Since the number of comments on the previous post is already up to 25, I feel that it's time for me to make another post. Not that I'm implying that you shouldn't keep commenting on the previous post. Go right ahead and comment away.
My goal was to make a post about once every 3 to 4 days and that would make the due date either today or tomorrow. My previous post is about Abortion and Fetal Development. There's a lot more I could say and will eventually say on the subject of Abortion, yet at least one of the people who has been commenting on my previous post has expressed a desire for a less stressful topic, and to be honest with you, even I could use a break.
One thought I had was to post about something that I was a part of over the weekend but I was looking for the program so that I could copy something off of it, but couldn't find it. I've called around and found a copy, but am not likely to get my hands on it until Thursday night. That's two days off and I should post at least a little something sooner than that.
This may seem a little odd to some of you, but when I run out of things to say, sometimes I just pray, so that is what I'm going to do.
Lord Jesus,
Please be with all those who have been commenting on my blog and even with those who have been reading and not commenting and also with those who are reading this prayer. I really do pray that everything that I say will be a blessing in some way and as we discuss certain issues, we can all go away feeling like we've learned something. Draw us closer to you, Lord God, and fill us with your peace. Dry all of our tears. Help us to better communicate with each other in a way that will help us to be understood. Be with all of our marriages, family and friends and always guide our steps in the way that we should go. Fill us with Your peace, Lord God! Fill us with Your love and fill us with Your joy! Help us to learn how to be better people and to treat each other with respect and love. Thank you, Jesus, for all that you do for us in our lives. Thank you, Lord, for life itself. Help us to see the good in this world and also the good in people. Help us to always love and not judge and help us to always reach up to You for Your help in everything that we do. Thank You, Lord, so much for all that You are and all that You do. I love You so very much. Thank You so much!
Amen.
On this post, you can either comment on this prayer or if you would like, you can just answer one of several non-political questions; How was your weekend? How is your week going? or How was your day?
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I just want to thank you for posting a very lovely prayer that really came at a perfect time for me.
You're welcome and I'm so glad.
Last weekend was very nice. I played my first round of golf for the season (9 holes) and while, it being the first outing, I didn't play so well, I had a great time with a couple of friends being outside and enjoying the 70 degree day.
This week has been fairly good. We did have some rain a couple of days ago and had an unfortunate leak in our pantry area off of the kitchen by the light fixture. We've got a flat roof over that part of the house and so I had a guy come out and take a look at it. We're going to replace that flat roof. We had the whole rest of the roof done 2 years ago but the company didn't do flat roofs.
And, we found another company who can do some glass block basement windows for relatively cheap so that will be nice to have those done as well.
Oh! And I got my 7 iron reshafted so now I'm not without my 7 iron (I broke it a couple of weeks ago at the driving range). Plus, I won the Players tournament on Tiger Woods PGA 2008 for XBOX 360.
I guess your prayer probably had something to do with that huh?
Thanks for that. ;-)
Hi Soapbox,
I'm not sure why I ended this post with an invitation to small talk. I guess it was because I was getting tired of all the debate, yet the real truth is that I'm not very good at small talk. When I read the "About Me" section of your blog, stating that "There's nothing about me that's of great importance." I sort of felt like I can relate. I liked your pumper sticker quote; "We're all here cuz we're not all there." Cute!
I'm just a volunteer. I'm not contributing any money to our house hold. I lead Worship at Church, Sing at Rest Homes, Counsel Pregnant Girls, but you may have already read that in my profile. I also like the outdoors, music and hold strong convictions.
Probably the most interesting thing that we did last weekend was that we attended a Jewish Sader. I'm not sure how that's spelled. It's a Jewish Passover meal. They explained all the symbolism of the rituals that were involved. It was sort of interesting. I actually thought about doing a post on the subject, yet wasn't sure how many people would be interested.
It's a nice day today and since I don't have anything scheduled, I really should get out and do something outside soon.
I find small talk online much easier than in real life, I'm the wallflower type in person.
I think it's very nice that you volunteer, sounds like you are making a difference in people's lives, and that is a good thing.
Also, post whatever you feel like posting. If it interests you, you never know who might also be interested, or who else might be able to add to your commentary. That's what makes the blogosphere truly great!
It's just that there are a lot of days in which I don't have much to report that's interesting, so the answer to the question "How was your day?" too often is just, "Oh you know; same old, same old."
I'm also a little slow at making decisions and am often torn about what to post and it's a little risky putting myself out there like that. I never know what sort of responses I'm going to get. I was finding what was happening on your blog a little overwhelming. If that ever happens to that extend on my own blog, I'll probably be on the computer all day long trying to keep up with it.
