That is why insects can eat it, the very trunk of a tree, or a plant, is the body itself, and then the soul is in the root, you have probably seen the man on which a tree grows, it is the same protein, and the roots of trees, and plants, talking to each other, it is a kind of vein from which all life originates, a kind of consciousness from which everything that lives comes, a bit like the tree of life in avatar, it is wiser than all life, since it has been here the longest, rages comes and goes, but this vein is there all the time, trees, and plants, you feel it when you, for example, cut off branches, but it's a bit like when a cat bites the neck of a mouse, the pain is muted so you feel almost nothing , numbed in a way, if one misbehaves, for example, then trees and plants will pick it up, and then the birds sit on branches and sing so all the animals hear it too, influenced by the tree it sits on, it's quite really cool

This guy needs a new hobby. Or maybe that jail needs some new occupational therapy choices.

In 2014, Timothy H. Findlay was sent to federal prison for threatening to kill a sitting Democrat president and detonate the White House, threats he made from within a Michigan jail. Years later and not having learned his lesson, a yet-again-jailed Findlay opted to repeat history by threatening to kill another Democrat president by blowing up his house.

Findlay was in the Arenac County Jail on a state charge of possessing less than 25 grams of a controlled substance when he made his latest threat on April 28, 2022. He wrote a letter to President Joe Biden stating that when he was out of custody, he and others “are going to bomb the White House and kill everyone with cyanide. Rape your wife [and] kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer, tie her up and leave her on Lake Michigan. Then kill everyone with cyanide.”

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President Biden on Thursday released the country’s first national strategy for combating antisemitism, a landmark lauded by Jewish and anti-hate groups as progress toward addressing the increasing instances of violence and bias toward Jewish people in the United States.

But Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) saw the effort as an attack on those of her political persuasion. “When they say stuff like this, they mean they want to go after conservatives,” she tweeted. “Their tactics are straight out of the USSR’s playbook.”

Her comments quickly attracted criticism from detractors who accused her of conflating a straightforward campaign against antisemitism with an assault on the right — and, by implication, equating conservatives with antisemites.

“If anyone finds opposition to hate threatening, they need to look inward,” [Deputy WH Press Secretary] Bates said in a statement. “Congresswoman Boebert should also Google the Soviet Union’s long, repulsive history of antisemitism.

Biden on Thursday announced a four-pillar strategy to confront hate in a video address, outlining a plan that includes more than 100 steps for the government to take. The goals include increasing awareness and understanding of antisemitism, ramping up security for Jewish communities, reversing the normalization of discrimination, and improving on collective efforts to counter hate.

DAILY PRAYER SHIELD​

Prayers For Our Persecuted Family.
Sometimes it can be difficult to know what to pray for our persecuted family so we produce a daily prayer shield which gives a specific need that you can pray for each day. You can see today’s prayer, plus those for the last 6 days, below. You can also sign up using the form above to receive our Email Prayer Alert which we send out whenever we become aware of a specific and immediate situation which requires urgent prayer.

Children’s Prayer Sheet
It’s not only adults who can pray for our persecuted family. Every month we produce a prayer sheet aimed specifically for children. Each sheet has specific activities and prayers which will help children learn more about how persecution affects children in other countries. You can visit our Children’s Prayer Sheet page here.

Nigeria​

Pray for Henry Monday Adeh and his family, whose home was burnt down by Fulani militants in Nigeria. Thank God that Release International partners were able to rebuild their house.

China​

Pray that God will sustain Hao Ming, an elder of Early Rain Qingcaodi Church in Deyang city, who was recently charged with fraud. He has been detained in China since late-2021.

China​

Praise God for the witness of Early Rain Covenant Church members in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. They provided quilts and winter clothes for guards keeping watch over the home of their preacher Dai Zhichao.

China​

Lin Xuesui was arrested in Sichuan province, China in 2022 and accused of involvement in ‘illegal gatherings’, apparently in connection with his ministry work there. Thank God he was released on bail in January: pray charges will be dropped.

China​

Thank God that elderly Sun Jinhuan was able to visit her son Pastor John Cao in prison in Yunnan province, China for the first time in three years. He is serving seven years for ‘illegal border crossing’ into Myanmar.

