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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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 to 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.””
Our only hope is Christ!
You are correct. God will only allow Christians to turn back the destruction of America and we will give him praise for his miracles. HE has given instructions to Christians in the form of: TacticalCivics.com/video
You’re putting your faith in a Florida time share salesman?
Absolutely true. ❗️✝️❗️
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wonderful … he really wants to meet that other cat
yeah, that ending’s a sly bit of trickery, that
That video was proven to be a fake. I believe we hashed that out here a few years ago and various folks offered up proof.
How so? I thought it was a cat pawing at a mirror and then at the end, via some kind of video photo shop manipulation they surprise you.
You are correct as I remember it. Many were believing that it was 2 cats interacting all along.
The mirror scene from “Duck Soup” with Groucho, Harpo and Chico sets the standard. IMHO !
Hahaha, I can’t believe you mentioned the mirror scene from Duck Soup. I recalled the scene from an I Love Lucy episode with Lucy and Harpo Marx (when the Ricardo’s and the Mertz’s were in CA) that was a direct take off from the Duck Soup scene.
Thank you, WP. One of the things I wish for all my grands is wisdom…never happiness per se, because in life happiness is fleeting and sporadic. I also wish for them peace and contentment as those qualities are much more sustaining. But above all, wisdom. A treasure above the price of rubies.
Reminds me of Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV…that’s you Bet!
I feel bad about Solomon evaporating from here.
Thinking about him too, Frank
Maybe he’s lurking 🙋♀️
I wish he’d come back…are you lurking, Solomon? Please return🙏. My day is emptier without you here.
I’ve a suspicion he’s more than lurking, he’s participating here under a different handle. No proof, just a feeling.
I bet Suspicious Cat told you that?
That’s a promising thought❤️
Upon acquainting myself with proverbs 31:10-31 Betsy fits that description perfectly 🙂
Bless you, FC. How kind you truly are. If only I could measure up to that beautiful Psalm. More leaky eyes…💓
Some would say I’m not kind. Just truthful😉
Smiling… Bless you and your giving heart.
👍
Yeah, iv been wondering about him, too.
I am so grieved over it, too, Frank. It has brought me to tears…even now.
Oh Frank…that you would think so means the world to me. I can’t see the keyboard now. Very leaky eyes. Bless you so much. 💓
What do I do with the new bouquet I picked for him? Seems a shame I can’t give it to him
Keep it in fresh water in hopes he’ll come back.
Good idea Betsy.
I’m at least partly to blame for his departure. My sense of humor often isn’t tasteful.
Don’t fret, Frank…though that you do says everything about you. Misunderstandings happen. Perhaps once a little time passes, he’ll be back. I have a wicked sense of humour and a bit edgy as well. My kiddoes would tell you. For better or worse, I passed it on to them😉
You’ve prepared them well😉
WHEN did Solomon leave? Did he make an official announcement? When? I’d like to read it myself.
No announcement, just a tragic misunderstanding. Something got lost in translation, as can happen sometimes.
I’ve interacted with Solomon and he never struck me as a snob or overly sensitive to criticism. Did this happen overnight on the Presidential thread? When? Where?
I’m often reminded of that too. I like to think “ours” is an acquired taste😉
🤗
Knowledge is of the mind. Wisdom is spiritual. True Christ-likeness embodies both.
👍 ! A person can be full of knowledge and still be a fool.
In my humble opinion the New Orleans “busker” band, Tuba Skinny, is a national icon. Not only do they perform legacy Dinieland jazz songs from a previous century, but they play them with respect and virtuosity.
Central to Tuba Skinny’s sound is singer Erika Lews who has an uncanny ability to channel song writers and performers from a past century. Listening to Tuba Skinny it’s easy to allow oneself to be transported to an earlier time. But, also, it’s just as easy to sit back and liten to a truly great Dixieland band do it’s best. Enjoy
Loved the dog in the last video. The music was nice too … 😎
🙂 These are some truly great videos. If you want an example of Americana, this is it. I especially like how the band accepted the guy who just walked up wanting to play lead kazoo . . . ! Talk about making someone’s day!!! 🙂
Good ones.
Fantastic and oh so bittersweet to realize how we’ve lost our minds since these videos were recorded. It feels like a lifetime ago, a century ago, a whole other planet ago to see this.
Know that feeling. 🙂
IIRC, the 2012 time juncture with Tuba Skinny on Royal Street was in the post Katrina time period. New Orleans remained reduced of many residents and many clubs were not open.
Sharpstown section in Houston was well populated with the lesser variety of the displaced New Orleans citizens.
“He’s showing us how to do it! We can all do it now!” Then: Whoopsie!
that Aussie twang … “No peerents around …”
We call them “Drop Bears” they are completely harmless unless threatened, they eat “Gum” leaves as a primary food source , the particular “Gum” trees they choose has a substance in the mixed molecular base that acts like a sedative, all and all it sleeps , eats and mates.
What a life !
Koalas have many preditors but there speed in climbing keeps them ahead of the game.
The biggest threat to a drop bear is a bushfire.
Good morning Mungrel!
How is the political climate down under?
The new “woke” “West Side Story” has opened and some of us are more than a little interested since we wonder how it compares to the 10 Oscar winning 1961 version. Back in 1961 there was a minor controversy dealing with lip syncing. Natalie Wood, who was a decent singer, sang all her parts for “Maria”. The studio, without informing her, substituted the beautiful singing voice of Marni Nixon. Nixon also dubbed all of Audrey Hepburn’s singing in “My Fair Lady”. Here is a video with Natalie Wood singing intercut with Marni Nixon’s dubbing. It switches back and forth and thus gives you an idea of whether Natalie Wood was capable.
Watching this brought me back to how in love with this music I was and, of course, the story. And at the same time, much like the videos Garrison posted above, it feels so bittersweet to watch this because it feels like a time of so much more innocence and some semblance of sanity. I’m not looking back with rose-colored glasses, but we have really gone quite mad and it’s both beautiful and painful to look back, watch, and listen to this other time…. Whoever would have thought that totalitarianism was laying in wait down the road for us…..
I get it.
GM Sarah. Responding here to a thoughtful reply you posted yesterday. Tried, unsuccessfully, yesterday to respond. Having some difficulty with this site.
