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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True, WP…there are those times…many, many times right now…when we feel we over nothing. A reassuring devotional for this morning.
🕊️A salve to the current physical/emotional wounds of the world.🙏
297 days – being 10 months – until Nov. 5.
Meaning 237 days, or 8 months until those mailed ballots go out and ballot harvesting season begins.
Prayers up for Team Trump!!!
WP,
“have you considered my servant Job…” has to be the very worst… and I mean WORST words that I read in our Holy Bible.
Why, oh why, would The Lord offer up an innocent man as if in a wager to the devil who is traveling to and fro throughout the earth looking for souls to ravage and steal?
I. Just. Can’t.
This is something I’ll have heavy words over with The Lord, as I feel our modern day Jobs suffering.
I have been denied an honorable prayer request for the second time over a two year period. It was a release of sorts to the bondage I am in… serving those who hope to pillage out of these bad situations. I have been able to insulate myself some… but I feel the devil breathing at my neck and those who follow him… elated at the thought of my demise. It hurts, because I have acted and conducted honorably in all things… at great personal sacrifice.
So.. I’ve been questioning God, our Father, even going so far as to feel like a jilted girlfriend who pines away for her beau. Her love of her life.
I’ve tried to distance, sulk even, and just power through my tasks at hand… and I have been blessed through Christ who sustains me… to be quite productive.
I realize there’s no escape for the “in love” I feel towards God The Father, Christ His Son, and our Guide The Holy Spirit. I think on them morning, noon, and night… and hand over the suffering to them at the foot of Jesus’s cross… for I am helpless to do otherwise.
I would rather never hear of the Book of Job, the Songs of Solomon, the prophesies of the destruction and evil again. They hurt my ears and heart.
The Bible is a mix of sweet and salty, bitter and purity, light and darkness. We must study both to equip ourselves for the fight ahead… and throughout our journey, we must not covet or compare the blessings and plight of others… for the world is unsteady and those blessings and plights change in the blink of an eye… in a New York Minute.
Our devil is now owned by the devil, Pfizer, and its made him an even wealthier and more powerful man…. and yet I still carry pity and sadness for him for he had Light at one time and joy and communion with us… and now he’s too far gone.
The love I had at one time for a man has turned him bitter and dark and evil… and there’s no recovering him.
It is in God’s Hands.
“have you considered my servant Job…”
My heart breaks for humanity.
I can only weep and take shelter under His Psalm 91 wings and let history play out as it will.
I will fight all of what I can fight and that is within my sphere of influence and I’ll continue to rely on my integrity and honesty to carry me through even until death, as death is a Promise to all of us.
Not because death is a punishment. Because death is a release into Eternity into a Promise of all that is Holy and Good… a deliverance from our daily deaths here.
It is our Promise of our winning our race once our marathon is done and we may sit and stand in the Presence of our Precious, Divine, Lord forever.
Dearest Woo…
This may seem an odd recommendation for your cries in the seeming silence of the Almighty…nevertheless…
But if you have not read CS Lewis’s “A Grief Observed”, and even if you have read this very slim tome written as you know by him when he was grieving the loss of his wife and, like you, seemed to be meeting that shut and bolted door which he couldn’t understand, may I suggest doing so?
While his was a grief of loss, I know there are many more other types of grief, of which in great part yours seems to be one. If you take that interpretation, there might be some comfort, even answers, in it.
And please do not think you are alone. Many nights after I turn off the lights, I lie awake trying to reconcile the abominable horrors we are seeing (I won’t list them; you know what they are) with our loving God who knows those who are suffering and barely hanging on, some finally unable to continue to do so.
I do understand yours is a personal battle and that it is one you’ve been fighting like the champ you are. I don’t think I am misreading your eloquent post. I will keep you and your lovely Savannah close to my heart…and always in my prayers, along with every soul who can identify with Job and his earthly trials. Our Lord knows how many there are, where they are, and knows them each by Name.
Please don’t lose heart, dear girl. Love you much 💕🙏🏻🕊
I purchased Savannah the box set of CS Lewis for Christmas. I’ll have to see if “A Grief Observed” is one included.
You are always so precious and kind.
I’m lamenting and sad. I’m not good at faking it and inevitably my face gives me away. (You know with your southern scowls and grimaces.)
It’s not that I don’t know joy… it is the pain of seeing others choose demise over joy and thrust their evil on you. It is their choice of ruining others for personal gain… I just can’t (and won’t) reconcile or participate. It is the trotting after evil with glee that really gets to me.
I want no part… no part… in any of it. I, too, want none of my efforts to prop up such regimes. I do not wish to sell your goods and services, establish and nurture rapport, and malign my good name when you bait and switch! For it is I who make the promises that you intend to break and have no just excuse for your evil plans when called to attest.
They want wealth and fortune that comes from honest days works, but they want it quick and without honest days.
I would rather stock shelves in a pet supply store and die in a tent. I am disgusted when they have proven that they can grow and succeed with honestly and integrity to quality… and yet they get greedy and are drawn to greed like fire flies to flame… for too few value and legitimize integrity nowadays. If they would just stay on course!!! They would grow and be proud! Not grow and be on sinking sand… for it won’t be the owners who pay… it will be the workers who lose… and who have lost already.
I read “Atlas Shrugged” as a 20 year old youth and it affected me much in my career choices, as I’ve chosen not to support evil. It’s cost us much in financial security, but my soul is whole and intact.
As a single mom, one is less able to make such choices and must consider stability and provision… which, of course, only is reliable through God. But what do we deliver our children into? A society built on baseless junk and one that promotes the ways of the wicked and stifles and gags and indentures the honest man and woman.
I am continuing to build my position responsibly regardless, so that it will be an easy transition to someone new when my time finally comes to depart. I’ve split off my responsibilities, as we’ve needed to anyway to support exponential growth. We are just led very very badly and thus do not retain our revenue producers. It is a revolving door and that’s terrifying. It makes me sad when I see people leave in worse condition than which they arrived because of poor leadership choices.
I no longer intercede in prayer for those who openly reject God who only view prayers as a way to extract blessings from Him as though He were an ATM.
What is to be expected when ones health fails, businesses fail, and their fortunes scatter, when they openly and mockingly reject Him and embrace the devil in his lavish embrace and wicked indulgences?
Do not ask of me to pray for you anymore you double-minded scoundrels! Pray to Him Yourself for your salvation and deliverance and then TURN from your wicked ways because you love God you wicked, wicked fools!
And then watch His blessings soar when you do!!! See your satisfaction return and your depraved minds purged and replaced with holy and goodly things.
I cannot pray covering for them anymore. Let them to their own devices.
I’ll take my efforts and my prayerful blessings elsewhere, shake the dust from my sandals, and remove the blessings on their shelters as the disciples did who were rejected when they were sent out two by two.
Oh Betsy, I’m ranting! But this is just disgusting to me. This world and all of its globalist evil. A spade is a spade and I pray fervently for evil to crash and burn. Let it burn.
And with this… I’ll return to simply reading and less posting.
For I’ve nothing good to say!
Let demons perish, especially the ones who “pose’ as friends.
