tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466746341602968152024-03-12T23:34:57.390+00:00This Side of the WardrobeDiary of a Lion's life in Spare OomNancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-68843740251331362082017-09-14T20:11:00.000+01:002017-09-14T20:11:41.626+01:00I Don't Understand the Question?There's been running theme in our house over the summer holidays. That of asking questions which have no answer. By that I don't just mean that there is literally no answer to give (although that has been the predominant reason they have gone unanswered), but questions that just haven't been given an answer - there is an answer but one has never, to this day, been thrown out there.<br />
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So, in light of this, here are my Top 20 unanswered questions of life and love and why (mainly why...)<br />
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20. "Mam, how much are penguins?"<br />
19. "Why isn't Roo on the naughty mat?"<br />
18. "Why are you on the naughty mat?"<br />
17. "Where <u><i>are </i></u>all the hair bobbles?"<br />
16. "Where <u><i>is</i></u> Lightning McQueen?"<br />
15. "Where <u><i>is</i></u> Dad?"<br />
14. "Why is (insert childs name here) making that noise?"<br />
13. "What sort of poo is it?"<br />
12. "Why are you <i><u>still</u></i> sat on the toilet?"<br />
11."Why aren't mermaids real?"<br />
10. "Mam, are you having another baby?"<br />
9. "Are you (this 19 year olds) mother?"<br />
8. "Isn't that (Mam's) (32 year old) daughter?"<br />
7. "Why is it wet here?"<br />
6. "Why have you (taken/hit/broken/thrown/kicked/rolled/spat) (it/her/those/again/him/under/that distance) - (in any combination you fancy)<br />
5. "Why isn't he wearing trousers?"<br />
4. "Why is he wearing her trousers?"<br />
3. "Why haven't you got any knickers on?"<br />
2. "CAN ANYONE HEAR ME TALKING?"<br />
1."Why is there poo on the utility room floor?" (Although one feels this should really sit at Number 2...)<br />
<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-41395142968459270702017-05-11T21:56:00.000+01:002017-05-11T21:56:03.681+01:00Chill-axingRecently Mam received a gift - well, I say recently, it was for Mother's Day, but she used this gift recently which for her is pretty impressive. Anyway, she got this gift -she was given 2 tickets for a massive wash - which I found odd as I consider ablutions a necessity rather than an activity but still.<br />
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Now, allow me to digress for a moment and just correct your thinking here, this was not, as I thought, (and I think Mam hoped) 2 tickets for Mam to go twice, she had to take Dad. Yes, Dads like to wash too it seems.<br />
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So she received 2 tickets and was told to 'Hold on for Easter!" (with a grin) as, shortly after Mother's Day, Easter arrived and she was given 2 tickets for Afternoon Tea post wash (again, I draw your attention to my previous digression - she was only ever getting <u>1 AFTERNOON TEA</u> and she did hide that disappointment well). This also made Dad's repeated shouting of "Don't get ME anything for Easter!" (accompanied by the same grin) more understandable...<br />
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So Mam and Dad went to the spa. I had no concept of what the spa was but thankfully neither did Mu and so she threw out the question to Mam, and it went like this...<br />
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Mu: where you going Mam?<br />
Mam: to the spa darling!!!<br />
Mu: will you get me a treat, maybe...a magazine?!?!? (cheeky grin)<br />
Mam: no, A spa not THE Spar?<br />
Mu: is it still a shop?<br />
Mam: no, it's a lovely relaxing place<br />
Mu: what will you do there?<br />
Mam: well, just relax a bit<br />
Mu: why?<br />
Mam: erm, cos sometimes Mam's need to just sit quietly<br />
Mu: for how long?<br />
Mam: oh just the afternoon<br />
Mu: THE WHOLE AFTERNOON? won't you get bored just sitting?<br />
Mam: oh well there's things to do<br />
Mu: like what?<br />
Mam: well, I might sit in the sauna<br />
Mu: What's that...<br />
Mam: it's a very hot room<br />
Mu: then what will you do?<br />
Mam: erm, maybe sit in the Steam Room<br />
Mu: What's that...<br />
Mam: a very hot, very wet room<br />
Mu: is that it?<br />
Mam: no, then I might sit in the hot tub<br />
Mu: Sometimes when I get too hot I get REALLY swea-i, like ma hair is just SOOOOOAKIN!<br />
Mam: yeah?<br />
Mu: will you be swea-i?<br />
Mam: well..erm..yes...a bit<br />
Mu: what's a hot tub?<br />
Mam: oh, it's like a big....bath<br />
Mu: oh well, you'll be fine if your swea-i then<br />
Mam: yeah, i guess so...<br />
Mu: is that all there is to do?<br />
Mam: well, some people get a facial, but I won't be<br />
Mu: what's that?<br />
Mam: it's where you lay down in a peaceful room, with lovely music and a lady comes and...well...rubs your face...<br />
Mu: Rubs, mam? Rubs? Rubs your FACE?!?!?!?!<br />
Mam: ...yeah...<br />
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At this point Dad came in...<br />
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Mu: Dad, are you going with Mam to the spa?<br />
Dad: yes<br />
Mu: well, Mam's going for little relax, she'll be really sweat-i and you will be too but don't worry cos there's massive bath and a lady might rub your face but that's oookkkaay it's supposed to happen...oh, there's nothing to buy there...<br />
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<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-50141924452633490702017-03-16T22:06:00.000+00:002017-03-16T22:10:36.796+00:00Stand OffFollowing on from last months blog it seems battles lines have well and truly been drawn in the house (for a moment this opening had the ring of a n early 2000 Big Brother episode minus Davina). Mam is on the war path and this is a path well worn.<br />
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You'd think that as this was not the first time Mam has donned her armour and thrown herself over the top (the latter she's been doing since the age of 2 and a half), she would have a distinct advantage over her newest daily adversary, however, Mam has found herself on the back foot for 2 reasons...<br />
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1) This opponent has tactics never before used in warfare thus far...<br />
2) He's REALLY strong...<br />
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Now while I realise Mam has a reputation to protect, one of high wit, excessive stubbornness and fox like cunning, not to mention her 'Ice Queen' persona (which has been likened to kicking a puppy and not caring*), however, questions have started to arise as to whether this time...she's beat.<br />
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Ru's persistance in refusing to take part in ANY ACTIVITY in which he does not want to have resulted in a literal stand off between the 2 sides. He's also started to couple his part of the stand off (more of a lay-off) with the words "I won't".<br />
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What started out as him registering his protest at a nappy change has become all out combat if it doesn't involve football, Thomas the Tank or a room/location which, although 28 seconds earlier he was happy in, now does not meet his taste (whatever that is...)<br />
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Last week he changed his mind on the walk to church "No bring push chair, Mammy" with just 100 yards to go. Mam dug her heels in and refused to carry him the last few strides - mainly because he has started to state his position with 1000 yards to go, and Mam was feeling in the zone at that point (and she quite literally cannot carry him anymore). Anyway, 100 yards from the door of church, having screamed like someone off The Walking Dead down most of the street, he lifted up his legs and did that thing where he won't stand up and thus swings in mid air while Mam holds him up by one arm.<br />
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Like I say, Mam was on her game and so placed him on the floor and began to walk (very slowly, for all you Social Workers out there) away.<br />
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Ru anticipated this and curled up, as if in his bed and started to suck his thumb and close his eyes.<br />
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Mam, still convinced her 2012 tactics would work even though she'd never really been faced with a 2 year old attempting to sleep on the pavement, stopped. Which left Mu and Karoo prancing about in no-mans-land (dressed appropriately in high heels and tutus).<br />
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There was a brief moment where nothing really happened and then a passing dog began licking the 'sleeping' Ru. And everyone, including those looking out of their windows at what they believed to be a 'murder' taking place in the street, weighed up who could really count this situation as a 'win',<br />
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He's 23 months old with the intellect of Stephen Hawking and the strength of a 7 limbed Ultimate Warrior.<br />
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<i>* All puppies mentioned are fictional and any likeness to incidents involving puppies either living or dead is entirely coincidental...particularly puppies included in the latter.</i>Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-55822508393560684292017-02-17T09:00:00.000+00:002017-02-17T09:00:06.200+00:00iAppleIt seems that the children of the pride are now very much of the i-generation. Mu came home from school the other day and informed us all she'd spend her Friday 'Golden Time' on the iPods. When Mam asked what did she do on them she replied "just iPod stuff". Dad then questioned whether it was an iPod or iPad (trying to stay down with the kids) but Mu insisted that it was the pod - despite Dad's protests that "if you can play games on it and take photos it's an I P A D".<br />
