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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Oh yes!!!! Tears of utter joy and gratitude. Merry Christmas to all my very much loved family here. The Lord of Life is with us.💓🌟💓🌟💓🌟💓🌟💓🌟
Amen beloved sis
God bless you, Frank.
A very Merry Christmas to absent friends, TM💓 and to Solomon, who I hope is lurking this wonderful day!💓🌟
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I have 3 cats and not one of them has ever messed w/my tree or the ornaments, can’t say that for my cat of the past that completely toppled it over. Fun times.
Is today Caturmas?
😁!!
“Izzitz Christmas yet?”
What a glorious picture! Those faces! What’s not to love? 😊
9 days after Mayfield KY tornado, black cat found in rubble of office building. His name is Madix. He was hungry and thirsty but ok according to AP article.
Think I got something in my eye….
It must be contagious, Joe.
Madix looks like one of my cats. I’m really glad that he survived the tornado and lived without being crushed by all that rubble.
I heard the bells on Christmas day ~ Merry Christmas
Thankyou Juststevie.
May they keep ringing the whole year coming, Stevie. Beautiful.
HIS BIRTH AND OUR NEW BIRTH
“Behold, a virgin shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” Isaiah vii. 14. R.V.
His Birth in History.
“Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” (Luke i. 35.) Jesus Christ was born INTO this world, not FROM it. He did not evolve out of history; He came into history from the outside. Jesus Christ is not the best human being, He is a Being Who cannot be accounted for by the human race at all. He is not man becoming God, but God Incarnate, God coming into human flesh, coming into it from outside. His life is the Highest and the Holiest entering in at the Lowliest door. Our Lord’s birth was an advent.
His Birth in Me.
“Of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.” (Gal. iv. 19.) Just as Our Lord came into human history from outside, so He must come into me from outside. Have I allowed my personal human life to become a “Bethlehem” for the Son of God? I cannot enter into the realm of the Kingdom of God unless I am born from above by a birth totally unlike natural birth. “Ye must be born again.” This is not a command, it is a foundation fact. The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me. Immediately Christ is formed in me, His nature begins to work through me.
God manifest in the flesh –
That is what is made profoundly possible for you and me by the Redemption.
Oswald Chambers
December 25th Devotional
The Miracle of salvation! Miracle!
Awe and reverence go right there.
It is not of this world and it’s description is found in the precious innocence of a baby. Jesus was the perfect manifestation of salvation in all its glory.
We shall all be changed! 🌟
The most beautiful miracle of all, Palerider. Blessings.
It’s Christmas morning! Jesus is born! God bless all treepers here. Merry Christmas to all.
Thank you,W_P, another post to ponder over.
Good morning, GrandpaM😊. I hope your and your family’s day is one for the memory books. Take “pictures” for your heart.
Good morning, Betsy and Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Thank you!🤗
Amen dear bro
Thank you, WP, for this lovely explanation. Gifts in recognition of God’s promise fulfilled. Miraculous.
Merry Christmas Betsy, and to all treepers of good will everywhere !
Amen beloved bro
W_P while there are still a few hours left, Merry Christmas!
‘Tis never too late to say MERRY CHRISTMAS! GrandpaM 🙂
Jesus is alive and the Bible is true! HALLELUJAH! THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS MY SALVATION! My Lord and My God. Yes and amen.
Amen!
Merry Christmas, Everybody!
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It’s Christmas, Treeers. Bless us all and sleep warm. See y’all tomorrow . . . 🙂
In the 80’s here in E TX.
Merry Christmas G
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Ceiling fans on!!
And A/C.
Beautiful 🐶
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Thanks, Garrison and Merry Christmas!
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Prayers for those in Kentucky still in shock from the storm, may they find some peace, love, and the Spirit of Christmas.
I got into my car this evening post church and there was a text from my Army nephew in Alaska saying he had received my package this morning and he was getting ready to open it. The fun part is that the lady at the PO had told me the box wouldn’t make it to Alaska before Monday. So cheers to the US Postal Service for allowing my nephew to get his Christmas care package on Christmas Eve. He was psyched! God Bless and Merry Christmas to all of our military serving that are far away from their families, and #FJB.
This one is for you baby boy all grown up. We miss you! Stay safe in those birds.
Thank you for your prayers. They are appreciated and we sense God’s power to bring us out of this. It won’t be easy, but it will be.
