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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DAILY DEVOTIONAL, March 21, 2022
Amen! Reminds me of 2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV.
Thanks Dan
Good morning, dear bro!
Dad God, bless our week ahead. Protect our joy and don’t let circumstances determine how we handle our decisions. Although everything might not go as planned, remind us that the joy of the Lord is our strength, peace, and our hope, even we don’t understand. Amen
Bless-ed good morning to all my beloved friends, who were I without , my life would be the poorer. B.💓
… and early morning typing has delivered a typo with my prayer I see, though not as bad as it could have been, as God is our Father. I hope I will be forgiven.
Lol! I’m sure HE will!
Thank you😊 Blessings💓
Betsy, Our Heavenly Father loves for us to call Him Abba, Daddy. 😍
Good morning, G💓 Yes…so many names…the same God. I doubt though anyone has called Him Dad. Ah well…I hope your step dad is less fraught, bless him. I haven’t scrolled yet to see if there is an update. Bet NM
Just had a talk with his nurse since I wasn’t here for the doctors this morning. All his numbers are improving. The sugar is under control, the kidney values are going in the right direction. We may get to go home in a day or two. Praise be to God!
Oh, Deo gratias, G!!! What hopeful news for all of you. It sounds as if the medical staff have been done the right things.💓 Wonderful!
Grandpa, best way to turn on puter and read this 🥰 keeping my fingers crossed ❤️ and praising our Lord 🙌
Amen, Betsy and good morning!
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Trilliums bloom by our creek. Apple blossoms not yet but peach trees explosions of pink
Amen Amen Amen!
Thanks Dub!
Maranatha 🔥✝️🔥
Good afternoon, Dear Frank. I hope your world is as peaceful. Relieved all are well in that far away place🙏💓
One more . . . This is with the Post Modern Jukebox band.
Yeah. Well. When everything is so screwed up, the world’s about to go up in flames, and there ain’t a damned bit o’ nothin’ you can do about any of it ………… there’s only one thing to do. Put on some Tina. Rhythm is as heavy as a ton of lead ….
Dear All,
Seeing as today is World Poetry day maI be indulged with the following piece of doggerel.
SPRINGTIME
Fading sights and sounds of youth
Come to haunt me at my age,
With life’s great melodrama
Acted on a modern stage.
Like the early spring debut
Of the knobbly legged lamb,
The noisy plaintive bleating
Of the satiated ram.
The sleepy eyed appearance
Of snowdrops vivid white,
Means that winters icy grip
Has at last been put to flight.
Regimental daffodils
March in with lengthening days,
Golden chirpy day old chicks
Bring us warming sunshine rays,
Now a crinkly foal appears
On ridiculous spindly legs,
You search hedges near and far
For a rogue hens hidden eggs,
Fragrantly flowered hawthorn
Match the blackthorns crown of white,
Making pussy willows tremble
Is it from shame or fright?
These smells and sounds of springtime
Passing time can not defeat,
Each a dreamy pheromonbe
Living on like meadow sweet.
Patrick Healy
Lovely, Patrick. Takes me back vividly to my times in Wales, surrounded on all sides as we were with the new lambs, the daffodils, and those harbingers of a glorious spring to come, the snowdrops, the first heads peeping through snow. Memories like that stick with me. You describe them perfectly.
OK, I’ll admit it. I’m a sucker for Christmas videos. I’ll even watch ’em in July . . . so with that in mind it’s not that far removed from Christmas. There’s some colder weather around somewhere . . . Trout and Coffee do an exceptionally good job of creating a video narrative of New England during the Christmas season. This one is particularly good. So, if you like Christmas videos in March, this one is especially enjoyable . . .
Greetings Treepers!
Ukraine update:
Peters family in Nikolaev is still safe.
Thanks so very much for your prayer! 🔥✝️🔥
Maranatha
Good news Frank, sent ice cutting boomerang !
🙌🙌🙏🏻
Marcy 21 Oswald Chambers
Identified or Simply Interested
I have been crucified with Christ… —Galatians 2:20
The inescapable spiritual need each of us has is the need to sign the death certificate of our sin nature. I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict against the nature of sin; that is, against any claim I have to my right to myself. Paul said, “I have been crucified with Christ….” He did not say, “I have made a determination to imitate Jesus Christ,” or, “I will really make an effort to follow Him” —but— “I have been identified with Him in His death.” Once I reach this moral decision and act on it, all that Christ accomplished for me on the Cross is accomplished in me. My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.
“…it is no longer I who live….” My individuality remains, but my primary motivation for living and the nature that rules me are radically changed. I have the same human body, but the old satanic right to myself has been destroyed.
