2023 has been one heck of a ride. I mean, wow.
This is the year when so many assumptions collapsed because we did not pretend. I will have other thoughts on the year upon better reflection, even some predictions that might seem a little “out there”. Then again, I’m not exactly known for following the herd safety formula.
However, as the eve winds down, and as we are given to considering everything that has taken place, a revisit to the spiritual core of our association is appropriate.
For me, this year provided many memorable gifts; almost all were driven by a purposeful God reminding me to keep poking my head into the human mechanics of common presumptions. Nothing is more empowering than listening to His message, being completely lost yet jumping on faith, and then finding out the wow; why it was necessary to put prayer in front of fear.
Yup, we are about to walk into entirely new challenges. Perhaps we are not prepared, perhaps we will all test our faith, perhaps we will discover new limits to our exhaustion, perhaps we will discover we are much stronger than we realize. One of the reasons for my optimism is that I think the latter is assured.
I believe we are stronger than we give ourselves credit for. I believe YOU are stronger, more purposeful, smarter, more strategic, more influential, more necessary and far more loved than you can ever imagine.
Yes, I am stunningly optimistic, much more so today on the last day of 2023, than I was on the first day. The knowledge we possess is powerful – far more powerful than the pretenses we fight against.
Regardless of how we exit this year, excited or slightly nervous, we must admit it can be challenging to retain a joyful ‘best life’ while everything around us seems created to deliver ultimate chaos and madness.
However, if we accept that a loving God is the source of the purest truth, we can create something stronger within ourselves just by making a choice. Do that, choose that, follow that and we will have accomplished a great deal.
Regardless of what tomorrow brings, we always have choices. A new year’s perspective:
I have long felt that life is like a series of links in a chain. You might be driving down the road and you hear a song on the radio, or see a picture, and you feel a memory….
Something triggers within you that reminds of a different time and place than where you are right now.
You reflect.
The memories you consider remind you of a totally different time in your life.
Perhaps you lived in a different place. Perhaps you were surrounded by different people. Perhaps a different job or completely different friends. You recognize those memories were constructed like frozen moments in time. They became individual links in the chain in your life.
We never actually realize, in the immediate moment, when one link closes and another link begins. But when we look back, we can clearly see distinct points where things changed, the link closed, and a new link began.
You see, the links are only visible in reflection.
As we reflect, we find parts of the chain in our life where each link closes and connects with the other. A beginning, and an end. At the point where the links are joined, we carry parts of the previous link forward to the next.
For many people those connections are bonded by family, or very strong lifelong relationships. Connections which continue beyond our geographic moments, jobs or temporary acquaintances.
But for everyone, the primary bonding agent brought forward from one link to the next is us, our center, our values and core principles. Our beliefs.
The strength of the steel which comprises the links of our life is forged in the fire of adversity, weakness, challenge, pain, loss, and painful growth. The steel is then cooled with the tears of triumph, hurdles overcome and resolve.
The forging makes the steel stronger and able to withstand the pressures that accompany the additional length. Slowly the chain becomes wiser as it lengthens. Able to reach further, form more significant benefits and become more useful.
Hope replaces fear. Love replaces loneliness. Success replaces adversity. These are successful links began and finished while contributing to the whole.
At times we may manipulate the links with avoidance. We hide from -or choose to avoid- an issue in our effort to begin a new link before the old one was naturally, and spiritually, prepared to be closed.
Eventually, as life continues and the chain lengthens, the weak link can fracture, and we are forced to revisit/repair what we originally chose to avoid.
You see, in life we cannot control the universal laws that guide us. So, if we manipulate circumstances to avoid confronting our own weakness, we cannot fully strengthen our life of links. Eventually, the weakness of our past will impact our future.
So, what principles do we carry from link to link? What core values and beliefs stay with us throughout the journey of our lives? The answers to these questions are what makes us human spiritual beings.
We possess free will able to make choices about what we do, and how we define our individual humanity; but can we then define ’right’ and ‘wrong’ according to our individual principles? Or are there principles that exceed our influence and definition?
Are there natural laws of right and wrong, good and bad, that cannot be subjected to the determination of man?
These are the bigger questions, perhaps the more important questions; and yet, perhaps the ones we reflect upon the least.
Consider the example of the ‘Law of the Farm’ vs. the ‘Law of the School’. Natural principles vs. those made by man.
A student can skip class, take few notes, pay only half attention, then stay up all night cramming for a test and manage a decent grade. It depends on the student’s goal: grades or learning.
The student can choose to manipulate the education, by avoiding the learning and capturing the grade. This is possible in the ‘Law of the School’.
However, a farmer cannot take short cuts. A farmer cannot avoid tending to the soil, preparing the seed, fertilizing and nurturing the crop, and still gain the benefit of an abundant harvest.
The farmer must necessarily do all of the appropriate work in order to benefit from it. Such is the ‘Law of the Farm’, the natural law.
