Use Your Time Wisely
By Billy Graham • January 30


For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
—James 4:14
Nothing takes God by surprise. Everything is moving according to a plan, and God wants you in that plan. The devil also has a plan for the world. God has a plan and the devil has a plan, and you will have to decide which plan you are going to fit into. Scripture says that God allows us 70 years and some beyond. The first 15 are spent in childhood and early adolescence. Twenty years are spent in bed, and in the last five, physical limitations start to curtail our activities. That gives us about 30 years in which to live as adults. We take time out for eating, and for figuring our taxes, and we are down to perhaps 15 years. Now suppose we spend seven of those years watching television. That cuts us down to seven or eight years. Our time is short! The time we can invest for God, in creative things, in reaching our fellowmen for Christ, is short!

Prayer for the day
Each hour of every day that is left of this earthly life, I would spend serving You, Lord Jesus. Forgive the time spent so often in needless endeavor. Amen.

Prayer - January 29, 2024
Rev. Thomas O'Hara, C.S.C.

Jesus, in today's gospel you freed the tormented man who sometimes was shackled by others and at other times tortured himself into pain. Be with us Lord and free us from all the ways we may feel shackled by circumstances of life or the times when we inflict needless pain upon ourselves. As you did for the tormented man, free us from all that binds us and help us to know the deep peace that only you can provide. With your peace, we can move forward, not being overwhelmed by any struggle of life. Amen

Promises Are Forever
JANUARY 8, 2024

And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke.
Joshua 23:14

Recommended Reading: Joshua 23:14-16
In 1971, the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever was released, and actor Sean Connery promised it was his last Bond film. He retired from the role, and others were cast as the suave British agent. But after suffering a series of movie flops and an empty bank account, Connery broke his promise and filmed another Bond movie, ironically titled Never Say Never Again.

It’s easy for us to make promises only to change our minds as time passes or circumstances change. But our Lord doesn’t change His mind or shift with the circumstances. Every promise He issues is perfectly good a thousand years later. His unchangeable commitment to His promises is called faithfulness.

God’s faithfulness allows us to have total confidence in every promise He’s written. It frees us from the grip of anxious worry. When we harbor fears and needless vexations, it’s not because God isn’t faithful but because we are doubting His ability to keep His promises. Don’t do that! Find a fresh promise for today—and trust Him!

God never overpromises or underdelivers. He always delivers on His promises, but He does it on His timeline!
Mark Batterson

ARE YOU ON THE NAUGHTY LIST OR ON THE NICE LIST?

Cartoon published on 12/15/2023

As Christmas Day approaches, we at GrrrGraphics have decided to update our Santa Trump’s ‘naughty and nice’ list for 2023.

We eliminated Sean Hannity from the nice list. He and his rent boy Lindsey Graham were way, way too vociferous about widening the war in Ukraine. Instead of calling for peace, the Fox News host loudly banged their drums and called for more needless bloodshed. He and Mark Levin appear to support any war that helps the Military Industrial Complex. Both of them should retire and enjoy their mega-million dollar fortunes.

As you could expect, Joe Biden tops the naughty list. Here’s a man who should be in an old folk’s home and licking an ice cream cone. Instead, he stumbles around at night in the White House while butt naked. That should not come as a surprise. Joe disrespects America by keeping the borders open to millions of invaders. He has sent endless billions of dollars to a corrupt money-laundering country called Ukraine. He has ruined the economy and carried out the destructive policies of his Marxist boss — Obama. So why is it a surprise that Joe disrespects the White House by prancing around nude? Not to mention his son leaving behind bags of cocaine there. He also enjoys being underdressed.

We put Mitch McConnell near the top of the list because he was one of the leading Trump backstabbers. “Et tu, Mitch?” Old turtlehead seems to have his head up his….shell….and he is one of the leaders of the UniParty.

Crooked Hillary is a perennial presence on the naughty list. We consider her to be permanently naughty. She deserves to make the Naughty Hall of Fame. Plus she never goes away! She seems to think she’s popular and in fact, don’t be surprise if Joe is forced to step down and Hillary steps into his place while acting all self-sacrificing and humble. It would be glorious to see Hillary lose to Trump a second time.

The Deep State Swamp and the corporate fake news media are also permanently stamped onto the naughty list, but two new entries are Jack Smith and Nikki Haley. Smith is a prosecutor willing to stretch or break any law to stop Trump. We are sure he descends from inquisitors and witch hunters. Smith would love to torture Trump if he could. Haley is the choice of the RINO neocons because she is just like them — corrupt, pro-war, and part of the Swamp.

There are a lot more naughty names that could go on the ’naughty’ list, and a lot more than could be added to the ‘nice’ list. Rand Paul, for example. Alas, our canvas is limited.

We certainly would like to mention the nicest people of all: Our supporters. This has been a very rough year for Ben due to medical reasons—and a great many of you pitched in to help us survive. You all know who you are and we wish we could put all of your names on the nice list. We greatly appreciate all of you!

— The GrrrTeam

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