Posted on 02/01/2012 3:44:24 PM PST by chrismac
It might be connected with the strange goings on around here : Our car stolen, with $4000 of damage; Our neighbour's healthy rabbit dying unexpectedly; Our neighbour's letterbox being destroyed; Curious spam emails about las vegas; The odd curious phone call; Faeces being smeared on our church Car windows smashed and things taken at church - they now have patrols as a result Breakin at church and organ damaged. Mysterious deaths of stars, such as Heath Ledger, Brittany and her husband, Michael Jackson, David Carradine, and others : http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/05/24/what-killed-brittanys- husband.html http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31103217/ns/today-entertainment/t/david- carradine-found-dead-thailand-hotel/
Connect the dots if you dare, to see the truth.
> If things escalate, as they're indicating, I suggest that pamphlets explaining > Cats infiltration of public office, and their networked saboteurs, be posted by > some in every letterbox, so raising up a public backlash against the Mafia. I > can't do this, but it seems a good way to alert the public to what the Mafia > are upto. Laser printers, for each one involved in the expose, can cope > with and distribute the load. They will suddenly find themselves very > unwelcome.
I would probably tell them to "Go Fish" rather then call.
I have not had a bad cold in nearly a year and I forgot how miserable they make you.
I would use sneezing myself.
Thank you for my first lol of the day!
Have just added the Walking Drum series to my reading list. Thanks!
Now I have to keep an extra bag in the pantry to use as fire starters in case the kindling is wet.
Still praying that Jake is OK and will turn up soon. Once, I had a dog that ran off unbeknownst to us; we looked all over but couldn’t find her; then, she turned up the next day, all wet and muddy (this was in the desert, so she must have fallen into one of the irrigation canals.) She never ran off again, so her experience couldn’t have been much fun, she being a party animal and all that.
Time to say goodnight, y’all, and sweet dreams!
P.S. I like hanging out here. It’s like what the neighborhood bar represented on “Cheers,” but without annoying drunks lol!
And the backstory on Tell Sackett in the Civil War. I was deeply offended when Louis died - he knew he was 80, after all!
The other series I would like to find out how it ended it is Claudia J Edwards "The Bastard Princess" series. She wrote several stand alone fantasy and then started the series published the first book and then vanished.
Rumors are that she died but she supposedly was posting on a yahoo group a few years back so who knows.
This was a topic in my prayer group this morning. The Bible passage was the raising of Lazarus, from the Gospel of John. The Gospel tells us “Jesus wept,” when he saw how unhappy his friends were, even though he knew he was going to bring Lazarus back to life. One of the commentaries in our book said that being incarnate, living as a human being, made it possible for God to sympathize with our feelings in a way his Divine nature alone did not allow.
Jake is back. I guess he came in at some point while most of us were at Cub Scouts after supper. Sally found him in my closet when she went to hang up the boys’ uniforms, but he hadn’t been there long, because I’d put my uniform away only a few minutes earlier.
He has a patch of fur missing near his tail, so either he got in a fight, or he was stuck somewhere and lost the fur getting out. I hope it’s sunny tomorrow, so he can enjoy Sunbeam Time in his dog bed on my windowsill.
Shannon is annoyed.
The other series I would like to find out how it ended it is Claudia J Edwards "The Bastard Princess" series. She wrote several stand alone fantasy and then started the series published the first book and then vanished.
Rumors are that she died but she supposedly was posting on a yahoo group a few years back so who knows.
I can understand it but I wish I could at least read them.
Louis had other interests as well. He wrote some action tales about folks involved in various ways in WWII in the Pacific, and other stories.
I found a book of his non-western short stories. Good stuff.
Now if anyone was still writing just out of habit up in Heaven, Louis would likely be one to do it. Ditto the good Doctor, Isaac Asimov.
Prayers Jake comes home.
Thanks! I had to check one more time before going to bed. What a relief!
SG just pm’d to tell me the great news!!! did he give you all attitude when he came home?
Get him a collar. Then Shannon can be Superior and people can return him when he turns up at their doors.
