Hello (again?) dear Reader! Greetings and salutations on a fine (if chilly!) day above ground, yet again! We're given the gifts of life, sentience, love, and all other good and wonderful things from our beloved Father. He is so wonderful. 💖
Without further delay, here is today's Proverb, straight from the Book of Wisdom:
And, Terry found these singers yesterday and we both instantly adore them; please give this a listen as I'm certain you will not regret it!
I just started it again for a fourth time this morning alone and feel that probably all (especially mature) Christians can relate; both of these young men are remarkably talented!
Here's the weather and forecast for this area today according to google:
Sending this next song to the Democrats:
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Okay, that's all for now; thank you for stopping by today, dear Reader; don't forget to laugh along the way today - nobody gets out of this thing (called Life) alive.
Hello (again?) dear Reader, and welcome in one place online where you're encouraged to speak freely, understanding that I can and absolutely will do the very same. I remember listening to this next CD on the player in my Volvo S70, on the drive to work in Deep Ellum (in Dallas, TX) from my third-floor apartment in Arlington a short thirty approximate minutes away; seeing the sunrise during that drive was always the very best.
I bought it soon after it dropped back in 1999 (Moby PLAY, that is).
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And, tonight I waited too long, but caught this post-sunset image from our yard today:
Today, we gathered for a superb homemade meal that featured chicken and beef enchiladas, Spanish rice, papas fritas, (and I made) guacamole. We have errands to run tomorrow and still very much general work ahead; sometimes the time seems to fly by with incomprehensible velocity, like the month of April 2025 so far has.
Right now, I'm typing away; he's laying down nearby; the animals are all either asleep or otherwise at rest, and this is playing in the background:
Thank you for spending some of your time with me here, dear Reader; be blessed and may your rest be peaceful and plentiful, refreshing you body, mind, and soul for the week to come (God willing). 💖
Though it's still about an hour before Dawn today in the MST, good morning (etc) dear Reader, and welcome!
Here we find ourselves awake - alive! - in yet another day that not one of us deserved or was promised. How very wonderful; thank You, God! That song (the video, right up there) is a song from the 1981 movie Xanadu and came to mind as soon as I woke up not long ago, so there you have it. I'm actually playing it a second time right now.
And here's the first video we uploaded to the new YouTube channel "From the Ashes" - it's a sunrise from three days ago from our previous view of the sunrise.
Anyway, today's Proverb is all about adultery again. Honestly! I know that it's very important for us to avoid that sin, but wish that it wasn't the author's favorite topic for literally several consecutive days on end. Oh, well. So, knowing what an extreme issue that I have with my mouth (the tongue), I'm reading this today as well:
Wow! Everything about that chapter speaks volumes of encouraging correction to me and, I pray/hope, it affects you in the same way, dear Reader. Let us always be grateful for God's correction and the trials that come our way, both of which are validation, proof that He does, indeed, love us, and that He is working in our very lives, meeting each of us at the point of need in the perfect moment, every time without fail, and we often only perceive it as such in hindsight.
I have (what is now) a funny story (but twenty-four hours ago, I was furious). We have a little plumbing to do in order to restore water service here, so yesterday morning, hours before Dawn, I put on houseshoes and grabbed the empty plastic milk jug to go over to our neighbor's yard and use the garden-hose to carry a gallon of water back home. First, I went to the back of the house and turned the water on and then walked to the front, grabbed the service-end of it and filled the jug... only, I walked too close to the freshly-watered tree in the front yard and my house-shoes immediately sank and got stuck. FINE. So, I walked back barefoot, only the path is a rough gravel and every step was painful; it took about 90 seconds getting there, but about ten minutes getting back. When I got back home, I screamed about it for several minutes, feeling like the fool I often am. The house-shoes need to be put through the wash. I need to somehow either become smarter or just get on board with being an idiot. Probably not, but maybe you can relate? Anyway, that's my "I was mad but now it's funny" story from recently.
I pray the Lord protect our leaders and all who surround them, that He destroy and expose the entire human-trafficking industry and set literally every captive free; God, thank You for another day of Life today! We ask for You to please change the hearts of men and show Yourself strong in and through us, to the glory of Your Name, God. Please flood the darkness with the light of Your Presence, dear Lord. Please heal the sick, end all wars, expose evil and defeat all of it with Your Truth and righteousness. Please give the gift of salvation to all of our family, friends, colleagues, and yes, Lord, even to our enemies in accordance with Your will and Your Word. Please eradicate the murder of abortion, God, making it unthinkable in the hearts and minds of all expectant mothers on earth, God, in Jesus' Name. Please set Your bridle on my stupid tongue, God, and speak healing through me to benefit the hearers, Lord and give me the grace to otherwise be silent. God, please forgive us for our sins today and prompt each of us to extend that same unmerited favor to all who sin against us, being imperfect human beings like we ourselves our, God. Thank You again for this day; please enable me to be productive with it. Show me how to love You more, Jesus; let that be the last thing on my mind before breathing my last someday. In all things, though, let Your will be done above all. Thank You, dear Lord, we love You. In Jesus' Name. amen.
Thank you for spending your treasure with me today, dear Reader (minutes of time that you cannot reclaim, that is). May God touch you today like never before! May He set every captive free, and change you from glory to glory, in Jesus' Name.
Good morning (et cetera) dear Reader, and welcome to yet another day above ground! I'm happy to say that we're near the end of moving, and once that's done, the real work begins. I will say that I much prefer the huge windows we have now to the smaller ones that we just moved away from. The dogs are still somewhat nervous, the turtle is settled right in as far as we can tell; the kitty's roaming the place like he owns it, and the rabbit is inspecting his new living room at the moment.
