Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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✝️ DAILY DEVOTIONAL, December 5, 2022
“My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but what Christ is, in what He has done and what He is now doing for me.”
~Charles Spurgeon
Thank you, Dan. This is one his most hopeful sermons for me.
Blessings to all our residents and passersby for a calm and grace filled week.
Amen sis and fellow Treepers.
I love me some Spurgeon.
Yeeeeeeeehaaaaaww! 🔥✝️🔥
Good morning, Frank. You are not alone, dear friend. My heart is always lighter for reading him😘
Good afternoon Bet! This is one of my favorite Spurgeon devotionals. But then again, all of them are.
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As you wish, my dear brother… With great pleasure…
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🙂 The emoji app on my laptop went rogue, so I have to use the phone or the iPad for emojis.
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That’s what posts instead of emoji.
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Hi , Leon !
I agree with Feisty !
Still Laughing at *The Gambler* 😁
A Playlist of all my Sherlock Holmes videos – hopefully, you can wander around it to pick and choose. Includes Christmas songs.
I started reading all Conan Doyle’s Holmes stories when I was eight. I was captivated and remain an avid lover of his complete works. Thank you, Mary, for this list which I shall enjoy going through with great pleasure.
I don’t think I started quite that young but once I found him, I was hooked for life. Have you seen the Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Marvelous set! There aren’t many actors who don’t play him brilliantly, but nothing reaches the heights of the books.
I haven’t seen it. I’m an odd duck when it comes to books I’ve read, wherein I form a mental picture of the protagonist, and then I see an actor portray him (as it always is a “him”). It either marries with my ” picture” (i.e the author’s description)…in which case I enjoy the adaptation…or it doesn’t… and I have trouble getting through the inappropriate casting of a character so set in my mind’s eye.
Quite a few actors, for example have portrayed Hercules Poirot. But was there ever the most perfect one for that eponymous detective than Sir David Suchet? In appearance and character just as Dame Agatha wrote him.
Holmes was harder for me to visualize. I enjoyed Jeremy Brett in that role, but his manner was too manic for me at times, not at all the Holmes of Conan Doyle. I suppose Peter Cushing came closest…but so far, I am still in the search for “the one”.
You are right. For me, the Holmes of those brilliantly written stories remains a character who cannot be replicated. Which perhaps is the reason that to this day I enjoy them so much. 💕
Mary, let me mention also…if you are unfamiliar with the cerebral detective stories of Baroness PD James and her Commander Adam Dalgliesh, I have no hesitation in recommending them all.
I couldn’t wait for each one and was never disappointed. She was at one point the president of the Society for the Preservation of the Book of Common Prayer in Britain, such was her love of beautiful language. Having read every book she wrote (with the exception of the dystopian “The Children of Men” which I sensed would be too disturbing for me), I think no better person could have been selected to head that wonderful Society.
I have read her detective stories and enjoyed them. Went thru a major detective period and filled the shelves. No interest in that society. Prefer the Sherlock Holmes Society. Now there is a great group of people!
Yes, I know that many famous series are missing from the list, and I probably own some of most. But the ones below are the ones I read and re-read and re-read…
Judge Dee series – Robert van Gulik
John Putnam Thatcher Series – Emma Lathem
Cadfael series – Ellis Peters
Roderick Alleyn series – Ngaio Marsh
V.I. Warshawski series – Sarah Paretsky
alphabet series – Sue Grafton
Nero Wolfe series – Rex Stout
Amelia Peabody series – Elizabeth Peters
horse racing series – Dick Francis
American Indian series – Tony Hillerman
Saved multiple trips to my bookshelves by scanning down:
https://parade.com/1285756/michael-giltz/best-mystery-books/
Thank you for that list. We have a massive, wonderful Half Price Book Store near us. A veritable Aladdins ‘s cave of every type of book ever written. I’m due a trip there. I’ll look for the authors you mention.
