December 10, 2017 Sunday #winterworkout#giftofloveandfaith#callinandshopforart#Blueiceberg!

Get Fit
I feel like just living through winter is a workout.  Aside from the shoveling, wearing 20lbs of extra clothing should count for something!  If you have to push your car out of a snow drift - make sure you are in good health to do that - or walk, it is better for your health.

Get Faith
1 JOhn 4:7  "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and know's God."    God is love.  How else can you describe the intense love you feel for your mate? or that child of yours?  Your family can make you do things against your better judgement because of the love you have for them.  Love is the perfect gift that God gives us to love Him and all of those around us to make the world and life a better place.  Faith is love, something only experienced if it is shared, learned and act upon.  God gives that to you in His son Jesus Christ. Merry Christmas!

On this day
1978  With everything we feel we need to get done at this time of year, sometimes, it is nice to come down with a (little) cold or minor ailment so that you can stay home, pamper yourself, watch Christmas programs, write cards and eat those Christmas cookies you baked last night.  That's what I did on this day in 1978.  Not happening today.

1768 - The Royal Academy of Arts was founded in London by George III. Joshua Reynolds was its first president. Good job Joshua!  Hey! today would be a good day to go down to the DIA, look around and go to that great gift shop for ....Christmas shopping!  

Ilulissat Greenland
Blue iceberg in the Ilulissat Icefjord

A blue iceberg is visible after the ice from above the water melts, causing the smooth portion of ice from below the water to overturn.^[1][2] The rare blue ice is formed from the compression of pure snow, which then develops into glacial ice.^[3][4]

Icebergs may also appear blue due to light refraction and age. Older icebergs reveal vivid hues of green and blue, resulting from a high concentration of color, microorganisms, and compacted ice.^[5] One of the better known blue icebergs rests in the waters off Sermilik fjord near Greenland. It is described as an electric blue iceberg and is known to locals as "blue diamond".^[6]

Enjoy the day!  Make it memorable! Happy Anniversary to Rox and Bill!  And Happy Birthday to Nick and Kali!!!

December 9, 2017 Saturday#Moveitorloseit!#followingbaaaaa#snow&cookies!#politics

Get Fit
People are surprised at how strong I am.  I can get that for you - is usually me, offering.  I watched Mom lose her strength.  She got to where she couldn't put curlers in her hair or even hold her arms up to reach things.  I watched as she became slower and had a rough time getting out of a chair.  She finally (at (92) lost her ability to stand and walk and ended up in a wheelchair.  It is a natural progression with age that some people accept and others (like myself) fight by getting those weights out on a regular basis and keep moving.  Sitting and being immobile leaves you open to urinary tract infections, heart disease, obesity and all the other age related ailments.  One of Mom's friends from church, Ruth is 97 now and still comes to everything going on at church.  She climbs the stairs, doesn't use the elevator and drives most of the time if no one picks her up.  She is my hero and so I keep lifting weights. I still love my Mom and miss her.

Get Faith
John 10:3-4  "To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.  And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice."  This is a miracle or a mystery to a lot of people.  You would think that sheep could be fooled by an imitation of someone's voice - but they are not fooled.  They know the right person to follow.  "Jesus said I am the Good Shepherd - the shepherd lays down His life for His sheep"  Do you know your savior's voice? His words?  He leads us on the right path of peace and love.  Follow Him.

On this day
1977  History does repeat itself.  The journal said that it snowed and I baked cookies.  Same thing today.  Not much of a surprise here - it is December and Christmas is coming.  Snow and cookies are signs of the season.  I'm less a fan of the snow than ever but I'm warming up to baking those cookies.  What is your plan for the day? 

1625 - The Treaty of the Hague was signed by England and the Netherlands. The agreement was to subsidize Christian IV of Denmark in his campaign in Germany. Politics are still questionable aren't they, we are still left wondering if certain allegiances will benefit the common good of ALL people.  Here is an example of 4 countries working toward a common goal, good or bad?  Read the book.

Iluliassat

by Matt Rosenberg

Updated August 07, 2017

Since the eighteenth century, Greenland has been a territory controlled by Denmark. In recent years, however, Greenland has regained a considerable level of autonomy from Denmark.

Enjoy the day!  Make it memorable!  Happy Birthday Megan!  

December 8, 2017 Friday #MovetoMyFathershouseEskimology

Get Fit
It will be a busy day, lots on the agenda.  The best way for me to get some additional pep and energy is to move, first thing.  What about you?  Are you sitting around waiting for some energy to hit?  That isn't going to do it.  You have to move, even marching in place gets the blood and oxygen moving!

