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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Sweet, Patience💕
Good morning Patience! ❤️ Might those two be gossiping? 😀
Good and glorious morning, to you Pa❣️❣️❣️
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Here ya go, Leon. I saw this and thought of you.
Nice Cat of the Week
“Gadget”: Will let you hold him like a baby
Naughty Cat of the Week
“Porkchop”: The newest Kitty Behaviour Bootcamp member who just wants to watch the world burn.
I’ve had a few of each…loved them all😊
Morning Bet! Porkchop was the name a friend of mine and his wife had given to their fatted calf a few years ago.
❤️ 😘
Had to re-read that.
First thought Porkchop was the name given to your friend’s wife. 😋
Hmmm, haven’t seen him in a couple of years but last I heard he was still alive so I’m pretty sure he didn’t name his wife that. 😂😂😂
Morning, G!😁💕 So he was a “transgender”??😂
Porkchop most likely had a gender assignment surgery. Or there is that device that is used to crimp the cords carrying blood and other stuff to and from the juevos and everything kind of withers on the vine. That second one doesn’t require any cutting.
Anyway, Porkchop ended up being different kind of cuts and sausage. If he were at our house and my bride got to meet him he’d probably still be around . 😀💗
At mine , too…which is why I could never be a person who raised them…too soft me.
We all need to be adopted by Betsy. She oozes maternal cuddles. 😀
Come one, come all!!!!😘
“juevos”… I’m dying. You are too much, GPa. Blessings at ya!
Afternoon J, I was trying to keep it kinda clean. 😂
And blessings back at you.
It helps to think creatively… there is always another word for the one you’d like to use.😉
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
WOW !
….and some question God.
Howdy Patience how many Owls to make a parliament?
Mornin’ jay Good ‘uns . . . again 🙂
Howdy Garrison 🙂
Good afternoon, Garrison and Jay.
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Good morning, Mr jay. We’ve found a 40s channel on Sirius XM and have found ourselves choosing to listen to it more and more. I’ve always liked “It’s been a Long Long Time”; and it caught my eye that it has been watched an astounding 33+million times. It seems those who are hankering for times gone by are joined by more than we think…
WDCB streaming on Sat 11-1 Central time–Swing Shift — good stuff and some music history
Oh nice, Joe. Thank you😘
Betsy Jones et al, am interested in suggestions for ‘fun’ or lyrically interesting songs to cover and imagine there are deep mines that pre-date the 60s.
I do remember coming across Marty Robbins and know he would be a good one to start with. Any other suggestions?
Guess I will answer my own question:
Came upon this and realize that Freddy Fender is someone my Dad listened to, here, along with Marty.
Listening to this performance brings back memories of traveling in Texas.
While not in that category, you made me think of the great, brilliant Tom Lehrer, whose songs were so clever. There were many. But here is one…
He was so inventive…but he would be as a man from MIT.
Here is another, just one of so, so many politically incorrect songs he wrote.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VeWGCjOH-YE
( …I’ll see myself out…)
“Berkelium”! Enjoyable, though a tongue twister to sing no doubt! The periodic table is an interesting friend with which to try to understand the physical universe.
And great breath control as well😉😁
Interesting:
Wasn’t it?? I spent some time this morning going through some of his other songs. Most of them I could have posted with the same comment “interesting”, GreyRockMan. I very nearly posted this one…glad you did.
PS…I haven’t been able to get that catchy little tune from hos “Oedipus Rex” out of my head all day.
Betsy, thank you for turning me on to Tom Lehrer:
You are most welcome, sir. The man was a genius on many levels…his talents were introduced to me by my in-laws who had such a sense of the ridiculous. We sat in their backroom where they did their entertaining and listened to album after album of his. What a discovery for me. And I’m so glad it was for you as well.
(“Plagiarize, use your eyes…” 😂😂😂)
Maidin Mhaith Betsy definitely like my xm radio plenty of good channels to choose.
Ours is on every single day from the moment we wake up. Especially at Christmas with their beautiful Christmas music starting on the day after Halloween…the serene choral and European carols, oratorios, and unknown to many pieces. Most would think it too much. Not us. We marinate in it.