I guess when there is too much stimulation, I just need to learn how to ignore some of it, but it's hard.
Just a touch of insomnia tonight, not that I couldn't do some laudry or something more productive but that's not much fun. I used to post at a political forum that was very active, if I had insomnia there were lots of people up and posting there at all hours. Now that place was overwhelming! But it was the start of meeting lots of great people across the country. As I told one blogger, it's like getting lots of slices from many different pies, some are small slices, others are larger, but I find all of them full of flavor!
Interesting. I've got some insomnia tonight too. I'm starting to think that caffeine effects me more than it used to. I don't know why this didn't occur to me before, but eventually I realized that there were a whole bunch of us on line at the same time and your blog post was a little like a chat room. I have to learn how to walk away when it gets like that. Silly me. I get so drawn in when I should be exercising more discipline.
Sometimes, too, I like to respond every little thing that is said and when the conversation moves along too quickly, I can't possibly do that, yet the real truth is that maybe I shouldn't any way.
Good morning,Lista! That's a most beautiful prayer. :)
Well, I've had a great week. Anytime you try to clear out woodpiles that you know have Water Moccasins under them and you don't get bit is a good week, don't you think? One of my readers said his wife stepped on a Water Moccasin on the front steps leading up to his front porch. She didn't get bit so I think her Guardian Angel must have been working overtime!
Hi Gayle,
Yes, I think that your reader's wife had a very good Guardian Angel and yours too. My mom was trying to kill a rattle snake inside a wood pile once. It was too risky to remove the wood, so she was trying to thrust a shovel into the pile and chop off the snakes head. At first, she just injured him but did not kill him and boy was he mad! Trying to kill a snake that's hissing out you is really fun. I'm glad it was my mom and not me.
Left a typically overworded post about my week, including family history, career & miscellaneous thoughts. It 'cyberspaced', luckily for both of us :) Every once in awhile, my comments seem to go awry; do you think I should
write in an editor and cut and paste, rather than just typing in the little 'leave your comment' box? While I'm enquiring, is there a way to italicize when commenting..never had any luck with that, even if copying from
word....
Oh shoot!!
I probably would have enjoyed reading that. You can wait until tomorrow and when you're past the frustration of it, try again, if you like.
Once "Cyberspace" stole a few of my comments, I started using my word processor on any thing that was more than just a few lines.
Since my computer knowledge is a little weak at times, I just recently learned that there are two ways to "Copy/Paste". One is by using "Copy/Paste" from the Edit menu. The other is called "Mark and Drag", or is it "Drag and Drop"; something like that. I'm actually starting to like the second option. To do it, you have to put two windows side by side; your comment window and your word processor window.
Once you are done typing what you want to say on your word processor, you mark it by dragging the mouse across it with the button pushed. Then you place the cursor in the comment area of the other window. Then you click the marked text in the word processor and while holding down the left mouse button, you "Drag" the text over to the comment window and wola!
If you're like me, you'll read over it a few more times and try to make it perfect and then click publish, but that last obsessive step is optional.
Italicizing and making Bold Print, if I understand it right, has something to do with HTML tags, which is another thing that I never learned how to do. I really should try and learn the basics some day. Maybe someone passing through will see our confusion, take pity on us and explain it to us. In the mean time, I'm sorry, I just don't know.
I'm so dumb that I don't even know what lololol means. I assume it's laughter, but I could be wrong.
We went to a parade earlier today. I'll tell you what. Rewrite your "overworded" comment and I'll take the time to tell you about the parade. But then again, if I feel like it later, I may tell you about the parade anyway free of charge. Whatever.
Anyway, glad you're back and I hope you had fun doing whatever you were doing. I'm just getting ready, sometime soon, to work on another post.
Thanks, Beth, I tried what you said and got the message "Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not closed."
Is it a Italics a or aItalicsa or a-Italics-a or do I use those greater than/lesser than signs and if so, which way do I point them and on what side of the a do I place them? What does "Tag is not closed mean"? Something is still missing that I don't understand.
And Wow! I didn't know that you could remove something from someone else's blog. Like, "Oophs! I shouldn't have said that." Now that is really cool. How did you do that one?
Sorry I'm so dumb.
"Tag is not closed.", "Tag is not allowed.", "Tag is broken." What haven't I tried? If I point the arrow to the right, than the computer was at least willing to print it.
a> Italics a>
a>Italicsa>
>a Italics >a
>aItalics>a
Sheesh, I cannot explain how to do it, because when I do it just does it. I will again have to delete my comment (click on the trash can at the end of my comment to delete it).
