tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post7210249981285237476..comments2024-01-05T20:53:36.955+11:00Comments on linda may: Sunday Scribblings, Change.linda mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426368991644308588noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-36136840333308253242008-11-10T23:57:00.000+11:002008-11-10T23:57:00.000+11:00Very interesting! I love all the Australian words...Very interesting! I love all the Australian words and names!Linda Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459940700516084069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-54725896389466843392008-11-10T02:20:00.000+11:002008-11-10T02:20:00.000+11:00Martha said...Linda, you can always change your se...<B>Martha said...</B><BR/><I>Linda, you can always change your settings so comments have to be approved. It is a shame to have to do that to prevent someone from taking over your comments..</I><BR/><BR/><B>My Dear Martha,</B><BR/><I>I LOVE JESUS SO MUCH<BR/><BR/>I SHOULD NEVER HAVE ANY CAUSE OR REASON TO BE ASHAMED TO LOVE JESUS.</I><BR/><BR/><I>Is not the time coming, and the day hastening, when covetous men shall be ashamed of loving the world, and voluptuous men ashamed of loving their pleasures, and ambitious men ashamed of loving their honours?<BR/><BR/>For is it not a horrid shame, that a rational creature should be such a sot as to love sin which is most loathsome, and not to love Jesus who is most lovely? To love deformity, and not beauty?<BR/><BR/>Oh shame, shame! It is a shame that sin should have such esteem, and Jesus such great contempt put upon him. But shame shall before long confound these now shameless wretches, when they shall cry out, "We are ashamed that we loved profits, and not Jesus- houses, lands, lusts, and not Jesus.<BR/><BR/>This is the confusion of our faces, and shame covers us-- that we should be so foolish, and so blind, that we had not sense, nor reason, to distinguish between sin, which is the greatest and most odious evil, and Jesus who is the greatest and most lovely good." But the time will never come, the day will never be, that a gracious soul shall be ashamed of his sincere love to Jesus Christ.</I>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940745178193985942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-46742813104686854652008-11-10T01:05:00.000+11:002008-11-10T01:05:00.000+11:00I still shop in a number of neighborhood shops :)....I still shop in a number of neighborhood shops :). I do have a full-size supermarket just down the road, several in fact, but for many things the small stores are still better, and there is something to be said for shopping where they know your name, where they will hold that item you desperately need for you, where they'll let you come by and pay later when you've forgotten your wallet (who me?).Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02409530202277375625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-13199858150875363642008-11-09T23:26:00.000+11:002008-11-09T23:26:00.000+11:00You might want to try using a filter to stop peopl...You might want to try using a filter to stop people who spam...delete their comments. I'm sorry people do that.Lilibethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04031218249072893776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-15268554366063073922008-11-09T23:20:00.000+11:002008-11-09T23:20:00.000+11:00I, like you, remember when my husband and I bought...I, like you, remember when my husband and I bought groceries for thirty dollars a week. We also spent two years at an orphanage in Mexico, and fed 45 (more or less) children on one hundred and fifty a week. Of course that also had to pay for medicine and diesel for the electric plant-(which only ran a couple of hours a day--when it ran) Today, I don't know what their budget is.<BR/><BR/>As far as salaries go, mine has stayed close to the same for years, but that's because I teach in a private school. If I went to a public school my salary would double...but so would my blood pressure and it's too high already.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for a well-written post. I love to read about life in other times and places and you've given both.Lilibethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04031218249072893776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-21796153540775979072008-11-09T23:12:00.000+11:002008-11-09T23:12:00.000+11:00Linda, you can always change your settings so comm...Linda, you can always change your settings so comments have to be approved. It is a shame to have to do that to prevent someone from taking over your comments that way but we all know the views expressed in the comments section are not necessarily the views of the blog owner.Marthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03955835974564426526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-45052904369468285902008-11-09T18:43:00.000+11:002008-11-09T18:43:00.000+11:00Yeah, times change, and we all remember 'the good ...Yeah, times change, and we all remember 'the good old days' - but when it comes