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Multitudes follow Christ. (1) He heals a leper. (2-4) A centurion's servant healed. (5-13) Cure of Peter's wife's mother. (14-17) The scribe's zealous proposal. (18-22) Christ in a storm. (23-27) He heals two possessed with devils. (28-34)
Verse 1 This verse refers to the close of the foregoing sermon. Those to whom Christ has made himself known, desire to know more of him.
Verses 2-4 In these verses we have an account of Christ's cleansing a leper, who came and worshipped him, as one clothed with Divine power. This cleansing directs us, not only to apply to Christ, who has power over bodily diseases, for the cure of them, but it also teaches us in what manner to apply to him. When we cannot be sure of God's will, we may be sure of his wisdom and mercy. No guilt is so great, but there is that in Christ's blood which atones for it; no corruption so strong, but there is that in his grace which can subdue it. To be made clean we must commend ourselves to his pity; we cannot demand it as a debt, but we must humbly request it as a favour. Those who by faith apply to Christ for mercy and grace, may be sure that he is freely willing to give them the mercy and grace they thus seek. And those afflictions are blessed that bring us to know Christ, and cause us to seek help and salvation from him. Let those who are cleansed from their spiritual leprosy, go to Christ's ministers and open their case, that they may advise, comfort, and pray for them.
Verses 5-13 This centurion was a heathen, a Roman soldier. Though he was a soldier, yet he was a godly man. No man's calling or place will be an excuse for unbelief and sin. See how he states his servant's case. We should concern ourselves for the souls of our children and servants, who are spiritually sick, who feel not spiritual evils, who know not that which is spiritually good; and we should bring them to Christ by faith and prayers. Observe his self-abasement. Humble souls are made more humble by Christ's gracious dealings with them. Observe his great faith. The more diffident we are of ourselves, the stronger will be our confidence in Christ. Herein the centurion owns him to have Divine power, and a full command of all the creatures and powers of nature, as a master over his servants. Such servants we all should be to God; we must go and come, according to the directions of his word and the disposals of his providence. But when the Son of man comes he finds little faith, therefore he finds little fruit. An outward profession may cause us to be called children of the kingdom; but if we rest in that, and have nothing else to show, we shall be cast out. The servant got a cure of his disease, and the master got the approval of his faith. What was said to him, is said to all, Believe, and ye shall receive; only believe. See the power of Christ, and the power of faith. The healing of our souls is at once the effect and evidence of our interest in the blood of Christ.
Verses 14-17 Peter had a wife, yet was an apostle of Christ, who showed that he approved of the married state, by being thus kind to Peter's wife's relations. The church of Rome, which forbids ministers to marry, goes contrary to that apostle upon whom they rest so much. He had his wife's mother with him in his family, which is an example to be kind to our relations. In spiritual healing, the Scripture speaks the word, the Spirit gives the touch, touches the heart, touches the hand. Those who recover from fevers, commonly are weak and feeble some time after; but to show that this cure was above the power of nature, the woman was at once so well as to go about the business of the house. The miracles which Jesus did being noised abroad, many thronged to him. He healed all that were sick, though the patient was ever so mean, and the case ever so bad. Many are the diseases and calamities to which we are liable in the body; and there is more, in those words of the gospel, that Jesus Christ bore our sicknesses and carried our sorrows, to support and comfort us under them, than in all the writings of the philosophers. Let us not grudge labour, trouble, or expense in doing good to others.
Verses 18-22 One of the scribes was too hasty in promising; he proffers himself to be a close follower of Christ. He seems to be very resolute. Many resolutions for religion are produced by sudden conviction, and taken up without due consideration; these come to nothing. When this scribe offered to follow Christ, one would think he should have been encouraged; one scribe might do more credit and service than twelve fishermen; but Christ saw his heart, and answered to its thoughts, and therein teaches all how to come to Christ. His resolve seems to have been from a worldly, covetous principle; but Christ had not a place to lay his head on, and if he follows him, he must not expect to fare better than he fared. We have reason to think this scribe went away. Another was too slow. Delay in doing is as bad on the one hand, as hastiness in resolving is on the other. He asked leave to attend his father to his grave, and then he would be at Christ's service. This seemed reasonable, yet it was not right. He had not true zeal for the work. Burying the dead, especially a dead father, is a good work, but it is not thy work at this time. If Christ requires our service, affection even for the nearest and dearest relatives, and for things otherwise our duty, must give way. An unwilling mind never wants an excuse. Jesus said to him, Follow me; and, no doubt, power went with this word to him as to others; he did follow Christ, and cleaved to him. The scribe said, I will follow thee; to this man Christ said, Follow me; comparing them together, it shows that we are brought to Christ by the force of his call to us, ( Romans 9:16 ) .
