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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…. and good morning ! 👋🏻 ♥️
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-good morning❣️
Good morning Patience. Love these two photos. Thank you.
Have a blessed weekend.
Good almost evening, Brat 😜❣️
Hope it’s been a pleasant day.
Mornin’ Dear Patience
That’s so dang cute!!!
Hello, Lady. 💞
🎼 let it grow
A dandy dandelion.
Good morning annie. I am really enjoying your images this “Caturday” morning. Thankyou. Have a most blessed weekend.
Mornin’ annie
Love this, reminds me of taking my daughter to her ballet recitals years ago ❤️.
“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” – I Corinthians 1:27
The Weekend Flashback:
“Clumsy”
“Build A Boat”
“Deep Enough to Dream”
J
Good morning Jonrilus. Thank you for the music videos this morning. I really enjoy Colton Dixon’s music.
I do not respond to you very often but I do enjoy your comments and scriptures.
Have a wonderful and blessed weekend.
Good First CATURDAY in August, Garrison 💕☕ My mother always said that the days are long, but the years are short…and this is true. But I amending that to “the weeks are short”. Because it seems to me I just got through posting our moggies from last. And here we are once more. At this rate t’will be October before we know it!! After a week where it seems there is yet again in the news one d**n thing right after another, I’m glad to be able to focus on more pleasant pursuits 😸…little pleasures really are the best.
A fairy tale remembered…something about a princess and a tiny green vegetable.
It’s a thing Miss B!😘
Hey there, dear ERROR!!! He needs more!!! 😂 😂 😂!!
Referring to “the book” to understand how much more is best. I’ve found that “too much” is sometimes worse than “not enough”.🤔
💞😘
Laughing. Very intense stare!
Kitty lifeguard is hoping to be recognized at the White House for his dedication!
That cat looks like how I have felt for the last couple of weeks! I am ready for October.
I’m sounding like a broken record…shouldn’t wish the time away, Pat. Nevertheless…😎👍🏻🍁
🤣🤣🤣 purrfect fit.
My first laugh out loud for the day. Beautiful cat. Love the expression on its face!
The best part of that one, I agree 😂
That cat certainly appears as if it is opening a portal, judging by its face.
And do the dogs lying beside him care?? No, they do not!
I used to throw two open paper grocery bags on its wide side on the floor each times I went grocery shopping. Both cats would go in a bag immediately.
Cat tents…🤣 It’s so funny to watch them and makes me think of how little it takes to make them happy ❤️
I am amazed there are brown paper shopping bags any longer, Jake. But yes. Cheap, cheerful, and the perfect noisy temptation for a curious cat.
(I used to cover my school books with them….waste not, want not.)
ha ha ha – when i read that my dopy brain asked ‘how do you cover a schoolbook with a cat?’.
Oh golly!!! 💕
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 ad infinitum….
Betsy, I used to cover my school books with them too. Now if I need to send a parcel, I will cut up a paper bag and wrap it. It works just as good as the brown wrapping paper you buy on the roll. If there is writing on it, I just flip it over.
I love wrapping. Half of the reason I look so forward to Christmas.
We did too, my parents wouldn’t pay for book covers, and we really couldn’t afford them anyway. We just made sure the grocery store logo was on the inside so it couldn’t be seen.
I wasn’t good at covering when I was little. But one day the penny dropped, and suddenly I figured out exactly how. Quite a professional job even if I do say so myself. After that, I couldn’t wait for the new school year so I could cover my books. Brown paper bags were the only way to go!! 😁👍🏻
Hahahahahaha!! 😁
Laughing with this one.
This will go on the favorite list today.
😃 😀 😄 😁
Apologies – just can’t seem to get postimages.org to download for me. 🤷♂️
three laughs
was good
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Thanks Mo. Red 🥵
Feast or famine – sorry for the duplicates! Geesh
Welcome to my world!! 😂
Larry, the No 10 Cat, taking out the trash 😼
LOL, thanks Betsy, this is going at the top of my favorite meme list! Cats know a rat when they see one.
