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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Thank you for your daily devotion here.
Merry Christmas WP 🙂
Reed Walker, you are very welcome!
Merry Christmas to you and the upvoters.
I was waiting for Savannah to get off work and spent my time listening to Joe Rogan interviewing Rod Blagojavich, convicted of corruption as Illinois’ governor.
There is something so SPECIAL listening to one’s gentle leading by The Lord.
Rod spoke of his time of incarceration and how THANKFUL he was for the time he spent in the Word of God… something he hadn’t done prior to that time of solitude and depriving.
To hear him recount his testimony to Joe Rogan and to hear Joe respond so respectfully and favorably… I’ve heard Joe over the last couple years… really grow up and deepen. God Is working on him.
What a JOY we have in Jesus and what True Freedom through Christ’s salvation.
Thankful for these precious branches of Tree that are rooted in the Tree of Life of Jesus.
Well said, darlin ‘Woo. He deserves a 2nd chance. 🙂
Here in IL he was never regarded as the sharpest tool in the drawer,
but he was not evil as so many are. He was guilty but only of being foolish
We all deserve a second chance, Garrison. Isn’t it awesome, we all have been given one? Much love to you and Tink, my brother from another mother! Merry Christmas!
He sat down with Tucker, Woo. An incredible conversation. Scales fell from his eyes…or more exactly, were caused to fall. Which is how I choose to think of his transformation in progress.
Rod B made a poignant comment – the guilty is the one who is trying to hide things. He challenged the Establishment to reveal ALL his recordings and the public would know how he was being railroaded. It’s those completely devoid of, and opposed to, the revelation of Truth that are the guilty.
Hard lesson to learn. I’m grateful Trump shortened his sentence and got him out of that jail.
Never a fan, Woo, but I am glad as well. Which of us doesn’t need that sort of reprieve? One at a time…
It’s the redemption of those we thought never could… or would… be saved… that brings me hope for others.
God Is still in the miracle making business.
Exactly, Woo! It’s truly awe-some to watch Him working 🙏🏻
Amen to that JWoo. Truly.
Matthew 1:21…..Who was Jesus born to save? Who are “His” people?
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The 50th Psalm
Septuagint
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Oh, I am but one. Saved and redeemed – my sins – through my love of Jesus Christ.
Merry Christmas Sepp.
God saved you in His Perfect Timing, Reed Walker. As He Does with us all. Praise be to God our Father!
Sepp, thank you for continuing to lead us all in prayer. Blessings, friend.
Thank you for the kind words JWoo – and a blessed Christmas to you.
God morning to you, Betsy. I lingered long at your Mercy post in reply to Sepp.
There is something so liberating in God Being God and our being able to “stand down” to social injustice. Kneeling at God’s Mercy Seat, Christ is our propitiation for our sins.
I’ve been so troubled by things I have read over the last few days. Digging up bones. Trying to understand the revelations and why now? Wanting beyond all wants to be “part of the solution”. What to do. What to do!
Where is the root of that aspiration within? Revenge? Retaliation? Justice? Affirmation that “I am right” through my knowledge of God our Father and let me show them where they are wrong? Could they even hear that they are wrong with their minds frozen like Pharoah’s heart?
I know The Way, The Truth, and The Light. Certainly… I do know what is right and wrong… and I can discuss such things and point to God’s Word as opportunities arise.
Going through those songs yesterday for Savannah’s Christmas gift of another Christian concert, she was able to share with me a list of a few of the minor bands performing and how songs from each of them got her through her terribly dark period of persecution at her public school. She really suffered there and she would put her ear buds in and play her Christian music to herself to calm herself and to focus on her Savior…. The Lord.
I thought I was giving her a gift of the “major bands” of TobyMac and David Crowder (Crowder has a thread between her and her biological father but she does not remember that happier time sadly)… but I didn’t realize that it was minor bands in the group that were so much more impactful to her. Talk about a DIVINE GIFT… for her to be able to worship and praise with the folks who could remind her through song how important she is to the Lord. Humbling, friend. Humbling.
Too, seeing video I posted here of “The Commission” by CAIN and watching snapshots of series “The Chosen” within the music video – I just wept and wept. I want to share HIM everywhere. We stopped watching The Chosen after a popular character was killed – because we seriously… can’t watch the crucifixion of Christ. We cannot watch Him betrayed, turned over, beaten mercilessly, and hung like a hardened criminal on the Cross. We lose it. Yes, we know He rose again and there’s miracle on the other side of the darkness, but we are so sensitive to the plight of innocents.
Just like I can’t hear of these people mind-controlled, beaten, harmed, and disposed of as though they are not children also created in the Image of God. I was around some of this. My Spirit lifts within me and the hairs on my neck raise – not with the full knowledge of crimes committed – but knowing that evil is present and I can sense it in the person and I can sense it in the room.
Mercy.
Lord’s Mercy, dear Betsy.
Our struggle is not with prince or principality. It is not illegal infiltrator immigration. It is not a wayward, backward judicial system of corruption. It is not back room deals or the selling of our nation’s natural resources. It is not the violation of our Constitution. These are mere symptoms. These are mere distractions from the deeper danger. The danger at the root of all our nations and the world’s whoas.
The biggest crime and root of all evil is the allowed destruction of the human Spirit and the separation and isolation of that Spirit from the Lord God our Creator Who provides each of us purpose and direction in our lives. Every crime against humanity boils down to that simple act. Separation from God Who Is The One Who declares OUR VALUE as His Sons and Daughters.
God Is Merciful. He Knows of all of it. He made each of His People so special, each one of a kind.
He sent God The Son as a little baby to live as we lived, to experience life as a human, through our trials, tribulations, tests, and temptations… to know as we know… the view from down here. Christ carried our sins on His Shoulders in the ultimate…. mercy… because He Loved us so much… that we were worth it to Him.
Oh, that all would know… how worth it they are to God! Worth the time. Worth the investment. Worth the torture. Worth the sacrifice. God loves us and He wants us with Him! MERCY!