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As it goes, my experience of children generally is that they are ALL born the i-generation, regardless of what era you're birth day is - and parents (and favourite toys) spend the first 5 years of their lives trying to make them the Others-Generation so they aren't known as "that-kid-who-can't-share" when they reach school.<br />
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This point was proved the other day in church, allow me to set the scene...<br />
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...As you may or may not be aware we all attend church on a Sunday evening (as well as the morning but that's by the by). Half of the pride attend in their pyjamas and, more recently, slippers and dressing gowns, I'll let you imagine which members this applies to. Mam also packs a picnic for the pyjama wearing half of the clan for during the sermon, to keep them quite(r) and still(er).<br />
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Last Sunday this happened...<br />
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Mam (in full, heartfelt voice): <i>Be thou my vision o...</i><br />
Roo: Mam. Apple<br />
Mam (in hushed whisper): <i>You need to talk quieter, darling...Thou my best thought in the...</i><br />
Roo (at the same volume but with the intonation of someone who is talking in a whisper) : Mam. Apple<br />
Mam (in hushed whisper): <i>That's not how you ask...Waking or sleeping thy..</i><br />
Roo (normal volume) Mam. Apple. Pleeeeeeese (punctuated with a cheeky grin)<br />
Mam: <i>I don't have one darling...Be thou my wisdom, be...</i><br />
Roo: MAM. APPLE. PLEEEEEEESE (no cheeky grin)<br />
Mam: <i>Roo, I don't have any apples with me, we'll have a cracker in a minute...Thou my great father and...</i><br />
Roo: NO, mammy! Apple. APPLE.<br />
Mam:<i> No Roo, we'll have a cracker in a minute...and I with thee one...</i><br />
Roo: APPLE APPLE APPLE<br />
Mam:<i> have the cracker now...Be thou my breast plate, my..</i>.<br />
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Roo: Mammy, cracker gone, HURRAY ROO (thows his arms in the air in celebration) Apple pleeeeeease<br />
Mam: (still whispering) <i>there are none...Thou and thou...</i><br />
Roo: APPLE<br />
Mam: <i>we'll have a chocolate sandwich in a minute...Still be thou my...</i><br />
Roo: APP...<br />
Mam: <i>Have the chocolate sandwich...ruler of all.</i><br />
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Roo: Mammy, no sankyou (deposits crust of chocolate sandwich in her hand, minus the chocolate spread which he's licked off the bread) Apple please!<br />
Mam: <i>no, we'll have something in a minute</i><br />
Roo: NO SANKYOU, APPLE<br />
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Now the music had finished there was the sound of rustling and shuffling from every seat behind us (we were sat on the front row) as an entire congregation rooted round their handbags in the hope of a stray apple they could roll down the aisle towards us.<br />
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Mam: (still whispering) <i>How about an orange?</i><br />
Roo: ummhhmmm<br />
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The sermon begins, and what is perhaps, the most quiet part of church is happening. Mu and Karoo also start munching but, sensing the tone in Mam's hushed whispers just take what they are given.<br />
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Roo: Mammy, orange<br />
Mam: (whispering) <i>here...</i><br />
Roo: Orange<br />
Mam: <i>this is orange</i><br />
Roo: NO MAMMY ORANGE<br />
Mam:<i> sshhhhh,</i> <i>this one?</i><br />
Roo: No, orange<br />
Mam: <i>This one?</i><br />
ROo: no, orange<br />
Mam: <i>this one?</i><br />
Roo: no, orange<br />
Mam: <i>this one?</i><br />
Roo: no, ORANGE!<br />
Mam: <i>those were all pieces of orange...I don't have any more orange?</i><br />
Roo: Apple<br />
Mam: (at this point her face tensed like it'd been hit with an unexpected shot of botox, and, still whispering but now through gritted teeth) <i>I d o n ' t h a v e a n a p p l e</i><br />
Roo: <span style="font-size: x-large;">APPLE APPLE APPLE APPLE AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH</span><br />
As he shouted this (the last part something Mam was wishing she was shouting) he began to rock the push chair which he'd been strapped to from side to side making the wheels alternatively leave the floor. The preacher is carrying on as if nothing is happening and the handbag rustling has hit a frantic pace, with some people now actually getting onto the floor in order access the inner compartments better.<br />
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At this Mam decides enough is enough as it's time to make an extraction.<br />
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Easier said then done when a raging toddler is lashed to a 3 wheeled pushchair.<br />
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In the end she managed to get the clips unclipped and drag - that is the only word I can use, and in fact, the only method she could use - Roo out of the pushchair leaving a trail of crackers, bread crumbs and orange segments as she stuffed him under her arm and left the room. 2 closed doors and a sound proof wall away, he maintained his stand. We heard it.<br />
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And that was the end of the matter - well, for those of us that could handle Mam's serious failure to be packing a Breburn.Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-43988222711004906292017-01-17T22:45:00.001+00:002017-01-17T22:45:27.831+00:00Multi TaskingSo I realise that the title of this blog post is controversial. Based on the number of times is has been brought up - or eluded to - in the Toy Tub and cross analysed with the number of times the 'boy' toys have felt the need to justify their ability to do said title (resulting in a very messy incident involving Mickey's ears, some playdoh cutters and a foam ball) all while the 'girl' toys looked on (those Russian Dolls just get smugger and smugger)<br />
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I also realise that the very mention of 'boy' and 'girl' toys is controversial, but in our house there are toys the girls play with and there are toys the boy plays with, and there are some toys the girls play with and the boy plays with very differently (usually involving the boy booting the toy as hard and as high as he can). And none of this has been down to any form of directed play.<br />
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But I do feel that I need to bring this up, not just to be controversial, but because 5 years into this job I finally think I might actually have a certain preliminary base at this skill.<br />
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Now, while Mickey would shout at you that there is no such things as multi-tasking (mainly cos of the ear thing) and that you just end up doing lots of things badly. And the Russian Dolls would just do what they do without saying anything, and the firemen on the Melissa and Doug fire engine would say that the Russians were all just doing one thing each but at the same time. I actually NEED to be able to multi task - my job - my life - now requires me to do it, whether it's fictitious or not. And I'm not helped by the fact that one of my paws (paws I tell you!) is permanently holding 2 hoops of differing textures and the other a plastic flower filled with several tiny balls.<br />
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I'm a lion who was very used to solitary walks, full of contemplative thoughts on one subject at a time, and if I did 'chat' it was talking to one other person at a time, in one place at a time. The reality of life with this pride was like being punched in the face - which in fact I was...a lot...during my 1st year. Couple that with the incredible and unpredictable noise, the missiles intermittently flung (you occasionally being one of them) and the degree at which you suddenly changed room and indeed purpose, all while being constantly hit in the arm with a spoon, and I was begging not to be retrieved from the top of the fridge after day 1.<br />
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I could't handle it. A life couldn't be lived at this frenetic pace, nay, 7 lives being lived simultaneously could't be lived at that frenetic pace. And it could not go on...<br />
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...and it didn't.<br />
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...it just multiplied.<br />
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None of us were very good at more than 1 thing at first. Watching Mam and Dad try to pass the only baby they had and a muslin cloth in the early days was more than enough to handle (the only solution back then was for Parent 1 to put the baby down on the sofa and for Parent 2 to then pick up the baby and both of them to just always wear a muslin cloth each).<br />
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But then it struck me the other day, as I was hanging off the bunk bed, roaring as I did and twirling back and front that, not only had I become Beth Tweddle, but I was doing several things at the same time.<br />
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And all this would encourage me, you would think, and it did put a certain swagger in my walk, and compelled me to swing my hoops in time with my steps as I sauntered down the landing but then I was met with this...<br />
