The Still Hour update by Stillwater for August 18, 2026

“The following is a daily devotional from the book, My Utmost For His Highest, by Oswald Chambers.
(Links to scripture references have been underlined.)
August 18
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN EXPRESSIONLESS WITH SORROW?
“And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rick.” Luke 18:23
The rich young ruler went away expressionless with sorrow; he had not a word to say. He had no doubt as to what Jesus said, no debate as to what it meant, and it produced in him a sorrow that had not any words. Have you ever been there? Has God’s word come to you about something you are very rich in – temperament, personal affinity, relationships of heart and mind? Then you have often been expressionless with sorrow. The Lord will not go after you, He will not plead, but every time He meets you on that point He will simply repeat – If you mean what you say, those are the conditions.
“Sell all that thou hast,” undress yourself morally before God of everything that might be a possession until you are a mere conscious human being, and then give God that. That is where the battle is fought – in the domain of the will before God. Are you more devoted to your idea of what Jesus wants than to Himself? If so, you are likely to hear one of His hard sayings that will produce sorrow in you. What Jesus says is hard, it is only easy when it is heard by those who have His disposition. Beware of allowing anything to soften a hard word of Jesus Christ’s.
I can be so rich in poverty, so rich in the consciousness that I am nobody, that I shall never be a disciple of Jesus; and I can be so rich in the consciousness that I am somebody that I shall never be a disciple. Am I willing to be destitute of the sense that I am destitute? This is where discouragement comes in. Discouragement is disenchanted self-love, and self-love may be love of my devotion to Jesus.”

AOC caught lamenting on live mic yesterday:

‘Nobody knows…where my Riley has gone…

Judy left the same time.

Why was he holding her hand…

When he’s supposed to be mine?

It’s my eggs…and I’ll freeze if I want to

Freeze if I want to…freeze if I want to

You would freeze too if it happened to you’ 🙂

Hijabs fly as Somali women have vicious cat fight inside Target store
Security guard aka ” asset protection associate” took ages to intervene

Maybe he was Mudslim and Mudslime men are not supposed to touch women (except when they beat them up or stone them)

TG there were no stones around!

I wonder if they were from The Learing Cente?

LOL

“Several users online were bewildered not only by the women’s actions, but by the lack of urgency shown by the security guard.”

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16058153/somali-women-fight-target-hijab.html

A CBS News/YouGov poll this week showing Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism by a stunningly wide margin, (58% to 32%), gets considerably wider among college educated Dems, (71% to 16%) and widest of all among college educated women, who apparently think Lenin is something lacy you put on your dining room table with the good china and Trotsky is the quickest way to the powder room!

Hard to say whether that poll is a greater indictment of our Marxist bastions of higher indoctrineducation or the 60 years of radical neo-feminism that is part of most curriculums, whose implicit message to young coeds is that it’s far nobler to kill babies in utero than to have children and raise a family with some toxically masculine marital partner!

There’s a lot of crazy things in the world. Here’s a short compilation…

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Saint Porphyrios, Bishop of Gaza in Palestine (+ 420)

and

Saint George the Holy Great-Martyr and Trophy-Bearer (+ 303)

please pray for and protect the Christians in the Holy Land and the entire Levant, especially the Palestinian Christian villagers of Taybeh (formerly Biblical Ephraim) in the occupied West Bank, from the Evil One and his servants who prepare to welcome the Anti-Christ.

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Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.

God is the Holy Trinity.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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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.

What if we encourage Americans to find three new things each day specifically about the USA for which they are grateful?

This is that thread you’ll all thoroughly enjoy, especially my American friends on X.

In August 1966, Mossad did something no other intelligence agency on Earth had managed. They put a fully operational Soviet MiG-21, the most advanced fighter jet of its time, into Western hands.

That single aircraft didn’t just change Israeli air combat. It helped shape the creation of the US Navy’s Top Gun school.

It accelerated the beginning of the deep strategic relationship between the United States and Israel. And it proved, once again, that when it came to penetrating the most closely guarded Soviet systems of the Cold War, no one else could do what Mossad could.

This is the story of Operation Diamond, one of the most consequential and audacious intelligence coups of the 20th century, and a stark reminder of the unique value Israel has long delivered to the West.

The full thread starts below.

https://nitter.poast.org/MorEdge_Insight/status/2089439896901759450#m