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Morning Devotional...


But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
2 Corinthians 8:16


It was God who placed the concern for the believers into the heart of Titus.

Dear overseer, dear discipler, dear missionary, dear worker, dear parent--don't walk away from your post in discouragement.

It is God Himself that has placed that care in your heart for others.

He is using you.

He sees.

He knows.

He cares.

It is His work and He will provide the strength and the reward.
                                                                     --M. Peters



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oops    I didn't make it before Pat locked the door, but I'm firstest here today!    It's still the 2nd where I live, anyway.  

I just got an email from my daughter Joy.  She heard from her son Bryan!  She sent me his address and phone number so now I can send it on to grandson Tim who is already in Iraq.  He has been wanting to get in touch with Bryan so he can give him some pointers as well as moral support.  Bryan now knows he will be going to Iraq mid to late November.  He will be in the Sunni Triangle, which is southern Baghdad.  He is not happy about that...come to think about it, I don't think I'm very happy about that either!    

Anyway, I'm really glad my bestest friend in all the world (NITA) had a good day for her birthday celebration.  I got to accompany her and (part of) her family to dinner this evening.  They're all special people, y'know ... Kim called me earlier this week to invite me and said "I wanted to be sure and invite Mom's bestest friend!"  I smile when I think of the times we weren't so sure this friendship thing was going to work for us ... well, I think Nita had more reluctance than I did.  I just go with the flow.  It took some doing to convince her I don't expect, want,or need anything from her ... just be yourself and let God take care of whether we are to be good friends or just acquaintances.  
I'm sure glad He decided we could be best friends!  

I loved the party PAT ... I think Nita did too.  You are really something else, y'know that?  Love you  

Guess I better hush now, too ... I think there are people sleeping in here.  sssshhhhh  <Jane tiptoes out the door, flipping the light switch off on the way>

[size=8]WAKE-UP[/size]
it is a day God made for us all. We should rejoice in it
i think....................and you are all asleeping  

WOW Mieka!!  Did you have to shout so loud?  

  Did you wake up?  

We can rejoice together now, fun, yes?

Well ... yes!  How can anyone sleep with you shouting WAKE UP!!  

We will rejoice together, my friend.   This is the day the Lord has made ... let us rejoice and be glad in it!  

Goedemorgen allemaal / Good morning all 10.20 AM

Pat thank you for your devotional this morning

Mieka you have a nice picture you are lovely Mieka

It is foggy morning and the weather forcast is bad.
Storm rain hail.
Thank you Lee for your advice but my neck is a lot
better this morning i can move my neck.

Can everyown read what i am writing?

Last i first have writen something on CP and i have
read what the people in Canada and America have
writen and after that i am go shopping.
And i was in a store and i could not find and i ask a woman and she know me i ask in english do you have
i was thinking o Ria you are in Holland you must speak
Dutch. But we have a Canadian and a American store
here . In the centre of Veendam you can see Dutch
Canadian and American flags. Sometimes i think
where am I.

Jane i am praying for your booth grandsons and for you

I wish you all a very good day
God Bless you
Love Ria

WELCOME  GRANDMOM

Are we now 101 people  PAT

Thank you Lee Thank you Elizabeth for your advice
i take a look for a pillow they are also in Holland

Thank you Pat for the nice hymn Pat yesterday evening

Bye  for now  RIA

10 a.m. England.

Hallo Ria.  Ik hopen u beter vandaag!

JANE. I am also praying for Tim and Bryan. This could so easily be Phillip my eldest grandson and I know how I would feel. Please God bring an end to this war....Bring our boys home safely. Amen!  ...............MARANATHA.

MIEKA I love the "new you", a very "with it" young lady indeed.

LEE Thanks for the thoughts re my father Leslie.  It is very, very difficult for me to talk to him.  Goes back a long way...59 years in fact! I see him about once a year since my mother died.  He lives further away. He has a lady and his golf friends.  They go abroad a great deal. Please give him a prayer sometimes....ONLY JESUS KNOWS THE HEARTACHE! I said rightly to Etta Sue that I remembered you as an encourager to me on S.N. and that you are dear brother.

Marilyn...join the High Cholesterol club.  I always thought only chubby folks had it but my doctor says not so.  I heard a program on the radio a few weeks ago and it seems it's a family thing....something to do with the mother's family and heart problems which is in my case.  My grandfather died in his fifties and my mother's sisters had early heart trouble....Doctor thinks it's not helped  by the thyroid problem which is tending  to over act again ...This he says is causing the arthritis to worsen..I am still under the clinic re this as it had become very dangerous when it was finally diagnosed.I had radioactive treatment and now take thyroxin.THANK-GOD FOR HIS GIFT OF FAITH AND FOR HIS BEAUTIFUL SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD........IN WHOM IS ALL OUR HOPE!....................Praise God for the gift of medicines and for our own degree of health.  We can always find someone suffering much more when we open  our eyes to others....
         
