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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God Bless America 🙂
I have no idea why I’m reacting to colors of heat with shivers, but that is actually making me feel cold. It’s lovely, though. Well done!
Good morning, Mary. Perhaps its the look of the ground, which, except for the colour, gives the illusion of virgin snow.
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Wow!
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Jay…
I met the love of my life by a photo such as this. Sadly, we were not meant to be. Another woman had spoiled him to marriage and I wanted the chance to bear children. He went on to marry another (don’t they always when they pledge an oath to “never” do something)… and I had already traveled down a different road. He is now a raging lunatic liberal… and has that angry face. So far removed from the angelic man that I was Hallmark movie in love with. I am grateful for time that heals and God’s unanswered prayers. But these photos remind me…
JWoo, sometimes God says “not this one” for a reason…one we have no way of understanding at the time. Coming to know you, I suspect His plans for you are much better.🤗
Love to you, Betsy. I am resigned that The Lord gets jealous if I cast my eyes elsewhere. I am in Him alone. Acceptance and contentment are my solitude and I’m grateful to not have self-inflicted drama. My teen daughter appreciates our peace, too, and I’m gradually teaching her great discernment. She’s an auburn red and beautiful inside and out… so the cretins are coming out of the woodwork. They should know, I’m an excellent shot.
That is a beautiful post with excellent thoughts and attitudes!
My beloved Aunt was dying of cancer. She was 65. Her father was 94. He was overheard broken heartedly on the phone to a friend saying “well, it looks like I’m going to lose my little girl”.
I’ve told my son and my daughter, who are both grown and moved out, about my Aunt and her dad and that no matter how old they get, whether I’m alive or dead, they will always be my little boy and little girl.
Teach her all you can, while you can.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. In life……..and target shooting.
And teach her to shoot, too!
No words, Greg. No parent should see their children go before them. But it happens. My husband’s two lads left this earth too soon.
What you’ve said to yours, I’ve said to mine as well. No matter their ages, it is one of life’s great truths. And so I continue to teach as well. Bless you.
Thank you, Betsy, and bless you, too!
Thank you, sir.
Yes, Greg1, your son and daughter will always be your littles… and then the ones that they love become yours too. Our circles only grow… some with more humble beginnings than others.
So sorry to hear of your Grandfather’s loss of his beloved daughter (your Aunt). I understand it all too well.
I instill in my daughter, that we all go through loss and deep grief. Some of us just sooner than others and therefore we are stewards of that. We serve as guides and partners to help others through their rugged times.
Romans 8:28 “ALL” things.
Bless you and yours.
You are passing on some valuable wisdom to your daughter. To that I’ll add the importance of being judicious with who she trusts and being equality judicious with who she gives loyalty to. This is how good men learn to be good friends with women. When you hear someone talk about their partner being their best friend, it’s a pretty good indication they’ve already got this figured out.
I haven’t seen a beautiful liberal ever. 🇺🇸😁🇺🇸
Agreed. Such a twisting and distorting of their souls. Sad lot.
It genuinely is.
Even if the outside looks good, the inside, when revealed, overwhelms the outside.
Some of the physically most beautiful people I’ve seen have morphed into something else when they expose cold hearts.
Likewise, people with unremarkable outer appearances have suddenly become beautiful when their good souls have shown themselves.
This is one thing I’ve said to my grands…and more than once.
Good Sunday morning, Mr jay. Stunning!
Blessing’s Betsy 🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
Thank you from my heart💕
Just WOW!
Mornin’ jay 🙂
Howdy Garrison Blessing’s 🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
Mornin’ jay 🙂
Hello Fellow Treepers!
A Winding Winter Creek at Rocky River — Photo taken by me years ago at a Cleveland Metropark in Northeast Ohio. Wishing everyone a refreshingly relaxing and restful Sunday.
This is incredible. The complexity; the lines pulling you into the composition from the trees leaning in to the stream moving back. And the curve at the front acts to swing you round to keep you in the composition. Absolutely classical.
Up on Hickrynut Mountain, when I was a child out with my dad, this was called a BrAnch (rural Southern speech with heavy emphasis on the “A”). His family’s 1908 era cabin was nearby. I remember the walls were still papered with decades old newspapers. There was a hand pump in the kitchen and a pipe was in the still running BrAnch. This was my father’s home when he was a child. When he was a bit older—about 12 or so—the family still desperately poor, he was a subsistance hunter putting fresh kills on the table to help feed his family.
Some amazing treasures of memory there!
I grew up in Karst Terrain. We had a branch on our farm named after our family and was stated as such on official maps. Karst terrain is quite amazing. Much of the watershed is underground in thousands of miles of caves and caverns. Occasionally, the underground streams would flow out of the ground in springs, flow across the surface for a while and then return underground in a sink hole. Such was our family branch. It came out of the ground near one end of our farm, flowed under a couple of roads and went back underground in a sinkhole near my home. We would spend many days in that branch, exploring from end to end.
Our farm was in the watershed for Green River. The Mammoth Cave system of caves was the end of that watershed. Most of the water from several counties went into the ground in sinkholes, flowed unseen through the Mammoth Cave system and eventually ended up in Green River.
I spend several weeks a year at Mammoth Cave helping to survey the cave. It is an amazing place.
I would have loved to read the newspapers on those walls. Blessed morning to you, noble Garrison.
And a blessed morning to you, too, JWoo. As I recall the dates (this would have been in the mid 50’s for us) were from the early ‘teens which would have corresponded to my dad’s time there. Even as a little kid, I could sense how eerie it was to be in that house with its old memories.
Good morning, phoenix. I am struggling to find the right words for how much I am drawn to this almost black and white photograph (I can truly hear that beautiful carol “In the Bleak Midwinter” as I’m studying it). So after sitting here for a while, thinking…and failing…to come up with adequate ones, I can manage only this.
Winter produces its own stark beauty. You have managed to capture it perfectly.
Thank you very much, Betsy jones! Fascinating how imagery evokes different music and moods in different people! For me, winter scenes like this make me think of “Christmas Time Is Here” from A Charlie Brown Christmas.
I loved that wonderful show, complete with readings from Luke, phoenix. Of course now I believe it has been banished from any MSM Christmas tv. It was such a part of my childhood. How I looked forward to it! Some things are timeless..as this is.
XMAS – NCIS, NCIS LA – Camouflage and Christmas Lights – Duck the Halls
XMAS – Boston Legal – Holly Jolly Xmas – Burl Ives
Saw your post about camouflage in yesterday’s thread … Loved your accompanying video there on the baby birds … which did not include ducks! 🙂
This one includes footage I shot at an Audubon reservation. It follows a hawk flying and then shows that brief moment I got the baby’s first flight.
Dragonflies and Wildlife Refuge – Mozart – 1993
I think I like the turtle best.
You know, I watch some Christian prophecy videos on Rumble and YouTube. At least one of the prophets was saying that in these times will arise a surge of Christian artists and creativity like that of the Renaissance. I sense you are one of them.
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It’s done! Finally! Took forever! But it’s done!
