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Morning Devotional...






Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. --2 Corinthians 5:17

I have been asked more than once what I gave up when I was converted and became a believing child of God. I was a young man, and I well remember that I gave up the hot and smelly rubber factory. I was making tires for an hourly wage, and I gave that up to follow Christ's call into Christian ministry and service.

As a youth I was scared of life and I was scared of death--and I gave that up. I was miserable and glum and unfulfilled--and I gave that up. I had selfish earthly and material ambitions that I could never have achieved--and I gave them up.

That forms the outline of the worthless things that I gave up. And I soon discovered that in Jesus Christ, God had given me everything that is worthwhile.

If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, "I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself!" Jesus, Author of our Faith, pp. 49-50

"Why am I so hesitant to share the Gospel, Lord--when this is what I'm asking people to give up? Thank You for all we gain through our new life in Christ--in exchange for all the junk we give up! Amen."


Today's "Insight for Leaders" is taken by permission from the book, Tozer on Christian Leadership, published by WingSpread Publishers

Thank you Pat  for this weeks devotional.
The sunshine is beautiful today. Nothing much going on here though. I did do some artwork this morning  for a stationery that will be sent out to my group on Wednesday.

I think I may take a little nap this afternoon as I keep yawning now. I haven't been able to use my CPAP machine for more than a couple of hours because the moisture in the tubing is putting water into my mask. I sure do hope I get a new machine with an adjustable humidifier and get it soon. I go back to see my doctor on the 3rd for the results of all those x-rays I had. Since I started back onthe celebrex my back has stopped hurting..

Pat, a wonderful devotional.  Thanks!  (Hope your new filling holds up.)

Marilyn, I'm glad your back is feeling better and I sure hope you get the Cpap situation straightened out soon.

Hi everyone. 

Pat thanks for the devotional thoughts for this week.  Sorry to read of the toothache.  I have a broken front tooth that will have to be removed but am protecting it as much as possible to keep it as long as possible.  I also have a big filling in one of my back teeth that I had a lost part of the filling replaced a few days ago and am trying to protect it. 

Etta Sue, sure you will miss your brother and his wife while they are in Florida.  Will you be making a trip down to visit them after the first of the year?  Two inches of rain overnight is a lot of water.

I enjoyed a nice lunch today at a buffet and sure am not hungry this evening.  This afternoon I got a bluetooth device set up for Pat new cellphone.  It is hard for her to hold the phone to her ear for extended periods of time and some of the calls she has last quite awhile, especially with her sister. 

Marilyn, I remember that Pat had a humidifier on her CPAP machine and it really helped her.  Glad your back is feeling better.

I know so well about the "protecting" the tooth, Larry.  This one today was my top right eyetooth and the partial plate attaches to it. 

Oh well, hopefully it will last a few years and then I can go "toothless" in Guelph!  HAHAHAHA!

Pat:     Toothless do not even think about that.

    Good LATE EVENING TO ALL AT C.P.   Well again it seems that we get so busy with helping the family that the weeks just fly by so  soon.It is so hard to think that we will be at the end of September and my wife and I cannot believe that our two oldest grandkids are going to  J.K. already.  My grand daughter only goes twice a week and my grandson goes 5 mornings a week and he loves it.  Today we had such a beautiful sunshiny day and it got up to around 28 Celsius so we will not complain.

Larry and Pat.  Hope you are both looking after each other.  How is your daughter doing?

Etta Sue.  Are you still as busy as ever I do hope that you are also not over doing it. How is your sisters health?

Pat thanks for the devotional and did you get the big hug that I sent to you when you and Paul were travelling around in the U.S.A.  Please say hi to Paul and I do hope that you are doing o.k. other than the trouble with your tooth.  God Bless SIS.

Judy B:  Hi to you all up north.  Hope all is well and it is not getting to cold.  Please say hi to John and all the kids.  All our love.   Gordon and Noreen.

To all others on C.P. may you all have a wonderful week and may the Lord give you all many opportunities to witness for him.Love in Christ.   Gordon and Noreen.

Hi everyone.  It is still dark outside and I am getting a fairly early start here after a good nights sleep.  This should be  a reasonable quiet day.  I plan on going over to the AT&T Support center, that is fairly close by, and ask them to help get a software update installed on my phone.  Every time I try it fails and then I am locked out by AT&T for another 24 hours before I can try again.  Hopefully they have tools that will override this problem.  I have no idea what the update involves but received a notice on my phone to do the update.  I have a meeting to attend the morning and plan to walk some more after coffee as my hips didn't ache all night after walking yesterday morning.  Pat seems to be feeling some better and seems to be getting around the house better than for quite a few days. 

Gord, nice to see your posting.  Our daughter isn't doing great as has now apparently sprained her good foot while just standing in her kitchen.  She is working on getting some home health care to help prepare meals for her.  She has been in so much pain over the weekend and then with the sprain that she hasn't slept well.  It seems like it is just one problem after another with her. She is also working on trying to get approved for a new electric power chair.  Pat has been suffering a lot the last few weeks but I have been doing well.  Hope you and Noreen are also doing well.  I know from your postings that you are enjoying those grandchildren.

