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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Amen Dub!
Thank you. Upon my pre Lenten reflection, a link orginally brought me to the Treehouse, but it was the posters and prayers on this thread that kept me coming back. It has become a habit to start my day in prayer here. The tomb, the Lord’s prayer, is my starting point.
Scrolling through in recent months, you are one of only two or three left who post the Word here anymore. It’s beome more of an entertainment thread than morning prayer. And the entertainment is great!!!
I am grateful for your posts, sensitive to loss, missing all those who once posted here and hope that you continue, along with Sepp and Duchess to bring us your spiritual guidance.
Thank you, God bless you, all.
Thank you, Oldschool, that means a lot to me.
Blessings.
You mean a lot to me. Angels on earth. They are everywhere.
History turns on a dime sometimes, the special dime honored by history which turns now, may very well be located on one of the floors in the treehouse.
I call on the Angels in Armyboots to fix Ukraine.
I agree oldschool. I have come to depend on this page first every morning…for the Word.
“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word.”
Thanks to WP, and God bless you as well oldschool
Flyover, that’s exactly my schedule too!!!!!! I have found these two sites compliment each other for my needs as well. They’re both wonderful in their own styles ❤️
Good morning, oldschool.
I think we all need, especially now, that one place for spiritual sustenance among friends. My day starts here for many reasons, and I am so grateful for it. It centres me and keeps me mindful we are really all on a journey through this life with joys and bumpy roads. But we travel them with friends…friends whose faces, as I’ve said, I don’t know. But I do know their hearts. And there are regretfully those who for their own reasons no longer post. I do live in hope they’ll return because they are truly missed. But such is life really.
I am among dear friends here who remain steadfast, and whose daily appearances with wonderful words of camraderie, stories, laughter, and good will sustain me each day.
You are right. There is no other place like it. A blessing without which my life would be the poorer.
So very well stated Betsy. The blessings received here are immeasurable and the friends touch my heart. ❤
You inspired me to say what I needed to say and have always felt. Gratitude expressed for what we have been blessed with never goes amiss. Thank you for your beautiful post 💓
You, my dear treeper friend, inspire me!
Oh my…thank you.💓
Nobody’s says it better. ❤️
GM Betsy 😘
Good morning, Cat💓. Double greetings for you this day🤗
Good morning, Betsy! See my post above to FC. You really have a way with words. I can only say megadittos. 🙂❤️
Bless you, G…and good late morning. If I didn’t have all y’all😉, I’d have no friends to share with, in the sense there are special kinds of conversation that can be had only with special kinds of friends. I miss those, which we used to have when I lived abroad all those years ago. Around a dinner part table of all places.
Or did…until I found everyone here. What a complete joy to have done so🤗
Good morning, Cat! What a blessing to start this morning with a lot of my dear friends! ❤️
Good Morning grandpa! It sure is a blessing starting the day with so much positivity oozing out of the treehouse. Like sap from a tree 😊 ❤️
Thank you, WP, for your extensive posts this morning, which as always are life affirming and comforting. Especially as we head into the Lenten season.
I was thrilled to see you highlight Creatures by Design. As many here know my daughter teaches grade school science. She and are family of four are devout Christians. I have sent her a screenshot of this book (her four under 10s have loved books since she was teaching them to read). I am hoping she will purchase it because as they are all huge nature lovers also, I think they would be so amazed how they actually see God in every creature which so fascinates them.
I’ve seen the excitement in them when they are observing these God’s creations. They’ll sit by the window for ages in perfect stillness watching, for example, hummingbirds. But their faces are full of wonder. The videos I have of them doing so are my most valued treasures. Thank you for this addition this morning. (In fact, I’m just now thinking this would be the perfect Christmas gift this year!) Bless you, sir.
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Repairing The Breach – Restoring Truth Ministries
Thank you, Anon. What an interesting book that looks to be… I’ll file it for the time when her children are of an age to understand. I do appreciate your recommendation very much
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A Public Service Message…
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Blast from the past….
The Seekers
I’ll never find another you – 1960’s
Blast from the past….
The Seekers – Come the Day , 1967
Melbourne
Blast from the past ….
The Seekers – This Train 1964
Melbourne, Treble Clef Coffee Lounge
Seekers were always popular and songs played all over Aussie.
A generation before Mungrel to my mob they were the “oldies” music meaning parents) !! Haha,
My o’l man was only nineteen years older !!!!😂
We were more into rock stuff !
