wrdsandwrks

Happy Birthday Excie! Hope it was a great one!

We're now in the Kansas City area and looking for a good church. Is there anyone out there who is in the area or knows of a good church in Kansas City, Lee's Summit, etc?

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi Jane,

I don't live in the area, but if I were moving to the area the first two churches I would check out would be:

1. IHOP (International House of Prayer - www.ihop.org). Seems their Sunday morning service is called Forerunner Christian Fellowship. I saw on their website that they webcast their services so if you wanted to see what it's like before actually attending you could attend a "virtual" service.

2. Metro Christian Fellowship (http://www.metro-kc.org/) From the pictures on the website it looks like it's a bit smaller and maybe not as loud as IHOP.

I haven't been to either of these churches but that's where I would start if I moved to the area.

Happy Birthday Dooj!

I haven't read it before, but it's from Andrew Murray I presume.

You got it! Andrew Murray's Absolute Surrender, now you can repost your quote.

Here's a new author:

Absolute surrender-let me tell you where I got those words. I used them myself often, and you have heard them numerous times. But once, in Scotland, I was in a company where we were talking about the condition of Christ's Church, and what the great need of the Church and of believers is. There was in our company a godly Christian worker who has much to do in training other workers for Christ, and I asked him what he would say was the great need of the Church-the message that ought to be preached. He answered very quietly and simply and determinedly:

"Absolute surrender to God is the one thing."

The words struck me as never before. And that man began to tell how, in the Christian workers with whom he had to deal, he finds that if they are sound on that point, they are willing to be taught and helped, and they always improve. Whereas, others who are not sound there very often go back and leave the work. The condition for obtaining God's full blessing is absolute surrender to Him.

And now, I desire by God's grace to give to you this message-that your God in heaven answers the prayers which you have offered for blessing on yourselves and for blessing on those around you by this one demand: Are you willing to surrender yourselves absolutely into His hands? What is our answer to be? God knows there are hundreds of hearts who have said it, and there are hundreds more who long to say it but hardly dare to do so. And there are hearts who have said it, but who have yet miserably failed, and who feel themselves condemned because they did not find the secret of the power to live that life. May God have a word for all!

My apologies.

The quote is withdrawn.

No problem, Cynic. While I was off composing my last reply, I missed that you withdrew the quote. Please do keep it handy.

Actually, you are. The person who gets the last clue gets to post one. Of course, we like to have new players, so I say we leave it up to wrdsandwrks to see whether she wants to post one or go ahead with your clue.

George

Cynic, Welcome to the Forum and sure, it’s fine with me, let’s continue with your quote.

But indulge me if you will, with an observation about Dooj’s previous quotes from Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.

I haven’t read the book in many years but it did have a significant effect on me when I read it. It’s set in New Orleans, my home town, and among the French speaking natives of New Orleans, known back when the book was set in the 1800s as “Creoles”. These are my ancestors and so the book had a familiar feel to me when I read it. In fact I may even be related to the author, I have relatives named Chopin in my family tree.

I remember on one trip to visit my family in New Orleans, I dragged my husband and father on a driving trip to visit Grand Isle, where the Creoles migrated in the summer months to escape the heat and diseases of New Orleans. (And where the main drama of The Awakening takes place, where the heroine of the story ends up drowning herself in the Gulf of Mexico.)I think it’s about a hundred miles or so from the city of New Orleans, a really picturesque drive down the Louisiana bayous.

The most powerful memory of that trip however, was when we finally reached our destination and crossed over the bridge that now connects Grand Isle to the “mainland”. As excited as I was about reaching the endmost part of the Louisiana coastline, looking for the quaint vacation cottages described by Kate Chopin and seeing mainly oil drilling equipment, the most overpowering thing was the heat.

We stepped out of our air-conditioned car and almost bowled over in the intensity of the humidity and heat. I can’t think of another time in my life, (except maybe in the sweat lodge at LEAD, but that’s another story) when I couldn’t hardly breathe because of the intensely humid heat, and I grew up in New Orleans. Maybe it was just an abnormally hot day, but I can’t imagine anyone going there to escape the heat. We took probably less than a minute to look around and say wow, it’s hot, I can hardly breathe, let’s go.

Here’s an essay from Literary Traveler site (literarytraveler.com) that describes a visit to Grand Isle that wasn’t as “brief” as mine was:

Sunset Grand Isle, LA - A visit to the setting of The Awakening

I hope she's not too obscure (hint ;) )

She wrote about NOLA...

The Edith Wharton quotes reminded me about this author.

Does that help?

Kate Chopin?

Well, let's see if anyone knows this author.

Is it Flaubert?

Edith Wharton?

You got it! All the quotes are from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.

Take it away Dooj!

hail mary:

James Fenimore Cooper

Nah Dan, not Cooper, It's not that kind of tribe. It's about New York "society". Here's a couple more:

IT was generally agreed in New York that the Countess Olenska had “lost her looks.” 1

She had appeared there first, in Newland Archer’s boyhood, as a brilliantly pretty little girl of nine or ten, of whom people said that she “ought to be painted.” Her parents had been continental wanderers, and after a roaming babyhood she had lost them both, and been taken in charge by her aunt, Medora Manson, also a wanderer, who was herself returning to New York to “settle down.”

