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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Monergism Jesus? “Yes”
Yeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaww!
What a treasury of joy!
Once the CEO realizes he’s about to lose the secretary he’s trained from the day she entered the company, he starts understanding his feelings about her. And that leads him to do anything he can to make her stay. Even allowing her to marry him. Until he realizes that what he feels for her isn’t a desperate business need for the most capable employee, but love, and then he just wants to change whatever he needs to change to make her happy. All good people making their mistakes with the best of intentions.
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim – Old Habits Die Hard – Air Supply
This playlist plays the entire set of Political/Patriotic songs on my channel, starting with everything Trump, but it should show a list so you can jump around and skip. Hopefully.
Meliana rocks Christmas! So cool. Thanks Mary. :-0
Making these were pure pleasure. I just smiled and smiled.
Thanks Mary!!!!
~Joy is contagious
>>Joy is contagious
Well said!
Awe, thank you Mary. This must have taken alot of work to put together. It’s awesome!!
You are most welcome. I use these little videos to deal with my emotions. To jump up and down with excitement or to cry in happiness or misery. The work happens once. The emotional release goes on whenever needed. So the balance is well worth the initial work. The biggest problem is that you’ve got this bunch of pictures on one side, and this little time limit on the other. So you work in total terror that you’re either going to run out of pictures early, or not be able to fit in all the “good ones.”
Good work, Mary… you have blessed all of us with your efforts and the resulting post. Thank you
Sharing is what all of it is about. You can watch a sunset by yourself, but it somehow makes the loneliness more intense. Now watch with someone at your side, so you can glance back and forth as the colors change, and there’s a deep sense of contentment that fills you. That’s what it’s like for me to have you there with me.
That mens chorus reminds me of “Sing Along With Mitch” (Miller)…which probably seriously dates me… 🤣
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Looks like a hamster….
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Yo, jay. Good picks! 🙂
Good morning, Mr jay. Just went outside to feed our resident feral, a very demanding chap. The blue sky was streaked with pink clouds. God had his paint box out. Gorgeous. Blessings, sir.
Good morning Bet! No blue sky here, all gray. May get some rain this weekend 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻, but the forecast changes daily.
Just texted my bride the bacon Turkey picture from Menagerie. She replied she is up for the challenge if I stay out of her way. No problem, I will be focusing on a brisket. 😁
Our Thanksgiving plans changed a lot. Our daughter, son in law, and all the family was coming and they were going to do all the cooking. We’ll, they forgot that little detail of she having an ankle surgery which she did a couple of days ago, and will need to recuperate for a month. So we said potato/potahto and called the whole thing off. It will be my bride and I, my SIL, Mom, and Nipper and his mama. Nipper’s mom decided that she’d rather spend Thanksgiving with us which we are happy about.
So now we are back to cooking. I bought a ham from HEB. An older lady shopping alerted me of the coupons hiding at the bottom of the turkey bin that gave you 12 lbs of turkey free with the ham purchase. I got the 13.5 lbs turkey for the price of 1.5 lbs. that was under 2 bucks. And of course I grabbed a brisket.
My mom is going to make her famous potato salad and an Eastern European pastry with feta cheese. The Greek name is Tiropita. My bride is going to figure out a couple of other sides,
Definitely will have pecan pie with Blue Bell ice cream.
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Morning, my dear friend. What a joy to read your excellent post !
Boy, no plan should ever be written in stone. And this year being what it has been, I’m not surprised that your Thanksgiving one has morphed into another.
Ankle surgery is disabling, so I can see why it would be better to focus on getting it back to normal. I know you’ll miss them, but discretion is the better part of valour.
Your menu sounds just wonderful!! All of it. And wow! Bargain on the turkey! Bless the heart of the lady who made that happen with her telling you where to find the coupon. I saw that bacon wrapped turkey on Menagerie’s thread and it does look delicious.
I am famous for my potato salad, as your mom is for hers. But when my daughter in law asked for the recipe, which I am only too happy to give her, I realized I didn’t really have one. Just bung the ingredients for the dressing in a bowl, taste and adjust for taste. In other words, it is always delicious, but no two batches ever taste the same.
My dear mother in law cooked like that…when she and her sisters and two friends were pulling their cookbook (2 printings and all sold out of both) together, they met every Thursday at what they called The Recipe Club.
The Labour of Love project was to take dishes from generations back, all the women in their family cooking in the same way (eyeballing the ingredients and throwing it all together), figuring out the proper measurements, and formulating a workable recipe.