Your post accurately stated, philosophically, that one never knows what one will do when confronted with a crisis. I do not disagree with that. I also agree with your other points. I wanted to add another component which may further explain my position. While we may not know exactly what we will do in a crisis, most of us who are bound by principles, laws, ethics, duty, oaths or licensure often know what they WON’T do. Therein lies my position. Removing our freedoms to work, worship, educate, gather, be with our ill and dying even for “15 days to slow the spread” is never an option for free men in a Contitutional Republic. No man should ever hold that power over us, let alone a POTUS who is willing to use it. Similarly, removing safety restrictions from big pharma has caused great personal harm and death to many. While I cannot see the future, having conducted clinical trials, filing hundreds of adverse events pertaining to study drugs, I did know Warp Speed, in that area, was a HUGE mistake. The damage done as a result from this action alone is incalculable.
I understand that many believe it’s ok to set aside our rights in a crisis or emergency, but if history tells us nothing else, “never let a crisis go to waste” is not just a quote. The Patriot Act is a perfect example. I don’t hear many defending Bush on that one anymore.
I am in total agreement with you that PDJT was put in an impossible situation, likely set up, everything against him. I understand, somewhat, the dilemma, but I will never defend or justify the actions.
I agree 100% with your very well-articulated perspective and position, oldschool.
I believe that tolerance and willingness to compromise are two very overrated dimensions that principled people must use with maximum discretion. Unfortunately too many people have been duped into believing those concepts must rule over all other considerations.
Thank you GB.
What a thoughtful well worded post, old school.
Last night on the news of the 6th Circuit’s complicitness with the Fascist government we now live under per forced jabs, I tried…and failed..to articulate what next steps might be necessary should this all come before a cowardly and, I believe, godless Supreme Court. A Court that is exempt from what they would judicially impose on a once free people.
You are articulated exactly what I should have said. It’s not so much a matter of what will we do, but rather what we won’t. And I am with you.
There was a time when proof of religious beliefs was not required in order to refuse anything degraded, decadent and unholy. A religious test as it were, which is, I believe as unconstitutional as it gets. But those times are gone. It is abhorrent to me that those who need their jobs but refuse to submit must, in essence, stand before anyone and prove their faith-based reasons, to have their belief in God Almighty judged by mere mortal men.
Christ said we would be persecuted for our love of Him. That will be my badge, yours, and millions of others. Thank you for your sentient heartfelt reply to Sarah. And may God bless you in every way.
Thank you Betsy. You have done an excellent job of articulating your thoughts and I agree. None of us should have to provide any “proof” of why we choose not to act or engage in their “mandates” or how we practice our faith.
I believe we are all called upon to live by the Lord and for the Lord. He is right here beside us. May he give us wisdom, faith, courage and love for one another. May He bless you and yours in this holy season.
Thank you so much. And I wish the same for you as well, old school, and
for all whom you love. Merry Christmas!😊
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Hi OldSchool. I’d like to interject a thought from my days of teaching people to fly airplanes – and along the way following accident investigations in small airplanes.
We taught emergency operation of equipment and tried our best to put our students / trainees in a variety of simulated emergency situations. I always said I could teach a monkey to manipulate the controls of an airplane. What was harder was teaching a pilot to ‘think’!
Of course, rule number one is to plan ahead so as to avoid a bad situation. But bad things happen. The rule is it will happen at the worst possible moment in time.
What we tried to teach (as a concept) is: once you have tried all the ‘normal’ things you know how to do, what else can you do to solve an inflight problem? After all, you cannot just pull over to the side of the road and think about it.
The only really bad event is to run out of airspeed, altitude and ideas all at the same time.
Life is like that
What a great story and analogy. Sounds like a great career and thank you!
What an incredibly story/lesson, succinctly told and packing a real punch. Wow! Thank you for sharing that.
Excellent! Americans are good at thinking on their feet, improvising as situations arise and change. But we, here at least, put God first. He is our Commander in Chief. And we will need Him in front to face what’s coming. May we draw on our inner strength to perceive what will be needed. And to ask, as St Francis did long ago, “O Lord, what would you have me do?”
Hi Betsy, reading your post made a song pop up in my head,
“I’m a soldier in the army of the Lord…”
Blessings!
To Bet and Gramps:
As Christians, our primary citizenship is in heaven but we are also US citizens.
Strange balance for me as we face what I consider to be the end of this age.
Your thoughts?
I somehow see us as His emissaries here. And I agree. I feel we are at the end of an age. Historically all such periods come to an end, although I must say never did I think I’d find myself at the tail end of one.
One of my favourite sayings is “we are all just walking each other home.” I saw it and it has stayed with me ever since. Because that’s what we are doing. Just passing through.
Our well ordered life is collapsing by the hands of others who have no right to commit what is essentially the murder of civilization…our history, our culture. For those who remain remarkably unaware of this deliberate devastation out of ignorance or apathy (and probably both) the end of the road we are on is going to be a terrible shock. By that time, it will be too late. Unless our Father in His mercy and in His plan allows us to recover. It cannot be done without Him and the grace He grants. And please may He do so.
In the meantime, Frank, I am perhaps cursed to be able to see the dreadful things which are happening worldwide in great and small detail. And my heart hurts for that seeing of it. And I truly wonder how He has the patience.
What is our role in the transitioning to who knows what? I said before I can only sow the seeds of, I hope, wisdom and decency to my own brood here, which I have tried to do. They in turn will meet others, and by living honest and loving lives will serve as examples of what He has commanded us to do…and so on.
I am a citizen of the US by birth, but I never felt I’m in the right place, like Somerset Maugham. He said some people are born in the wrong place, and if they are lucky they will find the spot where they feel instantly at home, as if this is where they were meant to be. I was lucky, so lucky to find that home. And though I have left it, it is forever where my heart is.
I pray that God would welcome me when the time comes. And I’m now preparing for that time at the back end of my life, as it is now. If I can get through “Passport Control” that is.
I suspect this diatribe is not what you had in mind with your question, so I apologize for the length. But this is all which has been circling in my mind for weeks. I hope in my day to day interactions with others I can show grace, affection, humanity to everyone I meet no matter their circumstances, because I want to be a good emissary of His love for me, who has sinned mightily and has been forgiven. Citizen here? Yes. But in fact I’m in the waiting lounge only in hopes that I’ll not be found wanting and will in time become a citizen in His bless-ed Home.
What a good man you are, Frank. I’m so grateful for you. Bet (NM! 😉🤗)
You said what spins around my head so beautifully and to the point!
