Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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ElizabethRoss1776 still praying for you and yours. God Bless
Have a wonderful and blessed Sunday, Treepers. Although I talk to our Lord almost every day. Sunday’s still special, still a time to remember who we are, why we are here, and why our Lord loves us so.
We were flying kites off the seawall. I looked at her and instantly knew she was the one I’d be with . . . for 53 years now . . . 🙂
Congratulations! God bless you with many more years!
Have tears running down my face, remembering 42 years of memories with my spouse & how fast years have gone by!
Thank you for sharing such beautiful song!
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With heartfelt thanks for the wonderful contributions you make to theTreehouse…the stunning music and artists we may have never know about but for you. Your words of wisdom and insightful comments, all with humor, humility and grace. So very happy for you and you wife on your anniversary. At only 36 years of marriage, I know it is not always smooth sailing, but in the end, it is the girl you flew a kite with and a boy I met in college…and what a trip it’s been, yes? All the best to you and your wife on your anniversary! Neelia
🙂 My students used to ask what the secret to a long marriage was. Half in jest and half seriousness I always told them the first rule was to reduce your expectations. We often long for perfection in the other while forgetting that we are far from perfect. But then there’s the element of trust. If you call will they be there . . . and will you . . .? The answer has to be: always—no matter what—always.
Thanks for posting. 🙂
My little Italian grandpa used to say, the secret to a happy marriage was never go to bed angry 😉
Dear Garrison, I must respectfully disagree with you on this one point. While we have never looked for perfection in one another, my husband and I have not, either, “reduced expectations.” We have both challenged each other to greater expectations…of thought, of belief, of logic…Your second point: “If you call, will they be there…and will you…? Always- no matter what-Always. YES! ALWAYS!
🙂 Well, Neelia, I was talking primarily to 18-20 year olds, most of whom tended to have story-book-romance, prince and princess convictions about what being married was all about.
Forgive me, Garrison…there is that! DISNEY, Grimms, In that context, your advise is spot on. Happily ever after and all…
🙂 But there really is a happily-ever-after. It doesn’t just happen—you have to work at it and it doesn’t come easily, but the trials-and-errors are always worth the effort. It’s the people who don’t realize this. who want to believe that they are princes and princesses that fail in their relationships. It’s sad watching them go from relationship to relationship never realizing that the problem is themselves and not their significant others.
YES!!!!!! …and it is sad and frustrating watching a 27 year old daughter doing just that!!!!!
Good Morning and good music!
Thanks for the thinking… the emotions (phew!) –and the tears.
Remembering helps to clarify, appreciate, and focus; as can tears.
~It is a glorious day. Sunday makes even more so..
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After my first year on a team at Ft. Devens, MA, I and three other SF soldiers, each representing one of the four primary jobs on an SF “A” team, were tasked with a short stint on recruiting duty. We were sent as a group to assist recruiters in the area of South East Ohio, South West Pennsylvania, and the extreme Northern part of West Virginia the last week of November and the first couple weeks of December before Christmas break.
The daily program was, meet a recruiter in a particular town who would takes up to a local High School. There we either did a talk to an assembly of the kids or we did a layout of our equipment and the kids would cycle through at different times and we would talk to them. As the medic I laid out my complete medical kit including lab equipment. The engineer laid out various dummy explosives and such. The weapons man laid out a variety of weapons which filled two foot lockers when stowed. The Communications man all his radios, peddle generator, etc. We also had various other items that were examples of either individual equipment like a set of alpine touring skis and poles, a packed MC1-1B parachute with reserve, and team equipment such as the KS99 camera and lens set , etc. After Lunch we were handed off to another recruiter and did it again at a different High School in the afternoon. During the week we would stay at different motels and supplied our own security for our weapons and equipment.
We had weekends off. After turning the selection of weapons into the local police station for secure storage over the weekend, we stayed at what was then the Airport Ramada in Pittsburg.
On getting to the Ramada for late Friday afternoon I noticed there was a band playing in the lounge that sounded pretty good. After the two or three trips it took for me to dump all my medical gear plus the parachute in my room, I didn’t take the time to change out my fatigues (This was in the days before the BDUs had become standard issue and in SF we wore Vietnam era Jungle fatigues instead of that stupid frog suit that was the standard issue fatigues in the Army at that time.). I headed down to the lounge to check it out and to get a drink.
