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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What are they trying to get away from 🙁
My cat climbed up a tree once and needed a lot of help getting down.
dunno – dog, prolly
good one, Mass
thats what they are trying to get away from
oh, I got it, alright
Hey, MP-how did you get a picture of my cat!
A Furry from the city trying to nurse them😹😹
Oh !
NOW I Know where
Kitties Come From ..
A Kittie Plant 😊
I wasn’t aware .
Thank You , Leon 🌺😊🐈
Sheesh , I mean
Thank You , Nim 😄
I guess I Always expect Leon and his Kitties in that spot 😀 I better go to bed 😄
Yikes !!! I’m already having a day 😄
Kittie plant looks a lot like a banana tree
I dunno , looks like a Kitty Tree to me 😜😄🙃
That must be a pussywillow tree
They’ve gone bananas!
If the truth be told, it is the acrobat summer school for the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Obviously before the lawyers got involved.
The Eagles referenced Shakespeare in their song “Get over it”.. “Old Billy was right, let’s kill all the lawyers, let’s kill `em tonight”
Good lord!
Same in the 1950s… i was little and scrawny in grade 6… At recess, a bully twice my size jumped me and injured me so badly the school nurse had to call my parents to come get me…
My folks talked to the school Principal, who said he just didn’t have the manpower to watch every kid at recess…
My Dad, recently returned from WWII showed me a few self-defense moves he had learned in the Army… Next time Mr Bully jumped me I was suspended from school for whipping the hell out of someone twice my size!
A price well worth paying, sir. You teach people how to treat you.
Or as my husband’s father told him in post war Britain, “Warn them once son.”
Yesterday, folks wanted to know more about this photo of people sunbathing against a warm stone wall in what looks like a cold time of year
I tracked down an explanation that was:
“Beach at the Peter and Paul Fortress, Leningrad, 1970s”
Thanks again , Nim 😊
Lots of interesting pictures at the link You shared !
Best 🙂
here’s the link Ryder mentioned, it’s a Russian site, but you can cut and paste the captions into a translate program to tell what’s going on
https://pikabu.ru/story/interesnyie_i_redkie_retrofotografii_5018647
here’s a cute photo of a determined-looking cowgirl
Whoops , (give myself Italian head slap 😀) , forgot to post link 😮🙄😔
Grazie , Nim 🌺
Looks like Betsy
asking:
“Whadda ya mean I can’t bring him in the house?
Watch me.”
😎
I had same reaction 😂😂
🇺🇸💪😀👍
😁😁😁
The attitude is certainly right…and I’ve never grown out of it, alas😉
Good mind
Good heart
Good attitude💖
Hope you are having a really good day. Betsy. 🕶️
Oh, double bless, P😘. Praying the same for you and Ma. Keeping you both always in my heart💕🌻💕
Morning Patience! ❤️ The link that Nim provided says “interesting and rare retro photos “.
Hello there, Pa ❣️❣️❣️
Will check it out a bit later.
-Have another blessed day.💖
Hahahahahaaaaaaaaaa!!!!💕
I actually had jeans like that, Patience. Rolled up and everything. And I wore them every Saturday to watch Roy Rogers at 7 am. The highlight of my week😁
I’m a smilin😁
My cat always came with me😁
Ha, I told you there was probably a cold wind blowing!
Getting vitamin D in a cold clime before sunlamps.
A question I’ve always had about this epidemic Vit D deficiency; throughout the ages the “fair and refined” women never exposed themselves to the sun. Here in our homeland, our Southern belles had white porcelain skin and hid under parasols as do the women in Asian cultures and yet there was/is no gross mortality rate among them, no higher incidence of specific disease.
Personally, 20 years ago my labs showed a “severe” Vit D deficiency, one doc wanted me on mega doses of D, BUT cardiologist said absolutely not. He actually laughed at the idea of Vit D deficiency based on some lab values established by ???
We are a very gullible people, reprogrammed into a “religion of prevention” While a healthy lifestyle is wise and health maintenance is important, look at the statistics. My doc is a brilliant independent thinker(very unique) and said after 30-40 years of statins being used by millions to lower cholesterol and “prevent” heart attacks and strokes, the reality is that the rate of strokes and heart attacks has not decreased. Similarly, broken hips, fx vertabrae hasn’t decreased either, but folks swear by the osteoporosis meds because their dexascans show improvent. I learned a long time ago that lab values, testing, scans are very important diagnostics, but they are also misused as marketing tools by the “Medical Industrial Complex”.
I know too many “fair women” who hid from the sun, never took a vitamin and lived well into their nineties.
In all walks of life, applying measurements to people generates behaviors that are counterproductive. Usually that means that you want behavior A, but you get behavior X, a distorted response to being measured. But the distortions happen in the measurers too.
The medical industry is like that. I want healthy hearts. I can measure cholesterol. A theory comes along saying lowering cholesterol helps. A medicine is developed to lower cholesterol levels. And they are off to the races.
In truth, the doctors get paid to monitor you. Somebody gets paid to measure what is in your blood. And pharmacists are paid to provide the medicine. An entire industry springs up to lower cholesterol.
Yet it is still just a theory. One with very little evidence. And the industry keeps lowering the target and the definition of ‘bad’.
Repeat with everything else. Blood sugar. Blood pressure. And always. they do any thing they can to justify more tests and more doses.
And people, chock full of body altering chemicals because the doctor said so, go around leery of eating animals and plants that are chock full of chemicals, because that is bad for us.
When I was a kid in the ’80’s, people only took pills when they were sick..
I call doc’s medical hobbiests …. the sum total of what they “know” is far outweighed by what they don’t.
And nowadays what they “know” takes a back seat to the “protocols” they follow.
You have thoroughly and accurately laid out exactly how it is, including the everchanging “normal range” in lab values. I have health records that are 40 years old and laugh when I compare the norms to current norms. The category of “pre diabetic” gets me going. We are all “pre death”. There is such a strong cultural component in all of this. PT Barnum comes to mind.
BTW, I am watching the new big pharma trend, a need for a secondary med to aid the primary med. So far I see it in anti depressants and diabetic meds. The primary med isn’t quite effective enough, so now you need an add on to enhance it.
There are conditions that benefit from modern medicine, need RX, but not every “condition” needs medical intervention.
oldschool: I see the lab test nonsense with my elderly mother and her gubmint-funded major university medical practice. Test, test, test. Prescribe, prescribe, prescribe. Refer, refer, refer.
For elderly patients, it’s all about billing Medicare and keeping the FedBux® grant money and pharma industry payments rolling in.
Absolutely correct. The seniors are the cash cow.
No kidding!!! My husband’s week stay in hospital left him with almost no blood left.
But did leave him with a bruise…excuse me, hematoma…which covered his entire hand. A gift given to him by someone who didn’t give a flying fig at 3 in the morning.
Jim in TN, IMO, that is why it is imperative for individuals to develop their own base line of health metrics based on yearly test stats for 10 years or more. And as long as one’s numbers stay in range, keep truckin”. Pay no mind to the ever changing control limits that big “pharma” comes up with to peddle more drugs.
And when one of those numbers fall out of bed, find out why, cause and effect; not take some chemical to bring it back into control. Doctors anymore are trained to treat the symptom and not look for the cause.
