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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Just a “joke” to start your day.
Genius Times
https://genesiustimes.com/russia-amasses-troops-at-ukraine-border-to-spell-lets-go-brandon/
(Language warning on the first video.)
Both are very clever and well done, but laughed more at the first one.
The first one cracks me up so bad!!! Some of Chris Cohen’s translations require (well, not really “require!”) multiple listens because his accent is pretty thick and he overlaps the discourse with the animals interrupting each other. Anyway, here’s another one with just one cat and she’s in a panic because her phone is in the washing machine and she can’t get it out and Steven might call her later to go out and she’ll never know, etc, etc, etc!!!! The pace is pretty fast, but I eventually caught most of the words after a few listens. Hilarious!!!
Good Morning Sarah!
A hilarious trilogy of cats 😂
Thanks
Morning, Sarah. We need Garrison to post some Cat Stevens (as was). Your post made me think of him.
The best of both worlds…Leon and Garrison.
I forgot about Cat Stevens! Too bad the guy moved over to a very dark side, spiritually.
It really is. Very disappointing. Of course I meant his music before he made the switch. I lost interest in his tunes after that.
Same here dear sister, used to love his music. Once he became the religion-of-peacenik that was it for me.
Blessings!
The first one is funnier and touches more of us because WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE!
That evil, possessed, stubborn printer that refuses to work just when we need a printout desperately!
🤣
They have frustration detectors. It is a feature.
I hope your right.
Murphy strikes again! First stop not ready so sitting here in the dock. Usually I’m halfway to my second stop by now.
Nothing I can do about it so I will just take it as it comes and not stress over it.
Red Lobster will still be there on Saturday.
Good morning, rah. Yes, that’s all you can do. A lesson in blood pressure lowering I flunked earlier in life. Godspeed to you and especially to the one you’re waiting for.
Good Morning WP.
I’m constantly amazed that that nothing sneaks past our Lord. 😊
IMO, The ones mentioned here, make it so difficult to have a kind thought on their behalf in the prayers to The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Makes me more determined to do what God would be pleased with. 🤗.
Morning, Cat! 💓
Good Morning Betsy! ❤️
Did you finally reset after the bad dreams? Hoping so
I explained to Frank down below. Thank you…gone.
Good morning, FC! See my post to Betsy. ❤️
Good morning, Betsy! Just checking in to say I’ll be away for most of the day. Will try to come back here later today.
❤️
I’ll look forward to that, G! watching our comment numbers rising and rising, there will plenty of good conversations to catch up on. Blessings, sir💓
Amen!
Morning, Frank💓
Greetings!
Morning Frank!
Greetings!
Good morning, WP. I KNOW…just know…God is there.
Amen.
This has been a trying week. When you are a sole caregiver even trivial difficulties tend to cascade into really hard tasks. Sadly, it’s just part of the deal. Fortunately, music always—always—provideds needed solace. When I turn to Thomas Newman’s music, I can always find that essential solace. Enjoy, Treepers. . .
Bless you Garrison Hall.
And you, too. 🙂
Garrison. So sorry to hear you’re having a rugged week. I can only imagine the strain being the sole caretaker of a loved one – both physical, mental, emotional. And from what you’ve shared, you’re no spring chicken. I have no idea who you are, obviously, but I do keep you in my prayers. The music you post on this thread just about every night has been such a gift to my life and those in my household….. Thank you, sir. And G-d bless you.
As for the videos you posted above. The first one is one I think you shared a while back and it blew me away (no pun intended). It was great to see it again and call my lovies around to enjoy it. The second two were surprises because of the images on the screen. Wow, what lush music, full of warmth and humanity. It makes one feel bouyed, carried along on and surrounded by so much beauty, wonder, love, and hope…. (And, what? No “one more” tonight? Alas. But no pressure.)
Garrison, I ended the day so distraught and knew I couldn’t let that stand, so I listened to that second piece you posted and it shifted my spirit in such a perfect way. None of the bad stuff disappeared, but it helped me find a little corner of quiet before prayers and I was so grateful. It brought me to tears….
(Oh, and I found a really long version of it, which you’re probably aware of, but in case not, linking to it below. Aaahhhhhhhh.)
Sarah, you have quite a talent, to eloquently say what’s in the heart on so many topics ❤️
IMO, this one especially
Thank you and as one treeper put it “nobody doesn’t like Sarah Lee” 😘
Yep Mungrel likes Sarah Lee, bet Sarah likes beer 😜 !
Good morning, good sir💓
Morning Mrs Jones.
Good evening, Mr Mungrel😊
Sorry to disappoint you, Mungrel, but I don’t drink. Never have.
That’s cool, Feral and Mungrel always chase each other !
Post ment for Sarah ^^
I don’t get it. “That’s cool, Feral and Mungrel always chase each other!” Maybe I need to drink a beer to understand it???
🤫 mungrel is a good sport. He’s fun to play with, you’ll find out if you leave a trail of m&ms. I like swatting his nose🤭 he only acts tough to keep the fleas away 😉
Not since PaulRaven have I been captured by the artistry of a treeper’s posts.
Thank you Sarah, and Feral for acknowledging that. Now that jingle is going to be in my head!
Good morning, oldschool.
Good morning Betsy. May your day be blessed!
