Thanks HotzCatz for the response. What I said is from the heart. As far as my exile ever ending, I can't see how that will ever happen except perhaps in a box or an urn. But thank you for the thought it means a lot. If only the thoughts and well wishes of kind people were all that was needed, I'd already be back home.

I'm not a book hoarder...anymore. I used to have a ton of books but there was a time when it got overwhelming and I had to let them go.

I began passing along really good books when I found them - after reading them, of course.

If a book just didn't do it for me and I couldn't imagine anyone for whom the book would do it, I'd toss it in the trash. Yes, I truly did.

So now I go to the cheap and free places and peruse, usually grabbing two or...

Well, if this Texas gizzard didn't have to go to work today, I'd have gone to the annual 4th of July parade in Downtown Arlington, Texas. It's one of the big events going on today all over Texas, and all across this great America!

I hope you'll take a few moments and celebrate. Wave that red, white, and blue flag proudly. We all have something to be proud of and thankful for, living in a free land like the one I live in, where we can still do things like we're doing...

John 1:51 - "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

Jesus is Jacob's ladder which we ascend and descend upon.

It is our calling in Christ to both go higher and go lower. We are called to ascend into the heavenly places and be seated with Him there, and at the same time descend to the earth with the evidence of heaven's reality.

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Be aware that the enemy would come with distraction after distraction only to rob you, and deposit within you despondency and numbness putting you in a sense of shock and longing -- not know which way to go -- to the left or to the right

In times of trouble, call in His presence, for where you are His presence is. Do you not understand 'The Hope of Glory' that is within you? Do not look to the exterior. Do not look outward. Don't look around. Look in. Let His presence, let His strength,...