Nobody ever complained though, I think everyone liked them one way or another, Judith Durhams voice is classic female Australian.
Credit where credits due, nobody would ever hang shit on them here, very well respected even by hardcore arseholes !
Mungrel!!.Hope you are all right with the massive flooding🙏
With all the craziness going on in the world…..this Video made my day ! #Merica
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/new-world-order-traitor-piece-sht-bastard-wow-dirty-nevada-governor-confronted-vegas-restaurant-bitter-constituent-video/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
And One More
Farmhouse comes with 16 farm cats!
In rural areas “barn cats” occupy a space between pets and feral. They come and go, often being killed by predators. Happily, these kitties quickly became part of a real family. Good for them. And good for their people!!
Yup. Animals on farms and in rural communities often have a very different life than in other settings. I used to feel bad for the animals, but came around to understand this is how it is. It’s a thread that weaves through a lot of James Herriot’s work and it’s always a special surprise when the farmer and/or his wife take in a stray cat and care for it, sometimes a bit self-consciously because that’s not the norm. There’s a really wonderful story of a man who has two old horses that had been work horses back in the day, but now they’re retired and living a beautiful life that he gives them. It’s clearly unusual that a farmer would keep them, essentially as “pets.” The story takes and very sweet and unexpected turn that delights me every time I read it.
Good morning, Garrison, you old softie🤗
Busted! 🙂
Good morning, Sarah. In Wales we were surrounded by farmhouses and forests and pastures. There were many cats who knew a good thing when they saw one…us. And over the years we saw double digit numbers come to us. It was always said that a cat should find you. A high accolade, and we always tried to measure up. At any rate we know their lives were certainly made more comfortable for deciding to let us adopt them, as ours were for the privilege of doing so.
Cat cam records the daily adventures of Gonzo the Cat.
Mungrel had asked me yesterday to post this to see what you all thought of it. I saw the request too late to give it it’s due. So, I’m repeating if you don’t mind
Jefferson airplane: The good Shepard
Coincidence. Last night I was listening to a lot of Grace Slick (mostly from her solo album). I remembered loving it waaaaaaay back in the day and I so wanted to find a song or two to post, but I just couldn’t. Like so many things anymore, my perspective has changed and I feel so much disgust at the self-absorption of my generation and the damage that was inflicted as baby boomers wanted to be like children forever (gross overstatement, but you get the gist). I think we really accelerated the “fundamental transformation of America” and it’s sometimes hard to look back and enjoy some of the singers and musicians I used to like, most of whom haven’t even aged well and seem to have remained self-absorbed ignorant idiots (Stevie Nicks being one among many examples.)
Sarah, if you get a chance read Hotel California. You can get it in paperback on Amazon. You’ll find that a lot of the rock -N-roll icons of the era weren’t particularly well educated. If you lack an decent education, it’s depressingly easy to become a “True Believer:” in some really stupid ideals. . . . which a lot of otherwise talented musicians did. I rejoiced at their musicial accomplishments but was underwhelmed by their by their too often completely naive political beliefs.
Thanks for the recommendation. As for what you shared, yes indeed. And I also think that in our culture when a person achieves some level of fame and notoriety, suddenly they’re perceived as an important voice to weigh in on all manner of topics when none of those topics are their bailiwick, so to speak. Not that anyone can’t have an opinion because of course they can, and do. But why should Hollywood celebrities be looked upon as serious voices on matters of great import? Same goes for academics. Just because someone has achieved something great (maybe) in their chosen field doesn’t make them an expert on international affairs, national security, etc. Yet they’re treated as if their word is golden no matter what the subject.
The flip side of that coin is that when people become highly educated, it becomes even easier for them to become “true believers” in really stupid ideas.
It almost seems a requirement for the highly educated to divorce one’s self from common everything. Especially common sense.
Just look at all the frauds being pushed on us by the highly educated.
Unlike the little girl who starts digging out the stable thinking she will find a pony, the highly educated have been shoveling out the BS, thinking they will prove it came from a unicorn.
A good friend, former professor, insists that his climate scientist colleagues have a computer model that forecasts climate change 50 years in the future. He should know better than that because a fundamental law of empiricism is that prediction is inversely proportional to time.
Methodologically speaking he should know you can’t reliably predict the earth’s temperature in 50 years (or 6 months) but he and his Ph.D. buddies believe this because they want to believe it. We go back and forth about this. It just goes to show that having letters after your name doesn’t inoculate you from being a True Believer.