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As I rounded the corner of the bathroom door I saw one Parent sat on the toilet reading a book, brushing a child's teeth, dressing another and doing the 3rd ones hair... AT THE SAME TIME. Seems I'm not the only one to have come a long way in 5 years...Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-72702616421662872482016-12-11T09:00:00.000+00:002016-12-11T09:00:03.395+00:00Part 1 - the Long Awaited King<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">But that’s another story…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-90682420483519314512016-12-10T09:00:00.000+00:002016-12-10T09:00:05.052+00:00Part 2 -the Long Awaited King<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The Problem<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">(Isaiah 53 v 3)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 14;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The time
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were almost back in their home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And as
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">In a tiny little town…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">To a mam who wasn’t married…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Someone from Judah’s family…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Immanuel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">arrived<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">In the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">God himself, held in someone else’s hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">time splitting, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">cosmic changing moment happened <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">there was a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">After all
God’s promising and reminding and explaining.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"><br />
After all his pursuing and running after and shouting over and over again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And after
God arrived on earth to end the lie and shout louder than anyone or anything
ever had or ever would again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; font-size: 26.0pt;">“I <span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>LOVE <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>YOU”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">God’s
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">It was
just like Isaiah had said<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Just as
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>“One look at
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Isaiah
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">God had
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the Rescuer, of The King.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">God always
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And yet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">He still came.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-64673412790909642702016-12-09T10:51:00.000+00:002016-12-09T10:51:07.895+00:00Part 3 - The Long Awaited King<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The Prince<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">(Isaiah 9 v 6 - 7)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Father
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Power
and peace will be in his kingdom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">He
will rule it forever and ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The
Lord of heaven’s armies will do this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">because
of his strong love for his people.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 14;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The lie thundered on. Tearing God’s
children apart. Making their lives harder and harder until it seemed that the
lie really was the truth. All the hurting and suffering outside of the garden
meant that God’s children only became more deafened to his shouts of rescue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Wars and hatred and bitterness started
to tear apart God’s children. Forgetting him had meant they had forgotten who
they were and that meant they had forgotten to watch and wait for The King.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">So God sent them another message. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Another
reminder that he was still there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">After
all this time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">After
all their battling against him . And turning away. And saying HE was the liar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">He was
still coming for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">And he was coming for them with The
Prince of Peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">One who would quell all the anger and
fear and hating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">One who would be stronger than the lies
and the accusations and the deceit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">One who would wipe away all their tears
so they could see for real, the truth that had always been there from the very
beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Once again Isaiah told God’s children
God’s message. To watch and wait for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">A Prince<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">A Prince who’s rule would be with peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">A peace that wasn’t like any peace the
world now knew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">A peace that was from the very
beginning, right back in the garden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">A peace that was stronger and more powerful
and forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">God’s children had now forgotten what
peace was really like. The wonderful sound of peace that had been in the
garden, in all that God had first made, had been drowned out by the lie that
God didn’t care. And now the lie was so loud that God’s children couldn’t even
remember what the peace sounded like at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Which is why the Rescuer would not just
bring peace back but would rule with peace so that God’s children could never
forget it again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">God’s
children tried their very best to make life work without him. But somehow it
was never quite right. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and they still died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Life out
of Eden was definitely hard, but it was also short. By now God’s children had
all but forgotten him and the wonderful place he had first given them. They had
forgotten the beauty of those first few days on earth. The peace of perfection
that they had lived in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">But
despite this there was something deep within them that meant they knew that sickness
and hurt and death were not how they were supposed to live. But instead of
making them run back to God it only made them keep running further and further
away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">God’s
children knew that life wasn’t supposed to be this way but everywhere they
looked it still seem so final<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">So God
gave Isaiah another message – truth be known, Isaiah did a lot of message
carrying between God and his lost children, which is quite a hard job when your
trying to deliver post to someone who doesn’t know where they are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">So Isaiah
faithfully passed on God next message<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">“His ever-expanding, peaceful government will
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">God was
telling his children that they were right. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
That was why he was moving heaven and earth to set things straight. Life with
God was supposed to last forever. Death and sickness and sadness were never
supposed to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">God’s
Rescuer was going to rule forever. They would never have to worry about being
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Not once
The King had found them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-45902329071921015482016-12-08T09:00:00.000+00:002016-12-08T09:00:17.229+00:00Part 4 - The Long Awaited King<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The Everlasting
Kingdom<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">(Jeremiah 23 v 5)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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days are coming,” says the Lord,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">“when
I will raise up a good descendant in David’s family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">This
descendant will be a king who will rule in a wise way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">And
he will do what is fair and right in the land.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 14;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Many,
many years had passed now since the snake had told the horrible lie, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and since Adam and Eve had believed him, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and since his children had walked
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">God had
kept on telling his children over and over again that he was coming back for
them. Even though life with God was hard, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and sad, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and lonely, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">his children still kept wandering
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">God’s
children kept telling him that they didn’t want him, and they were starting to
get tired of watching and waiting for God’s King to arrive. One day they asked God
for a king right now – God told them that a human king wouldn’t look after them
or rescue them like his Promised King would, but God’s children didn’t care.