Pat, I already have the "flipper" available to use when I use the front tooth.  It is a little partial plate that serves a cosmetic purpose so I won't appear with a gap in my front teeth.  Our dentist left his practice a few days ago and moved to the East coast to reunite his family.  So we have to get used to another new dentist.  The interesting thing is that his last name is Patel and the new dentist that has joined the other two dentists in this practice is also named Patel. 

Hope all enjoy a nice day.  I sure plan to do so.   

   Larry:  Thanks for the fast reply.  Yes we are having a wonderful time with our grand children.  Could you all continue to pray for both of us as we are still having back pains but of course Noreen's is the worst. I also seem to be having a lot of pain in my left hip and it is arthritis and my mother has rheumatoid arthritis so the last x-ray showed it in my hip ball join

Cold not sleep good last night and have already woke up twice and this is the 3rd. time so I thought I would look at the computer to see who was up early.   

Have a good and blessed day.    Gordon and  Noreen.

Good morning everyone. 

Gord, it's always good to see a post from you.  What is J.K. where your grandchildren are going?  I'm so sorry to hear about the pain you and Noreen are having.   

Larry, what a time your poor daughter is having!  I'm glad to hear that you were able to take that long walk yesterday without having repercussions, and also glad that Pat seems to be a little better.

  Hi Jeanne Lee.  J.K. Means Junior kinder garden and that is why they just go in the morning.   

Gord, thanks for the explanation.   

Good Morning, I'm back from the gym and this afternoon Jane, Nita and i are going tot he south Slough Estuary to look around as we have never been there, Nita is driving and I am meeting them at Jane's house. I ho0pe to get a few pics too.

Ivalou and I just got home from eating with the Senior group at church.  Today it was at La Cascade...a new Mexican restaurant near the hospital in Noblesville.  First we went to the rehab center.  Ivalou had an appointment at 9 for a half-hour.  I did my water-cizing for an hour.  We had time to kill until going to the restaurant. 

There is a fairly new Dollar General at Noblesville.  Nice big store.  10 long aisles.  I didn't have a thing I needed but came out with three bags full of stuff.  We still had time to waste so I drove to the restaurant and we sat in the car until we saw someone from church.  Nice restaurant and good food. 

Now I am so tired.  I need to do some laundry but I think I will take a nap and do laundry later! 

Hi, friends, well, all is ok here in Nashville. I'll be going to the funeral of my son-in-law's aunt. She was such a lovely lady.

Love to all,
Ruth Ann

It has been poring rain here for the past 45 minutes.

Fortunately I mowed the lawn this morning while Everett and a friend brought in two wagon loads of wood.... then I warmed up a stir fry, made a salad and tried to unfreeze an apple pie. All was well except I had to put the apple pie in the microwave for a minute or so.

Good to see you Gord ...... say hello to Noreen, for me!!

Etta Sue: I know the temptations of a Dollar Store. I go in for one item and come out with more!!! Thankfully they are an hour away and I don't get to them often.

Greetings to everyone... I have a lot of bookkeeping to do and should get at it as I have a house-load of visitors coming next week.

 Hello, everyone!  Good to read all your news.

We are leaving very early in the morning, so this will be my last post until we get back, unless I decide to take this machine along with me.  We will be home on the 5th of October, and are supposed to come home to a new bathroom, laundry room and the other bathroom being finished, too!  We will see......

God bless you all and I will check in when I can.

We will miss you, Janet.  I pray your workers will get MUCH done, and you can come back to more of a semblance of order!
We had a "planned" power outage today.  They put up about 10 or 12 new poles and moved all the wires to them, and the power came back on about 10 minutes or so ago.  Thankfully, because Marbeth uses a CPap machine, and it makes it much harder for her to sleep if it isn't working.  So - thank You, Lord!  It was off since about 8 this morning.

It's so nice to read all of your posts. 

I was at the dentist yesterday and it "sure hit a nerve" and I was "out of it" for the rest of the evening. 

The weather has been lovely and we had been promised rain and thunder storms most of the week but none yet except for some drizzle (liquid sunshine as they say in Northern Ireland).

Well, good morning to y'all. It's our shopping day at Winco.  It's like a big warehouse, and it saves about 20 percent overall.  So we get about 95 percent of our groceries there.  It's in Eureka, and it is about 15 miles from here.  They think we have too much money, so we have to go there and pour out some of it every week.

When visiting Paul's brother in Portland, we shopped at Winco, Alan.  I was so impressed by that huge supermarket.  They live in Hillsboro.

Where did Janet go this time?  My mind is blank!

I had a nice nap yesterday.  I don't know if it was the full belly or the pool took my energy but I almost fell into the spare bed.  I woke up refreshed. 

I still wasn't hungry so I fixed a bagel with cream chesse and watched TV. 

Bed was early.  While trying to go into la-la-land, I remembered that I had forgotten to cash a check that I got from my supplemental insurance where they overpaid someone.  Why I got the check, I don't know. 