You’re welcome! I debated quite awhile before hitting “Post” but was irrevocably convinced — within the hour, no less — that it was the right thing to have done.
Well, I hope you’ve gotten it out of your system, then.
This is, after all, the Undead Thread.
We’ve never been sullied with sanctity before.
I was seeing/describing my home, as a spirit. I believe that is my natural state.
I would say that being a spirit is our "native" state; it is the REAL part of what we are "underneath." YHWH is Spirit, and has created each of us in His image; therefore, He has made our spirits the most real part of us, just like Him. Our "natural" state, then, would include our physical bodies; the "natural" part of us; the part that exists in Nature; the natural world; i.e. Creation.
That's hard to be clear about, because the terms "natural" and "nature" can be used in diverse ways, but I think I put it well enough.
So, what truth about Jesus’ ballpark am I missing? Help me out here. :-)
You're in touch with the reality of your existence as a spiritual being, housed (for the time being) in a mortal body. The missing piece — the bit that "turns on the lights" so you can really see — is that you exist in a definite context where "God" really is a Who with a Proper Name. He really is YHWH (Yahweh), not a what, or an it, or some cosmic all.
Acknowledging this context brings the whole ballpark into focus, and enables you to not only take your own spirit seriously, but to take YHWH seriously; to strike up a conversation; to learn that He's NOT mad at you, or disappointed, and to find that He has a "home" for you of a different, and more awesome sort than you'd ever conceived, before. Your spirit need not ever be disappointed with you, again.
You seem EVER SO CLOSE to that "Ah, HA!" when — upon entertaining a different possibility; perhaps one long ago dismissed — you suddenly see things in true perspective; when you realize where you Truly are. You are — if you'll bear with the analogy — like a fly buzzing against the glass of a sliding glass door that stands a few inches open. You see light, you feel warmth from the Sun shining through, you are aware of a draft of fresh air from somewhere nearby, you sense there's a far bigger "there" somewhere, and you perceive that you are close to it. You repeatedly move toward it, only to be rebuffed by the solid glass time, and time again.
Oh, if you only thought to move a foot to the right...!
Like the fly, to find the tantalizing reality you sense; you've got to change something you're thinking, which must be preceded by a change of heart; for the heart first apprehends value in the new thought that was not previously discerned, after which the mind may embrace it.
I assure you; such a change is VERY well worth making.
As the psalmist has written:
One thing have I asked of Yahweh, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to inquire [of him] in his temple.
— Psalm 27:4
[Emphasis added]
I feel the love you want to share.
Love. OY! I hope so!
It is exactly love that I wish to share, and it is exactly YHWH Who defines what love is. Love is not a quality of His; it is not a characteristic of His; Love is the very ESSENCE of Who YHWH is. LOVE IS YHWH, and if we knew all of the pertinent facts, we would be able to grasp that reality, even amidst the war, famine, pestilence, and disease of the natural world.
That He condescended to set aside His glory, and to confine Himself for 33 years in human flesh; invoking none of the privileges of His Deity in all that time; to become The Way by which we may exist apart from the corruption of sin...THIS is what renders the judgments of YHWH FAVORABLE toward us when He judges against evil in our lives. We are SEPARATE from the sin that may still beset us, so His judgment against that sin is NOT against us, but in our favor; on our behalf. The judgments of YHWH on behalf of His redeemed are motivated by LOVE; by Who He IS.
YHWH is a Warrior for His people.
WOE to all who that mistreat them!
Jesus is a Bridegroom who fights for His Bride.
WOE to all who oppress her!
All of the greatest epics of love find their roots in the burning heart of fiery desire that drives YHWH to win a redeemed people to Himself, and to fight with zeal on their behalf.
Even the horrific turmoil of the last dreadful apocalypse is THE MOST LOVING means by which YHWH will redeem the greatest number of people, by encountering them at the deepest level, without violating their own self-will. He will do it ALL out of a burning heart of desire for fellowship with His people; violently removing and throwing down ALL that hinders Love SO YOU CAN SHARE IT with Him FOREVER.
And can such a Love as this fail to elicit a response??
Nor will He relent until His love wins your heart.
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