I have known AuntiE for almost a year now. We've also exchanged many "private messages" here on OPP, and we also talk through email sometimes several times in the course of a week. She has pictures of my kids, knows their birthdays, as well as mine, she knows more than anyone else here about me and my life outside of OPP. She was one of the first, if not THE first person I connected with here.

I am very sorry for your loss "bahmer", but you don't have the market cornered on loss, and neither does anyone else. I'm sure many if not all on this site have experienced loss. I lost my mother at the young, and impressionable age of eleven. I lost my first wife in my early twenties, after only a few short years of marriage to a drunk driver, leaving me to be a single father to our (at the time) three year old daughter. I spent the next fifteen years teaching her right from wrong, including respect for elders. She is now in college, and a well rounded, well adjusted, young woman, or so I've been told with accompanying pats on the back.

Back to AuntiE's post. It appears that not only she, but also you, missed ** my attempt at humor, along with my appreciation for her post.** I explained already where the avenue of thought came from, regarding the names that she listed. My attempt was to make these and other folks laugh, by referencing the naturally occurring phenomenon that comes with aging, (hearing and/or vision loss). It was not my intent to be disrespectful in any way to any one group. I just figured these things to be common knowledge and used in humor quite often.

I know that she used the "chit chat" catagory for her post, however she titled the post "The History". If she didn't want anyone else involved, perhaps a better title would've been, "This is for my Christian friends only, all others need not apply", which would be uncharacteristically non-inclusive of her. A matter to which she defended recently regarding her religion and belief system to another less desirable member here on OPP. I must say her response to me here has given me pause for thought, considering one cannot have it both ways. I shutter to think that the other member may have indicated a "tell" as a whole.


By the way, I just turned forty-one this month, and I will not apologize for my post. It is not my fault that sometimes people misplace their sense of humor, or a joke goes over their head, or is misunderstood. If anything, an apology should be coming to me, for her public chastising of me, but I can already tell that she has dug in her heels, and it may be snowing in Hell before I see anything resembling such.

Thank you for your input "bahmer" I appreciate where you're coming from, maybe now you know a little more about me.

I don't know how old you are there whippersnapper but Auntie knows me and of me whichever way you want to look at it. I don't know that much about you but I have lost a son of 19 years and my wife of 63 years young and I do relate to this song very well thank you. I appreciate the kindness and thoughtfulness of AuntiE and others on this site that have written to me over time. As far as I am concerned AuntiE has my permission no make that my request to post these items and topics whenever she feels led to do so and I for one will cherish each and every one of them. If again you are worried for your children then maybe you should teach them and yourself to respect their elders.

Bahmer,

I thank you for defense of me; however, I was beyond disrespectful and rude to WFOC. I utterly failed to understand he was not being rude to elders, but was being humorous. I know him quite well. It was an abysmal lack of civility on my part to treat him in such a manner. He is a wonderful friend to me. He is a committed Father to the rearing of his young gremlins and continuing guidance of his college age daughter.

I am glad you enjoyed the music. As I said to WFOC, obviously all was not well with my soul to have treated him in such a way.

Be blessed.

Bahmer,

I thank you for defense of me; however, I was beyond disrespectful and rude to WFOC. I utterly failed to understand he was not being rude to elders, but was being humorous. I know him quite well. It was an abysmal lack of civility on my part to treat him in such a manner. He is a wonderful friend to me. He is a committed Father to the rearing of his young gremlins and continuing guidance of his college age daughter.

I am glad you enjoyed the music. As I said to WFOC, obviously all was not well with my soul to have treated him in such a way.

Be blessed.

To my friend WFOC,

I most sincerely apologize for my excessively rude comment to your posting.

It was an exceedingly severe breech of civility toward one of my closest confederates and a friend. I could provide an attempt at justification; however, such would invalidate my apology.

I know your humor well and should have in no way shape or form attacked you in such a manner. It is especially egregious when one considers the forum subject matter. Quite obviously all was NOT well with my soul last evening.

With my most humble and heartfelt sincerity,

Auntie

I am sorry for your loss as well and I am also sorry that I missed your attempt at humor. I am proud of you for raising your daughter so well as being a single parent is not easy especially the male part. A daughter really needs a mother so you must have done an outstanding job. Congratulations on that I am sure it was not easy. I am sorry for coming back at you so harshly and should have waited a spell and reread your post. If you can find it in your heart to forgive I would appreciate it. Thank you. P.S. you are still a young whippersnapper as I am 71 so there.

This is for Armageddun, cant beleve, Rumitoid, bahmer, old roy, ginnyt, Duckie, and others of faith. If your name is not on the list, do not take offense.

In the last several days there have been forums wherein individuals of faith have been denigrated, mocked and much more. I thought perhaps we should have our own little Sunday site session lesson, as well as music.

Dark history swirls around famous hymn

by Kate Uttinger

Horatio Spafford

It’s a familiar story, one that many hymn books recount and preachers use to illustrate a hearty faith in God during difficult times. On a November night in 1873, the t***s-Atlantic steamer Ville de Havre collided with a British vessel, the Loch Earn. In less than 12 minutes, the sea swallowed the Ville de Havre in her icy, black waters some thousand miles from the French coast. Crew from the other ship, alight in skiffs and other makeshift rescue vessels, frantically scoured for the living and the dead amidst a choppy mess of splintered wood, steamer trunks and strewn clothing.

The British sailors managed to rescue a few fortunate souls, including a young woman draped over some floating wreckage, alive, but unconscious. Many others fared not so well; 232 souls perished in what some have called the worst maritime catastrophe until the Titanic sunk in 1912. Among the Ville de Havre’s dead were the four young daughters of Chicago lawyer Horatio Spafford. He had sent the children and their mother, Anna Spafford, to vacation in France, where he would later join them after he finished some pressing business affairs at home.

When the crew finally succeeded in reviving the nearly half-drowned, unconscious woman, she cried out for her children – four girls, one just a baby, “torn violently from her arms” by the roiling sea. Once ashore, Anna Spafford sent her husband a brief but poignant telegraph: “Saved alone.”

As Horatio Spafford sailed across the Atlantic to reunite with his grieving wife, the ship’s captain called Spafford to his cabin. By the captain’s estimate, they were now sailing over the place where the Ville de Havre went down. Overcome with a torrent of emotion, Horatio Spafford returned to his cabin and composed a piece of poetry destined to become one of the church’s most beloved hymns, “It Is Well with My Soul.”

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xt1m8a_bill-gloria-gaither-it-is-well-with-my-soul-feat-guy-penrod-and-david-phelps-live_music


PS: Rumitoid, I choose this verson especially for you.