Maybe explaining it like this might work:
Below the box where you type your comment is a list of HTML tags. If you use these before what you want to bold or italics, then end whatever you want to bold or italicize with the same tags but preceeded by a backslash, then the words between those tags will be bolded or italicized.
I am terrible at explaining things, sorry.
You're doing fine, Beth. Thanks for your patience. Sometimes when we already know how to do something, we forget that a little slash can make all the difference.
In fact, another detail that is important is that the / is inside, not outside, the brackets, just preceding the letter that follows the text in question.
Italics
Bold
Awe yes, SUCCESS!!
Thanks for your help. Sorry it took so long.
Am attempting a test:
this line should be in italics
..here goes nothing
BRAVO!
:-)
Way to go, BB! Got to go, so I'll chat more later.
You guys are geniuses! Now that I understand the italic HTML code, I use it frequently on other blog posts. My next great adventure will be juxtaposing the comment box and word editor using the click and drag feature. I think..the old brain is pretty clogged...
Hi BB,
You know, I almost feel like thanking you for writing to a page that's a little less controversial than my two Abortion pages. You mentioned once that you found the subject to be a little stressful and to tell you the truth, there are times when I even have a little trouble with it too.
I'm going to keep posting on the subject because I just sort of feel that I personally need to, but my experience so far is showing me that I am indeed going to need breaks in between each time I do an Abortion post, so my next post will be on a different subject.
Since this is the "How was your weekend?", "How was your day?" page, I might as well tell you that my weekend is turning out to be a busy one. This afternoon, I went to a rest home, played my guitar and sang some songs. I spent most of the morning organizing some of my music, since I had been neglecting this and rehearsing relating to the the rest home and the worship that I will be participating in at church tomorrow.
After the rest home ministry, I did some running around with my husband and we went out to eat. My husband wants me to watch a movie with him tonight and than there's church tomorrow. I guess this doesn't sound like too much, yet it is just enough to make it difficult for me to spend as much time as I would like to on the computer. When all I have is a minute here and a minute there of computer time, I don't get much done.
Anyway, I'm glad that you're having fun with the HTLM. I'm probably going to experiment with posting links soon. It has something to do with "a href='http://etc. etc.'"The Text that You Click on"/a". Replace the " with HTML brackets. I don't know if this will work in the comment area or not, but one of these days I'm going to try it.
Thanks for dropping by, BB. I hope you are having a really good weekend.
Those people in the rest home undoubtably appreciate your dropping in. They seem like sad places full of lonely old people, at least from my experience with visiting friends and relatives in such places. My wife takes her Sunday School class to sing there
three or four times a year and the residents appreciate any attention and caring. Reminds me a little of my middle daughter, an over-achiever..plays piano at rest homes and teaches college
biology, nursing lab, immunology
microbiology and virology; and
teaches figure skating, and plays
church organ, and plays clarinet and is in the choir; and is a 'big sister' to an inner city minority girl, and writes research papers on viral biochemistry. For relaxation she goes to major league baseball games. Her validictory address at HS graduation was about 'kindness'
cuz that's the kind of kid she was. Surely takes after her mom when it comes to energy! So, I guess that is a round about way of saying keep up your good work based on kindness; it surpasses
blog upkeep and transcends a steady routine of stating and arguing some position. What's the current vernacular, oh yeah...
"You go, girl!" :)
Just one more comment and than I have to go.
The rest home that I was at today is actually sort of a nice one. The people are only mildly dependent and most of them are quite alert, unlike the one I used to go to in which the residents were so out of it that you wondered if any one of them understood a word of what we shared. The few who were alert were bored out of their mind, because there were not many activities offered there to stimulate the mind. Apparently, how much you pay for a rest home really makes a big difference.
My mom is a high energy person. Too bad I didn't inherit any of that. I never could keep up with her.
Thanks for the pep talk and for reminding me to keep my time spent in blogging in balance. I'm not sorry that I started doing it, though, because it is gives me the opportunity to express another part of me that has been a little repressed in the past.
You know, sometimes when I'm feeling just a little discouraged and I'm tired of talking about politics and religion, I feel like coming back to this page. I wonder, though, since it's been awhile since the last time it was written to, if there is anyone who still has a connection to it.
I toy around with the idea of actually starting a pin pal relationship with one of you, that wouldn't mind hearing just a few of my woes that I don't feel like putting on my blog. I seem to need that on occasion.
It's either that, or possibly I could even start a "My Space" page that has nothing to do with politics and invite some of you over there to talk about less stressful topics. I haven't decided yet which I'm going to do. If anyone is still connected to this page, please say something. I'm tired of all the politics and I could use a friend.
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