Verses 23-27 It is a comfort to those who go down to the sea in ships, and are often in perils there, to reflect that they have a Saviour to trust in and pray to, who knows what it is to be on the water, and to be in storms there. Those who are passing with Christ over the ocean of this world, must expect storms. His human nature, like to ours in every thing but sin, was wearied, and he slept at this time to try the faith of his disciples. They, in their fear, came to their Master. Thus is it in a soul; when lusts and temptations are swelling and raging, and God is, as it were, asleep to it, this brings it to the brink of despair. Then it cries for a word from his mouth, Lord Jesus, keep not silence to me, or I am undone. Many that have true faith, are weak in it. Christ's disciples are apt to be disquieted with fears in a stormy day; to torment themselves that things are bad with them, and with dismal thoughts that they will be worse. Great storms of doubt and fear in the soul, under the power of the spirit of bondage, sometimes end in a wonderful calm, created and spoken by the Spirit of adoption. They were astonished. They never saw a storm so turned at once into a perfect calm. He that can do this, can do any thing, which encourages confidence and comfort in him, in the most stormy day, within or without, ( Isaiah 26:4 ) .
Verses 28-34 The devils have nothing to do with Christ as a Saviour; they neither have, nor hope for any benefit from him. Oh the depth of this mystery of Divine love; that fallen man has so much to do with Christ, when fallen angels have nothing to do with him! ( Hebrews 2:16 ) . Surely here was torment, to be forced to own the excellence that is in Christ, and yet they had no part in him. The devils desire not to have any thing to do with Christ as a Ruler. See whose language those speak, who will have nothing to do with the gospel of Christ. But it is not true that the devils have nothing to do with Christ as a Judge; for they have, and they know it, and thus it is with all the children of men. Satan and his instruments can go no further than he permits; they must quit possession when he commands. They cannot break his hedge of protection about his people; they cannot enter even a swine without his leave. They had leave. God often, for wise and holy ends, permits the efforts of Satan's rage. Thus the devil hurries people to sin; hurries them to what they have resolved against, which they know will be shame and grief to them: miserable is the condition of those who are led captive by him at his will. There are a great many who prefer their swine before the Saviour, and so come short of Christ and salvation by him. They desire Christ to depart out of their hearts, and will not suffer his word to have place in them, because he and his word would destroy their brutish lusts, those swine which they give themselves up to feed. And justly will Christ forsake all that are weary of him; and say hereafter, Depart, ye cursed, to those who now say to the Almighty, Depart from us.
Matthew 8:1-4 . HEALING OF A LEPER. ( = 1:40-45 Luke 5:12-16 ).
The time of this miracle seems too definitely fixed here to admit of our placing it where it stands in Mark and Luke, in whose Gospels no such precise note of time is given.
1. When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
2. And, behold, there came a leper--"a man full of leprosy," says Luke 5:12 . Much has been written on this disease of leprosy, but certain points remain still doubtful. All that needs be said here is that it was a cutaneous disease, of a loathsome, diffusive, and, there is reason to believe, when thoroughly pronounced, incurable character; that though in its distinctive features it is still found in several countries--as Arabia, Egypt, and South Africa--it prevailed, in the form of what is called white leprosy, to an unusual extent, and from a very early period, among the Hebrews; and that it thus furnished to the whole nation a familiar and affecting symbol of SIN, considered as (1) loathsome, (2) spreading, (3) incurable. And while the ceremonial ordinances for detection and cleansing prescribed in this case by the law of Moses (Leviticus 13:1-14:57') held forth a coming remedy "for sin and for uncleanness" ( Psalms 51:7 , 2 Kings 5:1 2 Kings 5:7 2 Kings 5:10 2 Kings 5:13 2 Kings 5:14 ), the numerous cases of leprosy with which our Lord came in contact, and the glorious cures of them which He wrought, were a fitting manifestation of the work which He came to accomplish. In this view, it deserves to be noticed that the first of our Lord's miracles of healing recorded by Matthew is this cure of a leper.
and worshipped him--in what sense we shall presently see. Mark says ( Mark 1:40 ), he came, "beseeching and kneeling to Him," and Luke says ( Luke 5:12 ), "he fell on his face."
saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean--As this is the only cure of leprosy recorded by all the three first Evangelists, it was probably the first case of the kind; and if so, this leper's faith in the power of Christ must have been formed in him by what he had heard of His other cures. And how striking a faith is it! He does not say he believed Him able, but with a brevity expressive of a confidence that knew no doubt, he says simply, "Thou canst." But of Christ's willingness to heal him he was not so sure. It needed more knowledge of Jesus than he could be supposed to have to assure him of that. But one thing he was sure of, that He had but to "will" it. This shows with what "worship" of Christ this leper fell on his face before Him. Clear theological knowledge of the Person of Christ was not then possessed even by those who were most with Him and nearest to Him. Much less could full insight into all that we know of the Only-begotten of the Father be expected of this leper. But he who at that moment felt and owned that to heal an incurable disease needed but the fiat of the Person who stood before him, had assuredly that very faith in the germ which now casts its crown before Him that loved us, and would at any time die for His blessed name.
