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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A wise cat.
I’ve been eating way too healthy for the last few days and so I am having an early dinner of a Supreme Pizza washed down with a Guiness Stout.
Love them dark beers.
“I arise today
Through a mighty strength:
God’s power to guide me,
God’s might to uphold me,
God’s eyes to watch over me,
God’s ear to hear me,
God’s word to give me speech,
God’s hand to guard me,
God’s way to lie before me,
God’s shield to shelter me, God’s host to secure me.”
(First millennium-Brigid of Gael)
Thank you, WP. What a reassuring sermon this morning needed as never before.
Thank you, Betsy, for the Irish saint reference. I am just now learning about the saints that the British isles produced.
You are so welcome, Lonestar. The Celts have such lovely soulful prayers I think. Simple ones which are very moving, befitting pleas and requests to God.
Good morning, dear sister, what a great prayer to start another busy day. May your day and the Nee Year be blessed! Not sure when I’ll have the time to check back the OT, maybe later tonight.
And to you, sir! I’ll look forward to your return. I love this prayer. In mine to God I’ve noticed I tend to get verbose and have tried to rectify that. This one encompasses all that we need. Take care, G. All blessings to you, my friend and brother, for a bountiful and peaceful New Year💓😊
Top o the morning Betsy. 🙂
How lovely, jay💓 Thank you so much. And of course to you as well, sir.😊
Thank you, W_P, yesterday I heard David Jeremiah comparing the Christian life in this world to a ride in a n airplane. Through the windows on one side we may see dark and stormy skies, through the other side we may be looking at a gorgeous sunset but our final destination is still the same – heaven.
So true. We are looking at the underside of the tapestry with all its threads and knots. God sees the completed work from above where the various colours and textures blend into His perfect completion.
Good Morning, 🙂
Killer, Jay! Y’all done real good. Thanks for posting. 🙂
Ya’ll are welcome, spent just enough time in the rigging to know I didn’t want to make it a career.
Holy cow, these were fun tunes! Put your foot ‘to tappin’ for sure! Thank you for taking the time to share.
🙂 🙂 😉
I surely do hope rah sees that first one. He’d absolutely be toe tapping!
I did, I see em all the time up in the hills of PA and sometimes get stuck behind them on two lane hilly roads when they’re pulling two wagons full. And then other times they get stuck behind me when they’re empty and hauling ass to get another load. But I don’t generally slow them down as much as they slow me down. If we’re both empty I ain’t keeping up with them.
I get the impression the hardest part of their job is often just getting off the logging trails to the paved road.
😁👍
One of the most beautiful voices ever! In everything she does.
🙂
🙂 Lost 3 old friends within a matter of months—a sure sign of advancing age, both for them and me. Their absence leaves an emotional hole that can’t readily be filled.
We lost a good friend’s son, age 38, today…hospitalized for COVID. Praying now for all who have been murdered in hospitals nationwide. These songs bring such comfort…
That’s heartbreaking, Christine, for all who knew him, especially of course his parents. Parents should
not outlive their children, but it happens. It happened with my husband’s two brilliant lads, both with muscular dystrophy.
May God make His compassionate presence felt in their homes and in their hearts. I’m truly sorry🙏.
Beautiful songs, all of them. Altogether bringing me closer with Jesus. Felt really good.
A daily contemplation during the twelve Holy Days of Christmas; December 31, Day 6; Matthew 23:11:
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
I need some peace tonight:
Oh JJ!! One of my favourites! And those voices? Perfection💓
There is no place to hide with a capella singing…one missed note or off timing and the whole performance falls apart.
Not so here. You chose well in your search for peace. With this one, the world disappears for a few too short minutes, and I am elevated towards God. Exactly as it should be.
Thank you💓. May your New Year be full of His blessings from the first day to the last and beyond.
This is lovely.
A HYMN FOR VERY ORDINARY CHRISTIANS
Here’s my layperson’s view of the gospel, as given to us in the bible.
The gospel is the good news, that Jesus Christ, God’s only son, who is both God and man, paid fully for the all the sins of the world, including yours and mine, through His death; and that whoever fully trusts in this fact will receive abundant life, now and in eternity, as foreshadowed by His resurrection.
