Wow!...

Is it cold!

Sincerely,

Daniel David Robbins

See...

I once thought, and even said to my brother, "It is out of my hands..." But now, again, I mourn, and PRAY God will help me to FIND that cell phone! Why? Because it obviously matters to my brother! I sure want God to give me my wife! So, I pray that God will have mercy on me and let me find that cell phone, in Jesus' name!


Sincerely,

Daniel

I sure did...

...get to preach, but I am sad. I went to see if I could get (or at least locate) by brother's cell phone, but they could not find it at the front desk at the Mustard Seed. I mourn. ;'(

Daniel

And Guess What!

God willing, I get to preach this Sonday!

Love,

Daniel

They are not eating!

Hooray and Hallelujah! (I mean the "lions").

Love,

Daniel

Work...

...was great today, but, Oh! The relentless pressure to get these jobs done faster! "God, remember me - and do not let the lions eat me! In Jesus' name! Amen!"

Love,

Daniel

Good song!

"Thy Will"

Sincerely,

Daniel

It snowed...

...and now it is the long weekend. I pray God will shew me what to do with my long weekend. I do not want to be a bachelor any longer than necessary. "Freedom" has its benefits, but it can also be depressing.

Love,

Daniel

I sure would be thankful...

...if I did not have to hunt around for people to use my three extra "2,734,499,050.1 2,634,287,622".

Sincerely,

Daniel

I still have to get into work...

...as early as possible and finish up the floor I am working on! Hallelujah! I have to do something, and I DEFINITELY asked to have to do something! It was "after tax season" at H&R Block, and they lay you off every year at the end of tax season. And I was lying in bed, not having to do a dog-gone thing, and I prayed, "God, please let me have to do something..." Now, I DEFINITELY have to do something. One of those things is wait for my wife! Seriously, that is ALL I have to do for her... for NOW! When I marry her, however, and have "143,452" or "104,515,506" children with her? (NOT to be confused with "4861" or "105,578,388"!) Then I will REALLY have to do stuff! FOR HER! And I pray, in Jesus' name, that that day will come SOON!

Love,

Daniel

Wow!

The heat is really on now! "Help, God, also know as Jehovah, or 'I Am'! I have to get a roof and floor finished tomorrow! Help me to get to bed early tonight! And I need my wife! How long do I have to wait for her! Please, remember me and bring her to me, in Jesus' name! Amen!"

Love,

Daniel

At work...

...they want me to work faster, but I sure am still going to be thorough. And I am keeping in mind that "the lions don't eat Daniel." Daniel did the right thing and it got him thrown into a den of lions. I feel like that may be where things are headed for me! (Come to think of it? This IS a lion's den!) But I know the outcome! Men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel! Hooray!

Love,

Daniel

It is just that...

...it is "-27,621,852" - and I could really use a "4,688,800" from some "-3,030,453,264".

Sincerely,

Daniel

"I am a stranger in the earth - hide not thy commandments from me!" Psalm CXIX.19

I sure love...

...the fact that I was able to come into Alberta with such a clean slate.

Sincerely,

Daniel

I was walking along today...

...when some guy went blaring by me in his car, revving the engine so hard, it was way too loud, and very uncomfortable for my ears - and I thought: aside from unfortunate occurrences like that, this is a very peaceful walk! I sure do not need to own one of those cars!

Love,

Daniel

In a different blog...

...I said I told Cuong something today. Another thing I told him was that I thought Calgarians ought to think more soberly about the fact that they got flooded three years ago - and that the flood hit right before their Stampede. They were able to clean things up in time for their Stampede; but just barely.


Love,


Daniel

Now...