Family – Great Grandfather Brig. Gen. Henry L. Burnett – 4 songs of the era
Fundamentally, it’s part of my experiment to see how to pass genealogical information to a reluctant generation.
Wow! Not sure what to say about “a reluctant generation” … But as someone who now lives in Ohio, grew up in the Buffalo area (Western New York), and who has done some historical re-enacting (though not of the Civil War Era) … your video is utterly fascinating! Breathtaking presentation as well!
Plus, my dad was into genealogy … So I’m also imagining my own family history presented this way if only you and he had had the chance to collaborate.
SO glad you reacted that way! That’s EXACTLY the reaction I’m looking for. What I’m trying to do is imagine new ways to present information that will let it be absorbed more easily. Genealogy is just one field to examine. I don’t like doing things the way everyone does it. The more people who are into something, the less I trust it. And dates and names. Boring.
What I want to do is bring people back to life. So you need to understand the world the way THEY did. So I buy the books they read and try to recreate their world around me. Then I try to pass the information on. I just got contacted by a cousin to whom I gave a thick volume of MMFFs to her at her wedding 20 years ago. Guess she finally looked at it. I named the pages MMFFs in the hope that people would try to pronounce it. Multi-media Family-Forms.
https://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/mmff/index.htm
What I’m always after is how do you pass maximum information in minimum time.
Just as I used to run workshops in music video making, I’m always proselytizing for people to use new ways of keeping their family stories. When I finished my video magazine at IBM Research, they turned me into a consultant to the various research groups to see how to put sexy video into their projects. Things that look complicated can actually be done pretty easily with planned organization. It’s not collaboration that’s needed, it’s tutoring.
And a short version of this video that only includes the Lincoln Assassination material.
To learn more about General Burnett:
map of his site:
http://iment.com/maida/familytree/burnett/generalburnett.htm
his memories of the period and the trial:
https://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/burnett/lincoln.htm
I’ve concluded the short version doesn’t work. You go into expecting information on the assassination but it’s just superficial bio material. If you watch the whole video, you’re expecting that level. So I’ll take the short, one-song version down in a few days. Experiments are worthwhile, win or lose.
I hope you are duly pleased with this wonderful work, Mary. I can only imagine how much of yourself you put into it and how much satisfaction it gave you to produce this. The music is perfect. And as I am partial to male voice choirs (per my two decades in Wales where every town or village has one of its own comprised of strong voices), I loved the first song, beautifully sung. Well done indeed.
(As you included a wedding, I thought I’d report that my mother had framed the bodice and a small part of the skirt of her multi great
grandmother’s wedding dress. It is a delicate, lacy piece in superb condition. The date on the small engraved brass plate which my mother had made and sits just above the neckline within the frame has the name of my ancestor and the date of her wedding…1822. Your video inspired me to tell this small personal story.)
Your ancestors walked on this earth then as we do now. It would have been remarkable to them had anyone said that their lives and histories would be remembered and presented by their niece of many “greats” by means then unfathomable. You have honoured them, Mary. You have “done them proud.”
WONDERFUL story, Betsy. What a clever way to save some of the physical memories and make new ones for the future generations that will see it and want to know the stories. It becomes part of their concept of home and family. And much more fun than just photos on pianos.
Henry Livingston, the Night Before Christmas guy, actually wrote his will to give advice to his descendants. That’s such a great idea. More people should do it to leave a trace of their being to history. It really connected me to him.
We need to use the way-back machine more to save our ancestors so they don’t just disappear into molecules. We need more websites that just let people tell stories and show pictures of the people who touched their lives.
Oh how I agree. One would think there would be such a site now. Heaven knows everything else is out there, most of which seems to have only temporary value, if even that. Wisdom from one’s own life lived. We could all do with a lot more of it.
Y’all done real good, Mary. My family had members fighting on both sides in “The War” as it was known to us. In the Battle Of Atlanta, the inner defenses of the city were breached on our ancestral lands. We I was a little kid we visited Atlanta and found that the old plantation house was still standing.
Oh, Garrison, incredible story. I would think there’s a lot of us that had ancestors fight on both sides. I hurt as much for the ones lost on the grey side as on the blue. This is one of those issues that make me really upset with the progressives. Everyone of those soldiers deserves recognition and respect. They left safe environments and chose to put their lives at risk for an ideal. You don’t have to respect their choice of ideal, but you can respect their right to be true to their own ideals. Every confederate statue that comes down or name that gets changed only speaks to the awful character that progressives are developing in our young. These were living, breathing people who deserve as much respect as those who live today. Sorry. Got off on one of my hobbyhorses. Giddy-up!
Awesome Mary! Spectacular on a few levels; the work you’ve done shines through and the underlying story of how Henry’s life, chosen by him, himself, transpired. It also brings to mind all of the brilliant people who actually stay ‘on the farm’ and provide food for family and community. Great work. A very interesting family tree you have ma’ dear!
EVERY family is populated by fascinating people. And people deserve to be remembered, whether they do something famous or not. What I’m trying to build is a model to help people think about how to keep their own family alive in the memories of others.
Organize the material in an outline form on paper. Save the pictures in a box dedicated to that individual. Outline the divisions of their lives and then think about what you know about those periods and write down your memories and that of others.
Then, someday, you might find someone who will love to work with you on the techie part while you design the memories part. Or, if you’re part of some group, it can be a local workshop that some techie can help everyone with. And then you share the results with friends and encourage one another.
It IS a fascinating tree. I love people and I’m deeply curious, so I love figuring out what characteristics of mine come from which people in my tree. I was raised in a risk-adverse household, but I’ve always worked on the knife edge of risk. Look at my tree and it all starts to make sense.
EVERYONE can do that if they can learn about those that came before. Small towns printed local news and newspaper archives make those little stories available. You’ll learn when great aunt xx came to visit and when cousin yy got kicked by a mule. That tells you who got on with who.
What I DON’T put in the video are my own value judgements of the individual. Clearly, Henry was maximally ambitious. From the moment he married Hoffman’s daughter, you can see that he’s always checking out opportunities and marrying the boss’ daughter, when he can. He ALWAYS marries up. Same with promotions. He’s always using his connections to get ahead.
What I CAN connect with him on is his work ethic and his club work. I’ve created organizations and publications and am probably the only descendant who WANTS to read his memories of starting the Ohio Society of New York. But respect for the individual says that I don’t leave my impressions to the future, just the facts. And, unlike Henry, I try to do my work from the back of the room and let someone else stand in the front. That’s part of my name not being on any of the almost 1000 videos I’ve made.
Mary Van Deusen: This is great! History done right. The music and songs provide an ambience that contributes to the story by providing an aural context.
History occurs within the context of cultural.
For a highly engaging exposition on this subject, read “The Great War and Modern Memory,” about the cultural echoes of WWI, by Paul Fussell.
Written in 1970, during society’s passion over the Vietnam war. Thank you for the recommendation.
Wonderful !
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Many thanks, Patience. It was fun.
Which relative or ancestor would you do? Doesn’t have to be a chronology of their actions. Think about a video where the separators were about stories, or about qualities of character, or about their interactions with different relatives. The key design is Separator Topic, examples of that topic. Repeat till you run out of separators.
