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"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Matthew 11: 28-30

The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing.  The word Jesus used means "a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion."  Rest is simply release from that burden.  It is not something we do; it is what comes to use when we cease to do.  His own meekness, that is the rest.

Let us examine our burden.  It is altogether an interior one.  It attacks the heart and the mind and reaches the body only from within.  First, there is the burden of pride.  The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.  Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you.  As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who delight to offer affront to your idol.  How then can you hope to have inward peace?  The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest.  Continue this fight through the years and the burden will become intolerable.  Yet the sons of earth are carrying this burden continually, challenging every word spoken against them, cringin under every criticism, smarting under each fancied slight, tossing sleepless if another is preferred before them.

Such a burden as this is not necessary to bear.  Jesus calls us to His rest, and meekness is His method.  The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.  He develops toward himself a kindly sense of humor and learns to say, "Oh, so you have been overlooked?  They have placed someone else before you?  They ahve whispered that you are pretty small stuff after all?  And now you feel hurt because the world is saying about you the very things you have been saying about yourself?  Only yesterday you were telling God that you were nothing, a mere worm of the dust.  Where is your consistency?  Come on, humble yourself and cease to care what men think."

The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority.  Rather, he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself.  He has accepted God's estimate of his own life.  He knows he is as weak and helpless as God has declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is, in the sight of God, more important than angels.  In himself, nothing; in God, everything.  That is his motto.  He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.  He rests perfectly content to allow God to place His own values.  He will be patient to wait for the day when everything will get its own price tag and real worth will come into its own.  Then the righteousness shall shine forth in the kingdom of their Father.  He is willing to wait for that day.

In the meantime, he will have attained a place of soul rest.  As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him.  The old struggle to defend himself is over.  He has found the peace which meekness brings."

by A.W. Tozer

The scene at the hydro pond tonight was so quiet and peaceful I had to share it with you.  May you feel and embrace God's peace this week.

Judy, thank you!  A very thought-provoking devotional, a beautiful photograph and a wonderful hymn to start the week.   

Ditto to what Jeanne said!  Judy, what is a hydro pond?  I know that hydro refers to water....??  Please explain.  Sure is pretty, anyway!

I am bushed this evening.  I got up at 6 this morning, all excited about starting my day with Bible reading and prayer, and hadn't even crossed the floor when the phone rang.  It was Debra, asking me to come in to work.    I did, and it was a true Murphy's Law day.  Everything that could go wrong did go wrong, starting with the fact that my car wouldn't start.  My thinking tonight is that I will be saying "no" from now on.  It just isn't worth it, and the money isn't much, anyway.

On a much brighter note, it is sprinkling here, after a day of temps well over 100*.

I sure do miss Etta Sue's posts.....and Pat's......and I see Larry didn't make it in today, either.

Love you folks!

We have a dam, I have posted pictures of it in the past.  Behind the dam the buildup of water we call the hydro pond.  It is a wonderful place to swim and it is a long way from the dam itself  The water is calm and generally warmer than the river.

Today has been a difficult day for getting anything done.  I am tired and so is Kim.  Tomorrow is another day. 

Have a great evening everyone!

Somehow, I missed several posts from yesterday.  So see Larry did post, and Marilyn, too.I think I pretty well have the stinky moth ball smedll aired out now, thank goodness!

Since I worked today, I didn't get to the hospital to see about Maxine.  I did go visit her yesterday, though, and prayed her to sleep -- --and stayed and visited with her after another friend of hers came, for about an hour and a half.  I will check on her again tomorrow.

Larry, thanks for the tips.  I hate it when I make those mistakes.  I have something on here now I want to get rid of, but don't know how to do it. 

Okay, now I'm outta here!

Hi everyone.  We had a nice day weather-wise yesterday with only a very brief shower while our men's luncheon group was eating at Steak and Shake.  Today is Pat's day with the car so I am planning on staying home and continuing to finish up the work on her computer.  As of this morning 31% of her many files have been restored to her desktop but it will take at least a couple more days running day and night.  Patience is required.  Pat is going to participate in a little sewing group started at our church to mke little stuffed dolls and I don't know what else to send to use for Samaritans Purse Christmas boxes, our Family Promise organization that our church participates in where homeless families stay in our church a few weeks a year.  Then she plans to go to have a pedicure.  She had never wanted to do this before she went the other day and now I expect it will be a common occurrence.  I am happy for her to go.  Pat just fixed me a delicious omelet and a piece of rye toast with apple butter and I am full.

