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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Stiill hunting and pecking . . . sorry for the slow recovery,
Hunting and pecking is a fine American tradition.
Wishing you swift healing!🙏
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Hang in there Garrison. Have a great Sunday.
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Be well, my man Garrison💖
God morning, dear Patience and Ma 🕊💕🕊 Oh how true…a simple sentiment but with the power of a thousand Amens 🙏🏻
This is for you. Don’t ask me why it was you I thought of immediately (and myself of course) Somehow I think Ma would agree🤗
deep core giggling…. smiling
and laughter with sound 😀
Besty, you are much more than intuitive.
Thanks for the thought and exposure❣️
Anytime, dear sis. I aim to please😉😎😘
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“Why thank you!!” she said while pouring copious amounts into her cup 😎😉
Good morning Bet and Patience! Greeting at church this morning. ❤️😍
God morning g, my beloved brother. I was just outside admiring Chris’s finished job of transforming the small area outside our back door into a thing of beauty over the past few weeks…and I was wondering if greeting was on your schedule this morning. Don’t ask me why I thought of this.
Probably just as you were posting…mind meld.
Blessed be your day🙏🏻🤗😘
I’ve been doing it every other week. Our third greeter went on an extended RV trip with his wife so that left just two of us for a while. Not a biggie, I love doing it anyway.
Glad that Chris is finished with the project.
Elizabeth is teaching children’s church today and we have Nipper. Getting into a busy town me with soccer starting and a whole bunch of other stuff going on. 😁😘
Soccer again!!! I bet Nipper will really show some improvement this year. You coaching the team? If not, I’m sure you’ll be keeping your hand (foot) in with one on one instruction.👍🏻 GO NIPPER!!! Auntie Bet is cheering you on, lad!! 🤗👍🏻🤸
So nice to have a husband with such talent as your Chris. I bet the new patio is beautiful. Chris, what a blessing you are to your bride. #relationshipgoals
Oh bless, JWoo. It’ll never be Home and Garden. There was a time I’d care about that, but age has squashed that vainglorious ideal.
The bulk of the project was removing a rotting deck which had been down for 17 years made of the only wood we could get for the purpose and which was inferior to that he built our Welsh deck out of which will be there forever more.
Hundreds of screws to remove, sawing it into removable pieces…a labour of Hercules. But he is older now and can’t quite do with ease what he could when he was younger. Remembering his terrible surgeries and breathing problems which he has under manageable control, he will not have it that he is not 30 anymore.
At one point when he was struggling with the worst part and I told him to stop and take a break and he wouldn’t, I actually thought so this is why a merciful God spared his life….so I could kill him!! And yes,a heavy dose of widely sarcasm with that last one.
Then cement and concrete to reinforce the raw edges of beds which were left exposed by the tiny deck removal. A semi circle step outside the back door, a repair of siding and new supports of the bottom piece, paint which thankfully we had some leftover to match the rest, a repaint of the door surround and HEY! PRESTO!! DONE!!
It does look so good. And has changed the outlook to our decimated by the Texas freeze garden, A project we will tackle next year bit by bit, what with a winter coming and the hideous expense of plants now.
I’m glad he did it. He needed to do it to prove he was still useful….to himself…and I so get that.
I shall pass on your beautiful message, dearest friend. I guarantee that will please him no end…love ya!! 😘🤗👍🏻
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Good morning, kind Garrison. No apologies.
Thought of you yesterday when we came out of water aerobics and I bent down to pick something over a bench in the locker room, I slipped on a wet spot and caught myself with MY wrist.
So fragile and such important part of our bodies.
Take it easy, as I shall too. Still going tonight because this is excellent time shared with my daughter. She’s really into it and it’s a good focus to have while all else swirls around her.
My shimmying will just be a little slower and a little less shim. Can’t wait to watch her enjoy it… she is very reserved and rarely cuts loose…footloose. But she’s emerging and this will be fun to watch her. She’s always wanted to dance but didn’t have a venue. Now she does.
Mornin’ ‘Woo love. Sorry I can’t say more—you are such gift to her 🙂 .
No apologies, friend. I know where your heart is. You make it so obvious to all who post here.
You are a good, loving person, and honorable man and you share so much with all of us.
We appreciate you.
Give that wrist a rest and maybe get a little xray in case you need a brace for it.
Good idea. 🙂
Good morning JWoo! Great that you two are doing fun stuff together. 🙌
I just wanted you to know that I am now using Brave as my browser and have no more problems with the tripwire. Thanks for helping me.
You are most welcome. Glad that it is working for you. 🙂
Good morning, GrandpaM. I’m taking queues from other “greats” I see and want to be like when I grow up.
So many here in this Tree who continue to pour into and invest in our youth.
They’re so worth it. Love you guys and girls.
Miss your Cat stories JWoo. Nice to hear you & your daughter are doing well and having fun.
There will be more, Colkitto. The boys are assuring me of it! Meowww!
Doing well is relative, you know? We still have challenges and ridiculous worldly frustrations… just taking the “live your best life” advice to heart and not letting the grass grow under our feet. Trying to focus and put our energy into the good things.
We can’t let them steal our joy, Colkitto, friend.
The Tree has been such a blessing to so many of us. 😁
Amen
Morning Garrison! Nothing wrong with hunting and pecking.
Morning, Pa❣️❣️❣️
Amen, girl. AMEN!!
Amen Patience! 😍
A beauty all the way around Patience. I’ll just add one of my Chocolate Muffins (which I cannot find anymore).
Wonderful . . . thankfull 🙂
It’s so beautiful and been a while since I heard it!
Soothing, soulful….
9/17/2023 – The necessity and nature of Conversion, Introduction
Matthew 18:1-6 “At the same time came the disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto Him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say to you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in My Name receives Me. But whoso shall offend (cause to sin, scandalize) one of these little ones which believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
In order for us to understand the thought behind this question; we should look at the things that were happening around it in those days; to try to put ourselves in the frame of mind of the disciples. There were a few other occasions when similar conversation arose, when the disciples were specifically thinking about themselves; who would take the lead among them. At that time, the Lord told them, that their kingdom was not in that way resembling the manner of the kings and rulers of the Gentiles; but that the greatest among them would not lord it over the others, but would be the servant of all, even as He was among them.