Each week, each “author” would take one dish and reproduce it, report on it, and when satisfied, it would be included in the cookbook.
Some were easy to do, but others were a struggle. The most wonderful part of this cookbook was the inclusion of family stories on many of the recipes…and as all these ladies had a talent for making even a small story so entertaining with their clever styling of the English language, coupled with a sense of the ridiculous, it was also a most wonderful telling of family life of those long departed. A real treasure.
An example of their struggles was working out the timing for baking, as one very old handwritten recipe which needed interpretation said, “….put it in the oven, bake, and remove when the postman arrives (so exact were mail deliveries at the time). Those were the days…..sigh…
We will be by our lonesome on Thanksgiving this year, so I will be very unThanksgiving-y and do a pot roast.
I hope your mother has her recipes written down and they aren’t just in her head. And of course what is pie with Blue Bell??? Naked, that’s what.😁 And you simply cannot have that! It is only one day a year. So throw caution to the wind and enjoy, my dear brother. All y’all need that day to decompress, enjoy each other, and of course, give abundant thanks to God Almighty for the blessings which I know he has delivered during your tribulations and chaos this year. There is always something to be grateful for. But you of all people know this. 🙏😘
More…..I listened to that broadcast you linked to. And I realized what was being described I became aware of in 2020, when the site Winteroak (a British site) published an incredibly lengthy article entitled
“Klaus Schwab and His Great Fascist Reset”
It is extensively researched, detailed and footnoted. And it is the most comprehensive outline of what has been planned for decades, now being executed.
I kept waiting to see this information in the mainstream right after I finished reading it, but it never came. Only now has anyone glommed on to the horrors of the evil people. The link you posted goes only so far, but I hope it catches the attention of so many who have yet to understand how our existence now and in the afterlife is threatened.
This magnificent article covers all the bases, including biographies of the satanists who are trying to establish themselves as gods, and their hideous unholy transhumanist agenda. If you read it, G, it will make you recoil, so foul is it. Nevertheless, we all need to see the vile, filthy face of satan whose hand, no doubt, is steering this.
I’ll leave the link for you below and hope it works. But if not you can put the title into whatever search engine you use, and it will pop right up.
It’s worth noting that Schwab’s mentor was none other than Henry Kissinger. So as good as your link was…and it was…this article will add more. “Know your enemy” is excellent advice.
https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/10/05/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset/
Thank you Bet! I will find time today to read it.
And my Mom’s recipes are all in her head. Kinda like the ladies that you were talking about. Always eyeballing the ingredients but it always comes out delicious. I can make some of the stuff but while mom is able I’m not even trying. 😁
Her cooking tastes better anyway and it gives her some purpose. 😍
It always helps to have appreciative eaters, as I call those who enjoy the cooking of someone who puts her all, her heart, into trying to please those she cooks for. And yes, because it comes from her heart? Those dishes always taste that much better…because it has that extra “ingredient” in it that no one but a beloved mother or wife can put in. Fact!!💕
The love ingredient.
Just a side note. My daughter’s original ankle injury happened the night before the A&M bonfire tragedy. Her outfit was scheduled to work that night. She couldn’t be there, couldn’t walk. She lost some friends that night.
Talk about being thankful for a hurt ankle.
Oh no!!!! Tragedy is the right name for what happened. What is there to say to that except a quiet Deo gratias, along with prayers for the souls who perished. I’m sure your daughter was devastated. You just do not know the day🙏
it was a very tough time. And time of feeling God’s presence very intensely. Lots of prayers.
Another change of plans. Nipper and his mama won’t be joining us. They’ll be going to a restaurant with her parents, her brother’s family, and the brother in laws. Disappointed is a mild word to describe it.
So since the 4 of us are mostly beef and venison eaters it will be no turkey but brisket and ham. Already considered the possibility of joining my daughter’s family at their house in New Braunfels but my SIL is not up to it.
So this is where we are as of tonight. Tomorrow is a new day. 🙂 Thanks be to God!
Oh, G…I am sorry, so sorry.
I can’t tell you how much I understand . We don’t see ours either at Thanksgiving or at Christmas. Disappointment is a feeling I know well, my dear friend. And you are right…God is good. Just so grateful they all have their families and that all are healthy.🙏😘
Maidin Mhaith Betsy 🙂
Yes!! Just like that, Mr jay.😊 Thank you!!
