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1 Timothy 6:10-11 says...

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.




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Philippians 4:11-13 says...

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
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Morning Devotional...


When he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
Acts 11:23

Ye also, as lively stones. . . to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:5

A poster on a notice board outside a church building in Leith near Edinburgh caught my eye.

It gave the name of the church and printed underneath it said, "A lively and purposeful congregation."

Can this be said of the assembly where you meet?

Remember that it consists of individual members [stones]. Are there any signs of spiritual life in them?

What are the signs of life in you?
--Brian Powlesland

 

Thank you for this wonderful devotional Pat.

I pray all the time that the Lord will make me "content" and to be accepting of the disabilities I have., and to trust in Him.

Sometimes, it is a hard lesson.....for me, anyway.

Posted by Pinkie late last evening and wanted it in today's NEM...

Just wanted to stop by and say "hi" to everybody!  I got a full time job as a hospice nurse, and I just don't have as much time to play on the puter as I did before.  Plus I've been preparing photos for a couple of exhibits I had and a contest I entered. 
It's been raining alot in East Texas too.  Makes everything nice and green!  I like the rain - it's a picture of the Holy Spirit.  Janet...SAD stands for SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER

I got this off the internet...for Ria

What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Some people suffer from symptoms of depression during the winter months, with symptoms subsiding during the spring and summer months. This may be a sign of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD is a mood disorder associated with depression episodes and related to seasonal variations of light.

SAD was first noted before 1845, but was not officially named until the early 1980's. As sunlight has affected the seasonal activities of animals (i.e., reproductive cycles and hibernation), SAD may be an effect of this seasonal light variation in humans. As seasons change, there is a shift in our "biological internal clocks" or circadian rhythm, due partly to these changes in sunlight patterns. This can cause our biological clocks to be out of "step" with our daily schedules. The most difficult months for SAD sufferers are January and February, and younger persons and women are at higher risk. 

Ria, maybe this will help - hope you get well soon.

I'm planning a trip to Montana July 8th.  My girlfriends son is getting married.  Hopefully I'll be able to slip away and take some nice nature shots!   
Since this is getting on so late, Pat, maybe you could bring it forward so everyone could see that I'm ok, even tho I'm not posting here as much as I once did!  Thanks

Shalom to everyone...

Thank you Pat for that great music.  It is my desire to "Give my best to the Master".   

Thank you to everyone who is praying for my health and hope you all have a wonderful Friday. 

Pat, June 24th was Granny Smith's and my brother Doug's birthday.   Two beloved people we both knew and are now in Glory.  Praise God. 

Shalom to you Pinkie.

Love Ruthie

ONE OF MY LOVELY BIBLEVERSES

MATTHEW 6 : 25
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry
about your life, what you will eat or drink;
or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more important than food,
and the body more important than clothes?"

God gives beauty to the flowers and
life to grass.
In the grand scheme of things,
these are transitory and insignificant.
He sent His Son from Heaven to save us.
So, He most definitely is going to give
us what we need until we go Home
to live with Him!

PRAYER...
Loving Father, and
Almighty God, forgive my
distraction over temporal things.
I do believe that you have given
me everything i need in Jesus
and in the gracious abundance
of Your blessings.
In the precious name of Jesus
i pray.  AMEN.

                                      Phil Ware.

Bye Love Ria 

GOOD AFTERNOON  it is 12.25PM in Holland

PAT thank you for the devotional this morning and also the nice hymn.

LARRY i wish you and your wife a very nice trip to your great-grandchildren. I hope you have a very nice time with them.

PAT that i am depressed is coming we have not summer but every day rain a lot. Today is it 12*C in Holland. And all the work in home .
But it is really cold in Holland. But in the winter then have i sometimes winter depressions. To many light then i put in the hole room on the lamps and i am put on candles.
But this is not normal such a summer.
Last summer has been very warm too warm that was also not normal for Holland but this. But they say now it shall be on Sunday a little bit better. I am hoping it.
The ponds once i have send you photo's from them and you have put them on CP they are now all flooding
and we can not walk on the grass. The flowers are nothing. And i am a child of the sun.
        Sometimes is on the radio i also have that song on a CD  but the CD's are now in the garage so as everything.
That is going so:  Child of the sun, Child of the earth
                              You're just a point in God's universe
                              And only God knows what will be
                              He loves you child of the sun, child of
                              the earth.
             I am loving this song but it is not a Christian but so nice.
And also that is a reason that i a lot go on my bike but it is not possible the cold no problem but the lot rain and the very big wind that is the problem that i not can go on my bike now and also that i am so loving
But now i go something eat and then work
Also my depressions are going over when the weather will be better and we are seeing everyday in home that it is being very light. And that is awesome. Light is also very important for depressed people. but it is going over i am fighting against that.