Now it probably wasn’t but a day or two, since Jesus had taken Peter, James, and John, up into the mountain country of Caesarea Philippi, and had given them the vision of His transfiguration, and Moses and Elijah appeared, and were talking with Him. When they came down from the mountain afterwards, the Lord charged them strictly, to not share what they had seen with anyone, until after He was risen from the dead. I have to believe, that they held those things privately, and did not speak of them with the other disciples, just as Jesus told them to do.
But it might be fair to speculate; that their minds were greatly stirred by the things they saw, and having heard the voice of the Father speaking from heaven; that they likely did start talking about who, of all the prophets and saints, would be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. So it was not, in my opinion, simply a self-centered or ambitious desire, that was behind the question; but rather with the thoughts about all the great servants of the LORD in the Bible.
As the Lord Jesus always does, He answers their question clearly and orderly; and first of all makes it known to them, that before looking around to see who is the greatest, you first have to qualify and meet the conditions, so you CAN enter into the kingdom of heaven. In other words, don’t just assume or take for granted, that you will be there yourself: for, unless you are converted, and become as this little child; you shall in no case even enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Next to this; how we are to meet these conditions, to be granted admittance; it is something that will necessarily work in us toward one another likewise: and with the same measure of how we are converted and receive the gift of grace, in so much also will we receive and care for one another, as we ourselves have also been received and are cared for. And for us to love one another as our own soul, is not the exception, but the rule.
Although it was in a way, looking at it from a little different view; it was the same spirit and teaching, as when their question was more about the political ranking, so to speak, of their company, in this world’s business. Their question here was not about who would take the lead among them in the ministry here; but of everyone’s place and authority in the world to come, in the innumerable company of all of God’s redeemed elect. But the nature of the answer is nevertheless the same, and of the same Spirit; He that keeps My commandments, he it is that loves Me; this is My commandment, that you love one another; as I have loved you, so ought you also to love one another.
So much attention, and really “over the amount” energy spent, on preaching and teaching how worthless and uncapable man is, and nothing ever to think he could be pleasing to God. Its as if they think, that they have to protect and defend God being able to hold on to His own divine power and glory. Which is quite astonishing even to imagine, that any “created” thing, could ever actually be a challenge or threat to the Creator. But next to that; from the whole Spirit of the Gospel, and Jesus Christ coming into the world to save that which was lost; the message is not, how worthless we are, but how much worth to God, and how much loved and wanted; and how anxious God and all heaven is, for man to be found and saved.
Next to the false representation of God’s Spirit, and of all the reason for giving of His only begotten Son; the damage done to the consciences of the saints, and actually causing them to sin, and to accept it as something they cannot be really made free from in this world; it were better for them (the teachers and preachers of such things) that a millstone turned by an ass, were hanged around his neck, and they were thrown into the sea, and pulled down to its depths and drowned.
In the same way that Jesus pulled the little child into the midst, and said, He that receives one such little child in My Name receives Me; we are also to receive one another. The little child represents us being converted; and at the same time, Jesus demonstrates how we are to think about and care for and watch over and protect, one another. What sibling would not watch over and care for their little brother or sister? And what should we think when someone teaches their little brother or sister to do bad things? This is not about being lords or masters over their faith, or ruling over them; but about loving one another as God loves us all; as His children.
Definitions of words are important. The original words, in Hebrew and Greek, translated into the English, Conversion, or, Convert, express virtually the same thing.
שׁוּב – shuwb; means, to turn back, ie; away [from]; (not necessarily with the idea of ‘return’ to a starting point); but as, ‘retreat.’
στρέφω – strepho; means, to twist; hence, to turn quite around, or, reverse.
The translators selection of the word ‘converted’ is an interesting and imortant choice; for it is not merely the [mechanical] translation, as word for word, but an interpretation of the thought expressed. Language, as we know, is not just words memorized, and the mechanics of sentence structure; but there are thoughts and context and implications, that are all communicated together, for something to be known.
Webster’s Dictionary has a fairly large entry for the words, Conversion, and, Convert: and with respect to the topic of our study; not every one of the definitions may immediately appear to apply to the use in which it appears in the text; but we can still learn a lot, by going over the various aspects in which the words are used. And it is always a benefit and profitable to learn all about the meanings of words; especially when they concern God’s Word.
For example; the act or process of converting; change in character, form, or function; change from one religious or political belief, viewpoint, course, etc. to another; a change from indiffernece, disbelief, and antagonism, to acceptance and faith; a physical [or spiritual] transformation from one material or state to another; a structursal or design change, etc. Word Origin – Convert, (Latin) con + vertere; with + to turn around; to change completely.
This miracle must be done in us if we are to at all enter the kingdom of heaven; and the effect and proof of the miracle having taking place, will be evidenced in our unity and love with one another. The most notable wonder that was borne witness to by all, when those in the beginning first received the baptism of the Spirit; was that the heart, soul, and mind, of all who believed, were one; and that no one called anything that he possessed, his own; but they had all things common. What was a done fact on the inside, could not be hidden on the outside; and their faith worked by love: and as they obeyed, the Lord confirmed the word with signs following.
sorry for the “spello’s” in the second to the last paragraph
indifference
structural
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Dear Michael,
A good and beautiful word from our Father!
My cup runneth over as I meditate on His Word.
I am filled with His Holy Spirit with tears and joy and peace and His love.
May we all share in His Most Holy place with thanksgiving and love for one another this most glorious day that our LORD has made.
All glory belongs to Him.
Amen
I See the Lord
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As I’ve always said, “If you are running and hiding from someone, Go Up.”
Uh-oh, the kitty disappeared!🐶😻
Thanks for the warning, cuz now I wont watch!!!!
Travelling salesman
Kitties
Puppy wants to get in on the action
Sorry I’m reduced to hunting and pecking , , ,
Good morning, Garrison💕
Have you seen a medic at all? Have you broken something perhaps? I really pray not. Nevertheless, worth a check?
