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FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington ~ 24 JUNE 2014
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Posted on 06/23/2014 6:02:08 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe
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To: laurenmarlowe
"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
06/23/2014 6:02:28 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: laurenmarlowe
Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list
Veins Of Gold
June 24, 2014
Read: Romans 6:1-14
While visiting the charming Cotswold area of England, I purchased some bone china mugs as souvenirs. I used them carefully, but eventually one fell into the sink and shattered. I thought about that mug recently when I learned about the Japanese art of Kintsugi.
Usually when something breaks we are happy to repair it enough to make it functional again. But several hundred years ago, a Japanese artist decided he would make broken china beautiful. So he started using golden resin to hold the fragments together. Pieces repaired by using his method have intricate veins of gold.
Early in the human story, sin entered the world (Gen. 3). Theologians refer to the event as the fall. The inevitable result is brokenness. Life is painful because we keep getting hurt and hurting others with our sharp, jagged edges. But God doesnt want us to stay broken, and His repair work turns our brokenness into beauty.
Like a Kintsugi artist, God repairs us. But He uses something more precious than goldthe blood of His Son. Instead of having veins of gold, we are united by the very veins of Christ. We have been united together in the likeness of His death (Rom. 6:5). Nothing is more beautiful than that.
He shed His blood, poured out His life;
He gave His all at Calvary;
Oh what can we give in return
For love so rich, so full, so free? Anon.
The price of our freedom from sin was paid by Jesus blood.
In verse 1, the apostle Paul reminds us of the danger of presuming on the grace of God. It is possible that there were those in the church at Rome who were advocating an immoral lifestyle, believing that God overlooked such things because that is how grace operated. Such a view, however, fails to balance the grace of God with His holiness and can lead to lives that dishonor Him.
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posted on
06/23/2014 6:02:33 PM PDT
by
The Mayor
(Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
To: All
To: laurenmarlowe
I spent a month in Ft Lewis before shipping out to Viet Nam. I had to come home to Colorado to see some sunshine.
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posted on
06/23/2014 6:04:07 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: ConorMacNessa
Howdy ConorMacNessa!
FIRST!!
To: The Mayor
Good evening to you Mayor!
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To: laurenmarlowe; MoJo2001; 007; 1 FELLOW FREEPER; 11B3; 1FreeAmerican; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; ...
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posted on
06/23/2014 6:08:08 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: laurenmarlowe
To: mountainlion
Hello there mountainlion!
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posted on
06/23/2014 6:10:25 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
To: AZamericonnie
To: laurenmarlowe
Ah, yes. Fort Lewis. I checked in there just before Christmas 1971, served with the 58th Signal Battalion, and left in September 1973. Great post.
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posted on
06/23/2014 6:12:54 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: laurenmarlowe
Never been there, sounds nice though.
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posted on
06/23/2014 6:14:04 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Publius
Good evening to you Publius!
To: ConorMacNessa
Where was the 3/5? I was in Americal DIV 1/1 CAV, based at Hill 29 about 15 km N of Tam Ky.
Started and ended that trip at McChord. Audio going. I can still hear “The Wichita Lineman” playing over and over.
I think there’s a good possibility that the DC-8 we flew over in is on static display, SE corner of USC (LA for college baseball fans) across the street. There is, or was a DC-3 there too.
Thanks for your service!
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posted on
06/23/2014 6:14:36 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: SandRat
To: onedoug
And thank you for your service, Brother! During my time, 3/5 was operating out of An Hoa, about 25 miles southwest of Danang. We operated in the Arizona, Gonoy Island, in the hills west of An Hoa - we may have been over the border in Laos, but it's not "seared" in my memory. Looking at the map, it seems we were about 15-20 miles inland of Tam Ky.
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Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
06/23/2014 6:24:16 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: All
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posted on
06/23/2014 6:24:52 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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