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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Geisha the dog lovesem. Gabby the cat, turns her nose up at them.
My dog Charly likes pineapple of all things!
Cute but use caution with your feline. It cost us over $1500 some time ago when our orange tabby JoJo who loved fruit all his life and turned his nose up at fish or seafood… suffered a reaction to it.
Strawberry pie is on deck for one of our family members birthdays. I sure do miss when they were $5 at Shoneys.
Bad kitty.
🙂 🙂 🙂
Morning, jay💓
Blessings upon your house Betsy. 😉
Thank you, sir. And may they be on yours as well.🤗
Good morning, my friend💖
Hi’ya, Betsy 🙂
🤗!!
Muddy Waters Jr. is a friend of my husband. He sends us a Christmas email every year and is a wonderful person.
Oh how lovely!! Now that friendship IS something to treasure.
How far do you have to travel down that road, before you see where it leads?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HVOdnajzQ7vt/
It all goes back in the box. Players come, players go.
Good morning, griever. In 100 years? All new people.
20 May 2012 Robin Hugh Gibb (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, who gained worldwide fame as a member of the Bee Gees pop group with older brother Barry and fraternal twin brother Maurice. On 20 May 2012, Gibb died at the age of 62 from liver and kidney failure brought on by colorectal cancer.
Too Much Heaven
Good Morning magic!
Good morning, Cat.💖
I do pray you have a much smoother day today. 😘
I love getting this spot!!!! I get a twofer completed!!!
Hi Betsy and Grandpa!!!
You all better have fun things planned this weekend. I plan to work on getting grounded and reinvented. And in case my music is too loud, what? I can’t hear you. 😂
Warning: contains profanity
Hi Leenie 🙋♀️
Hi Cat! Tomorrow we have a birthday party for Violet’s brother, his 10th. At a trampoline place ❤️😄.
Hi, G!!💖 Those places are heaven sent. Ours when they were younger always had theirs in trampoline places. Works off a lot of energy. I hope they have a blast!!!!🎉
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Afternoon, Cat!! 🙂
😊
Good evening FC.
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Class…class..class…PAY ATTENTION!!!!!! Thank you. 😝
Good Morning home! ❤️
Ha, good morning to you Ms. Cat. Thanks.
Bertrand Russell – Message To Future Generations (1959)
This popped up on YouTube during my search for Maurice Gibbs(Robins deceased brother).
Never heard of him before:
Interesting advice to the future, after reading about him, let’s just say he is an enigma.
The Christopher Hitchens of his day. An intellectual atheist whose arguments undergird acceptance and expansion of atheism. That is the typical way most of us hear about him.
Russell also was a mathematician and philosopher. So you can hear about him in those fields, but that does not include many people.
Good Morning Dandan! ❤️
Very nice inspirational thoughts! 😊
Good Morning Feral Cat…
A couple of good ones there. Good morning and God bless!
Good Morning Angus!
Have a most blessed day, today ❤️
May 20 Oswald Chambers
Taking Possession of Our Own Soul
By your patience possess your souls. —Luke 21:19
When a person is born again, there is a period of time when he does not have the same vitality in his thinking or reasoning that he previously had. We must learn to express this new life within us, which comes by forming the mind of Christ (see Philippians 2:5). Luke 21:19 means that we take possession of our souls through patience. But many of us prefer to stay at the entrance to the Christian life, instead of going on to create and build our soul in accordance with the new life God has placed within us. We fail because we are ignorant of the way God has made us, and we blame things on the devil that are actually the result of our own undisciplined natures. Just think what we could be when we are awakened to the truth!
There are certain things in life that we need not pray about— moods, for instance. We will never get rid of moodiness by praying, but we will by kicking it out of our lives. Moods nearly always are rooted in some physical circumstance, not in our true inner self. It is a continual struggle not to listen to the moods which arise as a result of our physical condition, but we must never submit to them for a second. We have to pick ourselves up by the back of the neck and shake ourselves; then we will find that we can do what we believed we were unable to do. The problem that most of us are cursed with is simply that we won’t. The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is an easy thing to argue from precedent because it makes everything simple, but it is a risky thing to do. Give God “elbow room”; let Him come into His universe as He pleases. If we confine God in His working to religious people or to certain ways, we place ourselves on an equality with God.
Good morning FC.
“The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.”
As I tell others when I act out in manners that are not very Christian-like “I am a practicing Christian, I never said I was a perfect Christian”.
Have a very blessed day. Cheers!