Much to my surprise it seems to have been the favourite of many this week. Good riddance I say…and pretty sure so says Larry 😎
TA DAAAAAAA!!!
Betsy, you have provided much needed laughter for me this morning. Thank you. I absolutely love this photo.
You are always so welcome, Pat…a very real pleasure to be able to do so 💕
Naturally…..
yep
Every time, nim 👍🏻😼
Of course. I have a few and they are very rarely used.
😂😂😂 Good one.
?? Not sure what this glass is? Kitten is beautiful though.
This is one of my favorite ones today. Our full moon a few days ago was beautiful.
Restful. In Paris perhaps? I see the art…
My mother-in-law attracted a lot of these wanderers. Once they found her, most of them didn’t wander any more. Must have been the best home they every had, if they’d ever had one.
When you think ‘cat lady’ it usually brings to mind someone at least a little weird. Not gramma. She was the most down-to-earth person you ever could meet. A really sweet lady. Most of the cats were not skittish, and most of them seemed grateful for the home and the affection.
Happy Caturday!
Good morning, OldDog 💕☕ I completely agree with your vision of a “cat lady”, these days used as a pejorative. Because every cat lady I’ve ever known has been kind, loving, and caring for those of God’s creation needing all three of those attributes, often desperately. Reading your wonderful tribute to someone I know you loved because of them, I find myself getting a bit tearful…and loving her, too 😌💕
Thank you. Be blessed, dear sir 😘
Good morning OldDog. My twin sister was always known as the “cat lady” as well. She has four cat shelters in her yard for all the strays and she keeps the towels and blankets clean and changed, and feeds them all year.
Wonderful expression on this kittens face!
Betsy, this is almost a duplicate of Pumpkin and Bobby’s (the one my son took) face! Beautiful.
I was very taken with this one, too, Pat. Very!
LOL🤣 Is this the famous Grumpy Cat?
It is!!! Gone now…a legend in his short lifetime 💔
This morning Sis!!!!
I got the “it’s time to feed us nudge”.🤣
And I bet you got right up to do it 😂💕💔
💯they have us trained, don’t they!
Remembering who is servant and who is employer, right??😂
Me too, Mrs Feline at 0400! Yikes!
Yes, but mine decides it wants to play with one its toys on my bed in the middle of the night.
Bet you wouldn’t trade it for the world 💕
This is beautiful. It looks like it would be very difficult to make. Quite the artist.
I have such huge admiration for people with skills like this, doing what I cannot. God given gifts…
Yep, aim for the coffee! It works well most days, sometimes it takes many cups.
Life giving, girl!! 😍☕
Hand raised in agreement! Not every day, but some days.
Every single day for me 👍🏻😉
Bingo!!!
So true. Mine usually decide to unroll the toilet paper in the middle of the night in the master bathroom. I will usually hear it or I’ll see it if I have to get up through the night!
Once Beau is on the bed, he is done for the night and I do not have to worry about him until morning.
Chris has suggested putting the roll on in the other direction, otherwise known as a “mullet”. Perhaps that will stop them ” f*rting in chapel”, an old Welsh saying, also as he says 😂 A bit rude that one…😎
Huge laugh!!! They’re not stupid are they??
😂 😂 😂
What a lovely and peaceful looking place to be.
Love this image of the little girl and her cats.
Again , Betsy you have brought laughs, Awws and occasionally a tear with your offerings for Caturday. Thank you for your devotion to provide us with these every week.
I pray that you and yours have a most wonderful and blessed weekend.
A bit kitsch that last one I do realize, but I loved it. Hope you and all on your charge have the same, dear friend 😘
Thank God for you Betsy, bring joy to all of us.
Bless, dear sis…it is a work of love for me to do so 😘
Good morning Betsy. I want this cup. It is beautiful!
