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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/26/2008 4:37:34 PM
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magdaleine
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Better go find yourself a shrink, then, Ben!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/26/2008 5:43:28 PM
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I think you'd have much to add to an adult's group. You're very articulate and thoughtful. But starting a study group for the teen girls is an EXCELLENT idea. Go for it!
I'm having serious trouble in my mouth. A nerve seems to be exposed and the pain is excruciating. It went away for a bit but now it's back and I haven't a clue what to do. Linda, I am going to try that aspirin idea. I guess that's one thing to try. I'm on the outs with my dentist's office so they won't see me likely, even for an emergency. I'm wanting to go to this small group starting tonight but if my mouth is like this I won't be going anywhere. Please pray that it will subside? Thanks.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/26/2008 6:23:07 PM
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Earlier today Linda (Leah) suggested putting an aspirin at the painful site so that's what I'm doing and it's helping. It was okay too when I was eating some ice cream so I tried keeping ice in my mouth and that helps temporarily. I'm hoping it will die down of its own accord and give no more trouble. I've had gum surgery twice in that area so it's a place in my mouth I know well.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/26/2008 6:43:42 PM
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Slushie, I just tried the link in your signature and my eyes nearly popped out when I saw the volume of comments you get for your blog. Who are your readers? How in the WORLD have so many people found your blog?
ETA: If you're prefer to answer in a pm, that's fine.
< Message edited by magdaleine -- 6/26/2008 6:49:48 PM >
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/27/2008 3:16:19 AM
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My mouth is still screaming at me and I can't sleep.
Small group tonight was awesome. It was VERY small, just four of us, but that was perfect to begin with. The other three know each other well--one had been going to this church for eight years and the others much longer than that. So we did introductions, since they don't know me and I don't know them, telling a bit about ourselves. I kept mine very bland and statistical--married 34 years, 4 sons in their 20s, that sort of thing. The others shared a bit about their spiritual journeys but I went first and didn't really want to get too deep or I'd have been talking for an hour. In sharing stories, the two others who weren't the hostess/leader told of some of the things they've been dealing with--really painful things--so we discussed those for a bit and then a CD of worship/praise music was turned on. We sat listening and praying silently for about half an hour and then we prayed verbally.
[The malathion truck has just passed our house--spraying to kill the mosquitoes.]
I think this will be the format of the group and I couldn't be happier. These same women are regulars at the monthly prophetic prayer meetings so I've met them before--just don't know them yet. I am so grateful to God, however, for linking me to just the right people in this church--people who are committed pray-ers. There is much about prayer that I could learn.
And the church is having a camp out later in July. We book a group use area site from a nearby provincial park and everyone brings their tents and food and has a good time. Apparently last year there weren't that many who went. They're expecting more this year and dh has agreed to come with me. He's even buying me a new camp cot to replace the one that broke on me the last time we were tenting. He's turning out to be a nice guy. I even thanked God for him tonight as I was trying to get to sleep.
[This is another rambling post.]
From sometime in the 1800s until not that long ago, native Indian children were taken from their parents, families, communities/reserves and sent to residential schools run by Catholics and Anglicans. I don't know a whole lot of the history of them, but I'm guessing the intent was a good one. The reserves were too small to have their own schools and it was more economic to have schools centrally located that could serve a vast area. It is claimed that the schools were created with the idea of Europeanizing the native people.
A few years ago (at least to my recollection) it became known that these schools across Canada were places of abuse of all kinds. One of the great tragedies, however, was not the overt abuse but rather that several (many?) generations of kids grew up apart from their parents and communities so they never learned how to parent. It is a horrid, horrid legacy that has greatly wounded the aboriginal people of our country. Their woundedness shows up in things such as passing the abuse on to the next generation, alcoholism, drug addiction, homelessness, violence and gang membership, and a suicide rate that is way out of proportion to the rest of Canada.
A week and a half ago, the prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, issued a public apology in the House of Commons to the aboriginal community for what was done to them because of these residential schools. [You can read it here, if you're interested: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=213902c3-d55e-4f40-80fc-ed1adff81272 ] So important! And yet they could be hollow-sounding words if our actions as a country don't follow our words. My church is smack in the middle of Winnipeg's urban native community and I believe that Winnipeg has the largest proportion of urban natives in all of Canada, if not Canada and the US combined.
