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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Yea and Amen!
Solomon,
Just checking in to see how you are recovering this Saturday? Have a Blessed Day!
I’m banged up, but a bit better today. Eye is better and not so swollen. Shoulder injury is permanent but will live with it. Walking a little better today.
All thanks to a lot of praying people here and elsewhere.
I really appreciate your asking. It means a lot and God bless you caring.
🙂👍👍👍
✝️💪✝️
Thx, Frank!
Bless-ed good morning, sir.
I’m hoping you will be moving about a little easier this morning. Powerful prayer is in your corner.
Actually I am, tho recovery will take some time.
I can actually walk a little more without my knee wanting to cave.
See my reply to Kevin in SWPA.
I agree with your statement about powerful prayer in my corner.
I’m going to have to make some changes and will need God’s wisdom of direction. I believe He give it and things will turn out better than ever!
Speed bumps can be a thing from the Lord telling us, slow down and wait on the Lord for new direction
Thank you, Betsy.
You are a precious sister in the Body of Jesus Christ! 🙂❤
I know it will take some time, but that you are feeling a little better is a very hopeful sign that your recovery will be speedier than it might first have appeared it would be. A little at first, then suddenly all at once. Ill pray for that.
Agree with your apt speed bump analogy. You are a good listener, very attuned to the nuances from God Himself. You’ll know when the answer on how to proceed comes.
Thank you, Solomon. As I said, if I were anywhere near you, I’d help in an instant. But I’m always here for the moral support which we all need from time to time. You can always count on that. And prayers? Always. 💓
I know you would, but your prayer and care support here is just as good and appreciated.
I do have great support here where I live.
Bless you. Betsy! 🌹
🤗
Praying for your healing.
Thank you!
It is greatly appreciated.
The love and prayers of CTH is overwhelming me, bringing me to tears!
God bless you the same!
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I am in love with that animal!
Griever…
So let’s start the bidding to see who gets this cat! 😁
Wow!
Gorgeous.
What a pretty baby!
Here is the embodiment of the COVID-19 con expressed in a single image:
I’ve heard that “belief is the enemy of knowledge”. This is also true of disbelief.
The reason we are in this mess is because the majority of people believe that the controllers would never do this to us.
I’ve tried and failed countless times to open their eyes to the truth of the situation – that the elites are evil incarnate, and that they want most of us dead, and that they want to enslave the rest of us.
If people can’t see this given how obvious what is occurring has become, then I do not see how we have any hope of turning the tide on this.
The normies will just keep on complying and believing what’s being done to them is for the greater good while they drag themselves and the rest of us into totalitarianism.
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”
-Mengele
Thank you for all the positive feedback from my comments yesterday, I really appreciate it, and apologize for not having time to respond to them.
TMonroe – the article in your reply was about Christian persecution is good knowledge to have on my radar, thank you for that. The storms are gathering
Betsy jones
Solomon St. Lightstone
Feisty Hayseed
ray
Frank Field
Slowcobra
ms idaho
Lanna
Alligator Gar:
Thanks for comments, and the info on the stealth phasing out of Christian themed USPS stamps – they really are attacking us on all fronts.
GB Bari – thanks for the heads up. That they weren’t able to actually push the ‘Christian’ word ban through is heartening. And wow, they wanted to ban John and Mary as well… just wow.
You don’t need to apologize to any of us.
You are a blessing to us.
We are one together here, and are a wonderful part with us!
Again. No apologies needed!
I echo Solomon’s message, griever. I also try to respond to those who are kind enough to answer my posts. I know I fall short of that goal oft times.
The information you post is worthy reading. Do not fret about responding to those who answer you.
I find that many, many times when reading a post by a commenter I’m reminded of something which is tangential, and I feel compelled to then post about that. A train of thought which then spreads likewise to others.
It’s the glorious result of a conversation started by one and continued by others. The beauty of fellowship.
You supplied the seed of that yesterday, as others do also elsewhere. It’s why I comment nowhere else. So may I return the thanks to you for getting us started with excellent information, the basis from which all could join in.
God bless.
That was a great response to griever.
“The beauty of fellowship.”
And we do have that here.
I am so glad a friend suggested that I read the open thread a couple of weeks ago when several of you were basically having church.
You, griever, Frank, Mungrel, some others.
That’s what made me know I needed to get in the CTH.
And now I have great new prayer partners! 🤗
This is a church. I firmly believe it. Now more so than many designated places, which is saddening for me, and I’m sure for those who look for solace and peace but find that their spiritual leaders have abandoned their calling from God. I look at Artur Pawlowski in Canada, currently paying a heavy price for his utter devotion to God. Fearless, remembering what Communism and Nazism did to his beloved Poland. I wonder when he has vocally called his persecutors out to their faces if there is a moment for them when they feel any sense of shame for what they are doing?
Blessed are you to have such a friend who pointed you to this site. I do believe Someone had a Hand in that. I choose to think so anyway.
I think so too. People gathered in fellowship, prayer and care.
I’d say that is basically church.
I am realizing that I am not here for me but for others.
If I can encourage others and help lift spirits, mission of being here will be being accomplished!
