Happy 243rd Birthday, US Army!!
To: Kathy in Alaska
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Quieting the Critic
June 14, 2018
Hear us, our God, for we are despised. Turn their insults back on their own heads.
Nehemiah 4:4
I work with a team to put on an annual community event. We spend eleven months plotting many details to ensure the events success. We choose the date and venue. We set ticket prices. We select everything from food vendors to sound technicians. As the event approaches, we answer public questions and provide directions. Afterward we collect feedback. Some good. Some that is hard to hear. Our team hears excitement from attendees and also fields complaints. The negative feedback can be discouraging and sometimes tempts us to give up.
Nehemiah had critics too as he led a team to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. They actually mocked Nehemiah and those working alongside him saying, Even a fox climbing up on it would break down [your] wall of stones (Nehemiah 4:3). His response to the critics helps me handle my own: Instead of feeling dejected or trying to refute their comments, he turned to God for help. Instead of responding directly, he asked God to hear the way His people were being treated and to defend them (v. 4). After entrusting those concerns to God, he and his co-laborers continued to work steadily on the wall with all their heart (v. 6).
We can learn from Nehemiah not to be distracted by criticism of our work. When were criticized or mocked, instead of responding to our critics out of hurt or anger, we can prayerfully ask God to defend us from discouragement so we can continue with a whole heart.
Help me to evaluate the good and bad in the criticism, to trust You, and to continue in my work wholeheartedly.
God is our best defense against criticism.
Have you noticed how criticism seems so justified when we give itbut so wrong when we receive it?
As Jewish families returned to their homeland after seventy years of exile in Babylon, they faced strong criticism. Current residents believed it was in their own interest to resist the returning exiles. They saw the rebuilding of Jerusalems walls as a threat to their own homes and families.
Just as understandably, Nehemiah and his friends felt they had a God-given right to regard as enemies those who opposed their effort to rebuild Jerusalems broken-down walls (Nehemiah 4:4).
Nehemiahs courageous prayer of faith is a chapter in a bigger story that leads us to even higher ground. Many years later, by His own example, Jesus calls all people on both sides of conflict to find security in more than walls of self-interest. He taught all of us to pray for those who abuse us and to bless those who curse us (Matthew 5:912, 44). In His kingdom, its a heart of mercy that Christ desires.
2 posted on
06/13/2018 6:06:47 PM PDT by
The Mayor
(Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
To: Kathy in Alaska
WOO-HOO, thanks Kathy!
5 posted on
06/13/2018 6:12:25 PM PDT by
PROCON
('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
To: All
The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized enlistment of riflemen to serve the United Colonies for one year.
The 14 June date is when Congress adopted "the American continental army" after reaching a consensus position in The Committee of the Whole. This procedure and the desire for secrecy account for the sparseness of the official journal entries for the day. The record indicates only that Congress undertook to raise ten companies of riflemen, approved an enlistment form for them, and appointed a committee (including Washington and Schuyler) to draft rules and regulations for the government of the army. The delegates' correspondence, diaries, and subsequent actions make it clear that they really did much more. They also accepted responsibility for the existing New England troops and forces requested for the defense of the various points in New York. The former were believed to total 10,000 men; the latter, both New Yorkers and Connecticut men, another 5,000.
At least some members of Congress assumed from the beginning that this force would be expanded. That expansion, in the form of increased troop ceilings at Boston, came very rapidly as better information arrived regarding the actual numbers of New England troops. By the third week in June delegates were referring to 15,000 at Boston. When on 19 June Congress requested the governments of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire to forward to Boston "such of the forces as are already embodied, towards their quotas of the troops agreed to be raised by the New England Colonies," it gave a clear indication of its intent to adopt the regional army. Discussions the next day indicated that Congress was prepared to support a force at Boston twice the size of the British garrison, and that it was unwilling to order any existing units to be disbanded. By the first week in July delegates were referring to a total at Boston that was edging toward 20.000. Maximum strengths for the forces both in Massachusetts and New York were finally established on 21 and 22 July, when solid information was on hand. These were set, respectively, at 22,000 and 5,000 men, a total nearly double that envisioned on 14 June.
