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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. . . 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 (+ 849)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
Amen🙏. Amen🙏🏻
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)
This chant of The Lord’s Prayer is sublime, peaceful and pulls my soul toward God …
This piece by Gorecki – the Polish composer who died just a couple of years ago – is stunning in both its beauty and in its simplicity … Górecki’s Miserere is simple in its construction but not simpleminded. The entire text consists of just five words — “Domine Deus noster, Miserere nobis” –Lord our God, have mercy on us …
thankya aa
clic o da day
i’d say
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like the way
they
showed the church from outside ,
then they took ya in
fer a listen
To those looking forward to October and Christmas I think our neighbor kids are too. They are all in their little pool singing Jingle Bells. 🎄
Hahahahahaha!!! Bless their precious hearts, deb. Bet it made you smile as broadly as reading about it has mine.
I think I can hear them from here🤗💕
Yes it did give me a smile and I immediately thought of you waiting for Christmas and Garrison, October.
How 🤩 fun!!!
It surely was.
Amen🙏🏻
Amen and Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen!
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Hi Treepers,
I am here, though not every day, and not on all the threads. I needed to escape from “escapism” for a little while. Too many “real life” demands and one can get lost and lose a lot of time online. I work ALL DAY on computer and phones and frankly… if I never saw another computer or phone in my lifetime… okay by me. Kiddo was talking today about wanting to be totally off-grid. Can’t say I blame her. Happened on the house of our dreams on 2 acres today – under contract. Sigh. It was so perfect. Truly a beauty. Outside of our price range – but it was one that could be built in another part of the country – same floor plan but less cost due to location. Told kiddo to save her pennies.
One of my customer’s home burned due to fireworks over the holiday. Richard is the sweetest man. He always calls me “young lady” and he’s just a good, good human being. Fortunately the neighbors saw the fire and were able to get he, his wife, and their 5 yo granddaughter out of the house. The neighbors are rallying around him and my boss is on the case, too, to see how we may help the family. While the house was burning – his neighbors on his street brought the family blankets, clothes, and passed the hat for donations – while his world was on fire. A few months ago, they contemplated moving – but changed their mind because of their well-loved neighbors. Heartbreaking on one hand, but God Be Praised on another! They’re ALIVE.
https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/mccordsville-family-reminds-others-how-to-properly-dispose-of-fireworks-after-fire-destroys-their-home
We have officially lost our primary care physicians – they were just horrible. What’s an Osteopath that doesn’t believe in vitamins??? So, I told them basically to kiss our back side and we have appointments with a functional medicine practice in November and we will go direct pay. So, I will piecemeal my thyroid med using prior dosages that I kept on hand due to supply chain concerns and will limp until November. Kiddo is taking the L-Theanine for her ADHD and she seems to be embracing it.
Kiddo’s healing well. She got mad at me for eating a piece of cheddar cheese in front of her today. Her motto through the wisdom teeth removal – “If I have to suffer, YOU have to suffer…” LOL
Severely damaged my gorgeous potted plants on July 3rd, preparing for firework viewing on our patio. Used Off Deep Woods to try to deter mosquitoes and sprayed it in the air around our patio. Nothing on the label read that it KILLS VEGETATION and it destroyed my plants and part of a huge almost 6 ft tall shrub. A workman trampled my God-gifted crazy Snapdragons growing amongst a dense rock bed. I made an inquiry with SC Johnson (a “family” company) about why their Off wasn’t labeled that it damaged foliage. They said “it’s for humans” and offered me $50 for my patio damage. I told them to pound sand and I was notifying Purdue Chemist’s office, who regulates applicators here in Indiana. Plus I found this online from Iowa State U. Whatever you do… DON’T USE OFF DEEP WOODS near vegetation and I find it disturbing that they instruct you to apply it to your person when it kills gorgeous, healthy, prolific plants – within hours. They absolutely fry to a crispy brown death. Made me sad and our patio was looking so beautiful. Now, I’m not sure if they will rehabilitate with the major shock.
https://www.extension.iastate.edu/turfgrass/blog/dr-nick-christians/mosquito-spray-can-kill-grass
Whether I am here, or silent – I continue in my prayers for you all. I may not look in every day – and sometimes it’s hard to even read the other threads. As Rah pointed out – some of the responses are just so frustrating. Our country is in SO MUCH TROUBLE.
This is the kind of dreaming we do – kiddo spends way too much time on Zillow. LOL But isn’t she pretty?
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9680-E-375-S-Zionsville-IN-46077/85124842_zpid/
It looks WAY BIG in the pictures – but it’s a long drive – off a country farming road – with a small bridge over a culvert that leads to this home. It looks much smaller in person – but oh so homey and warm and inviting. It was empty when we saw it today – even the garage has windows and a huge chalk board that covers two walls in one corner. The people who built this home 17 years ago – really know how to relax. Most entry doors except for one were double french doors and it was simply glorious.
