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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....07-23,24,25-04....T.G.I.F. at the Finest
Billie

Posted on 07/23/2004 5:31:01 AM PDT by Billie



A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day
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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in need; and congratulate those deserving. We strive to keep our threads entertaining, fun, and pleasing to look at, and often have guest writers contribute an essay or a profile of another FReeper.
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Welcome to TGIF at the Finest!   We hope you've been having as much fun as we have with our essays and/or spotlight on various FReepers. From the beginning, we've been kicking back on Saturdays and Sundays and simply reviewing the features of the week; our weekend threads now start on Friday and continue through Sunday. If you missed seeing any of this week's threads and want to say hello there now, just click on the link for that particular day. If you'd like to drop in and out of this thread today through Sunday, please feel free to do that also. One of us will try to be around to see the welcome mat is still out, put the coffee pot on, and maybe even bring fresh flowers for the table. : )

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THIS WEEK'S THREADS



07-19-04 ~ Military Monday
By Billie
Presented by The Mayor


07-20-04 ~ Fly Me To The Moon
By Billie

07-21-04 ~ Virginia, the "Old Dominion State"
By Mama_Bear

07-22-04 ~ Don't you believe it. Those 16 words were still a lie!
By JohnHuang2
Presented by Dutchess




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To: MoJo2001
Sorry I just don't have time to read everything! Keep up the great work!

Thank you, Mojo. I certainly understand the "time" thing, seems to be a problem for all of us most of the time.

41 posted on 07/23/2004 7:05:14 PM PDT by Mama_Bear
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To: All; Billie; Mama_Bear; The Mayor; Donaeus; Temple Owl; LadyX; jwfiv; Dubya; lonestar; ...

Good Night All


42 posted on 07/23/2004 7:19:21 PM PDT by deadhead (God Bless Our Troops and Veterans Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: deadhead; The Mayor; Dubya; Aeronaut; Temple Owl; jwfiv; Diver Dave; HiJinx; humblegunner; Flyer; ..
Good night, Colleen and Miss Lucy ---

Copying these from another thread,
just in time for DNC Convention souvenirs:

LOLOL

43 posted on 07/23/2004 8:34:11 PM PDT by LadyX (((( To God be all praise and honor and glory -- ))))
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To: LadyX

Lol! Those kitties are sweet, sweet, sweet! Look at those faces! {sigh} I LOVE KITTIES! :^D


44 posted on 07/23/2004 10:24:13 PM PDT by Kitty Mittens
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To: LadyX
Ha! I know what you mean. I think we had one of those signs posted at our home when we lived in south Alabama! Kitties everywhere. They kept our yard and surrounding land snake-free for two little boys who played there. Now if they could just have done something about all those fire ants....

Where I live now is decidedly hostile to cats. On our block alone resides 15+ dogs and no fences. Poor little kitties would never have a chance. It's o.k. 'cause I'm a sucker for dogs(it's a good thing!), too!

Hope all is going well with you and yours (and your kitties, of course!).
45 posted on 07/24/2004 4:47:58 AM PDT by Lakeside
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To: Billie

Happy Saturday morning to all the Finest!

Where is everybody? I'm already on my third cup of coffee!



46 posted on 07/24/2004 4:53:45 AM PDT by Lakeside
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To: ST.LOUIE1; Aquamarine; Billie; dansangel; dutchess; Mama_Bear; FreeTheHostages; .45MAN; Aeronaut; ..

July 24, 2004

God Forgives Disobedience

Read: Hosea 14

I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. —Hosea 14:4

Bible In One Year: Psalms 35-36; Acts 25


I’ll never forget the painful lesson I learned in early childhood about disobedience. My father, who had been mowing our lawn, interrupted his work to go shopping. He left the push mower standing near some flowers and ordered me not to touch it while he was gone. But I disobeyed him and gave it a push. To my shock, the mower veered and knocked over several flowers.

When Dad returned, I blubbered,“I didn’t mean to do it!”Wisely, he replied,“Why did you do it then?”I knew the truth—I did mean to push the mower. My sin wasn’t that I mowed the flowers down, it was that I disobeyed my father.

