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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What a gracious, condescending, Wonderful Savior we have.
Thanks for the reminder DubbuyaP.
Good morning, Frank. May your day be blessed!
Same to you! Good evening!
Good evening, Frank. Got in a little while ago and heading out with wifey to celebrate.
Condescending? “condescending: [adjective] showing or characterized by a patronizing or superior attitude toward others.”
I’m confident that the use is in line with this use and definition of the word:
http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Condescending
CONDESCENDING, participle present tense
1. Descending from rank or distinction in the intercourse of life; receding from rights or claims; yielding.
Thank you for being so kind. I did not know that. See the things you can learn in the tree from kind teachers!!!! Blessings!
Good for the interpretation!
Jesus allowed Himself to give up all His heavenly glory to be put as a Holy Spirit Seed of God in a mortal body.
The term condescending can be viewed in 2 different ways.
1.I am better than you.
2.I AM lowering Myself for your benefit regardless of the cost.
You decide.
God our Father already has.
This issue has been settled and finished forever!
The Condescension of Christ
… The Condescension of Christ. A Sermon (No.151). Delivered on Sabbath Morning,
September 13, 1857, by the. REV. CH SPURGEON. at the Music …
/…/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/the condescension of christ.htm
Beloved Leenie,
I meant it like Spurgeon splains’. 🤟
Like I said to TMonroe, Thank you so much for patience and teaching. Blessings and MERRY CHRISTMAS and blessings to us all for the condescension of our Lord!!!!
Good morning ☀️ wp!
I always struggled to understand the Bible before I really read this thread. This particular prayer you have shared today is a readers digest version of my morning thoughts 😇
😉God will be pleased ✝️
Thank you and hoping your day brightens everything you touch 😘. The world needs all of you❤️
Good morning, FC. Blessings!
🙏
Good morning ☀️ wp!
I always struggled to understand the Bible before I really read this thread. This particular prayer you have shared today is a readers digest version of my morning thoughts 😇
😉God will be pleased ✝️
Thank you and hoping your day brightens everything you touch 😘. The world needs all of you❤️
Sorry this got posted twice cause I thought I was being smart by deleting part of my name and forgot I did that. Put in into awaiting approval limbo embarrassed 😞. Big thank you to admins for understanding (again) 🌻
Old timers’ mistakes. Happens to me all the time.
Thank you, WP. My heart very much needed this this morning. There is an inexplicable comfort in seeing “lovingkindness”, two beautiful separate words melded into one. Each sustaining the other, more powerful when joined. We desperately need this, God’s gift, in our world as it is now. May ears be opened to hear and hearts be likewise opened to receive His ever present lovingkindness and then share it with all we meet as we go through our day.
❤️
He sure has a way with words, our Lord 🙂
It’s getting so I’m waking up earlier in anticipation of what’s on this thread today! Feels like Christmas morning everyday😊
Many warms wishes of the day to you Betsy 😘
And to you, Cat💓 I agree. Such a warm and welcoming gathering place. Friends greeting each other as we meet another day by His abundant grace. I hope yours is overflowing with the same love you give here🤗
Shucks mam.. it is all of YOU who overflow me with love😊😊❤️
You make it so easy!😉😊
Got a feeling it’s not me that makes it easy😉❤️
🤗
You too! 🙂
I must be seeing things! Rubbing eyes…squinting … it’s a bird…it’s a plane…It’s Solomon! 😊
Isn’t it glorious!!🙏😊
❤️ 😊 💃 🙏 🌺
See my reply to Betsy about sisters! 🤗
Gosh, I love you spiritual ladies here.
I say to God, Lord, I got me some more good sisters!!!
🤗🤗🤗
And a brother who has helped show me all I needed to learn
Psst being an only child in my “previous” life never prepared me for such an enormous family that the cth offers! I can’t remember all of your names yet. (I’m trying)
Thanks will never be enough ❤️🌺
Okay FC, you just made my screen rained on! 🤗❤⚘💙
Perhaps those flowers needed some water 😎
Good morning, Betsy, have a blessed day!
Glorious morning to you as well, good sir😊. We’re going to see if we can find a warm loose sweater for my husband, born in the British cold, who seems not to be able to get warm here…the irony!!
In the middle of the block, a few doors down from me, are two Brits—one every bit as conservative as me, the other an unalloyed British style socialist who’s never forgiven Margaret Thatcher. Both are good friends, both to each other and to me . . .
Oh that’s lovely, Garrison. Because I’m a nosy cow, I’d love to know from what part or parts they are. I’m a regular Mrs Kravitz😁!! And how fascinating…one conservative and one socialist. Assuming they are married, I’ll bet their dinner table conversations are something else.
That’s one thing I miss about our Christmases in Wales. We’d have our Christmas dinners with my sister in law who lived on a secluded property with a fast flowing stream running beside her 1600s farmhouse, horses and stables, free range chickens, dogs. She and her friend competed in the very popular carriage driving events that were so beloved of Prince Philip, whom they often met. Roaring fires in the fireplaces in the main room and in the dining room as well. Candles alit. You can imagine the atmosphere.
And believe it or not some of the best home cooked simple meals I’ve ever tasted. A lot of mockery is made of British cooking, but my opinion has always been that with plain cooking there is no place to hide. No fancy sauces, ingredients or preparation. A good cook shines when the basic foods are beautifully executed.
But the best were our often fiery conversations on anything and everything political. And we were all like minded politically. We all parted on amiable terms. How I miss those times.
Thank you, Garrison for the gift you given me in reminiscing. Merry Christmas!!
Both are from London. Don’t know which ends although I know that is an important difference.
It is. The tell will be in their accents. Poor London. What has happened to a once great city is indescribable. Boris was mayor once, Now under the tyrannical rule of Sadiq Kahn. And I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.
Amazing.
🙏
Thank you, W_P, I needed this very much today.
Thee and me, GrandpaM
🙏
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 theday 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.””
When I think of you, TM, I think of Isaiah 55:10,11. ESV.
Niiiiiice.
Captivating Canadian Crooner’s Comfy Christmas Concert
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Good. Glad you won’t forget I gave you five brand new comfy beds, many soft blankets, dozens of your favorite toys, canned food plus dry food plus home cooked food, scratching posts throughout the house, took down all the curtains, blinds and shades so you could have an unobstructed view, and promised to do whatever you want and need on demand.
