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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Happy Caturday, all y’all
Who in the @#$%ing @#$% said these make great things make great pets !!!
We now have two, a traditional thai cat ( siamese ), and a Burmese cat with gold eyes.
These freaking devils are NOT good with kids, people in general, ANYTHING !!!
They go after the dogs in the neighborhood, the snakes, birds, lizards, everything they kill.
I am giving warning now, do not own one as a pet !!!!
It jumped up on the the bed bed other night, he bit my thumb and locked its mouth, and then just stared at me and said: “You can wait until I release you, hand will be a little raw, but no damage. Or you can pull your hand out now and you’ll bleed for a while, it’s your move b#$%^.”
DO NOT OWN ONE AS A PET !!!
I’ve been blessed with a few Siamese cats over the years, and one Himalayan.
For us, they were loving, highly playful, and extremely intelligent.
Not to mention stunningly pretty.
These were indoor cats.
I would expect they would have wreaked havoc on snakes, lizards and birds (like pretty much any other cat) were they outdoor cats.
Dogs……..well……my Mom has always had flowers. Lots of’em.
Once when I was a kid, the dogs who lived on either side of us were in Mom’s flowers, digging like crazy. The cat was at the screen door doing the little “murder bark” cats do when they are looking at birds through a window.
I told Mom about the dogs, she looked out the window and said, with no lag time, “open the door”.
Being as it was there were TWO dogs and one was the size of the cat and the other was WAAAaaaaay bigger I said “he’ll get killed!”. Mom said, “no he won’t, just open the door”.
I opened the door expecting to watch my seriously cool Siamese cat (who rippled with muscle underneath his shiny coat of fur) to get ripped apart right in front of me.
Things didn’t go like I expected.
Things didn’t go like the dogs expected….
I opened the door, expecting the cat to run to the dogs. Nope. He strutted over there sorta slowly and sat down right in front of the two of them, who had their heads buried in the same hole they were rapidly excavating.
They looked up, sorta surprised to see the cat sitting in front of them.
Suddenly, and this is the Gospel truth, the cat stood up on his hind legs, spread his front legs out wide and rapidly brought them together running claws through both of the dog’s noses.
Have you ever seen a dog turn inside out getting away from something?
The bigger dog was really, really fast, and the dog closer to the size of the cat wasn’t as fast, so the cat chased him. There was lots of wailing and hollering.
The dogs never dug in the flowers again. I retrieved the cat, who was still pretty fired up, but calmed down when I picked him up.
There was another time I watched from too far away to help a cute lil’ wiener dog as the cat jumped on the screen door and swung it open, timed it just right jumping off the porch and got about a four second count riding the extremely surprised wiener dog.
I did feel sorry for the wiener dog. He had been fun to play with and I don’t recall seeing him again after that.
Cats ain’t nuthin’ but miniature lions and tigers. But if you love on them enough, they can be great pets.
I can believe the stories about Siamese cats being ancient guards on palace walls once upon a time.
Man alive, he was one seriously cool cat.
They all said he was a monster guitar player
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Inquisitive little eyes and nose. A real cutie.
That’s funny.
Therefore…
Ha!
I LOLd, Betsy
I did too, nim. Thanks to your brilliant post, you opened the door for it. Thank you, sir😁👍🏻
My daughter has 2 very large goldendoodles and has been wanting a third. SIL says they don’t need another dog. Yesterday, I got a picture introduction of 7 week old Onyx Marie. I’ll meet her tomorrow.
🤭 happy wife, happy life… they say. I’m pretty sure it’s true
It’s never not true, Miss P😏
Best story today!!! I am smiling ear to ear, Gramadeb. BRILLIANT!!😁 Enjoy your visit tomorrow with your granddogs. 💕
She looks so tiny compared to her new older brothers. Jake is 130 lbs and Maximus is 80 lbs. It will be fun seeing how they interact. I’ll be leaving my “littles” at home as they are a bit aggresive with new furry family members. Not in a mean way but barking and chasing.
Wise leaving them. Bless her, she’s probably feeling her feet, new surroundings, and her “siblings”. Have a wonderful time! Can’t wait to hear all about her💕
THE GOSPEL SHOWS THE FATHER’S GRACE
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
— Romans 1: 15 – 17
1. The Gospel shows the Father’s grace, Who sent His Son to save our race,
Proclaims how Jesus lived and died that we might thus be justified.
2. It sets the Lamb before our eyes, Who made the atoning sacrifice,
And calls the souls with guilt oppressed to come and find eternal rest.