“…and the life which I now live in the flesh,” not the life which I long to live or even pray that I live, but the life I now live in my mortal flesh— the life which others can see, “I live by faith in the Son of God….” This faith was not Paul’s own faith in Jesus Christ, but the faith the Son of God had given to him (see Ephesians 2:8). It is no longer a faith in faith, but a faith that transcends all imaginable limits— a faith that comes only from the Son of God.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people, and never get out of touch with human beings, if we are going to use the word of God skilfully amongst them.
Howdy Feral, happy you like my foggy forest music, I have much more 😁, I’m going to anwser a Leenie post, complicated very, but I’ll try.
Barkers eggs top bottom leg tree 😝 !
Morning, FC! The old flesh don’t give up easily (said with my redneck accent)😂.
Mom is pulling a longer shift at the hospital. My bride and I have a late morning appointment so I’ll let Mom rest longer tonight. Curious to find out if the blood transfusion that they gave stepdad last night has made a difference. It will be a day or two before we know for sure.
Cheers. ❤️
So…your original accent entertwined with a red neck one? 👍
That would be correct. 😁
I saw a very good show last night on EWTN called ‘A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’.It did an excellent job (unfortunately) of showing how the Catholic Church was infiltrated by the Gramsci/Fabian/Saul Alinski socialist. For those wanting to understand how the Catholic Church has gone so far off the rails in many places,this explains a lot of it.
Prayers for Sundance,Ad Rem,Menagerie,Stella,WeeWeed,and all treepers past and present,and those of us who believe,and those who do not as well.Pax Vobis.
…or as I saw it once, “all those who know Him and those who do not yet.” Blessings, CBB🙏
To Leenie, from no sir !
Remember that this is almost no known history.
It’s not nice to destroy people’s dreams, I know, a completely different mindset is needed to understand, in other words get rid of the bullshit that most have been programmed to think.
The original Al Hubbard had nothing to do with Scientology, although the Scientology scumbag unts picked up a few pieces, but that came 40-50 yrs later.
The original Fleming Bond was modelled on ‘Captain Al’ who whose life resembles all Bond.
Captain Al Hubbard’s life :
The original OSS clandestine agent, Canadian by birth, born into an aristocratic wealthy influential family with all the trimmings.
With a free pass in life he decided on adventure shunning he’s born privilege.
Being ostracized by his peers and income cut he went rouge, bootlegger, gun runner, you name it .
He was also a devout Catholic ! Yep, later in life he would say God’s work is never easy.
He had a yacht that previously he had sailed around the world making connections along the way.
The gun running exploits into Spain first got noticed by the ruling class and subsequently noticed and noted at the “Top”.
In the late 30s he was travelling in his yacht gun smuggling from Belfast to Norway, to France and the Netherlands.
I’ll stop here, refresh, his connection’s were the top in every European country.
SOS top security number one.
War broke, he would sail his yacht through the German submarine blockades skirting convoys that ultimately be attacked.
On land with complete diplomatic ammunity he would travel to “occupied” countries even into Germany itself.
With top secret messenger information held only in his head he would turn of a the Vatican unannounced and get the pope out of bed !
Such was his stature.
Pope Pius, Pope John XXIII and later friends with “St Paul” or Pavlus ? Not sure on that.
Very, Very little is known about Captain Al , I am only halfway in to this history, only one picture exists that I know of, most all records have been scrubbed.
The shocker comes in the next post on this subject if you need more information.
A hint for you Leenie, see what you can find under the ‘LSD evangelist’.
Enough said for now.
Thanks! Will do!
Good morning, Leenie! 🙂
Good Morning!! How are you holding up…you’ve been on my mind…
I’m ok, trying to keep Mom from getting overly tired. She has to stay longer this morning at the hospital. My bride and I have a late morning appointment today, so Mom has to stay longer but I’ll let her have a longer rest tonight before we switch. Everything is still pretty much up in the air with stepdad.
I am enjoying a quiet morning before the appointment.
Do know, that you have “strangers” who are holding you in their hearts. I hope that gives you some comfort and fortitude. Think of us in those quiet moments. You are not alone.❤️
I know, little Sis, and really do appreciate it. 💗
Good afternoon, Leenie. I hope your week is seamless.😉💓
well – Bond is always shown to be swave and de-boner…
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Quite a story son. I’ll be looking into it later today while I’m stepdad sitting in the hospital.
Cheers.
Aha!!!!!!
Quite a rabbit hole ye did send the wee Leenie down…and all because of James Bond!!! I thought T. Leary had the monopoly on that…
I’m sure you’ve read this about the good Captain, it is interesting to note that there are some widely differing stories about his history. One thing is certain, If Ian Fleming knew this story, it would not be hard to imagine building a (highly successful and very lucrative) character around him…
http://www.levity.com/aciddreams/samples/capthubbard.html
The picture of the good Captain was not what I had imagined! Sometimes what you imagine is “better” than reality… 😜
Hmmm kinda like J. Bond..