I do not write very often, but I had to let you know how truly special you all are. Yes, Betsy jones, this is a Church for me. The fellowship of all of us together is such a blessing for me. I am not able to check the Open Thread every day, but it is always like coming together with Christian friends to find peace. I read the Scripture lessons from Whistling—past. Thank you all for being here and thank you CTH for allowing us to get together in fellowship and prayer. God Bless all of you.
Oh Marti…
We need to hear from you more. You’re definitely in the zone with us. I think Betsy would agree!
Be blessed and let us hear from your branch when you can.
❗️✝️👌❗️
Oh, thank you Marti. What a lovely post. And what you say is what I feel and felt long before I started commenting.
I felt I was pressing my nose against a window, watching all those inside enjoying each other’s company. There was that warm feeling, as if all had known each other for years. And I wanted to be part of that.
So I “opened the door” and walked in. This place and all its wonderful residents have added so much to my life. I am eternally grateful Someone gave me a shove, for I know that’s what it was.
Please come in and stay. Be a part of this wonderful family. You are welcomed with the open arms that I was. At any time of your choosing.🤗
What a warm welcome!
I too have kept you in my prayers for healing. Glad you are doing some better. The fellowship of Christians on this open thread is a blessing to us. Thank you Lord for this place where we can get together. God Bless you all.
Thank you and be blessed!
Glad you’re in!
Any vaccine update?
Far as I know, talking to Mercy Hospital, no covid. They don’t do covid vaccines.
But I have a history of being allergic to almost any vaccine.
I was happy with the nurse and doctor care, but in a phone survey, I let them know that they should have asked me first about any vaccine administered.
The other issue was that the paper work listed me as having no issues of being allergic. I told them I was allergic to vaccines and all opiates, even most OTC pain meds.
So well see where that survey goes. Thanks for asking.
Hey Bet,
I never really thought about it until now, but this is the only place I comment too.
Yes. Here too.
Ooooooo!!!! Thank you, Frank. You have no idea what you have given me by using my “Welsh” name.
Anyone else here may absolutely do the same. The smile that has given me goes from ear to ear😁.
Bless you, Frank. (I do believe a tear or two is seeping out).
Missed yesterday’s open thread … there’s a holiday art show this weekend (where at least they do have Christmas music and decorations everywhere) I’ve been working on on top of my normal job.
As for Nativity postage stamps, here’s my ground report from Northeast Ohio:
Took one look at this year’s Christmas stamps, declared them ugly, and politely demanded good old-fashioned American flag stamps. The postal worker told me that I wasn’t alone, so many people didn’t like this year’s Christmas stamps … such that all the American flag stamps at the counter were sold out and I’d have to wait until they brought some more out from the back storage area.
While waiting, I informed a nearby customer that anyways, I could always use the Ronald Reagan or Mother Teresa stamps that I bought and saved years ago. The other customer just reminded me that these were collectibles.
Thank you, too, griever.
I echo solomon’s sentiments as well.
God’s Blessings to all of my “daily friends” here, as well as great thanks to sundance, et.al., for giving us this forum. You are all a comfort to me in so many indescribable ways, and I’m sure a lot of us help each other in some way.
I am grateful to be able to read amongst my friends every day, and take so much comfort in knowing we are global in our beliefs and our steadfast perseverance of truth!
A bless-ed link to the real world with the real people in it.
And friends we all are. You are so right.
Indeed!
Kinda like becoming part of a whole new family.
😊
Great place to be
Hangin’ out in the Tree
On the branches, legs dangling…makes me feel like a child again. Glorious!
YW. Glad to provide you with that pertinent update.
You may think you have failed countless times, but know that God’s Wisdom has reached deep in some hearts, maybe not immediately, but in His time to cause that seed to blossom and come to the fruition of the holy purpose of His Word in you to them.
I think you accomplished what He wanted you to in a particular hour.
And you will be blessed for it.
Don’t fret.
Just wait on God and He will show you.
Blessings!
Thinking of “today”, thinking of “now”:
2 Cor. 6:2 (cf. Isaiah 49:8)
“For He says: “In the acceptable time I listened to you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Isaiah 55:6-7
“Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Hebrews 3:15a (cf. Psalms 95:7-8)
“As it has been said: “If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts…”
Revelation 22:17 (cf. Isaiah 55:1)
“The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.”
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Thinking of why:
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Romans 5:8
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 5:24
“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.”
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Thinking of how:
Luke 18:13
“And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’”
James 4:8a
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”
John 6:28-29
“Therefore they said to Him, “What must we do, that we may be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you should believe in Him whom He has sent.””
Mark 9:24b
“‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.’”
Acts 16:30-31
“Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.””
Thank you for this scriptural offering and blessing everyday!
Hello Treepers, my son is experiencing major muscle weakness as a result of having COVID a few months ago. Is there anything that would help him get over this? I have Ivermectin but not sure if it can be used for this specifically.
Praying for a complete recovery and good health for your son …
Thank you 🙏🏼
Saying a prayer for your son also. 🙏
Me too
Prayers up for a full recovery.
Thank you GrandpaM and others with responses. God bless you all!
Thanks so much Flyover!
Contact a physician recommended by the FLCCC. There are long haul Covid medical recommendations on the FLCCC website. It’s free and you can also get a doctor and prescriptions filled.
