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Today's devotional was written by a friend of Jack and I, Sandy McEachern.   I found it to be so true of so many partings and Sandy's earthly father was certainly a man of God.

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Morning Devotional...


And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
Genesis 50:1


I didn't want him to go but he went anyway.

If I had known he was leaving that day, I would have fallen on his face and wept upon him and kissed him.

But I didn't.

And so I hugged him and said, "I love you, Dad," little knowing that the last few seconds of our time together were expiring.

Later that day he left--quietly.

The tenderness with which the Lord eased him out of his earthly tabernacle makes me smile in my tears.

With heaven in view, he breathed out the sum of all life's joys and sorrows in a final sigh and then Jesus took his hand and said, "Come away."

The memory of the just is blessed.
--S. McEachern

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

Amen to your devotional.  The message I get from it is we should daily tell our loved ones how much we love and appreciate them.  There's nothing like a surprised hug.  It just isn't my nature to go out and buy flowers.  I'm sorry, it just isn't.  Nor am I good at going out and purchasing a card that someone else has written something nice to someone they themselves love.  But I always have a hug and a kiss for my sweetheart.  It's from me.  If our Lord should take me home tonight, she'll remember our last kiss.

How often our lives are so busy that we do not find time to  love we have for our families and friends.  Thanks for reminding us that our relationships are worth more than what we hold, a timely reminder for busy people.

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

There are over 20 different weight machines, and 10 free weight stations, plus treadmills, eliptical walkers, and several stationary bicycles.  The weight machines are designed for each muscle in the body.  One set of 20 on each machine at a reasonable heavy weight (At least half of body weight) gives your muscles a good wake-up call.  Then another set of 20 with an increased (small) amount of weight increase starts to add strengthening to the muscles.  I'm after toning to help my golf game.  At my age I am not buffing, it's impossible.

England. 8.30 a.m.

Hello everyone.

Pat Thanks sis. What a lovely, poignant devotional..yet not sad for Christian's when we lose a Christian dear one. Yes indeed as we say Goodbye and loosen our hold, then other arms are waiting to welcome on that other shore.
Praise God!

I had a reply from Ken Spencer this morning.  He and Margaret are well but very busy with college.  He will pop in again  sometime Pat.

Lee Hello Superman!!! ha ha!!!  all that fitness equipment, I would be fit to drop! Best Wishes for the golf ...how's the handicap, or shouldn't I ask?

Gareth.  Hello and God bless you and your dear ones.

Ria I hope You are alright this morning and haven't caught the flu from Marcel.  I hope he's feeling a bit
better today.  Please give him my love., also Ko and Jan.

The sun has just come out.  We have 6 primulas for the wall at the front of the house.  Chris has the day off so will plant them for me., and I have a few seeds to sew in pots, something I can manage, all this is a good sign and very uplifting after what has seemed a long shut-in Winter.  God is good!  Praise Him!


"Thine O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the Heaven  and in  the earth is Thine;  Thine is the Kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted as Head above all.

Both riches and honour come of Thee, and Thou reignest over all; and in Thine hand is power and might; and in Thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all."

1 Chr 29:11-12



Have a Wonder-filled Day in Jesus.

Jenny  

 
   

     LEFT-WING_SINNER  to  CP

                           RIA

GOOD MORNING ALL  10.50 AM

PAT thank you very much for the great devotional from Sandy Mc Eachern your friend and the friend of your dear husband Jack.
Also the hymn this morning "When I Survey The Woundres Cross. And the hymn yesterday Jesus is The Sweetest Name I Know ".
How is it with your cold today

JENNY   MARCEL has also today flu but on this moment we have it not.
Is in in England also so cold. In Holland it is sunny but there is a big very cold wind.

LARRY on this moment my husband use Breathe Right nose strips but sometimes is that also not helping against snoring. And he use spray Snore End and sometimes homoeopathic medicines and that is also not helping. That is the reason that he now must go to the hospital.

SONJA i am sorry to read that Zachery
must have all the bloodtest.

ZACHERY how are you doing boy

JANE know that my prayers every day are for BRYAN and the other soldiers in Iraq.

On the psalms they we must sing in the church there are we have get for a while all other
words and other melodys. Now we must use our psalmbook again. But the most psalms have i in my head with the old words and other melodies.
Is that also in Canada And America.