I keep my 26 years old Jag purring. I imagine it’s my Bond car.😆
My Dad was 69 when my Mum died. A year after he said to me he was thinking of getting a Jag. (He and Mum raise a family of 5 kids, they were extremely frugal coming from the depression era, putting us all through college…Dandelion salad and scrapple, reusing tea bags, saving, saving, saving…). I said, “Dad you’re 70! If not now, when?”
He bought his Jag!!!! A beautiful black one! He’s now 93 and on his 3rd Jag! (And he loves it as much as he did his first one!). He told me he was not going to get another one. (Reason?: He’d be 96 before the warranty ran out!!!) 😝
Love it! 😂
Did you know that on the new Jags they don’t have the cat on the hood anymore because of some stupid EU rule that declared it to be a danger?
Yes! To pedestrians, in case one should tangle with a Jag in a Crosswalk!!!!!
Same with all hood ornaments…
I’d think if you are a pedestrian going up against a car the hood ornament would be your last concern.
Actually, I read years ago that they got rid of hood ornaments on all cars because it was injuring pedestrians who were hit by cars, manufacturers tried “Bendable” ornaments then ditched that as well…can you think of any car made now that has a hood ornament?
The most recent one that I can think of for sure was a 2013 Mercedes E class.
That’s the EU for you, G. They ruin everything and have done since their inception. Britain has unfortunately contributed to the insanity.
For example, did you know they have what they call “smart motorways”? No hard shoulders. Any fool could see the problem with that, except for the fools in Whitehall. The deaths and accidents are already liking up. Imbecilic.
They make rules just because they can and to rub it in. Same with the extended DST here and the DST in general. No real purpose except to jack with us ordinary folks. Spit.
Jobsworths as we called them.
Posted an update on stepdad at the beginning of the thread as a reply to your post.
I saw it!!!!! Simply the best news for all of you💖🤗
In 1963 I was all set to buy a Jaguar XKE. Then I got married. “When I was single my pockets did jingle…
Oh, YA!
Because I’m a Teeny Leenie I prefer BIG cars so I can see. The first time I drove Dad’s Jag it was like traveling in an ice cream sundae! (Soft ice cream!). (Unlike my husband’s Porsche, which is like fighting with a machine!!! ( Me: Who’s in charge here??!! Car: Woman! Me! ). That combined with the fact the only thing I can see when driving it is the underside of 18-wheelers…)
As I’m shrinking daily, while I can see fine while driving, my daughter was passing me one day, and said my car looked driverless. Ah well, one day I’ll disappear completely, I guess.
O, heavens, Betsy! Do you remember when we used to be behind a “car with no driver?” Other Drivers can see me in my Tahoe!!!!! 🤣🤣❤️
LOL!
😂…I’ll go one better.
First trip to Britain, we were sitting in a coach high up looking down on everything. We could see three or four cars ahead. The car right in front of us had us all in shock because in the driver’s seat of this moving vehicle was a big dog driving, his owner the passenger…
Until we remembered that it’s the opposite side over there that cars are driven with the driver on the right side. We couldn’t wrap our heads around that dog seemingly with skills none of us could process. It took a second or two for is to come to our senses.😂
I’d forgotten that! Thanks, Leenie, for reminding me.
“Archpriest Andrey Eliseev, the rector of the Russian Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Nice, received a letter that is said to have threatened him and other Russians with death if they did not leave France and go to Russia within the next month.” ~ Breitbart Dotcom
I would ask if the world has gone crazy but I already know the answer to that question.
Just imagine, if some people or some country didn’t like (or hated) American policy or actions, then ALL Americans were fair game for the “justified” retribution (expulsion, discrimination…even death) of that dislike/hatred? Wait….oh…. Never mind…
But it does beg some introspection…do we not do the exact same thing to other countries and people for the exact same reasons? Who is our Enemy du jour? Who told us who our Enemy du jour is?
I’d continue…but laundry beckons! (And some thing you can only put off so long…)
Just saw your comment after posting, you say it much better.
Remember, Leenie, the Golden Rule of Laundry…
Wash: 30 minutes
Dry: 45 minutes
Putting it all away: 5-7 business days
I’m gonna do a cross stitch of that to go in the laundry room!!!!!! 🤣
Oh that will be perfect!😁
(Except I’m going to need my readers and a magnifying glass…)
Never mind…
Use what ya gotta…if you do it, it will be brilliant in your laundry room💖
Whenever a Republican was in the White House and something happened it would be the usual outcry from the world was “don’t blame all Muslims” (9/11), don’t blame the Chinese people (wuhan virus) – stuff like that;
this is the first time I can remember where people are being instructed by popular media voices to actually blame the citizens for the actions of their government.
