Posted on 04/01/2015 4:19:09 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
When I think I’m having a tough time in life, it’s stories like these that remind me that my troubles are nothing compared to what these men endured. And if God was able to give them the strength to get through their trials, then surely He would do likewise for me.
You betcha.
That’s wonderful. Thanks for posting that story.
There’s actually two things I’ve thought recently about why we’re here. The first is what I said about showing others God’ goodness. So many think He’s a mad God, mad at them for their wrongdoings, not realizing the blank check of love and forgiveness he wrote on the cross with His Son. Or that he’s a bad God who waits to strike us down like a cruel father. I think God want us to know and believe he is not like that at all - that he is madly in love with us.
The second thing is to be a blessing to others and show them the love of Christ which we ourselves have learned and received.
Looks like you are doing both. God bless.
Pretty clever of us slackers to opt to wait until the shooting was over to be born.
When we testify about what we know from our own experience, two results ensue: (1) we are emboldened, and (2) our testimony rings true.
I don’t know what Churchill thought of Monty as a person. Winnie was too astute a politician to leave anything for posterity that could be constured as derogatory to Britain’s one popular military hero of the war, even if Churchill knew he had some glaring personality flaws.
For which I will adapt one of my favorite lawyer jokes to Monty, who although married wasn’t considered much of a ladies’ man:
Q: What did Field Marshal Montgomery use for contraceptives?
A: His personality.
That’s funny. I don’t know if anyone liked Monty.
That’s hilarious. Besides which, if it ever actually came down to it, by the time Monty finally got “ready,” she’d have long ago lost interest.
Side note:
Today is also the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Five Forks, which led to the collapse of the Confederate defense of Petersburg, and Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox.
My parents enjoyed bicycling at Petersburg Battlefield when they lived in the DC area.
In January of 2016, Homer will commence a 155-years-ago-today series. I'm looking forward to it.
So when today’s issue of the Times was printed, it would have been the 80th Anniversary of Five Forks? I wonder if that was a reason Baldwin cited Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House as an historical analogy in today’s analysis.
And I for one am looking forward to Homer’s Civil War Project, even though he let me down with his aborted Woarld War I + 100 years project.
Homer is quite a guy. I just wonder whether he’ll favor Blue or Grey.
“My friend doesn’t know just why God has allowed this”
Why was this man born blind? Was it his sin or his parents’ sin?
We’re both already well aware of Scripture. What is your point?
Depends on whether he cuts and pastes from the New York World or the Richmond Daily Examiner.
My great-great grandfather and three of his brothers served honorably in the 8th Ohio Cavalry, so I’m eager to watch it all unfold, as only Homer can unfold, and scan, and paste, and post. A master storyteller. It’s a pleasure to sit at his feet. Why, I’m reminded of when we used to sit on the floor in front of our school teacher while she read books to us. Homer makes me nostalgic—and neuralgic.
Like many tankers, I am somewhat short of stature, so the sight of Little Phil Sheridan sweeping his enemies before him reaffirms its the fight, not the height!
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