A soldier was asked to report to headquarters for assignment. The sergeant said, "We have a critical shortage of typists. I'll give you a little test. Type this," he ordered, giving him a pamphlet to copy and a sheet of paper, and pointing to a desk across the room that held a typewriter and an adding machine.
The soldier, quite reluctant to become a clerk typist, made a point of typing very slowly, and saw to it that his work contained as many errors as possible. The sergeant gave the typed copy only a brief glance. "That's fine," he said. "Report for work at 8 tomorrow."
"But aren't you going to check the test?" the prospective clerk asked. The sergeant grinned.
"You passed the test," he replied, "when you sat down at the typewriter instead of at the adding machine."
5/17/2009
That's just the beginning of this study
The best part is yet to come: how this feast relates to our Saviour! The whole reason to keep the feast is to honour Him, to bring to rememberance His life, death, and resurrection, of which the first feast was a symbol. I know that topics like this are not just said without someone denouncing the subject, the speaker, or, ultimately, the God to Whom these laws belong. I have faith that the way I believe reflects the truth, but I also attend on His guidance. If He says differently, I listen, and prove the saying by His already manifest Word. In the next post, I will show scriptures and thoughts on these subjects:
- The two feasts of Passover/Unleavened Bread attended by Yahshua after His baptism, with His miracles and events during that time
- New Testament occurence before His crucifixion, washing of feet and communion
- My belief that communion replaces lamb & herbs eaten
- Prophecies & statements about Yahshua being the Passover and the Lamb
- Timing of the Crucifixion, during the feast days and sabbaths
- Yahshua's death and resurrection brings about a new covenant with Israel
- Leavening compared to sin and pride
- The two feasts of Passover/Unleavened Bread attended by Yahshua after His baptism, with His miracles and events during that time
- New Testament occurence before His crucifixion, washing of feet and communion
- My belief that communion replaces lamb & herbs eaten
- Prophecies & statements about Yahshua being the Passover and the Lamb
- Timing of the Crucifixion, during the feast days and sabbaths
- Yahshua's death and resurrection brings about a new covenant with Israel
- Leavening compared to sin and pride
Inspiration
Every once in a while, I read a book on cooking, usually salvaged from a pile that Mother brings home from the library. As I flip through the pages, looking at gleaming dishes and strange ingredients lists, the stark fact that I can't cook like those chefs makes me sad. That kind of a book usually gives me an inspiration to make every meal a masterpiece, something that is quite out of my reach. The same goes for books on gardening, decorating, painting, entertaining and sewing, as well as a lot of cds - it is too hard to reproduce the ideas of those masters. Although, sometimes I can play a piece and make an imitation of a great song. There are some musical geniuses that play so well and different and odd and beautiful that I think, okay, just enjoy and admire, because you can't reproduce that sound.
Back to cooking. Now, understand that I can cook. Some of the things that I fix taste very good. I can bake quite tasty biscuits. A much older friend said that when he first courted his then future wife, he made sure to find out if she made great biscuits. After tasting them, he knew that she would be a good wife, and they've been married over fifty years. Isn't that lovely? So I learned how to make biscuits, for that reason. The cooks that I like are Rocco, Jamie Oliver, Sue Gregg, and now, Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa. Her book is the first that I've found to have ingredients that are available anywhere and recipes that look easy, and that I would want to make. Usually I scan everything and end up in the cake section, because I like baking.
My favorite food is bread. I like all kinds of bread, but especially french bread with butter and garlic salt. The best meal, for me, is a baked potato with chili, cheese and sour cream. I used to say steak, but those vary in taste so much. I like cheese, (peeled) grapes, carrots with ranch, and chocolate mint cookies. I like juice in those tiny cardboard kiddie boxes too.
Now, I should say that food isn't everything. Our total focus shouldn't be food. However, food is naturally a big part of everyone's life, and for someone that makes the meals, it can be very boring without a little inspiration. Since I've stopped watching tv, I've been cooking more. And maybe some of the Contessa's recipes will appear in our kitchen soon.