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Bless you and yours. I have kept all of you in my prayers for a fast and speedy recovery w/all the things people need and want to rebuild w/as little hassle and headache as possible. Not a glamorous prayer, but a true one from the heart. I simply cannot imagine what folks are having to do. Ya’ll are strong and will prevail.
Special delivery indeed😉🌟 How wonderful!
Merry CHRISTmas my dear Patriot friends here @ CTH
May Gods blessings continue as we pray and celebrate this holy day. I am grateful for all these things.
Sending love ❤️ in prayer to all of you.
One of my favorite Christmas songs.
Merry Christmas, Treepers!
Merry indeed!
Merry Christmas to All!
I must be blessed or something , I get two Chistmass’s !
A private Mungrel Christmass and a communual Treeper Christmass 😁 !
Do you mob know of the 1914 Christmass “truce” of ww1 where opposing enemys stopped the war by first singing “silent night” then exchanging gifts ? I suspect some here do. Somebody here will post the story I’m sure .
Enjoy the day all of you mob.
Cheers.
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Merry Christmas, Frank!
Merry Christmas!
I hope you have a Mungrelicious time celebrating Jesus Christ.
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Outstanding new adjective, Frank! He’d love it🤗.
Absolutely!
I will leave the WWI story for another. The story of the song itself was a song that was created to fill a need when the organ was broken. I have copied it from here: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-history-behind-silent-night/
The Story Behind ‘Silent Night’The lyrics to Silent Night were written by Josef Mohr, a man whose name was unloved in his home town of Salzburg. Mohr was one of three illegitimate sons to Anna Schoiberin, while his father, Franz, was a mercenary soldier who eventually abandoned the family. To make matters worse, Josef’s godfather was the town executioner.
Perhaps due to his mother’s poverty, the curate of the local Catholic cathedral took Josef in as a foster child. Josef had a proclivity toward music, which was encouraged by the church, and he eventually decided himself to pursue the priesthood. He was ordained August 21, 1815, and was sent to Oberndorf, just north of Salzburg. He there met Franz Xaver Gruber, a local schoolteacher who would become organist at Old Saint Nicholas Church the following year.
Gruber came from equally humble origins, and himself took comfort in his music. The friendship of the two is what led to the creation of Silent Night.
Silent Night—or Stille Nacht in the original German—was created because Mohr needed a carol for worship. On Christmas Eve of 1818, Mohr visited Gruber with a poem he had written a few years earlier. Gruber quickly arranged the song to be played on a guitar with a choir because the church organ was broken. That evening at Midnight Mass, Gruber strapped on his guitar and led the congregation at St. Nicholas in the first rendition of Silent Night.
The original arrangement was a bit faster than the slow, reflective version of the song we know today. But the song was an immediate hit, later being sung by traveling tours and performed before King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Later in the 1800s, the hymn was translated into English and made its way to America by way of a book called Sunday School Hymnal, though with only three of the original six verses.
Today, Silent Night is perhaps the most famous Christmas carol in history. It has been translated into most languages, and the Bing Crosby version is the third-bestselling single in history. A rebuilt Silent Night Chapel in Oberndorf is now a cultural landmark (a replica can be found in Frankenmuth, Michigan). The song itself was even declared to be an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011.
Thank you, Vibeman. In my response to Mungrel above, the one I heard last night was perhaps the most beautiful performance I’ve ever heard. Surely this most lovely of carols had the Hand of God in its origin. How could it not be? The music joined with the earlier poem. Who can draw any other conclusion?
Merry Christmas!🌟
…below, not above🙄
Thanks for the Christmas post. Very cool
I didn’t see your post first, there is a movie about the story filmed in Austria, it is worth the watch. Sad part is Mohr passed never knowing the impact the carol has had around the world.
Cheers VibeMan, I did not know this History, I am also surprised myself that I didn’t !
I have studied a lot of military history over the years and the “Christmas truce” has always struck me as the most amazing “human” event ever to take place on a battlefield.
Your post also anwsered another question I used to ponder, ‘ Why did the Germans start singing first’ ? Well now I have the answer .
Thanks and a Merry Christmas to you .
You deserve more than two, Mungrel💓. Our Lord is born, as promised. Merry Christmas with all my love🤗 I am with you this day in spirit and with great hopes that He will make his presence known to all who deny Him. They know who they are.
We watched Carols from Kings College Cambridge last night on Britbox. Their performance of Silent Night was as beautiful as I’ve ever heard. If you can access that service on YouTube, it is very much worth it. The whole service was just glorious and very poignant. But their Silent Night was beyond sublime.