And yours, a thousand fold😊
Oh, thank you so much for sharing that. I find this Open Thread overflows with a beautiful generosity of spirit which is a welcome relief from the madness that threatens to engulf us all…. Much of what happens here feels like pure magic….Someone posts some music and then others chime in about it or about another piece of music that inspired them and then someone chimes in about how they’re feeling and then someone starts a new conversation by turning on a different light, perhaps something funny, and we share that moment of lightness and it prompts some stories and responses…. and on and on we go, often late at night or in the wee hours of the morning, depending on where people live… And it’s a very special kind of connection across miles and miles through so much turbulence…
Didn’t quite see it that way but you know something?
Upon reflection, couldn’t agree with you more.it has become quite magical here. Each person, each word, in my minds eye, it looks like this:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9HC_3TxGSPXURrHDsvi2rJiEN2YWhXk1JRg&usqp=CAU
Hope it worked. Fingers crossed
Drat! It didn’t work. 😔
Thank you for the kind words, Sarah. I know they are heartfelt and I very much appreciate them. Caregiving isn’t a heavy weight—until it is–and when that happens you just cowboy up and deal with it. 🙂
Good morning, Garrison, and God be with you both, and may He please make both your journeys easier.🙏
🙂
Goodday, Betsy! 🙂
Good Morning to you Garrison. Here’s to praying that you and your loved one have a better day today and a peaceful rest tonight.
Thanks GB . . . 🙂
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Garrison, I am know how that feels. One simple task turns into a plethora of seemingly insurmountable ones, and you cant go onto the next task until they’re completed. It is so frustrating. Just know that you are doing the right and honorable thing – keeping your loved one in her own home with you, respecting her and treating her as a person to be known and cherished. In any other setting she would not be so cared for. I had a mantra i would repeat to myself, “ I can meet most of her needs, most of the time” when i was truly getting frustrated. It seemed to help some. You are just one person. You are doing the best/most you can. God Bless. May our Lord and the Holy Spirit take up the slack on the 10% of the needs you can’t meet all the time.
Thank you, Riley. At a critical time our Lord shared His Grace and saved us. His presence helps us still. 🙂
Wow, what you shared is so beautiful, full of wisdom and compassion – compassion for those we love and care for, and compassion for ourselves in knowing, as you so perfectly stated: we are just one person and can meet most of the person’s needs, most of the time. I would add one thing from painful life experience, which is that for some, there may come a time when the needs become so overwhelming and their ability to meet enough of the other’s needs is so compromised that excruciatingly painful decisions must be made – decisions that no person ever wants to face…. Life can be so very hard and sometimes we are confronted with impossible decisions/choices…
Desperado. Have had this song in my head all day but couldn’t quite place who the singer was. (It wasn’t me singing in there!) So I started searching at YouTube (I know. I know.) and decided it was probably Judy Collins making music in my gray matter. But then I got curious about other versions, so I listened to a few of them (guarantee gonna have an ear worm all night now) and thought Clint Black had a nice version so I’m posting that as well.
and one more…
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. I’d seen a few Eagles versions, but wasn’t crazy about them, even one I saw with Linda Ronstadt which wasn’t bad, but she got very off key at the end. Anyway, this version is fantastic! Glad you posted it. I never really followed The Eagles, but I think this lead singer (dunno his name) sings this really well. Gonna put it in my favorites! Thanks, Feisty. (Quick funny story: Just as I’m sometimes surprised when I see Garrison post a comment on a blog other than the Open Thread because I associate him with this thread, likewise, when I see your handle pop up over here, I’m surprised because I associate you with other posts with your signature bolded sentences for emphasis.)
PS Loved the “and one more.” Nice touch!
I am fascinated by how listeners treat artists who sing someone else’s song, and how the artists treat the song.
I knew people who hated Elton John’s ‘Pinball Wizard’. He sang it, at the Who’s request, in their movie. But those people hated it because it wasn’t the Who singing it. They hated that someone might like the later version because they never heard the first.
Then you have a song like ‘Desperado’ which helped raise up the Eagles because Ronstadt sang it.
And of course, there is ‘Over the Rainbow’. Do you want the original sunny version, the upbeat but somehow sad ukulele version, or the depressive but still moving forward version?
Long ago, when artists looked for songs instead of writing them, the skills of being able to take them and make them uniquely yours were essential. Now, few do so, usually just trying to sound like the original. Which is part of why the remake of ‘Sound of Silence’ is so good.
I have also noticed that some artists always play the same version of their song and others seem to always make changes. Elton, is rearranging his songs to fit his declining voice. Some never have to do so, like the Stones, not because the voice doesn’t change but because the song never needed it. Other songs relied on a wondrous voice, and to me, the singers need Elton’s help rearranging it. But their audiences love it.
Then there are those who change for the sake of changing. The show Darryl’s House does (did?) a little of all that. (And it is fascinating to see great musicians be able to discus and play or sing a song differently.) I have wondered how people can play the same thing, over and over again, night after night, tour after tour, and be able to have any heart or interest in what they are playing. But do we the audience want to hear a different version?
It all boils down to what we like. We all like different things. And those things change with us.
Flyover, Amazing 😍
In the same camp thinking their performance is better than the original ❤️
Makes me want to listen to more of them!
Thank you! Big 🤗
One more timely one, being Neil young is being cancelled 😉
Hope you don’t mind flyover
What a great version, Cat. As smooth and tasty as fine whisky!
they are good. Was that ‘Hi Brian’ sticker an inside joke or homage to Brian Wilson?
I am fascinated by that, as well. I love it when artists make a piece their own. Some do it self-consciously and in a heavy handed-way for the sake of changing it, and it often doesn’t work. Don’t fix it if it’s not broken, I say. But then others find a way to make it their own via the arrangement, tempo, rhythm, and just the unique sound of their voice, and do so with nothing but talent and honesty and when you hear one of those gems it’s like magic!!!
