I just left work and am at a Starbucks, using their Wifi for the first time in a few years. It's a weird reunion because I was the Starbucks queen for many years, always going to one to update my blog, etc.
Living in Manhattan (1999-2007) I became like a Rain Man with my knowledge of all the Starbucks in Manhattan, so much so that friends suggested I write a book giving my critique of them--everything from ambience to customer base, experiences I personally had, etc.
I even have a short list of celebrities I've seen at various ones--Chelsea Clinton, Jackie Mason, Helen Mirren. One time I even sat near Leslie Stahl and watched for over an hour how she put together a story, listening to her tape recorder and scratching notes in pen onto an old-fashioned paper notepad! For those who don't know, she is a long-term reporter for 60 Minutes.
I've also had sightings of celebrities from the windows, either walking right by me or walking through a crosswalk. This list includes Phil Donohue and his wife Marlo Thomas, Harvey Keitel, Alan Alda and Charles Osgood (I lived near CBS studios and would often be in this particular Starbucks near 10th and 58th).
Well, that was a rabbit trail, all to say I've had no internet connection since 4:40 P.M. yesterday due to a power outage that continues here in Dayton. We got the remnants of Hurricane Helene and, from what I was just told, there are still 82,000 homes without power in our close vicinity. Wouldn't you know our neighborhood was one of the worst hit, with majorly HUGE old trees downed by the 60 mile per hour winds.
So, I am in a hurry to get home and rescue my 87-year-old mom, who's been shut-in thanks to electric garage door being closed. I can tell from calling her that she is down after sitting alone all day, not to mention our super quiet night last night.
She doesn't read much anymore and relies heavily on the TV, especially FOX News, Food Network and a few other cable stations, to keep her company. She, like my later father, has NO interest in sports. Like me, she is very lonely with very few friends, none of which live anywhere nearby to do anything with.
I will post new article as soon as we get our power back, which I am praying is soon, as in sometime tonight. In the meantime, I will take my mom out to dinner, something we never do.
Here is old post in the meantime:
“If you want to talk to the Father, if you listen to how He talks to the Son, and the Son talks to Him, and the Spirit talks about what they have to do, wouldn’t you want to talk with them they way they talk to one another instead of talking with Him like a lunatic? Like you don’t know anything about what they think or say?
“The Spirit searches your heart and He knows what the will of God is; He knows what the Father says to the Son, the Son says to the Father. When you talk to God, God searches you.
“That passage in Hebrews 4 says: [12] For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
[13] Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
“God knows every thought, every intent of your heart, and when you think it, He knows it. He knows your intent, even when you don’t.
“When you talk to Him, the idea is to be intelligent; be a son, be someone who knows what the Father says to the Son, and the Son to the Father, and what’s their will.
“Colossian 1:18 says, [18] And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
“The Father loved His son before the foundation of the world; loves Him supremely, finds all of His joy in Him. It’s to our advantage to be able to understand how the Father feels about His Son and to talk to the Father about His Son the way He does and appreciate Him the way He appreciates Him.
“To me it’s a joyful thing to be able to be an adult in the family and talk to the Creator of all things intelligently, understanding how He thinks, and fellowship with Him around the joy He has in His Son and the purpose and plan He has in His Son.
“And when the Father and the Son talk about these things, they talk about what they’re going to do and to me that’s fascinating. I can talk to Him intelligently about it too.
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"When you believe God’s Word rightly divided, just read it and believe it, it becomes internalized compulsion. It energizes in your inner man. That’s how God the Holy Spirit works in your life.
"Paul’s praying for the Ephesians, for members of the Body of Christ in Ephesians 3:16: [16] That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
“How rich is that? That never ceases abounding. That’s where your sufficiency is. Christ dwells in you; He settles down and is at home and lives His life in you when your faith trusts who God says you are, what God says He’s doing, and the Spirit of God strengthens you with might," explains Richard Jordan.
“That word ‘might,’ you go back in the gospels and it’s the miracle-working power. There’s the might of God where He parted the Red Sea, where He raised the dead, where He heals.
“All those mighty works, that same mighty-working power of God resides in His Spirit who resides in you and He’ll strengthen you will all of the capacity you’ll ever need to be everything God has for you to be and it’s in your inner man, and it works when you believe it.
“You know, faith is the foundation of everything because it activates the operating of the Spirit of God in your life.
"Have you ever felt that you hit a plateau in your Christian life? You know, everything’s kind of normal, nothing real exciting? You don’t have much vision and you don’t feel like you have any victory? In fact, you feel just the opposite?
“People with a problem come to me and ask, ‘What should I do?’ Well, have you been reading your Bible? Well, no. What’s your prayer life been like? Not so much.
“You understand, you study your Scriptures and you see, ‘There’s the will of God.’ You take prayer and you take what God’s doing and apply it to your life. If you want to know how to do the will of God in your life, first, don’t worry about you, think about HIS will."
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