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Morning Devotional...


If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee.
Matthew 5:30

Christ's meaning here is well illustrated in the case of a young man who once had to cut off part of his own arm in order to save his life. The arm had been caught and crushed between two rocks in a secluded area, and drastic action was needed.

Decisive action is similarly needed in spiritual things if we are to secure eternal life with a place in heaven.

The best the world can offer must ever take second place to the salvation of the soul.

Those who say the Sermon on the Mount is the only religion they need, should note that our text is part of that very discourse!
W. P. W. McVey

Thanks for the morning devotional ,Pat. I was blessed by it. Please remember me as I seek to share God's Word with his people tomorrow.
                                                                    A Baker (John)

Good Morning, John it is good to see you here this morning, you haven't posted in a long time.

Thank you Pat for the devotional this morning.

I did not sleep well last night, I was cold even with two blankets on the bed. I am going to put my electric blanket back on the bed. It feels almost like winter around here this year. Summer isn't even over according to the calendar and the rest of the state. I think the new place will not get as cold as this old trailer. I kept snuggling up to the dogs to keep warm.

TTYL

We are in the 90-day period the center of which is the Fall Equinox, so, as far as I am concerned, and as evidenced by the temperatures, we are in the Fall.  It's also quite foggy this AM. Forr me, that beats heat and humidity.  And it does feel like Fall.  Yesterday around noon we went over to Trinidad Harbor, where they were having an annual fishing derby.  People were coming in with their catches of salmon and weighing them.  The harbor was crowded.   

Today is grocery shopping at Winco Foods, our local (Eureka) discount supermarket.  It's also laundry day.

Hi everyone.  Just back from morning coffee at the cafe and then had to go to two different grocery stores to pick up items from their sale ad.  We try to find items on sale when we can.  I started to buy some ice cream that was $4/gallon and then saw the house brand for $2 so put the other back.  On a retirees income we must look for savings where possible.  I am sure there are others of you out there who relate to that. 

It is just a really gorgeous day here in Georgia with the temperature in the 70s and low humidity.  I love this time of year as we go into September where the days may be warm but it cools off at night.  As of yesterday it looked like the new hurricane's path would come clear across Georgia with Atlanta perhaps in the center.  The track seems to have shifted West so it now appears we won't have much impact from it.  This is a strange storm but appears it will be a cat 4 hurricane by the time it reaches land again. 

Sarah, nice to see your posting and read that you are settled at school.  I hope you will be able to get on the EMS team. 

Marilyn, those electric blankets are wonderful.  It will soon be time for me to get ours hooked up again.  Sometimes I just can't get warm even under several covers and that heat feels so good. 

Pat, thanks for the devotional today.  I am sure the energy level is down in your house now that your granddaughter has gone home and you are by yourself.  It sounds like you got a lot of things done.

John, good to see you posting again and I hope tomorrow goes well for you.

Nita, it looks like heating costs will be very high this winter everywhere, except maybe at Jane's house where she heats with wood. 

JudyB, it is wonderful that you are teaching your daughters to sew as those are skills that will benefit them all of there lives. 

Well I hope to catch up on my "to-do" list that I have sort of ignored all week when something more interesting came along. 

I think my son and daughter-in-law will come over and have a meal with us this weekend.  Maybe he will be able to get my DVD player to play correctly, I sure haven't had any luck. 

Hope everyone has a wonderful day, I sure intend to enjoy this day that God has allowed me.

We did our three plus mile walk this morning.  Don will also go for about another half hour this afternoon but I have enough exercise. 

Pat:  The young man who cut off his trapped and deteriorating arm that was stuck between rocks was in our state.  I don't recall him talking about any faith when he was interviewed.  He went alone & people did not know where he was hiking.  A lot of hikers and rescue workers were upset that he did not leave any message as to where he was hiking.  Glad that you had visiting time with your grands.  Are they ever a joy and so nice to visit with individually. 

P. Al:  It surely feels like fall here as well and I have been saying so for two weeks. 

Carol

O LORD, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.
Psalm 139:1-2

Pat what an awesome quote by Spurgeon.  It will stay with me today as I try to fill my nitch.

John will be home today and This is a good thing.  He is so missed when he is away.

It is nearly noon and I need to finish my chores so we can get back to sewing. 

Did you know that the only place housework comes before sewing is in the dictionary?  There is your morning smile!