I read an OZ study saying people with higher Cholesterol numbers didn’t get Alzheimers and other dementias. I went of statins in Dec–have some upcoming blood work and am interested to see the before after diff
Truth always will out eventually. Slap the label guinea pigs on us all for whatever fancy takes the eye of Big Pharma. Think $$$$$$$$.
I dread to think of irreversible damages which have been inflicted on a trusting, unsuspecting public with other fad medicines and protocols.
Oldschool, you may find this interesting. It is one I’ve saved from March of this year from the excellent British site Principia Scientific, a site which often highlights information and news our censoring and satanic overlords wish we wouldn’t be able to access. I read it as often as I can…
I don’t say yay or nay. Nevertheless, who is to say not? For your consideration…
https://principia-scientific.com/high-dose-vitamin-d-may-treat-incurable-diseases/
Thank you Betsy, I will take a look at this.
Good morning dear Bet! Also, high doses Vit. D3 have been used as rat poison. 😁
EEK!!!! (said the rat…😎)
Good morning wise and knowledgeable bro😉😘
Mornin’ Bet, darlin . . . 🙂
Morning, my Texan friend😘
Well this article seems to hit multiple and varying conditions, systems, doses and outcomes. I try to keep an open mind with medicine, both western and alternative. I know from my years in reasearch the only way to come to any conclusions is from the development of a theory that gets played out through controlled studies. If there is reason to believe Vit D has positive effects on cardiac function for example, then a study needs to be developed which is very specific on condition, criteria for entry, various “arms” for randomization, doses to be tried and singular manufacturer of trial drug or vitamin. Close monitoring with data collection and analysis, duration of study and outcomes. Unfortunately, this requires resources and if it’s an OTC therapeutic, big pharma has no interest. I general, outcomes from using vitamins are mostly anecdotal and not without risks. I’ve known several doctors who have conducted their own limited studies within their practices, but that was before docs joined corporate medicine. There are few left who are truly private practitioners and have the desire for such work intensive studies.
I’ve seen patients who have done harm to themselves by over doing it with fish oils, protein powders and Vit A, so I am cautious in regards to supplements.
Thank you for the interesting read.
Corporate takeover (through Obamacare) has mostly killed (on purpose) the ethical and compassionate practice of medicine. There are some doctors who still, in spite of their having been unwillingly ensnared in its tentacles, keep their patients best health at the center of their delivery, who follow the oaths they took. Country Doc, our fellow Treeper, is one.
Yes, it always comes down to dosages. I thought it was an interesting read as well.
Here is another I saved. Excellent.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-sovietization-of-medical-care/
Thank you Betsy.
Yes our Resident Doc is one of the good ones. We are fortunate to have one also. Obamacare certainly completed the process, but the docs I worked with saw it coming a decade before with the insurance takeover and the $5 and $10 dollar co-pays along with the “managed care”. Docs could no longer perform the tests and procedures without some clerk granting permission. The wife of the practitioner I worked for called it the “Mother, may I” system.
My own surgeon father always did what was best for his patients, oldschool. He valued who worked with (not for) him. And his office staff stayed with him until the day retired. I’m glad he’s not here to witness what has happened to the profession he loved….and the patients who loved him.
Sounds like a wonderful man Betsy. You were blessed.
He was. Thank you, my friend.
When Madison Ave started selling meds. My wakeup was watching the med sales people showing up at the doc’s office.
OMG, I worked in doctors’offices for years. The perks docs got from writing prescriptions is mind boggling and nothing short of bribery. Back in the nineties, our entire staff was chauffered to a Broadway show, dinner and after show nightlife. Furniture, TVs, even a pool was some of the perks I saw.
Monti, after 20 years abroad where no ads are allowed for pharma products on television or radio, I was shocked to see how many appeared on American telly. Relentlessly. For drugs that one couldn’t get over the counter but had to see an expensive doctor for. Disgusting.
Sad isn’t it?
Yes there is a difference. The box of rocks is not dangerous.
And sometimes they are much prettier…although admittedly it wouldn’t take much…
that’s a great collection, where do you find those?
Not mine, nim…but as “luck” would have it I ran across this stunning collection yesterday elsewhere and saved the photo because I knew the opportunity would present itself for me to share it.
And what do you know?? The very next day!!😎
They are lovely, are they not? I can even “feel” them in my hand.😊
At least I could use the river rock to make a fire pit and the cardboard to start a fire to roast some delicious steaks..
09 June
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
English writer (Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol), dies of stroke at 58
09 June
Nero
(37-68 AD)
Emperor of Rome (54-68), commits suicide at 31
I thought that Nero was offered the opportunity to kill himself in lieu of being paraded naked through the streets and stoned to death as ordered by the Senate?
Yeah!!!!
09 June 2022 Julee Cruise, American singer (Falling) and stage actress, takes her own life at 65
Falling
09 June 1996 Walter Pardon, British folk singer and carpenter, dies at 81
Two Jolly Butchers
09 June 1995 Frank Chacksfield, English, pianist, arranger and orchestra leader, dies at 81
Little Red Monkey
09 June 1994 Lloyd Lindroth, American harpist known as ‘The Liberace of the Harp’, dies at 63
Tennesee Waltz / Rockytop
09 June 1993 Arthur Alexander, American singer-songwriter (“Lonely Just Like Me”), whose songs were covered by The Beatles (“Anna”), The Rolling Stones (“You Better Move On”), and Bob Dylan (“Sally Sue Brown”), dies of a heart attack at 53
Anna
Howdy Garrison 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Afternoon, jay :-0
Good morning, Garrison. From times when the entertainment was simple and oh so enjoyable. Loved the Beach Boys and their voices.
Hi Betsy .. agree…with music from past 😀👍
🇺🇸💪😀👍
Morning, Jim😊🌻 Right now I’m young again , sitting on the floor in my bedroom, spinning those records…ah, memories…sometimes the best part of hearing those oldies once more.
Mornin’ Bet. I was an RTV major back then, working at tiny “daytimer” radio stations (got fired a lot). . . 🙂
Hahahaha!! Now I’m curious…very!!!!!😎
Good morning Garrison!
Good morning, Gramps. 🙂 Have a great day!
Forget about “musical context” this is just too cool not to post. AKA—WOW! Long may you wave, TINA!!! Be still my heart!!!! Enjoy, Treeper friends!
It’s kinda funny ..
when Tina Turner
is on the stage ,
Everyone Else
is Invisible !
What a Woman !!!
Agree. Incredible!!! 🙂
Yep, Cher showing up at the end is quite a treat.
🙂
Had the privilege of being the only white person in sold out movie about Tina Turner, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108551/ . Rest of the audience, African American women and their children, afternoon matinee.
They made the movie interactive, and explosive ! It was thrilling. Ike Turner was burned to a crisp that afternoon. There was shouting, hissing, singing, dancing. Tina’s crown grew more golden/diamond/priceless. And I received a life-great-event.
God bless those women taking me in as one of their own.
I had a similar experience when Linda Ronstadt was performing Marichi music. The audience was about 98 percent Mexican-American = huge party – great fun!
Heart – Straight On (from Night At Sky Church)
now i know, i gotta play my hand ..
