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What makes a man to lose hope? To despair so greatly that he would instead exit than wade into the deep Waters of his hurting to notice what God is making?

A friend of mine attempted to take his life this hebdomad by swallowing a mitt full of slumbering pills. He holds been sleep in a toxic matrimony for the last 5 ages and along with a occupation loss, directed him over the border. I can not ideate what must hold run through his nous as he indited a self-destruction note to his wife and shavers and elevated a handful oflittle bluish tablets to his mouth. Thank God he was descried by some passerby by at the parkland who named the law in clip.

Why makes one mortal choose to wade into the deepness of the hurting of life while another chooses to be buried by it? I hold holded trouble accommodating that this hebdomad. It struck me how selfish the enactment of self-annihilation verily is.

Writer and counselor Dan Allender states that `` excruciation can locomote us toward God or it can locomote us offly from Him and consequently, offly from being fullly human and live... if we see our hard fates as a set of jobs to be licked equally painlessly as possible, so we lose the potentiality to grasp the nature of the event ( and what God would desire to convey around in is as a consequence ). God assures us salvation but his sacred way takes forth from safety, predictability, and comfortableness. Any endeavor to wing over the unsafe terrain or detour to safer land is doomed because it will not take us to God ''

I was reading the narration of Hosea this hebdomad as I processed what holded happed to my friend and the words took me into the desert besides. I passed many years searching the Sonoran desert as a boy near by zero in Arizona. It was a spot of great beauty and danger besides. So, why maked God utilise the desert as a spot to utter to his beloved?

Is it because in the silence of the desert we detect our dependency on the noise in our lives? Is it in the greatness of its landscape that we bump our attachment to the comfortablenesses and conveniences of life - the properties to which we sticking for security and pleasance? Allender tells that the desert `` shatters our psyches haughtiness and leaves us call out in thirst and hungriness ''
Our psyche 's hauteur?
That supercilious and holier-than-thou spot we retire to where we take along life on our ain footings. That noncompliant and independent stance that poses our schedule before of the one that God might hold for our lives.

I make not profess to hold the accounts the deepness of hurting that my friend is seing but I cognise that he encounters himself far from Nirvana... in a dry and waterless desert where all that he holds cometo depend on holds been divested forth. I trust that he takes not to run from the hurting that he is seing but instead, topersevere in his journeying until he observes the oasis that holds been steel oneself against him but around the corner by a God that holds courted him there... to utter tenderly to him... to permit him cognize that, while the way peradventure hard, it is one of mending when walked with Jesus.

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Some shootings of the Autumn Book Crop celebrations:

Browsing the presentations in the lovely North Vancouver World Library ( picture by Mary Jane Muir

Apollo
, demoing It's All Greek to Me, Jack
( exposure by Mary Jane Muir

Norma Charles
and James Heneghan
exhibiting Bank Job
( pic by Jacqueline Pearce

Della Burford
with her show.

Margriet Ruurs
encouraging My School in the Rainforest
( photograph by Mary Jane Muir

Cynthia Nugent
with Fred and Pete at the Beach
, along with other rubrics ( exposure by Mary Jane Muir

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It Holds been one month since I 'm here.
Everything rather good now.
I already acquainted public conveyance system,
and likewise my school system.

I conceive I 'm besides liquidating in category excessively.
Even though some of the theme I 'm not rattlingly good,
but I will work hard thereon.

Nada much occur within this month,
except acquiring many new thing, cognise many new friends,
and getting many new experience.

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Buy'em, Sell'em: The Grocery

I 'm bounding the gun on June a little now. Taking to mind the demand toconsolidate the residuum of my `` Gettysburg notes '' from the marker undertaking, and some timing with other events, my centering this month on the blog will be toward twodistinct themes. One naturally the `` markers and memorials. '' At the same clip I 've got some site notes from assorted points in Loudoun, Fairfax, Clarke, and Frederick Counties which I 've involved nudging to post. I 'll begin out with a series of stations looking at Edwards Ferryboat, where the Army of the Potomac traversed into MD in late June, 1863. Course as a fillip, that site featured prominently in the Fight of Balls Bluff, doing this site a `` two for one '' visit.

