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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Good morning, WP💓 Thank you.🙏
On this day before Easter Sunday
…weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
There you are!!! For you!
Resurrexit sicut dixit! Alleluia! Alleluia! He is risen as He said! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Official Easter greeting in Latin.
Happy Easter!
I wanted to get this to you before it got lost in tomorrow’s posts!
❤️
Thank you, dear Leenie. It’s beautiful and joyous. Bless your heart in the nicest meaning. 😘
It will, this year, have a special, deeper impact on many I think. I sincerely pray so…All blessings for very happy Easter, my friend.
Theeeerrreeessss Leenie !
Thanks for “hunting” me down to give your personal Easter messege.
Very much appreciated and of course my best regards to you and yours.
Big hug, no bite 😁 !
So Formal, Mungrel!!! I hope no bite!!!
I make Easter exceptions 😛 !
❤️
May a joyous Easter be yours, Mungrel🙏…with great affection as always. B💓
“Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful…” 🤣
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Good morning Betsy Jones,
I was watching a series narrated by Penelope Keith called Hidden Villages.
She was in Wales at a village called Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
Very unusual and hard to pronounce.
Anyway, I thought of you as you have said you lived in Wales for many years.
Oh how lovely, scepticalcooper! It is an unusual name and the longest in Wales, a real tongue twister I could never manage.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwilllantysilliogogogoch
PHEW!
I loved Penelope Keith. She and the late lamented Peter Bowles starred in a comedy called To the Manor Born. Dated now but still very funny.
Thank you for your nice heads up. I had forgotten she had hosted that programme. I’m pretty sure I can find it on Britbox or Acorn, so I’ll see if I can find it. It would be a treat to revisit those gorgeous and interesting places which I haven’t seen in years. All blessing to you on this Easter weekend🙏💓
Holy blessings to you as well.
And to you, sir!🙏 Thank you!
To the Manor Born used to be one of our favorite shows…..I’m a big Penelope Keith fan! They aired it on our local PBS station…around the same time they used to run Monty Python. Miss them both…..
Wow, ” To the Manor Born” was absolutely my Granny’s favorite show !
Happy Easter to you.
So funny!! I can almost near Granny laughing💓
We loved it as well, Ad rem. I need to look, but I know the show Hidden Villages is on Britbox…and there’s a little niggle that says To the Manor Born is also either there or on Acorn, both of which we subscribe to for streaming for practically pennies per month. Love British comedy, especially the genteel ones. Something, regretfully, we have here no longer.
I am wishing for you and all you love a joyous Easter, and all the blessings which it brings. B.🙏
Heard from Frank?
Alas not, Leenie, though I was thinking of him very strongly tonight. I do offer my prayers always for absent friends…and he truly amongst them.
Good morning, Betsy! I’m dragging a bit this A.M. When our granddaughter spends the night I have to get her up a couple of times. First time was at 12:30 and she didn’t want to have anything to do with it, the second time was at 3:45. She goes right back to sleep, myself – not so much. 🙂
Then right before 6 got a call from mom that stepdad had fallen beside the bed so went to pick him up. My hunch is that his kidney values are going up and he has a hard time processing the sleeping meds and that keeps him very drowsy. We will try a hospital bed first and backing off the sleeping meds.
‘Glad I squeezed in a couple of workouts this week. He is 180 lbs dead weight. 🏋️♀️
Morning, G💓 and 🙏🙏🙏!!!
As is said (by whom I don’t remember) “troubles never come in single spies but in battalions”… and ain’t the truth? I always think night time is the worst for visitors like this. I’m like you if I awaken for whatever reason. There is no such thing as falling right back to sleep. But how blessed is your precious granddaughter that her Grampa is there to do what is necessary and with the devotion you have for her? Very, I’d say.
It sounds as if your stepdad’s sleeping meds might be causing confusion when he wakes up, trying to get his bearings. Finding just that right combination is a trial and error sort of thing, isn’t it? As for dead weight, I get that. My hubby is that weight, and if he rolls into my ” space” at night and I try to roll him back…oh my gosh!!! It’s then I think if I needed to be a carer by myself, I’d be in big trouble. So would he! I was going to say keep up those workouts. Although getting him back to where he should be is a workout in itself. Oh, and watch out for your back!! Ill be offering my prayers as always for you and your family, though I’m sure Almighty God knows what is needed and will provide. B😘🙏
For Betsy and Grampa . . . When my wife was in the hospital in November they gave me a special “lift belt” that is designed to assist in lifting people who’ve fallen. It fits around the waist and provides a better lifting arrangement that the usual under-the-arms lift which can seriously strain your back (ask me how I know). 🙂
Good afternoon, Garrison💓 Oh that was smart and forward thinking! I don’t have to ask…pretty sure I know, bless you both🙏😘
Thanks Garrison, I may have to get one of those.
