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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They’re way more cheery than a sullen old groundhog
Groundhog belongs to the squirrel family and the order rodent; which is convenient because as far as I’m concerned, the groundhog is just an overgrown rat.
Halcyon days. It’s good for the soul to reflect on a gentler time with music from Tuba Skinny . . .
Oh yeah 🙂
1812 OVERTURE, amazing FLASHMOB – (Tchaikovsky)
Every year the Indianapolis symphony has concerts on the prairie at the Conner Prairie Farm Amphitheater . I have been to several during the summer but the the July 4th program (usually presented on several nights in July) is one I don’t like to miss because they always perform the 1812 overture complete with fireworks and 105 mm howitzers, plus a lot of other patriotic works.
Good morning, 😉
Gooden’s 🙂
Les and Mary had a great act together. That was fun.
Thank you Jim Hilmar and Fretting Fingers a truly great radio show.
+1 on Junior
I made a special trip to Nawlins to catch him there, he was at t he House of Blues
early aughts that woulda been
“You’re wanted by the po-lice and my wife thinks your dead . . .” Junior.
Morning!
Great technical prowess … however … I prefer Brit Blues played with great feeling and emotion
And the more recognizable …
I am happy to have lived during a complete avalanche of Rock Music performed by actual musicians who actually mastered their instruments, and who pushed all boundaries with free expression and innovation
For me, Paul Rodgers is one of the top five rock vocalists of all time. Love Free and love Bad Company. Give me silver, blue and go-o-old, the color of the sky I’m to-o-old….
The Antiquity of Freedom.
—William Cullen Bryant.
“O FREEDOM! thou art not, as poets dream,
A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs,
And wavy tresses gushing from the cap
With which the Roman master crowned his slave,
When he took off the gyves. A bearded man,
Armed to the teeth, art thou: one mailed hand
Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow,
Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred
With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs
Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has launched
His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee;
They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven.
Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep,
And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires,
Have forged thy chain; yet, while he deems thee bound,
The links are shivered, and the prison walls
Fall outward; terribly thou springest forth,
As springs the flame above a burning pile,
And shoutest to the nations, who return
Thy shoutings, while the pale oppressor flies.”
On Cursday’s and Caterdays we celebrate the innocence of the animals that live with us. Youtube videos often focus on how the purity of a cat or dog’s trust in us is betrayed by their humans. I think it’s always sad when humans abandon the trust their dogs or cats have placed in them. That’s why I like good rescue stories. There’s an age-old subtext being played out when people devote their lives to animal rescues. Long may they wave.
Love.. I was a hopeless case.. racing through life..
our secret crush.. she is still in my heart..
there was another one at the lofts..
and she was rare.. one that I truly wanted..
we were right across the pool from each other..
through our wall of windows we could see into each others place..
how we lived.. when we slept.. when we came and went..
we already knew a lot about each other.. without speaking a word..
we would flirt from afar.. and she knew what I did for a living..
often I would return home late at night after weeks offshore..
and although tired battered and worn from bouncing between dimensions..
I would walk to my wall of windows.. pause and stand there looking her way..
to let her know I had made it back.. and that we still had time..
I’ll be coming for your love ok.. some day..
I know she dreamed of me.. and I dreamed of her..
I waited for her to capture me.. and she waited for me to capture her..
but at the time I knew if I did.. I would have fallen madly in love with her..
and would have to face that fearful decision..
my career.. or her.. so I didn’t..
the weeks turned into years.. and time eventually ran out on me..
just one kiss would’ve changed our whole lives forever..
..it was another happier ever after moment lost..
Memoirs of an Oilfield Diver
The Epic Archive
1984-1992
good stuff as always, Texian
work up your screenplay and go knockin’ at Milius’ door is what I say
or whoever he’d refer you on to, if he’s too long in the tooth
your writing is in the vein of what Michael Mann’s known for too
(Miami Vice Michael Mann, not Hockey Stick Michael Mann)
+100 🙂
thanks nimrodman.. there is more.. chapters and short briefs.. I shy away from posting some of them.. it takes a lot of nerve..
I have to be careful.. because I’m telling about real people.. of whom I truly care about.. it’s not just special parts of my life.. it’s a part of their life.. and it all really happened..
