Sunday, August 06, 2006
Adi has these three trees, Jonah had only one tree (with a vine for a while)
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"Someone's been sleeping in my bed too," hollered Moma bear.
Photos Family Religion+and+Philosophy Religion Photography
This is a hedge apple [or horse apple] tree at the end of our side street on hole number 10, the green is behind those trees.
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"Someone's been sleeping in my bed,
and she's still there!" growled Daddy bear
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This tree for Adi is a large pecan halfway down the hill on our street. The pecans aren't very good this year, it has been too dry for them to fill.
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Jonah awaits the fate of Nineveh (Engraving)
by MERIAN, Matthaeus the Elder 1625-30
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I don't know too much about this tree and vine. In fact, this from Jonah 4 is all I do know:
Jonah 4:5 Jonah went out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city. 6 Then the LORD God provided a vine and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the vine. 7 But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the vine so that it withered. 8 When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah's head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, "It would be better for me to die than to live."
9 But God said to Jonah, "Do you have a right to be angry about the vine?" "I do," he said. "I am angry enough to die."
10 But the LORD said, "You have been concerned about this vine, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. 11 But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city?"
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That verse 11 is how the Bible book, Jonah ends, just those four chapters. For the entire book, all four chapters, click here.
I think there is a lesson in there for me someplace, maybe quite a few. The ending sounds like the Little Red Hen story (words). And of course those people still don't know their right hand from their left. We are trying to teach them now.
You can read again how Jonah didn't want to obey God and go warn these people of Nineveh, how God had a big fish take him there, and how here under the tree, Jonah was still a sorry old person.
Notes:
1. Nineveh was on the eastern bank of the Tigris in modern-day Mosul, Iraq. (Wikipedia)
2. It was Baby bear who found Adi (Goldilocks) sleeping in Baby bear's bed. (go here for this whole story)
3. The Little Red Hen couldn't get anybody to help her grow the grain and to make the bread, she did it all by herself. So then she sure didn't need help from those ungrateful people to help her eat the bread, she ate it all herself. (go here for this whole story)
4. When I was in the Army, I was one of the guys who had to, by the sergeant's order, carry a rock in my right hand during marching drill.
Thursday, May 02, 2013
— My Alphabe-Thursday (2nd), the letter "X" / Thursday Two Questions —
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My "X" word for this week is Xu. What is that you ask. So I looked it up in the Scrabble Dictionary and this is what I found:
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So it seems that if my "X" word, Xu, is not defined but is a word, then it is up to me as to what to post. I am posting several screen captures of items that I have found and then some comment to go with that. Don't be alarmed, I am only posting a few of the many possibilities. Beck's Prime sent me this coupon so that Mrs. Jim and and I could honor the occasion. We have a Beck's Prime here in The Woodlands, Texas, so it won't be a major drive for us. The Woodlands also has two multi-screen movie theatres so likely we can see a movie for our outing. Or we could go shopping??
You can click on any picture to see it larger. If your browser supports it, you can click again and most will get larger still. Click here and you might start getting coupons from Beck's Prime that you could use in Texas.
If I ever own a Model T Ford then I would like it to be one of these. My friend who has two in his car collection asked me what part of it was from a Model T. Still, I like it. (MSN's "Hidden treasure: 12 automotive gems in LA" link) (be sure to click on the picture so you can read the text)
Above is an unknown artist's rendition of the beach at Etretat, France that I found in the Internet. At right is a picture I took in April, 2009 during our visit there. Mrs. Jim, son Tim, and I climbed the cliff up to the church. Since then I've had another heart stent but then that climb almost did me in. I did not walk any further past the church with the better walkers, Mrs. Jim and Tim.
Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday -- Etretat, France (link)
The goofy looking guy at the left is an unknown artist's rendition of Jonah sitting in the belly of the big fish.
Our Sunday school lesson was over the book of Jonah which tells of the episode of the unwilling prophet, Jonah, in his dealing with his mission trip to Nineveh. Jonah did not want to go there as he detested the people of Nineveh and had decided they did not need to know about God's love for them.
You probably remember this Bible story. Anyway, when Jonah went the other way God caused a shipwreck and while struggling to keep afloat God sent a big fish to swallow Jonah. Jonah learned his lesson for a bit and did go to Nineveh and deliver God's message to the Ninevehites. But he resented doing that afterwards. (my earlier Jonah blog link)
I ran across this picture of Elin Nordegren's new toy. It is the larger of the two yachts and it belongs to her new boy friend, Chris Cline.This yacht belonging to Cline is nine feet longer than the one behind it. The shorter yacht belongs to Elin's ex-husband, Tiger Woods.
A yacht is not on my bucket list. I did have a John boat once but gave it away. All I had to do was to set it and the little outboard motor out at the curb and they were gone the next morning.
It may have come in a circulating e-mail.
This summer we should visit relatives. We have them in Nebraska, Iowa, Louisiana, Tennessee, and London (U.K.). I subscribe, free, to several tourist information Web sites concerning some of these locations. Nebraska was showing this picture on the Road Trip recent page of the "Visit Nebraska" Web site (link). "Visit Britain" also has a nice tourism blog (link).
Now for my Thursday Two Questions.
My post last week was about the "W" word Willie Nelson. It was a post having several of his songs on YouTube presentations.
1. What is your liking of using coupons with bargains in eating?
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2. How do you feel about Jonah?
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1. What is your favorite "X" word?
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2. What are your travel plans for the year?
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==> My Questions here are for Amanda at her Thursday Two Questions blog, Self Sagacity. Please visit her there for her questions and links to other partakers of her fun blogging idea.
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