Thanks, Betsy, I’ll take all the prayers that I can get. Yesterday after we picked up Violet on the drive home she was telling us she needed a break from her family, and listed 11 reasons, most of them having to do with her almost 10 yo brother. LOL!
Hahaha!!! The things they say!! While not completely appropriate for her situation, I thought of this…
To err is human. To blame it on someone else shows management potential.
You may have discovered her calling!! That girl is going places, Lord love her💓!!
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I laughed as well, Cat…and of course saved it. Blessings, girl💓
Evening grandpa ❤️
Violet sounds like one of my girls. Back in the day, got her a paper route when she was ten to teach her about life. Few weeks later, she had hustled all the boys in neighborhood to deliver them for her. On collection day, she paid each 25cents and a gummy worm for their week’s work. Betsy’s management saying below really strikes home.
She’ll be keeping you on your toes for quite a while. 🥰
My gosh, Cat!!! She really got it together! 😂😂😂
There you are!!!
Resurrexit sicut dixit! Alleluia! Alleluia! He is risen as He said! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Official Easter greeting in Latin.
Happy Easter!
Hallelujah! He is Risen indeed, Leenie!
Happy Resurrection Day!
Goodaye Pop, and a very goodly Easter wish to your mob.
I’ve been reading about your dilemmas and admire your forthright spirit .
I left a couple of posts that you missed and wanted you to know that I’m not ignoring yourself or your plight.
Because of the time thingy sometimes it’s like playing that kids game”Where Wally” around here 😜 !
Midday Sunday here, perfect weather, and a good day for reflection.
Cheers ✝
Mungrel, I forgot the time difference today. Glad I had a chance to get back here and I’m hoping you might see this. Wanted to wish you a very special blessed Easter 🐣 (your barker egg hatched) and to say how grateful I am for knowing you ❤️ I’m not a real religious feral, but you’re always in my nightly prayers. May our Lord always protect andkeep you safe from harm. And give you a restful slumber nightly. 😘
🤫 mungrel, think someone posted your pic. Which one is you?
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“Hold on! I’m comin’ to save ya !
Don’t know if Gabby would go for the eggs. Never tried. But I suspect she wouldn’t. Being a rescue, on would think that her dietary habits may be more expansive than a cat that was never really hungry, but Gabby is really quite picky. She would go for the ham though, if that is the meat shown, but it would have to be smaller pieces.
But if she can see the bottom of her food bowl, she will let you know about it and won’t stop until you do something about it, even if all you do is shake the bowl so the hole she ate down through the food covers the bottom of the bowl. That behavior is what makes me think that at one time or another she was really hungry.
Gabby probably got picky when homeless because she got into some food that was toxic. I feed the crows in my neighborhood and they really told me about it when I gave them some old sourdough bread. The whole congregation got together in a tree next door and caterwauled for about an hour.
Well, my feeders are still up. The double shepherds hook with seed blocks in cages hanging on it is about 4′ from my dining room window. Between it and the house is a lilac bush. We have lilac bushes all around the front (west) and north side of our house. I trim them every spring after they bloom.
The sparrows hide in those bushes but this morning while having coffee with my wife at the dining room table as red tailed hawks swooped in and grabbed one of those sparrows from the lilac bush between the house and the shepherds hook.
Where you get picture of “Rufus” ?
He no like bumnuts !
Tabby Tom Mungrel outside rat hunter, likes possum, rabbit, snake and live of land, Mungrel no feed, he just like scratch pat !
What do you other bird lovers think? Take down the feeders or not?
There’s an ‘Unprecedented’ Bird Flu Outbreak—Here’s What Scientists Want You to Do (msn.com)
Tie the seed to the dropped branches so they’ll have a balanced diet and you get some lawn help! 😂
Good Morning Rah! Please pardon my interruption. I thought of you when I listened to this!!
Last time out this is what I was listening to when not listening to an audio book. Helped keep me awake in the wee hours on I-72 on the way home.
Moving in Stereo – YouTube Music
Little white pills, instead of lines is the original line!
Grew up with to original song, o’l man drove all his life and yes they all took the “little white pills”, methadrene mainly, not in the heavy doses of the kamakazi pilots though .
Keep on truckin 😳 !
Joke emoji thingy 😁 !
Safer to pull nose hairs and chew a 325 mg aspirin dry. Try to sleep with that taste in your mouth. 😉
They changed coca cola in 1933 and took the cocaine out of it.