Thanks for those recommendations. Gonna check them out this afternoon!
I once had an opportunity to accompany a local singer on my piano. She wanted to sing “Desperado.” She proceeded to try to exactly copy the Eagles interpretation. At the end, I told her to try it again as she was singing like the Eagles did it and she was not the Eagles. I told her to reach deep and sing the song as it affected her. She tried and it was better but still a bit too much Eagles and not enough her. One more time, I asked. She took a deep breath, sighed very deeply and closed her eyes in silence. She never opened her eyes but gestured for me to start. All I did was play the opening chord very understated so she could find the key. She then sang. I followed her flow, increasing volume when she did and changing tempo with her. At the end, she was very still for what seemed a long time. She opened her eyes and was crying. She never explained but one time later I saw her she reminded me of that time. She said that she could never sing that song that way again because she remembered how deep that her emotion had been touched.
That is what I love about music done the way it was intended.
Yes!! ❤️
Oh my, how beautiful.
A little history on the song and it’s writers. The Eagles members Glenn Fry and Don Henley wrote the song and the group first recorded it.
https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-the-eagles-desperado/
This is the first time I’ve heard Judy’s version. It’s wonderfully produced (which most of her songs are). Did you notice the distinct sound of the upright piano? It was recorded with just a hit of echo to make it sound like it was an old piano in an old bar. Lovely!
I didn’t notice that about the piano, but now I’m going to go back and listen. You have such a fine ear for music and a lot of nuances.
There is a saying “one word from God can change anything “. Well, we have a whole manual full of his spoken word. And another thing, angels can destroy the high places of the enemy with a word, if God ordains it.
Usually, God makes you walk through your own mistakes but, if you are not capable he will deliver you. Which means, we are capable of fixing this mess in our nation.
“faith, the substance of things hoped for evidence of things not seen.”
Has anyone ever separated the Scriptures into
God’s Words,
Angel’s messages from God,
Visions from God,
Prophetic statements,
Instructions by God’s servants,
and more mundane stuff like who begat whom?
Oops, shouldn’t leave out God’s miracles and other works. I don’t want to pull a Jefferson.
What exactly is “God’s word?” We first think that it is the words of God, but that is only partially true. When God speaks, things happen. He spoke the world into being. The book that we have that we call “God’s Word,” is the human record of all those things that God has spoken into being. In addition to being what He said, it is the record of what that speaking made to happen.
John 21:25
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
Exactly.
…and of blessings yet to come.
From the Book of the Holy Prophet Obadias / Obadiah:
4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
The Trisagion Hymn
and the
50th Psalm (Septuagint)
Psalm 51 (Masoretic)
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Valaam Monastery
The story of one man’s spiritual journey via Valaam Monastery.
https://www.eighthdaybooks.com/quicksearch/all/Touching%20Heaven
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.
My Mother and I area always looking around on youtube for food prep videos – from bento boxes to Korean street food –
we enjoy watching the Korean street food videos because they are always seeming to create new methods, configurations – although we ourselves cannot eat too much of that stuff involving bacon and hot dogs anymore – but it’s fun to watch until we get that full feeling, overloaded and OMG what are they making now!
oh, all kinds of things – we really get around –
we discovered a channel tonight that we like
webspoon.ru
so we think that means it is from Russia . . . with love!
Really artistically done and amusing, cheerful . . .like the Bolshoi Ballet version of food prep . . .
not a lot of talking, if any . . . but instructions are there . . . and this guy has really blue, intense eyes that you see once in a while
anyway, I really hope we (the USA) do not get ourselves in some stupid situation against Russia regarding Ukraine . . .
I know that Biden is a total idiot puppet – and the inside baseball is supposed to be that Obama is pulling the strings, but personally I think Obama is too much of a longtime pothead dullard to be doing that but the people pulling HIS strings are making him think he really is “the power behind the throne”
I feel fond of Russians – I think they are one of the bastions of Western Civilization and we should be pals.
Who benefits if we get ourselves entangled over Ukraine – China!
So, meanwhile, gotta change channels from the so-called news channels
Goodaye Susan, Russia is not the enemy, in fact Russia has never been the enemy, the Bolshevik commies that took over Russia were and are the real enemy’s .
Consider that nearly every Western countries governments have been taken over or are under attack by the same filth in this point in time.
The whole covidcon thing is a coordinated attack on Western civilization, this has obviously been planned .
The Worlds governments are only lapdogs so yes they are the enemy, but not real enemy, Communism is the enemy.
Most think there are leaders, there is not in the true sence of the word as an idea does not have leaders.
Most countries have elections every four years or so leaders come and leaders go, stealth on the other hand played over a period of a hundred years by “communists” has led to today’s situation.
I have read allot of Russian history past and present, the missinformation I read here and on other sites is astounding in regards to reality.
Putin himself only retains power by keeping the ” Russian globalists ” on a very , very tight leash.
Russia is a Christian country in its own right, maybe even more so than others, notice how this fact is never portrayed !
Since the fall of the USSR I think Russia a natural allie.
Divide and Conquer being the lynchpin of communism itself makes it easy for me to see why the globalist satanic scum would endeavor to keep Russia in enemy status.
The last thing the want is a planet United .
My opinion.
Cheers.
I agree, Mungrel, with your assessment of Russia. The one thing I firmly believe is that Putin, for all the true or untrue stories about him, loves his Mother Russia. And I am referring only to that about him.