3. And Jesus--or "He," according to another reading,--"moved with compassion," says Mark ( Mark 1:41 ); a precious addition.
put forth his hand, and touched him--Such a touch occasioned ceremonial defilement ( Leviticus 5:3 ); even as the leper's coming near enough for contact was against the Levitical regulations ( Leviticus 13:46 ). But as the man's faith told him there would be no case for such regulations if the cure he hoped to experience should be accomplished, so He who had healing in His wings transcended all such statutes.
saying, I will; be thou clean--How majestic those two words! By not assuring the man of His power to heal him, He delightfully sets His seal to the man's previous confession of that power; and by assuring him of the one thing of which he had any doubt, and for which he waited--His will to do it--He makes a claim as divine as the cure which immediately followed it.
And immediately his leprosy was cleansed--Mark, more emphatic, says ( Mark 1:42 ), "And as soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed"--as perfectly as instantaneously. What a contrast this to modern pretended cures!
4. And Jesus--"straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away" ( Mark 1:43 ), and
saith unto him, See thou tell no man--A hard condition this would seem to a grateful heart, whose natural language, in such a case, is "Come, hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what He hath done for my soul" ( Psalms 66:16 ). We shall presently see the reason for it.
but go thy way, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded--( Leviticus 14:1-57 ).
for a testimony unto them--a palpable witness that the Great Healer had indeed come, and that "God had visited His people." What the sequel was, our Evangelist Matthew does not say; but Mark thus gives it ( Mark 1:45 ): "But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to Him from every quarter." Thus--by an over-zealous, though most natural and not very culpable, infringement of the injunction to keep the matter quiet--was our Lord, to some extent, thwarted in His movements. As His whole course was sublimely noiseless ( Matthew 12:19 ), so we find Him repeatedly taking steps to prevent matters prematurely coming to a crisis with Him. (But "And He withdrew Himself," adds Luke ( Luke 5:16 ), "into the wilderness, and prayed"; retreating from the popular excitement into the secret place of the Most High, and thus coming forth as dew upon the mown grass, and as showers that water the earth ( Psalms 72:6 ). And this is the secret both of strength and of sweetness in the servants and followers of Christ in every age.
Matthew 8:5-15 . HEALING OF THE CENTURION'S SERVANT. ( = Luke 7:1-10 ).
This incident belongs to a later stage. For the exposition,
Matthew 8:14-17 . HEALING OF PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW AND MANY OTHERS. ( = 1:29-34 Luke 4:38-41 ).
Matthew 8:18-22 . INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF DISCIPLESHIP. ( = Luke 9:57-62 ).
The incidents here are two: in the corresponding passage of Luke they are three. Here they are introduced before the mission of the Twelve: in Luke, when our Lord was making preparation for His final journey to Jerusalem. But to conclude from this, as some good critics do (as BENGEL, ELLICOTT, &c.). that one of these incidents at least occurred twice--which led to the mention of the others at the two different times--is too artificial. Taking them, then, as one set of occurrences, the question arises. Are they recorded by Matthew or by Luke in their proper place? NEANDER, SCHLEIERMACHER, and OLSHAUSEN adhere to Luke's order; while MEYER, DE WETTE, and LANGE prefer that of Matthew. Probably the first incident is here in its right place. But as the command, in the second incident, to preach the kingdom of God, would scarcely have been given at so early a period, it is likely that it and the third incident have their true place in Luke. Taking these three incidents up here then we have,