I made one video where I started the story, then alternated between techie stories and funny stories, so you learned what they did while you also learned who they were as a person. These videos exist first in your head, then on paper, waaay before they exist in some physical media.
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Three! 🙂
Linda sold over 100 million records . . .
One more . . .
Good morning, Garrison🤗 She had such a wonderful voice. I think she could rightfully claim the descriptive “chanteuse”. Just excellent, my friend.
methinks Garrison has had a long history of admiring Ms. Ronstadt… (sweet wink)
He has…he admitted it once upon a time…her voice and talents at least…
Gorgeous, talented, and smart. Gee, ya’ think???? 🙂
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This is a hymn I was unfamiliar with. I was going to post this today, this blessed Sunday. I never imagined that you would post a devotional, WP, which would accompany this so beautifully.
“Master, The Tempest is Raging”
And these joyful faces and voices? Almighty God would welcome them into His celestial choir…I am certain of it.
Betsy,
Thank you for posting that beautiful hymn!
Blessings always.
PS. Postings like yours are why I was not in bed long ago!
You are so welcome, themouseranuptheclock. I discovered it through another lovely site, and I had to share it with all here. I am so glad you loved it, as I did.
And a PS to yours…as insomnia has become a closer companion for me than I’d like, it is a wonderful thing to be able to climb back onto my branch here to leave what I’ve found during the day for friends without whom my life would be the poorer.😌 All His blessings be with you as well, my friend💕
This is a great example of prosody, a song that has the sound and feeling of the thing it describes. I remember singing it in church as a youth. The part of “Peace, be still” was always followed by a sense of peace. Another good example is the Easter hymn “Christ Arose” sometimes titled “Low in the Grave He Lay.”
The great hymn writers would always try to build into the rhyme and meter of the words and the flow of the music a sense of the message of the song. That is why the classic hymns of the gifted writers are the ines most often found that contain element of prosody.
For those that appreciate the beauty of the written word:
1 Master, the tempest is raging!
The billows are tossing high!
The sky is o’ershadowed with blackness,
No shelter or help is nigh;
Carest thou not that we perish?”
How canst thou lie asleep,
When each moment so madly is threat’ning
A grave in the angry deep?
Refrain:
The winds and the waves shall obey thy will.
“Peace, be still!”
Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea,
Or struggles or evil, whatever it be,
No water can swallow the ship where lies
the Master of ocean and earth and skies:
They all shall sweetly obey thy will.
“Peace, be still! Peace, be still!”
They all shall sweetly obey thy will.
“Peace, peace, be still!”
2 Master, with anguish of spirit
I bow in my grief today;
The depths of my sad heart are troubled,
Oh, waken and save, I pray;
Torrents of sin and of anguish
Sweep o’er my sinking soul!
And I perish! I perish, dear Master:
Oh, hasten and take control. [Refrain]
3 Master, the terror is over,
The elements sweetly rest;
Earth’s sun in the calm lake is mirrored,
And heaven’s within my breast.
Linger, O blessed Redeemer,
Leave me alone no more;
And with joy I shall make the blest harbor,
And rest on the blissful shore. [Refrain]
Thank you for posting these lyrics in readable form, Vibeman. They were in the video, but so pale that they could have been easily missed (as I did on listening to it the first time, so surprised was I by the completely unexpected perfection of their beautiful voices).
The inspired poetry of this one and other prosody I believe could come only from God. Very very moving for me.
Blessings to you, my friend.
I could be mistaken, but the ladies look like sisters and when sisters (or brothers) sing, the result is the beauty we find in this recording. Angelic.
Good morning, parichute. Oh how I agree. They looked as if they were sisters, or at least from the same family. And angelic is exactly the right word to describe what I heard. I had a visceral reaction the moment they started singing. It was glorious!🤗
And for just 5 people singing they sound like an entire choir! Very nice.
That struck me as well.
Jesus Christ is my Savior…through no merit of my own at all. ✝️
Greetings Treepers!
🪔 Keep your candle ablaze…and oh. Merry Christmas. 🪔
There is an old adage that says “When you can be calm while all of the world is going to hell, you may not have a good understanding of the situation.” I know, its humor. However, it is true. Those around us really do not understand our contentment. They think we do not understand or we would be panicking. What they do not understand is the source of our contentment. They do not see what we see.
If your governor is any of the following people, let it be known that they played some kind of role in the RGA’s passive-aggressive sabotage of MAGA candidates during the midterms. We deserve answers from them as to what went down during the decision-making process, and why.
Greg Abbott (TX)
Charlie Baker (MA)
Don Burgum (ND)
Ron DeSantis (FL)
Doug Ducey (AZ)
Larry Hogan (MD)
Eric Holcomb (IN)
Bill Lee (TN)
Henry McMaster (SC)
Kristi Noem (SD)
Tate Reeves (MS)
Kim Reynolds (IA)
Pete Ricketts (NE)
Sorry, I posted this in the open thread by mistake. Please delete.
It gets worse.
The RGA spent over $20 million to re-elect Ron DeSantis, while spending exactly ZERO to try to elect Kari Lake even though her race was so much closer. How coincidental that this happened right as she began to be floated as a possible alternative to DeSantis for 2024 and/or 2028.
https://www.transparencyusa.org/fl/donor/republican-governors-association-federal
https://www.transparencyusa.org/az/donor/republican-governors-association-federal
Still think DeSantis wasn’t in on the sabotage of MAGA candidates which took place this fall?
Have a wonderful and blessed Sunday, Treeper friends. . . 🙂
My silence is my self defense . . .
Oh Garrison…
Many many nights, this single old mom sang Lullabye “Goodnight My Angel” to my girl. Many, many nights.. accompanied with a rendition of The Lord’s Prayer fitted to a tune from my own mind. I am a second Alto and had great range. Sang in Carnegie in 1989.
Gentle rocking into merciful sleep. Restorative sleep.
I always pray that Billy Joel, an atheist, will find The Lord his Savior. Joel has such a way with words and music. A legend.
“And So It Goes” the tear soaked times of love lost.
Age and Covid has done much to steal my voice. I look forward to being in The Lord’s Presence when our races are won and it is our time. He is So Good.
Praying for you, friend.
Wonderful story, JWoo. Age and good memories are precious, not only to us but to others also. It saddens me that Billy has made his choice. As a strong believer I’m accustomed to finding closed doors when it comes to belief. Thanks for this and be blessed, love. 🙂
My favourite alto, JWoo…Marilyn Horne singing one of my favourite Christmas songs which I heard for the first time about three years ago. I hope you find it as sweet as I did. Old fashioned and very moving. 😘🙏
“The Bethlehem Babe”
And interestingly, when she sang with her sisters in a group well known during the war and after, she sang as a soprano. It was only after that her voice teacher said to her that he felt she’d be more “at home” as an alto…and that is how she came to be the celebrated singer that she was.
She and Dame Joan Sutherland (“La Stupenda” to her fans across the world, as I was and still am) performed so many glorious operatic duets. Perfection.
