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Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,
says Yahweh of Hosts. Zechariah 4:6
Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O ancient doors,
That the King of Glory may come in! Who is this King of Glory?
Yahweh of Hosts: He is the King of Glory. Psalm 24:9-10
When those hands fail me, then am I indeed abandoned and miserable! When they sustain and keep me, then am I safe, exalted, strong, and filled with good. Receive me, then, O Eternal Father, for the sake of our Lord's merits and words. For he, by his obedience and his death, has now merited from you everything which I do not merit of myself. Into your hands, my Father and my God, I commend my spirit, my soul, my body, my powers, my desires. I offer up all into your hands. To them I commit all that I have hitherto been, that you may forgive and restore all--my wounds, that you may heal them; my blindness, that you may enlighten it; my coldness, that you may inflame it; my wicked and erring ways, that you may set me forth in the right path; and all my evils, that you may uproot them all from my soul. I commend and offer up into your most sacred hands, O my God, what I am, which you know far better than I can know--weak, wretched, wounded, fickle, blind, deaf, dumb, poor, bare of every good, nothing, yea, less than nothing on account of my many sins, and more miserable than I can either know or express. Lord God, receive me and make me to become what he, the divine Lamb, would have me to be. I commend, I offer up, I deliver over into your divine hands all my affairs, my cares, my affections, my successes, my comforts, my labors, and everything which you know to be coming upon me. Direct all to your honor and glory. Teach me in all to do your will, and in all to recognize the work of your divine hands; to seek nothing else, and with this reflection alone to find rest and comfort in everything. (Fra Thome de Jesu)
Let us, with whom it was once night, improve that morning joy that now shines upon us. Let us be continual admirers of God's grace and mercy to us. He has gone before us with his goodness when he saw nothing in us but impatience and unbelief. When we were like Jonah in the belly of hell, his bowels yearned over us, and his power brought us safe to land. What did we do to hasten his deliverance or to obtain his mercy? If he had never come to our relief till he saw something in us to invite him, we had not yet been relieved. No more did we contribute to our restoration than we do to the rising of the sun or the approach of day. We were like dry bones without motion and without strength (Ezek. 37:1-11). . . . Who is a God like to our God who pardons iniquity, transgression, and sin? who does not retain his anger forever? who is slow to wrath and delights in mercy? who has been displeased with us for a moment but gives us hope of his everlasting kindness? Oh, what love is due from us to Christ who has pleaded for us when we ourselves had nothing to say, who has brought us out of a den of lions and from the jaws of the roaring lion! Let us say, as Mrs. Sarah Wright did, "I have obtained mercy, who thought my time of mercy past forever. I have hope of heaven, who thought I was already damned by unbelief. . . . The goodness of God is unsearchable. How great is the excellency of his majesty that yet he would look upon such a one as I." (Timothy Rogers)
Here, says he, is a description of a sincere soul--one in whose spirit there is no deceit. But I find much deceit in me; therefore, I am not the sincere one. Now this is a very weak, yea, false inference. By a spirit without deceit is not meant a person who has not the least deceitfulness and hypocrisy remaining in his heart. To be without sin and to be without deceit, in this strict sense, are the same--a prerogative here on earth peculiar to the Lord Christ, "Who did no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth" (1 Pet. 2:22). And, therefore, when we meet with the same phrase attributed to the saints--as to Levi, "Iniquity was not found in his lips (Mal. 2:6), and to Nathanael, "Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no deceit" (John 1:47)--we must sense it in an inferior way, which may suit with their imperfect state here below . . . Wipe your eyes again, poor soul, and then if you read passages wherein the Spirit of God speaks so highly and hyperbolically of his saints' grace, you shall find he does not assert the perfection of their grace, free from all mixture of sin. Rather it is to comfort poor drooping souls, who from the presence of hypocrisy are ready to overlook their sincerity as if it didn't exist at all. The Spirit of God expresses his high esteem of their little grace by speaking of it as if it were perfect, and their hypocrisy none at all. (William Gurnall)
If we reflect on the prodigious number of human beings who constantly receive their food, raiment, and every pleasure they enjoy from their mother earth, we shall be convinced of the great liberality with which nature dispenses her gifts. And not only human beings, but an innumerable quantity of living creatures besides--inhabitants of the air, the waters, and the earth--are daily indebted to nature for their support. Those animals which are under our care are still indebted to the earth for their subsistence; for the grass, which nature spontaneously produces, is their chief food. The whole race of fishes, except those which men feed for their amusement, subsist without any of their aid. The species of birds which is perhaps the most despised and most numerous is the sparrow. What they require for their support is incredible, but nature takes care to feed them. They are, however, but the smallest part of her children. So great is the quantity of insects that ages may pass before even their species and classes can be known. . . . On what can all these creatures subsist? . . . It is the God of nature who has poured into her bosom this inexhaustible store of riches. He provides each creature with its food and dwelling. For them he causes the grass and other herbs to grow, leaving each to select its proper food. And, however lowly many creatures may appear to us, he feeds and assists them all.
O Almighty God, how manifest is your greatness! You do what the united efforts of all mankind would fail to accomplish. You have given life, and breath, and being to all creatures that live in the air, the waters, or the earth. Surely you will do for your believing people what you do for animals and insects! When we are filled with doubts and fear, let us consider the ravens whom the Lord feeds when they cry. Let them and all creatures beside, which man takes no care of, teach us the art of contentment. The great Author of nature knows all our needs. Let us cast our every care on him, for he cares for us. And may we come boldly to the throne of grace in faith and sincerity that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help us in every time of need. (Christopher Christian Sturm)
He changes not his purpose, his decree is not frustrated, his designs are accomplished. God has a predestination according to the counsel of his will, and none of the devices of his foes can thwart his decree for a moment. Men's purposes are blown to and fro like the thread of the gossamer or the down of the thistle, but the eternal purposes are firmer than the earth. "The thoughts of his heart to all generations." Men come and go, sons follow their sires to the grave, but the undisturbed mind of God moves on in unbroken serenity, producing ordained results with unerring certainty. No man can expect his [own] will or plan to be carried out from age to age. The wisdom of one period is the folly of another, but the Lord's wisdom is always wise, and his designs run on from century to century. His power to fulfill his purposes is by no means diminished by the lapse of years. He who was absolute over Pharaoh in Egypt is not one whit the less the King of kings and Lord of lords today. Still do his chariot wheels roll onward in imperial grandeur, none being for a moment able to resist his eternal will. (Charles Spurgeon)
The covenant angel, the Lord Jesus, at the head of all the bands of heaven, surrounds with his army the dwellings of the saints. Like hosts entrenched, so are the ministering spirits encamped around the Lord's chosen, to serve and succour [support], to defend and console them. On every side the watch is kept by warriors of sleepless eyes, and the Captain of the host is one whose prowess none can resist. "And delivers them." We little know how many providential deliverances we owe to those unseen hands which are charged to bear us up lest we dash our foot against a stone. (Charles Spurgeon)
Take a survey of heaven and earth and all things therein, and whatsoever upon sure ground appears good, ask it confidently of Christ. His love will not deny it. If it were good for you that there were no sin, no devil, no affliction, no destruction, the love of Christ would instantly abolish these. Nay, if the possession of all the kingdoms of the world were absolutely good for any saint, the love of Christ would instantly crown him monarch of them. (David Clarkson)
The most desirable things are not the easiest to be obtained. What is more lovely to the imagination than the tranquility of peace? But this great blessing does not voluntarily present itself; it must be sought. Even when sought, it often eludes the grasp. It flies away and must be pursued. The man of a peaceable carriage must be cautious not to give offense when needless, or, when it may innocently be spared. Another part of the peaceable man's character is not to take offense, especially in small matters which are hardly worth a wise man's notice. If any needless offense has been either given or taken, we must endeavor to put a stop to it as soon as may be. If a difference is already begun, stifle it in the birth and allow it not to proceed farther. (Condensed by Spurgeon from Dr. Waterland's Sermon in J. R. Pitman's Course of Sermons on the Psalms, 1846)
He observes them with approval and tender consideration. They are so dear to him that he cannot take his eyes off them. He watches each one as carefully and intently as if he were the only creature in the universe. (Charles Spurgeon)
You will say, "Why does God permit wicked people to lay to the charge of the godly such things of which they are innocent? God, if he pleased, could prevent it and stop the mouths of the wicked, so that they should not be able to speak against his children." Answer: As all things work for the best to them who love God, so this works for the good of God's people. God does permit it for the good of his people, and thus he frustrates the hopes of the wicked. They intend evil against the godly, and God disposes of it for good. As Joseph said to his brethren, "You intended evil against me, and God disposed of it for good," so we may say to those who falsely slander God's people, "You intended evil against the people of God, but God disposes of it for good."