Changed the formula again early seventys because if you add a BEX to a coke it simulates the original cocaine experience.
Disprin were in Bex, but stronger aspirin is all it is.
Patent expired just like invectim ( wrong spell) !
Nose hairs are for chewing 😛😁😂 !
Son, I wish a new that. Could’ve tried it last night. Chewing the nose hairs, I mean…😜😂
Coffee is the only stimulant this truck driver uses. No 5 hour energy or any energy drinks or anything else. All I keep in the truck taken internally are vitamins, aspirin, Imodium, and Tums.
Hope you don’t think I was implying anything other in my post because I wasn’t.
That said, Happy Easter and safe rolling ☺
😜 👍 😎
There you are!!!!
Resurrexit sicut dixit! Alleluia! Alleluia! He is risen as He said! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Official Easter greeting in Latin.
Happy Easter!
Wanted to get this to you before I can’t find you tomorrow! ❤️
Thank you Leenie. Kinda late checking in. Don’t think you’ll see this. May our lord bless you both and keep you safe. Tomorrow will be a most joyous day!
Happy Easter 🐣
I saw it! ❤️ You have been a blessing to me. I pray God bestows those blessings on you and your family.
I’m keeping the feeders up , Po lil birdies need some seeds. 🙂
Good morning, jay💓 A man after my own heart.
Morning Betsy , Blessings upon your house. 🙂
Thank you, dear jay.🤗
See if the local news has any reports to this where they link to the local agriculture agency, and see what the local agencies are seeing in the area.
I’d take my chance and do exactly the opposite from what the “scientists” are advising. Our birds love their seed.
My bet is, rah, there isn’t such an outbreak. They’re testing with the debunked PCR test. What does that tell you. I suspect this is all a part of the manipulation and fraud perpetrated by cultists, embedded as they are. Get rid of meat of all kinds. And yes…that’s how sceptical I am. My feeders are staying in up 24/7, 7 days/week, 52 weeks/year.
I have spoken!!
👍 Very astute, Betsy. I replied to Rah with roughly the same thoughts before I scrolled down and saw yours.
Yes sir… I smell a big fat rat! As for your thoughts…two great minds😉👍
Brain sped read…..I smell a big fart 😂
Ha!! I do that sometimes…in fact, when I re-read before posting, I thought I’d actually typed that as well. So there you are…
So now I’m seeing on Liberty Daily “bird flu” has “spread” to 27 states….don’t believe it, but this is, I believe, the try try again strategy after the last panic. And I’ll just bet, miracle of miracles, a new “vaccine” is either on the drawing board or already in production.
Here’s the “tell”…
“The announcement comes as farms across the country have been grappling with the virus for months. More than 24 million poultry animals have been killed in the last two months across at least 24 states, and outbreaks are reported nearly every day, according to The Associated Press. The AP reported that some farms have killed more than 5 million birds. ”
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-flu-2022-cormorant-tested-200-birds-die-illinois-cook-county-forest-preserve/
I call that a “tell” because it’s an AP report repeated by CBS. Both news orgs are proven to be (and have been) willful liars about covid, the (vaxx) quackcines, HCQ, Ivermectin, and the Pandemic itself. No reason to think they’ve suddenly turned honest….
So when are the health experts” going to announce the (probably deliberately introduced) bird flu is a human health threat? I’m expecting that.
I can’t link, GB, but the other day I read an excellent article on the Lee Rockwell site…
I accidentally hit post…finishing my response to you…
Telegraphing Mass Death From “Bird Flu”: Is it Only a Way to Hide the Impending Deaths Due to the “Covid” Bio-Weapon Injection?
This is an outstanding article written by Gary D Barnett. Extremely interesting and makes perfect sense to me…
On Lew Rockwell.com
If you are so inclined, see what you think. Something is definitely in the works…don’t know what…but something unsavoury and unpleasant…for us, that is.
Short but Excellent article Betsy.
Here’s the pull quote:
“ This is a long-term plot to fool the public into believing and expecting that a future pandemic of epoch proportions is imminent. The very idea that ‘natural’ pandemics are inevitable has long been planned and embedded in the minds of the people.
This is a multi-decade brainwashing of the common people in order to prepare them for not only mass sickness and death, but also for acceptance of a global governing body with unlimited power.”
Bingo. This is 100% pure evil plotting of mass murder to accomplish their globalist political gains.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/04/gary-d-barnett/telegraphing-mass-death-from-bird-flu-is-it-only-a-way-to-hide-the-impending-deaths-due-to-the-covid-bio-weapon-injection/P
Thank you!!! I’m so glad you posted that link, GB.