First step in grooming the world population that it’s okay, acceptable, and good, to blame the entire citizenry of a country for something it’s government, or lone-wolves who happen to be citizens of that government’s country, as if each one of those individual citizens are the cause of the bad thing:
grooming because this thought-training will be used to turn the world against every US citizen; just a matter of time before the old “Ugly American” trope will be reintroduced as a necessary step in forming the one-world government.
Really not surprised France is the first country to see this move.
Latter day McCarthyism…but much worse. Much. This makes my heart sink. And yes, of course France is first, Bessie. They’ve blotted their copy book first on so many other issues.
Wow, good post bessie2003… I had not even considered that!
The world and its wife have lost their minds.🙏
Verse of the Day for Monday, March 21, 2022
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“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
Galatians 5:1 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!
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.
Mornin’ comrade infidels.
21 March 1964
The Beatles replaced one Billboard chart topper with another when “She Loves You” took over from “I Want To Hold Your Hand”.
21 March 1970
The Jaggerz, a six piece group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, see their first Billboard Hot 100 entry, “The Rapper”
21 March 1981
Although they had been making records for ten years, REO Speedwagon enjoyed their first taste of success when “Keep On Loving You” became the top tune in the US. The band would go on to place twelve more songs in the Top 40.
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Dzien Dobry (good morning)
Cracked radiator in the big truck. A patch of JB Weld got me back home but there was no way I was going to try and drive a rig grossing over 75,000 lb over the hills of PA with a temporary fix like that. So I made it to just east of Zanesville, OH and then after the repair with epoxy and waiting 4 hours for it to set up, brought it back home, getting in with 23 minutes left of my 14 hour duty day.
The garage had a radiator for my truck in stock and I suspect they are finishing up installing it now.
Initial reporting from the far east say that an Chinese commercial airliner has gone down in flames this morning. A China Eastern 737 passenger jet crashed and all 132 passengers and crew are feared dead. 🙁
Morning Ya’ll, 🙂
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
The 50th Psalm (Septuagint)
and the
Great Lenten Prayer of Saint Ephraim of Syria
From Small Compline
Rejoice Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Savior of our souls. (Thrice)
Start of the Third Week of Great Lent in the Orthodox Christian Church
March 8th on Patristic Calendar of the Church
March 21st on the civil or commercial calendar
God is great and works in wonderful ways!!
If someone could copy and post it here, there is a great video of Jason an autistic kid. The video is on the burningplatform from 3/20/2022 and it is the last of the videos.
It will warm your heart if not bring a tear to your eyes!!
He does, Mark. And I’ve found there are sometimes when He has done so in my life and in the lives of those I love when His work or answer to prayers is not seen until much later. Blessings to you.
Have a blessed day Betsy. Hope you were able to watch the video?
I tried, Mark but couldn’t find it. But let me give you a site that will warm your heart, nothing but uplifting stories, showing what real Americans are like each and every day.
It’s called
SUNNYSKYZ.com
and it is such a beautiful place to visit. When it seems there are few things to smile about, this site will show that there are many in this work-a-day world of ours. I hope you’ll take a look🤗
I will take a look and thanks Betsy.
You are very welcome😊
Tornado sirens going off now. Fort Worth area…yikes! Tis the season…
Since Josh told me that I wouldn’t be called today because all the loads were covered and he had a couple drivers looking for loads and it got up to 70 deg. today, I grilled. T-bones, baked potatoes and sweet corn. Now it is nearly impossible for me to do a good job grilling without an adult beverage in my hand. So it was another Non Jack & coke.
Now my belly is full. Life Below Zero is on, and the couch beckons.
I hope this is the correct post for this.
(1) are there still Covid camps in Australia and
Are they still adding more of there citizens to them?
(2) what has happened to the Canadian truckers ?
Or the preacher arrested in Canada ?
(3) what happened to the truck convoy in this country ?
All is quiet in the news in Australia and Canada, Kenny. As far as I am aware, Pastor Kawasaki is still being held captive as a political prisoner. Below you’ll see auscitizenmom ha s included prayers for him in her lovely nightly prayer.
One thought re: the spy – James Bond – books and movies …
There was always ONE maniac who wanted to take over control of the world – ONE mastermind
In today’s ‘real world’ there are MANY maniacs who want to take over and rule the world.
Worse yet, they are EVERYWHERE
Worst of all, they are supported by our congress critters, world banks and multi national companies
Do we need clones of James Bond? How many, do you think?
Amen
And when I wake dear Lord I pray
Bless and guide me through the day.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen!
Amen.
Amen
May 9 election approaching in Manila. Will the unpaid taxes owed by the Marcos Family hurt ‘jr’?https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/03/21/22/spotlight-on-marcos-p203-b-unpaid-taxes-a-good-political-move
Murmansk ‘rally’ for the invasion. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/life-and-public/2022/03/murmansk-people-came-checkin-and-left