That we could see all people, the way God sees us. We would have no wars. We would have no nation invasions. We would value each person in each of their own countries with their own special gifts DIVINELY given by The One Who Created them. We would view their body as the house of the Living Spirit within them. It’s Holy Ground! How boring this world would be if we were all exactly the same.
I pray for God’s Mercy and for the eradication of evil. May the scales be lifted from all of our eyes. May our eyes and ears be opened to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Here is our One directive as instructed by Jesus:
Matthew 28:16-20New International VersionThe Great Commission16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
To be clear, we don’t worship “The Chosen” – or the actors within. However, it depicts very well the close relationship I have with Jesus. Who He Is, how He Laughs, how He spreads Joy, how He heals hurts, how sincere He Is at being the lover of my soul. How Jonathan Roumie portrays Christ as He would have lived is spot on to me and very clearly the Jesus I know. One falls in love with Jesus all over again just watching Jesus in this series and how He handles humanity and delivers His Messages from God to each and every one of us.
God loves us all so very much.
Dear Woo, what a lovely post. I must tell you that long ago during the Covid years when my attention was suddenly focused on the WEF, Gates, the WHO, and the reprehensible ideological embrace of denying God and His creation of children as being born as He meant for them to be (He makes no mistakes, though insidious satanic powers which for the past four years have commandeered control over a state “religion” which has been relentlessly force fed to the masses through propaganda enforced by “law”), It became clear to me that at the root of the hideous tsunami of godlessness, the nexus, was the evil baring its teeth against God Himself.
It was so easy to see it. The destruction of His creations, those He made in His image…humanity itself to be altered and destroyed. Those who, as you so sweetly write, whom He loves…so much He came to save.
It (evil) is working through those who are perfectly willing to join forces with it. Perhaps they have no clue at whose behest they are doing so. I mean truly have no realization. Be still long enough, lift your eyes outward, and take in what is dreadful and and unbearable to see or to endure.
Everything stems from that…including what Savannah and others like her have gone through. Thank the good Lord you are her mother, dearest friend. I know how hard it has been for you, and I’ve ached for the two of you.
I believe the miasma of evil which has covered this world may be lifting as more and more seem to have awakened to what it is like without God present. The question then becomes how do we as frail, flawed humans find it within ourselves to be merciful to those who have inflicted the most terrible cruelty upon their fellow men and women and children…
And by mercy (and by extension forgiveness) I don’t mean for the evil itself which we have permission to destroy; but rather for those co-opted in its deliverance, perhaps not understanding they have been.
And honestly, I have no answer for that one. It’s difficult. Except to agree with you. Pray for those in its employ, so to speak, to be transformed by the Holy Spirit. What I consider to be “praying for one’s enemies”. God has set for us a monumental task, one which cannot be accomplished without His help.
So it is, as it has always been, a day by day spiritual journey, as we strive to be more like His beloved Son born on this night.
I’ve probably veered way off course here in my reply, so I will cease…
My Sarah Grace has found a church she loves. It has become a huge and sustaining part of her beautiful life. Her strong faith grows daily which makes me as her devoted grandmother so grateful. I think she and Savannah are so much alike. I’m not surprised to read that it is not mainstream music which appeals to your child….
Bless you both, dear and wise friend. You two make quite the team. God be with you on Christmas Day when we rejoice in His mercy and goodness in sending His Son to be the propitiation for our manifest sins. There is no greater Gift 🙏🏻 🌲 💕
Amen!
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
Amen. Amen 🙏🏻
Amen. Amen. Amen.
From Small Compline
Rejoice, Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Savior of our souls. (Thrice)
The Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic
Father Seraphim Bit-Kharibi and parish members of Assyrian descent who now reside in Qanda in the Republic of Georgia
It has been awhile since we last heard this fine performance. His virtuosity is so stunningly musical that I think he deserves a revisit. 🙂
Merry Christmas Eve, dear Garrison and Tink 😘🌲
Good Christmas Eve morning, dear Bet! Miss V and her brother spent the night here and she is an early riser. Her brother is not. 😂
Nothing like starting your birthday with grandchildren around. ❤️😍
God morning to all our Treepers and a very Happy Birthday to you, M!!!
Blessings on you and yours. 🎂 🥳 🎉 🪅 🌼 🌸 🌻
Thank you, JWoo! And blessings to you and Savannah!
Good morning, beloved brother 🌲☕😘
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, G!!!!! 😍 Another trip around the sun completed. How right you are, dearest friend. Yes!! Such gifts, such blessings given to you and Elizabeth, your beautiful grandchildren. I know how grateful you are. God has been good to you 🙏🏻😌 Enjoy this day to the fullest. I will toast you with my coffee and wish for you so many more years infused with better health and the continuing joy of watching Violet and Nipper grow. Love you 💕
Thank you, Bet! Nipper just ran in and they are roughhousing with Miss V. We are having early dinner at 4 so that we can get to church for the Christmas Eve service. Prime rib is going to be ready at 3P30 and the pork loin just hit the ready temperature.
Merr Christmas to you and Chris! ❤️
Thank you, G…and oh yum!!!! You will just be getting home now…enjoy your lovely family prepared by excellent loving cooks 💕
(How very clever of your mother to choose Christmas Eve for your birthday 😎🌲)
God morning, Garrison and Betsy. What a lovely Christmas Tree! One of my favorites posted here.
Good Christmas Eve morn, dear Woo 😘🌲. Who needs decorations when they have such as these moggies? 😂
It appealed to me, too, in that magical way lovely illustrations do. Especially at Christmas💕
Good Christmas Eve morning to you, sweet Betsy.
I laugh at ourselves having four cats. Kiddo thinks our greatest joy in life would be to have a ranch with open breeding and placements of the offspring into good families… or she would keep them all for herself… because there seems to be no limit with how many she wants. She lamented at spaying the girls. Had their mother been spayed, we would never have been blessed with them. They are so outrageously entertaining and uniquely different.