And yes…I agree. If I had to choose one section to highlight as the meat of the whole thing, that would be the one. It is, in the end, manipulation on a grand scale. I believe in the globalist’ wildest dreams the success of their criminal and genocidal evil surprised even them. But that was only the start, the softening up for more assaults.
I like Rockwell’s site. He’s choosy about what he posts. And I see articles there I see nowhere else. Where as I used to visit it only sporadically, now I search it daily…and am never disappointed. I leave it more informed than before I accessed it.
So glad you found it worth reading…
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It’s pure propaganda designed to justify destroying millions of chickens to eliminate yet more of our food supply.
Ice Age Farmer has been all over this in his last few reports.
IMHO – Feed the birds. They didn’t vote for any of this evil.
I was unfamiliar with the brand Tuscan milk. So with that small reference in mind, I found this delightful poetic concoction on American Digest the other day…
“From the window came a stirring, then, with an incessant purring,
Inside stepped a kitten; mannerlessly did she me ignore .
Not the least obeisance made she; not a minute stopped or stayed did she;
But, with mien of lord or lady, withdrew to my dining floor –
Pounced upon the pool of Tuscan spreading o’er my dining floor –
Licked, and lapped, and supped some more.
Then this tiny cat beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grand enthusiasm of the countenance she wore,
Toward the mess she showed no pity, ’til I said, ” Well, hello kitty!”
Sought she me with pretty eyes that seemed to open some rapport.
So I pleaded, “Tell me, tell me what it is that you implore!”
Quote the kitty, “Get some more.”
~~Gerard Vanderleun~~
Here’s a little Texas swing music . . .
One more . . .
A bit of two stepping round the house and now it’s sack time. 🙂
I could listen to them any time. All three are great improvisational musicians even inside a standard score…..
Elana really has her fiddle singing… while Whit yields no ground on his buttery-smooth guitar.
Meanwhile Jake gives us both the percussion AND the bass with his energetic artistry.
🙂
There you are! I knew where to find you!!!!
Resurrexit sicut dixit! Alleluia! Alleluia! He is risen as He said! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Official Easter greeting in Latin.
Happy Easter! ❤️
Wanted to get this in before tomorrow!
Morning Ya’ll , 🙂
Definitely like this! 🙂
They’re scheduled to be in my neck of the woods in August , thinking I’ll be there. 😉
Happy Caterday, Treepers . . .
Happy Caterday, Garrison. Who can resist these!
🙂
So in Holy Week, the now sullied and disreputable NYT has an op ed entitled “Let’s Get Rid of God” (!!!)
This has always been the full purpose of what is taking place across the world.
Wasn’t this tried in the 60s? Some people never learn.
The avowed communist/atheist (and con artist / criminal) Madalyn Murray O’Hair is often connected to the SCOTUS decision in 1962 single-handedly was able to get prayer abolished in public schools. However the SCOTUS decision which prohibited the state from sponsoring specific prayers in public schools was Engel v. Vitale, decided in 1962 by an 8-1 vote. The plaintiffs who challenged the laws establishing such prayers were a mixture of believers and nonbelievers in New Hyde Park, New York, and O’Hair was not among them.
I’d forgotten about that odious creature, GB. And she was, too.
I believe I’m not mistaken about this, but the high school football coach who was fired for praying by himself in the middle of his school’s field, and whose lawsuit has proceeded up the interminable chain of courts, will have his case heard by the SC this session. That will be a monumental one.
I wish I could say that I am confident about the outcome, but given the makeup of (I’ll say) that worthless and neutered court (proven beyond doubt for me), I’m adopting a wait and see attitude. There is no question that our country started disintegrating when we dismissed Almighty God from the “public square”. Perhaps with an honest constitutional decision on his case, God will allow us to crawl from the oblivion we’ve brought on ourselves. I pray so. It will take His mercy and grace to reverse our current debauched state.
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Yes, to the nth power.
If I could plagiarize your words above without guilt, I would. But in your post, you have stated my observations so accurately that I can only underscore them for others to take note.
Feel free!!! Any time, my friend🤗
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Here’s another Trout and Coffee narrative video. This is an on-going love story about Kyle and Allie’s adventures in New England. Enjoy . . .
JESUS, I WILL PONDER NOW
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. The Word became flesh, and lived among us.
We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”
From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
— John 1:10-18, WEB
1 Jesus, I will ponder now on Your holy passion;
With Your Spirit me endow for such meditation.
Grant that I in love and faith may the image cherish
Of Your suf’fering, pain, and death that I may not perish.
