A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....02-03,04,05-06....T.G.I.F. at the Finest

Mama_Bear

[Mama_Bear]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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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. : )

~ Billie, Dutchess, DollyCali, GodBlessUSA, Mama_Bear ~



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"Getting to Know You"

THIS WEEK'S THREADS


1-30-06 ~ Military Monday
By Billie
Presented by The Mayor

1-31-06 ~ Ladies and Gentlemen,
the President of the United States!
By Billie

2-01-06 ~ A Letter to My Pets
By DollyCali

2-02-06 ~ Kids Say the Darnedest Things
By Dutchess

Have a wonderful weekend!

12-28-05 ~ Hall of Fame #14

Click on the photo to view the album. To submit your photo, please contact dansangel or .45Man at danbh59@yahoo.com and include Freeper Photo Album in subject line.

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

"Wear Red" Friday

You will soon see a lot of people wearing Red on Fridays. Here's why..... The Americans, who support our troops, are the silent majority. We are not "organized" to reflect who we are, or to reflect what our opinions are. Many Americans, like yourself, and all their friends, simply want to recognize that Americans support our troops. Our idea of showing our solidarity and support for our troops is starting Friday and continuing on each and every Friday, until this is over, that every red-blooded American who supports our young men and women, WEAR SOMETHING RED.

Word of mouth, press, TV -- let's see if we can make the United States, on any given Friday, a sea of red much like a home football game at a University. If every one of our memberships share this with other acquaintances, fellow workers, friends, and neighbors, I guarantee that it will not be long before the USA will be covered in RED - and make our troops know there are many people thinking of their well-being. You will feel better all day Friday when you wear Red! So let's get the word out and lead by example; wear RED on Fridays.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE. FOR US, THEIR BLOOD RUNS RED!! GOD BLESS AMERICA.

received this in my email June 10th, the author is unknown.
I am wearing red today and every Friday ~ Billie

[luvie]

Holy cow! I guess this isn't a good time to tell you that I had to use my air conditioner in the car on the way home from work, is it? :/

[Billie]

Oh, dutchess, that is breathtaking! A true winter wonderland! What a beautiful sight!

How did the flying lesson go?

[MEG33]

So beautiful, dutchess!

[MEG33]

May your Sunday be filled with blessings.

[DollyCali]

Good Morning

[MEG33]

How's your new baby?

[The Mayor]

February 5, 2006

The Sensuous Christian

Read:
Exodus 37:1-9

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. —James 1:17

Bible In One Year: Exodus 36-38; Matthew 23:1-22

The gratification of our senses has gotten a bad reputation, perhaps because we live in a world obsessed with pleasure. But God approves of the proper experience of pleasure through our five senses.

First, God created our senses—sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch—and all that He created is good.

Second, God made sensuousness a part of worship. Consider God's first formal worship setting: the tabernacle. It housed an ornate, gold-covered ark to hold the stone tablets God gave to Moses on Mt. Sinai. God approves of beauty. It had an altar of incense where priests burned a blend of fragrant spices made by a perfumer. God approves of pleasant aromas. It had an elaborate table with plates and pitchers. God approves of a tasteful dining experience. Around the tabernacle were curtains made from colorful yarn and finely twisted linen. God approves of beautiful colors and textures. Music was also a component of worship, as we learn from reading 2 Chronicles 29:28. God approves of pleasing sounds.

Yes, God values things that look, sound, smell, taste, and feel good. But He doesn't want us to worship them; He wants our enjoyment and gratitude to prompt us to worship Him, the Creator and giver of all good things. —Julie Ackerman Link

God gave us five senses
His world to enjoy;
But when we indulge them,
Their good we destroy. —D. De Haan

It makes sense to use our senses to glorify God.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
How Has God Loved Us?

[DollyCali]

Hi meg.. she is cute but she does bark a LOT! LOTS of energy. When I can let her run off leash things will improve I believe. Right now she has puppy energy galore & not enough outlets (that are socially approved) :-)

Josy...aka Josephine Howard

Heavy snow here.. just started my car(or tried to).. no luck. May miss church as my alternate ride options wont be there today. Superbowl party later.. but I wont be needing to drive for that

what you doing today? super bowl interest in your household?. Cleveland is supposed to be anti Pittsburgh ..big rivalry..(that we always lose)... but I am pretty well neutral in the outing.

