FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 13 January 2022

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[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

Ooh Rah! Semper Fi!

U.S. Marine Corps Private First Class Selena Serrano, a Marine with Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, poses for a photo with her eagle, globe and anchor on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 5, 2022. Serrano just completed the crucible – a 54-hour event that challenges all the skills a recruit has learned throughout recruit training. Serrano was recruited out of Los Angeles, C with Recruiting Station Montebello. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Christopher A. Madero)

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Welcome To The World, Isaac!

Gina and Joshua Steitzer welcomed their new son, Isaac, at 4:34 a.m., Jan. 6, 2022. Isaac was the first baby born in the New Year at Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Northwest Beginnings Family Birth Center to proud parents Gina and Joshua, chief damage controlman assigned to USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Isaac weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and is 20 inches long. (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC public affairs officer)

No Cornhole? No Problem!

Airmen from the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing take part in holiday themed games during the 2021 Ops Town Games at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Dec. 25, 2021. The games were created to boost morale for members deployed during the holidays. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christina Graves)

Hold Your Breath! Whatever You Do: Don’t Swallow!

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Tyler Ornelas, a squad leader with 3d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, conducts the endurance course during the 3d Marine Division Squad Competition at the Jungle Warfare Training Center on Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 7, 2022. The week-long competition tests jungle survival skills, basic infantry tactics, and excellence in weapons handling. The competition participants are forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division, as a part of the Unit Deployment Program. Ornelas is a native of Bend, Oregon. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jonathan Willcox)

Congrats Marine! Hug Well Earned!

A new U.S. Marine of Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, is welcomed by a loved one following a graduation ceremony at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Jan. 7, 2022. Once Delta Company was dismissed, families and friends met their new Marines on the parade deck. As recruits, their only means of contact was through letters during their 13-week training cycle. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by MSgt Sheila Brooks)

We Want To Fly!

A 14th Flying Training Wing instructor pilot and student pilot conduct pre-flight checks inside a T-6 Texan II on January 7, 2022, at Columbus Air Force Base, MS. Stepped-tandem seating in the single cockpit places one crewmember in front of the other, with the student and instructor positions being interchangeable. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Davis Donaldson)

The Toilet Bowl Ultimate (Psst...No Toilets Were Harmed)

U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force Defense Information School students complete in ultimate frisbee for the school's Annual event, the Commandant's Cup on Ft. G Meade, Maryland. (Photo by Pvt. Anastasiya Ludchenko)

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Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, thanks for remembering and honoring our Troops, Kathy!

[SkyDancer]

~ Good Evening ~

~ Snow All Gone From Hill ... Yeah!!!! ~

~ Good Evening ~

~ Welcome To My World ~

I’m Down There Somewhere

[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, ML...((HUGS))...you and Penny keeping each other company in the cold? More snow?

We are supposed to get snow off and on for several days, with days hovering at or ABOVE freezing. I’m tired of the high temps. They make ice!!

[redrhino47]

God bless those that protect our freedoms.

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Remembering Our Troops! ~

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We’re having the weirdest weather...freezing Arctic cold one day, nice warm 40’s the next, and then freezing again.

Black Ice weather!

[lightman]

Good evenin’, everyone!

Happy hump day!

[radu]

They more than deserve it!

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Hump Day! Ready for a breather?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro...our troops at work and play. Always remembered!

Still got snow?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[luvie]

Always remembering our troops
...and the sacrifices they make
to keep us safe and free!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Janey...((HUGS))...hurrah for the departure of your snow!

[The Mayor]

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Thursday,
January 13, 2022

A Ludicrous Investment

Read: Jeremiah 32:6–15

I knew that this was the word of the Lord; so I bought the field. Jeremiah 32:8–9

In 1929, as the US economy crashed, millions of people lost everything. But not Floyd Odlum. As everyone else panicked and sold their stocks at cut-rate prices, Odlum appeared to foolishly jump in and purchase stocks just as the nation’s future disintegrated. But Odlum’s “foolish” perspective paid off, yielding robust investments that endured for decades.

God told Jeremiah to make what seemed like an absolutely ludicrous investment: “Buy [the] field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin” (Jeremiah 32:8). This was no time to be buying fields, however. The entire country was on the verge of being ransacked. “The army of the king of Babylon was . . . besieging Jerusalem” (v. 2), and whatever field Jeremiah purchased would soon be Babylon’s. What fool makes an investment when everything would soon be lost?

Well, the person who’s listening to God—the One who intended a future no one else could envision. “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land” (v. 15). God saw more than the ruin. God promised to bring redemption, healing, and restoration. A ludicrous investment in a relationship or service for God isn’t foolish—it’s the wisest possible move when God leads us to make it (and it’s essential that we prayerfully seek to know He’s behind the instruction). A “foolish” investment in others as God leads makes all the sense in the world. — Winn Collier

Where do you sense God asking you to make a ludicrous investment in someone or something? How will this step require you to trust God in ways that appear foolish?

God, it’s a good thing You see the future because sometimes all I see is ruin and disaster. Show me where to go, where to give my life.

Bible in a year: Genesis 31–32; Matthew 9:18–38

[PROCON]

Hi Kathy, snow isn't going away probably until February unless we get a real warm spell, but at least all the roads are plowed.

How about snow your way?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...hope your weather is getting a bit warmer.

We are hovering around freezing for a few days. YUCKY!!

[Lumper20]

I highly doubt she is qualified? She is too wide to be athletic enough to do so. These standards have trashed our military. Tell me all the female combat heroes from day one through Vietnam?