The Animals – House Of The Rising Sun
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6/8/2023 – “Every one of you who does not renounce (separate himself from) all that he himself possesses, cannot be My disciple.”
Luke 14:25-35 “And great crowds were going with Him; and having turned He said to them, If anyone comes to Me and hates not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and besides also his own life, he cannot be My disciple; and whosoever carries not his cross, and comes after Me, cannot be My disciple. For which of you desiring to build a tower, not first having sat down counts the cost, if he has the means to its completion? That lest having laid its foundation and not being able to finish, all who see should begin to mock at him, saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish. Or what king proceeding to engage with another king in war, not first having sat down takes counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him with twenty thousand who comes against him? However if not, he still being far off, having sent an embassy he asks the terms to peace. So therefore every one of you who does not renounce (separate himself from) all that he himself possesses, cannot be My disciple. Salt is good; but if the salt become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned? Neither for the land nor for manure is it fit; but they cast it out. He that has ears to hear, let him hear.”
There are the same great crowds going with Jesus today, as when He was here; and He turns and says the same things to us today, as He did to them; “If anyone comes to Me and hates not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and besides also his own life, he cannot be My disciple; and whosoever carries not his cross, and comes after Me, cannot be My disciple.” Contrary to the modern day version of the Gospel; being called and chosen to follow Jesus has divinely placed boundaries and restrictions that no one may cross: for many are called, but few chosen; and obeying the call to repentance and faith in Christ, means an absolute separation from all the old life and the world.
How is it that these words seem so hard to understand and receive? We should better ask, What are we thinking who we are, that we can just walk in off the street, into the holy sanctuary of the Living God, without fear or reverence or the slightest understanding, that we are not fit for the Presence of God? The same reasons for man having to be expelled from the Paradise, and barred from the tree of life, and God hiding His face from man; are still in force today; and man in his natural unsaved condition, is . . . “dead in trespasses and sins, walking according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience, having the manner of life in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires for evil things of the flesh and of the mind; and by nature the children of wrath.” (Ephesians 2:1-3)
The reason for God coming to us with the ONLY way of salvation announced to us, is because we are not fit for the Presence of God; and except He should provide a way for us to be redeemed and reconciled and saved from our sins, we are already condemned to death. God has made a way for Himself to accept us, through the holiness and greatness of the Person of His Son, giving up Himself as our Mediator. Without Him making a way for us to be saved, we are strangers and enemies of God; with only one sentence for ever.
Now while the law of God has authority equally over the stranger, as he that is born in the land; and we are also commanded to love the stranger, because we know the heart of the stranger; there are however boundaries and restrictions, punishable by death, that the stranger may not come near the holy things of God. We are to care for the stranger, as God has cared for us when we were strangers; and so likewise love our enemies, and be perfect, even as our Father in heaven is perfect; who is good to the just and the unjust, because He is good. But that does not mean an open door for the profane and the unclean into the holy tabernacle of the congregation, nor to eat of the holy things. Here are two examples given by Moses, which illustrate both the sanctity of the priesthood, and so with it, the division, boundaries and restrictions, which God places about His anointed ministers, who serve the tabernacle of testimony.
Leviticus 22:9-13 “They shall therefore keep My ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they *profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them. There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. But if the priest buy a soul with the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat. If the priest’s daughter also be married to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall be no stranger eat thereof.”
*profane it (showing disrespect or contempt for sacred things; irreverent; to misuse anything that should be held in reverence or respect; defile; debase; employ basely or unworthily)
Numbers 1:47-53 “But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying, Only you shall not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel: but you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. And when the tabernacle sets forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that comes nigh shall be put to death. And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard (flag, banner), throughout their masses [of people]. But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.”
John 15:19 “If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
John 16:33 “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
The high and holy calling of God in Christ, has separated us from other people, that we should be His; anointed and sanctified ministers, in charge of the tabernacle of testimony, between God and the people; that there be no wrath upon them. As such, we are bound by commandment, and ordained, holy unto the LORD, for He is holy, and He has severed us from other people that we should be His. It is because of the division that God has made, that we bear our cross in the world, and come after Jesus.
In God, by faith in Christ, we are what does not yet appear in the world; but is indeed at the Right Hand of the Throne of God; above all heavens, and over all. We have been given the Spirit and the mind of Christ, and God’s law written on the fleshy tables of our heart; so that we should understand all things, and discern all things; and be able to enact policy in Jesus’ Name in the world. The Son of God has given us Authority in His Name, and power over all the power of the enemy; and by our judgment and by our word, sins should be either remitted or retained: and what two of us agree and decree on earth, shall be done in heaven, according to the Scriptures.
John 20:21-23 “Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as My Father has sent Me, even so send I you. And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins you retain, they are retained.”
The unsaved, however, having not eyes to see, nor hearts to understand, lest they convert and God should heal them; cannot know or discern the things of God, nor us; and we are therefore in their estimation, like the poor man in the proverbs, who is separated from and hated of his neighbor; and his words not heard.
Proverbs 18:1 & 19:4 “Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddles with all wisdom . . . Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.”
Proverbs 19:7 “All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words, yet they are wanting to him.”
All these things are part of what the Lord describes as Counting The Cost, and Renouncing All Things Whatever We Possess. The division that Jesus causes will be the most intense with our closest and most cherished natural relations; and their contempt and resentment and persecutions will be the worst of anyone’s; for they are still in their minds and in their nature constituted enemies of God, and hate the Light which is now in us in Christ. This will be the first cross we bear coming after Jesus, because we have repented and are converted, and God has put His Spirit into our heart, and made us new creations; all which exposes their sins and uncleanness, and condemns their impenitence and unbelief. We are not better than our Lord and Master: what was done in Jesus, is what will be done in us likewise, with respect to how our family members after the flesh treat us.
Matthew 13:55-58 “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? and His brothers, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And His sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then has ‘this man’ all these things? And they were offended in Him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house. And He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”
So, in summary; this hard saying of Jesus, at which so many are offended and stumble; has to do with our decided commitment and consecration to the Lord; and the high and holy calling of God, who has severed us from other people that we should be His. It is because we belong to Jesus that the devil stirs up the anger and hatred of people, especially our closest family members and friends; to say every wicked thing against us lying, and to raise persecution against us.
We have determined to build a tower; and we are intending to engage in war with another king who is coming against us with seemingly overwhelming numbers. We have to be fully understanding what we are getting into, being Jesus’ disciples. We have to take into account all the costs, and have the means to complete what we have started, and take the counsel we will need for the battle about to be set against us. We have been called and sanctified for ministering to the tabernacle of testimony, on behalf of our brethren; to stand as God’s intermediaries and ambassadors. Forasmuch then as these things are kept hidden from those without; (as it is God who bars them from access, actually guarding them from what would destroy them who would be exposed, who are yet unfit for His Presence); so we are appointed to abide under subjection, and endure wrongs patiently; following the example of our Leader and Completer of faith, Jesus Christ the Son of God.
“Every one of you who does not renounce (separate himself from) all that he himself possesses, cannot be My disciple. He that has ears to hear, let him hear.”
WP’s
Very comforting. Thank you.
You’re welcome.
Silent reader, the collection of devotionals you have been so gracious to repost have been curiously (?) apt for the moments and times we are subsumed by recently. And this one is no exception. Thank you.