You’ve been trained well. Sort of like this…
“I remember sitting in psychology class learning about Pavlov, thinking ‘those stupid dogs.’
Then the bell rang and we all had lunch.”
Gary Delaney, writer
Aahhhh, hahahahahahahaha!!!! It’s like when I see people react to all sort of dings, bells, whistles, buzzes, and other noises on their phones and they immediately stop what they’re doing, grab the phone, and check it.
Beyond Pavlovian. I’d say it’s addiction. Truly.
I knew you’d like it. I howled when I saw it. So brilliant. Your comment (which I understand as we have done the same and more for all the cats we’ve ever known) gave me the perfect opening to drop it here. I’ve saved it forever!😂
Betsy, I’m copying that one. It’s hilarious for a number of reasons. Unfortunately I can’t disclose them but you made my day.
And it is a great day! My last day at work. Now I’m fully retired.
Happy 💃. 😊
I laugh every time I see it.
Oh!!! Congratulations!! And so begins another chapter, GrandpaM. It took some getting used to for me when I retired to help my daughter with her bairns when she returned to work.
Somehow I think you’ll ease right into it. Enjoy your evening with your bride. 😊
Congratulations!!!!!!!
“Simple pleasures.” Indeed.
The video felt so bittersweet for so many reasons….
Reading a few comments over at YouTube, this one summed it up: “I watch your videos with my kids and it gives us hope that somewhere out there, the world is peaceful and happy.”…
Watching this video I wondered, could this be real, are there really little towns like this in America anymore where life is reasonably sane?
Then I realized I was probably romanticizing because I’d just watched a truly lovely video…
And I thought perhaps I’d buy some of that coffee and support that business. And then I looked up the town where it’s based and it is very very very liberal (as in 70%+ Democrat) and I couldn’t bring myself to do it. And it made me realize how destroyed a part of me had become that this is how it is now in my mind – that there are these two Americas and I dare not engage with or support those I fear may be of a mindset that is destroying our country…
And in no time I had drifted so far from “simple pleasures.”…
Grace to you. I get it.
Thank you for sharing your self reflection. I immediately identified with those thoughts, feelings, experiences.
Since I’m not there, I try to separate politics from the narratives. If you make politics a constant litmus test you can end up living a very narrow life. One of my best friends, for instance, is an old-line British socialist. Although we thoroughly disagree on lots of things (he’s never forgiven Maggie Thatcher) we still have great conversations. What I like about Trout and Coffee videos is that the narratives aren’t political. I think that’s intentional . . . and very wise.
As for the little New England towns being liberal/progressive, Little-Town-Texas has similar villages that are the antithesis of New England politics. And, also, the BBQ is lots better down here. 🙂
You appear to be a wise and grounded man. And what you say about the litmus test is spot on. Indeed, the more criteria you throw into that test, the narrower life becomes in terms of your circle of contacts, acquaintances, friends, family, etc.
I used to have a reasonably-sized circle of contacts in my life and many of them were liberals. Like you, we enjoyed many conversations and each other. However, in my experience, a tectonic shift has occurred in recent years where those same people now interject politics into every exchange we have. It’s in your face, antagonistic, arrogant, and utterly off-putting. So this wedge has emerged and forced me to make certain decisions because I don’t want to have every exchange be poisoned in this way.
I am not afraid to speak up and stand for my beliefs, but as you likely know quite well, that doesn’t result in an interesting or meaningful exchange. It simply brings on more obnoxious attitudes and it all shuts down.
Who needs that?
So now I seem to be anticipating it (as in the coffee place) even when I’m not there in person. I’ve just become that disgusted with these folks and the serious nature of what they’re doing to America is something I cannot ignore.
Hard way to live, no doubt about it.
Re: interjecting politics into every exchange. People who like to virtue signal in this way do so because they often don’t know much and are afraid to have real conversations. They’re loss, I think.
😂 reminds me of… supposedly harmless weather talk one started… I replied we can’t talk about it anymore. Everything’s political. They were speechless 😶
Yup. Same here. My acquaintances seem to go bonkers when there’s always something I’m happy about and smiling. A genuine smile, not their Cheshire Cat one 😎
Thanks for this Mr. Hall. A great reminder of our living in a Vermont village for 8 Christmas seasons 50 years ago.
Niiiiiice
🙂 Videos like this often make me think about moving to the country. I like the feeling of small towns. But then I have to admit that I’m a city-kid. Everything I like to do is urban based. Still, there are places I simply won’t go to. Visited Portland once. Hated the place. Don’t like LA at all. Don’t like NYC. Used to like Austin which now reminds me of LA.
PREPARE THE ROYAL HIGHWAY
This hymn comes from Isaiah 40
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted,
And every mountain and hill shall be made low;
And the crooked shall be make straight,
And the rough places plain.
According to hymnary.org, the text of this hymn was written by Frans Mikael Franzen (1772 – 1847). a Finn, and the melody is a traditional Swedish folk tune.
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Prepare the royal highway; the King of kings is near!
Let every hill and valley a level road appear!
Then greet the King of Glory foretold in sacred story:
Hosanna to the Lord, for He fulfills God’s Word!
God’s people see Him coming: your own eternal king!
Palm branches strew before Him! Spread garments, shout and sing!
God’s promise will not fail you! No more shall doubt assail you!
Hosanna to the Lord, for He fulfills God’s Word!
The fling the gates wide open to greet your promised king!
Your king, yet every nation its tribute too should bring.
All lands bow down before Him! All nations now adore Him!
Hosanna to the Lord, for He fulfills God’s Word!
His is no earthly kingdom; it comes from heaven above.
His rule is peace and freedom and justice, truth, and love.
So let your praise be sounding for kindness so abounding:
Hosanna to the Lord, for He fulfills God’s Word!
😅✝️😅
That is sooooo precious.
Good dog! 🙂
Here’s an audiocast of last Sunday’s service from the little church where I’m organist. You might like the Christmas songs it begins with.
If you didn’t make it to church this week, you might enjoy the whole service. The sermon is called “That Little Town called Bethlehem.”
You can see all the words to the hymns and lessons by scrolling down from the playback controls.
Merry Christmas Treepers.
http://stjames-lcms.org/2021/12/19/that-little-town-called-bethlehem/
nice
Good one, Frankie!
Winter solstice.