Make sure he is getting enough Vit B and D. They are major stress vitamins that also boost energy.
So does Acetyl L-Carnitine.
Praying for him, but for you too for God to give you wisdom to know what to do.
There are 2 types of B12 I discovered and which I did not know.
The one which is active is METHYCOBALAMIN. The one that can be taken on its own to achieve benefits.
The other is CYANOCOBALAMIN which needs help to be processed by the body for maximum effect into the active form, though this form is in most supplements.
But you probably knew this already.😉
Yes. I am heavy into the right kind of supplements.
I also know that calcium carbonate is nearly worthless because it is very hard for calcium to break off from the carbon molecule.
There are differences in the types of vit d too.
By the way. Hawthorn extract is the greatest heart strengthener and medicine in the world.
I’ll file that tidbit on the hawthorne. Ever since this whole upending, miserable epoch started, I’ve educated myself on supplements to a degree that I never saw myself doing. It has done me a power of good. Thank you for adding to that education.
Hawthorn extract saved my heart from blowing out years ago after a heart attack
You take it earlier in the day because it does energize. For the evening Hawthorn berry is better.
Here’s where both can be pruchased:
Swanson:
Hawthorn extract, product # SWH039
Hawthorn Berry, product # SW773
Phone # 1(800)437-4148
Oh cheers, Solomon. I’ll be checking on that on Monday. So happy to have that information.
Look Who’s Blue , Don Gibson , 1958
Written and recorded by Don Gibson. Released in September 1958 as a single, it reached #8 on country charts and #58 on Hot 100.
4 December 1956
Elvis Presley stopped by un-expectedly at Sun Records in Memphis and found Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash watching Carl Perkins in the studio. The four ended up taping some songs together, but recordings from the impromptu session would not be pressed on to discs for another 25 years when they were released as “The Million Dollar Quartet”.
4 December 1965
The Byrds‘ scored their second US number one hit with “Turn, Turn, Turn”. Unlike their first chart topper, “Mr. Tambourine Man”, the entire band was allowed to play on the recording instead of studio musicians.
4 December 1971
Don McLean’s “American Pie” enters Billboard’s Hot 100. The eight and a half minute song will eventually sell over 3 million copies and become one of the most discussed, dissected and debated songs that popular music has ever produced.
Mungrel like Byrds, carrier pidgons and human chicks 😁 .
😂
Thanks for the laugh! Hope you are well!
I saw what you did there with “Byrds.”
Hilarious
I bought one of those 3 million copies. Albums were the default purchase by the time McLean cut American Pie, but I didn’t want to make the investment on this one, so I dutifully flipped over the 45 whenever I wanted the full treatment. That was manageable since the song was everywhere, and I could guarantee hearing it at least once while driving around town. We loved it until we were sick of it and tossed it into the dustbin along with Smoke on the Water.
By then I had reduced it to that snappy back beat McLean gets going. Then I pulled it out last year. With fresh ears, and maybe more experienced ears, I realized the tune has range, and stands as a classic. McLean does much more than get the listener’s head bouncing up and down. He makes you smile. He makes you cry.
During my nostalgic review last year, I found an interview on YouTube in which McLean answers the question, “But what does it mean?” He said simply, “American Pie means I don’t have to work another day in my life, if I don’t want to.
Thank you Rebel53blog. I always look forward to your posts. Listening to the intro to “Look Who’s Blue”, I couldn’t help wondering if Lee Hazlewood had a copy nearby when the inspiration for “These Boots Are Made for Walking” hit.
Elvis’ first love was spiritual music. Too bad he didn’t Have a Little Talk with Jesus instead of taking all those drugs. It was reported that there were 68 different kinds of drugs in his system when he died. Should have been talking with Jesus instead of the doctors who were giving him all those “jabs”.
Hopefully he was right with God when he passed. Anyone who could sing Peace in the Valley like he did, deserves some of the good Lords mercy that’s new every morning. 🙂
Elvis was sitting on the commode reading a book about the Shroud of Turin when he died.
Yes. All the drugs he was on constipated him so that he had to strain hard and had a heart attack.
Happy Caterday, Treepers!
Garrison. I don’t know adrem, but you gotta know he/she will move your post over here.
I am newer than most here, but I am already learning about your knowledge of music and guitars.
Bet you know what a Martin D100 Deluxe is, how beautiful it is and how much it cost. The artwork on that guitar that commemorated Martin’s 1 millioneth guitar is awesome.
So let’s see if I can go on youtube and pick out a piece of music…
Okay. You seem to a vast knowledge of music, so I would/could imagine you know this gorgeous piece of music by Chopin, one of the beautiful pieces ever composed.
I don’t know if you know that he hated the orchestra, but thank somebody, somewhere that he worked with them in two beautiful piano concertos. You probably know them well.
This is his heart-wrenching Romance Largetto.
Enjoy listening once again.
Thank you for all your musical presentations and knowledge here.
Oh Solomon! My heart!
My intense, life sustaining love of classical music began when I was a teenager with Chopin’s two piano concertos. I was so captivated by them, I would listen to them over and over. Any pianist who plays this must have a soul, or on playing it will discover his.