I walked in and there she was sitting at a table with a friend. Before I had even finished my first drink I asked her to dance and we were on the floor. I saw her every weekend and then went home on leave for Christmas and New Years. After spending Christmas with the family I got in my car which had been home waiting for me, I drove back to see her. She was a divorcee with two kids. A 7 year old girl and a 10 year old boy. That did not dissuade me at all. At midnight on New Years eve I proposed. We were married Sept. 3rd. I.
By the first week of November I went to get them and moved them plus all of her house hold goods from Aliquippa, PA to family quarters at Ft. Devens. Monday the following week I and my team received our warning order for deployment to Lebanon and went into isolation to prepare for the mission. We were allowed home for Holidays. January 3rd we flew out bound for Beirut International via Heathrow in London.
Been married for 37 years and haven’t regretted a minute of it.
Some Enchanted Evening
Yep. And I’ll bet if it’s a 2am freezing wet Feburary morning and you call telling her you’re in a bar-ditch somewhere, her only comments will be, “Where are you” and “I’ll be right there”. And you’d do the exact same thing if she called you.
I’m Larry. This is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl….
I went to dinner w/some friends tonight, the restaurant no longer uses menus. You take a photo of the App and read the menu through your phone. Sorry, it just isn’t the same as holding the menu in your hand and perusing it. I was stunned at how my friends have been programmed to use their masks. Waiter at the table, masks on, waiter leaves, masks off. It was such a farce. I live rural, they are city slickers. What a difference.
“Sorry, it just isn’t the same as holding the menu in your hand and perusing it.”
You sure have that right. The restaurant apparently is trying to avoid spreading the [respiratory] Wuhan virus through a menu. I have never seen a diner use a menu to shield a cough or sneeze.
“I was stunned at how my friends have been programmed to use their masks.”
IMO at this point in time most of the populace has been brainwashed.
Mercifully, not in Texas!
Or Missouri
My friends were like robots. They said the restaurant was very strict, it is a casual, but fine dining place, food is excellent, but it was just so weird to witness. It was like the Clapper commercials, masks on, masks off.
Then my friend told me I had the wrong type of mask, that it wouldn’t do any good. *Sigh*. They should just be happy I was willing to accommodate by even wearing one. Still in all it was an enjoyable evening once I got past “the rules” of eating out. We celebrated me being above ground so it was special to say the least.
Made a dinner date with good friends we hadn’t seen in months. The husband insisted we eat outside. The restaurant said they did not have outdoor dining but they could give us a private dining room. My friends agreed! But I said:” You have to know, up front, you have to take your mask off and I am going to hug you!, if you can agree, we can have dinner.” They did and it was glorious!
You won’t get a dedicated mask wearer to read, listen, or watch anything anti-mask. I have given up. My friend will tell you straight up she is all about following the rules.
Same here, went out with my wife and a friends family. we sat down and wife and I took off our masks but they kept theirs on. I looked at my friend Joe and his family and I said you gonna leave your masks on? Yep they did but we didn’t. Crazy.
Hm. What about those of us wo can’t do that. My flip phone would take the picture, but it would be too small to read.
You would share someone else’s phone, listen to the waiter tell you what is on the menu, but wear a mask while he tells you, or you would have to leave and eat elsewhere. Or say “Surprise Me”. LOL! I miss my flip phone, I had to give it up because Verizon dropped them.
I’m in Florida and go out once a week to eat and handle the menus. I am not sick.
Yikes! It took my waitress 10 minutes to show me how to do the menu thingy on my phone!!!!!! I felt like an idiot!!!
GIVE ME A DAMN MENU!!!!!
The Rapture and the Prophetic Saints
By Pastor Paul M. Sadler
“There seems to be some confusion over the future resurrections these days. C. I. Scofield, for example, taught that at the Rapture, ‘Not Church saints only, but all bodies of the saved, of whatever dispensation, are included in the first resurrection.’ What are your thoughts on this statement?”
