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Hello everyone!

We are participating in our weekly corporate prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

You may also fast. There's no obligation or guidelines to how you should do it, or if you should do it at all. Just fast as the Lord leads and speaks to your convictions.

Hi there!  Hurricane time again.  I am asking all of you reading this to remember in your prayers all those already in or soon to be in the path of Hurricane Dorian.  Only those of us who have been ravaged by such storms can understand that kind of wrath.  It appears our coast will most assuredly be hit directly or glancingly (is that even a word?), but the wind, rain and storm surge will surely be something to reckon with.  It was almost a year ago when Florence slowly drenched all of us.

My concern is for all of my friends and family who live at the coast.  They have enough sense to come inland, but some of them haven't even moved back into their homes yet since Florence!

My generator is full of gas, I checked the oil and it started fine.  It will run everything in the house except for the heating and air, but I leave my A/C at 80, so that is not a necessity for me anyway.  My home is open to anyone around the neighborhood who needs anything I have should the power go out and they have no source of power.  It is SO nice to be able to share!    (:^)

Bryan always got everything gassed up whenever a hurricane was around just in case someone needed help afterwards.  So, the chain saws are all gassed up as is all our/my other equipment and with some of the guys on my street able to run that stuff, we will all be able to continue that kindness to others he was so fond of showing.

I miss him................

I'm bouncing off this article about Artificial Intelligence (AI). I stand by my convictions previously indicated by my fiction books on AI (one and two): AI will never rise to something that God hasn't already revealed about Creation in general. If there is to be a genuine AI, it will merely be a reflection of what man already thinks, or God will seize and it make it follow His revelation. I suspect the former. That means it will never do what enthusiasts dream about, nor what the naysayers fear, because it will always be the results of programing written by humans. By no means can it eclipse a heart-led people.

Again with the feet.
  I have a 3:45 appointment with the Foot speciologist (I like inventing words) today. I my MRI 10 days ago. I'm going straight after work so he can see it at it's worst and get an idea of what I have to deal with. According to my own research it is treatable without surgery, YIPPEE! He should be able to judge which treatment applies to me. So, my prayer is too be able to stay on my feet 8hrs a day. At the moment after 4 hrs I'm in severe pain and start looking at the clock and saying "alright, Mr Iain you can do 30 more minutes" after those 30, I say "Mr Iain buck up and gimme 15 minutes more", I repeat this until I reach "I cain't stand it no more!". Then I hobble out the door.
  "Lord , you know I love with all my heart, soul and strength. I know I ain't the most well behaved of your young'uns but, You love me regardless and I appreciate that a whole bunch. Sometimes Your Love overwhelms me because...I don't know you're just an awesome dude and I ain't. Every once in while you gift me the ability to take the pain of others and that is well appreciated by those fortunate few. I ain't gonna ask for nothing because I'd rather be in pain and see You Glorified than for me to be healed and quickly forget where my healing came from. Lord, I ask you to bless my family, friends and my brothers and sisters in the Lord. I pray for those amongst these good folks whose heart ain't quite there yet, that they do get there. I'll do whatever you need to help. I thank you most sincerely and with all my heart. Thank you Jesus, Amen".

We are participating in our weekly corporate prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

You may also fast. There's no obligation or guidelines to how you should do it, or if you should do it at all. Just fast as the Lord leads and speaks to your convictions.

Yesterday I read something that made me realize that withdrawing myself from church is not a great idea anymore. It was because I needed time away. For a while, all I focused on was what was wrong and what I disagreed with. However, I have forged ties with these people going back two decades, I have rejoiced and grieved with them. I can't just blaze a trail ahead on my own and try to build a body on my own, made up of people who agree with my peculiar religion. 
  I can forget about the stuff they get wrong and concentrate on serving God as a weirdo in a sea of conformity. They need someone who ain't skeerd to whop a yeller jackets nest. My Daddy challenged me frequently on matters of my faith in Jesus Christ. Walk it, don't talk it was his challenge to me and anyone else who claimed to be a Christian in his presence. This was the purpose for which he was made. Now, I must pick up the cross laid down by my father and carry it forth, without any expectation of seeing results that can be seen outside of Heaven.

My physical heart, that is, although my real heart aches daily.

For whatever reason, perhaps and probably due to the stress and anguish of my husband's sudden death, I have started having very strange heartbeats.  Out of the blue, for no reason,  it beats fast and irregularly, then stops.  Then back to normal (which for me is about 62-66 bpm.)   I had my scheduled visit with my regular doctor and he thought it wise to put a heart monitor on me for 48 hours.  

In any case, a good dose of your prayers for me would be most appreciated, dear family.

Another week, folks!

We are participating in our weekly corporate prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

You may also fast. There's no obligation or guidelines to how you should do it, or if you should do it at all. Just fast as the Lord leads and speaks to your convictions.

Happy Humpday, folks.

We are participating in our weekly corporate prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

You may also fast. There's no obligation or guidelines to how you should do it, or if you should do it at all. Just fast as the Lord leads and speaks to your convictions.