So I got up this morning and went to Lapel and cashed the check.  Then ate breakfast at Woody's.  Since coming home I have read my devotions, walked in the house 12½ minutes and have done my home exercises.  Now I am tired again.   

I don't know what the rest of the day will be.  Easy, I bet!

Another typical fall day but without sunshine.

Pat, hope your "nerve" is much better today. A cap fell off one of my teeth, so I think I must call today to get an appointment with the dentist - there's a "nerve" in that one, too. 

Good news from lab and x-ray tests, so that's great! I think I must "keep on keeping on"

My daughter begged me not to come to the funeral since it would have required driving several hours with my foot in this cast. So, we agreed I'd send flowers and condolences instead.

Y'all take care, now, ye hear!

Ruth Ann

   Good afternoon to all.   Well got up very late and the reason is that I did not sleep good the night before.  Noreen and I have a dinner engagement tonight which is a thank you for the volunteer work that I do for the kidney foundation each year so we plan to go.
We are still having very warm weather and we are enjoying it very much.

Wellhave a great weekend which is coming up and the Lord bless you all.  Gordon and Noreen

Hello everyone, I had a great time with Jane and Nita yesterday, very relaxing and productive  in that I took a lot of photos. you can see them  HERE

Pat:  Hi there!  How are you and Paul faring these days?  Sorry about your dental visit and pain and it is a good thing it didn't act up on your long trip. 

Marilyn:  Beautiful scenery as always.

Larry:  Hugs all around to you, Pat and Stacey.  I really hope that she can get the meals delivered or fixed for her. 

I am so sleepy because of a late quilt meeting last night.  It was both fun and sad because a supply of fabric belonging to a master quilter who died last month was given to all of us to take what we wanted.  Since I am so new, I really felt odd about taking anything but did and will try to mend a broken ruler no one wanted.   We did have some good laughs and could almost hear Barbara's great laugh as we sat around and looked over her precise workmanship.  She would have loved sharing, we all know that.  I even found fabric that I gave to her as she liked it and wanted to finish my circles - so now I have to do something.

Then, up early to make corn muffins for a big gang at Bible Study - baking by 6 AM today.  Tomorrow is our anniversary and we can barely take time for anything - then Don has another VA appointment. 

Gord:  Volunteering for the Kidney Foundation is really wonderful.  I know you must have enjoyed your evening and am glad that you two are feeling good to get out for that dinner. 

The day has flown by and it is late in the afternoon.  Pat and I attended Bible study this morning and then went with the group to Dunkin" Donuts.  We then stopped by a specialty shoe shoe to pick up diabetic socks for our daughter and finally to a place for lunch.  This evening I have choir practice so it will have been a full day. 

Pat, hope you are feeling much better today as see you posted last evening.  Hope the nerve has settled down.

Al, sure good to know you have a place to leave your money. 

Etta Sue, you are not the only one wondering about Janet's travels. 

Ruth Ann, always good to get the right type of news from medical tests.

Gord, those thank you dinner for working with volunteer organizations are a very nice thing. 

Marilyn, nice you could be with Nita and Jane today.  It is always fund to do things with friends.  I have downloaded the page with your photos and will check them out in a little bit when I get caught up on the message boards for today.

Carol, Stacey is working to get a number of things worked out including getting a new wheelchair.  I also hope she can get the home health care worked out soon as I know she doesn't eat properly relying on already prepared foods or something easy and quick.  Your comments on the distribution of your quilting friends material after her passing is something I really hadn't thought about but would be a good idea under such circumstances.  What could please a quilter more than knowing her quilting materials and supplies are going to be in the hands of people who will appreciate them and get some good out of them.

Surgery on Right shoulder tomorrow.

JudyB: You will be in my thoughts and prayers today and in the days to come.     

I had a surprise this morning.  Tony, my son, called.  He wanted to know if I was going to be home.  Yes.  Are you not working today?  He was on vacation so rode his cycle to see.  Great to see him.  While we were talking he asked me if I had the blue and white quilt he had when he was little.  Yes.  I embroidered 'Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep' squares and my Mom put it together and machine quilted it.  I gave it to him.  He will be happy to show his step-kids and step-grands the quilt his Mom and Grandma made him when he was little. 

He also took the baby boy afghan I made for his to-be step-grandson.  Charlene is going to Troy, Michigan, when the baby is born and will take it to them for me. 

A friend on Facebook that attends church with me said she was learning crocheting.  I told her I would help her if she gets in a rut.  Then she suggested a Crochet group at church.  I think I could teach crocheting.  I still have the Learn How book I got 50 years ago when I learned.  It is still sold in the stores!!  I guess there isn't much new to crocheting. 

Not much going today here.  Bright and sunny right now but suppose to rain later.  The trees across the field are turning fall colors.  Going to be a pretty fall!

Lauren, my great-niece, that had breast cancer at age 22 gave a talk at her old high school during a 'Volley for the Cure' volleyball game.  You can see her and hear her HERE.