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, April 11, 2022
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GM Dan ❤️
Good morning, Cat ❤️
Good morning, Dan. How wonderful and marvelous than yesterday I was thinking of this supremely uplifting sermon from Dr Spurgeon.
Especially did the word “sustitutionary” figure strongly in my thoughts.
Him in place of me. For me.
Is there a more excruciatingly humble emotion that can wash over anyone once that is recognized?
Thank you, thank you for this gift to start a week full of sorrows, which will, after it is finished, bring unimaginable joy.🙏
(Apologies to all for my early morning typos…I’ll blame autocorrrect😉)
Good morning, Betsy! I’m praying this Holy Week things return to somewhat normal for me. Had a busy weekend with grandkids and visitors to the great grandparents but I’m finally able to work out after a 3 week hiatus. PTL!
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Good morning, G💓!!! Truly I was just thinking of you! A busy weekend then, and I bet you’re feeling it, even though I know the joys it gave you. And yes… All glory and gratitude to God🙏💓
Oh, I am feeling it, esp. after waking up at 3 am by the storm that went through. Lot’s of noise for a short time, pouring down but it doesn’t look like we got much added to our rain water tank but I praise Him for what we got and it broke the long dry spell. didn’t go to sleep after that but maybe I’ll catch a little afternoon nap.
Had a great workout, though and just got a call from our friend S. so all is good except stepdad kept mom up all night again. Time for an additional medicine at night.
Oh goodness!!!! First things first…
Your poor mother!! She’s got to be exhausted, G🙏 . is this a nightly thing or every now and again? Bless her heart, and I truly mean that💓 Lord love her…
Rain!! Finally! I did say I’d blow some down your way, so…😉 Prayers answered! 🙏. We’re showing a 50% chance for Tuesday but that could mean anything from about 10 drops to torrential. If it gets here, I’ll certainly ask it to visit you.
I am so pleased you’ve heard from S, who is always on my mind, along with prayers for his well being. Gosh, I miss him. But that all is well for him at the moment is simply the best news and I’m grateful for your passing that on. My best to him…and you, my friend, as always.
Finally!! A workout you say? Sounds as f you’re fully recovered from your two procedures for which I give thanks🙏… Now, go get that shut eye. A short afternoon nap is restorative. Medically proven apparently😉. I’ll catch you when you wake up…or whenever.
Thank you for your newsy reply… Blessings to you, G🤗
Hi grandpa!!! Such wonderful news, your family getting back to normal minus a couple hiccups. A weekend full of family,children and love! ❤️ Betsy must’ve fixed that fan to run on turbo speed yesterday…..hoping it washed all that nasty pollen away. So happy to hear about S. 🌺 ❤️ thanks for telling Betsy( I eavesdropped 🤭). Love ya 😘
Hello all my Treep friends – I am writing a letter to my nephew to celebrate his first Penance and am wondering if you can suggest a good book or booklet of information/prayer on Forgiving and being Forgiven that I can give to him. I have been looking, but not one thing has ‘spoken’ to me yet. I want something he can keep for life that is not ‘too young’ but not dry as an old bone, either. Thanks in advance. Parichute
Can’t think right off the top of my head but I’d recommend to look at the resources at Chuck Swindoll’s website insight.org .
Last week I caught someone on Christian radio preaching about forgiveness vs. reconciliation. It was good but couldn’t tell you who it was.
Here is the link to quite a few articles at Pastor Chuck’s web site https://insight.org/resources/article-library/forgiveness
Hi GPM – Thank you very much I will take a scroll over there and see what I can find – I appreciate you taking the care and time. Salutations, Pauline
Good to hear your on the upside.
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Good morning, Cat💓
Do you have a snow report this morning? I hope it took heed and turned on its heels! The unremitting ferocious winds here are with us until tonight.
I am choosing to look at them as the Breath of God, blowing evil from this earth. If only it were so…🙏
Just saw your report below😊
Good morning, WP💓
O Almighty God, who pourest out on all who desire it, the spirit of grace and of supplication; Deliver us, when we draw nigh to thee, from coldness of heart and wanderings of mind, that with steadfast thoughts and kindled affections, we may worship thee in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen🙏
~~from The Book of Common Prayer~~
Top o’ the Morning, Betsy.
Amen.
And to you, sir!🤗
Amen!
Think of the power and love and peace the American Christian churches could be spreading now to fight back all the evil in the world, if only they hadn’t had divisions and schisms and bought into worldly ideology! If American Christians were unified and of “one spirit”!
I have not seen any mainstream Christian church denounce publicly the new “abortion” practice of killing infants up to the day of birth or shortly after birth. No church has denounced all this sexualization of children or pushing them to hate their own bodies for transgenderism.
Good morning, RT. Your thoughts mirror mine. Where ARE the churches indeed? Their voices are absent where they should all have megaphones. There is such a thing as a bully pulpit, a phrase used in Britain quite often. The pastors and leaders of the churches have honest to goodness pulpits. Why aren’t they in them?