I’m sure our coffees would taste better if we all had one, Pat 👍🏻😘
Mornin’ dear Bet. Yep. Bring on October. Everyday now is a good, tangible, count-down. 🙂 I have to admit, being 82 and living alone is a real conundrum for me. After 55 years, I find myself missing companionship, especially now that dear ‘Tink has gone missing. I laughingly told my neighbors to think of me as ‘the old guy at the end of the street’ but there’s poignant reality in the joke.
Fortunately, I have good friends I see regularly and who I can depend on. As I write this I remind myself about the real tendency of elderly folk to experience real isolation. So, despite, not being very good at the old-guy thing, I very much appreciate having, for instance, two best friends who live right next door (we’re going to lunch in a bit, in fact).
Re: fraught everyday realities. Couldn’t agree more. Living in such perilous time just makes me all the more glad I live in Texas. Always great to hear from you, love. Happy Caterday and be well, love. 🙂
Boy, do I understand, dear friend… often times while we may have a throwaway comment, perhaps with a laugh, there is a very deep poignancy (good choice of words) and reality which underlies it. Our roads narrow, and people (friends and family with their own lives to lead) naturally take those turns away from the one we’ve traveled together for so long.
I say naturally, because it is to be expected. But not easy…
I am still very much grieving for your Tink’s sudden, inexplicable disappearance. Tissue please…
I am glad your friends are near. There has to be a comfort… and a quiet relief… in this, and I’m so glad they are. I hope you and they enjoyed good food, sterling conversation, and warm camaraderie on this first day of August, the cruelest month heat wise at least. I hope you are staying well hydrated, too. I discovered that though I wasn’t thirsty, that I was not and so have taken to drinking tons of water which has made an incredible difference in my energy levels. I can highly recommend it. Be blessed and well, Garrison….love you 😘
Mornin’ Dear Bets
Ain’t that the truth, sis?!
Someone explained it to me once like this:
The older you are the less 1 year is as a percentage of your life.
Makes sense.
As far as a day goes – sometimes I can’t wait for it to get dark, feed all the fur kids, and wind down. Ahhhh.
Sure hoping for October soon too. Tired of walking around like this!
Oops! Almost forgot the most important part.
Afternoon, dear Corny 😘 Only sometimes? That’s us every day during this weather, which we consider a necessity rather than a choice as the heat is oppressive and debilitating. I do feel sorry for anyone who has to be out in it, including the animals and birds (which we provide for).
Yep, one less day in our short lives, treasuring and grateful for each one. Thanks for the coffee, sis. I’ll never say no 😉💕☕
Afternoon Garrison
This heat is really getting to me! Thought I’d post some rainy day cats! ❤️
Thanks, dear lady. 🙂
Look at yesterdays open thread, we had quite a discussion on this particular meme!
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I posted a note of this a day or two ago
The obectionable material is pretty … ummm … obectionable
Washington mother pulls children from school after Pride lesson shown in music class without notice
“Queer Kid Stuff” Launches New Community Membership Program to Spread Queer Joy
LGBTQ+ people fail to reproduce. Woke Scientist are baffled as to why, but say indoctrinating young kids can continue their society.
Blech……!!!!!
🤣🤣🤣 oh my.
It’s crazy how close the meteorite came to hitting the visitor center
What is the old saying? A miss is as good as a mile.
Something about horse shoes and hand grenades.
