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Post by james on Feb 2, 2016 10:17:38 GMT
Good idea Rita, it should still be in the newspapers at the local library, although come to think of it I suspect it will now be computerized so may be you can do it all from home.
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Post by Helen on Feb 2, 2016 18:15:31 GMT
Just heard from Pat. She says that she has SHINGLES now!!! Bless her heart. She also said " Thank Mike for his email." So I am.
Lets us all "take time" to pray for her..shingles is very nasty, painful, and life disruptive. Not by any way a " gift from God" We know where it comes from.
Poor Patsy had it once too...lasted a long time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2016 21:23:36 GMT
Just heard from Pat. She says that she has SHINGLES now!!! Bless her heart. She also said " Thank Mike for his email." So I am.
Lets us all "take time" to pray for her..shingles is very nasty, painful, and life disruptive. Not by any way a " gift from God" We know where it comes from.
Poor Patsy had it once too...lasted a long time. oh poor Pat-I remember my mum having it -she was really poorly. Do you know where Pat has it, my mum's was by her mouth, and it started to affect the side of her face. just off to bed as I am shattered, will be thinking of her, and praying xxx Rita
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Post by Dave on Feb 2, 2016 21:37:17 GMT
Hey, Pat I have no idea if you will read this, but for what's it worth, May that same Spirit that RAISED Jesus from the dead heal your body now. Rita, good luck on looking for that on computer, I wanted some news paper stuff from the '60s and was told, they never went back that far.
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Post by james on Feb 11, 2016 19:52:54 GMT
Just thought I would at least say I was here today. I have read through the post and some like Dave are very funny and others like twinc are deep deep and somewhat obscure. I am very tired today and look forward to the return of Vessy and twinkle for that will alleviate the to and fro to hospital. We still wait for news.
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Post by Dave on Feb 11, 2016 20:49:53 GMT
Good to hear from you Bro, I was just eating an orange as I read your post and thought: the parable of the orange!!!!!! No, just joking. I know how wearying hospitals are, the times Helen's been at them, plus they're full of sick people and I feel like the paste and flour man, not the faith and power man. You'll be in ours prayers especially today, Love to all.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 12:26:27 GMT
In our Garden at least one pair of Blackbirds have already completed their nest and are sitting on their first batch of eggs. It’s a superbly built and cleverly placed nest, high in a Pyracantha, and just below the overhanging shelter of the eaves to our garage.
Impresses me more than any amount of differently interpreted Biblical words and passages.
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Post by james on Feb 21, 2016 14:45:48 GMT
Ah! God in nature, not a bad thing at all. Romans 1:20
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Post by amadeus on Feb 28, 2016 11:52:09 GMT
How quickly things have moved from high gear to an idling neutral. I have been too guilty too often to complain much, Yesterday I was searching and looked for our friend Karim. Having his E-mail address I sent him a note to let him know he was remembered. He responded a while ago wondering where our friend was and what had happened. I haven't responded yet.
Who is it we are to encourage with the good news that God brought through His Son? One another most certainly. Yet this is a quiet place, is it not? Help us dear Lord. I guess I'll check at Living Waters as likely that is where most of the people I know are hanging out.
Give God the glory!
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Post by Dave on Feb 29, 2016 6:06:37 GMT
amadeus, you talk of encouraging people, and then say I'll go to living waters so is this site 2nd class? and we don't need encouragement, but, give God the glory. Sometimes we need to be part of the solution.
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Post by ivor on Feb 29, 2016 8:21:38 GMT
The congregated people are the Church. Wanting or making people congregate where we want them using force or guilt or any other means wont work. They are His and he will guide them and they will be his people
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Post by james on Feb 29, 2016 11:02:08 GMT
Ivor- using force or guilt or any other means wont work.
Those are very extreme words to use, force guilt, I do not see anyone here doing any such thing. All I see is a request that people do not abandon the few who might like encouragement for the mere numbers experienced elsewhere. There are times when one feels a little side lined and in need of a welcome helper to remind one how good our Lord is, nothing wrong with that, we have all been there I am sure.
I know we all want to help each other to grow in Jesus and his love.
James
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Post by Dave on Mar 1, 2016 2:31:42 GMT
Ivor, I agree with James, "force or guilt or any other means" maybe you are speaking at me? I think amadeus is a big boy and is able to answer for himself. "Encouraging" was the thought, no force, no guilt, it was a question to "him". And you are right, people will congregate where they want but we are supposed to be on the same team, do I detect that we will never be bosom buddies.?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 7:03:51 GMT
I must have read Johns post in a different way, I took it to mean that he was looking for where others were that had been posting on SIT1, not really comparing Living water with this forum, just stating that it was quiet here, so he would check out living water.
I must admit I did not know this site was still open till a few days ago - checked it on my way home from a late shift - I equally did not know until then that SIT1 was not being used anymore - I am a bit behind everyone else, as usual !!!
I was concerned about Karim as well- he use to post alot, and I use to like reading what he had to say ( as well as reading what others have to say ) I kind of felt a little bit sorry for him as he use to interact with Mike quite a bit, perhaps they now have email contact with one another.
And you are right, people will congregate where they want but we are supposed to be on the same team, do I detect that we will never be bosom buddies.?