I often see authors who suggest we can become super Christians by going beyond this simple trust in Christ’s atonement on the cross for us. Some suggest that special spiritual exercises or practices are needed. Some want us to apply esoteric knowledge that God specially revealed to some very religious person’s heart. Some will imply that if we don’t feel something earth-moving in our own hearts, we are dead to salvation. And many will tell us that if the quality of our own faith is not good enough, we won’t make the cut. Often it is hard to trace these instructions to anything the bible clearly tells us to do or avoid.
Most of such advice says it is God that accomplishes these special things in us. But most of it puts a lot of onus on the believer. Really a lot! Much more than simply trusting God’s promises.
It makes me sad that some believers who think they haven’t felt enough or done enough, lose their faith for that reason alone. I’m also sad whenever I see any teaching that appears to make two classes of Christians — the ordinary ones and the really excellent ones. I don’t think it is healthy for a Christian to believe in such groupings.
Thinking of Jesus Christ as the shepherd and you and me, and all other people as the sheep helps me keep things in perspective. That makes me happy! That’s probably why it’s in the bible.
I’m not trying to make the Christian life seem like a piece of cake. Life is hard, often tragic, often ambiguous. It will be like that until we meet in glory. Following the Ten Commandments and the Two Great Commandments remains a conscious choice, every moment. And the devil, the world, and our own sinful nature remain with us and conspire to thwart us.
So we are blessed to have the bible, the sacraments, fellowship and counsel with other believers, confession and forgiveness, and prayer to help and comfort us. But it all relies on our trust at the root, not on our own works. And that trust always takes us back to the cross and the atonment. Done for us.
Here is a hymn that prays to God to sustain the very ordinary Christian life in us, now and in eternity. It also expresses the simple trust on which such a life is based.
1. Lord, Thee I love with all my heart;
I pray Thee ne’er from me depart,
With tender mercy cheer me.
Earth has no pleasure I would share.
Yea, heav’n itself were void and bare
If Thou , Lord, wert not near me.
And should my heart for sorrow break,
My trust in Thee can nothing shake.
Thou art the portion I have sought;
Thy precious blood my soul has bought.
Lord Jesus Christ, my God and Lord, my God and Lord,
Forsake me not, I trust Thy Word.
2. Yea, Lord, ’twas Thy rich bounty gave
My body, soul, and all I have
In this poor life of labor.
Lord, grant that I in every place
may glorify Thy lavish grace
and help and serve my neighbor.
Let no false doctrine me beguile;
Let Satan not my soul defile.
Give strength and patience unto me
To bear my cross and follow Thee.
Lord Jesus Christ, my God and Lord, my God and Lord,
In death Thy comfort still afford.
3. Lord, let at last Thy angels come,
To Abr’ham’s bosom bear me home,
That I may die unfearing;
And in its narrow chamber keep
My body safe in peaceful sleep
Until Thy reappearing.
And then from death awaken me,
That these mine eyes with joy may see
O Son of God, Thy glorious face,
My Savior and my font of grace.
Lord Jesus Christ, my prayer attend, my prayer attend,
And I will praise Thee without end.
Thank you with all my heart for this post, and the hymn.
Christine, thank you for your lovely comment. May God bless you richly in the coming year.
Read the lyrics and then watch the video. I just finished sending these to my daughter and my best ex GF. I feel like we all could use a 3 minute time out.
https://genius.com/Leann-rimes-nothin-bout-love-makes-sense-lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOi07C20Lo0
YESTERDAY
“The God of Israel will be your reward.” Isaiah lii. 12
SECURITY FROM YESTERDAY: “God requireth that which is past.” At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God’s grace is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday’s sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God reminds us of the past lest we get into a shallow security in the present.
SECURITY FOR TOMORROW: “For the Lord will go before you.” This is a gracious revelation, that God will garrison where we have failed to. He will watch lest things trip us up again into like failure, as they assuredly would do if He were not our reward. God’s hand reaches back to the past and makes a clearinghouse for conscience.
SECURITY FOR TODAY: “For ye shall not go out with haste.” As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, un-remembering delight, nor with the flight of impulsive thoughtlessness, but with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ.
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
Oswald Chambers
December 31st Devotional
This will be my last post of Oswald Chambers devotionals. It is time to be quiet and seek the Lord God for direction for the coming days that is being forced upon us. There is much to pray for, family, friends and country, which includes those here that visit and sit on the Treehouse branches. Take care of your spiritual lives above all! Peace and Blessings! stevie 🙏
God go with you, Stevie, and be with you as you ask for guidance. Your posts have calmed many hearts, mine included. You will be missed more than you may know.