Tonight will have the longest period of darkness for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Except of course for those near the north pole which have already been living in darkness.
Meanwhile those in the Southern Hemisphere will have their longest period of daylight. Except of course those near the South Pole which have been having daylight all day.
One would think that this would be common knowledge for anyone that has graduated HS. But it isn’t. I would bet far less than half of them understand the concept and even a good number of those with degrees from institutes of higher learning don’t know the reason for the seasons either.
But you can be certain they have been indoctrinated to believe that man is changing the climate.
No doubt!
I heard talking heads, adults, on our local radio station, saying that they really didn’t like daylight savings time and wanted to do away with it. They didn’t like the summer days so full of yard work. They complained that it didn’t get dark until past 9 pm.
They showed their utter detachment from how food is grown in this world. They demonstrated their incomprehension of the difference in the length of the days from season to season. Worse, they reasoned that they could solve their perceived inconveniences by getting rid of daylight savings time.
Maybe home schooling will save us.
Food grows regardless what arbitrary numbers man puts on a clock. Daylight savings was instituted in the US during the war to save electricity. DST is currently under the purview of the Dept of Transportation.
https://time.com/4549397/daylight-saving-time-history-politics/
https://www.bts.gov/geospatial/daylight-savings-time
This is my second favorite day of the year. It is the day my season of darkness begins to lift. I dread winter and the Christmas season. For those of us that suffer from winter depression, this is the day that we can say that it gets no worse than this. The days will get colder, but it is not the cold. It is the dark. It is dark when I get up and it is dark when work ends for the day. It seems it is always dark, but I know it is not. I struggle to live. I can not begin to understand the joy that people have at this time of the year, but I pretend.
My favorite day is the first day of summer when the light is at its maximum and the darkness disappears.
There are things that help, but only a bit. I love the hymns and even the music of Christmas. They are full of joy that I try to embrace. I can get out and work in the brilliant sunshine, but the bundling up and cold makes it hard and less productive.
I am not depressed to the point of ending it all, not even close. It is just and overwhelming profound sadness that is difficult to break. But today, really tomorrow, is the first of many better days.
Oh my…so well said! My sentiments exactly!!!
Vibeman, your last sentence is, to me, a description of hope in its purest form. Sometimes it may be just a flicker…as now. But it really is a life sustaining ember which always burns, no matter how much it may look as if it is dying.
This year’s darkness is for me almost suffocating. Especially when I awaken. You are not alone in your situation, not by a long shot. And yes, I do know there is no comfort in my saying so. My Christmas music goes on immediately. Music through the ages and from around the world that most would not consider to be Christmas music. It helps me enormously…plus that first cup of tea and a quiet visit to this thread.
And I’ve learned this about myself. I thrive in routine, no matter how mundane. When that is disturbed, my soul feels it. Not pleasant. But aside from my personal existence, I find that the unhinged and malevolent state of the whole world is affecting me in a way I cannot describe. Our “snow globe” is being constantly, violently shaken and there is not a moment’s peace.
I’m thinking particularly of all whose lives have been cruelly and unnecessarily upended by evil forces I can’t understand. Especially do I think of the political prisoners now held without charge in this country which has become in that sense as horrible as any other country which imprisons their citizens for opposing the governments which control them. I worry for their families. The darkness I feel for all of them is only a fraction of what they are experiencing now.
But that ember is still glowing. I refuse to see the life go out of it. And I read that you are the same. Hang on as tight as you can. Dare I say also if you are not taking Vitamin D you might consider it? There are plenty of sites which can find you on the amounts you would need.
Better days will come, as you say. Keep your faith strong. It is when it seems darkest that His presence becomes more powerful. I believe that. I wish for you a peaceful Christmas, sir. And also a strengthening of your spirit day by day as the winter dissipates, turning to Spring. It’s coming…in every way🙏
Pardon me for “eavesdropping”
IMO you have a beautiful gift of putting words to thoughts (at least mine)
😘
It’s not eavesdropping, Cat. Not in any way. It’s like souls sharing and being able to connect with others who put their hearts here. Many good conversations have started with one reply It’s a warming communion. All are welcome.😊
Many years ago I was offered a job in Alaska. There were many reasons I declined.
But
The interview in Anchorage was in June – nights were VERY SHORT.
So, I says to myself, SELF – can you handle the same number of daylight hours in the Winter?
NO
How about if your travel takes you further North – into more darkness?
NO
Worked on the slope 5 winters and 1 summer not for everyone. 😉
Thank you, VibeMan.
Through my adult years I have dealt with different degrees of depression. Your descriptions are accurate.
I like this day for the same reasons. My late husband was always momentarily startled at my emphatic celebration on the morning of the first day of winter when I would declare (loudly) “The days are getting longer!!!!” Then he would just smile, remembering who it was that was celebrating The Day.
I’m reminded again this morning that this life will always be able to confront us with things we are not designed to bear by ourselves. We are not designed to bear the worst open-endedly.
These realities are why I was reading Psalm 61 again yesterday:
vv. 2-4:
From the end of the earth I will cry to You.
When my heart is overwhelmed:
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I
For You have been a shelter for me,
A strong tower from the enemy.
I will abide in Your tabernacle forever;
I will trust in the shelter of Your wings.
Beautifully stated, Sharon. My affliction is anxiety about things that may or may not happen. I’m always jumping ahead of the story. Lately I’ve tried to get a handle on this undisciplined state of affairs. Nevertheless my tendency is to look far away, in the distances of the world, and to see all those who are suffering from the unholy actions inflicted upon them from those who mean to have more than a pound of flesh from absolutely everyone.
And in doing that I just become so overwhelmed with sorrow for all those suffering, knowing there is nothing concrete I can do personally to help, and seeing that those who are in elected positions to bring righteous forces to bear in opposition to the wicked things happening are standing mute well behind the sidelines.
But then, I drag myself back and focus on God. And for me there is a palpable peace that is instant and calming. I know then that in the face of what humanity has become, He is my safe place, my true refuge. I’m thankful you posted Psalm 61. Because it’s like that for me. Exactly.
I want to wish you a peaceful Merry Christmas… or Nadolig Llawen as we say in Wales. I hope you enjoy your family and I wish them the very best as well. Make those mental cocktails to enjoy in the future. They have an unending shelf life.🤗
Being an old winter warrior I miss the times moving through the beauty and quiet of a snow covered wilderness.
