Perseverance

Abuse is an act where power is used to steal from another what can only be given freely.
(David Mura in The Color Of Light by Perry Tilleraas 27 November)

Life is an exercise in perseverance. If you persevere, you win.
(Charles Swindoll in 100 Days of Prayer For Women, p. 31)

Let it [perseverance], grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.
(The One Year Book Of Bible Readings, 20 September)
23 June 2015

Your Weaknesses

You know your weaknesses. You also know the situations in which your weaknesses are most vulnerable. Stay out of those situations.
(Max Lucado, Grace For The Moment, Vol. II, 28 May)

Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment.
(Charles Swindoll in 100 Days Of Prayer For Women, p. 31)
24 March 2015

Matter Of Attitude

Photo: Mr. Dickie

As religious writer Charles Swindoll said, "We have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. Life is 10 per cent what happens to me and 90 per cent how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes."

You can't change everything, but you can always change something for the better including your way of looking at life.
(The Christophers, Three Minutes A Day, Volume 44, 9 January)
12 January 2014

Rationalization

Slowly, almost imperceptibly, one rationalization leads to another, which triggers a series of equally damaging alterations in a life that was once stable, strong, and reliable. (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 384)
10/Jan/2011 10:39

What Do I Care?

(Photo: Happy Hour in Nebraska - shared by my cousin, Fran)

If you want to spend an exhausting day, try to work out your circumstances leaning on your "human viewpoint." (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 376)

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Yesterday we got lucky and only received a small amount of snow. This morning there are high winds. It feels like winter, but people should still be able to move about if they need to be out and about. What do I care? I've got my love to keep me warm.

Mr. Dickie
27/Dec/2010 9:02

Wills and Other Court Documents

If you are determined to simplify your life, you will need to ask yourself some hard questions... (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 342)

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I created a thirty-seven page document of thirty-two Wills and Other Court Documents and uploaded it to my Box where it can be viewed or downloaded by my collaborators. I used my MonkeyMerge program to merge the thirty-three files into one file I named, Wills.txt and stored on a floppy disk. It wasn't long after I'd finished the upload before one of my friends took a look. I know this because Box sent me an Email notification. Information I store on my Box is available by invitation only.

Mr. Dickie
8/Dec/2010 6:52

Who Are These People?

... right attitudes and thoughts must precede right practices. (John MacArthur, Truth For Today, 26 November)

Wisdom preserves our lives from human pitfalls, and provides our lives with divine perspective. (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 335)

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Who are these people, these people we elected to govern us? If they aren't part of "We The People," just who are they and what made us think that they would represent our interests in the halls of Congress?

Mr. Dickie
3/Dec/2010 10:01

A Joyful Heart

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:32 in Wisdom For The Way by Charles R. Swindoll, p. 295)

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Yesterday, after I picked up Cyndi at the College Park subway station, we went to shop at the new BJ's which opened in Capitol Heights this weekend. BJ's is a membership store, similar to Costco and Sam's Club. There was a nice crowd and lots of shoppers. The store is just inside of the Beltway and about seven miles from our house. We stocked up on some needed items and some not-so needed items.

Mr. Dickie

Hang Tough

Hang tough, when the going gets tough. (after Wisdom For The Way by Charles R. Swindoll, p. 282) 16/Oct/2010 8:06

Falling Prey

How easy to fall prey to meaningless talk, cliche-ridden responses, and mindless activities! (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 280) 11/Oct/2010 7:05

Discipline

If you want to put a stop to mediocrity, to replace excuses with fresh determination and procrastination with tough-minded perseverance you need discipline. (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 272)

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I went for a morning walk in the neighborhood. I was outside for about an hour. I stopped to talk to the next door neighbor for about ten minutes. The weather was cool. A great morning for a walk.

I'm still working on banking projects. I'm trying to learn more about TreasuryDirect which I think I can use to keep track of Savings Bond maturity.

Mr. Dickie
6/Oct/2010 13:13

Judging

What keeps us from being qualified to judge?