China​

Give thanks that after nearly a 4 year journey for religious freedom the Shenzhen Reformed Holy ‘Mayflower’ Church have settled in Dallas, Texas, USA.

Nigeria​

Forgiving Father, we pray that You will give Your persecuted children in Nigeria the grace to forgive their enemies. Humanly speaking this seems impossible. The scale of hurt and loss is vast. But the gospel calls us to forgive as we have been forgiven and we pray You will enable them to do this.

19ALGERIA​

Persecution has significantly worsened in the past year, with Christians becoming very vulnerable to state pressure alongside the ongoing societal pressures that can come from families and communities.
Most Algerian believers are converts from Islam. They can face discrimination, harassment and pressure to follow Islamic customs from family members as well as the wider community. More recently, Christians have increasingly experienced restrictions and pressure from state officials to renounce their faith; many of these officials come under the influence of radical Islamic teachers.
Laws that regulate non-Muslim worship are also used to quell the influence of Christianity. This includes prohibition of anything that would ‘shake the faith of a Muslim’ or could be used as a ‘means of seduction intending to convert a Muslim to another religion’. These laws are notoriously vague in their wording and are often abused in the courts.
Meanwhile, 16 previously closed church buildings remained sealed, while other churches were ordered to close during the past year. Several other churches have had to cease their activities.

Please pray​

• That the Holy Spirit will help Christians in Algeria to stand firm in their faith.
• That each Christian in Algeria will have opportunities to gather with other believers for fellowship and discipleship.
• For the reopening of closed churches and a relaxing of laws that stifle religious freedom.

How do you pronounce Cicero?

.... and an expert in bible prophecy, if you can grasp all the information on this timeline chart of the 7 year 70th week of Daniel 9 - day 1 to day 2520.

On the chart below, the little horn as the prince who shall come > becomes the Antichrist > then is revealed as the man of sin > then becomes the beast.

Also, the three woes to the inhabitors of the earth, first spoke about in Revelation 8:13, are shown on the chart.

And all of the seals in relation to each other.

My husband and I were married (legally) for 20 years but he chose to commit adultery and left me in 2016. He divorced me in 2018.
I prayed for the marriage and for reconcilliation. He was my closest friend. He didn't want to reconcile and was happy to continue with the relationship with Other women(even though he had a girlfriend) despite being still married to me.
I still love and care for him (in a friendship way). My husband is a christian, although I don't think he married a believer((someone from a non-christian religion). I don't know where his walk is with the Lord, either.
I never see him now.

He continues to email me on my birthday and also he continues to email me on our Wedding Anniversary.
He acknowledges our Wedding Anniversary date(still) and says how much he appreciated being married to me.
I still don't know why he left me though. (but I think he wanted to pursue a love for someone (or others) from a different culture.

The emails that he sends on my birthday end in 'regards'. There is NO love, no romantic talk,
just respectful talk. I have no remarried, nor have I dated any man. The only man I have ever loved is my previous husband.
He shares a little about what he is doing/work etc. He never asks about me, or how I am doing
just says, "I hope you are well".

I still pray for him. He was my best and closest friend.


He emailed me the other day on our WEdding Anniversary - he always says
"Happy Anniversary".

I know he is remarried, so is this wrong that he is emailing me - is this considered 'adultery'? I know he has a lot of women friend outside the marriage as friends( a relative shared that with me)
I don't want this to affect my walk as a believer, and I certainly don't want it to affect his life as a believer,too.

Please don't me harsh in the comments.
I am happy when I do hear from him, at least I know he is safe and well.

Hello, I am not looking for anything particular but would like to fellowship and discuss many topics with anyone.

I’m having a hard time finding a good Lutheran Bible study. Does anyone know of one online I could join?

I love children. Babies especially. I love babies...ant kind. I am a very relaxed personality dn when I come across crying babies I love helping them calm while the frazzled parent gets a break.
So yes I have a bias.

But I look at these two men and how they handle a crying baby and to me, it does speak to their character and values.

What about you?

I watched a Christian movie recently. In one of the scenes, a teenage girl receives Christ. The advice given to her is as good as anything I've ever heard. The woman who witnessed to the teenager advised her to read the first two chapters of Ephesians. She said to write down everything that the Word said that the teenager was now in Christ. If you struggle in your Christian life, I advise you to do the same.