And, this morning, I want to tell you a bit about an idea that came to me a couple of days ago and I just can't shake it; I think it's a good one (but you may, or may not, agree). Here it is.
Years ago, my late best friend, Fionna, was in a car accident in North Texas that disabled her vehicle; another motorist stopped to assist (Fionna's car was in the middle of the highway). Well, unfortunately, a Trophy Club policeman who responded to the call failed to see the woman who stopped to help Fionna, struck and killed her accidentally with his car. Perhaps if he had been going slower it might not have killed her; but I know that if that stretch of remote highway in North Texas had had adequate lighting, he probably would have seen the woman and she would probably still be alive today.
Which brings to mind the idea. For many years now, as an adult, I prefer to live in small towns or rural areas; the biggest problem with that is the absence of adequate light for safe traveling at night. Not lack: ABSENCE. All over the United States.
Now, I understand that electricity is expensive, but solar power? That's FREE. So (conservative that I am), I suggest that we install solar lighting along every roadway in the United States, ALL of it. This will increase safety and lower the number of accidents as well. No electric bills to pay and no need to control the lights as they will come on and go off automatically as needed. Why have we not already done this?
So, that's why I entitled this blog entry "let there be light!" - indeed.
Anyway, that's all I have for now, dear Reader. Thank you for spending some precious minutes of your life reading my words, I appreciate it and pray that God bless you richly today, in Jesus' Name, amen.
Hello (again?) dear Reader, and welcome to this obscure sliver of American cyberspace, hours before Dawn as I sit typing and drinking coffee alone in a tiny office somewhere near the US/Mexico border in Arizona, USA.
Do you see the image that I posted here before anything else today? Good. Well, I stole the image from the Internet, but added the words myself yesterday (using GIMP software, which is free, but I digress). Anyway, some guy in one of the groups where I posted that made a comment about the babies not being white - I'm like "yeah -who cares about that?!" Honestly! But it's all he could come up with as a mediocre troll-wannabe, so there you have it. The point that I wish to make here and now is this: How are more people not absolutely horrified that this isn't the top story world-wide, now and until those babies are all found?! (And, no offense to young people, but, to me, if you are 18 years old or under, honey, you ARE a baby in my eyes, and it's not a matter of condescension but more of cherishing and wanting to protect you). Anyway, all of humanity should be outraged by this. We should collectively FLAT REFUSE to pay attention to literally ANYTHING else and demand of our leaders and those satanists posing as journalists in mainstream media to know where the babies are, who's working to find them, what progress is being made, and what severe and decisive punishments will those guilty face? THAT is what we SHOULD be doing. But NO. NO, we're distracted by all the stupidity they choose to shove down our throats instead: brain-killers like "Signal Gate" for one:
And, hey, look: I'm NOT pointing fingers at everyone else and claiming to be the only one who's obsessed with the missing babies, absolutely not at all and I know that. BUT, what I want to know is WHY there's not MORE uproar about this in general, you see? It looks to me like, the 'higher up' you go (the more money one makes, the more reach one has as in the case of those in media) the less they seem to care about what should be the story of the ages, second to the true story of redemption through Christ.
The entire human-trafficking industry is the work of satan and his loyal followers, full-stop. Everyone who seeks to hide or minimize the story is just as guilty as those who buy the children and abuse them, FULL STOP, but they act as though God will never ever hold them accountable.
So, let's face it. Clearly, we cannot count on (most) humans to do the right thing. Some of us try; we can and should pray, every time it crosses our minds to.
Lord Jesus, come quickly! Please, Lord. The babies are counting on You.
Good morning, et cetera, dear Reader! We find ourselves above ground yet again today - how very wonderful. Right now, I'm almost done with a second cup of coffee in my favorite mug; the turtle had a quiet bath and is now wrapped up and laying with his Daddy with the other creatures in the house peacefully quiet, apparently resting. I can hear the sounds of a not-so-distant highway as life scurries and bustles in apparently-linear fashion.
Though consistent with the Book of Proverbs, the rest of my reading very much lacks reason and/or organization. I usually sit quietly and wait for a chapter to 'pop into my mind' or see if any part of a verse comes to mind, et cetera, and read that (as well). It's just my opinion, but I think it's all good, as long as you're searching, as long as you're trying.
Tomorrow is going to be a big day, geopolitically speaking. For right now, though, my heart is still preoccupied with: God needs to end all human trafficking and all war. I pray that He just vaporizes that entire industry, I pray that it crumbles into non-existence, in Jesus' Name, amen! Also: war (Lord, please replace all current conflicts with Your Peace, God, in Jesus' Name). Also, God, either change the Ukrainian president's heart or take him out, God, but either way, please do not allow him to perpetuate war any longer. God, please wholly neutralize him as the driving force in that war, God, and please do it quickly! in Jesus' Name, amen.
Also, Father God, please give Terry and I what we need as humans today to accomplish the tasks you have set before us, God. Please use us as You see fit, God, today and always, in Jesus' Name. Lord, please touch and bless each of our family and friends today, God, no matter where they are on the globe. Please protect them and fill each of their hearts with Your Love, God! Please reveal Yourself this day to those who have not known You before, God, and we give You praise! In Jesus' Name.
God, please deliver every human captive out of bondage by the power of Your holy spirit today, God, in Jesus' Name! Please surround and empower President Trump and all who serve under and/or surround him God, and protect them each and all from every form of attack, God, in Jesus' Name, amen!