Time: about 30 years ago
Place: Ruby Ridge
so a guy lets his dogs’ license lapse. FBI personal pronouns shoot dog, shoot guys kid and shoot woman standing in the shack door with a baby in her arms. dog dead, kid dead, woman standing in the door with a baby in her arms dead. don’t know what happened to guy who allowed dog license to lapse???
FBI personal pronouns get promotions, medals, cake, ice cream, new shoes, more money.
being just a knuckle dragger neanderthal I need to ask did I get the above correct?
It’s all here:
https://911truth.org/ruby-ridge-the-age-of-state-terrorism-begins/
Circa 1992-1993. Bill Barr goes all out to defend sniper who murdered 32 yo Vicky Weaver. While she was holding newborn infant in her arms. This alone was enough to show Barr’s true allegiance wasn’t to the constitution, but to the cabal. And that’s on top of his running Ollie North’s guns for coke operation out of Mena, AR.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/william-barrs-connection-to-ruby-ridge-defending-fbi-snipers/
Boots. What a tragic story that few people are aware of. There is no depth that these vile elite leaders of the global agenda will not sink. All from the pits of hell.
I’m so thankful for Sundance’s constant drive to expose these evil lovers of selves and also for informed people like you.
DD
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so after Ruby Ridge there was another guy, Scottish last name McVey, who wanted to revenge dead dog, dead kid, dead woman standing in the door with a baby in her arms. so he revenged a building.
If McVey had asked me about revenge for Ruby ridge, I would not have thought of a building. I would have asked the names of the personal pronouns that shot the dog and the kid and the woman standing in the door with a baby in her arms. The name of the FBI direction and the AG, Bill Barr. Then tell him to find out if those pronouns had pets and/or kids and a woman standing in the door with a baby in her arms.
again, did I get that right???
I can’t vouch entirely, merrie, but it sounds like you’re in the ballpark – or at least ballpark-adjacent, as the swells say these days
After Waco?
“Revenge a building” is your take on McVey blowing up a building full of innocent working people? You don’t sound any better than the people you rail against.
Absolute and resolute NO to what McVey did. The people he killed were just people like us, just living their lives, going to work, raising families. McVey was a coward. And not only that, he was stupid—a guy with the political sensibilities of a duck. McVey was just like the spree-killers who think shooting people in a Walmart sends some kind of “message”. He was like the guy who killed people in a small Baptist church in Sutherland Springs.
McVey and people like him are not worthy of our understanding or rationalization.
The people we should be proud of are Gerry Spence, the brilliant attorney who took on the federal government and made the legal system work in his successful defense of Randy Weaver. We should also be proud of Stephen Willeford, the NRA qualified instructor who armed himself and stopped the church shooter. We should be proud of the guy in a pick-up who helped Williford chase the shooter down and keep the shooter from killing more people.
They didn’t do low things in the name of “revenge”. Instead they were heroes who looked consummate evil straight in the eye . . .and stopped it cold.
And we shouldn’t leave out Sidney Powell who discovered a massive stolen election and—virtually on her own—has taken on the entire government and court system and is still fighting to prove her case. Heroes all. Never cowards.
Gerry Spence and Sidney Powell, two individuals that give lawyering a good name!
Wonder if the good doctor has a mask on.
isn’t that the new chinese test?
The Wrath of God That Bringeth Salvation – Titus 2:11a
By Pastor Ricky Kurth
“…the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men” (Titus 2:11).
Christians often wonder about the apostle Paul’s words here, for they know God’s saving grace hadn’t appeared to “all men” everywhere in the world in Paul’s day. But what Paul was doing with those puzzling words was announcing a revolutionary dispensational change.
You see, before God raised up Paul, the grace of God that brought salvation couldn’t appear to “all men,” it could only appear to Jewish men, for under the law the Lord declared: “salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22). But once the Lord’s death on the cross “abolished in His flesh the enmity” between Jews and Gentiles (Eph.2:15), He sent Paul to announce that He had “broken down the middle wall of partition” between them (v.14), and now “there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him” (Rom. 10:12).
Of course, if you really know your Bible, you may be thinking that this wasn’t a revolutionary change, that the grace of God that brings salvation had appeared to the Gentiles long before Paul. After all, didn’t David declare:
“The LORD hath made known His salvation… in the sight of the heathen… His mercy… toward… Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God” (Ps.98:1-3).