As Eric Hoffer pointed out, anybody can become a true believer. There are lots of “climate scientists” who believe this obvious fiction.
Wholeheartedly agree. I don’t think formal education protects one against the risk of falling prey to cult-like thinking about anything. In fact, these days, I view formal education as a fast track to this very thing.
The lead guitarist/ singer/ songwriters name is Jorma Kaukonen, overview : The material gave him a doorway to Scripture :
Jorma,
” I guess you could say I loved the Bible without even knowing it. The Spiritual message is always uplifting- it’s a good thing”.
Don’t sound like some dirty hippy to me!
Many get very confused like I was on this song.
I can also point out other popular songs that’s meanings have been confused by some for no other purpose than only hearing lyrics or reading poetry and making things fit to their own perception.
A big mistake I have always noticed is people tend not to look at second meanings, that makes this song to me more important.
Yeah, I heard what it was about. Not your typical rock-and-roll song. I was just making a general comment, which I think still holds true. At least for me.
Did you ever partake in de-lysergic acid diethylamide ? Or Mescaline ?
I can guarantee you that well over 50% over the musical artists posted on this very site have.
I’m not being snarky as you mob say, but truth and the facts that belong with it in my opinion matter.
And don’t get me wrong , I enjoy your posts and think you are very well informed.
If you think that I am being some sort of smartarse, say so.
I’ll give you this to ponder about myself :
They F*cked my life, everything, I been itchin for payback forever so I taught myself EXACTLY who they ARE.
Good versus evil, I know no difference in life, never have, so maybe I could consider “you” to be privileged, I don’t !
That that’s my point !
no doubt about it
God wrapped you in his cloak
and guides your every footstep
hugs from afar
I have no idea why you seem compelled to be so confrontational and escalating something I said that I felt was quite benign and simply a personal experience/transformation with the passage of time and reflection looking back. Perhaps it’s the downfall of typed words on a page vs people speaking face-to-face. Sometimes words on the page can be heard in a way they were not intended because we don’t have the benefit of hearing the tone of voice, seeing body language, etc.
Perhaps my post was mis-placed since you obviously had a powerful connection to the song that was posted while I had just been listening to a lot of Grace Slick and the bands she sang with and felt my heart sink to realize what my generation had done. Perhaps bad timing for me to share what I did at the time I did. My intention was surely not to detract from your connection to the meaning of the song and there’s no reason it should. We’re two different people sharing ideas. The timing of Jefferson Airplane was just, as I noted in the other post, a coincidence…
Mungrel, loved this, thank you! Some rockers had no shame in sharing their Christian faith. I grew up in Texas, and one of my all time favorite bands is ZZ Top. Not only did they write “ Jesus just left Chicago”, but this gem that always spoke to me –
Thanks Feral, pop and yourself asked for some lyric confirmation.
The song itself is a sort of mixed gospel/folk/ rock,
The lyrics are also mixed from different periods of American historical theology.
Your libarey of Congress hold the original evolution, under 1880s African American religious songs.
Jimmy Strothers, that’s the beginning.
The actual hyme was originated from Reverend John Adam Granade 1770- 1807.
I first heard this song 45 yrs ago, now, y’all know I don’t talk biblical. I’ll make an exception.
This song always “bugged” me as I I couldn’t completely understand the lyrics, Mungrel being Mungrel decided ( before internet) to find out, considering the time frame in my life and abuse suffered I wanted nothing to do with anything main stream religion.
This song just lingered in my head.
I hit the library.
“Blood Stained Banders” means :
A dark homily bubbles up archaic invectives for the devil that huddles behind strangers faces.
Some here (Betsy) would understand how I felt upon discovery of this.
My nature as a fighter being radical this made me think.
Contributions to the song were made as I said above historically, a black man that murder his wife, 1930s, got the death penalty, found God and redemption led to his release. Hmmmm, Mungrel thinks!
I’ll save this anwser for pop, Well pop the line ”
” gun shot devil” means :
“American deceiving and militarist government”.
That one line and meaning changed mungrel perception and made a connection.
This song to me means a lot more than others, just like your songs have special places.
There is more that I could say but I’ll just leave enough alone.
And you Feral will receive extra barkers eggs protection 😜
Thanks for taking the time to further delve into the history and meanings of the verse of the song. I especially like the phrase “blood stained banders” and the meaning behind it. Especially in today’s world. 😉.
