Maggie's Farm

Stolen from Powerline's The Week in Pictures

Matthew 25:1-13 - Wise and foolish bridesmaids

25:1 "Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten young women took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

25:2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

25:3 When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,

25:4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.

25:5 As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept.

25:6 But at midnight there was a shout, 'Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.'

25:7 Then all those young women got up and trimmed their lamps.

25:8 The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

25:9 But the wise replied, 'No! there will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.'

25:10 And while they went to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.

25:11 Later the other young women came also, saying, 'Lord, lord, open to us.'

25:12 But he replied, 'Truly I tell you, I do not know you.'

25:13 Keep awake, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Heard one hooting last night, quite nearby. It's mating season for big owls.

"Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?"  Unmistakeable.

They don't migrate, so I do not know why he's here. No real swampy woods here.

All about birds, Barred Owl.  

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Lousy candidates didn't help, but it's normal.

Your views welcome in comments.

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They are listed here. Perfect day for it, cool with blue sky.

My sister tripped and fractured her hip on the last mile. I also know someone who finished without any running training at all. 

In youth, I ran 5 and 10 k races. Glad I gave it up before damaging my joints. Fun, though, mentally. I am an ex-runner, now just a gym rat. Much as I admire distance running, I think you pay for it eventually. Sprinting, no.

Revelation 7:9-17


7:9 After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.

7:10 They cried out in a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!"

7:11 And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

7:12 singing, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen."

7:13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?"

7:14 I said to him, "Sir, you are the one who knows." Then he said to me, "These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

7:15 For this reason they are before the throne of God and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.

7:16 They will hunger no more and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat,

7:17 for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

Handsome place, outside the town of Sarlat. 840,000 Euros.

Is it related to the modern Halloween?

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I like both, but they do cost extra 

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It seems unlikely, but there are two:

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How is that possible? 

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Is it?

Do not say to me:

"Enjoy". 

I will if I want. Often, not too much anyway but if you say that, I won't. 

"Are you still working on that?"

WTF? If I were working, you would pay me. 

"Can I take that out of your way?"

What? 

"Today St Paul’s Chapel is in New York’s financial district, surrounded by soaring skyscrapers and the glass and steel of the modern city. When it was constructed however, it was briefly the tallest building in Manhattan. It is incredible to think what this chapel has witnessed, whilst remaining almost entirely unchanged..."

Matthew 22:34-46

22:34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,

22:35 and one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him.

22:36 "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"

22:37 He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

22:38 This is the greatest and first commandment.

22:39 And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

22:40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

22:41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question:

22:42 "What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David."

22:43 He said to them, "How is it then that David by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying,

22:44 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet"'?

22:45 "If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?"

22:46 No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.