Tue admirable exception to this which has gotten much coverage is Lt Governor Mark Robinson from North Carolina who did climb into a church pulpit and who delivered a thundering denouncment of this particular grotesque evil. God bless him mightily. He set the example, and since then? Crickets from His churches. One despairs. Excellent post.
The church I formerly attended was also very quiet. I asked the Pastor his views, etc. He was very “worldly” in his answers. I thanked him and turned and nearly “ran” from that church. Needless to say, I have not been back.
Isn’t it a shocking disappointment, bugsdaddy? I wouldn’t know how to process that. I can imagine how you feel, I really can. I’m finding worship more meaningful in solitude these days…plus using this thread for scripture and camaraderie with like souls. I remain surprised, and not in a good way, by the lack of speaking out on this most ungodly issue by priest and pastors. Blessings to you, sir🙏
Their silence was bought long ago when they exchanged their divine mission for 501(c) 3 tax status. Now all the government has to do is even SUGGEST pulling this status and they clam up.
Lord, save your people…..
Mainline denominations have been infiltrated. They get big money from the federal government to resettle immigrants. There are still good pastors out there though.
The Nazis did the same! Bonhoeffer was one of the exceptional and faithful leaders.
https://thirtypiecesofsilver.org/
The communists deliberately targeted American churches and seminaries at the same timer they targeted schools starting in the 1950s. It took several decades to slowly but effectively infiltrate these institutions so as to affect the philosophical leanings of teaching in both, but the communists have been wildly successful in pulling both general academia AND theological training far to the left and heavily infused with socialist / collectivist memes. As such, today most national organized religions have strayed far from The Lords Word, and is why they have lost significant membership. Social clubs are everywhere but do very little for the soul.
Try to find a church where the focus is squarely on accurate Bible teaching of doctrine using good hermeneutics, proper exegesis, and stays limited to what the Bible actually says as opposed to what earthly men try to claim it implies.
Today we are overloaded with far too many “tickle-the-ears” pastors in feel-good churches preaching “prosperity gospel” messages. Instead of teaching the Lord’s Word and understanding the harsh realities that nations have experienced under Divine Discipline when they reject God and turn to worshipping false gods and idolatry (of which money is a part of).
Temples and upended tables come to mind.
Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, Calif., Pastor Jack Hibbs has on his facebook page : California lobby day to oppose infanticide. To meet in Sacramento on April 19th.
And the mutilation of children on the satanic altar of Moloch? Did they say anything about that, RT?
I like this chart. We often look at scripture as snapshots by taking a verse or passage in isolation for the truth that can be discerned from it. That is an entirely acceptable way to study scripture. When I am preparing a lesson, I also try to discern the flow of the narrative that the Spirit has inspired in the writer. The passion week has a powerful flow from event to event that is described with different emphasis by each of the Gospel writers. However, there is an overall flow that this chart makes more powerful. It is the flow towards the inevitable completion of what Jesus must do in the completion of the eternal task He has been given, the atonement of sinful men by God’s grace.
Christ anointed for death.
Entering the city of sacrifice as King
Cleansing the temple in preparation, Christ as the great high priest
The condemnation of the guilty, Christ the judge
The preparation of believers for accepting the sacrifice and what will come, Christ the prophet
The prayer to the Father for spiritual preparation to surrender to God’s will
The surrender to the process that must occur
The surrender in death for the sins of man
The resurrection conquers death for all of God’s people
It is a week of eternal consequence far beyond that of any other.
Twitter CEO: “Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here.”
Good move by Elon Musk to keep them from limiting his stock purchases.
Will Twitter’s blue birdie self-identify as a blue dragon?
“Children shouldn’t be deciding if they want to be a boy or a girl. God already did that for them.”
Like Pink Floyd sang “leave those kids alone”.
Twitter does not have to self-identify as anything.
Regardless of what they claim, anyone whose eyes are open and connected to a functioning brain can easily see Twitter is the opposite of honesty and morality; their actions speak plainly. Twitter and all of Big Tech are agents of Satan. The Evil One always lies, says one thing and does the opposite.
Twitter and the rest of Big Tech all claim to censor only “misinformation” at the same time they actually block the Truth while promoting misinformation.
This video is from the movie “Fly Away Home“. It’s a father/daughter/ coming of age movie that’s based on a true story. If you haven’t seen this movie, I highly recommend it. Mary Chapin Carpenter was a perfect choice to sing “10,000 Miles” the movies theme.
55 years next November . . .
One more . . .
“Fly Away Home” … definitely a very cool movie, particularly if you’re a bird watcher.
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Good Morning Garrison ❤️
Feral likes “I have a need for solitude” 😊. My newest favorite theme song for springtime!