Merry Christmas, Mungrel. I wish you all that is joyful for the year coming and for His blessings upon you each and every day, as always…B🌟
Goodaye Betsy,
I know you will understand this, because of happenings in the past I don’t go to mass and tend to avoid such gatherings , I do however believe in God. I was Baptised and confirmed, I did study biblical theology but under the most horrid of circumstances so I do understand a lot that is said here, I just choose not to comment. You might like to know my confirmation name is Paul.
I seen you and Leenies recent to and fro on the topic of different posters here, I thought both anwsers and responsers highly intelligent and open minded in the manner of how things are in reality.
After being on this site from the beginning (lurking ) mainly , another poster promoted me to post , so I did , I never came over to the OT side for obvious reasons, but it was you from the MP side that prompted me to come over here, I must say that I was very hesitant at first but now I am extremely happy that I did.
Thanks to all.
And we are so happy that you are over here.
Double amen on that one, GrandpaM!
I’m glad you did as well, Mungrel…so glad. I feel comfortable here, at home as it were. You explained your younger life at the hands of cruel taskmasters. Your faith must have been very deep to survive such abuse. So I understand your reticence to post on this one as opposed to the MP. This thread for me feels more intimate, more personal…like a gathering of old friends who love and care about one another. I knew Garrison’s musical posts would appeal to you. And so many are here who tend to post mainly on this one, which I have started doing.
Having said that, I’m blown away to see how the number of comments has increased dramatically, which is really quite brilliant. It always seemed to me to be vastly under visited. Then one day very suddenly the numbers rose. Wonderful.
I can’t tell you how learning your confirmation name of Paul has touched my heart, mainly because the church I grew up in was St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Our rector was a wonderful man, a family friend I truly miss as I miss that church. I’ve mentioned him before in other posts
There is just something so welcoming on this Open Thread in particular. Open hearts and conversations more attuned to sitting
around the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and a pot of refills on the side. It’s a grand starting place for my day, and I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to see you step through the door. I think you fit right in if I do say so myself😉.
God bless you, my dear friend. And now that this Christmas is put into memory, I’ll use what little Welsh I know and say with all my heart Blwyddyn
Newydd Dda!! Happy New Year to come, with the greatest hopes that your world will be put back the way it was. May God bring it to pass.💓🤗
Cth is a healthy addiction I will never give up
Mungrel- you put it so well❤️❤️😘
Merry Christmas, son!
Cheers
They can’t keep a good Mungrel down pop !
Merry Christmas my merry Mungrel!
I have the movie, I watch it every year. It is very good, the chick part was a bit of a stretch but the director found a way to make it make sense. There is also a fantastic movie filmed in Austria about Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber, the two gentlemen that wrote Silent Night. Not much is known about Joseph, but they do know he died very poor helping others w/out knowing he wrote one of the most famous, beloved holy songs in the entire world.
Well another thing I didn’t know !
This tends to be the case with a lot of talented Artists including poets and playwrights, I used to love reading Edgar Allan Poe and was very surprised that he died a penniless, homeless drunk, his body found in a gutter, so many great minds lives end in tragedy, I can sort of guess why though , but alas this would only be a guess.
Merry Christmas Leavemygunsalone
Lov ya user name ☺
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees… I don’t feel threatened.. I don’t feel discriminated against.. That’s what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her ‘How could God let something like this happen?’ (regarding Hurricane Katrina).. Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.. She said, ‘I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?’
In light of recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about.. And we said okay..Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.MERRY CHRISTMAS to moi!
Is this entire post from Ben Stein?
Yes
Ben always produces thoughtful, personal pieces…as if he were conversing, not writing. This is one in which he echoed thoughts that I’m sure we all have. Thank you, Charlotte, for posting it.
Awesome Mr. Stein. You are awesome. P.S. loved you in Ferris Bueler.
THis is hs website
http://www.benstein.com/
MERRY CHRISTMAS President Trump and the First Lady.
We’ll see you back in the White House in a couple of years.
Merry Christmas everyone!
We went to bed early so here I am. Geisha the Cocker who sleeps between us was snoring when I got out of bed but with that sixth sense dogs and cats possess divined my intentions and before the fridge door was closed, she was at my feet. Gabby the cat was there too but her desire was to have her bowl refilled with dry cat food.