Love to our Treepers. If I can pray anything… it is that each will see God’s Light and Holiness and yearn for it. And that we each can find ways to not support darkness and to reject the demons’ lies. Openly and aggressively reject.
Hey Woo, sorry you’re struggling right now and will pray for you in days ahead.
Sometimes it’s good to let it all out – and you’re safe here. We understand completely!
God will help you with whatever you need!
A big hug sent your way: xoxo
Plenty of those here, dear Della, which is why this is simply THE best place to be when anyone needs one…or two…or three…or…
(((((🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗)))))
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Dear Mr Lewis said ….
“If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
Boy oh BOY!! Truth, girl!!
So rant away, dear friend. It’s a good thing no one (except God) can hear my mental rantings. Who of us doesn’t have those ?? I think they go a long way to show where our hearts are, those of us who in fact have them. There are far too many in this old world who were either born with pieces missing or who have been taken by that entity intent on capturing as many souls as it can.
As for praying for our enemies? That was a hard one for me, until I realized that with a full heart I could pray that Almighty God opens the eyes of those who pursue such evil that sane minds cannot comprehend that sort of darkness (which itself cannot comprehend the Light). Taking uncountable Sauls and turning them into Pauls. And this I have been doing.
Every now and again memes fall into my lap, Woo. Too many times for me to consider it coincidence. This is one for some reason I could not save to post directly. But I did save the words because they struck home with me. Somehow I knew they would for others, though I couldn’t imagine when that would be. Perhaps they were meant for you as well? I believe they might have been…
“I understand now that I am not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world.
I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say,
‘For the same reason I laugh so often – because I’m paying attention.'”
~via The Minds Journal
See my well dressed cat reading the newspaper above… 😎 😘 🙏🏻
“I understand now that I am not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world.
I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say,
‘For the same reason I laugh so often – because I’m paying attention.’”
~via The Minds Journal”
😢 😭 😢 😭
Yes, Betsy, this. So eloquent and concise.
You must be my Editor-In-Chief.
Love hurts.
Just a watchful friend, Woohoo…
Who is just like you in so many ways…
And who is also paying attention 😘🙏🏻🕊
(And, who JUST LIKE YOU, has one of those faces as well😂😎)
Why do I pray for my enemies? Well … mainly because Proverbs 25 😜😂😬
21If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat,
and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
22For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head,c
and the LORD will reward you
Yes, Kenji. But that is not why we are supposed to do it…so they will feel the shame.
We do it because as in Corinthians 13:13…
“Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
But neither are we to suffer evil. And we are given permission to fight against it…for ourselves and for others who are not able to.
Yet, we pray…Amen 🙏🏻
They choose Light or darkness. We must let them choose.
Oh . My . Goodness girlfriend! Do you know that you are in the most precious place before the Lord? 💝 Yes, you are! How privileged it is for God to point you out and say to Satan…she is mine…no matter what you do to her…SHE.IS.MINE! And I will add this…it takes naked faith to stand and praise Him in the midst of seemingly unanswered prayer. And Satan hates that with a passion. The test may be to strengthen you to just STAND while Satan squirms! Blessings to you sis! 🙏✝🙏
Howdy Garrison!
Good morning, G! 💕 I have read a couple of articles saying basically that our grid might work or it might not. Quoting from an ERCOT woman she thinks they’ve got enough power for Texas…but then again , she’s not all that sure. Eye rolls abound…y’all stay warm!
I saw this and thought you could get Comet one. Then I decided the outcome would be the same. So never mind 😂😘
(We have Caroline’s Maggie for a few days. She’s not short of a few pounds, bless her. I might suggest this to her mama 😎)
My gosh, so TRUE!!! Check with Elizabeth. Bet she’ll agree 😎
Ha ha ha… how did you find a picture of our Timothy, Betsy?
Surely we are being surveilled!
Dang!!! And here was I thinking, I’d taken the pic and gotten clean away 😎 I’ll have to be more careful 😉💕😂
Nahhhh… I like your covert missions. Meow. 🐈
(Counting those toebeans 💕)
Good morning, Garrison😘 I cheated and quickly flipped through this video to see what to expect…oh my!! First impression was that the acoustics for this concert are going to be wonderful. Listening to this will be such a pleasure (with coffee of course) on this bitter cold day. Good one, dear friend 🤗☕
Another CATURDAY is upon us. I do hope you say this to your Very Good Kitty on awakening each day.
Good morning, Tink💕 Blessed be your sweet heart…
Comfty (as my then three year old granddaughter said) and definitely cosy.
The designer and his work
Right????
Yep👍🏻
(I need one of these mugs…)
💕 😌 💕 😌 💕 😌 💕 😌
thank you, Jesus.
Oh yes, linwik…so many AMENS!!!! 🙏🏻💕
Peepboes little bird😍 I LOVE black and white photos, dear P. This one is such a winner 👍🏻💕
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Preach it, Sis!
A fine example of feline ‘installation art’. Worthy of being included in that magnificent Art Book, “Why Cats Paint.”
A masterful creation with imaginative use of ‘texture’ the the shreds of thread hanging down, like rain or tears falling, for the state of the world. His anger and frustration at man’s (and cats)inability to set things right, is shown in the vigorous dimensional detailing of chunks of inner foam by his energetic emphasis on the corners. This provides sensitive contrasts in texture referring to the way we deal with the difficulties of life in these troubled times. The subtle and understated palette choices show restraint and emphasizes the sombre mood of this exceptionally expressive 3d installation art work.
Some ‘Art Speak’ for lovers of feline art. 🙂
Good morning, jb. I thought it was incredible as well. Stared at it for quite a few minutes and keep coming back to its simplicity.
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Who’s a pretty kitty??
“I most definitely am!!”
Mornin’ Bet. I was most impressed with the playing of the sister and brother who came first. Somebody recognized their talent and carefully nurtured it. Not sure I like the aesthetics of the guitars with that much of a raised fretboard, however. Like you said, however, the acoustics in the church were perfect for classical guitar. Having seen Scott play, I was quite pleased to hear him again. He has a number of videos on the GSI site. They guy’s got serious chops.
Got some winterizing to finish before the big cold front hits. Going to drip the outside pipes along with covering them with insulation. Belt and suspenders—lessons learned from the last Big Freeze.
Such a gift to be able to be able into play so beautifully. Yes! Their performances were captivating. I agree. There are quite a few musical sibling performers today. Can you imagine living in such a house? Right now I am listening to an hour program on our local classical station in DFW (WRR 101.1) where young performers play and discuss their musical journeys. Now a 14 year old guitarist (oh MY!!!!)
As for Scott? If I were to see him on the street I would never peg him as a musician at all, never mind ah artist with the guitar. Just goes to show you the truth of that old adage never judge a book by its cover. A splendid, most enjoyable concert. I loved every minute💕👍🏻
You be careful with your winterizing… ya hear???? Got provisions for you and Tink?? Stay warm🤗
Bible in One Year:
Genesis 42-45
@Bet
I bought these and thought of you, as Wales is you to me. Ever have them? They also talked about putting Clotted Cream on them, which I never have had.
All the best to you auntie & yours.
We have something we call English Muffins. Sometimes with raisins in them.