On the surface, David seems to be saying that God’s saving grace had appeared “in the sight of the heathen” Gentiles back then. But this psalm isn’t saying that “the grace of God that bringeth salvation” had appeared to the heathen. It’s talking about the wrath of God that brought physical salvation to Israel, when “His right hand…got…Him the victory” over Pharaoh (v.1). The “new song” in this psalm (v.1) is the new song that Moses sang after God parted the Red Sea:
“Then sang Moses… the LORD… is become my salvation… Pharaoh’s chariots… hath He cast into the sea… Thy right hand… hath dashed in pieces the enemy” (Ex.15:1-6).
The salvation God wrought for Israel at the Red Sea is the “salvation” Moses told the Jews to “stand still, and see” (Ex. 14:13) right before God drowned the Egyptians in His wrath (v.28). That’s the salvation David said the heathen had seen—the wrath of God on Pharaoh that brought “mercy” to Israel (Ps.98:3), not the grace of God that brought spiritual salvation to the Gentiles.
But the physical salvation wrought by God’s wrath for Israel did bring spiritual salvation to at least one Gentile, a woman named Rahab in Jericho. When the inhabitants of her city heard about the Red Sea crossing it terrified them (Josh. 2:9-11), just as Moses said it would (Ex. 15:14-16). But it prompted Rahab to believe on Israel’s God and turn from being a harlot to a seamstress who had “stalks of flax” on her roof (2:6) instead of men in her parlor. When she then complied with the terms of salvation for Gentiles under the Law by blessing Israel (Gen. 12:2,3 cf. Josh. 2:12), the grace of God that brings salvation appeared to her in that way, and she received it!
But as you know, God is not parting the Red Sea for Israel these days, nor for anyone else. So how are men supposed to see the grace of God that brings salvation today, in the dispensation of grace? I mean, it’s offered to all men today, but what can they see with their eyes that will help them believe, as the physical salvation of the Red Sea deliverance prompted Rahab to believe?
The context of Titus 2:11 provides us with the answer. If people are going to see the grace of God that bringeth salvation today, they are going to have to see it in the “aged men” (2:2) to whom the grace of God appears, as well as the “aged women” (2:3), the “young women” (v.4), the “young men” (v.6) and the “servants” (v. 9). When all those different kinds of men “adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things” (v.10) by doing what Paul tells them to do in this passage (2:1-10), the grace of God that brings salvation appears to all men in a very practical way.
May we ever be found faithful in this most holy of callings in all of our walks of life!
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/the-wrath-of-god-that-bringeth-salvation/
Titus 2:11 ¶ For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
Ephesians 2:14 ¶ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Romans 10:12 ¶ For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Psalm 98:1 ¶ <<A Psalm.>> O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Exodus 15:1 ¶ Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Exodus 14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
Exodus 14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Psalm 98:3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Joshua 2:9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
Exodus 15:14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
Joshua 2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Joshua 2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:
Titus 2:1 ¶ But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
“You see, before God raised up Paul, the grace of God that brought salvation couldn’t appear to “all men,” it could only appear to Jewish men, for under the law the Lord declared: “salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22). But once the Lord’s death on the cross “abolished in His flesh the enmity” between Jews and Gentiles (Eph.2:15), He sent Paul to announce that He had “broken down the middle wall of partition” between them (v.14), and now “there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him” (Rom. 10:12).”
The notion of Gentiles, a.k.a. ‘the nations’, being extended grace and mercy by God through national Israel and the holy people that God called them to be is reflected through Old Testament Scripture. Invitations were extended for foreigners to participate in the Passover or make offerings under the same regulations as Israelites (Exodus 12:48-49, Numbers 9:14, 15:14-16), as well as for those from afar to come to pray at the Temple and receive blessing that “all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You” (cf. 1 Kings 8:41-43).
Even the land promised to the twelve tribes of Israel contained this provision as far as inheritance, per Ezekiel 47:21-23 — “You are to divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who dwell among you and who have children. You are to treat them as native-born Israelites; along with you, they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. In whatever tribe the foreigner dwells, you are to assign his inheritance there, declares the Lord GOD.”
