|
Posted on 08/23/2005 6:11:58 AM PDT by Billie
|
|
 |
|
Every Thursday at the Finest  |
Doing okay Gabz. Nothing spectacular. Just tried to see Mars, but couldn't locate it. They say it will be the size of the full moon. Oh well - such an exciting life...
Night Billie! Sleep well.
Nothing spectacular is not bad :)
Oh I wish I had known about Mars - hubby and child would have LOVED looking for that.
While he will never admit it (and I would never ask him to do so) I know part of the reason hubby built an upstairs deck was specifically for night sky watching.....and it is wonderful to me how much time he and Jax spend up there with and without the telescope.
Eventually this ankle will be better and I can return to being up there with them :) I just can't handle the steps right now, I have more than enough trouble with the 4 just getting in and out of the house....
Hi, Billie:
My screen name comes from months of playing "Delta Force 2" and other Shooters on line. In need of a cool sounding game name, I immediately thought of a little known time jumping, sci-fi B-Movie named "Trancers" and it's main character; Jack Deth. Played by the gruff, scruffy, always under-rated Character Actor, Tim Thomerson.
When I started FReeping, the name just seemed like a natural.
Jack.
It is great reading how everyone got their names. Hey, Auntie, where is my logo? You know you are the graphic queen of the family. Babychick would like one appropriately adorable, she says! lol
Gabz, this will be on going through the 27th of this month. I just found out about it tonight from a friend in Texas.
I did wonder, but I knew there was a good reason. :-)
I have some other logos that I want to post (all made by the amazing and talented wolfie),
ALL of them? LOL!!
No, not worry.....not ALL of them, silly wolf. I will post some of them tomorrow, along with the fascinating story about how I chose "Mama_Bear" for my screen name. LOL
Took the Chach to his first puppy class, just orientation tonight. He fell asleep half way through class. I hope this isn't a bad omen. LOL.
WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so very much for letting me know.
I have been really down about how badly I have messed up this entire summer for the 2 of them - even the littlest thing like a sky event I find out about has been really helpful to me.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, no....I don't think I can handle this pressure! I'll try to live up to my graphic queen (of the family) title, but I have to tell you that I am hyperventilating already. LOL
I don't know if you remember Astonished, but she was my roommate for a while and she is the one who started me on FR.
Until I got my own computer, I would post under her name signing off as Astonished's Roommate. When I got my own computer, she was the one that gave me my name 'cause I'm a Sassy gal from Dixie, hence Dixie Sass.
Gabz, have you been in the Starbucks again? Lol.
I encountered this subtle "competitor" soon after the Lord led our family to start a ministry among street addicts. We loved these searching youths, and I devoted my entire attention and energy to helping them experience Christ's saving power. Then Derek, one of our seekers, ran back to London and to drugs. This loss shocked me into realizing that I had become so absorbed in our work that my devotion to Jesus had lost its importance. God used my distresses as "eagles' wings" to carry me away from my worship of work and back to my first love—Jesus! God did the same for Israel in Moses' day. He delivered the Hebrews from an impossible taskmaster and brought them on "eagles' wings" back to Himself (Exodus 19:4). Praise God, Derek soon returned. Meanwhile, I had learned a lesson that's vital for all followers of Jesus. Our God-given work must never compete with our main calling: devotion to Christ. —Joanie Yoder
Then disappointments came; I could not tell The reason, till He said, "I am thine all; Unto Myself I call." —Cowman Many Christians are strong on service but weak on worship.
What Is Worship? |
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Darlin', the one and only time I have ever even had Starbucks coffee was at the 2004 CPAC.
Good morning, your honor!
Actually, my hair curls under instead of out. That was the only short hair style I could find.
Nice post. Thanks for sharing.
That's cute!
Pippin-bubbles!
I wonder if I can add "bubbles" on?
Just catching up on things posted after I left last night, and see this:
"I have been really down about how badly I have messed up this entire summer for the 2 of them "
From a distant view, seems to me your temporary disability is a "Good Thing" for hubby and Jax.
They will not only have more precious 'together' time, but appreciate more the minutiae of the little and big tasks you routinely do, and are so easy to be taken for granted.
Such setbacks always are seen in a different light in retrospection - - God allows us to go through such things for our benefit, knowing that all fires are intended to 'refine' us..:))
Reshape your thinking to one of appreciation and opportunity, and allow hubby and Jax to enjoy their victories in helping you, and themselves.
It is not your role to 'entertain' Jax, and give her the sun, moon and stars (except for Mars..:)), but to equip her for self-sufficiency and confidence through her picking up the responsibility to do and play and dream by herself....
I suspect you are very good at this, showing her how to garden, sew, cook, read, etc.
Perhaps you can make a little album of photographs of you incapacitated and of Jax and Daddy helping you and doing more things together - - a kind of 'How I Helped Mommy' Album for her satisfaction and pride, and later use for Show & Tell.
"Here is Daddy and me doing the laundry - getting the groceries - cooking - making the beds - cleaning, etc."
Your helping assemble the pictures and label them for her (or help/show her how) will make it all a PLUS+ PLUS+ Thing! rather than a downer.
In days of not so old, few fathers were very active in the day to day bringing up of children. You are blessed!
When I totaled my car 2 years ago and my right arm had to be spliced with a titanium rod, it was in a cast for 6 weeks and then took 5 months of physical therapy before I could get it near enough to just touch my body!
Right arm, of course, and hubby had to learn how to manage the household expenses - write all checks - distribute them - shop for the groceries, etc.; and while I managed to wash my hair and comb it with my left hand, he had to set my hair in curlers all those months!!
LOLOL
Confessing my FR Addiction, for the day after surgery and I went home, it was only about 15 minutes before I was at the computer, training my left hand to manipulate the mouse AND type every letter s-l-o-w-l-y all those months..:))
It was 6 months before I could drive the car again.
{{{{{{{{{{{{{LadyX}}}}}}}}}}}}}
What lovely sentiments.
Thanks you.
|
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
In our performance-driven world, Christians often assume that God's main calling on their lives is to work for Him. But working for Christ should be secondary to our devotion to Him. As Oswald Chambers warned: "The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him." 
