Now honestly Sarah, is this really the best time for something like this? Give it a break and if there is any merit in the story, Jeff will be all over it in due time.
“It’s nearly a miracle he took the time to do it. One struggles to comprehend the pressing emergencies and urgent crises that must also have been competing for Lincoln’s attention amidst as difficult a presidency as any man has yet endured.”
This reminds me of your unwavering efforts to pen C&C every morning despite the pressing emergencies and urgent crises that must be competing for your attention, Jeff :-)
Please, everyone, use this Thanksgiving to create moments you will cherish for eternity. Don’t waste it arguing or saying things you will regret. Love is the most compelling argument you can make for your values and beliefs 💓
Griefshare class and the book Hearing Jesus Speak Into Your Sorrow along with journaling helped me so much during loss. May the Lord continue to heal your broken heart so that someday, someday, when you think of your loved one, you will only shed tears of joy for having known and made memories with him.
Thank you Margaret Ann Alice for articulating so well my gratitude as well for this amazing community. You are a huge part of what makes this family so special. My prayer for you is His continued strength as you heal from your loss.🙏🏼
What a beautifully moving note, Super Happy. Thank you so much for this as well as for your gracious subscriber message, which I happened to feature at the end of today’s post 💗
“Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. The Lord executes righteousness And justice for all who are oppressed.”
That’s a wonderful way to end the day. I end with this last verse from the hymn, Lord of All Hopefulness: ‘Lord of all gentleness, lord of all calm, whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm, be there at our sleeping and give us we pray, your peace in our hearts Lord at the end of the day.’
Thank you for the mentioning of the hymn, Lord of all Hopefulness. Wonderful lyrics. I was unfamiliar with it, although familiar with the tune, which is the same as a favorite of mine, Be Thou My Vision.
I’d also like to give a shout out to Shawn Hendrix, who’s doing remarkable work, especially getting shelter for those still living in tents in the mountains in the winter:
Thank you for sharing this - I'm in the midst of all this and had no idea about this fellow. We have so many helping in so many ways, yet it still seems like a drop in the bucket compared with what is needed to bring thousands of people to bare minimum living standards.
Thanks for posting this. I'm here in the Asheville area, and it truly is beyond comprehension. We've had so much amazing volunteer help to the area, yet it seems like it's a drop in the bucket compared with what needs to happen to help everyone. So very many people still in tents!!! Going down in the teens this weekend!!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the USA from someone in the UK who loves to read all your comments on this substack. Your votes for Mr Trump have made me feel hopeful - I pray that he has a good influence on those who are currently driving my country into the ground - or at least into the arms of the WEF.
We are all thankful for you and others across the world that care so much about our country and who see its importance to freedoms anywhere in the world. Your love and support for our country gives me hope personally, and I’m sending you digital hugs for being there for us. We will continue to pray for all of you as well, because you did not have the same election outcomes we did when it mattered most for you, and you are in the very place we fought to avoid. I can’t fathom how you must feel. America will always speak out for your freedoms. (Well those of us that voted for Trump anyway…)
Marion, I hate to see what is happening in the UK. But you guys are onto the chicanery and double dealing that is going on. Stay strong and stay together. 🇬🇧❤️
Thankful for the bonus post!! 😍 Happy Thanksgiving Jeff and family!! Happy Thanksgiving C&C fam!! Hope you all have a wonderful day celebrating God’s goodness and all of the things you’re thankful for!!
My husband and I started the day before we got out of bed, talking about all we are thankful for. Then we poured our coffee and up popped a newsletter from Jeff and all the wonderful comments from the C&C family. ❤️🦃🍁🙏🏻
Amen!! Happy Thanksgiving RunningLogic and the entire C&C family!! Very thankful for you all, Jeff, our Constitution and most of all our Lord! God Bless each and every one of you.
Let’s be thankful to the LORD for all his blessings and mercies.
As a pilgrim in this beautiful country I came to learn and love what is to become an American and share all kinds of cultures in it. But the most beautiful thing is when all this different cultures become one. American 🇺🇸
We did pray and beg to the All Mighty LORD to give us one more chance (2 Chronicles 7:14) and HE has answered.
We all cannot be enough THANK FULL TO HIM for this opportunity.
We all have an idea of where could we all be right now if HIS HAND has not changed that day the projectile that would ended everything for us and the World. Today let us rejoice and renew that bow.
Thank you LORD and all of you for four beautiful years and many more together here, changing this country and the world in Yashua name. Amen and Amen.
