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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American Pie Don McLean Full Length 1989 Video from Original 1971 72 Song
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My breakfast this morning was a breakfast sandwich of sliced ham, Colby Jack cheese, and two hard fried eggs on 12 grain toast. Washed down with Tim Hortons coffee.
Fundamental Truth of Life:
Anything that starts with ham and ends with coffee HAS to be good.
Just sayin’.
Especially country ham.
Hickory smoked!
Based on the post above we decided to have cheeseburgers today. Fries and corn on the cob. I’ll be out grilling them about 15:00 today. Then by 16;00 it will be off to bed for my early morning, and probably stormy 02:00 wake up.
Have a very blessed Sunday, Treeper friends. Always know that Our Lord loves us and watches over us.
Howdy Garrison 🙂
Hi’ya, Jay. 🙂
Good Sunday to you, Mr jay.
Blessings upon your house Betsy 🌷🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
Thank you, sir.
Bless-ed Sunday, Garrison. So lovely. VOCES 8 takes a sweet song and elevates it to heavenly, where I am sure it will go…
They just seem so right for a Sunday like ours. 🙂
Yes sir. Billy Joel is a fantastic composer as well as performer. This one brought to mind how, courtesy of Sirius XM Symphony, he has also composed some what I’d call classical works, under the name William Joel. And I must tell you, Garrison, they are beautiful, reminiscent of the late Romantic period. I couldn’t believe, in a time when every contemporary piece seems to embrace discordance and ugliness, how remarkable I found them. They made me appreciate his incredible talents all the more. Waltzes, nocturnes, caprices…all lyrical, delightful, and just plain gorgeous.
Happy and Blessed Sunday, Garrison. ✝️❣️
Your words and music selections are both so very lovely and comforting.
-thank you
Good morning Bet, Patience, Garrison, and jay! Headed soon to church where I’ll be greeting. In Texas you can’t be security unless you are a licensed security officer. Since I’m not I’ll just be doing armed greeting. 🤣
May all y’all have a blessed Sonday!
Morning, G. So all I can say to that is ?????!!! Well, how fortunate there’s that sweet, sweet work around. Blessings to you and all your family and parishioners, my dear brother.🙏😘
Hello there, Pa❣️
Wishing you a wonderful day filled with many blessings.
Mornin’ Gramps. 🙂
Good for you, Gramps. I distinctly recall the Ft. Worth church shooting a couple of years ago where the guy came in with a hidden shotgun. As soon as he fired one regrettably killing shot a NRA trained instructor nailed him with a 50 yard head shot. But what was also impressive . . . if you watch the video there were several armed people in the church who were also moving toward the shooter. Regardless of official titles, they were the church’s guard-dogs. In this day and age it pays to be armed. But it’s something else again to move to confront killer with a shotgun. Again, good for you.
Howdy Gramps, I’ve noticed more people are packing in church lately and that works for me.
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Bless-ed Sunday morning, Patience and Ma 🤗🤗
Thank you, Betsy ❣️
A very blessed-ed day to you and all those you love.
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So kind…thank you.
Hi, Patience. Your kind words are most welcome. Thank you. 🙂
One of my teen daughter’s favorite songs. I used to sing it to her as a baby and then as she grew. That and a rendition I made up of The Lord’s Prayer. My whole heart… right here. Sad the Billy Joel is an aetheist. He is truly Divinely created and needs to be in my Heaven.
One more . . .
“you can spend all your time making money or you can spend all your love making time”
Eagles lyrics are so rich with wordsmithing.. double meanings, twists of words… the one you highlighted has been one of my favorites for a long, long time.
Hotel California and Life in the Fast Lane are both also rich in that type of lyric
They superbly described the popular culture and music culture of LA in the 70’s. it was, of course, something they were deeply involved in but they were also excellent observers . . . and that required the degree of detachment you hear in their songs. 🙂
Love it. Regardless of what Rolling Stone said, the guys deserved their millions . . . 🙂
“I Can’t Find My Way Back Home.”