Get Faith
John 14:2-3  "In My Father's house are many mansions....I go to prepare a place for you.... I will come again and receive you to Myself;  that where I am, there you may be also."  Think about that - Jesus said! "In My Father's house are many mansions"  What does that mean to you?  If He said it - I believe it!  Are there houses for each of us? Americans, Canadians, Mexicans?  Or is it divided by what language you speak?  Wait, will we all speak the same language?  Has He made provisions for those of different faiths?  "I go to prepare a place for you"  I know that because He loves us so much we will be happy there, much more than here.

On this day
1976 - Mom called me and said my brother Mark was in the hospital, Beaumont in Royal Oak.  They only kept him long enough to get his blood sugar where it needed to be and then they unhooked him and sent him out.  He was a diabetic with no insurance.  So, I know the ramifications of someone not being insured and the level of care they get.  I went to the hospital and took him to lunch when he war released.  He was basically homeless, the psychiatrist assured us he would take care of himself if we cut him loose.  That never happened.  I was working two jobs - my job at Quality and at the Scotch for tips in the coat room check.  He made it through this time but it never got better. He is in My Father's house now.

1776 - George Washington's retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania  200 years earlier this happened.  Have you seen the oil painting of George standing in the boat?  It is pretty famous!

Ilulissat Greenland 

Notable people[edit]

• Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933), noted polar explorer and anthropologist, referred to as the "father of Eskimology".^[20] Born in Ilulissat,^[21] Rasmussen was the first man to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.^[22]
• 

Made a name for himself!

Enjoy the day!   Make it memorable!  Happy Birthday Melissa, Ty and Molly!!

December 7, 2017 Thursday#CreationChristmasandKingsandNagdlunguaq-48

Get Faith
We are studying Genesis at this time.  Learning the stories in Sunday School are much different than studying them as an adult.  Someone questioned who was there at creation to question whether it happened the way the Bible says it did.  We believe that men (Israelites) told and retold and wrote down the stories that have passed down to become the Bible.  It is the most interesting book you can study I believe.  In questioning the "truth" of the stories I mentioned that I always believed that God, when He still walked the earth and talked with Adam, Noah, etc - would as any father would, shared these stories with them and I believe they are the truth.  There are many theories and very interesting concepts.  You should read it - with a Pastor or Theologian so they can tell you what they have learned.

On this day
1975  It was back in the days when you could afford a box of Christmas cards and the postage to mail them.  It is quickly getting to be a decision of whether you want to send out those cards or eat.  This day in 1975 was a Sunday and I went Christmas shopping, baked Zucchini bread and wrote cards out.  Pete had gone to his parents earlier in the day to fix their car and then was home in time for dinner.  I wish I wrote down what TV programs we were watching in those days. 

1431 - In Paris, Henry VI of England was crowned King of France. I really need to read my history, the King of England became the King of France? 

Ilulissat Greenland

Sport[edit]

The town is home to Nagdlunguaq-48 who play in the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship, Greenland's top soccer competition. Nagdlunguaq-48, who play all their league games in Nuuk, have won the championship ten times (as of 2016). 

The Greenlandic Football Championship (Greenlandic: Angutit Inersimasut GM, Danish: Grønlandsmesterskab i fodbold), known as the Coca-Cola GM for sponsorship reasons, is the premier football competition in Greenland. It was established in 1954 and since 1971, it has been organised by the Football Association of Greenland.

Due to the geography of Greenland, the championship typically has three phases. The first phase consists of matches between clubs from the same town, the second consists clubs that are geographically close to each other (local phase). The winners of this phase play in the national championship. The latest winner of the championship is Inuit Timersoqatigiiffiat-79, winning the trophy in 2017.  Here's a little more on the subject.

Enjoy the day!  Make it memorable!  

December 5, 2017 Tuesday #nopeacewithacat!

Get Fit
I was doing great planking until the cat came  in.  We always know when he is ready to pounce.

Get Faith
Isaiah 66:12    "For thus says the Lord, "Behold, I extend peace...like a river.""  Peace the ever elusive gift.  I should feel it today.  I'm pretty sure I will be singing that song all day "I got peace like a river, I got peace like a river......

On this day
1974 - My friend Judy and I went to the Scotch for lunch.  This raises a lot of questions.  Judy and I could not afford to eat at the Scotch and Sirloin, not even lunch.  It was a classy place that Waynette worked at for years as the day manager and maybe that is why we went there?  It was a hot night spot that's for sure.  A lot of the big shot business men around the area and TV news people frequented the place.  They made the best soups and in house Ranch dressing.  yum.