Zechariah 4 : 6
Not by might nor by power,
but by my Spirit, says The Lord Almighty.

           ABIDING IN HIS PEACE

           Strength is often found within the silence,
           While resting in the presence of the Lord.
           Abiding in His peace, we feel His power;
           While leaning on His love, we are restored.

Love and prayerfully for you all
RIA         
                                     

A quick hello! 

I've set all the clocks in the building forward 30 minutes, and all the other guys have adjusted their watches, too.  We don't know when the boss will catch on.

Been nice working here....

Good Morning Thank you to Pat and Ria for  posting the devotionals this morning. Wasn't it nice to hear from Pinkie again. What a busy lady she is. Thanks Pinkie for posting last night.

This may not be the place to post this but you all please pray for my Happydog, He has been anxious all night , keeps pacing the floor, panting and drooling. He will drink his water but doesn't want his food. I even tried a doggy treat and he didn't want that. I really don't look forward to leaving him while I go to work.

Today when I get home from work I am going to start this very thorough cleaning that I have planned, in my living, dining room area.

It seems like my little world here is getting smaller since Gilbert and the kids moved to Blue Lake. I go to work, come home, go to church, come home.  Even my conversation seems to be getting to be just those subjects. Work, church, kids and dogs.

TTYL

Thanks Pat for the June newsletter!  It is a very good one!  It's only the second email I've received since I switched ISPs, so I was glad to get it.  Now I know it's really working.
Nards - I hope yer boss has a good sense of humor.
Marilyn - that doesn't sound good with Happydog.  It sounds like he needs a vet pretty bad.

Hi everyone.  We have another gloomy morning here in Georgia and heavy rains and storms are predicted for all day and evening.  Papa John, it sounds like your area is getting heavy rain already.  Things are becoming very soggy here and just a few days ago I was complaining about it being too dry.  Hope the storms pass by before we have to fly on Sunday.

Pat, that was a fine newsletter and thanks for putting it together and sending it out.

I have a bunch of slides I must scan for my wife as she wants to take them to her sister on a CD.  These were slides made when they were small children.  Think there are about 50 of them.  So I am going to sign off for now and get busy on them.  I have several other projects to get done before we leave on Sunday morning.

Hope everyone has a good day and those that are ill or feeling down will find this a better day than yesterday.

Now we know why Nards is always stressed at work!

It is a cloudy (not rainy, yet) day here in WNC.  I was really hoping it would be pretty so I could get little boy outside and let him play.  He has gotten to where he hates being inside all the time.    Maybe we can go see a grandmother or something today.

I hope all of you have a wonderful day today.  It's Friday, you know.  I love the weekends!!

Take care.
karmat

Just a quick hello this morning.  We are going to make another quick trip to Hugoton to get the rest of that grass sod.  Thanks for the encouragement, Pat and Ruthie, about its chances for survival!

I had lots of things planned for this morning and that wasn't on the list!  But Darrel cannot load it alone, so .........the other stuff has to wait.  My painting ladies are coming this afternoon, Beth and John are leaving this afternoon.....lots going on around here.

We have cool and cloudy weather here, too, and I hope as soon as we get the sod down, the rain comes again! 

Darrel is saying "Are you ready?" so...........bye!

Nards ~ No wonder your job is stressful!!!!  Sounds like my kind of place to work.  I worked 14 years where it was fun but we still got the job done.  Attendance was high because everyone was afraid they would miss something if they stayed home. 

Pat ~ Thanks for the nice newsletter.  You did good!

Janet ~ Yes, that sod is very heavy.  When the sod farmer cut the outline for my edging, it was very heavy.  But when it dried out, it crumbled!  So it needs to be wet.  Don't forget to water it good for about a week.  Then get your mower out!