There is nothing like the quiet one experiences in a snow laden woods far from roads or even trails.
The hardships of living out of a rucksack in such places where the temp never gets above zero are many. Everything is more difficult and takes longer . And one must think through even simple tasks before starting. But that too focuses the mind in a way like nothing else I have experienced.
I guess one just has to do it to understand.
Hit 54- wind chill -80 in Wyoming as a kid. 1959-1960.
My Aunt and Uncle would take me higher up where the stream was frozen and let me slide down it. Talk about butt burn. 😁
Winter is definitely different based on where you live. I spent winters in North Dakota, Idaho and Wyoming when I was in the oil business. Unless you ski or ride snow mobiles, the winters can be long and dreary.
When I lived in Wales, winter darkness started at 3-ish, and was complete by 4 in the afternoon. In Scotland it was even earlier. But at Christmas this wasn’t a bad thing because in our little village the festive lights in the single main street were twinkling all that much longer. The atmosphere in those days was the best. Simpler times now consigned to memory. And oh how I miss them…truly heartbreakingly miss them.
My Montana farm home bore the same lovely freight that you describe re Scotland, Betsy jones. As the days got shorter/colder and nights longer/colder, the brightly lit windows of the big farm house were inviting, shouting into the cold night , announcing warm shelter that often included home made cocoa–best consumed along with a fresh piece of home made bread with home made butter, which was deeply dipped into the hot cocoa before each bite. Yum.
As nights get darker the lights shine brighter.
I’ve had about all I can take in my own self with the anxieties and stresses and threats that nearly drown us now–and I turn aside into the shelters provided, all rooted in the provisions set out by God Himself.
In the presence of my enemies–a table is set…..yes. I need the refreshment. I need the food and the drink provided there. Sometimes a hot drink is perfect. Sometimes a chilled, ice-cold drink, right out of the stream, is perfect.
We are not left without provision.
I answered you on your beautiful psalm before I read this, Sharon. And it oddly ties in with your eloquent post here.
I can feel all you do when recalling such memories. Mine are like that. I’m seeing old friends, still here and not, the sights, the smells, the laughter, the hugs, the companionship, the joys in knowing although such moments aren’t permanent, they at least are for that moment. In the past 20 years I have made a deliberate effort to make note of them, to store them all up for times such as these.
You have essentially said what I have in my post to you below. It is a great comfort to me that there is someone out there who knows exactly what I am talking about. Sometimes, as now, we must for our own sanity draw back and remember that our focus should be, rightly, on Christ. There IS the warmth and comfort of home in Him…because in reality he is our Home.
Your ability to describe your thoughts and memories is a gift. I’m so happy you shared it in an answer to my post. With my whole heart I thank you, Sharon.
Very true, Sharon, and the heavenly hounds Goodness and Mercy follow us all the days of our lives and we for sure will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.
Yes!
I learned something today –
I looked up Winter Solstice (as opposed to the longest night / shortest day). The Solstice is a moment in time. As are, of course, the Summer Solstice and the Equinoxes.
Been laughing at myself since i found the info – that’s a lot of years worth of ‘not knowing’
hah
Don’t feel alone.
Yo, Rah. I think I’ve mentioned that my dad drove buses for a living. One day he told me a story about hitting sheet-ice at about 2am in eastern Kansas. He said he knew he was on sheet ice when his headlights reflected off the pavement. He was doing abut 70mph with a load of about 50 passengers. Fortunately, the road was arrow straight and no other cars or trucks were coming. He eased the bus up onto the crown of the road and slowly began backing off his speed. After 2-3 miles, still on the crown of the road, he slowed to a stop . . . and the bus slowly, slowly slid off the road into a bar ditch. Whew.
My husband was employed the same as your father for many years. He drove for a well known tour company in Britain. His stories of bad weather driving make my hair stand on end, especially when he was driving on the continent on their dangerous roads in the winter. Years later he drove for a local company, and their contracts included all the area schools. And where we were that meant lots of time on slick wintry roads as well, none straight. He also was responsible for keeping their fleet roadworthy. The Ministry responsible for certifying the safety of public transport were rightly tough. He never had a bus fail inspection.
Your father was a true professional, as my husband was in his capacity of being responsible for the many lives of the thousands he carried every year. I think lots of people think the job of bus driver is an easy one. I know it is not. It takes an immeasurable amount of skill. Your story about your dad proves that.
I-84 Oregon, team driving cabbage hill (on the map it’s immigrant hill). One of the most dangerous stretches of road for big trucks in the US.
I was driving headed east. There were two trucks in the chain up pull off but the flashing sign that would have been on if chains were required was not flashing.
So I drove on despite the dark cloud over the mountain ahead.
Up the many switch backs I went then as I got near the summit it was suddenly a blizzard and traffic in both lanes just stopped. Where I had to stop in the left lane there was a slight incline to the right. The trailer slid side ways a few feet until it was a foot from the trailer of the truck beside me.
Everyone had stopped because big trucks had stopped where they were to chain up.
My team partner was up and between us we had chains on alternating drive and trailer tires pretty quickly. Real chains on the drives and cable on the trailer tires.
We helped another trucker who didn’t have a clue nor the tool needed to put on the rusty chains he had.
Then the line started moving and up and over we went. I don’t think we had gone a mile on the descent before we broke out into sunshine and wet road surface. We took the chains off at the pull off provided for that purpose at the bottom.
Portland to Boise in the winter can be a bear at times. We used to get a set of joints loaded with plastic jars for pepperoni to Denver , or the Styrofoam boxes for McDonald’s out of Bakersfield to Auburn Wa. not the preferred winter load.
Hell no! But nice in the summer going through those mountains.
Very beautiful up there and lots of elk at times to watch ( out for )! 😉
Whew x 2 🙂
You have my respect and admiration, sir. Driving that stretch in good weather in a passenger car in the daylight — that made me nervious.
And respect and admiration for Garrison’s father and Betsy’s husband.
The James Webb telescope is scheduled to launch on Christmas Eve. NASA has decades of work and billions of dollars wrapped up in it.
A telescope is the closest thing we have to a time machine capable of looking into the past. If everything goes well this space telescope is intended to look back almost to what is believed to be the beginning of time. Or IOW shortly after “the Big Bang” to a time when it is believed that stars first started forming.