This 1 is deep, ha,ha . Now I miss Dan D. & Val1 . & that devotion ❤️❤️❤️bless you all
Hubby and I visited this site when we first moved west in the late nineties. Didn’t drive down into the crater but just walked around the rim for a while. One of the more impressive sites in the Southwest. Also enthralled with the Grand Canyon, Arches, the hoodoos of Bryce, the Painted Desert (where we had a spectacular view of Hale-Bopp) and so many more. If you have never visited the Southwest put it on your bucket list. God’s wonders are sights to behold.
thx, Moosie, I’ve got a cross-country drive coming up, I’ll make sure to hit it
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🛑
-cool cat
A heartfelt, 70s country-pop patriotic ballad thanking Elon Musk for standing tall when America needed it most. From defending free speech to reaching for the stars, God blessed him with the wisdom, intelligence, and kindness to help keep our nation upright. No accident he is here for such a time as this. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f680.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/26a1.svg
God Bless America with people like you!
EVERY BILLBOARD #1 HIT
(1960 – 1969) WITH VIDEO
When the bull recognizes him
had a bull friend, an ABS Angus, quite a noteworthy individual.🐂
obviously had been handled a lot due to his breeding career, but still…
took a liking to me, i found him fascinating, especially his temperament –
very friendly.
would follow me around on walks, and if we didn’t go far enough for his liking,
he’d GENTLY nudge me to keep going.
would always greet me when i arrived at his stall,
loved having his poll scratched, liked to lick my arms,
used to lay quietly while i rustled up some warm beet pulp as a treat,
and yes, talked to him.
ridiculous how much of an impression that kind fellow made on me – i miss him still!🥲
(PSA: if a Holstein bull, you would still be paying off your hospital bill!)
debated all day as to whether or not to point this out…😎
ABS is American Breeder Service in Wisconsin.
if you’ve ever had Angus beef or Angus crossed beef,
chances are good you’ve eaten successive generations of my bull friend’s progeny.
it’s all part of the finer points of livestock production.
but i understand if, after reading this, you want to give up eating beef.🥴
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS_Global
somebody met their match
Sophie didn’t say a word, but everyone got the message.
My contribution for Caturday.
I’m having chicken katsu for supper.
How did she catch the cat?? #shortsfeed
01 August 2025 Jeannie Seely, American country music singer (“Don’t Touch Me”; “Can I Sleep In Your Arms?”), and songwriter, dies of an intestinal infection at 85
Jeannie Seely & Lorrie Morgan sing “End of the World” on Country’s Family Reunion
01 August 2017 Goldy McJohn, [John Goadsby] Canadian rock organist (Steppenwolf – “Born To Be Wild”; “Magic Carpet Ride”), dies at 72
Steppenwolf – BTBW/MCR (Live in ’69)
01 August 2015 Cilla Black [Priscilla White], British pop singer (“Anyone Who Had a Heart”), and TV personality (Blind Date), dies at 72
Anyone Who Had A Heart
01 August 2007 Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer, dies of lung cancer at 74
in concert 1973
01 August 1997 Svyatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, dies of a heart attack at 82
Mozart – Piano Concerto No 5 in D major, K 175
01 August 1989 John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52
Tokyo 2/13/1979
01 August 1985 Sam Wooding, American jazz pianist, and bandleader, one of the 1st to tour Europe (Chocolate Kiddies), dies at 90
Bull Foot Stom
01 August 1983 “Wild Bill” Moore, American R&B and jazz tenor saxophone player (“We’re Gonna Rock, We’re Gonna Roll”: Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy, Mercy Me”), dies at 65
Rock and Roll (1948)
01 August
Calamity Jane
(1852-1903)
American frontierswoman, dies at 51
Biography: Calamity Jane was a famous figure of the American Old West known for her frontier lifestyle and her association with Wild Bill Hickok.
Martha Jane Canary, later known as Calamity Jane, took charge of her five younger siblings at age 14 after her parents died. She worked various jobs, including scout, ox team driver, and dance hall girl. Jane claimed she earned her nickname “Calamity Jane” during a military campaign in the 1870s, though this story is disputed.
Jane was known for her compassion, particularly during a smallpox outbreak in Deadwood. She claimed a close relationship with Wild Bill Hickok, but evidence suggests they only met briefly. Jane participated in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, showcasing her frontier experiences.