18 September 1992 Earl Van Dyke, American jazz and session piano, Hammond B-3, and harpsichord player (Motown Records’ Funk Brothers, 1964-72), dies of prostate cancer at 62
18 September 1991 Rob Tyner [Robert Derminer], American hard rock singer (MC5 – Kick Out The Jams), dies of a heart attack at 46
18 September 1970 Jimi Hendrix, American rock guitarist (Purple Haze), dies from asphyxiation at 27
God Bless America 🙂
I wonder if they trained the dog for this or not?
I was tols by a dog trainer that when your dog runs away from you, call him, then run away from him. The dog will chase you and come back. It does work.
Or lay down on the ground. That works too. Some dogs (shelties) will run away faster, if called…
Tried with my chihuahua. She runs toward the border. 😁
It does work. I’d just turn around, wave “bye-bye”, and keep walking in the other direction. Worked like a charm.
Poor little thing.
That dog is a Great Spin-Arounder
In the sheltie world, that is called “The Sheltie Spin Dance”. Its a real thing.
That’s hilarious!
I found out about that Twitter user from someone on here. ALWAYS something good there.
So funny! I have a spinner too.
Another great tip. If you have a barker, do NOT yell at them. If you yell, they think you are barking with them. Instead, calmly get their attention (poke them or something similar) and WHISPER “hush”. Be persistent and consistent. It worked for me. Eventually they will learn to shut the heck up by telling them to hush.
I’m loaning you out to our neighbours across the street. They have a Bassett and another dog who bay and bark so loudly if even a fly crosses their path…inside and out.
We can hear them when they start inside their house. So you can imagine outside. There is no attempt whatsoever to rein them in. Did I say annoying? No? Well, I’m saying it now. You probably can’t hear me over their barking.
Are the neighbors deaf?
Hahaha…one would think, Sepp. I can’t imagine not disciplining barking dog(s). Who rules the roost is the question…and it is not the two legged owners.
Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Live) 10/9/1981 [Digitally Restored]
“Another 40,000 coming everyday…” right to the east coast I would hope, perhaps even to MV.
Mistake.
“The Royal One”
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-royal-one/
Good morning, lindak.
A very good article, with a splendid final paragraph. Thank you for posting it.
I was interested in his statement that the Queen “didn’t get the family she deserved.” It’s too much to do an analysis of the reasons and the goings on of the monarchy to explain how so many of her children became unstuck (I shall call it).
But I will take exception to that statement at least as far as the Princess Royal, Anne, is concerned. She is often called the hardest working Royal…and so she is.
A non nonsense woman who inherited her mother’s and father’s devout sense of duty, tradition, and rectitude. She has unfailingly adhered to those dying virtues and fulfilled her role with honour and diligence.
We’ve all said it’s a shame she cannot succeed to be Queen. She is perfectly suited for it. And though Charles obviously feels the loss of his mother very deeply, I guarantee Anne, as she is cut from the same cloth as her parents, will probably feel it the deepest.
One final personal note…
I adored my mother in law who was an avowed Anglophile. She was a remarkable woman and I miss her. Princess Anne is her doppelganger. And I don’t mean “with the exception of…” Every single picture I see of the Princess Royal, I am looking at my late mother in law, which really is nice .
Yes, Anne was the second child I believe but even if she had been the first child the male heir would have inherited the crown. I agree Anne seems very solid.
It will be interesting to see if Charles grows in stature now that he is King.
He seems to have spent his whole life without a proper role. Diana was not a good marriage for him, but she did spark interest in the royal family and their children were fine.
Except Harry has run into a mess with Meghan.
Charles stated in his speech that he would no longer be working fo his charities, which is good judgement.
William seems to handle it better somehow.
Just as well I am an American.
And so am I an American…who had the great good fortune to live there for a long time.