There is a fivefold good that God brings out of it for his people. First, God does by this means humble them, and brings them to examine what is amiss; so that even though they be clear of that crime laid to their charge, yet they will then examine whether there is something else amiss between God and them. They will search their hearts and walk more humbly, and cling more closely to the Lord. Second, God does by this means bring them more often upon their knees--to seek him, to plead their cause, and to declare their innocency. How often did the prophet speak to God when the wicked falsely accused him. How often did he make his moan to God at the throne of grace, beseeching him to plead his cause and to keep him close in his way, that the wicked might not rejoice at his downfall! So when God's people see what it is that delights the wicked--the godly falling into such and such a sin--then the godly will pray more earnestly with David, "Lord, lead me in a right path because of my observers." Then they will pray more earnestly for God to keep them from falling into that sin which the wicked desire. Third, God does use the reproach of the wicked as a preventative medicine against that crime which the wicked lay to their charge. If God should leave the godly on their own for even a little time, they might fall into that sin. So every godly man and woman may now say, when they are falsely accused, "It is God's mercy that I did not fall into that sin laid to my charge." God uses wicked people's tongues as a warning. So let us consider, if the wicked thus rejoice without a cause, what would they do if they had just cause? By the help of God this shall be a warning to me forever to watch against that sin. For the time to come I will pray more against it than I have done, and watch more against that sin than I have done. Through God's help they shall never have occasion to rejoice over me. Truly, I believe many a child of God can say by experience, that he never should have prayed and watched against such a sin so much had not God used the tongues of the wicked as a preventative medicine. "I knew not my own heart, but that I might have fallen into such and such a sin had not God by this means hedged up my way with thorns." Fourth, God does by this means exercise the graces of his people, by letting them undergo bad report as well as good report. He tests whether they will cling close to him in all conditions (Ps. 44:15-17). Fifth, God does by this means teach them how to judge of others when they are falsely accused. For the time to come, they will not receive a false report against their neighbor; they will know the truth of a matter before they believe it. In addition, they will know how to comfort others in the same condition. Thus God disposes of it for good, and thereby makes the wicked the servant of his people in that very thing which the wicked desired. In respect to the godly, God uses the wicked as the rod and wisp to scour off the rust of their graces and to correct their security. And when the rod has done its work, then it is thrown into the fire. (Zephaniah Smyth's Sermon, "The Malignant's Plot," 1647, liberty taken in some rewording)
I once heard a father tell that when he moved his family to a new residence, where the accommodation was much more ample and the substance much more rich and varied than that to which they had previously been accustomed, his youngest son, yet a lisping child, ran around every room and scanned every article with ecstasy, calling out in childish wonder at every new sight, "Is this ours, father? and is this ours?" The child did not say "yours." And I observed that the father, while he told the story, was not offended with the freedom. You could read in his glistening eye that the child's confidence in appropriating as his own all that his father had was an important element in his satisfaction. Such, I suppose, will be the surprise, joy, and appropriating confidence with which the child of our Father's family will count all his own when he is removed from the comparatively low condition of things present and enters the infinite of things to come. When the glories of heaven burst upon his view, he does not stand at a distance like a stranger saying, "O God, these are thine." He bounds forward to touch and taste every provision which those blessed mansions contain, exclaiming as he looks in the Father's face, "Father, this and this is ours!" The dear child is glad of all the Father's riches, and the Father is more glad of his dear child. (William Arnot)
When we bear the burden of our own affairs ourselves and are chastised with anxiety, lack of success, and with envying the ungodly who prosper better than we do, the best remedy is first to do our duty as we are enabled in the use of means. Then let us cast the care of the success over on God, as the plowman does when he has harrowed his land. Let the burden of it rest on God and let us not take it off him again, but put our mind to rest, resolved to take the harvest in good part as he shall send it. (David Dickson)
Take the case of one who, with a load greater than his strength, has been toiling some steep and broken path, when suddenly he finds it lifted off and transferred to another whose strength he knows to be more than equal to the task and in whose sympathy he can securely trust. What would his feeling be but one of perfect rest, and calm reliance, and joyous freedom as they went on their way together? And such is the blessedness of rolling our care upon the Lord--in weakness we are resting on superior strength, in perplexity and doubt we are resting on superior wisdom, in all times of trial and hard service we can stay ourselves on the assurance of his perfect sympathy. . . . What is "resting in God," but the instinctive movement and upward glance of the spirit to him; the confiding all one's griefs and fears to him and feeling strengthened, patient, hopeful in the act of doing so? It implies a willingness that he should choose for us, a conviction that the ordering of all that concerns us is safer in his hands than in our own.