As far as favourite reads go, my “go to” author when I need to decompress or be uplifted will always be PG Wodehouse, the Master of the Metaphor. Lighthearted, so funny (and yes, I know it’s perilous to recommend humour as not all tastes are the same), and uncomplicated enjoyment I’ve never encountered anywhere else. My mood is always improved upon reading him. Knighted when he was 87, a few months before his death. An extremely interesting life he had, including a naive and unwitting part in WWII. He was prolific and thank goodness for it.
Yeah, I’m a fan too. I even like the old Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce movies, even though they’re not nearly as true to the original stories as the one’s with Jeremy Brett.
Nana – Baggage Coach Ahead
An experiment in using some techniques I’ve incorporated into art videos for telling the stories of my family. Still trying to decide how I feel about this approach. And, yes, I know it’s almost impossible to follow the story of Nana AND the lyrics of the song. It’s really one or the other.
Nana always sang. And she always cried while she sang. Daddy, the grandfather who also raised me, could never understand why she would want to sing songs that made her cry. Men.
Well, the experiment worked in that I understand why the previous version failed. So here’s my final decision. Dump the lyrics and concentrate on the family story with photo labels where the lyrics sat. Feedback on how I could improve this will always be appreciated.
Loved all 4:22. Lots of work and creativity.
Niiiice!
I rarely check back in the evening. Glad I did Mary! 👌
Many thanks, Frank. I’m trying to find a way to pass family information to non-readers and non-researchers. When I’m gone, probability says all of my files will be deep-sixed. Some fifteen/twenty years on one of the next gen will get the urge to learn their history and no one will remember and the data will be gone. So I’m trying to find minimum pain ways for them to learn. I’m still worried that the text screens between the pictures in that video will defeat them.
I’ve tried the comic book approach, and that has also gotten so-so results. This is a book written by my other grandmother, the first female newspaper publisher in CO. Zip interest from the kids, so comic book style.
https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/catharineburnett/hotshots.htm
Or Henry Livingston as the poet of Night Before Christmas. One would think… So I cartooned his poetry.
https://henrylivingston.com/writing/poetry/xmasdecorated/carriersaddress1787.htm
Music videos are my next frontier to see if I can sneak some family info into young minds.
To quote Galaxy Quest, “Never give up! Never surrender!”
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Good morning, Mr jay. Beautiful! Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight…
Maidin Mhaith Betsy 🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
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Mornin’ jay. Julie London shows good taste . . . 🙂
Good morning, Garrison. A quick last cup of tea, then off to gwelli (bed in Welsh😉)
Mornin’ Bet. Trust you slept well. 🙂
Thank you…eventually. A sign of age obviously…need less of it. Margaret Thatcher famously slept about 4 hours a night. 😉
Howdy Garrison 🇺🇸😎🇺🇸
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Afternoon jay!
Howdy Gramps 🇺🇸🙏🏻😎
One more . . .
Good afternoon Garrison.
Watched the first episode of Showtime’s “Tammy & George” a six-part series, tonight. What and incredible voice Tammy had.
Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man !LIVE!
Tammy Wynette – “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”
Tammy Wynette – Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad (Audio)
Glenn Beck:s dream (video and transcript)
https://www-glennbeck-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.glennbeck.com/amp/was-glenns-dream-actually-a-vision-for-our-future-2658805689?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16702254010587&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.glennbeck.com%2Fradio%2Fwas-glenns-dream-actually-a-vision-for-our-future
I confirm that dream.
Ive not had dreams or visions to that effect it is just a conclusion to me that our corruption (spiritual) has brought us to a place to be taken over. As a righteous nation we are under Gods protection, and people may see it as a host of angels or Gods hand over us, that’s fine, I’m sure it is even now or we would immediately perish. But, in righteousness evil has no place, as Jesus said “ the ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in me.” John 14:30
In righteous we are stable, solid, evil has no place. That is the essence of his protection.
We have left righteousness, evil is in our midst, with all we have we cannot progress any further. The freedoms must stop.