Well, to continue with my woe of not burning CD's.  Yesterday while I was gone with friends, Jerry read the manual and he didn't find anything amiss.  I got the Nero 6 CD in the mail.  I uninstalled all of the old one and installed Nero 6.  Looks so much easier and it even has the Express feature like Nards said.  BUT everytime I get to the 'burn' part, it does exactly the same as the old Nero.  It ejects the CD and a window says to insert a CD-R.  I push the drawer, click Next and nothing happens.  When I close that window, it tells me that the burning was aborted by user.  NOW Jerry and I are going to WalMart after lunch and purchase some CD-RW.  I have these CD-R's that I don't believe I have ever used before.  What I have had success in burning was different CD's. (with old pc)  Would that be something if these CD-R's are no good!!!  (That would be cheaper than a new CD burner!)

Us four ladies went to a restaurant for lunch yesterday.  One thing I had that was superb was Dill Slaw.  Real coarse cabbage slaw with a dressing and lots of Dill Weed in it plus a very generous portion.  It was great with my Deep Fried Shrimp, Baked Potato and a hunk of Dark Brown Bread.  Then we went to Beef 'n' Boards...a dinner theater.  Betty and Marge have season tickets so once a year they get a two for one deal.  Buy two, get one free.  But we needed 4 tickets so we purchased the 4th ticket and changed tables.  We go see 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' on Sept. 1.  Then we went to a grocery store and purchased ticket to see and hear 'The Symphony on the Prairie' at Conner Prairie south of Noblesville.  www.connerprairie.org  We can go any evening July 1-4.  You take your lawn chairs, a picnic and drinks.  Then listen to the symphony playing and at dark there will be fireworks.  Last year we got rained out some but heard the symphony some and did get to see the fireworks.  They gave raincheck tickets but I didn't use mine.

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"The people who tell you never to let little things worry you have never tried sleeping in the same room with a mosquito."

Seems like cloudy & cool is happening everywhere.  It is a welcome relief here on the island, after so much heat.  The forests are very dry and terrible fires have already started on the mainland.

Nice devotional, Pat.  Most of my life has been spent with financial and physical problems, so when I learned to depend on God, it changed my whole world.  Not always easy to be content....until one looks around and observes the need and pain happening to others.  I am most grateful to a kind, loving God. 

Read something that was upsetting, tho' not too surprising.  There is a new version of the Bible that is being praised by Britain's archbishop of Canterbury.  It is called '
Good as New'  and was written by a former Baptist minister.  Apostate Christianity is alive and well.  The devil must be dancing with joy over this...check it out and you will understand.  Not suitable for here. 

Must get ready to go into Duncan.  Banished Squeek to the laundry room as she wouldn't stop yelling to go upstairs.  They were not awake.  What a set of lungs that cat has!!

Marilyn, I did pray for Happydog.  Agree with Al.  Should see a vet if  it continues.  Vets are so expensive.  I sincerely hope that she is better tonight.

God Bless and pleasant day everyone.
Liz

Hi everyone
It is not cloudy and cool everywhere. Here in Chicago it is sunny and warm. Hardly a cloud in the sky.
But I have to go to work in this for I work 2nd shift.  Hopefully this weather will keep up over the week end

Tom

The boss actually adjusted his watch to match the "new" time, complained about cheap watches, and went on his merry way.  I let it go till shortly after ten, well, I mean, after 9:30, then fixed them all and we've laughed at him ever since.  It was pretty stinking funny.

I guess the payback will be pretty tough. 

I had a lot of even meaner things thought up but didn't get them done.

Scotch tape on the bottom of his mouse was just one.  I actually did that then removed it to make it less obvious that I was messing with him.  Another was a rock under his gas pedal.  I tried to tie his chair to his desk but the fishing line knots wouldn't hold. 

If you read my blog from yesterday, there's a few more I had in mind.  He read it even before he got to work, so he was really paranoid to start with, but he fell for the clock thing hook line and sinker.

As my grandchildren used to say, "Grandma, you're 'bootiful'!"  HAHAHA!  I went to the hairdresser early this morning.  Now I'm all set for a busy weekend.  I have a Pot Luck, a BBQ and a 50th Wedding Anniversary and then the Federal Elections on Monday and I'm working at that so will be away from the house for about 14 hours.


Nice to see you posting, Ruthie...  Hurry and get feeling better soon.  Yes, I never go past June 24th without thinking of Granny and your dear brother, Doug.  And now tomorrow is the day we always celebrated Mum's birthday but then near the end of her life, we found that her birthday was really June 25 but it doesn't feel right to celebrate it on the 25th.  Tomorrow is my eldest grandson's birthday.  He'll be 16.