We hold the Scofield Reference Bible in high regard, but Dr. Scofield often failed to rightly divide the Word of God consistently, which is somewhat understandable, seeing that the truth of Paul’s gospel was still being recovered. With that said, the order of the future resurrections is as follows:
Thankfully, those who have trusted Christ as their personal Savior have been delivered from the wrath of God at the Great White Throne (Rom. 5:9). But what about that unsaved loved one or friend today? Don’t put it off another moment. Tell them about Christ before they slip away into a Christless eternity where all hope is lost.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/the-rapture-and-the-prophetic-saints/
1Corinthians 15:51 ¶ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Thessalonians 4:13 ¶ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
1Corinthians 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
John 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation
Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
1Corinthians 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation 20:11 ¶ And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
2Corinthians 6:1 ¶ We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint / Psalm 51 KJV
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For me, the blistering heat of summer is tolerable as it only burns the skin. The cold of winter goes all the way to my bones.
For me, it is the exact opposite. No matter how cold, I can add layers before happily going out in the briskly refreshing cold air. In the heat of summer, after so many layers removed, I become a public nuisance in danger of receiving a citation for “indecent exposure”.
Even the seasonal chores; I don’t mind snow blowing and keeping a nice clean driveway, but mowing in general, and mowing on a hot day in particular, I hate. In our neighborhood, our winter driveway is always the cleanest, our summer lawn is always the most ratty and overgrown.
I love winter.
I suspect you would be hating it even more if you were in Germany right now:
Winter Storm Threatens Germany’s Power…Freezing Hell Threatens If Already Rickety Grid Collapses!Winter Storm Threatens Germany’s Power…Freezing Hell Threatens If Already Rickety Grid Collapses! – Watts Up With That?
36 and raining brrr .
Loved the Kenny C video. Miss my Dad. Me “But Dad politicians are not all the same.!” He liked President Trump when he first ran.
In Him we reign!
Thank you, Dora. This is beautiful!
THE DISCIPLINE OF DEJECTION
“But we trusted…and beside all this, today is the third day…” Luke xxiv. 21
Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the inferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savours of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If depression and oppression visit me, I am to blame; God is not, nor is anyone else. Dejection springs from one of two sources – I have either satisfied a lust or I have not. Lust means – I must have it at once. Spiritual lust makes me demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Who gives the answer. What have I been trusting God would do? And today – the immediate present – is the third day, and He has not done it; therefore I imagine I am justified in being dejected and in blaming God. Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. It is impossible to be well physically and to be dejected. Dejection is a sign of sickness, and the same thing is true spiritually. Dejection spiritually is wrong, and we are always to blame for it.
We look for visions from heaven, for earthquakes and thunders of God’s power (the fact that we are dejected proves that we do), and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us. If we will do the duty that lies nearest, we shall see Him. One of the most amazing revelations of God comes when we learn that it is in the commonplace things that the Deity of Jesus Christ is realized.
Oswald Chambers
February 7th Devotional
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter VI – The Child’s Narration
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As the former scene closed upon my view, the spirit who kissed the Cross, raised her hand, radiant with the light of life, and two children drew near. As they approached, they bowed gracefully, and each placing a hand in hers, with meekness looked into her lovely face and smiled.
Addressing me she said. “These children left the form while in their infancy, and being innocent, were conducted to the paradise of innocence in the Seventh Sphere; which is a state of moral purity and intellectual harmony.”
The eldest of the two, thus introduced, said, “Marietta, I rejoice to commune with thee, since thou shalt return to those who loved us and who mourned our departure from the valley of death.”
“When thou are again conversing with mortals, say to him who now sits by thy body, that we have learned that though parents may grieve for us, ours is a cup overflowing with gladness to the spirit made free.”
“Marietta, this is the world we know. Here we first awoke to the reality of our existence. Earth we visit, conducted by our guardian angels, but it is unlike heaven. There we witness sorrow, pain and death; here, harmony, happiness and life abide.”
He then looked down as if in deep meditation and all was silent. I thought the subject which had engaged his mind, had made him sad, but soon saw that his attitude was occasioned by the approach of an angel who in ascending had passed just above us. O, how my being was affected at the sight! Light surrounded her as a well-wrought garment. Her very movement was the harmony of harmonies. I desired to follow, and said, “O tell me, who is this so glorious? I feel her sacred influence, and ardently desire to enjoy the society and the abode of such beings.”