I. The Rash or Precipitate Disciple ( Matthew 8:19, 20 Matthew 20 ).
19. And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
20. And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head--Few as there were of the scribes who attached themselves to Jesus, it would appear, from his calling Him Teacher, that this one was a "disciple" in that looser sense of the word in which it is applied to the crowds who flocked after Him, with more or less conviction that His claims were well founded. But from the answer which he received we are led to infer that there was more of transient emotion--of temporary impulse--than of intelligent principle in the speech. The preaching of Christ had riveted and charmed him; his heart had swelled; his enthusiasm had been kindled; and in this state of mind he will go anywhere with Him, and feels impelled to tell Him so. "Wilt thou?" replies the Lord Jesus. "Knowest thou whom thou art pledging thyself to follow, and whither haply He may lead thee? No warm home, no downy pillow has He for thee: He has them not for Himself. The foxes are not without their holes, nor do the birds of the air lack their nests; but the Son of man has to depend on the hospitality of others, and borrow the pillow whereon He lays His head." How affecting is this reply! And yet He rejects not this man's offer, nor refuses him the liberty to follow Him. Only He will have him know what he is doing, and "count the cost." He will have him weigh well the real nature and the strength of his attachment, whether it be such as will abide in the day of trial. If so, he will be right welcome, for Christ puts none away. But it seems too plain that in this case that had not been done. And so we have called this the Rash or Precipitate Disciple.
II. The Procrastinating or Entangled Disciple ( Matthew 8:21, 22 Matthew 22 ).
As this is more fully given in Luke ( Luke 9:59 ), we must take both together. "And He said unto another of His disciples, Follow Me. But he said,"
Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead--or, as more definitely in Luke, "Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God" ( Luke 9:60 ). This disciple did not, like the former, volunteer his services, but is called by the Lord Jesus, not only to follow, but to preach Him. And he is quite willing; only he is not ready just yet. "Lord, I will; but"--"There is a difficulty in the way just now; but that once removed, I am Thine." What now is this difficulty? Was his father actually dead--lying a corpse--having only to be buried? Impossible. As it was the practice, as noticed on Luke 7:12 , to bury on the day of death, it is not very likely that this disciple would have been here at all if his father had just breathed his last; nor would the Lord, if He was there, have hindered him discharging the last duties of a son to a father. No doubt it was the common case of a son having a frail or aged father, not likely to live long, whose head he thinks it his duty to see under the ground ere he goes abroad. "This aged father of mine will soon be removed; and if I might but delay till I see him decently interred, I should then be free to preach the kingdom of God wherever duty might call me." This view of the case will explain the curt reply, "Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God." Like all the other paradoxical sayings of our Lord, the key to it is the different senses--a higher and a lower--in which the same word "dead" is used: There are two kingdoms of God in existence upon earth; the kingdom of nature, and the kingdom of grace: To the one kingdom all the children of this world, even the most ungodly, are fully alive; to the other, only the children of light: The reigning irreligion consists not in indifference to the common humanities of social life, but to things spiritual and eternal: Fear not, therefore, that your father will in your absence be neglected, and that when he breathes his last there will not be relatives and friends ready enough to do to him the last offices of kindness. Your wish to discharge these yourself is natural, and to be allowed to do it a privilege not lightly to be foregone. But the kingdom of God lies now all neglected and needy: Its more exalted character few discern; to its paramount claims few are alive: and to "preach" it fewer still are qualified and called: But thou art: The Lord therefore hath need of thee: Leave, then, those claims of nature, high though they be, to those who are dead to the still higher claims of the kingdom of grace, which God is now erecting upon earth--Let the dead bury their dead; but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. And so have we here the genuine, but Procrastinating or Entangled Disciple.
The next case is recorded only by Luke:
III. The Irresolute or Wavering Disciple ( Luke 9:61 Luke 9:62 )
Luke 9:61 :
And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell which are at home at my house.Luke 9:62 :
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. But for the very different replies given, we should hardly have discerned the difference between this and the second case: the one man called, indeed, and the other volunteering, as did the first; but both seemingly alike willing, and only having a difficulty in their way just at that moment. But, by help of what is said respectively to each, we perceive the great difference between the two cases. From the warning given against "looking back," it is evident that this man's discipleship was not yet thorough, his separation from the world not entire. It is not a case of going back, but of looking back; and as there is here a manifest reference to the case of "Lot's wife" ( Genesis 19:26 ; and the world that we have here to deal with, but a reluctance to break with it. The figure of putting one's hand to the plough and looking back is an exceedingly vivid one, and to an agricultural people most impressive. As ploughing requires an eye intent on the furrow to be made, and is marred the instant one turns about, so will they come short of salvation who prosecute the work of God with a distracted attention, a divided heart. The reference may be chiefly to ministers; but the application at least is general. As the image seems plainly to have been suggested by the case of Elijah and Elisha, a difficulty may be raised, requiring a moment's attention. When Elijah cast his mantle about Elisha, which the youth quite understood to mean appointing him his successor, he was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, the last pair held by himself. Leaving his oxen, he ran after the prophet, and said, "Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I will follow thee." Was this said in the same spirit with the same speech uttered by our disciple? Let us see. "And Elijah said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee." Commentators take this to mean that Elijah had really done nothing to hinder him from going on with all his ordinary duties. But to us it seems clear that Elijah's intention was to try what manner of spirit the youth was of:--"Kiss thy father and mother? And why not? By all means, go home and stay with them; for what have I done to thee? I did but throw a mantle about thee; but what of that?" If this was his meaning, Elisha thoroughly apprehended and nobly met it. "He returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen (the wood of his ploughing implements), and gave unto the people, and they did eat: then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him" ( 1 Kings 19:19-21 ). We know not if even his father and mother had time to be called to this hasty feast. But this much is plain, that, though in affluent circumstances, he gave up his lower calling, with all its prospects, for the higher and at that time perilous, office to which he was called. What now is the bearing of these two cases? Did Elisha do wrong in bidding them farewell with whom he was associated in his early calling? Or, if not, would this disciple have done wrong if he had done the same thing, and in the same spirit, with Elisha? Clearly not. Elisha's doing it proved that he could with safety do it; and our Lord's warning is not against bidding them farewell which were at home at his house, but against the probable fatal consequences of that step; lest the embraces of earthly relationship should prove too strong for him, and he should never return to follow Christ. Accordingly, we have called this the Irresolute or Wavering Disciple.