In John 10:16, Jesus indicated a key aspect of His ministry: “And I have other sheep which are not of this fold. It behooves Me to bring those also, and they will hear My voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.”
Even before Paul arrived on the scene, the Holy Spirit was directing disciples to minister to those foreigners seeking God, including those who were searching the Scriptures, as in Acts 8. A Gentile — proselyte or not — prior to the Jerusalem Council would have read about God’s redemption plan for all the nations starting in the first chapter of the Bible:
Genesis 18:18 — “Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?”
Genesis 22:18 — “And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.”
Genesis 26:4 “And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed”
In Acts 8, an Ethiopian eunuch was reading from the latter chapters of Isaiah, in which was contained one of the clearest OT references to God’s desire to reconcile those from the nations to Himself:
Isaiah 56:3-8 “Do not let the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord speak, saying, ‘The Lord has utterly separated me from His people’; nor let the eunuch say, “Here I am, a dry tree.” For thus says the Lord: ‘To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose what pleases Me, and hold fast My covenant, even to them I will give in My house, and within My walls a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.’
‘Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and holds fast My covenant—even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.’ The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, ‘Yet I will gather to him others besides those who are gathered to him.’”
Significantly, the disciple Phillip was used by the Holy Spirit to start with the scroll from the book of Isaiah that the Ethiopian was reading, and then Phillip “proclaimed the good news to him —Jesus” (cf. Acts 8:35).
Happy Caturday, y’all !
Happy Caturday!
Boy, if there’s ever any debate about whether animals “love”, there’s your photo documentation right there
Many other examples from dogs, horses, deer, owls, and many other higher animals as well
There has long been an ongoing debate, sometimes quite heated, between Catholics and Protestants on the question of if animals have souls. The way I see it, for any creature to Love, they have to have a soul. So there is no question in my mind that they have souls.
Ditto, rah…………
I t wouldn’t seem right to eat an animal if it had a soul? I sure hope lobsters don’t have souls or I’m on a one way ticket to Hell ….
Aren’t you the trucker who used to post truck driving stories here? I absolutely enjoyed those!
Yep! Start truckin again Monday after several months off for a health issue. Got my wedge pillow today.
Happy cephalopod day, y’all !
A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children
Trees communicate with each other, https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/10/trees-ted-ed/ , https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/26/the-hidden-life-of-trees-peter-wohlleben/ , https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/13/robert-macfarlane-underland-tree-love/ .
Dare it be said, Trees are Cognitive? Make up your own mind, above !
Garden & Be Well…………….
Let me guess, Biden failed ?
Can they run for Congress?
Nim ,
The more I look at this Cephalopod the Cuter he Becomes ! And Smart !
Thanks , Nim ?
As I fear we’ll be saying all too ever-increasingly in this formerly great nation of ours (TM) …
“De nada”
OUCH , Nim ! ( ? )
The trip yesterday to get new phones.
Didn’t realize a trip to ATT to get a new phone would be such an ordeal. We were there for over 3 hours. A great deal of that time was due to the time it takes to transfer data from our 7 year old Samsung 6s to the Apple I-phone 12S Pro phones. Even though none of the apps transferred. One can accumulate a lot of pictures on a phone in 7 years.
Sherry and I both got new phones that are identical except in color and the color of the protective case we had put on it. I also always buy the screen protector and a cases since using a phone at work can get rough. Phones are so expensive that it just makes sense to pay the extra $40.00 for such protection.
I have always used Android phones up until this time. Based on the recommendation of several friends and relatives that are more tech savvy than we are I went with the I-phones this time. Supposedly much more secure and their operation is much more intuitive.
The Company will pay me a stipend for using my personal phone for business and because I have to have an unlimited plan on mine for data and for use in Canada to do what it has to do for business.
I would have liked to have changed carriers because I don’t like ATT’s BS. But we are on a group plan with our girls in Florida that saves us on our bill and based on my travels in the truck, ATT has excellent coverage in the US and Canada where I travel.
The undisputed world record holder for having her image on used urinal targets is back again.
Colbert Fawns Over Fonda’s Foul Activism in Re-Released Anti-War Tour Documentary | Newsbusters
https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/museum/past-exhibits/hunting-charlie-finding-enemy-vietnam-war/jane-fonda-urinal-target
Edited to delete image. Too large and too ugly to come up on unaware. See the link if you dare.