full circle, we realise that perhaps it wasn't so good after all.Stan Skihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11963655096635414472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-11166283835405492462008-11-09T18:41:00.000+11:002008-11-09T18:41:00.000+11:00life experiences are great teachers to us. sometim...life experiences are great teachers to us. sometimes we do complain, but as they always say, we cant do nothing about what had happened before. <BR/><BR/>thanks for sharing your storytotomaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805083472267649276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-72157504588719221972008-11-09T17:34:00.000+11:002008-11-09T17:34:00.000+11:00linda may said...Re Michael Patrick;I do not go in...<B>linda may said...</B><BR/><I>Re Michael Patrick;<BR/>I do not go in for religious extremism.<BR/>If I want to be preached to I know where to go for that and I do not want it on my computer. Your style of religion give Christianity a bad name.</I><BR/><BR/><B>Dear Linda,</B><BR/>I felt some pain reading your <B>DIATRIBE</B> - I imagine you were <B>RAGING</B> over your fear, pain & shame?<BR/><BR/>Did your father <I>"preach"</I> to you?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940745178193985942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-68599910657829231992008-11-09T17:00:00.000+11:002008-11-09T17:00:00.000+11:00Re Michael Patrick; I do not go in for religious e...Re Michael Patrick;<BR/> I do not go in for religious extremism. <BR/>If I want to be preached to I know where to go for that and I do not want it on my computer. Your style of religion give Christianity a bad name. <BR/>Those are your views not mine, if I choose to be preached to I know where to go for that and I do not want it in my own home through my computer. Thank You.<BR/>Otherwise you are welcome to share my blog.linda mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17426368991644308588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-86859284650984944462008-11-09T14:38:00.000+11:002008-11-09T14:38:00.000+11:00Your post has brought back some wonderful memories...Your post has brought back some wonderful memories. <BR/>We had a bakery a few blocks from our house and the meat market was about five blocks away. The little corner store where we usually went was also just two blocks away. She didn't have fresh produce or meats, just milk and canned stuff mostly and a wonderful bumball machine that took a penny. Gosh I loved that thing.<BR/>Mom used to give us twenty five cents to go to the bakery for loaf of bread. One day we came back for more money. The price had gone up. Grandma said,<BR/> "you mark my word, one day a loaf of bread will cost a whole dollar. As we know, that day came and went. I stopped buying store-bought bread because of the chemicals used. I use my bread machine instead and my bread is much healthier.<BR/>I do wish we could go back and enjoy the simpler life. Oh....those were the days!Mountain Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484592294033354129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-72712089992470122152008-11-09T12:53:00.000+11:002008-11-09T12:53:00.000+11:00I suppose that the beauty of all of it is the cons...I suppose that the beauty of all of it is the constant change. guess we would be bored with out it.<BR/>Thanks for sharing some interesting Reflections..Sorrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03058557348955007784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-57889032291967775802008-11-09T11:10:00.000+11:002008-11-09T11:10:00.000+11:00Very interesting post. I, too, remember what we ca...Very interesting post. I, too, remember what we called hucksters who came around in trucks and even a few horse-drawn wagons when I was a child. I also remember the iceman and the chips of ice he would let the neighborhood children have from the back of his truck. Change has certainly happened in our lifetimes.Marthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03955835974564426526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-32456975698581699372008-11-09T05:59:00.000+11:002008-11-09T05:59:00.000+11:00AA denies CHRIST & the STEPPERS who claim to b...<I>AA denies <B>CHRIST</B> & the <B>STEPPERS</B> who claim to be <B>CHRISTIAN</B> are participating in it.</I><BR/><BR/><B>AA TOO IS PARTICIPATING IN THE DOCTRINE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST.</B><BR/><BR/><B>SHADOW, (1 Door Away From Heaven part II)</B> is participating in THE DOCTRINE OF THE <B>ANTI-CHRIST.</B>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940745178193985942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-7327162713202142232008-11-09T05:57:00.000+11:002008-11-09T05:57:00.000+11:00TWELVE STEPS AWAY FROM CHRISTMr. Bill Wilson, foun...<B>TWELVE STEPS AWAY FROM CHRIST</B><BR/><I>Mr. Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) and creator of the twelve-step program. Mr. Wilson was heavily influenced by demons.