When one considers the weakness remaining within a poorly constructed and manipulated link, perhaps established by selfish choices and driven by avoidance and fear, one can be faithfully assured those who have dealt dishonestly with us will have to visit the issues of their association again.
Conversely, no amount of manipulation or avoidance on our own behalf is going to improve the frailty of any link without first resolving the lack of character which created the weakness.
So, we have choices in our lives. Decisions we each make regarding how we interact and participate in the lives and links of others, as well as how we choose to construct the links that comprise our own lives.
Do we base our sense of purpose around natural principles? Principles based on natural laws of right and wrong, good and bad, truth and lies. Do we forge strong links by following our heart, our values?
If we can interact with others absent of a prideful self-driven agenda, or manipulative intent, we can then apply such principles and strength to our endeavors.
If we protect the integrity of the soil upon which we build the foundation of our lives, we can live without regret.
If we fertilize and cherish our crop, and the crop of our neighbor, with honesty and sincere appreciation for the souls we meet along our chosen path, we will live a life of abundance.
If we tend carefully to the consideration of everyone, yet holding true to our values and principles, we can strengthen ourselves amid the face of adversity and disenchantment.
If we do not hide from, nor ignore our individual and collective faults, we can build the chain of our life with strength, humility, and purpose.
I wish for each of you a long chain of bold, strong, beautiful links, polished with the reflective brilliance of Love, and the very happiest of blessings for a brand-New Year.
Abiding love to all.
Steadfast,
~ Sundance
…Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
What we create is limited to what is allowed; we are not a free people and are manipulated by the elites for their best interests.
Positivity and prayerful interjections are powerless against tyranny – say what you will but the interventionist model of heavenly power has no modern practical example. How much evil do we experience before we are granted rescue? The correction will not come from fiery sulphur rained from the heavens, but from organized resistance.
The enemy must be swept from power and punished, or we will have an increasingly difficult, and suffocating, life in the FUSA.
This year will be worse than 2023, which was in turn patterned after 2019 but with increasingly intrusive rules and increasing numbers of subversive populations trucked in to improve our cultural enrichment. There is no re-enforcement battalion coming for our rescue, and the enemy grows stronger every day.
They are laughing at our impotence.
Hate on me all you want, but show me where I’m wrong.
We are the ‘reinforcement battalion’ coming to our own rescue. Our weakness, in the past, has been compliance, and compliance instigated through fear. Surely, for example, the covid scenario would NOT ave happened, unless there was mass compliance. The more we understand our own strength, knowledge and research, the less we comply with ‘rules’ set down by those you consider ‘elite’. Each one of us has the power individually to construct our own reality, decisions and actions. We do not need an army to come in to save us. We have the power with which to do this ourselves, and history continually proves that to be true.
The compliance of the past was based on trust. That trust has been removed, and burned to the ground. It will never return, and the rules have changed.
The compliance of the past few years, IMHO, was not based on trust, but rather, was based on fear. The antidote for that fear is to be well researched, knowledgeable and confidence in your due diligence.
J Brown – bravo – that is the correct answer.
Regrettably, you are not wrong. People may call you a pessimist and then dismiss your viewpoint. I say you are neither a pessimist nor optimist but a realist. There is nothing on the horizon that bodes well for the future. Nothing, other than our current existence, will to fight, and a good man to lead us. But, again with all due respect, there have been multitudes of good people and good leaders sent to hell anyway. My point is this, if you, me, and every other person who has kept their eyes and minds open during this long and frustrating takeover of our nation remains realistic, then and only then do we have a shot at defending ourselves or at the very least make their totalitarian victory over us a pyrrhic one. Happy talk is just keeping sheep calm until the moment of slaughter.
The people at this webpage are NOT sheep and most of us understand the crushing good for nothing effects hopelessness gets you.
regardless, God gives us the tools
No power of ill
No scheme of man
Can ever pluck us
from God’s Hand.
We can choose to be happy anyway when everything seems very dark . Those evil forces want us to feel defeated. It is very human to feel down at times. Just don’t live there. I don’t hate you, by the way. HANG ON!
Hatred of each other is a waste of time. We have tyranny closing around us like a wet, moldy blanket. We want to fight back, but we are bound in every direction and see no way out. We are a big country, but right now everyone is waiting for someone else to start the revolution you call for.
I feel that when enough people in this country turn back to God, things will improve. Everywhere I read about these days being spiritual warfare. Even one of the mainstream churches around here had a sign out front “Prayer is hand to hand combat”.
The Bible is full of examples of the Hebrews turning away from God, having trouble, turning back to God, prospering.
In my lifetime Russia went from evil, horrible Communists to the nation they are now. What changed? Enough people turned back to God to make a difference. Now they prosper. We can do the same.
Read your Bible. If you are seeking God with an open heart, He will find you. Then your eyes will be clear and your heart steady. You will be at peace.