I am finding the need during these desperate times to hold on to any semblance of normal and aspirations that we can. I have to be considerate of a 17 year old teenager who wants to have an optimistic future in the country that we love. I pray God it be so.
Jwoo, best wishes to you and daughter. Have recently become interested in neurofeedback which has helped many people with a variety of problems.
Article describing effectiveness with cutting ADHD meds:
https://www.additudemag.com/neurofeedback-adhd-brain-training/
I hope you see this. You all are in my prayers
Amen
Hi Wondering999,
Thank you for your kind post and, above all, really appreciate your prayers. I am a firm believer in the power of prayer and our words speaking things into existence.
Read the additudemag article as well as many of that publication’s pieces. Good source material.
Neurofeedback sounds very expensive and very “clinical”. Depending upon the age of the child, it may be helpful – but I don’t know many kids who would think positively about being hooked up and analyzed in a clinical setting. The tests to diagnose her were over 3 hours long – and that is hell for these kids. Plus, all they want to be is normal and how normal is it to have electrodes on your skull for systematic training?
After a bad experience with a Psychiatrist who diagnosed her, we realized that many clinicians tend to seem to “create” difficulties for billable hours. We were having none of that. Sometimes I think the treatments are worse than the malady. If I thought my kid were in serious danger, I would absolutely enlist a psychologist, but I found that if I could (somehow) hold it together – than she would emulate me – and she would hold it together too.
We have been really fortunate.
Found her ADHD early, but she has such a pleasant, compassionate, happy, healthy, positive disposition – I was really reluctant to medicate her… and took a couple of years to do so… because I didn’t want any adverse reactions nor to “experiment” on her with meds. I have seen kids catatonic and barely able to communicate they were so over-medicated. That was not going to be my girl.
We found http://www.GeneSight.com and had testing performed that also studied metabolism of various kinds of meds. (This was about 8 years ago – so some has changed with them.) The first med she was on, Focalin, she said “Mommy, you found just the perfect medicine for my brain.” The GeneSight analysis shows what meds are safe and which should be avoided – and that stays for her lifetime in her medical chart. Helps protect liver, kidney development, etc… for the metabolizing of the med… and analyzes the hormones the brain naturally produces to find balance between the med and what the brain is producing on its own. GeneSight eliminated experimentation – praise The Lord! I highly recommend this DNA testing be done for kids who need psychotropic medications. (And I am not in favor with randomly handing our DNA to the world – but in this case – I’m glad I did. But 8 years ago, I had no qualms that our DNA would be abused.)
We sought accommodations with school and frankly concentrated on having as peaceful a home life as possible. Now we have had our share of heartbreaks and challenges – but we talk them through, and I find that if you can inform an ADHD kid about what to expect – then the fear of the unknown is significantly less – and therefore less reactiveness to the uncertainty. (She had to have a 45 minute brain MRI @ 15 yo and then 7 1/2 hours of really hard testing for growth hormone deficiency where they pumped two meds in her to force her brain to produce growth hormone and took blood every 20 minutes – so those types of ordeals – we at length discussed right down to the sounds that would take place – so she handled them like a champ.)
It really helps to have confidence and belief that she can achieve great things – and the Lord saved her at birth – so I know He Has a tremendous Plan for her. She knows it, too, and that is a tremendous help in self-confidence, self-esteem, and sure-footedness.
Much prayer and conversation with each other to promote critical thinking, risk assessment, and consequences in actions. There is no topic off limits in this house. She is free to fully express herself and she attended one of Indiana’s top private Christian schools from Pre-K through 7th grade, so she was not talked down to, or dumbed down, sadly as they are now doing in public high school.
Kiddo never took meds on weekends or on school breaks. She just didn’t want them, so she only took them on days with high stimuli – big crowds – concerts – State Fair. She had respect for the meds and felt they worked for her, but she just wanted the freedom away from them, and I respect her wishes for that, especially because they are controlled substances. She’s not unruly at all – just delayed and younger mentally than her peers… but, she’s maturing beautifully.
She had a bit of anxiety due to high volume at her job at Chick-Fil-A last week (she works back of house so assembles the orders) and I noticed when she came home -she acted strangely. I insisted she come to the living room and she let on to how the evening unfolded for her. We decompressed – broke it down – and worked on breathing, taking a few seconds to gather one’s composure… and, frankly, PRAYER. She was back to her normal self. She is very well put together. Very well.
It is a blessing that we have strong intuitiveness towards one another – so if something is amiss with either of us – it is handled immediately.