Lord help me… LOL
Is she wrong???? 🤔😂 No…what a sweet loving heart she has 💕
Let us all enjoy our blessed day. Be well and be blessed Treeper friends. 🙂
Blessings each and every one 🙏🏻💕
Thank you for your kind words, dear Bet. Little ‘Tink just got her morning neck-rub, a mandatory event before I get to check my email. 🙂
Our little waif, the one who is in a tuxedo and spats, just appeared, waiting for a feed. I’m able to pet him/her now, if the mood allows. I keep thinking of Tink and how long it took for her to decide you were qualified to be her person…oh, and I got a sweet meow!!! Progress!! 💕😽
Ohhhhhh… Betsy and Chris got adopted!!!! Love love love 😻 🐈 🐈⬛️ meow
We’re halfway there!!! Unless he belongs to someone else and is just visiting. Such a sweetie, Woo, ever so polite and gentle. We’re hoping he (or she) will decide to take us on permanently 🙏🏻
Howdy Garrison!
Howdy Gramps!!! 🙂
Merry Christmas Dan 🙂
Joyous Christmas Eve, Dan 💕🌲 A great favourite of mine for this wonderful night to come.
May you all have a blessed and love filled Christmas celebrating the birth of our Saviour.
Thank you for the wonderful Christmas music Patty. Celebrating our Savior Jesus Christ.
Merry Christmas! 🙂
Merry Christmas, dear reed 🌲😘
Merry Christmas dearest Betsy!
May this day bless you – and bring you great joy 🙂
I forgot to add mood music, for the sleigh above, reed….better late than never 🌲😘
When I listen to this, I am in that sleigh. I can feel the winter as the horse clips along and his bells jingle. And when he stops in a clearing, I am looking up into the heavens and marveling at the glory of all God has created 😌🙏🏻💕🌲
Yes!!! A tradition we carried on with the three now grown grands who are local enough for us to have done it. I suspect when they have their own children they will do the same 🌲💕
Good evening Betsy, hoping today was an enjoyable one for you and Chris.
Growing up in San Diego we not only drove through the neighborhoods to see the lights we would also drive through Balboa Park all lit up. The island on the drive into the organ pavillion had Santa and reindeer taking off all in lights. From the park we crossed Cabrillo Bridge, also decorated and lit. As we approached the steep hill down toward the airport we could see all the Navy ships in the Bay all decorated and lit. All of it so beautiful and added to my brother’s and my excitement of approaching Christmas. All the main thoroughfares throughout San Diego were always decorated for Christmas.
Such fun and wonderful memories of a time long past.
Merry Christmas, have a wonderful day tomorrow.
Powerful storytelling here. No narration is needed. You can simply hear the sweet and mighty glorious messages along the journey.
Sounds like life.
Isn’t it wonderful, dear sir??? One of my favourites. I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🌲. Wishing you a bless-ed and peaceful Christmas, Justice 😘
(And yes, just like life. I agree.)
Betsy,
That’s so nice. Such warm times gone by. I wish I could time travel.
I need a pair of what I call “Dorothy Go Home Shoes” a la the ones worn in The Wizard of Oz.
Three clicks and back I go to those times. Poignant to be reminded, isn’t it…
(If I find some, I’ll check to see if there are any made for men, and you can join me! 😁🌲💕)
Thanks so much, reed. I hope you have a joyous Christmas day!
A small gift for you, patty 💕 Someone elsewhere posted this yesterday, and I asked myself, “Now who do I know who would really love this??” 🤔
I was mesmerized. Such beautiful animals…
Merry Christmas, patty 🌲😊
Oh Betsy, best Christmas present!!! My beautiful boy, Joey, made the list as a Morgan and true to his nature he was utterly devoted to me. Thank you so much! A most Merry Christmas to you, too!
My sister in law in Wales and her carriage driving partner (competitive) had the most magnificent horses suited to the task. I’ll have to ask her what they were. I love the Morgans!! Outside of the Mustangs, they all seemed to be very drawn to their owners. So happy you enoyed the video. Blessings and Merry Christmas, girl 💕🌲
A year or so ago when you mentioned your sil and her carriage racing I watched a bunch of videos about them. That’s some competition requring some serious skills! Looks like such fun.
They really enjoyed it, and yes to the skills.
I have always thought it sweet that Prince Philip who was a keen competitor passed on his passion to his granddaughter, Lady Louise Windsor, daughter of his son and wife the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. She has the knack and is a true skilled competitor as her grands feather was. Quite the tribute to him.
And to you, Patty. Merry Christmas🎄❤️
Thank You, JWoo! By the way, after the C Diff episode I am now up 8 lbs! More to go but I’m on the way. Have a very Merry Christmas with your beloved daughter.
I have been wondering… but wanted to respect your privacy. I’m DELIGHTED to hear you’ve gained eight pounds, and I’m praying more and more, the continuance of your health improvement.
My friend, we’ve had some close calls in our Tree, right?
We’ve begged and we’ve prayed for our friends here and for their restoration of health. You are among the MIRACLES herein.
I’m so very grateful. Love to you.
Thank you for your prayers. After years of losing weight seeing it go up is wonderful. The C Diff is a kidney killer, too. I was down to only being able to eat 20 grams of protein per day. That’s nothing.
Once I started checking what I ate for protein content I learned almost everything has protein in it – even tomatoes have protein. The list of foods with no protein is rather short.
Now my kidneys have improved enough I can eat 60 grams per day. Woo hoo! Kidney dialisys is now off the upcoming events calendar. Life is a lot more pleasant now.
Again, thanks for your prayers and for all who prayed for me. God is good and this is a very Merry Christmas!
The purest sound on earth
The weary world rejoices….
Emmy Lou Harris – The Light of the Stable
Ooops. I forgot I sent that link to someone else. Lots of profanity in there. Please ignore.