One correction: He won’t find you, you will find Him.
Agreed.
Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That’s good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.
Hate only chews up the hater. How many revenge tales have you read where the hero achieves his revenge only to be left hollow? Judah Ben-Hur found that out. Killing his enemy did not restore his family to him.
Trump likes getting revenge on people who have screwed him over.
Should he let bygones be bygones, too?
I have been reading “Morning by Morning” a devotional Journal by Charles Spurgeon. I cheated and started December 29. A few ideas are given I will list a few.
Make faith become an active exercise.
Let me rest because I believe and rest in the Lords love.
Give me victories Lord
Give me perfect peace in you Lord
Genuine learning always leads to change (Proverbs 22:3)
In my lifetime Russia went from evil, horrible Communists to the nation they are now. What changed? Enough people turned back to God to make a difference. Now they prosper. We can do the same.
Yah right…
As in Rodnover. Look to where the has brought Putin’s Russia
There are always constraints, however the constraints against which we currently fight are decidedly unjust. The hope I find is that the great lies of Covid, Vaccines, Global Warming and Peaceful Protests are crumbling as those who populate what is known as Western Civilization begin to see what is going on around them. I do not believe the enemy is growing stronger, rather with Trump getting hit with transparently nonsensical lawsuits, they seem increasingly desperate. No, there is no reinforcement battalion coming to our rescue, we’ve got to rescue ourselves and pull others along. Yet it seems to be effective.
Hasn’t freedom always implied a responsibility by each individual to protect and preserve the foundations of that freedom?
I completely agree. Freedom has always needed protection, despite of its remarkably positive economic track record. Whenever you have freedom, there is plenty. When you have central control, you have poverty. From current events, the protection of freedom is falling to us. I maintain that the more people we convince, the better our chances.
EXPOSED: Nancy Pelosi, Romney, Manchin, McCarthy, The Senate as a whole, The US House of Retrobates as a whole, WEF, Billy Death Gates, Pompeo, Twitter, Alphabet agencies, District of Corruption Courts, numerous State legislatures, numerous State governors, Big Pharma, Pravda, ZuckFace, Hollyweird, Neocons like Haley and Meatball, The whole sick Biden/LMNOP/Pedophiles/Treasonous bastards, top-level military corpses walking around shamingly wearing our military uniforms, Secretaries of States, The CCP, Ukraine and their Retrobate Zelenskyy, New York Activist judges, Colorado activist judges, BLM, the whole of AZ government, the baby murderers too many to mention, incompetent and corrupted mayors…
The Awakening is growing.
They won’t laugh long, and I would suggest that’s an outward defense mechanism.
Inside, their souls are screaming! Their souls are trying to reconcile all the evil they have perpetrated on their fellow man and woman.
They can and will be stopped
God hears us.
You are wrong.
History is replete with examples of tyrannies being overthrown; sometimes at great personal and societal cost, no doubt. When complex systems-of-systems are destabilized unpredictable dynamics occur.
I do agree that at some point a conflict POTENTIALLY arises between living one’s best life and resistance. The two are intertwined but serve different purposes.
They aren’t laughing. They’re amping up deployment of sections of the playbook designed to foment division and internal conflict precisely because they are losing their grip.
Despair is soul crushing. Hope lifts us up to do what we must. As Monty Python would say “Always look on the bright side of life”!
I personally don’t see that as despair. A frank assessment of conditions on the ground is vital for planning.
I’ve read a lot of posts and articles with vague generalities, loaded with hopium, and warm puppy thoughts.
The people doing this to us don’t fear us.
When their heads are on pikes like a scene from Vlad the Impaler, will we get their attention.
They won’t be laughing then.
Sadly, you are not wrong at all.
You are not wrong as only a pollyanna would think that all is not lost here in the USofA. Here in AZ the cheat has swept in a trio of people who would have already turned AZ into Kalifornia and introduce tyranny even worse if not for our Republican controlled legislature. Even that body is at risk due to the many RINOs who not been replaced by patriots and G od fearing people. Crime has increased in Maricopa County and elsewhere due to the invasion caused by our open border and that invasion has not abated. It is my opinion that if We the People of AZ cannot overcome the cheat in our next state and local elections and the federal election of 2024 across our country then true hardship is coming to one and all that only extreme actions can correct.
Keep fighting then, do every little thing within your power to change it. Be a thorn in their side.
Perhaps the reason lies here: 4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.” 5 He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith. Mark 4 – 6.
Please don’t feel that disagreement is “hate”. I used to feel the same way you do, but I have witnessed entirely too many truly miraculous events to feel that everything is in our human control. I don’t know why or how it works, but when people align themselves with the Lord Almighty, miraculous things happen.
I’m reminded of the bible story where Moses sent 13 spies into Caanan to see if it could be conquered. 12 came back and said no way there are giants in the land. Only 1 of the spies, Calab said we are well able to overtake.