There is a good article on American Thinker about Harry and the woman he married, who from the get go was unsuitable and unsuited for a life of service. In it for what she could get I decided when I saw the first picture of her strolling into Kensington Palace when they were dating (that picture no doubt intended by her). I remember distinctly saying out loud “no, no NO!”. I knew he would marry her and I knew it would be a disaster; and it has been one of the worst.
And no, Anne could not become Queen. Their order of Succession prevents it. But I’ve always thought it was a darn shame. She has a firm head and would have been a wonderful monarch.
As for Charles, he is extremely fortunate to have Camilla by his side. I realize this is not a popular view, given what has happened. But there is no question for us in this house that she is more suited to be Queen Consort than Diana would be as Queen. I won’t go into our reasons for that view.
William married well. He will be a good king when the time comes, as Catherine will be Queen.
In the end, the monarchy is secured for another generation at least. Kings and Queens rule and then pass on. Tomorrow we will get up and watch the funeral, which the now retired Archbishop of York has said will be a joyful celebration of a woman who by that quirk of fate became Britain’s longest reigning monarch. She fulfilled her Coronation Oath to God and the people who adored her, with dignity and decorum and affection. She will be desperately missed there…and by us as well.
Camilla does seem to be a good mate for Charles. He adores her and she him. Very supportive for Charles.So together they give off a very stable vibe to the monarchy.
Exactly so. Diana was chosen for him by the then Queen mother and her lady in waiting Lady Fermoy, Diana’s grandmother. Originally I believe they chose her sister, Jane, but Jane was having none of it…thus Diana, who was starry eyed and too young, and cared for none of the things he adored (like the countryside and the sports found there). She was a city girl. She loved him but I believe, out of duty rather than love, he agreed to the arranged marriage.
He and Camilla have known each other since she was sixteen. They are kindred spirits in everything. She will keep him grounded, and that will help him be the best King he can be.
(By the way, this tidbit of interest. Camilla was the great great granddaughter of Alice Keppel, who had a long affair with King Edward VII, Charles’s great great grandfather.)
And this!!
For those with Britbox, one can access the church services for the late Queen in Scotland and in Wales, which is the one we are watching now. It promises to be beautiful and allows a glimpse of the Welsh countryside I love, plus the history of her relationship with Wales (Cymru).
This service is listed under “King Charles III in Wales”. The whole program (of which the service is only one part) runs about 2 hours, and is simply wonderful to learn the history of Wales and events which happened during her
reign. It is being conducted in part Welsh, part English.
“I Want You, I NeedYou, I Love You.” I guess that covers it. Elvis Presley.
Gosh…. He was somethin’!
I was never a huge Elvis fan but looking at him today, I agree. He was something. Very talented.
SING TO THE LORD OF HARVEST
I posted this hymn last week with a different passage and without the lyrics.
Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. As it is written,
“He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor.
His righteousness remains forever.” [Psalm 112:9]
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God, seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all, while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
— 2 Corinthians 9:6-15, WEB
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Sing to the Lord of harvest, sing songs of love and praise;
With joyful hearts and voices your alleluias raise.
By Him the rolling seasons in fruitful order move;
Sing to the Lord of harvest a joyous song of love.
2
God makes the clouds rain goodness, the deserts bloom and spring;
The hills leap up in gladness, the valleys laugh and sing.
God fills them with His fullness, all things with large increase;
He crowns the year with blessing, with plenty and with peace.
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Bring to this sacred altar the gifts His goodness gave,
The golden sheaves of harvest, the souls Christ died to save.
Your hearts lay down before Him, when at His feet you fall,
And with your lives adore Him, who gave His life for all.
Happy Sunday all.
Great rally, again.
As I watched the preacher giving the benediction, and then the young girl sing the Star spangled banner, it occurred to me…
Those simple acts, were acts of COURAGE, that they WILLINGLY and KNOWINGLY engaged in..
You just KNOW that both of them KNEW, and their families knew, that for doing what they did, at a TRUMP rally, they were putting themselves and their families at risk.