Wonder if they are similar? (lots of recipes on line)
Never heard of putting clotted cream on them, but we don’t get that around here either.
I found this:
The finished Welsh cake looks deceptively similar to an English muffin (not that I mind — I’m a big fan) or English crumpet, so I split my first one in half and dobbed it with butter. But upon tasting, it is a whole ‘nother animal. Sweet, tender, buttery, the nutmeg is the key ingredient that makes them taste so much like a cake donut; the finish of cinnamon sugar seals the deal. Great eaten fresh, with tea or coffee, or even the next day, should you have any left. If not, make more!
https://www.womansconed.com/?p=877
So I guess the similarity is just in the looks.
Mine are flat like small pancakes. Currants.
Hi Jim,
I have not opened them yet, the package says they are hand griddled in small quantities and remain true to the how they have been made for hundreds of years in Wales. Unless you have a direct connection to a local farm or farm store, Kerry Gold butter from Ireland is the best out there in the main supermarkets and what Ii am going to use on them, perhaps also trying them with Kerry Butter & some Black Currant Jam. They are much smaller than Muffins but do resemble them, and seem much denser. I got them online.
I wanted to get our Bet’s take on them. Cheers
You’ve made a good choice, friend! Our source (see my reply to Jim) was one near Snowdonia. Freshly delivered every day. ENJOY!!
Betsy, you may have tried this already, but in case you have been deprived of this Northern treat, try this sometime. ‘ Yorkshire Parkin’
https://traditional-yorkshire-recipes.info/traditional-yorkshire-parkin/
Again there are different ways to make it, so you can try different ingredients and methods.
It is a gingery spicy thing, so eaten in the winter usually, and especially on ‘Bonfire Night’, the special night of delight for English children. November the 5th. Bonfires,, fireworks, parkin, and baked potatoes in the hot embers when the main fun is over.
Here is a description of a real neighborhood bonfire night. This description of the way it used to be, is absolutely they was it was.
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Bonfire-Night-in-the-1950s-1960s/
The organized versions of later days are not the same.
I feel sorry for modern kids, all the fun is gone too safe, too organized. Even monetized. ugh!. In earlier times, the kids organized their own Bonfire night and each little neighborhood bonfire was about 15 – 25 feet high.
For weeks ahead kids would collect wood, and save money for fireworks, anyway they could get it, including wheeling in a wheelbarrow, or similar, a ‘guy fawkes’ made of stuffed old clothes, to put on the top of the bonfire, on the big night, and filled with fireworks preferably. They would go around the neighborhood to pester people even knocking on doors, and saying “penny for the Guy”
Kids would guard their pile of wood as other kids would raid it after dark, wanting the wood for their bonfire, branches and maybe some person’s rickety decaying gate would disappear overnight too, or someone’s rotting garden shed door. 🙂
Each family would set off their fireworks at random, reading the instructions carefully so no one would get hurt. Some had more ornate ones, like big rockets, they were all sizes and types, others even simple sparklers were appreciated . Toddlers were sometimes allowed to hold little sparklers on their first bonfire night.
The adults circled the fire away from the heat, some brought folding chairs, it was usually cold, so everyone enjoyed a hot drink or treats like Parkin. Parents of the kids brought out treats.
So I don’t know if people in other parts of the country, did other things, on Bonfire night. I imagine in Cornwall and Devon they might eat pasties.
What is TREACLE? this link has a good explanation,
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/treacle-vs-molasses
Oh golly, jb…yes, I knew of parkin, but like the Welsh cakes, I’d forgotten about it.
I see that you, like me, like Colkitto, like so many others of us, are really marinating in memories of our distant pasts. I thought, at least for me, this reminiscing would taper off as the Christmas season left…but it hasn’t. I find it such a comfortable and comforting place to retreat to, so I am not leaving for a while.
Your remembrances of those November Bonfire Nights have me right there with you. Good times, such good times.
I’ve just extended my stay…and I might just bring some pasties with me😘👍🏻😌
Oh, that would be lovely, definitely bring pasties. 🙂 I’ll make a pot of P.G.Tips tea to wash them down with.
I’ve been in a very ‘marinating in memories’ state of mind lately. Thinking of dear people from the past, as well as really good times, simple pleasures.
I wonder why so many of us are in that mood. Perhaps its the contrast with the difficult times we are all going through, some with personal distress, some thinking about the state of the world. So much injustice, etc.
Hi Bet, I was hoping to cheer you up! Hope your doing better.
Cheers!
Oh my, dear friend. You’ve done exactly that. Poor little mite 😔 St Francis will look after him 💕
Then there is the Lancashire treat of ‘Eccles cakes’.
Eccles, is a Lancashire town near Manchester. There was a shop selling Eccles cakes there since the 1700’s ( see old photo in second link,) the seller was a ‘Birch’ family member. I am descended from some ‘Birches’ of that area so possible they are ancestors of mine.
The original Eccles cakes had brandy or? some other alcohol in them, causing great consternation among do-gooders of that time, who were very concerned about the moral state of the working classes who might get drunk from eating Eccles cakes 🙂
So the original Eccles cakes probably had a slightly different variety of ingredients, so check other sources if you want to be very authentic..
Despite my likely connection to the sellers of Eccles cakes, they are not really my cup of tea. They are a bit too sweet for my taste, I think just looking at them would lead to diabetes. But to each. his own. 🙂
https://downtonabbeycooks.com/all-about-eccles-cakes/
Somehow I messed up . I inserted a ‘catly picture’ posting into my ECCLES CAKES posting by mistake some how… sorry…. This is the second link, mentioned above, with the historical picture of the old shop from the 1700’s.
https://downtonabbeycooks.com/all-about-eccles-cakes/
And Eccles cakes!!! I’d forgotten about those as well!!
So pasties, scones, crumpets, English muffins, Welsh Cakes…I’ve just added ten pounds! 😂😂😂
LOL, me too, I gain weight just thinking about them, but they are very nice comfort food, and if, as you say if the crumpets are positively oozing with butter. Yum.. We all need to indulge in a few treats sometime.
They aren’t anywhere close to English muffins, Jim (which I also adore, though I prefer my muffins plain, toasted, and dripping with butter. Same with crumpets, which until recently I had a source for…alas, the store discontinuing ed them for some reason.
(A dollop of butter?? Nay, good sir!!! Lots of dollops!! Everything is better with butter!😁)
I used to work in an upmarket gourmet shop in Llangollen North Wales. We’d sell Welsh cakes like crazy. A dozen at a time. I even sold some to Helen Mirren who appeared on one occasion!
She’s had to wait to be served, so I had ample opportunity to pretend I wasn’t staring goggle eyed at her. Don’t think I was too successful😎 She certainly had a presence about her.
I make them frm scratch for my husband for Christmas and his birthdays. He said his grandmother made them when he was a kid. But she had a wood fired stove.
That sounds delicious. Something to look forward to for Christmass & his B-days! Scratch made always the best!
Lucky hubby!!!!😍
Hey!!!!!! My gosh, Colkitto!!!!! I’d forgotten about Welsh cakes!! Shame on me! They are so good, though many Americans might find them not sweet enough. I loved them.