There is a competition held in Cardiff, Wales every year, “Singer of the World”, where many well known voices were introduced. (Two of my favourites? Sir Bryn Terfel, who took the Lieder Prize in 1986…and Dmitri Horostovsky, who took first place that same year. Tragically, Horrostovsky died a few years ago with brain cancer, too soon.)
But two of the judges for this competition were Horne and Sutherland, both of whom gave master classes. Can you imagine?? I used to watch the whole competition on the BBC Wales. An unforgettable experience for me.
I thought with your being an alto, you’d enjoy this small bit of minutia…
I enjoy it immensely and wish I could witness the competition. I am enraptured by the dynamics and someone mentioned it here… but maybe under Rado tribute… how words are written to espouse the emotions of the event.
It is a blessing to be thoughtful, educated, and be able to feel great things without losing sensibility. A well-rounded life.
Hugs to you friend. 🤗
I’ll take those hugs with gratitude, my friend. Thank you💕…sending some back to you.
Oh…
And here is the Welsh Sir Bryn and the equally superb English bass baritone singing the Ave Verum Corpus of Sir Karl Jenkins (also Welsh).
Oh MYYYYY!!
She sings beautifully. Thank you for sharing her, Besty Betsy.
So relaxing.
Pleased as punch to take kiddo to Bocelli and have her singing Italian a week later under her breathe. We don’t speak Italian… but “love” and “faith” is universal.
May we always be able to find… and share…beauty. No matter what.
Sometimes one doesn’t need to understand the actual language to understand the language. I am so glad it was a wonderful evening for you girls. A memory for the “mental cocktail” cabinet for you both😌
I highly recommend you watch this. The cars are all hooked up and the train has left the station. Blizzard conditions from Nebraska across the Ohio Valley and over to the Appalachians this week before Christmas. The snow will be following the coming of zero to sub zero temps with strong winds and thus severe windchill.
It will be dangerous to travel and there will be a large number of flight cancellations. People will be spending Christmas in an airport or nearby motel. There will almost certainly be fatalities associated with this storm.
As always scroll down for the free Saturday Summary video. He starts it off with that Bing and David Bowie version of The Little Drummer Boy.
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The link takes me to the website landing page but not to a forecast. I appreciate much your insights, Rah. Bless you in your travels and be safe!
Same….
You have to scroll down to the video. It’s about 3 pages down.
Wonderful choice with Per-Olov. Great player and a hell of a nice guy. 🙂
Handel is one of my favorites! Thanks for posting! 🙂
In memory of my Mom.
Patty…just above, I’ve left another in a reply to JWoo for your collection.
I’ll have bet you’ve never heard this one either. I adore it, and I hope you do as well💕🌲
I just finished listening to Sir Bryn and the other you posted by Marilyn Horne. I’ve added both to my collection – thank you!!! Like you, I just couldn’t get to sleep last night so when I could i took a nice long nap to make up for some of the lost sleep. So I’m late getting here for the day.
LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, YE MIGHTY GATES
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
–Psalm 24, KJV
Me, three.
From happy and free anti-globalists Russia; a gift for russians for Cristmas.
(Warning: these Russian citizens who wrote the article are most likely Russophobes and anti-Putinists!!!)
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December 16, 2022
THE SANITARY DICTATORSHIP IS RETURNING: THE GOVERNMENT BEGINS PCR TESTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR INFLUENZA AND SARS, SANITARIANS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE NOT INJECTED
While we are giving pension and hard-earned funds to help the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, knitting socks and scarves to our brothers on the front line, sanitary and vaccine fascists in power continue to mock the people. Moreover, strictly according to WHO patterns and on the basis of an already run-in covid experiment with mandatory tests and “miracle injections” (after which each new “wave of covid” turned out to be even stronger, and today only 7% of Russians have collective immunity, according to operstab!).
Only now, when covid has already been officially recognized as indistinguishable from SARS, it has been decided to bring to the fore … the swine flu that has long existed with us and the same SARS! Yes, it was in vain that covid skeptics ironically noted that covid is equal to the flu – as if mocking us, officials really decided to fight the usual seasonal surge of infection with “anti–covid” means.
And now the Government has already decided to pay for PCR tests of citizens for influenza, and only for those hospitalized after a positive result (!), planned operations for children have been canceled in St. Petersburg (hello, the increase in child mortality), and in some regions they have already reached the ban on unvaccinated parents and children (children! – which was not even in the midst of covidism) to attend New Year’s holidays. And of course, schoolchildren are massively dropped off at a distance. In general, we are being transported back to the gloomy “pandemic” past, and if there is no resistance, they will test, stab and discriminate “to victory”.
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The day before [December 14], the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin and the Government, proposed testing all people with symptoms of SARS for influenza.
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https :// www .rbc .ru/politics/14/12/2022/6399c93e9a79476dd1bf3dcb
Popova suggested testing everyone with symptoms of SARS for the flu
Rospotrebnadzor proposed testing for influenza in everyone with symptoms of SARS
President Vladimir Putin said that the incidence of SARS and influenza is growing by 30-35% per week
In Russia, it is necessary to start testing for influenza in all people with symptoms of acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI), said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
http :// kremlin .ru/events/president/news/70082
Meeting with members of the Government
The President held a videoconference meeting with members of the Government.
December 14, 2022
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Naturally, she was actively supported by the “skirmisher” of QR codes from globalist structures, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, whose relatives are tied to Big Pharma (it’s no coincidence that she is called the main beneficiary of the “pandemic” in Russia: https : // iarex .ru/articles/83347.html?ysclid=lbpbcg1lfu190274782 ).
“The operational headquarters under the leadership of Tatiana Alekseevna Golikova decided to use the scheme that was adopted for covid, for testing for covid, for testing for influenza. We have evaluated the possibilities. There are opportunities.
There are enough stocks of domestic tests, and the laboratories are equipped with the necessary equipment. Therefore, today it is quite possible to start testing for the detection of influenza for everyone, just like for covid, who has a clinic for acute respiratory viral infections. This way we will reduce the risks for these people,” Popova said
Yes, your eyes did not deceive you. They really have opportunities, on the covid, the scheme with tests / injections / QR codes was not run in order to forget about it later at once. And now a change of scenery…
And the same DNA sampling of people, only now it seems like with PCR tests for influenza. Here, sane people immediately have a question: why test for the flu at all? Is the flu treatment regimen at least somewhat different from that of severe acute respiratory viral infections? And with covid, given that his clinic is officially recognized as equal to the same SARS? No, absolutely no different. Will it become much easier for a person if they tell him that he has swine flu, and not another SARS? Not either. A little later we will try to answer the question about the true tasks of the lobbyists of this project.
The next logical question is for those who have swine flu tests positive – what “prevention and safety” measures will they prescribe? House arrest (quarantine), social distancing? And then certificates of those who have been ill and pricked from the flu will be issued? If we look at what is happening in the regions right now, this is exactly what is going on.