Well done Betsy! I would have had to write it as an new age encyclopedia 🙂
Once I started, I couldn’t stop. Thank you so much, Cat…I’m so glad it struck a chord with you. One never knows. God love you.😊💓
I’m not good. I’m most certainly forgiven though.
Regarding concerns about being able to perform under sudden pressure or persevere in the face of popular condemnation:
I think it’s healthy to have self doubt and supremely important to treasure Christ.
Treasure that He who began the process of your eternal life WILL complete the process. See Ephesians 1:3-6 and Philippians 1:6 ESV.
Regarding the end of the age:
I’m convinced that believers will go through all seven years of the Tribulation. Somehow, The Lord Will give us the unquenchable ability to stand for Him! See Rev 6:9-11 ESV. There is ZERO doubt in my mind that the finest martyrs we have never yet even heard of, as well as those we have, wondered how they could possibly be counted worthy to wear the martyrs crown and wear white robes.
Forever.
He who began? WILL complete!
Thank you, dear friend. What a thoughtful answer to my ramblings. I crisscross from one thought to another, and I pick up more on the way, sometimes finding the threads get tangled in the middle.
What you’ve described with the martyrs is, I believe, humility… humbling ourselves before God. When we consider the magnificence of His work and his continuing love for us in spite of our terrible sins, how could we not? And as He has promised, He will not abandon us, as you say EVER! What joy there is in that.
Here’s hoping Solomon is lurking and will return post haste. Bless you Frank. Bet(nM!)🤗
That’s what we are, GrandpaM. I have prayed that He use me where He will. We all have a part to play.
He has. He will. ❗️✝️❗️
Thanks for that.
Serious question:
From your perspective as a pilot and your association with the FAA, what are your thoughts on DB Cooper?
I don’t have thoughts on DB Cooper. I assume he is the skyjacker?
What has always bothered me is that skyjackers led to TSA – and to my knowledge they have never prevented a skyjacking. They do, however, inconvenience lots of people
Terrorists have created better ways to terrorize folks and make lots of $$ – hence the clot shot.
Just my opinion, of course
Thank you.
oldschool, Thank you so much for taking the time to find me over here to reply to the (rather lengthy) comment/reply I wrote yesterday. So sweet of you to do that!
I greatly appreciate all the points you made. You think hard about things and always express your ideas with great clarity making it a joy to read what you have to share, irrespective of whether I agree or not (though I usually agree).
I will just say that what you wrote in the second paragraph still bumps up against the original point I made about people not really ever being able to know what they would or would not do until the situation arises, and that includes thinking they have a set of values that would reliably dictate such things.
So here’s a question: Do you think the German people, and people throughout Europe every would have thought they would have participated as they did in the Final Solution? My guess would be most would have said they would never do anything like that, would never ignore such atrocities, would never turn their backs on their fellow citizens and allow them to be gassed, shot, burned alive, experimented on, etc.
But so many did.
This example could be applied to any example of such horrors throughout human history, which is why I often say that history shows us that when push comes to shove, most people are cowards. Suddenly, it seems, all our grand ideas of who we think we are go out the window.
Why?
Well, for one, In my view, because numerous pressures come to bear. And people just want to survive.
So this reply/comment is not so much about Trump, specifically, as it is about what any person feels sure they would or would not do in a certain situation. We can only hope, think, or imagine, but it is only when that situation arises do we find what we are made of. At least in my view.
It is I that should thank you. I appreciate every one of your posts and have the utmost respect for your thinking and expression of thoughts. You epitomize the CTH standards.
As for your reference to the behaviors of the Germans, you made your argument. As I read it, it reminded me of an inner conflict that I have contemplated from time to time. In more recent history, we have seen faithful Christians murdered because they refused to denounce Christ. In my heart, I don’t believe I could have that courage. It troubles me enough to beg forgiveness.
Thank you for the conversation. God bless you.
What a gracious and beautiful reply. And the example you gave is potent beyond words. Indeed, witnessing the strength and resolve that Christians the world over have expressed in the face of the unthinkable is a powerful example of what you and I are talking about. It causes one to be in awe and wonder: Would I do that? Would I be that brave? Would my convictions trump any horror that will befall me for standing tall and not moving an inch? And thus we hope, think, and imagine. But we do not know.
Since I was a child I often reflected on such things and wondered how I, those closest to me, and fanning out in concentric circles from there, would act if a kind of darkness were to descend and challenge my deepest set of values and beliefs. And I often feared I would come up short because of what history showed.
Here’s a more recent case in point: When lockdowns hit and small businesses were pushed to the brink of survival, despite all the bravado often expressed in comments on countless conservative sites, how many of us physically stood with those shop keepers in solidarity? I’ll tell you: Precious few. And I was among the majority who stood by, expressed outrage and sorrow, yet did nothing.
It’s easy for people (you didn’t, but I’m just giving an example) to say things like I stand with so-and-so, or we are all so-and-so, but it means nothing if we don’t actually show up and put all the chips on the line as our values would, presumably, have us do. This phenomenon often happens after a jihad attack such as “We are all Charlie Hebdo now” as people walk around with giant pencils.
I’m not saying that any one of us is supposed to fly around the country every day standing with those who are standing in the gap, but I think you get the gist.
This has been a deep issue, conundrum, and spiritual and philosophical challenge my entire life and it is an absolute privilege to have an exchange with you about it. (And I laughed at how you found me on this thread! I’ve never seen you post here, but perhaps you lurk and know I often hang out for a while in the wee hours of the night/morning to enjoy good music and share a few links myself.)
Agree with all your examples and share many of the same thoughts, conflicts, and at times my own hypocrisy. It is a delight to read your posts.
FYI, this thread is the thread that “hooked” me on the Treehouse almost 7 years ago. I start everyday here primarily for prayers, and lurk for the entertainment provided by Garrison and other musically talented Treepers. It’s the sunny side of the tree 🌞
Sweet story about this thread – “the sunny side of the tree!”
If I don’t see you around for a while, Merry Christmas, old school, and a bless-ed New Year…
May I suggest you look at Mark 13:11 and Proverbs 3:5,6. ESV.
I share many of your same thoughts, especially when it comes to “crunch time”.
For me, it was Bernstein’s magnum opus. I loved the original and will not supplant those memories with a “redo”.
