Okay, it’s been a doozy. Today is that day we’ve all been waiting for since, well for most of us, last March. For my family it started on January 2.
But we made it, we are here, and we can make this year better. We took our lumps, learned a lot, and now we go into 2021 full of possibilities, hopes, and yes, we still have our dreams. We cannot live without hope and dreams.
Humans haven’t just accomplished great things in easy times. Actually, if you look back over the episodes and actions we tend to build our cultures around, the opposite is true. There were battles, plagues, hordes of invaders, nations rising and falling. Men and women stepping out of obscure everyday lives into moments of need and crises and changing their world, our world.
The world keeps on turning for you and me and all the people not because they waited on and found one man or one woman to make things better for them. We go where we need to go, we accomplish the life that keeps the world turning in quiet sacrifice and blind faith and it never gets recorded or known.
God chose his people, and they messed things up from the first moment, and struggled forever after. They sinned, wandered, fought, worshipped, failed God again and again, were exiled. And exiled again. Great leaders, including warriors, kings, prophets, lawgivers, and priests came and went. And God’s people still survived.
Jesus was born under Roman rule, he called his apostles and left his foundling Church to grow even as her members were slaughtered by the thousands. All but one of his apostles were martyred. Still, the Church could not be stopped, and for every martyr who fell, others stepped in to lead, testify, and just live out their faith, pass on the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
You don’t get to pick your times. You live today, in the here and now. Make it count, because you are, we are, what our world needs right this minute. It doesn’t have someone else and tomorrow, it has you, right now.
This is my world now. Keep up the word of truth
Happy New year
Happy New Year second family.
Thank you for inspiration!!
Thank you, Sundance, whoever you are. I appreciate you more than words can describe. I’ll report from Washington DC on Jan 6. Be safe, everyone. And keep your powder dry. For now…
This post is not from Sundance though.
Won’t be able to be there, but will be supporting you with prayer.
In defiance of the citie’s draconian warning about fireworks displays within the city limits, the neighborhoods around my house are abaise with fireworks! Americans do not like to be told what to do. Fireworks are going off all around me, yet I hear no police sirens. Maybe they’re enjoying the fireworks displays, too.? Go America!!!!
My four year old LOVED the fireworks in our front yard tonight!
So did the other ten kids on our block and their parents. No masks, plenty of smiles.
Happy New Year!!!
It sounded like Independence Day outside this evening!! Happy New Year to all of you! May 2021 bring us, above all things, hope.
@Garrison Hall
Fireworks were going off in my DC neighborhood as usual at the start of the New Year. I think even my liberal neighbors are waking up to the COVID sham.
Thanks Sundance and helpers.
Happy New Year All.
Happy New Year Treepers! Pray hard, work hard, and make your own luck.
Fireworks in D.C. Says it’s live. Do they usually last this long? (almost 1and 1/2 hours so far). Someone just showed this to me.
Anyway, they’re pretty grand!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdqVwsXusUg
Happy New Year to all here at the Treehouse! We all hope for a better year. Pray for the inspiration to do what is necessary to save our wonderful country and the constitution that protects our freedom from tyranny.
Happy Healthy New Year. America has lost its sense of integrity. It’s never too late, and we once had it. Integrity survives the passing to dust. Our nation’s capital has devolved into the absence of integrity. Trump is vilified for his integrity.
America is off its rails, off its axis. Those who want integrity restored must put aside civility. Those without integrity cannot be dealt with via decency and civility.
It won’t come easy….but now is an appropriate time for a replay of this Trump video…”nothing worth doing ever came easy….the more righteous your fight, the more opposition you will face….”
For all the Treepers past and present around the World. All the Best in the New Year! Damned Few. Damned Proud
Boy, how much did I love that!!!!!!!!!! always had a soft spot for Rod.anyway..then there was David Foster, Michael Buble, Kylie M etc. bet it was a great show…
Thanks Annie, I’m glad someone like it as much as me. For those who share the tradition, t’s a deeply meaningful song, to be sung with others, not listening to like a band. Sung by a Stewart, at Stirling Castle, with the uniformed bagpipers at the stroke of midnight. Perfect
I ended up watching the whole thing..even crying a little in spots..then watched him with Tina back in about 1981..and that let me back to her concert a few years ago somewhere I think in Switzerland..when she did Proud Mary..it was EPIC…and she was 70 I think at the time….I know have to go to bed….exhausted..but very happy. Thanks Tornarosa for a memorable evening..!!!