I see on a regular basis the golden calf when mosses came down with the Ten Commandments, and all the Israelites dancing around it. Mosses says choose now, and the ground swallows up those who reject God. It’s where we are now. That is the choice, as in Noah’s time also.
I cannot see a rapture, it’s in The manual but In my pea mind I cannot understand such a miracle, therefore I prepare for a choice of life or death. If Jesus meets us in the air I will rejoice. ( I truly hope he allows me to sail about a bit before we ascend, I do love my flying dreams.)
I have had visions of Jesus coming in the clouds when I was first saved, visions not dreams. Visions are extremely vivid, unmistakable. They are or can be terrifying because of the realization of the message. Mine would not end until the message was complete. Your being is there not just your mind.
Good morning from 2280 NE 46th Ave. in Des Moines, IA.
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season will turn out to be less than average despite everybody and his brother forecasting it to be more active than average.
Here is a comparison of major hurricanes in a 25 year period with the previous 25 years.
If we are we are to believe the claims of NOAA, NASA, and the IPCC that increasing atmospheric CO2 effects weather then it is obvious, according to the data that increasing CO2 actually decreases the frequency of major hurricanes.
See how that works when you select periods of data to present the result you want?
That is exactly the unscientific ploy all of the above use time and time again to push their climate change lies.
05 December 2021 John Miles, British vocalist and musician (John Miles Band – “Rebel”; “Zaragon”; Alan Parsons Project), dies at 72
With: Alan Parsons Project
05 December 2012 Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist (“Take Five”) and composer (Gates of Justice), dies from heart failure at 91
05 December 2005 Danny Williams, British pop singer, known as “Britain’s Johnny Mathis” (“Moon River”; “White on White”), dies of lung cancer at 63
05 December 2002 Arvell Shaw, American jazz double-bassist (Louis Armstrong; Teddy Wilson), dies at 79
05 December 1996 Wilf Carter, country singer, dies at 91
05 December 1993 Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms), commits suicide using a pistol at 32
05 December 2022, Kirstie Alley, actress dies of cancer at age 71:
Miss her already.
December 5 Oswald Chambers
The Temple Of The Holy Ghost
Only in the throne will I be greater than thou. — Genesis 41:40
I have to account to God for the way in which I rule my body under His domination. Paul said he did not “frustrate the grace of God” — make it of no effect. The grace of God is absolute, the salvation of Jesus is perfect, it is done for ever. I am not being saved, I am saved; salvation is as eternal as God’s throne; the thing for me to do is to work out what God works in. “Work out your own salvation”; I am responsible for doing it. It means that I have to manifest in this body the life of the Lord Jesus, not mystically, but really and emphatically. “I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.” Every saint can have his body under absolute control for God. God has made us to have government over all the temple of the Holy Spirit, over imaginations and affections. We are responsible for these, and we must never give way to inordinate affections. Most of us are much sterner with others than we are in regard to ourselves; we make excuses for things in ourselves whilst we condemn in others things to which we are not naturally inclined.
“I beseech you,” says Paul, “present your bodies a living sacrifice.” The point to decide is this — “Do I agree with my Lord and Master that my body shall be His temple?” If so, then for me the whole of the law for the body is summed up in this revelation, that my body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The great word of Jesus to His disciples is Abandon. When God has brought us into the relationship of disciples, we have to venture on His word; trust entirely to Him and watch that when He brings us to the venture, we take it.
https://utmost.org/classic/the-temple-of-the-holy-ghost-classic/
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
The 50th Psalm
Septuagint
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.
Amen. Amin.
From Small Compline
Rejoice Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Savior of our souls. (Thrice)
Caught this link off another site. I know Rah has regular links to this site below.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/03/the-manhattan-contrarian-energy-storage-paper-has-arrived/
Basically calculating the quantity of battery backup storage facility’s that just Germany would need for just wind/solar without any fossil fuel backup sources.