The 2021 “West Side Story” is using Bernstein’s music and I believe the same arrangements. I haven’t seen it yet but I’ll reserve judgement on the new version until I have.
One thing I have seen are excerpts from the dance scenes and they look vastly inferior to the ’61 “WSS”. From what I’ve seen, they are severely edited. It looks like Spielberg used a lot of close up shots which takes many of the other dancers out of the camera view and in particular, he switches back and forth between cameras after only a few seconds. An overhead shot, from the north side, from the west side, from down in front to up in back. This way there’s no messy “splicing” and jumpy camera movements in the same scene. It also takes stress off the dancers because they don’t have to be nearly as good as the ’61 cast.
Compare that to the ’61 version. For most of the rooftop “America” dance the camera sets back and you can see the whole dance company.which was typically 6 boys and 6 girls … 12 in total, all dancing in full view for much longer periods of time which means way more rehearsing and way more re-takes.
I’ll research until I can find some unbiased director’s and choreographer’s insights but as an interested fan, that’s what I’m seeing.
Interesting. I appreciate coats your detailed take, especially on the choreography. From what I read in an article on American Greatness, Spielberg used no English subtitles when his actors spoke in Spanish. That puts an end to any interest I may have had. Apparently he is woke.
The title is “Left side Story: Spielberg Jumps the Shark”.
I think you’d find it very illuminating. I highly recommend. It is excellent. I just so loved the original that I’d hate to disturb my memories of it, as nearly always happens with remakes. The only remake which I enjoyed more than the original was Smiley’s People with Gary Oldham. That one was absolute nperfection. Cheers, Boogystew😊
Oh dear…fat fingers. First line should not have “coats” in it. Whoever knows where THAT came from. Curse s on my Kindle!
Dropping hints for a Christmas present? I will probably get you the same thing I got you last year.
POLL: What holiday greeting do you prefer? (Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Seasons Greetings, Other?)
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2021/12/poll-what-holiday-greeting-do-you.html
I prefer “Merry Christmas” but I’ll take and treasure Happy Hanukkah if a Jewish acquaintance offers it up. NO Aloha Snackbars, thank you very much.
At this point I’ll take just about anything other than some idiot asking me if I’ve been vaccinated!
Merry Christmas – frohe Weihnachten 😉
My German grandmother’s family always said, “Fröhliche Weihnachten!” They emigrated here mostly from the original Preussen and Hessen “states.”
Or in Welsh…Nadolig Llawen!🤗
🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄 st 😉
Recent eavesdropping at store: clerk- happy holidays. Customer- it’s Christmas! You don’t say happy holidays on Memorial Day, 4th of July, or your birthday do you? Say merry Christmas 🎄🙃
Merry Christmas!
Nadolig Llawen, Cariad!!
From me to you, in my limited but heartfelt Welsh, dear Frank.
Merry Christmas beloved sis. ❗️✝️❗️
🤗💓
I wish I had a cross on my Kindle. I would post one right back to you.
Good Morning,
NATIONAL WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA DAY – 18 DECEMBER
National Wreaths Across America Day is the culmination of a yearlong mission to Remember the fallen, Honor those who serve and Teach the next generation the value of freedom. This mission is in part carried out each December with the placement of sponsored veterans’ wreaths on the headstones of those who have served our country. The observance is designated annually on a Saturday in December by Congress.
https://www.gocivilairpatro…
If you have a cemetery close by it is a beautiful ceremony and event to go to. We have gone several years but missed it last year (maybe it was canceled bc of covid, I don’t remember) and this year has just been busy and hubby is working.
https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/
If things had gone the way I wanted I would be at the cemetery a Ft. Sam Houston right now at said ceremony after having delivered the wreaths. I would also be going to Chaffe street to see if the small stucco tile roofed house that was our family quarters when I was stationed there still stands.
Thank heavens for weekends … happy Caturday, y’all
(click to view full photo)
Ella Fitzgerald – professional “scat singing”
Ella Fitzgerald and Perry Como, A-tisket, A-tasket
Love Ella but can’t stand scat
Blast from the scat past.
Scat: improvised jazz singing in which the voice is used in imitation of an instrument.
Here is another singer known for the scat ……
Mel Tormé – Scat Singing (1991) – MDA Telethon
“Goin’Down” I’ll see your “Mel Torme” and raise you one “Micky Dolenz”. Here is a song written by all 4 Monkees with lyrics by Diane Hildebrand. Tell me again what a contrivance The Monkees were! Micky Dolenz… ” sucks the paint off Mel Torme’s car”! You want your scat … you got your scat!
HOT!
Good morning everyone 🌻
As you know, I’ve recently popped out of the woods because the religious postings here are intriguing and thought provoking. I cherish them all❤️
All have opened up avenues of thought I never dreamed of thinking.
The latest example, is just stevie’s last couple of posts. I read them but wasn’t totally sure I understood. I thought a lot, still wasn’t sure, so after I said prayers tonight, I fell asleep thinking…. God, what does this mean? Slept a dreamless, sound sleep and woke up with this mulling in my head…. “just as I have said…knock and you may enter….you need to open your door so I may enter. Let me fill your mind with the answers. Stop trying so hard to figure it out and listen to what I say”
“It’s a two way street” ( my paraphrasing). I can’t remember what else I “dreamed”. I don’t consciously remember anymore. I can only say it filled me with so much joy and peace that I had to share with you.
May you all experience such a contented, peaceful slumber.
Thank you all and BIG HUGS for everyone for opening my mind.
I love you all❤️
What a wonderful Christmas present to us from you Cat!!! Our God, His son Jesus Christ, along with the Holy Spirit will fill you to overflowing and you’ll find yourself bringing them along with you everywhere you go! The best company, protection, advice, understanding, and of course LOVE, you can have! Peace and Blessings be with you sis on your journey! 💝🙏🙏🙏
What a glorious experience, FC! And at the time of our welcoming Jesus Christ into our lives and into the world. This is a bless-ed place offering such comfort and friendship. So many new friends who fill the days with warmth and erudition and, yes, love. As I’ve said a few times, I do not the faces here, but, even better, I know the hearts behind them. Bless you, and I wish you a truly Merry Christmas, with heartfelt hopes that the peace which passes all understanding will be yours. No better gift.
All those sweet words…back at you❤️
Merry Christmas Betsy and thanks for everything !