The bible is full of stories where the odds were stacked against them, yet with God’s help they overcame.
You are not seeing the multitudes of Angels “at the ready” to assist us at all times .
We are well able with God’s help to push back the darkness and bring the “Light of God” forward. Darkness flees at the presence of light.
Be the Light!
Two of the twelve (all of whom were the heads of their tribes) returned and gave a positive report: Joshua & Caleb.
No hate on you, but I believe YOU need to prove your assertion that prayer is powerless. The Word clearly states that we will have tribulation in the world, and that it will get significantly worse before it gets better. There are many fulfilled prophecies and archaeological evidence to back up the word of God, as well as all of creation in front of you as proof. Surely a battle looms for our time, but I’d wager that all of the heroic figures you admire bent the knee and bowed their head in prayer before they entered the fray.
History has many instances of God intervening in the affairs of man, starting with Noah and the Ark. Then how about Sodom and Gomorrah. Fast forward to the Israelites being led out of Egypt. Pharoh certainly didn’t let them go willingly. Follow that up with the Israelites in the Desert. They couldn’t feed themselves, so God provided.
God has prophesied for centuries that if man didn’t return to His ways, He would intervein again. Abortions, murder, rapes stealing and the total disregard for His Commandants worldwide is going to cause that intervention soon. I advise everyone to go to YouTube, and type in Prophecy of Garabandal /Taylor Marshall and anything with Garabandal/ Glen Hudson in the title. The Warning, Xavier Ayral is another. The intervention is coming soon, and it could very well be this year. I’m praying it happens. While we wait, as Sundance says repeatedly, live our best life. If you are Catholic go to Confession often, receive The Eucharist weekly, daily if possible, pray the rosary daily and ask Our Lady to intercede with Her Son for us. Visit the Blessed Sacrament in Adoration often. Pray for Clergy worldwide. If you are not Catholic, follow your faith’s doctrines.
The Illumination of Conscience and Miracle are coming very soon. This battle will not be won by more war, it will be won by more prayer and obeying the Commandants.
Positivity and prayerful interventions are powerless against tyranny
I started to list all the times God intervened for the Israelites such as crossing the Red Sea, but the list is too long.
Let me just say Daniel was not saved from the lion’s den but was saved from the lions.
The three Hebrew children were not saved from the fiery furnace but came out of the fire without even the smell of smoke.
You believe what you want.
Thank you for that insight! I had never thought about it that way – Daniel wasn’t taken OUT of the lions den! What a great reminder when going through trials – right now there are many in our nation, and for me, personally as well.
Hell awaits us then?
You are wrong thinking that we will ” hate on you” why should we? You too my friend are caught in the trap.
Both are correct we are in the last days of this age. No one knows the time of his return it will be Amazing. Those who believe in Jesus will have already vanished the masses will be fully engaged into the delusion that Satan has presented. We will be at the supper with Jesus preparing for his return. While we wait we should be in his word listen to psalms and Hymmns. LOOK up.
To be “stunningly optimistic” is to risk avoiding the necessary actions to change the course of the country. The country is fiscally insolvent and, in the whole, morally challenged, if not amoral or immoral. Jesus is the only one who can fix this mess. We can improve the situation, but no man or women on the face of earth can fix this. The necessary action is to prepare yourself, mentally and physically, to weather the storm arising until He sounds the trumpets. For non-believers, the trumpets will only be a sign that things will be getting extremely worse. America and its politicians, for a few decades now, have “screwed the pooch” and the inevitable may be slowed down a bit but not reversed. Choices have consequences and it’s time to pay the piper. If you are not saved, the first necessary action is to hit your knees and get saved!! Time is running out. You may find me too pessimistic, but I invite you to convince me otherwise and do it with truth you would bet your life on.
Why not just say “morally insolvent (or bankrupt) as well?
Arise Dan, be of good cheer. Take courage, be undaunted, not intimidated or discouraged by difficulty, danger or disappointment. They are trying to cause you to fear. Stand up, fight back with prayer. Hebrew 10:23…hold the line. “Be a line of defense for our Nation against the enemy. Psalms 25:10 “The Lord leads with unfailing love and faithfulness all who keep His covenant and obey His demands. Blessings on your day Dan. Thanks to Julie Green for her encouraging words.
Wow, what an optimist.
excellent. so let’s be real. organized resistance is what it will require. yet this evil system is on high alert to detect any organized opposition, infiltrate, and destroy (by various means). that is why no organization takes greater shape and it remains impotent. any organization must first assume infiltration, have a system to detect it, and eliminate it, along with a system of deterance. The only way I can imagine to accomplish this is ugly and the kind and gentle people on our side will have no stomach for it.
thats my two cents for what it is worth.
Actually, the way to address the challenge of the feebies infiltration of organised resistance, has already been demonstrated.
