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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Jeremiah, the weeping prophet. I am in that book now.
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Hemmingway would’ve liked Ezra Brooks. Good sippin’ whisky, not pretentiousness, very expensive—it’ll do just fine.
True story. Turned out she liked cars. She’d grown up around sports cars and gearheads, liked ’em, and liked the people who owned and worked on them. There was a race coming up and she asked if she could ride up with me. I said, of course. On the way up, she asked me if the guys would mind having a girl in their group. Long pause . . . I smiled and said the following: 1. you’re gorgeous (trust me she was), 2. you like cars, 3. you like us, and 4. you drink your whisky straight up. Turned out she had epicurean taste in single malt Scotch. She was an immediate hit with the guys and ended up marrying my best friend.
Correction: Ezra Brooks is most definitely not expensive.
Happy Cursday, Treepers. Dog rescue organizations always talk about “forever homes” but,sometime, it doesn’t work out. I have to admit that I’ve not had much experience with rescue organizations. All of our animals have been foundlings. They’ve found us and we adopted them.
We did this without conditions and, for the most part, our evolving collection of dogs and cats got along just fine with each other. We didn’t really think much about the problems that adopting strange cats and dogs might pose. We just felt they were in need and so we made space for them. We were lucky I suppose, but it always worked out. Our last dog was Sweetie, a border collie foundling Ithat adopted me at my favorite restaurant. We never had problems, certainly not of the kind that would cause people to return a puppy . . . RIP Sweetie.
The modern dilemma (from Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet)
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
Perfect AB, thanks for the timely reminder!
From a Christian perspective, I heard it put today, that God did not create us with a way to manage suffering or death, because we were made for neither. That is why we’re each so wounded by our own or another’s’ suffering, and so sorrowful of loved one’s death and…as the Bard puts it regarding ourselves, “the dread of something after death.”
With much appreciation
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Tried to post earlier…
The modern dilemma
(from Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet)
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
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Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
Perfect AB, thanks for the timely reminder!
From a Christian perspective, I heard it put today, that God did not create us with a way to manage suffering or death, because we were made for neither. That is why we’re each so wounded by our own or another’s’ suffering, and so sorrowful of loved one’s death and…as the Bard puts it regarding ourselves, “the dread of something after death.”
With much appreciation
Lighten up Shorty…lol
hehe! xoxoxo 😉
Oooook Suga! hehehe!
Hahaha…You win again…..you just know your music…and to think bluesy and jazzy….you hit below the belt!
August 19, 1972
NBC debuted their Rock and Roll TV show Midnight Special, with Wolfman Jack
August 19. 1978
After placing three songs on the Billboard Top 40 with Jim Messina in 1972 and 1973, Kenny Loggins has the first of his own fourteen hits when “Whenever I Call You Friend” enters the chart. The duet with Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks would enjoy an amazing fifteen week chart run.
August 19, 1988
The jukebox had been around in one form or another since 1889 and “Crazy” by Patsy Cline and Elvis Presley‘s “Hound Dog” were named by the industry as the most played songs over that first one hundred years.
When sharks attack.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1428007049380696065
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
“Come unto Me.” Matthew xi. 28
God means us to live a fully-orbed life in Christ Jesus, but there are times when that life is attacked from the outside, and we tumble into a way of introspection which we thought had gone. Self-consciousness is the first thing that will upset the completeness of the life in God, and self-consciousness continually produces wrestling. Self-consciousness is not sin; it may be produced by a nervous temperament or by a sudden dumping down into new circumstances. It is never God’s will that we should be anything less than absolutely complete in Him. Anything that disturbs rest in Him must be cured at once, and it is not cured by being ignored, but by coming to Jesus Christ. If we come to Him and ask Him to produce Christ-consciousness, He will always do it until we learn to abide in Him.
Never allow the dividing up of your life in Christ to remain without facing it. Beware of leakage, of the dividing up of your life by the influence of friends or of circumstances; beware of anything that is going to split up your oneness with Him and make you see yourself separately. The great solution is the simple one – “Come unto Me.” The depth of our reality, intellectually, morally and spiritually, is tested by these words. In every degree in which we are not real, we will dispute rather than come.
Oswald Chambers
August 19th Devotional
Mornin’ infidels!
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Wow. So true.
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.
The 50th Psalm (Septuagint)
Psalm 51 (KJV – Masoretic)
https://abc7chicago.com/10961501/
chicago cardinal cupich instructed by pope francis not to give religious exemptions for covid vax.