Some are merely the Green Mint at the bottom of a urinal.
Hanoi Jane …….
Just your plain ol’ _________.
Mornin’ infidel neanderthals!
Mornin WeeWeed.
Have a wonderful day.
Mornin’ WeeWeed,
Happy Caturday!
AMID A CROWD OF PALTRY THINGS
“…in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses.” 2 Cor. vi. 4
It takes Almighty grace to take the next step when there is no vision and no spectator – the next step in devotion, the next step in your study, in your reading, in your kitchen; the next step in your duty, when there is no vision from God, no enthusiasm and no spectator. It takes far more of the grace of God, far more conscious drawing upon God to take that step, than it does to preach the Gospel.
Every Christian has to partake of what was the essence of the Incarnation, he must bring the thing down into flesh and blood actualities and work it out through the finger tips. We flag when there is no vision, no uplift, but just the common round, the trivial task. The thing that tells in the long run for God and for men is the steady persevering work in the unseen, and the only way to keep the life uncrushed is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the Risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to damp you. Continually get away from pettiness and paltriness of mind and thought out into the thirteenth chapter of St. John’s Gospel.
Oswald Chambers
March 6th Devotional
juststevie, decades reading OC. Hard cover, older, cloth bound, faded pages, beautiful font, thrift store sourced.
Oddly, enjoy reading your version posted for us, every morning. Getting in bed at nite, pick up faded OC & read again.
Recently inherited one of mom’s bibles, it resides next to OC. Looking forward to reading 13th chapter of St. John’s Gospel tonight.
Wanted you to know how appreciative this reader is of your postings.
Garden & Be Well………..
Thank you for such a kind reply! So much can be learned with OC’s daily posts! It never stops amazing me! Peace and Blessings!
. . . 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)
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter XVI – Address of the False Philosopher (Marietta visits Hell)
16:1
During these reflections I unconsciously passed away from that sphere of gloom to a region where I could perceive nothing but lonely space. No sun or stars were visible to my sight. Darkness more dense, closed around me, and I felt that my doom was sealed, and that I should soon become the companion of spirits in those fantastic realms. And when I began to agonize beneath the idea of departing hope, I heard a voice as from the distance, in tones soft and melodious, say, “Look unto Jesus: He is the life of the soul.” In a moment an inward feeling arose in rebellion to the idea of adoring that Jesus who was crucified; when suddenly all that seemed to sustain me departed, and again I descended as from an immeasurable height, into an abyss inhabited by beings, whose condition I did not at first discover, but who were finally revealed as more desperate than those from I had just escaped. They gathered around me and commended me for the doubt I had entertained concerning the Divinity of the Son of God. Then a spirit of giant intellect, approaching me, said:
“Religion, the Religion of the Bible, so much revered by many who live in darkness are undeveloped, is but a spiritual farce. The God of the Bible whom Christians call the Savior of the World, was but a man. Religious faith circumscribes the range of human thought, fetters the noble intellect, and prevents the progression of the race. Those thou hast just visited, are a class of spirits who, blinded by the delusive dreams of Earth’s religionists, have entered the spirit world unprogressed; hence they still cling to the idea of Redemption through Christ. They appear to suffer; their suffering is imaginary. Light will ere long reach them. Then will they be enabled to discover the folly of their religious education, to which, though discarded by their better being, they cleave with insatiable desires. We are free. Our intellect ranges unrestrained, and we behold the magnificence and the glory of the peopled universe. We enjoy the rich productions of the sublime attributes of mind, and thus – and not by the Religion of the Cross – we arise into the more exalted spheres of intellectual attainments, and the moving grandeur of terrestrial things.”
“Marietta, for so thou art called, we saw thee when darkness overshadowed thee, and well did we understand that for a moment, from the force of education, thou wouldest have offered prayer for salvation in the name of Jesus. We heard that voice that spake from above thee, saying, ‘Look to Jesus;’ still that did not save thee. Learn, then, that from the native unfolding of thy being cometh salvation.”
To be continued…
Captivating. As if it were written today. Thank you.
It reminds me of today’s climate change, science backed theories projected upon us today! Religion is man-made…spirituality is God made.