Enjoyed the discussion fellow treepers had in relation to this tune. Some of us baby boomers have been builders, not destroyers of all things good. IMO, there’s good people and not so good people in all generations. Mama always said. “There’s people and then there’s people. Which one are you?”.
I may not be as booksmart as some here, but I think I picked up a few life lessons on human nature that a college cannot teach. The Bible is my only true source for information that I rely on every day. As well as my discussions with the fellowships Built at the treehouse as well as cfp.
Other than that, I respectfully agree to disagree 😉.
Have a blessed day everyone ❤️ I love you all, unconditionally 😘
A friend of mine (no longer with us) used to say
People are no Damn good
Except you and me.
Then he’d look intently at me and say
And I’m not too sure about YOU
Then we’d all laugh
and look around at our little crowd
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Why does that story touch my heart, ms idaho?? It really really does💓
because its true?
especially the ‘looking around’ part …
There is such a sense of friendship and laughter in it. I’ve lived those moments when those links are so powerful, and each one was marked by unrestrained laughter. There is no better feeling. All my Welsh friends and I, as an honorary Welsh woman, used to squeal with that laughter on so many occasions. I could weep with the memories… I miss them all.
no tears
only laughter allowed
those are memories YOU have – I have different ones
even those of us who grew up together have different memories – and we treasure each of them
after all is said and done, laughter is the best medicine
Mungrel, here’s one of my favorite mottos on life:
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Thanks, son. really appreciate your explanation.
Cheers.
Good morning, Cat💓 Repeats are always welcome for those who missed them the first time.
In the early 60’s “progressive jazz” ruled the jazz music roust. It was rooted in New York and LA and the musicians, like Paul Desmond and Jim Hall on these tracks, were the best in the world. But then it all got blown away by the rock N roll transformation. Jazz fans worried that jazz had been killed by a new, much more noisy competitor. Fortunately that didn’t happen so we still get to listen to these wonderful performances from so long ago. Enjoy Treepers . . . 🙂
It’s wonderful to read these short back stories that you write about various musical genres, groups, specific musicians, etc. I am learning so much! Thanks for taking the time to not only post the music, but to share a bit about it. I never really “got” jazz and still don’t, but it’s intriguing to learn about it none-the-less. In this case, fascinating to learn that there was a time when folks thought this musical form was dead, but it endured through changes that were unfolding on the music scene. So interesting…..
Knowledge is Power
I guess a bit of history helps, so even tho its a long video I’m watchin
Here is a presentation from #UChicago Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer Sep 25, 2015
Don’t much care about causality. At the local level there are Ukrainians willing to fight to resist a Russian invasion.
In civil war times when “the balloon went up” that meant that you were going to be attacked. If you read history when something like that happened—-everything changed. The reality was then, as now in Ukraine, was that someone was coming to kill you. I don’t think it is at all wrong to support everyday Ukrainian citizens who have decided to fight to resist a Russian invasion-of=conquent. Frankly, who the hell cares about globaliztion, about Biden administrations machinations. This is about everybody people like you and me are suddenly faces with people intent on killing them. We need to help them.
Sundance posted a link to great video in the Soros/Hillary article.
Definitely worth watching.
Been watching various livestreams coming out of Ukraine. As we can see below there is absolutely nothing going on that would even suggest that there was a war going on. For a few minutes days ago there were flashes in the distance as the Russians apparently destroyed all the airport runways. But the infrastructure is intact throughout the country and electricity hasn’t been disabled even though the Russians have complete air dominance and the ability to do so.
And those various webcams have been showing pretty much the same bland street scenes for the past week or so, since the “invasion” started. The fact is the visual evidence does not reinforce what the journ0lists in the field are reporting, which is mostly one-sided hearsay and conjecture. These days, when everyone thinks they’re a photographer and have camera phones in their hands, how come we still haven’t seen any real combat footage? Either the war hasn’t started yet, it is the boringest war ever, or it’s not really a war after all.
Ves, I have to agree with your observations. Some days ago I was engaged with a number of US mates and pointed out so much more than what you have espoused – along the lines of what that lad in Ukraine was saying in both his 18 minute and 2 minute videos – but far more expansive, of course.
Anyone should be able to see, to separate fact from fiction by analyzing the glaring anomalies present.
