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Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... January, 2010
January 1, 2010 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie

Posted on 12/31/2009 11:04:28 PM PST by JustAmy




Welcome To....



'Amy's Place' welcomes all poets
and those who enjoy poetry.
'Amy's Place' is more than just about poetry.
Come in, relax, and share with fellow FReepers
your thoughts about any of the things on the *Menu*.

Enjoy! :)












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TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Poetry; The Poetry Branch
KEYWORDS: amysplace; friends; january; poetry
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To: FRiends; JustAmy; Billie; Mama_Bear; jaycee; The Mayor; yorkie; pollywog; GodBlessUSA; ...
Happy Monday Everyone


Busy day today...Hope yours is wonderful

1,201 posted on 01/18/2010 5:09:14 AM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men and Women)
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To: Kitty Mittens; pollywog

(((HUGS))) Thank you!


1,202 posted on 01/18/2010 5:10:38 AM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men and Women)
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To: All

BREAKFAST

Thick hash brown patties, bacon wrapped, lightly fried and served with Hollendaise sauce

Popovers filled with shredded ham and cheese

Center cut Pork Chops, butterflied and stuffed with hashbrowns and cheese

Eggs (Your way)
Sausages
Extra Bacon
Ground steak patties with green onions

Coffee, tea and milk, juices of choice (chilled to perfection)

Wholewheat, sourdough, 9-grain and cinnamon rasin toast
Whipped butter with honey and preserves

Cold and hot cereals to suit your tastes

Mid-morning snack;
thinly sliced steak, slow baked and marinated in a delicate wine sauce and layered with fried onions and shitake mushroom in butter, under a pastry crust.


1,203 posted on 01/18/2010 5:23:13 AM PST by WayzataJOHNN ( Poetry is the jazz of words, laid down by a feeling soul.)
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To: MEG33

And I thank you, Meg. Yesterday’s thread was gorgeous with so many beautiful birds, gifts from God. I went to sleep in the lazy boy last night and woke up at 12...gosh! Had to make the coffee and finish up so I could go up to bed! And slept good.


1,204 posted on 01/18/2010 5:26:09 AM PST by jaycee (((("His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me."))))
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To: WayzataJOHNN

Johnn, I was wanting a good old country biscuits and sausage gravy breakfast this morning and I searched your menu and it wasn’t on there, so I guess I will have scrambled eggs and sausages with milk and orange juice.


1,205 posted on 01/18/2010 5:37:41 AM PST by jaycee (((("His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me."))))
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To: MEG33; All
The Massachusetts election tomorrow is about the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Health-Control Bill which will take our freedom as surly as anything done by King George III in the 18th century. Question is: “Have the people of that state become socialist sheeple or will the patriots of Massachusetts once again stand against tyranny?

The Sons of Liberty
The Spirit of Massachusetts is the Spirit of America

Ray Stevens - We The People

Battle of Stirling Bridge


1,206 posted on 01/18/2010 5:45:37 AM PST by fewz (Want government run healthcare? Step up to Canada. They're all that's LEFT.)
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To: JustAmy; Billie; MEG33; jaycee; dutchess; GodBlessUSA; deadhead; LUV W; mathluv; DollyCali; ...

Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list

January 18, 2010
It Is My Business
You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge . . . , but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. —Leviticus 19:18

In 1955, when the South was still highly segregated, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, visited relatives in Mississippi. After Emmett “dared” to talk to a white woman, two white men brutally murdered him. An all-white, male jury found the two “not guilty”—after deliberating for barely an hour. The two men later confessed to the crime in a Life magazine article.

Following the verdict, Emmett’s mother said, “Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to Negroes in the South, I said, ‘That’s their business, not mine.’ Now I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.”

Making another’s concerns our own is what Leviticus 19:18 calls us to do: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Jesus quotes this verse and interprets it as not placing any limitations on loving those around us (Matt. 22:39; Luke 10:25-37). Our neighbor doesn’t just mean someone close by; it’s anyone who has a need. We are to care for others as we care for ourselves.

To love our neighbor means to make the persecution, suffering, and injustice of our fellow human beings our own. It is the business of all who follow Christ.

For Further Thought
How can we be a good neighbor? Be respectful to all. Lend a hand. Volunteer. Join a neighborhood association. Speak up when others are treated unjustly.

Compassion puts love into action.

