"Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep."
(Psalm 121:4)
An inspiring Shabbat message from Rabbi Zev Porat in Israel.
Wow! Two classic comfort foods in one dish!
Thank you to Sheila and Jennifer at Cooking With Shotgun Red
for sharing this delicious recipe!
Although this Billboard Top 100 single from Journey's album, Frontiers
was featured in the 1985 movie, "Vision Quest" the first person to actually
hear them sing this song outside the band was a sixteen year old fan
named Kenny Sykaluk from Rocky Ridge, Ohio who had been
diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.
Kenny's mother wrote a letter to the band telling them of her son's terminal
condition, and how he was a big fan of Journey. At the request of the
Make-A-Wish Foundation, the band flew to Ohio to see Kenny and
played the song at his hospital bedside. He died the next day.
Band members Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain were profoundly affected by
the young man's death, and seriously began to re-evaluate what really matters
in life- love and caring and friendship- especially when it came to the petty
arguments they often experienced with other members of the band.
In memory of Kenny Sykaluk, the band opened with, "Only The Young"
during their Raised On Radio Tour in August, 1986.
Cash Box called this song, "Journey at it's very best."
Naming the home is an old, old custom, but the people who live at such
places used to have a family motto also. Families as well as farms have
distinguishing traits of character, and there are always some of these
which a family prides itself. Only the other day I heard a man say,
"My father's word was as good as his note, and he brought
us children up that way."
Why not have a family motto expressing something for which we, as a family, stand?
Such a motto would be a help in keeping the family up to standard by giving the
members a cause for pride in it and what it represents; it might even be a help
in raising the standard of family life and honor.
If the motto of a family were, "My word is my bond," do you think the children of the
family would be proud to keep their word and feel disgraced if they failed to do so?
Suppose the motto were, "Ever ready," would not the members of that family
try to be on the alert for whatever came?
Perhaps it would be possible to cure a family weakness by choosing a motto representing
its opposite as an ideal for the family to strive toward. We might keep our choice a
family secret until we have proven ourselves and could face the world upon it.
Though in these days we would not put the motto upon our shield as did the
knights of old, we could use it in many ways. If carried only in our hearts,
it would draw the family closer together.
Let's have a family motto as well as a farm name!
"Having A Family Motto"
(August 1922)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Taken from the book, "Little House In The Ozarks"
A Laura Ingalls Wilder Sampler
The Rediscovered Writings
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Edited by Stephen W. Hines
1991 Guideposts Edition
A strong tropical wave is forming in the Gulf of Mexico.
Will this storm become a major hurricane?
The latest update from Mark at Weatherman Plus.
Thanks, Mark!
Justine shares an interesting recipe for 200 year old cheesecake
baked in an outdoor oven!
"For ask now the animals, and they will teach you that God does not deal
with His creatures according to their character; ask the birds of the air,
and they will tell you...In His hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind."
(Job 12:7, 10)