The nefariousness of our own institutions, and those of other countries, is no longer able to be hidden. It has burst like a rancid infection and has poisoned every Western country. Is there an antidote?
There is actually. But even that they are trying to obliterate. I read a piece on Gates of Vienna yesterday which detailed how Switzerland (the Swiss!!) have decided that crosses and Christian symbols are so offensive that they need to be removed from the country’s largest cemetery.
And if in that one, then the others as well? I suspect that’s the direction the authorities are headed.
So successful were the excresences in charge in forbidding ivermectin for the treatment of physical ills, that it seems they’ve been emboldened to “forbid” and eliminate Christianity and even Christ Himself for the cure of spiritual sickness.
They will not succeed of course. I hope I’m correct about Mr Putin. He has slapped the wokeness idiocy firmly down for his country. He gives little away. But I do believe we will continue seeing the churches in Russia flourishing and her people worshipping freely. And that is the free to all antidote for the putrid, satanic evil which has secured a deep foothold.
God be with us.
Well said, both Mungrel and Betsy.
A little anecdote: years ago, I have forgotten which decade, my friend’s parents visited Russia. They were assigned a KGB agent to “assist” them. Guess who it was? Yep, the man himself, Putin.
Oh myyyyy!!!! What a story, LS!! That one is one par with our Solomon (now MIA from this site) being a student of Solzhenitsyn’s.
And to think how impressed I was to be standing within 3 feet of Yul Brenner at Neiman Marcus decades ago. Wadding that experience into a ball and tossing it in the trashcan (done…dusting my hands off). 💓
Joseph Stalin was General Secretary of the COMMUNIST party of the USSR.
In January 2018, the license for the film ‘The Death of Stalin’ was revoked by Russia’s Culture Ministry just 2 days before its release.
In short, the film was banned.
More about movie:
Starikov said the film was an “unfriendly act by the British intellectual class” and said it was very clear that the film was part of an “anti-Russian information war” aimed at discrediting the figure of Stalin.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/14/in-russia-nobodys-laughing-at-armando-iannucci-death-of-stalin
Discrediting the figure of Stalin? Communist Stalin?
Thank you Mungrel. Every time I read ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ crap I grind my teeth. The sad part – as you so well describe – stoopid comments are made by those who are uninformed.
or maybe, with malice and forethought?
A manufactured enemy – fer sure
Agree. All of a sudden Sundance’s Suspicious Cat appeared before my eyes.
Goodaye ms idaho, I came across a true story from the. Russian front during the German operation known as Barborossa, this is from memory as it would take me a long time to look it up.
Starlin purged not only military leaders but church leaders as well, religion was banned .
Christianity went underground, discovery was death or gulag.
Amongst the slaughter of war ( the Russians were losing ) crosses began to appear on graves and prayers were being said , if caught execution was swift.
Just one unit commander let things slide trying to preserve his troops who had previously proven to be excellent fighters.
Many commanders we put to death for the same thing, but this bloke had a freind and allie in high command, upon his discovery he was sent to headquarters to explain himself .
Everybody thought he was a goner but thing kept moving up the chain of command till he was standing in front of Starlins staff (Zuccoff) – by memory- explaining that his troops had killed more Germans than any other of the same size fighting force he explained how the X Factor was in his troops belief in the afterlife and they had something to look forward to after death.
The generals disagreed except for one . this one took the matter directly to Stalin himself.
Stalin was furious initally,
when informed other instances were breaking out in the front lines by good Russian Patriots and that these men were vital to the war effort Stalin reluctantly reneged.
Orders were put in place, chaplains were ordered to do front line masses, in other words the persecutions stopped and Chistianity come out from the shadows.
Historically speaking this was a turning point in Russian society that we see today, military speaking this fact still is debated, most like I tend to agree that without the “faith” factor Hitler would of reached Moscow.
This history is very little known, I find it facinating and hope you do too.
Cheers.
Most interesting story, M. As a young college age lad I read Zhukov’s memoir of the war and of course, that story was never mentioned.
In the 1930ies Stalin purged so many of his capable generals that /the /red /army was left severely handicapped. The ones that survived were the butt kissers Kind of where our military finds itself today.
My step dad has told me numerous times the story of two Russian military ladies stationed in his parents house towards the end of WWII. Both were deeply religious and OTOH both were heavily drinking and fornicating with fellow Russian soldiers. Stepdad was a kid but could hear the bed squeak all night long.
Much history is incorrect, more than most realise, my story above became folk law in latter years as embarrassment ruled.
With the breakup of the USSR the archives were opened and the documentive evidence found.
I have read parts of Zhukovs memoirs only.
I’ll give you two pointers of interest, Albert Speer, his book “within the Reich” is the best historical analysis on the industrial side of the NWO takeover happening now.
Ironic that it was written from notes he wrote in his Nurumberg cell !
Anne Frank is another, the original diary was written after 1952 as in was written with a ballpoint pen that wasn’t invented till 1952 !!!!
Pommy historian David Irving proved this in the European high Court.
Revisionist history in comparison of the history of the day holds many scalps.
Unfortunately people view what they are told at the time to be truth, add 30/40 years and it becomes THE truth.
Hard for many to shake their belief systems .
Cheers.
Absolutely correct son! I’ll have to find and read Speer’s book. Didn’t know about Anne Frank’s diary.
My early knowledge of WWII history was all based on the Soviet version of it. There were no other views available or allowed. Had to make up later when I got stateside.
And then as you pointed out the problem with all the stuff that we know is that a lot of it ain’t so.
Cheers.