A few practical remarks: (1) Our "resting patiently" in the Lord applies only to the trials which he sends, not to the troubles which even Christians often make for themselves. There is a difference in the burdens that come in the way of duty and those that come through our wandering into other ways. We can roll the one upon the Lord, but with the other our punishment may be to be left to bear them long, and to be bruised in bearing them. (2) The duty here enjoined is to be carried through all our life. We all admit that patient waiting is needed for the great trials of life, but may not acknowledge so readily that it is needed as much for little, daily, commonplace vexations. But these are as much a test of Christian principle as the other. (3) This resting in God is a criterion of a man's spiritual state. It needs a special faculty of discernment, a new sense to be opened in the soul, before our fallen nature can understand or desire it. (James D. Burns)
Not the hot stirring spirits who bustle for the world shall have it, but the meek who are thrust up and down from corner to corner and hardly suffered to remain anywhere quietly in it. This earth, which they seem most deprived of, they only shall have and enjoy. When the Lord has made it worth the having, then none shall have it but they. "They shall inherit the earth." The earth is the Lord's. These are the children of the Lord, and they shall inherit his earth. When the Lord takes it into his own possession and enjoyment, they shall succeed him in the possession and enjoyment of it. It is their right, and shall descend unto them by right, by inheritance. It is the Lord's right, and by the Lord shall descend to them as their right. They cannot yet have it, for the Lord has it not yet; but when the Lord has it, it shall fairly descend to them. This accursed earth they shall never have; but when it is taken into the hands of the Lord and blessed by the Lord, then it shall be theirs. Then it shall be inherited by the children of blessing. (John Pennington)
His foreknowledge made him laugh at the proud, but in the case of the upright he sees a brighter future, and treats them as heirs of salvation. Ever is this our comfort, that all events are known to our God, and that nothing in our future can take him unawares. No arrow can pierce us by accident, no dagger smite us by stealth. Neither in time nor in eternity can any unforeseen ill occur to us. Futurity shall be but a continual development of the good things which the Lord has laid up in store for us. (Charles Spurgeon)
It is of singular use to us that the backslidings of the holy men of God are recorded in Holy Writ. Spots appear nowhere more disagreeable than when seen in a most beautiful face or on the cleanest garment. And it is expedient to have a perfect knowledge of the filthiness of sin. We also learn from them to think humbly of ourselves, to depend on the grace of God, to keep a stricter eye upon ourselves lest perhaps we fall into the same or more grievous sins. (Herman Witsius)
A man who is to go down into a deep pit does not throw himself headlong into it or leap down at all adventures, but he fastens a rope at the top upon a crossbeam or some sure place and so lets himself down by degrees. In the same way let yourself down into the consideration of your sin, hanging upon Christ. And when you are gone so low that you cannot endure any longer, but are ready to be overcome with the horror and darkness of your miserable estate, do not dwell too long at the gates of hell lest the devil pull you in. But wind yourself up again by renewed acts of faith, and "fly for refuge unto the hope that is set before you" (Heb. 6:18). (Thomas Cole)
No lesson so hard to be learned by us here as the wise and discreet government of the tongue. David promised a singular care of this, "I will guard," etc. Socrates reports of one Pambo, an honest well-meaning man, who came to his friend desiring him to teach him one of David's Psalms. He read to him this verse. He answered: this one verse is enough, if I learn it well. Nineteen years after he said, in all that time he had hardly learned that one verse. (Samuel Page)
This is the great foolishness and disease especially of old age, that the less way a man has to go, he makes the greater provision for it. When the hands are stiff and fit for no other labor, they are fitted and composed for scraping together. (Robert Leighton)
This had been far clearer if it had been rendered, "I am silenced, I will not open my mouth." Here we have a nobler silence [than that of vs. 2], purged of all sullenness, and sweetened with submission. Nature failed to muzzle the mouth, but grace achieved the work in the worthiest manner. How like in appearance may two very different things appear! Silence is ever silence, but it may be sinful in one case and saintly in another. What a reason for hushing every murmuring thought is the reflection, "because You did it"! It is his right to do as he wills, and he always wills to do that which is wisest and kindest. Why should I then arraign his dealings? Nay, if it be indeed the Lord, let him do what seems him good. (Charles Spurgeon)
God is training up his children here. This is the true character of his dealings with them. The education of his saints is the object he has in view. It is training for the kingdom; it is education for eternity. . . . It is the discipline of love. Every step of it is kindness. There is no wrath nor vengeance in any part of the process. The discipline of the school may be harsh and stern, but that of the family is love. We are sure of this, and the consolation which it affords is unutterable. Love will not wrong us. There will be no needless suffering. Were this but kept in mind there would be fewer hard thoughts of God among men, even when his strokes are most severe. I know not a better illustration of what the feelings of a saint should be in the hour of bitterness than the case of Richard Cameron's father. The aged saint was in prison "for the Word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ." The bleeding head of his martyred son was brought to him by his unfeeling persecutors, and he was asked derisively if he knew it. "I know it, I know it," said the father as he kissed the mangled forehead of his fair-haired son. "It is my son's, my own dear son's! It is the Lord! good is the will of the Lord who cannot wrong me or mine, but who has made goodness and mercy to follow us all our days." (Horatius Bonar the "The Night of Weeping," 1847.)
A little girl, in the providence of God, was born deaf and dumb. She was received and instructed at an institution established for these afflicted ones. A visitor was one day requested to examine the children thus sadly laid aside from childhood's common joys. Several questions were asked, and quickly answered by means of a slate and pencil. At length the gentleman wrote, "Why were you born deaf and dumb?" A look of anguish clouded for the moment the expressive face of the little girl; but it quickly passed as she took her slate and wrote, "Even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight." (Mrs. Rogers in "The Shepherd King")
The divine thoughts march with the divine acts, for it is not according to God's wisdom to act without deliberation and counsel. All the divine thoughts are good and gracious towards his elect. God's thoughts of love are very many, very wonderful, very practical! Muse on them, dear reader; no sweeter subject ever occupied your mind. God's thoughts of you are many; let not yours be few in return. "They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee." Their sum is so great as to forbid alike analysis and numeration. Human minds fail to measure or to arrange in order the Lord's ways and thoughts. And it must always be so, for he has said, "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." No maze to lose oneself in like the labyrinth of love. How sweet to be outdone, overcome and overwhelmed by the astonishing grace of the Lord our God! "If I would declare and speak of them," and surely this should be the occupation of my tongue at all seasonable opportunities, "they are more than can be numbered." Far beyond all human arithmetic they are multiplied; thoughts from all eternity, thoughts of my fall, my restoration, my redemption, my conversion, my pardon, my upholding, my perfecting, my eternal reward. The list is too long for writing and the value of the mercies too great for estimation. (Charles Spurgeon)
In these words an allusion is made to a custom of the Jews to bore the ears of such as were to be their perpetual servants, and to enroll their names in a book, or make some instrument of the covenant. "Sacrifice and burnt offering thou wouldst not have;" but because I am thy vowed servant, bored with an awl and enrolled in thy book, "I said, Lo, I come; I delight to do thy will, O my God." These words of the Psalm are alleged by S. Paul, Heb. 10, but the first of them with a most strange difference. For whereas the Psalmist has, according to the Hebrew verity, "Sacrifice and burnt offering thou wouldst not: my ears thou has bored or digged," S. Paul reads with the LXX, "A body thou hast prepared or fitted me." What equipollency [equivalence] can be in sense between these two? This difficulty is so much the more augmented because most interpreters make the life of the quotation to lie in those very words where the difference is, namely, that the words "A body thou hast prepared me" are brought by the apostle to prove our Savior's incarnation; whereunto the words in the Psalm itself ("my ears hast thou bored, or digged, or opened"), take them how you will, will in no wise suit. I answer, therefore, that the life of the quotation lies not in the words of difference, nor can do, because this epistle was written to the Hebrews, and so first in the Hebrew tongue where this translation of the LXX could have no place. And if the life of the quotation lay here, I cannot see how it can possibly be reconciled. It lies therefore in the words where there is no difference, namely, that Christ was such a High Priest as came to sanctify us, not with legal offerings and sacrifices but by his obedience in doing, like a devoted servant, the will of his Father. Thus, the allegation will not depend at all upon the words of difference, and so they give us liberty to reconcile them: "my ears hast thou bored," says the Psalmist, i.e., Thou hast accepted me for a perpetual servant, as masters are wont, according to the law, to bore such servants' ears as refuse to part from them. Now the LXX, according to whom the apostle's epistle reads, thinking perhaps the meaning of this speech would be obscure to such as knew not that custom, chose rather to translate it generally, "Thou hast fitted my body," namely, to be thy servant in such a manner as servants' bodies are wont to be. And so the sense is all one, though not specified to the Jewish custom of boring the ear with an awl, but left indifferently applicable to the custom of any nation in marking and stigmatizing their servants' bodies. (Joseph Mede)
The will of God to redeem sinners by the incarnation and death of Jesus Christ was most grateful and pleasing to the very heart of Christ. . . . (1) It became Christ to go about this work with cheerfulness and delight that thereby he might give his death the nature and formality of a sacrifice. In all sacrifices you shall find that God had still a regard, a special respect, to the will of the offerer (Ex. 35:5, 21; Lev. 1:3). (2) It ought to be so in view of the unity of Christ's will with the Father's. (3) This was necessary to commend the love of Jesus Christ to us for whom he gave himself. That he came into the world to die for us is a mercy of the first magnitude. But that he came in love to our souls, and underwent all his sufferings with such willingness for our sakes, this heightens it above all apprehension. (4) It was necessary to be so for the regulating of all our obedience to God, according to this pattern; that seeing and setting this great example of obedience before us, we might never grudge nor grumble at any duty or suffering that God should call us to.