On the same day after Popova’s speech, on December 14, the Government of the Russian Federation promptly issued a corresponding decree on PCR tests of Russian citizens in hospitals and polyclinics for influenza, at the expense of the FOMS:
http : // static .government .ru/media/files/VZjX1IN69ZD89AAp3d0EaRBdVeDUorZ3.pdf
GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Resolution
No. 2297 of December 14 , 2022
Moscow
On amendments to Section IV of the Program of State Guarantees of Free Provision of Medical Care to Citizens for 2022 and for the planning period of 2023 and 2024
“the fifty-third paragraph after the words “polymerase chain reaction method” should be supplemented with the words “and for the presence of respiratory infection viruses, including influenza virus, by any of the methods“; b) the fifty-fourth paragraph should be supplemented with the words “, respiratory viral infection, including influenza“; c) paragraphs fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth after the words “new coronavirus infection (COVID-19),” add the words “respiratory viral infection, including influenza,”;
When conducting the studies specified in paragraph 53 of this section by federal medical organizations in the process of providing medical care in inpatient conditions, if the patient has signs of acute colds of unclear etiology and if symptoms appear that do not exclude the presence of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), respiratory viral infection, including influenza, payment for medical assistance is provided by the Fund for a completed case of hospitalization for the corresponding clinical and statistical group…”
So far, these tests seem to be voluntary, but let’s pay attention to the wording. In the new PCR tests, the Government suggests looking not only for the influenza virus (although there are many strains with their own RNA sequence), but also for the genes of “respiratory viral infections”. That is, all abstract respiratory infections, you know? There can be hundreds and thousands of variants of ARVI, which of them are their PCR tests sharpened? Yes, it does not even say that they will look for exactly the RNA of the H1N1 virus (swine flu), it says about influenza viruses in general.
And here we recall the words of the late discoverer of the PCR testing method, Carey Mallis, about their uselessness for detecting the current infection. Involuntarily, a suspicion creeps in that mass tests are not needed for the speedy cure of citizens (how did we cope with the flu without DNA testing before?), but for completely different purposes.
But the most important thing is to pay attention to what honey will be paid for. organizations after inducing a coughing and snotty patient to a PCR test for ARVI (sorry, it’s ridiculous to even print this, but you have to!). They will receive money only upon hospitalization of such a patient in a hospital. Do you understand what prerequisites the Government creates in this way? That’s right, there will be plenty of positive tests and hospitalizations – doctors also want to eat and earn money. And then they will immediately tell us about the “terrible statistics of hospitalizations for influenza” – yes, in fact, the media are already dispersing this wave. That’s how subtly they work.
And the regions obediently take a salute. Thus, hospitals and polyclinics in the Saratov region will begin testing for influenza virus and other respiratory infections. The Saratov media reported on the approval of the relevant decree by the Government of the Russian Federation.
https : // www .4vsar .ru/news/medychrejdeniya-saratovskoi-oblasti-nachnyt-provodit-171587/
“This decision was made due to the increase in cases of influenza, including in combination with coronavirus. Testing can be carried out under the CHI program if there are indications. This will allow you to quickly identify the type of infection and prescribe the necessary treatment. Studies for influenza and SARS can also be conducted simultaneously with a PCR test for COVID-19,” the local newspaper reports.
And none of the journalists even asks the question: how is it – a study for influenza (all possible strains of all types of influenza virus?) and SARS at once? Which antigen RNA should a specific test find? It’s as if the brains of many have massively turned off.
But, for example, the Minister of Health of Karelia Mikhail Okhlopkov began to disperse the wave of “infodemic”:
https : // vk .com/wall522125891_4728
11 Dec at 7:00
I appeal to the heads of schools and teachers.
There is a difficult epidemiological period for influenza in Karelia right now. We have also registered H1N1 swine flu in the 2009 version, which is extremely dangerous and contagious. In the last swine flu epidemic in the world, there were many deaths among children and pregnant women. Do not discount the coronavirus, which has not gone anywhere yet.
The spread of influenza and covid always begins with children.
In children’s polyclinics, the number of calls has increased almost 3 times in the last two weeks. Three children with metapneumovirus in serious condition were hospitalized in the I.N. Grigovich Children’s Republican Hospital, one in intensive care. The disease begins as a viral one, and then a bacterial infection joins it.
As I have already written, we are expecting three waves of flu. Now the first wave is raging: mostly children are sick. Pregnant women and people over 65 are also at risk. Deaths among children and pregnant women are already being recorded in some regions.
Taking into account the fact that children’s immunity is weakened after covid due to the fact that they suffered it mainly in mild form, infection occurs rapidly.
Taking into account the fact that children’s immunity is weakened after covid due to the fact that they suffered it mainly in mild form, infection occurs rapidly.
Therefore, I ask you not to chase the progress of students now. If children are sick, then they do not need to ask homework. Children need complete rest during this period. In addition, send classes and schools to quarantine or distance learning on time.
The first wave passes relatively easily, the other two are expected like a tsunami: quickly, a lot and with terrible consequences. In addition, it is likely that the viral strain “Hong Kong” will also come. If we don’t quarantine classes and schools in time, Karelia will be on fire again.”
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Here, as we understand, we are talking about the total transfer of schools to the distance. And to digital educational platforms without live teachers, of course. The worst experience of the covid era for parents, against which the whole country stood up, is returning – it is necessary for foresight specialists to somehow move the DSP, FGIS “My School” and other personal trajectories with machine algorithms…
The Tyumen Region and its chief medical officer Galina Sharukho have especially distinguished themselves in the ARVI dictatorship today. In her ruling , Sharuho ordered:
“To strengthen anti-epidemic measures during mass New Year holidays. Do not allow persons with signs of SARS and who do not have information about vaccination against influenza to participate.”
https: // 72 .ru/text/health/2022/12/14/71897378/
Without vaccination, they will not be allowed to attend events. Restrictions have been introduced in the Tyumen region — the statement of the authorities
All because of the increase in the number of cases of influenza and SARS
December 14, 2022
From the comments below the article:
https : // 72 .ru/text/health/2022/12/14/71897378/comments/
“Guest
Have you come all the way with your vaccines? Will they be forced to get vaccinated against the flu now?
198595424
damn it.
Guest
There is no longer confidence in vaccination, nor in the CPS.Let them experiment on themselves first and then advise others.
Guest
For thousands of years, people have been sick with SARS and flu and somehow have withstood them, and here the CPS has gone completely crazy with vaccination. What is the attitude of the CPS, which checks stores for delays, suddenly began to understand medicine?
Guest
And for the consequences of vaccination with an experimental” vaccine ” against covid affecting DNA and RNA, who will be responsible now? CPS? What does this have to do with medicine and on what basis did they get the right to tell people what and how to inject into the body? Will the head of the CPS guarantee the safety of flu vaccines, which do not know where, by whom and how? Probably not.
Guest
Curses on the head of all who experiment with vaccination in Russia.
198940970
And will sandwiches, gifts and congratulations be given after vaccination?
Guest
??Again, people will be divided: with and without vaccination ??
Guest
They got caught with their vaccines. They no longer know what to do and what to do. But only to suggest anything.