When I first arrived in the UK and tasted British biscuits (cookies to you and me) I wondered if they’d forgotten to put sugar in. But I soon came to appreciate them…so much so that the first cookie I tasted on coming back here was too sweet, cloying. I took one bite and that was it.
Clotted cream!?!??! More for Devon Cream teas with their scones.. I’ve never heard of it on Welsh cakes, though I’d try anything once….maybe😎 One of those with a cup of tea…now you’re talking!!
Blessings to you, dear “nephew”. Hunker down and stay warm 😘
Now you’re making me homesick.
Just like last year I have a single Hermit Thrush wintering in my yard and hitting my Bark Butter, which is also holding 2 Yellow-rumped Warblers & 2 Kinglets (I think Ruby-crowned). All the other usual wintering species, are present. I tend to think it is the same Thrush from last year, as they do that site tenacity behavior which is famous with the Harlequin Ducks of Barnegat Light, being the same ducks and their offspring coming back every year.
I grew up surfing near Barnegat Light
We’d sit out there in our wetsuits and see lines of geese and other migratory birds heading south for the winter
Diving ducks would light on the water near us and dive down for snacks
One popped back up about 3 feet away and looking straight at me
I swear I saw a look of surprise and he dove back down immediately
I cracked up
Those Harlequin’s there are famous. I’ve been there many times to see them. Also LongTail,Eiders,& Scoters there, and sometimes Pelagic species. So you saw some cool stuff there my friend. I’m really North Jersey, but lived in South Jersey near AC for a few years, and had cousins who I loved to visit, as they lived in the Bird watching paradise of Cape May.
Cool story you got there nim. Whitehouse Subs in AC were incredible
oh yeah, gotta love jersey subs
Italian place near me would make a veal parmesan sub
I just looked up bark butter (bb). Interesting!
I have been putting out just peanut butter all along, and notice the downy (or hairy, can’t tell!) and tufted titmouse are the regulars.
I’ll have to mix up a batch of homemade bb and try that!
To all of the above:
I just love the critter anecdotes.
Twenty years ago–I delighted in morning coffee on my deck. I would watch deer quietly stroll out of the woods, colorful song birds at the feeders, and rabbits hopping around. That was a peaceful, joyful time.
My current high-desert terrain has an entire different cast of characters: cactus wren, quail, hawks, hares, and the occasional bobcat.
Each state offers different wildlife treats. Love them all !
One of my greatest joys is a cup of coffee and a sconce/muffin and sitting on my back porch watching my pond/bird feeders/yard to see whats there. One small facet of Birding I love, is you never know what you are going to see. You have some cool wildlife, what kind of Quail? Out West they have a number of species, here in the East we only have the Bobwhite which is sadly on a rapid decline due to habit loss/land use changes, and introduction of exotic species or ones that expanded their range to here like the Coyote.
It’s a specialty from Wild Birds Unlimited store as I try and support my local one as much as I can. I use their Safflower seeds in one feeder, black oil sunflower seed from Tractor Supply (Really inexpensive $20 for 40 lbs), bark butter feeder, and than throw allot along my shrub edges of black oil. Birds do not like to be out in the open, so placing feeders and seeds on the ground near cover is best. I see people make the mistake of placing their feeders without any shrubs/cover near them and then they must wonder why they get a scarcity of birds.
I’ve set up my yard as much as I can for the birds as landscaping for nature is my motto.
Hairy’s & Downy’s can be frustrating, when I used to hang 4 suet basket feeders up where I used to live (and famously had 17 downy’s in yard at once!) I could always tell them apart because the Hairy was bigger than the basket, while the Downy was smaller.
Thanks for the tips, colkitto!
I think if I got to see a downy and a hairy next to each other, that would be great! But singly, I guess it’s harder cuz nothing to compare to . I’ve even tried looking at beak size, but by themselves, I cant compare.
the feeder (suet basket) is a good idea though (to gauge size)! Or something consistently similar.
I have zero hairy’s here, and 1 pair of Downy’s that brought their offspring to my Bark Butter when I put it out one summer to help my mama Bluebird with her 5 fledglings that lost their father. I did supplemntal feeding to help her out, and it worked. She used to bring all 5 and feed them from the BB there, the Downy’s saw that and did much the same thing. I have 1 pair of White-breasted Nuthatches in the neighborhood who do not come to the feeder.
One winter a few years ago I got my life bird bird Brown-headed Nuthatch hitting my feeder. I have not seen them since that year.
Wow, that is very cool!
I too wonder about returning guests.
We have a Carolina wren that winters with us. 5 years that I have noticed.
Whether it’s the same one I don’t know given their lifespan.
is her name Fluffy?
Fits perfectly!
She can be tall and skinny too
God is gracious in equipping his creations with what they need to survive.
Very cool. I love their song, but they are notorious in my yard for throwing my expensive safflower seed out of the feeder by the load!
The Birders Handbook is a great book to supplement your field guides as it has numerous essays of interest, if you like to read about Birds.
Great pic btw and thank you all for the bird discussion. It never gets old for me!
The “famous” Harlequin Ducks at Barnegat Lighthouse
Yes … even a Harlequin duck makes it into song lyrics …
I really like CSN. Buffalo Springfield did a song “Bluebird”. Ty for the songs
Your “tenants ” won’t go hungry I know. The word will surely spread that your hospitable home is THE place to be💕
Yes … there’s a song about the Thrush too. Not just Bluebirds … 😂😜
We had hermit thrushes, and I think you are right. They would come back. One young one would tap on the window and would follow me from one end of the house to the other, tapping on the windows or just watching.
Kid in a Candy Store.
Yes! Elephants collecting toll for traveling through their territory.
Big, beautiful critters! 💕🐘
I saw a video of trucks hauling their fruit to market on a wide road along side which were quite a few elephants. And each truck, filled to the top would stop and let those magnificent creatures grab a trunkful. Every single truck came to a standstill while their “customers” shopped. Gratis 😉 It really was an incredible…and gratifying…thing to watch.
Jan 13, 2024: It’s been 80 days since Speaker Johnson was elected.
The border is still open.
We are still funding the corrupt globalist kick-back scam.
It’s time to face reality and close things down.
Wishing Speaker Johnson a blessed and productive day,
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What indication do you or anyone have that any change of person at any level of government, including the POTUS, is going to change, fix or restore our Republic?
I cannot think of one single person who corrected our course. PDJT certainly tried, but was effectively stopped and once out of office, his work was washed away. I fail to understand the thinking that he can “fix” it with another term.
And the way things look like they’re going, there might be some very unhappy surprises before the next scheduled election.
I was actually emailing President trump at whitehouse.gov, and did get a couple of replies back. One had a copy of his signature at the bottom, and a note saying, Thank you for your kind words and generous prayers. I was trying to encourage him to do what God had called him to do, what He had put in his heart to do; and hoping that the Marines would be sent out to take control of the traitors. But obviously, that did not happen. And our friend Pence, sure showed what was hiding behind that fake pastor grin the whole time!
So yeah! I do have that same feeling of apprehension. Maybe its because after you start getting older, reality grows colder.
But all that aside, I am still hopeful; and I do believe that we are all in God’s hands; regardless of what man can do to us.