Coupled with GrandpaM’s comment below, seems to me that Biden et al are repeating the mistake.
Thanks, Mungrel. I had not heard this history before.
putin loves mother russia and his actions are make russia great again listen to his english speeches and astonishing things for the children of russia and yearly visits to school where over 300 children were killed by suicide squad of muslims
Beslan…an atrocity Putin and Russia will never forget.
Putin has stood the test of time , no other real world leader now days has.
Yes he was KGB but only a lowly lieutenant paper shuffler not a Russian James bond as portrayed .
To all on this thread, it’s been an amazing history lesson of the hidden truth.!
Thanks to all!
web spoon makes cooking an art and his presentation is a joy to watch
from Moscow in 2012 –
I just love this “flash mob” performance of “Puttin’ On The Ritz” –
the young people are so jaunty and really quite good –
I do not want to go to war against them, Joe Biden!
If the guys all bared their chests, would it be called ‘Putin on the Ritz’?
👍 😂
Oh that’s superb!!
Thank you
What a crew!
Replace “mandates” with “dictates” for the effect.
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Goodaye Sepp, just my demented humor at play !
Take care ⛪
😂
Thank you Mungrel. Humor appreciated.
Verse of the Day for Friday, January 28, 2022
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“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
Matthew 7:6 (KJV)
Gotta love those Humming birds, really appreciate these duchess01. 🙂
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.
Hey pop, I was thinking about the little fella you look after at times, I came up with an idea.
I don’t know Jack about how the young fella learns but having four dog pups myself I understand the age.
If you would like, you could tell him you had a mate in Australia, let him or you type a message and I will reply directly to him!
Keep all simple, no names, any questions type stuff, he might get a kick out of it !
By no means any obligation, just a thought.
No lies so all is above board, discretion assured.
Cheers.
Hi, son, I think this is a grand idea. Next time I’ve got him here we’ll message you. Hope all is moving in the right direction at your corner of the world.
Wifey and I just got back home. Have been out all day.
Cheers.
Good Morning everyone!
Saw this and thought I’d share. Could it really be beginning? (Holding breath). USA and Canadian truckers joining up to fight, officially?
https://freedomfighternation.org/freedom-convoy/
That looks well thought out and organized. I pray this builds. It feels like our best chance for that “prison break”. I have long held the opinion that folks on the southern border had a role, duty to protect it. Obviously, they don’t share that opinion. Maybe it’s the northern border where we will make our stand. Prayers for all those partaking. May their numbers grow.
Praying the evil ones don’t infiltrate and hijack 🙏
I have studied the whole damn demonic system all my mungrel life.
Never underestimate them, and I mean never.
This looks like a win forsure one way or another and I couldn’t be happier.
The downside is, the control freaks will lose a country to gain another.
They are “fluid” in other words camilian in nature.
They have afterall dominated our world for centuries, don’t ever think that they haven’t learned of their mistakes and made every contingency plan possible.
They will not cede power ever.
This is the hard part, evil will always be present, recognizing this can quell but not destroy evil itself.
Can we win ? Yes, can the people regain control ? Yes, can it be maintained is the question.
I can continue.
Suppose you wouldn’t even consider a light-Ale!😛
Mungrel:
I didn’t watch that vid from yesterday…probably will this afternoon.
Fine, it ain’t pretty, pissed max me !
I consider them shape shifting cockroaches with a hideous Cheshire grin. 🤢
I’m in the camp of showing “no quarter” myself. College taught me that.
Now about that beer, grandpa’s suggested brew might be an interesting one to sample. Especially if it’s home brewed. Do you know if he makes it?
Hi Cat, I had in mind some not home made stouts. For example when in Ireland I was able to taste some local very fine brews.
There is a Texas brewery that puts out some great ales. It’s called Real Ale located in Blanco, Texas. Their Russian Imperial Stout will make your fur stand. They call it Commissar, 9 or 10% alcohol. They have several other stouts that at least for my taste are great.
Another one that I absolutely love is the Sheaf stout from OZ. I haven’t been able to find it. After my conversation with M about it I looked online but no cigar, not even close.
(heart emoji)
Hi grandpa! That commissar sounds very appealing. Wished I had known about it when I was down in Texas. For some reason, I had you pegged as a kitchen kind of guy. Idk why. Now, a good Cohiba would make me purr like a kitten ❤️
Grandpa quit smoking 1987 but I love the second hand smoke when the boys light up (my two sons and sil). Always position myself downwind. I like mostly grilling and smoking stuff on the smoker.
By nature I am a Mountain Man and a bitter clinger. 🙂
So the coward Trudeau has turned tail and run. A bumper sticker seen on one of the big rigs righteously hurtling towards Ottawa.
A picture not Trudeau and underneath…
“Does this a** make my truck look big?”
Roflmao 😂 😹
It should of been “OF Trudeau”… 😊
Just told wifey that Turdeau is going to and up with a semi up his a$$.
I hope to see American videos supporting the Canadian truckers.
Woodstuff, 😍
🙏 please Lord, thine kingdom come, the will be done ❤️
Greetings Treepers!
Turbo Sweetheart not Midler Bet mentioned having a nightmare recently.
Hmmm. Are they contagious? Yesterday, my wife took a rare nap and had one. “FBI was calling, but I couldn’t understand what they were asking.”
💤Last night I had one! 💤
Mine was probably related to a late evening fried chicken dinner! Mmmm. Greasy and Salty.
✝️👀
I thought you give up eating seagulls ! 😛
I love yard bird!
Did you have any fries with it? Yesterday when wife brought little guy back from school I finished off his DQ tenders and fries.