The "expert riflemen" authorized on 14 June were the first units raised directly as Continentals. Congress intended to have the ten companies serve as a light infantry force for the Boston siege. At the same time it symbolically extended military participation beyond New England by allocating 6 of the companies to Pennsylvania, 2 to Maryland, and 2 to Virginia. Each company would have a captain, 3 lieutenants, 4 sergeants, 4 corporals, a drummer (or horn player), and 68 privates. The enlistment period was set at one year, the norm for the earlier Provincials, a period that would expire on 1 July 1776. Responsibility for recruiting the companies was given to the three colonies' delegates, who in turn relied on the county committees of those areas noted for skilled marksmen. The response in Pennsylvania's western and northern frontier counties was so great that on 22 June the colony's quota was increased from six to eight companies, organized as a regiment. On 25 June the Pennsylvania delegates, with authority from the Pennsylvania Assembly, appointed field officers for the regiment. Since there was no staff organization, company officers and volunteers performed the necessary duties. On 11 July delegate George Read secured the adoption of a ninth company that his wife's nephew had organized in Lancaster County. In Virginia Daniel Morgan raised one company in Frederick County, and Hugh Stephenson raised another in Berkeley County. Michael Cresap's and Thomas Price's Maryland companies were both from Frederick County. All thirteen companies were organized during late June and early July. They then raced to Boston, where their frontier attitudes created disciplinary problems.
8 posted on
06/13/2018 6:17:40 PM PDT by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
9 posted on
06/13/2018 6:18:07 PM PDT by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Also President Trump’s birthday! Happy birthday President Trump!!!!
To: Kathy in Alaska
And...
Happy Birthday to Donald J. Trump!
16 posted on
06/13/2018 6:41:39 PM PDT by
lightman
(ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
20 posted on
06/13/2018 6:44:40 PM PDT by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; HiJinx; AZamericonnie; Jet Jaguar; SandRat; laurenmarlowe; beachn4fun; ...
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
22 posted on
06/13/2018 6:52:05 PM PDT by
radu
(God bless our military men and women, past and present)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Howdy, Kathy.
It’s Hump Day! Halfway to the weekend! I’m guessing it can’t get here soon enough for you. :-)
24 posted on
06/13/2018 7:15:53 PM PDT by
radu
(God bless our military men and women, past and present)
To: Kathy in Alaska
REQUEST PERMISSION TO COME ABOARD
CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (Jan. 14, 2008) The first major snowfall of the New Year blankets the USS Constitution. Despite the weather "Old Ironsides" remained open for free public tours. At 210 years-old, USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, manned by 67 active-duty United States Sailors and visited by nearly half a million visitors annually. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Brown (Released)
GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!!!
Boston, Oct. 21, 2009 - Boatswains Mate 2nd Class Philip Gagnon pipes as USS Constitution performs an underway demonstration in honor of the three-masted wooden frigate's 212th birthday. (U.S. Navy photo by Airman Mark Alexander/Released).
USS Constitution's 1812 Marine Guard fire vintage Springfield flintlock muskets during the ship's underway. "Old Ironsides" was underway for the "Constitution Day Cruise," which is conducted to thank the family and supporters of Constitution. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Nick Lyman (Released)
OUR TROOPS ROCK!!!!!!!
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25 posted on
06/13/2018 7:17:52 PM PDT by
ConorMacNessa
(FMF Corpsman - Lima 3/5 RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: Kathy in Alaska; GodBlessUSA; Mrs.Nooseman; AZamericonnie; HiJinx; Colonel_Flagg; BIGLOOK; ...
31 posted on
06/13/2018 7:49:01 PM PDT by
luvie
(Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
...and happy birthday to President Trump.
To: All; Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; beachn4fun; The Mayor; radu; E.G.C.; mylife; PROCON; SandRat; ...
Good Evening To The Canteen
Happy Flag Day***Long May She Wave
Happy 243rd Birthday US Army
May God Keep Safe Those Who Keep Us Safe
51 posted on
06/13/2018 9:24:01 PM PDT by
MEG33
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To: Kathy in Alaska; GodBlessUSA; Mrs.Nooseman; AZamericonnie; HiJinx; Colonel_Flagg; BIGLOOK; ...
Happy Flag Day
Happy Birthday Pres. Trump!
And Happy Birthday
Army!!
Hope everyone has an Amazing Thursday!
That ol' weekend is nearly HERE!
(((hugs)))
73 posted on
06/14/2018 9:31:10 AM PDT by
luvie
(Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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