2. Make me see Your great distress, anguish, and affliction,
Bonds and stripes and wretchedness and Your crucifixion;
Make me see how scourge and rod, spear and nails did wound You,
How for them You died, O God, who with thorns had crowned You.
3. Yet, O Lord, not thus alone make me see Your passion,
But its cause to me make known and its termination.
Ah! I also and my sin wrought Your deep affliction;
This indeed the cause has been of Your crucifixion.
4. Grant that I Your passion view with repentant grieving.
Let me not bring shame to You by unholy living.
How could I refuse to shun every sinful pleasure
Since for me God’s only Son suffered without measure?
5. If my sins give me alarm and my conscience grieve me,
Let Your cross my fear disarm; peace of conscience give me.
Help me see forgiveness won by Your holy passion.
If for me He slays His Son, God must have compassiion!
6. Graciously my faith renew; help me bear my crosses,
Learning humbleness from You, Peace mid pain and losses.
May I give You love for love! Hear me O my Savior,
That I may in heaven above sing Your praise forever.
🥰 good Morning 1530!!!!
Thanks again!!!!
Now I have today’s sunset reflection. 💋
Good morning, Cat💓.
Bore da Betsy!
Swhmae?
❤️
Diod swigod diolch Cariad👍🤗
16 April 1964
“Everybody Loves Somebody” by Dean Martin was recorded at United Recording in Hollywood. The song was written in 1947 by Sam Coslow, Irving Taylor and pianist Ken Lane. Released as a single in June of 1964 on Reprise Records, it went on to hit #1 in August of that year, knocking The Beatles single “A Hard Day’s Night” out of the top position. It ultimately replaced “That’s Amore” as Martin’s signature song.
16 April 1977
While riding high on the success of his hit TV show Starsky and Hutch, David Soul reached Billboard’s top spot with “Don’t Give Up On Us”.
One more please….
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie 🎶
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My dad would never miss Dean Martin’s Thursday night show. Ever! Funny the little things one remembers…Thursday night…
Thanks so very much for the dose of Dean this morning, rebel.
He is my all-time favorite.
What a voice!, such fun he was, and certainly a strikingly handsome man.
I watched his variety show each week when I was growing up, and my dad had several of his LPS. They were often playing on the turntable of our stereo.
“Kyrie Eleison” is Greek for “Lord, have mercy”.
Kyrie Eleison on my path…
Kyrie Eleison when I mess up as a Mom…
Kyrie Eleison when I mess up as a friend, a person, a sister, a daughter…
Kyrie Eleison,”Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on , a sinner…”
I like what you said a lot! ❤️
Thanks Leenie for the share 😘
I love that!!
I really love that!
I am an Israeli friend and a Trump supporter. I like to post here some things that are not published in the US media and also very special people which inspire. The following is a very special person who is a Reserves Colonel in Israeli army from Special Forces background, his name is Sharon Gat. He led about 20,000 soldiers in four wars and opened the largest training center for Counter terror for Police and SWAT and visitors from around the world and got a major award from the President for his contribution. He opened a center also in San Diego and I think the following video has some inspirational and educational value he also has a message for Americans closer to the end. Enjoy :
Thank you, David. Before I started commenting here I would always read your informative posts. I am so glad to see you again, and thank you for choosing this place to give your reports. God bless you.
Thank you! It means a lot to me !
You at so very welcome, sir.🙏
And I do love your avatar. Very powerful💓
David, it’s good to see a post from you again!
Thank you for sharing that video.
Good to be here again! Thank you!
Shalom David, good to see you here again!
“This ain’t over yet”
Ways Musk can get around the Twitter “poison pill”.
Musk Speaking To Co-Investors As Twitter Board Adopts “Poison Pill” To Thwart Hostile Takeover | ZeroHedge
April 16 Oswald Chambers
Can You Come Down From the Mountain?
While you have the light, believe in the light… —John 12:36
We all have moments when we feel better than ever before, and we say, “I feel fit for anything; if only I could always be like this!” We are not meant to be. Those moments are moments of insight which we have to live up to even when we do not feel like it. Many of us are no good for the everyday world when we are not on the mountaintop. Yet we must bring our everyday life up to the standard revealed to us on the mountaintop when we were there.
Never allow a feeling that was awakened in you on the mountaintop to evaporate. Don’t place yourself on the shelf by thinking, “How great to be in such a wonderful state of mind!” Act immediately— do something, even if your only reason to act is that you would rather not. If, during a prayer meeting, God shows you something to do, don’t say, “I’ll do it”— just do it! Pick yourself up by the back of the neck and shake off your fleshly laziness. Laziness can always be seen in our cravings for a mountaintop experience; all we talk about is our planning for our time on the mountain. We must learn to live in the ordinary “gray” day according to what we saw on the mountain.