Correct Link: Emmy Lou Harris – The Light of the Stable
Wonderful. Not heard before.
Merry Christmas Retired I 🙂
Old navy wife here…what is this ‘profanity’ you speak of?
“The immune system needs germs to practice on”…..that is the best science I have heard in an awfully long time!
I love the military comparisons!
Funny. Carlin was terrific.
Height of the scamdemic when at supermarket when needing a shopping cart I’d ask for one being returned to the stack, and would get strange looks when I’d explain I didn’t want one slathered in hand cleaner. I wanted it “as is” to assist my immune system in exposure, and by extension natural immunity.
I’d get some strange looks. Nothing I wasn’t used to.
Then I’d invariably be “caught” by store germ police while attempting to hold the Chinese polyethylene mask a couple inches away from my precious intake of germ laden un-sanitized oxygen. More than a couple baskets have been left behind half full, as I was chased out of CA chain stores. Scofflaw that I am.
Mass formation psychosis is quite a thing to witness, if not participate in.
Carry on Scofflawing. Next time…if there is a next time…I’m sure you won’t be alone 😎
Yes, Ma’am!
Piece ‘o cake 😉
👍🏻 😁
“Mass Formation Psychosis” is a blaming-the-victim propaganda term…
but it sure caught on with people not knowing what it actually means.
{ Mattias Desmet: Mass Hypnosis Expert or Trojan Horse? The Full Story }
Animus not directed at you personally reed… the term is a cattle prod to my nervous system.
Merry Merry is what I’d like for you to experience!
Thank you. While I feel no compelling need to qualify my use of a term I have the time, and abhor being misunderstood –
Mass Formation Psychosis as a newly coined “term” in point of fact has no clinical reference in psychological terms ( while mass psychogenesis does, and could be related ) I meant it in the more current parlance, used early on by folks like Dr. R. Malone and Naomi Wolf et al to describe that there was indeed a fair degree of “hysteria” related to the CV19 “outbreak”. Hysteria that I never felt was proportionate to the inherent danger posed by the artificially and laboratory enhanced Coronovirus.
But – If you’d visited my mother during that time, and were not allowed to enter the house without first thoroughly scrubbing your hands, fully masked, and duly inoculated by what now appears to be harming people?
You’d probably better understand why I borrowed the term in my post. A term that is technically a colloquialism, and not a recognized psychological “term” admittedly.
Sorry however, that you were “triggered”! even if I find that mildly amusing for I wasn’t “victim blaming” anyone.
Thanks though for the wish that I be merry. I am very merry lol
Have a terrific and blessed evening – and Christmas – Amaragrace.
Thank you reed.
I linked the actual meaning’s edification by a long-time & very respected/respect-worthy psychiatric whistleblower… so as to not be misunderstood either. It’s well worth the read.
It’s a deliberate (propaganda) term initiated maliciously – it *does* have meaning… meant to ‘sound like one thing actually means something else’…
the link says it all.
‘Triggered’ because smart people have been/are being coerced/controlled to believe falsehoods – NLP style – deliberately for agenda.
from the link:
“… Both commonsense and genuine historical analyses of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes confirm how they were built and maintained on conspiracies and careful planning. Much like today’s Mexican cartels or the mafia, largescale abuse and control of people require perpetrators collaborating with each other and careful planning to have their way, usually with utter disregard for the misery inflicted on others. Indeed, there are criminal conspiracy laws, confirming the reality of conspiracy as a part of human malfeasance. …”
The perpetrators introduced this term… it’s not colloquial.
It is to me. Thank you.
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. As I turn in I will awake on Christmas morn 🙂
I have a scheduled present opening scheduled for a “face-time” very early. Something I’m ordinarily not fond of but this will be special.
Tomorrow will be different and I’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed ( lol sure I will ). Merry Christmas!
You’re welcome for the sharing of Truth behind the narrative.
It’s just good to be clear.
The uninterrupted day was Glorious, Thank you.
Happy Boxing Day upcoming, then.
“… They have a playbook for manipulating the masses… Their go-to weapon is psychological operations, or psyops—a fancy term for “mind games” on a global, now national, scale. They plant narratives ((Mass Formation Psychosis)) in the media, push emotional triggers, and flood the airwaves with carefully crafted “crises” to steer public opinion exactly where they want it. They know fear and confusion make people easier to control, so they whip up hysteria, then swoop in with the “solution” that just happens to fit their agenda.
Amazing how that works, right?
These guys are pros at making you believe you came to these conclusions all on your own. Whether it’s hyping a foreign threat to funnel billions in tax dollars, vilifying a political opponent to throw him in jail, or pushing a mail-order pandemic, the strategy is always the same: control the story, shape the message ((Mass Formation Psychosis)), and silence dissenting voices. And if you dare to question the narrative, well, congrats—you’re now a “conspiracy theorist” or an anti-American domestic terrorist.
Rinse and repeat.
…”
That phrase is as colloquial as is “He!I H!tIeR!”
A very F0urth Re!ch ‘colloquialism’.
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t True; the other is to refuse to believe what IS True.” ~ Mark Twain
Merry Christmas, Aggiegirl 😘🌲
Joyful and triumphant!
Merry Christmas Aggiegirl 🙂
Mom & kitten
Puppy presents
Dozin cats
Pup
Merry Christmas Feisty!
May the day bring you joy – as your wonderfully random posts bring to me 🙂
“Somewhere In My Memory”
Merry Christmas Jonrilus!
I hope this day brings you great joy and serenity. 🙂
Any day I awake and remember all that Christ has done for me is a great day. 😉
Merry Christmas Reed!