3. It brings the Savior’s righteousness to robe our souls in royal dress;
From all our guilt it brings release and gives the troubled conscience peace.
4. It is the power of God to save from sin and Satan and the grave;
It works the faith which firmly clings to all the treasure which it brings.
5. It bears to all the tidings glad and bids our hearts no more be sad;
The weary, burdened souls it cheers and banishes their guilty fears.
6. May we in faith its message learn nor thanklessly its blessings spurn;
May we in faith its truth confess and praise the Lord, our righteousness.
Good morning 1530.
Good morning, G!!!💕🤗 Hoping you, sans plumbing, are going to start feeling better. “Better” being less pain than yesterday and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel getting and brighter and brighter each day🙏🏻😘😎 Godspeed, my brother.
Good morning dear Bet! Definitely better. Now that the plumbing Is out I’m discovering some aches and pains that before I didn’t know were there but that’s manageable. Praise God for His healing! Waiting on breakfast for the 2 cups of decaf that I ordered! ❤️😂
Chris had those extra twinges post op. They disappeared soon enough as I’m sure yours will. Recovery is a long term work, as I’ve had to remind impatient him. Over and over😉
I’m betting your mother has her kitchen all ready to go to prepare for you all your favourites. Something to really look forward to. Good food is essential for a good recovery. That’s my view and aim sticking to it.
No timeline for release?
Never mind. It will come soon enough. In the meantime, we will all raise our voices in unison, giving abundant thank for God’s grace for your healing. Bet Nipper can’t wait to see you😍
Hi GrandpaM. Hope you’re feeling better!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxZ-scE9mDk&ab_channel=jonancker-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvJrMpm0YB4&ab_channel=MoseAllison-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShkYeKsyYR8&ab_channel=MoseAllison-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U-6_yBnTtc&ab_channel=MoseAllison-Topic
Sorry for the bad formatting. Don’t know what happened . . .
Good morning, Garrison. No worries. Enjoyed them all😘
Mose had a really relaxed way with his vocals … very distinctive, very hip
Yep. Pretty much defined “hip” back-in-the-day. Only saw him in person one time. He was one seriously cool dude.
Morning Garrison!
Mornin’ Gramps 🙂
Howdy Garrison!
I’m short on time but I did listen to that first one, “Your mind is on vacation”.
Wow, I didn’t know about this guy! Blues is my favorite music and this is as much blues as jazz. I left that video pulled up on the phone and will listen to others as time permits.
Thanks for posting these!
Happy Caturday all y’all!
(I dub this “This Isn’t Happening Cat”)
teaching kitty to draw
boy, is kitty patient !
Gee, more bleeding heart liberals. Well, the Aztecs were more compassionate.
Ha!
I LOLd, as the kids say
Good morning, nim. Your memes are hilarious. I’m watching a livestream severe weather coverage in San Antonio, TX. Lots of flooding down there.
mornin’ Joe
you’re up late, rare that we connect on the same date
Yeah, really. Welcome to the Breakfast Club. I’m calling it a night here in a couple of minutes. Going to try and get some sleep.
And I just heard some really loud thunder. Another storm rolling in.
Have a great day (or night), nim.
When you get up, make that coffee!!!! The lifeblood of all late nighters and early risers😁
San Antonio was always prone to flooding during heavy rains, Joe.
Lived there in the 70s. They have various short sharp dips in the road which were very quick to drive through. These dips always had signs which warned of sudden flooding and I could not understand why. Surely only seconds to drive in and out of, I thought.
Until someone who said he thought the same drove through one during such rains, only to look up to see a monstrous rush of water heading right at him at speed. He barely made it.
Literally a split second made the difference between his doing so and being enveloped in those waters and swept away.
That’s right Bet, a foot of rushing water will lift up your car and take it away. People still drive around the road blocks in San Antonio. Thought about enjoying the lightening show from the window last night but decided to continue sleeping.
Glad you could do so, so glad🤗 Even with the nurse traffic, which was a constant with Chris when he was in.
And yes! I’d see that often, the driving around the roadblocks, the ignoring of the signs. All it takes is once to make a believer of the doubters who do it.👍🏻
Good morning, GrandpaM. Like they say turn around, don’t drown. But people still ignore the warnings about driving through flooded areas.
I stayed up for a few more minutes to watch the lightning display. Thunder sounded like artillery fire. Incredibly loud. When the lightning flashed, everything lit up outside.
How’s your health holding up? Hope you’re doing well.
