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Something quick and easy again today, as I have a sore throat and am feeling uninspired and unenergetic.
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EXPLORED!
Update: I even managed to fit this to FGR's Proverbs day - 'A chip on the shoulder indicates wood higher up.'
A year ago today I was, indeed, eating chips. But not off my shoulder.
This is Emily's favorite proverb.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own understanding.
Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty ... (KJV)
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Proverbs 26:8
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool. (KJV)
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Proverbs 2:8
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. (KJV)
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Proverbs 26:4
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. (KJV)
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Proverbs 13:24 NIV
Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
"Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud." ~ Proverbs 16:19, NIV
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Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. (KJV)
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1. Our thought life reflects who we are.
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinks within himself, so he is. (NASB)
Mark 7:20–23 And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.” (NKJV)
2. We must choose to think biblically.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
3. No place or thought is hidden from God.
Jeremiah 23:23–24 “Am I a God who is near,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far off? Can a man hide himself in hiding places so I do not see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD. (NASB)
Psalm 139:2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. (NIV)
4. We need to change our thinking when our thoughts do not match God’s.
Isaiah 55:8–9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (NKJV)
2 Corinthians 10:4–5 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. (NKJV)
Ephesians 4:22–24 Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy. (NLT)
1 Corinthians 2:16
5. We should not think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think.
Romans 12:3 Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us. (NLT)
Galatians 6:3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 10:12
6. Our lives must reflect sacrificial thinking.
Philippians 2:5–7 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. (NASB)
7. Mature thinking is an intellectual and spiritual goal.
1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. (NLT)
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Proverbs 22:17
8. We must remove worldly thinking.
Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (NIV)
1 Corinthians 3:18–19 Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.” (NLT)
9. Lustful thinking is sinful and to be avoided.
Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (NASB)
1 Thessalonians 4:3–5 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God. (NASB)
Practical Steps
• Do a concordance study of the hundreds of uses of “mind,” “thinking,” and “thoughts” to understand better how God wants us to think.
• Consider your thought patterns, life situations, or physical locations that trigger wrong thinking. Work on changing these to improve your thought life.
• Replace false thinking with truth from God’s Word.
Patricia A. Miller, Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling Women (Updated and Revised.; Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2013), 284–286.
Proverbs 14:16
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil ... (KJV)
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Proverbs 8:4
Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man. (KJV)
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Proverbs 11:25 The Message (MSG)
The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed; those who help others are helped.
PROVERBS 6 and ..Election Fever.
12 Someone who struts around taking advantage of unsuspecting souls
and deceiving others is to be avoided.
13 With a wink of his eye, a quick shuffle of his feet,
and a slight gesture with his hand, he signals his roguish treachery.
14 With a warped mind and twisted heart, he constantly looks for his own gain at others’ expense,
causing friction everywhere he goes.
15 But you watch: his actions will bring sudden disaster!
In an instant, his life will be shattered,
and there will be nothing to save him.
16 Take note, there are six things the Eternal hates;
no, make it seven He abhors:
17 Eyes that look down on others, a tongue that can’t be trusted,
hands that shed innocent blood,
18 A heart that conceives evil plans,
feet that sprint toward evil,
19 A false witness who breathes out lies,
and anyone who stirs up trouble among the faithful.
Proverbs 12:16
A fools wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame. (KJV)
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Proverbs 9:1
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: (KJV)
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If the Magpie were an exotic, rare bird, people would rave about them, travel distances to view them, crave them in their private collections, but because it is a common, thriving bird with a green status of least concern on the UK conservation lists, it is perceived as a thief, can be very noisy and flays songbird chicks on your lawn it's a different story! Well, I adore these beautiful, cheeky, playful, intelligent and on occasions shockingly ruthless and violent birds, and love them for the colour and attitude they bring to my garden and local woodlands.... So there!
YOU GOT A BAD REPUTATION!
Let's be honest, in Public relations terms, the Eurasian Magpie has something of a problem with it's image as a thief, a murderer of innocent baby birds and a voracious predator. In history too it's not all been an easy ride.
"One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies dating back originally to the Sixteenth century. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies seen tells if one will have bad or good luck. The rhyme was first recorded around 1780 in a note in John Brand's (Church of England clergyman and antiquarian), 'Observations on Popular Antiquities' on Lincolnshire with the lyric:
One for sorrow,
Two for mirth,
Three for a funeral
And four for birth
In 1846, Michael Aislabie Denham a collector of folklore and merchant released 'Proverbs and Popular Saying of the Seasons' in London with an extended version:
One for sorrow,
Two for mirth
Three for a funeral,
Four for birth
Five for heaven
Six for hell
Seven for the devil, his own self
And we all in the UK remember the children's TV show Magpie, which ran from 1968 to 1980 and featured an entirely new version of the rhyme in an opening song recorded by 'Spencer davis group' under the alias of 'The murgatroyd band', featuring the lines:
One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told
Eight's a wish and
Nine a kiss
Ten is a bird you must not miss.
