FReeper Canteen ~ The Four Chaplains ~ 04 February 2021

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[The Mayor]

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February 4

Faith Investments

Bible in a Year:

• Exodus 34–35
• Matthew 22:23–46

Teach [these words of mine] to your children.

Deuteronomy 11:19 On his twelfth Christmas, the boy eagerly awaited the opening of the gifts under the tree. He was yearning for a new bike, but his hopes were dashed—the last present he received was a dictionary. On the first page, he read: “To Charles from Mother and Daddy, 1958. With love and high hopes for your best work in school.”

In the next decade, Chuck did do well in school. He graduated from college and later, aviation training. He became a pilot working overseas, fulfilling his passion to help people in need and to share Jesus with them. Now some sixty years after receiving this gift, he shared the well-worn dictionary with his grandchildren. It had become for him a symbol of his parents’ loving investment in his future, and Chuck still treasures it. But he’s even more grateful for the daily investment his parents made in building his faith by teaching him about God and the Scriptures.

Deuteronomy 11 talks about the importance of taking every opportunity to share the words of Scripture with children: “Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up” (v. 19).

For Chuck, the eternal values planted when he was a boy bloomed into a lifetime of service for his Savior. With God’s enablement, who knows how much our investment in someone’s spiritual growth will yield.

Reflect & Pray

Who invested in your spiritual life as you were growing up? How can you direct children’s hearts to the wisdom found in Scripture?

Father, help me take time to read the Bible and share it with others.

Download these seven devotionals from Our Daily Bread for Kids at go.odb.org/ODBforKids-7.

[lightman]

Always remember!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, mountainlion, for the reminder.

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

I think I’ve made it through hump day. Hope you have too!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lightman...we must always remember!

Did you get to use your snow plow?

[PROCON]

Great story, brave men dedicated to God and their troops, thanks Kathy!

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

These heroes threads always take my breath away. This one brought tears to my eyes.

Lookin’ pretty dreary up your way today. How much snow did you wind up with?

[The Mayor]

Yes, I did. I’ve got 5 guns painted and 4 more ready to go!

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[lightman]

Plow?

Did I ever!

Great tag team operation with my son going first on “the beast” blowing, me following with the plow widening and pushing back the piles.

Whole operation took just barely over an hour during the sweet spot between the end of active snow and the beginning of stiff NW winds.

[mountainlion]

Thanks, mountainlion, for the reminder.

I happened to hear it on the radio this morning.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...are you still really cold?

I ended up with 3” of snow.

[luvie]

What a beautiful story of these four heroes!
They really do deserve our attention.
May they Rest In Peace.....

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[radu]

Hey there, Kathy.

We haven’t been really cold the last couple of days but it’s been pretty nippy. No wind today and that helped a lot.
They’ve changed the forecast for this weekend and it appears the arctic blast isn’t going to clobber us after all. YAY! We’ll be cold but not frigid.
Now to hope they don’t change back to the other forecast. LOL

Not too bad, those 3 inches of snow. You could have had a lot more to shovel off the deck this morning. Ugh.

[lightman]

8 and a half up my way.

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Beautiful graphic and perfect for tonight’s thread.

[radu]

You got lucky! LOL! For a while it looked like there would be a lot more, but you still got plenty to give your snow blower a good workout.
I hope the power never got knocked out, though you were ready for it if that happened.

I feel for all of you caught in that mess. That was a nasty storm!