12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!
Praise your God, O Zion!
he blesses your children within you.
he fills you with the finest of wheat.
he scatters frost like ashes.
who can stand before his cold?
he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.
his statutes and ordinances to Israel.
they do not know his ordinances.
Optional parts of the readings are set off in square brackets.
Established in African-American communities on December 31, 1862, Watch Night is a gathering to celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation becoming law. When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 1863, all slaves in the Confederate States were proclaimed free. Since that date 156 years ago, African-Americans have celebrated the good news of freedom in local churches on New Year's Eve. Like the slaves who first gathered while the Civil War raged on, we proclaim freedom for all captives in Jesus' name, knowing that for millions, freedom is not a reality. Our celebration is a commitment to join modern-day slaves and undocumented workers in their struggle for justice.
Lord, we know that freedom will prevail because you are already victorious. Help us never lose hope, never stop celebrating your victory, and never stop walking alongside those who struggle to see this freedom come on earth as it is in heaven.
O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet you as the day rises to meet the sun. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Isaiah 43:16, 18-19 (NIV) This is what the Lord says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
The 12 days of Christmas are the 12 days that separate Christmas Day on December 25 and ends on January 5, with the next day being Epiphany, which is celebrated January 6. Depending on the church, January 6 may mark Christ's baptism (in the Catholic tradition), or it may mark the day that the wise men (or the Magi) visited Jesus with their gifts.
The Day of Epiphany is when the church celebrates the revelation of Christ as the light of the world and recalls the journey of the Magi. Magi means wise men.
From 1558 until 1829 Roman Catholics in England were not allowed to practice their faith openly. During that era someone wrote 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' as a kind of secret catechism that could be sung in public without risk of persecution. The song has two levels of interpretation: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of the church. Each element in the carol is a code word for a religious reality.
Some beliefs believe that the day after Christmas started the 12 Days of Christmas. You also hear some people think its the 12 days that lead up to Christmas. But reality, it starts on December 25, that is the first day.
Nuestra boca se llenó de risas; nuestra lengua, de canciones jubilosas [...] Sí, el Señor ha hecho grandes cosas por nosotros, y eso nos llena de alegría.
Señor Jesús, solo pueden salir de mis labios palabras de agradecimiento por todo lo poderoso que has sido con nosotros en este año. En cada momento de mi vida estuviste a mi lado escuchando mi necesidad. Fuiste mi socorro en tiempos de angustia.
Gracias porque me ayudaste a que muchas de mis peticiones se hicieran realidad. Te agradezco también que me llenaras de valentía cuando pensaba que no sería capaz de salir adelante.
Te amo con todo con mi corazón y, a partir de hoy, entrego en tus manos mi vida, mi salud, mi economía, mi familia, mi trabajo y todos los anhelos profundos de mi corazón que ya tú conoces.
Guárdame, mi Dios, y acompáñame en mi entrar y en mi salir.
En el nombre de Jesús te lo pido, amén y amén.
1. Ours is the Kingdom. No matter what setbacks we see or experience, in the end the Kingdom will revert to our Lord and we will reign with Him.
2. Ours is the victory through dying and living again – victory through being able to drink the cup of evil and injustice poured out and not being consumed by it.
3. Ours is the responsibility of caring for our suffering brethren, especially converts and those in countries more restrictive and repressive than ours.
4. Ours is the responsibility of reaching those who still sit in darkness.
5. Ours are the lives that should manifest purity and Christlikeness.
6. Ours are the hearts that should be willing to pay the price to bring peace and understanding among men and between men and God. Hearts willing to be proactive. Hearts willing to stand at the end of the day and having done all; stand.
7. Ours is the challenge to stand strong through all the storms we face and come through the fire refined and purified to walk the way of the cross before a dying world.
RESPONSE: Today I will accept the challenge to stand strong through all the storms I may face!
PRAYER: Pray for Christians living in severe persecution areas that refined and purified, they may experience all of the victory which is available through Christ.
And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.
The painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is one of the most remarkable in the history of Western art. One thing is for sure: the process that altered a ceiling from plain to fabulous required a lot of time, great discipline, and the hand of a master artist. The same is true for us. The journey from broken into beautiful is a lifelong transformation that requires time, discipline, and a Master Artist.
But, I ask you: did the unfinished state of the project negate that parts of the ceiling were beautiful? No! The parts that were complete would still have been extravagant and breathtaking to the average person.
Maybe this is the way God and others see our lives.
At times people may notice the work God has done in us and comment on the beauty. I don't know about you, but even though compliments are nice to hear, I've been known to resist them. (Admit it. You probably have too.) It's not so much a humility thing as it is an "I-don't-see-myself-as-beautiful" thing. From my limited perspective, I can see only the unfinished work. But in truth, my vantage point doesn't negate the beauty of the work God has done and is doing in my life. The same is true for you.
Real beauty isn't about a finished or flawless product. It can't be. It's not possible on this side of eternity to have completed beauty. Our restoration will be complete in the presence of God when we see Him face to face.
Friend, God knows where you have been, what you have been through, and where you are now. He sees your flaws and loves you in spite of your imperfections. His tender love is far-reaching, grace-filled, and complete.
Your past sins do not define you.
Your painful scars do not define you.
Your present sufferings do not define you.
They are just shards of brokenness that God will use to lovingly refine your beauty.
The transformation from broken into beautiful is neither easy nor instantaneous. It demands a yielded heart and can be quite painful, but it comes with great reward. To get started, God will need your broken pieces—your scars, shame, insecurities, disappointments, betrayals, and failures.
Do you have some of those?
Are they tucked away in a safe, do-not-enter part of your heart?
If you're ready for God to do a beautiful work of transformation in your life then it's time to do some serious heart-business with Him, friend. You might find it hard to hand over hurts. I get that. It's hard for me too. But difficult as it may be, when we hand them over, our Master creates a stunning work of beauty in our lives.
Holy Father, I am humbled by Your willingness to love and forgive me. Please take the broken pieces of my life and don't allow me to grab them back. I surrender to Your healing. Mold me and shape me into a reflection of Your beautiful glory.
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It took four years of fresco painting for the Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
"HOLDING JESUS IN YOUR ARMS"
Have you ever thought how strange it would be to hold the baby Jesus in your arms, like Simeon did? As you cradled that tiny, swaddled-up baby, you would be holding the Creator of heaven and earth—your Savior—the One who will one day judge all people. You would be holding the very One who holds you safely in His nail-marked hands (John 10:28). How strange is that?