Saw Glory Road (for second time) last night. Love the story.. 1966 March Madness... El Paso vs Kentucky. A real winner if you follow basketball & even if you don't there is a lot to like about this movie & the "cinderella" effect. Kentucky fans might not like it however

[DollyCali]

Great offering today.. love the sensual part of worship consideration & recall a few years back having "smell" really brought forth in a seminar for I guess the first time. Of course the words of incense, sweet smell were there but never in perspective.

I think one relates to worship in the way they have their primary senses ordered.

Better get going her & give the car another try.. but it is really coming down heavily snow wise here (you getting it)..and roads are very slick.. sometimes it is better to stay put (hard for me)

Have a good day Rus. Might see you later here

[MEG33]

I am interested in the pregame and will check in on the game from time to time..I hope they do the Star Spangled Banner as well as last year's. I don't care who wins!

Your puppy is so beautiful..They are a LOT of trouble to train, though! It's been a long time since I had a puppy.
She was a boxer and a wonderful dog.

[luvie]

Good morning, Mayor. Have a blessed Sunday..sing out in church.

Thanks for the beautiful lesson from God's Word.

[lonestar]

I have pansies. I love pansies.

Weinie

[MEG33]

I am glad, Weinie. I love them, too.!

[luvie]

[click on picture]
~~~~~~~~~
"Heaven Opened Up Its Doors"
by Jeff Russell
aka Texas Songwriter

[LadyX]

"Wolfie has a way of doin' that to his womenfolk. LOL"

Uh huh - LadyX was absent for two days, and Woofie Toofums
was as usual on the prowl, charmin' the ladies...:)

While on a secret recon mission,
I happened to see him stalkin' our Luvbo!!

(whatever Wolfie wants, Wolfie gets..:)

[run, Luvvy, run!!]

[The Mayor]

Over here too.. : )

[Diver Dave]

dutchess = LET IT SNOW!!!

LUV W = Holy cow! I guess this isn't a good time to tell you that I had to use my air conditioner in the car on the way home from work, is it? :/

Also not a good time to mention that I was out mowing the grass yesterday.

Not warm enough to put the top down on the Mustang though. :)

[LadyX]

"I had to use my air conditioner in the car"

So did I here in South Carolina, Luvvy, when I went to the store. Although it was cold and windy last night and this morning, the cold fronts sail on past us and we rapidly return to pleasant weather.
Spring is definitely fraying winter around the edges! Love the pansies photograph, Meggsie, having had them every winter for many years in North Carolina and here.

To mark the calendar turning to 2000 and a New Century, I made as Christmas gifts for my daughter, two daughters-in-law and two granddaughters 5 x 8 framed displays of pansies I had pressed in my Concordance between sheets of waxed paper...on the bottom right, put a verse from Isaiah.
Each one was different, of course, with little sprigs of delicate ferns, etc., and I signed them on the back, plus the Year 2000 to identify the event.

I have a large square pecan coffee table with 4 pecan-framed glass sections forming the top. Each has two pieces of glass, and on the lower left one, I inserted scattered pressed pansies between them...happy little unexpected touch...

[MEG33]

That sounds like a such a lovely keepsake,LadyX. I love pansies.

[LadyX]

Your photographs of your view of the snow from your house are beautiful, dutchess.

Perhaps the most enjoyable fall I experienced was in Fairbanks, when we lived in woods near the airport west of town. Most of the time the snow there is dry, and not suitable for making a snowman or a good snowball fight.

In March of 1963, though, a wet one fell on a day when Bernie and the boys, then 7 and 8, were home, and we dashed out to take advantage of it.
In Alaska, a very common sight near dwellings is a built-on-stilts cache - mini-storage-house - where the owners can keep their meat (any kind, and from moose, caribou) so bears and other predators cannot get to it.
(They easily can smash and rip into a cabin/house to get at food.)

We had one on the other side of the driveway, with a ladder going up.
With the snow on the ground already about 7 or 8 feet deep, and this new soft fall on top, the boys clambered up the ladder to the roof of the cache and jumped down into it, going around and around.

Meanwhile, Bernie near it crafted a snowman that was at least ten feet tall!
I have a photo of it somewhere among my pack rat treasures, Dolly..:)).

Here is a photograph of a typical Alaska cache --
ours was a very simple one, and we did not actually use it: