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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✝️ DAILY DEVOTIONAL, February 8, 2021
I want the opposite. I have been consistently getting better. At first as I plugged my cath I had a lot of frequency and urgency and some incontinence. But now, I can leave my cath pugged and not have to go for hours sometimes and am having no accidents. I have an appointment with the doctor today and I fully expect that he will finally remove this superpubic cath and for the first time since Sept. 9th, I will not have a tube sticking our of my belly and can begin working towards building my strength, increasing my tolerance for sitting long periods of time, and generally get back to living, being a help instead of a burden around the house, and go back to doing the work and other things I enjoy!
Praise the Lord for your recovery and praying that the catheter is finally removed.
Thank you all for your prayers and best wishes. They have apparently been working.
Who Would Think That God Could Lie?
By Pastor Ricky Kurth
“In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began” (Titus 1:2).
The story is told of a rather simple-minded factory worker who got called into his supervisor’s office for talking back to his foreman. His supervisor asked, “Did you call your foreman a liar?” The man admitted that he had. “Did you call him stupid?” He had to admit to that was true as well. “Did you call him an opinionated, narcissistic egomaniac?” To this charge, the simple-minded man replied, “No, but could you write that one down so I can remember it?”
Of course, no one would ever accuse God of lying—or would they? There must be a reason the Apostle Paul wrote to Titus about the hope of eternal life, “which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began” (Titus 1:2). Why would Paul have to vouch for God’s integrity like that? Surely somebody was thinking that God could lie, or it wouldn’t have been necessary to affirm the opposite. And it isn’t likely that it was Titus.
But Titus was stationed on the island of Crete (Titus 1:5), and the Cretians to whom he ministered used to worship the Greek god Zeus, who is said to have been born in Crete. And according to Greek mythology, Zeus was always lying to his wife Hera to cover up the affairs he had with gods, nymphs and mortal women. So the Cretians needed reassurance that the God of the Bible wasn’t lying in promising them eternal life, an assurance that Paul was more than happy to give them in an epistle that became a part of God’s written Word.
By the way, did you ever wonder why the gods of the Greeks were such moral degenerates? Why would anyone invent gods who were guilty of lying, cheating, stealing, fornicating, and even killing? It was because if your gods acted like that, it gave you an excuse to act like that! The Greeks invented such gods to justify their own sinfulness! After all, the gods couldn’t righteously deny men entrance into heaven because of their sins if they themselves were just as morally depraved!
How different is the God of the Bible! The Bible doesn’t justify men by lowering God to their low level of wickedness. The Bible justifies men by lifting them up to God’s level! As the Lord Jesus Christ hung on Calvary’s cross, God made Him “to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (II Corinthians 5:21). That means if you’ve trusted Christ as your savior, you have the very righteousness of God. God Himself is no more righteous than you are, for you have been “made the righteousness of God.” And that means God can’t righteously deny you entrance into heaven, for He has lifted you up to His own level of righteousness.
If that makes you feel eternally secure, say amen!
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/who-would-think-that-god-could-lie/
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Titus 1:5 ¶ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
2Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Hope is a virtue not a vice. Read Romans.
Hope is a virtue, and we love all the beautiful virtues. We assume other people are like us.
Unfortunately, sociopaths take advantage of our virtues to deceive us. We don’t think like them, but we need to. Or, perhaps we need wisdom to balance our hope.
Matt. 10:16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
I think the only person who always knew the true character of the people around Him was Jesus. He could see through every lie of skillful liars.
I read the following account that rings true to me, of an event in a commenter’s childhood, I think it shows us how much we are conditioned, as adults, to listen to words and overlook other clues to a person’s character that we would otherwise pick up.
There was a ring at the door and as a child of about 5, the parent and child answered the door. It was a stranger. As the stranger spoke with the parent many words the child simply couldn’t understand, looking up at the stranger, the child had a deep impression that this person was evil and meant to do harm. He blurted out, You are bad and you want to do bad things, and you need to go away now!
The stranger was so shocked upon hearing the truth, and the truth was so powerful, he quickly left.
Dogs also, who can’t understand deceptive speech, are often better judges of character than we are. They are perhaps operating on a more basic level that we have gotten away from.
Ok, here’s one more. I just couldn’t leave this one out . . . The reason I posted this is because here, surprisingly, you get a sense of the genius of Paul Desmond in his moment. Everything else just fades away and there’s just Paul and his music. Perfection . . .
Desmond was GOAT. Interesting bio…his mother had severe OCD. Can you imagine having a mother that would never touch her child. He spent a lot of time with other relatives to achieve a loving family connection plus a very supportive father. The early Brubeck years were very hand to mouth..then they invented the college concert. I used to play the alto sax, Desmond’s tone, phrasing is perfection.
Most working musicians earn very little money. When I started college in ’62 Take Five was on the cafeteria juke-box and was constantly playing, along with Mile’s So What? Didn’t know about Desmond’s family background. For a kid, music can be a good way to escape a dysfunctional family. Brubeck once commented that Desmond was the “professional” in the group and always handled making sure they got paid.
Then you must have one of the quartet’s first, “At the College of the Pacific”?
edit for pleasure ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsCyUdP80Cg
My husband plays the sax…tenor, alto and soprano….made me fall in love with him!!!
The corporate media: “People who say there was a shadow campaign to rig the 2020 election are conspiracy theorists!”
Time Magazine: “Read our story on the shadow campaign to rig the 2020 election!”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/02/rigging_the_election_for_china_and_profit_.html#ixzz6loqe8OOl
“The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” published in Time wants you to believe this was a “bipartisan” effort, an “unlikely alliance” between Left and Right. Wrong. This was a “unipartisan” effort, as in Uniparty. What the appearance of this story tells us is this:
1) The Establishment realizes that they have so far been unable to control the public perception that Election 2020 was a Big Steal. That remarkably wide perception–in the face of a relentless full court disinformation press–bodes ill for the 2022 elections
2) As a result they’re putting out a counter narrative to the Big Steal, the purpose of which is to make it look legit. In other words, it’s yet another attempted exercise in perception management–and that’s what tells us that they know they’re failing. They wouldn’t bother, otherwise. The appearance of candor in the story is simply part of the technique and is another indicator of desperation.
https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2021/02/why-time-election-narrative-is-good-news.html#more
They can’t quit the grift. No sooner had Joe Biden won the White House than his family went back to trying to make a buck off his name.
The latest sordid example involves one of Joe’s younger brothers, Frank Biden, appearing in a Florida law firm’s ad — on Inauguration Day no less.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/30/biden-brood-already-cashing-in-on-joes-presidency-goodwin/
But if Donald Trump saw decoupling the United States from China as a way to dismantle the oligarchy that hated him and sent American jobs abroad, he couldn’t follow through on the vision. After correctly identifying the sources of corruption in our elite, the reasons for the impoverishment of the middle classes, and the threats foreign and domestic to our peace, he failed to staff and prepare to win the war he asked Americans to elect him to fight.
And because it was true that China was the source of the China Class’ power, the novel coronavirus coming out of Wuhan became the platform for its coup de grace. So Americans became prey to an anti-democratic elite that used the coronavirus to demoralize them; lay waste to small businesses; leave them vulnerable to rioters who are free to steal, burn, and kill; keep their children from school and the dying from the last embrace of their loved ones; and desecrate American history, culture, and society; and defame the country as systemically racist in order to furnish the predicate for why ordinary Americans in fact deserved the hell that the elite’s private and public sector proxies had already prepared for them.
For nearly a year, American officials have purposefully laid waste to our economy and society for the sole purpose of arrogating more power to themselves while the Chinese economy has gained on America’s. China’s lockdowns had nothing to do with the difference in outcomes. Lockdowns are not public health measures to reduce the spread of a virus. They are political instruments, which is why Democratic Party officials who put their constituents under repeated lengthy lockdowns, like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, are signaling publicly that it is imperative they be allowed to reopen immediately now that Trump is safely gone.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants
I’ve read this over and over to instill the ugly truth into my thought processes to counterbalance conversations with others. This is a long read but everyone needs to know and understand the full truth of why we are where we are as a country…and the very present danger of no longer being America! Every single question we ask our leaders, media, etc…should be…are you affiliated with, taken funds from, use propaganda of…China! China! China!???
I’ve come to believe that the US Deep State is using “China! China! China!” to manipulate those on the right in the same way they used “Russia! Russia! Russia!” to manipulate those on the left.
That implies that China is not a true source of anti-American anti-Trump policies, actions, or funding…as Russia was not the true source of President Trump’s success in 2016.
But that is categorically false on its face. We have actual evidence that China has been and remains strongly and financially supportive of all efforts to undermine President Trump’s MAGA agenda and China was especially and actively involved in subverting his re-election.
I’ve not seen any ACTUAL evidence. What I HAVE seen is a whole bunch of accusations, which is the Deep State method used against Russia through the American LEFT.
When it is against China, the Deep State uses the American RIGHT.
It’s just something I’ve noticed. And as with many things – once you see it, you cannot UNsee it…
Then you haven’t seen the tremendous evidence that Mike Lindell presented in his recent 2 hour video of evidence of election fraud. The evidence of Chinas direct interference in vote tabulation manipulation is awesome.
Look, guys, any honest person who knew math knows. I know the left and the right who hates Trump loves to lie to themselves that “everyone hates Trump.”
1- This is not true.
2- Most people weren’t crazy about Trump but liked the way he governed.
3-The election wasn’t only dirty, it was submerged in fraud.
4-People who haven’t stolen elections don’t fight having fraud looked into.
5- People who haven’t stolen elections don’t turn DC into occupied territory.
6- People who haven’t stolen elections don’t try so hard to gaslight the country.
7- People who haven’t stolen elections don’t try to turn opposing them into a crime.
8- People who haven’t stolen elections don’t try to destroy the country they just took over.
9- More importantly, people who haven’t stolen the election don’t tell us how they STOLE THE ELECTION.
There is that “consent of the governed.” The left doesn’t think they need it anymore. They think they have it all sewn up.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/430715/
Those that hate Trump aren’t “right” in any way shape or form.
This is the first in a series of posts on the Lockheed P-38
I highly recommend that those interested watch the following 28 minute video of the episode of Roaring Glory series which features a walk around and flight hosted by the late great Jeff Ethell. Sorry it’s Youtube.
A Star is Born (and then is quickly murdered)
We know and judge the P-38 as a fighter but it was never intended to be an aircraft that would hunt out and engage other fighter aircraft. When the US Army Air Corp wrote the performance specifications, it was for an interceptor intended to be able to climb quickly to altitude and engage multi-engine bombers.
During the i920s and early 30s’, multi-engine production aircraft could generally fly higher and faster than single engine types. Multi-engine bombers in all the air forces could fly higher and faster than their single engine fighters and it was anticipated by most it would always be that way.
In January 1937 Lockheed and other aircraft manufacture in the US received a specification for an aircraft for an aircraft that was for the “interception and attack of hostile aircraft at high altitude.”
Designs submitted were to have:
1. A minimum maximum speed of 360 mph in level flight at 20,000 ft, and 290 mph at sea level.
2. The aircraft must be able to sustain maximum power for one hour at 20,000 ft.
3. The aircraft must be able to reach an altitude of 20,000 feet within 6 minutes after starting it’s take off roll.
4. The aircraft must be able to take off and land within a distance of 2,200 feet while clearing a 50 obstacle at the end of that take off run.
This was a tall order for the time and specifications 3 and 4 were especially challenging for the technology available at that time.
At the time this request for bid was published Lockheed was a small company. Lockheed Corporation was founded in 1926 in Burbank CA. It’s first successful project was the Lockheed Vega, which Emilia Erhardt and Wily Post made famous when they broke various time and distance records using that single engine aircraft. Their second successful design was the twin engine Electra as they expanded into foreign markets. With the world moving towards war the Electra served as the model to produce the Hudson bomber for sale to the British and eventually the US Army Air Corp. and believe it not, the type was built under license by the Japanese for the use of their military. The Hudson, entering service in 1938, would serve though out the war in the British and US as a Maritime patrol bomber. The first 100 aircraft order was by far the largest single sale the company had made up to that time.
Much of the companies success was due to the gifted designer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson. Kelly was the primary designer of the P-38 and would go on to become the most noted aircraft designer in aviation history being the primary designer of P-80 shooting star which was Americas first truly operational jet fighter, the F-104 Starfighter, The U2 spy plane, and finally, working at the skunk works, the SR-71, which officially to this day remains the fastest maned jet aircraft to have ever flown.
When Kelly along with H. L. Hubbard started to work on the design to meet the specifications they immediately realized that it had to have two engines simply because there was no engine in the world at that time that would provide the necessary power to meet the specifications in a single engine design.
They settled on the V-1710 cubic inch Allison engine which had just finished bench tests and at the time was the most powerful inline engine design produced in the US. But even using two of the new Allison engines turbo (or IOW two stage) supercharging would be necessary to meet the performance required at 20,000 ft.
They worked on many designs and finally decided that design number 22 was the best, though it was certainly anything but conventional for it’s time. And thus was born what at the time was a unique twin boom design that set the P-38 apart from any other pursuit types of the time. Keey Johnson predicted at that time that it would be one of the most stable machines to fly up till that time, and he was correct.
The design required a wing loading far in excess of what was standard for the time. It would have to have a tri-cycle landing gear, when all pursuit aircraft before were tail draggers. It would have a bubble canopy unique for it’s time in a military pursuit aircraft. It would be the first American manufactured aircraft to use butt-jointed flush-riveted skin surfaces that significantly decreased drag. It would also have counter rotating props which would negate the effect of torque when both propellers turned the same direction as was typical of multi-engine designs of that day and until well after WW II. (The prototype had the propellers that turned inward. All other P-38 production aircraft after that had propellers that turned outward). It would be fitted with a Fowler Flaps a new development that provided for increased lift over the typical configuration at the time. This flap design was later adapted so that it could quickly be set at 8 degrees and used at high speeds to provide increased turning and roll rate in combat when needed. It would have all metal control surfaces at a time when control surfaces of other advanced aircraft’s control surfaces were fabric or wood covered.
It would have all of it’s guns in the nose without the need for an interrupter to fire through the arc of a propeller which typically reduced the rate of fire. And the nose could hold extraordinary fire power for that time with four .each 50 caliber machine guns and an automatic cannon (of which several different types and caliber were tried over the life of the aircraft) all firing right down the line of sight of the pilot with plenty of room for each gun to have a large supply of ammunition totaling about 4,000 rounds This at a time when the typical US Pursuit aircraft then in service had one .30 cal and one .50 caliber machine gun with 300 rounds available for each.
The Bell P-39 Aircobra and Curtis P-40 Warhawk that were fast on the heals of the P-38 would carry comparable firepower but both had their machine guns in the wings. With all of the P-38 firepower in the nose the guns and cannon would fire directly ahead for their full range where as the machine guns on the other types, including all of the great single engine fighters the US developed for WW II, would have to have their wing guns set to so that the streams of fire would converge at a point some 300 yards or so down range.
The advantage of having all of that firepower shooting down the line of sight of the pilot cannot be overstressed. It was a major factor in the success of the P-38 in both air to air combat and ground attack. It allowed for the total concentration of firepower against a target at any range out to the maximum range of the weapons, which was about 1,000 yards. It also made deflection shooting in air to air combat much simpler for the pilot during air to air combat.
Though the Army Air Corp had stressed the urgency for bids by allowing a relatively short time for them to be submitted they did not make a decision on the competing designs until June, 1937. The Lockheed design number 22 won and so it’s new designation was the Lockheed XP-38.
It was stipulated that if the single prototype had acceptable performance there would follow a final order of 50 of the aircraft. For this reason Lockheed had not designed the aircraft for mass production and it was planned that the 50 aircraft would be built in the traditional manner of the time which meant the aircraft would be essentially hand made.
The initial design submitted was merely based on calculations and drawings of the basic configuration of an aircraft. Once the order was gained was when the detailed design of all of the mechanical components and how they fit together was done and the XP-38 was a very complex aircraft for it’s time thus the prototype was not ready for flight testing until December of 1938.
It was much larger and heavier (About 14,800 lb but the exact figure is not known because the prototype was flown without it’s guns or ammo and it is not known if the calculated weight for the prototype included that weight or not) than any other pursuit aircraft completed up to that time but it was streamlined and clean and an exceptional example of aerodynamic efficiency . Nothing like it had ever been produced before.
As with many revolutionary aircraft the P-38 prototype had some problems. During high speed taxi testing it suffered a brake failure and ended up in a ditch and had to be repaired. It had a flap fail due to material failure. During the first flight it suffered flutter a condition resulting from imbalance in a control surface common in high speed aircraft even today and that problem had to be resolved.
But the worst problem by far set the development of the aircraft back by more than a year, and was the fault of the US Army Air Corp. After only 16 days of flight testing the prototype with it only having less than 12 hours in the air the Army was so impressed with it’s performance it wanted to show off what it could do to the rest of the world. It sent test pilot Lt. Ben Kelsey off on a publicity stunt long distance speed flight from March Field in California to Mitchell field in Long Island a distance of 2,400 miles. Incredibly irresponsible! The flight set a new speed record averaging 340 mph over ground and taking somewhere between 7 hours 37 minutes. It also ended with Kelsey crashing the aircraft as he attempted to land at Mitchel field due to pilot error. So the only prototype of the most advanced aircraft the US had produced to that time was destroyed beyond repair.
People will be judged no matter if they judge others or not. This declaration to not judge is IMO, at best an oversimplification.
We MUST judge. We must judge in order to determine our path. What is right and what is wrong. What is safe and what is unsafe. What is best for ourselves and other people and what is not and sometimes when those conflict, ,to determine what we are going to do. Those and uncountable other are determinations are based on the judgement of actions or intent of other human beings. If you break into my house at night I must judge your action and intentions. If I determine you are a threat to myself or my family then I must make another judgement and it will probably be to kill you.
So I say judge but to so as wisely and with as much compassion as one can. .
Excellent!
Interesting word: Discriminate. To make a judgement or a choice. “ Discriminate” used to be a word that was thought to be a high honor. “A person of Discriminating taste.” Usually assigned to a person who had a high degree of intellect, knowledge, experience, etc. Now it is a pejorative, Indicating bias, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, thoughtlessness, sexism…
We “discriminate” every day! Every time we have a choice to make, we “discriminate.”
We “discriminate” or judge people in our lives as well. Would you continue to be friends with or married to someone who lied to you repeatedly? Would you do business with them? A “discriminating” person would say, “No.”
Let me be judged. If I fall short, let me learn from it.
Sundance and crew…..I gotta say been a tough night. Haven’t slept a wink. I keep waking up and looking at my phone going back and forth from websites like this one and others. Stumbled on to the video of Tucker where he says War has been declared on Trump supporters and played some footage from the left leadership to back it up. Well in all fairness the left has been telegraphing their intentions for years.
So hopefully the greedy oligarchs are able to hold them back for at least another couple years. I say this because there’s still way to many of us ruffians involved with making their fuel, electricity, food, water, supply deliveries, building their facilities, etc. Those are trades that aren’t going to be handled by lefties or the oligarchs. The more we are replaced in these roles the less leverage we have in our very existence.
Your experience with the deplatorming… please tell me someone is building something so they wan can communicate and organize rapidly. We need something our enemies cannot neutralize. And we need it soon. To the point where is DT is ever arrested Don Jr calls up a million of us and we take care of business. Hell if we can communicate freely we can gather up enough men to show them what a real siege looks like. The lack of comms from the censorship has been a real Achilles heel. We need to turn it into a strong point. There’s more of us dammit. We can make them afraid and all we need is bulletproof communication. Hell they can’t stop us.
It concerns me DT did not see this coming. There is GAB and it’s humming. Still not going to be big enough to handle Trump like traffic.
This man is on the cutting edge of using radio frequencies for more than voice transmission. Shades of Nellie Orr! We need to use this locally.
Good video, I will save it. I have a couple Baofangs. But we need to think bigger….much bigger. If Trump would have had a method to communicate would have been a game changer. I suppose he did just everything was marked. And after the 6th they cut all of us. I said something smartass to Axios and they reported me. Whatever you think of Q he predicted “Twitter handle down” in early 2020.
If we’re going to fight this beast we must have a giant platform in which we can communicate. We need to block and sensor any leftists. Not only is it payback but I don’t want them knowing our plans. The left has let their paramilitary groups sow chaos and discord using Twitter and FB. Maybe it’s time the right start using some of those very tactics. Flash mob AOC haha. And in some circumstances it may need to get a lot bigger than that. If the local police participate in gun grabs they need to be made aware that they will be identified. I would much rather work with them tho as I suspect many of them are like us and understand what has been taken from them. I hope to God somebody is working on something. Parler would have been fine if it had stayed up.
Check out Rumble and Bitchute for videos that were banned from YouTube.
Check out Telegram for posts from conservatives who were banned from Twitter and Fakebook. Don Jr, and Ivanka are both on Telegram. I’ve heard President Trump is too but I have not yet found him.
Check out Gab posts from conservatives who were banned from Twitter and Fakebook. President Trump is on Gab; so is Don Jr.
I believe Dan Bongino when he states that Parler will be back soon with a more robust platform that Big Tech cannot wipe away.
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Good for Tebow! Here is prayers being answered as regards ending the horrific act of murdering the unborn children. A North Dakota bill making abortion murder.
https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/north-dakota-bill-would-make-abortion-murder-under-state-law
Get along little doggies
INSTANTANEOUS AND INSISTENT SANCTIFICATION
“And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly.” 1 Thess. v. 23-24
When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take the term sanctification much too lightly. Are we prepared for what sanctification will cost? It will cost an intense narrowing of all our interest on earth, and an immense broadening of all our interest in God. Sanctification means intense concentration on God’s point of view. It means every power of body, soul and spirit chained and kept for God’s purpose only. Are we prepared for God to do in us all that He separated us for? And then after His work is done in us, are we prepared to separate ourselves to God even as Jesus did? “For their sakes I sanctify Myself.” The reason some of us have not entered into the experience of sanctification is that we have not realized the meaning of sanctification from God’s standpoint. Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. Are we prepared for what that will cost? It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
Are we prepared to be caught up into the swing of this prayer of the apostle Paul’s? Are we prepared to say – “Lord, make me as holy as You can make a sinner saved by grace”? Jesus has prayed that we might be one with Him as He is one with the Father. The one and only characteristic of the Holy Ghost in a man is a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, and freedom from everything that is unlike Him. Are we prepared to set ourselves apart for the Holy Spirit’s ministrations in us?
Oswald Chambers
February 8th Devotional
Verse of the Day for Monday, February 8, 2021
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“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”
Ephesians 5:2 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Be My Voice – I am a CHILD – not a CHOICE!!!
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter VI – The Child’s Narration
6:2
Then a far different scene was revealed – below me in a little room, I saw a female kneeling by the lifeless body of her departed child. She convulsed, and at times tears streamed from her eyes, and then her face was as marble, her eyes set and glassy, and her whole form quivered while she pressed kiss after kiss upon the cold cheek of her lost babe. At this juncture a man dressed in black gravely entered. The group gave way and he silently approached the weeping mother, and taking her by the and said, “Sister arise. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Jesus said, suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, their angels always behold the face of their Heavenly Father.”
Next I saw that mother, sitting beside a coffin, in an earthly assemblage. Her eye was fixed upon the ceiling. Her countenance wore an expression of despair. Before the coffin stood the grave looking man, whom I had seen enter the room of death. He read a Psalm, offered prayer for the afflicted, and then encouraged the mourners, by endeavoring to prove from the sacred text, that the babe, though dead shall live again, and that an angel had conveyed it to Abraham’s bosom.
The assembly disappeared, and the child addressed me saying, “The lifeless form just seen in the vision, was the representation of my own body, the weeping mother was my own mother; the scene was that which transpired when I left that body; the grave looking man was the minister of a congregation in the outer world.”
“The angel who while passing us paused, was the bright spirit who conveyed me far above the influence of evil magnetism, to a place prepared for the young and delicate infant, where spirits appointed, are ever occupied in nourishing infant minds. Dost thou wish to visit that nursery?” Thus saying he looked up to the spirit, as if to ask permission to conduct me there.
To be continued…
Those of you that are experiencing and snow and cold like me in central Indiana and points west and east north east of me from the central US across to the NE are just getting a weak preview of what’s to come. There are going be multiple waves of this and some will have much more snow and much lower temps.
Sometime around Valentines day the European model is projecting temperatures of around -20 degrees F for the Chicago area, Lots of snow across the states bordering the great lakes and tremendous amounts of snow running in a line from about Pittsburg, PA up into Maine, including the NYC area. In fact is it not unlikely that NYC will set a new winter record for snowfall. My man, Joe Bastardi, believes these projections to be correct.
So pleased don’t shoot the messenger and get ready for snowmageddon and coldmageddon at the same time. And leave some toilet paper for me when you make your store runs please!
Thanks, rah. Ditchess County, NY here. Looks like the next 7 days will be colder than normal but not anywhere near as frigid as your area.
Rumor has it we’ll be getting some snow in the Florida Panhandle. Bring it!
Charleston SC. Haven’t seen any snow but tasted it once or twice – up in the atmosphere, I guess. As cold as it’s been here, I wouldn’t be surprised if we got some after all.
Oh, additionally. Joe may change his March forecast. Before he was thinking that Spring will start late but now he is not so sure and is waiting for some other data to make a forecast because there are indications that the patterns may flip and March may be warmer than usual.
LOL. Turns out the Chiefs really won the Super Bowl last night. They found several mail in touchdowns for Mahomes at about 2 AM this morning. Who’d a thunk it?
It’s not official yet. It hasn’t gone through the courts!
For the first time that I can remember, I didn’t tune in or otherwise watch the SB. No beer, no wings, and no party. Just another Sunday with my family. I heard Brady did it again. Good for him.
Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m going to arrange for a beer and wings afternoon next weekend.
I haven’t watched any NFL Game since they got woke. Haven’t watched an NBA game either. My family has 4 very good season tickets for the Colts and they no longer have to worry about me wanting any.
Anyone who questions this will become an enemy of the state and will be barred from watching future games. Tom Brady is being banned from ever playing again and his history of previous super bowl wins will be erased.
Haven’t paid any attention since zorn was throwing to largent, sundays for working on the hot rod.
Just now a herd of 10 white tails crossed my road. I saw them coming from the west, they stopped and hesitated before they got the road and waited for a car to go by, then they took off passing, Quite beautiful crossing the snow covered fields. Nice thing to see this morning.
Mornin’ infidels!
Mornin’ WeeWeedvb
The best part of the Super Bowl was the hearty round of booing during the Xiden’s jumbotron speech.
OK. So, halftime show. Perhaps someone could explain to me the symbolism of a field full of black guys dancing around while wearing their tidy whities on their heads. I don’t get it.
A step up from female strippers performing on-field?
American patriots! Watch it, hear it, imbibe it, own it!
The Star Spangled Banner – “The National Anthem” – in the greatest rendition you will ever hear.
A bit more on Mr. Lindell’s Video:
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2021/02/07/yes-computer-experts-can-know-exactly-what-went-down-during-a-hack/
. . . 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 / 51st Psalm KJV
Great Lent in the Orthodox Church begins five weeks from today.
UNUSUAL FLYING OBJECTS: While walking the dogs this AM before sunrise, a long line of lights (50+) moved high overhead from west to east. Pinpoints of light about the same size as a star, moving as if connected like a train on tracks. Speed similar to a high altitude jet. No audible.
Could be a cluster of those mini satellites that Space-X has been putting up.
