I Don't Know About You...But I Feel Like...(finish the sentence)

[APAK]

@Taken remember to place the 'at sign' '@' before the name if you want their undivided attention...like I just did for you at the beginning of this post.

Just saying I've been seeing that you might have been forgetting to this lately.....if not then disregard.....:)

 

[Ferris Bueller]

Ferris...
Kind of weird, but would have liked to have seen who scrambled in to retrieve the "mysterious (ha ha)" little things that fell out of the statue.
Priests? Nuns? The guy following legal and convenient "mask" mandates??

I don't know but it sure wasn't the deacons. They made a fast exit out of the sanctuary and left the mess for someone else to clean up, lol.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

Don't know about you...but...

I have discovered 10 yr olds are pretty handy to have in the vicinity, when you have a technological computer problem.

Hammers and second story windows work too.

 

[amadeus]

@Nancy haha! I have a few years on John …known him for a couple of decades , and he has never caught me up…I’m still a few years older ! LOL


JOHN, no I never did take it that way, never even thought of it :)
Thanks for the tag.

Im tagging @APAK

Good to see you here sister! Can you even remember where we met? Was it on one of Mike's forums or perhaps on T2O?

 

[Truman]

Hammers and second story windows work too.

Good one! Lol

 

[Helen]

Good to see you here sister! Can you even remember where we met? Was it on one of Mike's forums or perhaps on T2O?

hi there …

No, I first met you before Mikes, though he was on it too, with Patsy etc UKCW. I think the owner /Admin was Terry or Terrance . He had a good forum going …my brother Neil - “Laterunner” got me started there. Remember?
I think it was 1998 or so….as I’m pretty sure I lived in the other house back then .



@Rita Were you there too? Or was Mikes your first Christian forum? I can’t remember,

x

 

[Nancy]

Laughter is good for the soul...
Rolling with the circumsatances, making do.
My sister and I reminisce about growing up poor, and oddly those days are some of our greatest quirky things we laugh about.

Taken,
You've taken the words right out of my mouth, my mom had 7 of us "streetlight" kids and wee too remember some of those times with belly laughs! Easier days that can make you smile just thinking and sharing with our sibs. :)
Then, we all got just what we wanted soooo bad: TO GROW UP!!! And STILL...we can act like spoiled rotten children!
Oh God help your church!
Praise and ALL Glory to Him judges rightly ;)

 

[Nancy]

@Nancy haha! I have a few years on John …known him for a couple of decades , and he has never caught me up…I’m still a few years older ! LOL


JOHN, no I never did take it that way, never even thought of it :)
Thanks for the tag.

Im tagging @APAK

Oopsie, sorry @amadeus

 

[Helen]

I used to be very good at tag and could outrun nearly everyone at grade/primary school.....not Helen though, she has still a lot of gusto in her I see..:) How about a game of congers or marbles/.....I will go easy on you, I promise

I'm a little late for not being around for the most memorable part the party...

So this thread has now degenerated from the dry, structured, 'civilized' more formal 'finish the sentence' mental attitude, into the more, 'out of my way', with fingers licked, including lips, and dig into some tasty or maybe not so tasty treats? I do like fruit cake although it has become very expensive either to buy or make...well my wife would be doing that part.... won't display a picture of my favorite fruit cake here in case someone with a name that started with the letter 'T' may get offended.

haha, Good to see you brother -

“I don’t know about you” - but I’m glad that we met on here , you’ve been a blessing .

I’m tagging @101G. Long time no see .

 

[APAK]

haha, Good to see you brother -

“I don’t know about you” - but I’m glad that we met on here , you’ve been a blessing .

I’m tagging @101G. Long time no see .

Same sentiments to you Sister....

 

[stunnedbygrace]

I have never been drawn to threads like these but the past couple of days I can’t stay out of them. I think it’s like ziggy said, things just coming way too fast and who can keep up with them? It’s too much. I’m not one to want to shut my mind down often. In fact, I think we have too many things we shut our minds down with. And letting the world tell you what direction to go in is shutting your mind down too.

I’ve watched people who play games. I can watch them as they play and can see they are trying to shut everything out. I think everyone needs to shut it all out and let their mind decompress at times. I do it when I fold laundry and do dishes and drive in my car. Anything I do that is mostly by rote gives my mind time to quiet and shut out the world and not focus on any particular thing.

