To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; All

Good morning Troops, Veterans and Canteeners . . . God bless you and keep you safe
this Memorial Weekend.

83 posted on 05/30/2004 5:11:47 AM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)

To: TexasCowboy; armyboy; Old Sarge; All

#27..Your tribute to our forces in Iraq is terrific, TC...I want all who can see it to see it! Thank you so much!

..AMERICA...HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE

84 posted on 05/30/2004 5:49:37 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL OUR SERVICE PEOPLE THANK YOU FOR KEEPING OUR COUNTRY FREE...

85 posted on 05/30/2004 5:53:38 AM PDT by NNEWBURY

To: Kathy in Alaska

GOOD MORNING KATHY HOPE YOU HAVE A NICE DAY..

86 posted on 05/30/2004 5:58:50 AM PDT by NNEWBURY

HOPE YOU HAVE A NICE DAY AND A GOOD HOLIDAY WEEKEND

87 posted on 05/30/2004 5:59:31 AM PDT by NNEWBURY

May 30, 2004

The Best Consoler

Read: John 14:16-21,24-27

I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever. —John 14:16

Bible In One Year: 2 Chronicles 10-12; John 11:30-57

When two uniformed men came to my door on Memorial Day afternoon, I thought they were collecting for charity. Instead, they told me that my sister and her husband had been killed in an accident earlier that day.

Just over a year after that shattering event, our church choir sang "Veni, Sancte Spiritus" ("Come, Holy Spirit") on Pentecost Sunday (Whitsunday). It brought a wave of peace over my still-aching soul. One verse says: "Thou best of Consolers, sweet guest of the soul, sweet refreshment. In labor, Thou art rest; in heat, the tempering; in grief, the consolation."

On Pentecost Sunday, many churches celebrate the Holy Spirit's coming in power on the disciples (Acts 2:1-21). But the Spirit came also as the Comforter promised by Jesus: "I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever" (John 14:16). The Spirit lives within each Christian, bringing the peace of Christ along with encouragement and alleviation of grief.

Pentecost and Memorial Day seldom fall next to each other as they do in 2004. But the "sweet guest of the soul" is always with us on any day we remember our loved ones who have died. In grief, the Spirit is our consolation, the light of our hearts, the giver of everlasting joy. —David McCasland

O spread the tidings 'round wherever man is found,
Wherever human hearts and human woes abound;
Let every Christian tongue proclaim the joyful sound:
The Comforter has come! —Bottome

In every desert of trial, the Holy Spirit is our oasis of comfort.

88 posted on 05/30/2004 6:13:36 AM PDT by The Mayor (In God's eyes, true greatness is serving others)

I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever. —John 14:16

O spread the tidings 'round wherever man is found,
Wherever human hearts and human woes abound;
Let every Christian tongue proclaim the joyful sound:
The Comforter has come!

In every desert of trial, the Holy Spirit is our oasis of comfort.

89 posted on 05/30/2004 6:14:00 AM PDT by The Mayor (In God's eyes, true greatness is serving others)

Going well here too, all sunny too, almost summer lol

90 posted on 05/30/2004 6:40:51 AM PDT by knighthawk (Some people say that we'll get nowhere at all, let 'em tear down the world but we ain't gonna fall)

91 posted on 05/30/2004 6:45:07 AM PDT by NNEWBURY

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100 posted on 05/30/2004 6:45:49 AM PDT by NNEWBURY

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