Think of GOTHAM, …
Perhaps we should channel Marine Lt. Gen. Chesty Puller. He was said to be “tough as a knotty pine” and
“cocky as a bantam rooster.” His memorable quote:
“We’ve been looking for the enemy for sometime now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.”
Tell the full story,…he had just been informed that his single division was entirely surrounded by 15 divisions of the enemy.
They fought their way out with minimal losses, while inflicting massive losses on the enemy.
Do a search, there are a whole bunch of “Gen Chesty Puller” stories and quotes, all worthwhile.
Looking back to 2015, after intensive searches for a while, I found CTH and started researches on Sundance articles and Treepers comments. Along this road, CTH has become a home – one strong link in my life, also been shared with people with whom I have communicated. I am very grateful that God have blessed us so much that I can still see a better ourselves through darkness, including 2020 election fraud and steal and COVID.
It is that the value system and core principles given by God make us an unwaverable force in the MAGA movement and supporting PDJT. No doubt 2024 will be the critical time. May God continue to empower us with more courage, wisdom, strength, energy and patience in this war.
Thank you Sundance, God bless you. God bless His children.
Happy New Year to everyone here at the Treehouse!
Buckle up its going to be a wild ride in 2024..The lies the deceit dont get angry get even..
Lets keep the farm healthy and growing and then law of farming will bring abundant harvest.
We are always free in the one essential: free to choose God. Freedom consists in that choice. Everything flows from our choice.
So, I choose Christ. Whatever happens hereafter happens, but my one choice – and ours – will profoundly affect it.
May it be so. (I.e. Amen)
Don’t be Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol that the chains of life drag you down but as lessons to strive and do better. Though every link is vital as to the kind of person you are and who you will be and like Ebeneezer Scrooge all become a better man/woman.
With God all things are possible, without God we get B-B-Biden.
Happy New Year! God be with us.
Ultra-MAGA!
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
I watched it last week. It’s “the power of one”. When we feel we have no impact, we do. Our daily happenings are ours to own and choose our behavior. WE have choice and WE can impact every place and activity we are in. So do that. Each of us controls that and the kindness we share impacts like a stone kipping across the pond. We don’t see it but we’ve planted a seed and made a difference for others. Be the power of one. Think of it all day and then seek to make an impact with a kindness.
I find it interesting that we insist on changing the ‘other’ in order to make everything right within our world. It is only when we change ourselves, by following the teachings of Jesus Christ, that we can hope to effect positive changes in our world.
The rest is just so much avoidance and flailing around, like a drowning man too fearful to assist in his own rescue. What does it take to change ourselves?
It takes a leap of faith.
Most of us will get there only after we find ourselves straddling the great abyss, with nowhere else to turn. We seek His face only after we have run out of options.
So be it. The battle lines are drawn. Our fight is with our own worst nature.
The faithful are a bit ahead of the curve and waiting for the rest of humanity, His lost sheep, to catch up. Catch up we will, come hell or high water. Hopefully it’s much sooner.
blessings to all:
Galatians 2:20
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
I thank God for my night of rest. I thank him for the new beginning, the new life that begins this day. I pray for the ability to be a better Christian, to listen and be led by the Holy Spirit. God has no limits and so, following him we have no limits. Through Him all things are possible.
I’ve found that since I’ve put my trust in Him, I’m less “concerned” about a lot of things; His will be done and whatever He has in store for me and by extension, “us”, is what will be. He may not give us all we ask for but He has given me what I need, when I need it.
I also believe that He only gives us what we can handle…good or bad–and only He is the judge of that facet of my life but nothing therein is an acceptance or resignation–it’s the opposite. I will fight my fight and not wring my hands in a state of woe.
Happy New Year to my fellow Treepers and of course to Sundance and the Crew!
This may sound like a small thing… my neighbor who was vaxxed and boosted and now has to wear the L-vad heart device for her damaged heart told me something yesterday. Her cardiac doctor advised her to get the latest covid booster. She will not get it she said. She, at last, thinks the covid vax damaged her heart.
It has taken one year of complete misery, being house bound, on many medications and seriously dizzy most of the time. She used to be our neighborhood watcher and had a busy, happy life. But I am thankful for her decision. I have prayed for her and I believe after all of her suffering, she received the grace of God to overcome her blind obedience. Hallelujah!! Claim a Happy God-filled New Year of life and light!
Did Sundance just post a photograph of himself? When I saw it I was reminded that Jesus said many times. “FEAR NOT!”