Judy McK, yes, it's is a hard lesson....especially for you but then I think of Joni Ericksen.  Not sure if that would help you or not.  I do know that you have a very difficult time for sure, my friend.


Yes, it's so good to see Pinkie aka Nancy back posting.  We've sure missed her.  Hopefully, we'll see some of her great photography soon.


Hi Ria...   I so love to see your nice colourful posts pop up when I come to New Every Morning.  I sure miss you when you don't post.  I enjoy so much your little devotional and the little poems you seem to be able to post just at the right time.  Thanks so much for this ministry of yours.

I'd like to repeat that little prayer, Ria.  It's just so true for many of us...

QuotePRAYER...
Loving Father, and Almighty God, forgive my distraction over temporal things.

I do believe that you have given me everything i need in Jesus and in the gracious abundance
of Your blessings.

In the precious name of Jesus i pray.  AMEN.

Now, why did you do that, Nards?  I don't understand.  Were you trying to have a longer weekend?  LOL


I'm sorry that your little doggie is not too good, Marilyn.  Keep us posted.  And thanks so much for contacting Pinkie.  If all of us would take on a couple of our past members and drop them a little note, maybe most of them would come back and post.  I sure know what you mean about our little worlds.  Sure is lonely sometimes.


Thanks for the thanks, Al Moak!  So glad you enjoyed the June Newsletter.  Of course after I sent it I realized that I hadn't changed the Subject line so it has only "Subject" on it.  LOL  But hope no one minded.  I'm still sort of new at this.  Hope it brings some of our folks back.   Glad your email address is working.


Larry, what scanner do you have that you scan slides?  Are you really happy with the quality?  Sometimes I am and then sometimes I'm not with mine and my scanner wasn't inexpensive!    How long do you think you'll be away? 


Hi Karma!  Hope you are keeping well.  Do you have a problem with nausea at this time of the pregnancy?  I sure did.


Janet, I'm sure that your grass will be just great.  You'll have to take a photo of it!  LOL  Good it's raining for the fresh sod. 


I love your little animations, Etta Sue.  Where in the world are you getting such cute little ones?  I'd love to know.


Liz, thanks for letting us know about this so-called new Bible.  What a terrible thing.  I'm going to see what I can find out about it further.  How's your web page doing?  I must take a look.


Hi Tom...  I'm so happy to see you here in New Every Morning.  Do you live right in the city of Chicago?  What kind of work do you do?  I couldn't sleep last night and got up for a cup of herb tea and thought I'd have a peek at the site and saw you online.  Maybe we'll see you online tonight late.  I've been enjoying your photos.


NARDS!  You're bad!!!!



Thanks everyone for commenting on the Newsletter.  Glad it was enjoyed by several.  Hopefully, this will be a little thing we can do once a month.  I've had two people request that their names be removed and their membership deleted so I've done that.    So if you've noticed that the total of our members has gone down, that's why.

I just lost a big long post...I'll be back later.

Hi, friends,

We're off to Atlanta for the weekend. Mark needs to blow out candles on his cake and we need to be there with the smelling salts in case he runs out of breath! 

Y'all have a good weekend.

Ruth Ann

Quote from: Sonifo on June 25, 2004, 12:38:39 PM
I just lost a big long post...I'll be back later.

Maybe it fell in a posthole. 

Do you have a posthole digger? 

Of course, since it was a long post, some of it should be protruding from the posthole, since most postholes diggers are not long enough to make a posthole long enough to lose an entire long post.  They will, however, completely hide a short post from view...

Oh, boy. 

Why did I do what, Pat, change the clocks?  Ummmmm, practical joke...  Imagine coming to work and finding out you were 30 minutes late because your watch quit.  Every clock in the building, computers included, indicate that your watch is 30 minutes slow.  Your watch is known to be slow, so you are not surprised.  Everything in the building is happening as though it is 30 minutes later than your watch indicates, including your employees taking their morning break.  So you change your watch to match the clock, even though it doesn't feel that late. 

THEN it is revealed that every person you work with has been in on a huge hoax to make you think your watch was 30 minutes slow, and they are ALL laughing at you because you were fooled...

