Janie Sullivan - Finishing Editor - The King James Version Apostolic Texts Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations - Finnished Tomorrow

After Janie is done, the books will be ready to send directly to the active list. That could be in two weeks.

Did you see the pun or bad spelling in the title? No? Then you should not edit! 

I am kidding, because every printing has typos. The relief comes from having relatively few - and none that cause hilarious laughter.

I was going to tell Janie, "At least the Table of Contents is cleaned up this time!" I am glad I never said that, because she zeroed in on numbers out of order, repeated, and omitted. 

The usual suspects (a growing list) will get one copy, and more if requested. I will give some people extras automatically because they are likely to distribute them. That is the idea, to encourage people about the Apostolic text (Majority Text) and the best translation (KJV). That is why gifts are saved to do this.

Beautiful Gerhardt Hymn

 

"All Ye Who on This Earth do Dwell"
by Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676

Tune - Nun danket all' und bringet Ehr - linked here

1. All ye who on this earth do dwell,
Give thanks and glorify
The Lord whose praises ever swell
In seraph songs on high.

2. Lift up your hearts in praise to God,
Himself best Gift of all,
Who works His wonders all abroad,
Upholding great and small.

3. Since first our life began to be,
He has preserved our frame;
And when man's strength was vanity,
He as our Helper came.

4. Though often we His patience try
And well deserve His frown,
In grace He lays His anger by
And pours new blessings down.

5. 'Tis He revives our fainting soul,
Gives joyful hearts to men;
And when great waves of trouble roll,
He drives them back again.

6. May He adorn with precious peace
Our own, our native, land
And crown with joys that never cease
The labors of our hand.

7. Long as we tarry here below
Our saving Health is He;
And when from earth to heaven we go,
May He our portion be!

Hymn #581
The Lutheran Hymnal
Text: Ecclus. 50: 22-24
Author: Paul Gerhardt
Translated by: Alfred Ramsey, 1926, alt.
Tune: "Nun danket all' und bringet Ehr'"
Composer: Johann Crueger, 1653
Tune: "Nun danket all'"

Definitely Colder But the Daffodils Are Up

 Grape hyacinths come in all kinds of small sizes, color variations. They hold their blooms a long time and seem to come up forever, no matter how they are ignored.

 If a mouse is courting a mousess, a grape hyacinth bunch would be like a dozen roses.

Daffodils came up today, shaking off the gloom of two mild sleet storms (enough to close the city each time). Earlier the nascent blooms were sleet coated. Color under the protective outer petals showed they were ready to open up. And they did. It looks like 50 or more of the earlier planted daffodils will bloom, then the very large planting of daffodils will follow at odd times.

Bulbs bloom earlier for two reasons. One is from being pushed higher from frost heaving them upward. Another cause, I imagine, is the greater abundance of energy from a year or years of gathering food for the bulb. 

I cut a large bunch for the altar on Sunday morning, and that went to graves of Ranger Bob's mother and step-father today.

We included a lot of grape hyacinths, planted a layer  above the various daffodils, last year. They have lasting and intense blooms on short stems. 

California Dreamin' (about lower taxes).

 Caladiums have many variations in their colors. They take forever to come up but keep their showy style for a long time.