Likewise, all those who contested 2020 election, and all the MAGA Candidates, all those who have engaged in the Precinct strategy,…etc.
Tina Peters, the Mesa County Colo Recorder, for instance.
Its NOT just PDJT standing in the way, of those who are “after us”; it is thousands of Patriots, standing up and willingly risking it all.
To me, thats a very encouraging positive thing to just,…contemplate.
Good evening, all!
Excellent point .. after j6 all MAGA people are aware of possibilities coming from DC… I salute them all..🇺🇸👍
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“The power of the People, Is stronger than the people in power”
(hat tip Bards FM)
This morning I considered what it must be like to be a treacherous swamp dweller in DC, plotting for power against the people, which coincidently sort of follows along your line of thinking.
Imagine a Trump rally and all those deplorables chanting “USA” and “We love you!” to Trump as he directly and succinctly calls out your dark and evil actions. The stolen election, the corrupt FBI, the dishonest news media, the illegal raid on his home, the Russian hoax!
These creatures have worked in secret for their whole miserable careers. Here is their reckoning.
Now Judge Cannon is going to let a special master look at your handiwork. Times are changing.
There is no one more fearless than Donald Trump.
Morning 1530, Have a blessed Sonday!
Good morning all. I hope you all have a blessed Sunday.
Taking care of old business. I went to bed early yesterday so I would get up early today to set my clock for getting up at 02:00 tomorrow for my 04:00 departure on the Skokie run. So I missed answering this inquiry. Here is my answer.
Yesterday:
lindak
September 17, 2022 10:24 pm
Reply to rah
Rah, what kind of dishwasher did you get? Mine just gave it up.
Reply to lindak
Maytag. Model FC FR SS MDB4848SKZ. One thing that we really liked was it has stainless steel racks and not that plastic coated carbon steel one usually finds in them.
A note: It seems that in general dishwashers these days are considerably lighter than those they were making just 15 years ago. So if yours is not a tight fit vertically like mine is, one should secure it to the countertop so that it will not tip when you put a heavy load in it.
I appreciate you insuring you get a reply to someone.
You did that for me a week or two ago, twice.
We have to replace a Maytag washer……that was actually made by Maytag before they went under and were bought out by Whirlpool. It started leaking, I replaced a hose. Checked it and saw the tub seal leak. Ugh.
After two fairly ugly back surgeries in the past, I did some mental math. It simply is not worth the payment in pain to try that repair. Besides, it is old enough that any other repairs make it cost prohibitive compared to buying another.
This galls me. I bought a new washer and dryer for my wife a long time ago and that washer bit the dust after less than ten years. Called my Dad, he had one in the barn that was fine, but Mom had upgraded a few years before.
We used that old Maytag with no problems whatsoever.
Mom and Dad bought it in 1986.
Made in America…..
I’ll try to answer when I catch it but I’m sure there are times I don’t because of work.
Thanks, Rah. I’ll look it up.
September 18 Oswald Chambers
His Temptation and Ours
We do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. —Hebrews 4:15
Until we are born again, the only kind of temptation we understand is the kind mentioned in James 1:14, “Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.” But through regeneration we are lifted into another realm where there are other temptations to face, namely, the kind of temptations our Lord faced. The temptations of Jesus had no appeal to us as unbelievers because they were not at home in our human nature. Our Lord’s temptations and ours are in different realms until we are born again and become His brothers. The temptations of Jesus are not those of a mere man, but the temptations of God as Man. Through regeneration, the Son of God is formed in us (see Galatians 4:19), and in our physical life He has the same setting that He had on earth. Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things— he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God. He does not come to us on the premise of tempting us to sin, but on the premise of shifting our point of view, and only the Spirit of God can detect this as a temptation of the devil.
Temptation means a test of the possessions held within the inner, spiritual part of our being by a power outside us and foreign to us. This makes the temptation of our Lord explainable. After Jesus’ baptism, having accepted His mission of being the One “who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29) He “was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness” (Matthew 4:1) and into the testing devices of the devil. Yet He did not become weary or exhausted. He went through the temptation “without sin,” and He retained all the possessions of His spiritual nature completely intact.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The great word of Jesus to His disciples is Abandon. When God has brought us into the relationship of disciples, we have to venture on His word; trust entirely to Him and watch that when He brings us to the venture, we take it.
https://utmost.org/
It’s a long walk to our little cth chapel. Good walking tune, imo
Have a blessed day everyone!! ❤️
Good morning, Cat. I think that one will make us pick up our feet and get to chapel faster. Blessings on this Sunday, girl.
Morning Cat, and a blessed day to you! ❤️
Weather.
Fiona will become a hurricane and probably a major one (CAT III or higher), but everyone is forecasting it to recurve into the Atlantic. But the US mainland is not out of the woods yet by any means. Each of the three hurricanes in the Atlantic have come further west than the previous one before turning north.
Also during the first week of October the models are showing a significant disturbance developing in the Caribbean that, if it comes to pass, will likely move up into the Gulf. Though so far this year we have had it pretty much all our way, the fat lady is not going to be singing for some time yet.
Over in the Pacific Typhoon Nanmadol is a major and it is lashing the southern Japanese Islands as I write this. So far this year Korea, China, and now Japan have had Tyhoons hit but this current one is considerably stronger than the other two were.
Were in for some possible violent weather up here in my neck of the woods tonight into tomorrow morning. It may be an interesting drive for me going up to the Chicago area tomorrow. Think I will leave 40 minutes early. This weather is being brought in by a cold front that will drop temps below normal for a few days, but then once again we, like most of the northern states will go back to above average temps that will probably last through October.
Texas, you will continue to have above normal temps, though if that disturbance in the Gulf develops and heads for you then you’ll get some relief.
Much of Europe is far cooler than average right now.
All the models are pretty much agreeing that the US, Europe, and Eastern Asia are in for a more severe winter than we have seen for some time. With energy prices doing what they are it will cause some hard times for some of us in the US. But in much of Europe they are likely heading for disaster. Not only is what energy that is available getting more expensive all the time, and beyond the means of some, there simply is not enough of it! There is a distinct possibility that several EU countries won’t just have some people freezing, but that the whole logistics chain could shut down! They’re talking lack of food and other essentials. That is why you’re seeing some of the governments over there scrambling now, like Germany taking over private energy companies and assets.
If the worst comes to pass I suspect that there will be an upside. A hard lesson will have been learned and the people aren’t going to give a damn about what those snake oil salesmen that call themselves “climate scientists” and the politicians that are culpable for the disaster say in the future. In other words we may see Climategeddon come, but it will be a disaster for the elite and their plans of subjugation.
Rah, in Germany, the green government which, along with the suicidal sanctions against a country which has the one thing it needs to survive what is being forecast, has worked in earnest to destroy life itself. At present, anticipating mass uprisings, the green government is organizing their armed police, their Sturmabteilung. And yes, they will shoot their citizens if ordered, according to a chilling article I read on Gates of Vienna.
Taking over energy producers will just speed things along. We all know this. The shadows of events in the last century, ever lengthening, which we hoped to never see again, have returned. Lights out not only metaphorically but in grim reality…and much else besides. God in His mercy be with the peoples of Europe…and with us.
Good morning, Bet. I went to the “Gates of Vienna” site a short time ago. I did not know of their site until you mentioned it yesterday. Thank you. They do have some excellent articles that are worth looking at. Saker’s site is another good one; I have been looking at some of their articles for over a year. Andrei has an interesting personal background; apparently he held a high level government position in Switzerland before re-locating to Florida.
Open Thread on the “Moveable Feast Cafe” has some informative input from commenters.
Bless-ed Sunday morning, Joe. I was unaware of Andrei’s past. How interesting. And I did not know he was in Florida now. I love that site.
The articles in Gates of Vienna are extremely good. When I read one, I always look for an afterword by the translator of them, which often is as incisive as the article itself.
Baron Boddisey whose site this is suffers with the same thing that our ms Idaho endures…macular degeneration. So I don’t know this will affect the long term for his work.
So lots to read today. I shall look in on the Moveable Feast which was recommended to me as well by another Treeper. Thank k you, my friend,for reminding me…and all blessings to you🙏😘
If I remember correctly, Andrei worked for an agency that gathered and analyzed intelligence from different parts of the globe. Something happened during the war in Bosnia that soured him; he left the agency after falling out of favor with his superiors.
If you haven’t done so already, read his essay titled “Submarines in the desert”.
I haven’t read…but I certainly will!
Gonzalo Lira also mentioned the possibility of armed police shooting German citizens when people are facing severe hardships this coming winter.
Lira’s video was posted earlier this month; titled “The Macro Picture”.
And ill look up that one as well, Joe. For one person to mention it is one thing…but two? Horrifying to think what’s coming.
. . . 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)
14th Sunday after Pentecost
Holy Prophet Zacharias, father of the Venerable Forerunner and Baptist John (+ 1st century)
Holy Virgin-Martyr Rhais of Alexandria (+ 308)
Holy Martyr Urban and those with him at Nicomedia (+ 370)
Holy Hieromartyr Athanasios, abbot of Brest-Litovsk (+ 1648)
September 5th – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
September 18th – civil or commercial calendar
Saints of God pray for us!
An Orthodox Prayer for Healing
O Christ, Who alone art our Defender: Visit and heal Thy suffering servants, delivering them from sickness and grievous pains. Raise them up that they may sing to Thee and praise Thee without ceasing, through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Thou Who alone lovest mankind.
Amen. Thank you, Sepp. This simple, lovely prayer is exactly what I pray for nightly in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ. I add the names of those here and of those now absent who I know need merciful relief. I pray He hears me. I pray He will through his love of each one provide that of relief.
There is just an indescribable something in the beautiful wording of this prayer…thank you. All blessings to you, Sepp.
Thanks be to God, Mrs. Betsy.
Saint John of Kronstadt (+ 1908) wrote several inspiring and edifying passages in his book “My Life in Christ” about the prayers of the Orthodox Church. Someone else collected these passages into a smaller volume.
I must look this up. I have always loved the language used in my beloved Book of Common Prayer. And the language in this prayer speaks to me very deeply, Sepp. I do thank you so much for that information, sir.🙏
Theotokos means “God Bearer.” Eastern tradition. Just love saying it.
Powerful, Sandalwood, as befits our all powerful God.
Tony Heller and his lovely wife love the outdoors. Here is a short clip of them enjoying a walk in Wyoming with their pups set to the song Ghost Riders in the Sky.
Global warming hitting both Australia and Austria hard now.
Yesterday Betty was clearing out sunflower volunteers from her garden. Some of them are huge! The stalks over 3″ in diameter are like trees and flowers 8″or more in diameter. We snipped off all the flowers and put them in a box and I set them out in a sunny place to dry. I’m going to set them out a few at a time over the next few weeks for the birds and other critters to get their seeds. I’ve got probably 30 or more flowers ranging in size from the huge ones described to small ones about 3″ in diameter.
Reminds me of my youth. A large sunflower patch next to a small business. I was always amazed at how large they were. Great memories. Thanks rah!
Blessings, rah, for that. I have a feeling with the forecasted winter coming all our birds and others will need a bit of help. As I mentioned the other day, neither of our oaks in the back have produced any acorns, the first time in the 15 years we have been here. I haven’t checked the Mexican pin oak out front yet, and our neighbour behind us has a bur oak (with its huge nuts) and I’m not seeing anything there either, strangely. This has an almost biblical feel for me, though why I can’t explain.
So we will be staying on top of providing over the winter for all God’s birds, squirrels, etc as best as we can.
The bad winter is being forecasted for the central and eastern US. Don’t know what you folks in Texas will face yet.
When I was an instructor at Ft. Sam Houston I was a Sr. SFC (E-7). That qualified me for great family quarters. It was a house in Chaffee st, that was on the slope of a ridgeline looking out over I-35 off in the distance. It was a stucco house, 3 bedroom, 3 bath. Nice hardwood floors. A nice but small covered from porch. Loved the Saint Augustine grass lawn with a magnolia tree in the front and a huge oak tree in the back. We took good care of the place outdoors and indoors and got yard of the month several time and then yard of the year for enlisted quarters.
Based on the rate of growth for an oak in that part of the country I would bet that tree was a sapling when the Alamo when down.
I saw more rainbows from my back yard then I ever have seen anywhere else. And we had plenty of hummingbirds that we fed.
My Army captain surgeon dad who served in Korea returned to finish out his service as head of the burn unit at Ft Sam. I was four but remember where we lived, and all I can say of your quarters is WOW!!! Nice! Ours were not that lovely. No wonder you remember it.
In my 81 years on Earth I have never seen such a dearth of fruit and nuts. Every year there have always been freight cars full of apples, pears, damson plums, english and black walnuts. This year a few withered apples, no plums one on two walnuts. one plum tree died. what is going on, Betsey? rah? what will the bears eat?
on the other hand we had bushels of peaches. weird
I’ve got absolutely nothing, merrie. It is so strange.
I have been reading that the introduction of 5G cell towers and their radiation is destroying bee colonies. And that is not good.
One man somewhere in western PA is an avid documenter of nature, and it was his report on what he’s seeing earlier this year that alerted me. I haven’t been able to shake this 5G is really a weapon aimed at destroying life in every form.
Something is not right. I dread to think. Blessings, merrie🙏🤗
This is very ominous, and part of the continuum of evil.
Betsy, my fellow birder friend and I have been speaking of the biblical feel lately as well.
No frogs nor toads this summer, the early departure of the hummingbirds (and minimal presence this summer), and how the lack of rain is most likely the reason.
September 18
MORNING
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psa. 119:18
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. Luke 24:45
It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. Matt. 13:11
I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. Matt. 11:25, 26
We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. I Cor. 2:12
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. Psa. 139:17, 18
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? For of him, and through him, and to him are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Rom. 11:33, 34, 36
EVENING
En-hakkore. (Or, The well of him that cried.) Judges 15:19
If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. John 4:10
If any man thirst, let hirn come unto me and drink. This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive. John 7:37, 39
Prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. Mal. 3:10
If ye…. being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Luke 11:13
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find. Luke 11:9
Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Gal. 4:6
Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Rom. 8:15
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/09/0918.html
‘Pelosi makes surprise visit to Armenia amid deadly Azerbaijan clashes.’
Pelosi announced the “rather spontaneous” trip while in Germany for a summit of parliamentary speakers from G7 nations on Friday. She will visit Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the capital of Yerevan, along with other government officials to reiterate the United States’ “firm commitment to a peaceful, prosperous and democratic Armenia, and a stable and secure Caucasus region,” Pelosi said in a statement announcing her trip. The House speaker is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Armenia since it gained independence 30 years ago with the break-up of the Soviet Union, her office said.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/nancy-pelosi-armenia-surprise-visit-azerbaijan-conflict
Isn’t this a function of our State Dept? Or the Uni-party split up Eastern European and Eurasian countries to Congress leadership ‘to brace them for personal financial enrichment (like Hunter Biden did in Ukraine, along with Sen McStain and Sen Graham).
Pelosi enjoys the free booze on her government jet.
Pelosi must retire. She has been in office so long she does not respect anyone’s job and feel entitled to encroach wherever she pleases. The Biden administration is very dis-organized and incompetent.
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Mornin’ comrade banana republic infidel fascists.
Good one & good morning!
Ain’t that the truth.
I am still in Isiah 65. This is Verse 23 speaking of the coming Kingdom of God:
23 They shall not labor in vain
or bear children for calamity,
for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and their descendants with them.
In the perfection of God in eternity, there is no failed pregnancy or childhood calamity.
So much if the trouble of this world is the calamities it brings upon its children. “They are precious in His sight.”
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
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 Sunday, September 18, 2022
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“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Blessings to all our friends here today,on this day that the Lord has made.May we all enjoy the fruits of Thy bounty,through Christ our Lord… Amen. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I was very sorry to learn about your 11 year old kitty passing last week Marti. My sincerest condolences…Casco.
Blessings back at you, Casco.
And to you as well GrandpaM!
Had a bunch of rain here as of late…wish I could ship some over to your area for you.Messed up some some of my plans,but all is cock-a-hoop otherwise… 🙂
I wish you could. After the 3 inches we got in the end of August it’s hot and dry again. At least the mornings are cooler and when the sun goes down at night it cools down.
Well thank the Lord for that anyways.
😁😁😁😁😁!!!! Quite right, my friend.So glad for your mana from heaven. Does that mean the boys can’t get out for their walks? I bet the squirrels miss them something fierce.😘
Early morn walkabouts…that’s it.The “babysitters” got paid today for very little work…I need to talk to their union rep about that! Blessings as always my dear friend… 🙂
Thank you CBB!
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We don’t have to approve. But we should at least be aware. The barbarians are in the wire, and while they collapse the city walls and commence burning it all down, we do no one any favors by just standing in the museum gazing at an ancient marble bust and pining for he glory that was once The West.
Elon Musk’s recent girlfriend is beginning a regimen of “body mods” that includes surgeries to obtain elf ears, vampire teeth, full body tattoo, and more. Her recent music video is below.
Meanwhile, “President Joe Biden issued an executive order mandating transhumanism earlier this week, calling for ‘genetic engineering technologies’ to ‘predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers.’”
Put it all together and what do you have? Perhaps a shot of DNA will rid a patient of cancer (or change their skin color?). However, maybe something else. Why do surgery when, soon, if you want elf ears, just get a shot of the right DNA and grow your own. Get bored with that? Next month, grow a tail and fur and become a cat. Shape-shifting, anyone? Pick a body like you choose a sweater to wear.
Brave New World, or the world as a living insane asylum? Our choice. Always our choice.
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/grimes_shares_body_mod_plans_including_vampire_teeth_elf_ears_full_body_tattoo_and_more
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/biden-issues-executive-order-mandating-transhumanism-calls-for-genetic-engineering-technologies-to-write-circuitry-for-cells-similar-to-computer-programming/
NEVER voting DeSantis. Will NEVER vote for a career politician again. Only outsiders.
Trump is an outsider.
Kari Lake is an outsider.
Remember those Yellow Pages ads….”Let Your Fingers Do The Walking.”
In case it’s been a while….you might find this song a good reminder to stay connected with your friends and family who might be lost somewhere out there.
Feeling alone and unloved, they might be waiting for a phone call from you.
PB came back but she is not well. I offered her some hamburger and she did not eat it. We shall see. I told Sherry to take her to the vet tomorrow if PB is still not acting right and she wants to do it.
Hope the little kitty is ok,Rah.
May be got into a fight and received some bite wounds. Then that may cause a high fever which in turn will make her not want to eat. Just don’t give her any OTC pain relievers.
First thought, G.
Oh no, rah!! Eaten something? Been in an altercation? Our feral came back from one of those and it took a couple of days recuperation to get back to normal.
Yes…to the vet. I’ll offer A prayer on her (his?) behalf to St Francis. Thank you for the update, though I wish the news were better.
She is not tore up. But is not acting too spry either.
Ohaheya
Rickie Byars Beckwith
“I am listening!” all day long!”
A road less traveled, and so harder to find, but well worth the trip!
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✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.