Aren’t satellites parked in one position? These were moving.
Some, like those for GPS are in synchcronous orbit and some are not. Depends on their function. I don’t know where you live but, here at my place in Indiana I we have dark enough skies that at night if one is sky watching they can see quite a few satellites orbiting as the sun glints off of them. More are seen towards before sundown and sunset than in the middle of the night. But one can still see a few of those in the higher orbits in the late night and earliest morning hoiurs,
Puget Sound, I am central Oregon coast 45 degrees N lat. About a month ago I saw what looked like a very large, very bright star as I looked west over ocean. Never saw a star that location before. It appeared about 1/2 hour before Orion.
so, as I was looking at it in wonder, it zipped off to the south (my left.) it went from stationary for at least several minutes after I went out on the porch and noticed it to very fast sideways movement
The further North one is the less time they will have to view Orion during the night. It is up longest for us in the Northern Hemisphere during the winter months.
rah, what you write is true. do you have any idea what the stationary “star” might have been?
Orion always been special to me. favorite college prof gave me the middle star in Orion’s belt. still have it
I have no idea. Though I am a long time backyard astronomer with a 10″ Mead Starfinder telescope and an eye piece collection that is worth more than the telescope, I have not been paying much attention to that kind of stuff due to my illness.
However one online source I have used when I felt up to it is Sky & Telescope’s ‘Sky At A Glance’. which is one of several sources those interested in the night sky should check out weekly.
Here is the link. Sky at a Glance | Recent Astronomy News & Night Sky Events – Sky & Telescope (skyandtelescope.org)
Third star down in the sword is not a star. It is the Orion nebula. Top star of Orion’s Shoulder is on the left as we look at it is Betelgeuse. A red giant that if it were in the position of our sun would reach out approximately to Jupiter. A few months ago there was a big hubub about Betelgeuse dimming and some were wondering if it was going to go Supernova. Turns out that though Betelgeuse does vary some in brightness that dimming was the result of a gas cloud passing between us and the star.
thank you, rah
Good morning,
This is a heads up to get prepared for the extremely cold temperatures that are aiming to cover the southern states. Please get supplies to protect people, pets, plants, and pipes.
Please check on the elderly family and neighbors.
Please make sure that you have above adequate heating fuels ready. Now is the time to call the propane people and get that tank topped off.
I don’t particularly like to do it, but crawl under the house to make sure the pipes are covered.
Also, please do not forget our feathered friends who flew south to escape the cold. Please put some suet or extra bird seed out for them. Make sure your outdoor animals have enough hay and protection from the Arctic cold that is fixing to come on the scene this week and next.
Please go to the store now to stock up on groceries.
This Arctic cold is going to bring heavy snow, deadly wind chills and ice to many areas in America.
A former neighbor from my youth who has lived in France for several decades and with whom I have in the past couple of years engaged in a dialogue of political and societal issues, wrote this observation.
“The world seems to have gone crazy since February 2020. People in Europe are a bit shocked by America’s cancel culture, especially Big Tech’s silencing of voices they disagree with. Western Europeans are not at all keen on President Trump, but the sense of it is that the powers in the U.S. who control nearly all information have gone too far; they appear to want to control even more than all information. This is strange to me, because in Europe a government can do almost anything and it will be tolerated, but Big Tech is not Big Government in the viewpoint of Europeans.”
Herewith my response:
I have never lived in Europe and only visited Iceland and Norway for two weeks once 20 years ago, so I have no firsthand experience dealing with “native” Europeans.
But my limited knowledge of European history leads me to believe that the primary and significant difference between them and most of those Americans who still love our country is that we value individuality and independence from the control of others including government far more deeply and spiritually than do the descendants of our old world ancestors.
The nations of Europe have a long history of being invaded and conquered by power seeking rulers. It doesn’t stop with two world wars, there have been wars and battles throughout Europe for many centuries. They really haven’t outgrown their feudal tendencies. Fascism, socialism, and communism are simply the more modern versions of feudalism.
Those Europeans who do tend to favor a more open and free society that promotes individual freedoms over heavy centralized big government have for two centuries looked to America to be that model against which other nations may be measured in their humanity and general decency towards people of all economic backgrounds.
And I think we’ve seen that same consideration and hope among freedom seeking people in Asia as well as most other nations of the world.
It is no small wonder why many people the world over must be absolutely dismayed at the current situation here. Have Americans given up their desire for independence and individual rights? The apparent tolerance for the recent illegal theft of our presidency and increasing encroachment on our freedoms of speech, our right to assemble and for moral justice to be equally applied to everyone regardless of political opinions would appear to indicate that we have lost our fire and courage to stand up for our Constitution and the liberties our founding fathers designed into our nation.
