Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. November 25-26-27-28, 2004

11-25-04 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear, Billie

[Conspiracy Guy]

LOL

[The Mayor]

November 29, 2004

How To Clean Anything

Read: 1 John 1:5-10

The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. —1 John 1:7

Bible In One Year: Ezekiel 35-36; 2 Peter 1

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Consumer Reports published a booklet with the intriguing title How To Clean Practically Anything. It offers advice on what solvent to use to remove a wide assortment of stains. Living as I do with drips and drops, that is my kind of book.

Did you know that glycerin will remove stains made by a ball-point pen? Boiling water can remove berry stains. Parents of small children should keep a gallon of vinegar handy to get rid of crayon marks. Bleach works well for mildew. Lemon juice performs minor miracles on rust stains.

I haven't tried them all, but I assume that scientists have put these common cleansing agents to the test.

What you will not find in this little book is how to deal with the most serious stain of all—the stain made on your life by sin. Deep, ugly stains made by hostile words and shame-filled actions. Tears won't touch them. Zeal can't erase them. At times we are convinced that we have gotten on with our lives and the sins are gone, but in an unguarded moment we notice the stain seeping through.

The Bible tells us just what we need: "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7). That's the only remedy that works. —Haddon Robinson

Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain—
He washed it white as snow. —Hall

We may whitewash sin, but only Jesus' blood can truly wash it white.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

I have not been logging on because I have so much work to do and it is too tempting to FReep if I log on.

My Father-in-law passed away Saturday morning, November 27 about 9 am. He had been in a nursing home about 3 weeks. I had not seen him for months, and so did not say goodbye to him. I think they plan to cramate his remains.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Sorry to hear about your father in law. May he rest in peace.

[Darksheare]

Ouch.
Condolences, as best as I can offer.

[Laura Earl]

So sorry to hear about your loss. We will keep you family in our prayers.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Thank you.

[NicknamedBob]

My sincere condolences about your Father-in-Law.

One of the subtleties of life is that the closer you were to him before, the less distance you feel now.

[JustAmy]

So sorry to hear about your Father-in-law.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

Please accept my condolences.

[JustAmy]

I'm late getting the doors opened this morning, but our new thread is here.

Hope you will stop by and spend some time with us.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

I should have known you would make wisdom poetic sounding.

Thank you, Bob.

[Darksheare]

Welcome.

[MeekOneGOP]

May your Father-in-law rest in peace.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Thank you.

[tuliptree76]

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your father-in-law. Prayers for you and your family.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Thank you. That's very pretty. I'll try to print it off and take it home.

[tuliptree76]

I found it on Dayspring.com. I like their ecards.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Dayspring is one of the biggest producers of Christian stationery, etc.

I printed it in black & white. My co-worker said she'd bring it over to me. I don't have a regular printer in "my office".

OMG. I just had a customer with the first name of "Skye". He looked like a model or a soap opera star too.

[tuliptree76]

I've only seen girls with the name "Skye".

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

I've heard it on the soaps but never paid attention to whose name it was. If you had seen this guy, you wouldn't care that his name is Skye.

I went to your home page expecting to see pictures posted for the FR hunks. I saw some kitties and GW.