"FALL IN" to the FReeper Foxhole!
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Good Night Snippy.
Folks, I'm going to be away from the computer room today to go shopping with our company. I'll be back later today.
Read: Isaiah 61:1-3
The Lord has anointed Me . . . to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning. —Isaiah 61:1,3
Bible In One Year: Psalms 60-62; Romans 5
There's a story of an eccentric old man who carried an oil can with him everywhere he went. If he passed through a squeaky door or a stiff gate, he applied oil to the hinges. His practice of lubricating made life easier for those who followed after him.
Nearly every day we encounter people whose lives creak and grate harshly with problems. In such situations we face two choices—either to aggravate their problems with a spirit of criticism or to lubricate their lives in the Spirit of Christ.
Some people we meet carry unbearable burdens and long for the oil of a sympathetic word. Others are defeated and feel like giving up. Just one drop of encouragement could restore their hope. Still others are mean and sin-hardened. Such people can become pliable toward the saving grace of Christ through regular applications of the oil of kindness.
When we receive Christ as our Savior and Lord, the Holy Spirit indwells us and equips us to bless others. If we're prepared to pour out God's oil of helpfulness every day and everywhere, beginning at home, we'll minister Christ's beauty and the oil of joy to many hurting people.
Perhaps the old man with the oil can wasn't so eccentric after all. —Joanie Yoder
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The Difference Between Them (KERRY TO GIVE NUCLEAR FUEL TO IRAN)
John Kerry regards an Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism armed with nuclear weapons as unacceptable. He has a multiple-part strategy that is much more realistic than the Bush administration's. One is to rejoin and work through the international legal framework on arms control. That will give greater force to the major powers if they have to deal with violators. Secondly, he has laid out, I think in the most comprehensive way in modern memory, a program to secure nuclear materials around the world—particularly in the former Soviet Union but also in the places where research reactors have existed that could be susceptible to proliferation. The point is to try to prevent Iran from ever getting this material surreptitiously. Thirdly, he has proposed that rather than letting the British, the French and the Germans do this themselves, that we together call the bluff of the Iranian government, which claims that its only need is energy. And we say to them: "Fine, we will provide you the fuel that you need if Russia fails to provide it." Participating in such a diplomatic initiative makes it more likely to succeed.
Bombs bursting in air at Ft. McHenry.
Have the day off . . . very enjoyable read about this great American.
I was doing a little research on the posthumous restoration of his CMH. I understand that after careful review the ABCMR did the restoration. I was curious (and my research attempts futile) as to what initiated his CMH restoration. Doesn't someone have to file an application for review with the ABCMR? Or do they sometimes do "cold file" reviews (no pun intended)? Just curious . . . this doesn't qualify as "INCOMING". ;^)
I never tire of reading about Buffalo Bill! Thanks!
By the way, I found this at Jewish World Review today (August 2nd).....
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]
On this day in …
* 1776, members of the Continental Congress began attaching their
signatures to the Declaration of Independence.
* 1876, frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while
playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.
* 1934, German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way
for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover.
* 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.
* 1945, President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British
Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference.
* 1964, the Pentagon reported the first of two attacks on U.S.
destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.
* 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich
emirate. (The Iraqis were later driven out in Operation Desert
Storm.)