...people love to say Jesus talked about "Hel" more than anybody else in the Bible. Actually, he talked about Gehennah and Hades, and then much later we translated it "hell", which comes from "Hel". Hel was the Norse, mythological goddess of the dead. Furthermore, I can definitely demonstrate that almost all these supposed references to "Hel" by Jesus are not nearly as conclusive as people want to think. Even Francis Chan, in "Erasing Hell" admits this fact - and he is arguing in FAVOUR of the doctrine of eternal conscious torment (or, at least, as in favour of it as he can be - even he admits he hates the thing; he just thinks it is a necessary evil). For example, "where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched"? That is a reference to the last verse of Isaiah; and THAT verse is NOT depicting eternal conscious torment AT ALL! Rather, the fact that certain people would not receive an honourable burial - and that was an EXTREMELY important thing to a Jew.

Love,

Daniel

I met Emily... - Revised

...at the Taber Cornfest free breakfast, and found out she lives in the Steinbach area. She told me that the Sodomite parade in Steinbach this year was the first one! My two cents was, "Shut it down! Don't let there ever be another one." I included some caveats, though: REPENT of preaching "Hel", or eternal conscious torment, because that does NOT help! Anything! Or anyone! It is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT NOT HELPFUL! And it is OBVIOUSLY an EVIL INVENTION! Want to know how? Go directly, to your Bible. Do not pass Go, and do not collect $200. Start reading at Genesis and keep reading until you see the word "hell" even ONCE! Any questions? The other caveat is that THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO CANNOT CONTAIN AND THEREFORE ARE FORNICATING NEED TO BE ALLOWED AND EVEN ENCOURAGED TO GET MARRIED! Read I Corinthians 7, and while at it? Don't forget verse thirty six!

Love,

Daniel

P.S. Wait! Let me guess! "What about Jesus?" OH! WHAT ABOUT JESUS? "WHAT ABOUT JESUS, INDEED!" "A bruised reed he will not crush, and a smoking flax he will not put out!" Oh! "What about Jesus", indeed! Let us REPENT of putting out smoking flaxes and crushing bruised reeds with that horrid doctrine of eternal conscious torment, IN JESUS' NAME!

Alright, so...

...I go to do my Bible reading for this morning, according to the lectionary in my 1611 Edition of the King James Bible; and I think I know what it is going to be, because I read Daniel Chapter 12 last night... and there are only 12 chapters... so I am thinking it will be Hosea 1...

But it isn't! It is Daniel Chapter 13! It was the story of Susanna in the Apocrypha. And, for this evening, it will be "Chapter 14", or "Bel and the Dragon"!

Sincerely,

Daniel

P.S. I am watching this.

Ever since...

...I saw that headline, I wanted to visit this town. The one that said they had made it ILLEGAL to swear in Taber! Now, I finally get to visit the place. I didn't get to see the whole parade, but I tried (and I mean, really tried) to get here on time. By the way, I really hope that tells you something about me! I mean, I was late for the TABER PARADE! I did NOT want to be late for the Taber Parade. Therefor, when people give me grief over my struggles to be on time, it is very hurtful.

Sincerely,

Daniel

Was it ever nice!...

...to see my family here! Brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews! I am so blessed!

Love,

Daniel

I am in Saskatoon for...

...my uncle's funeral at the moment. The funeral was yesterday, and we buried his remains this morning.

Love,

Daniel

That stuff!...

...It is still on the floor... I am still sleeping on the futon (which is still "folded up" into a "couch"); but I do not want to. I have got to get that stuff off the floor, somehow; but, Oh! Do I EVER pray for God to bring me my wife, SOON! In Jesus' name!

Love,

Daniel

I dumped all my stuff from the futon...

...in my room onto the floor where I usually sleep, and I may need to dry clean one of my blankets, so it does not smell.

Love,

Daniel

...But...

...I sure do know I really have to wait right now! And that is what I am doing...

Sincerely,

Daniel

I have been praying...

...that when I am finally married, that God will be there and help me every step of the way - because I know I will need it! In fact, I pray I will have all the help I will need - and I think that will be a lot!

Love,

Daniel

I must say...