Oh come on Dave, just becasue we may go elsewhere, or say things to one another about what we post, does not mean we are not on the same team, and certainly doesn't mean any of us are ' not friends '
Actually I have an image in my head of a playground, and a memory of how girls would break friends with other girls becasue she wanted to be part of two groups == LOL adult life can be like a playground at times !!!!
Rita
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Post by ivor on Mar 2, 2016 10:08:33 GMT
Dave its the nature of religion that if things don't go as we may have expected then we blame the brethren for not doing all we require of them (attending this or doing that) or not having enough faith (un-fulfilment of whatever it is we expect the brethren should be doing).
Unfortunately I always respond to these targeted posts not on a personal level (because long ago I stopped caring what anyone thinks of me), but for those who do become guilt burdened by the demands laid upon them remember that many people read these threads not only the target
BTW my friendship is not fickle or conditional, I'm friends with some of the most degenerate repugnant people that religious people would avoid like the plague. You're gem compared to dealing with them.
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Post by james on Mar 2, 2016 14:55:32 GMT
Wonderful, then we are all on the same side singing from the same hymn sheet, which is good since we are the Church.
I did wonder Ivor if you might be fighting a battle that is not there to fight. Over my short life span I have know two people who stand out as fighters of other peoples battles. In most cases the other people they fought for never even had the problems that they, the fighters projected on to them. It was more a case of the one's doing the fighting having an identity and reason for getting out of bed in the morning by taking up the cudgels for others, in fact they spent so much time finding stray dogs to fight for they never did find their own self in the Lord.
I had noticed in the past a negative flavour to one or two post Ivor based on not what you believed but what you thought you ought to say about some possible situation that just might happen.
Why have I bothered to write all this , well I would rather have you discuss from your heart rather than from what might be a misplaced worry over others feelings.
James
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Post by Helen on Mar 2, 2016 18:21:00 GMT
On my iPad at work , so I never know how this will come out!!
Rita, I can relate somewhat to your bit of confusion... At one time I kept bleating like a sheep and asking- " Where are we all posting..." ? "Thinking" ( obviously , or foolishly) that we were all wanting to post on the same place, as we were all the " same people" on all three forums!!! The answer I always got was the same...as Ivor and others said..." Anyone is free to post where they like" I found that a bit strange...Like living in a large house with a number of people...but not all eating in the same room together....but a couple here, and a couple there ...eating in different rooms at different times!! But I seemed to be the only one who felt like this!!! So for a little while I did the same. Floating between all three. Then I came to another conclusion...it took me many years to get there. And I had said over the years how I found it strange that many people register, but don't post...some never at all! Often saying to myself " Does anyone give a fig." Back on earlier sites with Mike..I made it my rule to read every single post, and answer every post ( these were sites where Mike had made me a hidden Admin) I took it seriously and gave heart and soul to it...Mike did too.
Now that Mike has deregistered and retired from forum life...I re evaluated my own commitment to sites. Like John, and all of us, we come on, look, read...hoping to see something , some news post. Then we go look at whichever site is left to check.
Finally I have come to the same ' rest' that everyone else has in their relationship with the sites. ( Firstly I realized that Mike and myself , were able to give more of our time and effort to it because we , as it were.." Did not have a busy life" being older and retired. Others have busy lives , so the sites are obviously just a very small part of their ' bigger life'. ) So, finally I did understand and I have adjusted myself into that same mode. Before. ( Meaning many years before ) ...for years I could not come on any site and not post. Or not read every single post ...NOW, I can come on site and not feel I 'have to' read every post or make responses. I have come into rest....I am feeling free now. Haha...it has taken me YEARS to finally get here...but better late than never...LOL
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Post by james on Mar 4, 2016 9:31:53 GMT
Well I think most in the UK are probable like me waking up to snow falling. Has been for the last 2 hours at least, and the two girls are most happy about it. Though I do not think it wall stay long since it is the wet slushier type of snow. How wonderful it makes everything look, the thick blanket hides a multitude of sins.
Which takes us to the king and his marriage supper and the guest who needed only to put on the kings covering to be admitted. Whatever we are underneath to him we are white as snow, and to each other of equal purity since we all have the same clothes on. Like Peter says "He who loves God loves what is begotten of God" Love you all.
James
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Post by amadeus on Mar 7, 2016 1:35:39 GMT
amadeus, you talk of encouraging people, and then say I'll go to living waters so is this site 2nd class? and we don't need encouragement, but, give God the glory. Sometimes we need to be part of the solution. When I wrote what I wrote, I was down myself and Karim's situation didn't help. We always need to be part of the solution to the extent that we can. That certainly goes for me too.
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Post by amadeus on Mar 7, 2016 1:37:44 GMT
Ivor, I agree with James, "force or guilt or any other means" maybe you are speaking at me? I think amadeus is a big boy and is able to answer for himself. "Encouraging" was the thought, no force, no guilt, it was a question to "him". And you are right, people will congregate where they want but we are supposed to be on the same team, do I detect that we will never be bosom buddies.? If we are all heading toward the same goal, we will probably be closer than "bosom buddie", but unfortunately there are likely to be more "chuck holes" along the road.
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