But now, just recently, I have to try really hard to shut my mind down and I think it’s why I’ve been drawn to silly threads. But even with seeking them out, I’m suddenly having a hard time sleeping. It was after 4 a.m. that I got to sleep last night. I’m not worried or scared, I just…can’t stop my mind from going. There seems to be too much to try to connect and understand. It’s too much rapid change to and fro for my mind. If I watch any news, which I do for about 1-2 hours a day, I find myself laughing at things that really aren’t funny but I can’t help it. It’s all begun to look like a comedy routine to me. I know it’s not funny but…

That phrase, to and fro…that’s what it all feels like. People run to and fro when they are concerned, nervous, scared, confused, exhausted, angry, excited.

Wait…to be perfectly honest…I do feel some worry. But it’s not about the world. The world is going to go the way the world is going to go. I’m worried about those in here. When THEY seem to be caught up in the whole cancel culture of unforgiveness, and suppression of speech and certain topics, and almost robotic repetition of what they hear, I thing that’s what’s keeping me up…

okay, so…at least I worked that out…I had to ruin the lighthearted thread to work it out.
So…you can throw fruitcakes at me, I deserve it.

 

[APAK]

I have never been drawn to threads like these but the past couple of days I can’t stay out of them. I think it’s like ziggy said, things just coming way too fast and who can keep up with them? It’s too much. I’m not one to want to shut my mind down often. In fact, I think we have too many things we shut our minds down with. And letting the world tell you what direction to go in is shutting your mind down too.

I’ve watched people who play games. I can watch them as they play and can see they are trying to shut everything out. I think everyone needs to shut it all out and let their mind decompress at times. I do it when I fold laundry and do dishes and drive in my car. Anything I do that is mostly by rote gives my mind time to quiet and shut out the world and not focus on any particular thing.

But now, just recently, I have to try really hard to shut my mind down and I think it’s why I’ve been drawn to silly threads. But even with seeking them out, I’m suddenly having a hard time sleeping. It was after 4 a.m. that I got to sleep last night. I’m not worried or scared, I just…can’t stop my mind from going. There seems to be too much to try to connect and understand. It’s too much rapid change to and fro for my mind. If I watch any news, which I do for about 1-2 hours a day, I find myself laughing at things that really aren’t funny but I can’t help it. It’s all begun to look like a comedy routine to me. I know it’s not funny but…

That phrase, to and fro…that’s what it all feels like. People run to and fro when they are concerned, nervous, scared, confused, exhausted, angry, excited.

Wait…to be perfectly honest…I do feel some worry. But it’s not about the world. The world is going to go the way the world is going to go. I’m worried about those in here. When THEY seem to be caught up in the whole cancel culture of unforgiveness, and suppression of speech and certain topics, and almost robotic repetition of what they hear, I thing that’s what’s keeping me up…

okay, so…at least I worked that out…I had to ruin the lighthearted thread to work it out.
So…you can throw fruitcakes at me, I deserve it.

I believe your venting and candidness of your view of today is normal as normal goes in these weird and revolutionary times, according to me. I usually do not get too laid back for too long, although 'I do not know about you, but,' I believe I'm watching an out-of-limits and a night galleries series of shows in parallel, non-stop, and I cannot stop watching them. When is it going to be all over with....

 

[amadeus]

hi there …

No, I first met you before Mikes, though he was on it too, with Patsy etc UKCW. I think the owner /Admin was Terry or Terrance . He had a good forum going …my brother Neil - “Laterunner” got me started there. Remember?
I think it was 1998 or so….

@Rita Were you there too? Or was Mikes your first Christian forum? I can’t remember,

x

Wow that is going back a ways, but perhaps a little too far for me? No I was on T2O when Mike quit there to forum his own first forum. I was on several other forums prior to T2O. One of them was the CF that people on here still mention from time to time.

I do remember belonging to the forum you mentioned, but maybe not so far back. In 1998 I was working full time, heavily involved with a multitude of stamp trading partners all over the world, badly backslid and still trying to run away from God.

I remember one man from Argentina [a stamp collector] who was always sending me notes and cards trying to get me to commit myself again to God... He was committed himself and he knew that I had been. That man probably never realized how God used him to help me move again in the right direction.

It was only after my secular retirement from work in the year 2000 that I was really drawn back to God and began to find Internet friends who also knew Him. Sometime after that probably our friendship would have begun.