...giving out those tracts was not something I want to live through again. I wound up leaving them on a bench in a shelter at City Hall C-Train Station; and I pray that they helped people, in Jesus' name, amen!

Love,

Daniel

Can ye pray for me?

I have eight more "tracts" to distribute, but I feel shy. I put a personal note at the beginning and end of each one, though, and signed them (and all the notes were different - I didn't "copy" from one tract to the next).

Love,

Daniel

Here is the tract: - revised

“WAcH OUT!”

FORNICATION, DRUNKENNESS, VIOLENCE, AND THE LOVE OF MONEY!

By: Daniel robbins 7/14/2016

http://danielinab.blogspot.ca/2016/07/here-is-tract.html

Eerfeid@gmail.com

          I ONCE SAW A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT A BRIDGE THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN OUT BY AN OFf-COURSE BARGE. The barge had RAMMED into AND DESTROYED ONE OF THE BRIDGE PIERS – CAUSING THE BRIDGE COLLAPSE. As a result, VEHICLES WERE DRIVING OVER THE BRIDGE AND PLUMMETTING INTO THE WATER BELOW. The bridge had been “wached out!”

          ONE MAN, however, RAN TO WHERE THE VEHICLES WERE COMING FROM, AND SHOT UP A WARNING FLARE. AS I REMEMBER, ONE INDIVUAL WHO WAS DRIVING OVER THE BRIDGE SAW THE FLARE AND SLAMMED ON HIS BRAKES… JUST IN TIME. HE SCREECHED TO A HALT JUST BEFORE THE BREAK IN THE BRIDGE.

          I feel like the man who was moved to shoot up that flare. I HAVE NOT LIVED IN CALGARY FOR VERY LONG; BUT I KNOW THAT THE STAMPEDE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CELEBRATIONS HERE in Calgary … in all fairness, NOT EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON at the stampede IS BAD… BUT SOME of it CERTAINLY IS; And, AS A MATTER OF FACT, IT IS GETTING WORSE.

          LAST YEAR, I LEARNED OF SOMETHING THAT SADDENED ME, AND ALERTED ME TO THE FACT THAT THINGS HAD, in fact, GOTTEN REALLY BAD. ONE THING I LEARNED was THAT there HAD BEEN A STABBING.

          However, I also learned of SOMETHING ELSE. SOMETHING THAT I will not MENTION explicitly; BUT IT MADE ME think: there is “no vision.” I am thinking of a verse from “proverbs” in the holy writings, or scriptures, which says:

“where there is no vision, the people perish…”

another way of translating that is

“where there is no vision, the people is…

…made naked…”

          In another place, the scriptures warn:

“Fornicators and adulterers, god will judge.”

          FORNICATION IS WHEN TWO UNMARRIED PEOPLE (USUALLY A MAN AND A WOMAN) KNOW EACH OTHER IN A WAY THAT ONLY A MARRIED MAN AND WOMAN OUGHT TO know each other. AND IT LEADS TO DEATH. AND FORNICATION HAS GOTTEN SO OUT OF HAND THAT, WELL, WHAT I ALLUDED TO ABOVE… HAPPENED! (no, however, fornication is not normal!)

          IT SADDENS ME, BECAUSE THERE IS NO SATISFACTION IN such fornication. NO FULFILLMENT. NO – EVEN – HAPPINESS! ONLY EMPTINESS, BROKENESS, AND EVEN “SHATTERED-NESS”. TWO YOUNG MEN AND ONE YOUNG WOMAN WERE PLUMMETING INTO THE CHASM OF such lonely SHATTERED-NESS. _{(you may not know what I am talking about. If you do not know, I am thankful. The younger you are, however, and the more local you are to calgary, the more likely it is that you do know – and I mourn that fact!)}

        HOW, HOWEVER, DID THINGS COME TO THIS! How did things get this bad? I have not the slightest doubt that “they” were drunk (the people I discreetly alluded to earlier). People: Drunkenness is NOT A GOOD THING! In fact, it is sin. And sin brings death. (by the way, if you want to know what “s-‘I’-n” means, look at the middle letter of the word. It is when we think only of ourselves, and ignore god and the people and creatures around us). Stay away from it!