No wonder our European neighbors are shocked. We were the last bulwark against totalitarian communists taking over the world. People are rightfully asking, are we giving up?
Excellent, GB, as always. I may not always agree with you (although on this one, I do agree), but I always appreciate what you write, because it makes me think and learn. The dignity and literacy that accompanies your writing are extra added bonuses.
Live long and prosper!
I’m shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED! SNL mocks cancel culture???
A true second party is coming along. Americans of all backgrounds will know its leader(s) when they hear their voice(s).
Here is a useful mental exercise: profile a true president of the United States, and how he gets into position to execute that responsibility.
I say this prayer so many times a day in response the frustration and concern evoked by what’s happening to our country day in and day out; and the failure of so many good citizens to deny the sad reality we are living in. It is simply “…. they will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”
Proverbs 2:20-22 For the upright will inherit the land and men of integrity will remain in it. but the wicked will be cut off from the land and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Prayers up for President Trump, his family, his staff (the few loyal ones that is) and American Citizens, to be protected from that absurd Soviet show trial coming up.
Now this is funny. Tony really has a sense of humor:
Biden Voters Seen At The Superbowl | Real Climate Science
So finally I have no tubes sticking out of my body and no balloons in my bladder. In two weeks I go back for a precautionary ultrasound on my kidneys and then, if I am up to it, I can go back to work, I asked if there were any restrictions on lifting and there are none. When the temp is down outside we like to have a fire in the fire place. Makes our living room so cozy and my wife is one of those cold blooded types. So I just made two trips out to the woodpile and got us enough wood for a fire tonight plus extra.
I have to get my strength and endurance back up if I am going to do my job and live life to the fullest. I have become a bag of bones, You can see my ribs and my arms and legs are sticks. So as soon as this hole in my side is healed up I am going to start splitting logs and taking the dog for walks and just generally getting on the move.
My better half is concerned I am going to over do it but I am the best judge of that. I was after all an SF medic and an Army certified Master Fitness Trainer.
Praise God for prayers answered….and you’ll do fine with the exercise! ?
Congratulations, rah! I’m sure you’ll get some meat on those bones and heal up in no time.
I’m just going to say one thing, and I’ll re-post again maybe tomorrow or the next day in case you don’t see this. You might want to re-think your line of work going forward, unless you can get one of those gyroscopic or stabilizer seats to mitigate the jolts and vibration while in a truck. I know you love the work, but I’d hate for you to get back in the saddle, only to have to repeat the same ordeal you’ve just been through.
Remember that video I posted a little while back that featured truck drivers in Papua New Guinea? When I saw the one part where the trucker discussed protecting the “family jewels”, I immediately thought of your situation. I believe there’s definitely something to what he said. Of course, he was more focused on the jolting than the constant vibration, but from what I understand, it’s the vibration more than anything else that messes with the plumbing, over time, in a very insidious way.
Understand I’m not saying “don’t work”. Not by any means. Nor am I saying you should get a desk job. Maybe just find a way to mitigate the vibration OR work at something where the jolts and vibration are not a factor.
Thank you for your concern Margot. The seat in my truck rides on an airbag. The cab rides on airbags and shocks. Thus modern trucks, while still riding rougher than a car, take far less a toll on the drivers back and behind than they once did when all they had was spring suspension and prostate trouble plagued a disproportionate number of truck drivers. .
Still, I will be driving with the added precaution of using one of those pads that slope shifting the weight forward so more of it is on the thighs and which has a cut out where my more delicate parts will rest without pressure.
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…(forgive me). 🙁
You are forgiven. Thank you for all you do. 🙂
Amen.
Amen.
Saint Xenophon and his family (+ 6th century) had a period of separation from each other, permitted by God for their salvation, before being reunited again in this life with joy.
Their lives are shared here.
http://www.cpress.orthodoxws.com/lives_26_january
Saint John the New Almsgiver of Amphiale, Piræus, Greece (+ 1966) is a modern-day worker of miracles whose life was utterly dedicated to God.
These Saints are among those honored today, January 26th on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and February 8th on the civil or commercial calendar.
Poland’s battle with the “maggoty left” https://rmx.news/article/commentary/the-maggoty-hearts-of-the-left
Don’t see our 9p prayer thread, but prayers went up at 9p as always… for all patriots and freedom loving people around the world; and for those who have had the courage to stand up and try to lead our nation back to a path of virtue, out of the mire of lies and greed and murder. Lord have mercy on us, sinners all and help us to have courage for truth. And as another commenter noted above: “Thy will be done, on earth as in heaven”
Amen.
The 9:00 prayer gets hung up in the bin every night. Thank you for continuing the prayers. At some point the problem will be solved and we won’t have to wait for Ad Rem.
Apologies to all. A little off my feed tonight….. 🙁
Amen.