Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

Due to my dislike of cooking, a family joke has been circulating for years (I think it may have come from the late Joan Rivers):

Q. "What's ML's favorite thing to make for dinner?"

A. "RESERVATIONS!"

It's not that I am incapable of cooking...I am just impatient and want instant results. That is why I paint with Acrylic Paints instead of Oils. I hate waiting around for paint to dry, bread to rise, or a Turkey to roast. Since I have three sisters and two sisters-in-law who LOVE to cook and entertain, I will not starve!

Anyway, when I was a young bride I decided to make Meat Loaf like my Mom. I put in all the spices I thought were in the mix, kneaded them into the ground meat, shaped it into a loaf, and baked it for a half-hour. I added a little chili powder, to invent a new flavor: "MEXICAN Meat Loaf" and the aromas coming from the stove were delectable! After a quick topping of tomato sauce and another five minutes in the oven, the meat loaf was ready! Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm!

I turned it out of the pan onto a serving platter, and the whole thing fell apart! It looked like a pile of...well you get the picture. My husband wrinkled his nose and said "WHAT'S THAT???" I started to cry.

The next day I called Mom and told her my sad story. She listened quietly and then said:

"You forgot to put in the EGG."

The next time I made Mexican Meat Loaf" I put in the egg, and it turned out perfectly.

While the great monuments of Egypt were built of stone, the homes, shops, and farm buildings were built of brick. That is why Archaeologists have no trouble finding Pyramids and Temples (how could you miss them?) but have a very hard time finding remnants of real-life Egyptians. While Babylon baked and glazed their bricks, sun-dried adobe-like bricks worked well for Egypt, where there was little or no rain. But the mud of the Nile Delta was slippery and gooey, and needed something to bind the bricks together. Like the egg in the meat loaf, straw was used to stabilize the clay and help the bricks hold their shape. When Pharaoh demanded that the slaves make "bricks without straw", he was making impossible demands upon an already exhausted and tormented people. It was extremely cruel and arbitrary, and showed Pharaoh's already hardened heart.

Today, "Making Bricks Without Straw" is an expression that means an unfair boss forcing workers to produce without having the means or equipment to do do, and is part of our vocabulary! Kind of like "Mexican Meat Loaf Without The Egg"!

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH FOR
THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!
And for the Preservation of the Valiant
Israeli Nation!

"Moses Before Pharaoh"
Syriac Bible of Paris
(Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341)

_ ND afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.

And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.

But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.

Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.

And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:

And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

______________________________________ Exodus 5:1-23 (KJV)

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For ML In This Time Of Tribulation.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our Own Yorkie.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our FRiend Uri'el2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Safety Of Our Gallant Troops And For The Success Of Their Vital Mission.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Repose Of The Souls Of Our Embassy Staff In Libya Who Were Assassinated 11 September 2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Deliverance Of Our Beloved Nation From The Lion’s Mouth.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For Our Brethren Of All Faiths Throughout The World Suffering Persecution.
We pray in particular on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and throughout the Mideast. The members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, some of which date from the days of the Apostles, suffer under cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors, we are all "Nazarenes."

Adding my prayers. God bless.

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In my working days, I’ve experienced bosses setting up their people for failure and demanding we sprint a marathon for the crisis they created.

Joining in prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem and for our beloved America.

Hallelujah and Amen

AMEN

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