Again, I recall from “proverbs”:
“³¹Look not thou _{(“thou is the singular, objective, second person pronoun, which we typically replace with “you” these days)} upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth _{(i.e. “gives”)} his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. ³²At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder (a very poisonous snake). ³³Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. ³⁴Yea (i.e. “yes”), thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. ³⁵They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (From chapter 23)

          Well, once you are fornicating and you are drunk, violence is is lurking just around the corner.

Proverbs, chapter 1, verses:

10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

(…in other words, “we will get rich!” and – hey! That lifestyle is notorious for the amount of money that flows around!...)

15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

(…in other words, if you were to set a trap in the sight of a bird, of course the bird would see it, and be intelligent enough to avoid the trap – but these people? They are like a bird that gets caught in trap that was set right before its eyes! In other words, sin makes you really stupid…)

19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

          Lastly, (speaking of being “greedy of gain”) we come to “cutting out the middle man”, and get to the root of all this evil:

First timothy, chapter 6, verses
6But godliness with contentment is great gain.

7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

8And having food and raiment (…or clothing…) let us be therewith content.

(…by the way, isn’t it ironic? Sin deceives us into not being content with the clothes we have… and the next thing we know it… we’re not wearing any clothes! In public!  Again: “WATcH OUT!”)

9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and intomany foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. (… “perdition”, as I understand the term, means being “lost”… and I mean “really lost”! I do not accept, however, the definition of that word, which includes anyone being burned alive for ever in “hel” (also known as “hell”). I consider the teaching of “hel”, in fact, to be, ironically, the source of a lot of this “perdition” we are seeing all around us, and I rebuke the doctrine of eternal conscious torment (a.k.a. “hel”) in Jesus’ name! (“Hel” was the name of the norse, mythological goddess of the dead, and “she” was where we get the English word “hell” from). I think it is god’s will to save the world, and that he is going to actually do it! J)

10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

(“pierced themselves through!” … with “many sorrows.” Again, so sadly accurate! “pierced”, indeed! L)

11But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

          You might say, “who, me?” yes! You! Even “thee!”… again, “thou man of god!” That is, however, of course, if not, “woman of god!” Be a man of god! Be a woman of god! It is NEVER TOO LATE! I LOVE YOU! And that is why I say, one last time:
“wach out!” 

Alright...

...enough is enough! I am going to go ahead and start writing that tract, now!...

I think...

...I will start writing the tract now! (If God will, of course).

Love,

Daniel

So here is the idea...

...for the tract I am itching to write, in light of the upcoming Calgary Stampede:

"Fornication, Drunkenness, Violence, and the Love of Money!"

Love,

Daniel

According to one source...

...and, really, even another, the Calgary Stampede has, sort of, "two faces": the family friendly one, and then the anything but family friendly one. What I know, however, is that people need to be warned, and I pray for wisdom with knowing how to do that, in Jesus' name.

Sincerely,

Daniel

If definitely reminds me...

...to stay humble. I resolve to be bold as a lion - but humbly so; and I pray to that end, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Sincerely,

Daniel

...And this...

..."keeping one's eye clean", can be agonizing at times.

Sincerely,

Daniel

Alright, so...

...here comes stampede, and I am going to speak out against fornication! I pray, however, that God will mercifully help me maintain a clean eye. After all, how can I get something out of other people's eyes, if I have something in my own!

Sincerely,

Daniel

That, however... (revised)

...is precisely why I am waiting on God for a "situation" where I could SAY "iıı....iı.ıiı..i.....ıı..ıiı.i" legitimately.

Daniel

I know...