Thanks Garrison 😘
Mary’s ability to write deeply personal lyrics is unmatched. Even if I strenuously disagree with her politics, I still like her music.
A truly marvelous set of songs for our Monday. “In my Heaven” is particularly amazing.. both written and performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Not only a beautiful melody, but such insightful lyrics as well. Thanks, Garrison
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So lovely, Garrison💓 Thank you🤗
Mornin’ Betsy. 🙂
I wish more movies like this were made…and promoted. We need them.💓
If you haven’t seen it, you might like The Snow Goose with Jenny Agutter and Richard Harris (1971).
Thank you. I have!! I think I need to see it again, so thank you for reminding me of it.
My husband when young had an incredible crush on Jenny Agutter. 😉 I guess you’ve seen the Railway Children? A lovely warm movie…aided by the fact that it’s British. Wonderful story, wonderfully acted.
Haven’t seen Railway Children. Thanks for mentioning it. 🙂
I’m pretty certain you’ll love it. Its a peaceful film, and who couldn’t use some of that?🤗
Good morning Garrison, I just love this play set (if that’s an actual DJ term) and it is because of you that we set a little time aside to watch the movie recently; more thanks. You’ve made my life better since I’ve been coming to CTH and my heart soars to know you and your thoughtfulness. God Bless you and Mrs. Hall.
Thank you for the kind words. 🙂
Since we seem to be on a weird roll here in the Open Thread so far of fictional animal transformation and humans teaching birds to fly, here’s a video I recently came across. The guy featured in the news cast is actually an IG Nobel Prize Winner based on his “research,” if you can believe it. What really makes this video come alive is that the news anchor can’t help laughing her way through the news report. Just couldn’t read the script with a straight face. Oh, you’ll see why … 🤣 🐐
WARNING / DISCLAIMER: The Brain Surgeon General has declared that viewing the following video may be dangerous to your mental health.
😂😂😂 pity his wearing pants !
Should go full Monty,, oops Goaty,,, oops I’m so confused I’ll shutup 😜 !
It would have been perfect to copy this in my roadside fields on April fool’s day. 😂 nevertheless, I will integrate this performance art in my field romps. Thanks Phoenix!! You are an inspiration ❤️
Yes, but is he the G.O.A.T. goat man?
And can someone bring back this video whenever we start talking about Brady or any other G.O.A.T. man?
Interesting, are you referring to the “V.O.A.T Goats ?
Them I know well !
Unfortunately, my search skills aren’t good enough.
I was referring to this,
G.O.A.T. Meaning & Origin | Slang by Dictionary.com
I did find a video with V.O.A.T. (variations on a theme). But it was some electric dance. Hard pass.
But while I was Searching, I found this,
Not sure what they mean by it, but I liked their playing.
I’ll explain VOAT next OT.
Am working.
Good morning, phoenix💓 Dangerous for my mental health?
Mine has been improved immeasurably!
Yeah, “it provokes thought” alright!! LOL
I know goats. I had one as a patient during my medical training. For six weeks I lived and breathed goats. I still have a fatigue uniform belt that smells strongly of goat. We SF trainees going through Med-lab, also known as Goat-lab, had our own table at the mess hall at Ft. Bragg because we all smelled like goats.
Goats eat, sleep, drink, poop, butt, and do their best to breed all the time. They, once injured or really sick, seem to have little desire to fight to stay alive. But it was the job of the trainee to keep them alive even after they were shot.
I know it is cruel but it is the only way a medic is going to hand on training on a live being through the whole process of treating a war wound.
We were broking down into ORs or Operating Room teams. When you animal was the one shot you were the surgeon. When others in you OR had theirs shot you served as either assistant surgeon, Scrub tech, Anesthetist, inside circulator, or outside circulator.
The hottest seat in the house was Anesthetist really. The instructor would sit besides you as you administered anesthesia and monitored the level of consciousness, pulse, respiration, and BP and charted it all. He would have a PDR open on his lap verbally quizzing you with questions on pharmacology.
I could go on and on but to give you an idea how tough those 8 weeks were. Forty of us started and eight of us graduated.
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Gee, I knew Monday was grumpy day but never knew you were that ugly,oops …..grumpy 😛 !
In space, no one can hear you hurl.
NASA will test SpinLaunch’s ability to fling satellites into orbit
Green launches !
Name : Davidellite !
Objective : money !
Mission : win, turn failure hit goliathton !
What time is Betsy trying out for the job? I hear she throws a mean boomerang 😜
You guys should have seen her yesterday. Our weather fan misfunctioned and was blowing snow till 2 pm. She got up early to fix it. Took 6 hours but lbt got the job completed when she banged on it with her tomahawk! 😂 She’s an awesome force with a tool. 😛
Might have to work killer boomerang with little Big Thunder ☺, that one don’t come back 😊 !
Tomohawk BT always sharper than butcher 😁 boner Kanniff !
