Sunday, Church, Talks, Posole, Lincoln , the GrandCat,and Red

Today Mike is making dinner or part of it. Posole. Yesterday we all had lunch at a restaurant and two of the three, as reported much better on Kathy's blog, chose red. I like red you see. Then today a big old pot of Posole will be the end of the day treat.
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Yesterday I got my 5 miles in, along with lunch, a couple of episodes of 3rd Rock, and some emails.
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Today I will give a short talk on "Knowing" I suspect that people "Know" or have their beliefs confirmed in a variety of ways. Of course a variety of things can help but then one thing I might suggest is that all people have within them the ability to know "right vs's wrong". Most of the time people who sincerely ask if something is right or wrong will hear an inner voice answer. The standard that is used to measure and supply the answer is common to all humans. The voice that answers will confirm if your beliefs are true.
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Then too we find that the overall purpose that "He", who put the voice inside us, to answer these questions was still must be the guide. That purpose was a standard within us to know right from wrong. A light within us. "His" light. In that light I recall Lincoln's thoughts below..........favorites
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Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address Saturday, March 4, 1865

.............................."Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes."

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"The Grandcat"

It has been a week since we went to Mike's place and visited the cat. Twice in two days I have been asked about the cat or our plans to get a kitty and so forth. No report forthcoming on this subject. That is the update.