Don't make us come find you LT

Im picturing him in his recliner sawing logs with the bible on his lap. Since he stays so busy hopefully something like that and he is ok.  I wouldnt know how to study for the topics but I should try.

lol I wonder what he would do if yall really did go find him.

He would barre his doors

lol how funny..... I would love to see that happen.... yall going after him.

ROFL

Greetings all,

Either the enemy, God or just really bad timing has been against this getting off the ground. My daughter broke down just north of Cincinnati Ohio. I left Wednesday straight from work with a flat bed trailer to go and retrieve her and my three grandchildren. They were safe in a motel, but they and the car needed to be retrieved. 35 hours later I got back at 2:15 this morning. Sorry I did not get a hold of someone, but my mind was elsewhere ... 

Let's see how the saga plays out next week ... :-(

LT, is she okay?  Your family is your strength. Life happens. Cars break down. I'd help my daughter and 3 grandkids too. They were probably glad to see you. It's nice to have grandpa's help.

If you hear me talking about the lawnmower children, that's my grandkids.  LOL  I'm saying this with great affection. Able to mow down a large pizza in no time flat. We have to order 3 large pizzas now. If you blink, the boys will swipe your piece of pizza. The boys are only ages 6 and 3.

Count me in for next week. I'm into HOA let's do this. The subject is great.

The only thing that could slow me down is the weather. Winter gets a little crazy around here. We've had a 2-1/2 hr. commute home before. If that would happen, I wouldn't be on time.

Love and God bless,

Mary

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (James 1:17)

I always get home and think...That's what I forgot. Children are a gift.

Love,

Mary

tomorrow night LT?

Yes.

Im sorry to hear about your power being out. From what I am reading it seems like satan has the reigns and control.

I hope you are able to get the HOA back started. When you do I will watch them after they are recorded. Im removing my name from this group and not because I am angry , pouting maybe, but this getting all excited all these times and just getting excited for nothing gets to me. I know its no ones fought but Im out of here.

Our garage door came off the track two days in a row. I think it's the cold weather. Gary thinks it's the garage door opener. Maybe it's both.??? Gary finally got the door back on its track with an ice pick and a hammer. We're so high tech around here. He was out in that awful cold messing with the garage door. I was praying for him. We're having a rough winter. I'm sorry. The temperature dropped off to 35 below wind chill this morning. Things malfunction in this kind of weather. Winter happens in MN.

Love,

Mary

Mary, I must say I got a good chuckle seeing you & him outside ice picking your garage doors. We old school. Spring is just around the corner. Stay in & stay warm lady. Love you

We keep track of each other when it gets this cold. We hear sad news stories of people being overcome by cold. People get locked outside or doors get frozen shut and they can't get back in. It's 17 below tonight without the wind chill. It was a soup night. We're pulling out comfort foods. I have my blanket. He's got his blanket. I'll bet you gave up a blanket when you were a kid, but around here we each have our own favorite fuzzy blanket. The weather should calm down in a few weeks. January's our harshest month, and then it slowly gets better.

Love,

Mary

Seek... a blanket in the trunk is a great idea. We take them on road trips, but not daily.

I'm going to put one in the trunk today. 

LOL  good idea.  It's COLD today

Stay safe. Keep warm.

I threw coffee grounds on our porch. It gives great traction when you don't have salt to melt the ice. I was out of salt in the house and got inventive. The drawback is you can track the coffee around.  That might not be so bad if you're trapsing around the yard and in the driveway and hoping to avoid sliding around. You can always leave your shoes or boots at the back door.

Also, depending on how much snow you have, Gary and I used a piece of paneling to remove the snow after our Halloween blizzard. We worked as a team. Shovels weren't doing it for us anyway. It was too heavy. Now we have someone come in and shovel it for us, but during that major snowstorm we got inventive.

Tossing out some ideas since the store shelves don't have salt or shovels.

Love,

Mary

I thought this was to be a place to have a discussion about God, not the weather.

Brother, who created the weather? How many Scriptures are written about the majesty of God's creation? Why does it have to be from John 10 to make for good conversation. Isn't He over it all? Didn't you also see where one was saying she wasn't sure whether she could make it to the study because of the weather? And another one sharing the hardships that this weather brings & talking about caring for others during this time.

