Posted on 12/27/2020 5:05:14 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...weather improving? You and Penny able to get out?
High wind warnings for later today here.
All the snow melted in the rain on Christmas day, so now it’s just dry and cold.
I can deal with that. It’s the snow and ice I hate.
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You do the Lord’s work Kathy! I was stationed at Tempelhof 1966-1969 and know the whole bit. An incredible part of history that most don’t have a clue about.
Present!
Stand strong and stay safe.
Great, incredible story retold each year, thanks Kathy!
OK....wishing you dry and cold. You and Penny have nice warm coats.
1st Lt George B. Smith
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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That’s no 1st Lt.
Bible in a Year:
Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honor.
At seventeen, Dowayne had to leave his family’s home in Manenberg, a part of Cape Town, South Africa, because of his stealing and addiction to heroin. He didn’t go far, building a shack of corrugated metal in his mother’s backyard, which soon became known as the Casino, a place to use drugs. When he was nineteen, however, Dowayne came to saving faith in Jesus. His journey off drugs was long and exhausting, but he got clean with God’s help and with the support of friends who are believers in Jesus. And ten years after Dowayne built the Casino, he and others turned the hut into a house church. What was once a dark and foreboding place now is a place of worship and prayer.
The leaders of this church look to Jeremiah 33 for how God can bring healing and restoration to people and places, as He’s done with Dowayne and the former Casino. The prophet Jeremiah spoke to God’s people in captivity, saying that although the city would not be spared, yet God would heal His people and would “rebuild them,” cleansing them from their sin (Jeremiah 33:7–8). Then the city would bring Him joy, renown, and honor (v. 9).
When we’re tempted to despair over the sin that brings heartbreak and brokenness, let’s continue to pray that God will bring healing and hope, even as He’s done in a backyard in Manenberg.
Reflect & Pray
How have you seen God bring restoration in your own life and in the lives of others? How can you pray for His healing this day?
God, thank You for sparking new life in what appeared to be dead. Continue to work in me, that I might share Your saving love with others.
I was there in 1982, in the RADAR air traffic control room, watching aircraft fly to and from Berlin, in one of three corridors. The corridors were crowded with aircraft and they had to use altitude separation, to keep them apart.
Most of the air traffic was going to Tegel, but USAF controllers actually controlled all the traffic, to and from Berlin.
Radint.😎 Been there mate!
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Thanks, Kathy! My dad (age 91) participated in the airlift, being in the Army Air Corps/Air Force. I’m going to try and send him the links :-)
He and my mom still have their own home and he likes doing stuff on the computer, and still gardens in season.
1944-05-28 Brigadier-General (Army of the United States)
1st Lt George B. Smith... Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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