Once again they told God that they didn’t want his plan, they wanted their own,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The first
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really love God and he did terrible things just like God said he would. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">But still
his children didn’t listen to him and so God gave them another king, this time
he gave them a king who did love him and who was watching and waiting for God’s
Promised King and so this king, king David, kept reminding his people that God
was still on his way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And then,
God told his children a wonderful thing. The Promised King – the real King, the
Rescuing King – would be one of king David’s children’s, children’s, children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Just like
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one of king David’s great grandchildren would also be the King – which made
sense because king David was part of Judah’s family too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">One day
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wouldn’t be a king like any human king – with servants and castles and armies,
or with royal robes and a shiney crown. No, the real King would be far, far
more than any human king.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">He would
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>More wonderful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>And more mighty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">He would
be The King.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-48076983548951422232016-12-07T09:00:00.000+00:002016-12-07T09:00:31.823+00:00Part 6 - The Long Awaited King<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Jesus’ Mammy <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">(Isaiah 7 v 14)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">But
the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be pregnant. She will
have a son, and she will name him Immanuel”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 14;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Now that
His children knew where the promised </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter condensed";">King</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> would be, He then told then more
about what to look for. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">I wonder
if you know your mammy’s </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "futura";">name</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Or what she does for a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">job</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Or even how </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "brush script mt italic";">old</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> she is? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Well,
part of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">’s rescue plan was for the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter condensed";">Rescuer
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">not to come <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">with a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "braggadocio";">big parade</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">or a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Brush Script MT Italic";">huge
fanfare,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">but to come to earth as a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "brush script mt italic";">tiny little baby.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God’</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">s awesome and powerful </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter condensed";">King</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, who was there helping make the
world right at the very </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "chalkduster";">teaching</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> the waves how to curl,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "playbill";">giving</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> the bees the recipe for honey,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "desdemona";">whispering</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> to the wasps exactly what they were for, so
no one else would ever know,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter condensed";">Everlasting
King</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> was going to
make Himself as </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "edwardian script itc";">small</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> as a tiny baby. And to do that,
the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter condensed";">King</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> would need a mammy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Isaiah,
someone else </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">sent to keep reminding His children to keep </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "luminari";">watching </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "lucida handwriting";">waiting</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">,
told them that </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">’s </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter condensed";">Rescuer</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> would be born, just like you or I
into the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And that
His mam would be someone who wasn’t married, someone who didn’t have a husband
– which was odd in those days, because anyone who had a baby, had a husband.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Now, the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter condensed";">Rescuer</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> didn’t need to be born in order
to be alive – He had always been alive, just like</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";"> God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">But </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> decided that the best way for the
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter condensed";">Rescuer</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> to come from </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "curlz mt";">heaven</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, from sitting in the chair right next to </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">’s chair, and down to us here on </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "braggadocio";">earth</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, was for Him to be born just like one of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Isaiah
told </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">’s children this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">“Watch
for this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">A girl
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">She’ll
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">So now </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">’s children knew </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "copperplate gothic bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">where</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> they had to look <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">and they knew that the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter condensed"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Rescuer</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> would
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; font-size: 18.0pt;">“I
<u>DO</u> LOVE YOU”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">He would not be </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> far
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Immanuel.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-82688318325874887892016-12-06T09:00:00.000+00:002016-12-06T09:00:06.424+00:00Pat 7 - The Long Awaited King<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The Place<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">(Micah 5 v1-2)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">“But
you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">are
one of the smallest towns in Judah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">But
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">He
comes from very old times,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">from
days long ago.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand black"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 14;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Although Jacob had believed the terrible
lie that God didn’t love him, he also believed in God’s last promise to his
great, great, great grandparents as they had left the garden. Jacob knew that God
was coming to rescue his children and defeat the snake and all his lies and
that one day, God would get his children back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Because
God did love them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Even though his children doubted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Even though his children ran away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Even though his children were lost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">God still loved them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">God wasn’t done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">But God’s children continued to live
outside the garden and away from him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Always doubting, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">always
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>always lost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">God was coming back for them, but the
lie was still too loud. God tried to get his children to listen to him and to
trust that he was going to rescue them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">He sent people to them to tell them over
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">One of these people was called Micah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Micah had lots of things to tell God’s
children but one of the most important was about a place. You see, if God’s
children were going to watch and wait for the Rescuer they would need to know
where in the world to look.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Now God decided to send his one and only
son, the Long Awaited King to a small town, in a small land, in the middle of
no-where. In fact if you had looked for it on a map, you probably would have
missed it completely. Which is probably why God told Micah exactly where to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Micah told God’s people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">“But
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">But God was right behind them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The Beginning of
the Plan<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">(Genesis 49 v10)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand black"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "snell roundhand"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Men
from Judah’s family will be kings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">It was <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Rotting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Tainted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spoiled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">And their children had children too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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King<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-9932635997335374772016-12-04T09:00:00.000+00:002016-12-04T09:00:24.838+00:00Part 9 - The Long Awaited King<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">After the End<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">(Genesis 3)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">In that
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">There was no way back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">God’s children had chosen to leave him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">They had
given him back the wonderful gift. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">They had told him they didn’t love him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">They had broken his heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">That one
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">For God’s
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">They had
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">Shouted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">“YOU DON’T REALLY LOVE ME”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">A lie that would keep shouting all
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">Passed on like a baton from
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">Before
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God’s way of giving his children one last hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">“I will make you and the woman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">enemies to each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">Her child will crush your head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">And you will bite his heel.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">Even
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">As he
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">‘I’m coming back for you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I do love you</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Marker Felt";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">After the
Beginning Came the End<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">(Genesis 3)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">As you will know from all other stories you
have read, a good </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> is all well and good, but that is
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story. After this story’s </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, comes </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bauhaus 93";">the end</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">After </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">had made
everything he could think of. After he had given it to his most prized
possession, his </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "stencil";">children</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">. After that astonishing </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, there came a terrible </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bauhaus 93";">end</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Adam</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> and </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Eve</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God’s</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> first </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "stencil";">children</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, had everything they could ever need, they lived in Eden, a
breathtaking garden filled with everything </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> had created. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">But they
didn’t think they had everything they could ever want.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">In Eden </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> had given them just one rule.
There was one thing, out of the million-gazillion things he had created that
they could not have. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">It was a piece of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">It was
not that they couldn’t have any </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">.