Agree with all you say and know you are a prayerful man. Our hope is always in the Lord. My prayer is that no matter what His Will is that we stay with Him. God bless you.
The LORD bless and keep you too!
Kitty
Pup
Snow pup
IDF Found Hamaz Khan Yunis CENTRAL BANK! Unexpected Surprise for Iran! (youtube.com)
Decorated mouser on the Russian lines in Ukraine
Happy Caturday, y’all !
Take my life and let it be
Frances R. Havergal (1874)
1 Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days;
let them flow in endless praise,
let them flow in endless praise.
2 Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
swift and beautiful for thee,
swift and beautiful for thee.
3 Take my voice and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
filled with messages from thee,
filled with messages from thee.
4 Take my silver and my gold;
not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
every power as thou shalt choose,
every power as thou shalt choose.
5 Take my will and make it thine;
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is thine own;
it shall be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal throne.
6 Take my love; my Lord, I pour
at thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be
ever, only, all for thee,
ever, only, all for thee.
Take My Life And Let It Be (Hymn 375)
a wonderful old hymn.
They said about her, that whenever she came into the room, it was like a fresh breeze from heaven, the free and joyful spirit in her; and they called her “the Lord’s Songbird.” She truly had an Evangelist’s heart in all that she did and wrote. I think that many many churches are so deprived, not knowing about her, or all her writings and music.
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The Only Video of Smith Wigglesworth
Sounds like an interesting man.
https://www.christianity.com/wiki/people/evangelist-smith-wigglesworth.html
We have such a wide variety in modern day Christianity.
I would highly advise every Christian to read his books; Apostle of Faith, Ever Increasing Faith, and many others. There are also some very good books written by those who knew him, and were close to him. I think that there are a lot of people however, who themselves stumble at the holiness and purity and brokenness, that necessarily accompanies such a walk with God; and so they are scandalized and rather take up the role of the Pharisees and scribes in old time; having nothing but envy and refusal to believe, all the can do is go about to discredit the Lord’s servant, and slander and work against.
No man can be an idol; and brothers like Smith Wigglesworth would aggressively rebuke it, if it was directed at him: and he had to at times. But though he was used of God mightily all over the world; and the Lord Jesus did many, many miracles, deliverances from demons, healings of all kinds, raising from the dead (twenty one confirmed); yet the most of his experience among churches, was that of lairs and abusers only looking to get some notoriety and bring people into their churches.
Many times he ended up having to pay his own way to travel to the American churches, and was often misused and lied to about many things. Evidently this isn’t a new thing in this country! The observations of many around the world have been for a long time, that the American “version” of Christianity is a business and an entertainment event.
Its not difficult to know, why there is so much pollution and deception and defeat among the churches today; look at what they are feeding on! Yet because there is with so many of them, such wealth and worldly prosperity, they think that that is God’s validation of them, like the Laodiceans, who saw themselves as rich and increased with goods, and in need of nothing; absolutely oblivious to how the Lord saw them, or their true conditi0n.
I do believe, that there are a lot of sincere Christians, even among the most worldly and contaminated churches; but it is evil in the leadership, that causes the blight and emptiness and darkness in the whole congregation. And people are too easily satisfied to let others take the lead, and “release” themselves from obligation to study and be accountable.
Had not heard of him… thanks for posting.
love the kneecap story.
Isaiah 60:1-2
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.”
Kumi Ori
Psalm 131 – A Song of degrees of David. “LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.”
Lo Gavah Libi
Hilarious!
Breaking
South Africa helping Hamas digging more tunnels
https://nitter.net/leeonskee/status/1745910752873992498#m
Israeli government posts massacre of October 7
NOT available for the public in Israel to see.
WARNIG: DISTRESSING IMAGES.
https://saturday-october-seven.com/
Distressing, horribly so, but ignorant people need to know the truth.
Today I didn’t see much news at the area so I took my time and translated a very unique video from Gaza. It’s a Special Forces Unit by the name Oketz (“Sting” in English).
It’s teams of two, a human and a dog.
I was not aware how much difference dogs make in Gaza. They are also respected and I saw some getting medical treatment in human hospitals. They get real funerals when they die. Some operators get to keep the dog after service.
It’s actually quite impressive. The video also shows the challenges they are facing on the field in Gaza.
☀️❤️💪🇮🇱 David: Shabbat Shalom.
I appreciate seeing this video and learning from your translation.
Thank you.
May God Keep you and all Israelis safe and comforted.
❤️❤️
The Grunts Prayer
Oh Lord, thank you for granting me another day to stand up against the tyranny in the world today, blessing me with the will, strength and fortitude to continue walking, digging and fighting all over this once blessed United States of America. Please continue to help me carry this rucksack and weapon by walking beside me and lending your loving hand apon this yoke I proudly wear. Please bless me with a full ammo pouch and full canteen, one for the enemy around me the other for the enemy above, so that I may prevail against one and endure the other. Please bless me with the light of the moon and stars when I need them and clouds and rain when I desire cover from my enemies eyes. Please ensure my aim is true, that my creedo “One Shot, One Kill” is fullfilled, that my enemy does not suffer and their end is swift and complete. Please Lord, protect me from short rounds and friendly fire from my allies, so that I might continue to honor my oath to the Constitution of the United States of America. Last of all Lord please forgive me for what I must do, I only wished to be left alone, bask in the glory of your word and behold this beautiful world that you created for us but alas Evil has risen and I am compelled to smite it in your name.
Amen 🙏🏻
13 January 2022 Fred Parris, American doo-wop singer and songwriter (The Five Satins – “In The Still Of The Night”), dies at 85
In the Still of the Night – Fred Parris and The Satins
13 January 2021 Tim Bogert, American rock bassist (Vanilla Fudge; Jeff Beck), dies at 76
TIM BOGERT -CROSSROADS (LESLIE WEST)
13 January 2010 Theodore “Teddy” Pendergrass, American singer (Turn Off the Lights), dies of respiratory failure at 59
Teddy Pendergrass – Lady
13 January 2007 Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (Brecker Brothers), dies at 57
Michael Brecker: Soprano saxophone
Same Old Lang Syne
first discovered the Brecker Brothers playing with Horace Silver on an hour-long TV concert around 1973 … favorite song from Horace’s 1972 album:
In the liner notes, Horace mentions that those into numerology will get the significance of the number 27, anyone got a clue?
… album title was “In Pursuit of the 27th Man”
“Silver wrote this tune after the birth of his first son”
Good enough for Paul Simon … what a tasty sax solo
Baby, I got so much love to give …
Music to … do it to
Ha! The cameraman doesn’t really care about the bass player … 😜
13 January
Stephen Foster
(1826-1864)
American composer (Oh! Susanna; Swanee River; Beautiful Dreamer), dies in New York City at 37 [reports vary as to fever, accident, suicide, or some combination]
Biography: Primarily known for his parlor and minstrel music. Although associated with songs depicting pre-Civil War life in the Southern US, he only visited there during his honeymoon. Some of his themes are now considered racially insensitive.
He wrote over 200 songs, including “Oh! Susanna”; “Beautiful Dreamer”; “The Old Folk’s at Home (Swanee River)”; and “My Old Kentucky Home”. He also wrote hymns, and arranged classical music for flute and guitar duos.
