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We just got back from hearing Nancy Campbell of Above Rubies speak! Nancy was very good, her message was wonderful. Gave me much food for thought, which we have been discussing here until late into the night. Friends Kate and Mark came around, and Mark and Neil were treated to dinner cooked by their two youngest boys, P & B, and our two girls, while Kate and I went out to hear Nancy. I must say the experience was, for us, slightly spoiled by a long period of enforced 'worship' in the style of the church which hosted the event. I personally don't think this was wise. I was not comfortable with the style of worship, and would think twice about going to see any speaker at this church again. It was a very protracted time, and not very beneficial, at least for me. However, Nancy more than made up for it. What a remarkable lady - they are so far from home here in the wet and windy UK, and travelling around - they were delayed in their trip from Gloucester - but what an inspirational lady! We came back to find the house relatively peaceful, everyone had eaten pizza and pasta a la kids, and enjoyed themselves playing board games afterwards, and Neil and Mark seemed quite relaxed! So time for bed now, just looked at the time and it's very late! |
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There always seems to be a dilemma! Finally having got H sorted out - must take some photos of her on JJ they are the best! - we now have a problem with the pony she has just left behind and who is supposed to be Boo's new ride. His COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder - asthma to you and me) has taken a turn for the worse, and he is not a happy person, he is struggling to breathe a lot of the time .. so sad, he is such a little hero, he has been so good for H ... poor Boo is not having much luck. We had sold her little pony, who is actually the only one we own, the rest are on loan, at the weekend, but they have changed their minds, so she has had separation anxiety for no good reason, and now this. Poor kid. Still. God is in control of all ... our failing economy, our troubled world, even down to the coughing of a little girl's pony. So it will be OK. We just need to be still and know ..... |
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What I'm not understanding is - how does it help (be it in the US or here in the UK) to allow banks and financial institutions to mess up royally, and then say, OK, no worries, we'll just clean up the mess and life will go on as normal, the tax payer will foot the bill. Is that not like, generations to come of poor, everyday, working folk, paying for the greedy whizz kids to gamble with impunity? People seem to have such short memories. What happens when this is all cleared up, and a new generation of bankers and such, who cannot remember today (like the generation we have now, who did not remember the 1930s) decide to do it all again? If they are even interested in a lesson from history, it will just tell them, go ahead, gamble, get rich, every man for himself. The governments will catch you if you fall. I don't get it. Anyone care to explain? (Please be polite!) |
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"Coming events, we are told, cast their shadows before. Among the prophetic shadows now hovering over us is a finger of cloud which points to vital changes in the business of feeding the world. Indeed, these changes are already taking place. In part they have taken place, but many of us, being of those who have eyes yet do not see, are still unaware that the old order has changed and that the new order of things has come to pass." Pretty cutting edge stuff, eh? 1919, actually. Just settling down to read this e-book . |
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