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Morning Janet.

I have seen tumbleweeds.  I have to say I was intrigued with watching them blow all over the roads and all.  You don't believe the problem they can create until you have seen them.

Meika in the Old Testament there is a story about Elijah.  He was in a cave in a mountain and there were winds and thunder and noise, in all this God did not show His face.  After it was over Elijah could hear His voice in a still small voice.  Listen for it in the silence.

Perhaps someone could find the exact reference for me?

Hello Ms Judy.
I had a giggle from Ms Janet and the tumble weeds. It was a puzzle to me that she would burn them when it is hot outside. I would wonder why she would not wait until it is cold outside

I did not know it is only to get them to go away.
Today I know more about a tumble weeds. But I do not think I have seen one yet..

Ms Judy, are they your 2 girls with a flu? I hope they are well soon

Ms Judy.... I am puzzle by this story... I have no Idea what it means.
.After it was over Elijah could hear His voice in a still small voice.  Listen for it in the silence

A very early Good Morning to Judy B and Meika:

I'm unable to sleep, (partially de to the electric storm) that we had.  I really love hearing rain on our roof,  and awnings,but dislike lightning!

I've had very busy days this past week...which is good for me.  Keeps my mind off the pain of arthritis.

I've already got the laundry sorted; so hopefully, I'll be able to catch a couple of hours of sleep before I need to get up!

Looks like everyone except the 3 of us are "snoozing" away...I'm happy for them...wish it was me!

Janet: I don't think I've ever seen a tumbleweed...in person.  I've seen pictures of course.

Its so nice to see new friends coming in CP.

Love and nitey-nite (I hope)

- Judy M.

Oops - I goofed again.. Good Morning Anthony!  Hope you had a restful sleep!  How many hours are you ahead of us?

Its just after 3:39 am as I post this!

- Judy

I can't believe all of the bad weather people are having.  I think Pat did the right thing to turn the computer off.  It is better to be safe than sorry.

Strange thing happened yesterday.  When we went out for the day we left the cat jumping about like crazy.  When we came back 7 hours later she was unable to stand up.  Didn't want to eat or drink.  Strange

I hope everyone has a great day and I do trust that no further harm will be caused by the weather.

Anthony.

p.s. Hey Judy, I was surprised to see you posting so early today.  Those electric storms sound bad.  I hope you manage to get some sleep.  (It's 8:45am here in the UK)

We must be continuing on yesterdays NEM.

I didn't proof read this because I have 5 minutes until pick up time.

Joan, I am so glad you found your way here.  Hope to see many posts and soon you will become a full member....that's when you post 100+ times.

Larry ~ I can't imagine having the knowledge to make a website for someone.  Took everything out of me to do my own webpage!!  I know there are several in here that can do it too!

Jane ~ Thanks for the report on Nita.  Give her my love from Indiana.  Get to feeling better soon, Nita!!!!

Pat ~ I hope you survived the bad weather.  Tis the season...I guess!  

Jeanne ~ I will pray for travel mercies for you and Gene.  Today and tomorrow is Ivalou's surgery but we are having the courtesy car pick us up and bring us back.  So nice.

Beverly ~ Happy to see you stop in and letting us know about what you are doing.  Sounds like you are really enjoying Florida fun.

Mieka ~ Do you have CP in Your Favorites?  I have the index page there plus I try to remember to get a noticfication for NEM. Helps me!  I am older than you, remember, and forget more than you.  You must have picked out Indiana for good weather yesterday from California.  Our weather was great and sunny this morning.  Ooops! see I forgot!  You are on vacation!!!  

Janice ~ It seems a lot of us are getting medical things done today.  Isn't it trying when we get old?  Have to do lots of things to stay healthy.

Mieka ~ It is hard for me to picture you in a beard.  I got a great chuckle out of that one.

Hi JudyB ~ Glad to see you pop in, too!  My but you do look like your sister.....and that is good!

Judy M ~ You must have had another restless night.  I pray you get rest today.

Anthony ~ Good morning.


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"Maturity is when we change from cocksureness into thoughtful uncertainty."

Good Tuesday morning!

I hope that everyone is well - including their computers  

Papa John:  The picture of you and Cornelia reminds me of Christmas with red clothing and beautiful white hair.  

Mieka:  Shanghi sounds so exotic to me.  Did you visit or live there?

Sonja:  Are you drinking from the fountain of youth?  Your picture tells me that you are.