Verse of the Day for Thursday, August 19, 2021
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“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Proverbs 1:7 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
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.
If I could give an Amen 1000 feet high, I would. Amen!
“If my people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways, THEN will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins, and HEAL THEIR LAND.” (emphasis mine)
Isih 63:19
The Lord rescued Israel 12 times, but only when Israel as a nation repented of their sins and turned to Him, not until.
If America wants help, we need to individually get right with God, we have offended Him too often.
Only with God’s help, can we possibly have any remedy. We can see how it is. It is a God-sized problem.
Blast from the past.
I could use the CTH community’s prayer.
I’ve not been sleeping, or eating normally for about two weeks now. I’ve also had difficulty swallowing at times.
Please keep me in your prays.
With love for the CTH community that has been praying for me.
Steve
Prayers up, Steve!
Just prayed again for you and yours, Steve. ?✝️
Oil and minerals above with minerals/resources below.
Yet with the White House jello mold, nuttery takes precedent.
https://www.mining.com/resource-nationalism-sweeps-latin-american-top-mining-countries/
Payday Someday by R. G Lee
This is a famous sermon that Rev. Lee put forth as a mini-novel of the history of Ahab, Jezebel, Naboth and Elijah. I can’t help but think about the political situation unfolding today across the world as I read this. Evil expounds upon evil…and to this, is there a payday about to be unleashed upon the earth? God in heaven sees all and those that believe in God’s chessboard, we wait and watch to see just how heaven will interfere in the plans of men!
https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=2640
Yes!
One of the best sermons of all time!
Thanks much!
Is it just me or is everyone else who has not signed up to have a twitter account no longer able to see threads, comments, even the pictures posted are covered by a large block that says “Don’t miss what’s happening”, “Log in” and “Sign up”?
Try refreshing the page a couple of times before closing out the block.
I did that, many times; as well as cleared the cache of cookies. This is the 3rd day of this, it’s still happening.
Either a desperate move to get more people signed up or conscious effort to start stifling conversations because people can no longer see the comments or full threads so won’t be sharing what they can’t see?
Feast of the Holy Transfiguration of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ
August 6th on the Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
August 19th on the civil or commercial calendar
Orthros (Matins) Holy Gospel according to the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke 9: 28 – 36
Epistle II Peter 1: 10 – 19
Holy Gospel according to the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew 17: 1 – 9
Feast of the Holy Transfiguration of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ
Dismissal Hymn
Thou wast transfigured on the mountain, O Christ our God, showing to Thy disciples Thy glory as each one could endure. Shine forth Thou on us who are sinners all Thy light ever unending, through the prayers of the Theotokos; Light-bestower, glory to Thee.
Kontakion.
On the mount Thou wast transfigured, and Thy disciples, as much as they could bear, beheld Thy glory, O Christ our God; that when they should see Thee crucified, they would know Thy passion to be willing, and would preach to the world that Thou, in truth, art the Effulgence of the Father.
Dear Admin/Menagerie, I am worried… I haven’t seen a post from rah in many days.
Has anyone? Maybe I overlooked ?
Two days ago at most.
Thank you
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
They’re on the river. Good grief https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/industries/farm-produce-stuck-in-southern-localities-due-to-social-distancing-4342922.html
The world has lost its mind.
Let me post this as thanks for all the years CTH has allowed me to forget the fate that America is now facing.
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Before the wheels fall off…
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The MAGA lug nuts have been tightened to the proper torque settings for all 4 wheels of the USA.
Team President Trump is pulling back onto the track …. still leading the pack.
Czechs at each political level are ticked at the Obaden wreck. https://www.intellinews.com/czech-president-blasts-nato-as-government-comes-under-fire-over-evacuations-from-afghanistan-218364/?source=czech-republic
Klammy sighting. The propaganda and countries visited…what a load. VIETNAM for one https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-vice-president-kamala-harris-trip-to-asia-will-show-us-is-in-region-to-stay-official-2514543 https://www.the-sun.com/news/3496632/kamala-harris-vietnam-afghanistan-fall-of-saigon/
The Vice Coupster bailing on the Willfully Engineered Afghanistan Hostage Crisis to visit America’s previous benchmark ignominy as Saigon is far surpassed in destroying America’s credibility and prestige on the world stage.
Can’t. Make. This. Crap. Up.