Jane was famous for her heavy drinking and habit of wearing men’s clothing. She once ended up far off course during a short buggy ride due to intoxication. Jane died in August of 1903 after an illness and was buried next to Wild Bill Hickok.
01 August
Francis Gary Powers
(1929-1977)
American spy captured by the USSR after his U-2 spy plane was shot down in 1959, dies in a helicopter crash at 47
Biography: Powers is best known as the pilot of the CIA U-2 spy plane that was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960. His plane was equipped with a state-of-the-art camera intended to take high-resolution photographs of military installations and other sensitive sites from an extremely high altitude. As the U-2 spy plane flew and took photographs from the stratosphere, the Soviet Union initially lacked any effective way to respond.
Then in 1960, when Powers was on a mission already deemed risky, the Soviet Union launched a total of 14 S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missiles. One missile hit Powers’ aircraft and he crashed. Unfortunately for the United States, Powers failed to activate the plane’s self-destruct mechanism and the advanced aircraft was captured intact.
This proved awkward when the United States sought to inquire under cover, claiming that a weather plane had ended up off course. Powers was convicted by a Soviet court and imprisoned, admitting his guilt and apologising for violating Soviet airspace. As a result, the American media who initially portrayed him as a hero now implied cowardice.
Meanwhile, Powers’ wife in the United States was up to all sorts of shenanigans and, indirectly as a result of this, President John F. Kennedy approved a prison swap: Powers for KGB Colonel William Fisher.
Curiosity?
Greetings Treepers! 🙏✝️🙏
The link above explains the muslin pattern in Spain.
This absolutely describes my memory:
Beware of blacks claiming great achievements. This Cambridge professor is Jessie Smolette cubed, and leftists rally to him. Insanity rules the West.
Professional snooker player, professional football player, world-class runner, and professor at Cambridge.
Savannah Cat Walking – Laura’s Creations
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Good morning Treepers
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Laura’s Creations
Laura is from Hampshire United Kingdom
She is a digital artist
I typically do not post digital artists
but Laura Likes Cats
hope you like em too
Tonkinese Kitten in Pink Flowers – Laura’s Creations
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The Our Father
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Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
Iris in Flower Bed – Laura’s Creations
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Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.
Birman Cat – Laura’s Creations
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Jn 15:16
It was not you who chose me, says the Lord,
but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit,
fruit that will last.
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Lk 12:36-37
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord finds awake
when he comes and knocks at the gate.
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.
good mornin slowcobra
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good morning, mo!
main man mo
3m
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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions.”
— The Screwtape Letters
The early church exemplified a new kind of courage.
This was niether the bravado of men who were confident in their own strength, nor the defiance of the stoic standing in the face of futility.
It was a courage that rejoiced in the face of persecution, and faced death not with defiance but with the fearlessness of those who had witnessed the defeat of death itself.
And this same courage is available to us today, as we gaze at the One upon whom they gazed.
Here’s a story I wrote about it:
https://andrewsawyer.substack.com/p/counted-worthy
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Nice Andrew
I like the Caravaggio
you brought in
at the end
Good job
Ticked Off Vic: NOW TELL ME THAT THE ELECTRIC BILL ISN’T A SCAM. I’M SERIOUS!!!
Sundance, another breadcrumb friend…https://x.com/cbcwatcher/status/2082252723777364262
Following earnings this week that saw tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon report aggressive AI spending plans, EZ Primary Research CEO Ed Zitron gives his more skeptical take on the industry. In speaking about OpenAI and Anthropic Zitron argues “everyone is buying into these stocks because they believe all of that CapEx is going towards diverse and spread out AI demand, when in fact, what it’s actually doing is helping create infrastructure for two unprofitable, unsustainable companies.”
Vintage Cute Kitten and Butterfly – Laura’s Creations
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Psalm 69:15-16, 30-31, 33-34
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Lord, in your great love, answer me.