Matthew 8:23-27 . JESUS CROSSING THE SEA OF GALILEE, MIRACULOUSLY STILLS A TEMPEST. ( = 4:35-41 Luke 8:22-25 ).
Matthew 8:28-34 . JESUS HEALS THE GERGESENE DEMONIACS. ( = 5:1-20 , Luke 8:26-39 ).


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OWENSBORO, Ky. (6/12/14) — Father's Day Weekend, June 14 and June 15 the City of Owensboro's Ben Hawes and Hillcrest Golf Courses will be hosting their annual Parent-Child Golf Tournament.
The tournament will be a two-man scramble between the Parent and the Child. Teams can play either Saturday or Sunday.
The twelve and under age division will play 9 holes at Hillcrest Golf Course. The thirteen and over age division will play 18 holes at Ben Hawes Golf Course. Winners of each division will win awards.
The cost for the event is $18 for the twelve and under division, $30 for the 13-18 division. Cost includes tournament entry, green fees and cart fees for both players.
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As a flower shop owner, I don't have the time, nor the inclination, to manage my website.
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photo by Kevin Hart
Makes 1 serving
active time
5 minutes
total time
5 minutes
- 2 slices whole-wheat bread or Banana Bread
- 1 tablespoon natural peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon softened Neufchâtel (reduced-fat) cream cheese
- 2 medium strawberries, hulled and sliced
- 1 teaspoon honey
Lay the bread slices on a work surface. Spread the peanut butter on one slice and the cream cheese on the other.
Arrange strawberry slices in an even single layer on top of the peanut butter. Drizzle the honey on the berries and then place the other slice of bread with the cream cheese on top. Cut into halves or quarters.
Nutritional analysis per sandwich: 307 calories, 13g fat (2.5 saturated), 40g carbohydrates, 5g fiber, 11g protein
Nutritional analysis provided by Nutrition Data
Real Food For Healthy Kids reprinted with permission of William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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type: Kid-Friendly, Sandwich
main ingredients: Honey, Cream Cheese, Bread, Strawberry, Peanut
cuisine: American
holiday/celebration: Back to School, Party, Birthday


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Wow, everyone chimed in at once on this subject, lol! Thanks for all the responses and suggestions!
As an update - We had "Underwear Day" on Saturday. A few days before that I went and bought several pairs of underwear, socks, and a bunch of cheap shorts. I talked about Underwear Day a lot and explained what we were gonna do. He seemed excited for it. Started out well, would sit on the potty whenever I told him it was time. Never actually went in the potty though. Had a few accidents, usually just a minute or two after a potty-attempt. (thankfully all accidents happened on the hard floors and not carpet!) Set the timer and had him sit on the potty every 20-30 minutes. He did okay with this, but after awhile I think he got tired of it and started refusing to sit on the potty. I put him in a diaper for naptime and after that he refused to put back on the underwear. Said he wanted to wear a diaper. I started thinking that maybe he just can't tell his own body cues of when he is about to go. But then on Sunday we were out somewhere and he ASKED me, "mommy, did you put underwear on me?" I said, "Excuse me? You have to go don't you and want to make sure it is okay to go in your pants, is that it?" Oh, he is good. That little stinker.