Good morning Betsy. Happy Sunday. Going to grandson’s baptism today.
Special day, his birthday also.
Good morning all.
God morning, monti..And it truly is with your grandson’s baptism!🙏🏻 A birthday as well? Then a beautiful day to remember. May the grace of the Father shine on him and fill him with the Holy Spirit🕊💕
Good morning, Monticello!
Congratulations on your Grandsons two-fold birthday! What a blessing!
Thank you JWoo and hope you two have a great Sunday
Morning Monti, praise the Lord!
Good Afternoon to you GrandpaM!
Mornin’ Bet 🙂 Not broken but close to it. A friend is a gerontologist specializing in elderly falls—that’s definitely me. I have a serious balance problem. Going for some PT,
Ok….at least someone with knowledge is watching out for you in person while we here watch over you with healing prayer, dear friend. I’m breathing easier for your welfare for the knowing of it. 😘👍🏻
Don’t think so Bet feels more like bad sprains on my last two fingers.. My GP is a gen-surgeon — going to let him look at it. Thanks.
Good. I’ve had bad sprained fingers and ankles. They are painful. For fingers I’ve found buddy taping them helps somewhat. Praying you won’t be in discomfort for long💕
Blessings Garrison 🙂
God morning, Mr jay💕 Blessings on your home and your family🙏🏻
Dia Duit Betsy Blessing’s on your house 🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
Howdy jay!
Howdy Gramps 🙂
Diolch, Cariad💕
God morning, Jay.
🙂 🙂
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Oh how I love Gabrieli!!! VOCES8 have done him justice with this Jubilate, they really have🙏🏻🕊
Cathedral of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Gyor, Hungary
“BRING US, O LORD GOD”
~William Harris~
VOCES8
“AS STEALS THE MORN”
As steals the morn upon the night
And melts the shades away;
So Truth does Fancy’s charm dissolve
And rising Reason puts to flight
The fumes that did the mind involve
Restoring intellectual day.
The lyrics to perhaps my favourite Handel work. As someone commented, there are singers…then there are these two most perfect voices that have stayed with me every time I listen to this overwhelmingly glorious performance.
Which is often when my soul needs to be lifted.
🙂
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-this speaks for itself
God morning Flyover. It can…and does.
Sometimes it happens and takes me totally by surprise. And when it does there is no feeling like it…indescribable, as it was with this short work.
How beautifully you put it. I couldn’t do any better. That k you.
God morning, Betsy.
You’ve just added this to my bucket list. I would like to travel to see the great cathedrals. Breathtaking.
God morning, Dear Sis and Daughter of Dear Sis 😘🌷😘
I’ve been in many British ones. But the one which has remained with me is York Cathedral. Our tour group was there at 4:00 on a Wednesday, the time for Evensong.
The cathedral is massive, and as we were just starting all of a sudden their choir’s voices rose from silence to a filling of the whole edifice.
The thing which overwhelmed me was we couldn’t see them. They were further in. Just their perfect voices in praise of God.
I clung on to a huge black gate which separated the tour from the inner Cathedral, shut my eyes, and let it wash over me.
I cannot explain the feelings I had. And a miraculous one of peace as if in the presence of God.
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The Parting Glass is our Sunday Benediction, a reminder that we are a congregation of loving souls bound to each other by our devotion to a generous God who wants us to be in fellowship with Him and with each other. All you have to do is ask. It is that easy. Honest.
I can’t say it as well as Garrison but while he is laid up I can’t let it go unsaid.
Speedy recovery, Professor.
🙂 Thank you my friend.
God morning, Dave🕊
A beautiful post, sir. I know it is because it made me smile. Is there a more special place for like souls?
No, there really isn’t. Amen🙏🏻
Gorgeous.
Of everyone I know, my friend, I had a feeling you would appreciate this lovely solitary church…St Mary and St Finnan, Northern End of Loch Shiel, Glenfinnan, Scotland 🙏🏻
I should have put the legend. 💕
those roofs aren’t gonna be collecting any snow
I reckon
You’d be right, nim. Built to last.
7 September 2017 Laudir de Oliveira, Brazilian percussionist (Chicago), died on stage of a heart attack at 77
17 September 1997 Red Skelton [Richard], American comedian (Red Skelton Show), dies at 84
Pledge Of Alligence
My Time Has Come To Say Goodnight
I just cleaned up accidents from both of the dogs. I gave them both their doses of Simpartica today and it did not agree with the bowels of either of them.
Cleaned up the mess using the Bissel made for dog messes.
But this article here from the Indianapolis Star is still stinking up the place. Here, I will show it to you as H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. cleans it up.
True, Indianapolis Star, “Climate Change is not ‘Theoretical,’” but Its Connection to Extreme Weather Is • Watts Up With That?
IndyStar reporter Karl Schneider interviewed Gabe Filippelli, executive director of Indiana University’s Environmental Resilience Institute, for his story, “Climate change not ‘theoretical, or even debatable,’ an IU expert says. What’s the solution?”
“Climate change already is affecting the everyday lives of Hoosiers and experts at Indiana University are exploring potential solutions,” writes Schneider.
Climate change is a fact. Best we can tell the climate on this planet has been changing ever since it has had an atmosphere. There is no evidence that supports human caused climate change that has not been fabricated.
“We do have some significant short-term challenges and one of them is flooding,” Filippelli told Schneider. “We’re already seeing a lot more extreme rainfall events and … we’re going to see even more into the future.
Utter diarrhea not supported by the weather records in any way, shape, or form.
“The other issue is extreme heat. We see an increase in extreme heat events globally, but also right here in Indiana …,” Filippelli continued to opine.
Another pile pile of crap.
As you all know I installed a new weather station this spring. I live about 35 miles NNE of Indianapolis. We did not see a 100 deg. F temp this year. In fact the highest my station recorded was 97. Last time we saw a 100 deg. temp that I remember was 2012.
Granted we went through some very uncomfortable periods in July and August because of high humidity. But never saw a 100 deg. temp!