Most people simply don’t have the necessary life experience to apply logic to filter out the chaff (and I see it in so many of the comments on SDs posts), where they think more with their heart than their head.
I’m not knocking any who so do, although I sometimes secretly make a little wish they would make an effort to broaden their knowledge base (although that might be a hard ask, given a bit of military experience is ‘sometimes’ a necessary adjunct).
45. By ‘glaring anomalies’ do you mean obvious lies spread instantly around the world about what is happening on the ground?
If there was ever a time to use our heads and God given brains, this is it. We must separate the two, heart and head, feeling compassion and concern for those who by no fault of their own are trapped in their own country by malevolent factions…and yes, pure evil.
But we must not let that obfuscate honest and informed analysis of the bald power struggles that threaten us all, no matter where we are. For myself, I’m watching vigilantly. And I’m trying to unknot the myriad threads in this decades long struggle. Manipulation of opinion is a powerful weapon in war. I’m feeling distinctly uneasy about what is really going on here. So I’ll continue listening and praying. Because I’m to the point of thinking that only Divine Intervention will supply an answer. Some things have to be left to God to deal with as He sees fit, as He surely will…even when we can’t make sense of His answers to our prayers.
“. . .how come we still haven’t seen any real combat footage? Either the war hasn’t started yet, it is the boringest war ever, or it’s not really a war after all. . .”
Or, the Russians are simply taking care to not do irreparable damage to what will become their infrastructure. Power plants, schools, and hospitals are expensive to build so why destroy them If they’ll soon be yours?
Garrison, I’ve been reading your posts on Ukraine, here on the Open Thread and on other threads as well. You don’t comment often on other threads so when you do, I’m always interested to hear what you have to say.
On this topic, you’ve expressed a consistent and heartfelt belief that the Ukranians deserve our full support along with hope and faith they will put up very strong resistance against the Russians.
I have no idea how any of this will play out (and my head hurts from all the prognosticators out there!), but this post really hit at the core of it – that these are people who are being attacked, many of whom will suffer, and many of whom will die. And I feel your heartfelt down-to-the-core principle that we need not make this complex. That this is wrong. That innocent people in a sovereign nation are suffering because another country has decided to try to take over their country. And we must act accordingly.
There’s so much noise, opinion, strident statements about things that fall under the heading of we don’t know what we don’t know, along with enormous confusion and conflicting reports swirling around all of this (like everything these days). Part of me thinks some of the complexity is worth attending to in order to determine whether we should help them, nor not. Part of me hates how some argue that we have no vested interest in Ukraine, in other words, nothing to get out of it, and therefore we have no business getting involved.
On the one hand I suppose I understand some of these arguments because at their core, among other things, the idea is that the United States can’t come to the rescue of every group of people, of every country that comes under attack. And maybe we can’t.
Or maybe we should.
Then there’s a part of me that thinks precisely as you wrote in your last two sentences, which is that it’s unconscionable to stand on the sidelines and watch something like this happen, come what may.
Many questions arise: What is our responsibility as a nation to help others in a scenario like this? What is our responsibility as human beings to help others in a scenario like this?
Part of me thinks it’s appropriate to be savvy when it comes to geopolitics, but part of me thinks that’s a lot of noise that masks what may be one of our most central instincts as human beings and as Americans, which is to come to the aid of those in need.
Yet there are limits and we can’t rescue the world.
Sometimes I wonder what it would feel like to be a Ukrainian right now, what it would feel like to be under attack, and the desperation one would necessarily feel for everyone to please help.
It’s all just too much, made worse because it’s against the backdrop of unthinkable and terrifying transformations of our country that can lead one to be cynical and/or cold-hearted about what do in about Ukraine, because we’re under attack in a different kind of way and on multiple fronts, albeit not with traditional weapons.
Anyway, this was a very long-winded way of saying that I take your words to heart and, if nothing else, I am deeply moved by your humanity and faith….
This is what happens when the president is selected through the mail. The US loses all credibility and all hell breaks loose.
Garrison, my step-mother is from Ukraine, and my Dad brought her mother to live with them before he died. They live in San Antonio in the home they shared with Dad. They told me this weekend that friends in Ukraine tell them about having to go into the bomb shelters all the time – they are safe, but not heated. They have to keep all newborns and any hospitalized patients that can be moved in there, all the time. No one can leave now and they are terrified. So tragic and horrible.
“That’s why Zelensky is murdering Ukrainians!