Stealing, Levi. I will, of course give you credit😉…and remembering practice makes perfect🙏💖
Feel free. No credit needed. Hope you’re having a wonderful Friday. Cheers!
Thank you😊. Just a’blowin’ in the wind…this year ever day that ends in y.
Good afternoon Bet!😘
Howdy, G!! Left you a little note up top😉
Good afternoon Levi, that’s a good one.
Good afternoon Gramps. Always cheers me up to call someone else by what the grand kids call me.
Cheers to a good day, sir!
😂
Hi Levi 🙋♀️
I’m stealing it too…it’ll give me a talking point at the doctor. I can put my nose up in the air and say, I’m a practicing Christian….I’m getting closer to our Lord. you’re just a practicing doctor and you still can’t get it right. Ha!!
😂 I know, go back to my forest…….backwards wink
LOL……it has served me well countless times. Happy to see it get more miles.
More importantly, good luck with the Doctor and keep smiling.
Last time I asked if this was where I signed up for the Brandon crack pipe….I laughed all the out the door!!!!! After this Levi gem, I’ll be needing new material. 🤔 😂
Good afternoon Cat! ❤️
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Funny. Good morning. Levity is good for the soul. God bless!!!
Good morning, Levi💖. Love LOVE Larsen! Clever man. And Friday already!! WOOSH went the week.
Yes, iconic humor. Good day, Betsy!
Larsen had been on an extended hiatus for a number of years. During that time, we went to a book store FULL of books no one wanted anymore. And we found a huge book of everything he had never drawn, which included notes with so many drawings. It was in mint condition, so, of course, we bought it. For essentially nothing. A real prize to have.
Good morning, angusjj.
By posting one of Larsen’s funniest, you’ve done me such a favour this morning, trash day in our community. Made potato salad the other day and had a small bit left over, which because of time passing was not safe to eat (darn it, because it was delicious). Planned to throw it out but thought I’d wait until this morning…and then promptly forgot. Saw your cartoon and remembered. It’s gone. Thank you😉
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Christ is risen!
Truly He is risen!
The Paschal Troparion
Christ is risen from the dead, by death hath He trampled down death, and on those in the graves hath He bestowed life. (sung thrice)
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)
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)
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 Friday, May 20, 2022
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“Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.”
Psalms 92:13 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Amen!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
May 20
MORNING
Take heed unto thyself. I Tim. 4:16
Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. I Cor. 9:25-27
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph. 6:11, 12
They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Gal. 5:24, 25
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Rom. 8:14
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. I Tim. 4:15
J. Bagster
Five Years Ago
The Paris Statement was an affirmation of the true Europe as expressed by several conservative scholars and intellectuals.
“A Europe We Can Believe In” is shared in several languages.
http://www.thetrueeurope.eu
20 May 1964
Rudy Lewis, the lead singer of The Drifters on their hits “On Broadway” and “Up On The Roof”, died under mysterious circumstances the night before the group was set to record “Under the Boardwalk”. He was 28 years old. Rather than reschedule the studio session to find a new front man, former Drifters backup singer Johnny Moore was brought back to perform lead vocals for the recording.
20 May 1967
The Young Rascals score the second of their three Billboard #1 records when “Groovin” reached the top.
20 May 1978
Paul McCartney led his group Wings to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for the third time with “With A Little Luck”.
Good afternoon rebel!
Great choices to get the weekend started. 😘
Thanks!!!!!!!
Hope everyone has fun this weekend. 🙋♀️
Have a great weekend, Feral Cat 😎
NATIONAL PIZZA PARTY DAY – THIRD FRIDAY IN MAY
I was lucky enough to enjoy some pizza in Italy a few times. All from around the coast at Pisa. All from brick ovens and some with seafood like calamari from the Med. Always followed up with spumoni.
NATIONAL RESCUE DOG DAY – MAY 20
According to the ASPCA, approximately 3.3 million dogs enter shelters every year. When these abandoned and abused animals find their way to a shelter, each one needs a forever home and their potential is limitless.
My daughter found and rescued a sweet German short hair pointer and loved her back to good health. Now Chloe the therapy dog goes with my daughter to work every day in a senior care facility. The residents may not remember my daughter’s name but they all know Chloe!
Good Afternoon, Packrat. It is good to hear about your daughter and her GSP dog Chloe. We have had six of our GSP’s become therapy dogs. They went to several hospitals and health care facilities in our area. We also had a Miniature Schnauzer that was one of out therapy dogs. They all loved to go and knew when we picked up their special collar that they wore for therapy. We belonged to a dog club at that time and did lots of demonstrations and square dance routines with the dogs. We worked with the GSP rescue and did home visits to families that wanted to rescue a GSP. Bless your daughter for opening her heart and home to Chloe. Praying that she will have many good years with this wonderful dog.