LBT visit Mungrel on MP, call freind, LBT, slice tomohawk dice true 😊 sharp !
Feral sixth sense Exellent with little killer response on MP 😁, Mungrel impressed Feral killer instinct 😜😜😘, good 🐍attack Mungrel like 😂 !
Good morning, Mungrel💓 I’ve been practicing every day🤗. Pinpoint accuracy has been achieved! Thanks to you…
😂😂😂!!! When called, I answer!
11 April 1964
The Beatles set another music industry record when they had 14 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. The songs ranged from “Can’t Buy Me Love” at #1 to “Love Me Do” at #81.
11 April 1970
Norman Greenbaum‘s “Spirit In The Sky” tops out at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Although the song would sell over two million copies, it would be his only US Top 40 hit.
11 April 1981
Daryl Hall And John Oates reached the top spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 with their 10th Top 40 hit, “Kiss On My List”.
NATIONAL BARBERSHOP QUARTET DAY – APRIL 11
Barbershop quartets are a style of a cappella or unaccompanied vocal music. Their music features songs with understandable lyrics and easily singable melodies.
Between 1900 and 1919, barbershop music found its popularity. In the 1920s, it began to fade into obscurity. However, the barbershop quartet saw a revival when the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America was founded.
NATIONAL EIGHT TRACK TAPE DAY – APRIL 11
In 1964, Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation, along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola, and RCA, created the eight-track tape. Also known as Stereo 8, the first player was released in 1965.
In September of 1965, Ford Motor Company introduced factory-installed and dealer installed eight-track tape players as an option to buyers on three of its 1966 models – the Thunderbird, Mustang, and Lincoln. In addition, Ford offered an eight-track tape player in all its vehicles as an upgrade option on the 1967 model. Through the 1980s, optional eight-track players were available in many cars and trucks.
Eight track cartridges were phased out in the retail stores in the United States by late 1982.
NATIONAL SUBMARINE DAY – APRIL 11
Designed by Irish-American inventor John Phillip Holland in 1896, he launched the Holland VI on May 17, 1897, at Navy Lt. Lewis Nixon’s Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The United States Navy later purchased the Holland VI on April 11, 1900. As the military’s first commissioned submarine, the Navy renamed it the USS Holland (SS-1).
Submarine history runs deep in the United States. During the Revolutionary War era, David Bushnell built America’s first submarine, the Turtle. The submersible made several attempts to sink British ships but never succeeded. At the time, the U.S. Navy did not exist, so the Turtle was not the Navy’s first submarine. The first known U.S. Navy submarine was the USS Alligator. It’s also the fourth United States Navy ship of that name. The Alligator was active during the American Civil War.
The USS Alligator
The CSS Pioneer.
The CSS Hunley.
The Alligator sank
The Pioneer was actually built by the Union, captured by the Confederacy, and scuttled by them when the US Navy took its port in New Orleans. Raised and examined by the Yankees and sold for scrap.
The Hunley sank and was raised and then finally attacked the USS Housatonic using a spike with an explosive attached to a spar. It was called a “spar torpedo”. The way it was supposed to work was the spike would drive into the side of the ship anchoring the rope to which the explosive was attached on a spar and the sub would back up and wait until it was a safe distance from the ship before the explosive blew.
The explosive blew before the Hunley could get clear and the sub was sunk. It was raised in 2000 by an archeological team and now is on display at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, in Charleston.
BTW when you see “torpedoes” referenced in Civil War literature they are actually talking about what we call mines these days. IOW the Civil War “torpedoes” did not move on their own power but were stationary and used to protect ports. So when Farragut is supposed to have ordered “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” during his attack on Mobile Bay, he was referring to the mines, which had already sunk one of his Monitors and caused the other attacking ships to slow.
The development of US submarines after that can be described as a series of steady fits and starts. But the defining moments when submarines became really effective war machines was when the diesel engine and batteries of adequate storage capability and longevity came along.
Skipping a lot of history here. The WW I boats did not have the surface speed to be capable of keeping up the surface fleet, nor did they have the range to do so on any extended operations. That did not change until the 1920s with the advent of the S class submarines. Some of the S class were used to fight the Japanese, others were delegated to training boats, and as the US launched enough of the new Gato class subs which were the prototypical WW II subs, and were considered the first true “fleet” submarines, some S boats were given to allies.
The Gato class was a vast improvement over the S boats, not only in performance, range, and number of torpedoes and tubes, but in the accommodations for officers and crew. This later was important because it greatly contributed to crew effectiveness on the long patrols in the Pacific. The Gato class was followed by several other classes which maintained the same basic layout but with steady improvements.
Probably the most important improvement came with the Balao class, first launched in 1942, which had a pressure hull twice as thick as the Gato class. The greater pressure hall thickness allowed the sub to dive deeper and that tougher skin made it less likely to suffer fatal or patrol ending damage from depth charges. Also during this time the range of all the Fleet submarines was being extended by lining various ballast tanks with rubber to allow them to be used carry fuel.
