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Yes! We need to do a rain dance!

Lethal Weapon is correct! Spike Lee the Fall of Adam and Eve by Michelangelo weapon Leefall weapon Sooooo.....Tom Strange is up again! Not one word, Raf!

Paw, Early on I tried to just download a pic to my computer, then just post it like I do with my own photos - the links didn't work. Then I started to post the way that has been instructed on page 22 (I think) of this thread - it worked! If there is a way that I can post photos better - and not bother you all the time - please let me know. Oh and by the way - nope your guess isn't it......

OK Now I am really frustrated! I have tried several times to post on this puzzle - but I keep getting and error saying that "dynamic tags are not allowed" What are these nasty things? How do I recognize one. How do I figure out which of my puzzle pieces is the offending photo? Paw? Please help!

I don't see only the lovey-dovey side being discussed. God does get angry - if we believe that, we ask ourselves (or look in the Bible to see) what angers Him. THEN - we should avoid those things that anger God. Now, OTOH, if you don't really believe that God can get angry, disappointed, peeved, ticked off, etc - then why bother? - After all, in this culture we use the phrase, "figure of Speech" to refer to an exagerration. So even tho the point of a figure of speech was to emphasize a reality and make it bigger than life, if you start saying. "Welll..... God doesn't really love, hate, get angry, cry - and so on - its only a figure of speech," then you have the makings of a good excuse and a license to do wrong.

Get well BikerBabe! Glad to her that you are finally out! Now GET WELL so you can ride that bike!

Raf - sorry. I have started working at teaching again - so the post will be forthcoming now that I am home from work.

People. People who need people. Are the luckiest people in the world. sung by Barbara Streisand Seriously, I believe this. If you need someone you are in a position to have people in your life. If you REMEMBER that you need people, you are more likely to not abuse the people in your life. How did a ministry that spent so much time touting that it knew the mystery and understood the One Body, get to the place that it separated people from people? Family members, friends, so-workers, fellow "believers" - how many of us left at least one person in these categories behind because he or she didn't believe as we did. Heck, I can only imagine how the whole "mark and avoid" era furthered the isolation.

Out of Africa?

Part One: October 13, 1965. My mother died after battling a cancerous brain tumor for nearly 4 years. Three days later she was buried - on her birthday. She would have been 32. I was eight years old. We three kids were never told that Mom was terminal. I remember my grandmother coming home from the hospital one night in tears and my aunt (my mother's younger sister by 9 years) just saying, "Oh - she died?" I remember asking who? who died? You see, we had always been told that Mom would be coming hime some day - not that she was in a facility run by the nuns for terminal cancer patients. That night I was told, "you have to be the little mother now." Part Two: Four years later, I remember what I was doing the night my dad announced that he wanted to start dating again and looking for a new mother for us. I was finishing dinner and washing the dishes. All I could think was, "What did I do wrong?" Soon after, my father married a woman that was emotionally unstable and acted like she hated us. That marriage lasted 7 long years, filled with emotional and physical abuse. Those years have colored my life and made me the person I am today. I work very hard at not being bitter. I try to be compassionate, because during the years that dad was married to the step-monster many many compassionate people saved me from insanity. I nearly lived at a friend's house and called her mom, "Mom." Ok, I think you get the picture. There are so many of us that share such great loss. I am "fairly" normal today (no snide remarks, please.) I credit a lot to those angels who stepped in and helped when they saw an opportunity. There is more to the story - but it would read like a soap opera.

When we toss out the emotions of God - what do we really have left? If God doesn't get angry or hurt or disappointed - then doesn't that make it a bit easier to take a nonchalant attitude towards sin? Afterall, each and everyone of us start out as kids who want to please our parents and not anger, hurt or disappoint them. If God doesn't have emotions doesn't it become easier to dismiss someone else's feelings? Afterall, aren't we supposed to be followers of God and His son? Seems easier to be wrong if there are no real boundaries. If God has no true emotions then we can feel a little less guilty hurting someone. A subtle manipulation. To embrace God we have to embrace how He made us and how He relates to us. As WordWolf pointed out, we have to embrace the Son - because that is how God displayed so much of His emotions towards humanity. - HUMANITY! With all of its flaws, all of the in-fighting, all of the troubles and tribulations. HE LOVES US! gee, I never realized how strongly I feel on this subject.......

I ran led this excersice once in fellowship. Paw has been amazing. Thank you for setting this site up. Thank you for making more work for yourself and making those interviews and posting (8 now!) them so that we have one more way to heal. This work must be time consuming to say the least.

