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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Love Like the Galaxy – Cowboy In Me – Tim McGraw
A “Love Like the Galaxy” music video focused on General Ling Buyi (Leo Wu), the emperor’s foster son, who has fallen in love with Cheng Shaoshang (Zhao Lu Si), the daughter of a military couple who abandoned her to her uncaring grandmother for 15 years while they defended the Chinese borders. Caught up with Buyi’s need for revenge against the murder of his father, Shaoshang has to balance her own temper and her fear of being again abandoned. The drama can be found on YouTube and on viki.com. Romance and bloody sword fights.
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Awe! Absolutely WONDERFUL!
Just ran across a very good question…
If cats had pockets, what do you think they’d keep in them?
Food for thought…
You answered your own question. 😉😊
And only that, I suspect😂
And their favorite toy.
If there were room for an empty cardboard box, I think they’d pocket that as well.😁
😂
Good morning Patience! ❤️
Good morning, Pa❣️
-Have a good day.
Good morning, Patience and Ma 🤗🤗. Hope all is well (crossed fingers and 🙏)
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Should be goodnight for me, but insomnia has kicked in yet again (stress).
Be well Jay!
Sack time for me, may the good Lord give you peace and a good nights sleep. In Jesus name amen. 🙂
Good night, Mr jay. Sleep well, dear sir.
Maidin Mhaith Betsy hopefully you’ve dozed off by now and get a good rest. Just getting ready for work now, 🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
All is well…hope your day is a good one.😊
Kicked in for me as well, Mom. You’ve got company.
Good morning Bet! Funny stuff, I was awake around the same time last night. When I get fidgety like that 20-30 push-ups usually do the job. Worked last night, too. 😁 Thought about picking up my iPad but then I’d be up until 3 so push-ups it was.
Had a busy day yesterday so didn’t see your reply until evening. PTL that your son walked away from that wreck at 21. I had some broken bones and cuts from mine and it took some time but the Lord healed me like a brand new guy. I have that scar on my right arm from piece of the dashboard that sliced me there but it made for some great shark bite stories during my diving days. 😂 Of course, at the and I always revealed the real reason for the scar.
Another busy day today, already done with the garden, now on to working out, then taking mom to the doctor, and then having Nipper for the rest of the evening and the night. ❤️😘
Good morning, my friend. Dang!! You were watched over no question. I can imagine the serious healing time needed. From the ashes, right? He had plans for you. It’s only when we get further down our individual roads, turn around and see where we’ve been that we can truly appreciate His interventions. I say that for myself, and I’m certain you’d agree.
I tossed and turned, loth to get up, but then was tapped on the shoulder, a reminder that I wanted to post that lengthy story below. So got up, had a glass of soporific milk, and got down to business.
The funny thing for me is that when I do go to bed, I am sleepy…but the minute my head hits the pillow? Boom! Wide awake. . Milk usually takes care of that, but pushups are definitely out😂. But whatever works, right? To each his own.
I know you’re looking forward to having your young man with you. Bet he is as well. Hope your mom is all right, and is in and out quickly. Don’t know what your vision of retirement was, but I bet this wasn’t it. Love you much😘
(Adding this…”Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.” A lot of peace in that philosophy.)
LOL, Bet, definitely didn’t envision the whole thing being that busy.
Mom is doing fine. When we were abroad in August we had 3 corns on her toes laser treated there because we got tired of going to the foot doctors here just to have to go back month after month. We’ll, the two smaller wounds healed just fine but the one one her big toe hasn’t. So we are going to see my local family doctor who is a friend of mine. May need a course of oral antibiotic.
Love you too, dear sister. 😍
There’s always one… the big toe hasn’t healed probably due to shoe pressure I’m betting…said the not podiatrist. If feet aren’t right, it can really drag you down. I’ve lost all trust in the medical field. I’m sure they see us as ATMs. In any event, hope the doctor is able to put it right. It seems just yesterday you were abroad, and here we are in the almost middle of October… and that sound you hear is time speeding by…🤗
I hope your stress and sleep loss are healed by God.
I pretty much pray the same for myself and anyone else who cannot sleep due to stress and other issues.
Whatever the problem……the answer is God.
When I can’t sleep I watch movies on youtube. Hundreds of movies, dated from long ago to contemporary, to choose from. All free and 99.9% uninterrupted by ads.
To find them, I type “free movies” into the YT search box.
Right now I’m halfway through an amazing film from 1935 “The Crusades”.
Have you tried Melatonin?
Aretha Franklin at this juncture in her life had an incendiary voice. Thanks.
My pleasure 🇺🇸😎🇺🇸
Mornin’ Jay! 🙂
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Morning jay!
Howdy Gramps 🇺🇸😎🇺🇸
“A trip down Market Street”. This is film of San Francisco, 1906 shortly before the great earthquake and fire.
Mornin, lindak.
Wow. Although that looks quite danderous 😱
it’s like the walk from the train station to the Vatican.
No stop lights, but cars, trucks, buses and pedestrians all moved without injury.
I also thought it was interesting to watch the horses go about amongst it all.
They really take it in stride.
San Francisco has some extraordinarily steep streets running across town. I can’t imgine they made horses go up those hills with a load and yet they were using horse drawn taxi’s.
The cable cars were still in everyday use up until the 1990’s and some genius decided to take most of them out.
There are still a few cable lines in use, but cable cars were such a convenient way to get around.
I used to work near Market and would catch a cable for $1.00 to take me up California Street (very steep)near Grace Cathedral where I parked my car. They came by every 15 minutes and were always busy.
– the San Francisco treat
That’s it! The exact street.
Wow that was very interesting to see.
thanks for posting.
One more . . .
You’re making me date myself again, Garrison😉 No worries though. Love these trips down memory lane. Blessings always, my friend😘
Good morning Betsy ☀️
Can’t resist asking you…..if you only dated yourself, how’d you and hubby meet up??? 😂
Hahaaaha. Whenever I sees that phrase, I always think of it that way as well. 😁 Good mornin’, Cat.
Morning Cat! 💜
😂😂 Howdy FC
Mornin’ Cat! 🙂
Mornin’ Bet . . . I think I’m “dating” a bunch of us. Listening to this music again is fun but its also a reminder of just how long ago it all was. Oh, well. 🙂
A whole bunch of emotions go into that remembering, Garrison. Can’t hold the flood back. And sometimes it is just overwhelming I think.
Howdy Garrison!
Testing
just maybe another version of “Darlin Be Home Soon”
Howdy Garrison cooler up here today very nice 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Nashville Cats brought a favorite Jackson Browne song to my mind…. “I’m the cat”. Some good play on words in the lyrics and a fun song
Good morning benzy, garrison, , jay, ray, Betsy, grandpa and…and… EVERYONE!!!!!
🥰 ❤️
Cat . . . 🙂
Morning right back in your direction, Cat
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Hi there, Garrison😎.
Good morning to one and all. Yesterday, Aggiegirl posted a lovely selection of pictures of Christ, our Lord and Saviour, with lambs. They we’re beautiful.
It made me remember the following which I love and have posted before. The time seemed right for me to repost it…
The Bummer Lamb
“Every once in a while, a ewe gives birth to a lamb and will reject it. There are many reasons she may do this. If a lamb is returned to the ewe, the mother may even kick the poor animal away. Once a ewe rejects one of her lambs, she will never change her mind. These little lambs will hang their heads so low that it looks like something is wrong with its neck. Their spirit is broken.
These lambs are called “bummer lambs”. Unless the shepherd intervenes, that lamb will die, rejected and alone. So, do you know what the shepherd does? He takes that rejected little one into his home, hand feeds it, and keeps it warm by the fire. He will wrap it up in blankets and hold it close to his chest so the bummer can hear his heartbeat.
Once the lamb is strong enough, the shepherd will place it back in the field with the rest of the flock.
But that sheep never forgets how the shepherd cared for him when his mother rejected him. When the shepherd calls the flock, guess who runs to him first? That’s right, the bummer sheep. He knows his voice intimately.
It is not that the bummer lamb is loved more. It just believes it because it has experienced the love one on one.
So many of us are bummer lambs, rejected and broken. But he is the Good Shepherd. He cares for our every need and holds us close to His heart so we can hear His heartbeat. We may be broken, but we are deeply loved by the Shepherd.”
….always…
Blessings to all🙏
Beautiful reminder! Thank you & blessings to you as well 😊
You are so welcome. Hoping for you when sleep finally comes it will be undisturbed and restful.
Good Morning – goodaye Betsy ❤️
Imo, one of your bestest posts 🥰 😊
Feed my sheep 🎶
I’d forgotten that one, Cat…thank you for the message. So much love to you both…missing my Mungrel…LBT😘
The Airplane during this time was hip-deep in the “counterculture”. Ken Kesy’s Merry Pranksters were putting on rock concerts called “Acid Tests” (as in “can you pass the acid test?”) which featured 55 gallon drums filled with Cool-Aid and LSD.
I always associate Viet Nam, that most degrading, useless, costly war and those times with Jefferson Airplane music.
On the site The New Americanist, every day on the Morning Muster section, there is posted one of the faces and gravestones of one of the young men sacrificed in that obscene war. A different young man every day.
When I see their faces…young, at the start of their lives, most barely out of high school…it is difficult for me not to tear up. In fact, I never succeed.
It’s so easy to understand why men who served in that abominable war, visiting the Viet Nam War Memorial, break down. Sorrowfully, it was ever thus with the Military Industrial Complex and why I have such raw hatred for it.
May God continue to rest the souls of those who were lost.
One strong message from your words, Bet, is this: alone is not quite the same as lonely.
No, it isn’t, Garrison. What you say is a very profound truth. I thought you might appreciate it. No, not the same at all.
God answered a prayer with this posting. Thank you.
Before I posted it, Elle, I prayed that in doing so, there would be one person at least that its comforting truth would reach. I hope with my whole heart it won’t be just one. Thank you…and God bless you.
Hello, Lovely-heart and mind Betsy. 💖
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Thank you, my friend among at the branches…😘
i know you don’t think it’s right ..
i know that you think it’s fake ..
maybe fake’s what i like ….
12 October 2011 Joel “Taz” DiGregorio, American country-rock keyboardist (Charlie Daniels Band), killed in a car accident at 67 [1]
12 October 2009 Dickie Peterson American heavy metal bassist (Blue Cheer), dies of liver cancer at 63
12 October 1997 (Henry) John Denver [Deutschendorf], American pop songwriter (“Leaving On A Jet Plane”), country-pop singer (“Sunshine On My Shoulders”; “Calypso”; “Thank God I’m A Country Boy”), and actor (Oh, God!), dies in a solo plane crash at 53
12 October 1985 Ricky Wilson, American rock guitarist (B-52’s – “Love Shack”), dies of AIDS at 32
You forgot “Almost Heaven, West Virginia” 😇
Blue Ridge Mountains 😎
Yeh, but the Blue Ridge Mountains are in Virginia and not West By God Virginia
Reference is to John Denver song 🤪
Just checked and the Blue Ridge mountains are in West Virginia at least according to the maps 👀
Love that one.
It was my other choice, i’m not exactly impartial on this one as I sit here in the Rockies.
If it were not a busy day I would have posted more than one.
I entered the band as a nobody.. and I left the band as a nobody..
it’s lost in the 80’s.. our “hit single” (lol..).. since the band leaders didn’t sign his contract..
I guess it ended up on the cutting room floor.. and swept away by Time.. (that could be a good thing.. lol..)..
I didn’t have a hand in writing it.. but from what I can remember it was a pretty decent song.. my personal copy of it was stolen out of my car..
we were young and unpolished.. but I did find out one thing though.. record producers have power.. they can make you or break you.. it’s all in the clean-up.. presentation.. and arrangement..
honestly this was the closest thing I could find to it.. in tone.. arrangement.. and sentiment.. and the typical practice and off-stage antics as well..
even back in the day when this song came out.. we were like ..dang.. in a way it was somewhat similar.. but we decided to keep it as is anyway..
October 12 Oswald Chambers
Getting into God’s Stride
Enoch walked with God… —Genesis 5:24
The true test of a person’s spiritual life and character is not what he does in the extraordinary moments of life, but what he does during the ordinary times when there is nothing tremendous or exciting happening. A person’s worth is revealed in his attitude toward the ordinary things of life when he is not under the spotlight (see John 1:35-37 and John 3:30). It is painful work to get in step with God and to keep pace with Him— it means getting your second wind spiritually. In learning to walk with God, there is always the difficulty of getting into His stride, but once we have done so, the only characteristic that exhibits itself is the very life of God Himself. The individual person is merged into a personal oneness with God, and God’s stride and His power alone are exhibited.
It is difficult to get into stride with God, because as soon as we start walking with Him we find that His pace has surpassed us before we have even taken three steps. He has different ways of doing things, and we have to be trained and disciplined in His ways. It was said of Jesus— “He will not fail nor be discouraged…” (Isaiah 42:4) because He never worked from His own individual standpoint, but always worked from the standpoint of His Father. And we must learn to do the same. Spiritual truth is learned through the atmosphere that surrounds us, not through intellectual reasoning. It is God’s Spirit that changes the atmosphere of our way of looking at things, and then things begin to be possible which before were impossible. Getting into God’s stride means nothing less than oneness with Him. It takes a long time to get there, but keep at it. Don’t give up because the pain is intense right now— get on with it, and before long you will find that you have a new vision and a new purpose.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The Bible is the only Book that gives us any indication of the true nature of sin, and where it came from.
https://utmost.org/getting-into-god%E2%80%99s-stride/
I managed a few hours of sleep & off to work soon. God sure has a way of giving me the answers I seem to be searching for, and amazingly most of them come from here.
Thank you & peace and blessings to you all ❤️
And to you, Mom. 🙏
Aaron Brickman has predicted the markets accurately. He says there is a catastrophic crash coming after a final rally on Friday. https://nitter.net/agbrickman
The head of the Bank of England was in DC yesterday and told pension fund managers they had 3 days to liquidate everything.
Saw that. He intervened last week in Britain when Kwarteng threw his spitball. Looks as if he is not prepared to do so again. The central bank dugout may be out of pinch hitters. We’ll see…
I’m thinking with this statement, the BOE just might be delivering a message to the Treasury Secretary and the incompetent, not fit for the job PM Truss.
When Kwarteng introduced his mini budget, the screams from all were heard round the world. I suspect part of this is to force Kwarteng and Truss into a humiliating backdown on that. Again, we’ll see…
Is it time to get our cash out of the banks, then?
. . . 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)
October 12
MORNING
God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. II Cor. 5:19
It pleased the Father, that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself. Col. 1:19, 20
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Psa. 85:10
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil. Jer. 29:11
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shalt be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isa. 1:18
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity? Micah 7:18
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace. Job 22:21
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Phil. 2:12, 13
LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. Isa. 26:12
EVENING
Thy kingdom come. Matt. 6:10
In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Dan. 2:44
A stone . . . cut out without hands. Dan. 2:34
Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. Zech. 4:6
The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:20, 21
Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God. So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. Mark 4:11, 26, 27, 29
Be ye … ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh. Matt. 24:44
The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. Rev. 22:17
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/10/1012.html
I got in from my run up to Chicago very late last night. The traffic on I-80, I-94 in Indiana was backed up five miles before the junction of I-294 and I-94 in Illinois. It is all due to Construction on the east bound side and on I-65 in Indiana. Truely brutal with 20 miles of bumper to bumper, stop and go stuff.
When I got home Geisha the Cocker wanted to go outside. I went with her, as I always do initially at night to make sure there are no skunks or coyotes around. Usually I will go out with her and just check it out and then go inside until she barks at the door after doing her business. But this time I could tell by the way she was acting that there was a critter of some kind about.
She went into the yard and peed and then came right back to the table on the deck. That table has an oil cloth table cloth on it and is pushed up against solid composite rail/wall that borders the composite deck at that point. She stuck her head under there and I lifted up the table cloth to see what was under there. scrunched up behind a couple boxes that hold the covers for that outside furniture that we stow under the table was a young possum looking at us. I jerked Geisha back using her lead and led her back inside.
BTW, from now until Indiana gets that mess straightened out, I will be getting off of I-294 E at I-57 S and take that down to Kankakee before cutting east to catch I-65 well below that mess.
Give me a possum over a pol (D.C. variety) any day!
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.
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Verse of the Day for Wednesday, October 12, 2022
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“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Mornin’ all.
Top of the morning all.
I have a medical question. My wife, who will be 75 next month, had severe abdominal pain the other night. We ended up in the emergency room and the CT scan revealed a kidney stone. Pain medication was given and we went home some 6 hours later. When we get the test results notes from the hospital the CT scan also revealed my wife has a 1.1 cm splenic artery aneurysm. I have since learned that is the artery going to the spleen. Has anyone here dealt with an aneurysm before it has ruptured? What kind of doctor deals with aneurysms? I don’t know where to begin! We are both unvaccinated. My trust in the medical profession is at an all time low. After she passes the kidney stone I want to get an opinion about her aneurysm. TIA!
Bubby, I’d phone the hospital and ask them for the names of doctors there to whom she could go, if not an outright referral. I’m quite shocked they did not refer her on to one. And I would be quite insistent. Kidney stones are so painful. I hope she is drinking lots of water, even if she’s not thirsty, so it will pass more quickly. God go with you both and of course prayers she will be restored to good health, sir.🙏
Been thinking…were it I, I’d be phoning my own doctor for an appointment and let him/her take a look at the scan and the notes. I’m certain referrals if needed, could start from there, Bubby.
Agree betsy. I was typing (hand pecking) my reply to bubby when you posted this.
Bubby, if you trust your (wife’s) primary care physician (PCP), start by calling them for referral guidance. Ask if they’ve rec’d a copy of the CT assessment to offer their opinion as well (although these days, PCPs just refer out).
A vascular surgeon will assess your wife’s condition before determining if surgery is needed, so that person could be the “2nd opinion” you should be seeking anyway.
But mostly, sounds like you need guidance from her PCP to get to a vascular 2nd opinion.
Wednesday, my day to go to the gun range and in the evening to my neighborhood pub for a beer or two. Life is good.
Sounds like you’re on a good program ..🤣😂👍
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Come now is the time to worship
I’m watching cement dry….LOL! Supposed to be boring beyond language…but, it is fascinating when it is my personal cement and watching what all is required when experts are doing the work.
Always something new to learn in this world.
Ive always believed we are here to love and to learn. If we could just focus on those two things, what a wonderful world it would be!
This is from an article “The Mystery of Evil” which is quite well discussed. Like many, I consider the “Father of Lies” to be the source of evil. But how did Satan get there? The author contemplates George Soros.
“Lately, I’ve been thinking about George Soros as a representative specimen of the presumably sociopathic genus. A totalitarian plutocrat, who as a youth collaborated with the Nazis and is proud of it (see his interview with Steve Kroft), Soros has dedicated his efforts to dismantling the nation in which his success had been assured, promoting unscrupulous attorneys-general in various states, bankrolling extremist guerilla groups, indoctrinating students, and subsidizing electoral machinations. His Open Society Foundations has engaged in the subversion of traditional norms and usages and produced turmoil and disruption on a national level. Matt Palumbo’s recent The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros documents in meticulous detail the extent of Soros’ malign interventions in politics, civics, and finance with a view to destabilizing nation-states, particularly America. As Palumbo writes, Soros’ “lack of conscience” and political efforts are directed toward “creat[ing] the false reality needed to justify his political position.” His “gift” to the country is corruption, deceit, doctrinal malfeasance, and the broadcasting of division and hatred between citizens of a disintegrating America.
Continuing my simple thought experiment, on the other side of the moral ledger we have the Greek shipowner Panos Laskaridis who, like the coetaneous Soros, has amassed an immense fortune that ordinary people can only dream of. Yet the difference between Soros and Laskaridis could not be more stark. Laskaridis has donated from his ample fortune in order to benefit, solidify, and perpetuate the heritage and pride of his beloved country. He has built a prominent institution, the Laskaridis Foundation, in honor of Greece’s past triumphs, promoting, as his curator says in an interview with Peter Maneas, “civilization and Greek letters [via] historical libraries and education programs for schoolchildren.” The library features such celebrated muniments as the Nelson Letters and the first edition of Homer’s Odyssey from 1489. As Maneas sums up, Laskaridis “is a role model for those more fortunate in the world.”
Soros and Laskaridis are, for me, placeholder figures or “headers” in what we might think of as columnar antitheses comprising fortunate people who have thrived in life’s lottery, on the one side those who use their means and leisure for harm and social turbulence, and on the other, those who feel deeply the need to share their good fortune, to “give back,” as Laskaridis said. We may call the former class “evil” insofar as the misery they create appears to be unprovoked and groundless, especially when the “purpose” they affect is an opaque cover for something ulterior, an inexplicable viciousness for which there is no apparent necessity.
https://pjmedia.com/culture/david-solway-2/2022/10/11/the-mystery-of-evil-n1636262
Thank you for this one, lindak. A thoughtful piece indeed, and one which mirrors my own thoughts of late about what makes monsters, which Soros is…and we can add others.
Those who are sadists in the purest form. Those whose sole pleasure in life is to be able, through amassing their blood money (I will not call it wealth), find every way possible to ruin and even destroy the lives of others simply for the pleasure it will give them. Power is their drug, and I’m sure that is part of it.
Whether they admit it or even have the ability to recognize it in themselves is irrelevant. Soros and his cancerous ilk are born with pieces missing. Either that, or, as I believe, satan himself does indeed walk this earth, collecting souls (or what passes for them). Does he make Mephistophelian-like bargains with these latter day Fausts? One wonders, given that evil like Soros and Schwab seem to thrive even in decrepit old age.
A fascinating conversation worth having. I’m glad you left that article here.
I think evil is the source of most mischief and sorrow. There are people touched by evil, victims of evil and then there are those who actually are evil and enable it.
I agree with every word.
Cuts like a knife.
This is a rather long article of Dr. Mercola’s but – it is filled with useful links.
It discusses the discovery of two researchers who claim to have discovered a way to test for spike protein in human tissue; also in the article is that research has shown that in those who had covid (and not the vaccine) had spike protein a year after having been infected and so it assumes those who received the spike protein from the shots also will find spike protein still present.
Links include ones to two physicians now working to help those injured by the inoculations, and at the very bottom are links to various substack authors of interest, so this particular Mercola article may be worth saving for future references as well.
My take away is whether having the virus (without having been vax’d) or having the v, we need to be aware of the blood clotting issues since it appears research is showing it is the spike protein (from the virus and the vx) may be what is stimulating the clotting issues.
https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/covid-vaccine-and-blood-clots
Tulsi Gabbard is on the Joe Rogan Experience today and she formally left the DemonRat Party. I like her. Good for her. Welcome to your freedom, Tulsi. Might be a late convert… but we will take the win!
She blasted the mess out of the DemonRats today. The Democrat party that she joined… the party of John F Kennedy… is gone. It no longer exists. She believes the Democrat party is unsavable.
She’s moving to Independent.
Be careful there, J Woo. Apparently she is one of the WEF Young Leaders of the Future, as so many who have pulled the wool over our eyes are. Example…Dan Crenshaw.
I can’t reconcile her leaving the godless Dems with that which I’ve seen reported. Hold your approval in abeyance until the smoke clears.
No need for me to wait on anything. Nothing has changed. She is out for herself PERIOD!
Yep….Grifters and opportunists, rah. I am in agreement. I don’t believe a single one.
Andrei on the Saker has a brief piece outlining his views on Gabbart.
He is as skeptical as I am…
https://thesaker.is/
“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas knew in September 2021 that mounted Border Patrol agents did not whip Haitian border crossers with their reins, as so many blue checkmarks and corrupt corporate media outlets suggested. Yet mere hours after he received word that the photographer who took the viral photos never saw any whipping, Mayorkas peddled the lie at a White House press conference.
“It was horrible to see. To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It’s outrageous,” Biden told reporters from behind the presidential seal. “I promise you, those people will pay. There will be an investigation underway now, and there will be consequences. There will be consequences.”
I’m sure that some of the readers here have taken the time to read RFK Jr’s. 600 page book, “The Real Anthony Fauci”. The book has been made into a documentary that is getting banned much like the book was/is. Here’s a link to info on the movie. It will be released for free on 10/18/22. You just have to provide an email.
The Real Anthony Fauci: The Movie – The Thinking Conservative
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.
Thank you, Andeclain, for posting the prayer. I went to my Son’s house for dinner and didn’t get back in time. Hugs.
Amen…
Amen.
Amen and amen.🙏
Amen
Amen.
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✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.