scripture and at the end of the chapter I can hardly remember what I have read.

My mind has wandered and I have failed to concentrate. One needs to be alert and attentive in the things of God.

I therefore have to start all over again, and with a bit more effort, begin to see the jewels shine, and the Saviour's beauties become obvious.

If truth does not sink in the first time, don't despair; wake up and try again.
--Brian Russell

I stopped in to say good night and here it is Good Mornring.

Good Morning Jenny, Ria, Chris, Margit, and Iain

I'm going to bed now too.

Would you all please pray for my brother. He had a stroke this evening. I guess he is paralized on one side of his body.   Thanks!

Sonja, I'll certainly be praying for your brother's return to health and that God will allow him to regain use of his body.

Tomorrow will be an unusual day for our family. I just got in from taking my oldest son to Chattanooga to meet up with the 3rd son. He'll be staying with them in Atlanta tomorrow and Saturday. Well, the 2nd son (who lives in England) is arriving in Atlanta tomorrow afternoon.

So, this is the first time in many, many years that the 3 sons can be together, even for a few hours.

We're ALL delighted!

Ruth Ann

I was just praying for Sonja's brother and for Sonja too with the news that she's received tonight.  This hymn came into my mind as I was speaking to the Lord.






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Sonja.............

I'm sincerely sorry to hear of your brothers illness.  He'll be in my prayers for sure



Pat............

I'd love to have had a picture of you eating soup out of a bowl with a spoon and driving too.  You're something.

Nice devotional Pat.  I will read it again in the morning.  Have not had time to read today's posts and rather out of touch.

Will pray for your brother, Sonja.  I'm so sorry this has happened.  

Nice to see that you are posting, Marilyn.  Must mean that things are going well.  Did the dogs miss their Mom??

I saw Al yesterday, Pat.  He is very weak and trying hard to be gracious and brave.  His heart is so strong, even tho' his body is not able to move.  It is a long trip  now and I won't be able to go many times.  Simply keep telling him to trust God and believe that there is a reason why his journey is still continuing.  Not always easy to believe this truth....but it is truth!

Good nite all and God Bless.  Liz

Pat wants 2 pages before she gets up in the morning, so thought I'd be part of that.

Marilyn, it's good to see you posting again....and, of course, giving all the praise to Dr. Jesus.

My "depression" has totally lifted, and I believe now that it was spiritual.  I've spent lots of time with the Lord (I must tell Jesus..) and it all comes down to something that He has called me to do, asked me to do, and my failure to do it.  

  Chris, you'll think it's funny....though I didn't "plan" to call anyone or send cards this day....I ended up having a call from a cousin that I haven't seen in probably 20 years.  That was God.  My sister called, and I found out that my 36 year old nephew accepted the Lord last Sunday in church!!!!  That was God. And my daughter called to share some touching news, and I called Jane and we had a heartfelt talk about our wonderful Jesus and how He is working in our lives......(That was God)and tonight I was able to come here and see some prayer requests and then more time in intercession.   It has been a VERY GOOD DAY. That's God.    He even plans how you can reach out when you haven't yet. haha

 Jenny, I do believe the Lavender idea sounds really nice.  I keep hearing about Lavender, and have wanted to put some in my room just because it's so yummy.

  Well, do I dare say that it got up to 59 here today?   If Marilyn runs out of room, I guess you all can come to Coos Bay, get warm, and eat homemade vegetable soup with us.  No fair bringing ice or snow though.  Pat, be sure and grab that photo of you eating soup and driving at the same time.

   Sonja I'm so sorry about your brother.  I'm praying along with the rest of your family here.

   Ruth Ann.....that will be so nice having all your sons together.  I know you'll be taking pictures.

   Hi, Lee and Liz. Good morning.   Goodnight, Lee and Liz.

9 a.m. Ice Cold in England.

Oooh this is  a nice exciting start to the day, some super folks here to greet me for a change!  

Pat I use a Spurgeon devotional sometimes., "God's Treasury", the cheque book of the bank of faith.  Such an encouraging compilation, fully recommended. This is one I give as a gift to friends.
I understand from the "Books 4 Life" web-site, that there is a new Spurgeon devotional in print.

Also Pat, I am glad if you took soup with you, lass after my own heart.  I bet it tasted like nectar.

Soni I am sorry about your brother dear.  I will pray for him.  He can't be very old I guess, such an awful thing to cope with. I Know God will use this for His Glory dear little sister.  He uses everything to draw us closer to Himself.

