FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 29 September 2022

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew and FRiend

[PROCON]

Hi Kathy, thanks for tonight’s Canteen and remembering and honoring our Troops!

[Kathy in Alaska]

PRAYERS UP FOR ALL OUR FLORIDA FREEPERS AND THEIR FAMILIES!!

~ Remembering Our Troops! ~

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

THANK YOU
for your service!

[The Mayor]

Our Daily Bread

Thursday,
September 29, 2022

The Coffee-Bean Bowl

Read: John 12:1–7

We are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ. 2 Corinthians 2:15

I’m not a coffee drinker, but one sniff of coffee beans brings me a moment of both solace and wistfulness. When our teenage daughter Melissa was making her bedroom uniquely hers, she filled a bowl with coffee beans to permeate her room with a warm, pleasant scent.

It’s been nearly two decades since Melissa’s earthly life ended in a car accident at age seventeen, but we still have that coffee-bean bowl. It gives us a continual, aromatic remembrance of Mell’s life with us.

Scripture also uses fragrances as a reminder. Song of Songs refers to fragrances as a symbol of love between a man and a woman (see 1:3; 4:11, 16). In Hosea, God’s forgiveness of Israel is said to be “fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon” (Hosea 14:6). And Mary’s anointing of Jesus’ feet, which caused the house of Mary and her siblings to be “filled with the fragrance of the perfume” (John 12:3), pointed ahead to Jesus’ death (see v. 7).

The idea of fragrance can also help us be mindful of our testimony of faith to those around us. Paul explained it this way: “We are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing” (2 Corinthians 2:15).

Just as the scent of coffee beans reminds me of Melissa, may our lives produce a scent of Jesus and His love that reminds others of their need of Him. — Dave Branon

How can you be “the fragrance of Christ” to someone today? How has your life caused others to sense the presence of the Savior?

Dear heavenly Father, help me to pass along an aroma of life that makes others know I represent You.

Bible in a year: Isaiah 7–8; Ephesians 2

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Hump Day! Are you able to catch your breath this evening?

[thepoodlebites]

Thank You Kathy in Alaska. One more song for our Troops. May they all make it home safe.

Billy Joel, Goodnight Saigon.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6gZefW4yEA

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro, hope your fall is going well.

We are still getting some rain every night and my deck fills up with leaves every day.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...are you getting any of the rain from Ian?

He is sure doing a lot of destruction on the Florida coast.

[lightman]

Thank those serving.
Honor those who served.
NEVER forget the fallen!

[luvie]

God Bless Our Mighty Troops!

[radu]

Hey there, Kathy.

No rain from Ian here. It’s all still in FL or over the Atlantic. We aren’t going to get much, if anything at all, from the storm. If we get a drop or two, it won’t be until the weekend.

I’ve been watching coverage since I woke up. I can’t believe how slow it’s crawling! It would have been a very destructive storm if it was blowing through fast but it’s leaving total devastation at this snail pace. Still many hours to go before it’s out of FL. :-(

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

What an awesome image!

[Kathy in Alaska]

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

Did you make it safely thru hump day? Hope your days aren’t getting cold yet.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, thepoodlebites, and thank you for the song for our Troops.

They surely need our prayers for safety and making it home safely.

We thank all of them for serving our country.

[luvie]

I know, huh. It gives me chills!

[radu]

Gives me chills too - - the good kind.

[luvie]

Yes, those kind of chills. Makes me proud of our troops!

[radu]

It doesn’t take a graphic to make me proud of them. They do that all on their own. :-)

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Thursday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

How's everyone doing this morning?