A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....12-04-02

Billie and daisyscarlett

[Billie]

Your post today was especially touching....the wife, the grandson....a man who died way too young in a war nobody wants to remember. God Bless them all....the seven who lost their lives on this date in four different years.

[dutchess]

Goodafternoon finest hostesses AND lodwick! What fun looking profile pages. I have some reading to do when I get home!!! I'm sending my "boss" to a web page design course and her first assignment is to help me do something creative with my homepage!!!

We're heading out of town again tomorrow for 2 days...Mr. D. has his professional annual meeting at a lovely hotel attached to an awesome mall. So it's Christmas shopping time for me. I'm already feeling guilty about the "kids". The suitcase stays hidden until the last minute!!!

[dutchess]

What interesting profile pages you all have! Your various interests and causes are commendable. So glad to have you all in the spotlight today!

[Billie]

Dear loddy, you are such a special part of the FReeper Family - not only the Finest, but the Guild, the FReoples, and more......prayers are with you and Mrs. Loddy and your family. Isn't it a comfort to know that your father-in-law will be spending this Christmas in such a beautiful place.

[Shermy]

Thank you all very much! And Lodwick, those steaks sure look satisfying. Yum.

[Billie]

Good afternoon, Fine FReepers ALL! A cold winter day puts me in the mood for Christmas music (thanks, F'stix, Aquamarine!), hot cider or chocolate, warm sox, warm fire, and thinking about Christmas.

Aeronaut, swheats, SheLion, got your pets for the Christmas thread, thank you!

Speaking of the pets.....I had an email with attachment of "Joe", a yellow tabby sitting on a counter by the cooktop.....but I don't know WHO'S cat it is??!!! I don't recognize the email name, and the text that was included as an attachment was garbled, and my word processor cannot unscramble it.

WILL JOE'S "MOM" OR "DAD" PLEASE COME FORWARD??

[Billie]

Good afternoon, jw! Cold here - more than 'sweater weather' outside. :)

[Billie]

Hi, Misty - I like your special message to the troops and veterans on your graphic - very nice touch. Thank you for posting it here!

[Billie]

It warms my heart to see Billie's page ignored again and again and again and again.....

LOL! Keep it up and I'll have to make a whole thread out of it and dedicate it to you. :)

[Billie]

Afternoon, kay - sweet, sweet picture. :)

[Mudboy Slim]

"A cold winter day puts me in the mood for Christmas music..."

"Here Was a Man!!"
(To be spoken--Johnny Cash-like--over a lonely keyboard version of "Joy to the World")

"Here was a man...a man who was born in a small village, the son of a peasant woman. He grew up in another small village. Until He reached the age of thirty, He worked as a carpenter; then, for three years, He was a travelling minister. But He never travelled more than two hundred miles from where He was born, and where He did go, He usually walked. He never held political office, He never wrote a book, He never bought a home, He never had a family, He never went to college, and He never set foot inside a big city, yet...here was a man.

"Here was a man...though He never did one of those things that you usually associate with greatness, He had no credentials but Himself. He had nothing to do with this World, except through the Divine Purpose that brought Him to this World.

"While He was still a young man, the Tide of Popular Opinion turned against Him. Most of His FRiends ran away...one of them denied Him, one of them betrayed Him and turned Him over to his Enemies. Then, He went through the mockery of a Trial and was nailed to a Roman Cross between two thieves. And even while He was dying, His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had in this World, and that was His robe, His Purple Robe. When He was dead, He was taken down from the cross and laid in a borrowed grave, provided by a compassionate FRiend.

"More than Nineteen Centuries have come and gone, and today He's the Centerpiece of the Human Race, Our Leader, and the Column to Human Destiny. And I think I'm well within the mark when I say that All of the Armies that Ever Marched, All of the Navies that Ever Sailed, All of the Legislative Bodies that Ever Sat, and All of the Kings that Ever Reigned...All of Them Put Together have not affected the Life of Man on this Earth so Powerfully as that One Solitary Life...

"Here was a man."

My six-year-old daughter and I were driving along yesterday, listening to our new Christmas CD we had just picked up from Staples Office Supply, when this "song" came on and we both stopped chatting and listened intently. I explained--halfway through--that Mr. Cash was talking about Jesus. Then, after the song was over, JessieLee looked up at me and said, "Daddy, why didn't Jesus have a family?" Temporarily shocked by her natural incisiveness, I mumbled a silly answer about not meeting the right mommy, but the question has been on my mind ever since. So, Jessica, here's the answer Daddy meant to say, "Jesus never had a family because All of Us are His Family, All of Us are His Brothers and Sisters, All of Us are His Children!!"

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan or not...Happy Holidays to Each and Every One of You Wonderful FReepers...You have become MY extended family!!

1 posted on 12/03/2001 4:46 AM EST by Mudboy Slim

Happy Holiday FReegards...MUD

[MHGinTN]

Thank you for the posting ... there is no greater honor than to be recognized in some way by and among those whom one holds in high regard. I hold Freepers in the highest regard and of course our fearless leader, Jim. Thank you for all you do, and thank you for your efforts on behalf of the little ones. We are a force to be reckoned with, as Lazamataz is fond of saying. Freep ON!

[Billie]

LOL! Well, she has just relented to letting us call her Dansy - I can't think what pet name we'd give her if she were dansdevil....dansDe? NAH!

[Billie]

Saying hello to a couple of Finest FRiends. :)

[nicmarlo]

dansDe

lol....how about: dansDElie-an

[FreeTheHostages]

Thanks Mudboy, that was very nice.

(Jesus did have a family in the sense of a mother and father and his brother James, of course. God did not place him alone on the Earth.)

[Billie]

That had to bring tears to more than an eye or two.

[Billie]

. I'm already feeling guilty about the "kids". The suitcase stays hidden until the last minute!!!

Uh-oh! Poor Giz. : (

Shopping is always so much more fun away from home - enjoy it!

[Mixer]

So sorry I missed the thread today. I got into a car accident this morning,

I am fine,

but one things leads to another with these things and I am now just getting on to say my hellos.

Hope everyone is having a better day then me and I will check in again later or tomorrow.

[MHGinTN]

Lodwick, those look delicious, especially on a cold and blustery day like this one here in E. TN.