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Hello again!  So far, there isnt anyone breathing down my neck waiting for this computer, so I will tell you a little about my day today.

This morning after I posted here, I went for a long walk on the beach, and while I was walking and praying, I was also thinking of so many of you.  I know Pat also loves the ocesan, and Nita and Jane, and Marilyn and Al get to live near it, so I assume they also love it.  And I also thought of our sweet Mieka who loves her California home on the beach.  Anyway, I sent up prayers for each of you dear CP friends.

I gathered up quite a bunch of seashells to give to Abby.  There is one here I had not seen before....a small, flat one with a spiral design.  Some kind of snail, maybe.  Anyway, I picked up a lot of those, the smallest about 1/4 inch across and the largest maybe a bit over an inch.  Cute.

This afternoon wewent on an optional tour, an off-road Sonora desert tour.  We rode in the back of a pickup with a tarp as a shade.  The weather is just perfect, a bit cool near the water, much warmer over near the mountains.  The fellow was very knowledgable and pointed out the various kinds of trees and shrubs native to the desert here.  Not much wildlife to be seen, as they are having a drought and most are staying in the shade to conserve their water and energy.  He took us to a desert oasis, and yes!  It even has palm trees!  Amazing.  We drove down an arroyo (dry river bed) for quite a ways, through a squatters village, and a fishing village (also squatters) and back around to our hotel.  It was enjoyable and educational, the other 8 people with us very congenial, so we had a really nice afternoon.

It is good to see Ruth Ann and Judy Mc posting, and I heartily welcome the new comers!  You will love this place.  We try to be kind and loving and welcome all who join us.  i WOULD REALLY MISS cp IF ANYTHING SHOULD EVER HAPPEN TO IT.  oops!!  pardon the caps, this keyboard is really tricky!   

Still no one waiting..............nice!

I think we will have a light supper and make an early night of it.  All that fresh air and sunshine should make us sleep really well tonight.  And when we wake up, it will be 2006!!  Hard to believe, isnt it?

I hear beautiful piano music..........going to check it out!

Thanks for that lovely post, Janet.

I'm a little bit weepy here tonight.  Not sure why.  I'm glad you're having a good time.

Happy New Year in case you don't get back.

Cheer up Dear Pat!
You are always cheering others on,
let us cheer you on now, God bless you and give you a most WONDERFUL new start to 2006, we wish you all the very best of health and happiness ok?
love you,
Chris and Margit  <3xx

http://wilstar.com/xmas/auldlangsyne.htm

Oh Pat, don't be weepy.  Think of how many people love you tonight and what a good job you have done to keep CP on the internet for us all to enjoy.

I think of Janet down there taking in the culture of Mexico and of Marilyn and Al in northern California trying to stay dry with the rain and flooding.  I think of our friend Anthony in England along with Chris and Margit, and of Etta May in Indiana. And I think of faithful Larry just down in Atlanta.  And there is Nita and...and....  I think tonight of Judy Mc another of our Canadian sisters.  I think of Ruth Ann, just across town from me. I think of all our brothers and sisters whose names do not come to me.  And YOU Pat, have made this fellowship possible.  I THINK WE ALL OUGHT TO START OFF THIS NEW YEAR BY SAYING "THANK YOU PAT!

Cornelia and I did our last reading tonight, the last three chapters of Revelation.  This is the third year in a row we have read the Bible through out loud.  It is a blessing to us.  Tomorrow we are going to begin Genesis again and this year we are going to read the King James version.

Good night everyone and again, 'HAPPY NEW YEAR!"

Papa John             

When tomorrow comes.. a new beginning, a new day to praise God and look upward.

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/peopsing.htm

THANK YOU PAT XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Pat, I'm hugging you with my heart.  I'm sorry you're feeling weepy.  Sometimes a good cry does wonders for us women.  Not sure about the men.  I had my weepy time before Christmas.  You are so loved, and so important to us here at CP.  We are, in a real sense, family.  Like Janet, I would miss "us" if we weren't all here.

I went to town, but it was tricky.  There is much more flooding than I thought.  There were policemen and city workers all over, stopping traffic, redirecting.  Some homes have flooded, and some businesses.  City highways, along the bay, are partly flooded.  There was a breach in one of the dikes along the slough, and water flooded in and over the road.  I think it subsided when the tide went out.  I saw pickup trucks going through some areas of high water, but many others turned around and went another way.  My car is low and I'd be afraid to try it.

Heh!  I see Papa John, Chris and Margit, Babycakes and Nita are here.
Let me go and get my diet pepsi, and I'll have a toast to the new year with you.  Oops, I drank it all.  Well, maybe next year.

Happy New Year everyone, may the new year be better than the old one for us all.

Thank you Pat, for this wondeful site!

Our church is having a mini watch nite service starting at 10 pm.  I'm just trying to keep busy until then.