J
Merry Christmas, Jonrilus 🌲💕 How can you not have a great day when that is your first thought…
What would this site be without the gracious Betsy Jones. Merry Christmas Betsy! 🙂
J
Oh how you’ve melted my heart….I am truly filled with gratitude for your sweet, generous words, my friend. Bless you for it and the smile you’ve given m😘
May your Christmas be as joyous as each morning you awaken 🙏🏻🌲
Merry Christmas, brother J. ✝️ 🕊 🎄
Sleepless in the midwest…
https://harborlookout.com/ships#0
For the northern land lubber:
Aggiegirl: The US is way behind in building in ice breakers. Our Coast Guard heavy ice breakers are 30 to more than 50 years old. Finally, FedGov has approved construction of new Coast Guard heavy ice breakers (see today’s “Naval News”, suitable for polar use.
Blessed day to you and yours, Aggiegirl!
Not sure what the draw of the water is, but I was up late last night looking at the high tides of Mavericks in California. I miss the ocean. Need to show it to Savannah. Your videos of the locks and great ships passing through are captivating. Such marvels!!!!
Happy Christmas, friend!
Vince Guaraldi, Charlie Brown Christmas
Oh yeah, and>>>> Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas sunnydaze! 🙂
Very nice.. I really like that
The whole album is at the link.
Happy Christmas, sunnydaze and benzy!
A US Flag ship, with an awesome name:
Defiance.
https://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Defiance-8109761.html
Nothing more faith affirming than to look back on our darker moments to understand how true this is, Sepp 🙏🏻 Merry Christmas Eve, dear sir 🌲💕
Just wanted to wish everyone here a very merry Christmas.
May it be meaningful and fun
Love to all – from Australia
Merry Christmas Rach! 🙂
Thanks ❤️
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you! GrandpaM..
Have a blessed day and evening! comforted in the joy of his birth. 🙂
Thanks ❤️
Merry Christmas, sweet Rach. Blessings, girl 😘🌲
Thanks ❤️
Howdy Rach!!!
Merry Christmas, Sis!
Thanks ❤️
Merry Christmas Sepp 🙂
Thank you for your daily devotions here.
24 December 2021 J.D. Crowe, American bluegrass banjo player and band leader (The New South), dies at 84
JD Crowe & The New South 1975 – JD Crowe,Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Bobby Slone
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Status Quo – Pictures Of Matchstick Men (1968)
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Right With Frank Zappa left
Frank Zappa – Who Are The Brain Police?
24 December 2009 Tim Hart, British folk-rock singer, guitaist, mandolin and dulcimer player (Steeleye Span, 1969-82 – “All Around My Hat”; “Gaudete”), dies of lung cancer at 61
Steeleye Span – All Around My Hat
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The Four Seasons – Sherry
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The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You”
Wand: Somehow, we went from this, to rap music.
I totally skipped over rap thank you, is it over yet?
Tho I must say I did like Blondie’s Rap effort.
You ain’t missing a thing, Bruce. Happy Christmas!
Back @ you J, Merry Christmas.
Not voluntarily… ha ha!
Happy Christmas, billrla
Loved the Four Seasons.
I cannot say how much I LOVE this track. Or why exactly. Just the perfect of caucasian doo-wop I guess 🙂
They were good, weren’t they?!
reed: These music videos are intimate revelations of our past. The clothing. The hair styles. The dancing. The location sets. The production values.
The original Jersey boys.
Gotta’ love Maddie Pryor!!!!
Merry Christmas My Magic Wand!
I’ve told enough of my Zappa vignettes to last a lifetime lol.
But I sure wish someone would turn that first Zappa LP over and read the liner notes 🙂
Have a joyful day and Christmas Eve. I so enjoy your historically sonorous posts!
LOVE this song !!
“Pictures of Matchstick Men”
Some vocals, eh ed?
Merry Christmas my friend.
Some of favorite musical genre ever. It’s in my blood.
Merry Christmas, Magic!! 😘🌲
Shakin’ Stevens – Merry Christmas Everyone HQ
24 December
Vasco da Gama
(c. 1460s-1524)
Portuguese explorer and viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55
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Vasco da Gama was the first European explorer to reach India by sea, helping to establish Portugal as a colonial power and changing the previous dependence Europe had on trade overland.
Vasco da Gama left Portugal with 4 ships on his first voyage in 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and travelled up the African coast. Arriving in the trading port of Calicut, India in May of 1498 he was warmly received, though failed to establish permanent relations.
After an arduous journey home he returned to Portugal in August of 1499 to a hero’s welcome, including the noble title of Dom.
In 1502, Vasco da Gama made a second less successful voyage to Calicut with the aim of subduing the town with a fleet of fifteen ships. This voyage was marked by acts of cruelty, including looting and burning a Muslim pilgrim ship with pilgrims inside.
After this, Vasco da Gama fell out of favour, until 1524 when he was appointed Indian Viceroy, However, 3 months after arriving again in India, Vasco da Gama died of malaria.
24 December
Raemer Schreiber
(1910-1998)
American Physicist (Manhattan Project) who helped develop the first atomic bomb during World War II and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki, dies at 88
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Schreiber worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb.
He saw the first atomic bomb detonated in the Trinity nuclear test on 16 July 1945. Schreiber then prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki, travelling to the Pacific to assemble it. Schreiber went on to work on the design of the hydrogen bomb, and led the plutonium pit teams for Operation Crossroads nuclear tests on the Bikini Atoll in June and July 1946 and for the first thermonuclear hydrogen bomb (Ivy Mike) tests in 1952.
Schreiber was also one of the witnesses who survived the accident in which Louis Slotin was exposed to a fatal dose of neutron radiation during preparations for Operation Crossroads.
In later years Schreiber rose to become Deputy Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
<Full movie @ Tubi.tv>
Wand: And there was also Vasco da Sectomy, the Portuguese surgeon who invented the male birth control procedure.
Invented female birth control too Adda Dich Tomy as I recall anyway.
On this eve of His birth
And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.
Merry Christmas Eve, benzy 🌲💕 She had such a lovely voice, didn’t she? Gorgeous!
I left this on Menagerie’s thread this morning but thought I should do the same here.
A different voice but my heart soared at the end of this wonderful piece.