Ukrainians are not murdered by Russians but by the Biden/Clinton WEF corrupted Ukrainian Zelensky-Regime!
It’s the same like everywhere: the elite is murdering their own people!”
Video stream from a Ukrainian citizen on site tells a completely different story.
It’s on telegram by Official Times. Eye opener.
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This.
https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/zMTuCmAgB4cV
If you think this guy’s viewpoint is valid then aren’t you tacitly accepting a gun-control argument over the idea that an armed citizenry offers some advantages in a dystopian environment . . . ? Doesn’t strike me as very conservative.
I will add, that, counting formal reserves and private citizens, Ukraine reportedly has approximately a 430k veteran population with combat experience. Legalizing open carry and handing out AK’s to that demographic strikes me as a pretty good idea. 🙂
This guy is describing the criminal elements in Ukraine who are shooting at each other and innocent citizens with Zelensky supplied military grade weapons. What ‘this guy’ describes is a completely different situation on the ground than what msm is reporting. That is my point.
Fortunately, a significant portion of those “innocent citizens” have combat skills and know how to shoot back. Definitely a 2nd Amendment-like event. Personally, given the dystopian situation and highly questionable ability of help to arrive, I think I’d prefer to have one of those AKs rather than be without one. thank you very much.
Let’s hope for the best. 🙂
That sounds like something a truly bored person would say.
Watching the drama would amuse him until his dupe would be kicked out, then he would be bored again.
IMO, amazing selection today dora! It leds by the hand then GRABS you! 💋
When does the market crash, and oil shoot thru the roof ? Asking for a friend .
Overnight.
Exactly…while most are asleep in their beds.
I throughly enjoy all your “bread crumbs”
Thank you dora ❤️
Greets Treeps!
Peter’s brother and family are still safe in Nikolaev. He has not heard from friends in several hours.
Thanks again for your prayer. ✝️
Keeping you all in prayer!
No better news to wake to, Frank. Praying for all🙏
Continuing prayers, Frank.
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, March 1, 2022
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“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:”
Luke 6:37 (KJV)
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
Here is some science we can all rejoice over. A mother who is completely blind and who is expecting her first child was having a sonogram. Her doctors made a 3D print of that ultrasound so she could feel the face of her precious gift from God. What joy!!!💓
Was it given on another visit? I’ve never seen one of those work fast enough to have it ready by the end of the visit.
You know, Jim, I have no idea. I know the process is not quick. I did see pictures of her reclining, holding the beautiful result of her baby’s features. The joy in her face was overwhelming to me. Whether or not it was from a previous visit, I’m unsure, but it appeared she was having a sonogram when it was presented to her.
I remember when we all attended our granddaughter’s 3D ultrasound in 2014. It was just amazing. It was supposed to reveal the baby’s sex. Our daughter had another 3D done previously so she already new. This one was for the grandparents. She had a cake ordered that on the inside was all pink but the frosting on the outside was half blue and half pink. It went right over my head but all the ladies were onto it.
Mornin’ infidels. Tonight’s the night – remember to dress appropriately.
i don’t know …
maybe earmuffs?
and masks – (or hold your nose)
and muzzles – to keep from biting your fist
as for me – an old movie or music
That outfit needs a shovel. So you don’t have to step in it anymore.
If you watch it in the dark, does that make you a mushroom?
What is the phrase to use in your drinking game?
Na Zdrowie – Polish ‘cheers’ toast
pronounced nas drovie (maybe?)
memory says nas drovya
May be we can say it in Russian nazdarovye. The meaning is the same as in Polish – to health.
Washing my hair…penciled in my diary for this very time and day.
Sis, I’ll be at church for a Bible study. And if I was at home, I’d be paying bills or something. Never watched the Magic kenyan, will never watch the old drooling pedo.
Earlier today we had lunch with the nipper. He was very pleasantly surprised. Whataburger and a pastry that his great grandmother made. He is very fortunate I left him a piece. 🤤
After that I took my parents to vote rino Abbott out. On the way there and back we drove by a ranch that has a big sign and a flag that say FJB. It has been a great day, not about to ruin it watching Brandon.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
The 50th Psalm (Septuagint)
Great Lent, or the Fast, in the Orthodox Christian Church begins on next Monday (February 22nd on the Patristic Calendar and March 7th on the civil or commercial calendar).