A couple of geezerhood back ( 2006 or 2007 ) Loudoun County, VA opened the Elizabeth Mills Riverfront Park
The parkland fronts components of the Potomac and Goose Brook, as a strip of riverbed land following to the Lansdowne Resort & Golf Nine. Several sites of note within the narrow bounds of the parkland include Elizabeth Mills ( besides cognise as Kephart Manufactory ), Kephart Span Ruins, two locks for the Goose Brook Canal, and a river lock for that canal. But for those with Civil Warfare interests, the important landmark is at the mouth of Goose Brook - the site of the Edwards Ferryboat river crossing.

The Mouth of Goose Brook

There are two entryways to the trail in the parkland, both inside Lansdowne, and both hitted from Belmont Ridge Route from Leesburg Superhighway ( VA 7 ). The Elizabeth Mills parking area
is at the terminal of Squirrel Ridge Spot. The Kephart Bridge parking area
is off Riverpoint Thrust. Both sites are about equidistant, no more 1500 paces from the mouth of Goose Brook, but the trail from Kephart Span passes several ruins of the old Goose Brook Canal. The only obstructions on the trail are the occasional deadfall and the occasional washout or two. Otherwise, the trail is a walking along the river banks.

As refered supra, this is a site which holds beds upon beds of history. While the main natural characteristic is naturally the meeting, the important man done characteristic is the Goose Creek Canal
As this canal was in situ at the clip of the Civil Warfare, let me to enlarge a trifle on its history. This canal was one of many such tasks in VA, born with the feeling to associate the inland vales rich with agricultural wares to the marketplaces over the autumn line. After the completion of the Chesapeake and OH Canal on the MD side of the Potomac, a river lock was maked to permit light boat traffic to pass from Goose Brook, down the C & Oxygen Canal, to Washington, DC.

In 1849, the Little River and Goose Brook Piloting Company commenced building on a canal along Goose Brook and the Little River ( its feeder ). The intent was to let transition of canal hoys equally far upstream as Loudoun Vallie - Aldie, Oatlands, and factories along the Snickersville Turnpike. The opening therein canal task was a river lock and a canal lock at the mouth of Goose Brook. Following was a set of dual locks at Kephart 's Factory. The last set of dikes and locks were complete by 1854.

Goose Brook Canal Lock

Job was, Goose Brook was not a dependable for pilotage. Looking at the upper ranges of Goose Brook, even near the Leesburg Turnpike ( site of a Confederate Battery and `` Burnt Span '' during the Civil Warfare ), rarely is there adequate deepness in the channel to permit anything biggerer than a canoe. Yet, the undertaking was finished. The canal ditch, locks, and dykes stood at the clip of the Civil Warfare. Component of this canal is demoed on the `` McDowell Map
`` of 1862.

Subdivision of McDowell Map demonstrating Edwards Ferryboat

Stillly, the map makes not look to accurately scale, nor sleep with demonstrate the full class of the canal. But clearly demonstrated is the route substructure of the clip.

Edwards Ferryboat Route ( refered too on several Leesburg Defenses stations before this yr ) passed from Leesburg to the west, traversing Cattail Subdivision, so falling the bluffs on the north bank of Goose Brook to the meeting. Seeable in that shot of the map, on the lower left, is constituent of the Leesburg Turnpike. The thruway connected Leesburg with Alexandria ( and is today Virgina Highway 7 ), covering Goose Brook little over a mi and a half upstream from the mouth.

The other route of note runs closely through the centre of the shot, tying Edwards Ferryboat Route with the Superhighway. This was named `` California Route '' by some histories. The mention here is to excavation operations active along this subdivision of Goose Brook. Remark the notations `` Fe Ore '' and `` Cu. '' Gold was too mined here, but certainly not plenty do a important operation. Likely the mention to `` California '' was some jape upon the mine proprietor. Irrespective, the CA Route covered Goose Brook at Kephart 's Manufactory at a span by the same name. This span, whose rock abutments still stand, was fired in 1862.