“This,” said the spirit, “is an angel who belongs to the Infant Paradise. Have you not read in the Gospel, that blessed expression of the Redeemer, ‘In heaven their angels always behold the face of their Heavenly Father?’ This angel has the guardian protection of infants, and is commissioned to meet infant spirits as they leave the external world and enter into the spiritual. She pauses in her ascension for thee. She holds out her arms, and what seest thou, Marietta?” “A small pale light,” I answered.
The angel then breathed upon it, as if imparting life, and pressed it to her bosom in fondness infinitely above that manifested by earthly mothers. I knew the little spirit was at rest. Feeling the heaven that encompassed and pervaded the angel, again I wished to fly away, and with the infant be forever blessed. But while I was struggling to ascend, the angel arose – one flash of light and she disappeared.
To be continued…
So powerful, so beautiful. Thank you
Mornin’ infidels!
Mornin WeeWeed!
Orange woman bad!
Admin: if a comment I reply to is deleted (by you or the commenter) does my reply also disappear? A couple of comments I made under “Video Documentary – The Pre-Planned Capitol Hill Protest and Riot Narrative Exposed” are no longer there. I am good whatever the policy but would like to know. Thanks!
Spanish Catholics Replace Cross in Defiance of Communist Mayor
.The world was shocked last month by images of a Cross being removed in Aguilera de la Frontera Spain and dumped at a skip, after Communist Mayor Carmen Flores demanded that it be removed.
.The anti Christian iconoclasm was the latest provocation from Spain’s Socialist government, who have dug up Franco’s dead body and are now threatening to blow up the Cross at the top of the Valley of the Fallen, in the sort of anti Christian hate not seen since Communists dug up dead bodies of nuns during the Spanish Civil War.
https://www.catholicarena.com/latest/spaincrosscommunists
I did not know of the extent of the European “Communism” So troubled by our American decline. Thanks for the info. I will be more global in my investigating and praying.
The memories of the Spanish Civil War have barely faded from the minds of the Spanish people and now they are going through it again.
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Please pray for Spain.
Verse of the Day for Sunday, February 7, 2021
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“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:7 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Be My Voice – I am a CHILD – not a CHOICE!!!
The Art of the Steal
“For every American, the fallout from Democratic control of the presidency and both Houses is to be slowly dispossessed of their freedom to choose, speak,…”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/02/the_art_of_the_steal.html
On the coming gun registration (H.R. 127), the Nazis of the Third Reich implemented gun registration prior to making it unlawful for Jews to own firearms. Once registered, the Nazis knew where to find the guns and the rest is history.
AMEN…..It is coming
The Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA 68) specifically prohibits the federal govt from registering guns or compiling lists of gun owners. The wild card will be SCOTUS, because that’s where this will end up if passed by House and Senate.
In Murdock v Pennsylvania, SCOTUS ruled it was unconstitutional for Pennsylvania to demand Jehovah’s Witnesses get a license in order to proselytize door to door. Thus, SCOTUS ruled that states can’t LICENSE a constitutional right. This SHOULD extend to gun rights but Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Barrett are a danger to gun rights.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/319/105
In Harper v. Virginia State Board of elections, SCOTUS ruled states can’t tax the right to vote. Thus, SCOTUS ruled states can’t TAX a constitutional right. Let’s see if SCOTUS applies this to constitutional gun rights.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/383/663/
Lastly, the 24th Amendment prohibited federal and state govt from taxing the right to vote. This amendment SHOULD by extension and common sense, extend to the prohibition of taxing ANY constitutional rights, including gun rights.
In all this, SCOTUS is the wild card. I was against Barrett when Trump floated her name 4 years ago. My concerns have been fully validated. Four years ago Trump also put Judge Thomas Hardiman on his SCOTUS list. Hardiman is on record saying the only gun law needed is the Second Amendment.
Sadly for gun owners and conservatives in general, Trump picked Kavanaugh instead of Hardiman. Trump’s 2020 pick of Barrett was motivated, IMO, by a desire to pacify, placate, and please his critiques by nominating a woman. That’s my hunch. I think there’s much truth to it. Either way, picking Barrett was and will be, I fear, a disaster for the next 40 years.
A day without PDJT is like a day without sunshine.
Good morning.
I am wondering if anyone has heard the interviews with Maria Zack from Nations in Action. If what she says is true, why is it being ignored by elected officials and the media?