No, they had barrels of apples, and forests of bananas, they had orchards of
pears and vineyards of grapes. They had miles upon miles of orange groves and
lemon groves and lime groves…no, they had </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, but they could not have a certain </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">. Just one </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">from all the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruits </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">said they couldn’t have. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">
from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> said ‘no’ for good reason. If
they ate this </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> it would end everything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The
perfect garden would </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "abadi mt condensed extra bold";">die,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">the
perfect animals would </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "abadi mt condensed extra bold";">die</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">but more
than that, they would </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "abadi mt condensed extra bold";">die</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> would never be able to see them
again. If they ate the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> of the Tree of Knowledge they
would walk away from </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> and everything he could give
them. They would be strangers to the person who loved them the most. Their
hearts would be stained with sin and imperfection meaning they could never be
near </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> again. They would be broken, hurt and lost
forever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> said ‘no’ to protect them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">But </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Adam</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> and </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Eve</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> didn’t want </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God’s</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> protection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Adam</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> and </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Eve </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">ate the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Before
they ate the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, Satan had whispered in their
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple symbols";">Quietly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "blairmditc tt-medium";">Slowly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bradley hand bold";">Lovingly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">He whispered </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bradley hand bold";">“Are you sure </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bradley hand bold";">really
loves you?”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The
garden fell silent while </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Adam</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> and </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Eve</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> considered their answer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The trees
stopped their rustling, the birds muted their song. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">They all
waited, straining to hear the answer that </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Adam</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> and </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Eve</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> would give to the horrifying lie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baskerville semibold";">Eve</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> took the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">fruit </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">from the tree and turned it over and over in
her hand. With one unified shout the trees took up their song again together
with the birds and the fish and the wild animals, all of them clamoring to tell
them that it wasn’t true, </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> did love them…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">But it
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surrounded them. Crying out to them with everything it had. It was as if they
could no longer see the perfect beauty that once flooded their eyes with colour
and clarity and truth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">All they could hear was the lie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The trees
& birds fell silent once more, but not with a silence of hope and patience
as before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">They were
not waiting with baited breath for an answer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">They knew. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">It was over. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Everything was broken. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Everything was lost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">This was the sound of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bauhaus 93";">the end.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-59455328601331154172016-12-02T09:00:00.000+00:002016-12-02T09:00:11.222+00:00Part 11 - The Long Awaited King<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> God’s Children<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">(Genesis 2)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Far </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "savoye let plain:1.0";">above </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">all that he had made before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Far </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial black";">outweighing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> all that he had imagined before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">After all
his </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bradley hand bold";">creating</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">making</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baoli sc regular";">bringing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> into existence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> saved his most precious idea until last.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Even
right back there, in the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginnings</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> looked at all he had </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "curlz mt";">thought</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> of, and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "didot";">spoken</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> of, and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "krungthep";">given
life</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> to and saw that
it was all </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cracked";">extraordinary</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And then he
looked at you and I, amongst it all, amongst <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "chalkduster";"> billions of wild animals <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and amongst
the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "edwardian script itc";">trillions
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and saw
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">we were </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "blairmditc tt-medium";">incomparable.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> loved us, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and we
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">because
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And he
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have the very best he could give – which, as we will discover, happens to be
the very best you can get.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Yes, in
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">The very
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">But that
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> In The Very Beginning…<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">(Genesis 1)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">We start
where all good stories start, right at the very </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And this </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> is the most </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> we could begin at. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">It is the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">In the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, the very </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "herculanum";">beginning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, before you or I, before your mam’s or
dad’s, before your grans, your teachers, before even the very first people
rambled the earth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Long before any </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "baoli sc regular";">animals,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> and long before </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "apple chancery";">birds</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "blairmditc tt-medium";">fish</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Before the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "braggadocio";">sun </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bauhaus 93";">moon</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">Before we had </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "century gothic";">days </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "century gothic";">weeks</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">There was </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">. <span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>In
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">And </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"> painted each one of them in the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "engravers mt";">magnitude</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "iowan old style black";">gloriousness </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">of him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">God</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";">’s most treasured idea of them all, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "stencil";">his children</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "marker felt";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-42418532753625559012016-11-30T21:00:00.000+00:002016-11-30T21:00:04.526+00:00And now for something a little different...So, it occurs to me that I never actually introduced you to Karoo's official Favourite Toy when she was born 3 years ago - and I realise that Roo now also has a full time Favourite Toy, but my colleague who landed that job definitely got the raw end of that deal...<br />
