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Baloney Sunday Challenge – Proverbs 22:6

Saturday, Sweetie and some other members of our Adult Sunday School class helped Walt Whitman Elementary School with their annual carnival. SuperPizzaBoy and I went along because it sounded like fun. Typical deal right, Sweetie works and SPB and I play.

There were games to play
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Hot dogs and cookies
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Snow Cones
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A little sensory time in the gravel (try it, it feels great!)
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Some silliness for Dad
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Finally, exhaustion
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Nearby we spotted a blanket somebody make long ago. I love it.
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(If you look close you can see the careless photographer.)

Todays verse is:

“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”

Proverb’s 22:6 (NIV)

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Baloney Sunday Challenge – Acts 2:1-4

St Louis Basilica

“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” (NIV)

Photograph taken at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis.

Their web site is here.

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Perfect Pairing – “I’ll Fly Away”

I love weddings. The brides are so beautiful, happy, and radiant. The bride’s parents, different story. They are stressed. They are also considerably poorer.  The groom, they look happy generally, most of  the time anyway. Modern weddings take considerable time, money, and attention to detail. I try and pay attention to the little things like the altar flowers, and the pew flowers and the little details. Somebody sweated bullets and paid a fortune for them and so I try and take notice. Anyway, weddings, I love’em.

A week or so ago Sweetie, Nana, and I went to a wedding. Sweetie and Nana were friends of the brides parents. I had met them but didn’t know them really. I had never seen the bride or groom.

The wedding was beautiful. These Generation Y weddings, what can you say about the Groom and his groomsmen? Nice guys, I like the fist bumps they gave each other as they came up one by one. The bridesmaids were grinning ear to ear. They were pretty also. I mean, pretty as they could be in the dresses they had to wear. (Just kidding, the bridesmaids really were very pretty.)

This wedding had something a little different. I had never seen it before. Afterward they left for the reception in a helicopter. No lie!!! I was there to document the whole thing.

Here they come:
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Here they are at the chopper. Notice the bride has changed to her cowboy boots. I got into a discussion with a lady next to me who claimed that the bride wore the boots during the ceremony. I respectfully told her that nope, the bride wore appropriate shoes for the occasion. I saw them. She disagreed, She’s wrong.

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Off they go, we saw them later at the reception.

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Anyway, I’m going with another hymn on this perfect pairing. Instead of using an out of context Bible quote. I’m going to use an out of context hymn: “I’ll Fly Away.” Lucky for you Allison Krause is going to sing it instead of me.

Friends – Perfect Pairings

We had a treat Saturday. Daphne flew in from Colorado to attend a wedding. She made time to visit with Sweetie. Daphne was Sweetie’s maid of honor when we got married way back when and then a year or so later Sweetie was Daphne’s matron of honor when Daphne married Charles. We love Daphne. She’s great and so is Charles and their son.

Daphne and Sweetie

I was off doing something else during most of the visit but I saw her long enough to get a picture. Her choice was either I take a picture now or I post a picture from way back when. I got some great pictures of Daphne from way back when (they are all G rated, don’t worry). She would rather that they be just our little secret for now. I agree, unless I run out of material to post about. Then who knows? A blogger has to have material, right? Where do we get our material? From our friends!!!! If we can find them.

Daphne is a sweetheart and a dynamo. She is a high energy, don’t stop, get it done woman. We all three knew each other in our Single Sunday School class at the church we attended in Oklahoma City. Daphne ran the whole thing, she really did, and did a great job.

See you next year Daph!

Oh yeah, this is a Perfect Pairings post. I couldn’t find anything in the Bible. Its not due to a deficiency of the Bible. It’s me. Hey, but I found a Hymn! An old one. Isn’t the internet wonderful (as the Bible scholars groan.)

Blest Be The Tie That Binds
John Fawcett, 1782.

Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

Before our Father’s throne,
We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts, and our cares.

We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.

When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.

Baloney Sunday Challenge – John 14:2

As my one or two readers know I love geocaching and especially cemetery geocaches. SuperPizzaBoy and I were in far western Oklahoma yesterday on a road trip. We looked for a cache in a little country cemetery literally out in the middle of nowhere. Actually we drove past nowhere to get there. I absolutely love cemeteries, especially old ones. They give me a sense of peace. Like, I’m going to die and the world is going to go on without me, somehow. Strange I know, but still.
We didn’t find the cache, but I didn’t care too much. I found this tombstone. If you will click on picture you can read that it marks the grave of Annie A. Hitt who died in 1917, age 43. I don’t know a thing about her, (but I do know that Hitt is still a common name in that neck of the woods.) (Listen to me, you are going to have to click on the picture to see what I’m talking about, do it, now!!!)
Above her name, just barely recognizeable, is the enscription: “In my Father’s House are Many Mansions.”
Look just above that and you can just barely make out a big multi-turreted mansion. Boy, that’s strange, what you hear mostly is “rooms” not “mansions”. I checked the King James version and sure enough it says “mansions.”
I’m not too interested in the original Greek and blah, blah, blah about true meaning of this and that. All I know is I always liked the “rooms” version, but the “mansions” almost stopped my heart. I love it also! I love both of them and lay claim to both versions! So here is is my verse:
“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”  John 14:2  (KJV)
Like I said, I don’t know a thing about Annie A. Hitt, but she almost stopped my heart 92 years after her heart stopped. I don’t know if anybody from her family remembers her, but I’ll remember her for quite a while.
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Baloney Sunday Challenge – Ezekiel 31:4-6

Tree at Mohawk

Ezekiel 31:4-6 (New International Version)

4 The waters nourished it,
deep springs made it grow tall;
their streams flowed
all around its base
and sent their channels
to all the trees of the field.

5 So it towered higher
than all the trees of the field;
its boughs increased
and its branches grew long,
spreading because of abundant waters.

6 All the birds of the air
nested in its boughs,
all the beasts of the field
gave birth under its branches;
all the great nations
lived in its shade.