Aaaaaaah, my work is done....

<waiting for Sonja to get back from looking for her posthole diggers to see if they are long enough to dig a hole deep enough to bury a long post>

So sorry, guys, maybe I'll get back to being dull and boring by Monday.

I dread the weekend.  It's terrible trying to be funny when nobody else thinks you are.

@  Nards!

 

Troy, Chandraya, Lila Mae and I went herping for turtles at the fishing lake Wednesday. We found one but when we picked it up we noticed that part of his mouth was missing and his shell was broken.  We felt so bad and let him go.  We moved on to another area and seen a few more turtles but didn't catch any.  We did catch a leapard frog.  He is cute.  The boys now have him in a tank in their room.

On our way back to the truck, Chandraya stopped at the place where we found that turtle that had no mouth and she squated down and said a little pray.  We stopped and got teary eyed and watched and Lila Mae went and sat next to her and decided to say a pray. It was so precious to see both my little girls talking to God.

Fun pictures of the girls playing with makeup.

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June 25   

Worship: Nonliturgical Worship

Give to the Lord the glory due His name; bring an offering, and come
into His courts. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!
Tremble before Him, all the earth.
--Psalm 96:8-9

We of the nonliturgical churches tend to look with some disdain upon
those churches that follow a carefully prescribed form of service,
and certainly there must be a good deal in such services that has
little or no meaning for the average participant--this not because it
is carefully prescribed but because the average participant is what
he is. But I have observed that our familiar impromptu service,
planned by the leader twenty minutes before, often tends to follow a
ragged and tired order almost as standardized as the Mass. The
liturgical service is at least beautiful; ours is often ugly. Theirs
has been carefully worked out through the centuries to capture as
much of beauty as possible and to preserve a spirit of reverence
among the worshipers. Ours is often an off-the-cuff makeshift with
nothing to recommend it. Its so-called liberty is often not liberty
at all but sheer slovenliness....

..mostly there is neither order nor Spirit, just a routine prayer
that is, except for minor variations, the same week after week, and a
few songs that were never much to start with and have long ago lost
all significance by meaningless repetition.

In the majority of our meetings there is scarcely a trace of reverent
thought, no recognition of the unity of the body, little sense of the
divine Presence, no moment of stillness, no solemnity, no wonder, no
holy fear.  God Tells the Man Who Cares, 4-5.

"Lord, thank You for those worship leaders today who really are
working to restore a sense of genuine worship in our nonliturgical
churches. Just yesterday I was moved in the church I visited by the
time of prayer at the altar in the middle of the service. May we
capture that more and more. Amen."

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NNards:  What a rascal you are!.  BUT... don't revert back to being boring. (not that you ever were.....LOL)

Marilyn:  Hope your beloved dog is doing better today.

Ria:  I love reading your posts., you always have such nice things to say.  I trust this is a better day for you.

Pinkie:  Congratulations on getting that job.  We will look forward to your posts whenever you find time to stop by.

Etta Sue:  You and Ivalou have wonderful times together.  How is Jerry these days?  Please give him a hug for me.

Larry:  Have a great weekend.  Nice that Pat can spend time with her sister.

Tom:  I have enjoyed all your family photos.  Hope to see more real soon.

Pat:  Gosh, I'm sorry we have lost two of our members.  Perhaps they will reconsider and come back..... I hope so.!

Karma:  I'll look forward to reading that post you lost!

- Judy

Actually, Judy, it was Sonja that lost the post

We may not be on here much for a couple of days until the weather dries up.  Karma tells me that the internet connection is not working again. 

So y'all have a great weekend!

Nard

I have taken tome off both jobs came home before Fay's to check on Happy he had been incontinent in the house so I had to clean that up. he is still very wreird so before I left for Fay's I called the vet and his appointment is at 4pm. he is still nervously pacing and refused to go up or down the stairs. he keeps wimering and barking at me ans stays next to me constently.

Will be back later to let you know how he is.

I have taken tome off both jobs came home before Fay's to check on Happy he had been incontinent in the house so I had to clean that up. he is still very weird so before I left for Fay's I called the vet and his appointment is at 4pm. he is still nervously pacing and refused to go up or down the stairs. he keeps wimering and barking at me ans stays next to me constently.

Will be back later to let you know how he is.

PS. Here is the link to that story Liz mentioned. Just awful.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3833693.stm