My Father-in-law called the other day and sang Happy Birthday to me. He's 89 years old and asked me how old I was now. He knows very well how old I am for we are 20 years apart.....but this type of question is expected by me from someone who a decade or so ago when being wheeled into the operating room for quadruple by-pass heart surgery asked the nurse if he would be able to play piano after the operation. She responded "Sure" of which he in turn said "That's good because I can't play piano now.' Well I threw him for a little bit of a loop as I answered that I'm now living in my 70th year....(having just turned 69). I prefer to answer this way in recognition of God's mercies which have been so overwhelming on someone so undeserving. I was on my knees for the past hour....praying for America....and discernment for us....this as I said in my last post that I would be doing....as President Trump would be plying his deceptive salesmanship in his State Of The Union Address. The following post was from April of 2014:
Message In A Bottle
This news item caught my attention and then generated this post. A German fisherman found a bottle with a postcard in it, and the date May 17, 1913 was legible over the stamps. Researchers were able to identify the author through the address on the postcard. It's believed the bottle was thrown into the Baltic Sea by a 20 year old man on a nature hike and then it floated on the cold waters for 100 years. The message on the postcard reads "Please state where and when this card was found, and then put it in the nearest Post Office. You will be informed in reply where and when it was set adrift. Our object is to find out the direction of the deep currents of the North Sea."
Romance writer Nicholas Sparks wrote a novel which was turned into a film titled Message In A Bottle where a man who lost his wife writes a letter, places it in a bottle and tosses it into the waters off of North Carolina. The bottle is found shortly afterwards and what follows is the plot of the book and the film.
We have been vacation people who loved our many trips to the beaches of the East Coast and are hoping to return to the Outer Banks of North Carolina again this year. I can't remember how old our son was, I'm guessing maybe eight or ten, when we started a little tradition. You can find them in just about every store on the boardwalk.....little bottles about two inches high half-filled with sand and tiny sea shells. I would buy about a half a dozen of them, pull the cork, and place an evangelistic message of some sort inside, and then our son and I would walk the beach and toss the bottles into the waves. Surely after so many years some of them are still floating. Maybe five years ago (nine years now) I started putting a little Christian message card with the address for these posts in those bottles. Yes, I still throw them into the sea, and if our son is along we do it together, and he's twenty-seven years old now. (32 now....and I still throw them in the surf....even if alone)
Note: I may also (Lord Willing) begin to add to that note.....refnet.fm....a website where they would surely receive more edification than anything that I can write.
Message In A Bottle
This news item caught my attention and then generated this post. A German fisherman found a bottle with a postcard in it, and the date May 17, 1913 was legible over the stamps. Researchers were able to identify the author through the address on the postcard. It's believed the bottle was thrown into the Baltic Sea by a 20 year old man on a nature hike and then it floated on the cold waters for 100 years. The message on the postcard reads "Please state where and when this card was found, and then put it in the nearest Post Office. You will be informed in reply where and when it was set adrift. Our object is to find out the direction of the deep currents of the North Sea."
Romance writer Nicholas Sparks wrote a novel which was turned into a film titled Message In A Bottle where a man who lost his wife writes a letter, places it in a bottle and tosses it into the waters off of North Carolina. The bottle is found shortly afterwards and what follows is the plot of the book and the film.
We have been vacation people who loved our many trips to the beaches of the East Coast and are hoping to return to the Outer Banks of North Carolina again this year. I can't remember how old our son was, I'm guessing maybe eight or ten, when we started a little tradition. You can find them in just about every store on the boardwalk.....little bottles about two inches high half-filled with sand and tiny sea shells. I would buy about a half a dozen of them, pull the cork, and place an evangelistic message of some sort inside, and then our son and I would walk the beach and toss the bottles into the waves. Surely after so many years some of them are still floating. Maybe five years ago (nine years now) I started putting a little Christian message card with the address for these posts in those bottles. Yes, I still throw them into the sea, and if our son is along we do it together, and he's twenty-seven years old now. (32 now....and I still throw them in the surf....even if alone)
Note: I may also (Lord Willing) begin to add to that note.....refnet.fm....a website where they would surely receive more edification than anything that I can write.