This second movement is indeed heart wrenching. I’m so glad you posted it.
Lovely beyond description. Thank you.
YW!
That Romance Larghetto still tears me up this day. I have written much to it years ago.
I have CDs for both piano concertos.
My grandmother got me on to baroque, classical and romantic period music as a young child. She would buy these record sets.
Chopin is considered in the romantic period.
Bach and Handle are of the Baroque period while Beethoven and Mozart are of the classical period.
I love the pipe organ and trumpet compositions.
42 mins, worth it.
Here’s some more:
Bach’s Passacaglia 8 and Fugue in C Minor is one of my all time favs. Awesome and powerful pipe organ composition.
Also the Credo in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. I am not Catholic, but his mass is gloriously beautiful and inspiring.
I’ve written much to this years ago, especially the most beautiful, inspiring part beginning time-stamp 4:46
It is a reaching thing, like reach out to God with all your might.
2nd version which is the CD I have that I’ve written to. 1992.
Sir Nicholas Harnoncourt was my favorite, most beloved conductor of all time. He is wonderfully wild and even “violent” in best musical way. And notice, he doesn’t use a conductor’s baton.
Okay, one more from this same mass.
The Benediction.
You can hear beautiful, reviving spring coming into the darkness of God’s Creation and giving it new life.
These are long, but take the time to listen and be blessed.
No, it’s gloriously here! How wonderful, all those links.
There was a superb trumpeter now dead, Rolf Smedvig. He was possibly the best I’ve ever heard. In the comment section on one of his performances, one young man said that he knew Rolf when both were studying trumpet.
He said he’d walk by a groom closet and hear him in there practicing, and he would ask himself why he, the commenter, even bothered. His breath control was second to none. He started the group The Empire Brass, of which I’m sure you are aware. A real loss when he died much to early.
But I always think when we lose an outstanding artist that God feels need of them. Rolf was one of those.
I’ll listen to them all tomorrow. The Bach I know. And I am looking forward to hear that again.
As a reciprocal offering, I urge you to listen to Berlioz’s GRANDE MESSE DES MORTS, his Requiem..not Bernstein’s though, please.
The most sublime performance available is conducted by Jukka Pekka Saraste with the WDR Orchestra.
Honestly, Solomon, I feel in my soul it will move you as it moved me. There are horn moments about halfway through that, to me, sound as if Christ Jesus is finally returning. Utterly haunting. The choir was tear inducing. And at the end, Maestro Saraste has an almost beatific glow about him. An ever so slight smile, but no more than that. He knew what he had just conducted and how every member of the choir and orchestra had delivered their best. It was perfection. I hope you will listen to it. The peace it delivers is indescribable.
If you listen to it, I would be so interested into near what you think. My gift to you.
I will.
And in vocal, breath control is everything, and knowing when to suck it in, hold it, then breathe it out.
I know I am going to disappoint you, but I don’t care for that. It is missing the sweetness of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Shubert’s masses in E-flat and A-flat;
These are all far sweeter and more beautiful.
Mozart:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Missa Solemnis in C minor, K 139 “Waisenhaus” (Mass. No. 4) – YouTube
No disappointment at all. Music is so personal. What strikes one may not appeal to another, for what ever reason. How dull a place this would be if we all liked the same. As is said variety is the spice of life. Nothing truer.
Agree! 🙂
I posted a reply but it said “waiting for approval” and now I don’t see it.
It might have been too long as I put in several music links.
There could be a limit that I don’t know of.
Sorry.
Well, I see my comment with music links is up again but still awaiting for approval.
The link
Belongs under the statement about Bach’s Passacaglia.
My statement…time stamp 4:46 goes with the Credo of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.
Sometimes when I copy and paste a link, instead of that link being posted, the link that I copied before will post. It’s very frustrating.
Just saw it! Left you an answer.
Or maybe I can pay better attention to where I’m puttin’ stuff. 🙂
Chopin is always a good choice.
Or maybe I can pay better attention to where I’m puttin’ stuff. 🙂
Chopin is always a good choice.
The first really good guitar I ever saw was handmade Martin from the 1930’s. It was a steel string acoustic. At the time I didn’t know that there was a vast difference between steel-string acoustics and classical guitars.
Learned on my dads very expensive Martin classical though I prefer steel string. But love both.
Didn’t take me long to discover that vast difference.
And then there was the electric guitar, another whole different universe.
What a perfect piece for a Saturday morning.
I’m gonna listen to that again. So relaxing.
Lifts up the soul a bit higher than the dread and darkness below we have to wade through.
Well. I did read over on the presidential thread that they can’t move posts.
Guess it’s a learning curve.
The Ministry of Truth has renamed COVID vaccine injuries:
New Name For Vaccine Injury | Real Climate Science
Global warming hits Hawaii
Mauna Kea is over 13,000 feet and does generally get some snow every year. But this is a real blizzard and thus very rare:
I seem to recall a plaque on the Mauna Kea road, dated 1953, which memorialized a group of people who went skiing on Mauna Kea in that year.
Correction,” Snow “Hits Hawaii. This is weather, not Climate. 97% of ALL Scientists agree.
Of course, that is until a hurricane hit’s US shores, or a heatwave or drought strikes somewhere and then THAT is climate and the same 97% agree with that also.