198595424
yes, you hear, disrespected sharuho, you have all these recommendations, and it turns out that you and others like you have no right to limit people in anything, to fine them, to force them to get vaccinated, it’s not clear what any of this is, it’s not clear how, in general, you and those like you create lawlessness.
Truth
How can you prove you have a flu vaccine? Will they have chicken codes??
Guest
This is completely crazy! Flu vaccination has never been mandatory.
But! Whether it will still be!
Under Kovid, more laws were written in two months than in two years.
Because they realized how cool it is to make money on a commitment!
So far, this has been done from the budget.
“Tomorrow” they will say that because of the roach, there is no money, EVERYONE will have to vaccinate himself at his own expense: flu, covid, tuberculosis, etc.
And if there is no money, it will not interfere with anyone, and your desire too.
Simple, you can’t go anywhere without QR and that’s it!
Proljj
Wasn’t, wasn’t, and here it is again. Many people no longer have free funds for “events”, and those who have one will arrange a holiday for themselves in a convenient place. Now “covid” is not in fashion, another bloody way was found to limit and scare the population, and then the flu surfaced.
Guest
It’s amazing that she’s still at large. Although no, this is Russia.
Guest
Everything is according to the so-called Plan. A lull in the special military operation means that we start an epidemic of restrictions, action begins in the special military operation, and the epidemic of restrictions subsides. The goal is one: the Golden billion. That, by the way, they don’t hesitate to say. Listen to Chubais ‘ speech.
Guest
In the Sverdlovsk region, a young dentist girl died after vaccination
25-year-old Katya Legostaeva studied to be a dentist in the Urals. Then she got a diploma and wanted to continue her education in residency, and in the meantime “fill her hand”. The girl went to work at the Krasnoufimsk hospital in the Sverdlovsk region.
At the place of work, the girl was told that she would not be allowed without a covid vaccination. “I had to inject.” On December 6, Katya was vaccinated, but after it the lady became ill, her health continued to deteriorate, and she died on December 9. It is claimed, the cause was a sudden heart attack.
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And I’m not even going to put anything in myself. I’m not a guinea pig. I have the right to legally go wherever I want.
Guest
What a dense people in Tyumen. Inquisitors from the Middle Ages, not otherwise
Chuguev
Let’s write daily summaries: how many got sick, how many died.
Or was it only with Covid?
Guest
We advise Galina Sharukho to familiarize herself with the Constitution of the Russian Federation. This is discrimination in general.”
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This was not the case anywhere in Russia, even in the fierce months of covidobesia [covid obscurantism]. We did not know any defeat in the rights of unvaccinated children, their non–admission to matinees before – we only punished parents who were not pricked. But Sharukho decided to go further and got to the rights and freedoms of schoolchildren, which, of course, grossly contradicts the profile 157-FZ “On Immunoprophylaxis” (and it is unacceptable to discriminate against unvaccinated parents under this Federal Law!).
Sharukho also reported that from December 15 to December 23, a distance is being introduced in all schools in Tyumen, students go home (so as not to count 20% of cases in each class, as it should be according to the standards). “Morning filters” (with mandatory thermometry) are also being introduced at enterprises, kindergartens, schools, universities and colleges, a ban on visits to social and medical institutions, an enhanced disinfection regime in shopping centers and transport. Restrictions will also apply to festive events. At the end of her appeal, the head of the Tyumen Rospotrebnadzor also recommended that Tyumen residents wear masks when visiting public places and transport.
And I would like to ask – how did we live before all the previous years without “morning filters”, without PCR tests for SARS and flu with the usual seasonal winter spikes in the incidence of colds? Did you live badly, restlessly? Well, apparently now – under the strict “sanitary” supervision of Popova and other agents of Schwab and Gates, we will be completely healthy without exception.
The Tyumen Department of Education, following Sharuho’s decree, issued a corresponding order.
Pay attention to the wording: “during the mass New Year holidays, do not allow persons with signs of acute respiratory viral infections and who do not have information about vaccination against influenza to participate” (applies to both adults and their children). And how do they distinguish SARS / flu / covid by signs – once again we modestly ask? Yes, in any way – there is just another gross violation of the rights of the unvaccinated. It’s just that the Rostec state Corporation is now monopolistically engaged in the supply of influenza vaccines to the Russian Federation, and sanctions need to be compensated somehow. Money on state contracts does not smell, as you know, like other money..
https : // vademec .ru/news/2022/08/01/rostekh-stal-edinstvennym-postavshchikom-vaktsin-dlya-profilaktiki-grippa-na-2022-2023-gody/?ysclid=lbpcsz6tp7799145957
Rostec has become the sole supplier of influenza vaccines for 2022-2023
August 1, 2022
(Vademecum business magazine is addressed to professionals of the healthcare industry, as well as to everyone who is interested in this branch of the economy with a total volume of over 3 trillion rubles.)
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And the infamous “covid-prevention” fighting-granny Natalia Bashketova in St. Petersburg does not doze: she returned the mandatory mask regime to the city (for now – in the organization of social services) and canceled planned operations for children.
https : // www .kommersant .ru/doc/5720738?from=top_main_5
“13.12.2022
In St. Petersburg, they introduce a mask regime in medical institutions and stop accepting children for planned hospitalization
Epidemiological restrictions have been returning to St. Petersburg since Wednesday, December 14, due to the explosive increase in the incidence of SARS and influenza. The corresponding resolution was signed by the chief sanitary doctor of the city Natalia Bashketova.
The incidence of influenza and SARS in St. Petersburg over the past week exceeded the weekly epidemic threshold by 76.7%. Of the total number of diseases, 55% occur in children. At the same time, the number of patients with severe infection requiring hospitalization has also increased.
In this regard, from December 14 in St. Petersburg, assistance to patients with acute respiratory viral infections will mainly be provided at home. Along with this, a ban is being introduced on the planned hospitalization of the children’s population in hospital-type medical organizations.
The mask mode is returned to all inpatient and outpatient medical organizations, as well as social service institutions. Visitors will be banned from coming to hospitals, except for those who provide assistance to heavy and bedridden patients.
Educational institutions will suspend the educational process for at least a week in the absence of 20% or more students with signs of SARS. At the entrance, they will begin to identify sick children and employees, after which they will be suspended from school classes.”
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Educational institutions in St. Petersburg will suspend the educational process for at least a week in the absence of 20% or more students with signs of SARS. At the entrance, sick children and employees will also be identified, after which they will be suspended from classes. That is, again – total thermometry and the distance that is so beloved by digitizers, which is debilitating for schoolchildren.
What is the fault of healthy children who have a long-scheduled date of surgery on their calendar? Why should these children pay with their health for the supposed increase in SARS cases across the region/city? What kind of absurdity is this, crippling our younger generation, and even introduced by an institution allegedly related to healthcare?
In the light of such a bleak picture, we publish for those who are ready to defend their rights the instructions of the pro-family all-Russian organization “Public Commissioner for Family Protection” to combat abuse of school administration / officials during seasonal infections. Once again, we are convinced that the experts who said that without Russia’s withdrawal from the WHO and a good blow to the hands on the “sanitary healers”, medical fascism will triumph in our country, turned out to be absolutely right. All the “infection control measures” described above are obviously useless and extremely unpopular among the people.