PDF link below to full paper. https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2022/11/Menton-Energy-Storage-Conundrum.pdf
“Remember that 150 MWh is only 0.15 of one GWh. In other words, it would take about 167,000 of these facilities to provide 25,000 GWh of storage, and about 373,000 of them to get to the 56,000 GWh in the larger estimate.”
I believe that amount of facility’s for just Germany could exhaust the supply of rare earths available right there, just for Germany’s needs.
All I can say is I hope they go for it, someone needs to fail massively before this cult can accept reality.
It appears “they” are about to fail massively! See my post below.
Oh! And BTW, the Swiss are considering restricting or prohibiting the charging of EVs due to the anticipated energy shortage this winter.
Isn’t driving people to fail massively the goal of this cult?
They flirt with admitting that with their anti-humanity beliefs and goals, but there can be no other logical end to the things they impose on people.
And they viciously oppose any who would rally mankind to its senses.
I think most know it will fail massively, just like every other ponzi scheme, they just wish to be close enough to the top of the pyramid to retain wealth and perhaps power (assuming not being jailed). (Madoff? Amway? Bankman-Fried?)
Gore definitely retained wealth, power… well… I don’t think so, but I did not and will never worship in his green cult so I cannot say for sure.
But at the moment the ponzi scheme has not imploded as of yet, even Amway continues on to this day with people slaving away at the bottom of the pyramid selling products for which they receive a meager commission on which is less than working at Mc’ Ds for less than a day perhaps even an hour.
1988.. it was a blurry year.. but I can tell by the songs.. and significant others..
Cardi’s had closed down.. but there was another scene deep in the heart of Uptown.. KRBE.. broadcasting live from the club.. it was like only five minutes away..
life in Uptown Houston.. it was where it was at.. and I was where I wanted to be.. everybody came to our neighborhood to shop and party.. on the weekends the party jams continued from our lofts and vehicles to right into the club..
(rare vintage KRBE live broadcast from the club.. saturday night march 19, 1988.. this song is at the 1:49:40 mark..).
It seems another horseman of the apocalypse is about to join war in Europe.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/oimjakon-siberia-sees-extremely-low-temperatures-as-mercury-plummets-to-65-below/
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/12/a-week-without-sun-and-wind/
Perhaps that will get a few people’s attention. How long compliant Germans, Austrians, et al will tolerate their Save the Earth but Kill off Humanity nihilist, lunatic governments after this winter will be a thing to watch. Even faithful followers and believers of a deadly “Green” agenda are in for a sharp awakening.
The plan of the governments is to blame their problems from the cold on “climate change” and the lack of energy and high expense on Russia, Russia, Russia!
Yes. Power for themselves is their goal through the idiocratic hubris of “climate change”. And now EU imbeciles have capped the price of Russian oil, ensuring there will be less of it in Europe. Putin is anything but stupid. What we are witnessing is the beginning of a human tragedy of monstrous proportions equal to or exceeding Stalin’s Holodomor.
I’ll say it again: Green Energy Kills.
People need to at last wake up to the fact that the killing part is intentional. Instead they have been taught to embrace it as a great virtue!
It does kill. As I suspect it’s meant to. Mess with God’s creation and this is what happens.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
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Mornin’ all!
Good morning Treepers.
I usually avoid the movies at Christmastime, because all I find is irritation from the sure presence of the annual “I Hate Christmas” movie Cranked out by a God-hating Hollywood (pun intended).
Oh, how I have longed to be able to go see a real Christmas movie, at Christmas.
This year, my wish was granted, and I highly recommend this movie that is now playing, for limited screenings:
https://www.iheardthebellsmovie.com/
It is a wonderful movie to take the kids and the grandkids to see.
And how did we lose the memory of the poetry and times of Henry W. Longfellow? The people behind this movie have found the perfect moment for its restoration.
Have a blessed Christmas season.
We lost the memory of those times, Alex, because there has been a concerted effort to destroy beauty, wherever it is found.