My fat 10 fingers left out a word😊. You are so welcome, FC. You have added so much here, and have definitely made my daily visits that much brighter, so I thank you as well🤗
A peace that passes understanding. . .
❤️✝️
One of Billy Grahams best quotes ( Wish I’d prayed more and preached less ). Amen
Goodaye all, and Merry Christmas.
My internet systems are mostly down to post here , the whole thing is small and I ain’t no tech head.
It takes me ten times longer to post here, I had some replys I wanted to make but just can’t at the moment, I can read though which is good, I must get to my tech bloke but make no mistake mungrel is still in the fight.
More when I can and God bless .
We had outages here as well. And my now conspiratorial mind wondered immediately if this was the big one, so to speak. This site must really get up some people’s noses, so I do expect one day…
I looked for you yesterday late, and on not seeing you immediately offered prayers for your continued safety and well being. I’m much relieved to see you this morning. Phew! Take care, Mungrel🙏 LBT demands you do so😊
Merry Christmas, son! God’s blessings to you, too.
Your fifth pop 😂
Merry Christmas back at ya. I’m currently enjoying a glass of Holiday good cheer. Evan Williams Egg Nog. Great stuff.
. . . 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)
Continuing discussion:
ms idaho
December 17, 2021 10:01 am
I would argue this statement from rah “Mr. Allen had reason to be upset with Tex Johnston for rolling the Dash-80”. Personally I would like to fly with the knowledge that the plane ‘could be’ safely rolled.
An ongoing problem developed at airports when large, heavy airplanes were mixed in landing sequence with small, lighter airplanes. It only helped a little bit when there were parallel runways in use. A scary number of airplanes, big and little, ended up in very scary positions relative to the ground – and very near the ground. Not all survived the ensuing crash. Parallel runways only help a little bit because the vortices settle and drift with the wind.
A touch of aerodynamics. The curved top of a wing creates a lower pressure than the bottom of the wing. The airplane flies, literally, by the amount of low pressure on top. As the plane moves thru the air, the air ‘equalizes’ off the wing tips, creating what are called wingtip vortices (AKA horizontal tornados). While barely noticeable in our small airplanes, it is a real flight hazard flying or landing behind one of the really BIG jets. You have noticed the small wings at an angle to the wings? While they help reduce wingtip vortices, their main advantage is they reduce fuel consumption and make the wing ‘fly’ better.
I just learned this from hydro.aero
“Raked wingtips, where the tip has a greater wing sweep than the rest of the wing, are featured on some Boeing Commercial Airplanes to improve fuel efficiency, takeoff and climb performance. Like winglets, they increase the effective wing aspect ratio and diminish wingtip vortices, decreasing lift-induced drag.”
So I assume the problem of unexpectedly finding yourself upside down near the ground is less now than it was 40 years ago.
Going back to rah’s discussion of rolling the Dash-80, the fact that the airplane is capable of responding to an invisible horizontal tornado from another airplanes wingtip vortice means survival.
Because these vortices may be hanging in the air long after the airplane that created them is out of sight. And they are invisible. And they affect all airplanes, big and little, that encounter them.
Air traffic controllers do what they can to separate traffic – not only to avoid mid air collisions, but to mitigate the chances of encountering another airplane’s wingtip vortices. Might they explain that sudden and often severe ‘bump’ when flying in otherwise calm air? Oh, dear, my hot coffee just landed in my lap.
One other point about rah’s discussion. From my point of view, not only would I be glad to know the airplane could handle a nicely done barrel roll – I would like to know that the airframe can withstand a not-so-well executed roll – or other pilot-induced or weather-induced stress-upon-the-airframe situation.
I was a flight instrurctor, and one of my airplanes was stressed for acrobatics (which I taught some)…. But I was not a test pilot. Didn’t want to be one. Am eternally grateful there are people who happily put airplanes thru their paces, find out what they will and will not do.
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ms idaho
The Dash-80 was the ONLY prototype. Boeing had bet the farm on it, using its own money to finance it. The aircraft was insured, but at a huge cost with the stipulation that only Tex Johnston could fly it until other examples had been produced.
Further, the Dash-80 was the ONLY aircraft of its kind out there at that time. The only thing coming close that was in operation anywhere was the Boeing B-47 bomber and it wasn’t flying from civilian fields. The B-52 was under development also and Tex was the chief engineering test pilot for it as he had been for the B-47. So Tex had far more stick time in big muti-engine jet aircraft than anyone in the world at that time.
Douglass had its first jet airliner, the DC-8, in development and was hot on the heels of Boeing. To lose the Dash-80 would have been a total disaster for Boeing.
IMO Tex knew what he was doing, but Mr. Allen certainly had reason to be concerned by the stunt.
As far as wing vortices? Heck, there were very few civilian airfields in existence that were even large enough to handle the big 4 engine jet yet! O’Hara airport was under construction at the time. The bottom line is that was a problem in the future at that time. At that stage the public and the FAA had two big concerns about the big jet airliners.
#1 was catastrophic depressurization. This was a concern because the multiple fuselage failures of the very first jet airliner, the de Havalland Comet, that resulted in several cases of total airframe failure with no survivors. Those failures were a result of de Havalland putting square windows in the aircraft and not enough reinforcing bands in the fuselage. Boeing had the benefit of its long experience with pressurizing large aircraft, starting with the B-29 and of course learning from the Comet’s structural failures. So the Dash 80 had windows with rounded corners and the fuselage had the equivalent of more than twice as many reinforcing bands in the fuselage. And then for good measure, the inside of the skin had little titanium patches applied in the places where the aluminum was most likely to fatigue due to repeated pressurization and depressurization cycles to stop any rips that may start.
This was such a PR and FAA concern that Boeing made a film with of test rig with a fuselage pressurized and dropped a big guillotine blade on it to demonstrate that while the fuselage would depressurize, it would not structurally fail.
. #2 was the noise. The jet engines being used at that time were noisier than what they are flying now. So Boeing was greatly concerned and was already working with the manufacturers to develop quieter engines. When Tex did two low level passes over Calcutta when delivering the first 707 to India Airlines in 1960. During the first pass the people below thought the world was ending and there was mass panic. By the time he came over for the 2nd pass the people realized what was going on and were cheering and celebrating.
I should have added that the aluminum skin of the 707 was twice the thickness of that used in the Comet.
de Havalland had made the comet so light for two reasons. The jet engines at that time were slow in throttle response. And there were limits to how much power one could apply at one time because the metallurgy was still trying to catch up with the extreme tail pipe temperatures being produced by the engines.