Be back later
Judy

Good morning all.  It's chilly to me again.  I think we all agree.........the seasons, they are a' changing.  It looks like Fall, feels like Fall.
Hmmmm......I can't remember where my electric blanket is.  Maybe on the upstairs bed.  There shouldn't be anyone up there after Kyle leaves for college, so I'll bring it to put on my bed.

I've always enjoyed the changing seasons.  It reminds me that we are in this world, but not of this world...and that spiritual seasons change also.  I want always to be attentive to Holy Spirit and follow where He is going.  The LB translation says "if you are being led by the Holy Spirit....keep in step with Him".   There are spiritual truths and revelation in all of creation.  One the natural, passing away and renewing with seasons we see.  And just beyond, in the invisible, spiritual seasons which are the real, the eternal.

" Lord, give us wisdom to understand spiritual seasons as You've ordained before the beginning of time. Make us wise, leaning not into our own understanding, but pushing into what cannot be seen and grasping your Word for this season. "

Good morning, friends,

Hope you have a wonderful day. I'm still thankful for use of a borrowed computer.

Ruth Ann

Quote from: A Baker on August 27, 2005, 07:45:05 AM
Thanks for the morning devotional ,Pat. I was blessed by it. Please remember me as I seek to share God's Word with his people tomorrow.
                                                                    A Baker (John)

John, I will be remembering you tomorrow.  There are so many in God's vineyard in all corners of the globe and there you are over there in the UK and how often we forget that we have folks looking in from many places.

Sometimes I get "down" and wonder about continuing this website but you have given me encouragement just by posting today, John.

HYMN HISTORY:

The family of Count Nicholas Ludvig Von Zinzendorf was one of the wealthiest in all Saxony. So when the young nobleman wound up his law studies in the university of Wittenberg he set out to see the world in luxury.

However, he only got as far as an art gallery in Dusseldorf. There, pondering a painting of Christ with his bowed head and the inscription 'This have I done for thee, and what hast thou done for me"', the young count was smitten with conviction.

He went back to his estate in Berthelsdorf with a heavy heart - and miserable. But God was dealing with him. At twenty-two, on his wedding day, he and his bride put aside their rank of nobility to follow in the simple footsteps of the lowly man of Galilee.

Shortly after this a religious outcast named Christian David wandered into Berthelsdorf. Christian David belonged to a society known as 'The Moravian Brethren'. The Moravians had been founded some three hundred years earlier by John Huss, known in history books as 'The Old Goose of Bohemia.' Zinzendorf took David in and then rounded up all the other brethren he could find so that within ten years, six hundred Moravians were living on his estate. He organised them into missionary groups and sent them off to the far corners of the earth.

To Greenland they went, to Holland and India, to America and the Indies these pioneers of missionary endeavour set forth with holy zeal.

Long before William Carey put down his cobbler's last to take up the Bible and long before John and Charles Wesley had preached a sermon or wrote a hymn, the Moravians had one hundred and sixty-five missions scattered throughout the world.

They faced disease, poverty, loneliness and persecution; but nothing stopped them from carrying on the work of the crucified Christ, whose picture their leader had seen in an art gallery at Dusseldorf.

On December 21st 1741, Zinzendorf himself founded a mission and preached to the Indians in Pennsylvania. As it was only four days to Christmas he named the colony Bethlehem. It's a great steel centre today and the Moravian capital of the United States.

The former Count saw the world - but not in luxury. When he died, back in his native Saxony, aged sixty, there wasn't even enough money to pay for his grave.

Zinzendorf wrote 2,000 hymns during his long life of service for Christ, among them this one penned in 1739 while on board a ship on the way to establish a mission in the West Indies.

Jesus: Thy blood and righteousness,
My beauty are, my glorious dress,
'Midst flaming words, in these arrayed;
With joy shall I lift up my head.

When you think of all that Count Zinzendorf gave up and all he endured for the sake of Christ's kingdom surely you're bound to be persuaded that he meant everything he wrote.

After posting yesterday, Kitty called me and said she didn't get to Meijer's when she thought but wanted to know if I wanted to ride along with her.  Sure.  This was the first time Kitty had been in my house...her house is huge...probably 4,000 sq. ft.  Mine is little but big enough for me...1200 sq. ft.  My living room is a mess with yarn all over the floor but she knew that.  Even the girls let Kitty pet them.  Then we went shopping...her for her grandson's birthday present.  We had a coke and some brownies and then she brought me back home.  Kitty and I are becoming great friends.  So funny how similar we are in our likes and dislikes. 

