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FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 26 July 2018
Serving The Bestest Troops and Veterans In The World !!
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Posted on 07/25/2018 6:03:30 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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To: Kathy in Alaska
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Unselfish Service
July 26, 2018
If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness.
Isaiah 58:10
A small collection of people stood together, dwarfed by the size of the huge tree lying on the lawn. An elderly woman leaned on her cane and described watching the previous nights windstorm as it blew down our majestic old elm tree. Worst of all, she continued, voice cracking with emotion, it destroyed our lovely stone wall too. My husband built that wall when we were first married. He loved that wall. I loved that wall! Now its gone; just like him.
Next morning, as she peeked out at the tree company workers cleaning up the downed tree; a big smile spread across her face. In between the branches she could just make out two adults and the boy who mowed her lawn carefully measuring and rebuilding her beloved stone wall!
The prophet Isaiah describes the kind of service God favors: acts that lift the hearts of those around us, like the wall repairers did for the elderly woman. This passage teaches that God values unselfish service to others over empty spiritual rituals. In fact, God exercises a two-way blessing on the selfless service of His children. First, God uses our willing acts of service to aid the oppressed and needy (Isaiah 58:710). Then God honors those engaged in such service by building or rebuilding our reputations as powerful positive forces in His kingdom (vv. 1112). What service will you offer this day?
Thank You, Father, for the acts of others You use to lift us up, and for calling us to do the same.
Selfless service to others brings honor to God.
Am I my brothers keeper? We might wonder something similar when we hear Isaiah urging his people to reach out to a world of hurting people. But another story is working in the background. Gods people were trying to avoid responsibility for the wrongs they were doing to their own flesh and blood (Isaiah 58:7).
Can you think of anything you are doing, or not doing, to those around you that is making their life difficult? Can you think of ways to unselfishly serve them?
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:05:18 PM PDT
by
The Mayor
(Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
To: MoJo2001; 007; 1 FELLOW FREEPER; 11B3; 1FreeAmerican; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; 2LT Radix jr; 300winmag; ..
~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:07:17 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
Hai - eight more days before my new computer arrives - whoo hoo! Anyway, (((HUGS)))
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:11:41 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: Kathy in Alaska
So much training going on. I seem to have forgotten or missed my training on retirement!
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:14:08 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: The Mayor
Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
The weekend is almost in sight!!
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:21:32 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: SkyDancer
WOOHOO!!! Exciting times, but the wait is awful. LOL!! ((HUGS))
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:22:56 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: mountainlion
Good evening, mountainlion...keep practicing, and you’ll get the hang of it. LOL!
I know....I’m in training and hoping I’ll be ready for my retirement.
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:25:00 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: The Mayor; PROCON; ConorMacNessa; SandRat; mountainlion; HiJinx; Publius; Jet Jaguar; TMSuchman; ...
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:28:51 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
keep practicing
So I should learn to approach retirement as a doctor or lawyer and keep practicing.
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:29:42 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: All
ICY STARE A soldier waits for transportation after a successful airborne operation during Spartan Pegasus in Deadhorse, Alaska, Feb. 22, 2017. The exercise simulated the recovery of a downed satellite and tested the soldiers' operational abilities in temperatures 30 degrees below zero. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Daniel Love
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:33:59 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: mountainlion
You can write yourself a prescription and then follow it. That should help. d:o)
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:44:28 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: The Mayor
The Mayor!!
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:47:18 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:49:10 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: SkyDancer
Janey!!
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:49:15 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: mountainlion
mountainlion!!
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posted on
07/25/2018 6:54:08 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: left that other site
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...did you and Blue get out today? Any pub stops?
We are having real RAIN!!! Overnight and most of the day....we were/are so in need!!
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posted on
07/25/2018 7:01:23 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
So glad you are finally getting rain!
We got a little bit today, while I was out on Blue.
Oh Well. Both the Bike and I are washable.
I sang last night...some van Morrison, Fleetwood Mac, and Tom Petty.
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posted on
07/25/2018 7:16:24 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
Hi and thanks Kathy!
I spent my birthday today with Zach, first early morning out at the gun range before it got too hot, and then off to lunch at Red Robin followed by hanging out this afternoon and evening.
He's leaving in a bit cuz my early work morning beckons soon.
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posted on
07/25/2018 7:29:04 PM PDT
by
PROCON
('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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!
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posted on
07/25/2018 7:45:00 PM PDT
by
radu
(God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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