</I> <BR/><BR/>Chapter sixteen (p. 275f) of 'Pass It On' The Story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world records Mr. Wilson's use of the ouija board, participation in séances, psychic events, "spook sessions", table levitation, and how he would receive "messages" from "discarnate" spirits. <BR/><BR/><B>Bill Wilson was clearly in contact with demons, and this is the man who created the deceptive twelve-step program.</B><BR/><BR/>Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. (Step #11. Emphasis added.) <B>The last part of this statement ("as we understood Him") is enough to damn your soul! God says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5). <BR/><BR/>This is the exact opposite of "God as we understood Him." All men, according to Romans 1:18-32, are condemned before God, because they rely upon their own understanding (Romans 1:21; Ephesians 4:18, "having their understanding darkened"), and they create (in their own darkened minds) a god of their own making (Romans 1:23).</B><BR/><BR/>To encourage people to turn their "lives over to the care of God as we understood Him", is to encourage people to "turn their lives over to a god of their own making" (i.e. according to their own understanding). <BR/><BR/>This promotes nothing more than spiritual death (Revelation 22:15). <B>In addition, these twelve steps are a deceitful attack against the saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ (i.e. they are against Christ, anti-Christ, 2 John 7; Colossians 2:8-10).</B> <BR/><BR/><I>The twelve steps are (as Mr. Wilson used them) given as an answer (a way) in which one can overcome sin (with Mr. Wilson's case, the sin of drunkenness).</I><BR/><BR/><B>Jesus Christ is the ONLY answer for sin. He is the only way (John 14:6). There is only ONE "step", and that is faith in the Saviour (Ephesians 2:8/Matthew1:21/John 8:36/Romans10: 13!</B> <BR/><BR/>The above exemplifies the "twelve steps" are what are used to "become free from addictive, compulsive" behaviour (i.e. sin). In other words, the twelve steps are the saviour! <BR/><BR/>No doubt it is deceptive, because "Biblical principles" are interwoven throughout; but if they weren't, few (if any) would be deceived. One good question to ask would be, "Where does Scripture talk about any 'twelve steps'"? The answer? Nowhere!<BR/><BR/><I>These twelve steps come from Satan (via Bill Wilson), who is the master deceiver (Revelation 12:9). Remember, <B>SATAN.</B> used Scripture to tempt Christ (Matthew 4:6), and Balaam spoke much truth (Numbers 23-24); but he was a false prophet (2 Peter 2:15-16/Numbers 22). <BR/><BR/>In Matthew 7:13-14 Jesus warned, Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. <BR/><BR/>Jesus likewise warned in Luke 13:24, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.</I><BR/><BR/><B><I>Peace Be With You<BR/>Michael Patrick</I></B>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940745178193985942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-76640833927218290122008-11-09T05:37:00.000+11:002008-11-09T05:37:00.000+11:00time travel at its finest... i spending $25 a week...time travel at its finest... i spending $25 a week for groceries,, many moons agio when i was first married... now as a single woman,, i spend $40 every dang time i go in the store it seems!!! and i never do a full weeks shopping all at once anymore...paisleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231453820728399262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-25173237163397769872008-11-09T04:41:00.000+11:002008-11-09T04:41:00.000+11:00Sometimes our grocery bills make me gasp... I reme...Sometimes our grocery bills make me gasp... I remember living on $15/week. Lots of rice and beans, and no car to drive for shopping, but I suspect I was healthier for both the cheap food and constant walking.annohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05102616203481686227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-83164771741781852502008-11-09T02:38:00.001+11:002008-11-09T02:38:00.001+11:00And come read my post..Champions of writing and bo...And come read my post..<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/11/champions-of-writing-and-bonding.html" REL="nofollow">Champions of writing and bonding</A>gautami tripathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-51379097132819548662008-11-09T02:38:00.000+11:002008-11-09T02:38:00.000+11:00You won't beleive essential commodities like groce...You won't beleive essential commodities like grocery has touched the sky here...gautami tripathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072025424165524969.post-71212684191857339402008-11-09T02:21:00.000+11:002008-11-09T02:21:00.000+11:00Some excellent reflections there. From my experien...Some excellent reflections there. From my experience, living standards have actually gone down in recent times, despite what most governments say.<BR/> I remember in the 1970s a relatively low wage could fund a flat, a car, meals out and various other treats - beer, I mean.<BR/> Today these things are increasingly more difficult to afford on a low wage.anthonynorthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06680944720744601697noreply@blogger.com