1,207 posted on 01/18/2010 5:55:02 AM PST by The Mayor (People who follow Christ lead others in the right direction)
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To: GailA

Good Morning Gail...
Oh I’m sorry about the broken pipe in your church! Glad it is okay for now. Are you building a new church or joining up with another? Just wondering why the “ close down”?

Have a great day...
Polly


1,208 posted on 01/18/2010 6:14:32 AM PST by pollywog (Romans 8:28)
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To: MEG33

Good Morning Meg...It’s Monday Morning and rainy here in Los Angeles, although I expected much more rain than we’ve got so far. Definitely a busy day for me too...

Lovely arrangement of flowers in the snow!


1,209 posted on 01/18/2010 6:18:24 AM PST by pollywog (Romans 8:28)
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To: WayzataJOHNN

Good Morning Johnn!
I’ll take those butterflied porkchops!! Coffee w/creme and a side of freshly squeezed OJ if you happen to have some left!

Polly


1,210 posted on 01/18/2010 6:20:46 AM PST by pollywog (Romans 8:28)
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To: jaycee

Good Morning Jaycee! Sounds like you slept well in that recliner!
Amazing how some recliners can be almost as comfy as bed!
Have a great day...


1,211 posted on 01/18/2010 6:23:20 AM PST by pollywog (Romans 8:28)
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To: fewz

Good Morning fewz!
I am so in prayer for the election in Massachusetts tomorrow. I want to see this country begin to turn back away from pure socialism that we are being led into by Obama!


1,212 posted on 01/18/2010 6:27:10 AM PST by pollywog (Romans 8:28)
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To: The Mayor

Good Morning Mayor... a very good reminder that we are to “ love our neighbor as our self. “..


1,213 posted on 01/18/2010 6:33:18 AM PST by pollywog (Romans 8:28)
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To: pollywog
We are in a declining neighborhood, with a declining membership due to our senior citizens passing on, we have no youth, average age is 55 and over at our church, it use to have 300 members now it's lucky to have 65 active members. We will merge with another Methodist church (voting is going on now) but that only affects the finances, we will be free to choose any church of our choice. Easter Sunday is suppose to be the last day of service.

The only churches growing are the ones catering to the young, which leaves us old timers feeling left out. When I was widowed in '04 I tried several different churches (as I couldn't go back to my old one because of the memories), and they are all going to to loud music, to modern music and forgetting that the older folks are even there. What's wrong with blending both kinds of music into a service? I like some of the comtemporary music, but prefer old time gospel...I just don't want a steady diet of comtemporary music it doesn't have the same feeling as the older stuff like I'll Fly Away, Sweet By and By or Amazing Grace. Most of the older music just needs to be uptempoed to make it sound better, I know that for a fact as my late husband was a great keyboardist who did just that.

I came out of the Assembly of God a free flowing Holy Ghost filled church into the Methodist when I remarried, and the Methodist are very formalized and tame in there services. :(

1,214 posted on 01/18/2010 7:00:03 AM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: GailA

Oh Gail, I hear you loud and clear!!!!!! I am nudging 70 and SO miss a Sunday Service with hymns and gospel songs. We do have two different services and we go to the more traditional, because I cannot handle the loud music and bands...
Your story is being repeated all across the land, sadly.

Polly


1,215 posted on 01/18/2010 7:49:12 AM PST by pollywog (Romans 8:28)
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To: fewz

I finally viewed all those links, fewz! Good work!


1,216 posted on 01/18/2010 8:07:09 AM PST by jaycee (((("His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me."))))
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To: The Mayor

Good reminder in the message this morning, Mr. Mayor! But do I have to love Obama as my own self....? I couldn’t help it...just had to add that in~~~~!


1,217 posted on 01/18/2010 8:10:37 AM PST by jaycee (((("His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me."))))
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To: JustAmy; Mama_Bear; MEG33; jaycee; LUV W; Kitty Mittens; yorkie; Majie Purple; GodBlessUSA; ...
Good Monday morning to Amy's Place. Have been browsing the thread and loved all the sweet babies on Thursday!

On to Red Friday now. :)

1,218 posted on 01/18/2010 8:58:42 AM PST by Billie
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To: jaycee

Not only “O”, but Reid, and Pelosi, too. (*smile*)


1,219 posted on 01/18/2010 8:59:46 AM PST by yorkie
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To: MEG33

Meg, your Red Friday graphic of the woman in red walking down that tree-lined, snow-covered path to the house in the distance is just wonderful!


1,220 posted on 01/18/2010 9:03:55 AM PST by Billie
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