But now is the time for us to devote all we have within us to listen in the quiet, as you say, for His direction. And He will give it, as we desperately need to remember that in this dreadful upending storm where we feel so vulnerable and lost it is God Himself with His hand on the tiller.
I pray for you all that is right and good in the new year coming, Stevie, and for all whom you love. May he answer every prayer you put before Him. B🙏
Thank you so much for your faithfulness Stevie in posting these devotionals daily. They have been a blessing to me. I agree with you we must pray and seek His face and guidance for these troubled days. Remember He us the One who calls dry bones to life, who took the seeming failure in the crucifixion and turned it into the glorious resurrection. That power that raised Christ from the dead is still active! May God bless you with his favor and all on the Treehouse. May He continue to bless and restore our nation.
🙏💓
Thank you, juststevie and be blessed!
Thank you juststevie….
Goodaye you mob,
I feel as though I might owe some here an explanation for non- response.
This foxhole sits on a large secluded property, the owners have no problem with me, there is of course one pro jab mask wearing Karen married to the only son , I have had “run ins” with this one before and always held my tounge.
Three children her and weedy husband have,I know them all and they know me.
3-8 yrs old.
Well I avoid this thing like the plague normally, but a situation arose where it bragged to me how all HER children are getting the kiddie jab.
Mungrel lost the plot.
Exact words ” Oh my f**kin God you are going to kill or maime your own children”.
The family patriarch and I get along fine but in the nicest way possible I was asked to move on.
Now I have other foxholes in this area after some very “Discreet” discussion with some local Patriots, I also have more interstate.
None here know my activities as should be, but at the same time my influence has been emence.
I think I’ve said enough for now, hope you mob understand.
By the grace of God I am not out of this fight yet.
Good morning, Mungrel. Oh dear…what a mess!! What is wrong with people? I have no answer. Shame shame on them all. I pray with all my might that your next foxhole will keep you safe and out of harm’s way🙏. God’s plan for you obviously means it is time to relocate, but I’m so sorry your life has this added burden. And of course I’ll be worried for you. Please advise when you know for certain you are in a secure new place.
Mungrel, this year has been a surreal one for all of us, but especially has it been for you in a country which is not your country anymore. But I must tell you one of the things that I give prayerful thanks for is becoming your friend from afar. You are a blessing of the highest order for me. And I treasure you, a good and loving man who cares for others as well I know through the recounting of all you’ve been doing.
Please know all here who know you will offer our prayers to the Almighty God who watches and loves us for your safety and security. Take care, friend of my heart💓. I look forward to knowing you are ensconced in a better bolt hole. A happier New Year I wish for you and for us all. B🙏
Godspeed, Mungrel
Gracious good morning, Lonestar😊 and a peaceful New Year to you as well!
And to you, Betsy
The Lord guide you and be with you, son! We are praying for you. God will not hold guiltless the Branch Covidians that sacrifice their children to Baal.
I echo Betsy’s sentiments
My experience is that when you have a toxic relative, in-law or otherwise, sooner or later they’re going to cause you trouble. Sorry you have to move but not sorry you’re getting away from the Karen. Scheech, that almost makes it seem worth it. 🙂
The Great Sin by C. S. Lewis
Thank you for posting this
Verse of the Day for Friday, December 31, 2021
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“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:3 (KJV)
Today’s Verse Illustrated
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.
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
A round up of the dogs of 2021
i will not go to twitter but my heart still bleeds for the 44 beagles tortured and killed by fauci bless them
You can watch some of the stuff without being on twitter.