Today he is at daycare and he knows and seemed excited to wear underwear and use the potty. I asked him several if he was gonna use the pooty and not pee-pee on his teachers floor, and he said "Yes" and when we got to daycare he pulled out a pair of underwear and asked to put them on. So, I am crossing my fingers, praying, and hoping that he gets it, that he figures this out.
And jvd5, yes, I know it is true that when they are ready it is like a light switch is flipped and they just do it. My daughter was the same way.....it just happened sooner! And I keep hearing about boys who resist and don't train until they are 4 or older but sounds more like it is a power struggle and mind-manipulating thing by then. And I REALLY don't want to change a 4 yr old size poopy diaper!! LOL
A friend of mine was in the same sort of delimma you are in now with her youngest. He refused to go to the potty. In the end she told him that the Easter bunny or Santa wasn't going to visit that year if he didn't learn to be a big boy and use the potty. Two seconds later, he went number 2 and had no other issues. I thought it was brilliant.
05-27-2014 07:44 AM - edited 05-27-2014 07:46 AM
I was saying the same thing about 2 months ago with my daughter - she was almost 3.5 and I was like, I will NOT change 4-year-old diapers! LOL. Well, a few weeks ago she finally made the switch. We had been trying since she was 2 with no success. Everyone says girls are easier, but they have not met my stubborn daughter lol. When she was ready she just did it (although I have to say that about the same time, I bought her some Doc McStuffins underwear - she is really into Doc - and she was very interested in wearing them. So maybe that helped a bit too). Every kid is different. He will do it, but he sounds like my daughter, who refused to do it on anyone's timeline but her own. I actually think backing off a bit is helpful if they're really resistant. It's something only they can control and you cannot "make" them potty train, so letting them set the timeline might help some stubborn kids (like mine lol) do it sooner. I know it's tough to let go like that, at least if you're a type A like me, but I do think some kids do better that way. I had a hard time with it, but she resisted less when I backed off. Good luck!
I tried everything I could think of with my son, and none of it worked. Then, when he was about 3 1/2 he decided one day on his own to use the potty, and he never had an accident after that. I guess it just had to be on his terms. It was super frustrating for me in the meantime, since there were so many things he couldn't participate in with diapers, but in the end it was just something we couldn't force on him. Hang in there!
And jvd5, yes, I know it is true that when they are ready it is like a light switch is flipped and they just do it. My daughter was the same way.....it just happened sooner!
This made me lol. I helped potty train my niece many, many years ago. I would take care of her during the summer. My sister decided to start potty training when my niece turned 2. Since I took care of her while my sister was at work. So I had to help with the potty training. A month and half later, my niece was potty trained. Perhaps that is why I had unrealistic expectations with my son. My son had a control issue too. It was his poop and pee and he was going with it as he pleased. I still remember the first time he saw me flush his poop in the potty. It was like I flushed his bff. Oh how he cried. I had accepted the fact that I would indeed have a 3 year old in diapers and possibly a 4 year old in diapers. And just when I did that, he decided to use the potty.
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Christofanelli, who lives in Flossmoor, said she voted for Halvorson.
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Did the disappointing performance of past congressmen in the district make her think twice about participating in the election?
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Hale, like several other voters I spoke with, said he was repulsed by the TV commercials put together by Bloomberg's political action committee, attacking Halvorson.
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I've written a few books but I've come across a problem that springs up in pretty much every one. All of my characters sound the same.
At one point I even forgot which character's point of view I was writing from and swtiched from one to the other without realising. It doesn't help that my character's personalities are quite similar and I'm willing to change that to a degree but the books won't work it they're too different.
So what I'm trying to say is, how do you make your characters sound individual? This is especially important when it comes to internal monolouges.
I welcome any advice you can give, thanks.
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I have trouble with this myself, but something I've noticed Stephen King (<3) does is mark something important in a character's mind and have him think in terms of it.
For example, if a character does something in the beginning of the story which has an unfortunate result, he can always compare his actions to it. If someone said something to a character which went deep, he'll think about it a lot, wrestle with it. It can become a sort of mind-catch-phrase. If there's a notable person in his life, he'll compare people to him.
None of this actually makes the characters any more distinct, but it's very good for distinguishing between them and their thoughts regardless.
I think I did a bad job explaining that, and I can recommend only that you pick of one of Stephen King's books. Now I can leave the thread to someone who has some idea what they're talking about.
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I do know what you're talking about. For me, I don't do a lot of playing with dialects. Sometimes I put in a slur here or there (
"Whaddaya mean, doofus? 'm not drunk!"
) but a lot of my differentiation comes from vocabulary. An enlightened person has a better vocabulary, an evil person is more disdaining. In narration (
"WHAT?" she shouted. Mary had never heard of a concept so unfounded. Her? A whore? Indeed!