A Call to Repentance
We in America, nay, even the whole world are at a crux. There are choices – hard choices – that have to be made. For at least a generation we have slipped down a slippery slope that leads to death. We have sought after everything except God. We’ve sought our own amusements, wealth, conveniences, and escapisms. We have made these things our gods. But now, seemingly suddenly, we find ourselves about to lose every liberty we have taken for granted for the past 70 years. So what are we to do? On one side, there is you must do as you’re told to be safe. On the other side, there is you must fight to retain your freedom. I tell you your safety and freedom as you see it is an illusion. Neither of these ideologies will save you from what is coming. Now is the time to repent – truly repent and return to God. We must repent as individuals and repent as a nation. And there is much to repent from.
As we stand at this crux, we can see that our crimes as a nation are many. BUT IT IS NOT TOO LATE! All throughout the Bible, God rescues those who repent – both the individual and the nation. He does it with a few dedicated and devout people. He doesn’t need an army. But he DOES need warriors – PRAYER WARRIORS. Today I invite everyone to join us in repentance and fasting from now until September 16, the Day of Atonement. Use the lists below in your prayer time. Even if an individual isn’t guilty of the crimes, we as a nation are guilty of all of the crimes. Fast from something you enjoy. It doesn’t have to be food. Just spend that time praying instead. We CAN turn this ship around. Prayer and repentance are the wheel and rudder. Thank you for reading. Please spread far and wide. Share everywhere.
As individuals we have forsaken God’s commands by:
Putting other gods before God. We involve ourselves in sports, making the players our gods. We involve ourselves in amusements like movies, making the actors our gods. We involve ourselves in other false religions making idols our gods. The reality is – these are designed to distract you from The Only God.
We take Yahweh our God’s name in vain. We disregard Him. Worse. We mock Him.
We have abandoned Sabbath keeping. We work, play, shop on any day we choose and opt out of choosing to spend time with our Creator. He misses us and He wants us to come home.
We disregard and even hate our parents. The young give attitude and choose to do as they please instead of listening to and spending time with parents. Their friends are more important. We lock our parents away in nursing homes thereby abdicating our responsibility to care for them in their waning years. We have forsaken their wisdom.
We murder. We murder the unborn all the way up to the point of delivery. There is wanton murder through gangs and human trafficking. We murder for no other reason than that of rage and hate.
We steal. We think nothing of saying nothing when the checkout clerk forgets to scan an item. Gangs run through stores taking whatever they wish – from a pack of gum to a large screen television.
We lie. We lie against our neighbors. We lie on our taxes. We lie to keep ourselves out of trouble with the law. We lie to cause harm to our neighbors. Worse. We dox our neighbors using lies so that others can also cause them harm.
We covet. We believe we are entitled to whatever someone else has. We begrudge them for having it when we don’t. We try to persuade them with the false ideology of “Equity” and then we label them as racist when they won’t willingly give it over.
We have forsaken the plight of the orphans and widows and the homeless. We’ve abdicated OUR responsibility to take care of people over to the government. All the government has succeeded in doing is creating even more homelessness, more disenfranchised, more widows, and more orphans.
We are addicts. Drug, alcohol, and pornography addictions are rampant. And our government is complicit in facilitating those addictions. Their alleged “War on Drugs” is more aptly named a “War for Drugs”. The year 2020 has increased alcoholism a hundred-fold. City after city legalizes prostitution, which feeds on the children of both sexes.
As individuals, we have much to repent. All of us are guilty of one or more of the above mentioned crimes against God. But God doesn’t just judge individuals. He judges nations. And as a nation we have delved into not only the above, but into much worse crimes. We have, through our government allowed:
*Murder through abortion
*Murder through cover-up
*Stealing through enacting laws that protect criminals over victims
*Stealing livelihoods of citizens by enacting laws that punish the victims of crimes in order to protect criminals.
*Financing school systems that encourage the teaching of:
*Hate
*Injustice
*Self Worship
*Self Loathing
*Discrimination
*Disunity
*Homosexuality
*Transgenderism
*Poisoning the ground and waters with spills, chemicals, and corporate farms.
*Financing of heinous science experiments that torture animals, use the abortive remains of our children for creating … things … that our Creator NEVER meant to exist.
*Favoring corporations and rich oligarchs over individuals and create laws that will give our elected leaders monetary kickbacks or power without regard to how it affects the individual constituent.