One of our group, about my age, is a survivor of residential schooling. The little I've heard of her story is horrific. There's a book published by Indian Life called "The Grieving Indian." It's a very apt title. Our hostess and leader tonight was at a conference dealing with the wounded legacy of the aboriginal people that began, quite coincidentally, on the same day as the apology. One man at the conference commented, "When are we going to see books entitled, 'The Happy Indian'"? When indeed!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/27/2008 1:58:01 PM
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In response to your question, maggie: I just go around and find them. Most of them stick around. It's a great way to minister to people. I've taken a break for a while, though.
I'm going to this conference in New York! Yay! I actually signed up way past the deadline but they fitted me in anyway because I said I wanted to be a small group leader. And I do. The conference starts next Wednesday. I'm excited! Pray that I'll be able to connect with the members of my small group. And thank God for my youth pastor, who did everything possible to call the people to get me registered and in there even though he's been really stressed out.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/27/2008 2:31:30 PM
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Maggie, I'm sorry to hear that your mouth is giving you fits. I'll keep you in prayer, OK?
Tomorrow is my 11th wedding anniversary! Can you believe it? Mary should be nominated for sainthood for putting up with me for that long. I've written a little something to read to her at dinner tomorrow evening, and I posted it in Shar-Mar's thread to get some feedback on it. If you don't mind, Maggs, I'd like to post it here so you can see it. I value your opinion as a writer, so tell what you think of it.
Mary,
11 years ago tomorrow, I awoke on what was the first morning of our married life. As I looked at your face while you slept, I realized a truth that has stayed with me ever since: one of the greatest perks about marriage is the waking up. Knowing that you have committed to being there beside me, barring illness or travel, for the rest of your life has been such a comfort to me that I cannot begin to thank you enough for.
God has been teaching me many things during these last 11 years: compassion, mercy, perseverance, a need to look at things with fresh eyes, how to learn with a pure heart, and most importantly, how to love with great passion. The way you always want to give me a kiss, even when you might be leaving the room for only a few moments, is a wonder to me – even though I may jokingly give you a hard time about it.
Whenever I look at you, it warms my heart, but there are certain times that it just takes my breath away. The touch of your fingers to the back of my hand can still make my heart beat a little faster. And when you call me “handsome,” I do feel that way, though I may laugh it off on the outside. You are my most precious jewel, my most wondrous gift from God, and my greatest encourager.
And so on this, our 11th anniversary, I want to tell you once again that I will love you no matter what happens in our lives – good times and bad, illness or great health, prosperity or poverty. I will protect you, defend you, learn from you, teach you, encourage you, I’ll pray with (and for) you, and give every ounce of effort that God puts within me to become all that you need in a husband, until either Jesus returns for His Bride or death claims one of us. If it is permissible to paraphrase Scripture in this way, let me say “You are my wife; there is no other.”
Thank you for saying “Yes” 12 years ago to my proposal, and “I do” 11 years ago at our wedding. I love you, Mary.
What do you think?
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/27/2008 2:57:46 PM
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I love it. It's so... sweet and heartwarming.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/27/2008 3:10:18 PM
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Thanks, Slushie!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/27/2008 8:12:29 PM
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quote:
In response to your question, maggie: I just go around and find them.
How? I want to learn from you!
That's awesome about the conference! Congratulations!
Duane, thanks for praying. I didn't go to see a dentist today because I wasn't having problems today but of course, now that the weekend has begun, it's tempting to flare up again.
I really like the letter you wrote. Very well done. If there was anything that jarred me in the slightest was "teach you." Yes, you said "learn from you," first and the "teach you" certainly fits but you asked my opinion. If anything needs to be changed, I'd take out that phrase but even with it in, it's awesome.
Shaunii, I've been praying for your job hunt. The right thing will come along at the right time. I know the wait is hard, though.
