Posted on 02/23/2005 9:41:17 PM PST by SAMWolf
Skies clearing out today. Forecast high lower 50's.
February 24, 2005
I was driving to work and listening to a local Christian radio station. Amid the usual morning banter came the song "I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever."
I have no idea what came over me. As soon as this uplifting praise song began, I felt tears running down my face. There I was, almost at work, and I could hardly see to drive because of a song. What was going on?
I sat in my car after I arrived at my destination, trying to figure it out. Then it struck me. The song reminded me that while another day of normal activity was beginning here on earth, my daughter Melissa was fulfilling the ultimate hope of that song in heaven. I pictured her brightly singing of God's love-getting a head start on the rest of us in that forever song. It was a bittersweet moment of understanding Melissa's joy while being reminded again of our sadness in not having her with us.
Much of life is like that. Joys and sorrows intermingle-making reminders of God's glory so vital. We need those glimpses of a promising praise-filled future in our Savior's presence. In the sadnesses of life, we need the anticipation of joy-the joy that comes from singing of God's love and enjoying His presence forever. -Dave Branon
Those who know Christ now will sing His praises forever.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Howdy, y'all...
"Kerry's Party!!"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "Sherry Darlin'")
Dem Lib'rals yappin'...they're all deadbeats!!
Tell 'em it's all over...gonna be so sweet...
Next November's mournin', yer gonna be goin' down to the unemployment agency!!
'Cuz each morning Right be fightin'...no, we won't give up...
'Til Dubyuh wins...traitors, just shut up!!
Gonna be the last time DemRATS gonna be threatnin' the FRee!!
(Chorus)
Lemme tell ya there's a Lib'ral runnin' to be Prez'dent...
The dude's gawky and he's houndin' Dem young chicks!!
She can take yer guilt trip back to yer ghetto tonight!!
'Cuz the gang's all here and the FReepin's "FRee"...
Kerry's a fool, stop his blasphemy!!
Hey, Willie, why're you slayin' Kerry's Party?!!
FReeper gals flirtin' while they FReep...
They got great minds...and they know how to teach!!
There'll be no backtrackin' out here in Flyover Country!!
John Kerry, Left's love for you ain't real...
Boy, yer just fillin' in fer Hillary!!
Jane Kerry, RAT Party has its hero, Slick Willie!!
(Chorus)
Lemme tell ya there's a Lib'ral runnin' to be Prez'dent...
Dude looks gawky while he's bird-doggin' Dem phat chicks!!
You can take yer morals back to the ghetto tonight!!
'Cuz the gang's all here and the FReepin' "FRee"...
Kerry's a FOOL, Hanoi John's tyranny!!
Hey, Hill'ry, why you playin' Kerry's Party?!!
[Bigman on sax, CM on guitar]
Folks, keep fighting fer what's Right...ignore the pain!!
Let the bleedin'-hearted spew their spin!!
Kerry, you can run, but be warned, "Be Wary of the Right!!"
Tell Dem Lib'rals down in Central Park...
And all you politicos who're missin' the mark...
Say, Slick Willie, won't you pray fer yer Party?!
Hey, Willie, why'd you slay Kerry's Party?!
FReegards...MUD (02/23/2004)
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on February 24:
1304 Muhammad ibn Battutah Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
1463 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Italy, scholar/platonist
1500 Emperor Charles V king of Spain (1516-56)/Holy Roman Emperor
1536 Clement VIII [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, last Counter-Reformation pope (1592-1605)
1545 Don Juan of Austria the elder, Austrian general (The Battle of Lepanto)
1557 Matthias C Sarbiewski [Sarbievius], Vienna, Polish Jesuit/poet/Holy Roman emperor (1612-19)
1684 Catherine I Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia
1750 Miklós Révai Hungarian linguistic/poet
1786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1811 Daniel A Payne Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
1811 Edward Dickinson Baker Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
1824 John Crawford Vaughn Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1827 Charles Davis Jameson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1836 Winslow Homer US, painter (Gulfstream)
1838 Thomas Benton Smith Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
1848 C Grant B Allen Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
1874 Honus Wagner HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)
1885 Admiral Chester Nimitz US Admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WWII)
1898 Kurt Tank German WWII aircraft designer
1909 Max Black Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
1909 Michael Francis Morris Lindsay orientalist
1917 William Fairbank Minneapolis MN, physicist (superconductivity)
1921 Abe Vigoda New York NY, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
1924 William Pillar British Admiral
1932 John Vernon Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
1934 Bettino Craxi Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
1938 James Farentino Brooklyn NY, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown)
1940 Jimmy Ellis WBA heavyweight boxing champion (1968-70)
1942 Joe Lieberman (Senator-D-CT)
1946 Barry Bostwick San Mateo CA, actor (Spin City, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Lexx, Megaforce, Movie Movie, Scruples, Foul Play)
1947 Edward James Olmos California, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
1955 Steven Jobs cofounder of Apple Computer
1968 Kendall Cross Hardin MT, 125½ lbs freestyle wrestler (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1972 Patricia Regan Leines Medford OR, Miss Oregon-America (1996-3rd)
1977 Floyd Mayweather Grand Rapids MI, featherweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1978 Louise Woodward Elton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen
Thank you SAM, for hot linking both this one...
And thanks, again, for posting this thread.
mornin!
I live in Norman which was in the unassigned land area with the Chickasaws on one area south of us and the Potawattamie Tribe to the East of us. You cross the Canadian River on the southern edge of Norman and you are in Chickasaw Territory.
Norman was named for a railroad surveyor. In 1870, the United States Land Office contracted with a professional engineer to survey much of Oklahoma territory. Abner E. Norman, a young surveyor, became chairman and leader of the central survey area in Indian Territory. The surveyors crew burned the words NORMANS CAMP into an elm tree near a watering hole to taunt their younger supervisor. When the SOONERS (those who headed west before the official Land Run date, April 22, 1889) and the other settlers arrived in the heart of Oklahoma, they kept the name NORMAN. Today, with an estimated 102,195 residents, Norman is the third largest city in the State of Oklahoma.
The University of Oklahoma was founded in 1890 as the people chose the University instead of the Capitol -- OU is the Sooners and before every football game and during the game you will hear "Boomer" yelled answered by "Sooner" from the whole stadium. I have been in airports where someone will yell out "Boomer" to be answered from across the way "Sooner."
It is a neat State with a lot of interesting history, conservative, and some of the friendliest people I have ever known -- proud to call Oklahoma home and my adopted State.
sn*wing here! YETCH!
free dixie HUGS,duckie/sw
First in!
a RUSH to STEAL Indian land!
free dixie,sw
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Thanks for the link AJC.
The Foxhole's kind of guy!
Great story today Sam, thanks.
Good morning EGC.
Good morning Mayor.
Good morning alfa6.
Hiya Mud.
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