Waste not, want not!! Especially if you have to take out a bank loan to purchase them.😁
Dadgum, Frank…hope they aren’t. If the FBI intrudes, that for sure is a nightmare. Dreams and nightmares generally leave me alone. I think the reason I was so disturbed the other night was because it really was a “one of”…BetNM! Blessings to you, my dear friend…and to your loving wife also😊
Frank…here’s one for your wife.
“Strong women don’t have attitude. They have standards.”
Right, Ladies of the Tree??💓
Precisely. (grin)
And speaking of standards…
Your post above about your parents trip and their “tour director” set in motion a line of thought, silly thing it might be. I wonder what your parents’ reaction would have been had they known that they were being accompanied by the future President of Russia. We’ll never know I’m sad to say.
And in that vein, my mind drifted back to the wedding of the future King and Queen of England, William and Kate. In the multiple write ups which naturally occur at such a time, much was talked about her grandmother, a woman of insubstantial means. But a woman who set standards for herself and passed them down to her daughter, Kate’s mother, who obviously did the same for her daughter, the future Queen Consort and eventually (all being well) the next Queen Mother.
Kate’s grandmother bought for her baby daughter the high-end pram which was used by all the gentry and aristocracy of the day. Those who remember said it was a bit of a shock in their ordinary neighbourhood amongst working class people to see this out of place extravagance being pushed up and down the highstreet (a name given to the main thoroughfare in any town). And apparently she continued to apply those standards (behaviour included) to her own daughter’s upbringing…teaching her to live in a more rarefied and genteel way than that to which she had been born. Not ostentatiously, just with standards. Kate’s mother did the same for (not with) her daughter.
The Duchess of Cambridge, as she is known, lost her grandmother before she married William. And I’ve always thought what a shame it was that this woman, this mother who instilled standards into her much loved daughter, would have made of seeing HER granddaughter marrying into the Royal Family…something in her wildest dreams I’m sure she never imagined.
And that musing is how my mind works. Courtesy of the amazing story about your parents’ serendipitous meeting with the Future President of Russia.
I must correct myself…all being well, Kate will be the King Mother as George will follow William to the throne.
Edit…I’m over thinking here. I need to check on that…. pretty certain that is correct but….will get back to one and all on that small yet significant title.
Right…here’s the skinny on styling Catherine as mother of a King George.
Catherine would have a choice of being addressed as Her Majesty Queen Catherine… or Her Majesty Queen Catherine the Queen Dowager…or Her Majesty Queen Catherine the Queen Mother. All positions and titles from which she can choose. No matter what she chooses then, while she is married to a reigning King William V she will be Queen Consort and not Queen in her own right.
Now…that’s enough irrelevant trivia for one and all today. I’ve tied myself in knots explaining.
If The Firm survives.
I stared to add that,LS. Believe me I did. Who knows? First the question, will the world survive?
I have read where Kate is descended from one of the illegitimate lines ( as so many of us are….it is estimated that millions alive today are descended from Edward III) somewhere along the way, so the family may have carried courtly demeanor for generations.
P.S. It wasn’t my parents, but my friend’s parents that visited Russia. They were a Fortune 400 family at the time, so maybe got an extra special agent to attend them. who knows.
Ah…very probably. The misunderstanding on my part comes from quick reading…must do better. My excuse shall be that I hadn’t yet downed my first cup of java.😉 So coffee first, reading later. Lesson learned.
Niiiiiice 🙌
BIG GRIN!
Now Betsy, how about sharing some of those new vocabulary progressive descriptive words sometime, or more tips from your library? Any tips at all, I’m finding use for all of them so far. I’m running on empty. 😉
Betsy, That was in response to your standards post. Don’t know why it ended up here
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Back at ya, Frank…but first I have to dig up some lipstick …until then this will have to do😘
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/01/israel-waves-the-white-flag/
When the data is in and honestly analyzed, it may turn out that they made the “vaccinated” more susceptible to infection by variants.
Mornin Rah! What are your thoughts on the Freedom Convoy headed for Ottawa? How are all of these trucks & truckers going to stay on the road for so long. Are there facilities on board?
Outstanding, but it will accomplish nothing without eliciting pure politiacal power.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1486895006883495938/photo/1
They really think we’re that stupid!
Older people need to start reading. They are coming for our cash!
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc.asp
Yes, the totalitarian NWO tyrants are and have been planning to seize our cash and control our lives through control of digital currency.
But, seriously, most “older people” are going to need the “Reader’s Digest” version of that Investopedia article in order to comprehend. Most “older folks” simply aren’t tuned in to the digital world much less the crypto lexicon or technology. I know quite a few “older people”, being one myself. And I do not know a single one who understands or is anywhere near being comfortable with the crypto currency concept.
From what I have seen, few who write about and understand digital currency have made a serious or successful attempt to translate the discussion into 1970s non-digital language. I have yet to see any coherent description of “blockchain.” As an example, this article (of course) links to Investopedia’s definition: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp
But most “older people” are lost after the words “distributed database.” There is no way the majority of non-technical citizens, much less “older people,” can be comfortable with a so-called “currency” that’s as vulnerable to deletion or corruption or external control as anything they’ve ever done on a computer.
And the younger folks need to wake up and accept these facts if they want “older people” to not dig in and oppose digital currency indefinitely. I’d sooner see us revert to using silver coins than adopt another one of Lucifer’s evil designs to enslave us.
