Monthly Archives: June 2015

Home Page – Nanook’s Nook Blog

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     After about a decade of neglect, I finally decided to rework my personal home page.  Having just completed a WordPress based website for interlakechinatours.com, I decided to use WordPress for my home page as well.  And since Nanook’s Nook blog was already on WordPress, it seemed to make sense to incorporate it into the new WordPress home page.

     So I thought this should be easy, I’ll just export from the old and import to the new.  One minor problem, the export / import did not adjust the locations of all the uploaded data to the new place it would reside.  I couldn’t think of a really elegant way to fix this in the database, so I finally took the easy, but not most efficient, way out, using a mod_rewrite RewriteRule.  So the blog is back up fully functioning with pictures and all.  I’m still working on my home page.

Proverbs 10:18-21

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Proverbs 10:18-21 King James Version (KJV)

18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

     These verses so apply to myself as well as almost everyone I know, although these days it’s often the fingers via social media, e-mail, and the like rather than the tongue, but the effect is the same.

Psalm 121

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Psalm 121 King James Version (KJV)

121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

     This is so spot on to my current situation which is economically very uncomfortable.  I wonder often why the Lord allows or perhaps requires us to go through these times.  Perhaps it’s to help us develop our empathy but surely we needn’t suffer every crappy thing that has happened to every human being ourselves.  I lack the courage to help others when I am unsure my own needs will be met and I seem to have difficulty developing the faith I need to know that they will.  Sometimes it’s difficult to separate needs from wants.

 

Getting Old

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John 21:18 King James Version (KJV)

18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

     We’re all going to get old, unless we die young. With age often comes various infirmities. Sucks!

New Heaven and Earth, Seas

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     I posted the other day about Revelations describing the new heaven and new Earth and how the seas were no more.  I brought this up at a men’s group meeting that I attend Friday mornings that is sponsored by one of the semi-retired Pastors of Shoreline Covenant Church, and what he told me that this wasn’t literal, which makes sense as pretty much all of Revelations is heavily metaphoric, but rather “seas” represent evil, there will be no more evil.  That makes me feel better because I’m not sure I’d want to live forever in a place where there were no seas.  One would presume they’d be cleaner than the water in the picture below.  Don’t know where that was taken but the water there is icky.

Seas