Phoenix has a stupid motorist law that holds drivers liable if they get stuck after going around a roadblock.
Good morning, Bet. Coffee pot is on and I’m having that excellent first cup to get the motor going. The guy doing the Livestream lives in San Antonio and called it quits after driving most of the day. I just happened to catch his stream at the end. Looked like it rained a lot down in San Antone.
Nice and clear here. Have a blessed day.
We’re praying that the rain decides to move upwards. We could certainly use some.
I’m on my first cuppa…that, along with the company of friends here makes for a perfect Saturday💕
Mike Nesmith had some cool looking sideburns back in the day.
His mother invented White Out, I believe. I see some of these musicians and remember those little useless bits of information.
Like now knighted Sir Brian May..an astrophysicist by education. Or Dolph Lundgren, who graduated top of his class with a masters in chemical engineering, then went on to MIT on a Fullbright Scholarship…
Or the brilliant James Woods, undergrad also at MIT, dropping out right before graduating to pursue his successful acting career.
You think you’re looking at one person with one talent…when there is so often much more behind them. The cover of the book belies what is on its pages.
Good morning Treepers.
Sunrise, Big Sur, CA
I took a few backpacking trips on this trail decades ago. Ventana Wilderness, Big Sur. 16 miles in there’s a hot springs and campground called Sykes.
It’s a very special place.. in fact, all of Big Sur is pretty special in my view. Love staying at the Big Sur River Inn
https://www.bigsurriverinn.com
Good morning benzy. How long has that inn been there? It looks familiar but I don’t if know if it’s been renovated or if that is the original building. I think I remember a place called Nipenthe. Same one?
I started going there in the 70s. Lived on the Monterey Peninsula for 25 years.
Loved going down to the River Inn on the back of a motorcycle. Would get lunch then hang out on the lawn beside the river and listen to the live jazz. Magical times.
Halcyon days😌
kiss
So precious
Good one
This is
impossibleamazing!
Not sure how you feel about Joel Osteen. I am not even sure how I feel about Joel Osteen? But this works for me today.
Saul
i’m still listening to this
One of my favs
‘Not happening’: Democrat leader on Black residents receiving millions in reparations in California
https://www.wionews.com/world/not-happening-democrat-leader-on-black-residents-receiving-millions-in-reparations-in-california-591904
Uuggh. 2:21 AM this morning, Harry Houdini the Maine Coon 🐈⬛️ comes in for some snuggling around my head. Looks, turns, purrs, tries to settle down on my pillow,
and repeatedly freaks out and jumps off the bed. Now, I’m wide awake, freaking out, thinking there’s some kind of 🕷 in bed that won’t let him sit still. He sees it. I don’t see it. Wide awake!!! What day is it? Saturday, Caturday…got it.
Morning JWoo, don’t worry, if there was a spider in your bed Harry Houdini would have eaten it by now. 😂
GrandpaM…
That is normally the case! Right you are!
However that was not his behavior last night and he was leaping in and out of bed as if there was imminent danger.
I never saw it. Gave up at 4 AM and crashed back into bed… threat or not.
Harry is apologizing. Think I’ll send him to go live with Auntie Not Midler.
I think Auntie Bet would be delighted. 😁
😂😂😂😂😂!!! You know me well👍🏻
😂😂😂😂😂😂!!!! Go on…we take all comers.😁
Morning, girl 😊
Once long ago a friend phoned me at some ungodly hour to tell me she’d found a scorpion in her bedroom. Well, it was San Antonio, soooo….
Anyway, these awful sting-y things apparently travel in pairs, and she was looking high and low in her cathedral ceiling-ed bedroom for its mate and couldn’t find it. Terrified to go to bed. And to tell you the truth, I would have been as well.
Don’t know what she thought I could do, but, being a friend, I stayed on the phone with her until she decided the mate was not there. Like you, I’m pretty sure she was wide awake for some time after…😬
Good morning… Not Midler,
See above. Sending you some “company”… lol
You know I lived in San Antonio for 8 years and never knew those things lived in pairs!!! Eeeeesh.
I found them… a few times. I had another Maine Coon, Elizabeth, who is Harry’s doppelganger and the reason we adopted him. She would catch them and she would bite off their stingers without being stung. She’d leave their red bodies in a white laundry basket for me. She was the master huntress.