And the saddest thoughts also come to mind: as if the authorities are not satisfied with the record excess mortality of the population of 1 million people last year!* A lot of people died just because planned operations were canceled in the regions due to the “high occupancy of covid beds”. What kind of early prevention of diseases can we talk about when the state denies citizens guaranteed medical care under 323-FZ! It is not difficult to guess that with the cancellation of children’s planned hospitalization, child mortality will sharply increase. And the authorities and the vaccine lobby, in turn, will say that all this is because of the flu and SARS, and they will tighten the vaccination stranglehold even tighter.
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“And the saddest thoughts also come to mind: as if the authorities are not satisfied with the record excess mortality of the population of 1 million people last year!*”
https : // www .vedomosti .ru/society/articles/2021/11/29/898151-umershih-antirekord
“November 30, 2021
The death rate in Russia over the past year has become a record since the war
In the period from December 2020 to November 2021, the death rate exceeded 2.4 million people, and the population decline approached 1 million Russians
Excess mortality in December 2020 – November 2021 could exceed 622,000 people. […] This is the worst period since 1945. The natural decline of the population, excluding migration, has crossed the mark of 990,000 people over the past year[…]The situation was more deplorable only during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. […] If we take the mortality rate of 2019 as a conditional norm, then it is higher than this norm from October 2020 to September 2021. about 607,000 people died, and from last December to November – at least 622,000 people.
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The total population decline in Russia from December 2020 to November 2021 exceeds 990,000 people. Population losses (in excess of the 2019 loss) may amount to about 665,000 people.
Until 2019, the mortality rate was decreasing. For example, in 2015 it was 13.0 per 1000 people, and in 2019 it was 12.3, according to Rosstat data. This year it has already grown to 16.8 ppm.”
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“In the period from December 2020 to November 2021, the death rate exceeded 2.4 million people, and the population decline approached 1 million Russians”
https : // ru .wikipedia .org/wiki/Вакцинация_против_COVID-19_в_России
“Vaccination against Covid – 19 in Russia began on December 5, 2020 from Moscow. […]as of January 28, 2022, according to official data, approximately 83.7 million vaccinations with the first component and approximately 79.3 million complete vaccination courses were carried out in Russia; these figures include both primary and repeated vaccination. Portal gogov.ru on the same date, it reports smaller figures (76.4 million and 69.6 million, respectively), which do not include re-vaccinated.”
The timing of the appearance of the effects of the bioweapon spike protein (as predicted) and the brutal weather descending upon Europe and Russia (and here) will I suspect see the “excess” deaths increase exponentially…
…and the genocide continues…
18 December 2019 Kenny Lynch, British pop-rock singer (“You Can Never Stop Me Loving You”; “Up On A Roof”), dies of cancer at 81
(he was also part of the Grover Washington Jr tune yesterday)
18 December 2019 Hugh McKenna, British rock keyboardist (The Sensational Alex Harvey Band), dies of cancer at 70
18 December 2011 Ralph MacDonald, American rock percussionist and songwriter (“Just the Two of Us”), dies of cancer at 67
18 December 2000 Kirsty MacColl, English singer and songwriter (Electric Landlady), dies when run over by a power boat (while saving son Jamie 15 from that fate) in the National Marine Park of Cozumel at 41
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18 December 2000 James Mitchell, American session baritone saxophonist (The Memphis Horns; Stax Records), dies at 69
18 December 1995 Brian Brockless, English organist and composer, dies at 69
December 18 Oswald Chambers
Test of Faithfulness
We know that all things work together for good to those who love God… —Romans 8:28
It is only a faithful person who truly believes that God sovereignly controls his circumstances. We take our circumstances for granted, saying God is in control, but not really believing it. We act as if the things that happen were completely controlled by people. To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, or object of our faith— the Lord Jesus Christ. God may cause our circumstances to suddenly fall apart, which may bring the realization of our unfaithfulness to Him for not recognizing that He had ordained the situation. We never saw what He was trying to accomplish, and that exact event will never be repeated in our life. This is where the test of our faithfulness comes. If we will just learn to worship God even during the difficult circumstances, He will change them for the better very quickly if He so chooses.
Being faithful to Jesus Christ is the most difficult thing we try to do today. We will be faithful to our work, to serving others, or to anything else; just don’t ask us to be faithful to Jesus Christ. Many Christians become very impatient when we talk about faithfulness to Jesus. Our Lord is dethroned more deliberately by Christian workers than by the world. We treat God as if He were a machine designed only to bless us, and we think of Jesus as just another one of the workers.
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
“When the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?” We all have faith in good principles, in good management, in good common sense, but who amongst us has faith in Jesus Christ? Physical courage is grand, moral courage is grander, but the man who trusts Jesus Christ in the face of the terrific problems of life is worth a whole crowd of heroes.
https://utmost.beta.ourdailybread.org/test-of-faithfulness/
One of his best I think, spicy.
When NOAA and NASA’s fake climate disaster projections don’t happen, they just push them out to the future.
Texas!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkPAgwvXwAAzWHO?format=png&name=small
Ugh….I worry for those who are homeless, and for all the animals. I wish I felt more confident about our grid holding up. But I don’t.
Abbott is long wind and solar..completely useless in weather (not climate) like this., or any other. And although he is preferable to Eternal Peter Pan Frat Boy O’Rourke, he is still a WEF loser.
We had the warning two winters ago. It was brutal and deadly. I bet no heed was taken of how fragile and inadequate our grid was. I guess we will be finding out…
Betsy, I could not agree with you more. We have a weak grid in Texas as well as an even weaker border. God Bless…
Only now is the wall being finished, or so I read this morning in Gateway Pundit, TT.
Talk’s cheap, as it is said. Actions speak. And from Abbott I’ve seen none of the latter.
I have started the long journey of teaching through Jeremiah. The first chapter is God’s calling of Jeremiah to be a prophet for God. Verse 5 says this:
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah was told by God that he was created, purified for the task and appointed all by God before Jeremiah was even conceived. This is one of the great examples of divine election. Jeremiah tried to object based on the fact that he was still young, probably just a teen, but God would have nothing of it. The call was established by God and it would happen. When God says a thing, it happens.
Later in the chapter, after touching Jeremiah and giving him the authority to speak for God, we find this difficult statement by God:
12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”
God will give Jeremiah a couple visions. After the first God says “You have seen well…” Jeremiah is told that speaking for God includes a need to see the things of God clearly. A problem exists in modern Christianity in which many of those that speak for God have little or no understanding of God. They have not really seen the vision that God has for man and the world. They have their own vision which they try to convince is a vision of God.
God also says that he will watch over his word to perform it. Jeremiah is to understand that his knowing of God’s work to be done will be guarded by God and it will be accomplished. Jeremiah’s job is laid out simply, tell people what God is going to do and let God do it.
“When it is not God’s time, you cannot force it.
When it IS God’s time, you can NOT stop it.”