Amen.
A wonderful tribute to Rush Limbaugh from Dr. Roy Spencer.
Roy Warren Spencer (born December 20, 1955)[1] is a meteorologist,[2] a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA’s Aqua satellite.[3][4] He has served as senior scientist for climate studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.[3][4]
He is known for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work, for which he was awarded the American Meteorological Society‘s Special Award.[4]
Roy and his boss Chris Christie are honest climate scientists. Both agree there has been some warming. Both disagree that there is any emergency from the bit of warming. Roy believes that CO2 is a factor in the warming. Thus Roy is labeled a “lukewarmer” in the scale between “denier” and “alarmist” in the climate wars.
The bottom line is that Both Christie and Spencer are honest scientists with impeccable credentials and as such are a huge threat to the alarmists. Such a threat that a couple years ago there was a drive bye shooting of multiple shots aimed at the windows of the their offices at the university. No casualties.
I have been a reader of Roy Spencer’s blog for well over a decade now and have learned much there. And Roy has not been above responding to my questions or responding to the comments of this truck driver at times.
So here is the link to Roy’s tribute to Rush. A heartfelt piece written by as decent a man as your liable to ever read.
A Tribute to Rush Limbaugh « Roy Spencer, PhD (drroyspencer.com)
Audacious Deplatforming: Some New Examples
“On the other hand, from observing each new strike of the censors as it occurs, it’s hard to perceive exactly what the grand plan may be. Maybe there isn’t one. This is much more like the Cambodian genocide than its Nazi predecessor: rather than the enemies all getting rounded up and hauled off at once to the extermination camps, we instead have, every few days, another one or a few seemingly randomly-selected enemies suddenly disappearing without explanation, never to be seen again. One imagines at each Big Tech company a group a several twenty-somethings, just out of college, sitting around the conference room filled with open pizza boxes, rubbing their hands together and giggling and saying things like “Let’s see who we can get away with canceling next!” OK, today this is probably happening on Zoom meetings rather than in actual conference rooms, but it’s the same idea.”
Hat tip Maggies Farm
They can only cancel you if you are there.
Take away their joy and not be there.
It is really that simple.
GOOD MORNING TREEPERS
Oregon climate activist wants to ban diesel fuel
Oregon climate activist wants to ban diesel fuel – Watts Up With That?
This trucker says: DO IT! I want to see the effects on all the supply chains from industry to retail to medical and medication supplies.
And don’t give me that crap about innocent people suffering. It is an unfortunate fact that there will be collateral damage in war and we are at war.
The vast majority of the electorate of Oregon voted for the air heads that propose this kind of crap and I am so tired of their constant virtue signaling and scolding of those of us that are sane. So quite talking about it and just do it!
It’s usually adverse consequences that wake people up, clear the field or board, as it were.
We all joke about people that have no idea where milk comes from well, same with food and medicine.
‘Masks’ the indicator on road saying ‘stop’ road ends.
If you know how to take care of yourself, you are not dependent. Even most illnesses.
Can’t have a BIG government with self sufficiency.
I’ve watched millions of acres of farm land developed into neighborhoods. Massive houses with huge lots with………grass? Landscape?
Beautiful lawns, for what?
Not even fruit trees.
Green movement? Just more big government.
School, 4h, taught gardening, hunting, foraging, dog training, livestock care, cooking, much more.
Most kids already knew but some didn’t, me for one. Used many of there teachings and books. Those are foundations, just like bible teachings. Why did
schools ban all that?
Years and years, planning.
It would appear there is not much unity between the states anymore. Neighboring states have different cultures , and I don’t see any unification for the USA. There is not much tolerance if any, between them. Shameful really!
Have heroin in your possession in or e gone its legal now, Soon to be in Wash. All so they can control more people.
Two words:
“booty pop”
Taking the Royal Firm vs Sussex’s fued out of the celebrity trash bin………there is more at play with the Oprah interview.
This is Oprah (powerful black woman) trying to take down the ultimate icon of “White Privilege” – The Royals. This is trivial gossip stuff when looked anyother way. But when one sees that Oprah is trying to accomplish something far bigger than shilling for a gossip interview bonanza.
This is virtue signaling/cancel culture at it’s highest level.