Hubble brought to us wonderful images that show the vastness, complexity, and beauty of the visible universe. How anyone can see those images and think that what they are looking at was created by accident is beyond me.
As with all the best forms of scientific discovery and inquiry, Hubble produced as many if not more questions than it answered.
And so the quest for the answers to the eternal questions that man has been asking since he could look up to the heavens and ponder why he is here, how did he get here, and what does it all mean, goes on.
I pray there never comes a day when people believe we have all the answers.
I think many already do.
The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth He has given to mankind. Psalm 115:16
Good morning Treepers!
Good morning Frank ☀️
Hi Frank! Good morning!
Bora Da, Frank!! Welsh of course. Bet😊
EXPERIENCE OR REVELATION
“We have received…the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” 1 Cor. ii. 12
Reality is Redemption, not my experience of Redemption; but Redemption has no meaning for me until it speaks the language of my conscious life. When I am born again, the Spirit of God takes me right out of myself and my experiences, and identifies me with Jesus Christ. If I am left with my experiences, my experiences have not been produced by Redemption. The proof that they are produced by Redemption is that I am led out of myself all the time, I no longer pay any attention to my experiences as the ground of Reality, but only to the Reality which produced the experiences. My experiences are not worth anything unless they keep me at the Source, Jesus Christ.
If you try to dam up the Holy Spirit in you to produce subjective experiences, you will find that He will burst all bounds and take you back again to the historic Christ. Never nourish an experience which has not God as its Source and faith in God as its result. If you do, your experience is anti-Christian, no matter what visions you may have had. Is Jesus Christ Lord of your experiences, or do you try to lord it over Him? Is any experience dearer to you than your Lord? He must be Lord over you, and you must not pay attention to any experience over which He is not Lord. There comes a time when God will make you impatient with your own experience – I do not care what I experience; I am sure of Him.
Be ruthless with yourself if you are given to talking about the experiences you have had. Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.
Oswald Chambers
December 21st Devotional
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Good morning ☀️ Stevie❤️
🙏 Blessings Cat! 🤗🎄
Thank you, juststevie! Good morning and blessings to you!
🙏 Blessings to you Grampa…and to all others! 🤗 Merry Christmas 🎄✝
Today is the Winter Solstice ~ the beginning of more sunlight, even if it is increments! 🤗
Vivaldi’s Winter (from his Four Seasons) Organ of Basilica de Santa Maria in Elche Spain
Beautiful 😍.
Listening, viewing, reading… my mind saw it as the breath of our Lord penetrating every corner of the 🌎 he leaves nothing untouched ✝️ IMHO of course
😘
Where’re da bells?
Sacred Music and Rome. By Maestro Aurelio Porfiri.
We should remember that Rome was once not only a spiritual beacon, but also a lighthouse of civilisation and art.
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https://gloria.tv/post/PQk8HzQXNSNm3p24PJ1eepwLa
https://americaagain.net/becoming-america-again/
. . . 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 (+ 842)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
Thank you sepp for continuing to post this. This is my favorite. It is such a good reminder as I read it every day, and I thank you for posting.
Ah! Thanks be to God! [smile]
The Trisagion Hymn
and the
50th Psalm (Septuagint)
Good morning ☀️ Solomon 🙋♀️ 🌻
Solomon, brother, if you are still reading here, it is time to appear again. Everyone makes mistakes. I myself have been partially in the dog house for a few days over something I didn’t say. Just wasn’t thinking about saying e few words and it hurt my better half’s feelings.
You are loved and missed here. Come back.
‘Blessings!
Solomon, ditto to what Feral Cat and GrandpaM say…. I asked a couple of days ago as well… where are you?
Rest assured, He’ll be back.
Oh how I agree!! Every post I make, I do so with you in mind, hoping you see them and that you will be moved to rejoin us. You have made such an impact. I miss so much seeing you. And as you can see, I’m not alone. So I second GrandpaM. Of course it’s your decision, but I remain hopeful that one day I’ll come to this thread and see your name once more.🙏💓
Don’t know if I can or not.
I hate that I didn’t get Frank’s spoof right.
Felt so bad I injured Garrison.
I watched that ruse video and saw myself in past days of destroying stuff.
At that point…I lost the humor of it.
I still love Garrison as was one of my favs here.
I just missed it.
Somebody, once again, told me to read the open thread today. So I was able to read your comment.
It was just a misunderstanding, my fault.
And I am not who some think I am.
And no, I am not someone who suggested I was lurking under several names. That pissed me off, but I pray for them anyway not to be so easily judgmental.
I have missed all of you.
Been in great pain in a bit of a setback.
Love all of you.
Ohhhhhh!!!!! SOLOMON!!!! My heart just burst with joy! I thought I’d review this thread, and miraculously you are here! Hallelujah!
I’m so sorry you are in so much pain, and I remember you said you couldn’t take prescription pain meds? Did I remember that right? Do you have nothing that can give you respite?
I’ll keep this short as we have to leave to see our daughter and her three. Light dinner and then drive to look at the lights. We usually do it every year but last year something told me they’d become too old for it. So we demurred. But this year they actually asked if we could do it again. So off we go and I will catch up with you when we return. Or tomorrow.
What joy to see you back. I was so upset not to see you, but I understood. God love you, dear friend💓 Welcome home🤗
Yes, no pain meds. Not even OTC. When it hits, I scream a bit and pray. The praying works better than the screaming! 😉
But Betsy, I was on that opiate, barbituate, hypnotic and worse train 40 years ago, and the withdrawal from that, I was told by a doctor in the largest hospital in the world, it was worse than a heroine blow out withdrawal, all because too many doctors not working together, loaded me up…and then it blew up bad when I flushed all their meds down the toilet.
I am actually grateful I am allergic to all that and have to depend on God and Him only.
One of the greatest gifts He gave me was an extremely high pain tolerance.
Thank you for being a caring friend!
And next time, I’ll pay more attention to a ruse and spoof ode!
💙⚘💙
my medical doctor hubby (retired) doing non-medical treatments found this little goodie
500 mg yucca – old southwest helper – where lots of yucca grows.
yucca has many good uses – look it up
use like aspirin – 2 of them 3 or 4 x per day – as needed for pain.
when patients said it didn’t work – I asked if they followed directions. Well, no. I took 2 and it didn’t help.