Nita Indeed you are "strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.".......He does not let us go until He has put us in a "safe" place, Amen!
Re 'lavender' I use lavender soap  each morning for my wash.  My son keeps me supplied.  IO absolutely love lavender soap.  I can smell my Welsh Nanna's bathroom each time I use it.  It has such healing properties. Chris gets my soap from"Past-Times" it is good for my dry skin.

Marilyn Steady on girl.  Don't overdo it!  We all know you! Do as I say.....not as I do, Ha Ha!

Liz Praise God that Al has you for support and witness., also to pray for him dear.

Lee Hello dear brother.

Lovely hymn Pat.
Yes, do tell Jesus, everything, He waits to be gracious to you. If you don't ask how can you receive.

Ria and Iain Hello dear ones.
See you later.

Love and prayers.
Jenny

11.35 AM in Holland  GOOD MORNING

PAT thank you for the devotional this morning also for the nice hymn  and i am thankfull that you are coming safely home.

SUE thank you for the nice story they you have put on CP yesterday.

SONJA i am sorry to hear from Zachery
give him my greetings
But i also take your brother in my prayers.

RUTH ANN i wish you a nice time now all your sons are home. I am happy for you.

JANET i shall miss you when you are away. But have a nice time.

SONJA you are the best in put animaties
on CP. I must always laugh when i see them. Are you make the animaties by yourself?


This week a student from a Highschool has shoot death his teacher. The boy was a Turkish he had problems with his teacher.
Now there is coming a very great inspection on all the schools. Because it seems that a lot young people who
are going to schools have guns.
And it is strict forbidden to have guns or other weapons in Holland.
But there is coming in Holland an increase in crime


This evening we are going to my sister in law she is married with my brother but today
she has here birthday.

It is still raining in Holland but on this moment we have not had the big storm. But they have
say also today the big storm can come. But i hope it not. Rain is enough every day.

Psalm 31:15
My times are in your hands.

IN YOUR HANDS

 Your Power is my courage,
Your Promises, my comfort,
Your Presence, my confidence -
I rest my life, my soul, my future
      in Your hands.

I wish you all a Blessed day
Bye i love you all
Ria

MARYLIN i am happy that you
are come i thank God for that but take rest dear
Marylin.


Hi Jenny is it in England also all days rain ?

Bye love Ria

  A beautiful day here even though the sun is not out..the Son is and He supplies all our needs.  What amazing grace we have in our Lord Jesus Christ

Hurrah!  Hurrah!      Marilyn is back with us  Dr Jesus is the bestest physcian.  Amen!

I will be praying for your bother Sonja and for Dr Jesus to be the physcian in charge.  

Hello to Jenny, Ria, Pat.  

So glad to hear about Ruth Ann's sons getting together!

God Bless all today....love, kathy

My eternal alarm clock woke me up again.  

Thank you all for your prayers.  I sure you all know I wouldn't have any news yet, being this early in the morning.  The birds are still sleeping.  

Oh boy, do I have lots of things to do today.  Thought I would start by helping Nita get two pages up before Pat wakes up.

I'll be back in a few.  Troy is leaving for Cheyenne this morning.  Please keep them in your prayers too. Thanks!  

Good Morning Pat:  I'm on my way downtown to the Detroit Auto Show.  I've just enough time to write a short response to your message.

I, too found myself reading His Word and not getting anything out of it.

He spoke to me and said, "Read it again and again, till I speak to you."  So I re-read it and sometimes a third time...till He speaks to me.

Sometimes I have read the same sentence 3-4 times and I finally GET IT.

Gotta go.  Ed

Ok, I am back.  Now back to getting this forum to 2 pages.  

hmmm...

Fast Eddie~Are you going to see some new cars just on the market or just your average cool car?  
I also have to read something over 2 or more times sometimes to get it right.   Glad I am not the only one.

hey ya'll
I'm here this morning. getting ready for school so we can go play a game tonight! we play a team at their place aand it's over an hour there.   oh well as long as we step off that bus ready to play we won't have a problem! ttyl
Sarah

LOOK THERE IS 2 PAGES NOW!!!!! won't pat be happy!!

Sarah, good luck!  I will keep you in my prayers.  My son Troy is traveling over 4 hours to his swim meet.

Have fun!!!  Is it basketball you play or volleyball?

QuoteBy Ria~
     

 IN YOUR HANDS

 Your Power is my courage,
Your Promises, my comfort,
Your Presence, my confidence -
I rest my life, my soul, my future
     in Your hands.

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Amen!!!  

Thanks Ria!  No, I don't make my own graphics/animations.  I find them and save them.  

I do make the graphics with my pictures behind them for birthdays and greetings. I guess I have made a few animations now that I think about it.  But very few.  

Rainy day there.  I think it is supposed to be sunny here again and hopefully all weekend so we have a safe trip.