Had to save a gecko once in a while hanging out of her mouth. I would find her with the geckos head and torso hanging out of her mouth, and the gecko would have its hands on her face like “Get me out of here!!” I would grab her, clinch her face in my hand to release her jaw, she’d growl like “Hey! Meeeoooowwmy!!! This is my job, ya know!” and she’d release said gecko usually sans tail.
I loved that cat.
Just like I love Harry Houdini my furry security patrol spider killer.
Had much bigger cat named Oscar who was stung in the face by a scorpion. Had to take him to vet ER for Benedryl shot. He was not as lucky as he suffered a little damage and always drooled thereafter. A little slow minded like Lenny “Of Mice and Men” He was only good for floor decoration and sat on his back end with legs sprawled out front hunched over like a little old man.
Whoever is talking about not having cats as pets is crazy. Get 1,000 of them. My recommendation Maine Coon and Nebelungs. Smartest working cats you’ll every own and Nebulungs are the ultimate romeos.
Of course, I’m partial to the occasional Russian Blue and DSH. It’s all in the owners, you know.
Harry won’t stop chasing me around this morning with the biggest purrs. Obviously thrilled I wasn’t vanquished in the middle of the night. I’ll tear apart the bed to see what I can find.
Fumigation for the nefarious beetles on Wednesday. What a nightmare. This apartment is by a lake and construction 360 degrees.
It has seen its share of critters despite my constant pest control with food grade diatomaceous earth.
Hey, you!! I got stuck on page two (already and so early!!!!!)
I was put off by spiders before I immigrated to the UK. I lost my fear of them then. But, mind, there were no black widows or brown recluse. Just as there
is no rabies.
We would rescue every spider which made its way into our rural house, usually found in the bathroom which had a small sash cord window which we kept open slightly.
And beside that window was a pyracantha which we had trained to a trellis which reached the second floor and so gave easy access for those arachnids.
More than once we found a ginormous spider, one whose legs spread a great distance, in the bathtub. We’d grab a towel, scoop him up and take two step to the open window and release.
The other night here where we are I found a teeny tiny spider in my bathtub . I grabbed a tissue and gently removed him to outside. My good deed for the day.😉
Agree about cats. Their eyesight is remarkable. As is their natural hunter’s instinct. I’ve seen a gekko or two in our plants, but as I’m partial to them, ill do all in mg power to redirect any cat headed in their direction😎
NM…over and out😘
Like JWoo, I’ve never seen them in pairs Bet. When we see one it gets picked up with a wash cloth and released outside. The red wasp sting is worse, methinks.
Just wanted to add I’ve lived with them crits do 30 years.
I’ll take scorpions over fire ants any day. I once worked at an inorganic chemical manufacturer.
One day – we had 2 – 55 gallon drums of Formic Acid arrive.
My boss, who was the VP and Chemical Engineer asked me if I knew what that was?
“What?”
“You know when a fire ant bites you and you feel the sting? Formic acid.”
55 gallon drums of it.
Just disposed of a huge fire ant hill. Took a long screwdriver and pushed a few quick but deep holes into the nest.
Dear glory!!!! Out they swarmed. I had some fire ant powder which I made sure to get into those holes…then I left it. Yes, they are hateful and hurtful.
THAT is your good deed for the day!
That may have been folklore, G. But of course once you hear it, it gets stuck in your head.
Definitely a good idea though to check shoes before you put them on if you live in a place where you know they are.
Stingy flying bugs like wasps and hornets I avoid and we will destroy the occasional nests we always seem to find in the garage during the summer.
In the UK the one to watch out for is the wood wasp. Huge they are. And their sting is murderous.
They particularly like to make their homes in the wood shavings one can find in arenas where horses are. If disturbed they shoot up and out as if they’ve been fired from a pistol. Nasty…
Ha!
I get up at 2:50AM. I try to sleep a bit on weekends to no avail.
I have a Maine Coon.
Food better be hitting her bowl no later than 3:00AM…..
Ignore her all you want (as if one can ignore 20 pounds worth of cat), you *WILL* knuckle under, get up and get food for her.
Precious, lovable, furry devil….
At least you can count on your cat wanting to snuggle up and take a nap with you later in the day, even though you don’t have time.
Greg1 – you know my life.
