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September 12, 2008

Lifework

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READ: 1 Timothy 5:1-8

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. —1 Timothy 5:8

Some of our friends have chosen to curtail or leave their ministries this year. They did so in order to care for family members—for aging parents, ill spouses, siblings, or children with special needs. All were involved in fruitful works for which they were uniquely gifted. All believed that there was much to be done.

Some have chosen to reduce the time and energy they spend on those ministries; others have left their work completely. These adjustments have been difficult because ministry has been their lifework—a work for which they spent years in preparation and had many years yet to serve.

It occurs to me, however, that they have not given up their lifework but rather have assumed another. Loving and caring for others is our life’s work, and caring for those of our “own house” is the highest and holiest work of all. To deny love is to align ourselves with a cold, uncaring world.

Not everyone can leave a career or calling to care for others. Financial realities and obligations may dictate otherwise. But is not such love the mark of one who does the work of God? Did not Jesus promise that one who gives a cup of cold water to one of His children “shall by no means lose his reward”? (Matt. 10:42).

Thinking It Through
Paul says we are to help those who “are really widows” (1 Tim. 5:3-5). What does he mean by this? (vv.9-10). Who should help before the church does? (v.16).

True love is doing, not just feeling.

Bible in One Year: Isaiah 34–36; Proverbs 25:15-28

[Kathy in Alaska]

Honoring Our Heroes

AbnSarge USA
Allegra
3 sons (armymarinemom and amdad)
Brett USN (CindyDawg)
Brother and Son-in-Law (kalee)
Cannoneer No. 4
Capt Future Snake Eater USA (RightOnline)
Capt Jason Clendenin (friend of Frou)
Chris USA (amom)
Chuck USA (RightOnline)
Col Mike (gpapa)
CMS USA
David USAF (LUV W)
Defender2
Deven USA (Shimmer)
Ethan USMC (georgiabelle)
Ev USA (Mozie)
Fred (DocRock)
GulfWar1Vet USA
IS2 Brianne USN (My Hearts in London - Everett)
IS2 Heather USN (My Hearts in London - Everett)
Jade Falcon USN
JemiansTerror USA (Jemian)
Jet Jaguar USAF
Joel (NEMDF)
Jonathan USMC (AZbushgal)
Josh USN (doug from upland)
Karen USA (fatima's granddaughter)
KB4W USAF (arbee4bush)
Kenneth (Sweetbaby/LadyPilgrim)
Kevin USMC (skimask)
Kevin and David USA (vigilante2)
Laurita USA
LCpl Carter USMC
Lindsay (Sweetbaby/LadyPilgrim)
Lt David (Coldwater Creek)
M1911A1 USMC (M0sby)
M1Tanker
MEG33's Navy Grandson
Michael USAR (RightOnline)
Mike1Sg USA (mystery-ak)
Milo828 USA (mystery-ak)
Nate USN (sneakers)
Old Sarge USA
OneLoyalAmerican USCG
PFC Dan USA (son of swmobuffalo)
Robert, Jeremy, Daynnis USA (SoldierDad)
Sat-Com Chris USA (son of KC Burke)
Sgt Brian USA (repubmom)
Sgt Dusty USA (MountainDad)
Sgt Sean Reed (preed)
Sgt Spencer USA (grame)
Son USCG (GodBlessUSA)
SPC Matt USA (repubmom)
SPC Mike USA (AbnSarge)
SSG Mitchel USA (tina07)
SSGT John Linde USA (JFoxbear)
Terrence USN (Sweetbaby/LadyPilgrim)
The Sailor
tongue-tied USN/USA
Tonkin USN/USCG
txradioguy USA
Valerie USAF (Shimmer)
Victor and Tony D USMC (weldgophardline)
William USA (jackv)

 

[Tanniker Smith]

IN!! ... if the server ever responds...

[AZamericonnie]

Supporting our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
at more than 1,000 places across the U. S. and around the world.

