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Posted on 10/31/2012 10:23:31 PM PDT by JustAmy
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As Karissa Smith was browsing in a local library with her babbling 4-month-old daughter, an older man rudely told her to quiet her baby or he would. Smith responded, “I am very sorry for whatever in your life caused you to be so disturbed by a happy baby, but I will not tell my baby to shut up, and I will not let you do so either.” The man put his head down and apologized, and told her the story of how his son died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome over 50 years ago. He had repressed his grief and anger all those years.
In Psalm 13, David expressed his grief. He addressed God with raw and honest language: “How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?” (v.1). These questions reflected fears of abandonment. David’s language of distress gave way to a plea for help and reaffirmation of his faith in God’s love for him (vv.3-6). Confidence and firm resolve came alongside the cry of distress.
We all go through dark nights of the soul when we wonder if God has abandoned us. As with David, our aching can give way to joy when we approach God honestly, plead for help, and reaffirm our trust in a God whose love for us will never waver or change.
Read: Psalm 13
Have a wonderful day!
Ahhhh...Norman Rockwell!
Thanks, LUV W. I needed that.
You’re welcome. He’s always been a favorite of mine, too!
Rockwell has always been a favorite of mine as well. I have a print of Shuffleton’s Barber Shop hanging on my dining room wall. (Would be sooo nice if it was the original...lol)
I like the one with the soldier coming home to the city and the whole family is out on the porch greeting him.
I have a couple of his more famous magazine covers...still attached to the magazine. One is the little girl looking into the mirrow, imagining herself older.
He was THE best!
Oh no, Shanah chewed on the drywall and paper! None of the doberman puppies I’ve had ever tried that, thank goodness!
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There may be something behind that wall. My little Lindy did the same thing (in a different spot) 16 years ago. And when Pam brought her puppy over (Lindy’s sister), they BOTH worked together on tearing up the wall! (In just a few short minutes.) Cost a small fortune to have it repaired. Sigh.
I had friends who had a Dobie, years ago. She spent hours making pies for Thanksgiving, when the family would be coming for dinner.
Their Dobie just (in a matter of seconds) walked by the table where the pies were cooling, and with one swoop of his head, knocked three of them off the table, and completely devoured one, and part of the other two!
(Sorry, but I am grinning, just thinking about it....)
Our first doberman, when he was a half grown puppy, put his front paws on the counter and ate the top off a cherry pie whe we were not in the room with him. Years later another young doberman noticed a plate of chicken breasts on the counter and before we knew it they were gone. I am sure we’ve had a few “disappering sandwiches” over the years too.
In general our dogs don’t “counter surf” but they are tall enough to sniff a plate of hot food that is waiting there. Bart just tried that today, he takes a close wiff and wishes it were his plate.
Our first one, almost ate a bunch of 20 dollar bills when he was a puppy. We were going on a trip and laid out our vacation cash. I came back into the room and there was Hans with a mouth full of cash like they were cigars. He also ate a pair of fake diamond earrings when I put them on the cocktail table after work one day. They were set in gold but gold was cheap then. I replaced them very cheaply (QVC).
He ate all kinds of crazy stuff, socks being his favorite. We had to open his jaws like a lion and go in and get the sock from his throat quite a few times. He outgrew most of his bad habits. He was a hoot.
ROTF!! I love your stories about the cherry pie and the chicken breasts! I giggled out loud about the ‘disappearing sandwiches”!
But, most of all, I love your phrase “counter surf”! LOLOLOL!!
My little “Popcorn” Shanah would ‘counter surf’ in a heart-beat, if she could reach it! Last week, she got hold of the strap on the tripod (for the telescope or camera), and took off running, strap clamped tightly in those sharp little teeth, and of course pulled that BIG TOWER down! It just missed crashing down on her, and she will never touch that again, I am sure!! (It scared her so bad, she pooped right on the spot!)
When Thomas Gallaudet graduated from seminary in 1814, he had planned on becoming a preacher. However, his call to the ministry took a different turn when he met Alice, a 9-year-old, hearing-impaired girl in his neighborhood. Gallaudet began to communicate with her by writing words with a stick in the dirt.
Helping Alice motivated him to help others too. After consulting with European and American experts in educating the deaf, he refined a system widely known today as “signing” (a person’s hands spell out the message). Eventually, he established the American School for the Deaf.
Gallaudet’s school for the hearing-impaired contained a Christian curriculum that shared the gospel and included Bible instruction. He had answered the call to preach—but it was to a very special group of people. Signing was the way he communicated the gospel.
Like Gallaudet, we too should be sharing the Word of God with people in ways they can understand. Otherwise, “How shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” (Rom. 10:14). How might God want you to reach out to those around you?
Read: Romans 10:1-14
Yummers!! Those look sooooo good!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your hubby! :)
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My niece is here and we are going to my daughters fot Thanksgiving with mith my family..I am so thankful!
(((HUGS)))
A Very Blessed and happy Thanksgiving to you, Meg!
We all have a special gift, many of us do not realize what it is, It is our assignment to discover our gift and share it with the people around us. This man was inspired by God to create a new means of communication. It was God that gave him the way to do so, and his part was to proceed with the means, in cooperation with the Lord.
Thank the LORD for his many gifts, and may we use our gift daily. Uniquely our gift is intended to be for the good of others.
Empathy, encouragement, teaching, listening, compassion, understanding ... IE... like a stream is meant to flow and benefits all that come to it.
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