This childhood lesson is a reminder to be sorry for disobedience and not just the consequences. Rather than blubber to God,“I didn’t mean to do it,”I do what Hosea told wayward Israel to do:“Take words [of repentance] with you, and return to the Lord”(Hosea 14:2). I tell the Lord honestly that I knew His will but chose to disobey, and I cry out for His mercy. Praise God, He forgives!

Are you grieved that you chose to disobey, and not merely sorry about the consequences? Then“take words with you, and return to the Lord”today. He promises to forgive you of your sin, for He loves you freely (v.4). —Joanie Yoder

I’ve strayed, O Lord, and turned aside,
I’ve disobeyed Your voice;
But now with contrite heart I turn
And make Your will my choice. —D. De Haan


Repentance keeps the way clear in our walk with God.

47 posted on 07/24/2004 6:04:14 AM PDT by The Mayor (By one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.)
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To: deadhead

good morning to both of you


48 posted on 07/24/2004 6:31:53 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: Lakeside; Kitty Mittens; dixie sass
"Where is everybody? I'm already on my third cup of coffee!"

Well - I didn't go to sleep until after 3:30 a.m., unable to sleep, and read half a book!
Slothful, eh, rising at 8:30 and easing into the day ---

About those wandering-to-my-door kitties, when we built our house in the woods 20 miles south of Greensboro, NC, there were only two -- Nuff (a stray striped alley cat, who either had E-Nuff petting, or couldn't GET E-Nuff petting..:)) - and Snuggles, the one my daughter couldn't take with her and lived to age 17 with me.

In that lovely country setting, however, we were a target for persons wanting to dump litters or the no longer wanted, hoping for the best.
Soon we had "Boyo" - grown fella with the sweetest of dispositions. Nuff Kitty snubbed him, highly irritated, but he kept lying next to her on the hearth rug before the fireplace, putting his back against her, and she soon was loving it...

He was the one who came across the room to warm me with his stretched out body when I was wracked with chills from high fever from pyelonephritis...vanished when I was hospitalized for 5 days - looking for me??

Next was on a dark and rainy Halloween night - a tiny black kitten cried at the door, and I named her Little Kittle...the next Halloween she had 4 Other Little Kittles for whom I had to find homes.

Now, mind you, Snuggles was a solid black cat - and Little Kittle was, too. One morning as we left to go to work and turned from the driveway to the ascending hill, there in the road was our beloved Snuggles - run over by a car.
Had to hastily stretch her out beside the drive and get to work - in the evening had a burial service in the woods near the house.

Cooking dinner in the kitchen a little later, through the always-open sliding doors to the back deck (so the kitties could come and go at will), in strolled SNUGGLES!!!

I shrieked at the sight of my "Resurrected Kitty"!!
Careful examination of the eyes, however, revealed we had buried Little Kittle - not Snuggles..:)) - and we brought her with us to South Carolina.
(Nuff had had a tragic demise I will not relate again here.)

Inherited my one and only present cat, Binky Boy, from a niece who was highly allergic to him...since she worked in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Charleston on 12-hour shifts, he had been neutered and declawed. He thus never ever goes outdoors - has a screened in carport porch of his own to "be" outside, or in, if he chooses.

He is very much a Mommy's Boy, loving to talk and sing with me..:))

49 posted on 07/24/2004 8:32:46 AM PDT by LadyX (((( To God be all praise and honor and glory -- ))))
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To: All; BeforeISleep; LadyX; The Mayor; Lakeside; Kitty Mittens; Billie; jwfiv; Temple Owl; Dubya; ...

Have a good day. Posted the following on another thread, thought I would share here too.

Bush received an indirect endorsement last month at a Christian rock festival from actor Stephen Baldwin, the younger brother of Alec. "I don't care if I ever shoot a movie again," Baldwin said from the stage of the Creation Festival in western Pennsylvania, "because the day I accepted Jesus into my life I was blessed." Baldwin, the festival's keynote speaker, continued: "Now, I don't want to tell you who you should vote for in November. But make sure it's for the one who has the most faith. Now, more than ever, we need someone in the White House who is being led by God."