Video – Standing ovation as Zelensky tells European Parliament to ‘prove you are with’ Ukraine
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2022/03/video-standing-ovation-as-zelensky.html
Bore da, my friends. It is March 1. St David’s Day which is much celebrated in Wales. He is their patron saint. Daffodils, their national flower, abound. So I greet all with what I heard from everyone when I lived there…Happy St David’s Day!
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Bore da, Treepers!
Blessed day of St David of Wales
Saint David or Dewi or Dafydd
Bishop
Reposed 589
Remembered March 1
St David (Dewi/Dafydd) founded an austere monastery very reminiscent of the Desert Fathers in a small hidden valley at St David’s in Pembrokeshire. The monks tilled the land, pulling the plough themselves without animals; they ate their bread with salt and herbs and water only, and that only at evening time. They prayed for much of the night.
St David as a monastic founder and teacher, and as Bishop, became the leader of the church in South Wales. As an ascetic himself he opposed the teaching of Pelagius at the Synod of Brevi. Llanddewi was a very early religious site: it maybe a stone in the outside of the church tower may refer to him.
The cathedral gives a great sense of stability and tranquillity to the place. King Edward I came to pray at St David’s shrine in 1284. It was destroyed at the Reformation but the place where it was can still be seen in the cathedral.
It is traditional to have leek soup on this day.
much more here:
https://sdow.org/saint-david/
hat tip: Betsy
Diolch yn fawr, Lonestar💓 There are many remnants of cathedrals in Wales, one just outside the town of Llangollen, Valle Crucis Abbey. Haunting and beautiful in its magnificence. One can feel Gods presence when standing amongst the ruins.
And there is nothing better than leek soup (Unless there are a few potatoes thrown in😉). Bless you🙏
To all you treepers 🌳
Have a good day! 🎶
This is just so wrong; A Lyon Count, Nevada police officer passed away from covid he caught on the job, the insurance company will not pay death benefits and the widow has a huge bill from the hospital. So very, very wrong.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/lyon-county-deputy-dies-from-covid-on-the-job-life-insurance-company-wont-pay-claim/ar-AAUrq6A?li=BBnbfcL
Wicked, wicked. She ought to try to reclaim every single penny which was spent on useless insurance, the policy which was most likely taken out well before covid was a thing.
There was a case in France recently whereby a man who had been injected with the faux vax had died with confirmed adverse effects. The insurance company
refused to pay his life policy and was sued. The judge ruled he had “committed suicide”by taking an experimental vax.
May God please help her.
Well, I had to go look it up – how to say Good Morning in Polish.
If it was said in our household I don’t remember – 🙁
Dzien Dobry (swallow the dz – en dobry, I think)
I do remember How Are You? Jak Sie Masz. Pronounced yak she mash
Remember, I have criticized my ‘polish typewriter’. It’s not pronounced phonetially .
Alas, we never had paczki. We were all Polish, so I don’t know how we missed out. Too poor maybe?
Didn’t have the ingredients? Or maybe just my too old memory.
zdradswitcha, kak posividya cvodnya? ochen horoshow, spacaba.
since soros is going with Ukraine, I stick with Vlad.
the Poles seem to live in a dangerous neighborhood.
2 of my grandparents are from Poland – late 1890s near as I can tell
2 of my grandparents are Russian Poles – no further info
I’m with you – if hildabeast & soros want to support Ukraine, I’m with Vlad
I doubt you will see this in our news, tho Sundance came close last night.
From Dianne Marshall – https://diannemarshallreport.com/hold-the-line-putin-is-just-beginning/
It’s those pesky bio labs
Headline – FTA
It is looking a lot like Putin is Saving millions of lives and possibly billions!
many versions of this info reported on the Presidential thread – not headlined that way.
good details re: surgical ‘attacks’ and maybe deactivating labs in advance of actual Russian troop movement and bombing.
Oldie
I remember this 😊 ❤️
Thanks mopar ❤️
Sen. Feinstein announces husband’s death
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https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/sen-feinstein-announces-husbands-death/
RIP to Andrew Breitbart. May his relentless pursuit of justice always live on in all of us. RIP too to our dear friend, Kris, buried this day three years ago. Glad they’re with the Lord and not here. Their race was won and now on we strive in ours. May their memories be eternal.
Greetings again Treepers!
Ukraine update:
Peters brother and family are yet safe! Shelling appears to be on the outskirts of cities now.
He has not been able to connect with his friends for a few days via the viber app.