         IT IS IN SELF FORGETTING
               THAT WE FIND.........
                                           St. Francis of Assissi.

May the Lord Bless and keep you all
Now and always.
Jenny.

                                 

PAT

PAT         Thanks also for the devotional.

It is God who plants others on our hearts...

JESUS said "The Father worketh hitherto and I work".......

EVERYTHING IS OF HIM..COMES FROM HIM..
                 RETURNS TO HIM.

Truly we have nothing of ourselves....AMAZING!

Good mornign to you, wherever you may be.  I decided to get up before the WildMan and see if I could get some work on a photo restoration project I am doing.  Ever agree to do something then realize you have absolutely no clue what you are doing??

Hope everyone has a good and Godly day, for what good is a day if it is not Godly?

I heard Mieka yelling, WAKE UP!!   so, let's sing this to help us:

GOODMORNING PAT!

I SING THIS LOTS TOO...THANKS..

MUST GO..WASHING IN MACHINE...

yes lets rejoice and be glad......(not about the ironing though).

                       UNTIL LATER FOLKS.
                                 JENNY

Good morning from Oregon, USA

Meika, you make me laugh with your "WAKE UP".  Your new picture is so cute.

Jane, yes, I know I've changed since we first met.  Very much.  And so have you, my friend.  God has done a great work in our hearts.  So much has happened since we first met on Sn; hasn't it?  

Ria, I always enjoy reading your posts.  Your weather forcast seems to be just what I like. haha   I enjoy storms and rain..but am also enjoying our extended dry weather now.

Karmat.......yep, been there done that. (volunteering to do something because I'm sure I can, and then waking up and remembering that I've never done that, and am not sure at all!)  For what it's worth.........I believe you can do it.  There.  Don't you feel better?  

Jenny, high cholesterol runs in my family also.  My mother had it, I have it, (her first child) and my oldest daughter has it.  Diet won't work for me.  A year or so ago I had to relent and allow my doctor to put me on Lipitor.  I was amazed at the results.  I'd gone vegetarian for one year, and that hadn't lowered it, but the medicine did within three months.    God can use any method He chooses.  I'm grateful for doctors and medicines.

 Pat, thanks for the devotional this morning.   It's so true, and comforting, to know that He will put His very own feelings in us for others.  It really is all about Him. He lives His life in us and through us.  Praise God from whom all blessings flow..........

 oh, yes......"I wish I could do all the little gifts, Pat, .......I meant to say GIFS, not gifts.  But then again, I DO wish I could do all the little gifts too..haha

Just after 6 am, and still dark here.  Angel is asleep on the couch in the other room, and in an hour will get up to get her day going.  She's at "that" age.....13. One moment a little girl demanding attention, and the next a teenager pulling away from her mom and gramma with her own opinion about everything.  Ahhh...remember how it was to be right all the time?  You know everything and are always right at this age.
So far.......she still likes to hang out with her gram (gramcracker, she calls me)so I'm still in the running for "cool".  

 Have a blessed day everyone.  

Some of us are on Pinkie's "Christian Photographers" email list and this was on that list and I thought it would be good to share here:

What a Statement

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee, by school Principal, Jody McLoud. I thought it was worth sharing with the world and hope you will forward it to all your friends.

It shows clearly just how far this country has gone in the wrong direction.


"It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."

Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it "an alternate lifestyle," and if someone is offended, that's OK.

I can use it to con done sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended, that's OK.

I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a "viable means of birth control." If someone is offended, no problem.

I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess "Mother Earth" and call it  "ecology."

I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depict people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as "simple minded" and  "ignorant" and call it "enlightenment."

However, if anyone uses this facility to honor God and to ask Him to bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is violated.

This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst,
diabolical.  Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except God and His Commandments.

Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask  staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical. I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I  certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression.   I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and refrain from praying at this time.

"However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank God and ask Him, in the name of Jesus, to bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the law----yet."

One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray. They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the  team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer's Box! The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America - the Seat of "Justice" in the "one nation, under God."

Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion.

Praise God that His remnant remains!

Celebrate Jesus in 2003!

Jesus said, "If you are ashamed of Me before men, then I will be ashamed of you before My Father." If you are not ashamed, pass this on, but only if you mean it. Yes, I do Love God. He is my source of existence and Savior. He keeps me functioning each and every day. Without Him, I will be nothing, but with Him , I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13

Pat S:  thanks for posting the wonderful words of an educator - a real educator!  Thanks, Pinkie for sending the message to Pat.  How very true and how very sad.  

A sunny morning here and I just finished exercising on the treadmill and give thanks for being able to do so - it helps my blood pressure numbers.  The aspen trees in front of our little office area are turning yellow and gold very slowly and this is my favorite time of the year.  

We still have major computer problems and may be forced to buy - something not planned in our budget right now.  

I spent an afternoon with a dear friend who had a heart transpant several years ago and she is having many problems.  One med she takes actually attacks and destroys muscles in her knees and much pain and so forth - it is not an easy life after a transplant.  She has also lost her immunity.  