Kitty Kallen, yowza!
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Morning jay!
Howdy Gramps 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
One more . . . This version is absolutely glorius!!!
Good morning, Garrison. We surely do lose track of time, don’t we? I noticed “1981” in the corner of this video…surely not! Wasn’t it just the other day??
Mornin’ Bet. I first heard Queen’s “Bohemian” in ’79. We’d just driven into San Jose from Texas, found a motel, and had just turned on the TV. Suddenly, the original Queen Bohemian Rhapsody suddenly filled the room. The video is almost as interesting as the music. 🙂
It is interesting. I knew of Queen, but I’d never listened to their music, only discovering it when I moved across the pond at the time Freddy Mercury had disappeared from the public eye. The rumours were widespread because he and the group were so popular. I’ve always thought of Bohemian Rhapsody as one of those songs which took the music of the day and elevated it. Of course it was an instant classic. And with those voices it is not hard to understand why. And yes. The video was artfully constructed. Agree. The whole thing a work of art for that time.
You have to love that “Rhap” music
There was nothing quite like Queen.
Good morning Garrison!
Mornin’ Gramps 🙂
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Hi, Patience! 🙂
The Dutch, I’ve noticed, produce some really outstanding organists. Glorious is the word all right!
Hello from Israel, I think you will laugh:
Hi, David. Good mornin’ from Texas where freedom and liberty still exists!! Be well, friend. 🙂
Hi David !
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I’ve Always Enjoyed Your
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Take Care 😊
Good morning, David! How wonderful to “see” your bright face this morning. We’ve kept your Tree branch swept and tidy for you. All the best to you for a better New Year, sir. Hoping to see more of you, my friend. Be well. 🙏
Good morning, David! Was the language used Hebrew or Yiddish?
Shalom David, good to see you again.
I enjoy reading these, Thank you!
28 December 2018 Ray Sawyer, American singer (Dr Hook), dies at 81
28 December 2018 Christine McGuire, American pop vocalist (McGuire Sisters – “Sincerely”; “Sugartime”), dies at 92
28 December 2017 Rose Marie [Mazzetta], American actress, comedienne and singer (The Dick Van Dyke Show – “Sally”; The Doris Day Show), dies at 94
28 December 2016 (Mary Frances) “Debbie” Reynolds, American actress and singer (Singin’ In The Rain -“Kathy Selden”; The Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies of a stroke at 84 one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher passed away
28 December 2015 Lemmy [Ian Fraser Kilmister], British heavy metal musician (Motörhead), dies from terminal illness at 70
28 December 1992 Mort Greene [Greenberger], American songwriter (Theme to “Leave It To Beaver”; “Sleepy Serenade”), dies at 80
Also appearing:
Anthony Lee Dow (April 13, 1945 – July 27, 2022) was an American actor, film producer, director and sculptor.
28 December 1983 Dennis Wilson, American drummer and singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39
I was privileged to see the Beach Boys in concert twice – once at the Fillmore East (NYC), the other time also in NYC but I forget where.
Thanks for this post.
Second time was at Carnegie Hall, now that I think of it.
It was this very concert
https://www.allmusic.com/album/carnegie-hall-11-23-1972-mw0001435931
Another of Dr. Hook’s famous songs, written by Shel Silverstein… and yes, there actually IS a Sylvia and her mother.
December 28 Oswald Chambers
Continuous Conversion
…unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. —Matthew 18:3
These words of our Lord refer to our initial conversion, but we should continue to turn to God as children, being continuously converted every day of our lives. If we trust in our own abilities, instead of God’s, we produce consequences for which God will hold us responsible. When God through His sovereignty brings us into new situations, we should immediately make sure that our natural life submits to the spiritual, obeying the orders of the Spirit of God. Just because we have responded properly in the past is no guarantee that we will do so again. The response of the natural to the spiritual should be continuous conversion, but this is where we so often refuse to be obedient. No matter what our situation is, the Spirit of God remains unchanged and His salvation unaltered. But we must “put on the new man…” (Ephesians 4:24). God holds us accountable every time we refuse to convert ourselves, and He sees our refusal as willful disobedience. Our natural life must not rule— God must rule in us.
