Technology ~ ARGGGGGG

You can’t live with it and you can’t live without it!!! Today is my turn for problems! We need the latest version of McAfee anti-virus so I went online and purchased it. Everything went through fine until I tried to download it. It seems that you have to use Internet Explorer for the download to work.

We haven’t been able to use I.E. for months. I don’t know what’s wrong with it and every time I’ve downloaded the latest version, it still won’t work. OK. I can live with that, but if there are programs out there that HAVE to have I.E. to work, I’m sunk. The problem seems to be in a script error. I’ve downloaded and run the latest Microsoft script repair program to no avail.

I spent four hours (yes that FOUR HOURS) trying to get this to work. I finally got through to someone with McAfee that gave me a refund. So now I’m off to the store to get the same program. How silly of me to think I could save some time by ordering and downloading on line.

I feel:

That Day!

That day was Saturday. We made it through by the grace of God. We didn’t anticipat anything eventful but that was the kind of day it turned into.

Hubby had to cut wood for the woodstove-our sole source of heat so he headed out about Noon. He cuts the wood on his brother’s land about half-hour away and always takes our dog, Naomi, along so she get get some exercise. About 3:30 he called and said he’d lost the truck keys in the woods and I needed to bring my set to him. Rachel and Nick were taking Ashlynn (in our car) to get her picture taken (as if we don’t take enough) so I had to use Nick’s small car to go out there. The ground in the woods was wet from the recent ice storm and I did quite a bit of sliding.

When I got there, Hubby was not where he said he would meet me~PANIC set in. But he showed up momentarily and I was fine. But he wasn’t. He had gotten a tree stuck in other trees and hurt his leg trying to get it out. Then he told me he had accidentally run over Naomi’s tail. She had walked in front of him while he was moving the truck and he didn’t see her.

Later that evening, we were all in the living room and our little toddler, Ashlynn, headed toward the kitchen. She tripped and fell…into the woodstove. We had raised both of our girls around a woodstove and neither had gotten hurt. It was one of those things that just happened so quick. In fact, Hubby hurt his shoulder lunging for her. She only burned one hand a little but to her dad and grandpa took her to the E.R. where they gave her Tylenol with codeine. She slept the rest of the night. Needless to say, I prayed hard. This morning she was fine.

So, now it’s time for Unconscious Mutterings.

I say … and you think … ?

1. Soldier :: Army
2. Lipton :: Tea
3. Reason :: Think through
4. Terms :: Cash only
5. Positive :: Attitude
6. Example :: Shining
7. Legacy :: Gift
8. Solo :: Solitary
9. Instrument :: Piano
10. Later :: Tomorrow

So, how was your weekend????

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Not by Might

Music has always been a part of my life. I love lots of different styles but praise and worship music is my absolute favorite! I don’t often listen to any kind but that or contemporary Christian. Yesterday, at bible study, we sang a song that I’d never heard before and I love it. Here are the words:

Not By Might

No not by might
Nor even power
But by Your Spirit, O Lord

Healer of hearts, binder of wounds
Lives that are lost restored
Flow through this land
‘Til every man praises Your name once more.

It’s from the CD Days of Elijah-Worship Songs of Robin Mark. If you’ve never heard it, please get it. I pray it will minister to your spirit as it did mine.

I’m feeling:

Thankful Thursday

Many years ago when I first became a Christian, a very dear friend told me that she was thankful she could go to the bathroom. This week I want to share my thanks for my five senses…and several other things.

Taste: Psm. 34:8 – “O taste and see that the LORD is good;
How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!” God has provided a bounty of food for us to taste.

Sight: 2 Cor. 5:7 – “for we walk by faith, not by sight–”
and Matt. 5:8 – “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” and by the blood of Jesus, my Lord and Savior, I am made pure in heart! Although I wear glasses, I so thankful for my eyes.

Smell: Gen. 27:27 – in reference to Jacob stealing Esau’s blessing, Isaac says – “…is like the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed;” With Spring approaching, we’ll soon be able to smell God’s creations

Hear: Matt. 10:27 – “What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.” Whispered in your ear…I can hear God’s whisper!!! And I can hear our granddaughter when she’s unhappy.
John 8:47 – “He who is of God hears the words of God…”

Feel/Touch: Mark 10:13 – “And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them;”
1 John 5:18 (Amplified) – “We know [absolutely] that anyone born of God does not [deliberately and knowingly] practice committing sin, but the One Who was begotten of God carefully watches over and protects him [Christ's divine presence within him preserves him against the evil], and the wicked one does not lay hold (get a grip) on him or touch [him].” WOW! To hold my husband tight and feel his arms around me is such a huge blessing!