The two biggest weaknesses of US subs during the war were the failure of their torpedoes to operate properly. The fact that it took the Navy so long to admit and address the problem is a black stain on their WW II leadership. By 1943 the design problems had been licked but then came another problem.
Torpedoes before and during the early stages of the war were custom built, like a Rolls Royce. But with the increased expenditure of the torpedoes the old system could not keep up with demand. And so mass production where by various contractors made the various parts was began. The problem was testing after assembly was inadequate and so once again US submariners were plagued by torpedo problems for a time.
The other problem was the lack of a periscope with optics capable of being used for attack during a dark moonless night or in conditions of reduced visibility. This was eventually solved by the advent of a radar periscope but at the end of the war many subs still did not have that.
To make up for this deficiency the aggressive sub skippers made night surface attacks, with the sub taking on the character of a surface raider that could dive to get away.
Despite the torpedo problems WW II submariners were a primary factor in winning the war against Japan. Many Japanese leaders who survived the war placed the US submarine campaign as the primary factor that led to their defeat. US subs sank about 30% of the Japanese Navy ships lost during the war and over 50% of her mercantile shipping.
52 crews of WW II submarines remain on eternal patrol. A percentage of loss not matched by any US service.
Who knew? Interesting and the loss of 52 crews is a sad reminder of all the lives lost in ‘defending the country’.
US submariner losses do not even come close to the percentage of losses suffered by the German U-boats.
Any way one cuts it, being a submariner is a very hazardous profession. But I totally understand what draws men or women to it. I was one of those types.
Some people put the desire to work as part of an elite, highly trained, close knit team, where any one person failing to do their duty can be fatal, over the possible increased dangers of the duty.
There is a bond that grows among those in such situations where everyone has to have the back of everyone else, which cannot be matched. Not even in familial relationships.
I worked with and was good friends with an ex-bubblehead (USN submariner). He committed suicide over unrequited love.
A little more on US submarines during WW II extracted from: VICTORY AT SEA: WW II in the Pacific.
American subs spent 31,671 days on patrol, or about three weeks per patrol. Many patrols were cut short by mechanical problems and some were in support of fleet operations. These fleet patrols were much shorter than others.
JAPANESE SHIPPING SUNK (IN THOUSANDS OF TONS)
SUNK BY total
1942 1943
1944 1945 % of totalSubmarines 5,880 69% 83% 69% 23% 62%
Carrier A/C 1,740 11% 2% 23% 28% 18%
Land A/C 825 9% 11% 6% 12% 9%
Mines 600 0% 0% 0% 28% 6%
Misc. 450 11% 3% 2% 8% 5%
Total 9,495 875 2,175 4,330 2,115
Notes: “Carrier A/C is primarily carrier based aircraft but also includes land based Navy planes
“Misc” includes, accidents at sea (storms, breakdowns, and so on) as well as losses to enemy surface ships.
Due to rounding, not all columns add up to 100%
My own note: The losses to mines greatly increased during 1945 because by this time the Japanese were running most of their merchant ships very close to shore or in the very shallow seas between Korea and Japan where access to submarines was very difficult. For this reason the US used B-29s to drop mines in the coastal waters and increased the number of missions where subs laid mines.
Why the heck do tabs work when I am composing a chart like that above but when I post it, they are eliminated?
Try using spaces.
(4) (6)
If this works, the number of spaces will show up below the space.
If not, it will be a mess. (posting eats extra cr’s, so it might eat extra spaces.)
This problem shows up in and between lots of programs too.
Even spaces instead of tabs have to be adjusted when copying text.
Oh well, it eats spaces too. Scratch that idea.
Try….using……dots __or___underlines.
___________(2)__(4)
……(4)……….(6)
These both posted in the same place I typed them.
Ok here it is done as you suggested. But to be clear, I composed that chart right in the text box here. I did not cut and paste it. I did not compose it in a word processing program. It was done right here and that is what is confusing me as to why it was good when composed but the tabs and spaces disappeared when posted.
APANESE SHIPPING SUNK (IN THOUSANDS OF TONS)
SUNK BY …………………….total……..
1942..... 1943.....
1944……… 1945……….. % of totalSubmarines ………………5,880 ………..69% …….83%……. 69%……… 23%…………… 62%
Carrier A/C……………… 1,740 ………….11%………..2% ……..23%………. 28%………….. 18%
Land A/C……………………. 825…………. 9%……….. 11%……… 6%……….. 12%…………… 9%
Mines………………………… 600…………. 0%………… 0%……… 0%………. 28%……………. 6%
Misc………………………….. 450…………. 11%………… 3%……… 2%………… 8%…………….. 5%
Total ………………………9,495………… 875………. 2,175……. 4,330…….. 2,115
Notes: “Carrier A/C is primarily carrier based aircraft but also includes land based Navy planes
“Misc” includes, accidents at sea (storms, breakdowns, and so on) as well as losses to enemy surface ships.