My money saids, Yelp it’s him. If so, im glad to see a ” strong looking man” Just as God intended all men to be
God’s Speed to all in 24
Not the first time, if you are good at reflections…
I needed this article first thing this morning. After a week of news blackout and the joy of being with family, it’s been frustrating to return to the country/the world as it is. The corruption is so thorough that life is slogging thru wet snow. The bad guys continue to win or dominate life’s trajectory. The evil is overwhelming. All the Scripture about good and evil and living in Sodom and Gomorrah have directly hit home. The US as we thought it was, however it was, is no more. It merits mercy if we ever wake up and condemnation otherwise. Reading the Josiah Manifesto now by Jonathan Cahn. DJT is mentioned. As for me and my house, we will follow the Lord. That is our prayer for the Treehouse-find your anchor and hold on tight.
2024 will be an average year. Worse than 2023 but better than 2025.
-old Soviet joke all of which seem more relevant these days.
Reading St Augustine this AM, I came across a little prayer of his. “Dear Lord, here is a little chicken hiding under the wings of Your Grace.”
all is well, all is well
Thank you Sundance, for another enlightening year. God bless you and yours. We forge onward.
I will strive to be more like Enoch. “Enoch walked with God…and God took him.” Gen 5: 24
the left is up against Nature, Nature’s God, and God’s Reality. evil can never permanently win. Never despair and never give up. As long as you draw breath there is good work to do!
Thanks SD and Happy New Year!
Mickey Newberry has written some thought provoking words. All his music and as we know music is a recorded history that can not be changed.
‘If you see her ask her for me if the dreamer in her ever set her free… soes she know now what the word I sing mean… If you see her ask her for me. Everythig I told her then was true, everything was true at the tim AHH BUT TIME HAS A WAY OF CHANGING EVERYTHING, TRUTH HAS A WAY OF CHANGING ALL THE EIME.’
Also, I came to hear the music is a good one
Happy New Year love the treepers.
sorry some typos does and the last word TIME
huggs
There is a home land, eternal, a place where all of the best, the very best of human creation, welcomes together and converges, in perfection, for infinity.
It’s comprised of those individual spirits, spanning all of time, who chose, the will of Almighty GOD, over their own. The small remnant who knew, with faith and hope, that this world, was a mere glimpse of the Creator, who is LOVE, and yearned for HIM.
People, who simply refused to submit to the doubt and darkness, within themselves, collected from this worldly experience.
Being a martyr for GOD, isn’t always literal, but it is always spiritual. Dying in the courage of your convictions, is the greatest freedom of choice and honor, a human being can offer of thanksgiving for this gift of life, back to it’s Creator.
This is not a doomsday prediction for 2024. But it honestly is, ‘Time’s Up’, for procrastinating and not having your spiritual house in order. If the Glory Train pulls into your station in 2024, better to be at peace knowing you have that ticket.
Who do you serve? Who is your master? Times up.
thank you, Ma. thank you, Ma.
Focus on God and everything else will follow.
Happy New Year!
My theme for this year is:
Peace of Heart
Outstanding! I have NO DOUBT Sundance has experienced the presence of God through the pressures that come from deciding to stand in truth against ungodliness. Standing in faith to administer extraordinary wisdom and kindness requires self control and willful accountability to the Word of God. Truth is not always welcomed, but it is always true.
The timing of this writing puts it high on the list of Sundance’s excellent writings, way up there with “Cold Anger,” the kind of wisdom from God that flows freely from Sundance’s heart of love and genuine concern for others—even strangers on the Internet who one day landed at The Conservative Treehouse.
Today, I’m again thankful I landed here years ago.
Found in the bin… 🙁
Thank you Sundance for all you do. Your hard work exposing and explaining events and your healthy doses of optimism, like this article, are helping me keep my head up. I look forward to 2024 with some optimism and hope.
Vanilla Ice at Mar a Lago…
Trump New Year’s Eve…
Dearest Sundance, MAGA Brother. THANk YOU for being in my life. Your words of wisdom and encouragement have helped me learn how to live my best life with our loving God.
Peace, Joy, Love and Blessings to you!
Namaste and MAGA Always
🙏🏻🙏🏻👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️
Matthew 7:13-14 The Narrow Way (Luke 13:24) “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
New Year’s Greetings to all my Treeper Family and I do not use that word lightly or carelessly.
Just as with my AA family, I often feel more kinship and more at home with the anonymous friends who come here daily to share their experience, strength and hope, than I do with my own relatives.
This past year has been both difficult and glorious in so many ways and 2024 looks to be even more extreme. Thanks to Sundance and a few others, we have been given an inside look at what’s been going on with our DS enemies and it ain’t pretty.
One thing about the DemonRats- they always tell us who they are and what they’ve been up to; exactly how they screw us in fact, they brag about it in the media after the fact.
One of the problems is that the Repubs and many others refuse to believe the Dems even when they tell us who they are which is a bunch of lying, thieving murderers with zero morals or humanity.
Case in point- the series House of Cards that started out on Netflix back in 2013. (I don’t know where else it’s streaming if anywhere). Hard to believe it was over a decade ago because it could be taken word for word from the daily news of today.