“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”
Jeremiah 8:20
Not saved! Dear reader, is this your mournful plight? Warned of the judgment to come, bidden to escape for your life, and yet at this moment not saved! You know the way of salvation, you read it in the Bible, you hear it from the pulpit, it is explained to you by friends, and yet you neglect it, and therefore you are not saved. You will be without excuse when the Lord shall judge the quick and dead. The Holy Spirit has given more or less of blessing upon the word which has been preached in your hearing, and times of refreshing have come from the divine presence, and yet you are without Christ. All these hopeful seasons have come and gone–your summer and your harvest have past–and yet you are not saved. Years have followed one another into eternity, and your last year will soon be here: youth has gone, manhood is going, and yet you are not saved. Let me ask you–will you ever be saved? Is there any likelihood of it? Already the most propitious seasons have left you unsaved; will other occasions alter your condition? Means have failed with you–the best of means, used perseveringly and with the utmost affection–what more can be done for you? Affliction and prosperity have alike failed to impress you; tears and prayers and sermons have been wasted on your barren heart. Are not the probabilities dead against your ever being saved? Is it not more than likely that you will abide as you are till death forever bars the door of hope? Do you recoil from the supposition? Yet it is a most reasonable one: he who is not washed in so many waters will in all probability go filthy to his end. The convenient time never has come, why should it ever come? It is logical to fear that it never will arrive, and that Felix like, you will find no convenient season till you are in hell. O bethink you of what that hell is, and of the dread probability that you will soon be cast into it!
Reader, suppose you should die unsaved, your doom no words can picture. Write out your dread estate in tears and blood, talk of it with groans and gnashing of teeth: you will be punished with everlasting destruction from the glory of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. A brother’s voice would fain startle you into earnestness. O be wise, be wise in time, and ere another year begins, believe in Jesus, who is able to save to the uttermost. Consecrate these last hours to lonely thought, and if deep repentance be bred in you, it will be well; and if it lead to a humble faith in Jesus, it will be best of all. O see to it that this year pass not away, and you an unforgiven spirit. Let not the new year’s midnight peals sound upon a joyless spirit! Now, now, NOW believe, and live.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
My beloved Dr Spurgeon. Thank you, Frank.
My mother said to me when I was young that hell is separation from God. I understood it immediately.
As we are admonished to fear for nothing except for the loss of Him, this has particularly rested in my heart. Believing is a simple thing for me. Why would I not?
I pray that many many more will, in the new year, come to know the Christ who died for all of us to cleanse us from our wrongs and affronts to His Father, our Father. May we all be prodigal sons and daughters returning to the fold of His loving kindness, grace, and mercy with praise and unremitting thanksgiving as is right and proper. Without Him we are nothing.
God bless you, dear Frank…like Mungrel, you are a friend of my heart. B
Great words of wisdom, Betsy. Joining you in your prayers.
May there be many more whose eyes, ears, and hearts become receptive to that most powerful gift and message, GrandpaM🙏. There is so much comfort in it.
Thanks, Frank, and good morning to you. God bless us all, everyone this coming New Year!
I hope the following article from tgp will be discussed by Sundance. IT is not only the wording from Mrs. Clinton that makes it interesting, but also the setting – an interview close to reporter around a small table and unmasked.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/must-hillary-slams-biden-dont-white-house-can-count-sane-sober-stable-productive/
What, in my opinion, is the most loving thing I can do?
Share my Treasure.
Jesus Christ is my Treasure.
Hope you enjoy my post from Spurgeon.
I love you
And love back at you, bro.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen 🙏
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Mornin’ Sepp
Amen!
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)
Trisagion (thrice holy) prayers
Glory to Thee, our God, Glory to Thee
O Heavenly King, Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, Who art everywhere present and fillest all things, the Treasury of good things and Giver of life: Come, and abide in us, and cleanse us from every stain, and save our souls, O Good One.
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal: have mercy on us. (3 times)
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
All-Holy Trinity, have mercy on us. Lord, cleanse us from our sins. Master, pardon our iniquities. Holy God, visit and heal our infirmities for Thy name’s sake.
Lord, have mercy. (3 times)
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
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 the evil one.
For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Thank you, LS. So beautiful and surely pleasing in the eyes of our Father.
Always I say the priest’s part, too, following the Our Father:
“deliver us Lord from every evil, and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin, and protect us from all anxiety, as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.”
For some folks who might not know, an ending for the laity is just “Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us.”
Peaceful transition of power to the people is no longer achievable if this is the response to finding evidence of voter “irregularities”
https://www.oann.com/conn-attempts-to-cover-up-voter-irregularities/
Happy New Year’s Eve infidels!
With apologies to whatever it all lands on: not responsible for fecal dispersion.
This is the ending sentence from a sermon on the Holy Prophet Daniel that I read last night.
“May we all imitate the Holy Prophet Daniel, and his three companions Saints Hananiah [Ananias], Mishael, and Azariah [Azarias] and work to develop fidelity, obedience, courage, and prayerfulness in our own lives.”