But that is the paradox of the incarnation. God came to earth as a helpless, tiny baby, so that He could grow up to help us all who are caught under the power of evil. Jesus needed His mother to feed Him, so that some day He would be the bread of life that feeds us. Jesus' parents clothed and sheltered Him, so that one day He would give all of us the clean, holy robes of His righteousness to wear, and shelter all of us in His presence (Revelation 7:13-15).
And now that you trust in Jesus, He invites you to carry Him once again—every day of your life, as you live and serve in the world that does not know Him. As a believer, you are a Christ-bearer; Jesus Himself dwells in you. He never leaves you alone. You carry Him into the world as you share the Gospel with others. You carry Him as others watch your life, seeing how a Christian acts and chooses and speaks. And He carries you—through hard times and good times, through temptation and danger and even death itself—to Himself, in heaven.
THE PRAYER: Lord Jesus, thank You for carrying me as Your own. Help me to carry You to others who will also believe in You. Amen.
The Coming King REFLECTION QUESTIONS!
Are you comfortable holding tiny babies? Why or why not?
What is the most valuable thing you have ever held (besides a baby)? How did you feel about holding it, whatever it was?
What does it mean to you that Christ carries you? What images come to mind?
Advent Devotions were written by Dr. Kari Vo. Use these devotions in your newsletter and bulletin! Used by permission; all rights reserved by the Int'l LLL (LHM).
¿Has pensado en lo extraño que sería sostener al niño Jesús en tus brazos como lo hizo Simeón? Al acunar a ese pequeño Niño, estarías sosteniendo al Creador del cielo y de la tierra, tu Salvador, quien un día habrá de juzgar a todas las personas. Estarías sosteniendo a Aquél que te mantiene a salvo en sus manos marcadas por los clavos (Juan 10:28). ¿Qué extraño, no?
Pero esa es la paradoja de la encarnación. Dios vino a la tierra como un niño pequeño e indefenso, para poder crecer y ayudarnos a todos los que estamos atrapados bajo el poder del mal. Jesús necesitaba a su madre para alimentarlo, para un día ser el pan de vida que nos alimenta. Los padres de Jesús lo vistieron y protegieron, para que un día él nos vista a nosotros con la ropa limpia y santa de su justicia y nos proteja a todos con su presencia (Apocalipsis 7:13-15).
Y ahora que confías en Jesús, él te invita a que lo lleves contigo todos los días de tu vida, mientras vives y sirves en el mundo que no lo conoce. Como creyente, eres un portador de Cristo: el mismo Jesús mora en ti. Él nunca te abandona. Lo llevas al mundo cuando compartes el Evangelio con los demás y cuando tu forma de actuar y hablar demuestra que eres su seguidor. Y él te lleva a través de los momentos buenos y de los tiempos difíciles, a través de la tentación y el peligro, e incluso de la misma muerte, para que estés con él en el cielo.
ORACIÓN: Señor Jesús, gracias por hacerme tuyo. Ayúdame a llevarte a otros que también creerán en ti. Amén.
¿Qué significa para ti que Cristo te lleve? ¿Qué imágenes te vienen a la mente?
¿Qué puedes hacer hoy para acercar a otra persona a Cristo?
« J'ai un message à vous livrer ! » Une femme qui travaillait dans le cadre de la conférence à laquelle j'assistais m'a remis une feuille. Je me suis alors demandé si je devais craindre ou m'enthousiasmer. Par contre, en y lisant : « Vous avez un neveu ! », j'ai su que je pouvais me réjouir.
Les messages peuvent être porteurs de bonnes nouvelles, de mauvaises nouvelles ou de défis. Dans l'Ancien Testament, Dieu s'est servi de ses prophètes pour transmettre des messages d'espoir et de jugement. En y regardant de plus près, nous voyons que même ces derniers étaient destinés à conduire son peuple à la repentance, à la guérison et à sa restauration.
Ces deux types de messages apparaissent dans Malachie 3, où Dieu promet d'envoyer un messager pour préparer le chemin devant lui. Jean-Baptiste a prédit la venue du véritable Messager, Jésus (voir MT 3.11), à savoir « le messager de l'alliance » (MA 3.1) qui allait accomplir les promesses de Dieu. Cependant, ce Messager allait agir tel « le feu du fondeur, comme la potasse des foulons » (V. 2), en purifiant ceux qui croiraient en sa Parole. Le Seigneur a donc envoyé la Parole faite chair pour purifier ses enfants selon ses desseins bienveillants à leur égard.
Le message de Dieu est empreint d'amour, d'espoir et de liberté. Dieu a chargé son Fils de nous parler en son nom de sorte que nous le comprenions. Parfois, il s'agit de messages de correction, mais toujours riches d'espoir. Quels qu'ils soient, ses messages sont fiables.
Demandez à Dieu de vous aider à être son messager cette année.
Les messages peuvent être porteurs de bonnes nouvelles, de mauvaises nouvelles ou de défis.
A lot has happened in the last week. Some of us have spent time traveling, maybe to the places that we grew up in to visit family and old friends. Gifts and greetings have been exchanged, carols have been sung to remind us of the birth of the Christ child. Now many are back at work and a sense of 'normality' is beginning to be felt again in our lives.
In our gospel reading we find a different Jesus to the one we left on Christmas morning. He has survived Herod's hunt for the firstborn in Bethlehem and has been quietly getting on with the business of growing up in and around the Carpenter's shop in Nazareth.
Father God, sometimes we forget that the Christmas story did not end in the stable but continued as Jesus grew into a man, almost unnoticed by the world apart from his appearance at the temple, his spiritual home on earth. As we close the pages of one year and begin the next chapter of our lives may we grow in faith, in wisdom and closer to you each and every day, to your praise and glory. Amen.
Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts, may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Most merciful God, We confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have failed to do. We have not loved you with our whole heart. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry, and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world.
2:18 Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy wearing a linen ephod. 19 His mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year, when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. 20 Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, "May the Lord repay you with children by this woman for the gift that she made to the Lord"; and then they would return to their home. [...] 26 Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and with the people.
praise him in the heights!
praise him, all his host!
praise him, all you shining stars!
and you waters above the heavens!
for he commanded and they were created.
he fixed their bounds, which cannot be passed.
stormy wind fulfilling his command!
fruit trees and all cedars!
creeping things and flying birds!
princes and all rulers of the earth!
his glory is above earth and heaven.
for the people of Israel who are close to him.
3:12 As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. 13 Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
2:41 Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. 43 When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. 44 Assuming that he was in the group of travelers, they went a day's journey. Then they started to look for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 When his parents saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in great anxiety." 49 He said to them, "Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" 50 But they did not understand what he said to them. 51 Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. His mother treasured all these things in her heart.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor.
