[Billie]

Happy St. Patrick's Day & T.G.I.F. at the Finest!
WEAR GREEN TODAY!

[Mama_Bear]

Oh, Billie....this is your very best post yet! It is just gorgeous! I am speechless.....almost. LOL

Happy St. Patricks Day to you! I will be back tomorrow to post some graphics that recently showed up in my mailbox from our 'gif' guru. :-)

[Majie Purple]

Hey I recognize that thar lil girl! Louie must have made that for you!

Happy St. Pat's Day to all of you too!

[Diver Dave]

WEAR GREEN TODAY!

Oh, oh! Got a conflict. I'm gonna look awful Christmasy - Red and Green. :)

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

Happy St. Patrick's Day

The day wear (pun intended) everyone is Irish.

Now for a bit of ironic Irish humor. I am Irish, very Irish. I take after my dad's mother's side of the family. Her maiden name, O'Flaherty. While I was growing up, even tho we were Irish, we didn't eat corned beef and cabbage.

After I left home my roommate made corned beef and cabbage for dinner one night. I just loved it. Later that night I came down with what I thought was the flu. About a week later I decided to make corned beef for dinner. An hour later I again became ill, very ill. This time my body decided to really let me know that it didn't like corned beef. I was so ill that I had to be taken into ER, twice to stop the allergic reaction. The ER doctor informed me that if I ever eat corned beef again it could kill me.

Later, when I talked to my Mom, I found out that the reason that we didn't have corned beef on St. Patrick Day was that my Irish father was allergic to it.

So this Irish lass will have to stick to the green beer to celebrate the wearing of the green.

[ST.LOUIE1]

Happy St.Pat's, sweet BillieBlue.

Terrific thread! St.Pat himself would be dancin' a jig! : )

[.30Carbine]

Lovely ladies, thank you. ( ;

[SheLion]

Happy St. Patty Day, Billie and everyone!!

[The Mayor]

March 17, 2006

There When You Need It

Read:
Hebrews 9:11-22

The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. —1 John 1:7

Bible In One Year: Deuteronomy 30-31; Mark 15:1-25

When I donated blood some time ago, a nurse gave me a card to read while a pint of the vital red fluid was flowing out of my vein. The card showed the percentages of people who have different blood types. Here are some of them:

O-Positive		37.4%
A-Positive		35.7%
A-Negative		6.3%
B-Negative		1.5%

The rarest, AB-Negative, is found in only 1 in 167 people, or 0.6% of the population. Then the card made this eye-catching statement: "The rarest blood type is the one that's not there when you need it."

There is another supply of blood that is one of a kind and always available to those who ask for it. First John 1:7 states, "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin."

It was the death of Christ—the shedding of His blood— that satisfied the demand of a holy God as payment for our sins (Hebrews 9:12,22). So now, whenever a person cries out in faith to God, repenting of his sin and pleading for forgiveness, his prayer for salvation is answered.

I am deeply grateful that Jesus was willing to die on the cross, giving His blood for me, so that forgiveness was available when I needed it. Aren't you? —Dave Egner

Sufficient is the blood of Christ
To cleanse us from all sin,
But daily we must claim its power
To keep us pure within. —D. De Haan

Jesus takes our sin and gives us His salvation.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
Accepted By God

March 17, 2006

There When You Need It

Read:
Hebrews 9:11-22

The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. —1 John 1:7

Bible In One Year: Deuteronomy 30-31; Mark 15:1-25

When I donated blood some time ago, a nurse gave me a card to read while a pint of the vital red fluid was flowing out of my vein. The card showed the percentages of people who have different blood types. Here are some of them:

O-Positive		37.4%
A-Positive		35.7%
A-Negative		6.3%
B-Negative		1.5%

The rarest, AB-Negative, is found in only 1 in 167 people, or 0.6% of the population. Then the card made this eye-catching statement: "The rarest blood type is the one that's not there when you need it."

There is another supply of blood that is one of a kind and always available to those who ask for it. First John 1:7 states, "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin."

It was the death of Christ—the shedding of His blood— that satisfied the demand of a holy God as payment for our sins (Hebrews 9:12,22). So now, whenever a person cries out in faith to God, repenting of his sin and pleading for forgiveness, his prayer for salvation is answered.

I am deeply grateful that Jesus was willing to die on the cross, giving His blood for me, so that forgiveness was available when I needed it. Aren't you? —Dave Egner

Sufficient is the blood of Christ
To cleanse us from all sin,
But daily we must claim its power
To keep us pure within. —D. De Haan

Jesus takes our sin and gives us His salvation.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
Accepted By God

[StarCMC]

St. Pats AND Friday -- time to break out the Christmas sweaters! *G* Is there ANYONE here, who, like my dad who really enjoys needling people, wears ORANGE??

[Texagirl4W]

Very beautiful, (((Miss Billie))). This is going to be fun today but I'll have to drop by later. Very busy St. Patty Friday.

[JustAmy]

Top O' the Mornin', Billie.
Thank you for this beautiful thread.

May the luck of the Irish be with you and yours.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

What does 'Erin go braugh' mean?

From what I have read here

http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/What_does_%27Erin_go_braugh%27_mean

It means Ireland Forever, but it is a battle cry, and means to stay faithful to Ireland forever. Who can forget that the Irish are referred to as "the fighting Irish", which ties in to "support our troops, wear red on Friday", at least in spirit.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi everybody.

[JulieRNR21]

As a descendant of the Irish Patriot, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa....This seems like the proper time to share this bit of Irish Humor.......


Q: How did the Irish Jig get started?
A: Too much to drink and not enough restrooms.


RECIPE FOR IRISH STEW:

Get some meat, some potatoes, and a lot of Guinness
Stout.

Drink all of the Guinness Stout.

Forget about the stew.

---

An authentic Irish Blessing......

"May those who love us, love us
and those who don't love us,
may God turn their hearts,
and if he doesn't turn their hearts,
may he turn their ankles...
so we'll know them by their limping."

---

An Irish priest and a Rabbi found themselves sharing a
compartment on a train. After a while, the priest
opened a conversation by saying "I know that, in your
religion, you're not supposed to eat pork... Have you
actually ever tasted it?"

The Rabbi said, "I must tell the truth. Yes, I have,
on the odd occasion."

Then the Rabbi had his turn of interrogation. He
asked, "Your religion, too... I know you're supposed
to be celibate. But...."

The priest replied, "Yes, I know what you're going to
ask. I have succumbed once or twice."

There was silence for a while. Then the Rabbi peeped
around the newspaper he was reading and said, "Better
than pork, isn't it?"

[AZamericonnie]

Wow...wow...wow! What a beautiful post! Happy St. Patricks to all at the finest!

[GodBlessUSA]

This is a beautiful St. Patrick's Day thread Billie!
My daughter will be in a parade tomorrow. It should be such fun. :)

[T'wit]

It's past St. Pat's but this graphic is still making me turn green :-) :-)

[T'wit]

On this day in 1945, the Carrier Franklin took two bombs on her flight decks as she was arming for air strikes on Japan -- from only 50 miles offshore. The bombs ignited ammunition and fuel, turning the ship into an inferno. Over 800 died, but the Franklin was saved and returned to New York under her own power. She suffered the WWII record for highest casualties of any ship that did not sink. One of the dead was my unmet father in law -- my kids' grandfather, a surgeon who was trapped by fires and died at his post with all his patients.

Franklin history, many photos

Oral History

Inferno