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I also ignore my dogs when eating and they know not to beg or even hang around me. Stalking the cat’s food is another story, though I am going to be more careful about shutting the door to Annie’s room when she’s munching away.

Annie was lying up in the open window of the living room last night, she loved gazing out into the night. I’ll have to allow her out sometime (not until after Halloween), but I will really worry about her.

(And little does she know she could get out now if she wanted — she just needs to figure out the doggie door, which I don’t think she knows really exists yet.)

But if she’s going to be a mouser, she’ll need to be out some; I have a break-away cat collar on order and still need to get a reflective tag. She’s been microchipped at the shelter and I’m now the registered owner.

She was rubbing up against Cowboy again this morning as Cowboy was lying in the door to the hallway … I think we’re definitely over the hump and if they were going to slaughter her in the night they would have done so by now. Hopefully she’ll be comfortable enough to hang out in the backyard a good part of her outdoor time.

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My dog isn’t quite so heathen, but here’s her “bad deed” for the day. She’s good about not attempting to eat my food, and long ago learned to ignore me when I eat at the table. (She had to lie down through quite a few meals before she learned that.) If I eat anywhere else, she doesn’t try to get it, but she’s quite likely to come close and sniff appreciatively. (Hmm, something sure smells good in here. I wonder if there’s any chance I’ll be offered any of it?) When she does that, I make her lie down.

Anyway, today I was eating lunch on a TV tray / table in the den, and it occurred to me it was unlikely, but not impossible, that she’d decide to sample it. So before I left the room for a couple of minutes, I made Misten lie down. When I came back, she wasn’t lying down where I left her. She was in fact lying down (good dog), but several feet from where I’d had her lie down, and right at the base of the TV table. There was no evidence she’d touched the food, but it was still naughty. She tried to act innocent and tell me she thought she could guard the food better if she was closer to it, but I moved her back to where she was supposed to be and made her lie down during my whole meal instead of releasing her when I came in. I’ve got to admit, though, that in spite of being naughty, it was funny; and it did actually show self-control–she was tempted and moved closer, but she was submissive enough to lie down instead of partaking of what she knew wasn’t hers.

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Cheryl, praying for you. Tough hours. I’m so glad her children and husband are there with her.

I caught Tess tonight trying to raid Annie’s food bowl which is set up high on a table in her room, after knocking over her scratching post to get there. Heathen dogs.

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We just don’t know. So I think the best thing is to “assume” another is acting from faith, until we learn any differently.

One of the many things I love about Karen: putting the best possible interpretation on ambiguous situations.

I wouldn’t hire you to check credit applications, but I regard you as a “race to the top” winner every day at a place where few even make the effort.

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Remember that God seemed to be on David’s side and not Michal’s when she rebuked him for dancing. That in itself suggests he wasn’t naked, but also that whatever indignity he showed was appropriate before God.

I’m not a dancer and don’t like rowdy music. And I find “worship dance” a little weird, to be honest; I don’t see any possible way for it to add to worship to have a choreographed team moving their bodies in front of the congregation while we watch. I’ve seen it done inappropriately (with young women wearing too little clothing), but even done appropriately, I don’t quite see the point of watching someone else dance and calling it worship. (At least with a soloist or choir, ideally I can follow along with the music they’re singing, though even then, I prefer to sing along out loud.)

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Two women could dance up & down the aisle of a church – one could be sincerely following the leading of the Holy Spirit, the other could merely be doing it of her flesh.

Even two men standing worshiping quietly can be an example of the same thing. One could be quietly communing with his Lord, while the other is holding on to his so-called dignity while the Holy Spirit is urging him to raise his hands in a sacrifice of praise to Him.

We just don’t know. So I think the best thing is to “assume” another is acting from faith, until we learn any differently.

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My thought about the dancing is that if it is done “in the Spirit” & is accepted in a particular church, then it’s fine. In a church that would frown upon such a thing, best not to do it.

But then I’m also wondering…What if we’re in a church that doesn’t do that sort of thing, but we feel strongly that the Holy Spirit is leading us to break out & dance for joy down the aisle? Maybe that joy would be contagious!

I have to tell you, though, if the Holy Spirit wanted me to do such a thing, He’d really have to strongly urge me, cuz I’d be quite reluctant to be the only one!

I do dance-in-place during worship service.

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re dancing down the isles
I have a sister-in-law that said she does that. We talked about it while she was visiting us and I told her how I felt about it. She may feel innocent about it and her heart is in the right place, but she needs to look at the bigger picture. (She is Pentacostal.) I said I felt it was distracting and the focus would be on her.

One is always given the reference to David dancing. Personally, I don’t think that is a good reference. According to some he was naked. Hmmm… (Adam and Eve were given coverings when they were escorted out of the garden.)

I guess if everyone were doing it, then it would be ok?

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