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And as my oversight was pointed out to me recently, I felt a little terrible (after the big build up I made) at never addressing the appointment again and so in order to recompense for my actions I am giving the blog over to Karoo's said Toy for a limited time.<br />
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Now, don't panic! I realise that this is not what you signed up for however, I did make a huge gaff on this one and, while she may not be as funny, ribbony or indeed, Liony as myself, she does tell a good story.<br />
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For the first half of December Smaugette will be sharing with you a story from my side of the Wardrobe, something with a little of the Deep Magic that can easily be forgotten in the Decking of the Halls and the Jingling of Bells.<br />
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So I invite you to put your sleigh back in it's box for a little while longer, put the tangled fairy lights to one side and enjoy a 12 post feast written as only a dragon could...<br />
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And if that didn't persuade you perhaps this little test run by the reptile herself will help...see you in January<br />
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Aslan<br />
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There is a story<br />
An old, old story<br />
That is forgotten by many on this side of the wardrobe.<br />
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It is a story that is full of danger,<br />
And heartache<br />
And sadness<br />
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A story begins before time even began<br />
And continues on even now<br />
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It tells of defeat<br />
And disappointment<br />
Of fallen heros<br />
And fallen angels<br />
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And of a Hero.<br />
The Hero<br />
The King<br />
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It whispers<br />
And sings<br />
And SHOUTS<br />
It's Chronicle<br />
Trying to push it way through the door and onto this world. But despite all it's efforts few hear it. The noise of everything else seems to drown out its wonderful prose.<br />
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But even though this is an old story, nearly lost through the years and almost silenced by the world, if you do hear it, it will thunder out to you louder than anything else that comes after it.<br />
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Yes, it is an old, and sad and long story<br />
But more than all these things<br />
This story<br />
is true...<br />
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<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-41570549789433603502016-10-07T20:16:00.000+01:002016-10-07T20:16:15.743+01:00The Mattress, The Light and the Daddy LonglegsMany will have experienced what I am about to describe to you, especially as I'm given to learn from an elderly lady and her trusty Wireless, that there is an epidemic at present.<br />
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Several nights ago, Mam and Dad were just snuggling down at 10:34pm, tired and worn out from the madness of the day. The last light had been extinguished and the 'goodnights' been said, when out of the silence came the noise now familiar to us all, the buzzing and flapping of an insect SOMEWHERE in the room.<br />
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Well, Mam didn't even open an eye, but uttered the words "End it" to Dad, who promptly - as he's a man who is fully aware of his small but non-the-less time consuming household jobs list - shot out of bed and turned on the lamp.<br />
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(His job list includes<br />
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<li>Rouge insects in the house - any time, any place</li>
<li>The Bin - Weekly but with a complex recycling schedule</li>
<li>Poos in the bath - anyone's, any time)</li>
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While Mam's only action was to pull the cover over her head and shout 'GET IT, GET IT, GET IT' Dad was already pulling out the bedside table and pinpointing it's location with his 'Ear of the Hawk' special skill he learnt from The Phantom cartoon in the early 90s.<br />
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His conclusion was that said insect - he suspected moth - was trapped behind the head board of the bed and, despite wielding the bedside lamp and climbing up the head board he couldn't actually see it.<br />
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Mam wasn't having any of that and gave a muffled instruction of 'Don't get back in til it's gone' to which Dad replied 'Well, I can't do that with you still IN the bed - I need to move the whole thing out'. Mam was having non of THAT and, peering out from under the duvet said 'Oh, no, just pull up the mattress and poke your hand through the lats.' to which Dad only reiterated his previous point.<br />
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Seeing there was no other way round it - her suggestion that Dad crawl under the bed with his lamp rather like his mining forefathers before him, fell on deaf ears - and so she did yield and got out of the bed.<br />
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With much of the bedroom furniture now strategically placed like set from Midsummer Murders, Dad lifted the mattress and instructed her to 'Just hold this'. Waving his lamp like a lightsabre and climbing onto the lats like he'd just boarded the Death Star, he stuck his head bravely through the head board in search of the creature.<br />
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Sadly, the up-ending of the mattress meant the edge had now started to rest on the switch for Mam's bedside lamp, plunging, briefly, most of the room into darkness, and then alighting again only to go off again mere seconds afterwards. This disco continued for some minutes until Mam, in an effort to stop the strobe affect, tried to adjust her hold of the mattress and only managed to shout the words,<br />
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'I'M COMING DOOOOOOOOOWWWNNN'<br />
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before the weigh of the mattress took both it and her over the bed and on top of dad - Dad still with his head between the lats and left manically trying to place his lamp back on the bedside table from the none-memory foam side of his bed - had now come face to face with the intruder.<br />
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When he was finally extracted - his rescue hindered by Mam's hysteria (although it sounded a lot like just laughing) - it turned out to be a Daddy Long Legs, who had managed to free himself in the fracas and was now dancing on the ceiling. Dad's only words were 'What were you talking about? "I'm coming down" made no sense - you could have shouted anything else and I would have got out the way...'<br />
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In Mam's defence she only got part-way through her sentence before she was catapulted over the bedframe 'I'm coming down with the mattress, the weigh has shifted' would have been enough information for Dad to take evasive action, sadly he only heard the muffled sound of laughter as he was pinned to the underside of his own bed.Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-53764422917663772262016-09-06T20:11:00.000+01:002016-09-06T20:11:35.860+01:00Abbreves.I recently looked on the calendar to find the following appear under Dad's name...<br />
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NEGP BBQ 6pm<br />
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As I pondered on this event - to which Mam was also invited, but whom presumably had as much clue as myself, I also noticed the following under Mu's name...<br />
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Sch Sts<br />
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And this under Karoo...<br />
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Tods 10am (This was extended to Roo but unless it involves throwing, hitting, kicking or wrestling - he won't be interested in it's content.)<br />
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It's led me to conclude that I am now working at Bletchley and the only way to ever know what's going on is to build some form of super computer which can simultaneously guess 100 variations of the enemies code for any given day.<br />
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It has also led me on a bit of a rant - which, you'll be overjoyed to know, you're about to hear.<br />
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What is it with abbreviations? I don't just mean acronyms, but the abbreviation of words, not just due to a space shortage on a calendar but IN ACTUAL CONVERSATIONS?<br />
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People are actually speaking in 'abbreves'. It seems you can no longer use full words for more than 50% of your sentences. I mean what will this signify for literary compounds such as The Chrons. of Narn. - which I also note has been hijacked by some amateur cook on BBC (you never saw Tumnas engineering a 3D biscuit) or War and Peace, I mean that's just going to be letters?<br />
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I say all this as this week, Mu starts school - wait...that makes sense now...<br />
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She starts school but my question is for what purpose - to unlearn the words she has just spent the last 4 years learning.<br />
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Now I realise that this truncated natter-style is all just "for bants" but IT'S RIDIC. Where will it end, and how is Mam going to explain the fact that Mu is in the Pooh Bear class at school BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THEY'LL BE SHORTENING THAT TO The Winnies...<br />
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It's not just the young either. Since Mam and Dad got married, Granny and Granda have signed all cards and texts with 'AOLA Mam and Dad'...what does this mean??? Granda Pete constantly puts LOL in his texts, but he has no clue why he does it, which was evident when he sent a message to say that Gran had just got a new haircut and he put this at the end.<br />
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So, JIC you didn't realise I SMH, IYKWIM.Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-37902430713636899182016-08-02T20:18:00.003+01:002016-08-02T20:20:14.403+01:00Living In AnaheimSo although you might think from my bio on this blog that I am currently living in the real world it seems I am actually still living in a fictional one. And that one being Disneyland. And what's more, as the swaying vote on exactly which parts of Disneyland I am forced to spend my days in is dictated by 3 and 4 year old girls, I can honestly say I'm not living in the good part of town. There are no Cars or Planes (or any form of transportation out of here), I've given up looking for Nemo as priority has to be given to finding a way out instead. Nope, while I might be living my own Toy Story I am left living it in Princess world - and it really is a world of it's own.<br />
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Not only am I now word perfect on the films - Tangled, Little Mermaid, Frozen - but I am also well aquatinted with each princesses pet (yes, they all have their own) and their accessories (of which there seem to be endless, and of which Mam is regularly informed we DON'T have enough of).</div>
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All this has led to me thinking, while I did enjoy the odd Disney flick as a child, watching them as a fully grown Lion gives you a very different spin on them. </div>