Judy B will Melaura also learn Dutch it is to learn Opoe is knowing a lot Dutch I will here help with mailing that am i also doing with Jenny and maybe
John but i think not that he can write Dutch. Talk in Dutch he can.

I am being crazy from the mails they i get this morning there are 3 messages from my provider in all the 3 has been a virus. One was AOL one was Yahoo
and the other i don't no more.
BUT BE NEVER AFRAID THAT YOU RECEIVE A MAIL FROM
ME WITH A VIRUS  I HAVE NORTON SYSTEEMWORKS
ALSO NOW HE IS WORKING AND WHEN I SEND A MAIL TO SOMEONE MY SCANNER IS FIRST SCAN THE MAIL
WHEN I CLICK ON SEND AND WHEN THERE NOTHING IS
THEN HE IS GOING,
AND I SCAN ON THIS MOMENT EVERY DAY MY COMPUTER.

 O Lord, help me appreciate
     The world that woman do,
     The service given from their hearts,
     Their sacrificice for You.
                                               SPER.

LOVE and PRAYERS
RIA                          

good morning,
just thougth i'd stop by to say hi don't have a whole lot of time so i'll ttyl
Sarah

Good morning all.

Would love to stay and chat, but I've got a toddler on the move.

Pat thanks for the reminder to show our loved ones we love them.  John always knows that I love him and is reminded on the road often.

This cold has me down, more tyleonl.  Say those of us on blood pressure medication, please remember to read the lables of over the counter meds, a lot cannot be used if you have high blood pressure.  Also please toss the Advil, ibuprofen, it interfears with the BP meds effectiveness.  My Doctor told me that.

Lee I have often said I would like to have a pair of llamas.  Do you sell the wool?  We had an aunt who could have woven it into blankets!  That is a little known craft now.

Hello Ria, Yes Melaura should write you, Mother is too elderly to teach and John doesn't have the confidence to know the correct pronounciation.  Also John is better with the dialect.

Good morning Jenny.  It is afternoon for you.  We still have snow here in the north.  The seeds are out though and I am this weekend starting my tomato and pepper plants.

Well time to start teaching.  I will be back later.

Love to all
JudyB

Good to see you Gareth!  

How are you today?

What is your weather like?

Good morning/afternoon.

I am off to work out this morning.  Maybe do some arobics while I am at the club.

Wonderful devotion, Pat.  Knowing that our loved ones are in heaven makes it easier, for me anyway.
Our Pastor was talking about how he would speak at funerals where they weren't Christians and he could feel a difference from the other funerals where they were Christians.  Sad!

Ria, sometimes I get like 15 of those virus's a day.  My ISP catches them for me.  Thankfully.

Hi Jenny.  Good weather your way?

I might not be on here much today. I am going to take some pictures, maybe some portraits.  Karma, are you planning to take portraits for the dpc challenge?  I haven't entered for awhile..thought I might.

England 2.45 p.m.


Left-wing-sinner You are welcome to this site.
I would like you to know that I too do not always agree with everyone on C.P. all of the time....we are an assortment of differing denominations but we are all true followers of Jesus Christ. Some are for "Paul and some for Barnabas." We speak the "Truth in love" and I believe we have "Unity in diversity."

I for one respect your opinions and accept that at this time you feel that this site is not for you.

I know from my own experience that there is not a better more loving fellowship of believers in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour on the whole w.w.web. I have received such love and kindness from my brethren on Pat's web-site.  I pray that you may be shown the Truth about our little family.,

Please note that I am not a photographer.  Pat extends a hand of welcome to all who come this way.  I am honoured that she has accepted me.....warts and all!

In Jesus' Name.

Jenny.

SONJA I also am very happy that my provider catch them and then destroyed and when i send a mail my own computer is scanning first and then he go away when he is allright but he is always allright. Really every day on this moment i scan my computer it is making me nervous.

Judy B yes John is talking dialect that
can i also do but Marcel is only speaking real Dutch he can not talk in Dialect. The dialect is going only the older people are speaking it but the young people
no more.  Are there also dialect in Canada and America
and England. Has every country that

BYE LOVE RIA  

Good Morning: Pat the devotion is wonderful, Brought tears to my eyes.
I can't stay long here, Gilbert needs to borrow my car to go get a battery for his and Forest is coming over here until daddy gets back.  

