the daily grey, 3-31-21

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. . Life is grey. . And comes with oil spots. . Revelation 22:21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen. . .

the daily cat fooding, chronic pain, and how long is that ‘gator in the pond (hint: ‘this long’), 3-30-21

Zechariah 7:7-10 “There’s nothing new to say on the subject. Don’t you still have the message of the earlier prophets from the time when Jerusalem was still a thriving, bustling city and the outlying countryside, the Negev and Shephelah, was populated? [This is the message that God gave Zechariah.] Well, the message hasn’t changed. God-of-the-Angel-Armies……

the daily why do french fries exist?, 3-29-21

Ephesians 4:31-32 Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you. . But, first, a short love story … . I don’t know who reads the author Stephen King but he once wrote a book……

the daily leftover leaves, cancer, jurassic park, and cats can be brutal, 3-26-21

Deuteronomy 20:19-20 When you mount an attack on a town and the siege goes on a long time, don’t start cutting down the trees, swinging your axes against them. Those trees are your future food; don’t cut them down. Are trees soldiers who come against you with weapons? The exception can be those trees which……

the daily what could go wrong with yahtzee and pizza? well, nothing, really, 3-25-21

Galatians 4:1-3 Let me show you the implications of this. As long as the heir is a minor, he has no advantage over the slave. Though legally he owns the entire inheritance, he is subject to tutors and administrators until whatever date the father has set for emancipation. That is the way it is with……

the daily pool and late breakfast + caught in a mask, 3-24-21

Jeremiah 6:16-20 “Go stand at the crossroads and look around. Ask for directions to the old road,The tried-and-true road. Then take it. Discover the right route for your souls.But they said, ‘Nothing doing. We aren’t going that way.’I even provided watchmen for them to warn them, to set off the alarm.But the people said, ‘It’s……

the daily the pool, the dead, the palm, the babycakes, 3-23-21

Revelation 21:6-8 Then he said, “It’s happened. I’m A to Z. I’m the Beginning, I’m the Conclusion. From Water-of-Life Well I give freely to the thirsty. Conquerors inherit all this. I’ll be God to them, they’ll be sons and daughters to me. But for the rest—the feckless and faithless, degenerates and murderers, sex peddlers and……

the daily what i did this weekend complete with potentially disturbing content, 3-22-21

Real wisdom, God’s wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if……

the daily the local weather and the cvs parking lot, 3-19-21

Jeremiah 17:9-10 “The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out.But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind.I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things.I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be.” . Yesterday began……

the daily do it again, the international war between the gummi bears, awful rock and roll ballads, 3-18-21

Proverbs 16:9 We plan the way we want to live, but only God makes us able to live it. . What can go wrong with sitting in the garage having a smoke, a cup of cawfee, and listening to Do It Again by Steely Dan? Well, a lot because Do It Again only lasts for……

the daily Scripture explained, the morning routine, and a blurb from my sweet rib, 3-17-21

. John 5:1-16 The Healing at the Pool 5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a]and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled……

the daily covid shots and bob dylan’s political world, 3-16-21

Proverbs 16:25 Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. . Today’s post has a bit of this and that but certainly the bottom half My Sweet Rib will find dullsville as it is centered around the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s song, Political World. Bob is, I admit,……

the daily sin, palm fingers, fear, twilight zone, cats, talking heads, yahtzee, 3-15-21

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. From Kretzmann’s Popular Commentary V. 5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me; for David, like all men, was sinful from the first moment of conception, flesh born of flesh, filled with all……

the daily what it’s like to write a blog post in one easy picture, katie’s-birthday-21

Genesis 2:23-25 The Man said,“Finally! Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh!Name her Woman for she was made from Man.” Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife. They become one flesh. The two of them, the Man and his Wife, were naked, but they felt no shame. . This……

the daily eyeball, 3-11-21

Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. . Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye – Brillat-Savarin . He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. – Charles Dickens . We are one blink of an……

the daily screaming kitty gets stickered up, 3-10-21

Mark 12:29-31 Jesus said, “The first in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.’ And here is the second: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment that ranks with these.” .……

the daily john belushi, keith richards and a g’billion little chocolate doughnuts, 3-9-21

Joshua 23:14 “As you can see, I’m about to go the way we all end up going. Know this with all your heart, with everything in you, that not one detail has failed of all the good things God, your God, promised you. It has all happened. Nothing’s left undone—not so much as a word.……

the doily this post contains slipknot, grateful dead, kraftwerk, incense, a life hack, and her funkness, 3-8-21

Matthew 5:43-47 “You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the supple moves of prayer, for……

the daily a broken heart, 3-4-21

Psalm 34:18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. . I have broken hearts in my soul, none of which I’ll discuss here but I have a newest one. Susan’s Christ mission in Flarida is to feed feral cats by the main entrance to our Land Of The Ancients……

the daily the weather, the morning love language, the missing prince song, the gollygator, the comic strip, 3-4-21

Matthew 16:1-4 Some Pharisees and Sadducees badgered him again, pressing him to prove himself to them. He told them, “You have a saying that goes, ‘Red sky at night, sailor’s delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.’ You find it easy enough to forecast the weather—why can’t you read the signs of the times?……

the daily the arrows, the titanic, and a special word from my patronesse, 3-3-21

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Because of the extravagance of those revelations, and so I wouldn’t get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan’s angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees.……

the daily food issue #2, 3-2-21

Genesis 9:1-4 God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, “Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature—birds, animals, fish—will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You’re responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for……

the daily kretzmann + jeremiah, the food issue and a remindeer, 3-1-21

Jeremiah 33:2-3 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Kretzmann says … 2. Thus saith the Lord, the Maker thereof, literally, “the Doer,”……