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
As we take our worship, praise and prayer from this place and into our daily lives, may our lives be sustained through the love of our Heavenly Father. May we feel the presence of our Savior walking beside us, and know the power of the Spirit in both our actions and our words. Amen.
After three days they found him (Jesus) in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
The Holy Gospel comes to us today from Luke the 2nd chapter, beginning at the 41st verse.
Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.
We have come to that time in the year again when people are talking about New Year's Resolutions. Have you made any yet, for the year ahead? Where did that tradition come from anyway, making New Year's Resolutions? It actually started a long long time ago, in the nation of Babylon. They always ended the year by resolving to do things that they should have done the year before. Their resolutions were more simple, and more easy to keep, than the ones we make today: "I resolve to return the farm equipment I borrowed last month," would be an example you might hear.
Today, we make resolutions about losing weight, exercising more, spending more time with family – things that sound good, but are hard to keep. What are your New Year's resolutions? Today, a twelve-year-old boy is going to teach us a new year's resolution. A seventh-grader. Today, in our Gospel lesson, Jesus speaks to us – and the lesson he teaches us is probably one of the best new year's resolutions you could make for the year 2019. Let's see what that is.
Our Gospel lesson describes Mary and Joseph as a very devout family – every year they went to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. As a twelve year old, Jesus went with them, and there they spent the week, as was their custom.
After the feast was over, Mary and Joseph began the trip back home, to Nazareth. Now remember, back then, walking was the main mode of transportation. Often, people would travel in big groups – it was safer, and the time went by faster. I picture Mary and Joseph traveling with their extended family, friends, and fellow Jews who lived up north. In groups like these, the adults would often walk together, and the children would separate into their own group to play and do other things, just as children do today. It was a three-day walk back to Nazareth, and so on the first night of their trip back home, Mary and Joseph set up camp and looked for Jesus among the group. But they couldn't find him. He wasn't with the other children. He wasn't with their relatives, their friends. Jesus was missing. He was gone, without a trace.
Mary and Joseph didn't understand what Jesus was saying to them. What does that mean, that Jesus "had to be about his Father's business?" You see, even at the young age of twelve, Jesus knew that he was not just the son of Mary. He was the Son of God. And even at a young age, Jesus knew that his purpose in life was not just to play and be a good son and grow up. He knew that he was on this earth for a greater purpose – he had a divine mission to fulfill, to be the Savior of all mankind. And part of that mission was spending time in God's Word – listening to the teachers, asking them questions, filling himself with the words and promises of God that are found in the Scripture. That was his Father's business. It was so important that he came up missing from the group returning to Nazareth.
Ultimately, this twelve year old boy would grow up to become the greatest teacher the Jews had ever known, carrying out his Father's business. But even more importantly, Jesus would someday be about his Father's business by dying on a cross. That was his ultimate mission in life – to be the Savior of all mankind. Yes, he was still a good son to his parents – the Bible says that Jesus returned home after that day and obeyed his mother and father. But he had a greater mission, a more important, divine mission – to be about his Father's business as the Savior of the world. That was his number one priority.
Do you realize that you have a divine mission in your life? You are not just here to work, pay bills, raise kids, socialize, work more, pay more bills, etc. That really is not why God has placed you on this planet. You have a greater purpose, a deeper purpose – and that is to "be about your Father's business." That's why you are here. God's business can be summed up in five words. Why are you here? First and foremost, to HEAR the Word of God. God wants that to be a big part of your life. And as you hear the Word of God, God's business includes that you CONFESS your sins. God's business also means that you RECEIVE the forgiveness of sins from Christ. As that happens, you also receive the Holy Spirit, who CHANGES you for the better. And as you change, you grow into a person who GLORIFIES God in the way you live your life. That's God's business – to HEAR his Word, to CONFESS your sins, to RECEIVE Christ's forgiveness, to CHANGE for the better, and to GLORIFY God. That's why God has placed you on this earth – to be about your Father's business.
Has that been a priority for you in 2018? Or, like many people today, do you say, "I'm too busy to do that sort of thing regularly. I have too many other things to do." Is God's business for you a priority, or is it something you do only if you have nothing else going on in your life? For Jesus, it was so important, that he "came up missing." Are you willing to "come up missing" because you are busy going about your Father's business?
Some of you, this past Christmas Eve, may have decided to come up missing from Christmas Eve family gatherings. That's a difficult thing to do. They rearranged things so that they could hear the Word of God and worship Christ on Christmas. That's what happens, when you "go about your Father's business" – sometimes, you come up missing – the family gathering has to wait while the Word of God comes first.
Was that you, in 2018? What about sports – in 2018, were you willing to sacrifice sports, rearrange your schedule, sometimes come up missing from a sporting event, so that you could go about your Father's business? Or, in 2018, did you push the Word of God to the side? Something had to give, and so you sacrificed your Father's business. That is idolatry, you know. Was that you in 2018? Or what about work? What about those projects at home? Were they first? Or was your Father's business first?
Today, I would like to recommend a New Year's resolution to you, and that is to make God's Word, your Heavenly Father's business, top priority in 2019. It all starts with confessing your sins to your Heavenly Father. Don't hesitate to do that – look back on the year 2018 and confess all your sins to God – confess all the times you have let your Heavenly Father's business go by the way side so that you could pursue the things of this world.
Confess, and then what – confess, and then receive forgiveness from Christ for all of your sins. Do you realize that Jesus Christ has already paid for all of your sins on the cross? They have been washed away by his blood. You are completely forgiven in the eyes of God. Receive Christ's free forgiveness, and then let the Holy Spirit change you for the better. As you receive Christ's forgiveness, the Holy Spirit will change you, more and more, into a person who makes God's Word a top priority in your life. And then you will become someone who glorifies God.
Someone once said that a Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't. God's business, God's Word – here you find Christ, born on Christmas, for the sole purpose of taking away your sins. Here you see him dying on the cross, in order to save your soul. Here he rises from the dead, promising to you the gift of eternal life. Here, Christ blesses you, fills you with joy and peace and the kind of love that only God can give. That's God's business. Let that be your top priority in 2019, and you will be blessed. Amen.
My loving God, I thank You for bringing me safely to another day of worship. How I desire to praise You with a pure heart and right spirit! To that end, I again ask Your forgiveness for all my sins and renewing of my faith. As I speak to You today, fill my heart with true praise and thankfulness for all You have done for me. Lead me to appreciate more fully the blessings of worshiping with my fellow Christians. Thank You for the opportunity to pray and study Your Word with other believers. Make me a faithful witness in my congregation and my family so that others will see me leaning only on You, who saved me in Jesus Christ.
Lord, make us a refuge to the poor. Help us prepare a feast for the hungry. Teach us to wipe away the tears of those who mourn, even as you shelter us, feed us, and wipe away our tears.
