Tuesday's Child

At one time and in some paces Tuesday's Child meant children available for adoption or in need of foster care. I use it here as merely the product of the work that goes into the blog on Tuesday. It is then the thoughts given birth today.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes


Take flight if you must! All that you truly need will go with you.

A Thought to Share

There have been many times all through recorded history in which folks have been forced to flee. Sudden urgent relocation has not been common in recent history in the western world, however population shifts have. Current relocation is mainly job related.

I am writing about other reasons for moving, however. Religious persecution began again in many countries in the last century for many reasons. Some initiated the type of flight of which I write. The world under Hitler, the Bolshevik Revolution, the displaced Palestinians, Hungary and Poland to name only two of many overrun countries, genocide against people groups in many parts of the world, and the persecution of Christians worldwide.

I downloaded and filled out my passport application today. I feel it is an important thing to have in these times as situations around the world worsen in some areas and improve in others. I truly do not believe that this is going to be needed in the near future, but I choose to be prepared ahead of time. We should never become so complacent that we would say, "It cannot happen here." May it never be like any of the examples from the last century, but remember, we are not exempt.

This will have to be short tonight. My body can't take another late night like last night. Good night to you all.

Monday Madness

I call it Monday Madness because of the hurry, hurry, hurry generated by the Precepts Bible Study I attend. Prep time occupies all my spare time through the day, then the class in the evening, and finally home to write and post. This crazy schedule lasts for two more weeks!

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

Are there not twenty-four hours in a day? How is it then that I can only make it through twenty before I drop?

To know God is to know God's will.

A Thought to Share

A friend wrote on knowing God's will, "...However sometimes this can take much longer than we want it to, so you must be patient and wait on the Lord. There are many examples of people from the Bible who waited many years before they knew what God wanted them to do; the same applies to us. We must remember that God's timing is different to ours and our responsibility is to be faithful and trust in Him."

That is reminiscent of how the Lord worked in my life. When I turned 35 I can remember thinking, what is God waiting for? When I turned 40 I thought, surely this must be the time of new beginning, Moses was 40 when God called him.

But that was a time when I was filled with pride and the Lord could not use me until I allowed Him to change me. Slowly He chipped away at me and slowly I began to allow Him control over areas of my life that I had always hung onto.

What a difference! I had been trying to do it all backwards, to find God's will without bothering to get to know Him first.

My friend also said, "To know God's will is to know God." I agree, but I think I would state it the other way, To know God is to know God's will. I didn't get to know Him until I began translating the Scriptures into words I can understand from Greek manuscripts. That was what I found was my gift and God's will for me. (It is always His will for us to get to know Him better!!!)

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Humor

A MAN was flying from Seattle to San Francisco. Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sacramento along the way. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes.

Everybody got off the plane except one lady who was blind. The man had noticed her as he walked by and could tell the lady was blind because her seeing eye dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of her throughout the entire flight.

He could also tell she had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached her, and calling her by name, said, "Kathy, we are in Sacramento for almost an hour. Would you like to get off and stretch your legs?" The blind lady replied, "No thanks, but maybe Buddy would like to stretch his legs."

Picture this: All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane wearing sunglasses, led by a seeing eye dog! People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines!

True story... Have a great day and remember,

THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR.

Sunday Sweetness

The family across the street is gone, moved out over night. Brings to mind the phase, "fly-by-night". There is much to be said for those who live cheaply and travel light. The older I get, the more I realize, less is better. Yet change does not come easily. Perhaps some day it will be forced upon us. Until then, my clutter grows.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. ~John Piper

A Thought to Share

To answer why do people misinterpret scripture, such as 2 Peter 3:8? There are those who do not want to believe in God except as a nice cozy way to escape eternal damnation. In the mean time, they want to live any way that they choose, not according to His standards as set forth in the Word of God. This kind of a god is not the God of the Bible.

Our God is a God that speaks to us at the end of the ages and warns us, "Throughout this time God is efficiently at work sending them wandering off to believe a lie so that all [of them] might be judged for not believing the truth, but rather choosing lawlessness willingly. 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 12.

God is a God of complete choice, even to allow people to believe whatever they chose. People are free to put any meaning to Scripture that they choose. We are cautioned, however, to "work out your salvation with fear and trembling." Philippians 2:12. This does not mean we can work our way into heaven. It means we need to be very careful in the way we understand what God is telling us.

Then to formulate another question to meet the intent of "Answers to hard questions", What is God really telling us in 2 Peter 3:8?

Is it not teaching us that God existed for so many eons in timeless eternity past that a thousand years is merely as a day as time passes from one millennium to the next? It is not a very old or ancient God we serve, but a timeless God.

Humor

Courtroom on Record - Actual records of court proceedings

Attorney: Will you tell the court your area of expertise?

Expert Witness: Forensic Medicine.

Attorney: You examine dead bodies?

Expert Witness: That is correct.

Attorney: Did you examine the body of the victim?

Expert Witness: I did.

Attorney: Of course you checked to make sure he was dead before you began?

Expert Witness: I beg your pardon?

Attorney: You checked for a heartbeat, if he was breating, blood pressure, or whatever you do, yes, or no?

Expert Witness: No.

Attorney: Then there is a slight possibility he was still alive before you started the autopsy?

Expert Witness: No, there was not even a slight possibility.