In 1815, two French playwrights, Theodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez wrote a historical melodram called La Pie Voleuse, in which a servant is sentenced to death for stealing silverware from her master, when the real thief is his pet magpie. The play opened on 29th April 1815 Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin 18, Boulevard Saint-Martin in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. Moved by the Parisian urban myth, Gioachino Rossini set his opera La gazza ladra 'The thieving Magpie' to the same story. Thus, the poor Magpie's reputation would be forever set!
Two hundred years later in tests, it was found that Magpies were not generally drawn to shiny objects and only two out of over sixty birds took items left in shiny piles by their food. This backs up many previous and subsequent tests that prove conclusively that Magpies are not uniformally thieves, and that there is no evidence of shiny objects ever being found in a magpie nest. Kleptomania and inquisitiveness are of course two entirely different things. As for killing baby birds and destroying local population of starlings, blackbirds and pigeons... again there is no scientific evidence that this has ever been the case, and it's proven that domestic cats are a bigger threat to songbirds. Nature has a balance and each species plays it's part.
A CLOSER LOOK
The Eurasian Magpie or Common Magpie (Pica pica) is a resident breeding bird found throughout the Northern part of the Eurasian continent and is often referred to simply as Magpie in Europe, the only other Magpie being the Iberian magpie (Cyanopica cooki) which can only be found in the Iberian Peninsula.
An omnivore which eats berries, grains, caterpillars and small mammals, young birds and eggs, insects, scraps, carrion, grain, acorns and vegetables, it is highly adaptable and will incorporate a vast array of foods into it's diet. It can vary in length from 17.3-18.1 inches with a wingspan of 20.5-23.6 inches and it's tail makes up more than half it's length. Viewed as mainly black and white, it actually has a head, neck and breast of gloss black, with a metallic green and violet sheen and gloss black with green or purple wings. Males tend to be larger than females, by sometimes more than twenty per cent, males weighing 210-272g compared to 182-214g of the females.
Magpies were originally referred to mas 'Pies', a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'pointed' in reference to their beaks or tails and 'Mag' actually dates back to the Sixteenth century being the shortened abreiviation for the name 'Margaret' which was once used as a term for women in general. The Pies call was said to resemble 'the idle chattering of women', and so the name became 'Mag pie'. The term 'Pie' used as a reference dates back even further to the thirteenth century, whilst 'pied' was first recorded in 1552 as a reference to birds resembling a Magpie with black and white plumage.
The Magpie was first described and illustrated by Zurich born Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in his book 'Historia animalium (History of the Animals)', published at Zurich in 1551–1558 and 1587. Carl Linnaeeus, a Swedish born botonist, zoologist, taxonomist and physician and known as the father of modern taxonomy, included the species in the 10th edition of 'Systema Naturae under the name 'Corvus pica'.
The separate genus 'Pica' was first noted by French Zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760, Pica being the classical Latin word for this Magpie.
In 2000, the North American Black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia) became it's own species after the American Ornithologists Union decided that studies of vocalization and behaviour placed the Black-billed closer to the Yellow-billed magpie (Pica nuttalli) than to the Eurasian magpie. The Yellow-billed magpie has a yellow beak and streak around the eye. There are seven sub species of Magpies found throughout the world:
European, Eurasian or common Magpie (Pica pica) found in the British isles, Russia, Southern Scandinavia and Mediterranean.
Iberian Magpie ( Pica melanotos) found in the Iberian Peninsula, Siberia and first noted in 1857.
Northern Magpie (Pica fennorum) found in Northern Scandinavia and North western Russia and first noted in 1927.
Russian Magpie (Pica bactriana)found in Siberia, Caucasus, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia and Pakistan and first noted in 1850.
Kamchatkan magpie (Picacamtschatica) found in the northern Sea of Okhotsk and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East and first noted in 1884.
Others include Pica leucoptera and the separate species of Pica mauritanica, Pica asirensis, Pica serica and Pica bottanensis.
INTELLIGENCE
The Eurasian Magpie is believed to be not only among the most intelligent of bird species but also the most intelligent of all animals, it's Nidopallium (the region of the avian brain used mostly for executive functions and other higher cognitive tasks), is relatively the same approximate size as those in Humans and chimpanzees, with a brain to body mass ratio equal to Great apes and Cetaceans (Aquatic mammals of the order Cetacea).