Morning jay!
Howdy Gramps 🙂
The last prayer I offer every night after I turn the lights out….every single night.
ONE NIGHT ONLY !!! AT THE VULCAN GAS COMPANY ON CONGRESS AVE., AUSTIN, TEXAS ON NOV. 18, 1968 TICKETS AT THE DOOR. LIGHT SHOW. NO DRUGS ALLOWED INSIDE . . .
Howdy Garrison Right On!!! 🙂 🙂
Far out, man . . . 🙂
Good morning, Garrison. My freshman year at UT was 1968…a Lubbock girl who was suddenly in another world. Blessings to you, my friend.
Hi, Bet. I had just started teaching and taking a few grad courses in sociology. Loved Austin in that time. 🙂
It was a biiiiiig place. I don’t believe in my four years there I saw a third of it.
One memory that has stuck with me (given your Winnie the Pooh post from 2016 which I reposted here last week) was Eeyore’s Birthday Party in a park not far from the main campus. Free beer!! A yearly event which, as you can imagine or even remember, attracted beaucoup students.
I never developed a taste for beer, even though it was all that was served at the many parties I attended. Nevertheless I drank it….to be sociable…as you do. 😊
Good morning Garrison!
Evenin’ Gramps 😉
And you thought Soylent Green was just a dystopian movie…
https://rumble.com/v1uwog6-reese-report-canadian-government-preparing-to-euthanize-children-without-pa.html
NEW!!!! Soylent Green is……..
I have seen this. And it turned my stomach.
Next up starting in March the mentally ill will be offered euthanasia as a cure for all their problems.
O (dear, dear) Canada……
And last night Tucker was talking about banks wanting to move to digital currency—which will give government total control over monetary assets. This is all part of the “Great Reset”.
18 November 2016 Sharon Jones, American soul singer (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings), dies of cancer at 60
18 November 1994 Cab Calloway (1907-1994) American singer, bandleader (“Minnie the Moocher”; “The Jumpin’ Jive”), writer, radio host, and actor (The Blues Brothers), dies at 86
. . . 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 Ioanníkios 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)
Friday of the 23rd Week of the Epistles
Holy Apostles Patrobus, Hermas, Linus, Gaius, and Philologos of the Seventy (+ 1st century)
Saint Cybi / Cybu, abbot, of Cornwall and Wales (+ 550)
Saint Jonah, Archbishop of Novgorod (+ 1470)
November 5th – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
November 18th – civil or commercial calendar
Saints of God pray for us!
Not Your School’s Reading List: 10 Books to Understand Our World
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2022/11/books-list-17-november-2022/
November 18 Oswald Chambers
Winning into Freedom
If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. —John 8:36
If there is even a trace of individual self-satisfaction left in us, it always says, “I can’t surrender,” or “I can’t be free.” But the spiritual part of our being never says “I can’t”; it simply soaks up everything around it. Our spirit hungers for more and more. It is the way we are built. We are designed with a great capacity for God, but sin, our own individuality, and wrong thinking keep us from getting to Him. God delivers us from sin— we have to deliver ourselves from our individuality. This means offering our natural life to God and sacrificing it to Him, so He may transform it into spiritual life through our obedience.
God pays no attention to our natural individuality in the development of our spiritual life. His plan runs right through our natural life. We must see to it that we aid and assist God, and not stand against Him by saying, “I can’t do that.” God will not discipline us; we must discipline ourselves. God will not bring our “arguments…and every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5)— we have to do it. Don’t say, “Oh, Lord, I suffer from wandering thoughts.” Don’t suffer from wandering thoughts. Stop listening to the tyranny of your individual natural life and win freedom into the spiritual life.
“If the Son makes you free….” Do not substitute Savior for Son in this passage. The Savior has set us free from sin, but this is the freedom that comes from being set free from myself by the Son. It is what Paul meant in Galatians 2:20 when he said, “I have been crucified with Christ….” His individuality had been broken and his spirit had been united with his Lord; not just merged into Him, but made one with Him. “…you shall be free indeed”— free to the very core of your being; free from the inside to the outside. We tend to rely on our own energy, instead of being energized by the power that comes from identification with Jesus.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Defenders of the faith are inclined to be bitter until they learn to walk in the light of the Lord. When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
https://utmost.org/winning-into-freedom/
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 Friday, November 18, 2022
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“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Philippians 4:13 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Bless-ed Friday to you, dear duchess.
Mornin’ all!
