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Posted:Jul 20, 2016 9:41 am
Last Updated:May 19, 2024 1:47 pm 21492 Views
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i useta go to chat here EVERY day. there were hundred of others too that were regular. now it is a ghost town.
there is usually NOBODY there except a few people speaking in spanish. i even miss some of the people that were problem people. i have been going to wireclub chat sometimes. they have a religion room, but it is not the same.
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grandma :(
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Posted:Jul 17, 2016 10:02 am
Last Updated:May 14, 2017 6:56 am 26584 Views
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I went to see my new grandson less than an hour after I got the call that he'd arrived, I was working and nearly done, and the hospital is close. unfortunately, my ex wife was also there soon after me.
I have not seen the ex since my 's wedding, nearly 3 years ago, and that was too soon for me to see her again. we were cordial enough at both events, so I have no reason to not like seeing her, other than our (far, far) past. we have been exes for 20 years this year. she is in fact remarried to another addict'/alcoholic and we do not socially connect very much at all.
still. it is very hurtful to see her. it is even hurtful if I hear about her. I would rather not have to deal with her at all. I forgive all the wrongs she did to me in my heart, and I have thought about the wrongs I've done to her (much less) and confessed them to jesus long ago, and hope I have learned from the experience. we had 3 beautiful together and I feel no ill will towards her at all.
STILL, she makes my skin crawl to deal with her at all.
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grandpa!
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Posted:Jul 15, 2016 7:04 pm
Last Updated:Jan 27, 2017 8:34 am 31940 Views
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I had my first grandson today. well, I didn't have it, my 's wife did.
he was 2 weeks early not officially a preemie, but a very little guy. 5 or so lbs and SO little. his name is spenser (ala criminal minds) and he doesn't have a middle name yet.
I am not likely to have another grandkid soon. my oldest plays for the other team, and may later adopt. and my younger vocally HATES .
thanks god!
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wednesdays
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Posted:Jul 13, 2016 11:30 am
Last Updated:Jul 14, 2016 5:33 pm 25076 Views
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i typically post here on wednesdays. i always work for my father on wednesday and am all alone in the office and have internet. but i don't have anything interesting to say today.
last wednesday, i had to put out his monthly newsletter and that takes most of the day. then i had a problem when a tenant who always comes on wednesday, even though he knows my dad isn't here, and gives me a check for his rent, even thought is is not the 1st of the month.
he had come at the end of the day, when i was just leaving and i told him i could not do it then, to come back the next day. he just kept looking at me as if he didn't hear me and he kept pushing his way into the office door. like a pushy salesman. i went to close the door on him, and he stuck his foot (in sandals) in the door and it squished him a little. he hit me in the chest to get away. it did'nt really hurt, but he kept pushing and complaining, so i shut the door on him again.
i felt bad afterwards. and i prayed for forgiveness to god that night. but i surely hope he won't come today again. 
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exodus
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Posted:Jul 6, 2016 8:51 am
Last Updated:Aug 6, 2016 4:57 pm 26748 Views
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i just finished reading genesis at my one chapter a day reading pace. it took a long time, but i am done! i am going into exodus next. it has been a LONG time since i have been to the beginning of the OT.
i re-read the first couple chapters of genesis in hebrew for practice when i was taking hebrew in seminary. it is really surprising how they have translated it to english. it seemed to be caveman speak in the original hebrew:
god make great big water and sky.
god make animals.
god make animals that fly in sky. (etc...)
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celebrate recovery
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Posted:Jun 29, 2016 1:12 pm
Last Updated:Jul 2, 2016 6:23 pm 20555 Views
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somebody showed up for the celebrate recovery I am working for at my church. it has just been me and the other men's leader for the last few months. we are bored with each other, but a new person showed up with a drinking problem. he is a younger guy and kinda nervous. there has been a lotta women with problems, but this is the first guy in quite a while.
thank you god for letting me be a help. it helps me with my problems.