Judy B:  It looks like you have a prayer granted with now one less truck - I hope that I have that right.  Oh, I do hope that the girls are feeling better today.  

Carol

Well, here I am back!

I could have logged on in the middle of night too like Judy McKenna but I was fast asleep then!  

That storm was a dilly, wasn't it Judy?

I unplugged my TV's and the computer and everything that could get damaged and I just went to bed and read my Bible for awhile.  

I'm so happy that we can get John Gill's Exposition of the Bible on the net now.  It's just a wonderful help and to think it was written so many, many years ago.  

I hope that you are having a wonderful holiday Mieka.  It's nice that you can get on here from that hotel room.  Are you using WebTV?

I'm having some earth delivered today so I have to move some stuff from my driveway where they are going to put it and a friend is taking me to the recycling depo here to take some garden trash and then I take my neighbour to Hamilton for cancer treatment so I won't be around much at all.

I hope you all have a great day.

Forgot to say that I have a small tumbleweed on top of my bookcase that I picked up on I-80 some years ago when I was with my father.  We were somewhere in either Nebraska or Wyoming when all of these massive tumbleweeds kept on beating our car so I picked one up and brought it home as I had never seen anything like them before.

Good morning.  Regarding the "still small voice":

IKing 19:11-14
11   And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
12   And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
13   And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
14   And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.  (KJV)

IKing 19:18  Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. (KJV)

Elijah thought he was the only one left serving the Lord.  He was wrong.  God still had many who were faithful to Him.  If we ever get discouraged and think we are the only ones faithful we need to be reminded that we are not alone.  We used to sing an old French song:  "Non, jamais tout seul."  --- "No, never alone."  There are always brothers and sisters who are faithful to God and we are never alone.

Excuse me for the long sermon.  But it is mostly scripture.  God's word is always good.

--- Papa John      

Thanks Papa John for the sermon.  It is great to learn something new.  

Good morning to all.

I will take Zachery to the hospital today to see his doctor from Denver.  It is just a check up to make sure he is doing alright.  
The temp. is only going to get up to 50 today.  brrrrsss....to cold for me.  

Anthony I am sorry to hear about your cat.  I will be praying for her.  Poor thing.  I wonder what happened?

Good Morning everyone. I hope all are well and surviving the terrible weather you are having. It is windy again here in the high desert. I have seen many tumbleweeds. I am surrounded by them. They are growing all around me.  They can be such a nucience (sp>).

Thank you PapaJohn for you exhortation on the scriptures. I am always appreciative of your words.

Judy B. I hope your girls are better today.

EttaSue I pray you trip today with Ivalou will be a safe one.

I am going now to check the other forums here and my email. I will be back later.
Marilyn

  Hi everyone.
Just a thank you toMs JudyB and Mr John for the small voice story, I do undarstand it now.

And I hope Ms Mckenna did get some rest too. It is so hard not to get the rest.

And Mr Anthony,   I hope the kitty will be ok.

Ms Carol, I know many friends who went to Shanghai and say it is a wonderful place.  When I was there, I was very poor. I did not know a nother way. Today I pray many times each day that I hope never to go back there again.  

I hope everyone will get some sunshine today and I hope it is a good day for all. I hope to come back again soon.

Hi everyone.  We also had storms last evening and a lot of rain, somewhere between 2 1/2 and 3 inches after about 5 pm.  Fortunately there were no tornados in our area.  However, it is overcast again today and more rain is expected.  My lawn people came this morning and just did a little weed eating in places it had gotten high and trimmed a couple of bushes.  It was way too wet to put a lawnmower on the yard.

Papa John, your messages are never too long.  

It sounds like our folks on CP will be busy today.  This is my Calvin Cove day and have to be there in a couple of hours.  Today we are singing hymns.  I got carried away when I put together the word sheets for the hymns a few weeks ago and choose about twice the number we can sing in our allotted time so we just start in the middle and go to the end, which is what we will be doing today.  Etta Sue, hope Ivalou's procedure goes very smoothly.  It is good that you can go with her.

Nita, I do hope you are feeling better today and Jeanne, hope your Gene gets a good report.  Sonja, I sure hope Zachery gets good news from his doctor today.

Anthony, sorry to hear about your cat.  We do get attached to our pets.  

I will not try to speak directly to everyone this morning other than to say I have read all of the postings here and it is good to see everyone stopping by.

Well, this is surely a busy place this morning!  Hello to all of you!