It’s still around if you want to get an idea of what they are up to in the coming months. It’s truly amazing that the Dems would blatantly expose their corruption and gloat about it, for all the world to see.
Kevin Spacey was the perfect lead character as the loathsome but fascinating Frank Underwood-nobody could have done it better. It was really a shame when he become one of the first victim of Left’s Woke-ness campaigns and was forced out of the show after being unjustly accused of some harmless sex scandal. (later found innocent of all charges, but by then it was too late. The Left/ Dem producers had already committed seppuku by getting rid of Spacey).
In any event, the first season are instructive for the kind of no holds barred campaign the Demo-Fascists will be running this year against our President Trump. As they are showing us- there is literally nothing they won’t do to win. Just watch HoC and you’ll see.
For our part, we have to stay strong and independent of the GOP establishment, the phonies and the hypocrites, never wavering in our support of the true President. We cannot be fooled by false friends or phony politicians who are only out for themselves. The stakes are too high, we cannot afford to make any mistakes this time around.
Our forefathers pledged their “lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor” to defend and protect our once great Republic.
We can and must do no less than they did in the coming months which will go by very quickly. Let us stand fast together and never, ever give up. If God is with us, who can stand against us?
God bless America, President Trump and patriots everywhere!
“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as family and friends.”
Stay strong!
I believe that people are placed into our lives to force us to deal with our own best (and worst) natures. My way of dealing with difficult people is to relax with them and ‘represent’ for God.
We can only lead His flock back to His path through our own example. Remember that those who refuse to ‘see and hear’ are free to make their own choices.
God gives all human beings made in His image, the freedom to choose our own path.
I believe the proof that God is with us is in the very hearts and minds of all those who are standing up and speaking out regardless of the consequences. I know I am doing so in my small area. We win if we do not quit.
Yes, just as Jesus came into the world to shine light into the darkness (John 1:1-7), the born again Christian is to reprove the darkness around them (Ephesians 5:6-14).
Edmond Burke said, “The means by which Providence raises a nation to greatness are the virtues infused into great men.”
(Quoted by Winston Churchill; The Age of Revolution; Book XIII, p.199)
One great man is standing up for America; Donald Trump. Other men and women of potential greatness need to do the same.
For the converse is also true, as we see today. Evil men and women, full of evil vices, can bring down a nation.
Fascinating – I was quoting this Frost poem to someone a couple days ago for basically the same reason – don’t be a lemming, dear friends!
Thanks Sundance!
Happy New Year to all –
My new years resolution:
I resolve to find a twentysomething supermodel girlfriend who has a big chest, a flat stomach, long legs, and several million dollars in the bank; who owns a Lamborgini, an apartment in Paris, and a chain of microbreweries; who is absolutely crazy about me and who doesn’t like to wear clothing if she doesn’t have to.
Hey, a man’s gotta have a DREAM.
Thank you, Steadfast Sundance. You have been at this so long, seeking and sharing the Truth. Most others would have moved on to something else, or given up out of exhaustion. Yet here you are, day after day, bringing us all together with your guidance and wisdom. Someday we will meet over Jordan, and I will at long last get to thank you in person. Thank you to all the Treepers who add so much to the discussion, some of which is as valuable as the post itself. Happy New Year!
Superb prose Sundance, you have a gift that is greatly appreciated. “The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Happy New Year to all!!
The gods are best served by those who need their help the *least*.
Sundance, I thank you for listening to the Spirit of God and following Jesus where He leads you. You encourage your flock to have faith. We are to be aware of the storm but remember that He lives in us and He calms the storm. We need to keep Jesus at the center of everything and He will light the path and keep us safe. It’s not a Pollyanna attitude that we need to have. It’s an awareness of His power and might, knowing that the God we serve is the Alpha and Omega.
Some of us have focused too much on telling each other what the devil is doing. Let’s sanctify our imaginations, meditate, and speak of what God has already done that will manifest in the year(s) to come. We were born for this and He knew us from the beginning of time.
Amen!
Jesus, I trust in you.
Amen!
God says if you read my word, you will be strong ~ you will prosper. The enemy has no such power. The power they have is what is stolen. We can simply say you have no power to control us. Jesus said fear the one who can kill the soul.
The evil we have witnessed the last several years; is because God has allowed it. God allowed Trump to become president. Nothing happens without God’s will nothing. Yes, we can make our plans and side track his will, for a short time. God’s plan/will always happens. There were numerous attempts to assassinate Hitler. Read Bonhoeffer’s biography by Eric Metaxas. Bonhoeffer a pastor was involved in multiple attempts to kill Hitler. Why did God allow Hitler to continue? Bonhoeffer believed he was doing God’s will and was executed for it.
Psalm 1:1-6 NKJV
Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
[2] But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
[3] He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
[4] The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
[5] Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
[6] For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Luke 12:4-5 NKJV
“And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. [5] But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!