Let us consider and examine whence it came to be so pleasant and acceptable to Jesus Christ to come into the world and die for poor sinners. (1) That in his sufferings there would be made a glorious display and manifestation of the divine attributes. (2) Another delightful prospect Christ had of the fruit of his sufferings was the recovery and salvation of all the elect by his death. And though his sufferings were exceedingly bitter, yet such fruit of them as this was exceedingly sweet. (3) Add to this the glory which would redound to him from his redeemed ones to all eternity; for it will be the everlasting employment of the saints in heaven to be ascribing glory, praise, and honor to the Redeemer. Did Christ find pleasure in abasement and torment, in suffering and dying for me, and can I find no pleasure in praying, hearing, meditating, and enjoying the sweet duties of communion with him? Did he come so cheerfully to die for me, and do I go so dead-heartedly to prayers and sacraments to enjoy fellowship with him? Was it a pleasure to him to shed his blood, and is it none to me to apply it and reap the benefits of it? O let there be no more grumblings, lazy excuses, shiftings of duty, or dead-hearted and listless performances of them after such an example as this. Be ready to do the will of God; be also ready to suffer [for] it. And as to sufferings for Christ, they should not be grievous to Christians who know how cheerfully Christ came from the bosom of the Father to die for them. What have we to leave or lose in comparison with him? What are our sufferings to Christ's? Alas! there is no comparison. There was more bitterness in one drop of his sufferings than in a sea of ours. To conclude: your delight and readiness in the paths of obedience is the very measure of your sanctification. (Charles Spurgeon, condensed from John Flavel)
The compassionate lover of the poor thought of others and therefore God will think of him. God measures to us with our own bushel. Days of trouble come even to the most generous, and they have made the wisest provision for rainy days who have lent shelter to others when times were better with them. The promise is not that the generous saint shall have no trouble, but that he shall be preserved in it, and in due time brought out of it. How true was this of our Lord! Never trouble deeper nor triumph brighter than his, and glory be to his name, he secures the ultimate victory of all his blood-bought ones. Would that they all were more like him in putting on bowels of compassion to the poor. Much blessedness they miss who stint their alms. The joy of doing good, the sweet reaction of another's happiness, the approving smile of heaven upon the heart, if not upon the estate--all these the miserly soul knows nothing of. Selfishness bears in itself a curse, it is a cancer in the heart; while liberality is happiness and makes fat the bones. In dark days we cannot rest upon the supposed merit of almsgiving, but still the music of memory brings with it no mean solace when it tells of widows and orphans whom we have succoured [assisted], and prisoners and sick folk to whom we have ministered. (Charles Spurgeon)
A Piedmontese nobleman, into whose company I fell at Turin, told me the following story. "I was weary of life, and after a day such as few have known, and none would wish to remember, was hurrying along the street to the river when I felt a sudden check. I turned and beheld a little boy who had caught the skirt of my cloak in his anxiety to solicit my notice. His look and manner were irresistible. No less so was the lesson I would learn. 'There are six of us, and we are dying for lack of food.' 'Why should I not,' said I to myself, 'relieve this wretched family? I have the means, and it will not delay me many minutes. But what if it does?' The scene of misery he conducted me to I cannot describe. I threw them my purse, and their burst of gratitude overcame me. It filled my eyes, it went as a cordial to my heart. 'I will call again tomorrow,' I cried. Fool that I was to think of leaving a world where such pleasure was to be had, and so cheaply!" (Samuel Rogers)
David was not as one of the common people, but a king appointed by God and invested with authority, and it is not from an impulse of the flesh, but in virtue of the nature of his office, that he is led to denounce against his enemies the punishment which they had merited. (John Calvin)
There are three respects especially in which our God is said to be the "living God." First, originally, because he only has life in himself, and of himself, and all creatures have it from him. Secondly, operatively, because he is the only giver of life unto man. Our life, in the threefold extent and capacity of it, whether we take it for natural, or spiritual, or eternal, flows to us from God. Thirdly, God is said to be the "living God" by way of distinction, and in opposition to all false gods. (Thomas Horton)
"Then will I go . . . unto God." The expression of going to God implies submission and friendship. Submission--I will go and pay my homage to him as my Sovereign. I will go and hear what he says, I will go and receive his orders. Friendship--I will go and consult him and converse with him as a friend, and be thankful that in such a troublesome and ensnaring world I have such a friend to advise with. I will go and tell him my griefs; how greatly I am distressed with some particular disorder in my body, or with some disturbance in my family, or with some disappointment in my worldly circumstances, or (which is worse than all of them together) with a sad darkness in my soul. I will go and tell him my joys, for even in this vale of tears my heart is sometimes glad, and my glory rejoices. I will go and tell him of my sins. He knows them, indeed, already, but he shall hear them from me. I will go and tell him my fears; how greatly I am distressed at times, when I perceive this or the other corruption so strong which I thought had received its death wound . . . how I tremble when I have by my folly provoked the Lord to leave me, for fear he will never return again, etc. I will go and tell him my hopes, for some hope I have amidst all my discouragements. . . . I will go and tell him all this. I will unbosom and unburden my whole heart to him, and if my necessities did not drive me to him, I should go to him from inclination. (Condensed by Spurgeon from Samuel Lavington)
The Lord's part in a work is best seen when man's part, and all that he as an instrument has done or could have done in it, is declared null; being considered as separate from God who moved the instruments and by them did work what he pleased. (David Dickson)
The less confidence we have in ourselves or in anything beside God, the more evidence have we of the sincerity of our faith in God. (David Dickson)
"Thy sword." The word of God is compared to such a weapon, for the apostle informs us that it is quick, or living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and laying open the thoughts and intents of the heart. It must be observed, however, that this description of the word of God is applicable to it only when Christ girds it on and employs it as his sword. Of what use is a sword, even though it be the sword of Goliath, while it lies still in its scabbard or is grasped by the powerless hand of an infant? In those circumstances it can neither conquer nor defend, however well suited it might be to do both in the hand of a warrior. It is the same with the sword of the Spirit. While it lies still in its scabbard or is wielded only by the infantile hand of Christ's ministers, it is a powerless and useless weapon; a weapon at which the weakest sinner can laugh, and against which he can defend himself with the utmost ease. But not so when he who is the Most Mighty girds it on. Then it becomes a weapon of tremendous power, a weapon resistless as the bolt of heaven. "Is not my word like a fire, and a hammer, saith the Lord, which breaks the rock in pieces?" It is indeed, for what can be more efficacious and irresistible than a weapon sharper than a two-edged sword, wielded by the arm of omnipotence? What must his sword be whose glance is lightning? Armed with this weapon, the Captain of our salvation cuts his way to the sinner with infinite ease, though surrounded by rocks and mountains, scatters his strongholds and refuges of lies, and with a mighty blow cleaves asunder his adamant heart and lays him prostrate and trembling at his feet. Since such are the effects of this weapon in the hand of Christ, it is with the upmost propriety that the Psalmist begins by requesting him to gird it on, and not suffer it to be inactive in its scabbard or powerless in the feeble grasp of his ministers. (Edward Payson)
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IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Wolf Island Wilderness (map) in 1975 and it now has a total of 5,126 acres (5125.82 acres, technically). All of this wilderness is located in Georgia and is managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
DescriptionEstablished in 1930 as a sanctuary for migratory birds, Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge includes Wolf Island, Egg Island, and Little Egg Island. All of the refuge has since been designated Wilderness. Large expanses of marshes, marshy hammocks, and tidal creeks separate the Wilderness from the mainland. More than 75 percent of the Wilderness itself is composed of saltwater marshes where birds hide, feed, and nest. Scaup, scoters, mergansers, and bufflehead are the most common wintering waterfowl species. The endangered piping plover winters on the islands, while the threatened loggerhead sea turtle is an occasional nester.