Rescue me out of the mire; may I not sink!
may I be rescued from my foes,
and from the watery depths.
Let not the flood-waters overwhelm me,
nor the abyss swallow me up,
nor the pit close its mouth over me.
Lord, in your great love, answer me.
But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your saving help, O God, protect me.
I will praise the name of God in song,
and I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
Lord, in your great love, answer me.
“See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
For the Lord hears the poor,
and his own who are in bonds he spurns not.”
Lord, in your great love, answer me.
Cowgirl and Horse – Empathy – Laura’s Creations
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Mt 5:10
Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness
for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Afternoon Mo
I’m enjoying these also, though I have to admit – I’m more old school. Especially enjoying “Tiger.” ❤️
And…….of course the horsey! Thanks!
Tiger – Laura’s Creations
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Matthew 14:1-12
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Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus and said to his servants, “This man is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him.”
Now Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, for John had said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” Although he wanted to kill him, he feared the people, for they regarded him as a prophet. But at a birthday celebration for Herod, the daughter of Herodias performed a dance before the guests and delighted Herod so much that he swore to give her whatever she might ask for. Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.” The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and the guests who were present, he ordered that it be given, and he had John beheaded in the prison. His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, who took it to her mother. His disciples came and took away the corpse and buried him; and they went and told Jesus.
Trump team is delusional and misinformed
Israel is doomed
For 30 years, Israel held a veto over every member of the Palestinian Authority security forces. It never used it — not once. The result: a 70,000-man army training with RPGs, drones, and urban warfare tactics, positioned just 22 kilometers from Israel’s largest cities. In this urgent strategic briefing, Lt. Col. Maurice Hirsch exposes how the Palestinian Authority systematically violated the Oslo Accords to build a military force 6x larger than agreed — and why it’s positioned to replicate the October 7th massacre on a catastrophic scale.Hirsch’s article, published by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, reveals:
Scary. I jump ahead to that time in the future when Jesus returns to Jerusalem to set up His Millennial kingdom and rod of iron rule. That will invalidate Muhammad and his false religion. At the end of the thousand years, Satan and his demons will be released for a short season to deceive the earth and expose to mankind their utter inability to live in obedience and fellowship with their Creator, without His help. Dear reader, do you want to escape the condemnation of disobedience? We must put ourselves in God’s hands and let Him have His way with us. We have been created for His pleasure and fellowship. Those who spurn the Savior will receive the wages of their sin. Those who seek God and live in obedience to Him will someday experience unimaginable glory, peace and love.
Bombs Bursting in Air – not, not well yet, but better. Thanks All
better is good
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-💞
A very Patriotic clowder
Bacon, bacon and more bacon and 2 fried eggs
Breakfast you cannot eat on a paper plate 🙂
Yum, been a long time.
MAGA
Beautiful cat/kittens 🙂
Has to be oscar meyer bacon with lots of fat. Splash the ‘bacon juice’ over the egges (bacon crumbs litter the eggs)
If I ever get to retire, that will be my daily breakfast experience!
Who in the Trump admin kept Fauci as the man in charge in the first term.
Was that an error or a poison pill?
Fauci takes the 5th when asked what day of the week it is and what color tie he is wearing.
Everybody who pushed the covid response is part of that criminal gang.
No consequences to anybody. Only those forced to submit had consequences.
Who in the Trump admin kept Fauci as the man in charge in the first term.
Was that an error or a poison pill?
Sorry, but Fauci was the obvious choice to lead on the COVID issue
He had the credentials, he was head of whatever health agency was appropriate to administer the response, he was the obvious guy. He had led the anti-AIDS effort 10 years prior.
As we look back in retrospective, we don’t like it, but that’s the way it was at the time.
Sherry and I went out in our Pjs and robes and sat under the overhang of our garage apron this morning to enjoy the slow soaking rain we’re having while we drank our coffee. Buckley liked it too.
