July 5, 2022 a thought for today, One never accuses without a little bit of lying. Chinese Proverb

The upload for July 4 was titled “I’m working on this...”. I uploaded this on the third and realized it was a different title for that day so I moved it to the 4th. It is the hymnal and bulletin at church which I was doing at the time of the photo. 

We are getting some rain....some rather noisy thunder too. I think it is supposed to last for three days. We had the heat now the rain. 

The second upload for yesterday was an image I made while practicing with my DSLR camera. I was experimenting with setting. 

Yesterday was a great 4th. Mick and Matt were both home so we were able to get together for a couple of hours. It has been several years since this group of family have shared some time together. These are more memories for the years to come. I’m not much of a cook anymore, not for more than the three of us so we ordered in for a meal together. 

Today’s upload is titled “Wall”. That’s an unusual image to generate but here is my choice. 

Before they came, I worked on the bulletin for next week. We are doing a special service for next Sunday. We didn’t do a 4th celebration in the service this week so we are having a patriotic hymn fest next week in remembrance of Independence Day. We are using a bulletin from one we did a few years ago. I only had to make some minor changes and update the back current information page. There is a booklet to go with it. That is finished also.  

The word today is awareness.  If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness, Lao Tzu.  The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle. You are the best friend you will ever have. In the presence of your true self you will become the most peaceful, the most relaxed, the most natural person possible, Bartholomaus. To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not, Akhenaton.  Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle, Lewis Carroll.   Be the witness of your thoughts, Gautama Buddha. We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves, Thomas Aquinas.  Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self, Francis of Assisi. It is by suffering that human beings become angels, Victor Hugo. There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics, Jean le Rond d'Alembert.  

My Canadian group upload for today is this little shack located in our local park a beside the water
tower. 

We have an interest in the information in this article because it involves to some extent the minister for whom our church is named. The article speaks of July 4th celebrations here in Columbus in the 1800s.  In earlier years the celebrations on the 4th of July were all day affairs. Over the years there were bicycle decorating contests, there were food and “merriment”.  Here a note I didn’t remember, in “1976 we celebrated the American Bicentennial by painting fire plugs in the city to resemble patriotic themes”. Here in Columbus in the age we celebrate fireworks at the Red, White and Boom event. Two hundred years ago on July 4, 1822 the celebration was “an interesting mixture of theology and inebriation”. There was a newspaper at the time called the Columbus Gazette that printed a story about the celebration on that date. “At 12 o’clock at a place appointed (the Acting Governor of Ohio being present for the occasion) formed procession and marched to the Presbyterian Meeting House where the services for the day were opened by a suitable address........from the Reverend Mr. Bigelow”.  Then Rev. J. Hoge delivered a message also. Along with the messages there were “several pieces of music prepared for the occasion, performed by the Handel Society”. After the service a procession was formed and marched to the Courthouse (on Statehouse Square). At ths place a “very excellent dinner” was served. In the message given by Rev. Hoge there were strong anti-slavery sentiments expressed. At the dinner there were several toasts made. One of them was to the state of Ohio, “may she be worthy of the high station to which her rank entitles her.” Another one to the “town of Columbus”. As the article went on.... “Over the years, religion and inebriation moved more to the background, but the residents of Columbus continued to march and meet one with another”. In 1922 a few changes “in style and form” took place.  “Columbus will celebrate the Fourth of July this year for the ninth time with pageantry instead of fireworks”. As the article went on to mentioned that ten year prior “pinwheels and skyrockets was ordered out of the city”. A “spectacle (peaceful pageant) is called “The Fat. America”. In other areas out of the downtown continued to celebrate in the more traditional way. Parades and games in the morning, “addresses” in the afternoon then a fireworks display in the evening. Some areas had baseball games, in other areas there were varied events. In Grandview there were “street picnics”. One year President Warren Harding visited Marion on July 3 in an eleven car motorcade with a stop at the Deshler Hotel at Broad and High in Columbus.  

I think I will make goulash for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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