Posted on 08/18/2013 5:00:01 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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Any rain up there, JJ?
We are pushing an inch.
We have some storm clouds moving over right now. I just washed the cars. It’s my fault...
I am having a terrible time with FR....every step is requiring multiple tries.....since last night. GRRRR!
I suspect the firefighters will appreciate your sacrifice. Is the fire slowly being strangled?
It appears to be nearly out. We still get some flare ups and smoky days.
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Hi Everybody!
((((HUGS))))
After 7 tries...finally!
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Hope you and Lynn-Dah have found a suitable alternate activity to the infected dog park.
Hope you and Lynn-Dah have found a suitable alternate activity to the infected dog park.
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RIP
SSG Octavio Herrera, USA
4th Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment
4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division
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During seminary, I worked in a nursing home. As I spent time talking to these men and women, at some point nearly every patient would describe the loneliness of their present lives and the realization that they were outliving their peers. Most wondered if anyone would remember them when they passed from this life.
It isnt just the elderly who can feel lonely and forgotten. In fact, many of us feel trapped and alone, set aside by circumstances fair and unfair. Sometimes we even experience what the Old Testament character Joseph did: people failing to remember us when theres every reason they should.
Genesis 40 describes Josephs experiences as hes trapped in prison. The cupbearer had been freed and returned to the kings service, just as Joseph told him would happen (vv.9-13). Joseph had asked to be mentioned to Pharaoh, but the cupbearer forgot him (vv.14,23).
We may feel forgotten. Yet, like Joseph, we are not (42:9-13). Jesus sits at the right hand of God, and our prayers reach the throne of the King without fail because our Savior is our Mediator. When we feel alone, lets remember to rest in the confidence of Jesus promise to be with us forever (Matt. 28:20).
Read: Genesis 40:1-14,23
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