all people you have “used”? 

- eab, 1/27/12

Thank you Lord for shoes and sox.

Thank you for my house – a live-in box.

Thank you pheasants, ‘specially colorful cocks.

Thank you the wildness of regal fox.

Thank you for accuracy in fine clocks.

Thank you for the ability to de-tox.

Thank you for door and keyed, complicated locks.

Thank you missionaries – Ted and Nola Haux.

Thank you for bricks; man-made building blocks.

Thank you I’m over childhood chicken-pox.

Thank you for contents in dairy-farm crocks.

                – eab, 1/6/11

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost died this date,1/29/1963, in Boston, Massachusetts.

 – it’s the devil who says

they’re “imp” possible. 

- eab, 1/17/12

God’s Word will last,

When the earth is past,

And the heavens are obsolete.

When the meteors and stars,

Pluto,Venice, and Mars,

Have been rolled as a sheet. 

                – eab, Jan. ’70

Refrain

Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.

2. At the sign of triumph Satan’s host doth flee;
On then, Christian soldiers, on to victory!
Hell’s foundations quiver at the shout of praise;
Brothers lift your voices, loud your anthems raise.

3. Like a mighty army moves the churchof God;
Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod.
We are not divided, all one body we,
One in hope and doctrine, one in charity.

4. What the saints established that I hold for true.
What the saints believèd, that I believe too.
Long as earth endureth, men the faith will hold,
Kingdoms, nations, empires, in destruction rolled.

5. Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane,
But the church of Jesus constant will remain.
Gates of hell can never gainst that church prevail;
We have Christ’s own promise, and that cannot fail.

6. Onward then, ye people, join our happy throng,
Blend with ours your voices in the triumph song.
Glory, laud and honor unto Christ the King,
This through countless ages men and angels sing.

Sabine (Sā’ben) Baring-Gould (bā’ring  goold’) was born this date, 1/28/1834, Exeter, England.  After attending schools in Germanyand France, he entered Clare College (Cambridge).  He is said to have learned six languages and hold an interest in archaeology and in architect.  He wrote 100 books (30 of those  novels) and a 16-volume Lives of the Saints.  These were in addition to pastoring.  He died1/2/1924, inEngland.

 He wrote “Now the Day Is Over” and “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”

get Accepted without adequate thought.

When he’s seen as a “villain” his words

get Rejected without adequate thought. 

- eab, 12/24/11

The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another…every following Prophecy adds something new to the former.            (Ch.3)

Seeing therefore the body of the third Beast is confined to the nations on this side the river Euphrates, and the body of the fourth Beast is confined to the nations on this side Greece; we are to look for all the four heads of the third Beast, among the nations on this side of the river Euphrates; and for all the eleven horns of the fourth Beast, among the nations on this side of Greece.            (Ch.4)

- Sir ISAAC NEWTON, OBSERVATIONS upon the PROPHECIES of DANIEL, and the APOCALYPSE of St.  John (In Two PARTS), LONDON,  M.DCC.XXXIII.

Isaac Newton on this date, 1/26/1697 received from Jean [1] Bernoulli’s (bĕrn yē’), a six month time-limit-problem.  Isaac had the answer before he retired for bed that evening.

Want better Friends? 

Become (with God’s help) a Better Bird.

– eab, 12/5/1

History’s most famous land is an uncommon hill,

It’s the hill upon which the Savoir died,

Pierced by thorn, cruelly crucified.

History is a series of events,

Random, some seem, full of dings and dents,

Brilliant or scarred, free or barred

Filling all the past [of history fills all the past].

History also has to have its land,

On which acts start and then expand,

Events all pass, the land lasts.

History plays out on real valley and hill,

By river’s bend, by bay’s as tides fill.

History did not act out into thin air.

History takes place on dirt and sod,

Some of it for, some against God.

All of history took place on land

On rocky rise, on stretches of sand.

History fills time’s line completely full,

Ethereal-like, exciting or more dull.

Real history covers slopes and scarps,

Little knolls, rolling plains, hills and sharps.

The greatest history took place on an uncommon hill.

                – eab, 1/23/11