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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:

I greet you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is my sincere Prayer that you are being Blessed even as you read this email.

Today, we study the Book of Ezekiel chapter 37.

37:1-14 The resuscitation of the nation is compared here to dry bones coming to life. At this point the Israelites were like dry bones, nationally dead, and with no hope of restoration (verse 11). Yet God promises that just as the bones came to life in Ezekiel's vision, so God says: I will...bring you into the land of Israel...and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live (verses 12-14). Again, this is both a physical regathering to the land and a spiritual regathering to God Himself. The present-day existence of the state of Israel may be the initial fulfillment of the prophecy, but it can completely fulfilled only when Christ returns to establish His kingdom (Matthew 24:30, 31).

37: Ezekiel was commanded to write the names of Judah and Israel on separate sticks, and then join them together as one stick (verses 16, 17). This action represented the fact that the two nations would be rejoined as one nation at the same time as the national revival just prophesied in the preceding chapter. The kingdom had split in 931 B.C. after the death of Solomon, with 10 tribes in the north being known as Israel (or Ephraim) and two tribes in the south, Benjamin and Judah, being known as Judah. These two kingdoms were never officially reunited in history. Therefore, this prophecy awaits its ultimate fulfillment during the millennial reign of Christ. The closing verses of this chapter indicate the close association of God's three great unconditional covenants with His people: the Abrahamic, the Davidic, and new covenants. See the note on Jeremiah 31:31-34.

Yours in Jesus Christ,

Bishop William B. Caractor

　
　

ミネウスユキソウ　Leontopodium japonicum var. shiroumense
エーデルワイスの仲間である。
もっとエーデルワイスな感じのものも日本にはあるが・・・この辺にはないと思う。
　
でも知られていない貴重な植物結構あるらしい・・・プロに聞いたのだから間違いない。
　
　

うーん、御嶽・乗鞍行ってついでに高山で散歩でもしてきたいけど
ナカナカ厳しいねー。　

くっきりはっきり青い空が恋しい。　

a sushi robot!

Yes, that's right, a sushi robot by the good people at Suzumo.  Our sushi bar has such high volume that we had to get one of these babies to make spread rice onto nori sheets.  We got another one that makes perfect sushi rice (and it tumbles so there are no burnt spots like you get in a stationary warmer), and one that makes nigiri.  The nigiri one isn't all that useful; you still ave to have a human to slice the fish properly, then load it and the rice into the machine.  In that amount of time, you could just do it yourself.  I think you can load ingredients in sequence (e.g., 2 tamago, 1 hamachi, 3 tako) and have the robot churn them out while you fill other orders, but no one's using it that way yet...

In conclusion, the myth about sushi being an aphrodisiac is apprently true.  The end.

Sometimes my husband and I like to get really buzzed and then go buy stuff. Mostly "stuff" is candy and over priced coffee, but this past Sunday we got a little more polluted than normal -- so of course -- he got some interesting things at Target we did not need: Wolverine toothbrush, Grave Digger toy car, and not pictured, a copy of GnR "Appetite for Destruction". Target is dangerous when you're buzzed because everything sounds like a good/fun idea to buy.

Wolfdigger

We also got some fun generic brands you can always turn to in a recession...

Genericbrands

Delicare: it don't clean nothin' but it smells good. King of Shaves: makes my legs bleed but it smells good. BreathRx: I guess it sorta works. CVS Nail Polish Remover: works eventually, but smells like hell for hours afterward. But dammit, I bought 'em so I'll use 'em!