To refuse to be continuously converted puts a stumbling block in the growth of our spiritual life. There are areas of self-will in our lives where our pride pours contempt on the throne of God and says, “I won’t submit.” We deify our independence and self-will and call them by the wrong name. What God sees as stubborn weakness, we call strength. There are whole areas of our lives that have not yet been brought into submission, and this can only be done by this continuous conversion. Slowly but surely we can claim the whole territory for the Spirit of God.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
There is no allowance whatever in the New Testament for the man who says he is saved by grace but who does not produce the graceful goods. Jesus Christ by His Redemption can make our actual life in keeping with our religious profession.
https://utmost.org/
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
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 Wednesday, December 28, 2022
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“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
Matthew 7:12 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing
Simply and beautifully explained.
Mornin’ all!
. . . 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)
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The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that’s a great thing
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
Pure science is about doubt.
Modern ” The Science” is about self righteous delusion of “knowledge”.
(I borrowed, stole, purloined this because it is exactly right. If ” The Science” can’t be questioned, it is propaganda.)
When you find yourself in the deep dark woods, there is only one thing to do: keep walking, putting one foot in front of the other, moving forward, and eventually you will be through them. Here’s one to keep us going.
Mark Dice hits it out of the park with this one
Remember the screeching about all the dangers to the public about ivermectin?
“The supposedly “controversial” treatment for COVID was denounced as “horse paste” in the press, complete with scare stories about dead cowboys in Oklahoma taking the stuff overwhelming hospitals based on a claim by one skeezy source who knew nothing of what he was talking about. The stories ran rampant as one media outlet after another picked that story up in that monkey-see, monkey-do way and ivermectin was painted as the stuff of ignorant fools.
The FDA ran mocking ads featuring horses and cows warning Americans not to take it: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all, stop it,” the ad read, targeting all those perceived hillbillies out there taking it, supposedly for their own good. ” – from Monica Showalter over at American Thinker
Remember the ‘horse paste’ hullabaloo about ivermectin? – American Thinker
From Dave Decamp at AntiWar.com:
The CIA has been using a European NATO country’s intelligence services to conduct sabotage attacks inside Russia since the February invasion of Ukraine, investigative journalist Jack Murphy reported on Saturday, citing unnamed former US intelligence and military officials.
The report said that no US personnel are on the ground in Russia but that the operations are being directed by the CIA. The US is using an ally’s intelligence services to add an extra layer of plausible deniability, and a former US special operations official told Murphy that layer was a major factor in President Biden signing off on the attacks.
A former US special operations official and US person briefed on the campaign said that the CIA didn’t get involved with the NATO country’s operations inside Russia until 2014. The first time sleeper cells entered Russia that were directed by both the CIA and the NATO ally’s spy service was in 2016, and more entered the country in the following years.
The NATO ally provided the undercover operatives with stories to explain their presence in Russia and documents to back them up. The report said that around the time Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the NATO ally’s spy service activated its sleeper cells inside Russia using covert communication, and they were ready for orders on what targets to strike.
The sabotage operations that the CIA is overseeing require a presidential finding. President Obama signed a finding before he left office that allowed covert action against Russia over allegations that Moscow interfered in the 2016 election,
This is how they are going to take meat away from us: Dr. Robert Malone confirms mRNA vax is coming for U.S. livestock– “they’re anticipating rollouts of mRNA Covid Vaccines for ALL of our livestock now.”
Elon Musk, Dec 20 tweet:
“Government paid Twitter millions of dollars to censor info from the public”.
This is not advertising revenue (89% of Twitter’s 2021 total) and it is not data licensing (11% of Twitter’s total).
Such payments would be services revenue, which should be provided under the terms of a services agreement. May we see that agreement please?
Providing services to the govt would be weird, because no such services revenue appears to be reported in Twitter’s 2021 Annual Report. Do other governments pay for such services too?
Would such an unreported line of business mean that Twitter’s annual report is fraudulent, and in violation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?
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✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.