Bottom line. IndyStar reporter Karl Schneider and Gabe Filippelli, executive director of Indiana University’s Environmental Resilience Institute are both dead wrong in every assertion.
Filippelli has to know what the records were and thus is a liar. Schneider is obviously not a competent journalist. The weather records are easily found on the internet. Par for the course these days. Take the word of an academic with a title without any question or any investigation.
My parents got married in Eastern Kentucky in 1965.
It was 104 degrees.
My wife and I got married in central Kentucky in 1990.
It was 104 degrees.
I recall doing PT for the second time one day at Ft Bragg in 1991.
It was 104 degrees.
I always get amused, and angry, at the people pushing “man made climate change” by citing temp records broken when the record that was broken was from the late 1800’s or early 1900’s. In other words……it was this hot well over 100 years ago!!!
Not to mention temp variations based on location for the day.
They have an agenda…….and they are using “climate change” to accomplish it. They have preached it so long people accept it without benefit of the info you post, because they do not WANT people to know the truth.
These people are ridiculous.
These same people, or same minded people, were screeching about “the coming ice age” being man caused when I was a kid.
It’s ridiculous.
Here ya go, Greg…
Who controls the climate?
Proof positive it’s this guy!😎
And if that isn’t “big” enough, just imagine the mighty bang when God tells the star Betelgeuse (below) to go supernova, which apparently could be in 5 minutes or a thousand years. Then again, in the Creation business, it’s still small fry. Our minds cannot comprehend the greatness.
I tried looking up how far away it is, and they are having a dispute over that matter. 500-724 light years.
Well, if we see it blow tomorrow, that means that it really blew 500 to 724 years ago.
Wierd thing is that we will detect the neutrinos from the explosion before we see the light. Light is delayed for hours as it fights its way out. Neutrinos rarely react and start the trip first.
The funny part is that we are sure that neutrinos have mass, so they can’t reach the speed of light. SN1987A was the first time we measured neutrinos from such a distant source. The distance is around 170,000 light years.
Last I heard the estimate was about 640 light years. A supernova has to be within 150 light years to ding the ozone layer, so we’re safe from Betelgeuse.
Another way to look at it to get a concept of the size of Betelgeuse. If that star were the sun of our solar system all of the terrestrial planets and the Asteroid belt would be inside of it. IOW it would almost reach Jupiter.
Astronomers say that it is far enough away that the earth will not be threatened when it goes Super Nova.
GASP!!!!!!! Unfathomable, oldspeak. Man’s insufferable hubris. We are mere specks,and sometimes I think not even that.
I read your post at WUWT, I remember a year or two after I bought my house in Monrovia …. when the Pacers were in playoffs with the New York Knicks, it was 100+ degrees for 17 straight days.
I had only installed a whole house fan for ventilation as it came without any A/C and I had to replace the furnace… water heater and water softener the first fricking year.
I had FOG inside the house trying to stay cool … every wall then molded …. next paycheck was dedicated to window a/c unit & fabricating a plywood piece for installation in the kitchen as I had sliding windows in whole house, not fun at all.
I don’t recall “AGW” ever coming up back then … guess that ball wasn’t rolling yet.
Tony has the facts.
https://twitter.com/TonyClimate/status/1703236587319079262/photo/1
So…Burnett…just how much grant $$ have you gotten to “study” the weather?
Sorry Gabe Filippelli, is the check casher
Northwest of San Antonio in the Texas Hill Country, several times this year my cell weather app says its 102, while a digital and an analog thermometer in my golf cart both read 97.
You app is probably giving the temps from the nearest city.
Heat islands are a huge issue with the temperature record.
I recommend living higher in altitude. Temps are lower.
Good morning. I hope you all have a blessed Sunday!
Nature scenes from Tony various walks through God’s natural church, outside Cheyeene, WY set to Amazing Grace.
I say natural God Church, because I have never been closer to God anywhere than when I’m out living and walking through the amazing works he has bestowed upon us. No psalm, no preacher, no hymn, no man made church, has ever brought me closer to my creator.
My relationship with God is the same…no outside influences needed…😀👍🙏
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God afternoon, Jim. I was thinking about you very strongly this early afternoon.I am so glad to see you. And I hope your day was peaceful, dear sir😘🕊
Felt the same way fishing high mountain lakes and streams Colorado Rocky Mountains.
I agree, too, Rah. Rob I just posted to Betsy’s pictorial that I would like to visit the great cathedrals.
Just the workmanship in a stained glad window, building a monument to God, inspires me. I love art and architecture… though truly artistry merely copies off of nature… the art God made with His Hands.
I have been in some of them. They are fantastic!
The absolute same, rah. The world is His church. I find myself feeling quite small when I am out in it away from everything.
*sigh*
I always think this thunder is His voice. We get some pretty strong thunderstorms here. I fancy the loudest cracks of it are His always.
Beautiful 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
That is some serious autumn! 🍁🍂🍁
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I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. – Luke 15:10
The world gets a little sentimental about angels, but the Bible is clear about who they are and what their job is. Popular teacher, David Jeremiah sums it up easily, angels are “messengers, ministers, warriors, and worshipers.”
As messengers, they traverse history communicating God’s important messages to people. They represent God, not themselves, refusing human worship, telling John in Revelation, “I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets” (Revelation 22:9).
As ministers, God’s angels move into action bringing comfort to God’s people. A beautiful example is in Matthew 4 after Jesus has been tempted by the devil. In His exhaustion from withstanding the challenge, angels come and give Him comfort.
As warriors in God’s Kingdom, angels are charged with protecting and providing for God’s people upon His command. In 1 Kings 19, the prophet Elijah is running from a lethal and enraged Queen Jezebel, ending up in the desert, depressed, hungry, and thirsty. God dispatches an angel to refresh him, reviving his strength, and giving him courage to continue.
As worshipers, angels live in God’s holy presence. Jesus used analogies of finding lost sheep and lost coins to describe the kind of celebration angels engage in before the Lord when one human realizes his need for a Savior, and turns to Christ (today’s verse).