Lord on this special day, I run into Your loving arms. May Sunday be a celebration, filled with thankfulness, where I connect with the presence of Heaven, seek Your beauty and goodness, and cherish special family time together. Come fill my heart afresh with Your love. May it overflow with Heaven's bounty, moving through this rest day and into the week ahead.
Dios es el que me ciñe de fuerza, y quien despeja mi camino; Quien hace mis pies como de ciervas, y me hace estar firme sobre mis alturas.
Todo lo negativo que pudo ocurrir este año no debe marcar tu nuevo año.
Hace algún tiempo, como lo dije al comienzo de este devocional, hacía por estos días una agenda de peticiones y se las presentaba a Dios con una oración el 31 de Diciembre a la medianoche. Era como colocar un montón de sueños y anhelos en la presencia de Dios y confiar que Él me los cumpliría uno a uno.
Sin embargo, hay cosas que ya Dios tiene programadas para cada uno de nosotros y, tarde o temprano, se cumplirán. Así que no te encierres solo en tus deseos, sino deja varios puntos en blanco para que Él mismo sea el que los llene. Déjate sorprender por Dios. ¡No te vas a arrepentir!
Entra a un nuevo año con tu mente y corazón en sintonía con el Señor. Ah, y otra cosa, recuerda que Él siempre desea lo mejor para ti.
But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
It was early in the morning the day after Christmas. It was cold. Mehdi Forootan sat in the back seat of an undercover police car in front of his house in Tehran, Iran. An officer pointed a camcorder at him. "Do you know why you were arrested?" the officer asked him. "No," Forootan replied.
The officer turned off the camera and looked Forootan in the eyes. "I can beat you until blood is coming out of your mouth and every part of you. The next time I turn on the camera, you tell me why we are taking you," the officer said and turned the camera back on.
Forootan spoke of his faith in Christ, and he spent the next 105 days in Iran's harshest prison. On Dec. 26, 2010, authorities had arrested Forootan in a wave of persecution against Iran's underground church. More than three months later, he was one of a few who had not been released.
After months of trying to get him to write statements confessing a crime, authorities inexplicably released him. Forootan said his first month out of prison was one of the worst of his life. He couldn't speak to anyone of his prison experience for fear that authorities were watching and would re-arrest him. His parents had given the deed of their house to authorities as bail.
He and his fiancée decided it was best for him to leave Iran and go to Turkey as a refugee. For Forootan, this meant an illegal escape through the mountains, because authorities had confiscated his passport.
Many who follow Jesus in other lands make great sacrifices for the sake of the gospel. Despite harsh treatment—even prison with interrogations—they still love their home country. But during those interrogations, the Holy Spirit gives the right words to be spoken.
RESPONSE: Today I will rest in the Lord realizing that when pressures come, He is with me and His Spirit will give me the right words to speak.
PRAYER: Pray for those who like Forootan above are forced to leave the home land they love because of their witness to the gospel of Christ.
The six days of Creation. God created the World in 6 days. He rested on the 7th.
Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Simeon loved the Lord, and he had one wish, which God knew about: he wanted to see God's Messiah come before he died. The Holy Spirit promised him he would.
How exciting that must have been! Simeon would see Jesus, God in the flesh, guaranteed. He must have wondered every day, "Is today the day I'll see Him?" And every night he knew he'd wake up in the morning, because God hadn't kept His promise yet; and God always keeps His promises. Jesus would come before his death.
And then came the glorious day when he went to the temple at the impulse of the Holy Spirit and saw a poor young couple with a newborn in their arms. That was the One! He took up Jesus in his arms and praised God. Simeon's life wish was fulfilled. Now he could die, go home to the Lord, in peace.
This is true for us, too, isn't it? We too have seen God's Christ—not with the eyes of the body, but with the eyes of faith. God's Holy Spirit has revealed Him to us. We have seen Him in the Bible. We have eaten and drunk His body and blood at Communion. For us too, it is "Jesus before death." We don't have to wait. We have Him now.
Jesus promised His disciples, "I am with you always, to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20). We will not go through death alone. The One who has already been through death and back again, this One, Jesus, will be our guide. We will not stay in death, either; Jesus, our risen Savior, promises to raise us from the dead as well.
Christ before death; that's the right order. And that is the way God has given Jesus to us as well.
THE PRAYER: Father, thank You that You have given us Your Son now, in this life, so we don't need to be afraid of death. Amen.
What is on your "bucket list" of things to do before your death?
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Julian Lennon sells dad's tunes for cash and career
By Stacey Sleightholm
Julian Lennon has sold a share of his financial stake in Beatles songs co-written by his late father to a New York music-publishing firm. In a deal announced Friday, the 44-year-old singer and son of Lennon and his first wife Cynthia sold a "significant" share of his financial stake in his dad's songs to New York-based Primary Wave Music Publishing for an undisclosed amount.
"We are thrilled to be partnering with Julian Lennon and to own a piece of music history," Primary Wave's chief executive Larry Mestel said in a statement.
The deal does not apply to John Lennon's solo projects but they'll still be taking a cut of Julian's inherited royalties from major Beatles hits, including "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," "All You Need Is Love" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.",
"I felt it was the appropriate time to take on a partner for both my interest in my father's legendary music and for my future music endeavours," Julian said.
As part of the deal, Primary Wave has agreed to help the singer market his next album, which is scheduled for release later this year.
The company also recently inked a deal with Courtney Love, acquiring the rights to 25 percent of the late Kurt Cobain's songwriting catalogue for Nirvana tunes.
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As we count down towards Christmas my thoughts began reflecting on the issues of immigration. This is partly because the Biblical narrative itself has a lot to to say about immigration. For example, the Isrealites were immigrants in Egypt for about 430 years. One can also argue that Jesus was an immigrant if we consider that he had an heavenly citizenship before venturing to earth to fulfil the purpose of saving us by being with us (Immanuel). The whole point of the incarnational process, that is, Jesus becoming like one of us, was that he integrated himself to his new environment. In addition, when Jesus' life was in danger because of King Herod, his parents fled to Egypt where they could be considered asylum seekers for a while before they went back to live in Nazareth in Galilee. The recent release of the results of the 2011 census has brought about public discussion on the subject of immigration. This is due to the rise in the increase of the so called "foreign born residents" in England and Wales since 2001. Part of this increase is that fewer than half the people living in London are white British. The result of the census seemed to have alarmed people in certain quarters and have led to talks about integrating multicultural Britain. Ed Miliband and the labour party has started talking about One Nation Ideal as a community cohesion strategy. This talk about integration has been part of the agenda of the coalition government and one evidence of this is David Cameron's pronouncment of the death of multicultural Britain by stating that State multiculturalism has failed.
