A brilliant feat of 19th-century engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge spanning the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan Island in New York City opened this day in 1883, designed by civil engineer John Augustus Roebling.
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Spending Time With God Quote
In 1930, Pioneer linguist Frank C. Laubach, while serving as a Congregational missionary, wrote in a letter:
‘As one makes new discoveries about his friends by being with them, so one discovers the “individuality” of God if one entertains him continuously.’
Taken from Heartlight and the book, The Christian Almanac by William D. Blake
More Mulberries
I’ve learned a few more things about mulberries
–One website called them blackberry wannabes. I agree but I’m glad they’re not because your jaws don’t get tired chomping down on seeds.
–One way to get mulberries out of trees is to lay out a sheet under the tree and then shake the limbs!
–Most people like eating them just plain
–It’s fun to eat your homemade mulberry jam smack dab in the middle of the winter!
–I grew up thinking they were bad. I had to double check that they were safe to eat. Most of the time when I heard about mulberries I would hear how they were annoying because they stain sidewalks, driveways, cars, etc.
–When you freeze them lay them out on some waxed paper, freeze and then put in a container and refreeze
–Birds like to nest in their branches. They may have a bird brain but they’re smart about raising their little chickies in a home that’s overlooking a storehouse of food! . . . No wonder that bird always gives me an annoying crow when I visit the mulberry tree.
–Silk worms like them
–If you have a dehydrater you can dry your own mulberries. I’ve seen them priced at $15.95 for 16 ounces.
–Heck! Mulberries are considered a superfood and their growing around my neighborhood and people ignore them. They’re even organic!!
–The mulberry leaf can be used for tea.
MULBERRY CRUNCH
Serves 12 to 14
Here’s a greattasting recipe made by an accomplished chef
May 22, 337: Constantine I Baptized
On this day in 337, Constantine the Great, who had practiced Christianity since his youth and sparked its growth into a world religion, became on his deathbed the first Roman emperor to be baptized in the Christian church.
I Wanna Be Like That :)
Taken from Back To The Bible
In Woodrow Kroll’s devotion Early In the Morning, he told of a story about a man named Andrew Frazer.
I wish I could be like this man. This man had a worn Bible. When he spoke before a crowd about Christian things he spoke and expounded on details most people don’t realize.
Later a man named H. A. Ironside asked Frazer how he became so learned in the Bible. I love his reply . . . He said,
“My dear young man, I learned these things on my knees on the mud floor of a little sod cottage in the north of Ireland. There, with my open Bible before me, I used to kneel for hours at a time and ask the Spirit of God to reveal Christ to my soul and to open the Word to my heart. He taught me more on my knees on that mud floor than I ever could have learned in all the seminaries or colleges in the world.”
I wanna be like that and I wanna teach our 4 children such an attitude.
The Chronicle Of Higher Education
This site, The Chronicle of Higher Education looks like a real interesting site, a place where the intellectuals use creative words to express their views on deep and thoughtful subjects. Actually, I don’t know what it’s about yet but I’m gonna have fun looking through it.
I found it looking for mulberry recipes.
Mulberry Recipes
I found some mulberry trees just recently and I’ve been researching the internet. Here’s a website that gave some good info about Oklahoma Mulberry trees. It is called Dave’s garden.
FRESH MULBERRY PIE
3-4 c. fresh mulberries
1 c. sugar
3 tbsp. tapioca
1 1/2 tbsp. real lemon juice
2 c. cherries (opt.)
May 21, 1927 & 1932: Lindberg & Earhart
On This Day In History
1927: First transatlantic flight made by Charles Lindbergh~
American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in 1927, traveling from New York to Paris in the monoplane Spirit of Saint Louis in about 33.5 hours.
1932: American aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to pilot an airplane solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Explorers Timeline
Here’s a site to help young students to study history’s timeline of explorers.
Today In Christian History
Taken from Heartlight
1739~
Methodist hymnwriter Charles Wesley, 31, on the first anniversary of his religious conversion, penned the hymn, “O For a Thousand Tongues.”
1740~
English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter regarding Jesus’ character; ‘He was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.‘
1864~
Belgian missionary priest Father Damien, 24, was ordained on the Island of Hawaii. Born Joseph de Veuster, the Picpus Father began a work among the lepers on the island of Molokai in 1873. Contracting the disease in 1884, Father Damien succumbed to it five years later.
1944~
German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: ‘God alone protects; otherwise there is nothing.’
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