Matthew chapter 6 "Pray then in this way". Jesus taught the prayer that we call The Lord's prayer. It is in fact our prayer. He taught it to us so that we would use this prayer in our daily conversations with God. Not the one you call on God in a traffic jam or parking lot. Not the one when you call out His name in anger. I always told the kids in youth group to be careful and not use the name of our God when they don't want to be in His presence. Unless you are praying and want his company, leave His name out of your everyday language. "Our Father, who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name."
On this day
1994 Nicole said she had a headache and didn't want to attend Super Saturday at Elmwood her elementary. I was always on the look out for signs of her becoming un-involved, signs that set up warnings. Mom, Alice, Nicole and I drove over to Ackroyd's in Birmingham for some Scottish food, meat pies is my guess to celebrate St Pats. We stopped afterward at my friend Christine's who still lived in Birmingham, for a short visit. After dinner Lindsey, Ryan, Craig, Mom and I went to the show to see Sister Act II - probably at our neighborhood theater, which is gone and we miss terribly.
1994 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell of the Loch Ness monster was confirmed to be a hoax. The photo was taken of a toy submarine with a head and neck attached.
1994 - The Church of England ordained its first women priests. two interesting points from across the pond.
Carthage Tunisia
The Chora (farm lands of Carthage) encompassed a limited area: the north coastal tell, the lower Bagradas river valley (inland from Utica), Cape Bon, and the adjacent sahel on the east coast. Punic culture here achieved the introduction of agricultural sciences first developed for lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their adaptation to local African conditions.[30]
The urban landscape of Carthage is known in part from ancient authors,[31] augmented by modern digs and surveys conducted by archeologists. The "first urban nucleus" dating to the seventh century, in area about 10 hectares (25 acres), was apparently located on low-lying lands along the coast (north of the later harbors). As confirmed by archaeological excavations, Carthage was a "creation ex nihilo", built on 'virgin' land, and situated at what was then the end of a peninsula. Here among "mud brick walls and beaten clay floors" (recently uncovered) were also found extensive cemeteries, which yielded evocative grave goods like clay masks. "Thanks to this burial archaeology we know more about archaic Carthage than about any other contemporary city in the western Mediterranean." Already in the eighth century, fabric dyeing operations had been established, evident from crushed shells of murex (from which the 'Phoenician purple' was derived). Nonetheless, only a "meager picture" of the cultural life of the earliest pioneers in the city can be conjectured, and not much about housing, monuments or defenses.[32][33] The Roman poet Virgil(70–19 BC) imagined early Carthage, when his legendary character Aeneas had arrived there:
I find it amazing that so many words have made it into our vocabulary and how modern they became.
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable! Happy Birthday to Barb, Karen, Will and Vicki!!
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