Ditto ditto ditto.Spirit led.
Great medicine for the day’s journey and guidance…… all in one.
But this, Elise… We are to fear nothing except!!
“…the loss of thee.””
🙏🏻🤗
Lol thank you thank you (blushing). Let’s get one thing straight here, I’m not going without you. ‼️‼️‼️❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Oh bless, girl!!! Ill wait for you at the corner…😘👍🏻
Yes, my dear dear sister and if there is no room left on the bus, you can sit on my lap 😁😁😁 okay I’m off…… enough lurking for this morning I’ll be on later love you all God bless.
I suspect we can make room for all who truly love our Lord…there is precedent you know. Loaves and fishes🙏🏻
It is my pleasure, dear. You’re most welcome.
hey everyone ♥️
Have never seen that , Dreamboat Annie !
Thank You ,, my Love for the Words and Music of
TP&the💔ers is Phenomenal 💘
Thanks for posting that , DA 💐🪶🕊
good morning ryder 💘
😵
If Betsy was a puppy😇
The absolute sweetest thing I could have heard today, dear friend💕💕🤗
♦️
If God Himself were here in the flesh, how would He behave? What would He say in every situation, and under every kind of circumstance? That which we learn from Him in the word, tells us how also to behave, and what we should say. The Son of God came in the flesh, and gave us the example to follow, and how to be sincerely from the heart.
2 Peter 1:19 “We also have the more sure prophetic word; whereunto you do well taking heed, as to a light shining in a dark (obscure) place, until the day dawn, and the light-bearer arise in your heart:”
Thank you nwtex! 🙂
The Lord bless you today.
YW 🙃 And His blessings to you as well 🕊️
James Woods Claims Hollywood More Evil Than Your ‘Worst Fears’
7 Jun 2023
*snipped*
In a now-deleted tweet, a fan of Woods asked the true extent of evil Hollywood and the actor had an eyebrow-raising answer.
“James, serious question. As someone who has enormous respect for your talent as an actor, I’m curious – how evil is Hollywood?” asked the user.
“Multiply your worst fears by 100,” Woods replied.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/06/07/james-woods-claims-hollywood-more-evil-than-your-worst-fears/
The great Mel Gibson would second that. Bablyonian Holyweird.
Curiosity kills cats and Gregs.
This is only a test.
Testing…….testing…….
“Cheesecake”.
ummm 🧐 Well looks like 💯 👏 Way to go 🥳
😁
Well, fiddle de de!
Good morning Betsy!
Goooood morning, monti😁👍🏻 I’ll say!😂
Betsy jones: Hah! That’s perfect.
No face like it, bill.😏
THERE it is!!!
Heh!
I did say….😎😁
https://poetrytreeonthecharles.net/2021/10/curiosity-by-alastair-reid/
No words, benzy.
What a find. Thank you.
Rah, I saw your post from last night.
Hope y’all are feeling better today!
When I get time in a couple of days I’d like to ask you a bit more about the hedgerow fighting in France shortly after D-Day.
We decorate the grave of a relative who died July 7, 1944, in France. I’m trying to find more info on him. A cousin of my Papaw, and he had the same name.
He was only 22….
Noted! I can suggest some good books. And yes, I am feeling better thank you!
Unless he was in the units mentioned, this probably doesn’t help. It is a summary of major actions that day.
Friday, July 7, 1944 – D-Day Overlord (dday-overlord.com)
Knowing his units will help you to focus on where they were and what they were doing.
Thanks for that, I’ll try to look more when I have more time.
I did find more than I had previously.
He was in the 329th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division.
I found that his unit began an attack on July 4, 1944, and I found where he was Killed In Action, Died Of Wounds on July 7.
The extremely detailed info I tried to rush through was…..gut wrenching. I need to go through it slower, and read it all when I have more time.
When rah mentioned the hedgerow fighting, that sparked my curiosity. Throw in a swamp and it was even worse.
Ugly, ugly stuff.
Right off the bat in a search.
83rd Infantry Division Documents – 329th Infantry Regiment (83rdinfdivdocs.org)
I may have more to add later I think, specifically will be looking for what is said in the US Army Greenbook, for the campaign and period.
I noticed the 329th was brought into the active service at Camp Atterbury, Indiana on 12 Aug., 1942.
83,000 persons recorded in France in 1944 @ findagrave DOT com, 1st page is all military … unknown soldiers.
Findagrave
God morning to all Treeper friends and Prayer Warriors.
My reading and posts may be infrequent, as things are heating UP here. Making some big “follow Jesus” decisions and I wrote about them in the Prayer Thread.
Americans For Prosperity came by when I wasn’t home with a recruitment door hanger. Wonder how that conversation would have gone – had I been here? (Don’t bother looking them up – they are the anti-Trump Koch Brothers – but their “libertarian” website sure buries that precious detail). I get the strangest things. I’m on somebody’s “list” as my neighbor friends didn’t get one.
For now, Harry Houdini and Timmy Two Toes says “Howdy” and we will pray for all of you in your each respective paths.
Stay sharp, awake, diligent, and vigilant. Keep your eyes solely on The Lord as He is where our help comes from and He Is Faithful!
Love to you all! – JWooHoo & Savannah Banana
Stalwart soldiers of the Paw! 💕🐾
Good morning, Lorrie – join the pawty! LOL
Nice to see you friend. Beautiful Kitties. I know you miss your friend. I still think of my doggie. I had one of my gifted friends draw a portrait of her, came out great. I saw her and heard her once each after she passed to say good bye for now. We all will meet again.
Oh Colkitto – I really, really do – miss my little Danny boy. He was the bestest – most peaceful – “cat – only real adult in the room” in the clowder. We lost one due to our home loss – Savannah’s “Carlos” AKA “Carlo-seetoes-treatoes” and then lost Dan – our gentle Russian Blue.
We’ve been going through deep seasons of great loss. Our dear friend to neuroendocrine cancer. Our home. Our neighborhood. Our cats. Our educational system. Our country. Savannah’s faith in her dad. All pretty much shitsville. BUT THROUGH IT ALL – GOD. God is here with us.
So glad you have a beautiful picture of your pup. God gives me my dreams to remind me that we are almost home.
I just wanted to be left alone – and live in peace – and raise my precious girl. Now I feel like a bad Clint Eastwood movie “Go ahead, punk. Make my day!”
Keeping myself pinned down to not go adopt another. Lease is up in this overpriced hole we live in now – and I’m trying to see where the winds take us – especially if we switch to homeschooling online. The job holds me in place until daughter is out of school and her need for me lessens.
God morning JWooHoo. The kitties are saying, it’s time to eat.
God morning, GrandpaM!!!
Hugs to you and hoping the rehabbing is going terrific with your ticker! The kittahs have been fed most expediently!
Rehabbing going great. had another session this morning and am increasing the resistance a little ahead of schedule. the nurses there love it. Can’t wait to be able to do real weights so I can build up muscle mass but that’s another 8 weeks away. 🙁 But the upside is that I am enjoying my college years weight.
So you lost weight?? Wouldn’t recommend what you had to do to get there, dear brother. Let’s just call it a silver lining, one Chris also received. Twenty two pounds. 👍🏻
Gold star for you!!💕
Lovely, JWoo. How nice to have those gorgeous faces to go with their names!
