FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine ~ 19 October 2021

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[mylife]

fine work gentlemen

[mylife]

gonna need a tugboat to get anything out if that harbor

[Kathy in Alaska]

Please note that tonight’s thread was authored by laurenmarlowe. Please thank her.
She is away for work.

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine ~

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[freeandfreezing]

In warm weather months visitors can get a great close up view of the shipyard from tour boats and water taxis in the Portsmouth harbor.

And then you can enjoy a delicious dinner at one of Portsmouth or Kittery's many restaurants.

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, my...you’ve seen a few subs in your day.

[The Mayor]

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Tuesday,
October 19, 2021

When to Sacrifice

Read: Galatians 5:22–26

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22–23

In February 2020, as the COVID-19 crisis was just beginning, a newspaper columnist’s concerns struck me. Would we willingly self-isolate, she wondered, changing our work, travel, and shopping habits so others wouldn’t get sick? “This isn’t just a test of clinical resources,” she wrote, “but of our willingness to put ourselves out for others.” Suddenly, the need for virtue was front-page news.

It can be hard to consider others’ needs while we’re anxious about our own. Thankfully, we’re not left with willpower alone to meet the need. We can ask the Holy Spirit to give us love to replace our indifference, joy to counter sadness, peace to replace our anxiety, forbearance (patience) to push out our impulsiveness, kindness to care about others, goodness to see to their needs, faithfulness to keep our promises, gentleness instead of harshness, and self-control to lift us beyond self-centeredness (Galatians 5:22–23). While we won’t be perfect at all of this, we’re called to seek the Spirit’s gifts of virtue regularly (Ephesians 5:18).

Author Richard Foster once described holiness as the ability to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done. And such holiness is needed every day, not just in a pandemic. Do we have the capacity to make sacrifices for the sake of others? Holy Spirit, fill us with the power to do what needs to be done. — Sheridan Voysey

When have you made a sacrifice for the sake of others? What needs around you call for the Holy Spirit’s fruit today?

Holy Spirit, fill me afresh today and make me a person of virtue.

Bible in a year: Isaiah 56–58; 2 Thessalonians 2

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, freeandfreezing. Thanks for sharing more about the shipyard.

[mylife]

yes I have on both coasts and several countries.

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv0NlYLrRaM

[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, it's Road Trip time again, thanks ladies!

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsEDh9XKwKk

[Kathy in Alaska]

Must be quite the thing getting out of there...lots of turns.

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

We you able to get enough ready over the weekend to help today go relatively smooth? Wouldn’t it be nice to have two smooth weeks in a row? :-)

[luvie]

Nice to be back in Maine
...for a visit and a road trip!

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

Hope things were nice there with no more spraying going on! It was a bit warmer today, but still very comfy.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...a bit of sun off and on all day.

Is the drying continuing...closer to harvest?

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Yes, it was a very nice day here. Sunny, cloudless sky, 72 degrees, and just a kiss of a breeze. A good day for a drive to the vet (20 miles each way) to get Bella’s monthly asthma shot, and then make a grocery run after I dropped her back off at home. No spraying but farmers close by were harvesting corn.

Glad to hear it didn’t get uncomfortably warm there today.