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Tough Marines there in that Heat.
Lotta sand out there.
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Good evening, Lauren! (((hugs)))
Great thread! It’s gonna be a loooooong time to get to Texas. :)
In Istanbul, Turkey, in 2005, one sheep jumped off a cliff and then nearly 1,500 others followed! In the end, about one-third of them died. Not knowing which way to go, sheep mindlessly follow other members of the flock.
No better word picture than sheep can be found to illustrate our need for a trustworthy leader. We are all, Isaiah wrote, like sheep (Isa. 53:6). We tend to go our own way, yet we desperately need the sure direction of a shepherd.
Psalm 23 describes the trustworthiness of our Good Shepherd. He cares for us (v.1); He provides for our physical needs (v.2); He shows us how to live holy lives (v.3); He restores us, comforts us, heals us, and bountifully blesses us (vv.3-5); and He will not abandon us (v.6).
What a comfort to know that God gently but firmly leads us! He does so through the urging of the Holy Spirit, the reading of His Word, and through prayer. God is the reliable leader we need.
In acknowledgment of our dependence on the Lord, we can say with the psalmist, The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.
I don’t know if this appropriate, but when we go to Yuma, we go to Das Bratwurst Haus, ( I think that is the one) in old downtown. Their schnitzel is amazingly tender. It’s better than at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s restaurant that was in Santa Monica.
Yesterday, I was filling up my gas tank ( $25. 78 to fill!) and I saw a woman with a Toyota 4X4 filling up six gas cars. I asked her if she was going off roading. She said she was and in Yuma. Such beautiful sand dunes around there coming into town.
There’s a story about how Arizona split up three institutions. Phoenix and Yuma won the first draws: they got the state seat and the prison. Tucson lost, and we ended up with the university.
Happy New Year’s all!
My old stompin grounds!
As Crash Fire Rescue [crew] we had a crash response area from the Mexican border to 75 miles North,East & West of the base, we also had the most heavy duty rescue gear in Yuma County & would get a lot of calls to assist the other fire dept.’s in the county & would help train other fire dept.’s in the manner of dealing with an aircraft crash & fire.
On August 9, 1963, we visited the base at the conclusion of a trip by kayak from Blythe, Calif. to Imperial Oasis, Ariz., which is nearby. I recall eating in the mess hall where a sign read, “take all you want, but eat all you take.” In the weather station, a spokesman noted the progress of Hurricane Arlene in the western Atlantic Ocean.