Is this a prank?
No! snow on mona kea – Bing images
Glad you’re a Treeper.
Crazy days
Truckers report. Morning all!
I had a nice break. Took a vacation day to be home for Thanksgiving so I got in Wednesday night. Thought they might call me in on Friday but they didn’t and I did not go out until Monday.
Monday at 18:00 I departed for Green Bay, WI. There backed into door 28 at the facility and took my 10m hour break. Loaded and out of there by 13:00, then on to Port Washington where I had two stops. Then a final stop at Galatin, WI.
That run is great going up because I hit the Chicago area going up during light traffic hours, but coming back I am dealing with the rush traffic of both Milwaukee and Chicago.
On Wednesday at 16:00 I departed and went to the Vandalia, OH terminal to do another Toyota run. Picked up a trailer there and then headed for Wisconsin again. First stop in Janesville where once again I backed into the dock and take my break and they load me the next day. There were four more stops, with the last being in Milwaukee. This time I hit Milwaukee during the last of their rush and missed the worst of the Chicago rush. But I had to take the trailer back to the Vandalia terminal. There after dropping the loaded trailer I hooked to an empty to bring back to the Anderson terminal.
This run was not bad even though I had never been to any of the places on that route before. But time management was critical. When I parked the truck I had 5 minutes of drive time remaining out of my 11 hours.
Listening to free audio books interspersed with phone calls to or from various friends that are also drivers makes the time go by. I listened to Tom Clancy’s Hunt For Red October during this run and made it through the over 8 hours of excellent narration to the end with over an hour left to drive. Though I have seen the movie several times, I had never read the book and there are significant differences between the two, which is of course not unusual.
I’m a big fan of Tom Clancy books, and I listen to the audiobooks also. If you haven’t listened to all his early Jack Ryan books, they are great. My favorites, other than Red October, were the Cardinal of the Kremlin and Executive Orders.
A good book title is so important. His were so powerful. I’m struck by just how much when I read your post.
I have read a lot of Tom Clancy books and every one of the Jack Ryan series except The Hunt for Red October. But now it’s been long enough that I would like to read them again. Seems that the nonfiction history selection in free audio books is rather limited. I have not found W.E.B. Griffin’s The Corps series free anywhere yet and that is another series that I read and really enjoyed long ago and would like to find free.
I may find some of the free nonfiction books I am looking for at the library of Congress site though. Lots of nonfiction history books I would like to listen to.
Another series I have yet to find free would be the Sharaa’s civil war Trilogy, the most famous of which is Killer Angels.
Without Remorse by Clancy sounds like a good one for you.
He’s unmatched.
“Without Remorse” is my absolute favorite, although there are two or three others in close competition, especially “Debt of Honor..”
I have all of Clancy’s novels in hardback. Read them all; several twice.
Who in their right mind could not like Red October? 😉
Hey Rah!
How could this trucker not be aware of the car stuck under the trailer?
Terrified female driver, 19, desperately signals for help as her car is dragged down Chicago highway by oblivious truck driver after it got trapped when she changed lanes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10270883/Truck-drags-car-sideways-Chicago-highway-desperate-driver-waves-frantically-help.html
I have been asking myself the same question. I have also been asking how the heck it got under there at a 90 degree angle?
That’s what I said yesterday, too, rah… very unusual if she was just “changing lanes” like article said.
Some people just can not parallel park!
After reading the details in his books, the movies though good, were always a slight “let down “.
There is just no way they could fit all the explanations of the technical details one finds in the books into the couple hours of a movie. And I suspect that if they tried to do so, they would lose significant viewers and have poor reviews.
Won’t take the shots? Then we’ll starve you into submission if we can:
Canada Starving People Into Submission | Real Climate Science
I doubt even the bluest states will try this ploy.
I don’t have the confidence in that I would have a year ago.
The sons of the southern ✝ are now engaged.
And God bless you all, Mungrel, and give you more strength than any of you thought possible… LBT💓
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May God be with you
You are in my prayers
Know whatcha mean. Vern.
California, New York, Washington…uh, yeah.
Rah, I honestly believe these malignancies are aiming for Holodomor II. There is no other way to watch all the reports of empty shelves, never mind experiencing them, and not see what they are aiming for. Fertilizer availability being decimated (on purpose, of course) is another clue. Essential parts for tractors and farm machinery deliberately kept off shore and out of the hands of the farmers who need them. I find it terrifying in the extreme.
All I will say is that those perpetuating this Crime against Humanity, because that is exactly what this is, better be prepared. They feel safe in their impervious towers now.
But millions of rage filled starving people will turn.
In Europe now, lest anyone not understand, the EU Head, Ursula von der Leyen, has said the Nuremburg Code has had its day, and it must go. I don’t believe the word “chilling” is strong enough to describe this blatant exposure of their true intent.
Whether we choose to label what we are enduring as WWIII is a moot point. It’s beyond time to describe it as such, and it must be called out for what it is.
Stay buckled up, Bet!
Hyper inflation is around the corner. 🤭
Doing my very best, Frank. Cutting our cloth to our circumstances. Angels can do no more, right?😉🙏
It’s my grown children and my grandchildren I worry about. That’s what mothers and grandmothers do, you know. But God will provide.