...that one must use discretion when telling someone else they love them; and I pray I will certainly do that, in Jesus' name!


Daniel

I sure do pray... revised

...that God will help me to grow up and behave myself, in Jesus' name! Amen!

Sincerely,

Daniel

Cooler weather...

...which is kind of nice, I suppose! I love you!

Daniel

One last time!

"I love you!"


Daniel

Time to get home...

...I lingered at work again, which can get late; especially when I let it!

Sincerely,

Daniel

The weather...

...has cooled off. It was surprisingly warm - and even hot - previously. We even set a record one day for the hottest it had been that day for over a hundred years. My landlord even says there may be snow this week. And to think it is this week that I fly, God willing, back to Winnipeg. I pray that God will - as I have prayed before - remember me; in Jesus' name, amen.

Love,

Daniel

I love Alberta...

...and even Calgary; but that love compels me to, again, call for repentance!

Love,

Daniel

By the way...

...I do happen to think it an outrage that society would be so quick to condemn my dreams, but thinks it is so normal the way people - even young people - and even younger and younger people with time; are fornicating left, right, and centre. Then again, however, how interested does the CHURCH seem to be in helping these same people to EITHER abstain OR get married? Sadly, I have found: really, not at all! And my question? WELL, WHY NOT! And my exhortation? WAKE UP!

Love,

Daniel

I read... - revised

...Proverbs V today, and was reminded to keep waiting for the "wife of my youth". I pray, however, that God will remember that, though I consider myself young, I am not as young as I once was - or getting any younger with age; in Jesus' name. Amen.

Daniel

...And... - revised

...I just visited the Crow's Nest Pass, where I spent the first three years of my life. One special experience was finding the house I used to live in. Here is how I found it:

When I was three, I somehow figured out how to walk from my house to the ice cream parlor - and I learned that, when I did, they would give me a free ice cream cone. Then, I would walk back home. I did this for quite a while until I failed to FINISH my ice cream cone before I GOT HOME! Then, my mom started to figure out where I was GOING on these escapades.

Before I knew it I had arrived at the ice cream shop again and was going to GET my ice cream cone, when I was scooped off my feet and spanked! It was my mom! She had "prevented" me! In other words, she had gotten to the ice cream shopped ahead of me!

Well, last "Son-Day", I parked my rental car near the ice cream shop, and set out to find the house that I had lived in. It was a lot of work, but I found it. But then I tried to recall the route I must have taken from my house to the shop; and for the life of me? I cannot say I know how I did it! Especially as a three year old. I know it started with the "dirt road" just as I came out of the house.

So not only did I move from Steinbach to Winnipeg at age 11, but also from the Crow's Nest Pass to Steinbach at the age of 3. But, then again, my older brother must have been 7; because he is over four years older than me - and that move (to Steinbach) was especially hard on him. Anyway, that might help explain why I am such a "stranger in the earth" (see Psalm CXIX.19). And also why I love it so much when I get to visit certain friends back in the Steinbach area. After all, I spent some pretty formative years of my life in that town.

Love,

Daniel

But I sure do love...

...living near a train station! It is one benefit I pray I will not take for granted, in Jesus' name. Amen.

".iı.ıiı..i..",

Daniel

And, hey!...

...it shows! I think that is one of the reasons Calgary has prospered so much! But with prosperity comes the temptation to forget God. And "All the wicked shall be turned into...


...OK - the King James Bible says, "hell", which is translated from the Hebrew "Sheol", and that means "the grave"...

and ALL THE NATIONS THAT FORGET GOD!"

We have GOT to repent of forgetting God!

Love,

Daniel

...See...

The Calgary Book of Everything says that Calgary is 35% Evangelical. I would love to meet at least one Evangelical who simply acknowledges that there has to be a reason they published that statistic.


Love,

Daniel

...Because...

...it gives me an outside perspective, which I want.

Daniel

I am so glad...