Mieka, I am so glad you have joined us.  You are a breath of Springtime to us here, helping us to look at many things from a fresh perspective.  May God richly bless you as you continue to learn about His ways and His Word.  And it's great that you make us smile or chuckle aloud, too!

Anthony, I hope your Sammy is all better now.  I wonder if she jumped wrong and injured herself?  Cats are supposed to always land on their feet, but it's been my observation, that they don't always!  I'm sorry the weather was too wet for photography when you went out, as I enjoy your photos so much.

Papa John, thanks for the scripture!  Your posts are NEVER too long, because we all learn from you and enjoy.

Janice, Hi to you in N.M.!!  Yep, you know those tumbleweeds there, too--------as all of us on the HIgh Plains do.  We had another trash pit full, plus many piled against the trees again yesterday, so Darrel burned them again......or I should say burned another batch of them.  By the way, the first two photos of your granddaughters got caught in my spam filter, so now I have three of them!  Lovely girls!  Thanks.

Sonja, I am praying for Zachery to receive a good report today from his doctor.  And......would you send me a glass of that water from the fountain of youth?  I don't want to be quite as young as your picture, just take off maybe 20 years or so!

Etta Sue, best wishes to you and Ivalou today!

Hi, Pat!  Another busy day for you, I see.  We will miss you.

Hey, Marilyn!  I'm still praying with you!  Have a great day today!

Good morning, Carol!  Nice to see you!

Judy Mc. I hope you get in a nap today, and pray the pain is relieved for you, from the arthritiis.

Hi, Judy B!  I have been wondering where you were!

I have a lot to do today, too, so I'd best get with it!
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"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."........Albert Schweitzer

Papa John;

I do thank you for that.  I needed to hear the words again.  What I was thinking was that the storns do end and there is quiet again when we can hear the Word.   A storm has ended and there is quiet and with the quietness we can hear that we are not alone.

Northern Ontario is still damp. We have seagulls on our fields enjoying the pickings of worms that have come to the surface.

One of the girls who were fluish yesterday is somewhat better today, I have one who still seems well, and I am praying I stay well.

Looks this will be a day away from homeschooling, and we can take it a bit easier.

Have a good Godly day folks,
JudyB

Hi Judy!


Well, everyone, enjoy your day.  I'm about to start to get ready for the little trip to Hamilton with my poor sick neighbour.  I'll be back later on this evening.

Then tomorrow, I must travel to my old town of Richmond Hill for a funeral visitation for my old boss when I used to teach bus driving.  He passed away yesterday morning.  

So, a busy couple of days ahead.  I also have an Avon order to pack and get delivered.

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Hello all!  still raining here.  Of course, I have no need to go out today, so all is fine by me.  Now, if it starts lightinginginginging giing again, I may not feels so smug about it though.

Sorry ya'll had such a hard time sleeping.  Does make for interesting reading the next day, though.  

Anthony, I'm sorry about sammy.  How old is he/she (I can't remember which! )

I'm gone to put some recipes in the appropriate sections.  Have a good day all!!

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!!!!!
CP == where everyday is election day!!

Hi again, only me, the little lost sheep has wandered home.

And I am so glad that I did.

Pat , I received your email but was in a problem with my laptop.

Business troubles, medical problems have kept me from posting.

Dear Marilyn was so kind to look for me and I emailed her my reasons for being away so long.

Thank you dears for looking for me.

Hi to all new comers and it is great to see the "old" buddies here as well.

Etta is right --this is a great place; no matter when you come you are greeted with love.
The good kind of love filled with kindness and warmth for your concerns.

Hi Janie, I do hope you tell Nita that I will be praying for her.

My cold/sinus/cough just drags on and on.

I have to go for re-testing on mammography tomorrow morning and would love to have you guys think of me in prayer.

So worried when I heard about tornadoes around you all.  It looks like Our Heavenly Father has kept you safe.

Prayers to all who are in need.

Want to go to prayer request now and check some recipes out.

Take care and as always,
Love in Christ,
Joyce

I just voted !!!

Guess what my vote was?

Wished I could go higher than 10 !!!

Joyce: it is so good to see you back with us. I for one have missed you loving posts. I will be praying for you with the mammography thing. I know how scary that can be. I praise God often for removing th lump i found in my breast. The doctor had also found it and after the mmaogram ordered an untrasound. which came after the church had prayed for me. It was no longer there and my doctor said along with me 'PRAISE GOD".