QuoteBy Joyce Robison~Must tell you about a dream last night; I was
giving dancing lessons to specially handicapped children
I was also very, very young (around Karmet and Sonja's age)
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Then I was with my daughter's ex-father in law and he asked if I heard any good "tag lines."

I said yes, Sonja is a delight and I love her tag line
God never takes you to a door without opening it for you

I told him that was almost like she said it--he told me to ask her permission if he may use it in his correspondence.

Isn't that crazy??I never met Sonja and I keep remembering her words--I hope that that was right.

Please, Sonja, if you have a chance --write it down again.

When I see him in person, I will tell him about the dream and the saying.

I know he will love it ( a fabulous Christian man) and he will share it

Thanks,

Love in Christ,
Joyce

Joyce, this is so sweet.  I don't remember writing that down.  I do remember it though.  I wonder if it was someone else posted it and I copied it and quoted it?

I wonder if someone else knows???

How are you today?  It is funny how we have dreams about someone we haven't even met.  I do that all the time.  I feel like I have known everyone here for ages.  

I hope your day goes well.

Love
Soni

Hello all!!!!

Soni, sorry to hear about your brother.  I will be keeping him in my prayers.

Nita, I'm so glad it "lifted"  God is so good isn't he?  When things look so crummy, it seems like he gives an extra blessing.  I wonder how people without God do it?

Go Troy -- swim like a fish!!

Go Sarah --  Show 'em how to play hoops!!

I hope everyone has a great day.  Travis and i have a lot to do, so we had better get started.

Marilyn, Don't htink I officially welcomed you back.  Good to see you "home" and I pray for a speedy recovery.

karmt

I wasn't able to sign in here yesterday and missed so much.

Jenny:  Lavendar soap - that smells so nice.  Good to see you carrying on the Good Words to all of us.  

Etta Sue:  The dollar bill "joke" was sad in a way - my father used to toss huge amounts in the basket at church and even when we couldn't afford to do so and it just multiplied and came back.  

Marilyn:  Love what you said to the nurse at the hospital - Jesus was your doctor.  I bet that nurse repeated your words!  Heal quickly!

Sue:  On your bumper sticker joke - I recently saw a vehicle with Choose Life sticker and they were driving quite insane.  I  wanted to get close so I could say "I would really like you to choose life for me and everyone on this street"  but - they got away too fast.  Really funny!  Why do the drivers with Purple Heart bumper stickers try to wound us too?  (Just my little observation)

Pat:  Sounds like you had a very stressful day of driving.  I hope you are home resting today.  

Sonja:  My best wishes and prayers for your brother.  Tell Zachery that we all wish his braces to feel more comfortable very soon as well.  

Where does everyone find the cute figures they put in here?  The animated things?  Where do you save them when you find them? Carol

Good morning!!  What a mix of prayer requests and praise reports here already!  Lots for our dear Pat to read.  

Pat, I hope you are feeling much better today and had a great night's rest.

Curtis called last night and asked if I wanted my computer back--you wouldn't guess the answer to that!  So we went down, but he still was having a problem with something.  We stayed until 9:00 and he still hadn't gotten it quite figured out, so my computer will stay at their house until we get home from Honduras.    I felt so bad for Curtis---he just kept saying "I'm sorry, Grams.  I don't know what I did wrong."  But he will get it figured out.  At least it isn't costing me a bundle!  

We are putting the last few things and heading out in just a little while.  I will miss all of you and be thinking about you.  I hope to get lots of photos to share.

Darrel just reconfirmed our flight, so we are ready!  WOO-HOO!!  Ocean, here I come!!

Sonja, I will be remembering to pray for your brother, too.  Where does he live?

Nita, I'm so glad you did share about your depressed days, and give all of us a chance to help you bear your burden.  What power there is in the prayer of agreement!  Praise God!

I must go, I only have an hour to run an errand, eat breakfast, and get my makeup on!  Hurry, hurry!!!

I love you all!!  Bye for a week--I should be back home Saturday night, January 24.

Ria ~ That is absolutely true.  We do need to visit family, friends and loved ones more often and not wait until there is a death in the family to unite!  I don't use the telephone very much.  I am afraid the person I am calling is busy/asleep/getting ready to leave/in the middle of something.  So it may be months before I talk to someone if they don't have internet.  But I am trying to remedy that.

Lee ~ When I finished reading about the torn one-dollar bill, I wondered what the church would feel like if a $50 was put in the offering plate...hmmmmm!  We take donations for the tapes we duplicate.   One lady opened her billfold and got out several bills for  the donation box.  I noticed a $20.  I asked her about it.  No, she didn't want to leave the $20.  That didn't surprise me.  What would have surprised me was if she had said 'Yes!'