Sleep is for the weak.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz…
13 May 2019 Doris Day [Kappelhoff], American singer (“Sentimental Journey; “Que Sera, Sera”), actress known as the “girl next door” (Pillow Talk; The Man Who Knew Too Much), and animal rights activist, dies of pneumonia at 97
Que Sera, Sera
Sentimental Journey
13 May 2012 Donald “Duck” Dunn, American bassist (Booker T & The MG’s; Stax Records house band; The Blues Brothers), dies at 70
Green Onions
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Always And Forever
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Chet Baker
(1929-1988)
American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (“My Funny Valentine”), falls to his death from an Amsterdam hotel balcony at 59
I Am A Fool To Want You
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got to see Booker T in the aughts, but not with the MGS, his own band
opening was Craig Chaquico from Starship doing an acoustic guitar thing and headliner/closer was Robert Cray Band
Sedona, AZ, afternoon concert outdoors with the setting sun, got a nice chill as night fell
Doris Von Kappelhoff / Day is one of the most famous Americans of German heritage besides President Donald Trump.
Take a look at this vid. Unbridled insanity. I watched it live yesterday. I thought Timmer was going to bite the dust when he intercepted this tornado.
radical
Absolutely insane…🤣🤣😂😂👍
🇺🇸💪😀👍
Good morning Jim. The NWS would have probably rated the ‘nader as an EF-1, possibly an EF-2. The semi truck that came from the opposite direction on the road was moving pretty quickly. The driver must have floored it before the tornado came close to the road.
What amazed me was seeing smaller cars that were actually driving into the onslaught. I guess they survived. smh….
I love it when you talk “beach”. Makes me giggle. And I love your surfing stories. Brings me back to awesome beach days.
For a while I couldn’t get the Texan and Valley Girl separated. Too much time in either place had this Midwesterner confused and saying “like y’all” or “like all y’all”
Now I’m older and “less blonde” so articulation matters and back in Midwest for 15 years… and trying to teach daughter to not pick up intellectually dull lingo from modern day uninstructed teenagers…resets oneself… but never lose the “sweet” tang of the South.
This kids say “Sick!” when something is “Cool!”
When she was a toddler… she was maybe 2 or 3 yo… and I picked her up from her Indy christian daycare and she toddled down the hall, met me with a fist bump and firework… and said “What up there, whicky bro!”
I had to google that to understand what that meant! Then had to tell the Director that if she was sending my kid home skilled in ebonics, she’d need to send me a dictionary.
(We were giggling.)
Now it’s a principle that we use words in their pure intellectual forms because they are too often twisted nefariously. She shares my love of wordsmithing.
Dude, totally tubular.
Southern colloquial is practically an art form, and WELL worth continuing.
Juuuust sayin’…..
Hot chicks speak southern.
You’re cracking me up with this story …😂😂👍
🇺🇸💪😀👍
Wow ! I think I stopped breathing there for a few seconds !
Thank God Timmer got to
share that with us 😊
*Unbridled Insanity*
Excellent Description !
These guys were pros and they knew what they were doing. Still, things can go terribly wrong.
Looks like a special type of vehicle they were in. Madness all the same.
Now, when I said I wanted to be in these storms to see them, Joe… I meant from a sturdy observation point behind 12 inch thick, impact proof, glass. Not from a vehicle that can easily get picked up and thrown around like a tinker toy.
I love God and I love Him expressing His Mighty Power… but it doesn’t mean you go play in the freeway.
These guys. They must have known the wind speeds verses the weight of their ride. Geeesh. (Lock the doors! Seat belts! Looney tune pills!)
Timmer chases storms in a custom built vehicle called the Dominator. I don’t know if you got a glimpse of it in the video, but it reminds me of a high speed tank that can take a lot of punishment from the elements.
Still, if I were driving and saw that wedge coming at me, I’d turn around, floor it, and wouldn’t stop until I crossed the Texas state line. And that was a small tornado.
No, there’s no need to play in the freeway. But for the most part, the chasers know what they’re doing and know the risks.
I bet Timmer drinks lots of Red Bull when he’s on the hunt for ‘naders.
Actually I think it is his 3rd or 4th version of the Dominator. He has learned as he’s gone along. Glad he got to do what he has been trying to do for so long but as for me, I wouldn’t trust it in a violent tornado no matter how much is squats and how many air deflectors it has. Not when an F-5 can actually suck asphalt out of the ground. No way!
Thought the same JWoo. I would only add, after you lock the doors and click your belts in, they should have taken their statin. 🤣
Statins to open ’em up – and Red Bull to fill the veins. Psychotic!
Well, Treepers…I’m going to get some zzzzzs. Be back in a few hours.
fascinating interview!
Russell & RFK Jr | FAUCI, CIA Secrets & Running For President – #128 – Stay Free With Russell Brand
https://rumble.com/v2nermq-russell-and-rfk-jr-fauci-cia-secrets-and-running-for-president-128-stay-fre.html
I came here looking for Sundance’s take on the interview. Thanks for posting a Rumble link.
