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Today’s quote is from a television show: “Now calm down son, listen to daddy. It’s just a bad dream. I promise you, Senator Thurmond is not in your closet. That’s a good boy. Yes, okay you go back to bed now.”
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LYNN! What are you doing outta bed?
If you’re as sick as Kristen said yesterday, you need to get some hot lemonade, some chicken soup and get back to bed!
A little story.
On last July 9th, I had a minor surgery, In & out the same day. That was on a Monday. I went home to recuperate. By Wednesday I was tired of hanging around inside and went out to pick blackberries. That caused a relapse and set me back several day. I say that to say this.
Just because you feel better doesn’t mean you’re strong enough.
Hope you’re better, take care.
Sounds like Alex P. Keaton’s parents from Family Ties.
Seeing yesterday’s post on the people arrested in Jordan made me think of someone who used to comment on WMB under the name kinzi. I think she also had her own blog. Has anyone heard from her recently?
I haven’t heard from kinzi nor pentamom, nor some others in a long time. (Mom of 4.2 is not pentamom.)
Was that where she lived? I’ll shoot her an email if I can find it again….
Maybe cause it is Friday, or because it is raining, or because three of my kids have the flu, but I am in a snarky mood today. Read this on Larknews.com and laughed histerically. Thought I’d share.
“ELKO, Nev. — The annual mini-church conference met this week in Elko, the capital of the mini-church movement. Two hundred pastors attended sessions and discussed the theme, “Small Groups: Key to Success?” though an overwhelming number of participants polled said they had experimented with and rejected small groups.
“I don’t see much use for them,” said Dennis Mandel of Fruitland, Idaho. “I pastor a pretty solid mini-church of twelve members. We’re kind of a small group already. Between Sunday service and Wednesday prayer meeting, we’re pretty sick of each other by week’s end.’”
Message sent…
I know Kinzi was in the Middle East, and I think it was Jordan, but I’m not sure. She was sometimes circumspect about it, it seems, and with good reason, I’m sure.
Anyone check on our Radical Agnostic lately?
Actually, kinzi was in Israel, if I remember correctly.
Quote: sounds like something from The Simpsons.
Mini-church: I attend a home meeting of 8 people. It used to be 25, but several younger members started a work in the city where they live, or moved to another part of the country. I have a friend who was in a church of 7, including three children under 13. She visited England and went to a conference. When asked how big her church was, the questioner thought she meant 7,000, since American churches are so big. He had a hard time believing her.
Thanks, MiM.
Kim, #9, I’ve been to his blog a few times (modestypress dot wordpress dot com). Posts there sound like his usual self.
Kim,
Over there on rants 6, you made an interesting comment and I just wanted to follow up on it. You would not be stereotyping people from the Pac NW would you when you say, “even the person of color from the pacific northwest” was nice?
Our church started out as a small group of people meeting for a weekly Bible study and then that turned into meeting in homes on Sunday mornings. We probably had 15-20 in the beginning and as we grew, we outgrew the homes and bought an old building, renovated it and now see between 85-100 each week. We called a Pastor while we were still meeting in homes too. Those are very special days in my memory - I enjoyed the closeness of the group.
(Adios - Thanks for the chuckle in # 6 - not really funny, but it is. If they were sick of one another after meeting twice a week, doesn’t sound too good for their future.)
Mumsee,
No. If it came across that way I apologize. She was very complimentary about the South and identified herself that way. She said in all areas of the country there are places a person of color has to be careful but she did not find the south any worse than any other place she had been.
Also how do we change our passwords from a series of numbers and letters to one we can actually remember?
Kim,
Click on your name just above where you’d type a comment where it says Logged in as Kim. This will take you to a page where you can change your password, add a web page to link, etc.
Kim,
Just pointing out how easily words can be misunderstood. My black and white daughter in law has felt most discriminated against in the south (as a black) and Panama (as a white). Her black mother felt discriminated in the southwest (CA, AZ, NM). My other dil’s hispanic dad (born and raised here in Idaho) felt it here in northern ID. My potential kenyan sil is seeing it going on in his home town with the slaughter of his tribe (Luo’s) by another tribe (kykuyu’s). We see it in other countries as with the sports thread. Soccer is notorious for it. I wonder how much is because words were misunderstood.
Chas, Don’t worry, I’m not outta bed. Still blogging from here.
Just checking in to see if anyone got the quote of the day yet…
The Simpsons?
Family Guy? South Park? Some other show I have never watched?
Okay, I will admit I just had to use Goodsearch. The quote is from Frasier. (And yes, I have watched one or two episodes. 80s and 90s sitcoms are not on my list of regular shows, although I have been getting into Everybody loves Raymond lately.)
Just the name “Ann Coulter” can cause certain WMB regulars to suffer ringing in their ears and make them want to hold their breath until they pass out. Even so, here’s the opening of her column this week:
Inasmuch as the current presidential election has come down to a choice among hemlock, self-immolation or the traditional gun in the mouth, now is the time for patriotic Americans to review what went wrong and to start planning for 2012.
Nicely put.
VS,
Sounds like our churches started much the same. Ours is now at about 4000 and constantly sneered at as a Mega-church and accused of things like being, oh dread, “seeker friendly” though we are . . . well . . . how would one put that? seeker unfriendly?:) We have lopped off from among us three other area churches and still we continue to grow. If lots of people coming and getting saved is a blessing, we are blessed indeed. If we constitute a mega-chruch and that is the scourge of the earth, I suppose we are cursed;)
VS, Adios,
I became a believer at a fellowship that started out as 3 high school guys who were new believers and wanted to learn the Bible. They found a godly man who knew the Bible well and diligently prepared to teach them every Monday night. They started inviting their friends and by the time I was invited (by a co-worker when I was near 25 years old) the group was over a hundred. They met Monday nights, Wednesday nights, Sunday morning, Sunday evenings, and often just hung out together besides. Walking into their meeting as an unbeliever, I was struck by the love, joy, and peace that seemed to fill the place and spill out the door. When one spoke, all listened intently. When they sang, all sang with all their heart. They had business cards for the group, with a bolded snippet of 1st John 1 - “Have fellowship with us”
John D,
That is wonderful if it is wonderful as it sounds. What is the name of that church. I’m not kidding when I say it sounds like a cult I used to be in.
If the church doesn’t have a name the “godly man” did not have the initials GG did he?