~Tribute to Our Troops~

[MS.BEHAVIN]

In

[laurenmarlowe]

United States Marine Corps Band~National Anthem

[laurenmarlowe]

WASHINGTON (Sept. 11, 2008) Members of a joint service honor guard prepare to raise the flag during the Pentagon Memorial dedication ceremony Sept. 11, 2008. The national memorial is the first to be dedicated to those killed at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The site contains 184 inscribed memorial units honoring the 59 people aboard American Airlines Flight 77 and the 125 in the building who lost their lives. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad McNeeley/Released)

WASHINGTON (Sept 10, 2008) Lorin Pfiel, a Healing Field Foundation volunteer, arranges an American flag Sept. 10, 2008, in the Pentagon parking lot. Pfiel is one of about 200 volunteers arranging nearly 3,000 flags in honor of the victims and families of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Michael J. Carden/Released)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Sept. 10, 2008) Military personnel prepare a medical patient for evacuation Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008 from Corpus Christi, Texas to a medical facility in Dallas as Hurricane Ike approaches the Texas Gulf Coast. (Photo by Interior Communications Electrician 1st Class Jason R. Stephens/Released)

[j_tull]

Verse 4, my favorite.

[Old Sarge]

PRESENT FOR DOODY!

[Fiji Hill]

The line "no refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave" seems to have been inspired by Job 7:2:

Like a slave who longs for the shadow and like a hireling who looks for his wages...

[Radix]

A bit of trivia concerning Francis Scott Key's family.

 

 

 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald    (aka F. Scott Fitzgerald) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem.

 

A review of The Great Gatsby......which is pretty much required reading in all schools American......

 

 

BTW, I just loved the You-Tube Whitney Houston rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.

[Iron Munro]

The Original Star Spangled Banner

The flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem.

Made in Baltimore, Maryland, in July-August 1813 by flagmaker Mary Pickersgill
Commissioned by Major George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry
Original size: 30 feet by 42 feet
Current size: 30 feet by 34 feet
Fifteen stars and fifteen stripes (one star has been cut out)
Raised over Fort McHenry on the morning of September 14, 1814, to signal American victory over the British in the Battle of Baltimore; the sight inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Preserved by the Armistead family as a memento of the battle
First loaned to the Smithsonian Institution in 1907; converted to permanent gift in 1912
On exhibit at the National Museum of American History since 1964
Major, multi-year conservation effort launched in 1998
Plans for new permanent exhibition gallery now underway

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Kathy! Excellent thread!

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Kathy. Hugs.

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Night Owl!

Thanks for offering up Whitney's redition; she was a great singer and did herself proud with that.

[JohnBovenmyer]

There also was a notable prequel to this story. The Tripolitan war lives on not only in the Marine hymn, but also in other songs. In Georgetown, Maryland, a banquet honoring Stephen Decatur and the other heroes celebrated the victory with a song written by lawyer Francis Scott Key. Key took the popular drinking song, "Anacreon in Heaven," which had been used for many patriotic songs of the day, and turned it into an anthem:

When the warrior returns from the battle afar,
To the home and the country he has nobly defended,
Oh! Warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,
And loud be the joys that his perils are ended!
In the full tide of song, let his fame roll along.
To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng.
Where mixt with the olive the laurel shall wave,
And form a bright wreath for the brow of the brave.

The next verse celebrates the "band of brothers" that braved the desert and ocean to secure the rights and "fair fame" of America. The third verse continues the theme, more explicitly focused on the Tripolitan war:

In conflict resistless each toil they endured,
Till their foes shrunk dismay'd from the war's desolation:
And pale beam'd the crescent, its splendor obscur'd
By the light of the star-spangled flag of our nation.
Where each flaming star gleam'd a meteor of war,
And the turban'd heads bowed to the terrible glare.
Then mixt with the olive the laurel shall wave,
And form a bright wreath, for the brow of the brave.

Nine years later, Key would stand aboard a British warship as it bombarded Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He would rewrite this song about Tripoli, with its imagery of bombs and warfare, and the arresting image of the "star-spangled" flag, which here obscures the Muslim crescent. Key's song of Tripoli lives on in the American national anthem.

