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Thread: Praise and Thanksgiving 2013
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Uncle Pete
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This is the thread for the giving of thanks not just to God but to those people and organizations that have influenced our lives for good whether momentarily or over the longer term.
All that we have comes from God, may we all be faithful in giving thanks.
-- WW
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Telepath
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Praise You for all You have done in 2012, for the enlightenment shining for and through us all at the Paralympics, for the meetings of minds that strive to solve one another's problems and serve You and the beautiful world You have made.
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Take emptiness and lying speech far from me, and do not give me poverty or wealth. Give me a living sufficient for me.
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Imersge Canfield
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The OP is so helpful and points me to thanks.
I am grateful for the radio and all it brings. So thoughtful - like now on faith with Joan Bakewell and Ben Kingsley.
Also for my partner I'd be lost without him.
And all friends and all who pray in their own spoken or unspoken way.
Also for Sr. Wendy becket, for Carmel,
& the silent presence ever day & night
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'You must not attribute my yielding, to sinister appetites'
"Preach the gospel and only use jewellry if necessary." (The Midge)
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JoannaP
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Thank you God that my mother's hospital appointment went so well today. The staff were lovely - they really listened to her - and in 6 months' time or less, she should have a new hip. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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"Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow." R. H. Tawney (quoted by Isaiah Berlin)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Praise to God for a successful quadruple by-pass for Steve. I saw him on Monday and he's working hard to get home by the end of the week.
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Even more so than I was before
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Praise to God that the Telegraph printed an amazing article by a woman who gave up smoking with God's help. Her part of the bargain was that she had to tell people that was how she did it, and she has finally brought herself to the point of being able to write about it. Just amazing on so many levels! Here's the link
God knows how I finally quit smoking
Mrs. S, so glad she never took up that particular vice
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Dad's funeral was the celebration that he and we all wanted.
It was an intense day but good in many ways.
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"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."
— Woody Guthrie
http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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Imersge Canfield
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Thanks for Tree Bee's dad's funeral.
thanks for Cedd's good news.
just eucharistia ! ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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'You must not attribute my yielding, to sinister appetites'
"Preach the gospel and only use jewellry if necessary." (The Midge)
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The Kat in the Hat
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We held the first circuit wide prayer event for the merging circuits. Still on a high from the fact that so many people from the other circuits also came along. Am feely very excited about the prospect of seeing how we can all work together!!
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Less is more ...
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Library restructuring news - I have been offered my preferred post! Am very relieved!
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"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."
— Woody Guthrie
http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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Ariel
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From a thread in Heaven:
From piglet:
Today I Commend To Heaven ...
... our neighbour/friend/builder from across the road who came over while we were at Evensong and dug out a path through the four-foot snow-bank left by the idiot* in the council snow-plough.
* who has duly been Consigned To Hell. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
From comet:
TICTHeaven my pack of friends who are willing to drop everything this spring, go to the town I'll be moving to, and build the addition onto my mother's house for me and the boys. They are not only highly respected (licensed, bonded, insured) contractors but also true blue friends. I even have them arguing amongst themselves on who gets to do which parts of the finish work. I love them all so much.
Ariel
Heaven Host
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Jenn.
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results from some tests arrived yesterday, giving me the all clear. No further checks for 3 years. A failed anesthetic during the first treatment 6 months ago left me terrified of further treatment, so I'm relieved and relaxed for the first time in a long time! Thank You God for the end of this anxiety.
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Anna B
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I give thanks for recovering from the flu that I had contracted in the hospital! Also, the symptoms that brought me there in the first place have abated. I am seeing the doctor tomorrow and am feeling cheerful and able to bear whatever is going on. Thanks be to God!
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Nicolemr
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Something I was feeling quite guilty about having broken, even though it wasn't really my fault, turns out to not be broken after all. So relieved. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Meg the Red
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Since Neandergirl hasn't stopped by yet, may I be allowed to substitute?
Thanks be to God, and Yay for all the Yay!!!
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Chocoholic Canuckistani Cyclopath
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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22 January 1989 was a Sunday and the day I went to my first AA meeting - and I haven't touched alcohol since - 24 years Thanks be to God!
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Huia
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Wodders ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) That is really impressive.
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Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
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Dormouse
Glis glis – Ship's rodent
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Well done WW.
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What are you doing for Lent?
40 days, 40 reflections, 40 acts of generosity. Join the #40acts challenge for #Lent and let's start a movement. www.40acts.org.uk
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JoannaP
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Thanks be to God for my mother's neighbours who will take parcels to the Post Office for her when pavements are icy or drive to the estate agents for the key when she locks herself out.