Thank you GB. We are also in ‘that age group’ and are hanging on by our thread. This from AmericanThinker yesterday was a fun read – but they didn’t really define blockchain any better – just how it might be a really good ‘lever’ for independence going forward.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/the_rise_of_blockchain_republics.html
Yes Ms Idaho. I read that AT article and it seemed to be a flag-waving article trying to sell us on the benefits of blockchain tech for crypto currency and other uses. But we’ve been “sold” on so many “benefits” of newfangled technologies only to see those technologies used against us by the tyrants.
I’ve yet to see any digital technology that wasn’t eventually hacked or compromised by treacherous crooks and/or totalitarians. Color me highly skeptical on this.
IMHO, the only reason it hasn’t been visibly hacked is that – just like Twitter and Facebook – they are waiting until millions or billions adopt it and are dependent upon it before the crooks take over and force us to submit to their extortion scheme..
ah
how well you articulate the problem
🙂
Catherine Austen Fitts has the theory that the crypto currencies are a means to get us used to digital currency. The banking system will be nationalized and made digital and people will accept it because it is familiar.
She is an amazing woman…smart, direct, no nonsense, unflappable. I have listened to her often, and she was quite straightforward about this from long ago. I have said that trust no one. I believe I’d make an exception for her.
Im think I’ve seen/heard her say that. Was that in a video of her speaking from behind her desk?
I’m thinking yes, GB. That’s how I saw her in the first interview I saw her give.
Ok yes I saw that and was impressed. I thought she was quite frank and very open with her thoughts and expressed in-depth knowledge of the subjects she discussed in that interview.
Her website is Solari. It is excellent, as one might expect.
Thank you Betsy!
Exactly. They can hack into the SEC, utility companies, hospital networks, etc…. Why would it be wise to have all our financial resources in a digital format? I still write out checks to pay bills.
I do as well. I try to keep my digital and governmental footprint to the barest minimum I can. It may be a fool’s errand but I do try.
Oh boy, GB! So say I, also one who technocracy has left in the dirt. This aspect of what is planned for is the single most disturbing feature of the satanic NWO destruction of all we’ve known (by me and others of our generation, though I’d bet most are unaware).
Being older has its advantages, but this is not one of them.
Mornin’ infidels!
Good Morning WeeWeed!
Michael Ramirez, Pulitzer Prize recipient, is to my way of thinking the most able political cartoonist working today. Outstanding. I looked him up at one point and found all his previous cartoons. It’s an interesting exercise
to go through them. Clever, clever man.
morning Treepers
Morning Ya’ll 😉
Jay, haven’t heard those songs since ages ago, my later to be husband and I exchanged letters during his military service. Phone calls were extremely expensive, like $10 for ten minutes. Time difference made it difficult, as well as a 20 mile trip via train, then a taxi ride to the phone station. Pay phones costs were more. And the long lines waiting your turn to call. Long story short, we each purchased cassette tape recorders and exchanged voices. He played music like this to me while he talked. It was better than a phone call ❤️
Thanks for charging up the old memory bank 💕
Memories like that, Cat, are beyond price. Wonderful💓
Good mid morning, Jay😊
“DHS contractor condemns Biden migrant flights: ‘Betraying the American people'”
Evidently the money is too good to patriotically ‘walk-away’?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/dhs-contractor-condemns-biden-migrant-flights-betraying-the-american-people
And there stands old man Biden (who probably knows nothing about it) and his Soros paid globalists in charge of this nation destroying criminality saying, “Oh yeah? And whaddya gonna do about it?”
No mistake, Republicans are cheering this on where they think we can’t hear or see them. I include in them our governor Greg Abbott, who likes to preen, pretend, and pontificate but who in fact has scattered flowers in front of the invaders while they use Texas like a dirty floor mat.
So I’m trying to decide Huffines or Alan West in the primaries. We need to coalesce behind the MAGA candidate and weed out the fakes.
Yes and I am, G. I need to bone up more on Huffines. A house in our neighbourhood already has a Huffines thingy in their yard. At this point, either instead of Abbott.
Look at the site TEXAS SCORECARD. It’s a pretty good basic site for all things Texan.
I sure will, thanks Bet NM! 🙂
You betcha!! 😘
I think Huffines hits all the right points, from what I’ve heard but need to dig more.
I’ve had lunch with Huffines. Not so impressive. Jury is still out IMHO.
TY, Lonestar! Good to know. I didn’t like the fact that he is a politician already. I think he is a Texas State senator. That in my book is a mark against. Although on illegals and covid vaxx he is on point. So we’ll have to see how things develop.
Dig deep, GrandpaM… Really deep.
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Good Morning Ms Idaho!
I’ve been neglectful in complimenting you on the fabulous job you did on the pledge of allegiance
IMO, it’s perfect! Thank you for this daily reminder.
Wind Chill 20 degrees in Palm Beach – Get ready Florida – Cold weather comes to South Florida this weekend
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2022/01/wind-chill-20-degrees-in-palm-beach-get.html
Bye bye orange groves. Disaster.
Quit O’Day
All I need will come to me
🙏💓
bad eyes. bad fingers
you know I meant Quip
I blamed my misreading of Lonestar’s Putin story above on my lack of a first cup of coffee. (That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.) Yes, understood what you meant.😉
Howdy, I left a late reply for you above .
Read it. Very interesting. Thank you
2 of my grandparents are Russian Poles. 2 migrated here from Poland in what I guess to be the late 1800s.
Much to my regret, that’s all I know about them. They would not let us kids learn Polish and did not talk to us (in English) about the hows and whys. I do know that for mom’s parents it was NOT the land of milk and honey – or opportunity.