Iluliassat Greenland

Transport[edit]

Ilulissat domestic airport destinations

Air

Main article: Ilulissat Airport

Ilulissat Airport is located 2.8 km (1.7 mi) to the northeast of the town center and was built in 1983.^[19] It serves Ilulissat with connections to towns in northwestern and midwestern Greenland via Air Greenland. Service to Reykjavík, Iceland, began in April 2011 via Air Iceland.

Sea

The Arctic Umiaq ferry links Ilulissat with Sisimiut, Nuuk, and other towns and settlements on the western and southwestern coast of Greenland.

Notice their isn't a train?

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December 4, 2017 Monday#Relaxpeacegoodwilltomenandmybrotherandsavethecontinentalshelf

Get Fit
I had to leave the house early on Saturday so I didn't get to do my AM yoga.  I did today aaahhhhh.

Get Faith
John 14: 27  "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."  This earth cannot achieve peace.  We can agree on nothing.  The peace that Jesus gives us is not the same, it is a peace that no matter what this world offers His peace can calm and reassure you in any situation.  It is worth getting your faith's hands on.  The study writer offered this Christmas carol verse;
     
     "Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
     God is not dead, nor doth he sleep;
     The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
     With peace on earth, good will to men."    (I Heard the Bells on Christmas day.)

On this day
1973  I had missed a few years, like 1970, 71, 72  This is the last entry of a few in 1973.  It tells me enough to remember the year and the reason I didn't want to write it down.  I lived in my house in Birmingham, Pete had moved in and so had my kid brother, Mark.  I was constantly at odds with anyone and their opinion of Mark.  He had a lot of problems that Mom and I tried desperately to help him with, but it wasn't to be.  Some people are incapable of taking care of themselves, Mark was one of them, a totally dependent personality.  Everyone involved wanted to believe he could get it together and encouraged us to cut him loose and make him stand on his own.  It never happened and only served to ruin an already bad health situation.  On this day I only mentioned Mark was in a bad mood, surprisingly unusual for him.  He was a sweet, faithful, troubled soul.  Rip brother.

1973 - Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter!!  Out of this world!

Ilulisatt Greenland

The Ilulissat Declaration arose from the conference. It stated that the law of the sea provided for important rights and obligations concerning the delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf, the protection of the marine environment, including ice-covered areas, freedom of navigation, marine scientific research, and other uses of the sea. It also said that it remained committed to this legal framework and to the orderly settlement of any possible overlapping claims.

With this existing legal framework, providing a solid foundation for responsible management, there was no need to develop a new comprehensive international legal regime to govern the Arctic Ocean. The states involved, would keep abreast of the developments in the Arctic Ocean and continue to implement appropriate measures.^[14]

sounds promising!!!

Enjoy the day !  Make it memorable!  Happy Birthday Tamara!

December 3, 2017 Sunday #Thoushallnot!

Get Faith
Proverbs &;2003 "Keep My commandments and live, and My teaching as the apple of your eye.  Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart."  It also says to post them on your door frame.  I found some little round magnets with the 10 Commandments on them - perfect if you have a metal door, which I do.  The print in too little for me to read, but I know the 10 Commandments, as most of us do.  Pray for those who don't , their problems pour out of their lives and into ours.

On this day
1967  My fiancee and I went for a ride on this Sunday afternoon.  We stopped at a coffee shop we often went to and sat in the car in the parking lot drinking our coffee.  I don't know how the conversation got started but the subject came up.  I had lost my virginity to rape.  He had questions, a lot of them and after a while I realized he was really mad.  This is another byproduct of what is so much in the news today.  We handled it way different - we didn't discuss it wisely.  It answered some questions he had like, why I didn't want to have sex but the conversation ended with him being angry - at me, I thought.  I felt like he thought it was my fault.  He later said he was afraid to have sex with me and thought he would hurt me again.  Why we got married I'll never know.  Of course it didn't last.  The topic is on the news and is a huge issue these days.  Maybe the world will finally look at this differently and maybe the  rapport between men and women will forever change - to what it should have been back in Eden before sin.

1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team ofSURGEONS headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days. It was a start.

Ilulissat Greenland

 The town was the site of the Arctic Ocean Conference in May 2008.^[12] The joint meeting between Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and the United States was held to discuss key issues relating to territorial claims in the Arctic (particularly Hans Island and Arktika 2007) and Arctic shrinkage produced by climate change.<sup>[13]  It was a start

Enjoy the day!  Make it memorable!  Happy Birthday John!</sup>