Pleasing the Lord
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. John 3:21-23 NIV Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:9,10 NASB For one is approved if, mindful of God, he endures pain while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it, if when you do wrong and are beaten for it you take it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you take it patiently, you have God's approval. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:19-21 RSV Thanks be unto God for His wonderful gift: Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God is the object of our faith; the only faith that saves is faith in Him


This Day in History, January 16
On January 16th, 1970, Buckminster Fuller received a gold medal from the American Institute of Architects.
WRITE IN YOUR OWN HISTORY FOR TODAY...YOUR STORY IS EVERY BIT AS IMPORTANT AS ANY OTHER...LET YOUR FOOTSTEPS LEAD YOU TO GRACE AND MERCY...SHOW A LIFE THAT IS PLEASING TO GOD...WE ARE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN, SO LET'S HELP OUR FAMILY TO GROW IN LOVE , PEACE, AND HOPE...YOURS IN THE WILL OF JESUS...DAVE..
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Other Notable Events, January 16
In 1883, the U.S. Congress passed a bill creating the civil service. In 1919, the United States went legally "dry" as prohibition of alcoholic beverages took effect under the 18th amendment to the Constitution. The amendment was repealed in 1933. In 1925, Leon Trotsky was dismissed as chairman of the Russian Revolution Military Council. In 1942, screen star Carole Lombard, her mother and 20 other people were killed in a plane crash near Las Vegas. Lombard was the wife of actor Clark Gable. In 1944, U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower arrived in London to assume command of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. In 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan called for "peaceful competition" with Moscow. He authorized research and development on space-age weapons capable of destroying incoming nuclear missiles, the program known as "Star Wars."

Classic Quotes by Susan Sontag (1933-2004) US writer and critic, January 16
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter. AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. "Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

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IN THEE, O LORD, DO I PUT MY TRUST: LET ME NEVER BE PUT TO CONFUSION...PSALMS 71:1...

I LOVE MUMMIE...PRAY FOR US BOTH...

THIS IS MY MUMMIE ... I LOVE HER...SHE IS ASCAIRED OF AEVERYTHING...SHE CAN NOT FUNCTION VERY WELL WITHOUT MAJOR DRAMA AND STRESS....SHE IS A NINJA DRAMA QUEEN....HER ONE LINERS CAN SING THROUGH THE AIR WITH DEADLY PEECISION...I LOVE HER SO MUCH...PRAY GODS WILL FREE HER FROM HERSELF...D.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS...WITH MOM...

JESUS LOVES ME THIS I KNOW...HE TELLS ME ALL THE TIME...HE DOES NOT WANT ME TO BE ANYTHING...I POSSESS THE SAME QUALITIES AS GOD AND MY BROTHER JESUS...I AM...(1 PETER 5:7) ...IT IS NOT ABOUT HITTING THE BOTTOM...IT IS ABOUT LEARNING TO START AT THE TOP AND GO UP...I AM PAST HOPE...I AM FAITH...I AM MADE IN GODS IMAGE...THAT IMAGE IS GODLY...I QUIT SMOKING BECAUSE THAT IS NOT GODLY...I FORGOT, LIKE GOD, ABOUT MY SINS OF THE PAST...I DO NOT SMOKE BECAUSE I AM A NON-SMOKER...BOY DO I NOT WANT A CIGARETTE RIGHT NOW...I AM SO HAPPY I AM A NON-SMOKER...I DO NOT HAVE TO TELL GOD OR ANYONE ABOUT MY LIFE...GOD KNOWS MY HEART AND THE WORLD IS NOT MY FRIEND...I WANT THE WORLD TO BE MY FRIEND...THEY KILLED MY BROTHER...THEY DID NOT CHANGE...THEY WILL CHANGE...THEY WILL NOT KILL ME...THE LOVE OF JESUS WAS KIND AND GENTLE...MY LOVE IS RAW AND BRUTALLY HONEST...JESUS LOVED YOU IN YOUR HEART...I WILL LOVE YOU BY CRACKING YOUR BONES AND LOVING THE VERY ESSENCE OF YOUR MARROW...JESUS AND OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN; PRAISE THE HOLY NAME OF THEM BOTH, HAVE MY PLEDGE, PROMISE, ALLEGIANCE,AND LOVE...I STAND READY TO FIGHT FOR MY KING AND BROTHER...OUR COMBINED LOVE CANNOT BE STOPPED...OUR FATHER HAS GIVEN A TIME...ALL BE READY...PLEASE DO NOT BREAK MY HEART AGAIN...D.

