The FReeper Foxhole Profiles the North Platte Canteen - December 12th, 2004

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[Samwise]

The movie's good...the books are better.

The movies are great.... The books are even greater! ;^)

[Valin]

OK! I stand corrected(well actually I'm siting)
That being said I have some....issues with Peter jacksons choices of what to put in ANDwhat to leave out.

[Soaring Feather]

Morning Samwise. LOL Yes, Santa has recovered!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Marines with Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fire on enemy insurgents who are attacking them with indirect and small-arms fire in the town of Jurf as Sakhr, Iraq, Dec.1, 2004. The mission is part of an operation by Iraqi, U.S., and British Forces to root out anti-Iraqi elements in the Northern Babil Province. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Zachary R. Frank)

[snippy_about_it]

Mornin' CJ.

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you. We would have been right there with them had we had the chance, wouldn't we? :-)

[Soaring Feather]

Amazing Grace

[The Mayor]

December 12, 2004

Serving Without Distraction

Read: Luke 10:38-42

Martha was distracted with much serving. —Luke 10:40

Bible In One Year: Hosea 9-11; Revelation 3

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While Martha served Jesus unsparingly, her sister Mary sat at His feet, listening and learning. Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) believed that Martha's mistake wasn't her serving, but rather that she allowed it to distract her attention from Jesus. Spurgeon believed that we should be Martha and Mary in one. He wrote, "We should do much service, and have much communion at the same time. For this we need great grace. It is easier to serve than to commune."

I once met a young mother who found the grace to do both. She hungered after God and His Word but was unavoidably immersed in family life each day. Then an idea came to her. In each room she placed paper and a pencil on a high surface, away from tiny hands. As she served the Lord in household responsibilities, she also kept herself open to God. Whenever a Scripture came to mind, or something to confess, to correct, or to pray about, she jotted it on the nearest pad of paper. In the evening after the children were asleep, she gathered her pieces of paper and pondered them prayerfully over her open Bible.

This woman found a way to be Martha and Mary at the same time. May we too discover ways to serve God and to commune with Him. —Joanie Yoder

Our service for the Lord each day
Can make us feel distressed,
But spending time each day with Christ
Can make our service blest. —D. De Haan

To keep your life in balance, lean on the Lord.

[stand watie]

!!!!!!

fwiw, that picture was made long AFTER the WBTS.

"the boss" never had the $$$$$$ to buy a CSA officer's uniform, sword OR a horse, during the war.

instead he rode a BORROWED mule & his civilian clothes & carried a sawed-off 10 guage double-barrel shotgun as a personal weapon.

he was a natural GENIUS at guerrilla war, despite being poor! NONE better.

free dixie,sw

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Aeronaut.

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Good morning EGC.

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Thanks for the coffee Gail. It's windy and chilly here today, we'll need it.

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Good morning Grzegorz.

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LOL. I like it!

[Samwise]

We would have been right there with them had we had the chance, wouldn't we?

You betcha! But snippy, we are doing the same thing--just in a different way. :^)

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning shield.

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Good morning Valin.

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Good morning feather.

[Samwise]

That being said I have some....issues with Peter jacksons choices of what to put in AND what to leave out.

Oh, me too. I've read the books so many times that I had my visions of everything in my head. It took me several viewings of the first movie to come to terms with the fact that the movies are Jackson's vision of the books--and what an incredible vision they are. I've come to the conclusion that I can't compare the books to the movie.

When I was in college, one of my profs handed us each a magazine. We had to illustrate an article. Tolkien had died. Guess what I illustrated? :^) Good guess. My vision of the characters was no more or less correct than anyone elses--but one classmate got bent out of shaped because Gollum had a greenish cast.

[shield]

Good Morning to you snippy. ;o)