Posted on 12/18/2011 5:09:07 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
Thank you so much for bringing these remembrances.
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Lord, Please Bless Our Troops, They're fighting for our Freedom.
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God Bless Our Republic
Prayers going up
Hello From Idaho!
Thank You Kathy In Alaska for another wonderful thread!
((HUGS))
Not much new. People will start filling in the town for the Christmas holidays, snowmobiles are already racing up and down the airstrip today.
Should snow this week.
God Bless Our Troops!
StarCMC brought us the original about 3 years ago. She has made The Berlin Airlift a yearly tradition as a reminder to all of us of how great our military is and was, and what great things can be done with American ingenuity.
I'm glad you are enjoying the retelling.
Please note: The author of the Hall of Heroes is StarCMC.
Please thank StarCMC for today’s thread.
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Recently, my husband and I were reacquainted with a young man we had known as a child many years ago. We fondly reminisced about a Christmas program when Matthew had sung—in a perfect boy soprano—the song “All Is Well” by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Michael W. Smith. It was a wonderful memory of a song beautifully sung.
All is well, all is well;
Lift up your voice and sing.
Born is now Emmanuel,
Born is our Lord and Savior.
Sing Alleluia, sing Alleluia, all is well.
To hear the words of that song at Christmastime is comforting to many. But some people are unable to absorb the message because their lives are in turmoil. They’ve experienced the loss of a loved one, persistent unemployment, a serious illness, or depression that will not go away. Their hearts loudly cry out, “All is not well—not for me!”
But for those of us who celebrate the birth of our Savior—despite the dark night of the soul we may experience—all is well because of Christ. We are not alone in our pain. God is beside us and promises never to leave (Heb. 13:5). He promises that His grace will be sufficient (2 Cor. 12:9). He promises to supply all our needs (Phil. 4:19). And He promises us the amazing gift of eternal life (John 10:27-28).
As we review God’s promises, we can agree with the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who wrote, “Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.”
2nd!!
Hi Kathy!
Thank You for tonight’s thread.
Aloha, Hawaii...((HUGS))...high wind and high temps storming again since last night. All the snow is gone from the trees and mailboxes. The last half hour has seen the temps drop back down into the mid 30s. I am not liking this at all.
How about you...still raining?
All three of the aircraft at the end of tonight’s thread are on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The museum is due south of Davis-Monthan’s Boneyard, on Valencia Rd.
“We are going to stay, period.” — President Harry S. Truman
Thanks Kathy in Alaska.
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Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Good evening, HJ...how cool that a piece of history is close enough for you to visit.
Visit? Did that when I was stationed in Berlin!
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