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To: The Mayor; ConorMacNessa; SandRat; mountainlion; HiJinx; Publius; Jet Jaguar; TMSuchman; PROCON; ...
2 posted on
03/16/2016 6:00:30 PM PDT by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
3 posted on
03/16/2016 6:01:15 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS))))
Happy St. Patty’s day! :-)
4 posted on
03/16/2016 6:01:35 PM PDT by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Are we telling Irish jokes?
;-)
To: Kathy in Alaska
6 posted on
03/16/2016 6:02:02 PM PDT by
soycd
To: Kathy in Alaska
Well, shor-and-begorra. O’Publius checking in.
7 posted on
03/16/2016 6:02:28 PM PDT by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
13 posted on
03/16/2016 6:07:12 PM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
I have no interest in green beer, but I am enjoying a Jameson.
To: Kathy in Alaska
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Positive Repetition
March 17, 2016
I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him.
Deuteronomy 30:16
A journalist had a quirky habit of not using blue pens. So when his colleague asked him if he needed anything from the store, he asked for some pens. "But not blue pens," he said. "I don't want blue pens. I don't like blue. Blue is too heavy. So please purchase 12 ballpoint pens for me--anything but blue!" The next day his colleague passed him the pens--and they were all blue. When asked to explain, he said, "You kept saying 'blue, blue.' That's the word that left the deepest impression!" The journalist's use of repetition had an effect, but not the one he desired.
Moses, the lawgiver of Israel, also used repetition in his requests to his people. More than 30 times he urged his people to remain true to the law of their God. Yet the result was the opposite of what he asked for. He told them that obedience would lead them to life and prosperity, but disobedience would lead to destruction (Deut. 30:15-18).
When we love God, we want to walk in His ways not because we fear the consequences but because it is our joy to please the One we love. That's a good word to remember.
Dear Lord, as we read Your inspired story, may Your Spirit be our teacher. Help us to walk the path of obedience as we hear the voice of Your heart.
Love for God will cause you to live for God.
Today's passage begins with a beautiful statement of how intimately God wants us to know Him. He has not given us commandments that are "too difficult" or "beyond our reach" (Deut. 30:11). This passage ends with the reason His commands are "very near" (v. 14)--that we may love and obey God and enjoy life in Him (v. 20).
17 posted on
03/16/2016 6:15:09 PM PDT by
The Mayor
(Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
In the interest of complete disclosure, the wearing of green is a irish catholic thing. Irish protestants wear orange. The tradition of wearing orange began as a celebration of the Protestant King William of Orange’s defeat of the Catholic King James II at Boyne near Dublin in 1690. Thus the animosity between the religions is preserved.
To: Kathy in Alaska
Hillary says ‘Vote for me, I’m Irish (on my great, great grandmothers’ ex-husband’s side, twice removed!).
To: Kathy in Alaska
Getting ready to listen on my iPad to U2’s “In God’s Country.”
25 posted on
03/16/2016 6:17:19 PM PDT by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Kathy in Alaska
33 posted on
03/16/2016 6:25:00 PM PDT by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Hai - And Happy Patties Day to you and yours. Just as an aside I thought that ~ Danny Boy ~ was a Scottish song. AmIright?
34 posted on
03/16/2016 6:26:34 PM PDT by
SkyDancer
("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: Kathy in Alaska
The reason the Irish celebrate St. Patrick’s Day is because this is when St. Patrick drove the Norwegians out of Ireland.
It seems that some centuries ago, many Norwegians came to Ireland to escape the bitterness of the Norwegian winter. Ireland was having a famine at the time, and food was scarce. The Norwegians were eating almost all the fish caught in the area, leaving the Irish with nothing to eat but potatoes. St. Patrick, taking matters into his own hands, as most Irishmen do, decided the Norwegians had to go.
Secretly, he organized the Irish IRATRION (Irish Republican Army to Rid Ireland of Norwegians). Irish members of IRATRION passed a law in Ireland that prohibited merchants from selling ice boxes or ice to the Norwegians, in hopes that their fish would spoil. This would force the Norwegians to flee to a colder climate where their fish would keep.
Well, the fish spoiled, all right, but the Norwegians, as everyone knows today, thrive on spoiled fish. So, faced with failure, the desperate Irishmen sneaked into the Norwegian fish storage caves in the dead of night and sprinkled the rotten fish with lye, hoping to poison the Norwegian invaders.
But, as everyone knows, the Norwegians thought this only added to the flavor of the fish, and they liked it so much they decided to call it “lutefisk”, which is Norwegian for “luscious fish”.
Matters became even worse for the Irishmen when the Norwegians started taking over the Irish potato crop and making something called “lefse”.
Poor St. Patrick was at his wit’s end, and finally on March 17th, he blew his top and told all the Norwegians to “GO TO HELL”. So they all got in their boats and emigrated to Minnesota—— the only other paradise on earth where smelly fish, old potatoes and plenty of cold weather can be found in abundance. UFF DA!
To: Kathy in Alaska
What a great thread, Kathy! Lots of hard work! :)
44 posted on
03/16/2016 6:40:07 PM PDT by
luvie
(Cruz or Lose! "Where the vision is lost, the people perish"--Proverbs 29:18)
To: Kathy in Alaska
60 posted on
03/16/2016 6:47:29 PM PDT by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
65 posted on
03/16/2016 6:52:42 PM PDT by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Kathy in Alaska
83 posted on
03/16/2016 7:24:43 PM PDT by
HandyDandy
(Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
And a Happy St. Patty’s Day to you also, from a son of the famine Irish, who gives thanks on this day that James Jones had the good sense to head for America. God bless you and keep you!
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