Someone has been using my credit card fraudulently. I saw some purchases on my statement that I was sure weren't mine but the amounts were very small and I'm a horrid record keeper so I just shrugged them off. That was 2 statements ago. But dh just came home to tell of something that happened with HIS charge card. He supposedly had purchases from the same company--a company that provides public parking--but he NEVER pays for parking. And he's meticulous about ever dollar, which I'm not. So he called his card company and reported the problem. They cancelled his card and will issue him a new card. They said that often people who have fraudulently taken a charge card number will test it first with a small amount and if it's not challenged, will then, at some later date, start spending the big bucks.
When dh told all this to ds2 and me, I remember the questionable charges on my charge card, found the statement and called my credit card company. As the man checked the info, I realized that there is no such address in Winnipeg and the address WAS given as Winnipeg even though the postal code was for Vancouver. Strange. And very obviously incorrect. So I was credited for the costs and told if there were anymore problems to call back. My most recent statement is fine but I decided to look online to see about purchases since my last statement. And there was ANOTHER purchase from the same company: $2.25. So I called the card company back and the whole thing is being sent to the fraud department and I have to wait to get a new number and card. But I'm glad we caught it now, rather than when the amounts were in the thousands.
I'm very, very tired.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/27/2008 9:22:34 PM
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Hi Maggie, I hope that your tooth feels better and that you rest tonight also!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/28/2008 7:19:29 AM
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Thanks, Mike. I went to bed early and slept well all night. I woke up at 4:30 or so and would have preferred to sleep a few hours longer but I got what I need--at least for now.
As for the tooth, it's interesting. Linda said her mom would have them put an aspirin on the sore spot. Since nothing else was helping, I tried that. It helps! I have some low-dose, coated aspirin and it hardly dissolves. What I put in my mouth before I went to bed, tucked up against the offending tooth, was still there this morning. It looked like only the coating had come off but I had no pain. I removed it because I want to eat and now my tooth is hurting again. I'll put a new one back in after I've eaten.
Thanks for the info, Slushie! You obviously work hard at keeping people coming to your blog. Yes, there are blogrings on blogspot and I think there's something like what you mentioned--a section for people who have recently posted. You're one smart girl!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/28/2008 7:30:05 AM
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((((((((((((((((((((MAGGIE))))))))))))))))))))))))))
I understood your post too.
Hope the women's ministry goes well.
Hope your tooth is better soon too.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/28/2008 9:16:37 AM
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Maggie, I'm glad the aspirin worked for you -- shock tho it is  . . . sometimes it's amazing how many of those old time remedies worked -- and still do! I'd venture to say, however, since the aspirin didn't dissolve, that it was actually the fact that you covered the nerve, keeping it from exposure, air, drink, etc, that really did the trick. Maybe that was part of what made a regular aspirin work, too, but I think it was mostly the pain-relieving properties getting more directly to the source of the pain as it dissolved. One way or t'other, glad it worked for you.
Shaunii, meant to post the other day and tell you, I really enjoyed your photos -- and it looks like you have many of the same flowers in your garden as I do mine -- think I recognized all of them
Maggie, I guess I just missed you a bit ago . . . I really slept late this morning, but I stayed up late reading -- imagine that!  
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/28/2008 10:37:07 AM
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Maggie, I'm glad the aspirin helped.
Duane, that was beautiful. I'm sure Mary will love it. Happy anniversary to you two.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/28/2008 10:52:54 AM
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Oh! I'm slow.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/28/2008 11:28:07 AM
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ROFLOL! Maggie did it fancier than me, but yeah, what Maggie said! 
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/28/2008 7:44:07 PM
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Shocks and disappointments can be hard to take and I'm sorry things haven't happened the way you'd been told. {{{{{{{{{{{Slushie}}}}}}}}}} But I have to confess I'm a bit confused. Initially I thought the reason you were being allowed to go to the conference was it would train you to be a small group leader in your church when you got back but the way you've spoken in this last post, it seems that you're still going to the conference but you're not being allowed to be a small group leader at the conference? See? I told you I'm confused.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 6/29/2008 1:52:55 PM
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(She'll just eat all the brownies and cookies and never contribute to discussion!) I would like to start a small Bible study group for the teen girls though. We'll see.
I don't know... 
And on xanga there's this blogring feature... there'll be specific blogrings devoted to specific purposes - for example, there's a blogring for Christians. Christian people will join there to find other Christians and read what they write and get to know them. 
