FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania ~ 16 AUG 2022

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[The Mayor]

Our Daily Bread

Tuesday,
August 16, 2022

Crushed and Beautiful

Read: Psalm 51:10–17

My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart. Psalm 51:17

At first glance I dismissed the painting Consider the Lilies by Makoto Fujimura as a simple, monochromatic painting featuring a lily seemingly hiding in the background. However, the painting came alive when I learned it was actually painted with more than eighty layers of finely crushed minerals in a style of Japanese art known as Nihonga, a style Fujimura calls “slow art.” Looking closely reveals layers of complexity and beauty. Fujimura explains that he sees the gospel echoed in the technique of making “beauty through brokenness,” just as Jesus’ suffering brought the world wholeness and hope.

God loves to take aspects of our lives where we’ve been crushed and broken and create something new and beautiful. King David needed God’s help to repair the brokenness in his life caused by his own devastating actions. In Psalm 51, written after admitting to abusing his kingly power to take another man’s wife and arrange the murder of her husband, David offered God his “broken and contrite heart” (v. 17) and pleaded for mercy. The Hebrew word translated “contrite” is nidkeh, meaning “crushed.”

For God to refashion his heart (v. 10), David had to first offer Him the broken pieces. It was both an admission of sorrow and trust. David entrusted his heart to a faithful and forgiving God, who lovingly takes what’s been crushed and transforms it into something beautiful. — Lisa M. Samra

What parts of your heart are crushed? How might you entrust your brokenness to God?

Dear God, I entrust my brokenness to You, believing that in Your time, You'll transform it into something truly beautiful.

Bible in a year: Psalms 94–96; Romans 15:14–33

[lightman]

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[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, thanks for taking us on tonight's Road Trip, Lauren!

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

THANK YOU
for your service!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening and thank you Mayor!

FIRST!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening lightman!

SECOND!!

[airborne]

I will be there October 15th for the Carlisle Barracks Retiree Appreciation Day.

I will be manning a booth for my veterans organization, the Keystone Paralyzed Veterans of America.

All yunz Freepers are welcome to visit!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening PROCON!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy radu!

[laurenmarlowe]

WOW airborne, what an awesome day, and thank you for your invitation!

[radu]

Howdy, lauren! *HUGZ*

How goes it these days? Are you finally getting a little relief from the furnace like we are? Staying extra-busy as usual? :-)

[PROCON]

Hey radu, sorry I didn't get back to you last night; weekend was fine, I did visit Robin and the pups but did very little else and that was fine with me.

Did you get out to the museum?

How are the kittehs doing?

[laurenmarlowe]

So great to see you radu!

Still above 100 for the rest of this week, but relief is in site next week!

WOO HOO!

[mass55th]

Carlisle, now known as Carlisle Barracks (War College) was the first boarding school for Native American children which forced assimilation into white American society. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened in 1879 and operated for nearly 30 years with a mission to “kill the Indian” to “save the Man.”

Carlisle Indian School Project

[Theophilus]

I have fond memories of Carlisle Barracks from the winter of ‘93. I got to go on an amazing Antietam staff ride with my dad, hosted by Jay Luvas himself!

It was the very day “Don’t ask, don’t tell” came out of the Clintoon Abomination. That bus full of field grades was on the brink of mutiny. How far we have fallen since then.

[radu]

Howdy, PRO!

A nice lazy weekend, huh? Sounds pretty good to me! LOL I hope it was nice enough to sit outside for a bit while you were with Robin and the pups. We’ve finally dropped down to more comfortable temps the past several days and is it ever welcome!

It was a slooooooow day at the museum Friday but better Saturday. With the kids back in school now, Fridays won’t be busy at all.

The kitties are doing fine these days. Aggravating as usual. LOL

[radu]

Well drat! Luvie’s getting a break and you aren’t? That’s not fair. At least you know relief lies ahead and that should help get you through this week.

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Road Trip: Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania ~

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