As he dropped into his armchair near the fire his eyes rested on a large photograph of May Welland, which the young girl had given him in the first days of their romance, and which had now displaced all the other portraits on the table. With a new sense of awe he looked at the frank forehead, serious eyes and gay innocent mouth of the young creature whose soul’s custodian he was to be. That terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger through May Welland’s familiar features; and once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

"The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done."

"'Women ought to be free – as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences."

"There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe."

Happy Birthday BT! May God bless your year with overflowing blessings!

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

George

Karl Marx?

If nobody gets it after this, I'll switch to another author. The author was truly remarkable from an early age... famous while in his teens... but not for theological reasons. It was only somewhat later in life that he devoted himself fully to the things of God.

Isaac Newton?

Einstein?

I have only met the man a few times. I have heard quite a few of his teachings from CES. I feel that I have learned quite a bit from him. It would be difficult for me to believe he is a man who doesn't care about God. And from those I have spoken to who know/knew him never have really anything bad they can say about him. What about anybody else here? Has anybody met him and to what of his character?

I've never met this John Lynn. But it seems from personal testimonies that he is not a very well-liked man.

I have thought about supporting CES at times because of what I have heard John Schoenheit share and express. But I also know that you can stand on stage and sound real holy and yet be a real jerk "off camera". I just don't know him well enough. Can anybody shed some light on this?

Thanks,

OneWhoIsFree

Dear One,

I can't speak about where John Schoenheit is at currently because I haven't had any contact with him in many years. But when I did know him years ago he was a very fine upstanding Christian man with a great gift for teaching God's Word. We should all be grateful to him for taking a stand at a very critical time after VPW's death and being man enough and holy enough to confront the sin of adultery in TWI. He paid a high price for this in losing his job and being ostracized and branded as a "persona non grata" for his stand against evil.

John Schoenheit is ok in my book. And I want to publicly give him honor and credit for being instrumental in freeing me and many others at that critical time.

Wasn't it Virgil that wrote Aeneid?

It was Virgil.

BFH, you were the 1st to name Virgil, so you're up...

I'm guessing that this is a translation of Ovid's Aeneid. Aeneas was a Trojan who (according to the Aeneid) established Rome. Of course, the Aeneid was in Latin in dactylic hexameter, and this is English in iambc pentameter...

George

I knew one of you Latin loving guys would get it. Yes, it is the Aeneid, but it was (as you posted down below) Virgil, not Ovid, who wrote it. This was John Dryden's translation from the Latin. Dryden (1631-1700) said in his introduction to the translation that "I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English, as he would himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present Age."

Undoubted offspring of ethereal race,

O long expected in this promis'd place!

Who thro' the foes hast borne thy banish'd gods,

Restor'd them to their hearths, and old abodes;

This is thy happy home, the clime where fate

Ordains thee to restore the Trojan state.

What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind!

as if some giant cucumber had spread itself over all the roses and carnations in the

garden and choked them to death. What a waste that the woman who wrote 'the best

bred women are those whose mind are civilest' should have frittered her time away

scribbling nonsense and plunging ever deeper into obscurity and folly...Evidently the

crazy Duchess became a bogey to frighten clever girls with.

And so, since no woman of sense and modesty could write books, Dorothy [Osborne],

who was sensitive and melancholy, the very opposite of the Duchess in temper, wrote nothing.

Virginia Woolf?

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THAT'S IT!!!!!

Thank you SOOO much!

You are very welcome. So glad that fixed it. Back atcha with the hugs ((((((((((RottieGrrrl))))))))))))))

When I'm reading greasespot forums, all of a sudden the replies are all links I have to click on, instead of just being able to read them all at once. Here is an example from the "Just plain silly thread." I can read the first post in full, but then the replies are

like this. All links I have to click on to get to the full post.

waysider YIKES! (In Ab minor) May 14 2008, 07:55 PM

dmiller Hmmmm. I always thought *A Flat Miner* was what ... May 14 2008, 11:29 PM

waysider This one is "killer"! ... Yesterday, 08:54 PM

Steveo I dont mean to be mean, but I didnt care for that... Today, 05:49 AM

waysider I dont mean to be mean, but I didnt care for that... Today, 06:53 AM

RottieGrrrl This is definitely a guy thing. ;) Today, 09:46 AM

This has happened once before and GreasyTech helped me out, but I totally forgot how to change the view on this thing! Can anyone help?

Hi RG,

Try clicking on options at the top right of any post you're reading, and then go down to "switch to standard view" and select that; that should fix it. You probably accidentally selected the outline view.

This is really awful news. Beth was a genuinely sweet person. I was looking forward to catching up a bit with her on the Way Corps site but hadn't said hi to her yet. I'm sorry to have lost touch with her for all these years. She was sweet, smart and devoted to her family...

"Who can find a virtuous woman

For her worth is far above rubies

Favor is deceitful and beauty is fleeting

But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised."

Happy Birthday to you, Su... uh, I mean Purple Days! Hope it's a great one!