And when we went to dinner on that Thursday night, she wore a hoodie because it was quite cool at night.
You certainly will not see me lighting a fire here at home tonight. It is still 106F outside at 8pm as I write this. It was just barely cool enough 7,000 feet up in the mountains.
The photos above are all in color. Black and white photography is a small, niche type of shots. There was a time when B&W was all we had. This article shares some B&W shots from WWII period, and the a colorized version of each. It makes the somehow more real, at least to me,
You know that place over by the mirror where you have been wondering about how to decorate? What about your own miniature paper town? A Scottish artist has created Papertown, and he has some paper buildings for sale. Just a thought. You might not want to put it in front of a windows that you open, though.
In our bi-weekly concerts, the director of our multi-church choir speaks between songs, offering a story or a joke or the Biblical basis for the next song. One of the jokes that he often repeats is one about a parrot that insults a woman, Have you heard it before?
A woman was walking along the street when a parrot in a pet shop window squawked: "Hey, lady, you're ugly." The woman tried to ignore the insult and hurried on her way. The following day when she passed the pet shop, she quickened her stride in the hope that the parrot wouldn't spot her, but he did and squawked loudly: "Hey, lady, you're ugly." The woman was extremely embarrassed.
When the same thing happened for a third and fourth day, she had reached the end of her tether. She stormed into the shop and demanded to speak to the owner. She threatened to sue him and to have the parrot put down unless the abuse stopped. The owner promised faithfully that the bird wouldn't say it again.
The next day, the woman walked past the pet shop and the parrot called out: "Hey, lady." The woman turned round and glared at the bird. "Yes?" "You know..."
Do you remember the other day when I raised a semi-theological question, requiring a response from Preacher Bro? Let's go there again. Today's controversial posting is an article questioning whether Jesus is actually the Son of God. My response is "Yes," but read the story first to hear his points and see if any make sense. Well, I suppose all make sense, but it doesn't change my answer. Spoiler alert: The authors says "that he was an apocalyptic proclaimer of the Kingdom of God who went to his death with faith in God's promise to redeem Israel and the world."
And now for something a bit less theological.
El Niño is a weather pattern that allegedly brings wetter weather to the US. This year's version is forecast to be a big one. So, if it will be big, why is it still called 'boy' (how you would translate niño from Spanish)? Why not 'El Grandote' or something?
Do you like the flavor of General Tso's Chicken? You are wishing it was vegetarian, though? Am I right? How about General Tso's Cauliflower? As yummy as that sounds, the recipe says it can take 90 minutes to prepare. I will admit, then, that it ain't gonna happen.
We have to make it through the whole day before the weekend is really here. Let's get started so we can get finished. See you next week.
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Interesting article. I expected to see at least a reference to John 10:
[Jesus said] I and the Father are one.” The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” (John 10:30–38)
The truth is that Jesus' deity cannot be "proven" (ion the strictest sense of the word)—it must still be accepted by faith. The evidence is indeed overwhelmingly supportive of deity, but those who choose not to believe are given the latitude to embrace their own views—until the day of judgment when
God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9–11
By the way, I also really enjoyed the colorized old pictures.
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