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Thread: Praise and Thanksgiving - 2016
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Zoey
Broken idealist
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I am a grumpy person and spend a lot of time currently telling God how rubbish I think everything is. However, I am exceedingly grateful for M and D, both of whom can see how difficult I'm finding life at present and who are being utterly lovely despite the fact I'm probably an immense pain at times. Also, I have managed not to fuck up at work over the past couple of months and am probably over the worst in terms of risk of fucking up at work. This is very good, because my work is important to me and I would be much much grumpier (to the point of spontaneous combustion due to grumpiness and negativity overload) if work were going badly wrong as well.
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Pay no mind, I'm doing fine, I'm breathing on my own.
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Piglet
Islander
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Sometimes you just need someone with big shoulders who'll listen to you having a rant. Such people are worth their weight in diamonds.
Long may your non-up-fuck last! ![[Smile]](smile.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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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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My 15 year old granddaughter was hit by a car on the way to school this morning. She rolled up bonnet and smashed windscreen, but she is unharmed. x-rays show no breaks and there appears to be no other damage. How amazing is that! I am very thankful
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Oh wow, Loth, that's amazing -when you think how things might have turned out! Praise ascending indeed ![[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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Piglet
Islander
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What Mrs. S. said. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.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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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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How frightening Lothlorien. So glad she's OK.
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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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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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Thank you all. Son and I have apparently both been stopping ourselves from thinking about several possible outcomes. "Mental brakes" as he said.
She is just awake, it is Thursday morning down here. Very stiff and very sore as he and I expected.
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Brenda Clough
Shipmate
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My son has a new job, hurray! At last he is out of his dead-end security job position and into something which hopefully he can make a career of.
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Piglet
Islander
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Well done, Son of BC! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.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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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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My granddaughter who was hit by a car two days ago on way to school had just had a second checkup. The stiffness will go and everything else, including kidneys, is absolutely fine. On original check after accident there was a bit of doubt about damage.
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Buy a bale. Help our Aussie rural communities and farmers. Another great cause needing support The High Country Patrol.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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May the Lord be praised!
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"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Piglet
Islander
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Glad to hear it, Loth.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Nicolemr
Shipmate
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With the aid of an on-line guide I was able to fix a problem with my computer all by myself. Yay!
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duchess
Ship's Blue Blooded Lady
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Praise for my friend's wife's painful hip problem and other maladies getting better in time for them to go to the UK for a fun filled vacation. She was on morphine and in tears. I asked my church to pray for her and she got better.
Praise for my family relationships getting better.
Praise that even though I am on a plateau...my body is getting smaller, my blood pressure is dropping and I am feeling better from all the walking with the Gent. I will walk inside a mall for 6 hours today if we accomplish that (it's rather hot to go outside).
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♬♭ We're setting sail to the place on the map from which nobody has ever returned ♫♪♮
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rolyn
Shipmate
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Reading above posts and feeling thankful .
Thankful for this decent spell of weather with people seeking Bank holiday rest and recreation.
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Change is the only certainty of existence
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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for Duchess and all the others.
Thanks be to God -- my nephew, who has Aspergers, has finally found a job after graduating college two years ago and searching nonstop. It's not the job of his dreams but it's a start. My prayers are that he will succeed at it and go on to greater things. With God's help he will.
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"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Doone
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
for Duchess and all the others.
Thanks be to God -- my nephew, who has Aspergers, has finally found a job after graduating college two years ago and searching nonstop. It's not the job of his dreams but it's a start. My prayers are that he will succeed at it and go on to greater things. With God's help he will.
![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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Mad Cat
Shipmate
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Giving thanks for glimmers of healing. God is at work!
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Brenda Clough
Shipmate
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My daughter went into labor last night, and is now delivered of her first child, a boy. Our first grandchild! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Alex Cockell
Ship’s penguin
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Work are doing a restructure - for a while it looked as though I was going to have to reapply for my job - but the newest member took voluntary redundancy - so I am still safe in post.
Thanks Dad.
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Stercus Tauri
Shipmate
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Very grateful for two events that went better than both previous attempts: a colonoscopy last Friday and a root canal yesterday. Couldn't help wondering if they might meet in the middle... but no complications this time, and the body feels great. Thanks again for God's hands guiding those of some of his most trusted people.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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I've reached the age of routine mammogram screening. I had one in 2002 and it was a wretched experience. Turns out the technology has advanced a lot in the last 14 years, and it's quicker, too! I trudged in and skipped out!