TTYL

Judyb, cold and perhaps wet later.  Great weather for ducks and Polar bears...

Hi!

Soni, I've got an idea for Portraits, but I don't know if I am going to be able to pull it off or not.  Depends on how willing my "subject" is!

I've got one in "Out of the Frame," Travis said0 he would give i11t an 11!
Excuse the number7s, someone is helping me type.

Laters.

Good to see all of you posting.

Iain, thinking of you and praying for you today!

Good morning, all!  A busy morning for me here, I'm getting ready to teach a computer class.  Part of my job is teaching teachers about using the computer, so they can then teach their students.

We are really jazzed here, we've had 2 or 3 new families attend services in the past couple of Sundays!  These are previously unchurched people, so we're really happy that our church family seems to be reaching out to the community.

God is good, all the time!

This has been a busy day with the phone ringing, yelling at a black cat to STOP, and unexpected things happening on the pc.  

Marilyn, I figured out how to disable the firewall, Norton Anti-virus, Norton Anti-spam, Weather Bug and all else I thought might be a problem but I still can't seem to get PeoplePC to download its software.  I called PeoplePC and they say it is the anti-virus but so far it isn't.  I will keep on trying.

A great devotion today.  Yes, we must remember to tell our loved ones that we love them.

I love you all!!!

I am expecting company this afternoon.


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"Question:  What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?

Answer:  A person who lies awake at night trying to decide if there really is a doG.

Gareth I don't mind cold and wet, BUT I am minding cold and snowy.  We are not through with the snow yet.  Have you roses blooming yet?  I remember being at our cousins home in Chester, and the beautiful rose gardens and hedges.

Pat when are we going for a CP bash to the other side of the pond?  You leading it?  Perhaps we can persuade Ria to join us then we can all meet.  Perhaps a tour in Holland as well?  

Good morning Etta Sue,  How is Jerry these days. Let him know we really miss him and to please come back and tell us what he is doing/thinking!  I am giggling at the comment  that you have been yelling at Inky!  I was wondering how he was doing!

Puter stuff is something that baffles me too.  I have had a thing put into my puter as a home page and when I tried to put the one I want back everything goes screwwy.

Kim I admire your ability to teach computers.  Perhaps yu can give us puter illiterates some easy fixes?  We welcome you here and are rejoicing with you that you have some new families!  Woohoo!  There are a few homeschooling families here as well.

Anyway I am back to the table to teach will be back later.

Love y'all
JudyB

LEFT-WING_SINNER  I welcome you!!! How did you find our site? Just Curios George I was introduced by my mom and my mom came aware of this site through one of sevrel of my aunts.... Auntie Pat

Just popping in to say hi.

Auntie Pat that devotional WOW is all I can Say thank you and I love you lots.

yes my health has improved exept that im sick AGAIN note the again.   I will hopefully go see my Doc this week or some time soon.

Hey Meg hows my Nephews? I haven't seen you guys in a while. I love ya guys hope to see you all soon.

Love to all

Mel

Welcome left-wing_sinner! To CP!!!!

Welcome Kim!

Welcome lmaupin!
We all are glad to see you all here!!!

Hey everyone how are you all??

Ms.Ria,I am doing good.

And Hi to everyone else.

Zac

Jenny, A hardy good morning to you..........

Apparently I missed the post you were addressing where someone came in and said he/she disagreed with "some" of the posts.  In my lifetime I have found few people to agree on every topic that comes down the pike, but honest (In this forum; Biblical) expressions and personal belief based on God's Word brings about a fair and balanced discussion.  Argument is NEVER in order.  Like you, I do not follow after the faith practices of some of the folks in this forum, but of those I do not agree with, I find I agree 100% with them on their love of, and for, our Lord.  In so reading and agreeing with them, I believe I will have the pleasure of spending eternity with them with our Lord.  Only He knows our hearts.

   "see how much they love one another"
           "make love your aim"....

Lee

I agree with you dear brother.  Everything we do on here is done in love and In the Name of Jesus.

Amen.
God Bless Lee.
Jenny.

My last post brought something to mind..........

