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Re: Pat's Corner
By: Pat Date: July 19, 2023, 2:25 pm
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[quote author=Rita link=topic=4.msg229#msg229 date=1689745635]
Hi Pat,
I thought I would respond to your post about your garden here. I
had to get a gardener in to do dads in the end as I was
struggling. She was lovely and would charge £40 for three hours
work twice a month. She was helping me with mine last year but
this was one of the factors in decided to move now rather than
when I retire. It would have cost so much to get it organised
and maintain, I had to spend £100 to get one small hedge cut
right back ( it hadn’t been done properly for years )
My dad stopped sitting outside in the end, so it wasn’t even
being maintained for his benefit.
I don’t know about you but family were just so busy with work
that they just couldn’t help much. Dan has just started to feel
okay about cutting the front grass for me ( it hits with his
agrophobia to do certain things, but he tries to overcome the
panic it creates. He is okay helping round the back.
Rita
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My family don't help out much either and it's so frustrating.
Gareth started to paint our living room back at the beginning of
March after promising faithfully to get it finished - he has a
history of unreliability. The window sill and part of the
skirting are still not done and other things I ask him to do he
is always in a rush and hasn't time. Sitting in the garden that
I have always loved and not being able to maintain it is also
frustrating, but I know my limitations.
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Re: Pat's Corner
By: Rita Date: July 20, 2023, 12:58 pm
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[quote author=Pat link=topic=4.msg235#msg235 date=1689794707]
My family don't help out much either and it's so frustrating.
Gareth started to paint our living room back at the beginning of
March after promising faithfully to get it finished - he has a
history of unreliability. The window sill and part of the
skirting are still not done and other things I ask him to do he
is always in a rush and hasn't time. Sitting in the garden that
I have always loved and not being able to maintain it is also
frustrating, but I know my limitations.
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Yes it’s difficult isnt it, on the one hand our children have
lots of pressures, so you understand. I am grateful that I have
Dan at home with me as we kind of support each other with
practical tasks. I can still do decorating. There have been
times when I have had to wait and wait for things I can’t do
………….but they do get done.
Rita
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Re: Pat's Corner
By: Pat Date: August 7, 2023, 8:11 am
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For three out of four weeks now my son has taken me to church
and even though I'm unable to tell what people are saying it is
good to be able to worship with people I've known forever as
well as people who are new since I was last there.
Also some of the men of a similar age have connected with Gareth
and remember him from his time there as a child. They have made
a point of chatting to him and have invited him to join the
men's fellowship group meeting one evening a week - currently on
its summer break. As well as that I know these men will pray for
him.
I am keeping a low profile, determined not to push or rush
things but leave it all to God. After all it was a big surprise
when out of the blue he asked if I wanted to go. And young
Jenayah likes being there with the other children.
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Re: Pat's Corner
By: Mike Waters Date: August 7, 2023, 10:40 am
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Hi Pat,
It's great to see you posting .... And even greater to read such
good/God news.
Praying for a good/God outcome for you and for 'yours' in all
respects.
Mike XXX
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Re: Pat's Corner
By: Pat Date: August 7, 2023, 2:12 pm
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[quote author=Mike Waters link=topic=4.msg517#msg517
date=1691422818]
Hi Pat,
It's great to see you posting .... And even greater to read such
good/God news.
Praying for a good/God outcome for you and for 'yours' in all
respects.
Mike XXX
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Hi Mike, it took me a while to really get used to things, but I
do mean to post regularly as I need the fellowship. It's a
weird thing but I was thinking today that I am able to be myself
better on here than in a real life situation.
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Re: Pat's Corner
By: Pat Date: August 9, 2023, 8:05 am
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It's warm here today, even without the sun the top temp is 21C.
I've been out replenishing the bird feeders. I keep saying I'll
stop filling them up but then the sight of a long-tailed tit or
bluetit standing on the empty feeders looking all forlorn is all
it takes to have me adding bird food to my Morrison's order.
Does anybody else like putting food out for the birds?
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Re: Pat's Corner
By: Dave Date: August 9, 2023, 12:36 pm
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Pat, I have just been looking at Gen 1 vs 26, about the Adams
having "Dominion" over ---------.
And I had just read this, that some Jewish teachers render
"Dominion" as not "to rule over" but to "lower oneself"
And the Lord God said, it is not good for man to be alone; I
will make him an help meet for him, helpmeet is " a gateway
and one who helps you find your way" and out of the ground the
Lord God formed every beast of the field,----------- to see
whatsoever Adam he would call them.
Not so much what he would 'call them' but but that he would
'call them to him', so the argument is that he spoke with the
animals, as far as we know he had no known language only the
language of his heart, that said,I read this by the same man.
He said he was driving his wife home from a doctors appointment,
she was a woman of faith who believed that the Lord God cares
for us, however she was having some difficulty believing this on
this day as she had just received news from the doctor that she
would need some serious surgery, so she was feeling really down
over the issue.
I happened just then to remember something I had studied in
Jewish literature called " Yiredu" which is translated
'dominion' in the English but the Jews have a different
rendering, I also recalled reading that when a little bird lands
near you and begins to sing and dance, he is reminding you that
the Holy Spirit is near.