Marilyn, you can reset the password by resetting the router.  There should be a tiny little hole that you can take pin and push it in and that will reset it.  However, I suggest you look for a video or check the Netgear website for further help.  To get to the control page for the router you type into the address line of your browser 192.168.1.1 although that address may be different for different routers. I would encourage you to use a little notebook or a computer program like LastPass to store your passwords.  I have used LastPass for quite a few years and it has one master password and that gives you access to any information you have saved in it.  I do pay $12 a year so I can access it on my mobile devices but I think there is a free version. 

Judy, thanks for the devotional thoughts for this week.  It is a wonderful thing that we can get release from our burdens when we give them to Jesus to carry for us.  Unfortunately, most of us pick it back up when we don't have to do so.   Beautiful picture from the hydropond. 

Janet, sorry you experienced one of those "everything that can go wrong does" type days.  It sounds like the work at the home is becoming very stressful and tiring for you and if you don't have to do it why do it.

Larry--my thoughts exactly!  I don't have to do it, so why do it?  I am wanting to do a big purge on this place, and have made a start this morning!  Too much 'stuff' just keeps piling up, and it's got to go!

I'm looking forward to this afternoon.  My sweet Abby is meeting me for lunch at 12:30, then she is going to the school auditorium to practice walking in her long dress and high heels, just as insurance, getting ready for Friday night.  A friend of mine whose daughter won the Miss Southwest Kansas pageant a few years ago, will be there to give Abby tips.  Friday night is the Sorghum Queen contest she is entered in, sponsored by State Farm Insurance.  She's quite excited about it, and I am praying she will do well, but that the Lord's will for her will be done.  If this isn't something she should pursue, then so be it.  Anyway, I do look forward to spending some time with her.

I will probably come back to check for more messages later this afternoon.

 

Larry thank you so much I have written down the tips you postsed and will check out both of those site, Last Pass and Netgear.

Time for me to go to work, we had 47 animals yesterday,  several were transports up from Crescent City California, (Private animals), There is a lady who bring them up from their owners  to be Neutered and spayed.

I wish we had a place like you work in Marilyn.  There is nothing here and the cost is way high.

I just finished making Rhubarb jam.  That would have been one of my Father in Law's favourites.  I have to take KIm and go strawberry picking soon, Maybe a drive out today to se if they are still picking otherwise it means a trip to Sturgeon Falls to get them.  That place has ever bearing so we will pick several times this summer, raspberries too and that is one of my favourites!!!

John is in Quebec today, heading towards the west.  Hopefully he gets a trip there to Wisconsin or Minisota.  That would be good miles!!!

Well I'm off have a great day I will be back!

Rhubarb jam - would be one of my favs as well.  That's a lot of animals at one time. Do they have to be done quckly?

Good to see you Al!!!

Yes, Al, it's good to see you - and we're hoping for more!!!

Hi, folks,

It's been a very good day here in Nashville. The temps are moderate and thus far we haven't had any thunderstorms.

Friends met me today for lunch, so that was fun. And I've had several calls from the kids and other friends and relatives.

Y'all have a wonderful rest of the day.

Ruth Ann

   Hi to you all.  I don't know what happened to my post that I did the other day as I did do one after the 21st..  Well today was a good day for me as I was able to get out in the garden and do some work that had been needed to be done for a while.  Noreen was able to come out and do a little bit to.  She is still having a lot of pain and we see the surgeon on the 1st. of Aug. so we are hoping that he will be happy with her knee and tell us that she can try to start doing more with it.

We did get a lot of rain and thunder and lightning but we did have a good day and kids have just come back from a vacation so lots of stories from the granddaughter.  Well time to go hit the sack.  thanks again for your continued prayer for both of us.  God's richest blessings to all at C.P.  Love in Christ.  Gordon and Noreen.

Hi everyone.  It is early and I have yet to go to coffee but will have a full morning so decided to just make a quick post today.  After coffee I will take my care up to have the oil changed before I start the daily grind to Athens to resume the EECP treatments.  I am still waiting to hear from them to restart.  That is all I have planned for today.  Before I went ot bed last night I caught up on the postings from yesterday and see that Gord beat me here today because he was a late night person.

 

OK This has turned into a complicated day.  John's cousin has died, and we are scrambling to try and get John off so we can go.  George had pancreatic cancer, that spread to other organs,  July 9th he fell in the bath tub nothing broke however he was hospitalized.  He was 84.

Please pray for the family, and safe travels for John and I.

We have cool weather here, it is a nice break from the heat of last week. 

Have a great day everyone.

Judy, my sympathy and prayers for John and the family.  I'm praying for safe travel and arrangements.

This is a perfect laundry day.  So I did laundry this morning - even got a blanket washed and out on the line.  The sun is shining, the breeze is brisk, the temperature is mid 70's, and the clothes are drying beautifully. 