What I found very interesting is that in all the talks about integrating multicultural Britain, it appears that immigrants are seen as scape goats that have to be sacrificed to acheive this end. What do I mean by this? The rhetoric seems to be that immigrants are segregated and are living in separate communities therefore we have to integrate them. This seems to be portrayed as the general picture as if all immigrants do not want to integrate. My line of work brings me into contact with a lot of immigrants and one of the cries I have heard from them is, " We want to have English people as our friends" or "We are looking for places to meet English people" After hearing these comments I often wondered and at times realised that their very next neighbours are white English people. This raises the question of whether this immigrants have been given the chance or opportunity to become their friends? If some immigrants are willing and are happy to integrate then the question is why does it appear not to be happening? I do agree that there are some immigrants who live in separate communities and are not making any effort to integrate, but it must be mentioned that this is also true of British people living in Spain, France and Australia. It will however be wrong to make this lack of integration of few immigrants as a general picture of all immigrants in this country. To do this is to ignore the evidence of those immigrants who have enrolled in ESOL classes and English language courses so that they can be able to have conversations with their white English neighbours and engage with the community. As someone who has gone through the status of immigrant in this country and now can be regarded as a "foreign born resident", I have made it my daily business since I came into this country to integrate myself and there are others like me whom I have met. If the government is talking about integrating immigrants can they also address the issue of white flight (white people moving out or leaving because of the presence of ethnic minorities) which commonly happens when ethnic minorities move into a white residential area, school, pub, Church or any other social institution.
Another myth the public discourse on immigration is perpetuating is the stereotype of all immigrants as taking advantage of the benefit system. I know that there are immigrants who are taking advantage and are abusing the system, but lets not forget that there are also white British who are doing the same. I am not condoning people abusing the system, I am only stating that people are generally abusing and taking advantage of the system. But I also know that there are lots of immigrants who since they arrive in this country have no recourse to use public funds. I can boldly say that since my arrival in this country I have never use the benefit system and I am not planning to do so. To think that all immigrants use the benefit system or abuse it in some ways is to portray the image that all immigrants are poor and needy people, but that is not the case as there are well to do immigrants who are actually contributing to the sytem through taxes and other means rather than taking from it. Mo farah is an example of an immigrant now foreign born resident who has contributed to the British society through sports. It is fair to also add at this juncture that immigration through tourism and other means also generate money for the British economy.
Immigration will always be a contentious issue so long as there is the idea of otherness which if misplaced leads to fear. This is played out in the Biblical story of Israel in Egypt when suddenly there was a new Pharaoh who did not know Joseph and he feared when he realised that the Israelites were increasing in the land. What did he do? He decided to use the Israelites as scape goats by devising a system to annilate them. This story is reminiscent of the times Jesus was born as Herod who feel threathened by this new arrival decided to eliminate Jesus by annilating all the male born from 2 years and below. As we celebrate Christmas let us welcome and be hospitable to our neighbours whether they be fresh immigrants, foreign born residents or white British indigenes. This is the spirit and essence of Christmas!
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As per recent Google Guidelines(deadline for Target API 29 task is Nov 2, 2020), today I have changed the targetSdkVersion and compileSdkVersion to Android API 29 and in turn, screen sharing stopped working.
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Animal Planet () — дочерний телеканал американского Discovery Channel. Распространяется в спутниковом и кабельном вариантах. На телеканале транслируются фильмы, показывающие животных в непосредственной среде обитания, рассказы о видах, внесённых в Красную книгу. Не забыты и домашние животные. Девиз канала — «Нашу планету населяет более 2 миллионов живых видов. Вы — один из них. C остальными знакомьтесь в передачах канала Animal Planet». Канал ведёт вещание в более чем 70 странах мира, включая и Россию. Определённые версии канала были созданы в Канаде, Индии, Японии, Тайване и в других странах. Часть транслируемых передач также выходит на DVD. В начала марте 2022 года приостановил вещание в России, на фоне вторжения России на Украину

История
Канал «Animal Planet» был основан 1 октября 1996. 1 января 1997 канал вырос, купив место для рекламы у канала WOR EMI (национальная подача WWOR-телевидения Нью-Йорка). Сейчас «Animal Planet» — дополнительно ассоциированный член Карибского Кабельного Кооператива. Весной 2014 года канал перешёл на вещание в формате 16:9, а также запустил HD версию.

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Компания  совместно с Discovery, Inc. выпускает журнал Animal Planet Magazine в Великобритании. Первый номер вышел 16 февраля 2011 года.

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Josep Sanjuan i Ibáñez (Matadepera, 30 de juny de 1945) és un antic futbolista català de les dècades de 1960 i 1970.

Jugava de defensa lateral i central. Es formà al futbol base del Jàbac i del Terrassa FC, passant al primer equip el 1964, amb una cessió prèvia a la UE Tàrrega la temporada 1963-64. Jugà tres temporades al primer equip egarenc i el 1967 passà al CD Comtal, filial blaugrana, on jugà durant dues temporades. La temporada 1969-70 formà part de la plantilla del FC Barcelona. Un any més tard passà a jugar a l'Elx CF, on hi romangué durant tres temporades, la primera d'elles a la màxima categoria. Finalitzà la seva carrera novament al Terrassa FC, club amb el qual arribà a segona divisió. Un cop retirat exercí funcions d'entrenador, dirigint el Terrassa FC la temporada 1977-78.

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Target will keep stores closed on Thanksgiving forever
New York Target will no longer open its stores on Thanksgiving Day, making a permanent shift to the unofficial start of the holiday season suspended during the pandemic.
Retailers last year had to turn what had become the start of weekend shopping into an extended event with holiday sales starting early in October to limit the number of people in stores during the pandemic.
However, this forced shift during the holidays turned out to be a good move.
US holiday sales in November and December were up 8.2% in 2020 from the previous year, according to the National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail group. The trade group expects this year may break last year's record, growing between 8.5% and 10.5%.
"What started as a temporary pandemic-driven measure is now our new standard — the standard that recognizes our ability to cater to our holiday guests within and outside of store hours," Target CEO Brian Cornell wrote in a note to employees.
Target's new standard, combined with very good sales last year, may prompt other retailers to follow its lead.
Target distribution and call centers will have some employees on Thanksgiving Day, Target said Monday, but that stores will remain closed.
Target started opening its Thanksgiving stores a decade ago, joining other retailers in kick-starting Black Friday sales the day before and creating a holiday rush after Turkey. Many did so to compete with Amazon.com and other growing online threats.