There are so so many who are in truly dire circumstances. They are the ones I have the most concern for and offer prayers for every night. As I know you do as well.
Hi rah.
I live in the center of the heartland.
We have no empty shelves.
You walk into the Wmarts. Harps, even the one grocery store in our tiny town of 2500, the shelves are packed, the produce sections are packed with great, fresh produce.
I and others wonder, what the heck is going on and why such a difference.
The Nuremberg Code thing is indeed a measure of a terrifying thing to any straight, common sense thinking people of liberty who need to be paying attention to this and be concerned about.
This is truly a very scary direction.
I’ve watch the movie about the Nuremberg Trial.
Most here would be familiar with all this, but for anybody who isn’t:
The Nuremberg Trials | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/nuremberg-trials
Btw, thanks for all the good info you post here.
CTH is a “confabulous” amalgamation of informed people and opinions.
I say let Russia invade Ukraine. Give the Ukrainians all the material assistance they can use and possibly deploy SF advisors, but no deployment of conventional US forces to combat there. Course of action is to inflict the maximum Russian casualties possible without the risk of a significant number of our own I say. Let the damned Europeans deal with their own damned messes for once and if the forces of darkness take them, then so be it. It seems to be what the Western Europeans want anyway, so let them have it! We are going to need what we have on the other side of the world before too awfully long I’m afraid. The remains of too many US troops are already buried on European soil.
These are the thoughts and words of a former SF soldier once preping for insertion on the Polish-Russian border during the cold war for missions from which it highly unlikely any of us would return. Then, under those circumstances, I would have been proud to go. But back then most of western Europeans understood that freedom was worth fighting for. Not so now it seems.
O I don’t know, rah. I think the penny has dropped for the Europeans. Hopefully not too late.
I do think Putin will strike. For many reasons, but primarily because he watches and waits until the circumstances favour him. And what’s not to like? A discredited West with a depraved imbecile seemingly at the wheel of our country, but not actually.
I’d actually be surprised if he does not. I said elsewhere he holds the whip hand with a stranglehold on the natural gas on which the whole of Europe depends. I am watching with great interest. And yes, let the Europeans for once cough up the money and the manpower, if that’s what they want.
The republican warmongers here are positively salivating for a war. You know the usual suspects. Desperate unpredictable times await.
California is seeing 50 times more monarch butterflies this year
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https://www.ksbw.com/article/california-50-times-monarch-butterflies-this-year/38423889#
I live right in the middle of their migration path here in North Texas and I’m treated to the spectacle twice a year. I understand that there’s a rest stop for them somewhere down in the Hill Country, and when millions of them roost in trees it’s an amazing sight. I hope to witness it soon, but right now I’m consumed with preparations for the total solar eclipse occurring on April 8 2024. Did I say 2024?
Jeff, I’m locked in on this eclipse, which will be on my sainted mother’s 98th birthday. I was thinking of Mazatlán but would rather stay stateside. I hate crowds, any suggestions?
My 2017 eclipse experience showed me that, alas, there will be crowds wherever you go. Ever been in a ten-mile traffic jam? I was in three of them that day. But this time around, I’ll be based in Dallas, so there will be plenty of elbow room to spread out to the outskirts if necessary.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen 🙏
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
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 Trisagion Hymn
and the
50th Psalm (Septuagint)
THE LAW OF ANTAGONISM
“To him that overcometh…” Rev. ii. 7
Life without war is impossible either in nature or in grace. The basis of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual life is antagonism. This is the open fact of life.
Health is the balance between physical life and external nature, and it is maintained only by sufficient vitality on the inside against things on the outside. Everything outside my physical life is designed to put me to death. Things which keep me going when I am alive, disintegrate me when I am dead. If I have enough fighting power, I produce the balance of health. The same is true of the mental life. If I want to maintain a vigorous mental life, I have to fight, and in that way the mental balance called thought is produced.
Morally it is the same. Everything that does not partake of the nature of virtue is the enemy of virtue in me, and it depends on what moral calibre I have whether I overcome and produce virtue. Immediately I fight, I am moral in that particular. No man is virtuous because he cannot help it; virtue is acquired.
And spiritually it is the same. Jesus said, “In the world ye shall have tribulation,” i.e., everything that is not spiritual makes for my undoing, but – “Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” I have to learn to score off the things that come against me, and in that way produce the balance of holiness; then it becomes a delight to meet opposition.
Holiness is the balance between my disposition and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
December 4th Devotional
Good morning juststevie☀️ Hope your day is as sunny as your postings ❤️😘
🤗 and good morning to you Cat!!! We trust that the day will be as the Lord wills and prevails, right? 🙏😉
You betcha😉😘. Always trust and listen to the Lord🙏 You all keep reminding me❤️
How interesting you should post this, Stevie. I just finished addressing where we are now in a reply to rah, before I scrolled down to yours.
How apt is this from Oswald Chambers for the times we are enduring. Tribulations indeed.
Truly sis! It is the answer many are searching for! The secret is inside of us by God’s gracious Grace! What trial(s) did OC go thru to acquire this potent knowledge?