Greetings Treepers! 🙏✝️🙏
Morning bro!
Happy…very Happy…Christmas Eve, dear Frank 💕🙏🏻🌲
Happy Christmas, Frank!
Christ Is Born!
Mornin’ all!
Morning to you WeeWeed
Hope your day
is
merry and bright
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Merry Christmas Molonlabe. You have a flair for wonderful strings of posts!
Have a wonderfully blessed Christmas – You and yours 🙂
Peace in Christ brother
have a great Christmas
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Merry Christmas, Mo 🌲😘 Is it serendipity that I was thinking specifically of you this morning…and suddenly??
You know the answer to that…😉😌
Bless-ed be your Christmas, my friend 💕
(And to Alvin, Jillian, and Bruce who I pray are with you still 🙏🏻)
Merry Christmas my merry and wonderful friend
I’ve missed you
Some day soon
I will maybe tell you the real reason I have been absent
I can’t get into it now
I’m on the run
Gonna have some fun
Peace be with you
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In your own time, my darling friend….but there is no need unless you want to. I’ve missed you as well. It gave me such a lift to see you in the iteration I’ve always known you. The massive hole we’ve all felt with your absence has been filled!!! What a beautiful gift!! 💕
Blessed be your Christmas, Mo…be well, my friend, and I pray at peace which is the gift of Almighty God, our Father Who loves you 😘🌲
Merry Christmas, Molonlabe. Glad to see you back, friend. Safe and sound. 🎄 🕊 ✝️
Merry Christmas to you
JWoo
And Savanah too
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Love it!
Merry Christmas WeeWeed! and for all you you do. Thank you.
Best to you and yours this joyous day – Christmas 🙂
that one’s really cute, wee weed
You don’t have to like golf to appreciate this:
CHARLIE WOODS ACE AT THE PNC CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!
TEAM WOODS SOLO LEAD!!!
Merry Christmas Clarion. All the best to you and yours – on this momentous and special day 🙂
And you, reed.
Proud papa! I am having trouble with the idea the ‘kid’ is now this old!
Me too! It seems like yesterday he was just a boy at his father’s Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony.
I knew part of the story, but not all.
It Is Well With My Soul.
17 min. Well worth the watch.
Merry Christmas friends.
One of my favorite hymns, Lizzie. Thank you for posting it. Merry Christmas!
Amen…
Colkitto! My heritage American Brother!
Have wonderfully blessed day and evening – and Merry Christmas to you! 🙂
Ty for thinking of me reed. How fast you have become a friend to me here is quite amazing. You seem to be in my frame of reference for many subjects. BK is like that also.
Merry Christmas brother!
The Zombies – Christmas For The Free
Thank you brother 🙂
Joyous Christmas Eve, dearest friend 🌲🙏🏻💕 We have been two passing ships it seems.
It is impossible for me to not wait with great expectation the arrival of the eternal and everlasting Christ Child tonight, God’s promise fulfilled. As I’ve said elsewhere more intensely than I can remember. Carols from King’s this evening is something we await with great anticipation. Readings from Luke interspersed with the most glorious singing from the Cambridge choir filled with children and their splendid voices. We come away from it overcome with hope renewed.
Bless you always, Colkitto. I pray your Christmas will be one of that indescribable peace which comes from the Father alone 🙏🏻😘
I’ve been a but under the weather so to speak, and am not myself. But your well wishes and beautiful reminder of what its really about gives me great comfort. I will be with you in Spirit. Merry Christmass to you and your whole family aunt Bet.
Feel better soon, Colkitto. Take it easy with yourself and give time to heal. Love to you, brother.
Happy Christmas, Colkitto!! 😻 🐈 🐈⬛️ 🎄 ✝️ 🕊
Tragic times….two families with children…left without a dad…the second one, not far from me…
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/12/24/officer-killed-while-confronting-armed-man-in-grocery-store/
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-trooper-killed-i-55
An old ‘Vaudeville Stop’…along Rt. 66…houses America’s largest crystal chandelier.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/rialto-square-theatre-reopens-special-report
And more sadness out of the burbs, McHenry is a small community and beautiful, also horse country here in IL…:
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/mchenry-co-barn-fire-kills-horses
The Boy Who Laughed At Santa ClausIn Baltimore there lived a boy.
He wasn’t anybody’s joy.
Although his name was Jabez Dawes,
His character was full of flaws.
In school he never led his classes,
He hid old ladies’ reading glasses,
His mouth was open when he chewed,
And elbows to the table glued.
He stole the milk of hungry kittens,
And walked through doors marked NO ADMITTANCE.
He said he acted thus because
There wasn’t any Santa Claus.
Another trick that tickled Jabez
Was crying ‘Boo’ at little babies.
He brushed his teeth, they said in town,
Sideways instead of up and down.
Yet people pardoned every sin,
And viewed his antics with a grin,
Till they were told by Jabez Dawes,
‘There isn’t any Santa Claus!’
Deploring how he did behave,
His parents swiftly sought their grave.
They hurried through the portals pearly,
And Jabez left the funeral early.
Like whooping cough, from child to child,
He sped to spread the rumor wild:
‘Sure as my name is Jabez Dawes
There isn’t any Santa Claus!’
Slunk like a weasel of a marten
Through nursery and kindergarten,
Whispering low to every tot,
‘There isn’t any, no there’s not!’
The children wept all Christmas eve
And Jabez chortled up his sleeve.
No infant dared hang up his stocking
For fear of Jabez’ ribald mocking.
He sprawled on his untidy bed,
Fresh malice dancing in his head,
When presently with scalp-a-tingling,
Jabez heard a distant jingling;
He heard the crunch of sleigh and hoof
Crisply alighting on the roof.
What good to rise and bar the door?
A shower of soot was on the floor.
What was beheld by Jabez Dawes?
The fireplace full of Santa Claus!
Then Jabez fell upon his knees
With cries of ‘Don’t,’ and ‘Pretty Please.’