Simply put God allows adversity to happen for his Glory and his people to see his power. Have faith God will provide, read his word, his promises to be there when you need help is throughout the Bible.
Lastly this evil we are experiencing is built on a foundation of lies. That is just the opposite of what Sundance is saying about the law of the farm. A foundation of lies will never last. It maybe trouble for us for a short time, but sooner than later the lies fall apart.
Have faith God will carry us through. Spend time in his word as much as possible, pray to Jesus your deepest fears and tell him all your plans, listen for his voice. Faith will carry us through.
God Bless and Happy New Year!!
The Holy Bible says we were made for times such as this. It also says we were not given the spirit of fear. Being a Prophecy following Bible toting Jesus Believing older male. (How’s that for a pronoun). I know what is coming most are blind to it as God has blinded their eyes. 1 Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!”
2 And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.
3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”
4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand.
6 And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”
7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”
8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.
9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.
10 They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
11 Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.
14 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?” (Revelation 6:1, ESV)
The first seal has been opened Covid brought all the Nations together as never before had they all followed the Globalist lead. Satan is their leader the next major event will be the Rapture then you will know there be 7 more years of Hell on earth.
May the Lord bless you and keep you.
Thank you Sundance! Regardless of what comes, I look forward to 2024 being a year of the blessings! God is always good.
Thank you Sundance for your words of encouragement and the Law of the Farm. Blessings to all.
I wish I shared your optimism about 2024, SD. But the fact remains that not a single person responsible for the obviously stolen and fraudulent 2020 election has suffered any consequences so my fear is they will cheat, cheat and cheat some more in 2024 preventing President Trump from being reelected to the Presidency.
I hope I am wrong, but fear that is what the left will do because that is whay they always do. They got away with installing the wasted husk of FJB in 2020 and pretended that he legitimately received more than 80 million votes, when the true vote total was likely 20 or 30 million votes lower than that. Perhaps Brandon will cross over the 100 million vote mark this time around. I would not put it past them to try.
I humbly suggest an edit:
The steel is then cooled with the tears of triumph, hurdles overcome and resolve.
to:
The steel is then tempered with the tears of triumph, hurdles overcome and resolve.
Tempering is the process of imparting toughness in the steel from its hardened, brittle state.
Happy New Year everyone. I am going to start lubricating the wheels on the roller coaster for this coming year…
Happy New Year everyone and… by the way…don’t ever think we ended up here in the Treehouse by accident.
there are no co-inkydinks!
I love this Treehouse. My New Year’s prayer is for this country to return to faith, family and love of Christ our Lord. I feel it happening. Happy New Year Sundance, Menagerie, Ad Rem, Wee Wee and all who work and comment here.
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Been awhile since I’ve commented & honestly even stayed “news or current events connected,” but your lead in with my most favorite poem line ever pulls me back to you! Two synchronicities: 1)My paternal grandmother loved Robert Frost & I somehow ended up with her beloved book of his poetry many many years ago. 2) 2 years ago I found & bought from an antique shop a JFK book where he conveys his connection to that Robert Frosts poem & other writings. I have read your posts almost since the beginning of them… when the glorious Mrs. S. Powell was even randomly commenting occasionally. This last 2-3 years I essentially went in all politics, public, people, news avoiding hibernation. The last few weeks I dipped back in here now & then. Today, your post re-opened my heart as to why I always felt connected here. We continue to persevere into 2024 positively in Divine’s light & love… the one less traveled by. Thank you for your chain analogy…it linked me back.
Welcome back. Hopefully your vacay has refreshed you, and energised you for whats coming.
Thank you Sundance
God sent his prophet Jeremiah “to pull down and to tear down, to build and to plant.” The Old Testament way of thinking began to fade with Jeremiah and was culminated in the Resurrection. When Jeremiah departed from the Holy Land he traveled far, escorting the royal seed in the daughters of Zedekiah to safe-haven. The work of Jeremiah’s building and planting began in the place we know today as Ireland. He is known there to this day as Olam Fallah. They say Jeremiah’s bones rest under the earth of Tara.
All to say that, while Jerusalem is the spiritual barometer of human life on earth, Ireland also figures large in God’s plans and prophecies. From a secular perspective what happens in Ireland first, then begins to spread over the rest the human family. Since the Irish Troubles of the 70’s that painful fact has been borne out.
Here are four modern-day Irish patriots discussing the situation in their homeland. It’s 2 hours worth of serious, often hilarious Irish talk. All of it rings true for where we’re at right now here in the U.S. of A. Strong parental guidance is suggested. They ain’t kiddin about that. Happy New Year to Sundance and All.
https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/2023-the-rebels-yell-bring-it?publication_id=108185&post_id=140194829&isFreemail=true&r=1ha8x0&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
That was a beautiful post, Sundance 🙂
Great post, Sundance! Thoughts and actions to live by in our Heavenly Father’s kingdom!