Sunday, December 02, 2007
Baa-baa humbug!
Probably going to regret this -- I almost always do -- but I'm skippin' church today to get some work done. (It's 20-25 minutes away. Counting getting ready, it's three hours total I just don't think I can spare this morning.)1. Work-work: Yesterday, the book review took more time than I'd budgeted for it. So I never got to my work-work. So, I'm behind on Friday's work, and, since I'm off most of this week I need to work ahead -- plus I plan (but am now not sure that I will be able) to go to a Christimassy party in Texas next weekend.
2. I forgot that on Thanksgiving Day the gooseneck under the kitchen sink stated coming apart, and that I ER-rigged it with duct tape, until it started leaking again yesterday. Got to fix that for real today.
3. The blustery, blowy wind knocked some loose pickets out of the back fence, and dang near blew down a whole section. I ER-rigged it at dusk yesterday with some balin' wire, but I need to get that more secure today, too, in an effort to stop Riker & Bailey's Excellent Adventure before it gets started.
Hey, I even scotched plans to drive to Stillwater this afternoon to see OSU-OU wrestling with Bird and YB. :-(
If you went to church today, share a verse or a congregational prayer or a hymn in the comments! If you didn't go to church, a little dab of any kind of goodness and graceness will do me. :-)
--ER
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Man. I have totally lost the ability to estimate how much it takes me to do work! I started at 10 a.m., thinking I'd be done at noon. I just finished -- and it's dang near 4 p.m.!
Now, to the Ace for pipe-fixing materials. Grrr.
The fence, like the spare tire in the shoot-your-eye-out movie, is a fence now only in the academic sense. But it's holding its own.
Now, to the Ace for pipe-fixing materials. Grrr.
The fence, like the spare tire in the shoot-your-eye-out movie, is a fence now only in the academic sense. But it's holding its own.
ER,
The OT reading today was Isaiah 2:1-5. The sermon was "God's Holy Mountain."
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1 This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2 In the last days
the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established
as chief among the mountains;
it will be raised above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.
3 Many peoples will come and say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths."
The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.
5 Come, O house of Jacob,
let us walk in the light of the LORD.
The OT reading today was Isaiah 2:1-5. The sermon was "God's Holy Mountain."
----
1 This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2 In the last days
the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established
as chief among the mountains;
it will be raised above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.
3 Many peoples will come and say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths."
The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.
5 Come, O house of Jacob,
let us walk in the light of the LORD.
# posted by 
: 4:30 PM
: 4:30 PM
Many thanks, GP.
Imagine. Disputes for many peoples -- settled.
Reckon why we human critters don't get along with one another, or even get along within ourselves, is because we struggle to live, which is the same thing as struggling not to die, from our first breath?
I think so. Much of "sin," I think, boils right down to that.
Imagine. Disputes for many peoples -- settled.
Reckon why we human critters don't get along with one another, or even get along within ourselves, is because we struggle to live, which is the same thing as struggling not to die, from our first breath?
I think so. Much of "sin," I think, boils right down to that.
So, like, except for once when he scurried in there, Ice-T has never been in the garage. It was dark when he was in there, though.
The door is on the front wall between the entry and the living room. Whenever I go in the garage, he looks as if I'm going away forever. Whenever I come back in the house, he looks like he's seen the Lord hisself.
Since I am Ice-T's Lord and Savior, I wonder if it's like when human critters have close encounters with the divine? I wonder if in his little kitty mind, when I'm gone, he doubts whether I was ever here? I wonder if when he sees me again, he wonders if I ever really left?
The door is on the front wall between the entry and the living room. Whenever I go in the garage, he looks as if I'm going away forever. Whenever I come back in the house, he looks like he's seen the Lord hisself.
Since I am Ice-T's Lord and Savior, I wonder if it's like when human critters have close encounters with the divine? I wonder if in his little kitty mind, when I'm gone, he doubts whether I was ever here? I wonder if when he sees me again, he wonders if I ever really left?
You simply have not yet learned the truth have you. You are not Ice-T's Lord and Savior. He is the god, and you are the "Staff".
Ha!
Then that means when he sees me walk out, the look on his face is one of superiority in the face of perceived insolence not fear; and the look on his face when I come back shows he is humoring me, not worshiping me?
Then that means when he sees me walk out, the look on his face is one of superiority in the face of perceived insolence not fear; and the look on his face when I come back shows he is humoring me, not worshiping me?
Okay, here's a thought picked up at church today.
When God is in conversation about us, He doesn't say, "Yeah, ER--he was late for church three times last year."
Nope, He'd say something like, "Yeah, ER--he always stands up for the underdog."
Point: God always sees our good side. :)
(That probably didn't come out the way it did at church, but hopefully you get the picture.)
When God is in conversation about us, He doesn't say, "Yeah, ER--he was late for church three times last year."
Nope, He'd say something like, "Yeah, ER--he always stands up for the underdog."
Point: God always sees our good side. :)
(That probably didn't come out the way it did at church, but hopefully you get the picture.)
# posted by : 9:27 PM
: 9:27 PM
Heehee, I skipped church yesterday, too, but I claim exhaustion. Does it count that I spent a whole week at seminary working on my Galatians paper (which still is not finished)?
*waves from across the room*
*waves from across the room*
LOL! You definitely get a pass! :-) ... Hey, I started blogging my last semester of my M.A., in a class on the Reformation that like to did me in. It's great stress relief. Glad to see ya jump in!
Didn't go to church either - for a region that is "temperate" and rarely gets snow - we're snowed in and the power's out everywhere except on the farm where, thanks to the cows, we have a generator.
It's what I call visiting with Pastor Pillow
It's what I call visiting with Pastor Pillow
# posted by : 1:06 PM
: 1:06 PM
ER said: "Then that means when he sees me walk out, the look on his face is one of superiority in the face of perceived insolence not fear"
Yes kinda, but more like, you are damned you insolent heritic for leaving my prescence without my permission.
"and the look on his face when I come back shows he is humoring me, not worshiping me?"
More like, If you think you can slink back in here and be forgiven without suffering my wrath you are sadly mistaken. Retribution shall be taken.
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Yes kinda, but more like, you are damned you insolent heritic for leaving my prescence without my permission.
"and the look on his face when I come back shows he is humoring me, not worshiping me?"
More like, If you think you can slink back in here and be forgiven without suffering my wrath you are sadly mistaken. Retribution shall be taken.
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