), since I use a third-person omniscient POV most of the time - see the sample above - I can differentiate it by the thought processes of the character. Keeping your characters different also involves making their backstories and reactions different. Put them in the same situation, and
how they would react. Tripping over a log, watching a loved one die, getting an A on a test. That sometimes helps me.
If you're talking about dialects, there's a link over in the WG3 thread that cataloged dialects from all over the world. Or, do a search on phonetics. Or written dialects. Or sound it out in your head what your character should sound like, and write it phonetically. Or give them vocal quirks - does one always end a sentence with "you know what I mean?", or stammer, or start with "Um...", that kind of thing. Doesn't change their personalities, but does set them apart.
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Those are both very helpful, I think I'll try that excerise about putting them in the same situation and writing how they'd react.
Thanks for the advice, does anybody else have a suggestion?
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To write engaging fiction, my creative writing teacher told me that characters
to have distinctions, and a few have to be extremely different, or else it'll just get boring. I don't know if I agree with that completely, but he gave me a few good pointers.
1. Give them each a goal or quirk, and figure out how they would acchieve this goal or convey this quirk. How it affects their thoughts, their actions, their energy. Which, conveniently, leads to the second point
2. Energy can be a big deal. A younger character that hasn't been let down much in life, one with optimism and drive is going to sound different from, say, a somewhat older character, or one who's lost a loved one, or dealt with trauma of some kind. The energy behind a character's language will change it accordingly
3. A character's background is a big deal as well. If they've been educated a certain way, raised a certain way, that'll show in how they talk or think. They might talk more cautiously or recklessly depending on how naive they are. They could think fast and miss a lot of obvious details if they've never learned to calm down and organize their head, or they could go through things methodically, and take their time. Stuff like that.
Obviously I'm paraphrasing, he said all this a lot better, and i don't know if my way of putting things is helping at all. But characters are always individuals, if unique voices aren't coming naturally to all of them there might be too many characters, or maybe their goals or life stories could be tweaked a bit to naturally set them apart. I hope I'm not sounding pompous here, and I hope this is all at least moderately helpful! ^^;
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Going back a few years now most of my characters conversations were just written in line with a song or poem. I'd find one that put me in the mind of a certain character and either split it off into lines, which I'd then write between
, in the case of a poem or play the song in the background when I was writing for that character.
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Idiomatic speaking styles are VERY important. Not just the odd verbal quirk, or exclamation, but overall style. Think about your character's background. How old are they? (this one is VERY important. The correct portrayal of age is something difficult to do in language, but when you get it right, it really stands out. Read Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Treaveller's Wife (caution, some fairly adult themes here, not for the young) to see an author do this very well) What is their level of education? What is their social standing? Is the language they are speaking their first language, or is it foreign to them? What is their personality - are they polite, reserved, outgoing, brash, rude, outspoken...?
All of these and more will have a bearing on a character's voice. Take away vocabulary if a character's not that bright, or conversely, not that well educated or well brought up. A less intelligent character will speak in much shorter sentences. He won't use sub clauses or extra conjunctions. He may generalise a lot A more learned character might be more erudite, where a more intelligent but less learned one might speak in complex sentences and of complex concepts whjilst using poor grammar and a limited vocabulary. A very young character will speak with very poor grammar and using lots of run-on sentences and keep adding thisngs onto the end when they think of them and then suddenly stop. A teenager might be a little more flighty than an adult, but a little more abrupt, depending on who they're speaking with.
The interlocutor is very important as well - a character's speech will differ radically depending on whether it's their inner voice or their outer, and who they're speaking to.
This just deal with word use, though. As others have mentioned, the manner of speech, as portrayed by the descriptors of the speech, is also very important in adding to the illusion.
And so forth.
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10p or not 10p, that is the question today.
And it was the question back in 2007 when Gordon Brown used his final Budget to axe the lowest rate. This was Gordon's part of his masterplan to cut 2p from basic income tax to create a 20p* basic tax rate. The tax-cutting Chancellor would soon be Prime Minister and his bold move to 20p was going to be the centrepiece of the snap-election-that-never-was in autumn 2007.
Ed Balls has since insisted that dumping the 10p rate was Gordon's idea and not his (though a few people remember him pushing it hard at the time). Ed Miliband simply defended whatever was the Government line (from abolition to amelioration).
But Alistair Darling's memoir 'Back From The Brink (1000 Days At Number 11)'** has some key passages about just how stubborn Brown was at the time. And how the Treasury had drafted advice on just how many losers - 5 million - there would be. Crucially, Darling was one of the few to warn of the dangers as early as 2006 (not in 2007, when the truth dawned on many Labour MPs).