As you meditate on the purpose of God’s beautiful angels in Heaven, give them reason to break out in joyous worship by sharing your faith and inviting someone to join you in fellowship with Christ. Pray God will send angels of mercy to minister to those serving America in places of opposition and struggle.
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Michael, Gabriel, Raphael…
lend us your swords to win against the satanist cabal terrorizing our citizens.
🛡️⚔️ 🙏🪽🪽🪽
Especially for the people fitted up, tried, tortured, and sentenced for exercising their constitutionally guaranteed rights by a vindictive, sociopathic Berian government and their judicial accomplices.
Separated from their families for years with no one on earth to come to their aid. I pray mightily angels are sent in battalions to minister to them and keep them in their care. And their families who have probably lost all hope. Hear my prayer, dear Father🙏🏻
God Bless Ya’ll 🙂
Thanks for the foggy mountain song! Lovin’ me my lester and earl!
My pleasure 🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
Good Sunday, everybody ❣️
Dia Duit Patience 🙂
😎
✝️❤️🇺🇸
“Hello, Jesus”
A telling image
-awesome!
Oh my, Patience, I can’t tell you how I love the one above, either in Scotland or the north of England. It truly does make my heart jump💕
💝
September 17
MORNING
A bruised reed shall he not break. Matt. 12:20
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psa. 51:17
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Psa. 147:3
Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. Isa. 57:15, 16
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick. Ezek. 34:16
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Heb. 12:12, 13
Behold, your God … will come and save you. Isa. 35:4
EVENING
O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Psa. 34:8
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: he saith…. Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. John 2:9, 10
The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. Job 34:3
I believed, and therefore have I spoken. II Cor. 4:13
I know whom I have believed. II Tim. 1:12
I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. Song 2:3
The goodness of God. Rom. 2:4
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Rom. 8:32
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. I Pet. 2:2, 3
Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy. Psa. 5:11
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Let It Snow
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It is early yet, but both the GFS and European long range models are showing forecasted pressure patterns conducive for a hard winter for the Continental US. What I mean by “hard” is a winter like we have not seen since the 70s.
Joe still adheres to his Idea that this coming winter will be like a mirror image of last. The worst in the SE relative to averages, but plenty of snow to go around for all of us in the east.
BTW the Old Farmers Almanac is also predicting a hard winter for almost all of the US.
Lord have mercy
Yes, heavy mast crop this year in Virginia. One of my Black Walnuts overloaded itself and broke several limbs. Sometimes heavy mast (Acorns/hickory/others) crop indicates rough winter to come.
How’s the Birds monti?
In our area the blackbirds usually start flocking in September. They started in mid-August and by mid-September the flocks were hundreds strong. I think the hummingbirds have already left.
Our big freeze three years ago almost was devastating. Rolling blackouts, killed almost everything on our beautiful (then) garden.
Texas grid was inadequate. You’d think this state would think again, but NOOOOOOOO!!
More wind farms…more More MORE!!!! Useless pieces of utter destructive, not fit for purpose cr*p.
RINO/Globalists are gonna RINO.
Last year our big oaks and our Mexican pin oak produced not one solitary nut, usually heavy laden. I’m seeing a crop this year though how many I have no idea.
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I’ve never heard of such, Patience. On what would you put it?
God morning, Treepers, Wolverines, and other assorted uncontrollable free-thinkers.
Body huuuuurts this morning despite two nighttime ibuprofen.
Water aerobics.
In like a lion, out like a lamb.
Ha ha.
Water powerful resistive force makes body like jelly, but my range of motion improved so much, I love it despite the pain.
Time to start magnesium to break up lactic acid in these old dormant and abused muscles.
Tonight is a Sh’Bam dance class. I’ll take it easy doing the Merangue and shimmying the hips which are definitely telling me what’s in charge! Ow. Ow. Ow.
What are each of you doing to take back a little ground? Love to hear your stories of our Spiritual military advancement against the establishment.
Kiddo and I are having discussions on total focus on school rather than boys who are chasing her. She’s got another “Babe, I love you” caller… but his parents are Christian and not keen on his dating until his grades improve. Was fired from last job for laziness. Uh oh. Had the talk that a boyfriend in hiding is no boyfriend at all! That you, nor he, should never be hiding a person “so esteemed” in your eyes. A gentle discussion about her need for approval and acceptance and not to settle… ever. High school is once and boyfriends can happen throughout life, so best stay focused on one’s responsibility for the here and now and push through high school.
Distractions. Lord have mercy! She’s a beautiful girl and she is innocent, which few are nowadays.
Lord protect her and kick the evildoers out of her mind who make her feel unworthy. They don’t deserve to live rent-free in her head.
The Lord has great things ahead for her… as He does too for you all!
Amen
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Good afternoon, Patience and Ma. I pray you’re both doing well. 🙏
Amen!
Wise words to your precious daughter, dear sis.
The sweetest fruit hangs on the highest branches. Only the most worthy will know it, will wait, and will honour that sweetness for the prize that it is.
I know Almighty God has good things planned for Savannah. I am so glad you two are close and that she listens.
removed
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
The 50th Psalm
Septuagint
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
From Small Compline
Rejoice Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Savior of our souls. (Thrice)
Verse of the Day for Sunday, September 17, 2023
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“Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.”
1 John 4:15 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
God morning, dear sis🙏🏻💕 A peaceful Lord’s day for me. I hope it is one for you🕊😘
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.
Where is our authority to combat and combat the sheer evil we see in all its hideous presence?
Here…here it is!! Almighty God be with us and fortify us as we do so. Amen🙏🏻
Amen goes right there, Bet !!! ❤️
Good afternoon duchess!
Hi, Gramps !!! Lost touch. with you !!!
Can you give me a quick update – Please ?
HAVE A BERRY BLESSED EVENING !!! ❤️💙💜
BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
A BROKEN HEART
Refreshing rain falls at dawn;
Pulsating pain throbs thereon;
Devouring dark woebegone;
Reliving rift cast upon!
Emptiness is – at best;
Openness to – be blessed;
Loneliness to fill the void;
Peacefulness to be enjoyed!
Knowing not just how to proceed;
Gasping; grappling to fill the need;
Betraying all so carefully taught;
Warbling woe – dolefully distraught!