Back to cooking. Now, understand that I can cook. Some of the things that I fix taste very good. I can bake quite tasty biscuits. A much older friend said that when he first courted his then future wife, he made sure to find out if she made great biscuits. After tasting them, he knew that she would be a good wife, and they've been married over fifty years. Isn't that lovely? So I learned how to make biscuits, for that reason. The cooks that I like are Rocco, Jamie Oliver, Sue Gregg, and now, Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa. Her book is the first that I've found to have ingredients that are available anywhere and recipes that look easy, and that I would want to make. Usually I scan everything and end up in the cake section, because I like baking.
My favorite food is bread. I like all kinds of bread, but especially french bread with butter and garlic salt. The best meal, for me, is a baked potato with chili, cheese and sour cream. I used to say steak, but those vary in taste so much. I like cheese, (peeled) grapes, carrots with ranch, and chocolate mint cookies. I like juice in those tiny cardboard kiddie boxes too.
Now, I should say that food isn't everything. Our total focus shouldn't be food. However, food is naturally a big part of everyone's life, and for someone that makes the meals, it can be very boring without a little inspiration. Since I've stopped watching tv, I've been cooking more. And maybe some of the Contessa's recipes will appear in our kitchen soon.
5/14/2009
One day, a painter found himself short of help and went to the unemployment office to hire someone for the day.
When he arrived, they didn’t have any painters available, but they did have a gynecologist there. He reluctantly took him along to help.
A couple of weeks later, the painter returned to the unemployment office needing temporary help again. This time there were two painters, but instead he asked for the gynecologist again.
The clerk asked, "Why do you want a gynecologist when we have two professional painters you can take right now?"
He said, "Two weeks ago when I hired the gynecologist, we arrived at the house and it was locked with nobody home. But I’ll be damned if that gynecologist didn’t stick his hand through the mail slot and paint the whole house!!"
When he arrived, they didn’t have any painters available, but they did have a gynecologist there. He reluctantly took him along to help.
A couple of weeks later, the painter returned to the unemployment office needing temporary help again. This time there were two painters, but instead he asked for the gynecologist again.
The clerk asked, "Why do you want a gynecologist when we have two professional painters you can take right now?"
He said, "Two weeks ago when I hired the gynecologist, we arrived at the house and it was locked with nobody home. But I’ll be damned if that gynecologist didn’t stick his hand through the mail slot and paint the whole house!!"
5/05/2009
Reclaiming Childhood: freedom and play in an age of fear
At last, a book that challenges the culture of risk aversion that is having such a suffocating effect on children's lives.
Drawing on her experiences as a free-ranging child in Norway, as a primary school teacher in Manchester and her research as a developmental psychologist, Guldberg provides a well-argued and spirited challenge to the "institutional suspicion and state-authorised scare mongering" that has fostered a climate of mistrust around contemporary parenting.
Guldberg is particularly critical of the anti-bullying crusade that she says exaggerates both the scale and the consequences of bullying, leading to increasingly intrusive adult and professional intervention in children's activities. As a result, children's free play is curtailed and their scope for independently and informally developed personal resilience and social skills is restricted.
Refusing to join the chorus of parenting blame, Guldberg instead points the finger at "government-driven and mediafuelled campaigns" around issues such as childhood obesity, mental ill-health and child abuse for provoking anxieties and fostering mistrust. Rather than encouraging children to regard strangers as a source of danger, she argues "let strangers be friends". Taken together with her radical proposals to let "parents be parents" and "teachers be teachers", this points the way forward to create a greater freedom for our children.
You can buy this book here
Drawing on her experiences as a free-ranging child in Norway, as a primary school teacher in Manchester and her research as a developmental psychologist, Guldberg provides a well-argued and spirited challenge to the "institutional suspicion and state-authorised scare mongering" that has fostered a climate of mistrust around contemporary parenting.
Guldberg is particularly critical of the anti-bullying crusade that she says exaggerates both the scale and the consequences of bullying, leading to increasingly intrusive adult and professional intervention in children's activities. As a result, children's free play is curtailed and their scope for independently and informally developed personal resilience and social skills is restricted.
Refusing to join the chorus of parenting blame, Guldberg instead points the finger at "government-driven and mediafuelled campaigns" around issues such as childhood obesity, mental ill-health and child abuse for provoking anxieties and fostering mistrust. Rather than encouraging children to regard strangers as a source of danger, she argues "let strangers be friends". Taken together with her radical proposals to let "parents be parents" and "teachers be teachers", this points the way forward to create a greater freedom for our children.
You can buy this book here
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