I’m also thankful for BibleGateway for offering a Bible reference toolbar I could install on my browser. Although I have several Bibles on my desk, it’s so easy just to go up to the toolbar and type in a word or scripture reference, and … there it is!

Again, I’m thankful to Christine for my new blog look.

Have a blessed day!

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I’m feeling:

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What do you think of this?? I just got it from Christine at Christine’s Blog Templates and I LOVE it. She has such easy instructions…right on her website. There’s also a great selection and CHEAP!!! Now I want to keep on posting so I can keep on looking at it. LOL

NOW, I feel:

More Changes!

Yes, I know, will I ever stop???? Probably not. I’ve been reading in several places that eventually everyone who uses Blogger will have to switch to the New Blogger. I, for one, was not looking forward to this because I just learned how to get around fairly well in the html ~ with New Blogger it’s different. Yes, I made the change this morning. Really smart people have been creating hacks for this so maybe it won’t be so difficult for me.

One big problem I have is getting Mr. Linky to work in the New Blogger so if anyone has any suggestions, PLEASE let me know.

I’m headed over to My Photo Blog to post for Wordless Wednesday. Oh no…I’ll have to change that one too.

My mood:

We have been set FREE!

In our Sunday School class, we are studying Dr. Luke. Our teacher is truly “in tune with God.” He spends much time in the Word and prayer and the Lord reveals many things to him. This past Sunday, we looked at these verses in Luke 4:17-19

17And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the book and found the place where it was written,
18“THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME,
BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR.
HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES,
AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND,
TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED,
19TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.”

Do you know what it meant to be a captive during that time in history? It’s not a pretty sight! Imagine having a ring through your nose and being joined to other captives by a rope through that ring! If you gave the jailers trouble or tried to escape, they would put salve in your eyes so you couldn’t see where you were going and/or they would put mortar in your ears so you couldn’t hear anything.

When Jesus was using this example to speak of captives, it makes it easier for me to understand exactly HOW free believers are! God saw us (captives) as having a ring through our noses, salve in our eyes and mortar in our ears and truly set us free! We weren’t captives in that sense of the word, but we were captives or slaves to sin and that wasn’t a pretty sight to God.

“So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36

I’m feeling ~

Unconscious Mutterings

I decided to try this meme. The purpose of this exercise is just to have a little fun with word association. There are no right or wrong answers. Don’t limit yourself to one word responses; just say everything that pops into your head.

1. Threshold :: Doorway
2. Jason :: Spitzer
3. Suspicion :: Caution
4. Tender :: Loving
5. Tempted :: Run
6. Crimson :: Red
7. Repulsive :: Disgusting
8. Bulldog :: Ugly
9. Garage :: Car
10. Racket :: Noise / Tennis

If you’d like to play along, visit the home of Unconscious Mutterings and check it out.
This morning I’m feeling:

Friday’s Feast #131

Appetizer
What sound, other than the normal ringing, would you like your telephone to make? I love the sound of birds in the Spring, the ocean, a stream so any of those would be wonderful. EXCEPT, it would have to be so loud that it would probably scare me which is annoying…and that’s how it is now; so how about no sound!

Soup
Describe your usual disposition in meteorological terms (partly cloudy, sunny, stormy, etc.).
My usual disposition is sunny, but some days it’s like a hurricane (just ask my family).

Salad
What specific subject do you feel you know better than any other subjects? How you should live your life HA HA. Again, just ask my family, they say I’m bossy.

Main Course
Imagine you were given the ability to remember everything you read for one entire day. Which books/magazines/newspapers would you choose to read? Only one ~ the Bible.

Dessert
If a popular candy maker contacted you to create their next confection, what would it be like and what would you name it? Since I don’t have much of an imagination, I’d just go with one that has a marshmallow center with chocolate on the outside. Hmmmmm, isn’t that called a Mallow Bar???

Right now, I’m feeling: