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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I’m still recovering from posting the final “Love Like the Galaxy” videos in the Presidential Politics thread. So, in the meantime, let me post some of my favorite older pieces in the correct place.
Deep Space 9 – The Load Out & Stay – Jackson Browne
summarizes the whole series
Get Smart – Pollution – Tom Lehrer
Harry Potter – One Night in Bangkok – Chess
Miami Vice – Je Te Rechaufferai – Charles Aznavour
Indiana Jones – Father and Son – Cat Stevens
NCIS – Lean on Me – Bill Withers
https://youtu.be/YgPqiVGfb18
Sherlock Holmes – Brett – Arbiter – Chess
https://youtu.be/uS1x6kug6qM
Due South – Hot Rod Lincoln – Johnny Bond
https://youtu.be/0qMROUoXhSc
Interested in something a little different?
“East meets West” with Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Meuhin.
Don’t thonk the ‘warming up’ is “it”,…”it”starts when you hear the drummer weigh in.
Its like “dueling banjos”, only with classical violin vs Sitar.
Not for everyone, its definitely,…different!
Do you have a link or should I search YouTube for “East meets West”? I have the vaguest itch that I’ve seen Ravi Shankar in concert, but I can’t seem to find the spot. I’m open to strange. Only thing that comes to mind as really disliked is rap.
Found it. Listening.
Like it very much. Just sent a note to husband to pick it up on Amazon. Many thanks for the recommendation.
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Morning Cat! Left you a reply yesterday (or two). 😍💜
It sounds wonderful.
Not long ago, I met the author of this book:
Redoing the above last 3 for the missing images:
NCIS – Lean on Me – Bill Withers
https://youtu.be/YgPqiVGfb18
Sherlock Holmes – Brett – Arbiter – Chess
https://youtu.be/uS1x6kug6qM
Due South – Hot Rod Lincoln – Johnny Bond
https://youtu.be/0qMROUoXhSc
And adding two more because I THINK you get 5 images in a post:
Hobbit – Song For Adam – Jackson Browne
Due South – If I Died Today – Tim McGraw
Good’uns, Mary!!! 🙂
I was hoping that showing a diverse bunch would make the “literary” part of “literary song videos” clear. The idea is to either show off a character, a relationship, or a theme of a show. It gives you enough information so that it becomes another type of trailer to help you decide if it’s worth even thinking about watching. But, unlike a trailer, it focuses in on an aspect of the show. That’s why they come in bunches. Because complex shows are making very different points and exploring different issues and you need multiple cuts across the show to demonstrate its complexity.
They function differently for fans of a particular show. A fan will know the details of a show cold. No matter how many episodes or movies. So music videos turn into little parlor games where you’re challenging them to get the connection between a scene that doesn’t necessarily have physical action to make its point but, rather, expressions and situations. Mother studied fine arts and always said that a painting is a collaboration between the person with the brush and the observer. Music videos are like that. I put in massive amounts of subtlety (e.g., the clip for a lyric coming from an episode having that lyric as its name), and viewers will see other meanings. Their understanding, then, is a crucial part of the art that we’ve created together.
The structure of a music video has a tremendous amount in common with the structure of a short story. You can use flashbacks, stream of conscious, balance of opening and closing, etc. In one video, I ran two separate timelines. The verses carried the current story and the chorus carried the development of the past. These are the games with which you challenge a viewer who knows all the scenes you’re using, but is given a new context in which to think about those scenes. “Fans” USED to put in that sort of effort, at least the ones that used to write to me.
Today is different. In the same way that the internet has shortened people’s concentration and verbal interchanges, the analysis of music videos has deteriorated so that it really only makes sense to make “convention videos” that use physical motion to match the lyrics and not “living room videos” that make people think. Interesting times.
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Leon, you’ve outdone yourself tonight. Absolutely wonderful photograph.
nice one, Leon
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“the eyes have it” … happy Caturday y’all
I actually have two photographs of those two in a video of cats:
Cats – Segovia – Bach
In the dictionary under “beauty”.
Better than a My Pillow…Mike has competition😍
Good morning Bet! There you are. ❤️😘
Morning, G!! All present and accounted for😁 Reminds me of this…
Drill Sergeant: JONES!!!! I didn’t see you at camouflage training this morning!!
Jones, saluting: Thank you, Sir!!
Off today to plug a few holes in the pantry. Can’t wait to see if I need to remortgage the house to make it happen😉😘 All blessings to you, my beloved friend.
LOL! Back from Nipper’s soccer game and now resting.
I’ll bet you are…good! 😘
Don’t forget…A surreptitious hug from “Auntie Bet”😉💕
Will have to wait until next week. He is spending the weekend with his other grandparents. He and his mom live with them but they are back from a trip and wanted to have some time with him.
Understandable….he’s not short of love, that’s for sure💕
One more . . .
Thanks Garrison, all four were so good. Really enjoyed them.
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Good morning, Garrison. I did enjoy those…very much. But it was the third one that took me back to my home across the pond. A home that thanks to globalists and evil is no more. Nothing stays the same, so it was so nice to listen to that one and remember…sigh…😘
Good morning, Bet. Those “Translantic Sessions” are quite special. They were a BBC production that Jerry Douglas helped coordinate. Lot’s of great music made by splendid musicians. 🙂
Now that makes sense….there was such a Gaelic/Celtic feel to it. And truly that music is so evocative. I’ve always been drawn to it. It simply gets into my soul and probably why to this day I call the country I lived in for so long home.🤗
Good morning Garrison!
Yo, Gramps!!! 🙂
Great choices, Garrison… compelled me to post the version most of us know of “Hey, Joe” from the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Yep. Great music is timeless. 🙂
One more version of Hey Joe. I loved Roy Buchanan’s music.
Very nice!
Like!! 🙂
I think the best he did. IMHO
No more handguns in Canada….criminal activity to increase now. O Canada.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canada-bans-all-handgun-sales-in-latest-gun-control-move/ar-AA13eVbg#comments
Hope Canadians could see this coming and stocked up for all the boating accidents which will no doubt occur.
Seriously though, how many businesses has Dictator Justine just impaled? Fascism at its finest.
This is part of the WEF “Great Reset”. The authoritarian/fascist state cannot allow an armed citizenry to exist. This is one reason I like living in Texas where, if you pay attention, you quickly discover that there are a lot more discretely armed citizens than most people think. I have a friend who is European hard-left. He is appalled that Texans can legally carry concealed weapons. I told him that 1. While I don’t always go about armed, when I do carry a weapon you’d never know it and 2. When I need it, I’m glad it’s there. Sadly, there are places—like Walmart parking lots—that are particularly dangerous for slow moving, elderly people.
Of course you are correct. Your friend may be looking back on that comment to you with extreme regret as Europe, especially Germany, solidifies its totalitarian death grip around the necks of their shockingly supplicant populations.
Though I will say this, maybe not so obliging, the European citizenry. Unreported here, even on sites where I normally expect to see videos and news from Europe, come a few bits which show massive protests throughout those benighted countries. I expect as winter gets going there will be more.
As for “discreetly carrying”? My dear mother in law had a favourite phrase…you don’t have to tell everything you know…quite right.
This is not even difficult to predict:
Canada will ban all handgun ammo next.
From their perspective, why would their citizens need ammo for guns they *WILL* have taken from them?
This is how liberals/modern communists think.
Small comfort, but the leaders in most Canadian provinces have told Castro Junior that they will not enforce his ban on long guns. Once that message was delivered, only then did he narrow his sights o to handguns. A wicked, arrogant malignancy is Justine.
While all around us is destroyed, how wonderful to know our Rock stands and will not be moved.🙏
The Rock of Ages, Tsur Olam.
Amen, amen, amen!!!🙏💕
Food for thought
The vaccine may be turning the recipients’ DNA into a triple helix:
https://bitchute.com/video/98g9MzTMGjbv
http://tritorch.com/tripleHelix.png
http://tritorch.com/tripleHelix2.png
And according to a whistle-blower, Luciferase is in the vaccine as an identifier:
https://bitchute.com/video/GeiHxmFXn2ok
And this may be what the transgender movement is actually all about:
https://bitchute.com/video/PbcdLSEaKnru
Time is thin.
Thank you, griever, for these. The godless monsters behind all of this knew what they intended to accomplish. More and more, the light creeps in and exposes these atrocities. God bless and be with all ethical men and women who put their careers and lives on the line to expose the monsters who are commiting these heinous crimes.
22 October 2021 Jay Black [David Blatt], American pop singer (Jay and the Americans – “Come A Little Bit Closer”; “This Magic Moment”), dies of pneumonia and complications from dementia at 82
22 October 2020 Derek Quinn, British guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers – “I’m Telling You Now”), dies at 68
22 October 2017 George Young, Scottish-Australian musician, songwriter and record producer (the Easybeats, Flash and the Pan), dies at 70
22 October 1994 James “Jimmy” Miller, American record producer and musician (The Rolling Stones), dies of liver failure at 52
22 October 1989 Ewan MacColl [James Miller], Scottish folk singer-songwriter (“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”), dies at 74
I had the Flash and The Pan LP … a great late-70s oddity
Had this amazing mood piece on it, there’s a synth filter that opens and closes very slowly over what feels like a 30-second or so cycle
Grace Jones had a minor hit with a cover version, it’s worth pulling up
A Gift to the World: Seeking Not Our Own
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2022/10/a-gift-to-the-world-seeking-not-our-own/
catchy, you can dance to it, I give it an 8-and-a-half
music them kids are making these days
Their earlier one I liked — they’ve got a knack for catchy melodies and riffs and strike the perfect air of youthful disaffection
another melodic and evocative song that I like from young artists … and the video opens with a kitty cat
there’s good music being made out there if you’re able to stumble on it
Much of the EU, has already suffered a huge increase in mortality. Watch and read the translation carefully:
It Must Be Climate Change | Real Climate Science
In Germany, dirty climate cultists glued themselves to the floor in a Volkswagen showroom, then demanded they be supplied with food and receptacles for the proceeds thereof.
What to do??
Unlike the milquetoast ineffective supportive, pleading UK police, Volkswagen knew exactly how to handle it.
They all left the showroom, turning off the lights and the heating as they shut the door.
And that’s how it’s done (applause and standing ovation).
The police eventually came with a doctor to unglue them and hauled them away.
My husband, never one to put up with imbecility, thinks the best way is just to grab hold of the wrist and yank…one good hefty pull should do it
Wow. Almost makes me want to buy a Volkswagen to show my approval.
They say that in nature if it is colored brightly then it is often a warning sign that the animal is poisonous.
In the humanity there are many different signs that a human is pure societal poison.
Here is one of a type I sometimes see when driving.
The make of the car is also a dead ringer.
😂
Someone need to stick one of those “Joe Did That” stickers on there…bet they’d never see it.
And the fact that they would destroy whatever value that car might have had by posting all of those stickers all over the paint shows their lack of comprehension of economics and the value of things
True, but it is just a suburau.
most granola-eating, tree-hugging lefttards are in subarus
Time to get out the traps again. Though I have seen no signs, Gabby the cat is hanging out in the laundry room focused on a particular area and that, along with the colder weather are strong indicators that the little suckers have invaded again.
I’m hearing scuffling in the attic…ours are coming out as well.
Our cats would rather catch the cardinals. ☹️
Our cardinals are too quick for the feral we look after…but he has never gone after birds or squirrels. Nature lives peaceably in our back yard thankfully.
Roxy and The Kitten keep our yard littered with dead rodents. None from the house though as we built solid reinforced concrete. Rosie did bring in a half dead squirrel one night when door was open. Ick!
Half?? 😔 In Wales ours…well, one in particular…brought live rabbits….. I get a knot in my stomach just remembering…
Tim Ryan: ‘I Don’t Regret’ Voting for Stimulus, I Didn’t Know It Would Cause Inflation Despite Clyburn Saying We Did
Obviously he slept through Macro Economics 101. But then again, so did most of the other leftists.
He always looks like the proverbial deer caught in headlights to me. My gosh, I hope the voters show him the door.
October 22 Oswald Chambers
The Witness of the Spirit
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit… —Romans 8:16
We are in danger of getting into a bargaining spirit with God when we come to Him— we want the witness of the Spirit before we have done what God tells us to do.
Why doesn’t God reveal Himself to you? He cannot. It is not that He will not, but He cannot, because you are in the way as long as you won’t abandon yourself to Him in total surrender. Yet once you do, immediately God witnesses to Himself— He cannot witness to you, but He instantly witnesses to His own nature in you. If you received the witness of the Spirit before the reality and truth that comes from obedience, it would simply result in sentimental emotion. But when you act on the basis of redemption, and stop the disrespectfulness of debating with God, He immediately gives His witness. As soon as you abandon your own reasoning and arguing, God witnesses to what He has done, and you are amazed at your total disrespect in having kept Him waiting. If you are debating as to whether or not God can deliver from sin, then either let Him do it or tell Him that He cannot. Do not quote this or that person to Him. Simply obey Matthew 11:28, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden….” Come, if you are weary, and ask, if you know you are evil (see Luke 11:9-13).
The Spirit of God witnesses to the redemption of our Lord, and to nothing else. He cannot witness to our reason. We are inclined to mistake the simplicity that comes from our natural commonsense decisions for the witness of the Spirit, but the Spirit witnesses only to His own nature, and to the work of redemption, never to our reason. If we are trying to make Him witness to our reason, it is no wonder that we are in darkness and uncertainty. Throw it all overboard, trust in Him, and He will give you the witness of the Spirit.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One Who is leading.
https://utmost.org/
Good morning, Cat. All of a sudden I’m seeing the dog listening to his master’s voice coming from that old grammophone…may we all listen as intensely to our Master’s voice.🙏
“A Case of You” Joni Mitchell
love Joni!!! Thanks. 🙂
Me too!.
Dog and Cat
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Going Home
Found the useful post below on another thread.
Thanks Bet!
“I’m channeling the wise Catherine Austin Fitts here who has relentlessly said we all need to focus our efforts within our communities.
So let’s do that.
If within each school district, parents by their thousands stand in front of their children and say to the genocidal governments within their states over my dead body will you inject my child, I suspect this horror could be stopped. And I mean thousands, en masse.
They won’t hear the single voice. This has to be a movement as no other. Our children are ours, not theirs…a point that is clearly lost on the soulless, godless monsters who have managed somehow to make us afraid of our governments. And that is all back to front.
Us afraid of them?? This is an existential issue. To repeat an overworked phrase which in this case should be the rallying cry.
This…THIS!!! is our hill to die on. We will not sacrifice our beloved gifts from God to Moloch. Hear us, you wicked in power. Inject our children? Time to stop cowering and time to get off our knees. Our voices must be so loud there will be no hiding place for those who seek to maim and kill with abandon.
The answer is NO, NO, NO!
Lord, hear our prayers and cries. Go with us in our battle.”
Good morning, Frank. I posted that the morning after that thread appeared, so I knew not many, if any, would see it. What loving parent could do less? As always, my brother in Christ, all blessings to you. BetNM😘
Greetings Treepers!
Coram Deo! ✝️
PS: I still miss Mungrel.
He has one of the biggest, kindest hearts I’ve ever known. And it is a righteous one. He has never failed to do whatever it takes to help or protect those who need it, especially our littlest and weakest, whatever the cost to him. I could go on….if I ever needed help, and he were here, I do not doubt if I called him, he wouldn’t waste a minute. Loved him, LOVE him. Salty language? Sure. Salt of the earth, though, is how I will always see him in my heart. And I miss him as well…LBT💕
If I could post just some of “Mungrel’s” posts from the last few weeks he was here, your selective memory would fall flat. He represented, pure unadulterated filth. “Salty language”? The moderators, every single one as I remember it, explained in detail why he was banned.
I understand why he was banned, Boogstew. I followed it all. So we don’t need to rehash. As for my memory, dear sir, I guarantee there is nothing wrong with it…show me a perfect man or woman, one without fault or sin. I guarantee I am not one, not by a long shot.
Every single one of us makes mistakes, errors of judgement. My life, for example, is peppered with such things. How does it go? Hate the sin, love the sinner? In need of forgiveness myself, I always think of CS Lewis’s most wonderful quote…
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
But I always speak as I find…based on the whole man or woman, not just one or two chapters on one’s book of life. I pray Almighty God will do the same with me. Blessings to you.
If you don’t want to rehash it than don’t start singing the praises of someone so despicable. I don’t remember YOU or anyone from your group, ever, even mildly rebuking the horrific insults and despicable language coming from him. If I ever said ONE of those horrible things to your daughter or mother you might think differently. Where were the MEN from your group when he was talking like that??? Silent as church mice!
I’m done, sir.
My, my, we are quick to label people, aren’t we. I recall you labeled me a mass media follower just because I don’t kiss Putin’s ass.
Not ONE time did you rebuke “Mungrel”. Live with it.
I’m very comfortable living with it. Didn’t rebuke you either when you posted about your local donut shop adding cnuts to their menu, either. Sounds like you can use some prayer, son.
Saying one for you right now.
Half of a circle as in a donut’s well known shape is the letter “C”. There is nothing untoward about the letter “C”.
Whooosh!
Sure thing, no double entendre at all. You didn’t right a C donut, you wrote cnut. Anyway, not everyone is sinless as you. Talk to Jesus about it.
That should have been “you didn’t write”… Long day.
How you could take my joke about people going to extremes to save on materials by marketing a half circle donut and calling it a cnut and you come up with a reference to female genitalia says a lot about you. It also explains why you brush off “Mungrel’s” behavior.
Yup … right over your head.
On deck, O’L Salt, get’s hot in that engine room stoking the coals sometimes, but it don’t matter much rough sailing in stuff on course.
Danger ahead and danger behind sometimes on the bridge I give good advice a hard a -stern needed done.
They are attacking the children public now in a way that even the stupid can see now, it will not belong before the sheeply ignorant awake to the satanic paedophiles that are the actual rulers for the time being.
I was ridiculed or you might say ‘ lambasted ‘ , on a com site for this statement ;
” The true fight is for the hearts and minds of the children ” , I backed it up with this, ” There has never been another ” .
Only you seen me in a way that salt could—– meaning— Mungrel still have big score while still hunt, !!!! ,
They took the gloves of here Frank, might sound odd , but , no, no no, what little they know!
Most churches are mostly are half empty here, thing is the amount that left and why, the church pedo abuse is so well known here that faith is all that’s left, pity really, but good side is, It’s nice that the corrupted unts are alone, means for personal faith, not establishment is seen as the good of the children .
The result is a whole army of ” Godbotheres ” have no church, no big deal maybe say some , just lead to an ‘underground ‘ sit-rep, haha,
People of faith are coming together outside not inside, point being an army exists that the enemy has no idea about .
Oceans spray can be beautiful as I’ve seen, yet the stokers job is to keep the fires burning.
Mungrel is sad to say only two chews of late , must have a word to the bigfella about that.
They told everybody Frank, but most did not listen, lot’s said in every way no, no deal type, they went for the children to persuade pedo scum satanic ………………., normal !
They lose, unfortunately more than millions will die protecting the blood and souls of the children, the game-plan very few understand but we getting there in the teach thing,
hot from the bush telegraph side .
Can I add you in a ” My Shout ” , seems theirs a few boys round here see the ‘ children ‘ as children to be nurtured from cradle to grave not demented sex toy’s that follow the fake leader, big difference between rumble and fumble, no holidays me !
Bigfella says— take care !
Mungel says cheers .
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Thank you, dear Cat💕
Beautifully said, mate. Thank you Cat!
Beloved Mungrel n Feral,
I’ve come to see taking the Lord’s name in vain as a life (or a season in life), characterized by loving sin more than loving God and others, while at the same time sporting themselves (myself) as Christian.
Ephesians 4:29-32 ESV has become important to me because I’ve often uttered words that reflect an angry and/or bitter heart. Sin.
At times I’ve asked God to damn or confound enemies of Truth.
I like Mungrel because he turns the volume up. He shines a bright light. He’s salty about stuff that counts. If his unique style forces people to think or feel and are perhaps moved to action? I dig it.
So maybe I like Mungrel and others like him who I think would have my six or side if things get gritty.
Like, you know, when the shit really hits the fan. ✝️
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Regarding Trump’s “subpoena”…
Would be hilarious if Trump agreed to submit to questions for 1 hour starting at high noon.
He holds a before rally on the national mall at 10. He holds an after rally at 3 where he goes through all the legal reasons why he didn’t have to appear.
Then he flies into the the sunset in his personal helo. ✝️
Time to get my fingernails dirty!
Perfect!! I’m sure however this plays out, Mr Trump has a few ideas which will show these pontificating buffoons up for what they are. May they rue the day.🙏
Trump has to be careful of maintaining precedent. No POTUS of former POTUS has ever been compelled to testify before congress, EVER!
Yes sir. I knew that when I posted.
Thank you. 🤟
Gaucho, Steeley Dan….them bodacious cowboys…
God Bless America!
Yes Sir!!
Morning all,
Have you considered your soul today?
Lamentations 3:24,25 KJV
“The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.”
Mornin’ all!
Waiting for it….If not this, definitely something else. Especially as we natives are getting more than restless.
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 Saturday, October 22, 2022
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“Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”
Deuteronomy 31:6 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
cute
and determined – from the looks of it
. . . 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)
Saturday of the 19th Week of the Epistles
Holy Apostle James / Iakovos of the Twelve, son of Alphæus
October 9th – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
October 22nd – civil or commercial calendar
“Happy cartoons and cereal day” everyone.
have a blessed saturday.
A mystery never to be resolved, Slowcobra…and I am really very sad about that.
Me too, betsy.
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It was Three Stooges for me. On every Saturday morning.
Accupuncture works! For nearly two years lower back, especially left hip so painful. Tried orthopedist, massage, chiropracter, regular dr. Mayo clinic and Johns Hopkins websites say accupuncure good for lower back so I tried it. First 2.5 hour session doctor asked if I have steps at home. I have 16 steps to upstairs. Patellas misplaced from going DOWN the stairs. 2nd 2.5 hours knees also worked ankles too lower back and neck.
Here I am two days after 2nd session. I am calm, less shaky and pain free. I can lift my knees and ankles way up and swish my hips around and my neck doesn’t grate. It cost $250 for the first session and $150 for the second. Doctor says I may have flare ups and can come again if needed.
Oh Merry!!!!! That is just wonderful!!! What glorious news!!
Every night I pray for those in numerous difficulties, including those in pain. So there is a prayer answered. I’m so happy for you🙏🤗
from Betsy to God. You have a connection. When I feel I’m getting close to Him I fear being overwhelmed. Thank you for your prayers. Merry
I feel overwhelmed as well, Merry. But I know He hears, and I know He answers prayers. And I’m so grateful on your behalf.🤗
That’s great news!
rah, you are the best. Thank you for the attagirl. Keep on truckin. I love to read your reports Merry
just got old books on Indian captives who were reported as being “restless” after return. Talk about PTSD.
Praise the Lord, Merry! So happy for you!
Thank you for your good wishes. You are my true friend. Merry
By focusing on just gas prices the larger effect of high fuel prices gets obscured. Nearly everything you buy has been transported on a truck and that goes for the raw materials needed to produce it.
In our food chain the farmers are paying much higher fuel and fertilizer prices. This increases the cost of the whole cycle from planting to harvest, Then the cost of transports to the elevators and processors where energy prices are also increased. For example a large amount of the soyabeans brought to the elevators/processors have to dried before the processing can even begin. And then there is the transport from the processors to the distribution centers and from there to the retailers.
Virtually every step of the way fuel and energy prices effect the price of everything we buy and consume.
Fuel is by far the largest operating expense in the trucking industry. On average today as I write this the cost of a gallon of #2 low Sulphur Diesel is $1.67 more than it was a year ago at $5.224 per gallon. The big truck I drive has tanks of 240 gallon capacity but the furthest I run it down is to about where it takes 190 gallons to fill up. That is over $992.00 to top of my tanks when I drive it down that far. Some other big trucks have 300 gallon tanks.
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
One other aspect the layman does not see. The company I work for, like all the others is having trouble procuring new trucks and trailers. The supply chain and labor disruptions have effected those manufacturers also. And that goes for spare parts. There are trucks sitting idle for up to months awaiting parts.
One reason I have been with the company I drive for over 16 years now is the equipment and maintenance is outstanding. They regularly buy new equipment. I just saw the first 2023 model Volvos arrive at our garage to be put into the fleet. New model year trucks start coming off the line in July.
New Trailers have been dribbling in.
I drive a 2015 Freightliner because I want to. I was offered a new truck 3 years ago but turned it down because I hate the proximity warning crap they started putting on all big trucks late in 2015 and mine has none of that stuff. Besides I am nearing the end of my driving career and the truck I’m driving, which I got into when it was brand new, has about 632,000 miles on it. It will probably last me until the time I’m forced to hang up the keys.
Oh My God!
“Farming Needs to Stop, That’s the Single Biggest Driver of Climate Change” – Watts Up With That?
My question is, why hasn’t that moron stopped eating?
Oh and are those Jeans he’s wearing. Denim is a cotton fabric. Any cotton or wool in the rest of your clothes there fool? If so, take them off right now!
It is Satanically-driven mental illness being spread via the WEF, WHO, UN and all of their minions.
I see CNN says pets are the single biggest driver… Let’s face it, we’ve stumbled into an alternate universe. It certainly seems like that.
Though it is a wonderful Indian Summer day here I feel like doing nothing. But I won’t allow the day to be a total loss. I will be grilling Pork Chops for dinner.
Sounds good! I’ll be heading in a bit to one of my blinds to check what’s showing up. Deer season starts here in 2 weeks. My bride has been making chocolate chip cookies all afternoon. They are for church, tomorrow we have there the fall celebration.
I’ve been off sugar for over 5 years and the cookies don’t bother me. The no sugar thing is for no particular reason. Just makes it easier to maintain my “fighting” weight. 🤣 And as Bobby Boucher’s mama would say, “Sugar is one of the many tools of the devil.”
Grill is warming up. Have to wait on the escalloped potatoes. Homemade coleslaw is already chilled in the fridge.
Mmm, I got a leftover half a waguy sirloin from last night.
Wednesday is my bride’s birthday. Smoking two briskets for the party. One has all the fat removed. Never smoked one like that before. Will brine it for 24 hours before putting the rub on. Bought the second today- normal brisket, will rub it the night before.
Niiiiiice
Niiiiiice. I love your posts too.
Oh man! Yer killin me!
Finally raining here after long hot summer. Have chuck roast in oven and it smells real good. Men burning brush piles.
I can smell them both from here. Enjoy.😊
“Seven children who were rescued from their abusive mother have detailed the years of torture she inflicted on them – including forcing them to drink bleach and pouring it over their genitals.
The alarm was raised on Tuesday, when two of the children – 16-year-old twins, a boy and a girl – managed to escape from the family home in Houston, Texas and convince a neighbor to help.
The mother, Zaikiya Duncan, 40, and her boyfriend Jova Terrell, 27, left the house on learning the twins had escaped and were arrested later that day in Baton Rouge – a four hour drive, across Texas into neighboring Louisiana.”
From the UK Daily Mail
Head wag.
Lord bless those two!
Suspecting the mom was mentally ill also? A coworker told us the story of growing up in a Catholic orphanage in Louisiana. Her mom had schizophrenia and called the police, fortunately, when “the voices” began telling her to “crucify” her eight children.
Andrea Yates was another ill mom. Relatives and neighbors and congregations need to recognize chemical imbalances and see to refuges for children caught in these situations. It is too common yet often unrecognized. Cruelty is not normal thinking
Does this really need a comment? He’s dead now.
There are so many verses in the Bible about how the Lord humbles the arrogant…or makes fools out of those who deem themselves “wise.”
Heres more on it. Dang what an angry aggressive man
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/congressional-candidate-unexpectedly-dies-bragging-about-vaccination-richard-rowe
Pray for him on that other side looking at his life and hatreds
I can’t believe the left keeps pushing while word reading over phonics. No, it is not white supremacy. It is simply a proven method.
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End the war on phonics at the ballot box in November
https://tinyurl.com/dc34ds7u
AND…
Let’s Not Make Phonics Political–Again
Excerpt:
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Dick-and-Jane method was replaced by the whole-language approach, which was vaguely associated with the left. The theory was, essentially, that if you surround children with high-quality, engaging children’s literature, they will acquire the ability to read. The approach proved wildly popular with teachers, but the movement encountered a serious obstacle in the 1990s when reading scores in California—which had adopted whole language statewide—took a serious plunge.
https://nataliewexler.substack.com/p/lets-not-make-phonics-political-again
AND….
Oakland’s rebellion against phonics set children back; let’s not repeat it
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/oaklands-rebellion-against-phonics-set-children-back-lets-not-repeat-it
My mother taught me and my sister (two years older than me) how to read when we were 3 and 4. She told us the following story (with which our father concurred) after we were in out teens…
At age 5, we each attended public school kindergarten where we lived at the time (Ohio). A year later, when I was in first grade for several weeks, my mother got a phone call from the school to come in for a conference. Uh-oh, mom thought, what did (I) do to cause trouble.
When she got into the meeting there were two teachers there. They wanted to know what method she was using to teach my sister and me how to read. Apparently we kids were both about a year and a half beyond any other students’ reading skills in our respective grades. Mom said she was a bit surprised thinking she hadn’t done anything out of the ordinary.
She explained to the teachers that she used the same method she was taught with in the late 1920s when she was a tot back in Maryland – phonetics. Apparently the schools were using some hybrid between phonetics and word recognition. Mom was asked to bring in the books she was using with us kids at home, which she later did. The bottom line was that the teachers complimented her and apparently took it back to their administration. We moved back to Maryland a few years later so IDK what the Dayton schools did with that information.
We can’t time travel those teachers to the present I guess…more’s the pity, GB.
**whole word (not while word)
THANK YOU
YES and more yes. Let’s save the children from the quackzines, and from illiteracy too
Amen.
Amen
Amen!
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.