He howled, ‘I don’t know where you read it,
But anyhow, I never said it!’
‘Jabez’ replied the angry saint,
‘It isn’t I, it’s you that ain’t.
Although there is a Santa Claus,
There isn’t any Jabez Dawes!’
Said Jabez then with impudent vim,
‘Oh, yes there is, and I am him!
Your magic don’t scare me, it doesn’t’
And suddenly he found he wasn’t!
From grimy feet to grimy locks,
Jabez became a Jack-in-the-box,
An ugly toy with springs unsprung,
Forever sticking out his tongue.
The neighbors heard his mournful squeal;
They searched for him, but not with zeal.
No trace was found of Jabez Dawes,
Which led to thunderous applause,
And people drank a loving cup
And went and hung their stockings up.
All you who sneer at Santa Claus,
Beware the fate of Jabez Dawes,
The saucy boy who mocked the saint.
Donner and Blitzen licked off his paint.
Ogden Nash
“AS SURE AS JOY & LOVE EXISTS, SO DOES SANTA.” by Erma Bombeck
This column is directed toward a very special group of children and adults. It is for those who have been told that Santa does not really exist. At least not in the sense that you want him to be. You see, a hundred or so years ago, someone noticed that people acted differently at Christmas. They smiled for no apparent reason. They gave one another presents. Sometimes during the holiday season people would reach out to strangers and touch their lives. It was such a wonderful feeling that they longed for some way to share it with their small children. So a spirit was created. It had the twinkling eyes of a mother, which sparkled with love and danced with anticipation as she baked and wrapped for Christmas. These were put in a large frame modeled after a father who could hoist a big tree in the living room or illuminate the sky with lights on the chimney. A white beard from a grandfather was added because it would suggest an ageless quality. Besides, it would be wonderful for children to bury their heads into and listen to stories. And from a grandmother came the lap that children have found comfort in for centuries. The spirit had to have joy, so the laughter of a million children was added. The reindeer in the forest would carry this mythical presence throughout the world. And his ‘helpers’ would be made up of the thousands of compassionate people who gave of themselves as was baby Jesus was given. When this was in place, anything was possible. The gift to the children of the world was complete. It was wrapped in a bright red suit.
Erma had a gift. Another thank you from me who remembers her wit and ability to paint with words like these memories which are so precious. I for one miss her 😌💕
Merry Christmas Dave,
People do act differently around Christmas time. Thank GOD! 🙂
Blessed Christmas, Smelly Dave. ✝️ 🕊 🎄
Merry Christmas Eve, Dave 🌲😘 And thank you for this most wonderful Nash poem which captivated me when I was small…and still does!! In fact I memorized the whole thing when I was in elementary school. A cautionary tale for those modern day Jabez Dawes who deny what is whether they recognize it or not.
The beautiful warming Spirit of Christmas lives 🌲💕
Alleluia!!!! 🙏🏻
Stay warm!
Glad its not January 2022,am amazed at the number of people lined up to watch….it was cold in the midwest back then ….and cannot help but wonder if the second horn is a Ryobi, LOL?
Aggiegirl: Thes Great Lakes shipping videos are mesmerizing. I past through Duluth a few summers ago, staying overnight by the water. Living in CA, I rarely see the Great Lakes in person. Perhaps a half dozen times in my life.
Our local Secret Santa program continues in East Idaho. Secret Santa wishes to help others in need. For today, a recent house fire has afflicted Elaine and Joel from Aberdeen, Idaho.
Elaine mentions her loss….
“It’s the memories and the special things that I’ve collected…things from my father and what I have left from him. That’s what hurts.”
Here you go. I am sure we have all heard the leftist trope that the Christmas holiday is just a pagan holiday appropriated by early Christians, that they set the celebration of the birth of Christ on an already existing Pagan holiday. Well, someone actually did the research and it turns out that, like most of what we get from the leftists and the atheists and the gnostics, it is pure BS. Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Christ on December 25, PREdated the pagan holiday celebrated that day. So there.
Bookmark it. Print it. Pass it out to your friends, believers and nonbelievers alike. Merry Christmas.
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2024/12/myth-of-the-pagan-origins-of-christmas-2024/
Merry Christmas Trapper!
All the best the season, and beyond 🙂
Merry CHRISTmas, Trapper! ✝️ 🕊
Merry Christmas from your Israeli friend.
Peace in Christ
Merry Christmas David
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Thank you, David. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah David!
Bless you and please – stay safe this season and beyond!
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Thank you, David, our much loved brother in this Tree 💕
Happy Hanukkah, dear sir. We wish the same for your fellow countrymen and women. And we pray that soon peace will return to Bless-ed Israel. God is great 🙏🏻
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David: That, plus Chag Chanukah Sameach!
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Merry Christmas and safe and holy New Year to you and yours, dear David! ✝️
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Celebrating a Very Happy Hanukkah with you, and all Israel this night and coming week, just as Yeshua did in John 10:22-30.
Special Blessings to you, and yours. during this festive season. Thank you for all you share with the Treehouse.
Shalom
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Happy Hanukkah to you and yours!!!♥️☮️
One family got a surprise visit from someone coming down their chimney Thursday — but it wasn’t Saint Nick.
I thought this was AWESOME!!! We would totally love it if he wouldn’t eat our cats!
Happy Christmas!
EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, December 24, 2024
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“Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.”
1 Chronicles 16:11 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN
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.
Blessings on you, sweet sister Duchess. Faithfully praying and reminding of our children’s creation in the image of God.
Love you! Merry CHRISTmas! ✝️ 🕊 🌟
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND SAVANAH !!! 💚❤️💚 🥰
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN
STRENGTHEN MY HEART
Have mercy on me, my Lord and my God;
For I am distressed – in chains I am shod;
My tears flow like rivers – raging from strain;
My heart is pierced – my throat aches in pain!
My life spent in sorrow – and in deep regret;
My sins are before me – I cannot forget;
In repentance I seek You – for right relief;
Your loving kindness is – my refuge – belief!