Someone from one forum, perhaps T2O [?] invited to the forum you mentioned and I joined it. Unfortunately I have belonged to so many Christian forums over the years, the details of them escape me. I have lots of records saved in the my computer, but not much from that far back and still they are not all sorted out by date... Every once in a while I sift through them and try to organize them according to my work on my autobiography, but I work slower these days and have too many other things on my mind.

Thank you dear sister for being a good friend in the Lord for so long...

 

[Truman]

I have never been drawn to threads like these but the past couple of days I can’t stay out of them. I think it’s like ziggy said, things just coming way too fast and who can keep up with them? It’s too much. I’m not one to want to shut my mind down often. In fact, I think we have too many things we shut our minds down with. And letting the world tell you what direction to go in is shutting your mind down too.

I’ve watched people who play games. I can watch them as they play and can see they are trying to shut everything out. I think everyone needs to shut it all out and let their mind decompress at times. I do it when I fold laundry and do dishes and drive in my car. Anything I do that is mostly by rote gives my mind time to quiet and shut out the world and not focus on any particular thing.

But now, just recently, I have to try really hard to shut my mind down and I think it’s why I’ve been drawn to silly threads. But even with seeking them out, I’m suddenly having a hard time sleeping. It was after 4 a.m. that I got to sleep last night. I’m not worried or scared, I just…can’t stop my mind from going. There seems to be too much to try to connect and understand. It’s too much rapid change to and fro for my mind. If I watch any news, which I do for about 1-2 hours a day, I find myself laughing at things that really aren’t funny but I can’t help it. It’s all begun to look like a comedy routine to me. I know it’s not funny but…

That phrase, to and fro…that’s what it all feels like. People run to and fro when they are concerned, nervous, scared, confused, exhausted, angry, excited.

Wait…to be perfectly honest…I do feel some worry. But it’s not about the world. The world is going to go the way the world is going to go. I’m worried about those in here. When THEY seem to be caught up in the whole cancel culture of unforgiveness, and suppression of speech and certain topics, and almost robotic repetition of what they hear, I thing that’s what’s keeping me up…

okay, so…at least I worked that out…I had to ruin the lighthearted thread to work it out.
So…you can throw fruitcakes at me, I deserve it.[/QUOTE
I've got to the place where I consider my situation, and all of the whacked-out stuff I see going on in the world around me and I come to one conclusion: we are all gonna die! And my honest response to this? Lolol!!!
Be afraid of losing this life? This existence is the source of all of my grief! The day that it ends for me will be like the day a prisoner sentenced to a life sentence has the prison door opened and is set free!
Like a piece of meat that goes through a meat-grinder, I only have to pass through this place once! Thank You, Lord!
He wants me here for now. The way I look at it, I already live in eternity, so,
"This is the day that the Lord Has made...for you and I!" Call me and oddball and I'll say, "I resemble that remark!" Lol

 

[stunnedbygrace]

Truman, if you are an oddball then so am I. I think the next time someone asks me my denomination, which I’ve never had an answer for, I will tell them I’m from the oddball denomination!

 

[Pearl]

I Don't Know About You...But I Feel Like... A cup of coffee.

 

[Ziggy]

 

[Ziggy]

We're caught up in the storm.
What storm Mr. President?
You'll find out.

We are in the world, but we are not of the world. That's why we can see it.
If we were of the world, we would turn a blind eye as if nothing was wrong.
Somethings are worth following, other things are just distractions, but you have to wade through the swamp to find the truth.

Truth will always be the foundation. It's what's built upon that that remains or gets blown away as chaff.
Where is that?

1Co 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1Co 3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
1Co 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

I don't know about you but I feel like, if I had a pair of special spiritual glasses, I would be able to see all the various governments in the world scrambling for cover from the judgement that's upon them.
And we are feeling the effects like waves crashing upon us. But the judgement is on their heads.
We are told all the time that God puts men in positions of power to watch over us, and that we should obey these "masters" as if we are serving the Lord.
And there are a few parables concerning those who mistreat their servants. And they will get the greater damnation.

Right now it's like the church is in that wilderness, but we are still feeling the blasts that are taking place.
They are fearful, they are scared, they are panicking..

And we have Peace.We have promises and assurances from a God that can not lie.
The world around us may crumble and fall, but we stand upon the Rock that shall never be moved.

God Bless
Hugs

 

[Heart2Soul]

I Don't Know About You...But I Feel Like... A cup of coffee.

I need one as well....just waking up.

 

[Truman]

I need one as well....just waking up.

If you're like me, you need one for each eye!