Good morning everyone. Happy Friday to those still of you still in the work world. You made it. The weekend is upon you.
Have a safe and wonderful day, everyone. Be grateful. God bless!
Thank you levi!
Mornin’ comrade infidels.
It’s not his to give.
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Dzien Dobry (good morning)
Good morning, ms idaho💖 The trees are frantically waving their arms here this morning.
yup – so are ours. we added a few snowflakes – just for interest
one thing about Idaho – it tends to be winter until it is summer
that means it goes from cool or cold days to 90 degrees or more. without much inbetween
summer might start in early june (sometimes), but it might be closer to mid june – or later
when we camped out at Fairmont Mt (just west of Butte) the locals identified the 4th of July as the start.
that’s a few hundred miles north of there, so that’s a factor
I would not be surprised if you have a shorter than average summer. One of the effects of a La Nina is to push colder and wetter weather up over the Pacific NW.
If you consider summer here is mid June to mid September, its hard to get much shorter. When we had our house we were warned not to plant tomatoes until mid June – unless you could cover and protect them.
Sometimes we have a warm fall. But again, it is warm or mild until suddenly its winter.
Also – re: La Nina and Idaho….. The mountains (near the coast and in Idhao) wring out most of the moisture. And the weather tends to travel north of where we are and hit the Tetons – or south of where we are and hit the border with Utah.
Another phenomenom – we get our rains now. When ‘summer’ gets here, no more rain. just water from the aquifers – snow melt into rivers
Sherry planted on Sunday and the leaf lettuce is already sprouting. Only watered on the day she planted. After that we’ve had rain every other day so no watering needed.
I just helped her clean up the flower bed around the flag pole. Darn Locust trees sprout anywhere and grow fast. So I was out there with a spade digging them out and cutting off the roots. One nice thing about the ground being wet is that getting the roots pulled out of the undesirable plants is easier.
The Lilac bushes are in full bloom all along the front (west side) of the house and the north end. Next door the Poppys are in full bloom.
Puts me in mind (and I’ve posted this story before so will shorten it) of one year in Wales when 1 1/2 days after I planted all my impatiens, on June 1 we woke up to our neighbour in his JCB trying (key word) to clear our narrow rural lane of the 4 feet of snow that had fallen in the night. In the end he had to give up. We couldn’t believe it. Mother Nature had it in for us that year. Oh…and it was not predicted. Ah well…
The British axiom “Ne’er cast a clout til May is out” was said for a reason (which I didn’t believe…until then). Live, learn, and enjoy Nature’s schadenfreude.😉
Na zdrowie. Jak sie masz dzisiaj?
plodding relentlessly onward
Have a special Friday
Back atcha
James Melville on Twitter: “Justin Trudeau met with Ukrainians in a war zone but he was too scared to meet with a bunch of truckers in Canada. https://t.co/CMTaPtwjx7” / Twitter
Bullies are essentially cowards. Tyrannical bullies are even more so.
Remember the fallen.
https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2022/05/an-anniversary.html
Yes sir. God bless their souls🙏
I learned a word, one I’ve heard for years but did not check the definition. PROFANE!
Can a person ignorant of God and his ways profane? It is exclusive to believers, there lies my question.
Knowing the truth does not give you passage into heaven. Actually, it can hinder you if you do not reverence our Lord. If you do not have a relationship with our Lord. “I never knew you.”
God knows you, it is you who does not know yourself. He opens us up for many trials for that purpose, to allow us to look at ourselves.
Jesus is the rock, we stumble upon or we use as a stepping stone. If we stumble upon him we run away from him. If we use those issues as stepping stones, we become closer. It’s where the “childlike faith” is important.
Well it looks like the easy times at work are over. For the last few months I have enjoyed more time off than during all my time as a Guarantee on call driver. Now, once again, they are going to farming us out to various other terminals to do their work.
IOW there will be times when, for a week at a time I am working for another terminal living in the truck, covering their loads.
I’ve gotten pretty spoiled the last few months and the fact is that only three of us have been through the time when that was normal. So I suspect that some of these new kids that have taken this job on recently are not going to make it.
Obviously this will cut down on my posting.