Never forget, NEVER, my friends:
We are lucky enough to be a part of the greatest nation in history. Conceived in liberty, birthed in freedom.
YES, we are in a bad point right now. But, a new year is our chance to put it RIGHT.
Again.
Quote O’Day – 12/31/21
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. ~ William Gilmore Beymer
It is that time of year, after all
The requisite new year list of resolutions.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/new_years_resolutions_for_patriots_and_heroes.html
Sample :
18) Never let somebody tell you that some discipline of knowledge is off-limits because you’re not a “specialist.” The idea of specialization is a rather recent human invention that allows small minds to seem greater than they are by blocking competition. People who believe that expertise can only be conferred through credentials and degrees are people who will follow “experts” to their own doom while never experiencing the joy of having original thoughts. Be a generalist. Read everything. Never stop learning.
from my list of quotes:
The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so — Josh Billings
😊 and so said Ronald Reagan about the Dems. Nothing has changed since he said it either, more’s the pity.
Good Morning, Treepers.
I am so grateful for all of you and this website.
Still am flabbergasted at how many of the people I have known all my life have taken the jab “to get their life back” or “to travel”. Only one person has not. Conservatives and liberals alike. The only people I know standing firm against it I have met in the last 3 years or so. And I come from the Old South, where you were a newcomer if you had only arrived in the last 50 years or so. (smile)
It saddens me to think that all these people will die an untimely death if the direst predictions about the effect of the poisonous jab come about. Lord, have mercy.
So this Treehouse and its inhabitants are an island of sanity for me and a place where I find kindred spirits. May God bless each and every one here. And thank you for your steadfastness.
Good morning, Lonestar,
And the worst of all is that a lot of the same people will offer their children and grandchildren to Baal by jabbing them with satan’s poison.
This year and all of a miraculous sudden, this thread’s commenters, and no doubt non commenting visitors, increased dramatically…almost overnight it seemed. This place is my spiritual bolt hole as well. So many new friends have I made. Your “island of sanity” is a perfect description of my feelings, too.
With ever decreasing places available for like-minded souls, I am ever so grateful for this one, simply the best there is.
Seems that Dementia Joe and his top lawdog have lost interest in prosecuting anyone but parents who attend school board meetings. They’re the REAL threat to the government (deep state). They dropped charges against the tranny terrorist in Portland who assaulted and tried to blind police officers with lasers. “It” wound up serving only 30 hours of community “service”. The Gestapo also dropped the investigation into Epstein’s prison guards…nothing to see there, folks, move along. Nope. Nothing more threatening to our government than Trump and parents who care about their kids.
Recognizing reality is a first step in repairing the rending of our nation’s fabric. It won’t be easy, as the malign forces which have done the damage will not give way. But at least no one who earnestly and honestly sees what is before us can deny that reality. We’ve got a lot of work to do.
Oh so hopeful, Flyover. All are welcome couldn’t be a more joyous invitation to a treasure nothing on earth could come close to matching. Thank you for more Dr Spurgeon. A feast for our souls, along with Frank’s post.
Happy New Year to you, which I pray will keep you at peace and in good health.
For 2022 and beyond. Quit calling leftists progressives. And Winnie the Xi is no president. He is a chairman, as in of the CPC CCP or ICUP. He will be under glass soon just like Mao. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3161764/xi-jinping-warns-chinas-road-rejuvenation-will-not-be-walk-park https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/look-to-the-future-and-stay-focused-xi-tells-china-in-new-years-address
Remember all those hokey, B grade science fiction movies where you watch a rocket landing on some alien planet?
Happy New Year to all here may the good Lord Bless and guide you in the new year.
In Jesus name Amen.
🤗💓🙏
Happy New Year, Jay
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Let me try this another way since that link is not working:
Calf Fries – The Original Sack Lunch – Cowboys of Waggoner Ranch (waggonercowboys.com)
Very organic and healthy. 🙂 🙂
I tried them…once.
I see Betty White passed away. I await the article claiming that climate scientists blame that on climate change. Everything else bad that happens or they say might happen seems to be caused by climate change so why not?