Marilyn ~ I saw you come online yesterday on MSN IM.  I don't click in because I thought someone else was using your computer while you were in the hospital.  Things must have gone well since your stay was shorter than you thought.  Welcome home!  Take it easy.

Sonja ~ Congratulation, Lila Mae!  (I felt that way when Inky 'went poopy' in the litter box after leaving a present in the kitchen)  Inky and Ali are doing great.  They run, chase, then rest, eat and then it starts all over again.  Oh, the life of a cat!!!   Sorry about your brother.  Prayers are going out for him and his family.

Janet ~ Hmmm!  Kevin said no more defragging.  Tony said no more defragging.  On SrNet, someone defragged XP and it really messed things up big time.  Tony says he never shuts his computer down.  But if it happens to be draggy, he restarts it and it is fine again.  I guess I will find out.  Kevin should have mine done soon between 5-days a week at college and working evenings at WalMart.  

Pat ~ So glad you got home safely after all the traffic jams.

Sarah ~ Hi.  How did you do on your tests?

I was trying to respond to everyone, then noticed the time.  I have to start getting ready for my outing with my classmate from high school.  It is cloudy and gloomy but God gives us light!

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"There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say, as long as you don't say it out loud."

Good Morning one and all I have just had orders on aol messenger from Jenny not to overdo. Well I am just independant enough to try to do a few little things like some laundry and vacuuming. Dog hair everywhere all the time so must vacuum almost daily. I have a very lightweight Orick vacuum and it has a new bag so it won't be heavy at all.

Nita glad to see you are feeeling better.

Etta Sue you should have clicked in just to see if it was me on msn.

Going to the doctor today to check the catheter, see if it can go away.

TTYL

JOEMOSES53
 RIA

The Village Idiot
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Once upon a time there was a village named Egoville hidden away
in the mountains.  Now, this village, like most villages, had
their own idiot.  His name was Hugh Millety.

Hugh, the village idiot, was the ridicule of Egoville.
The towns folk would often set him up with silly choices in order
to laugh mercilessly at him when he made the wrong choice.

"Hugh," they'd say, "would you rather have this shiny new
quarter or this dirty old torn dollar bill?"

"I'd like the shiny quarter," Hugh would reply.  His tormentor
would give him the quarter and walk away laughing, declaring
Hugh a true village idiot.  Hugh would just shrug and go about
his business.

Even though it was a poor village with little opportunity, this
was repeated several times a day by many people.  As the years
went by, the ridicule became a ritual that dozens of townies
took part in.  The towns folk had little to their names, but at
least they could feel better about themselves in comparison to
the village idiot this way.  It was their small comfort in the
lap of poverty.

Not everyone would make fun of Hugh though.  A few felt sorry for
him and gave him hand-me-down clothes, leftover food, and even
an old shack to live in at the edge of town.  Hugh lived off of
the handouts of the charitable few.

One day, Hugh showed up at the village square wearing a brand new
suit.  Everyone was amazed, for few people in the town could afford
new clothing, let alone a nice suit.  The small village didn't even
have a new clothing store, only a used clothing store.

One of townsfolk asked Hugh where he got his new suit, thinking
he must have stolen it.  He bought it, he told them.  And
furthermore he added, the fine new house being built on the
mountainside that everyone was wondering about, that was his.

When questioned where he got the money, he told them it was the
money they gave him.  With people giving him food, clothing, and
shelter, he simply saved and invested everything they gave him.
"I may be your village idiot," he smiled and said,
"but I'm no fool."

But why then, they asked, did he always take the lesser amount
of money they offered him if he was so cunning?

Hugh replied that if he had taken the greater amount of money,
they would have stopped offering it to him.  He earned his money
by letting them laugh at him, but he knew the first time he took
the greater amount they'd stop offering him money and find
something else to laugh at him about.

"Now," said Hugh, "I'm the richest person in town and have all
the money I need.  I didn't waste money amusing myself at the
expense of someone I falsely perceived to be a lesser person.
And you, all of you, have little more now than you had when you
started ridiculing me.  So tell me, who is the village idiot now?"

Hugh smiled again, then handed out hundred dollar bills to those
who had been kind to him.  The townsfolk were shocked.  It was
true though, they had frittered away their money a little at a
time, trying to make themselves feel big by comparison to the
village idiot.

It just goes to show you, if you live in Egoville, take care not
to become the village idiot by your vain perceptions.  On the
other hand, if you follow the wisdom of Hugh Millety, you might
just become the richest person in town.

~Author Unknown~

Wow!  2 pages!  What a group you are!

This is just terrific!