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Quote from: Nita on September 28, 2003, 02:20:51 PM
Sonifo, did you get good pictures?  My sister and I are going to go on an up-the-coast picture trip in October or November.  I'm hoping to get some storm ones, but it may be too early.   I wasn't going to tell anyone, because my pictures don't compare with yours, but I am Silent Sister in DPC.  I thought I could sneak in and no one would know about my low scores, but that really isn't fair either...is it? LOL

I did get some cool shots. I will have to post some of them.  I was real surprised at how well the turned out.  I learned one thing is that I need a graduated filter.  That would help the sky not be so bright. I will put that on my list of things to get.  

Pat, thank you for your prayers and concern about Chandraya.  She is feeling better now.  I think it was all the junk food.

My oh My what wonderful analogies of the trinity.  Can I add one?  This is the one I use with my children.  Pick up an apple.  Is the skin the apple? is the white pulp that you eat the apple?  Are the seeds the apple?  Yet without the skin, pulp and seeds the apple is not complete.  Now enjoy eating your apple.  Oh yes, I use the seeds to illustrate the Holy Spirit!

Sue I love the picture!  My you look like your mom.  I think I will try the dump cake too!

Ruthie, you look well.  

Jenny eat well.  You need to keep your strength up.  You do so much and are needed by so many.

Ria, Hope you arrived back home safely.

Pat, John didn't take the berries down again.  Thankyou for taking mother shopping.  You know the potatoes she bought?  She boilled several for supper, and they boilled over an hour, and they were still hard.  Don't know what kind they were. John even tried them and he couldn't even fork them!

I am at Doug and Megan's home today.  We have Elijah sick with a really bad cold.  Keep him in your prayers.

Well it is their 'puter, so bye for now
Blessings,
JudyB

Another analogy of the triune God.

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The roots are underground, you don't see them, Just as God is a spirit and you can't see him.
The trunk is the next thing, You see the trunk, Jesus is the trunk
The branches and leaves. Are the Holy spirit.
All three are parts of the same tree so it is still One tree.

I had a real nice time at the church BBQ. There was so much food. I didn't take my camera, I shoud have tho'. There is a man at our church who owns a company call Club Pneuma. It is inflatables, the really big ones like slides, there a ship called the Tot Tanic and other ones that were set up in the parking lot for the kids.

I had invited Sarah's parents but they didn't show up and didn't call and tell me they couldn't make it. I alway invite Gilbert, Sarah and the Kids knowing that  they will refuse to go.I would be so nice to have someone to go with one of these day. I get tired of going everywhere alone.

Not a good day but not a bad day either. The Lord's day, Praise the Lord in all things and in all circumstances. Right?

Hi Everyone:

Oh Marilyn - Gosh., If we only lived closer...I would LOVED to have gone to your church barbeque with you!!

I would hate going places alone too., I used to do it all the time before Norm accepted the Lord.  The lonliest time was New Years Eve.  We always had such a beautiful service, complete with communion, and many many years I went alone.  Now he wants to go EVERYWHERE with me!...haha., and there are times, when I want to go someplace with a girl friend, or just being by myself (I'd never let on though).

Well, we visited our daughter this weekend., and I woke up with a very sore eye.  Norm took me to Emerg., and the doctor discovered that I have a deep scratch on the retina.  Soooo, here I sit with a patch on one eye.  This is straining my other eye (typing, I mean), so after reading a few other forums, I will close for the night.

My prayers continue for Papa John., and always for Marilyn!

Love,
Judy M.  

Just going to post a short note this evening to say hi as had such a busy day I didn't have time to rest this afternoon and am feeling fine but pretty tired.  See you all tomorrow.

Sometime next month, we are putting on a steak dinner for $8.00 per person. The $8.00 will be spent on a "Fire Bible" We are trying to raise enough money to buy 500 "Fire Bibles" to send to China.  Two weeks ago there was an area wide Steak Out. A dinner held in Eureka. All the money went to Home Missions, our Teen Chllenge project was one of the recipients.

For those who are not familliar with  Teen Challenge, it is a program originally stared by David Wilkerson. It is the same program Nicky Cruz went though in New York and that Andre Crouch worked with in Los Angeles. It is part of the Assembly of God churches.

It is a Christian Based drug and alcohol rehabilitation program that has been very successful here in the states and other parts of the world. It think I heard that there is even one in Russia.

I have a good day. We went to church this morning and my son-in-law helped me in  a wheel chair because I am still pretty weak. I was so happy to be there with my church family.  I felt so close to God as we sang those wonderful songs.  I felt like doing one of Marilyn's happy dances.  Our preacher, Chris had an excellent lesson, very down to earth and relevant for all of us.  I have had a restful afternoon. We have had some company but not too much. My sister and brother-in-law came by.

I am on a liquid diet and tomorrow I will drink that gallon of poison  again to prepare for the surgery Tuesday.  Of course it isn't really poison, it just seems like it is.  I'm feeling good about this. I have known many who have gone through it and have survived fine. Why worry? It doesn't do any good.  Often when I pray I say "Lord, if it can be in harmony with thy will  fill this request."  I want to thank everyone who has been so thoughtful. I really do treasure the many friends I have here and in other places.

Mieka, there is a lot of figurative language in the Bible where it speaks of the hands of the Lord, the face of God,  God's finger etc.  I don't understand many things about God but I know this which the apostle John wrote,  "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."

Believe in the Father and in Jesus and in the Holy Spirit.  This is what  the one God is.  Love Him because he loves you.  Obey his word because this pleases him.  At the end of the day none of us will have lived perfectly but God's grace is sufficient for us.  The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for us is the way God has chosen to make us his children and to save us from our sins.

