[lightman]

Happy motoring Monday!

[PROCON]

Thanks for tonight’s Road Trip!

[doorgunner69]

Went in there August 25, 1965

Quite an experience for a 17 year old just out of high school.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Please note that tonight’s thread was authored by laurenmarlowe. Please thank her.
She is meeting herself coming and going with work.

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ~

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[tet68]

SanDiego, I hear they issue
Sun glasses when you report!?!

Ooorah, brothers!
Semper Fi !!

[radu]

Hang in there, lauren! As I recall, some FREEDOM is close at hand. :-)

[Jolla]

MCRD, the good old 80s. That first morning before we were assigned that DI came in barking at 430, and I wondered what the heck did I do. It was one of the best decisions I ever made.

[Gay State Conservative]

Hollywood Marines! ;-)

[AlaskaErik]

Arrived there one week after leaving high school. 1973.

[Excellence]

Son graduated 2014. Graduation was amazing.

[The Mayor]

April 16

Ready to Go for God

Bible in a Year :

• 1 Samuel 30-31
• Luke 13:23-35

I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.

Ephesians 4:1 The book Hidden Figures recounts preparations for John Glenn’s flight into space. Computers were newfangled inventions in 1962, subject to glitches. Glenn didn’t trust them and worried about calculations for the launch. He knew one brainy woman in the back room could run the numbers. He trusted her. “If she says the numbers are good,” Glenn said, “I’m ready to go.”

Katherine Johnson was a teacher and mother of three. She loved Jesus and served in her church. God had blessed Katherine with a remarkable mind. NASA tapped her in the late 1950s to help with the space program. She was Glenn’s “brainy woman,” one of the “human computers” they hired at the time.

We may not be called to be brilliant mathematicians, but God calls us to other things: “To each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it” (Ephesians 4:7).  We’re to “live a life worthy of the calling” we’ve received (v. 1). We’re part of one body, in which “each part does its work” (v. 16).

Katherine Johnson’s calculations confirmed the course trajectory. Glenn’s launch into orbit was like “hitting a bull’s-eye.” But this was just one of Katherine’s callings. Remember, she was called also to be a mother, teacher, and church worker. We might ask ourselves what God has called us to, whether big or small. Are we “ready to go,” exercising the grace-gifts He’s bestowed, living “a life worthy of [our] calling” (v. 1)? .

Reflect & Pray

What has God called you to do? How has He gifted you?

Dear God, please help me embrace what You’ve given me and live a life worthy of Your calling.

[luvie]

Great Road Trip!
Thanks, Kathy and Lauren!

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country and thanks Lauren for this morning's thread.

Yesterday at Comanche Lake:

We had to sit in traffic on the highway to the lake yesterday because some ODOT (Oklahoma Dept. of Transportation) idiots decided to do stupid roadwork and cause a freaking bottleneck.🙄 It took 4 minutes to get past that to get to the luck.

As of yet no storms here. Right now They're all up in Northern Oklahoma.

How's everyone doing this morning?

[luvie]

HeyHeyHey, Early Birds!
What another fun Road Trip to California!
If only California were livable...it's so beautiful.
Hope all y'all have a Terrific Tuesday!
It's cooler here today...very nice!
(((hugs)))