Marilyn

HI from a very stormy Atlanta.  This has been some afternoon.  We were under tornado warnings around three o'clock and continue under tornado watch until at least 8 pm tonight.  We have had lots of rain with the accompanying lightning and thunder.  I have no guess how much it has rained but all this bad weather has really made the area a mess.  We took all the clothes and things out of our hall closet as that is the only place we have to go to try to protect ourselves in the event of a tornado.  It is next to the laundry room and next to the stairwell to the room over the garage.  Don't know how much protection we would have but it is at least something since we don't have a basement.  We are going to leave it prepared until after the all clear later tonight.  

I did get to Calvin Cove and the few that were there today and I sang hymns as I had planned.  One of the ladies that had been attending had a stroke and died over the weekend.  She was 92 years old.  Fortunately we got home before the storm hit.  However, they held the students in all of the schools this afternoon including our daughter, who was attending a class at the technical college.  She later made it home without incident.

Joyce it is good to see you back and I hope your test tomorrow goes well.  

Pat, it sounds like you are going to be even busier this next couple of days with all that driving to do.  

Larry

Judy B., you are right.  One of the lessons of the story of the still small voice is that after the wind, the earthquake, the fire,  there is the voice from God.  God speaks to us as we read his word.  Often after the trials of life we find comfort from God as he speaks to us through Christ.  I like the statement in Hebrews 1:1-2
Heb 1:1-2  "In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,  but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe."  (NIV)

The rain and wind seems to have died down here at least for awhile.  We have had between 4 and 5 inches of rain in the last few days.

--- Papa John      

Just checking in for reports from everyone.  Stay safe all who live in tornado country!

Mieka:  I am sorry that you apparently had a difficult time in Shanghi - being poor is very difficult.  I hope that I didn't bring back any bad memories.  Your posts are very interesting.  

Joyce:  Of course, praying for you when you have your re-test of the mammogram.    

Carol

Papa John wrote:

QuoteJudy B., you are right.  One of the lessons of the story of the still small voice is that after the wind, the earthquake, the fire,  there is the voice from God.  God speaks to us as we read his word.

JudyB and Papa John, the man who led me to the Lord believed that Elijah had become so used to seeing God in great miraculous events and happenings that he needed to see God was present in less dramatic events also.  Of course, this isn't stated categorically in scripture, but it has made me think how easy it is to believe God if we see some dramatic miraculous happening - a healing for instance - but we can know by faith that God is with us in the day by day walk that we are called to, know matter how mundain that might seem at times.  I've always found this particular thought of the Lord's dealings with Elijah, very interesting and helpful.

Anthony.

Good afternoon!  All is fine with Ivalou.  She got the cataract removed from her right eye and the implant .... installed  Put in!  We go back tomorrow.  The driver is to pick us up around 11:30am.  Then she will be scheduled for the other eye in a week to ten days.  

We got home and in her house and the phone rang.  I answered it and it was Kaye Don.  Seems they were having Fried Mushrooms and some other stuff for late lunch and wanted to know if we want to come over and eat......DUH!!!!  Two widows!  Food out!  No cooking!!!  DUH!!
So we had Fried Mushrooms that Kaye Don found back in our woods and some were found in Michigan when they visited their daughter this past week.  MMMMMmmmmm! Good!

Sounds like a lot of you are busy dodging the storms.  Weird!  It is bright and sunny here with a light breeze.  Just enough to blow those whirly-gigs off the Maple trees!  Snowing maple seeds!!!

Jerry went to Ohio today to get some stuff out of storage over there.  He went to his sisters and sent me an email.  They just got a computer that so far....all they do with it is play games!!!  

Doing some laundry!  Gotta Go!

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DID YOU??

I have voted twice Miss Etta Sue.

I have been here lurking most of the day from the library. We werebusy for awhile but it has slowed down now. School will be out shortly and some of the kids come in daily to get on the computers to play games and generally make a lot of noise.

I'm home!  My goodness!  What sadness!  It was like Grand Central Station down at the hospital with people coming and going and no one is allowed inside the hospital except patents due to the SARS problem.

At one point, this lady was walking out the door and she came up to me the first person she saw outside and said, "Can I have a hug?"  I said, "Sure!"  As I hugged her, she told me, "I've just found out that I'm cancer-free after 11 years!"  

It's been a long afternoon but it's good now to be home.

Thanks everyone for voting!

There's two little graphics too on the Main website that you can click on above ("Christian Photographers Home") and you can vote once a day.  From what I gather, all these votes help to get us noticed so vote once a day if you can!  

Thanks!