The sun room is great but sometimes one just doesn’t want glass and walls between themselves and nature.
We really needed the rain and we’re getting it slow and steady, the way it does the most good for ground water accumulation.
After I got done doing the weed wacking yesterday morning I sat with my neighbors Steve and Betty for awhile. Steve told me he is quit happy about my feeders attracting the squirrels because they don’t allow the birds to build nests in the rafter of his picnic shelter or his log cabin porches.
The Robins are all gone. Finished nesting and moved off to places where it has been wetter for better feeding.
I have noticed the birds consumption at my feeders and seed blocks has slowed some. I figure it is mostly due to wild berries and nuts becoming available and because most species are done nesting now.
But peanut consumption remains pretty steady. I put peanuts out every other morning when I fill the feeders and put out new seed blocks if needed. Besides the peanut feeder I line peanuts up along the top rail of my chain link fence that is for the dog run. The jays and woodpeckers really go for them and sometimes a tufted tit mouse and a nuthatch will come and get one. Funny to see those tiny birds fly away with a big peanut in the bills. I have even watched a chipmonk climb the fence to get a peanut or two and then scamper back with them under our deck where it lives.
Just putting the finishing touches up on our new Ring security system today. All sides of my home and attached garage have camera coverage. I can also see the enterances to my old garage and my shed. The only inside camera we’ll have is inside the new attached garage because the overhead doors and the most susceptible to being breached easily and quickly and if there is an intruder in there when I’m home I want to be able to see the potential threat and it’s location before I open the pass door from the house and end their days.
+1 on that intruder plan
just sayin’
eyyyy! I’m just sayin’!
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HE HOLDS MY TOMORROW | 3 Hour Gentle Piano Worship with Scriptures for Hope
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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 Saturday, August 1, 2026
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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16 (KJV)
COMMENTARY FOR JOHN 3
Christ’s discourse with Nicodemus. (1-21) The baptism of John of Christ John’s testimony. (22-36)
1-8 Nicodemus was afraid, or ashamed to be seen with Christ, therefore came in the night. When religion is out of fashion, there are many Nicodemites. But though he came by night, Jesus bid him welcome, and hereby taught us to encourage good beginnings, although weak. And though now he came by night, yet afterward he owned Christ publicly. He did not talk with Christ about state affairs, though he was a ruler, but about the concerns of his own soul and its salvation, and went at once to them. Our Saviour spoke of the necessity and nature of regeneration or the new birth, and at once directed Nicodemus to the source of holiness of the heart. Birth is the beginning of life; to be born again, is to begin to live anew, as those who have lived much amiss, or to little purpose. We must have a new nature, new principles, new affections, new aims. By our first birth we were corrupt, shapen in sin; therefore we must be made new creatures. No stronger expression could have been chosen to signify a great and most remarkable change of state and character. We must be entirely different from what we were before, as that which begins to be at any time, is not, and cannot be the same with that which was before. This new birth is from heaven, ch. #1:13|, and its tendency is to heaven. It is a great change made in the heart of a sinner, by the power of the Holy Spirit. It means that something is done in us, and for us, which we cannot do for ourselves. Something is wrong, whereby such a life begins as shall last for ever. We cannot otherwise expect any benefit by Christ; it is necessary to our happiness here and hereafter. What Christ speak, Nicodemus misunderstood, as if there had been no other way of regenerating and new-moulding an immortal soul, than by new-framing the body. But he acknowledged his ignorance, which shows a desire to be better informed. It is then further explained by the Lord Jesus. He shows the Author of this blessed change. It is not wrought by any wisdom or power of our own, but by the power of the blessed Spirit. We are shapen in iniquity, which makes it necessary that our nature be changed. We are not to marvel at this; for, when we consider the holiness of God, the depravity of our nature, and the happiness set before us, we shall not think it strange that so much stress is laid upon this. The regenerating work of the Holy Spirit is compared to water. It is also probable that Christ had reference to the ordinance of baptism. Not that all those, and those only, that are baptized, are saved; but without that new birth which is wrought by the Spirit, and signified by baptism, none shall be subjects of the kingdom of heaven. The same word signifies both the wind and the Spirit. The wind bloweth where it listeth for us; God directs it. The Spirit sends his influences where, and when, on whom, and in what measure and degree, he pleases. Though the causes are hidden, the effects are plain, when the soul is brought to mourn for sin, and to breathe after Christ. Christ’s stating of the doctrine and the necessity of regeneration, it should seem, made it not clearer to Nicodemus. Thus the things of the Spirit of God are foolishness to the natural man. Many think that cannot be proved, which they cannot believe.