🙂
I sure would like to see Trump start talking a little more coherently about things like this. Funny, when he first broke onto the Campaign scene in 2016, that was the so-called video that would get him elected; and of course the big Q show, keeping everybody looking and hoping. But in the end, just another big mouth full of self braggart who lives in a gold-plated palace. .. and all he EVER talks about is himself and how much he is abused! Yet the masses are still hoping against hope, that somehow that first “Trump” might finally get in gear and do something besides hold rallies for blabbing about the same stories over and over again!
Frankly I’m getting bored with Trump; he never says anything of substance, just wearing out the same old poor me, and I do it all for you. Really? What exactly is that you do for me? Whine and defend yourself? Or maybe those whose billionaire pockets you stuffed with the pandemic/mass murder scam are really the ones who put you into business, to find out who they have to have a file on?
Good morning all.
As of now, there were 40 reported tornadoes yesterday. Looks like today may be similar.
Good morning rah!
Good morning, are you free of all of your tubes now?
Good morning rah. Yep, more severe weather on the way this afternoon. Marginal risk in my area, but you never know. I’ll be watching some Livestream feeds later to see what happens. Watched (and heard) a heavy thunderstorm for a few minutes late last night. Very intense.
Convective outlook today is not as bad as it was yesterday according the NWS.
Rah – I think you’ve found your THIRD career. You’ve got a better track record than most television meteorologists do. I know you are getting it from Joe – but your forward communication is impeccable!
It would be my fourth, but I’m just having fun and scratching a curiosity itch.
I would expect no less from the Church of England. It has long been nothing but a political organization.
Archbishop Blames Climate Change For Illegal Immigrants – Watts Up With That?
A little American history concerning the CoE. Unlike the other American colonies, the colony of Virginia was established with a state religion. That religion was the CoE. No other Church or religion was legally allowed to collect alms and the colonial government and CoE actively worked together prevent any other church or religion from taking hold.
Thomas Jefferson and a few other founders grew up under that system and saw how it was a despotic tool to help control the people and to empower the state. And THAT is the primary reason why we have the separation clause in the 1st amendment.
But the SCOTUS took the intended path a step further, ignoring history and basing it’s Everson v. Board of Education decision that there must be [t]he First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state,” and “[t]hat wall must be kept high and impregnable.”
That phrase, “a wall of separation” came from a single Thomas Jefferson letter and is interpreted by the court as the intent of the separation clause. ‘A Wall of Separation’ (June 1998) – Library of Congress Information Bulletin (loc.gov)
And since then the courts have tightened and hardened that definition through various cases until in 1985 in Wallace v. Jaffree they ordered that even a single minute of silence in the classroom was a breach in that wall and in other cases that religious monuments on government land were not acceptable. Never mind the religious statuary and symbolism which adorns the very building that the SCOTUS meets in. Never mind the long history of Chaplains in the US military or the many 1,000’s of Crosses and Stars of David that stand in US military cemeteries all over the world.
Rob, the Anglican Church chose its god long ago…and it is “climate”.
The Church has also chosen to believe that yes, Almighty God ” makes mistakes” and thusly has adopted the view that men are women and vice versa. Their church schools are teaching this. Sickening.
Services of blessings for homosexual “unions” are offered and commonplace. Strident women “bishops” and “vicars” have long been fixtures.
The heretofore Christian coronation service and proceedings essentially demoted Almighty God and His Church to the equivalent of these foul ideologies and every other belief system on earth today. Almighty God and His teachings have been jettisoned from His own House.
Now it is just another apostate church, and its prelate, Archbishop Justin Welby, unfit to serve, another lunatic.
I’ve been watching for a long, long time. And I still cannot take it in…
I know, Betsy – so sad. I was raised in the Episcopal church and left after COVID hit us. I had seen the long decline and apostasy happening in the church for years. Now we go to an Anglican Catholic Church.
I read that this summer the Episcopal church will change the prayer books to take out all reference of gender – what’s that gonna look like with the Lord’s Prayer?!
Same, Rileytrips. I was so looking forward to attending an Anglican church when I lived there. And then the desecration started.
Change the prayer books????????????
My Book of Common Prayer is constant comfort.
When they start on the Bible…as I am certain they will…they will have condemned themselves, if they haven’t already. Almighty God has made plain the consequences for taking His word and changing it.