Branco is spot on………..again.
Good morning folks
…an uncommonly good song from Michael Jackson, quite the entertainer
So, if you get emails from Linkedin, you will see the jeremiads from not only ex Twitter employees, but ex META employees. I am trying not to drown myself in schadenfreude, but, it could go either way.
They are all pretty much the same. Hagiographies to Tom, Dick, Muhhamed Keisha, Tyrone and Jaun concerning their recent contributions to the diversity Strum & Drang culture that made their respective companies successful.
This is typical – A guy (?) whose job title is (No kiddin), “Belonging Architect/Inclusion Whisperer”. He (He looks like a guy, but, his pronouns are “we”, “They” “Them” – don’t ask me…) was, “… a company architect of diversity and a force for other teams that benefitted and compensated immensely more than themselves.”
Zuckerberg stole that company. It’s like he stole the Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club album from the Beatles, rode it for years, then, when it came time to write his own songs, it was “Ice Ice Baby” (META).
Thousands and thousands of these comments are on line, from vapid, inane, liberal lemmings, who now, will find themselves gainfully employed cleaning the sneeze shield at the local pizza joint.
Essentially, they all worked for each other, keeping as eye on each other, to make sure no one used the wrong pronouns.
They can’t actually DO anything.
I hate to say it, but my guess, is that 90% of the illegals coming across the border, would contribute to America on the first day here, more than these worthless boils on our collective asses.
November 18
MORNING
He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. Isa. 27:8
Let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great. II Sam. 24:14
I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: … I wilt correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. Jer. 30:11
He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. Psa. 103:9, 10, 14
I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Mal. 3:17
God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. I Cor. 10:13
Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. Luke 22:31, 32
Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. Isa. 25:4
EVENING
I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half was not told me. I Kings 10:7
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Matt. 12:42
We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
My speech and my preaching was … in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. I Cor. 2:4, 5, 9, 10
Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty. Isa. 33:17
We shall see him as he is. I John 3:2
In my flesh I shall see God. Job 19:26
I shall be satisfied. Psa. 17:15
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/11/1118.html
We are ambassadors for Christ. – 2 Corinthians 5:20
There are 188 ambassadors sent to various parts of the world and to international organizations to represent the United States. They are nominated by the president for their skills of leadership, negotiation, and management and confirmed by the Senate. The qualities that are sought in an ambassador are reliability, optimism, friendliness, and the ability to converse and improvise. These individuals play key roles in diplomatic relations and foreign policy strategies.
Today’s verse states, “We are ambassadors for Christ.” Do you remember going on school field trips and hearing the teacher warn the class that if you misbehaved, the whole school would get a bad name? Likewise, Christians need to behave as representatives of Christ, with their own interests and desires being secondary. Just as ambassadors must speak on behalf of the government, aligning with administration policies, so should your words be in agreement with Christ.
As Jesus extended His hand toward people with great needs, so should His church do the same. The apostle Paul’s main concern was for individuals to be reconciled to God. This also needs to be the believer’s passion. “All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:18-19).
In your prayer time today, ask God to give you wisdom so that your thoughts, deeds, and words line up with His will. Pray for His love to flow through you to others. Intercede for unbelievers in the government and the citizenry of the United States that they may receive the Gospel and be reconciled to Christ.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing/?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing
Found this question and answer episode of Dr. Been’s (Mobeen Sayad) youtube yesterday to be informative; 48 minutes; titled ‘Vaccine Spike vs SARS-COV-2 Spike’ as the questions cover a wide range of current topics on the virus, treatments, etc.
“We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him. To us, the realm of spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It
Good weekend for all of you ahead! Just a reminder to watch our Secret Santa segments here at East Idaho News. Everybody deserves an uplift today and maybe this will help you.
This very fine gentleman is overwhelmed when he receives a visit from Secret Santa’s elves:
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2022/11/holy-crap-a-skeptical-truck-driver-melts-once-he-opens-unexpected-gifts-from-a-secret-santa/
Thank you for posting these.
You are very welcome. . I hope it helps everyone feel a little better today.
Thank you. What a wonderful story! Much needed this today.
In digging around for cryptocurrency information on the internet, I stumbled across a reason why Meta/Facebook is in the toilet. They want 47.5% of any virtual asset created for the metaverse:
https://www.techradar.com/news/meta-to-charge-a-whopping-475-fee-on-metaverse-virtual-asset-purchases
Amen.
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✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.