Posted on 08/16/2006 6:38:35 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN
Hey cool!! I think 3rd place is the best cause it's purple! :-)
I would only add that anyone who is entitled to wear a derivative of the original family grant of arms is said to be "Armigerous".....hence my Freeper nom de plume
Good evening Gucho! Good to see ya! *HUGS!*
Hey you!! Bet the food won't disappear so quick outta the fridge now, huh?? *HUGS!*
AWESOME!!
;-)
How did you EVER guess???.......LOL!
I don't think we have a crest -- how do you find out??
MINE!
My parents have it displayed on the front of their house.
Here is how it looks.
Evening Gummy and WooHoo.
WOW!! You came outta NOWHERE! LOL
That's too cool!!
Well, I could tell you about mine, but then I'd have to use my real name. I'll just say that it has a cross, a lion, a crown (or a cat) and the motto: "Ung roy, Ung loy, Ung foy" (although I might've gotten those words in the wrong order). Kinda cool looking. Once upon a time, I'd've liked to have made one of those for a SF convention, but I didn't know where to begin and I wouldn't have been able to put together a costume to go with the shield.
Hi, Star! DO you feel used? LOL! I just happened in at the "right" time. I'm probably going to post and run, but I wanted to say hi!
Thanks, Mrs. N!!
You'll do good. I work 10-3 tomorrow but will see them when I get a chance to get on the Canteen.
Guess I'm SOL then. Both my grandfather's were adopted, at least sort of. Paternal one definitely, he came west on the Orphan train. The maternal one's birth father (name unknow, although possibly Lamb) died when he was very young. His mother remarried a widower with children. Then then had children of their own. Then she died. The stepfather, whose name my grandfather bore, married yet another widow, with children. Something had to give, and it was my grandfather and his brother and sister, who were sent to relatives of their mother in a different part of the state, where great grandmother had originally lived, we think. Sister was adopted by a family in the region where their mother had lived with their birth father. Grandpa and great uncle were never adopted, and lived in virtual serfdom with "foster" families. Grandpa only went through 8th grade. Plenty for a farmer in those days though. Must not have been too hard on him though, even after falling off the horse and requiring a metal plate in his skull, since he was 99 when he passed away.
August 17, 2006
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This grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. —Ephesians 3:8
A story is told of Scottish minister Alexander Whyte, who was able to look at the bleakest situation and yet find something to be thankful for. On a dark Sunday morning when the weather was freezing, wet, and stormy, one of his deacons whispered, “I am sure the preacher won’t be able to thank God for anything on a day like this. It’s absolutely horrible outside!” The pastor began the service by praying, “We thank Thee, O God, that the weather is not always like this.”
The apostle Paul also saw the best in every situation. Consider his circumstances as he wrote to the church in Ephesus while he awaited trial before the Roman emperor Nero. Most people would have concluded that he was a prisoner of Rome. But Paul saw himself as a prisoner of Christ. He thought of his hardship as an opportunity to bring the gospel to the Gentiles.
These words of Paul should challenge us: “To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ” (Ephesians 3:8). Paul, a prisoner of Christ, saw himself as being given the privilege to serve God and present the “riches of Christ” to many.
Whose prisoner are we?
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