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 all. For those who perhaps did not check in late yesterday, our beloved GrandpaM received a text on the last leg of his trip home that his nephew had passed away in hospital. He was only 37. Could I please ask for prayers for Julia and Johnny and for His comfort for GrandpaM and all his family while they grieve this terrible loss. God bless you all, my fellow Treepers🙏
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Thank you, Mr jay.
Oh man….
Thanks, Betsy.
Yes, with heavy heart; prayers
for Grandpa 🌹and all.
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I know, Patience…🙏💔
God Bless all of them! Rest In Peace.
Good morning Bet, Jay, Patience, and The LN! Thank you for the prayers. They are very much needed and appreciated.
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I’m glad you’re back home, G, but I am so sad for you and all your family. Rest his bless-ed soul. You know he is in God’s loving care. And my prayers will be continuous. There is a Durufle Requiem playing right now, as if our payers are being heard. Requiescat in Pace.
Talked to my cousin, his mama a couple of hours ago. Very sad. She understands that one day she’ll see him again, and that he is in the care of Jesus, but right now it is all still very raw and painful.
G, I’m sure every hour seems like a thousand. Or even that time has stood still. Everybody’s world has turned inside out. And I’m sure all are in terrible shock.
CS Lewis wrote a small book that may be of comfort…not now but later.
“A Grief Observed”
It’s thin, an easy read, and one in which he describes the process of his own grief and the questioning of his faith. I leave that recommendation for you if at any time you feel it is appropriate or can help. I have a copy on my bookshelf.
My heart is broken with yours, my dear friend. Thank you for staying in touch. I hope it helps in some small way. Bet💔🙏
Sorry for your loss, Gramps. 🙂
TY, Garrison.
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Prayers for them all going up. So very sad.
Thank you.
prayers
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Halloween is right around the corner too, supermarket has had the ceramic pumpkins out about 2 weeks now.
One of the few Halloween themed songs I will sing @karaoke in the near future.
Hobby Lobby has Christmas trees up ….
Mornin’ Cat 🙂 🙂 🙂
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Yeah, Jay!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Love, love, love old Corvettes!!!!
One more . . .
Howdy Garrison, best concert 1975 in the old coliseum Seattle. 🙂
Yep. Many, many happy hours zooming on Steve Miller Band . . . 🙂
This is the song on the album right before Living in the USA… fun little song…
Yeah, the band just seemed to get better and better during this time. 🙂
Thank you so much. And “Somebody give me a cheeseburger”.
YEAH!!!!
Pepsi Pepsi 😁
I really really miss an organ in a rock ‘n’ roll band😎😎
This the theme song from a great movie “The man who shot Liberty Valance” with Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne. Hint, the good guys win. Sung by Gene Pitney. It’s all about bravery and doing the right thing.
Yes indeed. It is a western with a lot of heart , great acting and a story for our time as well.
And music that had a story snd you could actually understand.
There is a political theme in Liberty Valance too. Taming the west in the new territories and a lot about our Constitution. Plus a bad guy, a lawyer, the courageous press, the good guy with a gun. Plus a poignant love story. Really recommend this movie. Directed by John Ford.
Ah… Gene Pitney…”Town Without Pity”
Social commentary in the early 60’s.
Here comes the ear-worm.
BNN, Baby News Network
Very clever! 😁😃😎
The delivery is so right on!
Reposting this here fr/ the Liz Cheney celebration thread, cuz it’s just so darn good.
WOW!!! This is so cool. Thanks for posting . . . 🙂
Amazing job of cutting, splicing, editing, synching stuff up!
Definitely some master level knowledge of editing and just of dance movies to pull from with lyric specific scenes to back it up, just WOW!
Technical skill fueled by the amazing sample of athleticism and practiced dancing skill.
Back in the analog dark-ages, before there was digital recording, computers and laptops, it took a full studio and very skilled people to do something like this. Hours and hours in small, dark rooms cutting and splicing pieces of 16mm film was just part of a very complex job . . . Now you can do this at home in a few hours on a laptop.
Yeah. I knew it wasn’t actually cutting and splicing anymore. Just couldn’t think of what the new term is.
Did some cutting and splicing myself back in the day – it was fun!, tho time consuming- but no messing w/ digital.
What Garrison said!!!!
Love ya sunny ❤️ 😊
Thx, Feral. Sweet.
Twerking Miley Cyrus should be green w/envy.
Thanks for posting!
I love watching the remix videos.
I loved it when a Mom of 4th grade twin boys said the twins and their friends were really into watching remixes!
There is always hope….
Think I spied Liz slinking away mumbling….
haha.
My sis and I used to sing to/make fun of this song when we were kids.
I thank you heartily, sunnydaze!