My objective was the five deviled eggs left over from yesterday. There is a whole tray of them in the fridge but getting into those is verboten! They are to go with us to Dads later today. I also pulled out the remains of a beef cheese ball and got some crackers. So I walked in here into this front spare bedroom that serves as an office with the cat leading the way and the dog trailing me.
After depositing the food on my desk my first task was to fill the cat’s bowl which is in a closet with a sliding door. We can leave the door open enough for her to pass but not for Geisha, the gluttonous monger of about any and all food, to get in. Oh well, at least she doesn’t like kitty cookies out of the litter box. Then I could sit down and get into the deviled eggs. Sorry Geisha these eggs will give you diarrhea and so would the cheese balls, perhaps in a bit I will get into the leftover ham.
Christmas chuckles from TX
And a big grin from the NW, 🙂
Good morning to you Frank from 817 to 903🤗💓. I’m not so turbo charged this glorious Christmas Day, but as I am eco-friendly in a good unobnoxious way, the batteries are recharging for the days ahead. Enjoy your beautiful day, know that all is in Good Hands. Glory Hallelujah!!🌟 Christ is born!!
You bring light to us here. Thanks much Bet.
Thank you, dearest Frank. You are an anchor for me without question🤗💓
Furry family first…you last. It’s the same in homes everywhere, I suspect, and certainly true here.
We are babysitting my first born’s precious poodle cross (with what I can’t remember). Maggie is a sweetheart, so she gets two dog chews first thing in the morning. Next up the last remaining feral tabby from multiple litters over the years. He announces at the door that it is high time I attend, which of course I do. It couldn’t be any other way for me. Enjoy your time off, rah. Blessings.
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Good morning and Merry Christmas to all!
I can’t get through Christmas day without these words ringing through my ears! (The music makes it even more glorious.)
My family will be singing along this morning with me, and His Name shall be called:
DeSantis Christmas Message: ‘How Blessed’ Are We to ‘Celebrate the Birth of Christ Freely’
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) released a Christmas message ahead of the holiday, reminding Americans how blessed they are to live in a country that “protects our right to celebrate the birth of Christ freely.”
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/24/desantis-christmas-message-how-blessed-are-we-to-celebrate-the-birth-of-christ-freely/
Shredding the winter slopes with two on the board.
MSN
Amazing!!! 🤗
Verse of the Day for Saturday, December 25, 2021
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“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.”
John 6:38 (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.
A powerful new multimillion dollar space telescope is now in orbit. It rode on a European rocket built by the European Space Agency (not NASA) from their launch site in South America about an hour ago. The new woke NASA is busy trying to “save the planet” and help dairy farmers build back butter.
Merry Christmas!
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen 🙏
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
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Truth, Sepp. Merry Christmas! 🙂
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)
God Jul og Godt Nytt År
…from Norway with ❤️
All blessings and a very Merry Christmas to you! 🌟😊
Merry Christmas to EVERY one of you. Don’t forget to be THANKFUL for what you/we have.
I love every one of you. May your day be merry and bright 🙂
Does anyone remember the song ‘Beautiful Star of Bethlehem?’ It is an old, old song from so many years ago and one that could be done either by the congregation or quartets. It came to mind as I was reading the posts this morning. Christmas blessings to all who linger here. Thankful we are STILL able to celebrate and worship.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Merry Christmas friends!
Merry Christmas to everyone here. May you all enjoy a day of peace and joy in the celebration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Merry Christmas! A day for thoughts on our Lord, as everyday.
Merry Christmas fellow Patriots.
Good morning, CTH family, Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Treepers!!! It’s officially Christmas at our house now that I have completed a tradition born in 1957–we just listened to ‘Kukla, Fran and Ollie: Merry Christmas!’. It’s sweet and full of joy and hope—as all good Christmas celebrations should be! Have a blessed Day of days.
It’s a wonderful life and The man who invented Christmas. My favorite Christmas movies.
We just finished watching the sweetest one ever “The Bishop’s Wife”, free on Amazon Prime. It never fails to move me. The old ones were the best. David Niven, Cary Grant, Loretta Young and others.
I offered this a few days ago: one of the greatest and funniest Christmas stories in any genre: A Christmas for Shacktown by Carl Barks, one of Walt Disney’s original artist-animators.
After WWII, Barks was given the task of creating the comic books: he created Uncle Scrooge McDuck and other interesting characters, and expanded the personalities of Donald Duck and the nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie into the family dynamics of a single-father rearing triplet boys. This went well beyond the one-dimensional aspects of the animated cartoons, which had only 6 or 7 minutes for slapstick antics.