50 posted on 07/24/2004 8:34:21 AM PDT by deadhead (God Bless Our Troops and Veterans Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: deadhead; LadyX; dutchess
I know the stork brought me but I didn't know bananas brought kittens. Until now I thought I knew everything.

Weinie

51 posted on 07/24/2004 8:43:00 AM PDT by lonestar (Me, too!--Weinie)
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To: lonestar; Lakeside; Kitty Mittens; dixie sass
"I know the stork brought me but I didn't know bananas brought kittens. Until now I thought I knew everything.

Weinie

Ah, the Sweet Mysteries of Life..:))
Here I am slidin' on a banana peel.

Truth is, I love doggies and kitties and ALL of God's critters...:))
We'll get to see them all with you one Phine Day, Weinie ---

52 posted on 07/24/2004 9:25:32 AM PDT by LadyX (((( To God be all praise and honor and glory -- ))))
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To: The Mayor
God Forgives Disobedience

Thanks Mayor. This is truly GOOD news!

:-))

53 posted on 07/24/2004 9:37:54 AM PDT by Kudsman (Union thug for Bush)
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To: deadhead
Now, more than ever, we need someone in the White House who is being led by God."

Amen

Please don't put the banana in the ice box.

54 posted on 07/24/2004 12:35:18 PM PDT by Temple Owl
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To: LadyX
I was spellbound by your whole post, my Lady; it was facinating! Boyo most probably did go to look for you, while you were hospitalized. My dog, Spot, tried to find me, like that, and disappeared.

When we first lived here, it was still out in the country, so people would occasionally drop kitties off at our place, and I also always had at least several cats of my own! They all had distinct personalities, and I loved some "as pets," and some as friends, and/or family members. My best friends were The Toy, Black Kitty, and The Fang-Face, but I have loved a LOT of other kitties! My Fang-Face was my last, and it will probably be awhile before I can have another. But, someday I will! : )

55 posted on 07/24/2004 12:45:25 PM PDT by Kitty Mittens
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To: deadhead
That is an adorable graphic, Deadhead!

How wonderful that Alec ("I'd STONE Henry Hide to death!") Baldwin has a brother that belongs to our Lord! Perhaps Steven will someday be the instrument for Alec's, or some other family member's, Salvation!

56 posted on 07/24/2004 12:50:53 PM PDT by Kitty Mittens
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To: Kitty Mittens; Lakeside; dixie sass
It still cracks me up every time I see the name you had for your most recent cat -- Fang-Face !!

A wonderful original name, KM...:))

You missed my narrative a couple of months ago about the First Kitty I had at age 9 1/2. We were moving from Coral Gables, Florida up to Melbourne, and just as we were about to get in the station wagon and checking the house, a kitten dashed into the kitchen. The door under the sink was open - she found a scorpion that had been disturbed, and it bit her, causing paralysis.

With nowhere to leave her, my father relented and let me bring her along in my doll's cradle, lying on her back on a doll blanket for a cushion.

She was esconced on a blanket-covered cushion in a large wicker basket by the fireplace in the new house, and carried in it out to the sunshine periodically - eventually recovered.

My father had a vivid imagination, and came up with her name - -

Kitsuellen-katzenberger-burgalaroosky-borscovich - - sung rapidly without any pauses.
(Kitsue for short..:))
That has never left my mind to this very day!

57 posted on 07/24/2004 6:09:55 PM PDT by LadyX (((( To God be all praise and honor and glory -- ))))
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To: LadyX

I love that story!


58 posted on 07/24/2004 6:27:08 PM PDT by dixie sass (Texas - South Carolina on Steroids)
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To: dixie sass

About time you showed up..:))

How is your aunt?


59 posted on 07/24/2004 7:00:00 PM PDT by LadyX (((( To God be all praise and honor and glory -- ))))
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To: deadhead

Oh how precious.


60 posted on 07/24/2004 7:01:35 PM PDT by dixie sass (Texas - South Carolina on Steroids)
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