Don’t give up because you have been blocked and confused once— go after it again. Burn your bridges behind you, and stand committed to God by an act of your own will. Never change your decisions, but be sure to make your decisions in the light of what you saw and learned on the mountain.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are not fundamentally free; external circumstances are not in our hands, they are in God’s hands, the one thing in which we are free is in our personal relationship to God. We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us, or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
Good Morning treepers!!!!!
After my religious reflections this morning, this tune popped in my head. Funny, how regular songs can have a religious connotation to oneself when you want them to. ❤️
😘 !
Awwww….nose to nose rub, stroke head, Pat ear…mew😘
Goodaye mungrel! 💋
. . . 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)
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.
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)
Sixth Saturday of Great Lent
Saint Lazarus Saturday
Orthodox Christian Church
“On this day, the Saturday before Palm Sunday, we celebrate the Raising of Lazarus, the holy and righteous friend of Christ, who lay for four days in the tomb.”
From the Synaxaria of the Triodion
by Nikiphoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (+ ca. 1335)
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.
Verse of the Day for Saturday, April 16, 2022
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“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good…”
Luke 6:45 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
Mornin’ comrade infidels.
Sad…so sad…and so relevant for so many seniors.
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Dzien Dobry (good morning)
Sundance posted about the cost of serving an expanding blog a few days ago. As I understood his post, the need to serve a really large group of users demanded a ridiculous number of servers to post to all users simultaneously. Who says they must be answered simultaneously? If there are bots in the user group executing big dollar trades, let them pay for the first to know benefit. For the bulk of users who choose to read and weigh the wandering thoughts a few milliseconds, or even seconds, delay doesn’t matter. And then there is the importance of upvotes and edits.
Thank you Sundance for the treehouse and your tireless quest for truth and honesty.
May God bless all who rest on these branches.
God bless sundance and our refuge.
Great American Songbook……………..
“Fly Me to the Moon” (originally titled ”In Other Words”) was introduced in 1954 by the cabaret singer Felicia Sanders at the chic New York Nightclub The Blue Angel. Words and music by Bart Howard who wrote this classic in 20 minutes. It became a hit after Peggy Lee sang it on the Ed Sullivan show in 1960.
In this Sinatra cover, that’s Quincy Jones conducting……
Gabs offer to Musk:
This morning Elon Musk sent Twitter’s Board an offer to buy the entire company for $40B+. As I wrote last week, anything that explicitly has the aim of bringing more free speech to the internet for more people is a good thing.
Twitter has legacy problems that Gab doesn’t. They are fully dependent on third-party infrastructure. We are not. We “built our own,” everything. Hosting, email services, analytics tools, ecommerce, payment processing, all of it. We built it all.
You also have to consider that bringing free speech to Twitter isn’t as simple as buying it. Apple and Google do not allow free speech, so if you stop the censorship they will kick Twitter from both app stores. We already solved that problem and overcame it.
Twitter operates in countries where mass censorship is required by law. They have offices in these countries. They have no choice but to comply with the censorship demands of those countries or risk being shut down, fines, etc.
We understand this very well and have dealt with it, telling those countries to get lost.
Then there is the problem of Twitter’s community itself. It skews massively left and thus anti-free speech. If you allow free speech on Twitter again, those people are absolutely going to leave because their fragile worldview can’t handle the reality that free speech brings.
Another problem Twitter has that we don’t: total dependency on ad dollars. Gab’s business model is not 100% dependent on advertising. We have several other revenue streams including GabPRO, the Gab Shop, and GabPay our payment processor.
As a good friend pointed out rightfully to me this morning: “I highly doubt they will accept his offer. They would rather shares go to zero than hand over narrative control. If they do accept they will sabotage internally and to whatever degree he makes good changes Twitter will get the Gab treatment from the globohomo.”
In light of these truths, I’d like to offer Elon a counter offer to his very expensive and overpriced Twitter deal.
Elon,
I founded Gab in 2016 because I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning constitutional federal republic.
However, since founding Gab I realized that in order to provide a free speech platform you must also have free speech internet infrastructure. Gab has since transformed from merely a social network into a free speech internet infrastructure company. We built our own servers, our own email services, our own payment processor, and so much more not because we wanted to, but because we had no choice if we were going to continue to exist.
What we are missing at the moment is an ISP. I fear that the next big leap of censorship is at the ISP level, with ISP’s blocking access to Gab.com. You solve that problem with Starlink. Together we can build infrastructure for a free speech internet.