Christ’s discourse of gospel truths, ver. #11-13|, shows the folly of those who make these things strange unto them; and it recommends us to search them out. Jesus Christ is every way able to reveal the will of God to us; for he came down from heaven, and yet is in heaven. We have here a notice of Christ’s two distinct natures in one person, so that while he is the Son of man, yet he is in heaven. God is the “HE THAT IS,” and heaven is the dwelling-place of his holiness. The knowledge of this must be from above, and can be received by faith alone.
Jesus Christ came to save us by healing us, as the children of Israel, stung with fiery serpents, were cured and lived by looking up to the brazen serpent, #Nu 21:6-9|. In this observe the deadly and destructive nature of sin. Ask awakened consciences, ask damned sinners, they will tell you, that how charming soever the allurements of sin may be, at the last it bites like a serpent. See the powerful remedy against this fatal malady. Christ is plainly set forth to us in the gospel. He whom we offended is our Peace, and the way of applying for a cure is by believing. If any so far slight either their disease by sin, or the method of cure by Christ, as not to receive Christ upon his own terms, their ruin is upon their own heads. He has said, Look and be saved, look and live; lift up the eyes of your faith to Christ crucified. And until we have grace to do this, we shall not be cured, but still are wounded with the stings of Satan, and in a dying state.
Jesus Christ came to save us by pardoning us, that we might not die by the sentence of the law. Here is gospel, good news indeed. Here is God’s love in giving his Son for the world. God so loved the world; so really, so richly. Behold and wonder, that the great God should love such a worthless world! Here, also, is the great gospel duty, to believe in Jesus Christ. God having given him to be our Prophet, Priest, and King, we must give up ourselves to be ruled, and taught, and saved by him. And here is the great gospel benefit, that whoever believes in Christ, shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and so saving it. It could not be saved, but through him; there is no salvation in any other. From all this is shown the happiness of true believers; he that believeth in Christ is not condemned. Though he has been a great sinner, yet he is not dealt with according to what his sins deserve…
A good man acts truly and sincerely in all he does. He desires to know what the will of God is, and to do it, though against his own worldly interest. A change in his whole character and conduct has taken place. The love of God is shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost, and is become the commanding principle of his actions. So long as he continues under a load of unforgiven guilt, there can be little else than slavish fear of God; but when his doubts are done away, when he sees the righteous ground whereon this forgiveness is built, he rests on it as his own, and is united to God by unfeigned love. Our works are good when the will of God is the rule of them, and the glory of God the end of them; when they are done in his strength, and for his sake; to him, and not to men. Regeneration, or the new birth, is a subject to which the world is very averse; it is, however, the grand concern, in comparison with which every thing else is but trifling. What does it signify though we have food to eat in plenty, and variety of raiment to put on, if we are not born again? if after a few mornings and evenings spent in unthinking mirth, carnal pleasure, and riot, we die in our sins, and lie down in sorrow? What does it signify though we are well able to act our parts in life, in every other respect, if at last we hear from the Supreme Judge, “Depart from me, I know you not, ye workers of iniquity?”
Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Verse of the Day | Psalm 147:3 [August 1, 2026]
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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.