We are all His foot soldiers, though many will not, cannot recognize themselves in this role. Our tribulations prepare us for this very calling. We are where He has placed us, and this is where we stand, no matter how small we may feel our job is. As Oswald Chambers reflected upon when war broke out. A truly remarkable servant of God.
Feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple
November 21st on the Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church or December 4th on the civil or commercial calendar
The genuine Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker points the way to the Lord Jesus Christ.
The figure of “Santa Claus” does not.
The Saint Nicholas Center has a website bursting with materials about or connected to the Saint.
http://www.stnicholascenter.org
Didn’t the Catholic Church ix-nay Saint Nicholas years and years ago?
No. Did not happen.
Beg to differ…St Christopher also got the axe:
https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/real-saint/upi
Nor sure, researching…St.Patrick may have also gotten the axe. As I said researching this…
The Vatican may have pushed some off to make room for others, but Saint Christopher is the patron Saint of Paratroopers and I will guarantee you that there are some now that wear a medallion with his likeness around their neck, just as I did years ago.
Rah, any car that my Mum owned had a St Christopher medal on the mirror, no matter what the Vatican may have done. And how funny is that??? Like there is a finite number of saints!!!! All the best to you!!!
…and (after 2 glasses of wine…) I’ve always found it hysterical that in order to be a “saint” one would have to “prove “ it after one has died! If you’re a saint, You’re in Heaven, right? So the “rule”is after you die, you’re still concerned with life on Earth and give some proof in order to be named a saint? I like to think that people who I love, who have died, might still be concerned with me…(i should delete this)
1970 or thereabouts when the liturgy was revised, the chuch’s calendar was also revised.
Some festivals moved, and some dropped or made “optional”. Very complex.
St Patrick was “historical” and he continued. St Christopher however seemed to be more myth than history, and he fell of the calendar.
EXACTLY! The Church decided some “Saints” didn’t have sufficient evidence to prove their existence or sufficient proof that they performed miracles or did anything that justified sainthood. I would think these various former saints would be reinstated if any additional evidence arose.
No word yet on Sir Roger Moore or Jill St John’s status.
Turns out you are right regarding St Nicholas!
https://abcnews.go.com/International/saint-saint-kind-demoted/story?id=23477573
Treepers!
Just revisited yesterday’s open thread. Usually I do so in the afternoon or evening.
There’s lots there…I’m busy, so I’ll read this thread this eve.
Lots to pray about and lots of treasured people to pray for…but let’s be sure to pray for Carolynn55 after reading her post from yesterday.
Merry Christmas!
You can take the mass out of Christian but you can’t take the Christian away from God.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas back to you. Frank!
So ive found this interview of a professor from Ghent university talking with a guy i follow about the phenomenon of mass formation/psychosis and how it has recently come to entrance a very large % of the population. I thought you all may be interested in listening. It is over an hour long but it’s a must watch/listen for anyone who really wants to understand how isolation and fear have been manipulated to enable the move toward a technocratic totalitarian society and why is it so hard to ‘talk sense’ into people who cling to narratives that are obviously wrong and logically absurd.
There is a video link and an audio link on the main page. I found this interesting in my desire to understand WHY smart people i know have been 💯 % hoodwinked into a cult like belief of the absurd.
Video:
Main page with audio: https://www.peakprosperity.com/mattias-desmet-on-mass-formation/
Morning tomohalk , l have been on MP if you want to read, I have both Chris and Mick with me , little $ , no reg, and an 20 yr old arrest warrant for beating a pedo, I done the time but never paid the fine.
These people are my people’s you will understand more about our (sorry hubby) interactions soon .
I think that you are becoming more aware of the gift I was given and that in itself is a gift given.
No ego involved just faith.
Bless you Betsy, some (not all ) of your responsers have helped immensely .
Don’t get a big head and sharpin up the tomahawk.
For this turn I’m pinching some of your Thunder , hope you don’t mind.
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“They didn’t see anymore that the way they behaved was absurd and counterproductive” says it all. They don’t see how much they are hurting people with their mandates and violations of human rights.
Hell and damnation!!!
This is a fantastic interview. Enlightening and optimistic.
Verse of the Day for Saturday, December 4, 2021
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“In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.”
Psalms 56:11 (KJV)
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/verse-of-day.php
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.
Mornin’ infidels!
Champion.
Mornin’ Clarion!
Good morning to you!
The MAGA Mural is highlighting the power of “Let’s go Brandon” as described in the great article linked below.
If you are MAGA, read it and smile………
If you are a communist coup plotter, read it and WEEP……… you lost the battle months ago, your leaders just haven’t broken the news to you yet.
“Decisive Battle”
https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/2740/
The MAGA 2021 Mural!
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The way things are going in our world is depressing, if you for a moment lose sight of God. This morning I asked our lord,
“why put us In this place that is so evil? We are here to bring salvation, I get that, but Couldn’t you have given us some sort of superpower to sustain us?”
His answer was “ I did, it’s righteousness, truth, love, wisdom, understanding, joy, peace, the Holy Spirit.
So who in ‘in this world’ values or practices these attributes. They are God, by the way.
Made me stop whining and focus.