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"Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow." R. H. Tawney (quoted by Isaiah Berlin)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
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Jack the Lass
Ship's airhead
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Fantastic Wodders - that's worthy of praise indeed ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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"My body is a temple - it's big and doesn't move." (Jo Brand)
wiblog blipfoto blog
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Thanks folks but my gratitude is entirely God-wards.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Thanks folks but my gratitude is entirely God-wards.
God wouldn't have done it if you hadn't been willing. So it is good and right for you to focus on the One who gave you the strength and we are right to be the channels through which God says, "Well done, my son."
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Miss you, Erin.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I am grateful and honored to have celebrated my parents' 60th anniversary yesterday! While so many of my peers have lost one or both parents, I feel very blessed to still have both of mine!
Congratulations, WW!
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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QLib
Bad Example
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As part of the follow-up to my mum's death, I've discovered that my Dad's cousin in Helsinki is still going strong. I've been worried about her for a while and feared the worst when there was no reply yesterday, but she rang me back at 10 o'clock last night - must have been midnight in Finland (?) She had been out all evening at a dance. Now she's reached the grand old age of 93, her legs are too wobbly to dance any more, she says, but she can shout encouragment from the sidelines!
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
As part of the follow-up to my mum's death, I've discovered that my Dad's cousin in Helsinki is still going strong. I've been worried about her for a while and feared the worst when there was no reply yesterday, but she rang me back at 10 o'clock last night - must have been midnight in Finland (?) She had been out all evening at a dance. Now she's reached the grand old age of 93, her legs are too wobbly to dance any more, she says, but she can shout encouragement from the sidelines!
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Mrs S, hoping she can be that good at 93!
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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Nicolemr
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Spent today at the wedding of one of my cousins. He was widowed some years ago (long time shippies may remember me asking for prayers for his wife in her final sickness) and this was a joyous time of new love overcoming old grief. Plus I got to see a bunch of my family, which was a wonderful thing.
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Gill H
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Giving thanks for small but encouraging signs of improvement in Hugal's mum's health after her stroke.
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*sigh* We can’t all be Alan Cresswell.
- Lyda Rose
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JoannaP
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The council have decided that I paid too much Council Tax on the flat i moved out of 15 years ago and want to give me nearly £100
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"Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow." R. H. Tawney (quoted by Isaiah Berlin)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
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Bostonman
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I'm graduating university in May and just got a job offer from a church-based community organizing/social justice program. Something wonderful to do for a year. Thanks to the diocese for offering it, to the wonderful people who run it, and to God for guiding me to them!
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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OK, I may have mentioned sometime back that my graduation was delayed due to a poor math class placement. Since I have to delay a couple semesters anyway, I have been convinced by my faculty adviser to take a Spanish minor. So I can walk out of university with more that a basic Liberal Studies diploma.
Just updated my mom about the situation and she was... her usual encouraging self (read sarcasm here.) I went to the computer to work on stuff, downcast, and found a Scrabble request from a friend waiting for me. For some reason she'd passed her hand, and I was to open the game.
The only word I could make with the tiles I had was "GATOR."
They can't take that away from me.
[ 01. February 2013, 05:10: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Gill H
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Heh. Nice wink from the Blessed Gator there. And good on you for doing the hard work.
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*sigh* We can’t all be Alan Cresswell.
- Lyda Rose
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Dormouse
Glis glis – Ship's rodent
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Work. I have more work. And an interview on Monday for more work - which is a relief as Mr D's contract has finished rather sooner than expected.
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What are you doing for Lent?
40 days, 40 reflections, 40 acts of generosity. Join the #40acts challenge for #Lent and let's start a movement. www.40acts.org.uk
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Sioni Sais
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Yay!
I may have mentioned that our (OK, Mrs Sioni's) car died late last year.
Having restructured finances somewhat, she now has an 08 reg Ford Focus estate, and we are no worse off than before! Believe me, that's good!
eta: thanks to our daughter N, for very welcome taxi services in the interim. You're a star!
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
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Sarasa
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My son has a job after loads of applications and quite a few interviews!
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'I guess things didn't go so well tonight, but I'm trying. Lord, I'm trying.' Charlie (Harvey Keitel) in Mean Streets.
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rolyn
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I would like to thank God for the partner He gave me 11 years ago , and for the courage to ask her . My goodness, that bit wasn't easy.
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Change is the only certainty of existence
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comet
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my dear friend has just announced she is pregnant. they've been trying for years. I'm so excited!
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Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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basso
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I've just returned from a party for my former choir director.
She's leaving the parish after many years to become vicar of a parish up the road. (Seminary and ordination came after she took over the choir.)
It was good to see everyone again. Good to see J. moving forward.