A portion of Wolf Island is "upland," standing an average of 10 feet above the sea and including a narrow, four-mile strip of oceanfront beach. Sea oats, sandspurs, and other beach-dune perennials grow on the upland. The rest of the island is salt marsh dominated by cordgrass. Egg Island contains a little less upland than Wolf Island, including 1.5 miles of beach, and sports a dense growth of cedar, greenbrier, and blackberry. Salt marsh dominated by spartina altinaflora covers the remainder of the island. Little Egg Island, a low salt marsh dominated by spartina, goes completely underwater at high tide.
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Psalm 96:1-6 (KJV)
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.
3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.
4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
These are some of the songs that I use at any time on any given day to worship our Great and Loving Father-God. I made these video versions of them hoping that you will worship Him by singing along with me. Let me say now that I do not like the sound of my singing voice, and I know that these videos are not very good just to listen to. However I love worshipping our Lord in song and I know they are sufficient for others to use should they choose to sing His praises with me here.
Join in singing with me as you listen, the lyrics are there for you so you can sing and perhaps learn these songs. I hope and pray that you will learn to love worshipping God in song as much as I do. I'll be adding more songs as I find time to make the videos. I've got quite a few "favorites" and the list keeps growing. Please forgive the quality of the audio which was recorded on my desktop computer, and I apologize for my singing, I have no training and I don't even like to hear myself sing. I hope God likes to hear it though, as it's one of the ways that I attempt to Glorify His Great Name. I know that He would love to hear you sing to Him. Just close your mind to your surroundings and open your heart, your mind, and your voice up to Him.
If you like, you can view each video in full screen by using the Fullscreen button at bottom right hand corner of the video player. The videos are easier on your eyes that way.
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Fast forward to late August or early September (the DB crashed and rolled back two weeks, erasing my first incarnation), 1992. I created a character on a MUSH, which is sort of like an exercise in interactive playwriting. The theme of the game, or the world in which we played, was Pern. In November of 1993, on an unknown date, a friend I met on the game and I began dating, never having met in person. In 1998, callicrates and I were married.
It is quite possible to say that we never would have met had it not been for PernMUSH, and PernMUSH could not have existed without McCaffrey's stories about dragons. Through the years since then I've met some wonderful people, some of whom have become friends or even partners in crime in real life. Not all of them were from PernMUSH, or even from games themed after Pern; some are friends of those whom I met on those other places. One of those friends whom I met through PernMUSH friends helped me get my last job. Needless to say, Pern and, through Pern, McCaffrey, have had an astounding influence on my adult life.
As with most relationships, it hasn't been without some problems. The term "Anne science" refers to anything which really needs people to suspend disbelief in a major way. Some of her later books outright contradicted earlier ones. Heck, some of her books were internally self-contradictory. She made some comments, especially as she got older, which infuriated many people (tent poles, anyone?). Her handling of Pern-themed MUDs were inconsistent and often heavy-handed. I admit to having been annoyed at her any number of times.
Still, overall, she wrote good stories. The relationships between dragons and their riders have been capturing imaginations since the 1960s. She was pleasant the time I wrote her a starry-eyed email, which she answered personally. And, of course, I have her to thank, even if indirectly, for being married to the most wonderful guy ever. It is with great sadness, then, that I heard today of her passing. I hope she's somewhere hanging out with friendly dragons and enjoying even more adventures. Maybe I'll start considering November 22nd as the anniversary of Andy's and my becoming boyfriend and girlfriend.


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So here begins this illustrious creative avenue for my observations on humanity. It's a bit intimidating, you can imagine. This "Burza" enterprise was originally birthed from the recesses of the young Pole behind the keyboard at this very moment–yes, this is JJ. Since it's inception, my cadre of enormously valued friends have supported this project as it's grown to crazy new levels. That is astounding. I owe the success of this entire gig to people like Jeff, Tiffany, and Mr. Chris, who've all gone completely out of their way to support this. All the work everyone's done, all the feedback and consultation, all the sacrifices everyone's made are truly inspiring.
Now what?
Well, just sit tight world, because a storm is brewing. This will be an amazing summer, as Batalion "Burza" takes on the Polish Museums at Orchard Lake's Polish Mission. The Polish Mission is home to an amazing collection of Polish WWII artifacts, and it's in dire need of a little TLC, a few fresh coats of paint, and a re-camped storyline for the visitors. Burza's members will be putting aside the rifles and potato-mashers in favor of a Nikon D700 and a paint brush as Tiffany, Pete, and Jeff along with myself get busy taking the Polish museums into the 21st century. The formal updates on the project can be found over on the Polish Mission's website, but I'll be checking in on here periodically as well, just to give you the juicy details.


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I'm participating in the Firefighter Stairclimb Challenge on May 5, 2019, in support of Wellspring Calgary. I'm excited to take on the challenge and look forward to pushing myself to climb the 775 vertical feet (1204 steps) of The BOW building in downtown Calgary in full duty gear.
By making a donation to me, you are helping to make a difference in the lives of many! Proceeds from the event will support Wellspring Calgary, a place that provides free programs and resources to those impacted by cancer so that no one has to face cancer alone. We all know that cancer is a grim possibility in our line of work. Thank you for helping us make a difference in the life of someone facing cancer! For more info Wellspring Calgary, visit www.wellspringcalgary.ca.
Thanks to your support of my participation in this event, Wellspring Calgary is excited to announce a portion of proceeds will be gifted by Wellspring to the Firefighters Assistance Charitable Society (FACS) whose mission is to empower and strengthen the firefighter by enhancing the success and resilience of the firefighter community.
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This time the crocodile won't wait
By Aussiegirl
On May 12 I posted an article from TCSDaily.com entitled The Making of Londonistan -- my post you can read here, and the TCSDaily article you can read here. Today I'm posting an excellent review of this book by the always-readable Spengler. Here is his gloomy but realistic concluding paragraph: In that sense Melanie Phillips' book comes too late, for it reports a set of circumstances shortly to be overthrown by events. She is writing about 1938, and we are entering 1939, when the West will have to respond to an external challenge in a way that it never could to an internal threat. Britain will have the religious war it sought to dodge.
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This time the crocodile won't wait
Londonistan by Melanie Phillips
Reviewed by Spengler
In retrospect, it seems oafish of Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister in 1938, to have betrayed Czechoslovakia to Nazi rule in return for the empty promise of peace. Yet an overwhelming English majority looked with horror on the prospect of confrontation with Germany and a new world war, until Adolf Hitler forced England's hand by invading Poland. "The appeaser hopes the crocodile will eat him last," said Winston Churchill. Today's crocodiles may not be so patient.
