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Posted on 02/20/2021 5:00:47 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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Keep the Lord’s Day in the Lord’s way!
A blessed First Sunday in Lent (Western)/Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican (Orthodox) to all.
(Orthodox Pascha is five weeks after Western Easter this year).
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
Good evening, lightman, and a Blessed First Sunday in Lent (Western)/Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican (Orthodox) to you.
Is the BIG FREEZE affecting your area?
Lincoln’s birthday was the coldest day of the new year so far, but it looks like Washington’s (or the day before, aka Sunday) might change the record.
4 inches of snow Wednesday evening into noontime Friday but it got just warm enough to get everything well cleared and ashed...good thing because any snow remaining is going to be like concrete after tonight.
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...did you get rid of your snow? No injuries shoveling?
A Blessed Lord’s Day and Shavua Tov to you and yours.
They say we have a week’s worth of snowing on the way.
I spent the morning shoveling, and was able to go out for sushi with my sister this evening.
Church tomorrow...I hope it doesn’t snow overnight, but I’ve arranged for a ride if it does.
Shavua Tov.
Wishing all our Jewish troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
a peaceful and prosperous week.
Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
for a safe and peaceful week ahead.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.
Howdy, Kathy.
Did IT manage to straighten things out so you could get some of yesterday’s work dealt with today?
I expected today to be very ho-hum since there was nothing planned. But a few minutes after I woke up, Hubby’s cousin showed up to ask if I’d like to ride up to the military museum with him and his girlfriend. OH HECK YEAH!!!!!
He left for a few minutes to pick her up and I was ready when they got back.
It was SO nice to get back inside that wonderful place and see the new “goodies” that were brought in the past several months.
The “boss man” was there, working on one of his own Jeeps in the shop, and I asked if we were going to open this year and he said yes. WOOHOO!! I am champin’ at the bit!!
Uh oh. It sounds like the cold that’s finally moving out of here is heading up your way. :-( At least you had a little break and could get things done before it sets in. I hope it doesn’t stay long.
Days like today are almost enough to make one wish they were back in FL, aren’t they? LOL
Bible in a Year:
He has given us his very great and precious promises.
In our moments of greatest failure, it can be easy to believe it’s too late for us, that we’ve lost our chance at a life of purpose and worth. That’s how Elias, a former inmate at a maximum-security prison in New York, described feeling as a prisoner. “I had broken . . . promises, the promise of my own future, the promise of what I could be.”
It was Bard College’s “Prison Initiative” college degree program that began to transform Elias’ life. While in the program, he participated on a debate team, which in 2015 debated a team from Harvard—and won. For Elias, being “part of the team . . . [was] a way of proving that these promises weren’t completely lost.”
A similar transformation happens in our hearts when we begin to understand that the good news of God’s love in Jesus is good news for us too. It’s not too late, we begin to realize with wonder. God still has a future for me.
And it’s a future that can neither be earned nor forfeited, dependent only on God’s extravagant grace and power (2 Peter 1:2–3). A future where we’re set free from the despair in the world and in our hearts into one filled with His “glory and goodness” (v. 3). A future secure in Christ’s unimaginable promises (v. 4); and a future transformed into the “freedom and glory of the children of God” (Romans 8:21).
Reflect & Pray
Why can it be difficult for us to accept “unearned” grace and love? How does it touch your heart to consider that in God’s eyes you have a future filled with unimaginable beauty?
Jesus, some days all I can see is the ways I’ve disappointed myself and others, the ways I’ve broken the future I’ve dreamed of. Help me to see the unchanging beauty of the future I find in You.
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