If I stretch my imagination a bit, I see reading and studying the Bible as being similar to the following......

I am seated with the peoples of the world in a very large auditorium, admission is free, and each of us has a microphone in front of us.  On each side of the stage are two long tables angling back toward a larger chair.  Seated at the tables are the major and minor prophets of the Bible, each with microphones, and our Lord is seated in the center, a Bible is in His lap, with all of the other great authors in the Bible to His right and left.  The audience is comprised of two types of people, those who ask questions, and those who are silent.  When those of us who want answers to a specific Biblical question (Those who are serious)  that may arise out of the Word, we in the audience, simply address our question to one of the prophets (The Lord being one of them).  I may have a question of Isaiah and he responds with his Biblical truth(s).  after Isaiah answers my question, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Jeremiah, might raise their hands and individually, each one of them adds to what they know on that particular question.  The Lord then says, I agree with each one of them 100%, are there any questions?  If the answer is not yet clear, our Lord then addresses the prophets by asking them to give their answer again.  If I am paying attention, I then acknowledge to all of them that I now have their answer.  The Lord then says, "Next question?"

Subj: Insight for Leaders  
Date: 3/9/04 5:01:55 AM GMT Standard Time
From: lmi@flash.net
To: tozer@litmin.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)

YES, SOME ISSUES NEED SETTLING IN THE MIND, THEN WE CAN GO FORWARD.

March 9    

Pastoral Ministry: I Know I'll Be in Trouble

But even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at
Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the
gospel of God in much conflict.  
--1 Thessalonians 2:2

It is good for us to remember how strong He is--and how weak we are.
I settled this issue a long time ago. I tell you I have talked to
God more than I have talked to anyone else. I have reasoned more
with God and had longer conferences with God than with anybody else.

And what did I tell Him? Among other things, I told Him, "Now, Lord,
if I do the things I know I should do, and if I say what I know in
my heart I should say, I will be in trouble with people and with
groups--there is no other way!

"Not only will I be in trouble for taking my stand in faith and
honesty, but I will certainly be in a situation where I will be
seriously tempted of the devil!"

Then, after praying more and talking to the Lord, I have said,
"Almighty Lord, I accept this with my eyes open! I know the facts
and I know what may happen, but I accept it. I will not run. I
will not hide. I will not crawl under a rug. I will dare to stand
up and fight because I am on your side--and I know that when I am
weak, then I am strong!"  I Talk Back to the Devil, 146.

"Lord, I'm convicted by Tozer's statement that he has 'talked to God
more than I have talked to anyone else' (and by my suspicion that in
his case that was literally true!). Help me to talk with You more,
and then to have the same commitment as Tozer toward doing what I
know I should do, even if I get in trouble! Amen."

Dear Pat, I notice that you were a  wee bit "low," that is understandable, but  we pray that you are now neither too "high" nor too "low".
But walking on the King's Highway, which is just  right.
When I was a young Christian, I would  go with friends to the most wonderful charismatic fellowships and after, would be "high" for a few days, then I would come back "down".
This lasted for a few years, then I realised that it was no way to live the believers life, up, and down like a yo yo!
So gradually I found myself walking a more level pathway, neither up nor down, ( just like the grand old Duke of York.)
I guess that is the best walk here on this earth, walking with the Lord on a steady even road, not "down" and always looking "up," looking for the unexpected blessing  to happen, for He never ceases to surprise us, on this wonderful King's Highway!
Praising the Lord at all times, and for all things!
love Chris.

                                                                   


For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen:
For the strong sense I have that this is not my home:
For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy: I give
Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy
Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of
Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ: I
give Thee thanks, O God.

     -- John Baillie


QUOTEMEAL from HEARTLIGHT     --     http://www.heartlight.org/








 

My aren't we a quiet bunch today!  Only on page 2!  

Chris...... Can we start calling you the grand old Duke of York???

I know watch that "old"!!!

I like your scenario Lee... I can come up with at least one good question,  and I am sure there will be an answer for it.

Now I am off for a hot tea, and a slice of toast, with cheese.  You American folks always differentiate between tea and Hot tea,  Here in Canada are the other way, If we say tea, everyone assumes it is hot, unless we say iced.  HAHA  Wonder who is backwards here?

Well cheerio for now.
Judy