The Comet was a smaller aircraft than the 707, being specifically designed to use available runways. And so with the engine technology of the time and the shorter runways that would have to be used, de Havalland made the aircraft as light as possible to limit the take off and landing rolls required with a full load of passengers and fuel.
Are you sure you haven’t missed your calling?
I’m convinced you can write history books and tech manuals. 💪
I have a manuscript or at least a partial one on the Battle of Gettysburg. Still have more research to do of original source material and that can only be done at Gettysburg. It is impossible for me to find the time. Perhaps when I really retire. But no matter, after all a lot of excellent histories about the battle have been written and though what I have written so far may shed a little light on some points, they are relatively minor ones.
That being said, I have researched that battle and walked the field so much there are times I read some stuff put out by supposed professionals that I recognize as incorrect and a couple articles I have seen published in Civil War magazine that are pure simplistic crap.
People still let their emotions override objectivity when it comes to many subjects about the Civil War. And I am not just talking about discussions between people of southern and northern heritage. For example, if you bring up the subject of the action of Danial Sickles ordering his 3rd Corp forward to the Emmitsburg Road just before Longstreet launched the attack on the 2nd day things can get heated very quickly between us aficionados.
When it comes to people that are still fighting the civil war the way I see it, they were all Americans, no matter what side they fought for or supported. There was a great variance of what the individual soldiers on both sides were fighting for.
Thank you.
rah
My flying days were from the early 1960s to early 1981. My 60 yr old memories are certainly subject to question. Truly, when I was flying my concentration was keeping self and baby alive and fed. Previous aviation history was only an incidental part of my life knowledge.
I lived nearly every possible flying day (and some nights) in a 2 or 4 seat Cessna. Big airplanes were things to avoid flying near.
I just write about my life, knowledge and experiences
Love love love your history stories – your knowledge is deep an wide – a joy to read.
and I Love the opportunity to discuss the subjects with you. Our perspectives may be different but that only makes it more interesting. Besides, you make me think!
hey – don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. making me think, I mean.
We have totally different life experiences – but I suspect others besides you and me are enjoying the ‘ride’ as we share from our backgrounds.
I do I do👌
Agreed! Your life experience and the way you think are great too. 🌞
I’d love to hear your take on the B-36!
Did you know the B-36 was one of only two aircraft first conceived and with initial designs already on paper before the US entered WW II but not produced until after the war? It was conceived based on a specification for an aircraft with the range to be able to bomb Germany even if England fell when it was thought by many here in the US that England would fail to stand alone against the Nazi war machine.
The B-36 was a monstrosity. So large that they even experimented with a specially designed fighter that it could unch and recover to provide it’s own fighter protection. That little jet was called the Goblin. The main hall of the US Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson, AFB was built AROUND the example of the B-36 that lies within and if you visit that museum you will see that there of plenty of other aircraft displayed under its wings.
Here you go. For those that have no concept of what I we’re talking about here is a movie clip from the movie Strategic Air Command staring Jimmy Stewart. You may also recognize the guy playing the flight engineer. Jimmy BTW was the perfect actor for the role. He was in WW II, flew some missions, but was primarily an instructor pilot for the big bomber pilots.
The ground crew guy was counting the propeller blades as they went by because the oil in radial engines settles into the lower cylinders when they sit idle. Before the ignition was activated to start the engine it was necessary to turn the engine over a certain amount to recirculate the oil to the other cylinders. In earlier Radial engine aircraft this was done by hand by the ground crew.
Some time in the future, if you’re willing and able, I ‘d love to hear what kind of instrumentation is typically used in a big rig diesel tractor and what YOU think there should be? I absolutely enjoy your trucking commentary and am a huge fan!
I’ll get around to that some time. Right now, it’s bed time and tomorrow is full. Such a discussion is probably more than I want to try on my cell while out in the truck and I’ve got things to do tomorrow before I head up to Newaygo.
There a “trolley car”type of arrangement where you pulled yourself along till you got to the rear of the B36! There were bunkbeds, toilet facilities and a kitchenette as well at the back. There was some investigating whether long range planes like the B36 could utilize atomic power and they actually had a working small reactor that was “hot”, but was not hooked up to power the plane, that was carried aloft by the B36.
Jimmy Stewart flew 20 combat missions over Nazi Germany as the pilot of a B24 Liberator.
He ended up a General in the Air Force Reserves.
The tunnel passed over the bomb bays connecting the crew spaces. The crew spaces were pressurized but the rest, including the bomb bay was not. There was a tunnel in the B-29 also, but one crawled in it. It was also a great place during peacetime travel to get a nice snooze I have read.
Fascinating.
I believe it was a 707 that went down in OSO Wa. not sure of the year.
It was quite a chore to train airline pilots that had all their hours in prop planes to adapt to a jet aircraft. There were several crashes attributed to pilot error in the first couple years after the 707s and DC-8s were introduced into general service. Tex describes several of them in his autobiography. He had to wash out the most Sr. pilot at Air France because the guy just couldn’t adapt. But after the Boeing training team departed Air France had their own instructor pilot certify that head pilot. On his second flight he flew a 707 full of people into the side of a mountain.
This is the kind of thing we faced years later. Again, smaller airplanes, but same problem. Yes, the crashes were dubbed ‘pilot error’. Yes, the pilot acted as tho he was in a prop not a jet aircraft. Yes, he could not or would not adapt.
I have a ‘saved’ series of posts. The first one describes our Introductory Flying Lesson..
Believe me when I say – the first number of flights were all about teaching the Student NOT TO DRIVE A CAR. Student didn’t know that of curse. But the more yearsr a person had been driving a car the more difficult this simple ‘change’ was.
If this is your idea of worship, my sincere question is why? Why bother going to a church like this?
https://www.westernjournal.com/lutheran-church-drag-queen-take-pulpit-sunday-service-read-book-kids/?ff_source=email&ff_medium=AE&ff_campaign=can&ff_content=2021-12-18
Sodom and Gomorrah 🙁
Can you imagine how offended the most Holy One must be?
Perverts supporting perverts and training children to be perverts in the name of God.
Come Lord Jesus. Come.
Revelation 1:19-20 — “Therefore write the things that you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to take place after these, the mystery of the seven stars, which you saw on My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.”