Some Christians think it their duty to swamp new believers with finger wagging "thou shalt nots". Others leave the new believers to flounder on their own. After all, God is supposed to take care of us. Neither is correct. Behaviour as a Christian is important. I doubt the reality of the conversion of anyone who loves to sin. However, guilt tripping the new believer is not helpful either. Those who are more mature should be encouraging new believers to enter into what God has made us to be in Christ.

No Christian is immediately perfect in outward behaviour. However, those who know who they are in Christ have a great advantage over those who do not know the true meaning of being born again. There is a good reason why Paul started his letter to the Ephesians as he did. He tells us who we are in Christ first. Then he tells us how we should live that in experience. I can see no reason as to why we should not do likewise.

Momma dragged me out of bed this morning at 0600 to go to a garage sale in Whitehall. A small thrift store was going out of business, and there were supposed to be bargains galore.

It frosted here last night (yay--die, mosquitoes!) because I could see it all over the garage roof when I got up. It was still only about 38° when we got there, with a small, but potent breeze blowing. All I had on was a short-sleeved shirt with a thin insulated shirt over the top of that.....I was freezing, to say the least.

One of the tables had hunting gear spread all over it. It was all pretty neat stuff, but I only found one item that fit me (and it fit me perfectly, too---almost like it was custom made for me!), which was a vintage Walls hunting parka, an obsolete Realtree camo pattern with knit cuffs and an attached snap-on hood. I asked the lady, "How much for the hunting coat?" She said "$10.00." I countered with $5.00. She said "How about $8.00?" I said "How about $6.50?" She said "$7.00." I said "Sold!!!" I immediately put the parka on, and I was warm as toast for the rest of the morning. It looks exactly like the one below, except, as I said, mine has a hood.

There was also a pawn shop going out of business nearby; we went in there and I got a bunch of DVD movies; Momma got some nice jewelry for cheap. The kids got some stuff for themselves, and by then it was getting on towards 1030, so we headed home. We all got something to eat and then took long naps.

I looked up the same parka that I bought on-line, and one like it goes for anywhere from $35.00 to $60.00 on ebay or amazon; I'm pretty pleased that I only paid $7.00 for the one I got. Plus it kept me from getting chilblains.

A majority of likely voters say FBI officials who promoted claims linking former President Donald Trump to Russia should be criminally prosecuted, according to a new Rasmussen poll.

The poll, released Friday, found that 59% of respondents say those inside the FBI who pushed the narrative that Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia colluded to sway that year’s presidential election should face criminal charges.

Hi everyone-

There are several scriptures, they say that God is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. What does this mean? Can anyone explain this to me? I think a teaching on this may be about to come and if it does it will be mind-blowing! Thanks!

(OSV News) — A film making its U.S. debut recounts the life of a beloved 20th-century saint — and the movie’s star told OSV News he “fell in love with Christ” to prepare for the part.

Actor Shia LaBeouf portrays St. Pio of Pietrelcina in the new drama “Padre Pio,” which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and will be released in U.S. theaters and on demand June 2.

Directed by Abel Ferrara, the movie traces a pivotal period in the life of St. (Padre) Pio, when the 33-year-old Capuchin Franciscan priest — bearing the stigmata, the visible wounds of Christ — begins what would become his lifelong his ministry in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, just after World War I. (The Capuchin himself had served as a private in the Italian army’s medical corps during the conflict.)

LaBeouf said he “wasn’t even trying to make movies” when Ferrara approached him about the role.

The acclaimed 36-year-old actor — whose Emmy-winning career as a kid on the Disney Channel blossomed into big-screen success — found himself “totally lost” after his inner demons led to partying, work conflicts and run-ins with the law.

“I was wandering around, living in my truck,” he said. “I wasn’t interested in acting anymore.”

As LaBeouf began confronting his personal issues, Ferrara tapped him for “Padre Pio,” a saint to whom the Bronx-born director — best known for his gritty cinematic takes on the underworld — felt himself “drawn.”

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This is become something of a running theme with me.

I wrote some more prayers long and short for help with mental health problems - incluing issues of addiction.

I don't really want to go into the ins and outs of my own situation.