This week, all I did were the Skokie runs on Monday and Tuesday. This coming week I will be teaming with Randy from Sunday night through at least Wednesday night. We will be doing a Toyota run out of the Vandalia, OH terminal running back and forth between Kansas City, KA and Vandalia.
No, this not the same KC run I have been doing in the past. This run sometimes has 1 stop, other times 2, and on Wednesday can have up to 3 stops in the KC area.
I take the first driving shift leaving out of the Anderson, IN terminal at 22:00 Sunday night. From that time on we will not come back to Anderson, but will come back to the Vandalia terminal. I will go in at 21:00 because we are using Randy’s truck and I will have to transfer some stuff from my truck to his. Though both of us would prefer not to team, we both prefer to team with each other if we must team drive.
The run is poorly designed and the team doing it gets behind the designated times on each iteration. That is why they usually change teams on Wednesday night so the new team can leave out from Vandalia before the team coming back in arrives and thus put the run back on schedule.
Kids at Toyota sitting behind a computer put these runs together. They have never been in a big truck and know nothing about trucking other than what is on their screens and thus are not really qualified to be putting together the runs. But that is the way it is and always has been working for Toyota. Their virtual world does not match up with the real world, but they don’t change and we’re expected to make up for their failure to put realistic times on the runs.
If we didn’t have mismanagement we wouldn’t have any. Nothing but woke commies running my place of employment. 50 more weeks and SEE YA!!
Cheap nutritious eats. The wife scored quinoa (near Lex a lot of healthier things come up on sale or close out cuz people just don’t know or want things good for them) and a decent deal on fresh broccoli. We’re trying this recipe this evening and I’m making a pesto/green goddess type dressing to top them with. Hopefully this will take you just to the print version:
Link: Broccoli Quinoa Cakes! | Feasting At Home
Signed ip for this vegan meal service and recipes for a few weeks. Purple Carrot, very tasty and some combinations I never would have thought of on my own.
A dentist/friend with bad diabetes, on dialysis, went to vegan to try and be easy on his kidneys. I don’t have that problem but I think of him sometimes eating these Purple Carrot recipes
https://www.purplecarrot.com/
Nice that someone was able to have that history!
Vince Gill at George Jones’ funeral:
George…The Master of Misery.
Meanwhile, in other news:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-francisco-archbishop-pelosi-communion-abortion-support
Spiritually, she is without the Body of Christ except in prayer. Ominous.
The thief in chief next?
Pray for our enemies…is hard to believe the Church in San Fran took a stance.
AG, I was just going to post this righteous news. Thought I’d better scroll down to see if someone had already done so.
Poor “good” Catholic Nancy. Just deserts for a soulless husk of moral terpitude.
Next up…the horrid despicable, child grabbing, abortion pushing (p) resident.
Do you suppose that there are any traditional, confessing Christians in the Biden cabinet or administration?
This Christian quit her job in big pharma because she was against it morally, and couldnt, in good conscience, stay.
I dont know how any traditional Christian would be able to stay in the puppet’s cabinet / administration. No.
No, Sepp. That would be a disqualifier for any position in this administration.
Thank God for strong leaders in the RCC. Finally. Biden next.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/san-francisco-archbishop-bars-nancy-pelosi-from-holy-communion/
Guess who’s running for Jerry Nadler’s seat in Congress.
The waddler is retiring.
Interesting Rumble video on this monkey-pox thing. 45 minutes long.
Learned a couple things, it appears that gay and bisexual men are prone to this disease, that Bill Gates thinks a world wide organization, for example, the WHO, should take the lead in dealing with this, that it’s interesting that at the same time childhood hepatitis is emerging the same time this virus is emerging, and that, lo and behold, it wasn’t that long ago that a vaccine for monkey pox was just approved by the FDA.
https://rumble.com/v15cyau-monkeypox-unexpectedly-emerges-in-uk-portugal-spain-us-and-canada.html
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
I cleaned the valleys of the roof today now that most of the helicopters from the Silver Maple have dropped. Then I went to work on washing the house and the deck. Spray with the “Gone in 30 seconds” then rinse with the power washer. Some ladder work required.
I got it done and it looks great but I’m bushed! Arts pizza, a couple beers, and talking to sitting in the rocker shooting the bull with Steve and another friend and now it’s bed time for me.
Good night all!
Del Bigtree post through his Informed Consent Action Network (iCan) obtained verification that MMR, Varicella and Hepatitis A vaccines do, indeed, contain aborted fetal tissue:
https://www.icandecide.org/ican_press/fda-incompetence-and-ammunition-against-senator-richard-pan-in-one-fell-swoop/
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