WHAT YOU SEEK IS ALREADY HERE...HI GOD...

GOOD MORNING FAMILY...I SEE YOU STILL HAVE MANY TREES IN YOUR FOREST...YOU MUST FIND THE BALANCE BETWEEN FOREST AND TREES...ONE SHOULD STAY CLOSE ENOUGH TO HEAR THE TREE FALL, YET FAR ENOUGH AWAY TO NOT GET CRUSHED BY ITS BRANCHES...DO NOT BE AFRAID OF THE FOREST CREATURES...THEY CAN BE QUITE FRIENDLY WHEN YOU DO NOT TRY TO KILL THEM...YOU MUST ALSO REMEMBER WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY THEIR FEEDING GROUNDS, THEY WILL FEED THEIR FAMILIES...YOU MAY BE ON THE MENU...WITHOUT YOUR TOOLS AND WEAPONS, YOU ARE NOT CLOSE TO THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN...BECAUSE YOU KILLED MY BROTHER, YOU HAVE GAINED HOPE AND GRACE OF OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HOLLOWED BE HIS HOLY AND POWERFUL NAME...I AM IN SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS WITH MY BROTHER AS WE SPEAK...I SPEAK, HE LISTENS...HE SPEAKS, I LISTEN...I AM LEANING TOWARDS MY FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN, BLESSED BE HIS HOLY NAME ABOVE ALL OTHERS...YOU TELL OTHERS CERTAIN THINGS HAD TO HAPPEN IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY SO JESUS WOULD BE BORN ...I TELL YOU JESUS DID NOT HAVE TO BE BORN AT ALL...FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE LET JESUS COME TO SAVE OUR NOT SO SORRY SOULS...THAT HURT OUR FATHER AND ME ALOT...THERE WILL BE NO HEAVENLY DEATH THIS TIME...THE CLOCK HAS NEVER STOPPED TICKING...HOW MUCH ARE YOU WILLING TO LOVE YOUR BROTHER...AS FOR ME AND MINE...IN GOD WE TRUST...THE CLAN OF BUTLER, STAND FOR THE LORD AND KING JESUS CHRIST...HIS NAME IS FOREVER ON MY LIPS...

My Feet Don"t Hurt and I do NOT want a Ciggerette.

Our Heritage - Eternal Life!

Jesus said to her,
"I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" John 11:25,26 NIV
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:20-22 KJV
Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment. John 5:28,29 NASB

Thanks be unto God for His wonderful gift: Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God is the object of our faith; the only faith that saves is faith in Him.

THE STRESS IS NOT MORE THAN ME...YET...

DID YOU KNOW I HAVE A TRILOBITE SCAR ON MY RIGHT LEG...I HAVE HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE...I AM OFFERING SOMEONE THE TIME OF THERE LIFE AS WELL...NOT BAD FOR A BUCK STARTING BID...I DID NOT PUT A HAS NOT BEEN MET ON IT...IF I DO NOT GET ENOUGH FOR MY NEEDS; I WILL PUT IT ON AND MAKE IT WORTH MORE THAN THE UNIVERSE ITSELF...DO NOT BE AFRAID...MY LOVE IS AWSOME...

Daily Bread...

Meditation 1/4 - 1/10: Sincerity & Truth - 1 Cor. 5:6-8 NIV

Work Hard!

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. 1 Thessalonians 4:11,12 NIV

The hand of the diligent will rule, But the lazy man will be put to forced labor

Proverbs 12:24 NKJV

I passed by the field of the sluggard And by the vineyard of the man lacking sense, And behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles; Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down. When I saw, I reflected upon it; I looked, and received instruction. "A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest," Then your poverty will come as a robber And your want like an armed man. Proverbs 24:30-24 NASB

He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need. Ephesians 4:28 NIV

Thanks be unto God for His wonderful gift: Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God is the object of our faith; the only faith that saves is faith in Him.