Maybe suffice it to say: too much attempt at self-reliance for too long.

Here are 2 I wrote:

Pray For Healing From Past Traumas And Emotional Wounds

Dear Jesus, I seek healing from the pain of past traumas and emotional wounds. Please touch my heart and bring restoration. Heal the hurt and scars that have affected me deeply. I trust in your power to mend and bring wholeness. Amen.

‘He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.’ (Psalm 147:3)

Dear Jesus, I carry the burdens of past traumas and emotional wounds that have left deep scars within me. I acknowledge that these experiences have caused me pain, and I long for your healing touch to bring restoration to my wounded soul.

I lay before you the memories and emotions that still haunt me, asking for your divine intervention to mend the broken pieces within. I invite you into the depths of my heart, where the wounds reside, and I ask that you apply your healing balm to every hurt and every scar.

Please bring forth your divine love and compassion to soothe the pain and bring comfort to my inner being. Allow your divine light to shine upon the darkness that lingers, dispelling the shadows of my past and filling me with renewed hope.

I surrender my pain and bitterness to you, knowing that you are the ultimate healer. Strengthen me, dear Jesus, as I embark on this journey of healing, granting me the courage to face the past and embrace the path of forgiveness and wholeness.

Help me to release the weight of the past and embrace the freedom that comes from your transformative love. May the wounds of my past be transformed into a testimony of your grace and redemption.

Thank you, Lord, for your promise of healing and restoration. I trust in your power and mercy to bring complete healing to my heart, mind, and spirit. In your loving and compassionate name, I pray. Amen.

And:

Pray For Healing From Addiction And Destructive Patterns Of Behaviour

Dear Jesus, I need your help. Please heal me from addiction and the bad things I keep doing. Set me free and give me strength to make better choices. Thank you for your love and care. Amen

‘If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.’ (John 8:36)

Dear Jesus, I need your help. I’ve been struggling with addiction and doing things that I know are harmful to myself and others. I feel trapped and helpless.

But I believe in your power to bring healing and freedom. Please remove this addiction from my life and help me break free from these destructive patterns. Give me the strength and courage to make better choices each day.

I know that I can’t do this alone, so I ask for your guidance and support. Surround me with people who will encourage me and help me stay on the right path. Give me the wisdom to seek help and the humility to admit when I need it.

Jesus, I long for a fresh start and a new life. Help me to rebuild what has been broken and damaged by my actions. Restore my relationships and give me the opportunity to make amends where I’ve hurt others.

I’m grateful for your love and care, Jesus. Thank you for always being there for me, even when I’ve made mistakes. I trust in your power to heal me and guide me towards a healthier and happier life. In your name, I pray. Amen.

The page on my website is here - whatever: Simple Prayers To Jesus For Help With Mental Health Problems | Meditations On The Love Of Jesus Christ – Listen To the Bible! | King James Audio Bible | KJV | King James Version

Maybe it would be nice to talk with other Christians who have been in a similar place.

I can't be the only one.

I think it does take a lot to give up on trying to look strong.

I hope this message might make a difference to maybe even just one person feeling weak too - and a little ashamed of that.
Oliver

One of the frustrations of living the interior life is that slowly, over time, one after the other, the masks that are put on that we wear to hide from others, as well as ourselves, are taken away, and sometimes, actually ripped off. The process even though for most of us is very gradual, the experience is most of the time a shock. It is easy to see into others, but for ourselves, for me, it can be difficult to see through the veil that is constructed to keep out the truth.

At the beginning of one’s conversion, there can be feelings of joy and consolation that can help us get over the hurdles we must face as we begin the process of growing into becoming one with Jesus Christ. Yet soon, the real journey begins.

The Holy Spirit wishes us to come to the truth that will set us free. Our blind spots, wounds, and the many addictions that can be acquired as we age have to be faced. There will be many false starts and failures. These are important for one of the hardest lessons to learn is our need for God’s grace in our lives.

The human condition is in many ways, tragic. Freedom is hard won, and often in small steps. The old saying, “Two steps forward, three steps back” is a lived experience, one that allows us to grow in trust in God’s fidelity, even when we can feel that we have very little ourselves. Humility is hard-earned.