I hope you all have a good rest this evening.

--- Papa John              <)))><<

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Mieka - you say, "

QuoteMr Moak, How then are we made in His image? I did think we are made to look as God?   He is three and we are only one, He has not any arm and legs. (it is why it is a puzzle to me   )

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Please look carefully at Ruthie's answers - they are very good.  It's always good to go directly to the Bible for the best answers if we can.  In this case, Ephesians 4:24 is good.  It says, "...and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."  The likeness to God is a likeness to His righteousness and holiness, not a physical likeness.  As our seminary professor once said, it is nice to make up illustrations of the Trinity, but when all is said and done, none of the illustrations are completely accurate.  There really are no illustrations that adequately describe the Trinity - our minds are simply not capable of fully understanding the concept of the Trinity.  He is One God.  He is eternally manifest in Three distinct Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  I usually tell people that we - finally - can't understand the Trinity, but we can believe He is one God, and we can
believe He is manifest in three distinct Persons - all whether we can understand it or not.
But as far as our imagery of God in man, it is in the qualities of original holiness and righteousness that we are in His image.
God uses the term "arm" to denote strenght because we with our finite minds can relate to that, not because He actually has physical arms or legs, etc.

Oh, my!  I can't tell you all what a great time I've had reading all the replies to our dear sweet Mieka!

Papa John, I'm copying your post and keeping it always.  What a lovely post about what John said.  Thanks so much.  Please know that we'll all be in prayer for you on Tuesday.  I wish that there was a family member of yours that could come and report on your welfare.  Maybe even if they could send me a message that I could post?

Thanks again Al Moak!  Your further explanation was good as well.  Thanks again.


I'm off to work on photos for people.

Have you all been to  "Creations with a Brush" and seen the lovely paintings of Ruthie's?

Missed your post above, Judy, till now.  It was my pleasure to be able to take John's mother shopping.  But I don't think she bought potatoes.  At least I didn't carry any in!  I think she had some from before and that's what were so hard!  HAHAHA!


I'm sitting here watching "Songs of Praise" on the TV.  They are in Braeholme at the submarine base in Scotland.  Great singing and lovely scenery!

Al, I agree completely.  That's why I had said that they were completely accurate because I was using something physical (and earthly) to try and describe GOD.   Sometimes, though, I think it is better to come up with simple analogies to get people started to understanding better, than to leave them flailing in bewilderment.    They are simple though, probably oversimplified, even.

I hope everyone has a good night.  I am going to cruise through the other forums for a little while.

A lovely day.

Suzzanne and family came for dinner, she brought the dump cake it was fantastic.



Ruth (mom)

Hi Cami: I hope you are feeling better my friend. How was your Lord's day. Isn't your husband a Minister?

Hi Pat: I thought I was all alone here for a minutes ther. Thanks for the inof for Manna on SN. there have been a lot of posts there in the last 24 hours.

Marilynm

Hi Marilyn!  Yes, we have to keep that discussion lively with posts.



A major hurricane is hitting Canada down in the east coast.  

I heard about that hurricane, Prancer talked about it in M & V on SN.

How was your day Pat?

Hey ya'll
I am here asking for something some of you are already doing. I am asking ya'll for prayer over me. God is changing things in my life and i haven't really wanted it until now so i ask that ya'll be in prayer for me that i will accept these changes and better myself as a christian and as a person.
Thanks
Sarah

We're praying, Sarah.  I haven't stopped!  Glad to hear from you.










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Pat us in the North don't need to worry about the hurricane.  We may get some rain, but that is welcome with the well.  Really a mystery with the potatoes! HAHA

Sarah.  A lot of the time it is a matter of wanting to, want to.  Wanting to, want to make changes is a challenge as most of us don't like or feel we need chamge.  Yes dear we will be praying, and God will bless you as you try to follow His lead.

Marilyn I do understand your lonliness.  for two and a half years John lived near pat, and for a short time with pat.  It was very lonely up here.  Yes I do understand.  I know so does Pat.  She has felt the same emptiness that you and I do living alone.  Business helps, but.....

By the way Pat I suggested to Mother that she could call on you.  Thank you for being willing.

I must go.  John is home and we need time.
Night all
Love JudyB

I thank you all for the wonderful answers today.  

I still do not undarstand so much of this  , but I do know more today than I did.  

When I die and I am only spirit, will I too be 3 as God? If I am his image?  

Such a wonderful day here for me today, I thank everyone, I love you all SO much. I learn a lot today.

Hi to all! Marilyn, my friend, I am much better, thanks! My husband, Gary is a deacon in our church. He had to go to Peoria (IL) this past Friday; his mother was hospitalized. Since I'm taking injections in my knees, I could not go.They think she may have an ulcer; there is blood being lost somehow, so she has a battery of tests to come. She is not saved, and we are in prayer that she accept our Lord in salvation, but so far, she has not! My poor hubby spent two nights at the hospital with her, because she didn't want to be left alone; he slept on an 8 inch wide sindowsill, so he is just exhausted, but is napping now. I have been reading every post; just haven't been able to do any posting because of being on the phone so much! Our church family has also been praying for his mom, so they all called, at different times, to see how she was. (I wasn't able to go to church because of my knees; that's why they all called!) It is so wonderful to have so many caring, God-filled people with you when you are under alot of stress! Marilyn, you are still in my prayers; I'd like for you to have someone to go places with, too! Pat, your devotional was so illuminating today, and all the posts for our Mieka helped me so much! I love all of you; I thank you for being here, and I pray God is with you all through the night, and tomorrow,
Love in Him,
Cami

It's that time!  (Where's Mieka?)

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(I sure hope I haven't caused you to lose your post, Jane!!!)