Have fun reading it to your children/grandchildren…or just reading it to yourself! I grew up with these 70 years ago and find much to enjoy and contemplate!
Josh informed me that it was his intention to leave us guarantee drivers alone as much as possible over the holidays. He said that if he does have to use any of us that it will be the newbies and us five that have been with the company for years, will be the last to be called.
This just might happen because many of the routes for customers other than Toyota are shut down. So we shall see, but I kinda doubt that I’m going to be on the road much during this period between Christmas and New Year.
rah
What a great Christmas Gift
Did you say you have plans to leave tracks in the new snow?
Just now….
I have a small Creche near my doorwall.
It is snowing – lightly
The sun ‘appeared’ for a few minutes
and dimly shined its light on my Creche
Have a Blessed Christmas day all
We have rain here, but that’s OK. It’s not like we have any outdoor activities planned for the day. I’m glad you may be having a white Christmas though and wish you all the happiness.
Last night – last time I checked – we were forecast to have ‘flurries’ overnight
I predicted it would be white when we got up
Yup – it’s while
Showers ending
Snow’s not deep here – but I can ‘hear’ all the skier’s cheering
Love skiing on Christmas Day. Not this year, though. Can’t leave our 3 older “children” – SIL, Mom, and Stepdad behind.
Merry Christmas ms idaho and rah!
memories
Hey, I think you should check out campaign ‘A NH Father Needs Your Help Defending His Children’ on GiveSendGo.com :https://givesendgo.com/HelpJR
This person was the victim of a radical NP or PA who coordinated with multiple hospitals and police Dept in NH to try to tak his minor children because he treated them with ivermectin for Covid.
Please help!
There is no end to this sort of pure evil. He must be beside himself. God, please be with him and please provide a way.🙏
JOY TO THE WORLD
Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room and heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing, and heaven, and heaven and nature sing.
Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let men their songs employ,
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
No more let sins and sorrows grow nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth and grace and makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love, and wonders, wonders of His love.
Как величественно имя Твое. How majestic is Your name
С Рождеством! Merry Christmas!
Thank you AR! I love Simon’s remarkable talent. His productions are simply unbelievable. His Amazing Grace, and Great and Marvelous are also breathtaking. And his love for Christ and God I can feel in every note.
Yes he is really good. Amazing talent for such a young man. His songs give me inspiration when writing my stories. Merry Christmas to you.
Here is Christmas song from Monkeys. Pretty cool.
This Christmas I have only run into two shortages.
My bride makes wonderful crab stuffed mushrooms and we were asked to bring some to the get together at Dads later today. I found that Mushrooms of the kind appropriate for stuffing are in short supply everywhere. It seems they have to picked by hand from the farms in the old coal mines in Pennsylvania and there is a shortage of workers to pick them.
Then crab meat! I refuse to pay $10.00 for a little can! Despite that price there were only three cans remaining on the shelf.
No stuffed mushrooms this Christmas.
The only other shortage I am suffering from is stomach capacity. Too much great food and not nearly enough capacity to consume all I want.
Sherry had found some very nice peeled and cooked tail on shrimp at 28-30 per pound were just the right size for Shrimp Cocktail. When my Son and his wife left yesterday there was a lot left. You can’t really keep that kind of thing so Sherry and I stood over the ice filled bowel and did our best to finish them off. We couldn’t do it. What a shame.
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I can ‘see’ you doing that
Kitty cat ought to enjoy some shrimp 🍤.
Believe it or not! No! She has refused when we tried before.
boats are selling live crabs off the docks here right now. we cover table with newspaper, melt butter, open champagne and do mean things to the crabs with boiling water. makes them turn red. best crab year in long time. lots of crabs and they are full of meat this year. also good price at nearly $5.00 a pound so crabs are around 2 lbs each or ten dollars
Fantastic. Where are you located?
Merry Christmas!
I’d have helped!! I guess we all at some point have thought about a “last” meal. Over the years mine hasn’t changed. Shrimp, shrimp, and more shrimp!! I’m not fussy. That would do me.😊
You and my stepdad. He was a really bad boy last night… 🙂 And it was not eating shrimp. Enjoyed his wine a bit too much.
But shrimp is his favorite meal, too.
Ankara is working towards its own Brandon chant. Step One: Do not recognize sacrasm. https://www.turkishminute.com/2021/12/24/govt-media-mistakes-economists-sarcastic-tweet-for-praise-of-erdogan-drawing-ridicule/