Pleasing the LordDear 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 The amendment was repealed in 1933.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.
www.fpfot.blogspot.com IN THEE, O LORD, DO I PUT MY TRUST: LET ME NEVER BE PUT TO CONFUSION...PSALMS 71:1...
YOU NEVER KNOW WHO YOU WILL MEET ON YOUR JOURNEY...YOU HAVE TALKED WITH ANGELS AND NEVER KNEW WHO THEY WERE...JESUS IS ALWAYS THER WHEN WE CALL...HE ALSO LEFT HIS SPIRIT AND ANGELS TO HELP US WHENEVER WE CALL...FAITH IS THE BELIEF IN THINGS UNSEEN...WISDOM IS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THINGS FOR THE TRUTH THEY SHOW US...LOVE IS THE TIE THAT BINDS US ALL TOGETHER UNDER THE GRACE OF GOD...THERE ARE NO SMALL THREADS IN THE TAPESTRY OF LIFE...WEAVE YOUR LIFE WELL...DAVE... 