(I live in a dry county, so not too many partying people on the roads, but there is still a few)  If I lived in a big town, I guess I would stay at home to be safe.

Spoke with my sister for a little while today.  Could not understand her, she is hallucinating due to the pain meds.
More on her in prayer request.

Talk to y'all next year.
Samantha

CHEERS. Nita, et al.

Papa John you are so right, well said.

  After reading all the posts I couldn't figure out why there was no "Reply" button available.  Finally dawned on me, I hadn't logged in!   

I just want to wish all of you - my dear brothers and sisters in Christ - the most blessed New Year.

I am back!  Everyone seems to be eating dinner or gone elsewhere, so it is pretty quiet just now.

The piano in the lobby was being played....expertly!...by a 22 year old young man who is a guest here.  I sat and enjoyed it until he stopped and put the top down on the grand piano and covered it up again.  He said he has been playing for only five years, as a hobby.  Boy, was he good!

I made another post earlier (but lost it) to tell Ruth Ann that I had the road rise to meet me yesterday. I took a really nasty fall on tile and concrete, hitting my right knee and jarring my right shoulder as I tried to break my fall.  Boy, did it ever hurt!    But I scrambled up quickly, and am so thankful that nothing is broken.  Actually, my knee hurt the worst, and it is swollen and turning a lovely shade of purple, but doesn{t hurt much now.  But my upper arm really gives me fits when I reach with my hand....but I am doing stretches and trying to keep it from getting any worse.l  Thank }God for strong bones, and I am so glad I have been working out, as I think that helped it not to be worse.  There was a little (about 5 inches) step up just as I entered a darkened hallway, looking for the "bano" sign, and I didnt see it.  OUCHIE!!

We went out by the pool and watched a spectacular sunset, then got a pizza from a little place here in the hotel and ate it in our room.  It isnt even eight yet, and my eyes are drooping......so I am sure I wont be watching the new year come in. 

Jeanne Lee, good to see you!  Happy New Year!!!

Papa John, I just finished reading the Bible through again, too, and for the new year am going to read the chronoligacal one year Bible.  I will have a lot to catch up on, though, as I didnt bring that one with me.

I love all you guys!  And I pray Gods richest blessings on you in 2006.

Thanks everyone!

It's now 2006 and my wish for you all is that 2006 will be the best year ever for each and every one of us.

Thanks especially for the last 10 or so posts.  They HAVE encouraged me a lot.

Happy New Year Folks.

Pat cheer up this year will be better than last year.

I am claiming the promises in Joshua chapter 1 with emphasis on verse 9.

Have a good day and night all

HAPPY NEW YEAR BROTHER'S & SISTER'S 

I pray that you all have a blessed day today & the entire year through so take care & see you all again soon !!

Happy New Year to each and everyone of you.  I didn't manage to stay up to see the new year in but found it was 2006 when I woke up this morning, just the same.  I am ready for church and just waiting for the time to leave.

I can't remember if I told you that I had sold my second car on Friday.  The man came to look at it and we reached an agreement and when Pat got back from shopping we both signed the title and then delivered the car to the man's home.  He buys old cars and resells them to individuals.  I called my insurance company and cancelled the insurance.  I was a little dissappointed as the premiums didn't go down the full amount of the insurance amount on the car by about $50 but it will still save me $20 a month on insurance so that is something.

Pat, certainly hope you feel better today.  Often a night of rest makes a big difference in how we feel.  While I can't say that I ever feel weepy, as such, I now find that my emotions often come to the surface and I am much less able to control them than I used to be.  I saw Willard Scott, who still appears on the NBC Today Show a couple of times a week, and he was being interviewed about a book he put his name to on the wisdom of the aged.  He commented about being much more emotional than he used to be. 

There are so many postings I am not going to write individual responses today.  However, do want to say that I am glad you were not hurt in your fall Janet.  My one short trip into Mexico still leaves me with memories of the uneven sidewalks and really having to watch where we walked.

Again, a big Happy New Year to you all.

Hello all!  The kids are seeming to feel better.  I'm starting to get back to normal (whatever that is), but poor nards is feeling puny now. ;(

My rebel got here yesterday (FINALLY).  I'm so excited. 

I love the first of the year.  New time to start over.  Reminds me of how Jesus let me start over (several times actually), and he doesnt' need a special day to do it.

I typically don't make resolutions, but this year I ahve got to do some things different.  I'm really wanting to get my Mary Kay business to a "supporting" level (meaning I don't have to work outside the home and we can start affording some small "extras" again) and I really want to get my photography skills honed and developed (no pun intended) and maybe make a little money that way, as well.

Soooo, basically my NY resolutions, if I call them that are to be more efficient with my time, more diligent in my spiritual life, and more focused in general.  I am a bit tired of being a scatterbrain. . . .

I hope everyone is having a good day.  It is beautiful outside, but a bit nippy, so we will stay in.  (Though I may open a few windows to let the germs out -- hahahahhaha).

take care and enjoy your day!