But it looks like this shift was just sales-eating on Black Friday. Major retailers have also suffered some setbacks, accused of forcing thousands of people to work on a family holiday.
Some stores and malls such as the Mall of America in Minnesota have ended the practice and remain closed on Thanksgiving. Some, like Costco and Nordstrom, never opened their doors during the holiday, saying they wanted to honor the holiday.
Historically, Thanksgiving was not a big day for sales in general, nor was it one of the top 10 days, because stores usually open their doors around 5 p.m., however, it was a big day for online sales. Last year, the holiday came after Cyber Monday and Black Friday in online sales, according to the Adobe Digital Economy Index.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI –According to Michigan Live, the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer's Assn.'s updated quarterly outlook forecasts growth of 6% in industry-wide shipments for 2007, to $11.5 billion. Reportedly, a slower growth in the U.S. economy in recent months led to a modest downgrade in the latest outlook for the office furniture industry. BIFMA's previous quarterly outlook in February projected shipments to grow 7.3% in 2007 and 7.1% in 2008. The office furniture industry's rate of growth for 2008 is now projected at 4.3%, to $12 billion, according to the new BIFMA outlook. Read more.


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Great post Michelle. Such an important issue. We have so many kids that are suffering from obesity and it's complications today. Thanks for posting.
Thanks, Jean. What we eat and our general health and well-being is so important. It is something I will continue to address in future posts. I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment.
Thanks, Kathy. Our children depend on us and if we can steer them in the right direction by eating wholesome, healthy foods and educate them on the importance of eating properly, they'll live healthier and hopefully happier lives.
"The more natural food we eat, the better." Well said, Michelle. Thanks for a well-written, thoughtful post.
Thanks, Melanie for your positive feedback and for taking the time to read my post. It's very much appreciated!
Excellent as usual Michelle! This really hits home for me. I was raised on convenience foods and allowed to overindulge on Twinkies, Cokes, etc… I thought there was no hope for my eating habits but I've recently made some major changes to my diet. Fast and convenience foods are no longer part of my daily routine! It is possible to change those bad habits even later life!
Michelle, it's FANTASTIC for YOU that you have changed your eating habits. How we were raised in every way, affects us. Childhood habits are often the most difficult ones to break because they become so ingrained in us. Congratulations to you! It is so possible to change non-beneficial eating habits later in life.
Such an important topic and great way to show how we connect with our health. Thanks!
Any tips on how to prepare healthy food for the family? It's a constant source of stress for me since I'm using to eating healthy, but resorting to "healthy" takeout most of the time. Now that my little one wants only food that we eat, I need to find foods that she can eat that has more soft veggies.
Christine, food preparation like everything can become mundane and time consuming. The key is to use a good variety of fresh ingredients and cook simple meals that won't have you in the kitchen for hours on end. I personally prefer planning my family's meals for the week so I know exactly what I am cooking on any one day.


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Winchester Comedy Festival 2019 - Clinton Baptiste: The Paranormalist Returns! - Friday 27th September 2019 - 7.30pm - Performance Hall - Winchester Discovery Centre - Join Alex Lowe in character as Clinton Baptiste, the hapless clairvoyant, medium and psychic from smash hit TV show Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights.
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Coin Congress Day 2: Bitcoin Industry Bullish in Face of Obstacles
Jul 25, 2014 at 04:30 UTC Updated Jul 25, 2014 at 12:40 UTC
The second day of Coin Congress in San Francisco focused less on recent US regulatory developments, instead placing a heightened emphasis on the promise of bitcoin's underlying technology.
Held at the Union Square Hilton this week, the event featured a variety of speakers and panels. Experts offered unique perspectives on the bitcoin and cryptocurrency economy, and with their remarks succeeded at framing the industry as a fast-developing space worthy of its early accolades.
Despite the promise and excitement surrounding the industry, however, event commentators were keen to point out the obstacles that bitcoin needs to overcome in order to bring its full capabilities to market.
The mainstream portrayal of bitcoin in the media appears to be one issue, according to Michael Terpin, who founded the PR service Marketwired in the early 1990s. He says negative headlines sell, and that bitcoin is paying a heavy price because of this.
Terpin said:
"The media is like a sponge, waiting for the loudest click-bait to happen."
Perception and adoption
Discussion on the perception of bitcoin continued through the day, with one specific panel addressing the issue directly. There, George Gilder, an author, investor and moderator of the perception panel, called cryptocurrency, "a new category of information on the Internet that fulfills the real promise of the Internet".
Due to this type of praise, speakers were emboldened about the currency and its prospects.
Tim Parsa, CEO of BitReserve, said:
"Anything you fight, you make stronger."
Bradley Rotter, co-chair of hardware startup Rivetz, echoed this positive sentiment, saying that digital currencies were inevitable with the advent of the web.
"Does the internet deserve its own currency? Of course it does," Rotter noted.
Lee Fox, founder of Peerspring, said that demographic shifts will foster distributed systems adoption no matter what. She said she sees this in a younger generations that is, "already circumventing what was once centralized".
Venture capitalists still positive
The Coin Congress venture capital panel offered similarly positive opinions on the long-term opportunities that bitcoin presents, as commentators were optimistic bitcoin could overcome its perception issues.
The VCs were perhaps unsurprisingly bullish on investing in bitcoin businesses.
Bart Stephens, managing partner of Stephens Investment Management, said there is "massive opportunity to connect the financial world to bitcoin".
VC Panel. [L-R] Matthew Roszak, Jonathan Teo, James Robinson, Steve Waterhouse, Bart Stephens
Elsewhere, Pantera Capital's Steve Waterhouse compared bitcoin technology to a popular underlying digital technology, the IP address.
Waterhouse said:
"[The] IP address is not a consumer technology. The question is whether [bitcoin] is a consumer technology or an infrastructure technology. It's likely an infrastructure technology."
RRE Ventures' James Robinson, offered a different assessment, saying that he believes consumers will continue to choose banks over BTC.
Robinson added:
"You may not like [banks], but you know that your money will be there tomorrow."
Jonathan Teo, managing director of Binary Capital, said that the amount of VC flowing into bitcoin companies is only going to increase, a promising statement for entrepreneurs, as many were in attendance at the conference for industry networking and knowledge sharing.
"There will be a lot more venture dollars flowing into the digital currency space," Teo said.
Despite optimism from VCs, even this segment of the industry faces pressing issues.
For example, there have not been any significant financial exits in the bitcoin space to date. William Quigley, managing director of Clearstone Venture Partners, presented on the possibilities of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in bitcoin, basing his assessments on historical observations from the early Internet days.
"[That] bubble really was about 18 months," he said.
