God Speed Brother Forry
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Posted:Jun 21, 2006 6:45 am
Last Updated:Jun 21, 2006 9:57 pm 1142 Views
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Brother Forry,
Our Prayers are with You as You Travel this Weekend and Certainly We Pray Only the Best for You and Faith.
From Reading Her Blogs She seems like a Mighty Woman Warrior of God, filled with Spirit and Armed with Truth.
God is a Witness What a Treasured Friend You have Become to us Since My Move to England and What a Blessing You Are.
May The Lord Bless and Keep You, May His Hand Be Upon You, and Protect You and Give You Peace.
Anita & Chris
PS, call us when you get back and lets all go out to dinner! 
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URGENT HELP NEEDED - CALLING ALL GERMAN BC MEMBERS !
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Posted:Jun 18, 2006 3:22 am
Last Updated:Jun 23, 2006 12:14 am 1541 Views
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Okay, so this is an urgent cry for help from anyone who has any information that can help us.
Chris has a terrific Uncle named Ted, he is in his mid to late 80's. His wife died several years ago and since then he has been alone.
He has never forgotten his first love Edit. They met in Germany when he was in the military way back in 1946. It was love at first sight but her father refused to allow them to marry.
Uncle Ted wants to find Edit, to know if she is still alive, and if so, to talk with her, see her or even share their remaining years together.
He tried to hire an agency in England to find her, but they don't do people searches in Germany. So, he hopped on an airplane and went to Germany to try to find her himself, but to no avail.
I tried to do a few searches, but the language barrier has hindered me. I wrote a letter to the consulate, but have not had a reply.
We need help to find an agency which can help locate Edit Ramke.
If anyone has any information that might help in this search please share it with us. It would be such a blessing to see Uncle Ted reunited with his first love, he is a good man and he really deserves it.
Chris and I will be most appreciative if anyone can help us.
Thanks
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Romance Mathematics
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Posted:May 24, 2006 12:43 pm
Last Updated:Jun 29, 2006 3:58 am 1627 Views
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SOMEONE FORWARDED THIS TO ME IN AN EMAIL
(no hate mail please)
ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
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SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.
A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need.
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GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
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LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
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PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
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DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
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HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.
SHARE THIS WITH A SMART WOMAN WHO NEEDS A LAUGH AND TO THE SMART GUYS YOU KNOW WHO CAN HANDLE IT.
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By This
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Posted:May 20, 2006 12:36 am
Last Updated:Jun 20, 2006 6:41 am 1523 Views
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John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one for another.
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Father Stir My Soul
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Posted:May 19, 2006 2:45 pm
Last Updated:Jun 17, 2006 10:36 am 1460 Views
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I have heard it once said that Jesus came to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
If this be true, I pray the Lord that my soul shall not find rest until it has reached it's destination.
Father, stir my soul.
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Old Singer
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Posted:May 13, 2006 5:41 am
Last Updated:Jun 19, 2006 5:03 am 1551 Views
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Pulled out the old 1927 hand-cranked Singer in it's beautiful wooden carry box to try to bond with it today.
Sure isn't like the nice new electric one I left in Houston.
Made me think how much simpler things were way back then, but harder, what a paradox.
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Hmmmmm
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Posted:May 11, 2006 10:07 am
Last Updated:Jun 19, 2006 5:03 am 1663 Views
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Where is the love?
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Psssshheeeww
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Posted:Apr 13, 2006 10:06 am
Last Updated:May 17, 2006 3:15 am 2104 Views
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Well, I guess you all have noticed I haven't been so active lately posting blogs and stuff.
Let me tell you why.
First, a couple of old friends got in touch with me, we have been getting caught up on things and that has been great.
Second, I have been spending more time alone with God because with all the transition in my life I really needed to draw closer.
Third, I started a little internet income, it seems to be taking off, so ya'll pray for me on that one.
Fourth, to read, learn the British tax system, applying for dual citizenship and getting caught up on other things.
Fifth, helping my with her website and other business ideas by doing research for her.