And it was good and and I offer thanksgiving that the black dog (q.v.) is chained and muzzled, and allowed me to show up and to enjoy myself this afternoon.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Amen.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Sioni Sais
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For a whole lot of reasons (I could list them, but you'd be bored) God is Good; let us praise Him and thank Him.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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That Mr. S does NOT have incipient glaucoma (he had a hospital appointment yesterday, in response to high eye-pressure readings at the optician's). Thank you God!
The Grateful Mrs. S
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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Hearty Thanks-be-to God for all the friends and medical geniuses who have prayed for/dealt with my wonky heart.
A-fib and heart failure (which doesnt really mean death is near but is very serious if not addressed) has landed me in the hospital twice. I had my 2nd electro-cardio-version in January, in which the heart is stilled, via electric shock, and re-started, hoping for a steady beat pattern.
This time it worked beautifully. That, with a combo of heart meds have me in very good shape. I'm so grateful to my cardio team, and God working through hands and intellects of my care-givers.
I can now carry something up a flight of stairs without having to stop 2 or 3 times to gasp for breath, and deal with overwhelming fatigue.
Thanks to Shippies who knew of my situation and pray mightily for me, to hope this "fix" continues.
And thanks Saints in heaven for forwarding my prayers to the Lord . <smile> Pearlie
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Sir Kevin
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I give thanks and praise to God for finding me a way to get a new Ford car to replace the old one that was totalled at the end of January. It took a lot of doing to raise the money, but I managed and now drive a top-of-the-range Focus Titanium, black exterior with black leather, sunroof, turbo and all the options; this is likely the last car I shall need before I retire...
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Otter
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Co-worker H had her baby by planned C-section on Monday. Last we heard they're both fine and H was impatient to go home (not sure if she was released yesterday or escapes today).
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Graven Image
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Truly thanks for all the help I have received this year with things around the house that I am no longer able to do with ease and hubby can no longer do at all. My kind neighbor takes our big trash can out to the curb each week. He started doing it for us unasked and says it is nothing, but it is such a big relief not to have to pull the heavy can up hill. My son who helps me with the heavy work in the yard, and another neighbor who fixed my sink, when he dropped by and found me down on the floor with my head under the sink. I had no problem getting down there it was the getting back up that was the problem. LOL
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Holy shit.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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malik3000
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I give thanks for wonderful friends/family (genetic and non-genetic) who accept me for (or despite?) what i am (which can't always be easy) and have helped me in ways that, without their help, i would be in a lot worse shape
this including my 4-footed buddy, Pulsar, who helps make a house a home
I give thanks for a wonderful church family -- a place where, it seems, God led me when i needed to find a community like this
I give thanks for continued good health a year and a third after a diagnosis of metastatic melanoma -- i give thanks that this diagnosis came at a time when medical developments indicate the possibility of this becoming, at the least, a life-long manageable treatable chronic illness (instead of the rather poor prognosis it has been)
I give thanks for having been created by a loving God to be part of his/her creation and for being able to appreciate it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, God!
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Otherwise, things are not just black or white.
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Dormouse
Glis glis – Ship's rodent
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I shouldn't be surprised...but I am.
Yesterday, my back was so painful (after it "went" 10 days ago) that I could hardly lift one foot to put it in front of the other. I asked for prayer.
Today, it is (almost) literally as though I had no problems - there's a bit of residual discomfort in the muscles of my leg, & a little twingey stiffness, but I can bend, walk, climb stairs, twist (carefully!)I am continually marvelling and wondering "why me?" (for healing!) Thank you God!
I still have an appointment chez le medecin tomorrow, where I'll ask for strong painkillers in case of a recurrence later on in the year, but now I'm a happy healed Dormouse. Thank you for your prayers.
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What are you doing for Lent?
40 days, 40 reflections, 40 acts of generosity. Join the #40acts challenge for #Lent and let's start a movement. www.40acts.org.uk
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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quote:
Originally posted by Dormouse:
I shouldn't be surprised...but I am.
Yesterday, my back was so painful (after it "went" 10 days ago) that I could hardly lift one foot to put it in front of the other. I asked for prayer.
Today, it is (almost) literally as though I had no problems - there's a bit of residual discomfort in the muscles of my leg, & a little twingey stiffness, but I can bend, walk, climb stairs, twist (carefully!)I am continually marvelling and wondering "why me?" (for healing!) Thank you God!
I still have an appointment chez le medecin tomorrow, where I'll ask for strong painkillers in case of a recurrence later on in the year, but now I'm a happy healed Dormouse. Thank you for your prayers.
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"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."
— Woody Guthrie
http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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