Today my husband and I went to a storage facility sale. We got a few odds and ends. I found a small picture in a wooden frame. I always liked the picture because it had a humble presence about it. My father-in-law has a larger copy of it. It is of an elderly man bowing his head before a simple meal of gruel and bread.
The amazing technology of the world wide web gave me answers to questions I’ve had about this pictures for years! 🙂 I found the website behind this photograph taken in 1918. The site is named “GRACE” by ENSTROM. There I found interesting details to the makings of this picture.
Love the quote by Eric Enstrom . . . “This man doesn’t have much of earthly goods, but he has more than most people because he has a thankful heart.”
I’m gonna hang our picture by the dining room table.

Here’s a story I heard on the radio program, Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah on OnePlace.com. It is also found in the book Positively Dangerous by Frank Mercadante and the Christian Classic, Foxes Book of Martyrs:
Telemachus was a monk who lived in Asia Minor about the year 400 AD. During his life time gladiatorial games were very popular in Rome.

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When I was a little girl I used to live here in Oakhurst, Oklahoma (:

My dad bought the house from his brother in the early ’70’s and then built on the garage area. We lived there for about 8 years and then sold it to my friend, Angie’s parents. I haven’t personally seen the house in a couple of decades but my older brother told me it is now used as a fire station.

1830 Birth of Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane, an orphaned Scottish poet who penned two of the most haunting hymns in the English language: ‘Beneath the Cross of Jesus’ and ‘The Ninety and Nine.’
Here are the 2 hymns from CyberHymnal:

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Taken from devotional Leaves of Life, Oneplace.com
He who plants a tree
Plants a hope.
Rootlets up through fibers blindly grope,
Leaves unfold unto horizons free.
So man’s life must climb
From the clods of time
Unto heavens sublime.
Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree,
What the glory of the boughs shall be?
~Lucy Larcom.

Today, June 12, in 1950 American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal:
Earthly blessing is no sign of heavenly favor.
Behold how many wicked prosper.

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Taken from Mary Wilder Tileston devotion @ the Back to the Bible website
In the morning~
IT is very helpful to make a habit of offering, morning by morning, the troubles of the day just beginning to our dear Lord, accepting His will in all things, expecially in all little personal trials and vexations. Some persons have found great benefit from making, when first they wake, the act taught to Madame de Chantal by St. Francis de Sales, accepting “all things tolerable and intolerable” for love of Christ;
During the midday~
then at midday, a moment’s inward search to see whether there has been any voluntary slackening of submission, any deliberate opposition to God’s will, any hesitation in resisting the distaste or fretfulness, the impatience or discouragement we are tempted to feel when things go contrary to our own will and likings, making a fresh resolution to go on heartily;
Then at night~
and, at night, a quick review of the day’s failures for which to ask pardon, and strength to go on better anew. Some such habit as this is a great check to that terrible hindrance of the spiritual life which, terrible though it be, is so apt to steal upon many good and earnest souls,–a complaining, grumbling, self-pitying spirit.
H. L. SIDNEY LEAR
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, Thou wilt revive me.
PSALMS 138:7

1672: Peter I (the Great), Russian Tsar, was born this day in 1672 for whom the city of St. Petersburg is named. He reigned jointly or alone from 1682 to 1725 and was one of his country’s greatest statesmen, organizers, and reformers.
1983: Landslide reelection victory for Margaret Thatcher
British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, buoyed by victory in the Falkland Islands War and by deep divisions within the opposition Labour Party, was easily reelected to a second term in office this day in 1983.
1967: Israeli forces attacked the Golan Heights in southwestern Syria.
1942: On this day the residents of the village of Lidice (now in the Czech Republic) were rounded up, most to be massacred the next day in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, deputy leader of the Nazi paramilitary group SS, by Czech underground fighters.
1940: German tank forces under Major General Erwin Rommel crossed the Seine River in a push to the Atlantic coast of France during World War II.
1891: American composer and lyricist Cole Porter was born in Peru, Indiana.
1870: English writer Charles Dickens, generally considered the greatest Victorian novelist, died at Gad’s Hill near Chatham, Kent.
1815: The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna, comprising several agreements separately negotiated among various participants for the reorganization of Europe in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, was signed by representatives of Austria, France, Great Britain, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden.
1781: English engineer George Stephenson, the principal inventor of the railroad locomotive, was born.
1358: The Jacquerie, a revolt of French peasants against abuses inflicted upon them by the nobility of northeastern France, suffered a critical defeat at Meaux.

In his profile on the Dallas Theological Seminary website, Dr. Howard Hendricks tells of his background. His profile is adapted from a Dallas Morning News article. (His bio is from January 2003). In his own words, Hendricks describes his childhood:
“I was born into a broken home,” the 78-year-old man says. “My parents separated when I came along. I split the family.”
Reared by his father’s mother, Dr. Hendricks says that in elementary school he was a troublemaker, a hell raiser. Probably just acting out a lot of insecurities, he says looking back on his Philadelphia childhood. His fifth-grade teacher had predicted that five boys in class would end up in prison. He was supposed to be one of them. The teacher was right about three of them, Dr. Hendricks says. That teacher, Miss Simon, once tied him to his seat with a rope and taped his mouth shut.
When he introduced himself to his sixth-grade teacher, Miss Noe, she told him something that would change his life forever.
“She said, ‘I’ve heard a lot about you, but I don’t believe a word of it,’ ” he recalls.
She made him realize for the first time in his life that someone cared, he says. “People are always looking for someone to say, ‘Hey, I believe in you.’ ”
What he says makes me think of this, Sometimes you learn to be better from the examples of other lives (they show you how NOT to be).