Neither add nor take away.
Well said!
The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man”
– Malcolm X
The simplicity of needing a Savior;
https://partner.ttb.org/listen/b320759f-db59-407c-a9d0-7fb1c0a46066/?title=The%20Vine%20and%20the%20Branches%20
Our Father
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.
Guardian Angel Prayer
Angel of God,
my guardian dear,
To whom God’s love
commits me here,
Ever this day,
be at my side,
To light and guard,
Rule and guide.
Good morn, dear molon. Lately, there seem to be the joyous sounds of those angels’ wings in and out of these branches. Yesterday, I am certain, I heard them🙏🏻💕
Good morning my dearest friend and buddy
427 was the lucky last number I believe
The tree has grown !!!
I’m heading outside
But I won’t hide
Love you friend
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Love you, too, molon. Tons and tons.😘😘😘!!
Prayed the Tree would grow weeks and weeks ago…just as a side prayer actually. And Lo, I was heard!! Second page already about an hour or so ago! Yay!!
Enjoy your beautiful day, dear friend. With you in spirit of course…🤗🍀
how very loving
He is one of THE most loving, lightworkerspirit. One among so many here. Please choose your branch, settle in and discover how many!!💕
Extending to you a very warm welcome.😊 Bet
Vranov, Slovakia. John the Apostle.
John 15:18-21
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
The singing of Psalms by king David
Psalm 100:1-3, 5
R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands;
serve the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful song.
Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
Know that the Lord is God;
he made us, his we are;
his people, the flock he tends.
Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
The Lord is good:
his kindness endures forever,
and his faithfulness, to all generations.
Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
The HABIT of a GOOD CONSCIENCE
“A conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.” Acts xxiv. 16
God’s commands are given to the life of His Son in us, consequently to the human nature in which His Son has been formed, His commands are difficult, but immediately we obey they become divinely easy.
Conscience is that faculty in me which attaches itself to the highest that I know, and tells me what the highest I know demands that I do. It is the eye of the soul which looks out either towards God or towards what it regards as the highest, and therefore conscience records differently in different people. If I am in the habit of steadily facing myself with God, my conscience will always introduce God’s perfect law and indicate what I should do. The point is, will I obey? I have to make an effort to keep my conscience so sensitive that I walk without offence. I should be living in such perfect sympathy with God’s Son, that in every circumstance the spirit of my mind is renewed, and I “make out” at once “what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
God always educates us down to the scruple. Is my ear so keen to hear the tiniest whisper of the Spirit that I know what I should do? “Grieve not the Holy Spirit.” He does not come with a voice like thunder; His voice is so gentle that it is easy to ignore it. The one thing that keeps the conscience sensitive to Him is the continual habit of being open to God on the inside. When there is any debate, quit. “Why shouldn’t I do this?” You are on the wrong track. There is no debate possible when conscience speaks. At your peril, you allow one thing to obscure your inner communion with God. Drop it, whatever it is, and see that you keep your inner vision clear.
Oswald Chambers
May 13th Devotional
Good morning dear prayer warrior friend
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Thank you for your really
nice daily devotional.
We all appreciate what you do for us every day.
You are a devoted pray warrior.
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And a happy , healthy,joyful good morn’in to friend Molonlabe 🍀🍀🍀😀👍
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Joyful Good morning to you friend
Hope your day is filled with Joy
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Morning, Jim.😊
Hi Betsy… 😀 I know this is late but just sat down after nap .. busy day today..decided to make some bucket veggies..tomato and pepper to see how it goes before I jump in with 5-7😂👍hope you had great day 🌹😘👍
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Just so glad to see you, Jim😊 I bet they turn out just fine.
Thinking of all those balconies in apartment buildings where the renters manage to produce tomats and other veggies quiye successfully. Keep us informed on how well they are doing👍🏻💕
Will do..👍👍😀😘
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Excellent!!👍🏻
Good morning Molonlabe friend! Hope your day is richly blessed!!! 🙏🤗
Thank you! Everyone may read OS, but only some understand that he pushed his college kids to understand the importance of having God first in your life before anything else. He was harsh at times but he got the message thru. And sometimes even I have to back off and re-evaluate a situation in my own life that can be improved and will draw me even closer to my Lord. There’s much to respect in the OLD ways of teaching Christ. We can see how the NEW ways are diluting the message to humanity’s sorrow! 🙏✝
Respect
respect you Sister
good morning to you
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Good morning juststevie and Molonlabe!