Due to rounding, not all columns add up to 100%
My own note: The losses to mines greatly increased during 1945 because by this time the Japanese were running most of their merchant ships very close to shore or in the very shallow seas between Korea and Japan where access to submarines was very difficult. For this reason the US used B-29s to drop mines in the coastal waters and increased the number of missions where subs laid mines.
I give up trying to understand programmer’s quirks. They are all screwy. But my decisions would be seen by someone else as screwy too.
Let’s let them use the tab when writing but then replace the tabs with spaces and eat all the extra spaces? Loony right? Yet somebody had some series of goals and needs and ideas that led them to think that was the best solution out there. And then they tested it and were quite happy with the result.
And it is all so constraining. Every time a programmer thinks of a ‘brilliant’ idea you have to learn new ways to get things done. Computers are incredibly unforgiving. You either throw them away or you conform yourself to arbitrary actions as prescribed by some programmer’s whim.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
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 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)
The Lord’s Prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhNk0j2H-Zs
The Sixth Week of Great Lent in the Orthodox Christian Church
Next Sunday is the Sunday of Palms, the celebration of the radiant and glorious Feast of the Entry of Our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem.
Great and Holy Week is next week and then the Great Feast of the Lord’s Pascha, His Holy and Life-giving Resurrection.
This sequence is in keeping with the adoption of the Christian Church’s Paschalion and the Festal Calendar at the First Œcumenical Synod in Nicæa in the year 325 under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The Orthodox Christian Church celebrates the Lord’s Resurrection after the Jews observe their Passover, but not with or before.
April 11 Oswald Chambers
Complete and Effective Divinity
If we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection… —Romans 6:5
Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have experienced crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a definite likeness to Him. The Spirit of Jesus entering me rearranges my personal life before God. The resurrection of Jesus has given Him the authority to give the life of God to me, and the experiences of my life must now be built on the foundation of His life. I can have the resurrection life of Jesus here and now, and it will exhibit itself through holiness.
The idea all through the apostle Paul’s writings is that after the decision to be identified with Jesus in His death has been made, the resurrection life of Jesus penetrates every bit of my human nature. It takes the omnipotence of God— His complete and effective divinity— to live the life of the Son of God in human flesh. The Holy Spirit cannot be accepted as a guest in merely one room of the house— He invades all of it. And once I decide that my “old man” (that is, my heredity of sin) should be identified with the death of Jesus, the Holy Spirit invades me. He takes charge of everything. My part is to walk in the light and to obey all that He reveals to me. Once I have made that important decision about sin, it is easy to “reckon” that I am actually “dead indeed to sin,” because I find the life of Jesus in me all the time (Romans 6:11). Just as there is only one kind of humanity, there is only one kind of holiness— the holiness of Jesus. And it is His holiness that has been given to me. God puts the holiness of His Son into me, and I belong to a new spiritual order.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?
Australian Footballers Dropping Dead
Australian Footballers Dropping Dead | Real Climate Science
Just the tip of the iceberg I would bet.
As predicted, rah. Honest researchers knew…Big Pharmacy certainly knew this would happen (per the court forced release of the Pfiizer documents which, of course, is getting no mainstream coverage).
Repeatedly touted as “safe and effective”, an out and out murderous lie, this is fraud in every sense, and thus the protection against liability must be withdrawn…now.
Fraud vitiates everything. I pray Dr Fuellmich’s untiring, relentless work will bear the fruits of compensation and retribution for all who have suffered.
Yes. Athletes are dropping dead in numbers never before seen.
https://rumble.com/v10aqwk-hundreds-of-professional-athletes-collapsing-on-field-dying-from-mysterious.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2
This isn’t a very recent phenomenon. These articles are from last November:
https://benwilliamslibrary.com/blog/?p=9939
https://sarahwestall.com/wikipedia-stops-listing-athletes-who-died-while-playing-soccer-as-the-number-explodes/
And its not just athletes:
https://thecovidblog.com/2021/11/17/reap-what-you-sow-doctors-dropping-like-flies-died-suddenly-unexpectedly/
I was right to avoid the one size fits all experimental jabs.
The whole scam seemed quite obvious from the start.
Now they want to use it on babies.
Yes you were correct.
As soon as Fauci and the MSM began pushing vaccine in. 2020, I instinctively knew for dead certain they were going to be bad news.
ON THIS DAY in MISSIONARY HISTORY – April 11, 1836
George Muller opened his first orphanage in Bristol, taking in 26 orphans.
Forty years later, his orphanages housed 2,000 children.
Muller ran a Faith Mission which did not engage in fundraising, but trusted the Lord to provide through free will donations.