I am willing to offer you a Board seat along with equity in the company in exchange for you selling your Twitter position and investing $2B into Gab. My offer is my best and final offer.
Gab has extraordinary potential. Let’s unlock it together.
Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab.com
Jesus Christ is King
isn’t twitter aa creature of multiple governments? reading about riots in last year of commie Wilson administration. rah, do you, or anybody, know why wison got us into WW|I???
Wilson, an academic, had a great desire to affect the course of history and world governments. It was Wilson after all that proposed the League of Nations and was the driving force behind its creation. Our natural inclination is to side with Britian because of our Anglo heritage was also a factor.
Though the sinking of the Lusitania is the superficial factor that many histories point to there were other factors, including economic ones. But really IMO the straw that broke the camels back fro Wilson and his cabinet was the Zimmerman Telegraph. Mexico Almost Invaded the U.S. in 1917 | The National Interest
wilson was less popular than brandon. believed he was God ‘s anointed. the US first communist potus. Harding came in with sec’y treasury Mellon and got us going again. US communists have always hated Harding and rank him last among presidents. wilson, fdr, lbj should be ranked last if honest mattered anymore.
Interesting offer, but saying “best and final” in the opening offer immediately closes off any negotiating potential. It is an arrogant position which conveys negative potential for a good future working relationships.
I would be surprised if Elon takes h8m up on the offer as-is, if at all.
Musk said the same!
Thanks Rah, I have not yet seen Musk’s response. I will have to go searching …
Mornin’ Treepers
Glory to God
Solomon’s article at American Thinker:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/americas_failed_values_are_the_greatest_threat_to_her_survival.html
Even if you don’t see this, BIG HUG for posting what Solomon wrote!!!!!!!!!
This truly is a special gift, to read his thoughts again put a big big smile on my face.
Thank you girl! Have a wonderful blessed Easter Lonestar!! Love you ❤️
Ps….and Solomon, your article took the unspoken words right out of my head. Miss and love you!!!!! 💋
Oh THANK YOU, LS!!! He’s not wrong.
Well it’s April 16th and we have a hard freeze warning for tonight at my central Indiana home. Global warming my ass!
same day here on the Oregon coast. Hail storm like I never saw. Hail deep on gravel road. we are used to showers but hail like this is crazy shit. where is all that vaunted golbal warming???
mushroom omelette brunch. too wet to mow
That’s why they changed it to Climate Change. Now they can even say freezing your ___ is because man is changing the climate.
Sunrise…. Climate Change,
Sunset…. Climate Change,
Sunrise…. Climate Change,
Sunset…. Climate Change,
Swiftly…. Climate Change,
Flow the years…. of Climate Change,
To me it’s just weather.
But whatever their doing, it is definitely not science.
No matter what they called it, they predicted long ago that we would not be having this kind of cold any longer. They can say it’s “just weather” but the point is it is exactly the opposite weather of what they predicted.
In 2003 the UN IPCC issued a “grim forecast” for winter sports because of warming and lack of snow. Since then resorts in the Rockies have had some great years and they are once again doing great again this year!
UN Winter Sports Forecast | Real Climate Science
The Arctic still is not even close to “ice free”.
Winter before last Antarctica had it’s coldest 6 months since records began in 1957.
Most of the glaciers in Greenland are growing, not shrinking.
Children in southern England do know what snow is first hand.
The West side Hwy in NYC is still way above water.
I could go on and on and on about the BS claims they have made that have been proven totally false!
Don’t watch many new movies anymore. But this one I will:
Mark Wahlberg Breaks Ranks with A-List Hollywood (Big Time) | Newsbusters
Emerald Robinson’s Easter Greeting
Amen. My Episcopal Church went communist in 1990. Haven’t gone since.
I grew up and was baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal Church, merrie. I wish so much I could disagree with you, but, alas, I cannot. It is one of the greatest losses on my life. My beloved rector and family friend, long gone, I miss terribly. I know what he’d think.
John 4:19-24 “The woman says to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
Here is an example of how the Lord answers all those who might seem to be religious, or even Christian believers; but are actually in idolatry, and trusting in icons and relics and traditions of men, in symbolisms and methodologies and superstitions passed down through whole countries and cultures; but have nothing to do with the Word of God and Jesus Christ our Lord and the commandments of God, for the rule of their spirits and foundation of their faith.