So, maybe it won’t help. Just thought i’d mention it.
Thank you.
I do know about yucca.
But also Hawthorne extract that is the greatest heart strengthening medicine in the world. It saved my heart from blowing out after the first attack July 1, 2001 at 1:07am. You never forget.
I will get back to yucca.
Thank you so much for reminding me.
Ginger with tumeric is pretty good too.
I immediately added my deepest most heartfelt prayers for relief for you the second I posted to you. And again just now. I met a retired policeman who works at our local neighbourhood Wal-Mart (what with the lovely people who work there is the closest I’ll ever find here to our small shops on our Welsh town). He had a couple of melanomas removed and he said to me he has a very high pain tolerance as well. That is a blessing I realize.
And I understand thoroughly what you mean by depending on God. I hope so much He answers my prayers for you. He is the Great Healer.
I’m so glad you have returned. It’s such a lovely site but every day there was a sorrow for me in not seeing your name and your beautiful uplifting posts.
Welcome back, Solomon. With great affection…B🤗
Hello not Midler Bet!
After her tirade against West Virginians, DEFINITELY NOT Midler!!
But still Bet, friend o’ mine.😊
Welcome back, Solomon! So good to see you. Just got back and like Betsy was checking the thread, and voila.
I’ll check back later. Wifey and I will be heading out soon to celebrate my retirement. Today was my last day at the business we sold a couple of years ago. Your coming back made it that much better. Prayers for relief from the pain.
G…you know I love you and close friends.
I sense your heart of care and love!
Glad you get to retire and get to spend time with the wife. Treasure every minute of it with her.
Mine will be the day to go Home.
Congratulations GrandpaM!
Thank you!
Stick around Mon! 💪✝️💪
I have to.
Can’t leave any of you yet!
Bless you for caring!
Good to see you again Solomon!
Prayers up for you to feel better soon.
Thank you as another great caring friend here.
Looks like I am headed for a bear of night, but trusting in the Lord our God…
…and prayers of friends here!
Read Betsy’s post to you.
I have someone who has been in a great deal of pain, for decades. Can’t take meds.
He copes by watching the leaves on trees bowing in the wind, or how a blade of grass moves. It’s not ideal and only minimizes the pain. Says it’s his way of coping it takes his mind off of the sensation briefly
Not saying it’ll help you.
Just my two cents
You’ve been missed.
Blowing. Not bowing
Got reminded…everything moves even without wind. Just focus and look
When it gets bad, I literally lay down on my living room rug and pray to God to get me through one more night.
One day and night at a time knowing God won’t make us bear more than we can.
Thank you for your care. It means a lot.
SSL, I always enjoy your posts. I hope you feel better soon.
Were you eavesdropping?
I had the exact conversation on the mountain 😊
Forgot to ask my source/ what do you do to focus during night? 🧐
Disclaimer- comment only intended as a light hearted tease😘 ❤️
Mornin’ infidels!
And of course it will be a winter of sickness and death due to Covid brought on of course by those of us that refuse to be intimidated or bullied into taking the jabs.
They never fail to try and divide us all the while preaching unity.
And today comes another dose of extreme, irrational fear mongering. On purpose. Right at Christmas, which they hate. I’m steeling myself for an over the top mess of threats.
Yup.
Isn’t that the truth!
The snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro! At over 19,000’ the highest mountain in Africa. It lies a little over 3 degrees from the equator.
Fifteen years ago Al Gore declared there would be no snow on its peak by now. Here are the conditions today. Snow forecast for every day into next year.
https://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-Kilimanjaro/forecasts/5963#
Many of us knew instantly that Algore was and remains a total fraud. His concern with climate change has been as genuine as Fauci’s concern for humanity’s best health.
But his lies need to be pointed out frequently. Arctic sea ice extent is very close to the 30 year mean and is looking like it may surpass it.
In a way the Governments Covid lies may help people open their eyes to the lies they’ve been telling us for the last 30 years on climate change.
I think I remember in the early nineties the Algore promising that we’d be all dead by the year 2000.
I know Mt. Kilimanjaro!
Good post about this!
On Al Gore(d) by leftist stuff, I think God has been embarassing him for several years. Most here know that.
Question: what does a society need to create beautiful things that last?
(Hint: it ain’t multi-culturalism)
Tannhauser Overture, by Richard Wagner, performed Yulianna Avdeeva
https://tv.gab.com/channel/shawneng/view/tannhauser-overture-by-richard-wagner-performed-61b95fe08fa113bf00d21638
WP, thanks for this. Aren’t Wagner overtures great! Here’s another one: Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin.
Yes! I’ve loved the Romantics since I was a child. Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Wagner (esp. Tannhauser, Die Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde). Thanks for posting another.
WP, me too. Classical when I was a youngster, went backward to baroque, then gradually warmed up to later composers. When I was in college, I heard a performance of Bruckenr’s Mass #2 in e minor. Went with a bunch of music major friends who tolerated the odd science student. I thought it was absolutely amazing!
Here’s a good video of it (35 minutes). I was tempted to cue it to a ‘favorite’ part. Then I realized that makes even less sense with Bruckner than with other composers. It’s like pointing to your favorite part of the Mona Lisa or the Starry Night.
This was used in some movie, don’t recall which. Maybe a few.
Thanks for posting, it’s on my Hear-The-Rest list.
Truly a beautiful piece on par with Shubert’s Mass in A-flat and E-Flat Major, especially the Sanctus.
Agree!
I’ve read that Bruckner was a deeply religious and very humble and shy man.
I notice two main things about this piece of music. First, how completely the mood and feel of the music matches the text, moment by moment. Second, how unified the whole thing feels, despite its variety.
Yes they are. I never tire of them (a longer previous reply is “Awaiting for approval” for some reason).
Great Music! That takes me back….. I sang the Pelgrimskoor (Pilgrim’s Chorus) from Wagner’s Tannhäuser (same music as the overture) back in the ’80s when I was a second tenor in the former Baltimore Arion Maennerchor. I do not have nor recall the choral arrangement that we used but it was pretty awesome with a large 4-part mens chorus. It was performed entirely a capella and auf Deutsch.
GBB, what a memory to have!
Tannhäuser is heavenly music to these ears. The way Wagner’s strings gorgeously weave together, the horns playing such rich harmonies and counter melodies, and then the end – that French Horn – as if heralding the King of kings!