God morning, Bets.
Harry Houdini and Timmy Two-Toes (for his mafia-style attacks on at least two of your toes!) They are the bestest ever. (I’m partial.)
Partial?? You??? Say it isn’t so 😏💕
It has been said that amateurs study tactics while professionals study logistics. In February Eisenhower had written Marshall that “From D day to D plus 60 this thing is going to absorb everything the United Nations can possibly pour into it.”
The potential to get ashore had never been questioned even as early as the preliminary planning by British General Frederick Morgan when at COSSAC, the primary question was not getting ashore but how to stay there. Normandy, unlike the islands of the Pacific, was not an island that could be cut off and isolated from resupply and reinforcement by sea. It was the occupied coast of a developed nation having modern lines of communication by which reinforcements could be rushed to any point of invasion. And the Germans had plenty of reinforcements at hand to do so.
Here are the key factors in play to help the invasion be successful.
The interdiction by air was both strategic and tactical. The escort fighters strafed and made roadways/railways impassable returning from their primary mission of getting bombers to targets. Many light bomber/fighter strafing bombing missions did the same.
See Transportation plan.
Medium bombers and Fighter bombers from the 9th AF were dedicated to knocking out key logistical links. RR tunnels, RR and road bridges, RR switching yards and stations, etc. For major road intersections were blocked by bombing the towns they were in to fill the streets for rubble.
The heavy bombers from the 8th AF and from RAF Bomber command were pulled away from their strategic missions to help out also as needed. Much to the dismay Arnold, Spatz, and Bomber Harris.
A note about weather. The official weather report for June 19th, issued on the 18th for the channel and Normandy was: “Cloudy to partly cloudy. Visibility fair, 4-6 miles, Wind NE, velocity gentle, 8-13 knots.” Even when that forecast was issued winds in the channel were already at 20 knots and building. The 19th was in fact the start of a historic Channel storm. Atmospheric pressure would drop to 29.92 and by 10 PM winds were at 30 knots with breakers up to 15 ft. even inside the artificial Mulberry harbors. The men on the huge Phoenix units of the Mulberries had to be evacuated, including those on the high towers manning the anti-aircraft guns. Off Omaha beach 2o of the 31 concrete Phoenix units were destroyed, some of them actually broken in half.
The smaller landing craft only had a single anchor and no spring line on that and thus started dragging their anchors and were broached on the shore and beaten by the breakers there. Some of their commanders deliberately ran their landing craft ashore deciding that was better than going under. The majority of the landing craft that successfully rode out the storm were those tied off to their transports or larger ships. It was a desperate search to find a big ship to tie off too because the majority of transports already had a huge nest of the boats tied off on their lee sides. In a few cases boats desperate to tie off were threatened with gun fire by the captains of the transports.
Even the big ships began to drag their anchors and many, including the battleship Texas, got underway to get to open water.
On the morning of the 20th there was a short break with a glimpse of blue skies but then the weather closed in again and built to a full blown gale. The worst June storm to hit the Channel in 40 years!
The wind did not start to abate until the evening of June 22nd. There were between 2,200 and 2,400 vessels beached. Most were salvaged and repaired but about 300 were total wrecks or sunk.
The weather while moderating would not bring many ideal days even through July. July 1944 was the wettest that month Normandy had seen for 40 years.
Mornin’ all!
Good morning.
Fiddling while the USA burns……
Feels like it anyway…..
God bless.
I share your frustration. For now do what you can to the best of your abilities. And tighten up to protect and take care of your family/loved ones. Go with God
THE NEXT BEST THING TO DO
Ask if you have not Received. “For every one that asketh receiveth.” Luke xi. 10
There is nothing more difficult than to ask. We will long and desire and crave and suffer, but not until we are at the extreme limit will we ASK. A sense of unreality makes us ask. Have you ever asked out of the depths of moral poverty? “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God…,” but be sure that you do lack wisdom. You cannot bring yourself up against Reality when you like. The next best thing to do if you are not spiritually real, is to ask God for the Holy Spirit on the word of Jesus Christ (see Luke xi. 13). The Holy Spirit is the One Who makes real in you all that Jesus did for you.
“For everyone that asketh receiveth.” This does not mean you will not get if you do not ask (cf. Matt. v. 45), but until you get to the point of asking you won’t RECEIVE from God. To receive means you have come into the relationship of a child of God, and now you perceive with intelligent and moral appreciation and spiritual understanding that these things come from God.
“If any of you lack wisdom…” If you realize you are lacking, it is because you have come in contact with spiritual reality; do not put your reasonable blinkers on again. People say – Preach us the simple gospel: don’t tell us we have to be holy, because that produces a sense of abject poverty, and it is not nice to feel abjectly poor. “Ask” means BEG. Some people are poor enough to be interested in their poverty, and some of us are like that spiritually. We will never receive if we ask with an end in view; if we ask, not out of our poverty but out of our lust. A pauper does not ask from any other reason than the abject panging condition of his poverty, he is not ashamed to beg. – Blessed are the PAUPERS in spirit.
Oswald Chambers
June 9th Devotional
God morning my dear friend stevie
May God be with you today and always
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Morning friend!
good night friend !
Good Saturday Eve, dear sis💕 Today’s Chambers made me instantly think of this!
“Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us back home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ” You must do this. I can’t.”
From CS Lewis’s “Mere Christianity”
An excerpt, a four minute read.
https://joseph-m-hansen.medium.com/c-s-lewis-mere-christianity-book-iii-chapter-11-excerpt-fac8c3d7594e
Good morning juststevie!
Image of the West: George Catlin’s American Buffalo
https://bigskyjournal.com/george-catlins-american-buffalo/
Attacking the Grizzly Bear by George Catlin
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Portrait of George Catlin by William Fisk, 1849
George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Travelling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin was the first white man to depict Plains Indians in their native territory.
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Thank You Colkitto and Good Morning to you
I love your pictures .
Love when you stop by . thanks
God bless you Molon. Caitlin is special to me for his anthropology book on the Mandan Indians O-kee-pa. He was privileged by them to let him witness their ceremonies, and boy he sure observed some truly spectacular things they did and believed in. Some day I will talk about it. Our special friend & Treeper who I consider “Wales” will be especially interested. Best to you and God answered my prayers, which I am deeply grateful for, which I wrote about yesterday. Go with God friend
NJ’s most famous Italian dish. I went to the Belmont twice over a span of 15 years to get this famous dish. They even serve your Ziti with Riccotta!
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24790/chicken-savoy/
Yes….I will, my dear friend. I really will.😊
Buffalo tongue is outstanding cuisine! Hump is very good, rest of it is kinda dry like most game.
A pair of Orchard Orioles.
Where I used to live, I was lucky enough to find their nest one year in some large Spruce trees at the end of a hanging branch in my neighbors yard that was right next to the fence line to my yard. I saw them a few other years feeding a fledgling and fighting with my local Baltimore Orioles. They are not as common as Baltimore’s and are much more secretive. I have never seen one where I live now, but they do occasionally nest further north in higher elevations.
Sweet! I have seen males and females separately. If you ever get the chance you should come explore Florida’ s Great Birding Trail before ron! paves it over!