Why would the US military put Section 230 in their budget and why would Congress passed that budget? Why would the USA military and Congress work together using technology to censor Americans?
looking through old Norman Rockwell prints from the 40s and 50s I realize what the left is trying to defeat but never will. just look at his FOUR FREEDOMS, SAYING GRACE etc.
Rockwell depicts middle America and we are still here at least 74 million strong.
“There were three critical swing states in which the Green Party appeared on the ballot in 2016 and didn’t appear in 2020. The (GOP controlled) states of Arizona, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania all removed the Green Party from the presidential election in 2020, with Democratic operatives using underhanded tactics to kick them off.
In 2016, the Green Party nominee Jill Stein won more than 34,000 votes in Arizona. If a Green Party candidate had appeared with ballot access in the state in 2020, he or she would’ve been sure to win enough votes to erode Biden’s 10,500 vote margin of victory in the state and ensure Trump won. The Arizona legislature shortened the time period in which smaller parties have the chance to collect signatures for ballot access in the advance of the election. This served to effectively disenfranchise the Green Party, which didn’t gather the more than 30,000 signatures it would need to secure ballot access. A Green Party activist described the move as an unfair attack on third parties.
The Green Party vote total in Wisconsin varied from over 30,000 in 2016 to 1,000 in 2020- without ballot access. Biden won Wisconsin by 20,000 votes, making it more than likely that Trump would’ve won Wisconsin if the Green Party was on the ballot….” ~Richard Moorehead over at BigLeague Politics
Read more at bigleaguepolitics.com …
We need a copy of the table Mary Fanning displayed. Then each of us review it for our county. Then file a FOI for any information/document of the computer ID listed with the IP address listed. If the computer exists that is “winning” step one. It shows the table is accurate and is therefore probable cause for a forensic audit. Next contact all the individuals that lost in the LOCAL election. I assume they would have standing? The Antrim County, MI fraud was discovered by accident because someone saw anomalies with a school board election. As a group they should take whatever steps are required to demand a forensic audit. If there is fraud and the intrusion is listed as “credentials” per the table there should be an investigation and hopefully some arrests.
Operation Tiger, the cost of war, even in training.
The allies trained extensively for the invasion of Normandy. For the training, areas all over England with beaches that were similar to the places where sea borne and airborne troops would land in France were selected for rehearsals. In several locations British civilians were ordered from their homes so as to keep preparations for the invasion as secret as possible and to allow for live fire exercises, including artillery.
One of the beaches selected for training/rehearsal of the landing was Slapton Sands in Start Bay in southern England. The tides, beach, and bluffs behind the beach closely resembled those at Utah Beach in Normandy.
I recently posted here a pretty extensive essay on the types of ships, vessels, and specialized transport the allies used for amphibious operations during WW II. I also described the specialized units created to support these operations. You may recall the largest of the ships that were designed to actually land on the beach were the LSTs (landing Ship, Tank).
History — USS LST Memorial
During all of WW II from the time that Britain was attacked up until late in the war when their concrete pens were destroyed, German torpedo boats harassed Allied shipping in the English channel and around various ports. The British called all the various models of these motor torpedo boats “E-boats” for “enemy boats”. They were actually “S-boots” or “Schnellboot” the majority of which were based out of the port at Cherbourg, France. &t=1612724802&ymreqid=0da33742-daaa-e1a6-2f8b-740023015e00&sig=hkuCI_GFQPnJ_8ZKGDEt4g–~D
The allies went to extensive efforts to prevent attacks on their preparations and rehearsals for D-day. But it was all for naught due to a miscommunication a gap was left in the defenses and in the early morning hours of April 28th, 1944 the E- boats penetrated the escort screen undetected.
Despite patrols off the German E-boat base at Cherbourg a patrol of 9 German E-boats was able to attack the troop laden rehearsal fleet of 10 LSTs in the darkness of the early morning hours.
The first indication the fleet was under attack was when LST-507 was struck by a torpedo and burst into flames. Several minutes later LST-531 was struck and went to the bottom in six minutes. Other LSTs and their escorts opened fire on the E-boats they spotted but despite the defensive fire LST-289 was struck by a torpedo though it was able to stay afloat and make port.