Awesome to have sung it.
Of course the story line is another matter. I never pay attention to opera story lines 🙂
19th century German operas are always comprised of mythical fantasy mixed with about 6 tons of emotion and melodrama.
😏
Not to mention wabbits.
Ahhh. Who can forget….
Few realized that we 50’s kids were actually getting familiarized with classical music and opera as we sat and watched the Saturday morning TV shows…..
(R.I.P. Mel Blanc)
I’m chuckling, but yeah we watched Roy Rogers and Sky King while my Granny was buying me really expensive sets/albums of classical music which set me on the way to that love.
I really did love pipe organ and trumpet music!
Violin was my first instrument. Never forgot how hard it was to hold that thing under my chin with no hands helping.
One of my favorites.
And we learned the opening score to Rossini’s William Tell Overture as “The Lone Ranger” show began.
And Sgt. Preston of the Yukon.
👍👍👍
Today is the 21st Day of the 21st Year of the 21st Century
😀 Come back tonight at 9:21:21 P.M. for a timely repost!
I love teasers❤️
LOL….and I have NO DOUBT you’ll be the first to show at exactly 9:21:21! 😀
Not me Ad rem, that was to the poster. If I’m lucky I’ll be asleep.
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, December 21, 2021
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“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,”
1 Thessalonians 5:9 (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.
always like to recognize meritorious content and conduct,
and a “like” didn’t seem quite enough today….
so, a special shout out to several established posters over on the presidential thread this morning (see page 1 ! 😉)
their patience and educational excellence in the face of obvious agitprop is a model for us all.
(WB, D, JIT, & EW, among others, may deserve active duty citations! 😂)
Merry Christmas everyone!🎄
Yes Merry Christmas 🎄 to all who work tirelessly on the presidential thread!
Without them we would be lost. Thanks doesn’t seem adequate to convey my appreciation ❤️
Thanks zoom for the reminder.
I have been a long time reader/lurker here, but don’t tend to be one to post anywhere often. That being said, I have benefitted greatly from the posts as well as comments and commentators here. So I thought I would post this and maybe return the favor in a small way, in the hopes that it might encourage or bless some of you.
For over 10 years now it has been our family tradition to record a Christmas carol (about CHRIST!). I record all the music, and the kiddos (and occasionally the wife) do all the singing. I have always only shared with family and friends, but thought maybe it could bless others this year. Anyways, if you want to hear a big ole family (we have 8 children) singing some praises to our God, and/or some original arrangements of some Christmas carols, then I hope you do enjoy. This year we recorded ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.’
And if you want to hear songs from past years they are available also. For my part as a parent, it is a great joy every year to listen to all their voices from past years. It will also eventually be up on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.; but I was late getting the project completed this year, and it seems they are slower on the uptake than YT. Stuff from past years is up on other platforms already.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7p4Z6JbltP7AWMqJ7RYuhg
Oh what a gift to all of us here!! Thank you so much, Mann family. I’m smiling and my eyes have started leaking. The sweet voices of your children are so moving. So beautiful. I have no adequate words to express how this has touched my soul. May God in His heaven bless all of you. Thank you🤗💓🙏
Welcome to posting at the Treehouse Mann_Family! You are all so talented….thank you so much for sharing your gift with us.
Absolutely beautiful, just what I needed for inspiration in my life at the moment .
May the Stars of Peace and Love, Shine on, be you and your family and be around you and your family, Forever.
Hi Mungrel!
My Man Frank, good to see your still uplifting posts.
My post below explains .
Cheers.
Good evening my dear friend. What a beautiful greeting for that family who so graciously gave us their sweet musical gift. I know you and I know in my heart the impression it made on yours. 💓
Thank you,Mann Family! Need a defogger for them glasses.
What a blessing!
Thank you all for the kind words!
How sweet and innocent!
I saved some of your productions on my home screen.
Pure like little angels singing!
Have one more blessed Christmas!
Here’s a wonderful (recent) song of surrender and gratitude by Randall Wallace (the screenwriter for Brave Heart) which is sung by him here as well……
Bette Midler is enraged because Joe Manchin killed Build Back Better. Here is her three-floor penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York. What do you think? I bet we could house at least FIFTY homeless New Yorkers with her. Build Bette Better.
https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/bette-midler-house
I’d watch Beverly hillbillies go to New York 2022 series if they made it😎
Now that would be funny, granny hunting vermin 😂
Imagine being so self consumed, having no self control that her ugly and deliberately disparaging description could so easily flow from her keyboard. Her true self and her soul in a tweet. I’m glad I don’t know her personally. Pure venom.
Funny how I nicknamed you a few weeks ago.
Crazy days!
I KNOW!! When I saw the story, I thought of you and wondered if you’d run across it.😁.
Will Bumpin’ Gums and Korea Obama give The Un and Winnie the Xi what they want?
Ending the Korean War: Risky gambit, with little chance of payoff
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20211221000888
this is kind of kewl.
Goodaye kin, longtime no see, I hope you still have your great sense of humour, I remember yrs ago when a few of us on MP had the funniest exchange I have had on this site 😁 I was crying in laughter.
I hope you and yours are well and glade to see your OK .
Cheers.
Escaped Oregon finally–Boy it is such a difference in South Dakota.
Been crazy with selling and buying and now fixing up things in the house.
Hopefully by the first of the year I will be back in full steam.
Thank you so very much…
Any Rapid City people on here–You got a new neighbor.
Best wishes for 2022 Kin!
I am not in Rapid City but passed through once (in summer though!).
Hope you are warm and cozy and settling into your new home.
First lesson hasn’t been keeping warm. It was having winter boots with some traction.
Parking lot ice skating without ice skates or good boots on hurts LOL.
I’m fine now…More of a pride thing than a skinned knee. LOL
To Betsy ( Tomahawk ) jones ,
I am directing this post to you but it is also ment for the other regular OT gang as well.
I got your information post and looked into the link and name, very interesting and informative I will most definitely be using what I found to be relevant to my situation, so please except my heartfelt gratitude and that goes for others here for prayers and support.
The time thingy only normally allows me a short time for interactions bot today (9.30 am) I will be here all day so if anyone wants to ask specific questions I will anwser if I have the relevant information.
There is so much going on in so many different directions that it makes it easier for me this way hope you all understand.
