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FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ LIVING PRAYER ~ Happy New Year 2017 ~ 01 January 2017
Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Elves

Posted on 12/31/2016 5:00:22 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska


 

 

 

 

LIVING PRAYER


Brother Lawrence was a monk who lived almost 300 years ago and worked in the galley of his monastery. He wrote a book, The Practice of the Presence of God, which today is considered a classic in the area of Christian devotion. Brother Lawrence spent much of his time in the monastery scullery scrubbing pots and pans. He also had a collateral duty as the monastery cobbler. In these jobs, he said, he learned to glorify God in simple tasks and to pray with his hands. By bringing to each small job the best of his ability, he developed the practice of living prayer. Whether he was bustling around the galley, repairing shoes or kneeling in prayer, he learned to grow spiritually as well as mentally and to cultivate a never-ending, ever-deepening sense of God's presence.

Each day you do hundreds of small tasks. Perhaps you feel at times unrecognized or unnoticed, or that your job is insignificant in the great scope of things. The fact is it doesn't matter what you do or what position you hold. What really matters is the spirit in which you work, and how you approach your work. Brother Lawrence teaches us an important and very wise lesson: Even the simplest tasks, when done to the best of your ability, are important in God's eyes. Whenever you bring to any job the best of yourself, your fullest mind, an honest heart, and a striving for excellence, then your work, no matter what you do, becomes like a living prayer to God.

CAPT Jane F. Vieira, CHC, USN



 

 



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To: Kathy in Alaska

Howdy, Kathy.

Hope it’s been a calm day for you so you could relax for a while.


21 posted on 12/31/2016 6:39:36 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: The Mayor; ConorMacNessa; SandRat; 2111USMC; Jet Jaguar; Publius; PROCON; mountainlion; HiJinx; ...

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

A Blessed Lord's Day and Shavua Tov to you.


22 posted on 12/31/2016 6:41:01 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: ConorMacNessa

Howdy do, Conor. *HUGZ*

It sounds like you and Mrs. MacNessa are having a nice New Years Eve.

It’s a quiet one here too. I’m watching Lord of the Rings and Hubby’s doing whatever he does on his computer. And the kittehs are actually behaving themselves!
For now. LOL!


23 posted on 12/31/2016 6:44:51 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: MoochPooch; left that other site; SkyDancer; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; onedoug; BluesDuke; ...

Shavua Tov.
Wishing all our Jewish troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
a peaceful and prosperous week.


24 posted on 12/31/2016 6:45:16 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: MoJo2001; AZamericonnie; StarCMC; ConorMacNessa; The Mayor; SandRat; HiJinx; Cindy; ...

Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
for a safe and peaceful week ahead.


25 posted on 12/31/2016 6:49:10 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: MoochPooch; left that other site; SkyDancer; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; onedoug; BluesDuke; ...

He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.

May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.

May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.

G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.


26 posted on 12/31/2016 6:51:28 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: radu
Good evening, Radu!

*HUGS*

I expect watching Lord of the Rings is much more exciting than watching OSU cave to Clemson.

A Blessed Lord's Day and New Year to you and Mr. Radu!

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

27 posted on 12/31/2016 6:58:01 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: left that other site

LOL! Who’s in charge?

We tried to put booties on my Dad’s lab once....as laid back as he was, NO DICE!!

*sigh* going back and adding the “t”s.

New keyboard on the way from Amazon.


28 posted on 12/31/2016 7:02:15 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: unique1; USMCPOP; JFoxbear; Dad of Chris Mason; debm29palms

God Bless our military men and women who have given their all.

Thanks, unique.


29 posted on 12/31/2016 7:03:16 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: ConorMacNessa

Sounds like none of the games are very exciting today and tonight.

I love LOTR and watch it whenever I find it’s on. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve read the books over the years. LOL

They wanted my step-sister to work on the movie but it took them so long to get started on it, she ended up working on the last Harry Potter movie instead.


30 posted on 12/31/2016 7:06:17 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Happy New Year Kathy!! {{HUGS}}

To you and all our armed forces, past and present and our allies and all the families!


31 posted on 12/31/2016 7:08:42 PM PST by freedumb2003 (I have feeling '17 is gonna be a good year)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

I had to establish right away that I am the ALPHA FEMALE in this little tribe.

Penny understands that.

But NO BOOTIES!

:-)


32 posted on 12/31/2016 7:15:04 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Fiddlstix

Beautiful music and I loved it when the pipes joined in.


33 posted on 12/31/2016 7:27:01 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska; 2LT Radix jr; acad1228; AirForceMom; Colonel_Flagg; AliVeritas; aomagrat; ...


Daniel O'Donnel~Church In The Wildwood

Allison Crowe~Hallelujah

Dallas Christian Choir~How Beautiful

Jeff Russell~Heaven Opened Its Doors

Jim Brickman~How Great Thou Art

Providence~Sweet Beulah Land

St. Olaf Choir~When Peace Like A River

Have a blessed Sunday
God bless our troops!
Happy New Year!


34 posted on 12/31/2016 7:30:40 PM PST by luvie (There is no global anthem, no global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one country, America.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg; Excellence; TADSLOS; Tax-chick; RightOnline; LUV W; GodBlessUSA; KC Burke; ...
Thanks, Military Families, for your service to our country.


John Conlee ~ They Also Serve


35 posted on 12/31/2016 7:45:54 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Fiddlstix

Great cartoon.


36 posted on 12/31/2016 7:49:14 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Fiddlstix

Great timpani in that rendition.


37 posted on 12/31/2016 7:56:38 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: HiJinx
Thanks, HJ, and a Blessed Lord's Day to you and yours.

Happy New Year - Click Here


38 posted on 12/31/2016 7:59:25 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska; nickcarraway; NYer; ELS; Pyro7480; livius; ArrogantBustard; Catholicguy; RobbyS; ..

New Year’s Prayer

by Charlotte Anselmo

Thank you Lord for giving me
The brand new year ahead
Help me live the way I should
As each new day I tread.

Give me gentle wisdom
That I might help a friend
Give me strength and courage
So a shoulder I might lend.

The year ahead is empty
Help me fill it with good things
Each new day filled with joy
And the happiness it brings.

Please give the leaders of our world
A courage born of peace
That they might lead us gently
And all the fighting cease.

Please give to all upon this earth
A heart that’s filled with love
A gentle happy way to live
With Your blessings from above.

The New Year lies before you,
like a spotless track of snow...
be careful how you tread on it,
for every mark will show.


39 posted on 12/31/2016 8:01:06 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; All


40 posted on 12/31/2016 8:05:14 PM PST by Soaring Feather (Holding On)
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