Alexander Key worried in the early 1970’s while he was living up in the beautiful Cherokee Co NC area, that they were going to destroy nature. He was on the money just like he was in his science fiction books. Ty for the reminder mate. Cheers friend!
Good morning, Colkitto.
Especially today after the news yesterday, it is so restful for the soul to come to my place of refuge which is this thread and see your early morning appearance with these beauties. To be able to snap a photo like this must be the thrill of a lifetime. Be well, my friend.🤗
Hello Colkitto, fellow-bird lover …
No bird pics, but here’s a photo (pro – not mine) of who’s been visiting our backyard the past week.
He’s a rarity at our place – haven’t seen one in our yard for fifteen years.
He comes late afternoon and digs up buried acorns that belong to grey squirrels.
So, hubs scattered some corn yesterday and we watched him eat for an hour!
Hopefully, he’ll hang around, cause he LOVED that corn!!
His little white nose is precious…
Beautiful. I’ve been blessed lately if you’ve read my yesterday posts on my yard activities. A few days ago I happened to be at the right place and right time when I went to the front yard and was greeted by a fly over Cuckoo bird. I usually only see 1-2 a year.
As I always say keep your eye on the sky, or in your very cool case, the ground! Ty for the pic my friend.
I’ll go back and check your post!
That’s funny, C! Definitely have my eye on the sky – watching for Christ’s return …
But will watch the ground, too!
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Impression, sunrise by Claude Monet
☘ The Lords Prayer
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.
Amen.
Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist’s Garden in Argenteui
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St Michael Prayer
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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,
be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him we humbly pray;
and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host,
by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
Women in the garden by Claude Monet
☘ Matthew 18:20
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
Irises in Monet’s Garden by Claude Monet
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Psalm 146:1-2, 6-10
Praise the Lord, my soul!
Praise the Lord, O my soul;
I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God while I live. R.
Praise the Lord, my soul!
The Lord keeps faith forever,
secures justice for the oppressed,
gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets captives free.
Praise the Lord, my soul!
The Lord gives sight to the blind.
The Lord raises up those who are bowed down;
the Lord loves the just.
The Lord protects strangers.
Praise the Lord, my soul!
The fatherless and the widow he sustains,
but the way of the wicked he thwarts
The Lord shall reign forever,
your God, O Zion, through all generations! Alleluia.
Praise the Lord, my soul!
Molon, this Psalm is beautiful …
Also, I’ve always liked the art of Monet and Van Gogh. Soothing to me.
Do you know about Paul Gauguin?
Paul Gauguin, French artist (1848-1903) had an interesting, yet troubled life.
Gauguin had personal collection of Monet’s paintings.
He and Van Gogh became friends, but eventually had falling out.
Then Gauguin moved to Tahiti, and there created one of his most renowned paintings.
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897).
It is told that he never wrote on his canvas, but on this particular one he wrote these words in top corner.
It’s an enormous depiction of life and death beginning with a baby and ending with a shriveled old woman.
This masterpiece is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
His paintings were never valuable till after his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Do_We_Come_From%3F_What_Are_We%3F_Where_Are_We_Going%3F#:~:text=Que%20sommes%2Dnous%20%3F,the%20themes%20of%20the%20Gospels%22.
Autumn on the Seine at Argenteuil by Claude Monet
Good morning Treepers
Miss you Betsy
Gotta run
have some fun
be back at noon
hope to see you soon
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Mornin Duchess
A good morning to you Molonlabe 🍀🍀.. catch you later ..have some fun and enjoy 😂👍
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Thanks Jim
Headin out the door now
Going to morning mass
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Good morning, Jim🤗💕
Good morning, dear mo💕🍀
Posted without words…because none are needed.
I’m looking for swans on the Seine above…I don’t see any. Here…
And for the soul…
The Swans of Tuonela
~Jean Sibelius ~
Bet, about 25 years ago we had a pair is swans come to the ranch lake for 2-3 years. Haven’t seen any since. I guess the coons, foxes and coyotes were too much of a hassle. ❤️😍
Oh my!!!! I can only imagine!😍
I’m guessing they sensed it was not a safe place. They mate for life so it must have been Mr and Mrs.
Long ago, we took the now grown kids to Ellesmere in Cheshire, England to a lake there which is overflowing with abundant waterfowl including swans (protected by Royal Decree). So many in one place. A joy to be around them.
Spectacular!
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Always and forever, dear Frank.
Good Morning Treepers. I’ve been buried in the tasks at hand. Running on the inspiration of fellowship here and in other networks. But I think of you daily.
It is time for action, for voice, yet grounded in the peace that passes understanding.
I am working on prayer. Working on being still. Working on taking action. Life is a mystery. Every day.
Thanks be to God for his Grace, Love, and Mercy. Thanks be to God for his mighty Power. Thanks be to Jesus for salvation.
Guide us as a nation, O Lord. Show us where to put our feet, what to say, where to meditate, to whom to speak.
Amen
The Lord granted me reprieve of the agony of the bulging disc in the thoracic region last night and this morning. It has been a tough road to hoe with no pain relievers. This was the first decent sleep I have had in over a week. G-d is Great, CTH is Good, and people have gone crazy.
Prayer is so powerful, CR. You have been the recipient of many from your friends here. We were heard on your behalf. Please may your relief continue, dear friend. I am overjoyed for you!! Hallelujah. God IS great!!!! AMEN!🙏🏻💕
You made me go and listen to this one more time… Billy Currington. Such a catchy tune and quite a touching song.
Something to remember, Doc…a “mental cocktail” to drink in for a small moment of respite whilst being still. Blessings, sir.
Ty ma’am, brings back fond memories. How many times did we do that? Not enough.
Yep!
No…not enough, Colkitto. Sigh…
Outstanding!
Morning, CR🤗 Oh for those days….right? Definitely right💕
Hey there, Betsy!
Love this so much – makes me want to cry!
We have green beans growing in garden, and little grands LOVE to pick them.
This pic reminds me to have a bean-snapping party – including some good stories!
blessings to you…
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Good afternoon, dear Della😘🤗!!! It did me as well, so much. I can see exactly where I was all those decades ago, sitting around my mother in law’s kitchen table snapping, shucking, shelling. And talking!!!!
Blessed times I appreciated so much then. And had I known then where we’d be now, I’d have appreciated them and treasured them more….if that is remotely possible.
I am SO glad to see you, as you’ve been much on my mind…but no more strongly than this morning for some reason. I must have “heard” you coming.😉😘🌻!
I know those days, too!
Precious memories.
The talking helped the work go by quicker!
Wished some of us could gather like in the pic –
Oh, the stories we could tell.
Alas, the ‘net.
After my last few weeks, just need to take deep breath…
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I’ve been missing you. I looked for you every day. And I’ve prayed for you.
I hope whatever has had you involved for the time you have been away (not asking) is resolved. If it has been a pothole, I hope it has been securely filled in, dear sis.🙏🏻😘
Thank you for your kindness, Betsy. It’s appreciated!
I know, I know … would tell you if we were shelling peas!
Family (extended) stuff …
I’m too old for anything outside of ordinary … 😁😁
Calm and peaceful is my cuppa.
Hope Chris is improving every day .. have thought of you both.
