Posted on 05/19/2015 5:06:19 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday May 19, 2015
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
tatterdemalion [tat-er-di-meyl-yuh n, -mal-]
-n
1.a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
-adj
2. ragged; unkempt or dilapidated.
[1600-10; first written tatter-de-mallian and rhymed with Italian; see tatter1; -de-mallian < ?]
She thinks I’m crazy, but I’m just growing old...
nice.
tatterdemalion
1.a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
2. ragged; unkempt or dilapidated.
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Ain’t gonna need this house much longer.
Racist claim warning: When I was a very young child in New Haven, Connecticut there was an Italian tatterdemalion who had a crank organ and a money. He would play the tune while the monkey danced. At the end of the tune the monkey would bow, take off his hat and walk along the crowd with hat in hand to accept tips.
I miss those days.
Not only that, he BLAMES the USA for his mother’s death! Outrageous! That just goes to show what brainwashing will do for you.
but he prob misses DISNEYWORLD, RME !
Bubba’s scorned woman made her name
from his cigar sporting Lewinsky fame
What difference does it make
the tatterdemalion did partake
in the stench of the Benghazi shame.
What will happen when he meets up with the relatives of his mother and has to face some truths?
Now that we are liberalizing relations with Cuba, I wonder if the relatives are still so opposed?
I think the hatred of Castro is still there in the older refugees throughout Florida. I am sure they blame him for this boy’s mother’s death, and I am sure he never heard it like that before. Who knows what his brainwashing entailed. Or, perhaps he is still desperate to escape Cuba.
I thought of you last night, as we covered what Jesus had to say about the end times at Bible study last night. I even labeled it End Times in my Bible. LOL Luke Chapter 21.
I signed up for and have been receiving the Anne Graham series of emails from the Ascension thru the Pentecost, it is pretty sobering to hear what she has to say.
the one I got this AM I really wish that FRANK could read!
Now we come to You and confess our sin corporately as Your Body, the Church. We confess that we, Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, 6 are constantly going astray. Each of us has turned to our own way and done what we think is right in our own eyes. 7 The denominational divisions, factions, and rivalry have caused the trumpet call of the Gospel to give an uncertain sound. The wounded and the wounders, the betrayals and the bickerings, the pride and the prejudices, the wealth and the wants, have tarnished the reflection of Your beauty that should rest upon us as Your Body, the church. We have focused on our circumstances and have therefore been defeated. We have focused on others and have therefore been deluded. We have focused on ourselves and have therefore been deceived. We have focused on political policy and therefore been disappointed. We compare ourselves with others so that our perception of who we really are therefore is distorted. We repent. We defend the right to post the Ten Commandments on a courthouse wall, yet we would be hard pressed to name five of them. We repent. We are appalled when prayer is removed from the schools, yet we offer no prayer meetings, and if we do, no one comes. We repent. We cry out for revival, yet are too busy to turn to You in prayer and fasting, in confession and repentance of our sin. We repent. We dare to hold our Bibles up for debate, claiming it “contains” Your Word, but portray it as not being in its entirety infallible, inspired, and inerrant. As though You make mistakes or don’t tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Then we substitute denominational materials for Your Word. We repent. We have substituted orthodoxy for obedience and Church activities for the life of the Spirit and programs for prayer. We have substituted____________ We repent. We have rationalized, denied, or covered up sin and judgment for the sake of numerical membership growth. We don’t give the whole counsel of Scripture for fear of offending the hearers. We have rationalized_____________ We repent. We switch the labels that we call sin to make sin seem less sinful.We call lying, exaggeration. We call fornication, safe sex. We call murder, a right to choose. We call drunkenness, illness. We call jealousy, ambition. 8 We call pride, self-esteem. We call humility, weakness. We call ____________ , _____________ We repent. We have established pastors as CEOs. We have made spiritual leaders celebrities. We have turned ministries into businesses. We have given You glory as long as we can have a 10% commission of the credit. We have _____________ We repent. With deep shame, we confess that there are people in the world whom You love and for whom You died… Who don’t want to know You because they know us. Who reject You because they reject us. Who don’t believe You because of what we say, and the way we say it. Who don’t know You love them because we don’t. Who don’t know You can give them victory over sin because we live in defeat. Who are hopeless because we wring our hands in despair. Who don’t come to You for freedom from the power of sin because we agree they were “born that way.” Who don’t look to You as the solution for what’s wrong because we are looking to politics. Who are terrified of the future because we are afraid. With shame, we confess______________ We were like sheep going astray, but now we return to You, the Shepherd of our souls. 9 Our sins have been our downfall! We have brought words with us. We now humbly, sincerely say to You: “Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously.” You have promised that You will heal our waywardness and love us freely. 10 We hold You to Your Word, in the name of the One who laid down His life for us as our Good Shepherd: Jesus. 11 We come to You… we bow before You… in His name and for Your glory. Amen.
Sr challenged us to pray for our enemies. So...I was at daily mass the next day and offered this....For the conversion of ISIS to the level of St. Paul, so that they may preach the Gospal of Jesus throughout the Middle East. Fr.B stared at me, along with them all as I said “Let us pray to the Lord” and they responded “Lord hear our prayer”. I was telling SrB that last night and got a fist pump. Her order got us wrist bands that say Bless our Enimies Matthew 5:43-48.
pray for the conversion of Obama.
Good idea.
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