Happy New Year to all the Patriots who stand for the Constitution… for Liberty… for America!
a bit of blood on the nose..
the fight is not over.
I’m still punching.
Feeling Bad to the Bone. Rebellion was always my cup of tea in my youth. Here’s to President Trump. Just enjoying the fantasy of this being one of his theme songs in the next month. I know. Outrageous! Happy New Year!
Queen
I should have titled this post Ode to President Elect Biden. What a sorry 8ss pos.
Never a bad time for Queen.
Never EVER give up! God wins, and we who are with Him also. “Be of good cheer for I have overcome the world” – Jesus.
In before the lock…
#Wolverines
And “Pancakes”…
Are we having pancakes again?
And dang here I forgot to get syrup…
Damn!!! I am sooooo not part of this inside joke!!!
Good for the UK, kudos!
Now hoping they can work on their muzzie enemies within.
It is an honor and a privilege to live in these times in the fine company and fellowship of Treepers who on top of each wanting to live our own best life for ourselves and our families, want America to live its best life as a nation and for the world.
Thank you. My sentiments exactly but you put your thoughts and feelings into words better than I could have. Love, and Happy Blessed New Year,
A Happy and Hopeful New Year to you all
Happy New Year, SD and fellow Treepers! Miss the old format, but am glad we’re still connected. God bless and keep you all!!! ????
Good, no, GREAT word Menagerie! Thank you and may God direct all our paths for this coming New Year- it will be WILD! ?
Happy New Year to all.
Happy New Year. It’s 1776 in America again.
It’s 1776 and We the People are going to fight.
We’re going to fight like hell for our freedom, for our country, and for our President. We’re going to fight like hell for America and we’re never giving up. We’re not backing down, not for one minute. We will never quit. We’re going to save this great nation. We’re going to win. With faith in Almighty God we’re going to move mountains. Believe it.
Beautifully written, Menagerie. Great thoughts written simply and filled with the truth of history and the courage it took to carry that truth forward. Just beautiful.
What a year 2020 was. Here is to 2021.
Thank you Menagerie, for your beautiful post ushering in our new year 2021. I needed to hear your words of encouragement this night. God bless you, Sundance, Ad Rem, our great Warrior leader President Donald John Trump, along with Rudy, Sydney, General Flynn and the many others on the frontlines of this ferocious battle for the survival of our Constitutional Republic. God bless us all everyone!
Happy New Year to you all!
Happy New Year to Patriot’s World Wide.
The freeman,casting with with unpurchased hand
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Beautiful post
Thank you Menagerie and Happy New Year to all!
Well said!! Happy New Year Sundance to you and your loved ones!
Happy New Year fellow treepers!
Happy New Year to you Menagerie!
I didn’t mean to leave you out of your own post. I consider you an extension of Sundance when I refer to his family. But we are all family here at the last refuge!
Happy New year to the CTH community. May we learn much together.
Let us relish the good that we have experienced the past year and dismiss the ill.
And now, let’s get buckled up on this roller coaster ride we’re on, for it promises to be quite an adventure if even half the rumors and hints of what is to come bear fruit.
Happy New Year from holy Jerusalem to all good men and women in the world.
The coming of the Moshiach (מָשִׁיחַ), the Anointed One, the true Redeemer, is likened by the Sages to childbirth.
“According to the pain is the gain.”
Embrace joy. Pray. Hold on.
Something very good is about to happen.
Happy New Year, Ploni! Our Redeemer lives!
Happy New Year to Sundance and the Treepers. I cannot be in DC, since I’m on the other side of the world, but my every thought this moment is with all the good people who took time off to unscramble the election fraud and do what the government ought to be doing.
I hope enough of you will be live-streaming from cell phone cameras that I can see it all. Please take every precaution that service is not interrupted and back up with other plans that I dare not suggest in case some internet snoop squashes it.
I am confident that right will prevail, but even if it does not, it is a privilege and an honor to be called on to witness to it. POTUS has just honored Thomas Becket with a day of his own and he is one of the cloud of witnesses that go before us.
Viva Cristo Rey.
Happy New Year to all Treepers. Glad to be starting the New Year in the new Treehouse.
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That is very good!
I believe you are right.
Let 2021 be the year of the Patriot.
See you In DC with a tree as an armband.
Happy New Years Treepers.
And a few Wolverines!
Happy new year to all from this side of the Atlantic.
Today we are finally free from the shackles of the European superstate. It won’t be easy finding our own feet again but we will and our descendants will thank us.
