Last week’s eclipse with associated travel and general disruption played havoc with my summer schedule here, abbreviated as it is. However, I’ll try to get back on track today. Longtime visitors know major hurricanes usually are noted here ever since Katrina. Now, we have Harvey, and I don’t have anything to add. It is truly awful. I can’t imagine what metropolitan Houston will be like going forward. We probably will talk more about this, but I stand by my statement: I don’t have much to add. It’s overwhelming.
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Sand glad to hear from you. Glad you are safe, hope recovery goes as smooth as possible considering the magnitude of the disaster. Sorry about your loss. John glad to hear you weathered it fairly well.
This is a relaxing video… unless you’re a cat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAer4rDnA6I
We will be headed to Oklahoma City tomorrow morning for an early afternoon visitation. The father of Ray Our Handy-Dandy Man passed away Thursday morning, at age 94.
Jackie will be hand-making a funeral wreath to carry with us, because that’s what she does. I will see that she gets there and back safely, because that’s what I do. We will go back to OKC Tuesday for the funeral, because we are Southerners, and that’s what we do.
Good thoughts out to Sandcastler although his ability to read this is unknown at this time. His situation reminds me that when people say “there but for the grace of God go I.” Well what did you do to earn God’s grace that the other person didn’t do and therefore paid the price?
Jerry: Well said.
Peregrine [momentarily] perched on cliff. If it’s gone, backtrack on the red line at bottom.
https://explore.org/livecams/falcons/falcon-nest-cam
I think this line fits quite a few people on both sides of the political and religious spectrum:
I am not conceited. I am merely acutely aware of my incredible superiority.
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Well said.
The Creator and Ruler of the Universe is not a genie in the lamp or a member of a restaurant’s wait staff. The pathetic thing is how so many confuse Him with Santa Claus and believe that if they’re “nice” that they’ll get whatever they want.
And those who make that mistake are doubly wrong when, because they don’t get what they want, they conclude that He has let them down or doesn’t exist.
Trucker: Also well said. Whether Elohim really cares that much about ruling is moot, as are most things about ‘him’. I doubt El is so insecure as to worry about praise and sacrifices and such by mortals, here or anywhere or anywhen. What if some of Elohim’s ‘children’ are strictly grazers or browsers? El would have to be satisfied w/ a sacrifice of veggies, which is how Cain supposedly got into trouble. Fun.
Peace,
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Bad news, fans. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/09/03/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-founder-dead-at-67.html
I will miss not having any more new music from that group.
At the risk of offending some, God’s grace is a gift. It is not earned, same as with any true gift in this world. If it were earned, it’d be payment, and not a gift.
c ex-p, exactly what I’ve heard. Several pastors have given grace this definition: unmerited favor.
Mark well said, unmerited favor, where our country USA has dwelt for a couple of hundred years. Now we are beginning to think it is all our own doings. Dangerous thinking indeed.
Sorry about the political rant. Deepest apologies.
Somehow I am not the least offended. Rant on. It’s been damn boring here lately. Maybe we might try saying what we really think.
Any skills, any talent, any knowledge we possess is a gift to us. It is not ours of our making nor do we own it, we must give it back freely to others. If we have learned or improved that talent or gift it is with the help or gifts of others.
Those who think otherwise are egotists and self aggrandizing people, thinking like the creature in the Ring, “Mine, mine, mine.”
I had bacon and eggs for breakfast.
OK, everybody laugh: https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21317982_1817703158245745_7481799168339208957_n.jpg?oh=1c689a1fa96c24aebde7752a377598e3&oe=5A13A1FA
Good evening villagers…
….Eggs and bacon…..biscuits and gravy for me and us….so, how much is Jackie consuming in on blueberries?????
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9070214656/hB15F0009/
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Ok, those are funny, especially the cat!
One for Debbe: https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21317592_1817857561563638_1761383394346066026_n.jpg?oh=147981bbbcf400c63a5a4ea2fc8857af&oe=5A14A2A9
Agreeing with JM: the knowledge we each have – be it academic or sailing, cooking or growing the best crops – is something we ought relay to others, especially those less experienced. Part of that is providing [gentle] correction to those headed in the wrong direction. No, I am not “pedant”, but ducking anyway….
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