A total of 551 Army and Navy personnel were lost with many more wounded. The German E-boats apparently got away without significant losses or casualties.
LSTs were already in short supply. This disaster left Ike with virtually no reserve of LSTs over the minimum number the planners had said were required for the landings in Normandy.
In later years some claimed this event was covered up. It wasn’t. The allies released a full accounting of casualties and events to the best of their knowledge in August of 1944 after the invasion of France.
Here in my little piece of heaven in central Indiana we have sunny skies with at temp 12 F. It is one of those days when you need sunglasses outside because of the snow cover. Last night it got down to 7 F. The birds sure are enjoying my feeder and the suit blocks we put out today.
January 25th on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and February 7th on the civil or commercial calendar.
Saint Gregory the Theologian (+ 389) was born near Nazianzus in Greater Cappadocia. His mother was a devout Christian whose prayers and exhortations brought his father to the true faith. Saint Gregory as an adult defended Christ’s Church against the raging heresies of Arius, Macedonius, and Appolinaris. He was, and remains, a great and wonderful light of the Orthodox Church, as much for the meekness and purity of his character as for the unsurpassable depth of his mind as a theologian.
Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs of Russia.
Hopefully this will upload for the Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
A short, memorial video in honor of the Holy New Martyrs of Russia with a hymn sung by the Serbian-born Divna Ljubojević.
https://youtu.be/sCAn_zW74pl
This particular video is from Paola Sofia on YT.
Is this the one? It’s BEAUTIFUL!
Sepp, try using the “share” button below the video at youtube – copy and paste the link that comes up when you hit share. That worked for me with this particular video.
And thank you for the references below, adding those to our growing list of study materials.
Good tip. Thank you Mandy.
thank you!
In honor of the Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
Ivan Andreyev compiled a book called “Russia’s Catacomb Saints” and an American, Hieromonk Seraphim of Platina, wrote a Foreword to the printed English translation.
This link is to that historical piece. (The link uses http instead of httpS, so a browser alert will appear. It is safe for reading.)
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/cat_intro.aspx
In honor of the Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, an online copy of the book “Russia’s Catacomb Saints” is at this link.
http://www.russiascatacombsaints.blogspot.com
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(Sorry to be a tech problem, folks and AdRems.)
Mort Kunstler is a national treasure in 2017 he finished his last major painting and retired. Though he has done work on many themes of American history, including several excellent works on the American Revolution, for Civil War enthusiasts he remains THE artist. He pumped out paintings at a rate of about one every two months. Originals would sell in the $100,000 range. Limited addition prints usually sold out very quickly. Here is the link to his official website where you can view some of his excellent works.
Wave heights
Until 35 years ago or so most of those in the sciences that study weather or the dynamics of the seas believed that it was impossible for waves of 100′ height to form due to wind and water action (as opposed to those formed by seismic events) in the open ocean. This skepticism on the part of the scientists remained strong despite the accounts of sailors and recording in ships logs of such mega waves down through the centuries. It was not until irrefutable evidence emerged in the form of video from super tankers struck by such waves where the height of the wave could be scaled based on the dimensions of the ship that the skeptical scientists relented. If only such skepticism among the scientists predicting disasters due to “climate change” remained in effect today.
Here is one such account of mega waves from WW II that was disregarded from an account by Dick O’Kane as skipper of the US submarine Tang. His Sub was caught on the surface in a powerful Typhoon east of Formosa (now Taiwan) and south of the Ryukyus islands. Paragraphs are transcribed from his book Clear the Bridge which IMO is the greatest nonfiction account of a submarine during the war in the Pacific. The following occurred Oct 6th and 7th of 1944.
Tang Patrol Five (ss563.org)
hey had buttoned up the ship and the barometer reading taken just before the boat was sealed showed 27.8 inches. A few minutes later the sub rolled 70 degrees before a huge wave and managed to recover. He writes:
“When submerged, looking through the scope gives the viewer the impression that his eye is just above the surface of the sea, at the position of the lens. When the boat is on the surface, it’s like looking down from a 55-foot tower. I was looking up at a single monstrous wave, so big it had normal waves on it’s crest, which were blowing out into spume as it rolled in. Reflexes made me duck momentarily just before it hit, and then green water, solid green sea, went of the top of everything, burying ‘Tang’ scope and all. I had expected a mangled tube, if indeed it was not broken off above the roots, Jones lowered away lest the next wave finish it off.”…………..