Understand. Completely! Shelling peas… we could certainly put everything to rights, or make a darned good stab at it😉😘
And thank you, Della. He is. A miracle really. At least we choose to see it that way with the compassionate and knowledge care of a young pulmonologist who put him on the right inhaler. British pharma company, so it was bound to work😁👍🏻 😘
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. . . 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.
Amen. Amin🙏🏻
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)
June 9
Morning
Never man spake like this man. John 7:46
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Psa. 45:2
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary. Isa. 50:4
His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend. Song 5:16
All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. Luke 4:22
He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. Matt. 7:29
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. Col. 3:16
The sword of the Spirit … is the word of God. Eph. 6:17
The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword. Heb. 4:12
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. II Cor. 10:4-5
Evening
The triumphing of the wicked is short. Job 20:5
Thou shalt bruise his heel. Gen. 3:15
This is your hour, and the power of darkness. Luke 22:53
As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. Heb. 2:14
Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Col. 2:15
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith. I Pet. 5:8-9
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. Psa. 37:12-13
The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. Rom. 16:20
The devil … was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone…. and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Rev. 20:10
Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/06/0609.html
Verse of the Day for Friday, June 9, 2023
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“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
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
Bless-ed God morning, dear duchess, dear friend.💕🌹
It is Well with My Soul
Chris Rice
Time to load out for the beach again today. Back in the day we only had a towel, sunglasses and perhaps suntan “lotion” (otherwise known as “cooking oil” lol). Today it’s beach umbrella, chairs, water, toys, sunscreen, fishing gear, snacks etc……
feels like prepping for an extended expedition.
But the grands are having a blast this week and I ‘m fiddling while USA burns.
God bless.
Preserve your peace, monti. And give that peace to your beloved grands. Fiddle away, my friend, and ENJOY!😊👍🏻
Please read our friend JWoo’s heartbreaking comment on today’s Presidential thread. I wonder if there is more we here can do to help her?
Colkitto – no, no, no. You are sweet. But listen – I share these things because they are reality and consequences of a malfunctioning government.
Honor me and help me save our Republic by doing everything you can on your end – within your own world – to throw sand in the machine and right this ship.
I am fighting in every aspect that I can – with the Lord’s guidance and wisdom.
Besides – I have a soon-to-be military aged daughter and I don’t want that fool in the WH pulling her into any of this mess. She has an affinity for the military based upon our history – and her flight aspirations – but it won’t be protecting this faux government.
What The Lord has in store for her – no one – and I mean – NO ONE – will put asunder.
Just keep us in prayers. We are fighting the good fight and I’m revealing whatever I find out to whomever will listen and I’m trying to find and ferret out the good patriots from this evil cesspool of politician growers here in Indiana.
We grow more than corn in Indiana – we grow dirty politicians.
Ok JWoo, I’ve been at this game since I was a teenager, ran for office, helped Buchanan’s campaigns, did many redpill things over the years. I hate when I hear good people get unjustly attacked. I’ve always hated bullies and I try and be chivalrous as much as I can. There are many people who care, many of whom are here. I will pray for you as I did pretty good with my prayers lately. Go with God friend
San Damiano the first church St Francis repaired.
Amen,Colkitto! When The Good Lord Is ready – we will all as a Christian family fix this together. We are not afraid.
PRAYERS are the very best answer to all of this.
I will find it now!
Ta
Love that “Ta”, monti!! Aaaaand I’m back in Blighty 😁😘👍🏻
Hello all – hope this story encourages you as I remind myself, too.
(Been absent – life gets in the way)
Some years ago, September 11, 2001, early that morning, I arrived at my workplace.
Opened my Bible – in no particular fashion – and it parted to Psalm 46.
As I read the Psalm, several verses jumped off the page into my heart:
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. (1)
Be still, and know that I am God. (10)
Thirty minutes later, I heard the news – our nation had been attacked.
Everyone was in confusion. We gathered around a t.v., and watched – live – the second plane crash into Twin Tower.
Although these horrific memories cannot be erased, God had prepared me that morning in advance with His words above.
They remained in my heart and mind – giving comfort, strength and peace amidst all the chaos – because I believed Him.
And frightening times continue — but God is on His Throne, ruling and reigning over everything.
May He comfort you today – and forever.
photo: Charles Stanley/www.InTouch.org
Thank you Miss Della,
we all need encouragement this week
Blessing to you monti … we need it – every day.
Have missed you, Della. Love Dr. Stanley’s photos. What a beautiful soul. Can you imagine the gatherings in Heaven? The heroes of faith collecting around a big table – what a powerful group! (Robertson, Stanley, Graham… just of recent, not to mention the greats in years past.) I venture they will ride with Christ upon His Glorious Return.
I was in Lost Angeles during the 9-11 attacks… trying to keep my clients calm in my former electric power generation job. We supplied electricity in emergencies.
Hello Woo, many distractions lately … ya know??
Yes, there are so many saints gone before us — I can only imagine what a time we’re going to have there!
Lost Angeles ! 🤣
i remember CSLewis’ statement: “Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret?”
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C.S. Lewis was most prescient!
Girl – I’m going to be SKIPPING out of this life and into Eternity. I know what awaits me.
Soooo many distractions. Just get small, keep our heads down, press forward. Try not to get enraptured in escapism. We’ve got work to do!
Your last para is weighty — and absolutely right!
It’s easy to be lulled as a frog in boiling kettle…
Thanking God for the wisdom and discernment He’s giving you, Woo!
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Looks like a scene from the movie “Belle & Sebastian” Gorgeous
Haven’t seen this but looks like good story!
A dog and a boy? What could you not like!!
Is that dog one of those Pyrenees?
satan knows his time is short. And as such, he has decided to go for broke, gathering souls apace.
It seems that Someone has removed his cloak of invisibility to expose the abhorrent evil that is running freely and without let or hindrance in the Western world.
We’ve been allowed to see it full force so that we know we must armour up and keep our lamps filled every watchful day to fight it unrelentingly.
Chaos is evil’s stock and trade. Time to be silent for a moment to remember…”Be still and know I am God”. Amen, Della🙏🏻
So true – never dreamed I would see such…
I gonna be still 🤗🙏🏻
Thanks..
All of it is so easy to see. That there are millions who can’t or choose not to is perplexing to me.
Dang…..
They must be threatening them. They did that to my friends business long ago. Threatened to pull his advertisers. He didn’t care, but I saw how they do it.
ESG ratings, Colkitto. The ultimate corporate/BlackRock/WEF tyranny.
Shocking all the same…and despicable.
MIDDAY PRAYER
PRAISE BE JESUS CHRIST!!! LET US PRAY…
PSALMS 103:1-5 (KJV)
1 (A Psalm of David.) Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
PLEASE JOIN US IN PRAYER…
Father God, we humbly kneel down before the Throne of Grace with our prayers and petitions for our Brothers and Sisters:
As our Heavenly Physician, we ask you guide the surgeon’s and caretaker’s hands to affect a positive result for:
Those tackling family issues – Strengthen and guide them to positive solutions and welfare – physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Healing and strength for those recuperating from medical procedures.
Those who have passed from death unto life: we ask for comfort and peace for their families.
Those suffering from mental health issues brought upon by a variety of life experiences, we pray.
Those impacted by demonic influences that are wreaking havoc with friends and family, we pray.