Even though the knowledge has been universally accessible to any who cared to look for it, yet is the Broadway full of willfully ignorant and disobedient, who still think they are saved Christians, even though they continue in things that are absolutely and irrefutably pagan and Antichrist! Just for example: Where did all the so-called Christian Symbolisms, Rites and Ceremonies come from? • Idol Processions • Relic Worship • The Clothing and Crowning of Images • The Rosary and the Worship of the Sacred Heart • Lamps and Wax-Candles • The Sign of the Cross? Where did all the so-called Christian holidays come from: • Christmas and Lady-day • Easter • The Nativity of St. John • The Feast of the Assumption? From the Bible; or from the pagan, and from Babylon?
Here is some facts that every Christian should know about the upcoming “holiday” tomorrow; that it is NOT CHRISTIAN in the least, but thoroughly pagan, and its origins of the filthiest Antichrist idolatry.
From Alexander Hislop’s “The Two Babylons” I have clipped a few excerpts to give a brief summary of the facts; which most Christians have either never learned, or have deliberately ignored; but are in fact a deadly wounding and defiling of the weak consciences of many, which will only end in everlasting ruin and loss of their souls who observe and keep them.
from: Chapter III – Section III – Easter
“What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. . .’ (extensive explanation about the origins of Baal (Moloch) and Astarte worship in ancient Britain, with the evidence of its traces remaining to this day) . . .’If Baal was thus worshiped in Britain, it will not be difficult to believe that his consort Astarte was also adored by our ancestors, and that from Astarte, whose name in Nineveh was Ishtar, the religious solemnities of April, as now practiced, are called by the name of Easter–that month, among our Pagan ancestors, having been called Easter-monath.
The festival, of which we read in Church history, under the name of Easter, in the third or fourth centuries, was quite a different festival from that now observed in the Romish Church, and at that time was not known by any such name as Easter. It was called Pasach, or the Passover, and though not of Apostolic institution, * was very early observed by many professing Christians, in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Christ.
* Socrates, the ancient ecclesiastical historian, after a lengthened account of the different ways in which Easter was observed in different countries in his time–i.e., the fifth century–sums up in these words: “Thus much already laid down may seem a sufficient treatise to prove that the celebration of the feast of Easter began everywhere more of custom than by any commandment either of Christ or any Apostle.” (Hist. Ecclesiast.) Every one knows that the name “Easter,” used in our translation of Acts 12:4, refers not to any Christian festival, but to the Jewish Passover. This is one of the few places in our version where the translators show an undue bias.
That festival agreed originally with the time of the Jewish Passover, when Christ was crucified, a period which, in the days of Tertullian, at the end of the second century, was believed to have been the 23rd of March. That festival was not idolatrous, and it was preceded by no Lent. Lent of forty days, “in the spring of the year,” is still observed by the Yezidis or Pagan Devil-worshipers of Koordistan, who have inherited it from their early masters, the Babylonians. Such a Lent of forty days was held in spring by the Pagan Mexicans, for thus we read in Humboldt, where he gives account of Mexican observances: “Three days after the vernal equinox…began a solemn fast of forty days in honour of the sun.” . . . To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skillful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity–now far sunk in idolatry–in this as in so many other things, to shake hands. The instrument in accomplishing this amalgamation was the abbot Dionysius the Little, to whom also we owe it, as modern chronologers have demonstrated, that the date of the Christian era, or of the birth of Christ Himself, was moved FOUR YEARS from the true time. Whether this was done through ignorance or design may be matter of question; but there seems to be no doubt of the fact, that the birth of the Lord Jesus was made full four years later than the truth. This change of the calendar in regard to Easter was attended with momentous consequences. It brought into the Church the grossest corruption and the rankest superstition in connection with the abstinence of Lent. Let any one only read the atrocities that were commemorated during the “sacred fast” or Pagan Lent, as described by Arnobius and Clemens Alexandrinus, and surely he must blush for the Christianity of those who, with the full knowledge of all these abominations, “went down to Egypt for help” to stir up the languid devotion of the degenerate Church, and who could find no more excellent way to “revive” it, than by borrowing from so polluted a source; the absurdities and abominations connected with which the early Christian writers had held up to scorn. That Christians should ever think of introducing the Pagan abstinence of Lent was a sign of evil; it showed how low they had sunk, and it was also a cause of evil; it inevitably led to deeper degradation.”
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2 Peter 1:5-11 “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”
Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) meeting here today. Such lovely men all with proven descent. Prayers before business. They are impressive. They also are big eaters.
😁….good men always have big appetites, I’ve found.
Amen
Amen 🙏
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
And when I wake dear Lord I pray
Bless and guide me through the day.
Amen.
Amen.
The night is still, the stars and moon are bright, sitting on porch listening to the night sounds and
Perhaps another night bird might enjoy. If not, no harm, no foul. ❤️