Morning Ya’ll , 🙂
Good Monday morning to you, jay💓 I bet your toe never stops tappin’.
Good evening Betsy , 🙂 😉
British middle-class mores
1950s: Never say a bad word around children, and if they utter one themselves, correct them
1980s: Never discipline children for any reason whatsoever and their minds will turn out just fine, apparently
2020s: Be terrified of catching an infection while taking your children for a relaxed and liberating gawp at strangers’ genitals
https://tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/the-family-sex-show/
Timeline and facts accurate. As a devoted Anglophile (as British was but no more), I can hardly take this in. It saddens and disgusts me in equal measure.
I couldn’t help but click the link. It looks like the live theater is in the UK.
“… silly performance about the painfully AWKWARD subject of sex, exploring names and functions, boundaries, consent, pleasure, queerness, sex, gender and relationships.”
Bring the kids they say.
Post-Christian culture, the husk of Christendom, has reduced this word to a pietism. Inside the bunker, the thinking of Christians has moved from what appeared to be a prior unambiguous certainty in matters concerning Christianity to a mindset in which Christ has become a kind of fairytale figure, a sentimental idea and a moral policeman. The increasing divergence between religious belief and sociological reality is lazily deemed to be a function of increasing ‘progress,’ with populations becoming more and more knowing and ‘intelligent.’ But modern-day scepticism is not really a product of the forward march of time, having much more to do with processes whereby the receiver of information in mass-media society is given a little knowledge about everything but never enough in-depth understanding to strengthen the framework by which to perceive how everything is inter-connected. Thus, the individual feels ‘informed,’ can endlessly regurgitate isolated pieces of knowledge, can even speak assuredly about scientific progress with a general sense that this is somehow debunking the ‘old’ understandings of the world. What we lack is the over-arching hypothesis that might enable us to integrate this information into a functional understanding of our own situation as mysterious beings held in the mysterious embrace of a total reality beyond our knowing.
https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/christ-haunted?s=r
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.
The Lord is my plated Kevlar vest.
Verse of the Day for Monday, April 11, 2022
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“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
Romans 8:35 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Amen and AMEN!!🙏
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
Amen
Mornin’ comrade infidels.
We are in a mess. Governor Abbott has folded up like Origami.
Abbott never had any intention of enforcing the border as long as his RINO masters in DC were against it. The opportunities that he has passed up that would have strengthened the border and citizen’s rights and safety are too numerous to list. He has never been a reliable committed conservative.
He is and always was an impostor.
IMHO.
Your opinion…and mine.
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Abbott’s masters aren’t in DC.
They are here in Texas. His masters are the corporate interests that run GOP politics in Texas. This includes the ranching, tech, finance and oil sectors. And it includes their enablers – big law firms in Austin, Dallas and Houston.
The same masters that promoted the careers of HW and GW Bush.
The Cartels are also his Masters. I have posted before that they are fond of the saying, “Plata y Plomo”= “Silver or Lead”..
It may seem that way but remember that those Texas “locals” (the Bushes) are merely the local subservient partners in the cabal being led by the Globalist Masters in DC, who themselves are working with the Globalist Cabal leaders in Europe in the WEF & Davos Group , the CCP paymasters, and of course the Global banks. It’s an informal chain of command that results in Abbot and every other globalist puppet doing exactly what the leaders allow, or command.
He’s a Bushie. All hot air…and the closer it gets to election time, the hotter it gets.
But a Governor Beto??? NO!!!!
Is that all that is available in a State of 30+ Million Citizens? If I was a resident I’d write you in, Betsy!
Morning, Treepers. I think I finally snapped into my “acceptance” phase of my Post Coup Stress Disorder. I guess the timing is different for everyone. I know most of my frustrations stem from the fact that I had to wait until the End Of The World to try to clean my act up. Better late than never. If my Sasquatch suit arrives today, I will be headed to Tallahassee to protest the Suncoast Parkway extension, that Governor DeSantis told the voters he wasn’t going to ram down our throats.
CR, I have read about the extension, but wasn’t aware of those details.
We are in MI and were thinking of buying (retiring) to Crystal river area, but that was last year before corrupt govt threatened everything (long story, many factors , inc. vax passports, high gas, retirement bennies).
I do recall realtors mentioning this extension in the description of their listings (as a positive thing).
Research the 3 proposed northern routes. Total bummer. They could’ve widened I-75, no problem. No one I know really wants to go to Orlando, Tampa or Miami for ANYTHING.
Ok, thank you. I was under the impression the route was finalized, so I’ll look into it just in case.
Maybe not too late to stop it. During his tenure gov. Good hair Perry tried to ram down our throats 281 North of San Antonio as a toll road. The people put their foot down and it didn’t happen. Regretfully Abbott turned out to be another GW and Rick Perry clone.
The Great American Songbook………………
Johnny Mercer (lyrics) teamed with Harold Arlen (music) and they wrote this classic. Another Best Song Academy nomination by Mercer, from the war time film “Here Comes The Waves”.