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Active-ist blogs
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Posted:Jun 22, 2016 6:42 pm
Last Updated:Aug 6, 2016 6:23 pm 27526 Views
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I can still remember when I first started coming to this site. the most active blog at that time was a woman (who's name I can't remember) and she stopped coming because she was involved with someone else here. I remember thinking that I would try to be one of the most active after that.
it seemed she also believed in something that most others did not believe in, and shortly after she stopped blogging, many others gossiped about those unpopular beliefs and she was kind of shunned. I don't remember what the contention was, and never got into the fracas at all, even when she returned to stick up for her beliefs later.
but some time after that, I was one of the most active blogs, and soon became friends with a lot of people that useta have active blogs. and it was a lot of fun. there were a LOT of really great bloggers, and we were like a great big family.
unfortunately, most of those people are no longer here for one reason or another and this place is not nearly as much fun as it used to be. this is very sad 
i remembered her name.. it was neet i think. and meow was always here too...and heartfelt, and caroline and yendor and more! where did you all go?
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world religions
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Posted:Jun 15, 2016 9:42 am
Last Updated:Jun 19, 2016 7:02 pm 27128 Views
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I took a class at seminary called World Religions, it was part of the mandatory curriculum. The idea behind this class was to look at other religions of other cultures and find how God may have used them for the good of others. To maybe find God in places where you did not expect him to be. One of the requirements of the class was to visit other places of worship in other religions and write reports on them, and to report where we were able (or not able to) find God.
As a result, I visited several places I would never have gone and never have learned about otherwise. I went to a Shiekh place of worship in the far suburbs, I went to a nearby Bahai temple, to a Vietnamese Bhudist service, and finally (as a whole class) we visited an Islamic mosque service. I was able to find God in every place except the Bahai, that was the point of the class and I had to find God to make the grade. I did not find the Bahai to be very Godly, they had excerpts from every religious book on every wall, which were made of a plastic web-like dome which enclosed the temple. There were birdsongs piped in throughout the service and everything felt very fake and pre-concieved to me. I called it a Disneyland of religion in my report, and I got a “D” on that report.
Surprisingly enough, I found God the most in the Islamic service. If I had not known that I was in a mosque I may not have recognized the service as being non-Christian. It seem much like many of the other Christian churches I have attended. The sermon even was very Christian themed. If it were not for the fact that most of the ‘congregation’ were sprawled out on the floor kneelling on rugs during the service, it would not have seemed so different. Additionally, they were all male; the women and most of the young were separated by themselves.
We learned a bit about Islam before we went to the mosque. There are 5 pillars that Islam believes in and they are very much attune to the biblical principles found in Christianity. They are 1) testimony to faith, 2) Prayer, 3) Charity (giving to the needy), 4) Fasting (the month of Ramadan) and 5) Pilgrimage. Aside from the Pilgrimage, it is not very unlike what we teach in our churches. There was NO hatred or death to infidels type rhetoric in the service at all. It was a very nice service, the nicest of the other world religions I visited and I left with a warm fuzzy feeling.
I personally know many muslim people that do NOT have animosity towards Christians or any other faith. As far as I can tell, it is the extremists that are preaching such things and that it is contrary to the beliefs of Islam in general. Again, I am not pushing Islam, I am just explaining what I know about it and I think that to hate muslims is against my faith in Christ. We are more alike than not and hatred is not the answer.
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a chapter a day in the bible keeps god on my heart
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Posted:Jun 10, 2016 8:59 am
Last Updated:Jun 16, 2016 7:57 am 27560 Views
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i have been reading a chapter faithfully a day in the bible since i first posted that i have been going thru it again. i have been thru ALL of the gospels, acts, and ephesians, as well as both samuels. i am starting over in genesis now and came across something i may have not taken as serioiusly before.
in genesis 25, when abraham dies, it talks about his 1st ishmael:
This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. 16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps. 17 Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people.
His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them.
(near as i can tell, this is the gaza strip and the middle east)
ishmael sired 12 tribes, as did the bible narrated 12 tribes of isaac. islam focuses on the 12 tribes of ishmael the same as judea focuses on those of isaac. i have never known that the two faiths were so similar. the quaran begins with the torah (the same 5 books that are in the old testament) and only varies on its description of ishmael (he is held in much higher regard in the quaran).
i purposely am not taking sides here. i just think it is no wonder that the two faiths are at such odds today.
----I was wrong, there were not 12 tribes from Isaac, they were from his Jacob, once removed----
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hey desertangle ??
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Posted:May 20, 2016 5:23 pm
Last Updated:Jun 10, 2016 10:14 am 23627 Views
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angle as in a triangle has three angles?
not angel as in an angel in heaven, as in god's angels
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