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Thread: Praise and Thanksgiving 2014
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Raptor Eye
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That's great news Churchgeek, and it gives you a new horizon. Britain in January can be a bit bleak weather-wise, but I hope and pray that you will receive a warm welcome all around.
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Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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daisymay
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Today it was beautiful blue sky and I walked around all the rivers and trees and also took bread to feed the birds there - there were many big black ones who had plenty bread to eat. Thank you Lord for such a lovely day and beautiful !
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Piglet
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I'm feeling thankful that my work contract (and those of my colleagues) has been extended again - I love my job, and wish it could be permanent, but it's dependent on research grants, so I just have to pray that they'll keep coming.
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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churchgeek
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Originally posted by Raptor Eye:
Britain in January can be a bit bleak weather-wise
No worries - I live in Detroit! From what I hear, it should be similar weather to what I'm used to - maybe a tiny bit warmer, in fact, depending on if our temperatures are normal at the time.
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My article on the Virgin of Vladimir
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rolyn
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I am thankful that the pre-Christmas workload has been considerably less this year, and that some help has been supplied.
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Change is the only certainty of existence
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Welease Woderwick
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Thanks that the paper I went to collect in the state capital was ready and thanks for the lovely lady in The Secretariat who coped with my fussing and delivered it.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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ChastMastr
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Despite, well, lots of stuff (see prayer thread), I must say--as, interestingly, a loved one who is practically an atheist pointed out today--that the way the timing has worked for our crises has, thank God, been as good as it possibly could be. Expensive car problems, again, yes--but on the day the paycheck has been deposited and the friend is there to help out. And on the last day of finals, but when I can get a ride from a fellow educator to make it to class, and no school for a month now. And so on. Sometimes I feel like God is letting us go through these things in just the time that allows us to see bits of light shining around the corner, rather than having all of our needs met immediately and visibly. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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My essays on comics continuity: http://chastmastr.tumblr.com/tagged/continuity
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ChastMastr
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Oh, and awesome news from my Facebook info: Ollie (friend's nephew, an infant) is done with chemotherapy and everyone seems pleased (I know little of how this works), and Marmalade the cat's own cancer is in remission. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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My essays on comics continuity: http://chastmastr.tumblr.com/tagged/continuity
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tessaB
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Thank You Lord for getting me through 10 days of real sickness (8nights in hospital). Who would have thought pancreatitis could be such a bugger?
Thank You also for the wonderful hospital chaplains who supported me so well and also listened when I said that the lady next to me, although an atheist, needed someone to pray for her. She ended up really looking forward to her visit from the 'God person'.
Thank You for hospital staff and particularly Lord, Thank You for modern medicine!
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eating chocolate to the glory of God
Holiday cottage near Rye
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Thank you all for your prayers for me and my friends. We made it to the funeral safely and in time, and we made it back. Also they were very well-behaved, and survived 5 hours or so of my driving without so much as a sharp intake of breath!
J's cremation service went well, as these things go, and B was so glad to see us, and so appreciative, that it made it all worthwhile.
![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
Thank you Lord!
Mrs. S, much relieved
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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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Piglet
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I'm posting this in thanksgiving that D's brother-in-law, who's been battling cancer, is now officially in remission.
I think I'll keep mentioning him in my prayers though.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Piglet
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I'm back again - I seem to have lots to be thankful for at the moment. This time it's that a friend who had been unemployed and broke for about 10 years, has found a job that suits him, sorted out his finances and is feeling much happier.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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JoannaP
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I am very grateful for our church congregation and all the support and encouragement they give MrP and myself.
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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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Kelly Alves
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My sis married her boyfriend of almost 20 years today.
Mazeltov, Alvissimo!
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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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Welease Woderwick
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During Midnight Mass I was thinking how immensely grateful I am to all the people here who have made it so easy for this strange, pale-coloured foreigner to fit in so well in this wonderful community - particularly Himself, Herself, their families and also M & V and their families.
Gratitude also for the amazing communal harmony here - before Mass I was looking at the Crib that had been built in the car park and one of the local Christian lads was there with half a dozen Hindu lads from the village who had come along as well - I am not sure if they stayed for the Mass as well but it was good just to see them there.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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The5thMary
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It may seem silly to some but it's a BIG deal in our apartment: The new bathroom fan that was installed last week! The fan is wired to the light, so we had been taking showers and baths and doing our...ahem..."business" in completely darkness. Sometimes a shower in the dark can be relaxing but not when you slip in the tub or bang your leg on the faucet. We have been without the fan since last August.
Thank you, God, that we were finally able to get the money to get the old rusted, dusty, dirty fan replaced!
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God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Thanks and praise to God that we spent a peaceful week celebrating Christmas with effectively all my relatives (Mr. S has none that are specific to him). We followed my rule for Christmas (Keep changing the personnel!) and it worked well; now everyone is safely at home again and I think we all had a good time
The Grateful Mrs. S
Oh, and three of the four kids/kids-in-law came to church willingly at various times
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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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daisymay
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I had a lovely time last week at Exeter, organized by "Saga" where they had a hotel place to live in and give us lovely food and fun to play and win and have some people from their local church who sang to us for ages.
And we also visited by a big bus to go a long way to visit and walk there and visit a church that was ancient and also somewhere there to have food at lunchtime.
And also at Christmas I went to a church that took about a while to walk to it. It was lovely in that church both at night and the next morning.
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Sarasa
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We had a lovely time seeing all the relatives including quite far flung ones. Christmas day when my husband and all his siblings were together for the first time in ages was special, then today I met up with a neice I haven't seen for about eight years. So praise and thanksgiving for families.
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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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Piglet
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I'm thankful that:
(a) the carol service went really well; and
(b) I shan't have to sing Silent Night again for another year. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Huia
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My phone has been ringing once, then dumping the call. This started at the beginning of the school holidays, so I thought it was kids playing games.
Having a pone that rings and then cuts out is really stressful, especially if you have no way of knowing who is trying to get hold of you.
It has now been fixed by Chorus. YaY
Huia
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Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Huia:
... It has now been fixed by Chorus. YaY
I think the correct response to that is "Hallelujah" ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Cara
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I give thanks that the thing spotted in my breast during a mammogram turned out, as was immediately obvious at the moment of the biopsy, to be just a collection of cysts. Not cancer.
My own relief made my heart go out to the people who get the opposite news….
Also give thanks for a wonderful if chaotic Christmas with the enormous family I am lucky enough to be part of.
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Welease Woderwick
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As 2014 draws to a close this thread closes, too, but there is a bright new thread ready and waiting for us to give thanks in 2015.
WW - AS Host
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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