I loved seeing all the old friends dancing, smiling…such good entertainment and cheer.
I have just sent it on to family and friends.
It is a fine way to start this day!
It was a wonderful way to end this day too! After a while I lost track of the number of those films I’d seen as a kid – and the newer ones as well.
I’m sure many others were zooming through performers names – and hitting a blank space every so often. Back in the day, actors and particularly actresses had to be accomplished multi-taskers, and particularly, as dancers.
I miss it – especially the music.
Wow. The editing is top notch!
“Sweet Home Chicago” (Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, Hubert Sumlin…)
Countless 13 year olds spent hours and hours and hours . . . in their bedrooms listening to Buddy Guy and trying to learn his blues licks. All of the guys on that stage did just that. What a great tribute! 🙂
Appropriate for the News out of Wyoming this morning:
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Goodaye Rah!
Good morning. I just wish the same kind of thing could have happened in Alaska.
And Maine.
Goodaye Cat, good to be back home!
https://rumble.com/v1g9yh5-letsgo.html
1969 on this day the 2nd most powerful hurricane on record came ashore in Mississippi.
The 53rd Anniversary of Hurricane Camille…A Category 5 At Landfall and One of The Most Devastating Storms in US History – Watts Up With That?
Today? No tropical cyclones anywhere on earth.
National Hurricane Center (noaa.gov)
I should be clear. Camille was the 2nd most powerful on record to make landfall on US shores.
rah once they get past a Cat3 time to bug out.
Good morning rah!
Good afternoon! Hitting the sack soon. Gotta get up at 02:00 to do the Skokie, IL milkrun again.
Sorry to read about your nephew GrandpaM.
Thanks rah.
August 17 Oswald Chambers
Are You Discouraged In Devotion?
Yet lackest thou one thing; sell all that thou hast…and come, follow Me. — Luke 18:22
“And when he heard this…” Have you ever heard the Master say a hard word? If you have not, I question whether you have heard Him say anything. Jesus Christ says a great deal that we listen to, but do not hear; when we do hear, His words are amazingly hard.
Jesus did not seem in the least solicitous that this man should do what He told him, He made no attempt to keep him with Him. He simply said — “Sell all you have, and come, follow Me.” Our Lord never pleaded, He never cajoled, He never entrapped; He simply spoke the sternest words mortal ears ever listened to, and then left it alone.
Have I ever heard Jesus say a hard word? Has He said something personally to me to which I have deliberately listened? Not something I can expound or say this and that about, but something I have heard Him say to me? This man did understand what Jesus said, he heard it and he sized up what it meant, and it broke his heart. He did not go away defiant; he went away sorrowful, thoroughly discouraged. He had come to Jesus full of the fire of earnest desire, and the word of Jesus simply froze him; instead of producing an enthusiastic devotion, it produced a heart-breaking discouragement. And Jesus did not go after him, He let him go. Our Lord knows perfectly that when once His word is heard, it will bear fruit sooner or later. The terrible thing is that some of us prevent it bearing fruit in actual life. I wonder what we will say when we do make up our minds to be devoted to Him on that particular point? One thing is certain, He will never cast anything up at us.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
When you are joyful, be joyful; when you are sad, be sad. If God has given you a sweet cup, don’t make it bitter; and if He has given you a bitter cup, don’t try and make it sweet; take things as they come.
https://utmost.org/classic/are-you-discouraged-in-devotion-classic/
17 August 1983 Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (“Embraceable You” “I Got Rhythm”; “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”), dies in Beverly Hills at 86.
Watch over me
Michael Feinstein, this is rather informative.
Tony DeSare, this guy has some pipes for this song, IMHO
Finally the Frank Sinatra version.
Good Morning magic…. did you notice, I’ve left you trash and counters alone?
Thanks for the pizza scraps ❤️
LOL.. I tend not to leave anything on them that can be pushed off, unless you are a really BIG cat.
Amen.
Amen
so i gotta get up early in the morning ..
Mornin’ comrade banana republic infidels.
Excellent!
Trump the dynasty killer.
When this Congress ends its term there will be no Bush, Cheney, or Clinton in political office anywhere for the first time in nearly 40 years!
August 17
MORNING
Pray one for another, that ye may be healed. James 5:16
Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. Gen. 18:27, 28
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Luke 23:24
Pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Matt. 5:44
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. John 17:9, 20
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Gal. 6:2
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. James. 5:16, 17
EVENING
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. Psa. 103:15, 16
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psa. 90:12
What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36
Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. Isa. 40:7, 8
The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. I John 2:17
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. II Cor. 6:2
Use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. I Cor. 7:31
Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. 10:24, 25
J.Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/08/0817.html
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 Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
2 Peter 3:10 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Love the Eagle portrait “water color” effect, and since I saw a few references to the Steve Miller Band up thread, I thought this track of his is pretty fitting.
Blockade Australia Climate Protest Sad Face – Facing Possible Jail Time – Watts Up With That?
I personally like it when the climate wackos do their wacko stuff.
Does anyone here believe that Greta helped them?
That gluing themselves to paintings and roads helped them?
That blocking roads and doors help them?
I don’t.
IMO their disruptive antics put the focus on themselves and the problems they are causing and not the cause they are supposedly “protesting for”. So I say go for it wackos! Bring it on!
. . . 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)
Wednesday of the Tenth Week after Pentecost
Dormition Fast
Great Supplicatory Canon or Paraklesis to the Theotokos
The Holy Seven Youths of Ephesus (250 and ca. 446)
Holy Martyr Evdocia of Anatolia in Persia (+ 362)
Sithney, Hermit of Sithney, Cornwall
August 4th – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
August 17th – civil or commercial calendar
Just watch as the national news networks all get Lame Duck Lizy on for interviews while the winner that beat her by my more than 30 points gets virtually no invitations for an interview.
Cheney will most likely get a book deal, too. She might even start a Cheney Foundation like the Clinton’s. Evil woman! It is obvious to all she is driven by hate.
Same here when MI MAGA man john gibbs beat out rino peter meijer… rino was all over news next day, not the maga winner mr gibbs.
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The kids these days…
Now how do you get a firefly to pose?
What is happening here>
😂😂😂😎
😻😻😻😻. Sweeeet!
Don’t let your kids watch TV.
https://newspunch.com/nickelodeon-actress-blows-the-whistle-hollywood-elites-rape-children/
Liz Cheney’s defeat is a big step in right direction but let’s not forget about her political prisoners wasting away in her DC gulag
Sorry, this is not a comment.
Every comment has a date/time attached. Please tell me to which time zone the time is related?
Thanks
PS: You are very kind to signal when a comment is approved.
My computer says it is 1:30 pm.
Your post says 1:20 pm.
this post should say something close to what my computer said.
my computer and I live in Eastern.
I think it is Daylight Savings time.
Thanks for the reply.
However, my home system is linked to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). Now is 09:45 am (more or less)
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is not used for UTC as it is a time standard for all time zones.
You said that you live in Eastern. But Eastern of what country/continent?
Thanks for your info.
In my message the time is 05:45 am…
Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot would be proud.
The numbers are coming in and it is beginning to appear like percentage wise, there were more deaths and injuries from the “vaccines” than from even the most virulent strain of COVID-19.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1559788427285078016/pu/vid/636×360/7NLpATzwpSpLj59x.mp4?tag=12
And then there’s this:
Report: 44 Percent of Pregnant Women in Pfizer Trial Lost Their Babies; FDA and CDC Recommended Jabs For Expectant Mothers Anyway › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
I am evidently not subscribed correct to the forum. I have to read the entire board to see replies to my comments. When I comment I hit the “notify me of replies to my comments” but when I hit the submit button the little grey ICON turns green but then immediately turns grey with an X through it.
When I subscribe it sends me the whole topic and then each reply that is made.
My icon is Gravatar and I don’t have a clue how I am supposed to be only the TreeHouse subscribed
The only email I see at the top does not go to an email. I see contact us at Reagan.com and I see the comment guidelines but I have no idea what I’m doing wrong.
I’d like to be able to see at the top when there are comments but for some reason it does not work
I don’t even know how to delete myself and try to re subscribe, I don’t even remember how I got on the new forum
It’ a headscatcher
@Sundance- Kirks explanation of why DeSantis is going and stumping for America First Candidates explains a lot. Very disappointed you have such a narrow view of the big picture.
https://rumble.com/v1gc5br-charlie-kirk-liz-cheneys-belief-she-is-more-important-than-you-is-clear-sig.html
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall. Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
And prayers up for all political prisoners. Prayers up for Julian Assange and for all the protesters of January 6 who were or are entrapped in DC. And, thank you, Lord, for restoring Pastor Pawlowski.
Thank you Father, for Your love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
Amen.
Amen 🙏
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Not a Presidential thing, so posting this question here; was just thinking about the nationwide insurance company Geico that announced it was closing all of its California offices, even though still selling insurance to California customers.
It’s not stated in the article why, but am wondering – did Geico close all their offices in California because of the law that California passed making independent contractors illegal, that those who were independent contractors must be now paid as employees? Wondering because most insurance houses are independent contractors with licenses to sell insurance from many providers.
Just wondering out loud, and thinking someone might know the answer other than the usual assumptions that the linked article does inferring it’s because of the economy.
https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/industrial-relations/geico-closes-california-offices/415844
Jesus Christ is Lord.