I know I speak for many over here when I wish you the best for the next couple of weeks and hope you all come through whatever transpires safe and sound.
I am very happy for your nation!
All the best to England and to reasserting your freedoms whose template we copied when we broke free.
It did not escape our notice that the Brexit vote happened *before* President Trump was elected.
We will make America GREAT again and the FREE WORLD will rise again ?
#Can You Hear the People Sing ?? ??
Happy New Year guys!!!
Bring on 2021!
so exciting to be living now..by the end of day January 20th 2021..the world’s and USA’s future will be clear to see..tyranny or freedom turn on that day. History will record that day and we are here to see it.
Happy New Year Treepers!
The last year to begin and end on a Friday was the year of the Tea Party formation. This will also be a historic year, leaping out of leap year.
Sundance, Staff and ALL fellow Treepers
HAPPY NEW YEAR
A wise man said to live today as your best day,never give up and keep fighting the good fight
Amen! Menage.
“We go where we need to go, we accomplish the life that keeps the world turning in quiet sacrifice and blind faith and it never gets recorded or known.” And why do we do? because we can, and somebody must.
When you accept Him into your life, the Light is always on.
I’m Spartacus! Happy New Year!
Lovely to read over morning covfefe. ☕️ Thank you.
Happy New Year to, as Shaupeen said, the entire Treehouse family.
I too see you all as my political family. My actual blueMA one is, with a couple of treasured exceptions, deaf, dumb, and blind to so much I’ve learned here, and determined to remain so.
And one of my smaller dreams – when the dust settles on the battle or even abates temporarily – is to have a little mental space to participate in all those enticing recipe threads you post, Menagerie.
2020 was awesome. With the caveat of genuine shared sorrow for anyone who lost loved ones in 2020 because safe and effective medical treatments were banned in order to inflate death counts, anyone who suffered the intentional and unnecessary financial destruction wrought by governments at all levels with the sadistic “lockdowns”.
2020 was the year the forces of darkness ripped of their masks and showed themselves globally. 2020 was the year the normies had no choice but to wake up. In short, 2020 was NECESSARY.
At least when your belly is in the dirt you know where you are. Now get up and fight back, by any means necessary.
Happy New Year! Wasn’t 2020 simply amazing?
In less than twelve months, blue state governors and federal functionaries have taken us the entire way from stop the spread, wash your hands, don’t touch your face, practice social distancing, and forcing us to endure strict mandates of being required to wear a mask in public. And now, we are told if you don’t take the vaccine, you’ll lose your job, be banned from traveling anywhere, and your selfish non-compliance will be recorded in an undisclosed database forever.
One more 2020 thing on the lighter side:
Dear plexiglass fabricators used by grocery, drug, hardware, and large box retail stores,
Who foolishly said there are no opportunities to be had from capitalizing on politically charged public health warnings? Here’s hoping your profits were way up in 2020.
Thank you for protecting me and all shoppers from that speechless and dumbstruck cashier who just touched all of the items from my cart that countless others have touched on the store’s shelves, and I’m about to take home with me.
I echo you completely.
People seem not to understand that their breath and all those germs have to escape from their silly homemade masks if they are not to suffocate. If you can see light through the spaces between the weaves of the fabric, then the masks cannot stop bacteria and viruses.
Happy New Year to our fellow patriots; may God save us from the folly and destruction of our worst leaders and our ignorant or selfish fellows.
As a priest I know likes to counsel the fearful and fretful: “What- you think God doesn’t know that you’re living in these times?”
There’s a purpose here for each of us.
Thanks, Menagerie for your hard work and these encouraging words.
Happy new year to Sundance and all the Treepers out there supporting the Rebel Alliance!
Let’s make 2021 great! ?
Happy New Year! 2021 is the first full year in retirement for me which means that I will not be feeding the beast with my federal income tax. At the very least my tax bill will be severely reduced. I am happy about that! 47yrs a tax slave w/o a break is long enough for me. Covid-19 business impact caused my employer to retire me at 63 back in June. I was so ready for it too. No debt, no mortgage, with passive income in place. All I need now is a date. LOL
Retirement is the best time of life ever! And you are so young with many happy adventures awaiting you! I know you will make the most of the years ahead because you retired with no debt. That, dear friends, is the key. Congratulations, Beachhead. I’ll look forward to your posts this coming year.
Happy New Year to you, all here who fight & pray, and to Sundance, Menagerie, and the entire team for your tireless dedication. 2021 is going to be GREAT! ??
Happy New Year! Remember that His mercies are new every morning!