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Thread: Praise and Thanksgiving 2015
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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After 104 working days my mother the Dowager has finally received the insurance payout for the cruise she missed back in May ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Wonder how long it would have taken if I hadn't stuck my oar in? ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
Mrs. S, rejoicing
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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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rolyn
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That's fine news Mrs S.
And praise be to all other thanks givings here.
Glorious spell of extended dry weather is gratefully recieved in this normally soggy time of year.
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Sioni Sais
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Yay! Middle Son P and his partner S have been through the mill recently, what with unintentional pregnancy, loss of jobs (three between them) and becoming homeless but there is light at the end of the tunnel! They have a two-bed ground floor flat that needs a bit of work and furnishing, but they have three months to get things in shape for the baby.
![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for furnishings and help with practical stuff.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
After 104 working days my mother the Dowager has finally received the insurance payout for the cruise she missed back in May
Wonder how long it would have taken if I hadn't stuck my oar in?
Mrs. S, rejoicing
I like the idea of an "oar" being stuck in. It brings up an image of a Viking longship as a cruise liner.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Thank you Sioni ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) I shall cherish that image.
And to add to all the Yay! - Master S called from Amsterdam at lunchtime to say he'd asked his lovely girlfriend to marry him, and she said yes! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Mrs. S, choosing her outfit
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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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Congratulations Master S and LG!
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Congratulations Master S and LG!
Thank you all! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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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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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Sorry for the double post, but I had to share this An elderly lady in our church suffered a dreadful fall a few weeks ago, cracking her skull and suffering deeply worrying injuries.
Today one of her nurses stood up in church and said that this lady was now in rehab in a local hospital, doing so much better than she had any right to, and telling EVERYONE who would listen, up to and including the consultant, that she was only recovering because of all our prayers for her ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
Isn't that just wonderful?
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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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jacobsen
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Deep gratitude that my new computer A} works and B) accepted my somewhat elderly music writing programme CD.
Now I can re-access my music files
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Huia
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After a scan and a mammogram yesterday the persistent lump in my breast was confirmed as "nothing to worry about" being caused, as I suspected, by my fall down the front steps.
This is the second lump this year, the other being caused by a sandfly bite (lump wasn't the bite site so it wasn't as obvious).
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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Glad to hear it, Huia. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Nicolemr
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I have finally gotten cable and internet in my new apartment. Back online after about a month and then some.
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On pilgrimage in the endless realms of Cyberia, currently traveling by ship. Now with live journal!
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Piglet
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Good to see you back!
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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Good news, Huia!
And for me, in amongst the sadness of my mother's death, a birth - my mother's first great-grandchild, Elijah Alan, born today to my eldest nephew and his wife.
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Hell is full of the talented and Heaven is full of the energetic. St Jane Frances de Chantal
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Piglet
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Aaahh - what a shame your mum didn't get to meet him.
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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I figure their souls passed in transit.
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Hell is full of the talented and Heaven is full of the energetic. St Jane Frances de Chantal
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Erroneous Monk
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Thanks be to God, Our Lady, St Joseph and St Cajetan for prayers answered. My friend A has been offered a job.
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And I shot a man in Tesco, just to watch him die.
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Uncle Pete
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Thank goodness, my friend Cathy, who has a lump on her thyroid, has had it determined to be a cyst. The downside, of course, is that, for the rest of her life she must speak softly. If you knew Cathy...
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Twangist
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Thank you God for the safe arrival of Twanglet no.3
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Piglet
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Congratulations Twangist, and welcome Twanglet III.
[ 17. November 2015, 19:12: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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jacobsen
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Profound gratitude that when I pranged my car last week the only damage to me was a broken ankle.
And further and deeper thanks that this fracture is on the lighter side of the spectrum, so I was awarded a walking boot rather than a cast. Can't drive in it, of course, but can walk rather than hobbling. Brilliant.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Piglet
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That's very philosophical of you, Jacobsen - I'd be moaning about the broken ankle!
for speedy healing.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Jack the Lass
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Yesterday marked the 28th anniversary of me becoming a Christian. I'm not very good at it these days, but I'm grateful I'm still here hanging on!
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Raptor Eye
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We're pleased too, Jack the Lass!
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Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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Rossweisse
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Today is the date, and Monday is the day, of my first treatment for Stage 3 Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma, November 22, 2010. I had a 34% chance of being alive right now. I am here thanks to good friends, good music, and God's good grace. Thank you to all who have prayed for me. (Please keep it up, since I currently have a 1/3 chance of being alive in two years from the Stage 4 cancer it turned into last year. No surrender!)
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jacobsen
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Rossweisse
[ 23. November 2015, 06:58: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Uncle Pete
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Best of luck and prayers Rossweisse. I am still chugging along nearly 15 years from the same odds.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Rossweisse:
... No surrender!
That's the spirit, Rossweisse!
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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rolyn
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Thanks be to God for all who are holding on, hanging in there, and for just being generally thankful over the day to day stuff of life.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Thanks be to God for the truly miraculous healing of my friend A, who fell and cracked her skull, with associated nastinesses ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
By all accounts she should not be walking, talking and most of all, recognisably herself - the same woman she was before the accident...
But she is! Hallelujah and praise be.
Mrs. S, rejoicing at good news!
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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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Beenster
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This probably sounds incredibly trite but I'm more than grateful for the clear skies today. It's cold but it's not raining. november gave us 30hrs of sunlight and whilst there's no sunshine (behind a thin little cloud), it's not raining.
I just hope those in Cumbria / Lancashire who have suffered in the floods get some respite and the cold weather doesn't aggravate mattters.
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Lothlorien
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I am deeply grateful for the care my DIL has given my sister who has had well entrenched pneumonia. She went to see her and just give a hand and stayed eight days. She did a lot of tidying up from house reorganisation started by my sister before she became ill. She fed the dogs and cats and polo ponies, made tiny attractive meals to tempt a very poor appetite and doled out medication. She was an encouraging presence when my sister was missing her own daughter who was in Argentina for weeks.
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Telepath
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I am so grateful that the Telemum's blood pressure is back down.
I am also relieved and delighted that my car, which I have had for 12 years and which I feared I would have to replace, is restored to full health and I am told it will last me for several more years. I have had this one car and only this one car for the entire time I have been driving.
Also thankful that Visiting Cat has broken the habit of a lifetime and discovered the concept of affection and why it's good. Due to circumstances, he has been sleeping in the same very small room as the Telemum, where he is never more than five feet away from her. And this is what it took for him to get soft-hearted and start unequivocally purring for the first time in three years, and even running back and forth against our ankles (it's a way of initiating touch without involving hands, which he is afraid of).
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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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Huia
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Yay Telemum - there is some research that says having a companion animal can have beneficial effects on the blood pressure of their humans (except when they throw up a fur ball in your bed),
Huia
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Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
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neandergirl
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Yay for all the YAY!
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Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. Hebrews 13:5 NIV
We come from love, we return to love, and all around is love.
Lord, ease our burdens, give us peace and enable us to do your work. Tree Bee
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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For the safe (if difficult) delivery of The Intrepid Grandchild*, a boy weighing 8 lb 2.7 oz, more beautiful than any baby ever born and the health of baby and mother
*also a first great-grandchild for the Dowager
Yay!
The Delighted 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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