His life has been dramatized three times in Hollywood films, most notably in 1939’s “Swanee River”, starring Don Ameche.
Beautiful Dreamer
13 January
Wyatt Earp
(1848-1929)
American frontiersman and marshal who participated in the gunfight at the OK Corral, dies at 80
Biography: Wyatt Earp was a central figure in the legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone. Prior to his time in Tombstone Wyatt had moved around the western boom towns, often getting into trouble, though he served as an assistant city marshal in Dodge City, Kansas.
In 1881 Earp, along with his brothers Morgan and Virgil Earp and together with Doc Holliday faced off against cowboys the Canton gang. Three of the Canton gang were killed and Morgan, Virgil and Doc were injured.
The gun fight only really reached public attention in 1931 when a biography was published of Wyatt Earp, two years after his death. His brother Virgil who was actually the city marshal that day may have played the more central role.
13 January
2023 Robbie Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, son of Evel, dies of pancreatic cancer at 60
With Evel
Evel Knievel’s Son Robbie Dead at 60
I don’t usually comment my thoughts on these but this was too good to pass up:
When I was in elementary school I had a teacher who used to bring a record player and records by various artists into our room, and spend an hour teaching us about the composers and songwriters. This was probably about third grade.
I remember well learning about Stephen Foster. The song I remember best from that day was Camptown Races, although Oh! Susanna became my favorite, and one I played often for my first little granddaughter. She loved to watch a children’s video of the song, and wanted it played over and over.
Thanks for the fun memories!
Incidentally, the only other music day I remember as well as Stephen Foster was military music day. It was the first time I’d ever heard the Marine Corp Hymn, and we all learned what caissons were that day.
“Some of his themes are now considered racially insensitive.”
“they” are now taking offense at stephen foster! Yes because I’m sure when he wrote all of his songs, he was certainly considering black people and trying to offend them (sarc/).
I am getting so tired of everything, everything being about ‘race’.
for heaven’s sake, I had on popeye this morning, and there was a WARNING before the cartoon started that showed “this is time sensitive, and may include racial injustices” or some similar stupid words.
Then!!, a commercial came on during popeye that showed this wonderful, loving, family-oriented black family doing such nice things together. There was a soft-spoken female voice saying how wonderful her family was. Then she went on to say how her brother was a victim of racial injustice and a website displayed showing something about racism or injustice.
you know who her loving, darling, gentle family-oriented brother was?? george “I threaten pregnant women with a knife” floyd!!! During popeye!!!!!
all ‘they’ want is division, division, division….they love to incite racism!
Imagine how Popeye would handle somebody threatening a pregnant women.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ALONE WITH GOD?
“When He was alone the twelve…asked of Him…” Mark iv. 10
HIS SOLITUDE WITH US: When God gets us alone by affliction, heartbreak, or temptation, by disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted affection, by a broken friendship, or by a new friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are dumbfounded, and cannot ask one question, then He begins to expound. Watch Jesus Christ’s training of the twelve. It was the disciples, not the crowd outside who were perplexed. They constantly asked Him questions, and He constantly expounded things to them; but they only understood after they had received the Holy Spirit (see John xiv. 26).
If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul. Your brother’s sorrows and perplexities are an absolute confusion to you. We imagine we understand where the other person is, until God gives us a dose of the plague of our own hearts. There are whole tracts of stubbornness and ignorance to be revealed by the Holy Spirit in each one of us, and it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone. Are we alone with Him now, or are we taken up with little fussy notions, fussy comradeships in God’s service, fussy ideas about our bodies? Jesus can expound nothing until we get through all the noisy questions of the head and are alone with Him.
Oswald Chambers
January 13th Devotional
January 13
MORNING
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee. Isa 26:3
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psa. 55:22
I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Isa 12:2
Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Matt. 8:26
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Phil. 4:6, 7
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. Isa. 30:15
The effect of righteousness [shall be] quietness and assurance for ever. Isa. 32:17
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27
Peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come. Rev. 1:4
EVENING
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Eph. 4:26
If thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother… Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. Matt. 18:15, 21, 22
When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. Mark 11:25
Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. Col. 3:12, 13
Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Eph. 4:32
The apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. Luke 17:5
Bagster
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/13/saturday-january-13th-open-thread-2/#more-254632
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12
At the beginning of a new year, the inclination is to think positively about the things you will accomplish and the goals you will reach in the year ahead. However, the writer of today’s verse would have you review the previous year.
The only Psalm written by Moses, Psalm 90 reflects upon how God had cared for His people for generations, and how they were not always faithful.
Moses had seen it all. Raised in an Egyptian ruler’s household, he had experienced wealth and its benefits for forty years. He then lived as a shepherd, a simple life, for another forty years. His final forty years were spent wandering in a wilderness with a complaining, whiny group of people, and all who were over the age of twenty when they left Egypt died as they wandered, except Caleb and Joshua (Numbers 32:11-12).
Probably no one was more aware of the goodness of God, the sinfulness of people, and the brevity of life than Moses. The patriarchs had lived for hundreds of years, but now seventy or eighty was the average lifespan.
Moses wrote that the years fly by so quickly, with the human mind focused on the moment, so his plea was emphatic: “Teach us to number our days.” Why would that be important? Because God has not given you breath to live life in vain. He wants you to “get a heart of wisdom,” live joyfully in faithfulness to Him, and be blessed in your endeavors (Psalm 90:12-16).
Pray today that you and the people of this nation focus on God’s way, and take up the prayer of Moses, turning from sin and following the Lord each day, so He will “establish the work of our hands!”
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing#devotional
God is in control and worthy of our praise, regardless of what we are going to face this year.
Happy “cartoons and cereal day” everyone.
for levi, and all other silent tree-branchers who are in our thoughts and prayers.
peace to all who gather here, and thank you Jesus for our joy in being together.
💕🕊️🙏
for levi – ate a big bowl of cereal and watched The Lone Ranger!
Have a great day everyone – the sun is shinning and the wind is blowing cold. Dress warm to go outside to enjoy the sunshine.
Thank you Slowcobra for remembering levi and our silent tree-branchers. I surely do miss many of them.
Amen. 🙂
Earth quake wakes Kim and I, “Did you hear that?”
“Yes.”
“Look what it did to my hair!”
:p
3.0 – 3.5 fairly common in central OK
4.0 + real attention getters
Some wonderful and mellow sounds for a Saturday
BONNIE RAITT & LOWELL GEORGE (1972) Live from Ultrasonic Studios | Full Album | Rock | Live Concert (youtube.com)
she got a voice like honey
3/20/2023 – I am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine
1 Corinthians 2:9 “But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him. But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned of no man. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that He may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
John 14:15-17 “If you love Me, keep My commandments: and I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete (one called in to help), that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him: but you know Him; for He dwells with you, and shall be in you.”