Opposing voices in 1938 rang lonely and shrill, and just as shrill today sounds Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips in her portrayal of an emasculated Britain ashamed of its own national identity and anxious to appease the "clerical fascism" of the jihadis. That will change, perhaps even before the print is quite dry on her new book. She warns that the West faces a religious war with Islam. I concur, and recommend Londonistan as indispensable background.
Britain, Phillips warns, is reaping what it has sown. A large minority of British Muslims are disaffected at best and seditious at worst. Phillips cites a 2004 Home Office survey finding that 26% of British Muslims felt no loyalty to Britain, 13% supported terrorism, and about 1% (up to 20,000 individuals) were "actively engaged" in terrorism or support for terrorism.
Another poll found that 32% of British Muslims agreed that "Western society is decadent and immoral and that Muslims should seek to bring it to an end". In the event of a violent collision between the West and Iran, for example, civil conflict might arise in Britain on a scale resembling that in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.[....]
But that can explain only part of the story, and Phillips searches for deeper causes of Britain's cowardice. "Denial" is a recurrent theme. She cites an unnamed "foreign intelligence source" as follows:
During the 1990s, many attempts were made to enlighten the British about what was happening. But they refused to see this problem as having a religious character. If this was a religious problem, it became a religious confrontation - and the specter of a religious war was too horrendous. A religious war is different from any other war because you are dealing with absolute beliefs and the room for compromise is very limited. Religious wars are very protracted and bloody, and often end up with a very high toll of lives.
That is not denial, though, but revulsion. The British establishment may have recoiled in horror from the prospect of religious war precisely because it has sufficient institutional memory to know just what such wars entail. Religious war, however, is precisely what it will have, on the worst possible terms, and with an extensive fifth column in place. [....]
Phillips soft-pedals the imperial sins for which today's problems are part payment. As Phillips observes, the legacy of Britain's imperial past in the form of Northern Ireland distracted the security services' attention from the Islamist threat:
Instead of studying the Middle East as a cause for concern, they were staring across the Irish Sea at Northern Ireland, where a terrorist insurrection against the UK had been in progress since the 1970s. The mindset, on both sides of the Atlantic, was that terrorism was tied to discrete grievances against individual states. And with the end of the Cold War, the notion of a global threat rooted in ideology was assumed to be dead and buried.
But the Northern Ireland disaster was more than a distraction. Britain has a glorious past, and its role in defining individual rights and representative democracy is central to the success of the West. But real crimes can be laid at Britain's doorstep, including the mistreatment of the Irish over centuries. That does not excuse the thuggishness of the Irish Republicans, but it does help explain the moral palsy that afflicts today's British establishment. [....]
In any case, Western liberalism, including the sexual habits of English curates, does not appeal to Muslims. On the contrary, Phillips says:
British Muslims are overwhelmingly horrified and disgusted by the louche and dissolute behavior of a Britain that has torn up the notion of respectability. They observe the alcoholism, drug abuse and pornography, the breakdown of family life and the encouragement of promiscuity, and find themselves there in opposition to their host society's guiding values. What they are recoiling from, of course, is the breakdown of Western values. After a visit to the United States in 1948, Sayed Qutb wrote: "Humanity today is living in a large brothel!"
Revulsion and contempt color Muslim attitudes toward the British leftists who most desire to appease them. That is not a recipe for co-existence but for escalation, as last year's subway bombings should have made clear. But the issue now is not terrorism but rather outright war.
The British authorities may have turned a blind eye to terrorism directed against others, and may even have dragged their feet at confronting the terrorist threat at home that erupted in the July 7, 2005, subway bombings. Terrorism is dreadful but, like many nasty things, one can develop a tolerance for it. Now it is not merely terrorism that the West confronts but a strategic debacle of intolerable proportions in the form of Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons.
In that sense Melanie Phillips' book comes too late, for it reports a set of circumstances shortly to be overthrown by events. She is writing about 1938, and we are entering 1939, when the West will have to respond to an external challenge in a way that it never could to an internal threat. Britain will have the religious war it sought to dodge.


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[Giveaway worth S$400 at the end of this blogpost!]
my LIFE INC. is a new subsidiary of Eu Yan Sang International and their online lifestyle store (https://www.mylifeinc.me/) offers a curated range of very interesting products.
I managed to get my hands on a Sprayology set via my LIFE INC. If you don't already know, Sprayology has a number of celebrity fans:
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And now I have my own set too! My Sprayology – Weight Loss Essentials set:
Besides its compact packaging (slip a Sprayology bottle into any clutch or purse) and affordable pricing, I love how Sprayology actually works!
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I initially wanted to find out if this S$100 set would indeed help me lose some weight. But I decided that the most pressing issue at that time was my terrible cough which just would not go away despite the many cough syrups I had tried.
I contracted that really bad cough from celebrating my birthday in Jakarta. The air pollution was so horrendous that, pardon me, I don't think I'll be visiting that city again.
I returned to Singapore only to have my dad ominously proclaim that my cough has to be what the Chinese call "百日咳", the literal translation of which is "hundred day cough". (@_@)
Within the Sprayology set is a spray called the 'Life Detoxer', which "neutralizes daily toxins" and is a "homeopathic oral spray with St. Mary's Thistle" – a herb which is known for helping the liver repair itself. 🙂
I read what was printed on the box and thought that weight loss can wait, I have to test if this product works first:
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Putnam's Garden in Late Summer
It was during the Great Virgo Birthday Party
last week
(all of my male friends were born at the end of August)
that I realized that Mr. Putnam is a garden maniac,
well... so is Mrs. Putnam,
but himself takes it a few steps beyond
where enthusiasm dares to venture.
For example,
this year he planted 60 trees,
though, since he likes miniatures,
none of them will ever grow more than 18" high, if that.
.. and then he will spend a hour pruning each tree,
or, maybe just a few branches on that tree,
or maybe just one side side of one branch
There is, of course,
also an aquatic side to this madness
and some unusual garden sculpture
but mostly its about the contrast of textures
Here is one of those 60 new trees.
The roots are pot-bound,
so it's going to get much bigger
There's also some traditional Japanese rock gardens,
scattered thoughtfully
in various remote corners
and places appropriate for water meditation
(especially if you're the size of a grasshopper)
The rock on the right is a fountain,
believe it or not
For some reason,
the plantings at the front of the house are on a larger,
more magnificent scale
Oriental gardens,
like the one in "Dream of Red Chamber"
like to re-create an entire,
miniature world,
with mountains, rivers, lakes etc.
What I'd really like to see
are train tracks, suspension bridges,
and train stations,
but Mr. Putnam says
these features are too modern for him
As soon as I was finished shooting,
and chatting on various topics,
the setting sun broke through the trees,
providing an entirely new light,
so I had to start all over again.
The closer .. the better
Mr. Putnam insisted on shooting these branches,
as examples of "Chinese cloud formations"
One of the goals of the miniature gardener,
is to have little tree with big trunks,
and then to trim those trees
so that fellow aesthetes can
see them.
(note: I've got about 50 more pictures,
but I'm going to wait until mid-winter to post them.
That's when the memory of this late Summer greenery
will really be enjoyable)


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Eight lane Formula One Track To Be Built On Planned 'New Port City' Colombo
Sri Lanka would build a city in the sea which is bigger than Male, the capital of Maldives, at Galle Face Green. An eight lane F1 track will "definitely" be a part of the New Port City. The city is to be constructed on filled land taking up the area between the Southern edge of the new Colombo South Port and the Fort Lighthouse. The total area of sea reclaimed is set to be 450 acres.