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For example, As a child I loved the Little Mermaid. There, I've said it out loud in the Blogosphere. Judge me all you want but that Lemon Sole's got Soul. Anyway, as a young lion club I identified with this 16 year old, oppressed by her parent, and unable to live the life she dreamed - nay, deserved. But watching it as I do now my overwhelming thought is </div>
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"That girl is spoilt and needs a good kick in the pants. You are 16 years old young lady-fish, and you know nothing. You dad knows what's best for you and your behaviour only serves to re-enforce his thoughts that you're not in love with Eric, you won't be forever unhappy unless you get legs and all the other mer-people are NOT doing it too. This film should have been called The Little Madam"</div>
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And it's not just Ariel that I have issues with. </div>
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Rapunzel, needs a good hair cut from the off and then all her troubles would be over before the film had begun. And while I'm dwelling on her life story let me just point out that if she's got time on her hands and is going to 'Have a Dream', it needs to be a better one than medieval Germany's Blackpool Illuminations. After all that she's been through she's going to need a good 5-7 years of counselling in order to process who she is, re-affirm her identity and deal with her overwhelming issues of attachment and resilience caused by being ripped away form her parents as a baby and placed in the care of a crazy woman who never let her leave the house. And so with that said, her and Flynn Rider - not going to last. She's not Tangled, she's Messed Up.</div>
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Elsa, told all her life that she's not good enough to be seen by humanity and then asked to be queen of a kingdom - she wouldn't have had time to be coronated as she would have let her frozen vengeance reign down like a...well, like a snowstorm. All that pent up anger and resentment from her parents being ashamed of her and thinking that a pair of gloves will solve all her problems means she's only going to be a whirlwind of fury by the time she's 'Come of age'. She ain't letting anything go. And that analysis is purely based on the obvious mental health issues her younger sister has. She's not Frozen, she's Furious.</div>
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I could go on..</div>
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Jasmine - needs the real world not a whole new one.</div>
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Cinderella - needs a Solicitor not a Fairy Godmother.</div>
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Snow White - needs to stop encouraging vermin to help her clean things - mice and birds are incontinent you know?</div>
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and Belle - well, actually, Belle's pretty cool...</div>
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All of them need a good talking to - and one where they don't get to answer back with a catchy 4 chord melody.</div>
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All I can say is hurry up Roo and grow up because a couple of episodes of Fireman Sam every 4 weeks is not going to save the day - well, not mine anyway.</div>
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Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-33474586874199757852016-06-20T20:59:00.000+01:002016-08-02T20:51:12.089+01:00Growing upThe Worst Witch once sang "Growing up isn't easy". Peter Pan said "Never grow up". And until recently always thought growing up was just growing older and gaining more responsiblity for more things...like the spread of that black stuff on bathroom ceiling and children (who spread faster than the ceiling stuff)<br />
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As a lion of some years and, as I look around, some responsibility, I had still never considered myself a fully grown lion.<br />
Yes, the number of DIY jobs has grown (and, rather like in my teenage years with my emotions and my dress sense, my level of DIY skills is still waiting for it's spurt).<br />
Yes, the number of children throwing me from floor to ceiling (hence noticing the black stuff) has increased.<br />
Yes, I can now drive a (remote controlled) car and I own my own (dolls) house.<br />
Yes, I am married but I still didn't think I was Grown Up. Which led me to thinking...When does one Grown Up? Especially as I'm told it's hard to do and recommended never try?<br />
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In order to answer this I decided to pluck the grey hairs of matter from the heads of those older than I and those I consider to have mastered this most tricky of life skills. I started with Auntie Jean (nearing 70) - the oldest person I could think of...and as I walked toward her, paddling in Grasmere Lake, no shoes and the bottoms of her trousers under the water line, I recalled something that made me think again. It wasn't that she was busy - she was also in full song - or that she was barking - although that is the case - but more that she'd only recently had a cast removed from her index finger due to an unfortunate incident at the bottom of a slide in a children's soft play. Whereby she had had to be dragged out of the ball pit by her grand children (6 and 3) and her daughter had had to take her to the Walk-In Centre (once they'd found her shoes). I surmised that she too had not found the secret to growing up.<br />
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Beating a retreat I stumbled on Grand Frank (nearing 65). I literally stumbled on him as he was hiding in the the grass waiting to jump out on his grandchildren in the guise of a tiger. And as I watched him crouched between the blades, only his twitching ears visible, I thought 2 things...<br />
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1) His grandchildren have the speed of gazelles, and therefore once this pounce has been executed, there's no way he will be able to stand up quicker than they will be able to pin him to the ground.<br />
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2) This is a man, who came over to our house to survey a DIY job done by dad, and in the 4 minutes he was there, he swung a hammer and pulled this back, and trod on an upturned nail and had to visit A & E for a tetanus.<br />
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No Growing Up here either.<br />
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And the more I thought about it the more I realised I was surrounded by non-grown ups...<br />
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Granda Pete who, not only travels the world wearing a tartan skirt and wooden shoes but who, recently, couldn't answer the phone because "he'd joined the French circus". And this shortly after making an appointment with his G.P. to discuss the problems he's having with his head, shoulders, knees and toe (I kid you not).<br />
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Mam, who despite being married, owning a house, driving a car and having her own children - can't always remember to put on underwear.<br />
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And Gran who still can't go to a public toilet without it ending in her running out shouting "Leave, leave, leave!"<br />
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But, what, might you ask, has prompted this philosophical look at life? Over the last year it seems to me that I have said goodbye to more people than usual - my usual being 0. I seem to have come to a point in life where, I am actually a grown up.<br />
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Those around me have indeed grown older, from Mu and her siblings to Grandas and Grannies and I find myself, for the first time stood between 2 generations for whom I am responsible. Now don't get me wrong - I don't feel solely responsible for the older generation in the same way I do for the younger one, but these moments of goodbye have marked a change. I think there comes a point in large Prides like mine whereby one generation starts to take on the responsibility previously undertaken by another generation. A point where we are no longer shielded quite as much as we once were, from the heart ache and turmoil experience by those around us. A point where we are needed to step up and hold the hands of those around us rather than wait for our hand to be held. Where we stand with others rather than behind them.<br />
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This point in our lives is not one where the older generation gives up, puts on their slippers and starts going bonkers (although for some lions in the Pride, this last part happened a while ago so it'll be hard to tell when that time does come). But it is a point whereby we are no longer children on the outside, watching and being told what to do in a situation. It is a point where we suddenly find ourselves right in the middle where the tears are the hottest and the pain is the sharpest and life is its realist. And we find ourselves handling it rather than being handled by it.<br />
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It seems growing up does not automatically happen when we have children or get married, or when there's no one to tell us not to each chocolate for breakfast. It doesn't automatically happen in the "hellos" or the "hoorays" of life.<br />
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We grow up in the "goodbyes".<br />
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<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-17240125804227558552014-03-08T17:09:00.000+00:002016-08-02T20:50:23.896+01:00A dedicated follower of fashion...Two Sunday's ago Mu invited me to church. Now I've frequented the establishment before, on numerous occasions, for various reasons, however, this is the first time Mu has actually <i>requested </i>my presence. I was delighted, honoured, and yes, a small tear of happiness welled up in my feline eye, and not just because I'd got one of my hoops caught in the retractable basket of a Happyland Fairy Tree House as the invite was given.<br />
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Thus, prompted by Mam, an explanation of what my visit to church would entail - I listen patiently as I was informed, with mounting excitement, of the "pwaying (praying), pWAYing (playing), singy songs (singing songs) and fighting (?)" that were Mu's top 4 reasons that I should want to attend. While we all dwelt on Mu's concluding reason, Mu herself had hopped off to get ready for church. This also involved dressing Karoo (plonking an N-Dubz style hat on her head so that the ear flap covered both eyes) and Mam, selecting a left and a right shoe, which sadly didn't match. I was then presented with my ensemble for the occasion...hat, shoes and coat. When I say 'hat' I mean pink, knitted bonnet. When I say 'shoes' I mean pink knitted booties. For 'coat' read 'one half of a pink knitted twin set'. Slightly caught on the blind side I missed my opportunity to ask "Is this a joke?" and before I knew it, Mam was being instructed, nay, carrying out the instruction to "DWESS MY LION PEESE"<br />
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As I started to utter my objection I was met with a swift and lengthy response that went something like this...<br />
Me: Grrrr..<br />
Mu: Need a put a shoeses on As-san, your foots will be colderer, it's very colderer outside inda garden...<br />
Me: grrr...<br />
Mu: Anda hat, As-san, your hair will get cold, my hair is colderer too, my need my hat so my hair is not cold...<br />
Me: grr...<br />