...I was born here, moved away when I was three, and am back here again, now. At least for now.

Daniel

Looks like...

...I am going to have to look for word elsewhere, I am sorry to say! :(


Daniel

And another thing, Alberta?

I WAS born here - in Lethbridge. My family moved away when I was three, but, at the end of the day, I am one of you - an Albertan; and we, Albertans, REALLY need to grow up! Even be perfect! I know it hurts, and even kills - but what else are we going to do? Our own thing? What a waste of time that would be! And here is what I love about doing God's will: WHEN? We delight? Ourselves, in the LORD, or Jehovah? He promises to give us the desires of our heart! I admit, he sure makes us wait for them - but then when we get them, we are ready for them! I love you, OK? And I want us to live and not die. That is why I say, "Repent!" But, make no mistake! I am saying it! And while I am at it, I will say the same thing to Canadians! Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and Christians! We MUST be born again!

Love,

Daniel

Alright Alberta:

We are having some REALLY nice weather right now, and I do appreciate that! I simply pray that ye will be brought to repentance, because righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.

Love,

Daniel

P.S. And, Manitoba and Saskatchewan? I have lived in you, too, and ye need to repent as well. Better yet: we!

By the way...

...I definitely appreciate the benefits of living here. This morning, I tried to take a bus, and realized something: I really appreciate the train! This is the first Canadian city I have lived in, where there is a train system, as well as bus. If there is any reason I have prayed for plagues, however, it is the utter apathy regarding the way people talk on your buses and trains. It tells me ye actually think it is OK, and nothing could be further from the truth.

Love,

Daniel

Alberta?...

...And Calgary, in particular? I have prayed for plagues on you! For God to TAKE AWAY your money - in Jesus' name! Why? Because I love you!

Daniel

God!...

...I miss my friends, and I need to see them ASAP! In Jesus' name, amen!

Daniel

I have to say...

...sometimes I feel weary! I think: "How am I making my friends feel? Good?" I certainly hope so, but I do agonize at times! I will say this, though: having a baby does involve discomfort. If I could eliminate the discomfort, especially for you, I definitely would! At the very least, I pray God will help you with it, in Jesus' name, amen!

Love,

Daniel

I got tested...

...I had just finished reading, "Every Day a Friday", by Joel Osteen, and then today hit! Well it was actually a second day of the week ("Son-Day" being the first); and it hit hard! It sure flew by, though! No two ways about that! All I can say right now is something I have already say, and - friends - I'm saying it! OK?...

"...I love you!..." "...and forget me ever not loving you..." "...ever..." "...and seeing it is not an option to ask to simply die and get out of this, I really need you!..."

Daniel

I got my new debit card...

...and I so thankful it is the weekend. It does mean, though, that I am free to decide what to do. I like that freedom, but do not want to have it for ever. I want to, one of these days, "have to" do stuff - even on the weekends! Not yet, though, and I am OK with that.

Sincerely,

Daniel

The weather has been amazing!

...But I had better go get another debit card! (Mine apparently has worn out, because it doesn't work when I try to use it, anymore).


Love,


Daniel

By the way...

...I happen to think there is nothing wrong with my really wanting to get married. I know some think it is possible to want it TOO much. Furthermore, they are actually right! Oh, well! That is a risk I am simply going to have to take. "God! Remember me! Please! In Jesus' name, amen!"


Sincerely,


Daniel

I am thankful...

...for the staff at the library! They have restored yet another lost item to me! This time, it was my orange backpack! When I finally get married (and I know I talk about that a lot - but I happen to be really looking forward to it), then I will REALLY be, similarly, thankful.

Sincerely,

Daniel

Yet another...

...amazing sunset! Today, it is definitely a "Chinook sunset"! When there is a Chinook, there is an arch of clear sky over the mountains. Of course, this also means the weather today was very mild - maybe even above zero Celsius, or 32 Fahrenheit. By the was, I added another two verses to "Brokenhearted" below. The last verse, however, is kind of shrouded - but for a reason!