Thank you for this recommendation.
Have you seen “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”? It is my favourite, full of nostelgia and beautiful language.
Lived there for 20 years. I have seen it so many times and it is an absolute delight. Exactly as it was, and in many parts still is.
As it is the home of my heart and ever will be, when I get homesick, I will watch this movie. But not before grabbing a tissue first…
December 5
MORNING
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Psa. 119:71
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. Heb. 5:8
We suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Rom. 8:17, 18
He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Job 23:10, 11
Thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. Deut. 8:2, 5, 6
EVENING
By strength shall no man prevail. I Sam. 2:9
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone. I Sam. 17:45, 49, 50
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. Psa. 33:16, 18
Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. I Chron. 29:12
I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. II Cor. 12:9, 10
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/12/1205.html
Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon… and it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. – Luke 2:25-26
The Bible does not say how many years Simeon waited for the revelation of seeing Christ before he died to come true. As he aged, he may have had his doubts if he had heard the Holy Spirit right. How excited he must have been to see Jesus.
Did you ever hear something from the Holy Spirit and wonder, “Am I hearing right, or is it just a thought passing through my mind?” As you pray and read the Bible, you will become more sensitive to and familiar with the voice of the Holy Spirit. Just as you readily recognize the voice of someone you know well, you can learn to distinguish the Holy Spirit’s promptings from your own or others’ thoughts.
There are ways to increase your sensitivity to His voice. Ask God for ears to hear what His Spirit is saying to you. Pray in the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26). Get to know Him by reading about Him in His Word. As you read the Bible and pray, keep a notebook handy to record your thoughts and anything He shows you. Determine to live a life that pleases Him.
Be committed to the Lord, valuing time with Him over such distractions as television or social media.
Ask Him to guide you in prayer for this country, its citizens, and elected officials. Consider what is most important to the Lord and pray accordingly. Pray for believers in Christ to understand the dimensions of God’s love and how to express it to others. Just as God was faithful to keep His promise to Simeon, He is faithful to keep the promises He whispers to your heart.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing
OK. This is for the end of the afternoon, when the errands are over, haven’t started dinner yet, and need some wind-down time.
Clear the kitchen table, put on a talk show on the TV so low you can’t hear what is being said but can hear soft voices in the background, pour yourself a scotch, put a few ones and a couple fives in front of you that you can finger as change while you sit at the table and sip, turn this on, close your eyes, let your mind drift to a quiet cocktail lounge or club somewhere, and feel the stress melt away.
Smooth, trapper…blessings to you, sir.
And to you, Betsy.
Thank you so much🤗
Now that we are sufficiently mellowed out, here is something a little different.
I just want to say “Thank You” to Sundance and every treeper! No matter how this all plays out, you’ve made me and my circle pay closer attention. We are now the educated electorate that our founder’s envisioned.
RIP Jessica Chambers murdered Dec. 6 2014. Her killer and others involved still not brought to justice.
One day, Pjoe……..
Brazil Military Kills “Red Command” Cartel Leaders, Prepares Take Over by Richard Abelson (published December 5, 2022 at 8:15am; 2803 comments) – https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/brazil-military-kills-red-command-cartel-leaders-prepares-take/
Here it comes… Only now being reported upon on a few sites. Praying for the Brazilian people and their rightfully elected president, Bolsonaro. Praying also the military will not retain power for themselves. There is always that chance…
ok, Canucks. You wimped out on getting these guys in the HOF.
C’mon Dekster, put them in the HOF, get rid of Trudope, and save our butts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWG4M3TbnsQ
Amen.
Amen
Amen. And RIP Ms Kirstie Alley who apparently left this life behind, today. condolences for all families missing loved ones this Advent. Especially J6 political prisoners, the families of those murdered during the Afghanistan withdrawal, and that family of the little Texas girl Athena. May God lift up all who grieve, and strengthen us all for what is to come
Amen
Amen.
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.