Fred Meyer (Kroger) in Newport, Oregon, self check out requires me to answer whether I habla espanol or speak English before allowing me to finish my purchase. never saw that before and I told the employee who was making sure I am old enough to buy champagne “for shame! this is an English speaking country” he said he would relay my concern to management.
my guess is info needed to see if store needs to stock up more refried beans.
New Year’s Eve fireworks on Pikes Peak come on AdAmaAn Club’s 100th trek up the mountain.
“Each year, dozens of AdAmAn club members brave the winter elements so Colorado Springs residents can enjoy a fireworks display from the summit of the 14,000 foot mountain.”
https://gazette.com/news/local/new-years-eve-fireworks-on-pikes-peak-come-on-adaman-clubs-100th-trek-up-the/article_a8c3b3c2-6781-11ec-af0f-43724cc445cc.html
I had to look it up to be sure they were still doing it – and intended to do it this year.
In 1986 hubby and I bought a Frank Lloyd designed house in Colorado Springs. It had floor to ceiling windows in the living room with a magnificent view of Pikes Peak. ‘Twas a tri-level. Master bedroom on west side of the house. Only one problem – The part that faced west was a WALL!
We built a deck and put door wall and windows on that wall. The bed was free-standing so we could look west.
Went to bed at our usual time – and set the alarm.
We watched the fireworks from bed while sipping champagne. Mostly what we could see was the glow of the fireworks on the snow on the mountain top. Binoculars let us see more. What a show.
As the song goes ‘Memories’….
A new year and a new ‘Un’?
https://www.rokdrop.net/2021/12/nis-claims-kim-jong-un-has-lost-20-kilograms-since-2019/
Just heard on the evening news that, effective at midnight, Oregon state gas tax is going up 38 cents/gallon.
Happy New Year everyone.
Same to you and all your family
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen. And Lord we beg you, bring comfort and relief to the hundreds of January 6 prisoners being abused in DC; to Julian Assange and to Pastor Pawlowski. And to all political prisoners everywhere, those whose names we do not know but whose suffering You see
It’s a miracle I tell you! We should have all been wiped out many times long ago. Don’t believe me? Well you just haven’t been paying attention then.
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but
but
they all say ‘not yet’ or ‘no’ (as far down as I had the patience to scroll)
and we are still here
how can that be?
Could it be that we are living on a different clock?
Another call on the party line. The Central Puppetry Committee is using their current model Biden, for the third time this year, to convince Ukraine’s Zelensky that Biden is on top of things. https://112.international/politics/biden-zelensky-to-hold-phone-conversation-on-january-2-68249.html https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/587843-biden-to-speak-to-ukraines-president
But Erdogan has chimed in saying he is ready to mediate, again, for Moscow and Kiev. He’s got problems though with an economist and his view on who controls the U.S. Fed.
https://ua.interfax.com.ua/news/general/789276.html.
https://ahvalnews.com/federal-reserve/turkish-finance-minister-berated-claiming-us-fed-run-5-families
FOX showing 1,000s upon 1,000s of drunks in the street in Nashville yelling “Lets Go Brandon”. Think I’ll get a snifter of Grand Mariner and toast them. No! I think I better make it a Jack Danials, a Tennesse whisky would be more appropriate.
Happy New Year!
Ready or not morning, here we come.
This song was introduced in early 1943.
That was right smack in the middle of WWII.
It was a pure MAGA song, not a poor-pitiful-pearl’s dreary tune.
“Oh, What a Beautiful Morning”
The fire in Colorado. Very similar to what happened in California. Wet spring and lots of growth that dies off in the summer heat and in the fall. Warnings from many that it needs to be cleared ignored.
A powerful cold front comes in and clashes with the warm air creating hurricane force winds that blow down powerlines starting the fire. The winds continue stoking and driving the flames and people flee as their homes are burned while others get trapped and die. Finally the cold comes in, the winds calm and the snows come. And of course it’s all due to climate change.
The same scenario plays out again and again. Poor land management policies and neglect result in preventable disasters and to cover their asses they blame it on “climate change”.
More and more people want to live out in places that were once virgin wood and mountain meadow lands, but there is a price to pay if those that they elect fail to manage those lands. And the ability to work from home has made this kind of life style more obtainable.
If even 1/4 of the amount spend on “renewable energy” was instead spent on upgrading and maintaining the power grid, and clearing the vegetation from the lines, and clearing brush my controlled burns or other means this kind of thing would be far less likely to happen.
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.