Thanks again for prayer!
Thanks Frank!
Oh my – said she jumping up and down
don’t know how to link in the pix
Jon McNaughton has a new painting
Biden (the emperor has no clothes) standing behind his podium (naked)
he has all of his ‘supporters’ (maskless) surrounding him
Patriotic – Americana – The Emperor Has No Clothes – McNaughton Fine Art (jonmcnaughton.com)
You don’t have to buy – but you will absolutely LOVE the painting
OMG – eye bleach please!
Really, quite funny. Thank you Jon McNaughton. It’s perfect!
I love the little boy pointing to the nether regions
🙂
Best post of the day here. Btw you’re link worked. Awesome find and your description was right on!!! 😂
Betsy,
Have you ever read about the life of St. Non (David’s mother)?
https://www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/history/St-Non
I was not familiar with her.
Blessings
Oregon Coast rainy, windy as usual. Had to get new windshield wipers up $2 to $19 for both. Picked up taxes not allowed in to discuss. Georgies Beachside Grill just reopened after (needed) remodel. looks great, bar space much bigger. whales going north but too much fog to see them. prices same. bloody mary world class but was only allowed to have one. bunch of rich crabbers came in and sat with us. they pooh, pooh the great season but don’t hide the Rolexes on their big arms but have hickory shirt sleeves rolled up. I had cod fish and chips. yummy. If you want a restaurant nearer the ocean Adobe in Yachats is the one. spray slams windows.
Back from the 3 stop milk run in Marion, IL. Toyota of course. On the way back I saw a wonderful sight. There is one of the huge crosses in Effingham, IL right next to a Becks seed facility on the west side of town.
As I junctioned onto I-70 East from I-57 North I noticed a big American flag flying from a crane at the Becks facility. Then at the cross there were 100’s of people with flags and signs waving to all the trucks as they went by.
Nearly every overpass had people on it with flags and showing signs and waving. Those closest to Effingham had so many people that they were on the ramps also.
This went on right into Indiana.
The signs ran from “Lets Go Brandon” to “We The People” with many others. I waved as I went under every one of them and at the ones where someone was pumping their arm hit the big horn.
They are there of course to show support for the Freedom convoy but were waving at every truck as we went under.
I suspect some people got an education about just how many big trucks there are on the road.
glad you waved and honked
fun fun fun
salt of the Earth, you truckers. little kids just love it when you hit the big horn. there are lots of big trucks here in west oregon, at least 300 into paper plant a day. log trucks a-plenty with pups some little logs for hog fuel and some whoppers hauled by separate trucks.
ever tow a pup after your big rig, rah?
Nope 53′ dry vans and refers. 48′ dry vans, and 48′ drop deck dry vans.
dry vans? wet vans? I do understand refers.
Dry vans are your standard trailers that have either two doors the swing or a roll up door. If they or a refer have the polished flat aluminum on their swing doors the reflects back into your eyes when your head lights hit them we they are said to have a “shinny hinny”.
Drop deck vans are the ones with the little tires in the back that step up at the front where they hook to the fifth wheel. They are made to carry loads that bulk out before they weight out.
Car carriers are “Rolling parking lots”
Flatbeds with staked panels on the side and the rounded tarps over them are “covered wagons”
Trailers with a hard roof but canvass sides are “soft sides”.
Live stock trailers are often referred to as the “last ride”. You don’t want to follow them too close and you certainly don’t want one to park beside you when your taking your 10 hour break. You also give them some distance when you walk by one, as at a fuel island if they have cattle because I will tell you those cows are pissed off and seem to have a good aim.
There are plenty of other trailer configurations like drop decks and low boys, etc…
Now I’ve got the hit the sack. Get up in 7 hours. Nite all!
sleep tight, rah. thanks for all the trucker definitions.
Quip O’Day – Tuesday March 1, 2022
If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old.
Ed Howe
Niiice quip. Wise words to live by.
All the major media outlets have disabled live chat and turned off comments for the State of the Union including Fox News.
sundance has a link for people to comment – but I suspect foul words are not allowed
Amen
Amen.
Amen!
Amen.
Amen 🙏
Amen.
Amen
Using WuFlu and ’emergencies’, will Jakarta tell Widodo to hang around?
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2022/02/28/indonesian-party-leaders-float-proposal-to-extend-jokowis-term-citing-pandemic-and-ukraine-crisis
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.