"I remember discussing his plans to cut out the 10p rate at the end of 2006. I could see the attraction of a simplified tax system but, I said, we had introduced it back in 1998 to get the lowest earners in the country out of tax and there would surely be many losers from its abolition.
"His reply was that when we introduced the 10p rate, tax credits were not yet in place. In addition to that, taxpayers at the top of the scale also benefited from some of their income being taxed at the 10p rate…
"The problem was that while many qualified for tax credits, many did not. It was not so easy to see how the losers could be compensated for the tax increase that would result from more of their income being taxed at a higher rate. Our conversations concluded with Gordon saying that more work was needed to deal with those who faced losing out from the abolition of the 10p rate."
"A few months later, when I sat in his old seat in the Treasury looking over the books...I saw advice that painted an extremely bleak picture of the abolition. While 80% of households would see no effect on their incomes or would even benefit from the change, about 5 million households stood to lose out.
"Alarm bells had rung when I received letter form an elderly constituent just after Gordon's final budget. She was aged over 60 and had calculated to the last penny how much she was going to lose. What was surprising was that so few others had picked up on the problem until the following spring just as it was due to come into effect."
But deadpan Darling had a neat verdict on the cost of repairing the Brown error:
"As it was, in the autumn of 2007, I was told that it would cost about £6.5bn to ensure that there would be no losers. It seemed an enormous amount of money. A year later, it would seem small beer compared with the £50bn cheque I had to write to forestall a global banking collapse."
When the issue came to a head before Easter 2008, Brown was still stubbornly refusing to listen. At a meeting of the PLP, Darling says:
"He kept insisting that the MPs questioning him were wrong: no one would be worse off when the 10p rate was withdrawn. I do not know why he said this."
Quite. Darling ultimately came up with a simple though expensive solution. But the damage had been done.
FOOTNOTE: *The great irony of Gordon's 10p tax move was that he was actually considering a rival plan - to cut inheritance tax by allowing married couples to combine their tax-free allowance. (As Damian McBride pointed out last year).
Imagine if Brown had indeed gone down the IHT route in 2007. The 10p damage would have been all avoided. Osborne's electrifying conference announcement would have had less force, the snap election may have been still on.
Counterfactual politics, I know, but still....
** Darling has a typically self-deprecatory passage which recalls a trip to China and a session addressing business people and officials. The audience was so young that there was 'not a grey hair in the audience'. One charming Chinese guest then sidled up to him and asked "Do you dye your eyebrows?"


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The indictments handed down by a Bolivar County grand jury were: James Jackson, sexual battery, Dec. 23, 2012; Jabroski Lloyd, murder, Oct. 29, 2011; Jabroski Lloyd, aggravated assault, firearm enhancement and kidnapping, March 10, 2013; Ceasar Johnson, intimidating a witness and two counts of possession of deadly weapon by felon, Nov. 1, 2012; Quintarus Hayes, leaving the scene of an accident, July 15, 2012.
Jackson, who was 35 at the time of the incident, was charged with rape after he allegedly took a female an abandoned house off Miss. Highway 1 and forced himself upon the victim.
Lloyd, 21 at the time of his arrest, of Gunnison eligibly held the driver of a blue Neon at gunpoint after the he tried to rob him.
In the earlier morning hours March 10, 2013, a Bolivar County Sheriff's dispatcher received a call from an off-duty deputy that subjects in the Neon had run into the rear of his personal vehicle.
The subject driving the vehicle, which held four passengers, backed up and fled the scene.
The deputy then turned around and followed calling for assistance.
While the vehicle was slowed, two subjects jumped out. The deputy recognized both subjects and continued to pursue the blue Neon.
As the deputy was pursuing the vehicle, two shots were fired back towards him, striking his vehicle.
The deputy discontinued his pursuit and went back to retrieve his patrol unit.
The deputy located both subjects that jumped out the vehicle and took them into custody and transported them to Rosedale Police Department until other deputies arrived.
After further investigation, deputies were able to obtain information that lead to the arrest of Lloyd.
Lloyd was taken into custody in Rosedale later that morning and transported to the Bolivar County Regional Correctional Facility.
Johnson was originally taken into custody after an investigation in the death of Gregory Johnson, whose automobile had run into an apartment complex.
"When we arrived on the scene, we found Johnson 's body in the front seat of his vehicle," said Bolivar County Sheriff Kelvin Williams at the time. "Our initial thoughts were that there had been some kind of confrontation and Johnson had put the car in gear attempting to flee when he was shot. The car likely was put in reverse and rolled into the building."
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