This group is a group that pretty much keeps us informed about our Thursday night meetings - which are about God. They are LIVE on google plus. So, if we stray from talking about meeting at 9pm on Thursday, don't stress it. Just go with it. 

Ask him. He knows how he meant it. Past experiences with folks & conversations with them can lead to back roads that others on the highway may not see that never speak to them or read their conversations.

And I agree Seek. Just go with it.

And I have a right to mine. But, then again, do we really have a 'right' to anything? Are we even our own anymore that WE have a 'right'? You're so correct. I should not have been rude. And had I not even said I was being rude, you may not have even taken it that way. Had I just said the rest of my paragraph, would you have thought the same thing? Maybe I need to repost it without the rude statement. Would you have thought anything of his statements when he's being quite rude to our sisters because one is watching ever so mindfully because she could literally freeze in the weather and has seen many do so there? Then we have another one -who is a single parent mind you, with a child with special needs - who wasn't sure she could make THIS GROUP'S meeting due to the weather? That means her electricity would be shut down which could be quite dangerous where she is alone in those woods. So, if I remove the one sentence, maybe my comments would be more to the point. Thank you for your correction. I'll be ever mindful of them on my next post when someone else comes at those expressing their concerns.

There wasn't anything wrong with Seek's picture.  It wasn't disrespectful to God or to this group.  Fellowship is part of what we are called to.  Eric, I understand your desire to honor God, but please recognize that honoring God means to honor each other.  I understood Seeks' picture post to show that she is getting some horrible weather, and may not be able to participate in the online study group.  There's an old saying 'A picture is worth a thousand words'.  Bad weather can get in the way.  Anyway, what matters is that we are here for each other to support, encourage, and prompt each other to do good works.  It's okay to talk about our personal lives, as a matter of fact, it's encouraged.  I hope you can see the benefits and necessity of that.  Many of us are also on facebook, and we also post things there (which is great), but there's a special feeling about being able to come to a website which is dedicated to Christ followers specifically.  It feels a little more comfortable--like family--here.  I hope people continue to feel safe and encouraged to share their personal struggles and bring things forward for prayer and encouragement.  It's hard to be alone in a storm---whether it's a snow storm or a life tribulation.  Let's be here for each other.

Amen Carla

Yes..  we should all give each other the benefit of the doubt.  I believe Eric's comment was meant to be harmless...I took it as an observation, a question....and a desire to always honor God.  That's why I commented that we honor God when we honor each other.  Amanda, your comment "we interpret them based on what we think we know about God".. of course this is true, we're all human.  We all have growing and learning to do.  It helps when we try to see things from one another's perspective.

Wow ... 13 responses to a single sentence. Time to let that go and if he wishes to respond and clarify his intent great, if not ....

Back to our topic. I do not think moving forward I can do Thursdays. The options are going to be one of the following:

1) Someone else lead the Thursday group.

2) Friday night with time to be determined.

3) Saturday with time to be determined.

4) Cease attempting to relaunch this or postpone.

Let me know your thoughts.

Lord Bless,

LT

With me, any night is really open since I don't have a schedule. So, that would also mean that any time is also fine with me.

I can do any night, but Friday night would be a great night. I don't have anything going on on Saturday.

Love,

Mary

Saturday is best for me.

So, thus far Saturday seems to be best.

Will be praying for the safety of everyone 

I believe we do everything we possibly can to meet the needs of all if it's possible & within our means to do so. Sure, we fall short at times as all humans do. The time difference makes it very difficult for us to be there for everyone unless someone from each country takes a lead in this. We don't feel it is possible for someone to sit up & wait until 2am to participate no more than you would expect any of us to sit up until a crazy time to record it. That is why it is a recorded meeting so that you can participate though it isn't live. You can always post under these recordings & someone will definitely reply to you. If you have any suggestions to remedy this, we would be open to them as we want to serve everyone as the Lord sees fit to open those doors.

We also do really want to get this relaunched, but acknowledge on my part a number of things has prevented that from happening. We will come up with a plan and implement it in the near future.

Also, John, I have not sent an email to site due to not being ready to relaunch it at this time. It will happen soon.