FReeper Canteen - Scuttlebutt - 17 Feb 2011

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[Tanniker Smith]

Good evening, Connie! Good evening, all!

[SandRat]

HiYa Connie

Hugs, still in LA on a business trip. It’s going well.

[oldteen]

Evenin' Kathy! *hugs*

Checks put to bed and ready for the day to end?

[The Mayor]

Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list

Change
February 17, 2011

Medical studies have shown that even though people who have had heart-bypass surgery are told that they must change their lifestyle or die, about 90 percent do not change. Typically, 2 years after surgery the patients haven’t altered their lifestyle. It seems that most would rather die than change.

Just as doctors preach a physical message of change to prevent death, John the Baptist came preaching a spiritual message of change. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” (Matt. 3:2). He was preparing the way for the ultimate manifestation of God’s reign—the Messiah, Jesus.

Repentance means to change one’s mind and attitude about God, which ultimately changes a person’s actions and decisions. Those who repent and accept Christ’s provision of forgiveness from their sins through His death on the cross will escape spiritual death (John 3:16). Repentance involves confessing sin with godly sorrow, and then forsaking sin. John the Baptist was calling people to turn from one way of living to ways that honor God.

Today, the Lord is still calling us to repent and then to respond with the “fruits worthy of repentance” (Matt. 3:8).

Repentance is to leave the sin
That we had loved before,
And showing we are grieved by it
By doing it no more. —Anon.

Repentance means hating sin enough to turn from it.

Read: Matthew 3:1-12

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand! . . . Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance. —Matthew 3:2,8

Bible in a year:
Leviticus 21-22; Matthew 28

[ConorMacNessa]

REST IN PEACE, FALLEN BROTHER!




Lcpl. Kyle Cleet Marshall, Bristish Army, B Company, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, KIA Afghanistan 14FEB2011






I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV)

Flowers of the Forest



Black Watch Piper

The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Rupert Brooke



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Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[oldteen]

Good evening, Sir Conor! *hugs*

Woo-Hoo...your week is more than half over!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Permission Granted!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[oldteen]

Good evening, TS! *hugs*

Nice to see you!

The weather any better these days?

[ConorMacNessa]

Thanks very much, Kathy!

*HUGS*

How's it going with you this evening?

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And in first...Nana Hope grabs the gold!!

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Teenie!

*HUGS*

Great to see you this evening!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[ConorMacNessa]

REST IN PEACE, FALLEN BROTHER!

Pvt. Mila Kirifi, New Zealand Defence Force, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, Died Afghanistan 15FEB2011

I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV)

God Of Our Fathers



Flowers of the Forest



Rest in Peace, fallen brother, rest in peace!
We who remain hold you in high honor.
Rest, fallen brother, in this sacred precinct;
We who remain keep this place sacred.
Rest, fallen brother, among these, your comrades;
We who remain keep the watch.
Rest, fallen brother, among these who answered the Nation’s call;
We who remain press the fight forward in your name.
Rest, fallen brother, lay down thy burden;
We who remain have taken up the torch.
Rest in Peace, fallen brother, rest in eternal peace!


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Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And a close second....Pro snags the silver!!

[ConorMacNessa]

Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!

Missing Man Setting

Never Forget Those Who Sacrificed All That We Could Live In Freedom!!

[PROCON]

Hi Kathy!

Zach is enjoying JROTC and looks forward to enrolling again in highschool next year when they get uniforms and get to drill with rifles...Woo-Hoo!

Looks like rain and/or snow is in our immediate forecast, so winter is still here.

How's things up North?!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And rounding out the top three....teen bags the bronze!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Last night was zero degrees.

And I am off for home.

[BIGLOOK]

Honoring our Fallen

[ConorMacNessa]

Just bought tickets to Celtic Woman - Songs from the Heart in Baltimore March 9 - WOOHOO!!!



Lamh Foistenach Abu!