I'm just seeing it now, on Saturday, two days late! I didn't think there would be a post on Thursday ... So this is Lagniappe and likened to finding that last piece of pie in the fridge that you thought was eaten already ... 😁 May God bless you ALL today and beyond, through December on to Jan 20th! And asking for America to BLESS GOD! 😇🙏🏼🙌🏼🙏🏼😇
Jeff, as a long time reader of your first days on FB, I am truly grateful for you! I don’t know how many of us would have made it through these perilous times without your amazing humor and guidance. God bless you and your family and all the C&C family 🦃❤️
When we experience God’s grace, our perspective is changed, and we are able to recognize the good in the ordinary. We see the good side of the people we meet, and the light in the midst of darkness. We learn to appreciate any kind of person and any circumstance, often being impressed and touched by nearly everything around us. When that happens, we notice God’s love in every situation. We become grateful for everything we enjoy, seeing how undeserving we are.
From J. Kang "Spirituality of Gratitude: The Unexpected Blessings of Thankfulness"
Very true, and thank you for posting this. I love that is says "touched by *nearly* everyone" as opposed to just "everyone". There's moral clarity in that difference.
As one becomes more committed to Christ and studying His word, part of that awakening is an understanding that spiritual warfare is very real. Demons are real. A doctor that performs sex-changes on children for money is demonic. A parent or counselor that tries to push this on a child is demon-possessed at the very least.
As we give thanks for God's grace, we should also give thanks that He dropped the scales from our eyes allowing us to see the world clearly. Without this we would be unable to protect our loved ones from the demons that walk among us.
I actually know where Giddings is! I lived in Bastrop, TX many years ago, currently in Brownwood. Your town is in a lovely, pastoral part of the state~
The personal direct object of my Thanks is the Lord Jesus Christ. Among the many things I am thankful for is this post reminding me of my rich heritage as an American, the person who wrote this post - Jeff Childers - and all the other posts he’s written. When the Mt Rushmore of COVID COURAGE is proverbially carved, Jeff’s visage will be on it.
Awhile back I was providing physical rehabilitation for someone. While I don’t typically discuss politics with my patients, it has been a very interesting experience to observe the verbal “dance” that people do when they are trying to figure out your politics. This person didn’t do too much dancing before it became clear that I was working with a kindred spirit. We started exchanging our favorite Websites and substacks and this person sent me yours. I am forever grateful as your humor and wit, and your ability to cut through the cow manure and laser focus on the real issues is a joy. So thankful for you on this Thanksgiving of hope, 2024.
I'm excited for you DeAnna! If you get beeswax candles - even better, as they emit negative ions that help with cleaning our air. Let me know how you enjoy it!
Jeff, we are all grateful for all you do. Your updates are a blessing. May the Childers family have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Came here to say this 👆 many thanks Mr. Jeff !! 🙏🙏🙏
Amen!
AMEN!!
Hear, hear!
https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/us-dakota-war-1862
Now honestly Sarah, is this really the best time for something like this? Give it a break and if there is any merit in the story, Jeff will be all over it in due time.
It’s a bot. No point in responding, just report it as spam.
Ohhhh
It's a spammer. I think she should probably be removed. Just posts the same thing over and over.
I have a suggestion for something you can do right now….😡
And it might be painful
Good grief sarah-give it up, bot. it's Thanksgiving!
“It’s nearly a miracle he took the time to do it. One struggles to comprehend the pressing emergencies and urgent crises that must also have been competing for Lincoln’s attention amidst as difficult a presidency as any man has yet endured.”
This reminds me of your unwavering efforts to pen C&C every morning despite the pressing emergencies and urgent crises that must be competing for your attention, Jeff :-)
On this Thanksgiving, I am grateful to you and the uplifting community you have cultivated here. What I wrote about my readers in the poem I published today, “What I Like About You” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/what-i-like-about-you) applies equally to the C&C Army, and I am thankful to all of you for lifting me up during my journey through grief and loss over the past four months (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/the-art-of-losing) 🙏
Please, everyone, use this Thanksgiving to create moments you will cherish for eternity. Don’t waste it arguing or saying things you will regret. Love is the most compelling argument you can make for your values and beliefs 💓
Griefshare class and the book Hearing Jesus Speak Into Your Sorrow along with journaling helped me so much during loss. May the Lord continue to heal your broken heart so that someday, someday, when you think of your loved one, you will only shed tears of joy for having known and made memories with him.
Thank you, Novaxforme 😭💔🙏
Griefshare also helped me after I lost each of my parents.
Thank you Margaret Ann Alice for articulating so well my gratitude as well for this amazing community. You are a huge part of what makes this family so special. My prayer for you is His continued strength as you heal from your loss.🙏🏼
What a beautifully moving note, Super Happy. Thank you so much for this as well as for your gracious subscriber message, which I happened to feature at the end of today’s post 💗
💯‼️
Thank-you, Margaret Anna, for all of your contributions. I am currently reading your chapter in "Canary in a Covid World", vol 2. It's terrific.
I am delighted to hear that, Debra. You'll find the hyperlinked version in the notes for my Corona Investigative Committee presentation here:
• https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-mostly-peaceful-depopulation
Thank-you for providing this link, Margaret Anna. I plan to read that too.
Love your poem.