Sincerely,

Daniel

The sunset!

It was so glorious! It definitely makes me thankful to live here. And it is not the only thing. Alberta, you have a lot going for you - just don't forget to repent, as I said earlier. Even trust me on that one, as needs be. The last thing I want to see is God having to plague you any further. By the way, the rest of Canada? Definitely, let us repent! We have so much to lose, and we are going to lose it unless we repent! Repent of what? Ask God!


Love,


Daniel

Another thing about that song I mentioned - revised yet again!

It was somewhat uncertain what he started off singing. Was he singing: "This is a song for the brokenhearted..."? Then I watched the song with lyrics, and discovered it was, "This AIN'T a song for the brokenhearted..." Well! This one sure is!


Brokenhearted - by me (to the tune of the hymn "O, the Sweet, Sweet Love of Jesus":


1. Bro-ken... hear-ted, sore a-flic-ted, heavy la-den weak and frail!
In the flesh I stand convicted - to be perfect, how I (would) fail!
Though I long to be more like thee - walk more closely at thy side,
My best ef-forts naught avail me, unless I, in thee, a-bide.


2. Bro-ken hearted, e-ver mourning my own wretchedness of soul!
"Lord," I cry, "if thou art willing, thou canst make me perfect - whole"!
See him loo-king with com-passion on my mi-serable estate;
"I am wil-ling, be thou clean made," - cleansing come im-me-diate.


3. Bro-ken hearted people did the Lord, our "Jesus", come to "save",
So take heart, ye brokenhearted, to the spear, his heart, he gave;
To repentance, sinners, not the righteous, Jesus came to call,
Jesus, in thy grace and mercy, quickly come and save us all...


4. Bro-ken hear-ted, poor in spi-rit; blessed ("blest") are we at Jesus' word!
What God hath laid up for us, eye hath not seen, nor ear hath heard!
Come to him, ye wea-ry hea-vy la-den souls with bro-ken hearts!
Learn of him, re-ceive the bless-ed yoke and burden he imparts!


5. (Drop it down a key for this verse, if ye woud like...)
Bro-ken hearted - melan-choly! Feeling, to say the least, "down"!
Let the fool-ish, in their fol-ly, on such a con-dition frown!
Je-sus was a man of sor-rows, and, a-bout grief, knows it all!
Rest as-sured, the bro-ken-hearted, shall be saved, who, on him, call!


6. Take your bro-ken box of al-la-bas-ter and, on Jesus, pour!
Others people may not understand it, he'll stand up, you, for!
Are a broken spirit and a contrite heart what it's...all...a-bout!
Come to him, and claim his guarantee that he will not cast out!


7. "God! My heart is broken! And I hate my very life so much!
How I need to move this mountain, and receive thy healing - touch!
Show me how to be a blessing, and the world turn upside down!
And see 'breakthrough', i.e. '-15 -6,282,801, -156,798,403 -71,217,706 3,739,549,862 -136,052"!

Love,


Daniel

Listening to the following song right now... - revised

...

Love me if ye can

I offer a caveat, though: I refuse to worry about anything - even what "children" are learning from television. I do, however, agree that it is extremely evil, and that any parents of children with access to television, let alone cable, should be very watchful. I have experienced both having and not having television - and I definitely must say I do not plan to have it. My landlord has one, but it is behind "sliding doors", and he only uses it to watch DVD's. Another family I know has a television, but the mother sowed a cover to put over the screen of it, and sowed onto it the verse: "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes."

Love,

Daniel

P.S. I don't have a shotgun, myself, but definitely disagree with "gun control"!

I must say!

Albertans, ye have a lot to repent of! Ye have too much money! As Jesus said, "Woe unto you rich!" Got ears to hear? Then hit the floor and cry for mercy! Now!

Love,

Daniel