Hmmmm "For God so LOVED the world..." Without that emotion where would we be? I know that we are supposed to say that that is a figure of speech - but says who? We were taught that spirit had no emotions but suppose they were wrong? In any case, God made man and woman, emotions and all - and said, "It is very good." So no matter what God feels - He wanted US to feel. He progammed feeling in us. maybe I'm answering two threads here at the same time......sorry

Out There - I'm not so sure that there are that many 11th paying attention. If you know who they are we might need to start a PM campaign......

Cabrito? Well I just might have to look up some nice food to go with that. Let us know - how much and where we can find one. A whole Goat? We need a headcount! Hey Goey - are you coming????? Someone tell Goey to find this thread.

Pond - I did have my friend call my cell. No answer. I will let everyone know when that phone returns home - as the saga continues....

Nearly 3 AM! Geez WordWolf - go to bed and get some sleep. Or are you a nocturnal creature?

When I was in Houston I had a gal in my "WOW team" that was the youngest sister of a "heavy hitter" he was a 4th corps, reverend, in Pressed Down. She tried to invoke big brotha's name - but it got her nowhere. Even her brother told her to walk her own walk. This was 1980-81. Not everyone who wanted to be saluted got saluted. My point is that for some, family of the "heavy revvies" was worth saluting. I personally was never told - as Corps - that I needed to bow to someone because of their family ties. Now, I DID witness that bowing - but this was because some folks thought that spirituality was genetic. I did not. BTW - I "saluted" no one. If they earned my respect and trust they got it, else they were just another person trying to serve God. Then again, I was told I'd never amount to much as a leader........ Oh well.

Okie Dokie! Hey Where is every body?

Likeandeagle is correct. George - thanks for not bristling. I didnt' want to be too obvious. I thought is was neat that I could use two musical instruments. Actually, I had a photo of a "flue" but it was causing an error saying that I couldn't use dyanamic images. Likeaneagle is up! Or should someone else take it and I'll just her(?) know (s)he's right.

Funny, VPW never claimed to be a pastor - to my recollection. I think we all would have seen through THAt lie! Then he also said that every gift minister would end "manifesting" all the gift ministries at different time - but that one or the most two would be his or her long suit. Except for Paul - vpw said he had 3 gm's Of course, vpw said that Jesus Christ embodied all the gm's. How nice of him.........

I recently went to visit a friend in another state. I had intended to bring my nice camera but at the last minute, I decided that I would leave it at home. Meanwhile, I forgot that I had packed my phone charger in with my camera (seemed to make sense at the time.) Once I got to my destination, I realized that I had no way of charging this phone. My kids were on vacation with their grandparents, so I stressed a bit because I knew that they would want to get hold of me. I had a brainstorm of an idea - I went out and bought a charger - but not a wall charger - NOOOOOO - I bought a car charger. Afterall, I already had a perfectly good wall charger sitting in my camera bag back in Fort Worth, Texas. Things went swimmingly for the rest of the vacation. Everytime I got into my friend's car I would plug the phone in and put the phone back in my purse as we were getting out. Perfect. UNTIL....... THE LAST DAY OF VACATION I was in the car. We went to a grocery store to pick up a few items. On my way out I got distracted and I was in a hurry. I apparently didn't make sure the car door had closed all the way. (BTW - the phone was charging on the front console - Grrrrrr!) We spent at most an hour in that store. Upon coming seeing my side of the car, I noticed that it was ajar. "OH NO!" I looked inside, no phone, no charger. Then I checked to make sure that the phone wasnt' in my purse - no such luck. Had my friend call the phone - DEAD SILENCE! Sob Sob Sob I immediatley called the company to have service suspended and the phone disabled. Then I ordered a new phone. Unfortunately, that phone would not be available to purchase. DANG! I liked it. I had gotten used to it. The new phone arrived and I wasn't too impressed with it. Don't ask me why - it just didn't work as well as the phone that was stolen. OK - big lead in for this: The phone was stolen on August 5. Yesterday August 17, the police dept of the city my friend lives in called me. They found my phone at the scene while they were making a bust for another, unrealated, crime! WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I won't have to rebuild my address book. I will get the few photos I had on that phone that had some sentimental value. Most of all - I'm just too excited!

OK, now ya'll are making me hungry! Now you know that if Dmiller comes I do have to edumacate him in the proper way to prepare a pizza - so we will have to have second meal planned. OOOOhhhh I might be able to put my hands on some fine Texas wine. lemme see.....