Quigley told the Coin Congress audience that he expects a similar situation to unfold in the digital currency space, adding:
"With respect to bitcoin, I see lots of acquisitions happening quickly."
Quigley estimated that there are about 700- 800 bitcoin startups in total right now, and with only 100 venture-backed companies that go public every year, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) might be the way many bitcoin-related ventures will likely see a financial exit.
"A lot companies are going to be acquired," he said.
However, bitcoin-related companies with the potential to be purchased for $1bn or more will need to be what Quigley called an "operating business" – not just an idea or play on bitcoin, but something with substantial customer numbers.
And in order to get to that level, VC money will be needed to deal with regulatory matters.
Quigley said:
"Compliance cannot be ignored, especially in the United States. This is why bitcoin startups will have to raise capital."
Technology advancing
Technology was yet another major theme, with speakers touching on the latest developments in the space.
Bitcoin entrepreneur and former Tradehill co-founder Ryan Singer encouraged developers to use technologies such as multisig in order to avoid actually hosting cryptocurrency for users.
Ryan Singer during his "Stop Holding Other People's Coins" presentation.
"I think it's getting more uncomfortable," to hold other people's coins, he said. Because of new regulation possibly on the horizon, hosting features like wallets might end up being prohibitively expensive for a startup.
"If you hold other people's money, you are going to have to bond and insure it," Singer said.
Multisig technology like the sort BitGo offers requires several keys in to manage bitcoin funds, reducing possible risks associated with controlling funds the way that many hosted wallets currently do.
Singer noted:
"It is possible to do full transactions without being in the business of holding bitcoin."
Another idea along these lines was presented called Rivetz, a hardware technology for financial independence outside of the existing banking system.
"I want to build [bitcoin functionality] into the device I have at the time," said Rivetz CEO Stephen Sprague during his talk titled 'Building a Hardware Wallet into the Device You Have'.
The startup is building a digital currency storage system that harnesses existing technological capabilities inside consumer electronics devices such as a PCs, phones and tablets.
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Fossil sword pommel from Malaya
Ruel A Macaraeg (USA)
Fossil hunters have a well-deserved reputation for finding rare things in difficult places. However, there are times when fossils are 'hidden' in plain sight as material for the decorative arts. While not as informative as specimens found in situ and undisturbed, nevertheless, they still have palaeontological interest and may yet be of genuine scientific value.
The pommel is a carved Stegodon molar, as a stylised cockatoo head.
The fossil material on my kris is attached as a pommel to a wooden grip, bound with metal wire.
Malay kris sword (keris sundang), Peninsular Malay,s 19th century.
This short discussion will take that optimistic approach with a fossil Stegodon molar attached to a Malay sword in my collection. The Stegodon genus, widely acknowledged as closely ancestral to modern elephants, lived in habitats across southern Asia into the Pleistocene, so humans may have developed an awareness and liking for Stegodon remains during their co-existence (Rich, Rich, Fenton & Fenton 1989). Anyway, by early modern times, Stegodon molars ('garham gaja' in Malay) were a recognised luxury commodity, whose biological origins were understood and to which totemic significance was attached.
Form and context
My sword belongs to a class of bladed weapons falling under the general rubric of 'kris'. Krisses are documented from southern India through mainland Southeast Asia and eastward to the Philippines, but are concentrated in Malaysia and Indonesia (especially the Malaya peninsular, Sumatra, Java and Bali). While there is an unmistakable relationship in these weapons' blade shapes (particularly the asymmetrical shoulders to their blades), they vary greatly in their proportions and decoration, and even more so in the cultural practices surrounding them.
Nevertheless, the cultures that used them, traditionally placed a high premium on their use as fashion accessories, and krisses became increasingly formulaic in their design. As a result, you can quickly learn where they come from by using the form of their component parts as a guide, most notably the hilts (Jessup 1990; Frey 2003).
The fossil material on my kris is attached as a pommel to a wooden grip, bound with metal wire. The pommel is carved as a stylised cockatoo head – this motif is identical to that seen on sword pommels from the Malay-Muslim cultures of Mindanao and Sulu, now collectively known as 'Moro'. While the literature on Southeast Asian weaponry typically presumes a flow of information from west –to east, the evidence regarding the cockatoo pommel suggests that the Malays of northern Borneo and peninsular Malaya adopted this feature from the Moros culture, no earlier than the nineteenth century.
The Moros believed that the cockatoo transmitted its earthly observations to Heaven though its loud calls (Knappert 1995). Placement of the cockatoo form on the hilt of a personal weapon, itself the object of spiritual attention, reinforced the symbolic associations between the bearer of the sword, his audience's understanding of cultural symbols and his relative social position.
I believe that the decoration of such weaponry was historically employed as a means for socially mobile individuals to contest their relative status when direct violence was not a culturally acceptable option. Conspicuous consumption of rare and precious materials indicated access to wealth and power, and fossils certainly fell into this category. Because this type of sword was worn thrust through a waist sash, the large pommel would have been a highly visible fashion statement.
As pure type specimen, an example such as this or any similar object, is likely to be of greater interest to cultural historians or archaeologists than palaeontologists. As a result of being altered when they are turned into objects of art, vital information on size, appearance and texture is lost. Even when these modifications serve to emphasise certain natural aesthetics (for instance, the laminate colour striations revealed through the polishing of my example), they often come at the expense of destroying other natural features.
Perhaps more beneficial is the recognition of a sustained market in fossil material through the ages. Consumers of this material understood its rarity and beauty, and demand for the product was an incentive for suppliers to locate fossil sites and develop techniques for the identification, recovery and preservation of specimens. Such proto-scientific local knowledge would, no doubt, still be useful to modern palaeontologists seeking new excavation sites.
In her books, The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times and Fossil Legends of the First Americans, Adrienne Mayor encourages yet another avenue of research – the analysis of the collective bodies of knowledge assembled by proto-scientific cultures about the palaeontological evidence they encountered. Mayor's work on classical and native American sources shows that these cultures reasoned in systematic ways, using induction, comparison to living analogues and narrative to reconstruct the physical remains they encountered.
On occasion, these inferences closely anticipated scientific conclusions made by modern palaeontologists. Therefore, attention to the historical and artistic circumstances producing fossil ornaments may give modern palaeontologists added perspective on the objects of their study. However, whether for scientific or artistic reasons, the use of fossils as prominent decorative objects is testimony to their enduring and multifaceted appeal in all times and places.
I would like to thank Adni Aljunied of the Malay Art Gallery, Singapore, and to Dave Henkel, a specialist in Malay-Indonesian weaponry at the Asia Museum, Singapore, who both kindly helped with the accuracy for this article.