I am glad to hear that Papa John is mending.  

Carol

I see you online JERRY!!!  That's just so great after what you've been through in the past month!  

Come on in here and talk to us dear friend!  We love you bro!

Good Morning. I had a rather restless night. Last evening my nose started to get stuffy so that made it difficult to sleep well.  I got up, took a cold pill and that relieved it a little bit. I hope it goes away real fast because I really don't want  my patients/clients to get sick.

Y-all have been talkative already this morning/last night, I think Mieka's yelling Wake Up last night disturbed my sleep too.

Isn't is nice to see Sarah posting more now.

Be back later.

3 p.m.

Thank-you Pinkie....


                   STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
                      BROTHERS AND SISTERS

From Birmingham England.  This city's logo is "Forward" ...We drift back into the dark ages..

In this city Christianity is low-profile....We must not offend our Moslem neighbours...

The city council has spent much money on extra prayer rooms in the council houses which are rented to Moslem people.also they have to have special showers for ablutions in their homes...rent payers money...Yes I know some of them pay rent.....There is no money for Youth Clubs etc., or to help new Christian churches to set themselves up.

Schools no longer have Christian assemblies in this city.  It is all muti-cultural now.....to the point that Christianity is classed as just one of a number......

Derek Prince has said that England will soon be a Moslem country......The figures are proving that.....Mosques are opening up and churches are closing down.......

Jesus is coming soon....He is at the door....

"The fields are white unto harvest".......Lord Jesus send more labourers......Help our witness to be effective...for You.

The light shines on in the darkness and the darkness can never put it out....

Jenny.

The Moslems are buying up churches in this country and turning them into mosques too. Some Christian Program on TV said that there are more Mosques than churchs now in the USA. I really don't know how true that is.

Pat S. ~ Thank you!

WELCOME GRANDMOM!!!
Good morning, fellow Cp'ers.  It is a great day!
I have been wogging again on the tredmill. Yesterday I wogged almost 2 miles.  Can't wait to start running again.  I don't like being out of shape.  

I am so glad it is friday!  I am going to Sheridan to the big horns to take some pictures.  woohooo!  

One of my favorite things to do is look at others family pictures.  I love looking at the way the family reacts to each other in candid shots.  Lets see some more family pictures folks.

I better scoot.  I have laundry to do.
Love Sonja

Hi Jerry! A little on the cheek for my precious friend!  

A very sad day for Canada yesterday because of the outcome of their elections.......muslims taking over great hunks of the world.......Christians being persecuted, even here in "the land of the free"........yes, Jenny, the time is short!  I take comfort in the verse that says " Where sin doth abound, GRACE doth much more abound!"  We must keep our eyes on Jesus, otherwise we will become so discouraged we won't know what to do!

MIEKA! You yelled so loud out there in California that you woke me up in Kansas!  And I wanted to sleep in this morning.....  It's so good to see your photo, sweetie.  We all love you so much.

WELCOME TO GRANDMOM! Come on in with the rest of us, and tell us about yourself.

We are going to attend a play in Dodge City tonight (dinner theatre) so I hope Darrel gets home from Liberal in good time.

I'm going now to see if there are any new photos or comments since last night!

Janet, what sort of play is it?  Sounds like fun!

Yes, what kind of play is it,  Janet?  

Jerry, so good to see your post and your happy smiling face too.  Love you!

Oh, Sonja!  You've done it!  I must go downstairs and get on my treadmill!  

I applaud that educator in Roane Cty, TN.  It's probably a good thing I wasn't in his/her place, however, because I would have gone right on to say to the people gathered, "All right now, folks, let's all stand for prayer.  Let's pray first of all for the Supreme Court and all lower courts.  Let's pray in the Name of our Lord, Jesus Christ.  Then I would have led in prayer.  I'd probably go to jail eventually - but hey - I can pray there, too.  I believe in rebellion!  In this case it would be rebellion against the forces of darkness, rebellion against the anti-law, anti-constitution forces.  The great Amendment they constantly refer to said, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, nor denying the free exercise thereof."  I wasn't aware that Congress made any law forcing the educator to pray.  The idea was to avoid government assistance to particular denominations, not to prohibit Christians from honoring the God in Whom we trust.

Yes, Sonja----but tell me about all this WOGGING you are doing! Heh, heh.

Here is what the flyer says about tonight's play:  Death Trap.  A chilly autumn evening, a troubling wind, a thunderstorm......be glad you're among friends for this funny but spooky script.  An aging Playwright devises a plan to steal a new manuscript from one of his students.  Just when you think you've got it figured out, there's one more surprise, and it's a big one!  (Sound fun, doesn't it?)

I need to go to the drug store to pick up my BP med, and to Alco's for some stuffing for my chair back.  Talk to you all later!

Wogging=a very fast walk.  Like jogging and walking combined.

Janet I would love to go to something like that!  Sounds like an interesting play!  Have a great time!