Source: SL media, @ LL /04 Feb 2011
Sri Lanka would build a city in the sea which is bigger than Male, the capital of Maldives, at Galle Face Green. This would, for the third time, change the contours of the island nation.
The first time this happened was when the Ruhunu Magampura International Port was opened last November when sea water was taken in for the port. This was followed by the Colombo South Harbour development project which would add a 6.2 kilometre breakwater and reclaim over 400 acres from the sea. The Urban Development Authority (UDA) and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) are now planning to reclaim land from the sea and build a 500-acre plus port city under the Galle Face development project, which would once again change the landscape of the country. The project has already received approval for environmental issues and construction is expected to commence by the end of the year. The project is to be completed in three years.
A Formula One track is planned for the New Port City to be constructed. According to the Chairman, Ports Authority, Dr. Priyath Wickrama an eight lane F1 track will "definitely" be a part of the New Port City, he said. Formula One has strict requirements for its tracks and the Sri Lankan track, if it is to be a reality, must be carefully planned if it is to be implemented in the New Port City. Currently planners are formulating ways of fitting the track in the premises of the city whilst also allowing for maximum leeway for commercial activities. Space is also a problem so a synergistic approach with commercial roads must also be adopted. F1 tracks around the globe often use sections of public roads for racing.
The New Port City will set Sri Lanka up for its own city-on-the-sea akin to Palm Island and The World, Dubai. The city is to be constructed on filled land taking up the area between the Southern edge of the new Colombo South Port and the Fort Lighthouse. The total area of sea reclaimed is set to be 450 acres. 'The New Port City Development Project will be implemented in March 2011' said Chairman, Ports Authority, Dr. Priyath Wickrama in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Leader. 'The new city is going to be well planned. Colombo unfortunately is not very well planned anymore. It was a quite well planned city during colonial times but has since become haphazard,' said Wickrama.
The initiatives for the city involves shopping complexes, hotels, office complexes, etc. There is also a marina planned for boats and other water based activities.
The construction is set to begin in March 2011 with an initial budget of $450 million. The filling of the land is projected to take two years while subsequent infrastructure construction is projected to take another one and a half years.
The port city would be the best landscaped property in the island. First, a second breakwater would be built in front of the Old Parliament. "This would be at sea level and would not be visible to the public. This would serve as a buffer to the proposed harbour city", Chairman, UDA, Janaka Kurukulasuriya said. The next step would be filling the reclaimed land and would commence from the outer side of the Colombo South Breakwater. He explained that both Colombo South Harbour development and port city projects would stretch up to the Old Parliament building and the view from Galle Face Green would not be affected in any way. The Lotus Road, which lies between Galadari Hotel and the Old Parliament building would be extended to the sea from the roundabout, creating a four-way junction with a bridge. "The bridge would run over the sea and be the access road to the new property," the chairman said. The new property would be divided into three segments-one to house offices, the second for residential purposes and the third for leisure. In the area proposed for leisure, a yacht marina, a mini duty-free shop and Customs office would be built. This itself would be a mini international harbour. The land would be provided for investors for leisure activities and many international hotel chains along with local investors are expected to invest. A golf course too is planned to be built. A second suspension bridge would be built in the centre of the city. The area of the city adjoining the Colombo South Harbour would be reserved for offices and the maritime sector and many maritime investments are expected to be made here. Several private universities and educational institutions too are expected to invest in the project.
'The Ports Authority will call for investors to buy land for use and construction as the project gets underway' said Wickrama adding that private sector funds will be key in ensuring that the project is completed in time. He also said that many investors both local and foreign have shown 'a lot of interest' in investing already.
'The models have been constructed and feasibility studies have been done. All the expertise has been provided by us and no foreign consultants have been approached so far.
The technology and knowledge needed for filling the land is sophisticated. A monorail is planned to reduce congestion in the city. Entrants will be encouraged to park their cars at the entrance and use the monorail to navigate the city,' he said. According to Wickrama the funding will likely come from a Chinese source as some interest has already been conveyed from there. Wickrama also mentioned that bonds will be issued to raise funds in addition to private investments.
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Here's a sketch of the problem:
Since AB1 is tangent to the circle and B1C is the radius of the circle, angle AB1C is a right angle. The distances f and from A to C, say, d, may be calculated using the pythagorean theorem. Now, we draw the altitude of triangle AB1C to E. By similar triangles (ΔAB1C ~ ΔB1EC~ ΔAEB1) we determine that
and so, e = r2/d and a = f r/d. We let δ be the normalized direction vector from C to A, namely,
Then point E is given by E = C + e δ. Let δp= (δy, –δx), or the clockwise 90° rotation of δ. Then points B1 and B2 are given by:
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I have no clue what those signs are or how you identify those signs but I definitely know that what has been missing in my life in my past and probably I had never experienced before this lover boy came into my life (happy birthday pretty boy!).
As social animals, we have a tendency to look around more and pine for things we don't have overlooking the things we have. Well yes, I am no different. But yes, I do appreciate the things that I have while I pine for the things I don't.
This post is about the few things, which if you get in someone you consider as your prospective partner, you know he/she is a keeper for life! And these are the things which go beyond having a perfect shopping and clubbing partner.
You guys are a good team
You don't have to put in any efforts to make things work out in or out of your relationship. Things work as smoothly as they can. And everything you do - right from preparing the breakfast to planning trips to taking monetary decisions - is a group project with same contribution of both the members!
Your go-to person
He/she is the first person you want to go to to share your big or small, bad or good news. He/she is your problem solver and have got your back, always.
Honesty and trust come naturally
Honesty and trust take a good amount of time to build. You don't have to force yourself to trust someone. And when that happens, you know you are with the right person.
Distances don't matter
Even when you are away from each other for a long time, you don't make it a reason to fight. Living away makes you sad but you surely know a way to work around that. And the distance doesn't deter your trust or makes you insecure.
Listens to you
You know someone is listening to everything you say. It is such a delightful feeling that someone remembers the smallest of the details you mentioned sometimes, just like that!
The future has more of "Us" than "me"
And this does is not forceful again. It just comes naturally. Yes, when you are in love, the awe of love makes you see the future together. But when you practically start building the future, it is for both of you. And you know that you two share the same feeling!
Doesn't put you down - or lets you down for that matter
You know whom to run to when you want motivation in your life. When you are at the lowest and feeling demotivated, this [erson has got your back and boosts your confidence.
"I miss you" is just not a phrase
You are sure when you miss someone, you miss them and it is not just a phrase to please someone. And you know this feeling is mutual!
You don't have to make time to miss someone - you just miss them!
Sex is a responsible thing
Yes, sex is fun but as long as it is safe. And he/she knows the importance of it for both of you.
There is no excuse when it comes to parents
He/she would happily agree to meet your parents when you are ready. No excuse whatsoever.
Jelling with buddies is no obligation
Your partner does it without emphasizing. The key is not be liked by your buddies but meeting them and letting them know the true self.
That time of the month -or year or week or day
He/she know that how to deal with the sudden hormonal mood swings or because of the temporary phases in your life. And you can not thank your start enough to have someone by your side who understands that!
Knows your coffee just right!
He/she knows your choices inside out and makes sure that things are just right for you - exactly the way you want it.
You will never have nightmares about him/her
Nightmares are a sign of insecurity. And when they don't come to your nightmare, you know you are past all the insecurities.
Here you go - you know that you found a keeper for yourself when there is a smile with a nod on every point.