Frey, Edward 2003. The Kris: Mystic Weapon of the Malay World. ISBN 9789835600692.
Jessup, Helen Ibbitson 1990. Court Arts of Indonesia. ISBN 0878480722.
Knappert, Jan 1995. Pacific Mythology. ISBN 1855381338.
Rich, Patricia Vickers; Rich, Thomas Hewitt; Fenton, Mildred Adams; & Carroll Lane Fenton 1989. The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life. ISBN 0486293718.
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2021 choice cuts:
plastic cords prolapse from an orifice of faux fur / do you remember magic eye puzzles? / a weed sprouts from a drain / a cosmic ray of light piercing through Sydney's winter chill / twin blades on scissors slicing through time and place / dawn breaking on the horizon of the darkened mind / the emperor has no clothes, all that remains visible are his bits, and bytes
2021 took on a strange shape after lockdown took a big bite out of the middle of it, so I've reprised the roundup of professional milestones as a reminder of what actually happened in this corner of the freelancing universe. As it turns out, I wrote about 20,300 words in the form of various reviews, essays and profiles, and there were a few other fun opportunities thrown in for good measure.
The Art Gallery of NSW was humming in the middle of the year – the Archibald celebrated its 100th birthday, and my feature on the anniversary exhibition Archie 100 was the cover story of the Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum in June. Around the same time the Gallery opened its first international show post-covid, Hilma af Klint, which I reviewed, also for the SMH. Sadly both shows were only open for a couple of weeks before lockdown shut gallery doors, so it was great to be able to get back in there later in the year to review the summer shows Matisse: Life & Spirit and Matisse Alive, this time for HK-based arts journal CoBo Social, who this year also published my reviews on The National, Primavera, and the pleasurable, the illegible, the multiple, the mundane, which was the final show at Artspace before The Gunnery closed for 12 months of renovations.
I was honoured to be invited to write the catalogue essay for John Olsen: Goya's Dog, an exhibition at the National Art School Gallery spanning eight decades of Olsen's practice. Excerpts from this essay appeared on the wall labels throughout the exhibition, and an abridged version was published in the Winter edition of Art Monthly Australasia. Other catalogue essays in 2021 included those for Caroline Rothwell's show at Hazelhurst Art Centre, Michelle Cawthorn at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Clara Adolphs, Nancy Constandelia, Ali Noble, and Kathryn Cowen. Interviews and profiles included Julia Gutman for Art Collector, Zoe Veness for Design Anthology, and Margel Hinder for SMH.
A couple of things penned in 2020's lockdown made it to print in 2021. These included an essay on Sarah McConnell's work was published by Melbourne University Press in the book Art + Climate = Change II, and a catalogue essay for Stuart Smith's group exhibition at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, (re)arrangements, the victim of a double-whammy, finally installed just prior to Sydney's long lockdown in 2021 but unable to open to the public.
In March I was invited by Asialink Arts and Santy Saptari Art Consulting to participate as a panellist in the series Dekat-Dekat Jauh (So Close Yet So Far), with the conversation providing a springboard to future actions and possibilities. Later in the year, it was great to meet the next generation of artists for another round of fast-paced writing workshops (the art writing equivalent of speed dating!) as part of the National Art School's Professional Development Program.
After serving as external assessor in 2020 for the inaugural programming round of the new Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, it was great to see the Gallery launched in November 2021 with the 20th anniversary exhibition of the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. In the leadup I enjoyed delving into the history of the award and interviewing past winners as I worked on content for the updated WSSP catalogue.
The icing on 2021 was being the subject rather than the author of a work, with Joanna Braithwaite's clever painting Aficionado exhibited as a finalist in the Portia Geach at SH Ervin – a thrilling end to the year.
Thank you to artists for your work & thanks to those who commissioned art writing this past year. Looking forward to looking more in 2022.
Joanna Braithwaite, Aficionado-portrait of Chloé Wolifson, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.
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Forest Park police reports- Dec. 1-8
by Jean Lotus December 10, 2013 January 28, 2021
Cash on bar 'too sweet' to resist
A patron of the Short Stop Tavern, 7425 Madison St., told police $14 in cash he had left on the bar disappeared when he left his seat to walk away and speak to a friend around midnight, Dec. 7. The bartender called the bar's owner and the two viewed the incident on security cameras. The suspect on video who allegedly removed the money was still at the tavern, playing billiards. Police questioned the suspect, a 24-year-old Chicago man, who denied taking the money. He was arrested for theft. At the station, he told police he had observed the cash sitting at the bar which looked "too sweet" to resist. When he covered the money with his hand, no one on either side objected, so he pocketed the cash and walked away. The man said he wanted to return the money to the victim, who said he no longer wanted to file criminal complaints. The Chicago man was issued a local ordinance violation notice for theft.
Alleged shoplifter shoves guard
A female security guard at Walmart told police she observed a Forest Park man, 21, enter the electronics section of the store around 2:30 p.m., Dec. 5, select several DVDs and conceal them in his pants waistband. The man passed all points of purchase and exited the store without paying for the items. When a guard approached him outside to confront him about the DVDs, he allegedly pushed her in the chest in an attempt to flee the store with the merchandise. He was stopped by another security guard and escorted to the security office to await Forest Park police, who charged the man with battery and retail theft.
Cig break brawl
Two men were charged with fighting outside the Slainte tavern, 7505 Madison St., around 2:20 a.m. after an Oak Park man, 23, allegedly knocked the cigarette out of the hand of a River Forest man, 22, and then took a swing at him. The smoker swung back and the two scuffled on the ground until police arrived. They were issued local ordinance tickets for public fighting.
These items were obtained from the records of the Forest Park Police Department, Dec. 1-8, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anyone named in the report has only been charged with a crime.
—Compiled by Jean Lotus
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Changes are in motion and, thanks to the popularity of the BBC's Blue Planet and similar television series', society is more aware of the urgency needed in environmental sustainability. The topic is moving higher up the business agenda, too, as it rightly should. Now, the IFMA UK chapter is urging the facility management industry to follow suit.
IFMA UK's philanthropic event on the evening of the Tuesday 16th April will feature debates and guest speakers outside of the built environment, including Will McCallum, head of oceans at Greenpeace and author of How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time, and Amy and Ella Meek, aged 15 and 13, the founders of Kids Against Plastic!
IFMA UK members and RICS professionals are guaranteed a place at this exclusive event. Non-members are welcome to apply for a place. To register your interest, please visit – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-last-straw-ifma-uk-joins-forces-with-greenpeace-and-kids-against-plastic-tickets-56920935049. Further details and a password to access the event site will be sent to those who secure a place. Entry will be on a donation basis and all funds will go to Kids Against Plastic!