Good morning my dear friend GrandpaM
good to see you up and at em
mean it !
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Good morning…so happy to see you posting! God is good and answers prayers…we are so thankful!!! Have a great day Grandpa!!! 🙏🙏🙏🤗💝
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking — Mencken, Henry Louis
Good Saturday morning!!! 🙋♀️
Just tryin to get my lazy butt up and going…and then this! 😂🤣🤣🤣
don’t listen to it . you look fine !
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Morning, sis…brutal😂!
How about this? And yes…that is my face before coffee💕
LOL…yep, sometimes ya just gotta laugh it off…😂
God morning to you and Chris…may your day be filled His righteousness and glory!!! ✝✝✝
You as well, sweetest friend💕
yyyyyyyyep!
Yours too, Greg? 😂
Great peace have those who love your law nothing can make them stumble. – Psalm 119:165
People do not generally think of the law as pleasant or fun. Today’s verse says that those who love God’s law will have peace and not stumble. There are many reasons to love the law. Can you imagine driving without laws and how many accidents there would be? Laws are provided for protection and well-being. Though laws may seem burdensome at times, they offer great benefits to society.
Likewise, obeying the Lord is for your benefit. God’s laws are provided to bring about and maintain a healthy society.
One day a lawyer asked Jesus, “‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets’” (Matthew 22:36-40). Let the law of love be your ultimate guide in all your decision-making and actions. This will give your life peace and stability in a troubled world.
Pray for the healing of the division in the United States. Ask that the hearts of Americans would turn toward the Lord and that they would grow in His love so that this country might continue in harmony and peace.
Intercede for fellow believers to be conduits of God’s love and grace.
Pray that this nation’s governing officials would pursue God and His law of love.
Ask for God’s mercy on the United States on behalf of His people and that His name will be glorified.
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Good morning Poyeema
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May 13
MORNING
Pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. I Tim. 2:8
The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:23, 24
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. Isa. 58:9
When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any. Mark 11:25
Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Heb. 11:6
Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the LORD. James 1:6, 7
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear me. Psa. 66:18
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not, And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins. I John 2:1, 2
EVENING
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me. Psa. 38:10
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. Psa. 61:1, 2
He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For when I am weak, then am I strong. II Cor. 12:9, 10
When (Peter) saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Matt. 14:30, 31
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Prov. 24:10
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Isa. 40:29
The eternal God is. thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deut. 33:27
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power. Col. 1:11
J. Bagster
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thanks agian poyeema . you help make these branches filled with sunshine
Treehouse isn’t coming to my mailbox now. Anyone know why?
What do I need to do?
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Verse of the Day for Saturday, May 13, 2023
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“In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust…”
Psalms 56:4 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Good morning sweet Sister . Hope your day is a blessed one my friend
Oh, Mo – Butterflies and Flowers!!! My favorites – (and bees and ladybugs , too – lol)
A Blessed and Fun Day for you – I pray – in the Precious and Mighty Name of Jesus – Amen.
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A thousand AMENS!!!!!
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BE MY VOICE
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.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Thanks for brightening our day my sweet Sister . Praise the Lord
Amen and Amen
I’m reading “The Return of The Gods” by Jonathan Cahn. I highly recommend his books. Because the US has ousted Christianity from the culture, could our declining morality be due to following the old, but new to this age, gods just as Israel did in its past? Very thought-provoking. He is author of The Harbinger about the time of 911.
Good morning soap lady!!! I’ve read his books too…and have conferred with him that our country is going down the path of Israel! The Old Testament and the New Testament are filled with history so that we may not make the same mistakes, which we have not heeded. Therefore, judgment happens for corrections needed for mankind’s sake.
Mornin’ all!
Singin’ in the Rain – Gene Kelly
Happy “cartoons and cereal day” everyone. Thinking of levi…
have a blessed saturday.
Good morning cobra!!! 🤗
And to you, dear Slowcobra💕
I always think of Saturday as Levi’s day🙏🏻
Crossing the Red Sea
Singin’ in the Rain – Moses supposes
Make Em Laugh
If I’ve ever heard a truthful sermon preached about politics, this is it. I’ve listened to ‘Doug in Exile’ for a long time simply because he speaks truth in just a few minutes. This is his longest video (20:35 mins) and it should not be missed. If we are Christians, then we should believe that God rules all things (including politics)…period. Doug’s video here is as the apologist to lame stream media. Excellent!
Colossians 1:15-18
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He many have the preeminence.
WELCOME LITTLE STRANGER