Wondering999 – I hope I’m not sounding corny in that we are approaching this as prayerfully as possible and respecting GOD in that HE does not make mistakes when constructing people. Each of us is special in our own right and we are created perfectly imperfect. We believe that you find strengths and build on those. Our weaknesses can be deferred to others whose strengths fill those needs, and thus each member of the body of the church is fulfilling their perfect Purpose.
I am honored by your post that you thought of us so carefully. God bless you, sweet friend, and hope I didn’t belabor this topic. It’s one that is close to my heart – obviously.
Good to see you jwoorrior!
I agree on the home! And, I go to realtor dot com every day for therapy.
Slowcobra — YOU are my people!!! 🙂 We are building our Heavenly homes in our minds.
Daughter has told others – she will have a good home – a large one – and she will be bringing her mother to live with her.
(Truth be told – she wants me to babysit her 1,000 Huskies and German Shephard dogs – and probably cook for her kids and family. I KNOW the real plan! LOL She adores Huskies because I had a Husky who was a terrible, terribly, naughty little dog who challenged me for alpha every moment she could. I won that battle, but kiddo giggles and giggles to hear the stories of the talking-back dog and thus wants a thousand of them to make me miserable.)
Storm at Belle-Ile by Claude Monet
Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Requiem
was scrolling down the front page
Sundance is an incredible thinker
anyways , i gotta scroll to get to the thread
and im seein Laura Loomers face all day
she is a bold one friends
like this music vid
about ludwig
bold
dont be offended by it
Laura
she has made it a mission
to offend the right lefties
May God bless her
and keep her safe
just sayin
shes a good one
Agree MO…🙏🙏 for her continued health and to keep her Warrior spirit strong…💪👍
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She’s a hot ticket
She has been through a lot
It’s been hard on her but she has fought like a champ
One of a kind
She reminds me of JWoo
Same spirit
Fighter
☘️🍀☘️
Oh
Good evenin and good night friend
Molonlabe – my brother from another mother – we all have the Warrior within us. Just takes the right motivation. I’ve been motivated… unfortunately.
I just wanted to live in peace and raise my kid – they picked the fight with us – not me.
But, we had a saying in Texas – “Don’t just sing it, bring it!”
Firm believer in sunlight being the best sanitizer. God bless and keep Sundance for he is the Lysol to their Coronavirus.
Three Trees in Grey Weather by Claude Monet
The Lennon Sisters – More – The Lawrence Welk Show – My Blue Heaven
Luncheon on the Grass by Claude Monet
The Lennon Sisters – Que Sera Sera
I love this one, MO !!!
Cannot listen to music right now
Wrote another silly poem somehow
I am tired as you can well imagine
Am sure you know how this can happen
I know your dreams will be sweet
After all of the treats you did eat
So I will pray the end of your day
Will be peaceful in every way !!!
Good Night, Sweet Prince !!! 💚
💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙
Poplars at Giverny by Claude Monet
The Lennon Sisters – Tonight You Belong To Me
This backstabbing SOB. I have a picture of myself alongside this treasonous piece of garbage at the State House in Indiana.
He’s walking 4th of July parade in Urbandale, IOWA while his HOME is in Zionsville, Indiana. What, Mike? Not welcome in your own home state? Why don’t you go back to the Ukraine and stay there you gopE shill?
I know his church – I attended there – and they are full of phonies too. Terrible – terrible things a former elder there told me, not to mention what we personally experienced. Nicolaitans and I can’t wait for The Lord to come back in bust some heads.
We grow more than corn in Indiana – we grow dirty politicians.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-pence-walking-in-urbandale-s-4th-of-july-parade/ar-AA1dnHGu
i know the feeling JWoo
i have a picture of myself and my daughter standing with Eddy Munster Ryan
Thought he was a good guy
for a while
Time to hit crib fellow Treepers.. see you all tomorrow, if the good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise ..❤️👍
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An old friend
Dr J Vernon McGee
Used to say that all the time
Loved that man
☘️🍀☘️
Ut oh – don’t know the story of Eddy Munster. Will have to research – yikes. Upsetting when people you think you could respect disappoint.
Should have said,
Paul Ryan
He looks like Eddie Munster
Ewwww… that may be even worse. Eddie Munster character was allegedly involved in a murder for hire plot – so you weren’t far off base on that guy as well!
Don’t hold back JWoo.. it’s good for the soul to express yourself as you see fit ..🤣
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I met him a few times and talked with him. He doesn’t want to see ME again. LOL. Nope. Call ’em like I see ’em.
If I can send you off to slumber land, giggling with my candor, then my job here is done, kind Sir. 🙂