Oh, yeah, and I almost forgot, I finished the quilt. It took a bit longer than I expected with all the other things I have going on; and the border is a rich blue instead of the brown I wanted. But let me share one thing I did learn while I spent all that time hand stitching that quilt. Though the colors aren't exactly as I anticipated, though the stitches are not all perfectly the same, I have learned that it is the variations and tiny imperfections that make a hand sewn quilt unique, one of a kind and more valuable.
I wonder if that is kinda how we should see one another as a part of the pattern in the quilt of life that God created. I think the quilt is beautiful, it certainly is comfortable, and looking at it all finished on the bed made me feel a sense of being home again. I like that.
I hope everyone is doing okay and you are abundantly blessed.
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Judas Gospel
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Posted:Apr 7, 2006 5:38 am
Last Updated:Jun 24, 2006 9:50 pm 2312 Views
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Reuters:
Judas Iscariot, vilified as Christ's betrayer, acted at Jesus' request in turning him over to the authorities who crucified him, according to a 1,700-year-old copy of the "Gospel of Judas" unveiled on Thursday.
In an alternative view to traditional Christian teaching, the Judas gospel shows the reviled disciple as the only one in Jesus' inner circle who understood his desire to shed his earthly body.
"He's the good guy in this portrayal," said Bart Ehrman, a religion professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "He's the only apostle who understands Jesus."
The Judas gospel's introduction says it is "the secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot." Later, it quotes Jesus as saying to Judas, "You will exceed all of them (the other disciples) for you will sacrifice the man who clothes me."
"The idea in this gospel is that Jesus, like all of us, is a trapped spirit, who is trapped in a material body," Ehrman said. "And salvation comes when we escape the materiality of our existence, and Judas is the one who makes it possible for him to escape by allowing for his body to be killed."
Rev. Donald Senior, president of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, said the document revealed the diversity and vitality in early Christianity.
"The question becomes ... does this tradition, this alternative story, if you like, in the gospel of Judas have a claim that in some sense is equal to the rival claim of the gospel tradition?" Senior said.
It is not known who wrote the Judas gospel. The copy unveiled on Thursday is of a document mentioned critically in the year 180 in a treatise called "Against Heresies," written by Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon in what was then Roman Gaul. It spoke out against those whose views about Jesus differed from those of the mainstream Christian Church.
In the Bible's New Testament, Judas is portrayed as the quintessential traitor, accepting 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus by identifying him to Roman soldiers. The biblical Gospel of St. Matthew says Judas quickly regretted his treachery, returned the silver and hanged himself.
The New Testament contains four Gospels -- of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John -- but many more so-called apocryphal gospels were written in the first centuries after Christ's death, attributed to such disciples as Thomas and Philip and to his female follower Mary Magdalene.
HIDDEN IN EGYPTIAN DESERT
Ehrman, Senior and other experts on Christianity spoke at a briefing at the National Geographic Society, which unveiled a translation of the Judas gospel and which helped authenticate, preserve and translate the document.
The leather-bound copy of the gospel was written in Coptic script on both sides of 13 sheets of papyrus, and spent most of the past 1,700 years hidden in a cavern in the Egyptian desert, said Terry Garcia of the National Geographic Society.
This document was probably copied from the original Greek manuscript around the year 300, Garcia said. Discovered in the 1970s near Minya, Egypt, the volume -- including the gospel and other documents -- was sold to an Egyptian antiquities dealer in 1978.
The dealer offered it for sale without success, and eventually locked it in a bank safe deposit box in Hicksville, New York, for 16 years, which hastened its decay. In images displayed at the briefing, the papyrus looked like brown, dry autumn leaves.
Garcia said it had crumbled into more than 1,000 pieces.
In 2001, the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art in Switzerland began an effort to transcribe and translate the volume from the Coptic. In the next years, scientific tests -- including radiocarbon dating, ink analysis and multispectral imaging -- showed the document was copied down around 300.
The Judas gospel is being published in book form by National Geographic and pages from the papyrus manuscript will be on display at the society's museum in Washington starting on Friday. The manuscript will ultimately be housed at the Coptic Museum in Cairo.
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