If we look into the Scriptures, we know exactly why people have eyes but see not, and have ears but hear not, and their hearts are calloused over so as to not understand; because God has closed their eyes and stopped their ears and hardened their hearts, because of what He sees and knows is on their hearts against Him, “for fear that they convert and he should heal them.” Jesus knew why the Jews did not believe on Him, though He had done so many miracles before them. He didn’t get upset, or try some other way for those kind to “accept Him.” Jesus understood it as being the cup which His Father had given Him to drink, and the Baptism He was to be baptized; and went forward all the way to death to fulfill His charge, of bearing witness to the truth.
Jesus knows His own sheep, and they know Him; and that they know His voice and follow Him, is not something that can be manipulated by man. The things of the kingdom of God within us are spirit, and they are life. We have been given the Spirit of Christ, and the mind of Christ, so that we can know Him, by His Spirit. Everyone trying to get into the kingdom any other way, is counted by God as a thief and a robber, an intruder, a trespasser; and will, like the criminal he is, be thrown out.
Now if the Lord said, that this will be what the false Christians have to expect when He comes; we should not suppose that there would be any evidence of Him knowing them now either. Even though they invent all kinds of ways to get around the way Jesus has made for us; and though they are completely convinced in themselves, and happy with the way they’ve chosen; there will be no real power of the Holy Spirit in them, giving them victory over sin, understanding of the Scriptures, or agreement with the saints. For in order to be of one mind, of one accord, and all speaking the same thing; there has to first be the same first Love, one heart and one soul, one faith, one Lord, one baptism, one Spirit.
Luke 5:36-38 ” . . . No man puts a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new makes a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agrees not with the old. And no man puts new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.”
No one can survive trying to do Christianity on his own capability. He will not be able to hold it up; for the New Life will burst the bottle, and the New Cloth will not agree with the old, and make the tear worse. The New Creation Life of the Born Again believer, must be put into a new man, a new nature, the divine nature begotten in us, in the same way that the Holy Ghost came upon May, and the power of the Highest overshadowed her; so that “Holy Born” was called the Son of God. It is a miracle done only by God. The only possible answer for all of man’s ideas and attempts to save himself, is that, “with man this is impossible; but not with God; for with God nothing shall be impossible.”
John 10:14, 26-28 “I am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine . . . But you believe not, because you are not of My sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.”
spello – “in the same way that the Holy Ghost came upon May ” should be, “in the same way that the Holy Ghost came upon MARY.” Sorry 🙁
Verse of the Day for Saturday, January 13, 2024
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“But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:”
Matthew 6:20 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
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.
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I stuck a bag of $ in with my Bitmoji pix. Whoops! That was a blunder!
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BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
Yes, Saint Michael, we need you desperately during these rough times! Help us win this one! 🕊️💕
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
GIFT OF GRACE
His Grace is abundant in meekness
His strength is made perfect in weakness
Gladly glory in your infirmities
And do not fear any adversities
When you are torn and worn from battle
Angels will remove the rote rattle
Lift you up and attend to your sores
The bruises and scars from many wars
When you are dejected defeated and down
Remember God’s mercy will soon abound
He will carry you gently while you heal
The power of His Love you will surely feel
By the Grace of God you are who you are
His Grace imparted on you left no scar
You labored more abundantly than many
More than adequate which was plenty
By Grace you are saved thru Faith it is said
And not of yourself but a gift instead
One of many God bestows upon those
Who obey His commands even en throes
When you are weakened spiritually
Be rest assured of God’s right remedy
Nothing that happens is ever too large
Be still and know that He is in charge
By your side He will always be ready
To raise you right up and keep you steady
By Grace through Faith you belong to Him
A loving gift He confers not on a whim
D01: 08/22/2023
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just a reminder
Researcher Jessica Rose interview on a rumble show The Iron Will; one hour. she goes into the DNA contamination the injections have, and are, and may yet, cause.
https://rumble.com/v46qun0-the-iron-will.html
Watched the Bret Weinstein interview with Tucker Carlson at the behest of a fellow Treeper.
Lord have mercy! We never knew such evil lie in wait for us.
God bless Trump for revealing it. He did more good in his Presidency than he’ll ever realize.
May God save our land if He deems it worthy.
Sodom and Gomorrah on steroids.
HE DOES AND HE WILL !!! ❤️❤️❤️
“When God judges a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.” John Calvin (1509-1564).
Don’t be so sure.
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JMO.
Background to the recommendation to President Trump for a PLANK in his 2024 PLATFORM.
To “Make-America-Great-Again, Again”, the place to start is America’s Presidential Oath.
Every president of the United States has recited the oath of office as the official start of their presidency.
The oath is found in Article II of the Constitution.
It contains 35 words and goes as follows:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
As such, it doesn’t require of him to do the same for the unconstitutional administrative-state’s rules, acts, declarations, interpretations, agreements, and even some laws that the un-American globalists have enacted over the past century, slowly eroding the freedoms and rights of the American citizens defined in the “original Constitution and the legally approved amendments.”
As President, he cannot associate with, nor defend, any “written law that is unconstitutional.”
This the “written law” that Thomas Jefferson wrote about when he warned Americans that the Constitution isn’t a suicide pact …… in his words:
“A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.”
Action begins with the Executive Branch by giving the “2024 Constitutional Republic Mandate” to President Trump, as a plank in his platform he is running on …… the mandate will be his sword to cut through the unconstitutional, administrative-state’s Gordian Knot in the executive branch, to end it once and for all.
The mandate demands that President Trump immediately de-authorizes and disbands the unconstitutional administrative-state’s departments and personnel in the executive branch. It requires no approval of any stinkin’ congressman, senator nor jurist of the not-so-supreme court. It can’t be any more constitutional and it is fast and permanent.
Hit them fast and move them out. It eliminates the unconstitutional footprint in the executive branch of the federal government.
As most know, that is the location of the 3 letter departments and personnel involved in the weaponization of the federal government against its citizens.
In conjunction with the “2024 Constitutional Republic Mandate”, should be President Trump’s action plan to de-naturalize and deport any illegal or “fraudulent citizen” to a country of our choice, on our timeline.
With vigor, the Executive Branch, led by G.O.A.T President Trump will just follow his oath of office, ending the corrupt congressional and judicial branches from unconstitutionally blocking him.
Just follow the United States Constitution’s oath of office for President. It is the sword that will cut through the unconstitutional administrative-state’s Gordian Knot tied around DC.
The “2024 Constitutional Republic Mandate” is intellectually and constitutionally sound.
Welcome to 2025 without the 1984 predictions.
If you are MAGA, you are on the winning side……if you are not MAGA…..sorry charlie.
“Let’s go Brandon and the democrats and the GOPe!”
PM
Writes PM’s Substack
just now
NFL not free tonight. $$$Peacock> This advice from CBS:
‘Not interested in keeping Peacock after watching the Dolphins vs. Chiefs game? Then we recommend signing up for the $6 per month plan, even though it’s not on sale. You can easily cancel your Peacock subscription after the game’.
Not sure how I feel about this. I would HOPE the policies set forth in the liberal administrations would be enough to school the lower income folks as to the hazards of walking lock step with these criminal organized crime syndicates!
Of course, crime is “down” in the election year of the reinstatement of Joe Hoggsett Indianapolis’s liberal mayor. Of course we all know the term “down” is relative as we watch Indianapolis…a once fair and beatiful city… turn into Detroit 2.0.