Author's Note
This is my way of thanking the universe for not presently depriving me a great moral support and love in my life. :)
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I'm looking for someone who can give some of my fish a new home. I'm giving away these little guys for free to a new suitable home. All very healthy and happy.
1x Fire Red Agassizii Dwarf Ciclid (female, her mate committed suicide..)
8-9x Pygmy Corydoras (I think there are 3 females, rest males)
4x Golden Pencil Fish (Nannostomus beckfordi, would probably like a few friends)
Needs picking up in Berkshire / South Oxfordshire area, close to Reading or Henley-on-Thames.
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Not too long ago I changed my Internet Service Provider and, following the advice I read in the magazine, the first thing I did was changing the WiFi signal password.
The problem is that I lost the text filed in which I stored it. I have two computers in the house connected to it and they can browse the internet with no problem, but I can't connect any other. Is there any way to retrieve my password? (RAFAEL VEDILLO)
Current operative systems store wireless network passwords to prevent the user from having to remember them every time they want to Access the Internet. Also, with Windows 8 it is possible to set locations or prioritize a connection over another. If you're connected to your wireless network and you can Access the Internet, retrieving your password is very simple.
In Windows 8, go to Network and Sharing Center from the notifications tray, then click the WiFi network symbol. Then, click on Wireless Network Properties and select the tab Security. Check the option Show password to recover it. Please note this process only works if you can connect to the wireless network because you're within the router's range.
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Lately, I've been hungry, and no looming wedding or anything has kept me from, um, indulging. Through thick and thin, richer or poorer, etc.
It started off innocently enough with these panko-crusted, baked zucchini fries. I made these to get rid of some leftover zucchini I had after making zucchini bread. I basically just cut these, dip them in egg wash and seasoned panko, and baked for about 25 minutes at 400 degrees. I should have salted the zucchini itself, though!
Next up, cornbread quiche. I made a half-batch of vegan cornbread from Happy Herbivore and topped it with four eggs beaten with unsweetened almond milk, some vegan chorizo, and spinach that needed to be used up.
The cast-iron pan is my newest kitchen friend. It was an early wedding gift. I can't believe they ship those things so early, by the way.
My first trip to the local farmer's market finally took place! I usually miss this because I'm usually up running or doing Insanity on Saturday mornings, so by the time I get back, it's too hot/late to go. This time, I sucked it up and made my way there.
Look at these amazing herbs, hopefully to be used in some healthier cooking sometime. Let's just say this trip was not cheap.
Finally, I think I've been too much of a home-body lately, so when "The Ukrainian" wanted Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles (yeah, sooo much disregard for being in shape for the wedding), it became a in-front-of-UCLA-football with a drink I made out of sparkling mineral water and the leftover chili+juice from a fruit-man.
So I wound up having waffles for dinner... their cornbread is a bit dry.


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{CLICK HERE} to read our 2012 Sun Unit post with our older son.
In this unit, we learned the letter Ss for sun.
Our Bible words were: Jesus is the light of the world!
These are the books we enjoyed throughout the week – click on any book image below to read the book description on Amazon. (We love to buy used copies; they're usually in good shape, and the price is right!)
My kids ALWAYS love Moonbear's Shadow, but Max's favorite (which was new to use this time around) was definitely Sun Bread! We read Sun Bread every day, and Max was SOOOO excited to make our own sun bread at the end of the unit!
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Once or twice a week, we start our school day with a YouTube playlist of 4-6 songs/videos that go along with our current school lessons. Wedidn't watch a sun-specific video, but this is one of our favorite MFW K videos.
We don't exactly do calendar time the MFW K way. We print a calendar page from HERE (preK and K options available), and Max fills in the numbers. For September, we took turns. Max does a pretty good job with his numbers. I love the cute backwards four, though!
For the rest of our calendar time, we're using a foam board that we can bring out during school time (and put away later, as our kitchen table is our school room). Right now, we're:
- adding a straw for each school day to our place value pocket chart
- writing that school day's number on the MFW K 100 Chart (not pictured…on the left side of the board)
- singing a Days Of The Week and Months Of The Year song while Max points to the day/month on the board.
We read Scriptures and brief devotions from the teacher's guide each day, and we did a little hands-on blindfold activity to understand WHY we need a light to guide us.
Learning about S and it's /s/ sound.
cutting apart the picture cards –
he's REALLY good at cutting on the lines, and I'm quite impressed!
letter recognition – sorting uppercase and lowercase
(my own page…available HERE for MFW K users only)
letter recognition/large print handwriting
(my own page…available HERE for MFW K users only)
We also did the official MFW K handwriting page, but I don't have a picture of it.
There's picture later in this post of Max's bulletin board, and the MFW K handwriting page is in that photo.
Ironically, I can't find a picture of the MFW K official math page for this unit!
It's about number 1, circles, and pennies.
Cuisenaire Rods activity – Max LOVED this!
number practice page (my own creation)
Max LOVES math, so I made the page below for him based on one on that I found (for free) HERE. I prefer a different tracing font than what she used, so I designed my own. I don't plan to share it, due to copyright, so I'll just direct you to the original author's site. (I later discovered she offers it in multiple fonts, but I'd already designed my own by that point…scroll down in her blog post to see multiple font options.)
We're using butterscotch chips as manipulatives to fill in the 'ten frame', and we're then using the same butterscotch chips to work on 'even/odd', '1 more' and '1 less'. He may eat the chips when he's finished with the page. (We'll have to switch to raisins as the numbers get higher, as I don't want him eventually eating 26 butterscotch chips!)
We experimented with shadows on our patio.
I cheated and gave us a head start on the raisins experiment this year by using some grapes that had fallen to the bottom of the produced drawer in our fridge – they were already well on their way to becoming raisins! They were at different stages of 'shriveling', which made for a fun activity of lining them up in order.
A bee was enjoying the raisin on the far right, so it's falling apart!
I completely forgot to do the sundial this time around! Whoops!
All three of my children enjoyed painting a sun and making a pattern for the sun's rays.
Here is Max's painting…
Max did the pattern perfectly, but his paints got mixed and you can't really tell.
For the Sun unit, we made the recipe found on the back of the book Sun Bread. Other than being a very sticky dough, this recipe was pretty simple. Although it looks fancy, it was pretty easy to put together this sun. Max did is almost entirely on his own!
(Bake it for about HALF the time recommended by the book…our sun has a 'sunburn'!)
I love making bread, and I make homemade breads regularly. This had a heavier texture than a typical homemade bread, more like a homemade biscuit, but it tasted terrific. I liked it, but it will never be a favorite. The kids LOVED it, though!
Since we're doing school in our kitchen, we don't really have a place there to display their work. We have bulletin boards hanging in the stairway to our bonus room. Each child has their own board to display school work.
It's nearly impossible to get all three boards in one picture, so here's the view from the top of the stairs. Max's boad is on the right, covered with Ss Sun papers!
I don't insist on participation from Jensyn. She is free to join us or to wander away, but so far, she almost always wants to be a part of MFW K! She sits with us as we read picture books, does the art or science projects, and completes papers or puzzles at the table. She loves the Lauri alphabet puzzle included in MFW K!
My only goal for her this year is to learn the uppercase alphabet letters, and you may notice that in many of the activities that she's working on…
(I've said it again, but just for the record– we DO comb her hair, but she doesn't like me to wet it down or use hair gel if we're just staying home, so it gets fly-away and crazy!)
Pink S page is from a Kumon workbook
I've designed lots of pages that can be used to keep a preschool sibling busy while you're working with your kindergartener. You can find most of these pages HERE.


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