Friday, September 9, 2005

   Hi!
“There is always a voice that guides us..now it's our choice to listen to it or not....”

Thank you, katocool, for that wonderful comment. It is true. Here’s the story katocool was responding to. I’m reposting it since I only posted it (like I so often have done) a couple hours before “midnight”.

I had a long day at work. I was grumpy and tired (because of sleep deprivation, really) and I needed to go home. I wanted to pause at Wendy's or stop at Burger King on the way home to get something. But a little voice kept saying, "Don't. Go straight home."

Mom had asked me to go straight home, because she had put the groceries in the car I had probably before 5:30. I was supposed to get off at 6:30, it was a sunny day, and there were perishable groceries. I actually got off at 7:00. Also, the dogs had last had one of us home at 10:00--me, when I left for work. So I submitted to this thought, "Don't stop, no matter how brief it may be."

When I got home, my dad was still there. He had called as I was driving home, but I hadn't found the cell phone in time to answer. There was a broken fence along the calves' pasture, and he wanted my help with it. He was tired, as well, and he had probably 3-4 hours to drive this evening. It got dark even as we were fixing the fence, and I need to finish it tomorrow. Thankfully, the fence isn't a roadside one, but between two fields. The second field contains haybales that we need for winter, though, so it was important.

And thankfully, I listened to that still, small voice. Coincidence? I think not. It happens too much in the world to be coincidence.

Help each other for brotherly and sisterly love and for God's love. In Jesus Christ's holy name, amen.

Hugs, love, and serve! Faith.
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Burr, our little grey cat, and Socks, our black-and-white cat, are cute lil critters. Socks likes to go on walks, has tried to help work cattle, and loves humans. She seems to be more like a stereotypical dog than cat.
By the way, the names I use on this site for people and animals I know are almost never their real names. No offense, but I feel safer that way.
And I found something odd. I was visiting websites, and I saw something small dodging behind the title of one site. It got away, but it left some very…unusual marks.

I’ll see if I can’t get closer, if I see one of them again.
Party coming up soon! Look forward to something later on in October. Closer to November. Okay? Love, and hugs. Take care out there, especially in reality and also in pretend.
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Hurricane Katrina has awoken us to the suffering of our fellowman, here in the USA. May we help each other everywhere, and at every time in our life. For even not in the time of horrific natural or human-begun disasters, there is the need for help in our lives. We can give and feel kind, God-like love in service.
My church, at least in my area, is collecting collapsible luggage for hurricane victims. Though I haven’t been very good at this, let’s see what you can do today! For whoever needs your help in your area. We can’t all help victims of every disaster.
“Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.”
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D&C 93:20-22 (emphasis added—as usual ^-^)
For if you keep my commandments you shall receive of his fulness, and be glorified in me as I am in the Father; therefore, I say unto you, you shall receive grace for grace.
And now, verily I say unto you, I [Jesus Christ] was in the beginning with the Father, and am the Firstborn;
And all those who are begotten through me are partakers of the glory of the same, and are the church of the Firstborn.

2 Nephi 7:6-7
I gave my back to the smiter, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded. Therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
(Hard as it may be to follow, this is one of Christ’s examples to us. Have faith, brothers and sisters. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are here to help you, even if it isn’t always easy to see how. Do you always understand your parents’ rules and advice? I know parents aren’t perfect, because they are human just as we are. But Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are perfect. Have faith. Love.)

2 Ne. 17: 14-17, 21-22
Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign—Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and to choose the good.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep;
And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk they shall give he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

2 Ne. 18: 10-12, 16, 20
Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.
For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
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Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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To the law and to the testimony; and if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
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Fact of the day: The mandolin. What is it?

“[A] musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. The earlier mandolin, with five double strings, was developed from the mandola, a 17th-century lute. The Neapolitan mandolin, a smaller type having four pairs of strings, became popular in the 18th cent. and is the usual present-day mandolin. In popular music it is generally played with a tremolo motion. Notable uses of the mandolin in serious music are in Mozart's Don Giovanni and in pieces by Beethoven and Mahler.”

(from Answers.com, mandolin, the Encyclopedia section from or by Columbia University Press)

(from the same site) A plectrum is “[a] small thin piece of metal, plastic, bone, or similar material, used to pluck the strings of certain instruments, such as the guitar or lute.”

I own a fretted, or Appalachian, dulcimer, and Refi own a mandolin! Thanks again, Refi, for the suggested topics!
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2 Ne. 19: 2-3, 6-8 (emphasis added)
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Thou hast multiplied the nation, and increased the joy—they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
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For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of government and peace there is no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this.
The Lord sent his word unto Jacob and it hath lighted upon Israel.

The Profound Power of Gratitude
President Thomas S. Monson, Liahona and Ensign, September 2005, 2–8
The Apostle Paul, in his epistle to the Corinthians, proclaimed, 'Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.' And to the Thessalonians, 'In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God.' Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?

Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are perfect. They will take care of us. Trust Them. Believe and have faith in God. Love. Hugs. Take care.
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