Lord – affliction – has broken down my strength;
From helplessness, stress – I suffer at length;
My foes have encompassed me – all around;
They ravage me daily – destruction bound!
I trust in You, Lord – take comfort in You;
Come to my aid – Lord – Refresh me anew;
My life is in Your hands – if it be Your Will;
Calm the waters – from their raging – be still!
Feed me – knead me – with Your nourishing grace;
Through faith without fear – my weakness erase;
Infuse me with courage – and strengthen me;
Help me be steadfast – a stronghold like Thee!
Let me be glad and rejoice in Your love;
Assured in Your goodness sent from above;
Let me not – for one moment – be fearful;
Keep me far from unsure – doubtful – tearful!
Free me from distress – of body and mind;
Help me walk self-assured – no longer blind;
With my life in Your hands – deliver me;
From the throes of my foes – let me be free!
Strengthen My Heart – as only You know how;
Pour forth Your knowledge – understanding now;
Send in Your angels – with reinforcements;
Lift up my spirit – in inch increments!
Send forth Your Spirit – to enlighten me;
With knowledge – understanding – wisdom be;
A tower of strength – instilled in my heart;
Let not Your Spirit – from me ere depart!
Strengthen My Heart – my Lord and my King;
Let the indwelling Spirit – His power bring;
Your justice – Oh Lord – from on high rain down;
Let Your Heavenly Grace – be forever my crown!
D01: 09/30/2013
Bless-ed Christmas Eve, dear friend 🌲💕 How has it arrived so quickly??
My little British friend below has stopped by to greet you and wish for you a wonderful day to come.
And a small present…
From a few years back, a full Carol service from King’s College 🙏🏻🌲 I am hoping that this year’s will be posted, but in the meantime, I hope this one will fill you with the most wonderful feeling of peace and joy 😘
AMEN AND AMEN !!! ❤️🧚🏻♀️❤️
OH – OH – OH – ANGELIC AND SO PLEASANT TO THE SENSES !!!
💙🧚🏻♀️💙. THANK YOU !!!
You are so welcome, dear lady….love you 😘🌲
What a lovely gift. Thank you.
Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
#psalm91 #psalms #prayer
Pray Everyday
https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html
Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms
prayeveryday777
https://rumble.com/v57jvfg-sleep-well-with-psalms.-psalm-91-psalm-121-psalm-3-psalm-4-psalm-139.faith-.html
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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!! ❤️❤️❤️
Merry Christmas Dear inhabitants of the Treehouse
From one who haunts the lowest branches
I am reminded of my Polish Gram who gave us a penny. She said “is not much, but is with my heart’
So, no music, no pictures
just my heartfelt thank you for your wonderful contributions
to paraphrase Sundance: Have your Best Christmas Ever
One’s “not much” could be someone else’s “everything” 🌲💕
I see you peeking over the top of the bag
Yep…there I am all right 😸💕
Happy Christmas, Ms Idaho! ✝️ ❤️ 🎄 🕊
i’ll double it and send it back to you
Christmas (Noel) – Salvador Dali
STEAMPUNK Christmas Magic
well, the goggles may be tres, tres fashionable there in the steampunk world, but I’ll bet ya a donut those chicks aren’t gonna be doing any welding
(not with THOSE bare shoulders)
Merry Christmas to you nim
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Katya in blue dress – by Zinaida Serebriakova
“The Letter” – Christmas Short Film by Psyop
The detail!!!!!! 😍
EVENING PRAYERS
Healing Prayers
Prayer for Restorative Rest
Healing Hand, as I lay in my bed this evening, I pray for Your restorative power to touch my life. Mend what has been broken, soothe what has been hurt, and heal what has been wounded. May I find in sleep the healing that my body and spirit need and wake to a day of renewed health and vitality. Amen.
Evening Prayer for Wholeness
Gentle Healer, with the night’s calm, I seek Your healing for my body, mind, and soul. Where there is pain, bring relief; where there is fatigue, bring restoration; where there is distress, bring tranquility. Wrap me in Your peace as I trust in Your loving care to make me whole. Amen.
Prayer for Comfort in Illness
Lord of Comfort, as I face the trials of illness, I pray for Your healing touch. Ease my discomfort, calm my anxiety, and deliver me from my afflictions. In Your mercy, may I find the comfort that leads to a peaceful rest, knowing that You are with me, sustaining and healing me. Amen.
Nighttime Blessing for Healing
Divine Physician, under the canopy of the night sky, I pray for Your healing blessings. Let Your life-giving energy flow through every cell, every nerve, every aspect of my being. May my rest be deep, my healing complete, and my faith in Your power absolute. Bless me with the gift of health, and let my gratitude be a testament to Your mercy. Amen.”
Serene Prayer for Recovery
Merciful Restorer, as I seek repose in the stillness of this night, I ask for Your healing hand upon my life. Guide the hands of those who care for me, provide wisdom for the paths of recovery, and grant patience for the journey. In this serene hour, let Your comfort envelop me, as I place my trust in Your plan for a full recovery. Amen.
https://enlightio.com/evening-prayers-for-today
Amen
Horse paste testimonial.
A couple of weeks ago my wife told me that there was a bad flu going around where she works and that she thinks she’s getting it.
I asked her if she wanted to try ivermectin and she said no.
I began taking the horse paste twice a day for a few days then once a day. I never got sick, my wife did get sick and is now on antibiotics.
We both regularly take vitamins and supplements and are relatively healthy.
I’m now convinced that horse paste works, at least it works for me and I will keep some here at home from now on.
One more thing.
Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Jesus
Merry Christmas and speedy recovery to your bride, Rix Six. Blessings on you. ✝️
The great Poet Dylan Thomas reads/ remembers his childhood in Wales, and shares his wonderful memories of s simpler time. A video( and a treasure)
‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ 20 mins.
A Christmas Carol – Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Trans Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Canon Rock