If you grew up in Chicago area you’ll get this….
https://www.michaelpramirez.com/sorry-abe-youre-canceled-02-28-21.html
Verse of the Day for Saturday, March 6, 2021
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“But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.”
Romans 7:6 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
Duchess ,
You Always post such Beautiful Pictures and Thoughts ! Thank You So Much and May Saturday Blessings Shine Upon You Today and Every Day ?
Everyyear – however, this year, before I watch it again. This I must share with you. Every year during Lenten, I watch this movie.
Each time it brings revelationsone cannot express with words alone. However, THIS; since I first saw it, is seared into my mind’s eye – never fail to choke me up yet faith is ever renewedand strengthened .. we follow Jesus, who has freely given us our place, ourshare, our part of life with Him. For us, it has to be through our share of the Cross that glorifies God; and our Today and Everyday; all in the church is thus scrutinized – we who live and profess The Creed and pray The Lord’s Prayer.
Mary, Mother of God is with us, for us as she was with Jesus here. Our Mother is with us in our Lenten discipline. When we are flagging in our efforts, when weare humbled in our failures, our Blessed Mother is our help, together with all
the saints and angels of whom she is the glorious Queen. We are princes and princesses of the Heavenly Kingdom. Mary, Mother of God our Heavenly Queen.
We too can be help to others, particularly by not causing for them an occasion
of temptation to break their resolve.
WARNING: I seem not to be able to watch this without choking up. I feel you
will too.
The Passion Of The Christ – most powerful scene – Mary consoles Jesus carrying
the Cross – The Road to Damascus
The most powerful and compelling scene from The Passion of the Christ when
Mary meets her son Jesus carrying the Cross. Video accompanied with powerful
music (‘Protectors of the Earth’).
The immense pain, sorrow and love Mary must have felt for her son, who at the
same time was her God. An amazing and incredibly powerful scene from The
Passion of the Christ where Mary experiences an internal struggle of not
wanting to see her son in such agony but her instincts as a loving mother
quickly kicks in when he falls under the weight of the Cross. Mary then
experiences a flashback of rushing to the aid of a very young Jesus falling so
many years ago. At this point nothing will stop her from running to console her
son.
“All the sorrows of the world united would not be equal to the sorrow of the
glorious Mary.” (St. Bernardine)
“Yes, because this mother, the more tenderly She loved, was the more deeply
wounded.” (St. Lawrence Justinian)
“Ah, sorrowful Mother; Thy Son has already been condemned to death, He is
already on His way, bearing His cross Himself on His way to Calvary. Come, if
Thou dost desire to see Him and bid Him a last farewell in some of the streets
through which He is to pass.” (St. John)
“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her
more than Jesus did.” – (Saint Maximillian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who
volunteered to die in place of a stranger with a family in the German death
camp of Auschwitz).
The Passion Of The Christ – most powerful scene – Mary consoles Jesus carrying
the Cross
The New Look for CTH is AWESOME. Thanks, Sundance and crew for all you do.
“The Pontifical International Marian Academy (PAMI) is promoting the Blessed Virgin as a bridge reconciling Islam and Catholicism following the Abu Dhabi pact between Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayyeb.”
“Based on his belief that Mary is a ‘Jewish, Christian and Muslim woman,’ Fr. Gian Matteo Roggio, organizer of the Muslim-Catholic dialogue series on Our Lady, is seeking to mobilize Mary as a model of ‘open borders’ between religious and multicultural worlds”.
Comment: The course is being taught by both Catholic and Islamic scholars. The Catholic position is clear, promoting Mary as a virtuous role model, but muslims are taught via a Hadith that Mary is the conjugal wife of Mohammad in heaven, and regard her as muslim, despite living 700 years before Muhammad. Similar to their claim to Jerusalem, since Muhammad is said to have visited it in a dream, although never being there physically.