Revelation 2:5 — “Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the first works. But if not, I am coming to you, and I will remove your lampstand out of its place, unless you should repent.”
Revelation 2:29 — “The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Thank you.
Amen TM!
Amen.
Look at all the times throughout the Old Testament where people did the most despicable things as far as worship yet still went to the traditional places like the Temple to do so. Some of the leaders would even cultivate their own “prophets” (sic) well persecuting or even killing the real ones.
Nowadays, I think it’s a mix of people that go along to get along, do it as a matter of function, tradition, social club, etc. Some also could like the power dynamic of being in control of things and of money (both in furthering their own nests as well as funneling the funds to initiatives of cronies and political goals) as well as having status and pet projects. Others are fully supporting such activities, including those who might not believe a thing but enjoy being able to take over such traditional institutions and metaphorically spike the football there.
Agree totally, Menagerie. I was born into and raised in my fathers family church that had been started in Baltimore in 1865 as a German Lutheran church with a German speaking pastor. As the decades passed, the congregation had to seek German speaking pastors from where they could be found, eventually the church was called St.Luke’s Evangelical and Reformed United Church of Christ.
During the time that I became an adult and married, I saw the American based Lutheran church undergo a Leftwing based departure from Bible based Christian doctrine, and move steadily towards a more “woke” openness to positions that were not Bible based. I think that by the year 2000, only the Missouri Synod remained mostly true to Bible doctrine, but I’ve since lost track with that brand of Lutheranism, having left the denominational brand of churches altogether.
Curtis Bowers, in his full length and heavily researched documentary “Agenda 2”, explained in that and subsequent shorter videos that the communists deliberately infiltrated American churches, specifically their seminaries, beginning after WW2. I think the horrid example of what that has produced (by design) is evident in the video you posted. Not all Lutheran churches succumbed to this evil; but too many did.
I left the RC Church and found a Missouri Synod specifically for those reasons. Within 5 years there was little difference between their practices and those of the Catholic Church I left. After the churches shuttered their doors, denied their faithful the sacraments, depriving them of receiving the Body and Blood of our Risen Christ on Easter Sunday, I have washed my hands of organized religion.
You are not alone – I am sure many besides thee and me have the same experience. The best thing about ‘going to church’, especially a cathedral (IMHO) is hearing the choir sing beautiful music.
the rest – not so much
I agree the music, good music, lifts me. An older priest used the phrase “Sing once, pray twice”. So true
Take a walk sometime in the balcony of some Christian churches, even fundamentalist sects, and you’ll see more than a few people using their cell phones continuously. I’ve sat in the cheap seats and I could see up to a half dozen cell phones in use at the same time from being seated down in my seat. I have never heard a preacher address this issue when I have been at church … not once.
Off subject…many good friends on the Limbs of the treehouse are concerned re the exit of one of their favs. Not to worry, I’m sure he’ll be back in one form or another….
My thoughts exactly!
I really pray so, Leenie.
It’s a logical progression after the ‘Live Free of Die’ state elected the first openly gay Anglican Bishop near two decades ago.
THE TEST OF LOYALTY
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Romans viii. 28
It is only the loyal soul who believes that God engineers circumstances. We take such liberty with our circumstances, we do not believe God engineers them, although we say we do; we treat the things that happen as if they were engineered by men. To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, and that is to our Lord. Suddenly God breaks up a particular set of circumstances, and the realization comes that we have been disloyal to Him by not recognizing that He had ordered them; we never saw what He was after, and that particular thing will never be repeated all the days of our life. The test of loyalty always comes just there. If we learn to worship God in the trying circumstances, He will alter them in two seconds when He chooses.
Loyalty to Jesus Christ is the thing that we “stick at” today. We will be loyal to work, to service, to anything, but do not ask us to be loyal to Jesus Christ. Many Christians are intensely impatient of talking about loyalty to Jesus. Our Lord is dethroned more emphatically by Christian workers than by the world. God is made a machine for blessing men, and Jesus Christ is made a Worker among workers.
The idea is not that we do work for God, but that we are so loyal to Him that He can do His work through us – “I reckon on you for extreme service, with no complaining on your part and no explanation on Mine.” God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
Oswald Chambers
December 18th Devotional
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When I relocated and met my neighbors, I looked upwards, chuckled and said “you have a wonderful sense of humor!”
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LOL and yes, some of those ‘occasions’ push us closer to Him, as designed!
A while back I learned that almost every time the word servant is used in the New Testament it is actually the Greek word for slave. We are not just to be the servant of God and Christ, we are to be slaves. It is a much more demanding idea.
The original English translations were done at a time in which slavery as an English and western institution was being questioned and was on its way to being abolished in western societies. The translators wanted to avoid appearing to endorse slavery and the different usage was passed through in most of the newer translations to reduce confusion.
Some newer translations use the original meaning. See 1 Corinthians 7:22 in the NIV and note how it amplifies the thought.
Interesting 🤔
Call me a slave
Or servant of god. I proudly will serve and ❤️Every minute!
I just wish there was a space on my birth certificate where it could be noted….name of father.. “God”. 😉
It is. That would be in the “Record” of your new birth.
See, I always learn something here😉
Great book:
Slave by John MacArthur.
Well, the Vulgate uses “servus” and I guess that can have a meaning of “servant” or “slave”, but those are concepts that have to be understood in context of society at the time of the translation (though I guess to be woke today you can’t say “slave”, rather “enslaved person”).
That’s where I part ways with some conservatives who claim slavery has always existed. The claim I find meaningless, as practices which we group under that term varied considerably in time and place.
Trucking carnage.
I see it everywhere at various places I pick up and deliver to. Non backing steering wheel holders tearing stuff up. My last stop on the run I did three times this week is a great example. 4 docks sloped down and one has to back in off the street. Across the street from the docks is a guard rail, or at least what is left of one, since it is all torn up from trucks running into it with their blind side (right side) while trying to back into a dock. There is a high concrete curb on what would be the inside (left side) of the back that has been run over so many times a deep hole has formed in the ground and the mud flaps and various odd bits and pieces of metal from the many fools that backed over it are at the bottom of the hole. The concrete retaining walls have scars from having trailer bumpers dragging along them.