Father God, we continue to pray for others in our community who are living with cancer. We lift them up in prayer and ask You to strengthen them and their friends and family. We pray for their caretakers as they give their love and support on a daily basis.
Father God, We ask You to shine Your Light and Love on all of them. Guide them as they journey with our friends. Help them to make good choices in doctors and medical treatment.
Father God, We lift up the J6 Prisoners, who are in dire straits in an unfair, biased judicial system – We ask You to free these captives – reverse judgements and drop all charges against them.
Father God, We lift up our Country as we pray for the return of our duly elected president, Donald J. Trump. We pray for his welfare and safety as well as that of his family.
Father God, We lift up our military. Guide and protect them as well as our law enforcement officers here at home.
Father God, Our Republic, indeed all of humanity is at risk. You know only too well the Darkness that abounds.
Guide and protect those bringing Light and Love in their attempts to free the children.
Deliver us from the evil that enslaves humanity. Send forth Your Angels to assist us and bring us closer to You.
Father God, Secure and Protect our Freedom, the freedom of humanity around the world, and the safety of our military and others involved in dangerous operations to bring these to fruition.
Father God, We thank You for the end of Roe V Wade and pray for an end to abortion nationwide and worldwide. Protect the unborn inside and outside of the womb from terror and death.
Father God, We thank You for those who have bravely stepped forward and are running for office. We ask You to bless the work of their hands with success.
We acknowledge and ask it all in the Precious and Holy Name of Jesus. Amen.
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
AMEN. ❤️❤️❤️
Amen!
PLEASE LISTEN – ENCOURAGING !!!
Streamed on: Jun 9, 7:31 am EDT
LIVE WITH JULIE 06.09.23
JULIE GREEN MINISTRIES
https://rumble.com/v2t2tc0-live-with-julie-06.09.23.html
SPECIAL ARE YOU
God made each of us unique and solely
Like He – He wanted us to be holy
He gave each of us both gifts and talents
All are designed to keep us in balance
No two are similar or even the same
Nor were we endowed from whence we came
As we grow through our talents we thrive
And we know through grace our gifts come alive
Have you any idea how special you are
More amazing than you believe by far
What would happen if you missed just one day
Who would fill in the blank and pave the way
No matter what others might say or think
No one can replace you if you should blink
God placed you right where He wants you to be
Without hesitation from you or me
If you think of a structure less one block
Or a herd of sheep less one from the flock
Then you know how very special are you
How important it is to do what you do
If you are a page in a chapter book
How will the story make sense or look
The missing link to this mystery
Well it could be you or it could be me
If you are wondering where you fit in
Just take a step back to where you have been
Consider where we would be without you
So Special are You to this TreeHouse crew
D01: 06/09/2023
So sweet, duchess…and very true. I love the metaphor. This Tree, this Book made of so many different beautiful souls with their own chapters to add…and ever expanding! The cover does not belie the contents. All authored by one Father.
Methinks the Holy Spirit is working overtime in you. And it is glorious!🙏🏻🌻😘
MO wore me out DANCING yesterday – It is no wonder the Holy Spirit took over – * Giggle *
Glad you like it – So is God – Hugs !!!
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Good afternoon duchess
Dancin was fun.
I needed some rest today
Good music
Good friends
Good time
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Fellowship
Prayers
Friends
Oh, me, too, MO !!! So happy to see your posting pairings !!!
Awesomesauce !!! A great break from heart hurts !!!
Glad you are having fun entertaining everyone here !!!
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When I have five minutes, I will go check out what I missed. I did show up but then had to leave the room.
That’ll larn me!
Well now Sherry and I are going out to look for a new table for our deck. Sherry forgot to put the umbrella down and a unexpected strong gust caused the umbrella shaft to shatter the tempered glass top. A call to Anderson Glass Co. informed me that it would almost certainly be cheaper to buy a new table than to replace the glass in the one we have. And so a shopping we will go.
😬😬😬. Stuff happens.
Eric Metaxas
@ericmetaxas
Scripture says ALL things “work together for good for those who love the Lord & are called according to His purposes.” Even the supremely evil things happening NOW–if we turn to God utterly–will be part of how He turns history for His purposes. Turn to Him w/yr whole heart NOW.
1:03 PM · Jun 9, 2023
Amen, Trouble. And Amen again!
Amen! Encouraging everyone I talk with to turn to Him — time is drawing near.
The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer
George Balanchine´s The Nutcracker – Waltz of the Flowers
You are tearing my heart out with this beautiful ballet piece !!! ❤️🌼❤️🌼❤️
Love the Nutcracker
Reminds me of Christmas but it’s good to hear
Any time of the year
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Me, too – So true – Enjoyable anytime !!!
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I love it too, mo😍
When I lived abroad and had access to broadcasts of classical performances and ballet on Dutch telvision, I saw and recorded on a DVD Tue complete ballet performed by the Birmingham (England) Royal Ballet.
The staging was magnificent and it included a Christmas tree which grew from small to the top of the massive stage! And while I was enjoying Clara and her Prince dancing, I hadn’t noticed that suddenly there was a box of full grown toy soldiers which somehow surreptitiously appeared!!
Irek Mukhamedov danced the Prince. What a wonderful production it was. Here he is dancing the Pas de deux from The Nutcracker…
Alas in our move from Wales to the US, the video was lost. But even if it hadn’t been it was recorded on different frequencies and would have been unplayable here.
But I still remember every bit of and so will have to be content with remembering it.
OH LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!!!!!!!
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From the performance of the Nutcracker which I saw all those decades ago!!!!!!
WHOOPIE!!!! I can share it now!!!!!!!
Thirty Minutes!!!
30 minutes well spent
thanks Bett
Welcome, mo. Maybe one day I’ll stumble on the whole ballet which so enchanted me.😘🍀
Hey there molon!
love, love portraits … I’ve found some at the antique store and hung them in the house.
Sometimes it’s best to have pictures of people you don’t know …. 😁😁
you been doin the Boogaloo, molon?
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Regarding portraits? Antique shops and fayres were in abundance non the UK, Della. We found quite a few which we bought and which now hang in our home. I know the name of one…A Dr Roberts.
But it is fun to imagine what sort of lives they had when….
Browsing antique shops is one of my fav pastimes!
There are several good ones nearby us. Only go every few months, tho.
One place has a vendor that imports most of their things from UK.
I enjoy seeing such unique pieces, with intricate carvings. Most are costly, too.
Will snap some pics next time I go and post for you!
Yeah, those portraits are like adopted family!
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I would LOVE THAT!!!😍
Della
it was so good to see you here today
been so busy all day
really is good having you here
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yup
been playin some dancin music
havin some fun
seeing you and woo taking the time to come by
thats a gift to us here in the tree
we know how busy things can be
we know what you and woo put into your prayer time
God is in you my friend
Keep the Spirit alive
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The Love Letter by Johannes Vermee
J.S. Bach : Toccata and Fugue in D minor/ Liene Andreta Kalnciema
Oh – That stained glass window of Jesus is gorgeous as is her expertise at the organ – So enjoyable !!!
Thanks !!! What an awesome church !!! 💚🌼💚🌼💚
Is the news good? Expected? Certainly she was surprised to receive it it seems… I love the expression on her face and love making up my own story.