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Posted on 07/24/2023 6:00:01 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe
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Good evening to you PROCON!
Still doing a bit of work, will check back shortly.
Have a terrific Tuesday!
Toured it several times. AWESOME!!!!!!
Stationed on the Enterprise while it was here as part of the last two cruises. The area is also great because of the close proximity to Yorktown Battlefields (take your bicycle!), Williamsburg, and Jamestowne Island. The battle fields are amazing and if you bike it, you can see the cannons, redoubts, graves, etc. The beach in Yorktown is pretty great, and the museum at the park is free (I seem to remember). An hour or so from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Shenandoah.....
But if you go to the base, the first time you see the “Bridge, Road, Tunnels”, and the “roads to the ocean”.... its amazing. If you wait for a ship that is deploying, you can head out to the “last point” to waive goodbye to the sailors.
Tough years, I hated it when I was there, but as time passes, I know I had some good times too.
Bible in a Year:
He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
“I measure every Grief I meet,” the nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson wrote, “With narrow, probing, eyes – / I wonder if It weighs like Mine – / Or has an Easier size.” The poem is a moving reflection on how people carry the unique ways they’ve been wounded throughout their lives. Dickinson concludes, almost hesitantly, with her only solace: the “piercing Comfort” of seeing at Calvary her own wounds reflected in the Savior’s: “Still fascinated to presume / That Some – are like my own –.”
The book of Revelation describes Jesus, our Savior, as a “Lamb, looking as if it had been slain” (5:6; see v. 12), His wounds still visible. Wounds earned through taking upon Himself the sin and despair of His people (1 Peter 2:24–25), so that they might have new life and hope.
And Revelation describes a future day when the Savior will “wipe every tear” from each of His children’s eyes (21:4). Jesus won’t minimize their pain, but truly see and care for each person’s unique grief—while inviting them into the new, healing realities of life in His kingdom, where there is “no more death or mourning or crying or pain” (v. 4). Where healing water will flow “without cost from the spring of the water of life” (v. 6; see 22:2).
Because our Savior has carried our every grief, we can find rest and healing in His kingdom.
Reflect & Pray
When have you felt truly seen in your pain? How has God comforted you in hard times?
Dear God, thank You for seeing, understanding, and carrying all my grief.
Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!
~ Road Trip: Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia ~
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Howdy, lauren. *Hugz*
I hope all’s well and that your job doesn’t entail going anywhere these days. Too hot to walk out the door.
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Howdy, Kathy.
I hope all went well with the new tech today.
The smoke isn’t too bad up there though it’s obviously there. At least you’re in the green, where we’re in yellow down here. That’s enough to make me sneeze when I go out. LOL
Howdy, luvie.
Did you get a good, long sleep last night? Feel refreshed?
I was stationed at NNS on one of the submarines on which I served. I liked the area. When in port I used to sit on the stern. watch all of the ship and boat movement on Chesapeake Bay and smell the salt air. I can almost smell the salt right now. Ah, what good memories! ;-)
This is amusing. Check my Tagline which has been there for a couple of years.
Awesome. It’s very handy, for sure! Thanks for your hard work!
Hey there, radu!
Yes, I rested well plus had a nice nap, so I have way more energy tonight than I did yesterday.
Did you finally get rested up? Hope the weather isn’t sucking all your energy back out.
Of course, if you want the temps for your area you would have to substitute the Houston applet for your applet. If you need help doing that then please let me know.
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