This seems to be post-modern thinking where completely opposite concepts are set next together and we’re supposed to ignore the dichotomy. Similar to Biden…leader of the Free World? Ouch. My head hurts
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vatican-distorts-mary-as-muslim-catholic-model
“The course is being taught by both Catholic and Islamic scholars. The Catholic position is clear, promoting Mary as a virtuous role model, but muslims are taught via a Hadith that Mary is the conjugal wife of Mohammad in heaven, and regard her as muslim”
That is not even the religion of hate and rape’s most insulting belief about Mary. Sounds like a few folks need to understand the religion of hate and rape and that there is no “bridge” between that and Christianity. The people behind this nonsense should do themselves a favor and have a conversation with James White, Sam Shamoun, David Wood, or Robert Spenser to name a few Christians who actually understand the religion of hate and rape and the horrific things they believe Jesus, Mary, the apostles, especially Paul.
Brave browser team launching a privacy based search engine to compete with Google –
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/03/brave-is-launching-its-own-search-engine-with-the-help-of-ex-cliqz-devs-and-tech/
Thanks. I use Brave more than FireFox. FireFox seems to have been getting a little Woke. DuckDuckGo works OK, for the most part. It’ll be interesting too see how Brave’s search engine compares.
Seen at PowerLine
Some wags are calling it Molon Gato.
https://i1.wp.com/
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Alexis Weissenberg is a true virtuoso. Born of French Jewish descent in Bulgaria he was tutored on the piano from age three. At age twelve his family was intercepted trying to escape the Nazis and placed in a makeshift concentration camp in Sofia where they were interred for three months. His performances of Schubert so moved a camp guard that he snuck them on to a train to Istanbul along with his accordion.
The family made it to then Palestine where he was part of Leonard Bernstein’s Israel Philharmonic Orchestra . After emigrating to the United States he got a break while substituting for a pianist and the producer insisted he take the part, joining the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1947.
Some of the things I love about Alexis Weissenberg are his incredible finger dexterity and smooth transitions from subdued delicate phrases to forceful and commanding, and other shades of interpretation. When I listen to other artists it often seems they are pounding on the keys at the wrong places.
He was one of the earliest proponents of the music theory that holds that music should evoke visions, emotions, and memories and not just be mathematically and technically perfect reproductions. I suppose you might say he might make one heck of a good pianist at a silent movie, maybe Birth of a Nation, or Jean d’Arc . Here he plays Franck’s Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op. 18.
Great Lent in the Orthodox Church begins nine days from now, on a Monday.
Today is the First Saturday of Souls, being “a memorial for all of those who have fallen asleep in piety since the ages.”
Tomorrow is the Sunday of the Dread Judgement. It is to commemorate the day of the Second Coming of Christ.
Saturday of Souls
Dismissal Hymn
“O Thou Who by the depth of Thy wisdom dost provide all things out of love for man, and grantest unto all that which is profitable, O only Creator: grant rest, O Lord, to the souls of Thy servants; for in Thee have they placed their hope, O our Creator and Fashioner and God.”
Saturday of Souls
Kontakion
“With the Saints grant rest, O Christ, to the souls of Thy servants, where there is neither pain, nor sorrow, nor sighing, but life unending.”
‘Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord’ [Is. 1:18]
Understanding that liberties have been historically infringed via Government induced economic bondage, can provide a necessary perspective to perpetuate Freedom.
Understanding that God is the author and finisher of personal Liberty, can provide a necessary perspective to perpetuate economic Liberty.
Understanding that our God given Liberty is not license [to steal, and to kill and to destroy] , can provide a necessary perspective to perpetuate safety.
Understanding that, theoretically, anything ‘could’ affect safety, can provide the proper perspective to realize that, until recently, people were actually permitted to crowd into baseball stadiums, voluntarily assuming the risk of serious injury, even death, from a foul ball or errant bat.
Understanding that the Federal Government does not and cannot provide for safety and via unelected and unaccountable bureaucracies is only interceding and assessing [without liability] unlawful [contrary to Constitutional authority] and economically punitive damages to the private sector, can provide a necessary perspective and basis for a thorough analysis of the cause and effect of a media driven narrative.
Simply stated, if the Federal Government seriously gave a flying flip about protecting The People, then the unborn would be safe in their mother’s womb.
‘He has showed you, O man, what is good;’ [Mic. 6:8]
Trust God. Fear not.
But as long as they’re here, why not tell them what they’ll be forced to do https://www.thenationalherald.com/greece_politics/arthro/european_commission_vp_briefs_greek_mps_on_new_migration_pact-1948359/
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.
Amen
Amen
Amen.
And now.. for something familiar and yet different…