It IS a bit of chore getting into the dock that requires the tightest back when there is a truck in the dock next to it. But it is doable with the proper set up and care. I backed into that dock on Wednesday and only had to do a single pull up to get it in and was sure I was clear. Yesterday I did 6 pull ups getting in to that same dock and had to get out and look twice to be sure I was clear. Somedays are just like that. Doesn’t matter how good or experienced you are. But the main thing is to not tear up anything.
If you treat your equipment like your paying the bills somehow it will stay in better condition.
Rah, I was an industrial maintenance guy for many years. One early misty morning about 3 a.m., I was was called to the shipping dock for a trouble call. A team truck, husband/wife, had backed over a fire hydrant with the wife at the wheel and the trailer was now astraddle the vertical fire hydrant. It was my job to solve this.
The husband was just getting awake. His wife did not want to wake him to back into our dock, so she had let him sleep. The four of us surveyed this situation. Shutting off the water to the fire system was a major deal. It required calling the fire department and getting a decision. Mid day, maybe. Middle of the night, nope. I crawled under the trailer and got a close look. The trailer had run squarely over the hydrant and I could see an impression in the soft dirt where it had been pushed flat and then sprung back up vertical. I also knew that the hydrants were in a continuous loop around the entire building and that two valves must be closed to shut off a hydrant. I found the valves and assigned two people to be responsible to shut them off if we broke the hydrant. This loop was a 4″ pipe and when pressure dropped a diesel pump kicked in and boosted loop pressure to 120 PSI. That would be a lot of water very fast.
I told the driver to slowly pull back over the hydrant. I was guessing that if it sprang one way it would spring the other. At least that was the guess. I told him that whatever happened do not stop unless he got a signal to stop. If the hydrant broke the trailer would be in Kentucky red clay mud very quickly. He needed to pull the trailer out no matter how much water suddenly appeared behind him.
He did as he was instructed. The hydrant sprang flat under the trailer in the opposite direction and popped back up as soon as all was clear. After moving a bit of dirt and sod, all looked sort of normal. I watched the flow meter for the fire system for a few minutes and it did not budge. We had no critical leak. The trailer was backed in and unloaded.
I had to report this to my boss at shift change. He was furious that he was not called. “What would you have done different?” was my response. He said that he now had to write a bunch of reports about the damage to the fire control system. “What damage?” I asked. He walked around for a few minutes, pressed down some loose sod at the hydrant and told me to not turn in a work order for the “repair.”
Wow. Great story.
Early in my driving career I came close to straddling a hydrant with my trailer when making a button hook right turn. Had to back out of it.
Verse of the Day for Saturday, December 18, 2021
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“Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.”
Psalms 34:19 (KJV)
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/verse-of-day.php
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
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.
🙏 amen
Truckers report.
Long week but it’s done. Yesterday I drove through rain almost the whole way. But the great thing was that whole way was back to the terminal in Anderson and not to Vandalia first. A driver from Vandalia will come and take it back to that terminal.
Next week it’s up to do the Newaygo, WI run again, just as I did a few weeks ago. However, they have dropped the Holland stop off that run and now there are just the stop in Newaygo and two stops in Muskegon and then down to the Vandalia terminal. EasyPeazy.
I will do two rotations of the Newaygo run and then come home on Wednesday night. On Thursday I have to be available to do any out and back run that may come up and then I’ll be home for the Christmas weekend.
Thank you.
Godspeed.
Merry Christmas.
Mornin’ infidels!
Fakeahontis!
Massachusetts sure knows how to pick em.
Cookie Test!
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/chicago-lutheran-church-hosts-drag-queen-story-hour-for-young-children-and-we-have-video-proof/
So where is truth? This is in a church who claim Gods word as their guide.
A favorite from my childhood. Thanks for sharing!
Christmas leave in the armed forces…….. if you were lucky.
Otherwise, it was the box of goodies from home.
I listened to Jack London’s Stories of Ships and the Sea when driving home yesterday. This book includes the first short story London had published. He was 17 years old at the time. Stories of Ships and the Sea – Kindle edition by London, Jack. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
It seems several of London’s books are in the public domain and thus anyone can listen to them for free. The free version on YouTube I listened to was done by an excellent narrator.
I stop listening when I get into driving conditions which require my full concentration. Last night that was in heavy traffic in the darkness and rain on I-465 going around Indy.
From the Christmas Album by David Lanz – piano
the entire album is great – but I suspect the link is from another album – probably just as great (smile)
this was lovely.
Part of what I do is provide drivers directions when there are none for the stops that don’t have them. I transmit them by e-mail to Josh, who puts them in the system so they are printed out on the trip ticket and in the drivers notes section of the Samsara tab.
This last run had virtually no drivers directions so here is what I sent in. At the top in Capital letters are the customer codes we use.
SEIFAR
No parking on customer property. Parking at public park short distance from the truck gate. Parking lots on the north and west sides of the park and they have bathrooms with no running water or lights.
Back into dock 12.
TGMPER
From SEIFAR your GPS may try to route you north on US 67 all the way up to the St. Louis area before coming back down on I-55.
Shortest and Quickest way is to take US 67 north to MO-32 east to I-55 south. Exit 219 off I-55. Left off ramp onto MO-51 north. Left on TG way across from white water tower then immediate left into the Building #3 dock area. Use dock 38 or the nearest door open to it. Go in the nearest pass door to where you docked.
NORSAL04
Use any of the second set of docks that is open. Pass door at end of building to your left after your backed into a dock.
NORFLO
This facility has four docks. Must back in off the road. If you follow your GPS it will bring you in from the wrong direction to do a normal back. Suggest you get on Commercial Drive and pass behind facility and then make two lefts to approach so your set up for a normal back. Across from the docks is what is left of a guardrail that has been torn partially torn down by trucks trying to back into the docks. The pull in across the street is marked no truck turnaround but you can pull far enough into it to get set up for your back into whatever door that is open.
By Biden’s own definition, he should step down.
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Thank you for your post.
Made me rethink a few things.
The video is meant to be funny, but there’s a lot of truth in it. He also narrates the Dear Kitten and True Facts videos, wonderfully wry sense of humor.
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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.
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Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen. And prayers for the relief of political prisoners all over the world, for people punished for speaking their mind: julian assange, pastor pawlowski, the Jan 6 protesters in DC Dungeons and so many more all over the world.
Merry Christmas lilbirdee12❤️
Long thread of all the stuff she’s found and donated to shelters. Some of it is even Paper Products, cups, etc.