So I prayed a little prayer and asked the Lord God to send a
little bird to greet us when we arrived home,
We pulled up to the house, and sure enough there was a little
robin waiting on the porch, as we approached the robin began to
sing and dance, (a reminder that the Holy Spirit was near) I
said look a little bird sining and dancing on our porch.
My wife's response was, "Oh he just wants to poop on our porch"
she then said scat, and he looked at me with a sad face and flew
off.
The Lord God gave man two beings to understand his relationship
with God, the woman and the animal kingdom, he never gave man
any "dominion" over the woman, she was to be his gateway to
understanding the love of God.
If you are only focused on the 'poop' we will miss the 'helpers'
that God gives to understand His love.
Sorry Pat a bit long but your story of feeding the helpers in
your garden pulled my chain.
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Re: Pat's Corner
By: Pat Date: August 9, 2023, 2:05 pm
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The Lord God gave man two beings to understand his relationship
with God, the woman and the animal kingdom, he never gave man
any "dominion" over the woman, she was to be his gateway to
understanding the love of God.
Wow Dave, that's an eye opener and a game changer.
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Re: Pat's Corner
By: Nancy Date: August 9, 2023, 2:06 pm
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[quote author=Pat link=topic=4.msg525#msg525 date=1691586325]
It's warm here today, even without the sun the top temp is 21C.
I've been out replenishing the bird feeders. I keep saying I'll
stop filling them up but then the sight of a long-tailed tit or
bluetit standing on the empty feeders looking all forlorn is all
it takes to have me adding bird food to my Morrison's order.
Does anybody else like putting food out for the birds?
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Hi Pat,
Oh, don't get me started on the birds and the bees. The flowers
and the trees! ;D
I adore the "birds of the air". We have hundreds of birds on
our little spread of acres. During my caregiving years, the
property went very wild and unkempt because it just was not a
priority with Kevin needing my time and focus. Adam finally
arrived in our life and single handedly reclaimed the lawns and
acres, but out in the fields many, many volunteer trees had
sprouted, so many that we now have small wooded areas that
invite even more feathered friends to nest and frolic.
We are blessed to awaken to the loudest, most beautiful
birdsong. It's truly recording-worthy, should anyone wish. Of
course, in true faith, the singing begins before dawn, so simple
and happy are their little hearts. I often wish I could look
forward to my days as the birds do, instead of groaning at the
problems and the aches and the pains of finding myself in an
aging body. Our little winged friends seem ecstatic as the sun
rises and their labor begins, building nests that magically form
from sticks and grasses and mud and the long hairs from the
manes of the horses. The amount of energy birds expend caring
for their young is astounding!
We even spot bald eagles now and then, these days, which never
fails to excite us.
Anyway, our property supplies any number of natural foods from
thistle seeds to mulberries, to insects and pine berries. I
only put seed in the feeders in the deep winter months,
especially when snow covers everything and I figure food becomes
scarce for them. They learn fast and seem very appreciative of
the assistance.
Check out "Leslie the Bird Nerd" on YouTube for some gorgeous
video and the amazing relationship Miss Leslie has forged with
her wild bird friends. Birds and Blooms is a favorite magazine.
Adam's mom and I have bonded well with our love of wing and
feather.
As per my little signature quote, I have a special fondness for
sparrows, that though plain in color, are really quite
splendidly marked by God's own handiwork, with many hues of
brown and tan and black, and, oh my, are they sociable! I once
raised a sparrow called Reep-a-cheep (from C.S. Lewis), and he
was the happiest, brightest little ray of sunshine. He was
housed next to a canary, and ... he learned to sing canary songs
and was quite dismayed when his canary friend flew away to the
spirit realm.
It occurs to me, I have more animal friends that have passed
than I have currently in my life. I so hope one fine day to be
greeted by happy throngs of furred and feathered friends, as I
stroll the wild places outside the Golden City with Jesus and
Saint Francis. Imagine the warmth of God's Light and the lions
frolicking with the lambs.
Nothing will hurt or kill ...
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Aslan!♡
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Re: Pat's Corner
By: Nancy Date: August 9, 2023, 2:59 pm
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[quote author=Pat link=topic=4.msg530#msg530 date=1691607921]
The Lord God gave man two beings to understand his relationship
with God, the woman and the animal kingdom, he never gave man
any "dominion" over the woman, she was to be his gateway to
understanding the love of God.
Wow Dave, that's an eye opener and a game changer.
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Absolutely! The men in my life have been very caring,
protective, generous, and strong, with godly strength. AND, I
have watched them bow low to love up on all manner of little
critters that return the affection. Adam, in deep contrast to
whom I would have believed to be right for me, is a hunter. :o
But, ... he is an ethical hunter, and has taught me much about
herd control, mercy, training, and being thankful for the
sacrifice of life. No, short of the apocalypse, I will not be
joining him on a hunt, but I do respect his ethics, which,
unfortunately, are not shared by all hunters. Long ago, I was
taught that 'dominion' is well defined as 'stewardship.'
A deer or rabbit 'harvested' from the wild has lived a much
better life than any hamburger on our plates. Factory Farming
in today's world is not merciful.
As Helen said, sometimes I deeply feel the suffering in this
world, as well as the fall from grace, and it can become
quicksand that grabs us.
Jesus said, "Take heart, for I have overcome the world."
I long for a kinder, gentler world ...
Let it be so!
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