Mu: Mammy, MAMMY! Put As-san shoeses on his feet, tie dem on, Mammy, or dey might just fall off and As-san feet will be colderer and maybe a little bit sore...<br />
Me: gr...<br />
Mu: There you ARE! As-san you look beauty...Mammy, MAMMY! As-san look beauty. Daddy, DADDY, <span style="font-size: x-large;">DADDY!</span> We are all ready, get your hat and your shoeses and your coat on, daddy, you look beauty...<br />
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And with that I was swung over Mu's shoulder and I was off. To Church. In public. Wearing one of Karoo's Hand Knitted Matinee Sets.<br />
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<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-52639882248137840372014-02-03T20:43:00.002+00:002016-08-02T20:54:04.958+01:00War of the WorldsSo Mu has this friend. I say friend, because I am unsure as to how much you can reasonably expect 2 year olds to grasp the concept of mutual attachment to another person based on some common ground, usually a personality trait, which bonds you to another. Anyway, Mu has this friend. In all honesty, I think Mu has this friend because Mam has a friend who happens to be Mu's friend's Mum, but that's escaped Mu.<br />
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So Mu's friend is a regular fixture in her social calendar, Toddlers, Church, and even calling on one another to see if they're "Laikin''" (playing out) and they get on like a house on fire - manageable and warming to start with fuelled all the way to totally out of control and in possible need of calling the army.<br />
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Today Mu's friend called to see if Mu was Laikin, and, living somewhere where nothing happens unless you make it, Mu was. Mam managed to get dressed before the friend arrived (monumental as it was just after 9am) and off we went.<br />
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Mu and her friend did play together for the most part, the bounds of this statement being drawing on each other in felt tip was technically together and there was no resultant fighting (until Mam found out). However, there was, not for the first time, an altercation revolving around the play kitchen.<br />
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Mu's Christmas gift from Granny and Granda was a lovely(?) hot pink play kitchen, Auntie Lor and Uncle Mark providing utensils and food to accompany the delightful moulded plastic fixture. It is of average size but more than plentiful for two small toddlers to share. I think the fracas started like many wars do with an insignificant and un-notworthy instance - this one involved a pink plastic frying pan, a plastic cauliflower and ladle - however what unfolded left me cowering in the nearby open washing machine.<br />
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It's unclear who had tenure of said items as both Mu and her friend remain adamant that it was they who had "MY TURN" and it is also unclear who struck first but my first real memory of the incident was both infants brandishing a plastic meat cleaver at one another. Were it not for the fact that Mu's friend was fortuitously holding a plastic bun tray also, Mu may have had the upper hand at this point. But not to be outdone, seeing that the friend had both hands tied she seized the plastic frying pan spilling the cauliflower and catapulting the ladle - both these items landing near Karoo who was playing on the floor nearby and whose attention was now turned to the battling preschoolers. This kickstarted Karoo into a chant of "EEK" "EEK" "EEK" - roughly translated as "FIGHT" "FIGHT" FIGHT" and the tots took this as green.<br />
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Mu's friend, affronted at such an underhand move by his buddy, dropped his bun tray and advanced with his meat cleaver, at which Mu backed away, forced to leave the frying pan. Now Hands Free and with an advancing, irate, cleaver-wheilding "friend" Mu grabbed...ME.<br />
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Whirling me round and round her hand by my Handy Hook, she attempted to clobber the friend over the head, however my loops caught on the ornamental Cinderella's Castle adorning the top of the kitchen, the result of which brought the entire Disney Princess Kitchen and accessorises crashing to the ground. During it's raising, the kitchen fell onto one of it's buttons, meaning we were now being constantly asked "Is princess Aurora awake yet? Breakfast's almost ready". At this Karoo's chant erupted into one long "FFFFFIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHTTTTTT" and both Mu and her friend shook off their layer of plastic food debris and charged....<br />
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It was at this point, just before contact, that Mam waded in. She disarmed both tots in one swift motion (as only Mam's can) whilst silencing Karoo with a rice cake, and, holding both of them at arms length, she revealed the look that only Mam's can give (the one they receive as a free gift the moment they give birth) and both children fell silent. Her tone was firm, yet quiet. Her face angry, yet disappointed, and to give the woman her credit, the only time she raised her voice was to utter the line "THERE'S A REASON SHE'S CALLED SLEEPING BEAUTY" at the cooker. And this was after she'd listed who both kids had let down in their behaviour.<br />
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There was naughty step time, there were apologies and there was, following the departure of Mu's friend later that afternoon, the subjection of us all to several episodes of Mr Tumble's Something Special to re-enforce the point to Mu what friends do with each other. And a pointed note at the end, by Mam, that in not one episode had Mr Tumble, nor his friends, used any of their surroundings as an arsenal against one another.<br />
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Although 6 episodes later, I'm at a loss as to why the spotty man hasn't been taken out by his spotty bag by one of his 'friends'...<br />
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<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-42608950612562669242013-10-25T22:46:00.002+01:002013-10-25T22:55:55.410+01:00Scaring Crows<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwTObSGU7O9KFJ3HKcuIIrw_wk-gztWdEGoweV6gIvz4B_FG0ck2NZthae7Cqx58YhwV0XDQKN73clmMAf-jdZuTJmjWhnQ9XZkkv0z_8azsb15dOKNvq6YQ-ia8sBRl5y-xVPpA5PiDjc/s1600/IMG_2061.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwTObSGU7O9KFJ3HKcuIIrw_wk-gztWdEGoweV6gIvz4B_FG0ck2NZthae7Cqx58YhwV0XDQKN73clmMAf-jdZuTJmjWhnQ9XZkkv0z_8azsb15dOKNvq6YQ-ia8sBRl5y-xVPpA5PiDjc/s320/IMG_2061.jpg" width="320" /></a>Uncle Dom has recently been touring with an up and coming folk duo by the name of <a href="http://www.gilmoreroberts.co.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">Gilmore Roberts</span></a>, who have an interesting little ditty "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c7h-izdDo8&feature=player_embedded"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">Scarecrow</span></a>", which opens their latest album. With dad being a man who is quite into his folk music and Mam being a driver who can't change the CD that is already in the car stereo, we have been treated to the Gilmore Roberts third album - "The Innocent Left" - to the point where I could reasonably offer to join them and form a trio.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6AGZfqFc3rJcxSGr1DjBj2rqeGtNiztBMA4PtdSilBmrcWgStFQYIYF9sbXxT06uw3i4v5TQdIIMp3VZjHDLiUy-A-M9OVb878ZJpAKp-rFqzoZDMYlGFAKOn_oauLPeeeOOHLRyHBT1N/s1600/IMG_2057.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6AGZfqFc3rJcxSGr1DjBj2rqeGtNiztBMA4PtdSilBmrcWgStFQYIYF9sbXxT06uw3i4v5TQdIIMp3VZjHDLiUy-A-M9OVb878ZJpAKp-rFqzoZDMYlGFAKOn_oauLPeeeOOHLRyHBT1N/s200/IMG_2057.JPG" width="200" /></a>The philospofiser in me, however, has noted during a lengthy journey to see Gran & Grandad, that the career of said Scarecrow does bare similarities to the career, thus far, of Mam since she took on her role as mother...this then is how I feel the song would have gone, had she been clever enough to have thought of it first...<br />
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(Click the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">yellow coloured</span> words to see who Gilmore Roberts are or to hear the original song)<br />
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<i>The eyes of a glowering mother out wide</i><br />
<i>Left over toast in her insides</i><br />
<i>A human form her rags provide</i><br />
<i>Out in all weather</i><br />
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<i>A pirate hat that sits askew</i><br />
<i>With a cardboard sword she'll run you through</i><br />
<i>But as long as she can raise a kid or two</i><br />
<i>Out in all weather</i><br />
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<i>When crafting together</i><br />
<i>Her art skills shown</i><br />
<i>Fall quite below</i><br />
<i>But she does the one thing that she's loved and known</i><br />
<i>Drawn goat to hone</i><br />
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<i>If her mouth could shout and swear it would</i><br />
<i>Had she not a child that repeat it could</i><br />
<i>But her presence is enough to do some good</i><br />
<i>Out in all weather</i><br />
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<i>But the day is sure, its a matter of fact</i><br />
<i>When the bairns get wise to her menacing act</i><br />
<i>That her image hides, conviction lacks</i><br />
<i>Out in all weather</i><br />
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<i>With tantrums to weather</i></div>
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<i>Through stubbornness shown</i></div>
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<i>Until they're grown</i></div>
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<i>She does the one thing that she's loved and known</i></div>
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<i>With a very stern tone</i></div>
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<i>Fearing for her pride</i></div>
<i>On the step they sit and moan</i><br />
<i>If her kids she could just tie</i><br />
<i>She'd have the time to shower alone</i><br />
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<i>Right arm, left arm sitting on the fence</i><br />
<i>Leading a vote of confidence</i><br />
<i>The oldest one plans her offence</i><br />
<i>Out in all weather</i><br />
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<i>And taking heed of the casting vote </i><br />
<i>She squats and poos with a scornful gloat</i><br />
<i>Sitting proud on her mothers coat</i><br />
<i>Out in all weather</i><br />
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<i>And I'm sure there'd be tears had she time to cry</i><br />
<i>For the mockery this scene implies</i><br />
<i>"Don't need the loo" was all just lies</i><br />
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<i>With toys you just can't tether</i><br />
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<i>Sat on her own</i></div>
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<i>On a soft-toy throne</i></div>
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<i>She fails at the only thing she's known</i></div>
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<i>Making home</i></div>
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<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446674634160296815.post-34107320589129722752013-06-13T23:55:00.003+01:002013-06-13T23:55:32.157+01:00DON'T PANIC......THE BABY IS HERE...THE BABY IS HERE...THE BABY IS HERE...AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH.Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094453379819413986noreply@blogger.com0