Broken bastion defiled with sorrow;
Token turmoil signals the morrow;
Desperately dangling by a thread;
Covetously clinging to the dread!
Beckoning God a cry aloud;
Hearkening the Spirit avowed;
Awakening awe to exhume;
Allowing angels sweet perfume!
Attending attention to prayer;
Prostrating prevention to despair;
Lifting listlessness up on high;
Loving lowliness with a sigh!
Repenting; relinquishing all to Him;
Releasing; replenishing to the brim;
Lovingly laying the burden aside;
Securely saving a place to reside!
Reasonably realizing the vanity;
Bordering; basking on insanity;
Refusing reproving dangerously;
Anguishing; angering anxiously!
Lovingly, knowingly His Spirit He sent;
Imposing, imploring the need to repent;
Rebuking, relinquishing the control;
Disarming, disavowing His console!
Freely forgiving the fool heartedness;
Allowing His Love to replace distress;
Remembering love can conquer all;
Without love we are destined to fall!
Love of neighbor begins within you;
Loving yourself is critical, too;
Emotionally even and adept;
Protectively proper the heart is kept!
A heart that is broken can be repaired;
By His suffering and death; Jesus cared;
For all who are hurting and feeling reviled;
For all Jesus had compassion complied!
Suffering senselessly, He gave His all;
So you must do so that you do not fall;
The deception of evil is so perverse;
Resist all temptation; reverse the curse!
Feelings are not facts, but do cloud your mind;
No rational thought will you ever find;
With your feelings rampant out of control;
There’s no turning back; no way to console!
Give all your love and honor to Jesus;
He died on the tree to save and ease us;
When you are weak; it is He who is strong;
In His loving care is where you belong!
D01: 4/12/2013
Awww…How adorable, Patience !!! 💙🧚🏻♀️💙
You are so PRECIOUS !!! ❤️🧚🏻♀️❤️
This one is for Mo
OH, SO BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT, PRECIOUS !!! ❤️
Am sure he will appreciate this wonderful expression
of our LOVE !!! 💚💚💚
Thank You so much for posting !!!
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My best translation..
Where the sea shimmers and the wind cries loudly, there’s an old terrace off the gulf of sorrento.
A man embraces a girl, after they have cried, he clears his voice then begins to sing..
I love you very much, you know how very much.
Its but a chain, now, that drains the blood from my veins.
He saw the light over the sea and thought of the night there in America, but it was only a light and a white trail in the sky.
He felt pain in the music and got up from the piano, but when he saw the moon appear from behind the clouds, even death to him seemed sweeter.
Then he looked into her eyes, eyes as green as the sea, then a tear fell suddenly and he felt like he was drowning.
I love you very much, you know how very much.
Its but a chain, now, that drains the blood from my veins.
The lyrics are powerful and the drama is false, but with a little makeup and mimicry you can become someone else.
The two eyes that look at you, so close and true, you forget the words, your thoughts confused.
So it all became small, even the night there in America. You turn around and see your life as the white trail in the sky.
Yes, that life has ended, but he doesn’t think of it that way, he felt happy and began to sing..
I love you very much, you know how very much.
Its but a chain, now, that drains the blood from my veins.
I love you very much, you know how very much.
Its but a chain, now, that drains the blood from my veins.
Ain’t it somethin????
Simply You
Did I Not Love You
Thank You
I’m a sighing…..
The Moody Blues – I Know You’re Out There Somewhere
Justin Hayward – “Lost And Found” (Acoustic)
Justin Hayward – The Day We Meet Again (Live at Bennett Studios 2004)
Justin Hayward – I Dreamed Last Night (Live at Bennett Studios 2004)
REMEMBER MO ??? WE WALKED WITH YOU !!!
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MO OVERWHELMED
What can I say – I can only imagine
How this has managed to so happen
So many prayers with blessings attached
Astounded to say my heart has been snatched
Each one of you somehow in your own way
Just knew what to do – and knew what to say
Words escape me when I try to express
How much you relieved me of my distress
I am not the manager I’d like to be
So God blessed me with friends to assist me
I wonder how many Angels He sent
But three have followed wherever I went
I’m not sure what Prayer Warriors do
They came out in plain sight out of the blue
Strength came upon me in a massive flood
It knocked me right over just where I stood
The Power of God I felt in my veins
Energized I took full hold of the reins
After all my hands are His hands on Earth
Together we created something of worth
Anxious and nervous with time running short
I scurried and hurried in full press court
I was lifted up high into the clouds
Zipping and zooming right through the crowds
If you only knew how thrilling it was
To be used by God for this very cause
For months I dreaded and fretted my fate
I certainly had too much on my plate
But God as many traditionally say
Would find a solution and make a way
Without God we can do nothing at all
But through Faith by Grace we’re saved from a fall
As inept as I thought I just might be
God opened my eyes and helped me to see
Affirmed through others I found I could be
As adept as others appeared to me
No MO Overwhelmed by the task at hand
Thankful for assistance in helping me stand
Concerned not with returning in like manner
Those who arose to help carry my banner
I thank you all my brothers and sisters
For helping me thru tornadoes and twisters
For understanding my silence at times
For thinking I was just one of the mimes
For loving me when I could not do it
For chastising me to just get to it
For giving me the courage to carry on
From the setting sun to the break of dawn
D01: 05/28/2023
LONELY FOR YOU
When will my heart finally be at peace
When will this pain in my head ever cease
When will this anxiety be relieved
When will I heal and not be aggrieved
When will the sun shine on love renewed
When will the flowers again be bedewed
When will I cease being lonely for you
When will I stop feeling alone and blue
Separation comes unexpectedly
In various ways with complexity
Be it death divorce or even a stroke
Something went wrong and definitely broke
Serenity blooms through our acceptance
What we can or not control reflectance
Happiness can flee in a moment’s notice
Like the blooms of the delicate lotus
Feelings are not facts and never have been
They are pangs of emotion rarely seen
They serve nothing and no one even thee
And when they lay dormant they cease to be
The problem with dormancy is hidden
The beauty of love is unforbidden
How can one love what cannot be returned
How can one bear what cannot be discerned
What if anything will bring resolution
What if anything will bring absolution
Nothing until we learn to let it go
We give it to God and then we will know
D01: 05/23/2023
Justin Hayward – “Lay It On Me” (Acoustic)
Hi Duchess,
Enjoying your Moody music.