Attorney: How could you be so sure without checking?

Expert Witness: Because his brain was sitting in a jar on my desk.

Attorney: Well, is there any way a person could live without a brain?

Expert Witness: It would seem so if he was an attorney!

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The Saturday Edition

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It is good to be back in the groove again. Saturday has been such a restful day. Had a nice long nap this afternoon, and watched "Amazing Grace" on DVD. I hope it was a good day for everyone else as well.

The Friday Quiz ANSWERS

1. Bird = Prairie chicken
    One species of prarie chicken is on the endangered species list.
2. Duck = Mallard
    Common in many states, especially in the West.
3. First animal = Armadillo
    Most often seen around here as road kill.
4. Second animal = Common ferret
    Gaining popularity as a house pet.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

"Your worst days are never so bad that you're beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you're beyond the need of God's grace." ~Jerry Bridges

The Poet's Corner

from my own childhood...

        "Daddy Why..."

"Please tell me why
That I cannot fly
Like a bird, oh so high,
In a cloudless blue sky?"

"I'll tell you why
When you're bigger," said I.

"Oh please, tell me now,
For I feel like the cow
That jumped over the moon."

"I'll tell you quite soon,
Maybe this afternoon
When I finish this tune,
You silly loon."

"Soon it will be June
And if I'm a loon
Then I'll fly to the moon
With your favorite tune
And leave it there!"

Remember to be in the church of your choice tomorrow

Friday Quiz

What game bird is this?


What kind of duck is this?


What kind of animal is this



What kind of animal is this?


Answers in tomorrow's post.

T.G.I.F. Day, Yay and Hooray!

Finally Friday and I can hardly wait to post the Friday Quiz! It has been a perfect day with sun, temperature, breeze and all just right to enjoy. The pumpkins for the AWANA Pumpkin Patch arrived at church yesterday in the cool of the evening, and there was plenty of help unloading an entire truckload. If the weather stays like it has been today, they will keep until Halloween.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

"Forgiveness is like the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." ~Mark Twain

This is quite possibly Samuel Clements' greatest work, certainly a legacy in itself.
"An author, philosopher, or statesman can have no greater tribute than to be quoted while he is still lives, and no greater legacy than to be quoted after his death." Therefore I quote myself.

The Week's Best Link(s)

The problem I am having in getting links to work is that I am such a slow learner. It is the html code that is the hangup and I am not that bright when it comes to writing code. I have one I would love to post. If you haven't seen it, "when the wife don't listen" is an absolute must. Copy and paste will work if you are a friend on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/ronald.allan.richardson?ref=profile#/posted.php?id=1746422807&share_id=172012840539&comments=1#s172012840539

The Friday Quiz

Deciding how long to make the quiz is one thing I have not set in stone. I want to keep it short, but not too short. Your comments would be appreciated. This week is is entitled, "native North American species". Can you identify them? This week I will try to make each one its own posting, or at least a separate one following this.

The First Day of the Rest Our Lives

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

What strange dreams we people, then awake and cannot remember.



A Thought to Share

Someone objected that "all the carnivores God created could not mean that there was no death in the days before Adam sinned" in one of the discussion groups.

Since we have no eyewitness record of all the animals that lived before the flood, we cannot look up what the animals were in that era. Genesis only records the lives (and deaths) of humans in those early years. Is it safe to assume just because an animal is alive today it was also alive then?

Fossils of carnivores of the mammalian varieties are not found in early strata. All early reptiles have legs, (no snakes until later). This suggests a later creation of animals as we know them today after the animals Noah released from the ark had a chance to establish themselves without predators.

I cannot recall seeing teeth in the jaws of fossil dinosaurs, except in drawings as the artist's concept. Has anyone reading this seen them? I have heard it said that they only ate plants, but cannot speak to this. One upright reptile yielded possession of its body to the devil to tempt Eve. Can we assume it ate some of the fruit to prove to Eve that she would not die?

Contents in the stomachs of the frozen mammals (from the so called Ice Age) has only turned up plants.

There is so much in the way of missing records, both in the fossil record and in the Bible that we probably should not assume one way or the other. However, predators just perhaps did not exist until after the Flood.

Humor

Courtroom on Record - Actual records of court proceedings

Attorney: And what terminated your marriage?

Witness: Death.

Attorney: Will you please specify whose death?

Witness: The death of my husband.
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Attorney: How many children do you have?

Witness: Nine.

Attorney: How many girls?

Witness: Nine

Attorney: How many boys?

Witness: Huh?

Attorney: I said how many boys do you have?

Witness: I done told you I had nine girls, that don't leave no room for no boys.
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It's News to Me

The EPA is now concerning itself with small quantity chemicals entering the environment, "nanoformulations" such as sunscreen, that may or may not cause problems over the next few hundred years. The zinc oxide is sited as having an unknown effect on the environment. Research on the nanoforms is going to cost millions of dollars per year over the next decade, and already the National Institute of Science says EPA is not doing enough.

Zinc oxide? The Food and Drug Administration approved that ages ago for human consumption in supplements. If it could be harmful to the environment in nano quantities, what am I doing taking it in larger doses? Seems like they should stop checking the water at bathing beaches and start checking the effluent from our sewage treatment plants. Or perhaps supplements should be banned. Better yet, disband the EPA into nano particles.