Remains of Kephart Span

On the MD side of the Potomac, a route runs upwardly from the old ferryboat point, across the canal lock so pitchforks. The left, or northwards, fork takes to Poolsville. The right, or south, fork parallells the river finally directing to Washington, DC.

A face at the site today shows a far different perspective:

Google World Image of the Site Today

I 've bespoken in carmine the constructions that stand today for mention - Kephart Mills ( locks and span ), the lock at the mouth of the Goose, the C & Oxygen lock, and C & O River Lock. Otherwise, much of the route construction now poses below links course and residential streets.

So looking at both a period map and the satellite image today, clearly there Holds a challenge to properly construe the site. What I will demonstrate in follow on stations are my notes viewing the Army of the Potomac crossing in 1863 and a trifle about related history of the site.

And you may remark, I 've marked this station as a `` Demand Marker '' entry. Yes, there are no historical or interpretative markers on site!

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Picture about horses and the music in the background is `` into the Rushing ''....Kinda explicates the last hebdomad roughly for Maine If you hold ever holded an injured brute you will be able to associate....life simply appears to stand still for a clip as you fight to `` Muddle '' what ever is broken or ill.

I hold ne'er heard of a `` hot nail ''
earlierly, and I reckon it passes much when a horseshoer shoes a horse. I hold been sitting horses and springing for over 25 eld and ne'er holded that hap until 6 years ago. It Holds ravaging.

Bella but got new shoes, but 3 years subsequently, she get on 3 legs alternatively of 4. It Holds an insidious claudication as you fight to work out what passed. Luckily she demoed me a nail hole with a really little place of blood coming out...... the nail hole was a little overly high on her hoof, and the horseshoer must hold detected because he forced the nail out but left a hole there. They name it hot nail or accelerate your horse.

Swell the following day we forced the shoe, and now gets the rhythm of soaking her pes in epsom salts and packing it with dmso/furazone binding it upwards with nappies and duck tape 2 X 's per day. The hope is that what ever is in the hoof ( IE infection, Pus, etc ) will come out and drainage.

Today is day 6 and zippo so far stillly she is standing on her leg. It Holds sad verily when you take such good aid of an creature so this haps, out of your control. It Holds a waiting game.

Verbalize of waiting.....The kiln is ladening, firing upwardly and nearly maked with it Holds rhythm... wait to chill downwards slowly and unload. I maked some different glazing this clip so we shall see... Iodine should hold some pics afterwards today or tomorrow.

`` suspiration ''... only waiting!

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For virtually 10 geezerhood I 've been constituent of the staff at Grace Outreach Center
in Plano, Texas. I came along as component of the youth staff and to run a `` sports ministry ''. Yeah it was a tough business in the beginning. Since so I 've been the junior high school minister, ran `` originative arts/ programming '' for the younker until about 5 eld ago I got the tech director/ tech humanities for the whole church. Over those 10 geezerhood I 've worked with some great friends, hold holded stacks of great memories and hold larned valuable lessons and turned as a follower of Christ.

We hold great regard for the leading at Grace and our church house for the last 10 ages. But we experienced like it was clip for a modification for us personally. A couple of hebdomads ago I allow the leading squad at Grace cognise that I 'm stepping downward from my place at Grace and will be coming on staff at Lakeshore Church
in Rockwall.

I 'm taking on the occupation as a media manager. It Holds a great squad that I 'm glad to be joining. My main duty is attending be making videos. What I 'm most passionate about! It Holds a littleer church, less services and little groupings my wife and I can get affected in!

It Holds been tough to tell good pass to our friends at Grace but we 're excited about what Holds before. This weekend, Apr 18 & 19 is attending be my last weekend at Grace before I begin at Lakeside