Everytime I hear this song it just makes me feel happy.
Jonah was in the whale because he did the opposite. Accentuate the negative. And ran away from the positive.
Really? SMH.
But since you went there.
When in the whale Jonah accentuated the positive, having optimism that god would answer his prayers.
That story is proof God loves ironic humor.
Oh, so you are upset that people will repent and avoid my wrath? Well, we’ll see how you think about repenting to avoid my wrath.
Repentance. It’s a wonderful thing.
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Dzien Dobry (good morning)
I don’t know if I can share this link, but here is a twin girl born inside her amniotic sack. A rare event, 1 in 80,000 and a happy story. Pictures included of the twins!
https://www.theepochtimes.com/magical-moment-shows-twin-girl-born-inside-amniotic-sac-in-1-in-80000-rare-case_4383138.html?est=NgILu7v6lKZrPUSOXBD8WLuJ4qCNC8ff5d1V8sM8D4rNwc%2FjHn%2BvMwEaLIBgXbEGZQHg&est=%5BEMAIL_SECURE_LINK%5D
How amazing! Didn’t they use to call this a “mermaid’s purse”?
Yes! A rare occurence, only 1 in 80,000 births, and amazing .
Although babies are born every day, it really is an awe inspiring event to see any birth.
It would happen on a frequent basis if OB providers did not choose to artificially rupture the membranes. That speeds up labor mostly by allowing the uterine muscle fibers to shorten and provide more powerful contractions. Also, the baby’s head usually becomes better applied to the cervix and serves as a stronger dilating wedge. The cervix opens up by being stretched.
https://www.theoriginalstork.com/amnihook-membrane-perforator
Dr. Ben Carson a week ago at Gateway Church in Dallas.
I needed this.
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That was then – this is now…
The leader who never was
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/the_leader_who_never_was.html
A war story every bit as good as one of rah’s stories
JAPANESE SHIPPING SUNK (IN THOUSANDS OF TONS)
SUNK BY …………………….total……..
1942..... 1943.....
1944……… 1945……….. % of totalSubmarines ………………5,880 ………..69% …….83%……. 69%……… 23%…………… 62%
Carrier A/C……………… 1,740 ………….11%………..2% ……..23%………. 28%………….. 18%
Land A/C……………………. 825…………. 9%……….. 11%……… 6%……….. 12%…………… 9%
Mines………………………… 600…………. 0%………… 0%……… 0%………. 28%……………. 6%
Misc………………………….. 450…………. 11%………… 3%……… 2%………… 8%…………….. 5%
Total ………………………9,495………… 875………. 2,175……. 4,330…….. 2,115
Notes: “Carrier A/C is primarily carrier based aircraft but also includes land based Navy planes
“Misc” includes, accidents at sea (storms, breakdowns, and so on) as well as losses to enemy surface ships.
Due to rounding, not all columns add up to 100%
My own note: The losses to mines greatly increased during 1945 because by this time the Japanese were running most of their merchant ships very close to shore or in the very shallow seas between Korea and Japan where access to submarines was very difficult. For this reason the US used B-29s to drop mines in the coastal waters and increased the number of missions where subs laid mines.
In Geologic time we live in the Holocene Epoch. That Epoch began about 11,700 year ago. Some wish to rename it as the Anthropocene Epoch because they are human centric and wish to define this period as the time when Man started to change the geology and climate of the earth. Never mind that mankind had been established on this earth 1,000s of years earlier.
About 10,000 years ago a great warming period, much warmer and more extended than what we are seeing today occurred. It has traditionally be known as the
“Holocene Climatic Optimum”.
New Study: Arctic Was Much Warmer 6000 Years Ago… 90% Of Glaciers, Ice Caps Smaller Than Present Or Absent! – Watts Up With That?
Multiple studies and surveys of the evidence have established this fact before the study above.
There have been multiple other warming periods since then. The two most prominent are came during Roman times and then during the Medieval times. During both of those warming periods mankind made advances.
There is forecast to be a shortage of foods and vegetable oil based on a lack of Soybeans, but look at who the USA is selling it to https://gro-intelligence.com/insights/usda-raises-soybean-exports-estimate-but-gro-predicts-demand-will-increase-further
East Idaho wx
woke to snow on the ground
turned to rain – thunder around
now snow again
4-7 inches possible overnight
good thing we don’t need to go out
😳 whoa ms Idaho, be careful walking. Hearing this, I’m a little sad I didn’t end up with this massive amount. I’ve got another snow day in next weeks forecast so I won’t ask for Betsy to turn the fan on this one. Don’t like the boomerang effect ❤️
Amen 🙏
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
I just read on Aaron Mate’s twitter account that the French are saying that the US is in charge of the ground operation. Also that Christopher peepee tape is blaming Trump. How can we be so stupid?