More on these events were originally found here, but no longer appear to be online there. However they live on in its old FreeRepublic posting! The full lyrics of the prequel are here.

[MoochPooch]

Gut Shabbes, Kathy.

The early 1800s was a rather exciting time in history, wasn’t it?

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone. Good morning

Thank you, Ma, for preparing the Canteen for today’s activities.

Now for our local DC Metroland weather report

~ Today....A few showers this morning then thundershowers developing during the afternoon hours. High 78F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.

~ Tonight....Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm this evening, then some lingering showers still possible overnight. Low 69F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 60%.

This is one week I am certainly glad has gone on by. Been a very busy and stressful one.

Keeping watch on IKE and Texas. I sure hope all of our FReepers in the path have packed up and taken an early vacation somewhere else.

Speaking of vacation, I booked hotel reservations last night for early October for a weekend in the Outer Banks, NC. I am keeping my fingers crossed that all the bad weather will be long gone by the time we get there. Hubby and I want to have a nice long weekend and I'll finally get a day at the beach. I am so excited!

Time for me to make my rounds. But, you stay right where you are. Don't touch that dial. Don't change that channel. Put down that remote. Don't leave the room. Keep your eyes on your monitor. Cause...............I'll be bock!

And, for the rest of you………..

Now remember, the Canteen is ALWAYS

So, come on in and sit for a while. There's always plenty of coffee, pancakes, conversation, silliness, and plain old BS

REMEMBER THEM

DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT

Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

080911-F-6684S-001 WASHINGTON (Sept. 11, 2008) - The sun rises over the main stage before the start of the Pentagon Memorial dedication ceremony Sept. 11, 2008. The national memorial is the first to be dedicated to those killed at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The site contains 184 inscribed memorial units honoring the 59 people aboard American Airlines Flight 77 and the 125 in the building who lost their lives. (U.S. Air Force photo by MSgt. Adam Stump/Released)

080907-N-0411D-043 BRUNSWICK, Maine (Sept. 7, 2008) - The U.S. Navy flight demonstration team The Blue Angels perform for more than 100,000 guests during the Great State of Maine Air Show. The air show brought performances by the Blue Angels, The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team, and a wide variety of static displays and interactive exhibits. The show drew more than 150,000 people over three days. This will be the final Navy-sponsored air show at this location before NAS Brunswick is scheduled close in 2011 by the Base Realignment Commission. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Roger S. Duncan/Released)

080907-N-0411D-029 BRUNSWICK, Maine (Sept. 7, 2008) - The U.S. Navy flight demonstration team The Blue Angels perform for more than 100,000 guests during the Great State of Maine Air Show. The air show brought performances by the Blue Angels, The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team, and a wide variety of static displays and interactive exhibits. The show drew more than 150,000 people over three days. This will be the final Navy-sponsored air show at this location before NAS Brunswick is scheduled close in 2011 by the Base Realignment Commission. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Roger S. Duncan/Released)

080910-N-4649C-001 SILVERDALE, Wash. (Sept. 10, 2008) - Sailors assigned to the ballistic-missile submarine USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN 730) participate in firefighting training at the advanced firefighting school at Trident Training Facility, Bangor. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chantel M. Clayton (Released)

080907-N-7668G-018 NORFOLK, Va. (Sept. 7, 2008) - Jackie "Mom" Kaye pins the submarine warfare pin on Lt. j.g. Robert Moreno, from Licking, Mo., during quarters on the pier at Naval Station Norfolk. Kaye attended the fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) change of command ceremony as an honored guest. North Carolina is the 23rd submarine adopted by "Mom" Kaye, who has spent more than 25 years taking care of military service members worldwide. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Xander Gamble/Released)

Aug. 27 during a sortie over New Orleans with F-15 Eagles from the Louisiana Air National Guard and F-22 Raptors from Langley Air Force Base, Va. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.)

An F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from Joint Base Balad, Iraq, refuels from a KC-135 Stratotanker Sept. 3 during a mission over Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon II)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Nicely done! :)