I know mom was born in Alma Mi (in the upper peninsula), the youngest of 10 (they didn’t know how NOT to), her dad worked in the copper mines and somehow most everyone ended up in Detroit.
I think all mom’s brothers and sisters, and all their kids did ok – some better than others.
Kinda like it the first time you said it🙃
🙂
I’m trying to imagine what the end effect of witnessing this carnival will be on Gen Z as they become adults. Boys can put on a skirt and go play tennis against girls and cream them 6-0, 6-0 every match. Social justice means that a person who grows up in a trailer with a drug-addict single mother under the specter of eviction their whole youth is ‘privileged’, and another person who grows up in a gated community is ‘oppressed’ based purely on their racial designation (which is a social construct and not real, by the way). And then there’s all this covid insanity.
2+2=5, and if you say 4, Winston, we will shock you again. That must be what the world looks like to kids now. Over and over and over.
Sorry, just a general rant I had to get out somewhere.
No better place to do it than here, PP. What we are going through is supposed to be the (hated phrase) “new normal”. For children just starting out their lives it is most tragically and heartbreakingly the ” normal”. And it is criminal.
Stupid modern women who want to be ‘taken seriously’ pushing this crapola with no thought to where this ultimately leaves women, let alone society in general. What is it with liberal white women? Nuts.
The president of my school was black. He was also a good friend. Over lunch one day, we were talking about affirmative action and presumptive “white privilege”. He said there was no way that a white coal miner in West Virginia was more privileged than he was. That’s the kind of obvious fact that defeats the white privilege argument. Oh. and one daughter is an MD surgeon while the other is a well known Ph.D. political scientist. Both agree with their dad and laugh at the idea of “white privilege”.
How proud he must be …and rightly so. Look at where Ben Carson came from and what he has accomplished. His story is astounding, as is Clarence Thomas’s. If you can find CREATED EQUAL, Justice Thomas’s biopic is well worth the time. Inspiring.
We get it. Glad you vented.
Glad you’re here!
Something that most miss is what I have been seeing only in the past 5yrs or so.
Many of the children that have grown up in one parent households welfare or not have now become of breeding age and tend to think that they want better for their own children, a natural thing of course, but the recognition that having both parents in their own children’s life is very strong.
This being said the rebellious nature of the young has led a lot to move in the opposite direction meaning they are looking at life partners more and more, if this pattern continues the traditional family unit will once again become normal.
I am only talking generally as there will always be conditions and circumstances for one parent households.
I don’t think things on this front are quite what most think.
M. most of the young people that have come through our business for the past 28 years have married and have stayed married. I also have to keep in consideration the fact that a lot of them come from Mexican back ground where the family ties tend to be pretty strong. Of course, there have been the guys that had kids with 3-4 mammies but even those have settled down with a wife and taking care of their children.
The past several years w saw increase of the lesbo types with all the brainwashing going on in school but they tend to not last for too long around real men. Always have been polite but that type just can’t handle the fact that real men are completely different from the distorted view that has been planted in their heads by the feminazies.
Also, always tried to explain to the girls that needed it, that shacking up with a guy meant you were valuing yourself pretty cheap.
I have to be honest here, Mungrel. These bioweapon shots are destroying fertility in both boys and girls.
LBJ set in motion the government interference which wrecked the stable family. But Fauci, Gates, and the Big Pharma murderers are in the middle of making sure there will be fewer generations following. And the children who are born to those who have taken these jabs?
We don’t know and won’t for the same amount of time that it took for the Chinese to realize their one child policy error. And there seems to be research which has shown that potential generations’ ability to have children will be diminished if not outright destroyed. That is the evil that has yet to be seen.
Bought two cans of Great Value Whole Green Beans yesterday at Walmart (of course). On the back of the can it says, “PRODUCT OF FRANCE”. Huh?
Zee better to make zee “Haricots Verts a la Francais” recipes, mon ami.
😉
Looked at our Wally world canned goods no product of france here in western washington, but nally valley pickles are product of india.
The pic of the soldier praying is right on. I need to do it more.
Especially for the J 6 prisoners at Club Gitmo DC.
BTW. are any of those prisoners black?
Whatever their ethnicity, their civil rights have been violated. The Jan 6 crowds were ethnically diverse, as I recall from the various videos broadcast that day.
This article has some graphic descriptions:
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/this-is-still-america-after-horrible-jail-conditions-found-judge-orders-release-of-jan-6-protester/
8 pm EST tonight: President Donald J. Trump in Conroe, Texas
On Rumble
Awesome…I guess the dogs weren’t polling well enough?
Poor poor kitty, and I mean that. If she is in residence in Delaware, I hope she shreds all their draperies.
And anything or anyone else.
I wasn’t going to say it but….
And from what I read, the stupid fool Bidens are going to keep that poor feline in the WH. I dread to think.
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 prayers up for the political prisoners everywhere, those whose names we know, and those who suffer unknown,
especially prayers for Julian Assange,
the DC prisoners of January 6 entrapment,
and for protection of Pastor Pawlowski who dared to speak his truth to government
Amen 🙏
Amen.
Memory says I heard it first from Fred Waring:
Good Night
❤️
Thank you Ms Idaho.
Have a feeling I wont be sleeping much tonight.
While conscious, I will pray for the truckers and their mission to Ottawa, that they may shift the world in the right direction
God be with them, angels protect them all and bring them home safe to their families, with freedom and dignity restored for their nation and ours also
Please God, if it’s your will, bless and keep all safe from harm 🙏
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.