A few more, God, that You've designated for me. What they mean I hardly know, but that You've drawn attention to these things, I'll lift back to you in prayer...
There is one marked as a courier. For his sake, I considered the meaning of the term:
cou·ri·er
noun
Etymology:
Middle French courrier, from Old Italian corriere, from correre to run, from Latin currere
Date:
1579
1: messenger: as a: a member of a diplomatic service entrusted with bearing messages b (1): an espionage agent transferring secret information (2): a runner of contraband c: a member of the armed services whose duties include carrying mail, information, or supplies 2: a traveler's paid attendant; especially : a tourists' guide employed by a travel agency
noun
Etymology:
Middle French courrier, from Old Italian corriere, from correre to run, from Latin currere
Date:
1579
1: messenger: as a: a member of a diplomatic service entrusted with bearing messages b (1): an espionage agent transferring secret information (2): a runner of contraband c: a member of the armed services whose duties include carrying mail, information, or supplies 2: a traveler's paid attendant; especially : a tourists' guide employed by a travel agency
In whatever way this one is to prove to be a courier, guide him to that role and fulfill Your purpose in him.
More seemingly pressing at the moment are prayers for the one classified as tinder for a fire that is a refining fire that will visit my place of work and lines up with verses I've already quoted here regarding the soap and fire prophecy of Malachi. I've seen the tinder call on this person for a couple of months, but am now finding You rain that redundancy idea upon us again. Both Scott and I dreamed we were repairing a car last night. He dreamed it was a random young man's car, but I dreamed it was this particular young man, which makes sense as I know this particular young man better than my husband does as he works where I work. And as my dreams of vehicles are literally that: an image to portray the idea of getting moving, not being stalled out but making forward progress...I returned to the idea again of tinder. I looked it up, too:
Tinder is easily combustible material used to ignite fires by rudimentary methods. A small fire consisting of tinder is then used to ignite kindling. Anything that can be ignited by a match can be considered tinder. Whichever material is used, the thinner it is and the more surface there is, and especially edges, the more easily it will ignite. With wood, this can be achieved by shaving slivers off it. One method to keep these together is to make a feather stick. The best wood from a tree is dead branches that haven't fallen to the ground yet. (from WIkipedia)
I also found this:
Wilderness Survival
Fire - Tinder
Tinder is the crucial middle link between a coal (such as that produced by a bow drill) and actual flames. Tinder is made from materials that catch a spark readily, or to which a coal can be added, and which can then be blown into a flame to actually start a fire. (from http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/fire/tinder/index.html...pic from there also.)
Wilderness Survival
Fire - Tinder
Tinder is the crucial middle link between a coal (such as that produced by a bow drill) and actual flames. Tinder is made from materials that catch a spark readily, or to which a coal can be added, and which can then be blown into a flame to actually start a fire. (from http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/fire/tinder/index.html...pic from there also.)
Finally, researching tinder also led me to a more abstract reference in acomputer science application for something called Campfire. http://campfirenow.com/
What is Campfire?
Campfire is a web-based group chat tool that lets you set up password-protected chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, colleague, or vendor to chat, collaborate, and make decisions. Link to a room on your intranet for internal communications.
Campfire is a web-based group chat tool that lets you set up password-protected chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, colleague, or vendor to chat, collaborate, and make decisions. Link to a room on your intranet for internal communications.
And in that application, Tinder is the unofficial Campfire API, which is "An application programming interface (API) is a set of declarations of the functions (or procedures) that an operating system, library or service provides to support requests made by computer programs. (as per Wikipedia again.)
More interesting info about API's that might be worth considering in this highly symbolic representation for the idea of tinder as an API, even as an unofficial one:
Distinction between specification and its implementation
The software that provides the functionality described by an API is said to be an implementation of the API. The API itself is abstract, in that it specifies an interface and the behavior of the identifiers specified in that interface; it does not specify how the behavior may be implemented.
Release policies
There are two general kinds of API publishing policies that are often encountered:
Some companies protect information on their APIs from the general public. For example, Sony used to make its official PlayStation 2 API available only to licensed PlayStation developers. This enabled Sony to control who wrote PlayStation 2 games. Such control can have quality control benefits and potential license revenue.
Some companies make their APIs freely available. For example, Microsoft makes the Microsoft Windows API public and Apple releases its APIs Carbon and Cocoa so that software can be written for their platform.
The software that provides the functionality described by an API is said to be an implementation of the API. The API itself is abstract, in that it specifies an interface and the behavior of the identifiers specified in that interface; it does not specify how the behavior may be implemented.
Release policies
There are two general kinds of API publishing policies that are often encountered:
Some companies protect information on their APIs from the general public. For example, Sony used to make its official PlayStation 2 API available only to licensed PlayStation developers. This enabled Sony to control who wrote PlayStation 2 games. Such control can have quality control benefits and potential license revenue.
Some companies make their APIs freely available. For example, Microsoft makes the Microsoft Windows API public and Apple releases its APIs Carbon and Cocoa so that software can be written for their platform.
Whatever is on Your Mind and Heart, O God, I'm listeneing. We're both (my husband and me) willing to "fix the car" (incidentally, this young man's car actually did die on him last spring and to my knowledge remains unrepaired.) Show us why You gave us these dreams and make a straight path for us in serving Your purposes that Your Son's name might be more fully revealed!
Amen.
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