sheya joie

I was told, when I was young, that SNAFU stood for Situation Normal All Fouled Up. And I was very very old before it even occurred to me that maybe that was not the original phrasing. Sheltered little me.

Consider Socrates, who was condemned to death for teaching the youth of his city that their gods were not real. On a more apocryphal note, there's the story of Daniel exposing the deception of the priests of Baal in 'Bel and the Dragon.' I include this story, which may or may not have actually happened, because even if it's a made-up story, whoever wrote it in ancient times had the smarts to work out how the deception could be exposed - pulled back the curtain and let everyone see the real face of Oz, so the speak.

My opinion is that, rather than God just wanting us to be happy, He just wants us to be holy.

Just thought I'd point out that the OP is from 2004. Thread resurrection strikes again!

Have any of you ever seen a look of triumph in your 13 yo child's eyes, exulting over bloodying your nose? Or took the other kids, put them in the car, and driven off to seek a safe place because that same 13 yo chased a younger sibling out of the house with a butcher knife? Or begged and pleaded with the police to press charges against that same child at 16 for having kicked a younger sibling into a wooden bed post, only to have the police blow it off as 'kids will be kids' and 'an over-reacting mom' and NOTHING be done? I can't tell you the heartbreak and frustration I've gone through with this particular child - yes, biological child - heartbreak at the glee with which the child terrorized the other kids, and frustration at clueless, do-nothing police. I sympathize with the mom who sent the boy back to Russia. I can't say I wouldn't have been tempted to do the same. Did she do the right thing? No, of course not. But we don't know the whole story yet. Perhaps she had the same sort of story as mine, of reaching out to proper authorities for help and not getting real, effective help in dealing with an incorrigible child. None of us know yet if she tried proper channels first. So can we reserve judgment till the facts are known?

Just wondering how your child distracts you from serving the Lord. Isn't raising our children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord a (if not the) most precious way to serve the Lord?

My husband and I left the matter totally in the LORD's hands (meaning, we did not use birth control), and we had 7. I have also known couples to do the same - not use birth control - and have few to no kids. Keep in mind that Abraham and Sarah had only one child - and Abraham was the father of faith.

The metal was bronze, the same material that the altar of burnt sacrifice was made of. Much later, Hezekiah destroyed the bronze serpent because the people of Israel had been worshiping it as an idol. 2 Kings 18:4

But what if it hits something? Wouldn't it disintegrate?

I gave up on toaster ovens and switched to using a griddle a while back. We set the domed wok lid over the stuff we're cooking and it works pretty well. Foil under the food makes it easier to clean up after.

We also haven't gotten the Census form. I tried calling the help number from the Census website, but was told to wait till April 12 for the form to come before anything could be done.

Yeah, not so top secret any more. Still, love the concept. To infinity and beyond!

I forgot, but since I had my cell phone (which I use as my alarm clock) set to automatic time update, it reset itself and woke me at my usual time. The computer automatically updated itself too, so that only left me about three clocks to change manually. I agree with neb - all DST or all normal time (preferably normal time), but the switching throws my internal clock off twice a year.

Anita, perhaps you could set up a small regular fan to blow across the exhaust port of your iBook to cool it down?

It doesn't make sense.... when it is summer in the northern hemisphere, it is winter in the southern hemisphere, does that mean that the earth only loses that little bit on a half rotation? Yeah, well, the author was writing from the Northern Hemisphere's perspective. You can write a comment about it, though in the article. I was assuming this has something to do with the earth being closest in its orbit to the sun during January?

How about asking, 'LORD, what do You want me to pray?'

Just from my own experience, I find I am more selfish when I'm grumpy.

What good news, neb! Yay, go Spring!

Another couple going through this same thing are Walter Koenig (Chekov of the original Star Trek series) and his wife Judy, whose 41 yo son Andrew disappeared last week. After several days searching, some of his friends found him dead, a suicide. Please keep them in prayer as well.

Here is a verse we used to read to my middle son when he (frequently) was anxious or scared going to bed at night: Psalm 4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. It's the final verse in that Psalm, so it's easy to find.

For myself, I've been known to eat ice cream on crispy taco shells. Other people I have known: there was one who ate everything drenched in ketchup. He was once given a carrot cake, and we were afraid to ask if it too got the ketchup treatment... Also knew someone who was fond of peanut butter & tuna salad sandwiches. And the praying mantis reminded me of the time I saw my oldest, as a toddler, chewing away on something when I hadn't given her anything to eat. When I finally was able to fish the thing out of her mouth - it was half a cockroach. eeeeewwwwwwwwww!

That page only says they don't have the lyrics.

In the Lou., Ky. metro area 2" of snow shuts the school's down. In Jan. 78 we had 22" of snow fall in 8 hours. The city was shut down for 2 weeks. 9 months later the baby boom came. I remember that one. I lived out in a neighboring county, and we didn't have school the entire month of January.

Pacific decadal oscillation?

I took a nap this past weekend. Btw, I ran across this passage about the Sabbath lately: Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. What do you think?