29°F SSE9mph SR0724 SS1625
Morning Offering given
Memory Verse 2 Corinthians 9:7
Each must do as already determined,
without sadness or compulsion,
for God loves a cheerful giver.
Village sleeps
Coffee none
Happy Birthday Hudson!
Short night miscarriage, hemorrhage, car fire… may God have mercy on them all.
Christmas Pot Luck… St John Summit Ridge… Mass 10AM with potluck to follow.
If this is what retirement is like I need to get a job. Left foot giving me fits. Feels like it is being stabbed with a needle. I have been to the Dr more since retirement than I have been in my entire life. Just ridiculous.
Today Syria fell, and Assad (the president) has fled the country after advising everyone to be peaceful during the takeover. Locals cheered as they gathered in the streets of Jarmana, a Damascus suburb. Damascus is where: Abraham rescued Lot- Gen 14:14-15, King David successfully subdued the enemies of Israel- 2 Samuel 8:5-6, & St Paul had his conversion- Acts 9. It was an important cultural/commercial center due to its geographical position at the crossroads of the Orient and the Occident, (between Africa and Asia). It was the capital of the Muslim world from 661 to 750. Ruled by the Turks from 1500 to early 1900. Our Lady of Victory Oct 7, the anniversary of the decisive victory of the combined fleet of the Holy League of 1571 over the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Lepanto. In 1918 a combined Arab and Australian force arrived in Damascus to spearhead its liberation from the Turks during WWI.
Know your history… understand your present…prepare for your future.
Know you are prayed for.
In the "Wilds of Wisconsin & Cornfields of Iowa" 