They have been observed by one Japanese university campus, waiting at traffic lights and placing tough nuts in front of the wheels of stationary traffic. As the lights change and vehicles move away, the shells are crushed. They are accomplished food cache thieves as I have observed in my own garden where Magpies made several false raids on the food stores held by a dominant pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus corone) in my birdbath, before making a real attack. Magpies also work in pairs and use decoy tactics for this purpose, the female in my garden drawing the attention of the crows and flying off with them in hot pursuit, only for the male to nip in and grab the food to rendezvous back at their nest! They even have the ability to learn from their own burglary efforts and guard their own food cache against others.
Like crows, Magpies will attend a funeral for their dead. Often a single bird will call for others on finding a dead magpie. Anything up to forty responders have been recorded, gathering around the dead bird for up to fifteen minutes before leaving. On occasions they have been observed laying wreaths of grass like flowers. They have been recorded 'showing happiness or joy' when playing, and are highly social. They are also fond of stealing shiny objects or items which interest them.
Magpies are capable of passing the self recognition 'Mirror self recognition MSR' test' or 'Mark test', developed in 1970 by American psychologist Gordon Gallup Jn. Yellow spots were placed on some magpie throats and three out of five birds spotted these marks in the mirror and tried to remove them.
That confirms that they understand and recognise a reflection of themselves in the mirror, a test successfully passed by only a handful of other animals including the great apes (including us humans), just one single Asiatic elephant, dolphins, Orcas and the Cleaner Wrasse (a marine fish).
Magpies have demonstrated abilities in the game 'hide and seek' comparable to those of human children aged around 5 years, and in some tests they have managed to fashion simple tools from metal or wood to use as retrieval tools for food in human made puzzles, outsmarting seven year old children performing those same tests.
Results published in the journal 'Nature', by researchers from the University of Western Australia and the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, on work that began in 2013 studying the behaviour of 56 wild magpies, individually tagged, living in 14 territorial groups of between three and 12 birds in the Perth suburb of Guildford. Those studies found magpies living in larger groups appeared to be smarter than those in smaller groups, and also that clever female birds seemed to make better mothers, with a higher success rate when it came to both hatching their eggs and raising their young. The findings seemed to back up the 'social intelligence hypothesis' that posits intelligence in animals evolved in response to the demands of living in complex social systems according to Study co-author Dr Benjamin Ashton.
So there we have it, a brief look at the Eurasian, common or just simply Magpie, pie, or 'those bleedin' black and white things!' as my mum and dad always refer to them. Public opinion will no doubt never be swayed, but to my eyes they are magnificent birds with an abilty to please and shock, to entertain, to brighten my day and to bring nature to my daily life. My time with magpies is never dull, never predictable, never boring. I love the little beauties!
Paul Williams June 8th 2021
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Forty nine metres at 14:16pm on a beautiful summer afternoon on Thursday 3rd June 2021,of an adult Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)off off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.
Magpies are of the Corvidae family, and Eurasian black and white Magpies are considered amongst the most intelligent animals in the world, capable in tests of recognising human faces, themselves in a mirror or hub cap, and of solving a variety of tests.
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Proverbs 12:14
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth ... (KJV)
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1. The time we have on earth, the days of our lives, are a gift from God and determined by him.
Job 14:1–2, 5 How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble! We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.… You have decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer. (NLT)
Psalm 31:14–15 But as for me, I trust in you, O LORD, I say, “You are my God.” My times are in Your hand. (NASB)
Psalm 39:4 LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered—how fleeting my life is. (NLT)
Psalm 90:3–12; 144:4
2. It is God’s plan that we use our time wisely.
Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. (NKJV)
Ephesians 5:15–18
3. As we make plans, depending on God and asking for his wisdom are critical to success.
Psalm 90:17 Let the favor of the LORD our God be upon us; and confirm for us the work of our hands; yes, confirm the work of our hands. (NASB)
James 1:5 But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God, who will give it to you; because God gives generously and graciously to all. (GNT)
Proverbs 16:9; James 4:13–15
4. Staying balanced is crucial for time management.
Ecclesiastes 7:18 It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes. (NIV)
Nehemiah 4:8–9 (Note the balance of praying and working.)
Biblical Narrative
• Moses, taking Jethro’s advice for delegation, Exodus 18:13–24; Deuteronomy 1:9–18
Practical Steps
• Admit your need for a planner. Use it consistently to manage your time wisely and efficiently.
• Use a monthly/weekly calendar to help your family keep organized.
• Evaluate often how much time is spent on various activities, searching out and eliminating time wasters.
Keith R. Miller, Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling Men (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2014), 312–313.
"Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin." Proverbs 13:3, ESV (English Standard Version)
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Proverbs 11:24 NIV
One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.
Week 32.
Challenge: Proverb.
Proverb: "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today".
This week I thought I'd stay away from the every day proverbs that you hear all the time. A friend of mine found this photo opportunity, she drives past this cemetery every day and loves the colour these flame trees give out, makes me wish for Spring.