The deeper in we go, the worse we may think we are becoming. Yet, in actuality, we are simply seeing deeper into our souls, which is a healing grace.

Without self-knowledge spiritual growth is not possible. The only way we can be healed of negative and self-destructive cycles is to learn through experience that we do bear quite a bit of responsibility for many of our problems. An often hard pill to swallow.

One of the most painful aspects of spiritual growth is the actual knowledge of how hard it is for us to love. God, as well as others. We love out of need, which can take many turns, most of them leading to more pain. Once we learn about our need for conversion, we can stop blaming others for our problems, let go of the past, and forgive those who have harmed us. None of it is easy. The emotional after-effect can last for a long time even after forgiveness is given. Yes, the process can be exhausting.

It is this experience of inner poverty that leads us to a deeper trust in the love of God as shown to us by the revelation of Jesus Christ. We come to understand that our poverty, our wounds, and our sins, are not a obstacle to God’s love. It is our refusal to trust, grow, and let go of blame that keeps us captive in our self-created hells, and purgatories.

Trust is a choice, to seek joy is a choice as well, to embrace self-knowledge and to let go of sell-pity are also choices. The more we choose in the midst of inner suffering and turmoil to trust, the deeper in we go. It is suffering that brings us to the fork in the road, the goad is necessary.

One of the greatest temptations of the inner life is to give in to bitterness, to become cynical. Because of our tragic human state, this is a very easy condition to fall into. When we fight these temptations, it leads us to a different image of God. Our images of God, if we allow grace to work, will change as we experience life with all of its joys, and yes, sufferings.

Love of God, others, and self, is an absolute necessity if we wish to make the interior journey of faith that leads in the end to union with God. This union starts with the first step, with each new step we go deeper in. A journey that is eternal.-Br.MD

This information in part triggered and sustained Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation," the report said. "In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump's political opponents."

"The Department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them, even when at about the same time the Director of the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence," the report said.
The public has been misinformed my the major media on the severity of the wrongdoing spelled out in the Durham report, and so these public hearings are crucial to the nation. We cannot have one political party feeding fake information to the government and have the government ignore contrary intelligence. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department have demonstrated they can police themselves, and it seems like defunding, partially or fully, is the only way things will change.

WASHINGTON – A whistleblower at the Internal Revenue Service, which is investigating Hunter Biden for potential tax violations, told lawmakers Monday his entire team was removed from the probe, according to a letter from his lawyers obtained by USA TODAY.

The letter said the IRS criminal supervisory special agent "was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress." The Justice Department informed the whistleblower about the change.


Is this a replay of Ukraine and then VP Biden?

Open an investigation and the investigators are removed.

I remember you from the now defunct forum, ClubAdventist and speaking about God giving you the victory over your drinking problem. So, you don't think of it in terms if RxF or sanctification by faith alone, but you have experienced it in your life. I know never did as I had never heard of the term when God first gave me the victory over my drinking and drug habits in my mid twenties.

Because of the abuse I went through as a kid and on into my adult life from my family my addiction was really severe. I deliberately tried to destroy myself with drugs. I wanted all the pain to just go away and not be able to remember it anymore.

God used a friend of mine who had a real drinking problem to make a major change in me. He was busted for drunk driving and as part of his sentence he had to go to NA as part of his treatment program. He invited me to a meeting on a Friday night and I went just to be polite. This was after falling and failing several times after God had first given me the victory. I went into that meeting and it was like coming home. I had always felt completely alone before but that meeting showed me that there were other people who had the same experiences I did. I never used drugs again. Ironically my friend died of his alcoholism. He literally drank himself to death.

I tell you this, not to brag, but to give you more hope.

Russia and Ukraine need seats in European Parliament.

Talking is better than fighting.

Jesus told a story about a Samaritan who helped a man who had been beaten and robbed on a road, probably the man was a Jew, and there was a long standing intolerance between Jews and Samaritans back then. The man was passed by a Levite and a Priest neither took pity and neither helped him. Only the Samaritan showed pity and compassion for him, helped him, and made sure he would be cared for until the Samaritan returned. There's a lesson here, Christians ought to see it easily. Why then is it so hard for Christians to acknowledge that the poor, disabled, and refugees in our times may need compassion and pity?