I'll post this little guy again since I don't have any other NY animation...


Pat ~ Think of how many love you on CP!  Now think of how many love you on SrNet!  Now your Hiking Club!  Now your neighbors!  Now your family!  Now with all that love, Jesus loves you more!  How awesome you are to have that love.  Me, too.  Jesus loves me and you and you and you!

My chili was great...at least, Ivalou and Judy ate it and asked for seconds.  We made some greeting cards and I was in bed by 11:10 p.m.  And like many of you, when I woke this morning it was 2006!  Church was great with only one service again today...many more attendees today than last week.  I ate lunch at Steak 'n' Shake...got cole slaw...that is cabbage, isn't it?  And now I am rushing to get caught up so I can put heat to my back.  That standing at church about does me in!

Yes, we too had one short service at church, wonderful worship, the very great presence of Jesus amongst us, I filled up at one point and couldn't sing nor even speak tears ran down my face!
His love just filled me to overflowing, I hugged everyone to bits lol.
Best wishes to all of you,
'Chris and Margit too.

Father be with our dear ones on the Oregon and Californian coasts and everywhere else during this wet windy weather, amen.

http://www.beckerunited.com/

This is the website of a dear friend of ours, Tim Davies, he attends the bible study in our home.
Tim has muscular dystrophy and is a wonderful battler for others!

Chris, when I click on that, it says "There are no entried in this blog"  Have they been deleted?



What great posts in here today!

PLEASE VOTE!

I sorted it Pat 

I've returned from a full day of worshipping with friends, then lunch, then a gift exchange, and then we picked up my old computer that a man had rehabbed for one of the friends I ate lunch with today. All in all, a good, satisfying kind of day with ABSOLUTELY no stress - I really needed this day, and thanks be to God for the blessings received from His hands today.

Ruth Ann

What a great day, Ruth Ann!  That's wonderful.  Glad you feel better for it.

Thanks Chris!


I had a phone call from Al Moak saying he's without power so is unable to get online.  I wonder if Marilyn is having the same problem.  What a terrible situation of rain and flooding that they are having out there.

This hymn came to my mind as I was speaking to Al Moak...

Oh brother.... I had a rather long post typed here....and it just vanished on me!

I wanted to wish you all a very happy and healthy 2006!

Al and Larry....you were talking about sleep apnea.  Norm has this, but can't seem to adjust to the pap machine.

Did it take you awhile, Al?  Larry, you mentioned Pat using it for seven years....does she not have sleep apnea now?  Norm goes again to the sleep lab, in two weeks.

Pat - I pray for you often.  I'm sure each new year, and special holiday, is difficult for you.

You have blessed us all, with all you do here on C.P.

We have a very nice day today.  This morning we went to Bible study and worship.  We had our regular schedule today except there was no evening service.

There were several guests here today.  Our daughter, Rachel, and her family came and there were several others.  We had black eyed peas, slaw, little ham sandwiches, and for desserts several cookies and goodies left over from Christmas.

This afternoon I watched a part of a football game and went to sleep for a good nap.

Gen 3:1-4
1   Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2   And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3   But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4   And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
(KJV)

Satan hasn't changed.  He continues to deceive people.  We need to be careful to hold on to the faith by which we are saved. 

1 Pet 5:6-9
6   Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
7   Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
8   Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
9   Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.  (NIV)

Papa John             

I don't see Marilyn on either.  They must both be without power.

Judy, most people have the hardest time with finding a mask that is comfortable.  I use a full face mask because I tend to breathe with my mouth once I fall asleep.   It took awhile to get used to, but now I don't mind it. 

Ruth Ann.......yipee, a day with no stress!  Way to go.

Papa John, I guess your day was pretty relaxing too.  Black Eyed Peas!  I love black eyed peas.  I haven't had any for awhile, so will pick up some when I go to town next.

Pat, I've not heard that song before.  Now I have.   Hope you are feeling better. 

Chris and Margit.  I would love to be in your church services. There is absolutely nothing like His Presence in such a manifest way.  You really can't do anything can you?  Simply crying says it all.  And hearts are turned to mush and to each other.  How precious is our Lord.

The "boys" and I had a good day.  Blessings, Nita

New Years Day is nearly over here - less than two hours to go.  Can't say I'm sorry.  This is always a tough day for me, although when Gene was alive I tried not to let it affect us.  On New Years day in 1988 my first husband's symptoms first showed themselves with chest pain that was originally diagnosed as a broken rib.  Eventually we were informed it was bone cancer and Ray died in April.  So I'm glad to see the end of this day. 

Enough of that!  We had a little snow overnight, only about an inch, but everything looked so pretty this morning.  I do love the changes of season we have here!   

Well, I've moved Al's "New Every Morning" out into the public area and I guess that they still have no power.

Please continue your conversation in the new topic.  Fill it up before morning if you wish!  lol

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