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Re: merry memes
@CharlieHeis said:
This could have cross-posted in the count to 1 million thread. Only missed it by a few.
ShawnOL
Re: What did you get today?
Once in a lifetime Estate Sale. Lady walked in to the shop during pipe club. The prices she asked were incredibly low. Cue immediate skepticism. She said she had done some research on pipe values, but said she “just wanted them gone”. We pressed for information about the collection. Whose was it, relationship, how she came to possess it, etc etc. We finally found out it was her father’s collection and after talking with her, we gathered it wasn’t a good relationship and estranged for many years. Thus the unbelievable low prices. Very nice collection and several great pieces went to many club members.
Still sad about the relationship. Gave me plenty of pause to think about how I would want my children or wife to handle my collection and what I could do to help them navigate the process. Food for thought. Fortunately, I’m blessed to have incredible relationships with my grownup kids.
Still bothers me and kind of takes away from the smoking pleasure while partaking. Not guilt, rather the sense of a lost relationship between a daughter and her father, missed opportunity to repair prior to death and not having fond memories of her father enjoying his passion for smoking pipes.
Honestly, don’t know what got into me this morning.
Re: Post Every Boring Aspect Of Your Mundane Life Thread
Tell me that’s not the prostate gloves????
Re: The useless information thread
@ShawnOL said:
2020-2021 is low due to no school during covid.
Maybe so, or not. Many students were on computers rather than face to face. False securities may have led to brave ( or assumed brave) attitude',
edz
Re: What are you reading?
Reading a long wiki article about the history of fascism.since the term 'fascism" gets thrown around a lot these days.
Re: A scripture a day keeps the devil at bay.
@peter4jc said:
My grace _IS _sufficient for thee (2 Corinthians 12:9).It had pleased God to remove my youngest child under circumstances of peculiar trial and pain; and as I had just laid my little one's body in the churchyard, on return home, I felt it my duty to preach to my people on the meaning of trial.
Finding that this text was in the lesson for the following Sabbath, I chose it as my Master's message to them and myself; but on trying to prepare the notes, I found that in honesty I could not say that the words were true; and therefore I knelt down and asked God to let His grace be sufficient for me. While I was thus pleading, I opened my eyes and saw a framed illuminated text, which my mother had given me only a few days before, and which I had told my housekeeper to place upon the wall during my absence at the holiday resort where my little one was taken away from us. I did not notice the words on returning to my house; but as I looked up and wiped my eyes, the words met my gaze, "My grace is sufficient for thee."
The "is" was picked out in bright green while the "My" and the "thee" were painted in another color. In one moment, the message came straight to my soul, as a rebuke for offering such a prayer as, "Lord, let Thy grace be sufficient for me"; for the answer was almost as an audible voice, "How dare you ask that which is?"
God cannot make it any more sufficient than He has made it; get up and believe it, and you will find it true, because the Lord says it in the simplest way: "My grace is (not shall be or may be) sufficient for thee." "My," "is," and "thee" were from that moment, I hope, indelibly fixed upon my heart; and I (thank God) have been trying to live in the reality of the message from that day forward to the present time.
The lesson that came to me, and which I seek to convey to others, is, Never turn God's facts into hopes, or prayers, but simply use them as realities, and you will find them powerful as you believe them.
--Prebendary H. W. Webb PeploeHe giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,
He sendeth more strength when the labors increase;
To added affliction He addeth His mercies,
To multiplied trials His multiplied peace.When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources
Our Father's full giving is only begun.His love has no limit, His grace has no measure,
His power no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth and giveth and giveth again.
--Annie Johnson Flint
Wished I knew more Arimaric, small understanding of Hebrew, But words had such a deep meaning in some languages.
edz
Re: Post Every Boring Aspect Of Your Mundane Life Thread
@Yakster said:
Picked up two books at the thrift store today, James Patterson Countdown and Lee Childs The Affair. Kim put them both in the freezer after watching the latest King of the Hill episode about bed bugs being spread by a lending library. Apparently it's a thing.
I bring in specially trained dogs four times a year to sniff for bed bugs. I meet them at 11pm shut off all the hvac equipment and they walk around the entire library. I also have a service spray our study rooms every other month. The dogs need 30 days minimum between sprays. Bed bugs won’t stay in books very long, they will go looking for a food source. Those **** are hitchhikers, I do what we can to prevent an incident.
