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Posted on 12/31/2023 5:00:34 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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Happy New Year Kathy...you are doing the Lord’s work!👍🥰
Tippy is so smart, she wanted to join us in Scrabble, but, fortunately, she doesn’t have opposing thumbs. :-)
French Special Forces
https://twitter.com/Fs_french_/status/1741473033146028492
*HUG*
Good evening, Ma!
We had a marvelous new Years Eve with lots of food and fun!
I have to face the fact that i cannot do at 68 y.o. what I
used to do as a 30 something y.o.
We had fun last night, but boy..do we feel it today!
Did anyone get the plate # of the truck that hit me?
Oy!
I don’t drink at all, haven’t since about 2006, so no hangover thank God!
Just feeling a mite rickety today!
LOL
How are YOU, Ma?
Still working from home?
I HOPE you fully retired by now!
You have enough to do just chasing us “kids” around!
Your family doing well?
I am entirely too nosey, I know!!
*evil grin*
YAY!!!!!!!
I actually won something!
And You did too, ‘du!
I just wanted to say that!
Hee hee!
*evil grin*
Over 200 Service Members, Veterans Pledge to Hold Military Leaders Accountable for Vaccine Mandate
231 current and former military members signed an open letter vowing to hold accountable those who implemented the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
More than 200 active service members and veterans have signed an open letter seeking accountability over the alleged harm caused by the Department of Defense’s (DOD) implementation of the now-rescinded COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The open letter, published on Jan. 1, is directed to the American people, but names specific senior military leaders who the signers claim enabled lawlessness and betrayed the Constitution.
Some of the leaders specifically named in the letter include former and current joint chiefs of staff, service academy commandants, service inspectors general, and service surgeon generals.
The signatories state, “In the coming years, thousands within our network will run for Congress and seek appointments to executive branch offices, while those of us still serving on active duty will continue to put fulfilling our oaths ahead of striving for rank or position.
“For those who achieve the lawful authority to do so, we pledge to recall from retirement the military leaders who broke the law and will convene courts-martial for the crimes they committed.”
A number of the signatories are veterans who are now running for Congress and state-level political offices. These veterans also pledged to introduce legislation to seek accountability by reducing the alleged perpetrators’ retirement income to zero.
Many of the 231 signers of the letter are still on active duty. Several said they are taking on significant personal risk to stand up for what they believe in and to defend their unalienable rights that they feel have been trampled.
Happy New Year Kathy and Thank you for another year together here.
So many years have passed since we arrived. God Bless my friend
Bible in a Year :
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down.
Ernest Hemingway’s first full-length novel features hard-drinking friends who’ve recently endured World War I. They bear the literal and figurative scars of the war’s devastation and try to cope with it via parties, grand adventures, and sleeping around. Always, there is alcohol to numb the pain. No one is happy.
Hemingway’s title for his book The Sun Also Rises comes straight from the pages of Ecclesiastes (1:5). In Ecclesiastes, King Solomon refers to himself as “the Teacher” (v. 1). He observes, “Everything is meaningless” (v. 2) and asks, “What do people gain from all their labors?” (v. 3). Solomon saw how the sun rises and sets, the wind blows to and fro, the rivers flow endlessly into a never satisfied sea (vv. 5–7). Ultimately, all is forgotten (v. 11).
Both Hemingway and Ecclesiastes confront us with the stark futility of living for this life only. Solomon, however, weaves bright hints of the divine into his book. There is permanence—and real hope. Ecclesiastes shows us as we truly are, but it also shows God as He is. “Everything God does will endure forever,” said Solomon (3:14), and therein lies our great hope. For God has given us the gift of us His Son, Jesus.
Apart from God, we’re adrift in an endless, never satisfied sea. Through His risen Son, Jesus, we’re reconciled to Him, and we discover our meaning, value, and purpose. .
Reflect & Pray
What occupies your time and what meaning does it hold? How might you change your priorities to follow Jesus?
Loving Father, help me find my fulfillment in You.
Happy New Year, Allegra.
ROTFLMBO!! Too funny! Gotta email that one to a few friends and share the laugh.
LOL! Gotta learn to pace yourself. At least you don’t have a hangover on top of everything else. Sounds like y’all had a roarin’ good time last night.
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