“…….. Our present position was untenable, for we were being pushed ahead in addition to our own turns, and our total speed likely equaled the advance of storm. We could thus remain in this dangerous semicircle for days, even into the Ryukyus to the immediate north…..”
O’Kane managed to get his boat through a 180 degree turn so as to head into the waves and wind and thus the sub was saved. He could not dive in such seas without taking a great chance of losing control of the boat so they rode it out just making steerage into the waves and the wind. When the seas and winds moderated enough to open the hatch they didn’t know if they were in the eye or if they had passed beyond the storm. They had to use their compressors to equalize the pressure in the boat before they could budge the hatch.
Later as the officers discussed what they had been through.
“……I recalled an experience at sea with a hurricane packing 100-knot winds and spoke conservatively when I estimated that the winds of this typhoon had half again the speed. In the height of the seas, there was no comparison. We were not just guessing, for in the Quartermaster’s Notebook were recorded various periods during which the scope had been completely buried, the longest being 14 seconds. Sketching the wave crests in their most modest form and arriving at their speed from the recorded frequency, Tang’s Jr. Officers calculated that on occasions a minimum of 40 feet of sea had rolled above the lens of our scope. I would not dispute their figure nor would Frank [Executive officer and navigator], we had seen the waves, and 95 feet from crest to trough seemed conservative.”
Now days over the top hype of about any of these storms that comes close to land is the norm.
This has probably been posted here before. We can fight them legally. Spread this information to everyone you know. Every MAGA voter should know about this.
What is jury nullification? (fija.org)
Mike Lindell, Sydney Powell and Lind Wood, surrounded. They are holding Election Fraud Hill. Surrounded, outgunned, they are holding the flag and in real time this is taking place.
. Surrounded by nobody I wish to associate with. For the stand, money I understand,, how else can we help?
ICYMI…
R.I.P. Make-A-Wish Foundation creator (“Wish Man”) at 77.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9232767/Frank-Shankwitz-created-Make-Wish-Foundation-honor-terminally-ill-boy-dies-77.html
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen…
Thank you. 🙂
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WuFlu Olympics in Winnie the Xi’s backyard next year. The masses aren’t happy https://112.international/politics/human-rights-activists-call-for-boycott-of-2022-olympics-in-beijing-due-to-human-rights-abuses-58778.html
Anyone else thinking that everything about the Superbowl except the actual playing of the game is a dystopian freak show?
I’ve not watched attentively, but based on various reports…
The Black National Anthem.
Dr Jill admonishing us via video to wear our masks while walking our dogs
Weird, creepy, “dark” half time complete with unidentifiable red eyed creatures
Annoying, woke commercials
If it wasn’t for Brady and Arians I wouldn’t be paying any attention at all.
I understand many are frustrated, confused, angry and fearful… “What now?” many are thinking. Let me share some intel worth reading. Be mentally prepared.
“Under Armor is no longer doing business with the NFL, MLB, etc. It has decided to break the deals they had. Yellen made a proposal that people under 60k should get the stimulus, this level is lower under Trump. Kevin Sorbo says the income tax was supposed to be temporary, yes it was. Patriots have now allowed the DS/MSM to do exactly what needs to be done, they explained how they rigged the elections. (my note, see TIME article). Why interfere with an enemy while they rein the process of destroying themselves. They believe they are in control so they let their egos take over. The DS understands that Trump is a threat and Trump is not on social media or making any moves, game theory.”
So POTUS has a plan, he has moved off the battlefield and has been silenced, or has he? This is OUR time. Take back your country folks, one county at a time… at the same time. That’s why it is time to show up, start asking questions at the sheriff office about (for example) how will the sheriff be enforcing laws that are unconstitutional. Does the sheriff have any plans to take anyone’s guns. How can we know that? Neighbor up.
Here’s today’s audio service from the small, traditional congregation I attend. If you haven’t been able to get to church for a while, this might lift your spirits. The sermon, based on Isaiah 40, is “They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.”
If you scroll down from the playback controls, you’ll be able to read the lessons, hymns, and prayers.
https://stjames-lcms.org/2021/02/08/they-who-wait-for-the-lord-shall-renew-their-strength/
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