Hello friends:

It seems that I do not visit very often but generally I do not have a lot
to share, either I do not want the public to know or it is of not much news anyway.
For some folk when they were destroyed as a child they got over it or just
choose to be silent and that is me. I must say most of the damage was done from birth to mid teens,

On a happy note our son became a step grandpa 2 wks. ago and thus we are great grandparents to a little boy, we will be going to meet the little guy for the first this evening. 

Larry:  You always give good computer hints and I should write them down lots of things such as passwords I do keep in a book and also "how to's" as well all I need is to start adding your hints.

Judy: Sorry to hear about John's cousin.

Marilyn & Larry: how do you make laundry soap?

It is a much cooler day compared to what we have had.

Ruth 

Jeanne.
3 Bars Fels Naptha Soap grated
1 Box Borax
1 Box Super Washing soda
1 container Oxiclean

Dump it all in a bucket and mix it up real good, store in air tight containers and use ¼ cup per load. All things can be purchased in the laundry Soap aisle. Make 18 lbs of soap.

Brother Al
Yes they are all done in one day. That is all we do at the spay and Neuter Hospital where I am a Volunteer, Recovery Technician. Good to see you hear.

Larry
I downloaded the Last Pass and when I opened the vault there was my password for the Netgear Router. Hallelujah and Praise the Lord. Thank you , Thank you.

Judy

Our prices are the best around, $100. USD to  Spay or Neuter, we also do Flea Control, vaccinations toe nail trimming as needed. No charge for the nail trimming, but there is a $15 fee for ech injection, Droncit for worms is $20. for cats.

Thanks, Marilyn.   

Thanks Marilyn!  I guess our vets are too greedy.

Hi everyone.  I decided to post again this evening as have a full morning planned for tomorrow plus have more work to do on Pat's desktop, although the end is in sight.  So far everything as gone well.

Judy, sorry to hear of the passing of John's cousin.  It sounds like he was a close family member and hope the details can be worked out for you and John. Pancreatic cancer is such a terrible thing (as are all cancers).

Jeanne, we had a lovely morning here and the next few days look like they will be nice with lower temps and one day with no rain in the forecast at all, even a slight chance. 

Ruth, glad to see your posting.  If nothing else just stop by and say hi to let us know you are OK.  Congratulations of the new great grandchild  We had a step grandson in our lives for many years even when his mother and my son split.  Unfortunately we haven't seen him or his family for a couple of years and understand they have moved out of state.      Glad you find the computer tips helpful as I always enjoy helping others.  Pat uses this recipe for the laundry soap:
3 tablespoons of Boxax; 3 tablespoons of Washing Soda, 2 tablespoons of Dawn liquid soap (could use something besides Dawn but needs to be liquid).  Boil 1/2 gallon of water to dissolve the powders.  Pat uses 1 cup of the liquid in a large load.  We have used it for quite a while and it does a good job and is certainly much, much expensive that store purchased liquid laundry soap. 

Maryilyn, I see your laundry soap is made with similar ingredients but without the Oxiclean.  You must make quite a lot of soap at one time.  Glad you found your password for the Netgear.  I rely a lot on the information I have stored in LastPass and it is an easy place to find information. 

Hi, friends,

Today has been really busy, with it beginning in early morning with a maintenance man knocking at my door, and finished with two doctor's appointments.

So, to quote my MawMaw, "my feathers are dragging" tonight.

More next time.

Love to all,
Ruth Ann

Hello, everyone.  Guess I could say goodnight everyone.

Marilyn, someone posted a way to do dry laundry soap but just using the three ingredients and leaving off the grated  Fels Naptha.  I did make a liquid soap once and it had all of the ingredients you mentioned except the Oxy Clean.  I have the recipe...but would much rather have the dry.  It really does clean well.  I went to Safeway the other night to get Washing Soda and couldn't find it.  Couldn't even find a spot for it.  I'll try Fred Meyer tomorrow.

Al, I was just thinking of you today, wondering how you were and what you were up to........and here you are!   I haven't been here in ages and have just now feeling like posting again.  Are you doing ok as a Texan? (I think that's where you moved to....you can correct me.)

Judy, your picture is gorgeous!

Yesterday I enjoyed a beautiful sunny, breezy day - and got lots of laundry done.  And then as the sun went down so did the temperatures.    What a wonderful night for sleeping - and for snuggling under a nice warm blanket!

My day started before 5, so I had 2 1/2 hours to spend reading, studying and praying.  I't gonna be a great day!

I have an appointment for another interview this afternoon, then Beth and John are coming out to eat supper with us.  There is always something to keep me busy; guess that keeps me out of trouble!

Time to go to the gym and work out with Kristi!