I have both good and bad news and don’t really like posting “mixed” messages. I often post on other threads but allot of the time my posts get lost so l find myself having to repeat which I hate doing especially since I am such a slow typest. As you mob know me better it is much easier to relate rather than explain past comments.
I won’t shout out anybody in particular as I don’t play favorites (except for pop but that’s different as we are related) 😜 but once again I appreciate all.
For you Betsy I have another weapon to add to your tomohawk, it’s called a “woomera” ! When you get the chance you might like to look it up.
God bless you all.
Hi Son, Good to see you. I have a suggestion about the posts. If you write it and save it on the computer, and then just copy and paste it on the different threads it will make your life easier even if it disappeared and you had to re-post it.
I do have a question. If the need arose, could you live off the land in your part of OZ. For example here in Texas there are all kinds of critters running around, from white tail and axis deer to feral hogs, and a bunch in between like turkeys, squirrels, ducks, coons, etc. One could become proficient with a bow or a crossbow if loud noise was a problem.
Many years ago I read that OZ had a big problem with rabbits. They can make a pretty good meal, although the Texas jackrabbits are a pretty tough lot. Don’t know about wallabies and such.
Like to hear your take on it.
Cheers
Howdy Pop, good to hear from you too, this might sound strange but I simply don’t know how to copy and paste ! I was always a book man as I believed and still do to a certain degree that computers are the work of the beast, so I was a late bloomer, but with that said before computers l always had the understanding’s that everything good invented always gets corrupted by the evil ones. This is a bit of a tight -rope to walk but I still think I am correct.
The big cities much the same as there the situation would end up dog eat dog if the food situation became critical.
Where I am at the moment there is no way I could run out of Tucker as this area has an abundance of eatable wildlife , roo’s , ducks, yabbies,eel’s , snakes,possums,freshwater fish,bardy grubs, and even Echinders.
We have “hares” which would be your “jackrabbit” equivalent, and lots of bunnies.
This is all what we call “bushtucker”.
But here’s the good part I am surrounded by the best quality beef and lamb that this country could offer and your son is well respected by the locals.
As you know I am extremely well travelled in some places survival is near impossible even for aboriginal people, one place I lived in the outback is where your original SAS trained with ours, the country being some of the harshest on the planet.
I once had the privilege of pointing to a place where a “beacon” was set up for a downed pilot exercise, they never found it in time and I was bought two boxers of beer! But this is another story .
Hope I have answered sufficiently,
Cheers pop.
mungrel – super easy to copy / paste
highlight what you want to copy
hold down ctrl key and hit the letter c
move to where you want to paste
hold down ctrl key and hit the letter v
hope it works for you
Thanks I will try.
Oh rest assured, Mungrel. After I post this to you, I’ll definitely look it up! My curiosity is well peaked.
I’m glad there was something, anything on the Children of God for Life site. I ran across it when all this started and found it informative. When I suggested it, I had no idea if it would be of any use, but there’s no such thing as bad information.
I think we all know how much you are going through right now, and all our prayers are constantly offered for God’s protection and strength for you as you fight with all you have. And, as for Solomon, I’ve asked for a miracle or two as well, with all my prayerful strength.
You should choose one basic spot to post in when you do have news. And on a thread such as this just say “update on MP1” (for example). We can find our way over to get the news.
I hate to read you have bad news. Understand the mixed message philosophy though.
Off to do my homework now. “Woomera” you say? I can’t wait to see ? I’ll have to hyphenate now. Then I’ll have one of those posh double barreled names. No bad thing. 🤗
Oh niice!! I’m well armed now. LBT-woomera. Perfect!
Good it suits you😁
Hope you get the point that there is no real name for this weapon in English as the pouch is an arm extension , I have used one and they are actually faster and more accurate than a commeners spear !
Betsy- when you have mastered this gadget, can you give me a lesson or two? It might be useful in the forest 😊
Holy moly, living in TX here and thankful we have mild winters as our gas bill just arrived…it seemed awfully expensive to me for this time of year, how warm it has been this month and we were gone for 10 days of the billing cycle. So I checked with the most expensive bill we had (which was Feb of this year) and with half the consumption the bill was $10 less. Therefore all but double the cost/ccf increase in 9 months.
Biden did that. 😎
The Dems energy policy certainly exacerbated our issues here, but I suspect our rates are skyrocketing a bit more also in response to last year’s historic storm and the fools that switched us over to wind for the feel good about ourselves voters.
we are all electric in our apartment. no change in rate (so far).
wonder if they will keep electric cost down to fool folks into ‘cheaper’ electric cars
Then – when enough more folks are driving them – up go the rates
Definitely not here, we are non-regulated with electricity and our contract expired earlier this month. I purchased the same plan and the kWh rate jumped from ¢16.3 to ¢20.3.
I’m waiting for ours, Daders…also in Texas. In expecting the worst.
A Dirge for the Witty Ditty is on the WSJ opinion page today. It is soooo funny. Treepers we should have a contest on the funniest and sexiest ditties we have heard. Mentioned is Robbie Burns’ Commin thru the rye also Baby its cold outside
also some off-color nursery rhymes
what a kick. ROFLMAO
Chuck Berry: Run Run Rudolph, Animated!
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At A gvt School:
i remember ‘Rudolph the Red knows Rain Dear’
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen.
Amen
🙏 amen
Amen. And Lord please comfort and relieve all the political prisoners — Julian Assange, Pastor Pawlowski, the demonstrators of Jan 6 in DC dungeons, and all people around the world who have been trapped and hurt for honestly speaking their minds and hearts
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Amen.
Amen.
“Our Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed by thy Name;
THY kingdom come, THY will by done on Earth, as it is in Heaven… Father, it’s about to get ugly. My brothers and sisters know it. But this is a storm, and as long as we know we have You, we can weather a storm. It’s also a war, and we will loose some in a war, but we thank You because we know they did NOT die in vain, and they rest comfortably with You. Bless our coming and going, be at our side though our enemies throng us on every side! We thank You for faithfulness to Your word, bringing calm in the dead of night, that You never made a promise You didn’t keep. Bless you Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever.
Beautiful prayer patriot❤️
Thanks 😊. Added to my personal nightly talks✝️
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I have visited West Virginia a few times. Beautiful place. WV was born from the Abolitionist movement.
So glad to read of a WV native who is the last living WWII Medal of Honor recipient.