Very grateful for ongoing improvements to healthcare and our wonderful NHS!
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The Intrepid Mrs S
Shipmate
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We all made it safely to the funeral obsequies of the beloved Auntie Ruth (including Master S, who flew Toulouse-Paris-London, then caught a train to Taunton to be there).
Her little church (where Mr S and I were married 41 years ago, was crammed to the rafters; and the Dowager was there in her wheelchair.
Afterwards at the Village Hall she sat in state receiving visitors - my brother reckoned she was like a Mafia Don, or the Pope!
And when we finally took her back to the little cottage hospital where she is currently a resident, they welcomed her as if she were the Prodigal Daughter - the NHS has its faults but that place is definitely not one of them ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
Thank you everyone for your prayers
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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
Islander
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Glad to hear it went so well, Mrs. S.
edited to make sense ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
[ 22. June 2016, 13:34: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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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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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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We are great-aunt and great-uncle again. F was born yesterday, just over three months after his grandfather died. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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rolyn
Shipmate
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Mixed emotions maybe. Always good to welcome a new little one into the world.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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I had a nice to eat just soon near me !
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by rolyn:
Mixed emotions maybe. Always good to welcome a new little one into the world.
Absolutely. My delight in my great-niece and nephew is always tinged with the sadness that their grandfather (my brother-in-law, who would have been the best grandfather imaginable) never got to see them.
Congratulations anyway, and welcome to little F!
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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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The Intrepid Mrs S
Shipmate
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a) For Telepath and all she does on the Prayer thread - and for Piglet, ditto
b) for a lovely weekend celebrating the half-birthday of the youngest Intrepid (born on Boxing Day)
We managed to get most of the family together for a happier occasion than we've seen recently, and it was a joy
c) for the said Youngest Member in all his glory
Mrs. S, celebrating and counting her blessings
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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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Mad Cat
Shipmate
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I have been practising hope determinedly, and I'm getting better at it. This is proving an excellent method for keeping the dementors at bay.
God is good!
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Weird and sweary.
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nickel
Shipmate
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Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God! Turns out my dear sister does have cancer, but it is not the awful, scary, poor-prognosis kind we had feared. She has an appointment with an excellent surgeon day after tomorrow. Hard times ahead, but hope has been restored. Thanks be to God! and for the medical science and doctors He works through!
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Brenda Clough
Shipmate
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Thank God indeed. I am amazed, the strides that the doctors have made in combating cancer. It is truly a blessing.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
We are great-aunt and great-uncle again. F was born yesterday, just over three months after his grandfather died.
And again! W, named for her great-grandmother, was born this morning. She is the first girl after a run of four boys on my side of the family.
F & W's grandmother, recently widowed, will at least have her hands full as both were born by C-section, so the mums can't drive for six weeks.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
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The Intrepid Mrs S
Shipmate
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Hooray! Hooray!
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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
Islander
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Congratulations SS and Mrs. S., and welcome to little W!
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Japes
Shipmate
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After a bit of a scare with the computer this morning not letting me access my files, all is well again. (And hastily backed up!)
The First Weekend of the month is my busiest print out what with hymn lists, Evensong (I know, we could use the tiny BCPs, but the singing has improved out of all recognition since I started printing out what we needed in a size everyone could read easily!) and any additional stuff I need as organist for the month... I am deeply grateful it was nothing more drastic than a lost couple of hours work.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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reading praying
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Penny S
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The aspect of God which has a sense of humour struck at a friend of mine and cheered him up immensely.
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Nicolemr
Shipmate
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I had my broken tooth out today, and it went well and doesn't hurt too much.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Great news, Nicolemr!!
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Originally posted by Penny S:
The aspect of God which has a sense of humour struck at a friend of mine and cheered him up immensely.
I sometimes think that emergence of humans as the dominant species on the planet is a sign of the immensity of God's sense of humour!
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
The aspect of God which has a sense of humour struck at a friend of mine and cheered him up immensely.
I sometimes think that emergence of humans as the dominant species on the planet is a sign of the immensity of God's sense of humour!
The conceit that humans have that they are dominant when there about 400,000 species of beetle shows where God's priorities really lie.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Very thankful that the twins were born safely yesterday and that Herself is recovering well.
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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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Raptor Eye
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Great news WW!
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Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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Piglet
Islander
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Great news about Herself and the twins, WW!
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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I am very not to go the children as it is now go and I feel ok. I always had to get them as my sun worked. I feel better.
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