You’re missing your Mo, I see. Well everybody is busy, hopefully he is alright.
Not sure if you read the Prayer thread, Duchess. Two treepers can certainly use support and prayers, Maquis and Black Knight. I have never interacted with either, but felt I wanted to add my support and now I pray for both each night.
You have a lovely way of expressing yourself through prayer and humor, it’s your divine appointment. Thought you might be interested.
Take care
Aspen 🌺🙏🌻 🙏
Thanks for the heads up on the Prayer Request –
Know both of them – do not need to know anything
else – God knows !!!
Glad you like the Moody Music – MO’s favorite group
My way of sending him a written message – not the
only one missing him – Bet and I and others are
praying for him and his family who may have
suffered as a result of Hurricane Idalia.
Thanks for your sweet compliment !!! ❤️
HAVE A BERRY BLESSED EVENING !!! ❤️💙💜
Hi again.
Will add Mo to my prayers, Duchess. Thanks for the heads up.
Have a nice evening.
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THANKS, ASPEN !!! HUGS !!! 💙🧚🏻♀️💙
Friends both. I knew of Maquis’ physical distress bit not BK’s…I’m adding mine for two good men🙏🏻
Justin is one of my all time favorites Duchess. Ty!
Mine, too, Colkitto !!! Such a talented songwriter !!!
❤️ ❤️ ❤️
One of the all time greatest Rock love ballad’s, though the Moody’s have 2 more of them.
Love me the Moody Blues
“CHURCH WINDOWS”
~Ottorino Respighi ~
For CS Lewis devotees, of which I am one, I stumbled on this film which was released in November 2021.
I’d never heard of it. It is British appropriately and can be accessed on YouTube and Amazon Prime.
The early life of Mr Lewis. I am excited to see it!
(JWoo, I thought of you and Savannah with this one.)
“THE MOST RELUCTANT CONVERT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF CS LEWIS”
And, JWoo and whoever else thrives on the writings of Mr Lewis, please don’t forget the superbly done SHADOWLANDS, one of the most wonderful films I have ever seen (if you’ve not seen it already)
Timeless.
Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger
I took a picture, so we could find them and check them out. Thank you for the suggestions. Always looking for good content.
I loved it. In the vein of Miss Potter, The Whole Wide World (both Renee Zwelleger films) & Tolkien. All great films about authors we love. Perhaps I will re-watch Shadowlands tonite, since you brought it up Bet and I have not seen it since it came out. Ty
It was one of the finest films ever made, Colkitto. Beautifully cast and acted. While I hesitate to say it both are British so I would expect nothing less.
I’ll rewatch it as well💕 With a box of tissues near.
When Lewis breaks down with her son, I was astounded at his ability to portray the deep and unremitting grief. A most reassuring tour de force.
Will check it out late tonite
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Brandon Davis –
More Than A Flag
FIRST BAPTIST DALLAS CHURCH – SUNDAY SERVICE – 09/17/2023
“Say Goodbye to Career Regrets” | LIVE Service from First Baptist Dallas
https://icampus.firstdallas.org/livestreams/icampus
Fun song in our line up this morning… love it and hope it blesses you all and gives us all more hope!
Farmers/Gardeners should be held in high regard.
Lovely landscape.
DAY # 7 – MIDDAY PRAYER
Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. Pray it seven times. God’s protection, healing.
Moody Bluegrass – Say It With Love
Re. Vaccinations. I first heard about this use of milk instead of needles a few days ago when I was watching ‘Lindell TV’ .
‘Silk’ of ‘Diamond and Silk’ was talking to Dr. Peter McCullough and the interview was very informative. Different ways that mRNA Spike proteins could be passed on to the unvaccinated was one of the subjects discussed. He mentioned China using milk.
Here is another website’s link to the story: https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/chinese-load-cows-milk-with-mrna-exosomes-successfully-immunize-mice-8d7a1236
It seems to me that the evil powers in the world, are running things with one objective, that it everyone must be ‘vaccinated’ with spike proteins, despite the virus having good survival rates, especially for young people. They want the name ‘covid’ to strike terror in the hearts of the public, like ‘Smallpox’ or ‘Polio’, which thankfully had real vaccinations that worked. Not to mention this nasty stuff was man-made to inflict damage.(‘Gain of function’ they call it.)
Some medical professionals seem to have learned nothing.
A relative of mine (mature) went for a general annual checkup a few days ago. The exam was very brief. The doctor said he was fine and then asked him if he had considered having a ‘covid’ shot “we do have them available”. He relied, no thanks, “I did not get the first one, and I am immune after having the Delta variety of ‘Covid’ a couple of years ago.” Doctor then says, “did you know there are cases of Covid appearing in our area now?” My relative said, “I still do not want a vaccination.” Doctor, “we also have Pneumonia shots?” . “No thanks.” said rel.
Also this may be of interest, see below*.
And… The UN reaffirmation of its treaty with many nations, for 7 years, to ensure there is a World Govt. by 2030, is going to be signed very soon.
Some believe that this United Nations covenant could be the one prophesied in the Bible for End Times that will be followed by the 7 years of Tribulation (a week of years).
Interestingly this signing time September 18 -19 2023. is ‘Rosh Hashanah’ the Feast of Trumpets. ‘The Head of the Year.'(New Year)
*https://americafirstreport.com/all-eyes-are-on-the-w-h-o-as-they-try-to-take-over-the-world/
Many Treepers are ProLife activists. Thought you might be interested in an article about Terrisa Bukinovac who is running for president as a Democrat, not necessarily to win, but to bring to public attention the demise of late-term fetuses that she encountered at a Washington clinic
Pro-Life Democrat Launches Presidential Bid as Protest Against Party’s Abortion Agenda
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us/pro-life-democrat-launches-presidential-bid-as-protest-against-partys-abortion-agenda-5492940?utm_medium=app&c=share_pos3&pid=iOS_app_share&utm_source=iOS_app_share
The Epoch Times may be behind a paywall, but I found the article and discussion excellent. Bukinovac focuses not strictly on laws and punishments for abortion, but also on other disincentives to becoming a parent. About time this was discussed!