The girls let me sleep in this morning...another gloomy day so they thought it was earlier.  I have been online for awhile trying to get caught up.  Also watching the door to see when Ivalou gets back home.  I will be glad when the neighbors are back home.

I have read all the posts but didn't keep notes on notepad.  Sorry...I will try harder tomorrow.  

Thanks, Pat, for that bio. of Count Von Zinzendorf.  That is also one of my more favorite hymns.  Oh to be moved by the Spirit to be more like the Moravians!

Hello all!  I have done nothing but go to a family reunion today.  Bernard had ot work, so it has been just me and the kids.  right now they are boht lying on the bed.  Travis "I'm not sleepy" went back to sleep for the third time (he was in the floor) and Kristi is practing her new "I can almost turn over" skills to try and get to him.  I've just got to make sure that Mr. Floppy-When-I'm -Asleep doesn't roll over on her! ;P

She has her first tooth (can't remember if I posted that earlier or not!)

I hope everyone has a great day today and tomorrow.

I'll be in and out!

Laters
karmat

Happy Saturday to you all!

I worked hard this morning, until just after 12.  Got some cleaning done that has been silently reproaching me for a while--you know how that is?

My big art show is tonight and tomorrow afternoon.  I hope we have a good crowd, and it would be nice to sell something, we will see.

Beth called me this morning.  She and John are enjoying their time together.  He is such a tease!  She bet him that he couldn't go one second without teasing her; and said he made it maybe 1/4 of a second!  Tomorrow is her birthday, so I did get her card in the mail.  Had to pick up some pills for her from the doctor, and they actually fit inside the card because they are those that are "carded."  She said they went to the state fair yesterday and rented her an electric cart because the area is really big and spread out.  That was a big help, but she forgot to take her steroid at noon and by the time they got home, her feet would not move at all.  John is well aware of all her physical limitations and loves her anyway.  And this Mom is so thankful for that!  He gives her more reason to live.

We were talking about the hymn "In the Garden" a day or so ago.  My son in law, Jeff, and his two sisters sang that song at their dad's funeral!  I couldn't imagine doing that, but they did a really good job, and it was important to them to do it, so that was good.

Larry, thanks for telling me about logmein.com--if my computer were working, and IF I could catch Curtis online at the same time, it has a deal whereby I can give him control and he can troubleshoot for me.  But...........I forgot about that feature until too late.    Oh, me---I miss my computer!

Nita and Joy, hope you both feel better by now!

Pat, don't forget to get some rest now!

Ruth Ann, glad you can at least say hello!

Hello to Marilyn and Etta Sue.  Hey, Karma!  It is so sweet to hear about the antics of your little darlings.  I love it!

JudyB, would you please also tell Ria that I miss her?  Thanks.  It is wonderful you are teaching the girls to sew.  So many girls do not get a chance to learn that skill now.

It is hot up here, and I have already showered for this evening; don't want to get all sweaty again, so I think I shall go back downstairs now.

I have my two printers working and my scanner!  WOOOOHOOOO!  Thanks to Jen's hubby, Luke!  He's so busy with his family business with his father but they made the time to come over to me today.  I'm so happy!

<<<Pat--doing the Happy Dance!>>>

Larry:  Glad you are able to get to the Cafe to have coffee with your guy friends.  I remember seeing the photo you showed us, of your group of friends.  BTW - how is that younger friend, the guy who you said had medical problems?

Pat - I hope you don't let Satan discourage you enough that you even , even slightly consider closing down CP....you don't really mean that.. ...do you??  So many of us would REALLY miss it!

I'm taking a vote....all those who want Patto close down CP.....raise your hands....

well, not one hand went up....see? - thats settled.....CP is HERE TO STAY!!!

Janet:  Wonderful that John and Beth are so in love....do I hear wedding bells?

Speaking of 'In the Garden"., thats Norm's favourite hymn.  I think its because it was his mother's.  We sung it at her funeral.  Unfortunately, I don't believe she knew the Lord.  She died at age 69 (Norm's age now)., of a massive heart attack.

Karmat:  Time that we see a picture of Kristi's new tooth....okay?

Marilyn:  Hope you get a good night's sleep., and that you are cozy and warm.  I love my electric blanket.

Etta Sue:  I laughed at your "signature" ending.  At first, I thought they were "teeth".  haha.

We are having a wonderful warm rain just now.  Thank you Lord....this rain is very much needed.

We have a "computer whiz" coming to the house tomorrow afternoon to see just why I am short of memory... (computer memory I mean...haha.) - 

Time to lock the door...

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