• We do not know all the facts.
• We are unable to read motives.
• We find it impossible to be totally objective.
• We lack "the big picture."
• We live with blind spots.
• We are prejudiced and have blurred perspective.
• Most of all, we ourselves are imperfect and inconsistent.

(Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 266)
30/Sep/2010 8:58

Fall Gardening

Thoughts are the thermostat that regulates what we accomplish in life. (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 255)

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Melva's busy spreading mulch on the garden. I'm busy making trips to the garden center to buy the mulch. The minivan can haul ten bags at a time without blocking the back window. So far I've purchased twenty-six bags. I think she used thirty-six bags last year. The other day Melva bought a couple of orchids at Loew's. She is going to attempt to nurse them back to health. I'm looking forward to watching the two poinsettias we nursed back to health outside this year. We had three and lost one.

Mr. Dickie
26/Sep/2010 8:06

Give Thanks

[Give thanks for] ...wise counselors, friends, acquaintances, parents, teachers, and mentors who have earned your love and respect through long years. (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 242) 11/Sep/2010 8:30

West Virginia Friends

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability. (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 207)

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Melva and I went to Union Station to eat supper with Vernon Anderson our friend from West Virginia. Vernon and I spent several years working on Yoho genealogy together. He reminded me that we never talked on the phone during the course of our project. Everything was done with Email and attachments. This time, to coordinate our get-together we used our cellphones. When it was time for Vernon to return to the bus we walked with him to the bus garage. He introduced us to Joe Henthorn and his wife. I believe this was the first time I ever met a Henthorn from the Ohio River valley face to face. If you are wondering if we are related, we aren't, at least not in this country.

I thought of another thing to learn about. I discovered there are programs that can convert webpages to PDF files. If that works it would come in handy. I could use it to salvage my HTML pages from the genealogy website I had on AOL for many years.

Mr. Dickie
22/Aug/2010 7:42

Accumulate

Not only do we acquire ... we keep, we accumulate (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 139)

The measure of your life won't be in what you accumulate; it will be in what you gave. (Dr. Wayne Dyer, Staying on the Path, p. 52)

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I didn't make it to the computer club meeting yesterday. Instead I watered the outdoor plants, went to the pharmacy to pick up a medication that I ran out of, and enjoyed a phone call from Library of Congress friend, Noel Peterson, in Florida, and rested.

Mr. Dickie
4/Jun/2010 6:52

Falling

Most of life is learning and growing, falling and getting back up, forgiving and forgetting, accepting and going on. (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 13)

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I'm working on a genealogy edit project. I'm trying to improve the way the "notes" print from my own genealogy file. I'd like the name of the person to be the first line in their note. It's easy to include this information when the note is typed. It's tedious to go back to add the name when there are thousands of records in a file.

Mr. Dickie
24/May/2010 8:10

Worrying

And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life's span? (Luke 12:25 in Wisdom For The Way by Charles R. Swindoll, p. 127)
15/May/2010 11:51

Daily News

Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions. (Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom For The Way, p. 119)

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Since this weekend I made seven more Facebook friends. I'm looking forward to staying in closer touch. There's a possibility of getting a few more favorable replies to all of the requests I generated from my Gmail address file.

I'm having fun extracting and sharing information from some of my genealogy files. I particularly like what I can share with the Individual Summary report. All I need to do to get it ready to post to my Google genealogy blog is make minor edits to the list of children. I can have a report posted in less than ten minutes.

I'm running out of quotes to post to my blogs. When I find something I like I write the quote on a notepad. For the first time in months there are only six pages available and some of them have only one unposted quote. Perhaps the things I have been reading haven't been "speaking to me" as much as usual. Maybe I'm not paying enough attention.

Mr. Dickie
4/May/2010 8:43

Advantage of Knowledge

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. (Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 178)

The advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors. (Ecclesiastes 7:12, in Wisdom For The Way by Charles Swindoll, p. 57)

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The automatic feed of this blog to my Facebook notes hasn't worked for about ten days. I don't have any idea what happened. I don't think it's something I can control. It was nice while it lasted.

Mr. Dickie
23/Apr/2010 8:39