President Trump recently is reported as saying that the abortion issue makes Republicans vulnerable. I believe he is correct. Good that Terrissa Bukinovac begins to discuss the truth on this
Here is an article that is not behind a paywall:
https://lailluminator.com/2023/09/15/anti-abortion-democrat/
Personally, I do not believe that laws are the ideal goal, if the laws contradict the majority understanding of an issue. Alcohol Prohibition enriched mafiosi, but I do not think the laws encouraged alcohol abstinence via personal wisdom and understanding, which would be preferable by far.
I wanted all of my children, but remember vividly how I was reproached by clueless women during my third pregnancy, women who thought they were being socially responsible, sort of like the recent attacks on the “unvaccinated”. People get brainwashed and try to enforce what their handlers have told them they should do.
Meanwhile, women struggling with alcohol and drug addictions that damage the unborn, also women struggling with bipolar issues that lead to promiscuity and unwanted conception, may find contraceptives difficult
to obtain because of obstructive efforts by people who are also brainwashed and believe they are enforcing morality.
Give up the raw oysters and clams on the half-shell
Tilapia in this case, but shellfish are more likely …
Vibrio vulnificus, a naturally occurring marine bacteria, the one against which experts warn you not to go in oceans or bays with any open cuts
California Mother Loses All Four Limbs After Eating Contaminated Fish
What a horrible thing to have happen.
yeah, can you imagine losing all your limbs in the space of a couple days? crushing
that Vibrio is also one of the ones they call “flesh-eating bacteria”
there was a case out here in Honolulu 10 or 15 years ago, some guy was blind drunk and got in a fight that put him on the ground and he got all scraped up, then his assailant pushed him off a dock into the marina water (ocean water, where Vibrio live)
they took him to the hospital and started him on antibiotics but his extremeties started going necrotic and they kept amputating fingers and toes first then more and more. ultimately he died of systemic organ failure
turns out he was an alchoholic and his liver was compromised and that contributed to him not being able to fight off the infection
the headlines sensationalized the “flesh-eating” label, and the news articles eventually started adding explanations about the marine bacterium Vibrio vulnificus, which is present naturally in seawater … it’s not particularly indicative of pollution like sewage contamination
I wouldn’t touch tilapia with a ten foot pole … I don’t eat fish that are raised in their own feces … and that eat their own feces. Tilapia are trash fish. The kind of food the anti-meat aquaculturalists insist you eat. Tilapia and crickets. Food Natzis are serial killers
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It is 74.3 degrees F at my place. Must be global warming! I’m gonna die!
rah, we all have been dead for 23 years. The algore told me so.
Odd. When the Earth’s temperature has been level for like 100 million years at a time, three times or so over the last 600 million years, it was level at . . .
Wait for it . . .
22 degrees Celsius.
The Earth is freezing right now.
Feeling especially blessed today. This 1869 hymn is what I have been humming. “The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
a fountain ever springing!
All things are mine since I am his!
How can I keep from singing?”
I love the old traditional hymns.
EVENING REFLECTIONS
Thank you Duchess. Not many people (myself included) really understand the importance of prayer before sleep. From what I have managed to grasp, spiritually, sleep is an aspect of (lower) death, or a “lower” state of spiritual awareness, where the forces of darkness have greater advantage. So, as you correctly remind us, these have a powerful spiritual protection. Another prayer, although it does not have to be at night, but is hugely powerful is this one.
In the name of YHVH Elohei Yisrael –
May Mikhael (Michael) be at my right,
and Gavriel (Gabriel) at my left,
before me, Uriel,
and behind me, Refael,
and above my head, the Shekhinah (holy spirit) of El. (God)
That is a beautiful prayer, Old !!! Thanks for sharing !!! ❤️
HAVE A BERRY BLESSED EVENING !!! ❤️💙💜
That’s protection indeed!
OMFG
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/police-seize-multiple-cars-luxury-handbags-and-watches-80000-worth-of-gold-and-cash-in-unexplained-wealth-investigation/news-story/cbe5bb06052e4e082a3e454d4a7ac8a2
“The seizure of the items follows the Minns government in February introducing stronger laws to give police more power to target and confiscate items from individuals who cannot explain how they purchased the asset.”
This is crazy – guess there will be a new burgeoning business in creating receipts and other documentation to prove how these people obtained their assets whether gotten legally or not, if they have receipts – they can keep their assets.
Sounds like Australia’s version of the latest craze by our law enforcement who stop motorists on the highways and if they have cash or other goods the police want, they confiscate it and the person has to sue the govt to get their money back.
Search and seizures without probable cause. It’s the totalitarian way.
The Western World seems to be changing into countries that are Police states. I know they have to go after real criminals but they seem to prefer going after political enemies more.
Once upon a time in California … the State was considered a positive place …
And then it seems time caught up to CA … as nuts and freaks from around the nation flooded into CA and unmade the dream …
Disgusting.
Maui victims get $700, veterans are living on the streets, when “Ukrainian Oligarchs are living it up on superyachts.” I wonder if the ‘big guy’ benefits?
Warning, sorry, I did not realize there was foul language on the video. I don’t know how to remove it.
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Amen
Amen…
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen
Someone sent this video interview of a whistleblower to me.
The whistleblower reports that he was transporting minors from a former Walmart location in Brownsville by car or charter bus, at night, to locations all over the country: North Dakota, Vermont, airport baggage claim areas in Orlando, Nashville, Los Angeles, handing these kids over to custody of people who were supposedly their relatives.
But he doubts this because coworkers were reporting minors crying and saying, please don’t leave me with this person, I don’t recognize them.
The kids he was transporting were all ages of minors from 3 months old to teens. What is going on here?
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.