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Posted on 04/30/2021 10:23:24 PM PDT by JustAmy
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I hear ya. I’m so furious, I’m almost afraid to post...that I’ll be banned. LOL! I’m not on Gab but am on Parler and GETTR. I think luvie or luvvie if you’re there, too.
This has been a black day in American history for sure.
Power through it and then you can get home and put your feet up! Get take-out so you don’t even have to cook! ššš
Awwwwww....cuteness overload for sure! š§”š¤š
Watched the “speech”. What we just listened to is the most blatant lie ever told and all the time, blaming it on everyone but the one who is responsible. Himself.
He withdrew troops, yes; while abandoning embassy personnel and civilians. THEN brought troops back under worsened conditions? DISGUSTING!! š”
Just got home, glad I missed The Speech. Thanks for enduring it and giving short summary.
Bible in a Year:
When your words came, I ate them.
Billy Graham, the renowned American evangelist, once described his struggle to accept the Bible as completely true. One night as he walked alone in the moonlight at a retreat center in the San Bernardino Mountains, he dropped to his knees and placed his Bible on a tree stump, able only to āstutterā a prayer: āOh, God! There are many things in this book I do not understand.ā
By confessing his confusion, Graham said the Holy Spirit finally āfreed me to say it. āFather, I am going to accept this as thy Wordāby faith!ā ā When he stood up, he still had questions, but he said, āI knew a spiritual battle in my soul had been fought and won.ā
The young prophet Jeremiah fought spiritual battles too. Yet he consistently sought answers in Scripture. āWhen your words came, I ateĀ them; they were my joy and my heartās delightā (Jeremiah 15:16). He declared, āThe word of the Lord . . . is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bonesā (20:8ā9). Nineteenth-century evangelist Charles Spurgeon wrote, ā[Jeremiah] lets us into a secret.Ā His outer life, especially his faithful ministry, was due to his inward love of the word which he preached.ā
We too can shape our life through the wisdom of Scripture despite our struggles. We can keep studying, as always, by faith.
Reflect & Pray
How has your life been shaped by Scripture? As you accept it by faith, how do you expect your life to change?
Heavenly Father, show me new things about You as I read the Bible. Teach me Your ways. Show me Your love.
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Bible in a Year:
Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
As I drove home after lunch with my best friend, I thanked God out loud for her. She knows me and loves me in spite of things I donāt love about myself. Sheās one of a small circle of people who accept me as I amāmy quirks, habits, and screw-ups. Still, there are parts of my story I resist sharing even with her and others that I loveātimes where Iāve clearly not been the hero, times Iāve been judgmental or unkind or unloving.
But God does know my whole story. Heās the One I can freely talk to even if Iām reluctant to talk with others.
The familiar words of Psalm 139 describe the intimacy we enjoy with our Sovereign King. He knows us completely! (v. 1). Heās āfamiliar with all [our] waysā (v. 3). He invites us to come to Him with our confusion, our anxious thoughts, and our struggles with temptation. When weāre willing to yield completely to Him, He reaches out to restore and rewrite the parts of our story that make us sad because weāve wandered from Him.
God knows us better than anyone else ever can, and still . . . He loves us! When we daily surrender ourselves to Him and seek to know Him more fully, He can change our story for His glory. Heās the Author whoās continuing to write it.
Reflect & Pray
What assurance do you have that God will always love you unconditionally? How can you make yielding to Him a daily practice?
Precious Father, thank You for loving me as Your child despite the times Iāve disappointed You. Help me to yield all of myself to You in full assurance that Youāre faithfully walking beside me.
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Summer squashed....reminds me of my green pepper crop...getting peppered with peppers, lots of ziplock bags of diced peppers in my freezer. Still have about 12 more peppers to pick when they are ready.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.....oh brother, next year fewer pepper seeds will be sown.š I have 7 plants, maybe 4 is better for next summer.
cheers
good night
LOL..Peppers can be particularly prolific.
Bible in a Year:
[Jesus] took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, āThis is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.ā
On December 6, 1907, explosions rocked a small community in the US state of West Virginia, producing one of the worst disasters in the history of the coal-mining industry. Some 360 miners were killed, and itās been estimated that this horrific tragedy left behind about 250 widows and 1,000 children without fathers. Historians maintain that the memorial service became the seedbed from which the celebration of Fatherās Day in the US would eventually grow. Out of great loss came remembrance andāeventuallyācelebration.
The greatest tragedy in human history occurred when human beings crucified their Creator. Yet, that dark moment also produced both remembrance and celebration. The night before He would go to the cross, Jesus took the elements of Israelās Passover and created His own memorial celebration. Lukeās record describes the scene this way: āAnd he took bread, gave thanks and broke it,Ā and gave it to them, saying,Ā āThis is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of meā ā (Luke 22:19).
Still today, whenever we take communion, we honor His great, unflinching love for usāremembering the cost of our rescue and celebrating the gift of life His sacrifice produced. As Charles Wesley said in his great hymn, āAmazing love! How can it be that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?ā
Reflect & Pray
How often do you find yourself just going through the motions when taking communion? What are some ways to keep your focus on the cross?
Father, when I come to the memorial table, help me to remember why my forgiveness was so costly, and help me to celebrate Your great, awesome love.
Which reminds me...boiled yellow squash sounds really good right now. LOL!
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Good Stuff! :-)
They sure DO look happy! :)
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