That’s who we are, not anything pertaining to this world or it’s ways. The more you reverence those attributes and apply, the greater the “super power”.
So many reminders by many! ❤️😘🙏
TRUTH 🙏🏻 !!!
I’d like to point to data that It is the vaccinated driving the pandemic. After vaccination, the efficacy wanes to to point of “negative efficacy.” The quote below from of a recent paper explains why the vaccinated are getting sick:
“3.2.a VACCINE IMPACT ON THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM. There are two main parts of the immune system: 1) The adaptive immune system, which you develop and which vaccines manipulate. 2) The innate immune system which is the rapid response system that you are born with. The innate system constantly patrols the body and immediately attacks unknown elements. No priming or prior antigen exposure is needed. Unfortunately, the Covid vaccines suppress the innate immune system, which otherwise could respond to variants. Here’s how: the innate immunity’s antibodies “binding strength for the spike protein is always lower than antibodies that are specifically directed towards the spike protein.” However, the numerous vaccine created antibodies—that are specialized for the spike protein—will out-compete the innate antibodies for binding to the spike protein of the virus {⊙VandenBossche3-21:00}. Yet these same vaccine antibodies will not be able to disable the mutated virus, thus the vaccine antibodies bind to the spike protein and become a shield for the virus protecting it from the body’s innate antibodies which are capable of neutralizing variants {⊙VandenBossche2; VandenBossche3- 23:00 to 48:00}.
Recall from section 1.1.c that Montagnier believes chimeric features are prone to mutational extinction {Montagnier5-26:30 to 27:55} and that most gene inserts (the added chimeric features) are concentrated around the spike protein {Montagnier7}}. Thus if the spike protein has chimeric features, then the vaccine is targeting the exact part of the virus that is prone to change. The Covid vaccine was effective in binding to the spike protein of the original Wuhan strain, yet within months was not as effective against the Delta variant. A leaky and narrow immunity vaccine such as the Covid vaccine which uses only the spike protein will be short lived since it will “become useless in terms of protection” when a variant escapes the narrow immunity of the vaccination {⊙VandenBossche2}.
As a result, Vanden Bossche believes vaccinated individuals will become more easily infected by variants than the unvaccinated, in which case, the vaccine would result in a negative vaccine efficacy. This primes the vaccinated population for a far worse pandemic since it will “manage to provide for long-lived suppression of their innate immunity” which is “turning a relatively harmless virus into a bioweapon of mass destruction” {⊙VandenBossche2}.”
This has lead to a negative efficacy of over 100% where the vaccinated catch Covid twice as often as the unvaccinated…
“3.4.d DATA FROM THE UK. One would hope for an infection efficacy of 100%, but a 0% vaccine efficacy means the vaccinated and unvaccinated are infected at the same rate. However a negative -100% efficacy means the vaccinated are twice as likely to be infected as the unvaccinated. But it is worse than that. The Week 42 data for the October 2021 UK Surveillance Reports, UK Health Security Agency, notes “In individuals aged greater than 30, the rate of a positive COVID-19 test is higher in vaccinated individuals compared to unvaccinated.” Table 2(a) below shows the alarmingly findings. Those age 40–79 who are vaccinated with 2 doses, have double the infections of the unvaccinated, yielding a negative vaccine efficacy of -101% to -124%.”
The linked paper below fills a critical need to educate those mislead by the official Covid narrative. The paper assembles the consensus opinions of eminent experts Robert Malone, Luc Montagnier, John Ioannidis, Paul Marik, Peter McCullough, Pierre Kory, Geert Vanden Bossche, and Tess Lawrie.
It may be read online here: https://www.academia.edu/62187742/Covid_Facts_Points_of_Consensus_Among_Medical_Experts
If you have any trouble at that link, the paper is also available here: https://mega.nz/file/OgNyHByB#U-jKkPw4T_JTTzdRMtNqeLAnzfDGMIukllsJXJvmWU8
Amazing horror.
Slowly, slowly playing out.
What do we know about the MI school shooting?
Why are the authorities hell-bent on charging the parents?
“Parents of school shooter Ethan Crumbley, 15, WEEP in court as they plead not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges and judge sets bail at $500K”
Is this a political persecution by the left, or were the parents involved?
Happy Birthday, Mom. I really miss you.
Yesterday made it three years since I lost my Mother. It was a rough Christmas. My Dad is not in too good of shape now so I always make sure to be home for Thanksgiving to see him.
I still have my father too. He’s 87.
Mom has been gone 3 years also.
a change is gonna come ~robert cray / tina turner
Breaking news. Fredo is fired! LOL! Almost as good is the fact that Acosta was on when it happened and had to announce it, and then had to bring on “it’s complicated” Stetler to comment on it. Video of that is here:
BREAKING: CNN FIRES Chris Cuomo ‘Effective Immediately,’ Citing New ‘Information’ | Newsbusters
I Love it! Now what is that idiot Lemon, described as the dumbest per Trump, going to do without his pal to talk to?
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. And Lord please comfort Pastor Artur Pawlowski,
All of the political prisoners of January 6,
And all of the People
of this world struggling against tyranny, and those who have gone on to the next world. Come Holy Spirit, please guide us to wisdom for what we should do
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Merry Christmas!