People like me refuse to go down there to Indianapolis now. Especially not at night, but we will make exception for the upcoming Gubernatorial debate on the 20th of January!
In local news, many RINOs are vacating their seats including Judas Pence’s brother, Greg. They no doubt see the writing on the wall and want to distance themselves from recourse for their compliciness in the fall of our great Republic. Approaching close to half dozen leaving their represented citizenry, but that’s what rats do once they realize there’s no more grift to be had… they jump ship and blend in with the citizenry… or even feign that they’ve been MAGA all along… it is just their cohorts wouldn’t “allow them” to vote or call out according to their constituencies’ preferences.
They should all still have their hands tied… in shackles behind their backs as they are tried for treason and robbing the treasury tills of the American taxpayer while threatening the military and intellectual security of our country.
I say.. let the riders have their free transportation! I say further make voting only on election day and make that day a mandatory holiday where businesses shut down and give employees… the working ones … their chance to be represented and extend the hours of voting from 4 AM to 10 PM to accommodate those shift workers who do not benefit from polls open 6 AM to 6 PM. (I stood six hours in line to vote for President Trump in Indianapolis… the longest in my history of voting! How many got out of that line to tend to their jobs and families? A travesty!)
Come on country… let’s give everybody a right to be heard!! Well, everybody who is a legal citizen.
Whoever this Republican is.. the sole sponsor of this bill… did he have nothing else of importance to legislate?
https://www.wrtv.com/news/politics/bill-in-indiana-statehouse-would-ban-free-election-day-rides-on-public-transportation
GOD’S GOT THIS, JW !!! 😃 ELECTIONS WILL NOT CURE OUR NATION’S ILLS !!!
TRUST GOD – NOT MAN TO FIX THIS MESS !!! ❤️
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Oy… I trust no man to fix this, Duchess.
I feel terribly for Trump at the weight of the world placed on his shoulders by others, when it is a “Council of All” fully supported and upheld by God Himself that will really matter.
May our Lord’s Holy Spirit infuse and captivate the masses.
Blessings to you dear sister. Big hugs.
Trump has the Power of God behind him – and
he is beginning to realize it – and – tap into it !!! ❤️❤️❤️
He is no fool – he knows who is really in charge – GOD !!!
JULIIE GREEN HAS BEEN TRYING TO TELL US FOR 3 YEARS !!!
Peace Be With You, Dear Sis !!! 🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️
In MI, our polls are open 7a-8p. I was an “election inspector” (EI) for many many years across different precincts and cities. (but not recently)
The EI was what we were called. These are the folks that (among many other tasks) sat at the table all day, gave instructions to voters, checked IDs, sent them to the correct polling station (if they showed up at ours and it was the wrong one), made sure the candidate workers outside were behind the designated measurement of distance, accounted for spoiled ballots, processed the valid ballots, and most importantly, did all the counting/checking/cross-referencing/verifying/reviewing/witnessing/signing all the counts and printouts.
And then, delivered with witnesses (from different parties) all the ballots to the clerk’s office.
we were the same “team” all day long.
I am thinking the possibility of longer voting hours (i.e. 4a-10p) might not be a feasible option because the same team of people have to be together all day. For chain of custody reasons, these hours might be too long for a team.
6pm does seem way too early to close.
I just dont understand why there’s no pushback on why a voting DAY has worked for decades and decades and decades, but now all of a sudden it cant. It’s just the excuse the fraudsters want to cheat. I get that, but where is the pushback against the cheaters?!!
I guess it’s the silence I should be used to by now (i.e border, trafficking, mutilation, anti-Christianity, etc.).
I understand, Slowcobra. That is a terribly long day for the Election Inspectors.
Could there not be some affidavit signed to make that shorter shift work and a chain of custody to prevent fatigue and to maintain vigilance?
I don’t know the ways of election oversight but you are right on… that we should have our results that night by midnight.
They’ve destroyed the constituency’s faith in election integrity with counting the votes, pausing the counts, releasing their algorithm to commit their fraud, and upending elections. No one trusts anymore.
Thank God there Is God Who will bring them all into account in His Throne Room in His Judicial Authority.
Do people really think they escape judgement? Even if they are not believers, they will be cursed to walk the earth always looking over their shoulder and trying to hide their secrets.
“Could there not be some affidavit signed to make that shorter shift work and a chain of custody to prevent fatigue and to maintain vigilance?”
I know, I get it… I am not trying to come up with a solution for a longer voting day though…just throwing it out there (generally, not specifically to you, jwoorior).
I will say though, that shorter shift work would have to mean more workers. More workers means more documented (paid!!) training by all these municipalities. That adds up. Not to mention a lot of municipalities were having a hard time finding workers in the first place, let alone having to (potentially) double the headcount.
training was mandatory, and had to be documented. Also, there was even special training for those who would be working the computers (as applicable) for non-paper registration (i.e. voter sign-in), and for the precinct chairmans and co-chairmans. So those designated workers would also have to be either shift-worked, or have an extremely long day.
It can get complicated if municipalities take on 18hr voting days, hypothetically.
further, the shortage of workers a few years ago made the municipalities decide to allow workers from other jurisdictions to work in cross-over cities. (I say this from a few years ago though. Since I have been out of the loop a while, I can only speculate what the hurdles might be today).
they (clerks) also have to have worker balance in registered Ds, Rs, and Is/Ls.
and there always always had to be a minimum # of EIs no matter how busy the precinct was (# of registered voters). You had to be able to cover when someone took their mandatory lunch and dinner break, not to mention bathroom. So in case one ever wondered why there were six (or however many)workers lined up at the check-in table when it’s a slow election, that’s why 🙂
so, lots to consider…
the point is, one day voting works! the fraudsters are leading sheep astray in any thinking otherwise.
“I guess it’s the silence I should be used to by now (i.e border, trafficking, mutilation, anti-Christianity, etc.).”
Please… don’t ever get used to it, friend. Never.
Thanks jwoorior! Will not be silent on their silence!
Madison, Wisconsin Friday Sermon By Imam Alhajie Jallow Following October 7 Attack: Our Brothers In Gaza Are Heroes; Only Jihad Can Bring Glory And Victory To The Muslims; The Jews Will Be Killed, Executed By The Muslims
https://www.memri.org/reports/madison-wisconsin-friday-sermon-imam-alhajie-jallow-following-october-7-attack-our-brothers
Happy Caterday, Treepers . . .
Has the world gone insane? by Zachary King
Good morning all! Real winter is here at my place. Temp 21, wind out of the WSW gusting to 40 mph. Feels like as low as single digits.
Has nearly 4” of rain over the last 7 days but not going to rain now.
My poor yard has been a muddy rutted mess. At least now the ground is going to freeze and thus further damage will be arrested.
Fire in the insert. Gabby the cat curled up in here bed near the insert is quite content.
Both Geisha and Buckley like the new garage. If I go into it they follow. They like checking out the new smells and all of that open space.
Got the gas heater in the garage set at 50 degrees.
We don’t have enough snow to cover the grass. That suits me just fine until we have a few lows of zero or below. Kills more insects.
Put the winter coats on the dogs and took them for a walk out to the cabin and back. They loved it.