You all have a blessed Sunday.
I have a run to Lear in Indianapolis then up to Lear in Romulus, MI then back to the yard here. Tonight my girls from Florida are to arrive with my youngest Granddaughter and they will be staying with us until a couple days after Christmas with their two dogs and hairless cat. It is going to be a madhouse around here and I will cherish every moment of it!
Merry Christmas, Rah and family!
I remember the last time your granddaughter was with you, rah. So happy your family will be again.
Make those Mental Cocktails and fill the cabinet. Blessings to you all, my friend.
I love your term “mental cocktail.” I find as I grow older, well, ok just old, I’m imbibing so much more.
Exactly why we store up, patty. A phrase I learned from my mother in law. I loved it and appropriated it.
Stick with older, which is how I’ve advised my grands to refer to people of a certain age, if they must. 😉
Enjoy rah! Today we had 4 grands at church and our 10 yo grandson gave a 5 minute sermon. Last week our pastor told him that he’d let him deliver one anytime and this week he was ready with it. Such a blessing!
Oh, G!! How wonderful!! Oh my heart…and I’m sure yours🙏💕
One proud grandpa here, Bet. This had been a Sunday full of blessings. Nipper and my daughter and SIL at church with Violet and her 2 brothers. The older one is 20, has very mild Asperger’s and a heart of gold.
Will have the two younger once and Nipper for a sleepover Thursday night and a rehearsal for the children’s choir for the Christmas Eve service.
My browser still doesn’t want to have anything to do with emojis (except a smiley face) but imagine that I put a heart here. 🙂
Thank you all so much and GrandPaM that is Great! The got in safe and sound about 1 hour before I got back from my run. I will be hitting the sack soon. Long day. All the others are already in bed since the drove straight through from Daytona to here leaving at 03:00 this morning and arriving here about 20:00.
About the only one not happy was Gabby the cat. She is now in here with me in the office and there is a baby gate up so she has a safe space where her elevated bed, litter box, food and water are. Once she gets settled down she will be able to come and go from here as she pleases.
Good morning everyone, the sweet regulars parked on the resident Tree.
I’m enjoying the Rado Thomas memorials. As sad as Rado’s sudden passing is… it fills my heart with warmth to see so many kindred Spirits in Treepers.
I try not to interject “too” much as I feel an interloper in your presence, but I have secretly adopted you and you are all my family. I have great affection for you.
Bless you all this day and every day and may God continue to give you eyes to see and ears to hear all his wondrous, merciful, and beautiful creations.
He loves us all so much.
This family of ours in this church in the Tree, where God surely hears us, will always gather to offer condolences on another’s loss, no matter what it is. I pray Sundance and his family took some comfort reading those comments, sincerely written.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Good morning, duchess. Yes. Amen.💕
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.
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Verse of the Day for Sunday, December 18, 2022
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“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Romans 10:17 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Amen!!!
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
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)
Composer Angelo Badalamenti –famous for his musical scores for David Lynch movies and the T.V. show Twin Peaks – died recently.
I offer his film score from one Lynch’s best movie: G-rated (!) The Straight Story, which shows a retired, disabled, 70-something Iowa truck driver attempting to ride a lawn mower 300 miles to Wisconsin to reconcile with his ill younger brother.
The opening music is transcendent: listen to that, if you do not have time for the entire suite. The movie is an excellent tour of the human soul!
Thank you Ausonius – this definitely qualifies as a Christmas gift – goosebumps 🙂
Bergoglio, as Archbishop Vigano refers to him, has defrocked Father Frank Pavone, an outspoken cleric for the preservation of life.
An attachment to a letter written by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States (a position once held by Archbishop Vigano), said…
“Father Pavone was given ample opportunity to defend himself in the canonical proceedings, and he was also given multiple opportunities to submit himself to the authority of his diocesan bishop”…
“It was determined that Father Pavone had no reasonable justification for his actions.”
Archbishop Vigano said in recent remarks that it was time to choose on whose side we are all on…the side of the Antichrist, or the side of good.
Father Pavone has chosen the side of Almighty God. May He be with His servant who, unlike Bergoglio, has affirmed life for our gifts from God.🙏
I just saw that news moments ago B. The travesties, the betrayals… they don’t seem to end in these times. I will refer to the upwards posts that talk about Contentment as it is the only way I can move forward – with Him, Lord Jesus as my savior, my contentment. Amen, Amen to your Prayers for Archbishop Vigano and Father Pavone. -P
Awful news, parichute. But now Bergoglio is exposed completely for what he is. Father Pavone knows Whose authority he answers to. Adding some wonderful pages to his Book of Life.
In Father Pavone’s live Facebook comments yesterday evening he mentioned that he never received the supposed letter by the Archbishop, in fact, he goes into great length about his history with that particular individual who has tried for years to get Father Pavone kicked out of the priesthood. Father Pavone ended that part of his discussion mentioning that this is the last year for this particular Archbishop to be in the position he currently holds, so left me with the impression it was one of those ‘last acts’ the Archbishop wants to complete, ending the Priests for Life ministry work of Father Pavone, before he (the Archbishop) no longer has the opportunity to do so.
How political and unholy of the retiring Archbishop.
Yes, I saw he said he had not received the letter. There is an update on this at Gateway Pundit.
In his 4-page letter in response to what’s happening the Father posted a link to his live facebook remarks so am sharing that here; it’s amazing that those who are trying to remove him may not have realized Father Frank is a fighter!
That man has spent the better part of 30 years bringing about the end of Roe v Wade, and now they want to remove him?:
Thank you, Bessie2003.
I believe Bergoglio is not on the side of our Lord. His involvement with and a driving force for a one world religion tells me so.
Putting this right here
Phil Wickham – Till I Found You (Official Video) – Bing video
It looks like the Catholic Priest, Father Frank Pavone, is under his own sort of deep state attack, and watched his live presentation on Facebook yesterday about the move from within the Church to remove him from the priesthood. Can’t share facebook links or videos but it is up on there for those who do facebook to find. Very interesting and glad he is fighting back, it is his calling after all.
That said, on his personal website, he has placed a post to update people that are interested in finding out what’s happening. On his website is a link to the full story of events.
Looks like there are those within the Church not happy with the success Priests for Life has been having lately. Praying for Father Pavone and the work.
Link to Father Pavone’s website:
https://www.frfrankpavone.com/index.aspx
Father Pavone has a written update after all these news stories have emerged today. It is 4 pages, and will post the link on the Presidential Daily Thread as well since there are several comments over there on this evolving situation:
https://frfrankpavone.com/pdf/from-the-desk-of-12-18-2022.pdf
Gentle reminder. “The Chosen” season 3, episode 2 is tonight at 7 PM EST on https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen
Sad!
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/12/17/breaking-vatican-dismisses-father-frank-pavone-from-priesthood/
In today’s Church, led by Francis, even Bishop Fulton J. Sheen would be given the boot.
Remarkable comments when you think about it….
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A peaceful and blessed Hanukkah to our Jewish friends here at TCT. Be well.
Amen.Chag urim sameach.
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.