Thank you, Barbara 🙏🌷
Praise Him for His mercies all day, every day!
“Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. The Lord executes righteousness And justice for all who are oppressed.”
Psalms 103:1-6 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/psa.103.1-6.NKJV
I recite these verses nearly every night as I fall asleep. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
That’s a wonderful way to end the day. I end with this last verse from the hymn, Lord of All Hopefulness: ‘Lord of all gentleness, lord of all calm, whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm, be there at our sleeping and give us we pray, your peace in our hearts Lord at the end of the day.’
Thank you for the mentioning of the hymn, Lord of all Hopefulness. Wonderful lyrics. I was unfamiliar with it, although familiar with the tune, which is the same as a favorite of mine, Be Thou My Vision.
❤️❤️❤️
Now I will have to look up the tune so I can add that to my nightly "routine"!
There are four verses to cover four stages of the day; day break, noon, evening and end that are four awesome prayers.
This is so healing! Thank you, Willing Spirit! 🙌👑🙌🦋🙏
https://www.google.com/search?q=lord+of+all+hopefullness&oq=lord+of+all+hopefullness&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQABgKGIAEMgkIAhAAGAoYgAQyCQgDEC4YChiABDIJCAQQABgKGIAEMgkIBRAAGAoYgAQyCQgGEAAYChiABDIJCAcQABgKGIAEMgkICBAAGAoYgAQyCQgJEAAYChiABDIJCAoQABgKGIAEMgkICxAAGAoYgAQyCQgMEAAYChiABDIJCA0QABgKGIAEMgkIDhAAGAoYgATSAQg3OTE5ajBqNKgCDrACAQ&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:beb3a1d0,vid:b8mti7VL3gg,st:0&ebo=0
Thanks be to you....and God Almighty!! 🙏🏼🙌🏼😇
Beautiful words to end the day! Thanks for sharing!
Hallelujah!!!!!🙌🏼
🙏
Amen.
Thanksgiving comes with action...................................
Western NC Update: Amazon Pulled in with 8 Trucks Full of Heaters for Operation Mountain Relief
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED TO THE PEOPLES' CRY FOR HELP. YOU HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE!
https://forbiddennews.substack.com/p/western-nc-update-amazon-pulled-in
Thank you for this. My heart is with the cold homeless Americans in N C today. Bless them, Lord.
❤️
Thank you for this good news!
I’d also like to give a shout out to Shawn Hendrix, who’s doing remarkable work, especially getting shelter for those still living in tents in the mountains in the winter:
https://x.com/TheShawnHendrix/status/1862133592056312032
Thank you for sharing this - I'm in the midst of all this and had no idea about this fellow. We have so many helping in so many ways, yet it still seems like a drop in the bucket compared with what is needed to bring thousands of people to bare minimum living standards.
❤️
Amen. This brought tears of thankfulness to my eyes.
Thanks for posting this. I'm here in the Asheville area, and it truly is beyond comprehension. We've had so much amazing volunteer help to the area, yet it seems like it's a drop in the bucket compared with what needs to happen to help everyone. So very many people still in tents!!! Going down in the teens this weekend!!
Prayers for you dear fellow Americans!
God uses everything and everyone!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the USA from someone in the UK who loves to read all your comments on this substack. Your votes for Mr Trump have made me feel hopeful - I pray that he has a good influence on those who are currently driving my country into the ground - or at least into the arms of the WEF.
Same here from Canada!
Can’t wait till next thanksgiving in Canada when we can rejoice that the evil narcissist Turdeau will flushed from our government
I pray for you all in Canada for divine intervention. Have faith. It will happen.
me, too. they got to get some relief up there!
From your fingers to God’s eyes!
He has reached his 'sell by' date.
🙏
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Im in Mexico at a resort and we have met several Canadians from east to west coast and they all say Trudeau has got to go! Good news for Canada
Help is coming, but this is a good start
Celebrate today with your friends and family a Thanks giving prayer and meal.
And pray to HIM for this 2 Chronicles 7:14 and HE will answer you and heal your land too.
🙏 for you all in UK! The people are always the ones to suffer for leaders choices..may god be with you all
Looks like y’all might be having elections soon… will be praying that sanity returns to the entire western world.
We are all thankful for you and others across the world that care so much about our country and who see its importance to freedoms anywhere in the world. Your love and support for our country gives me hope personally, and I’m sending you digital hugs for being there for us. We will continue to pray for all of you as well, because you did not have the same election outcomes we did when it mattered most for you, and you are in the very place we fought to avoid. I can’t fathom how you must feel. America will always speak out for your freedoms. (Well those of us that voted for Trump anyway…)
Thank you for being our friends. ❤️
And from Australia!
🙏
Marion, I hate to see what is happening in the UK. But you guys are onto the chicanery and double dealing that is going on. Stay strong and stay together. 🇬🇧❤️
Thank you. If something can’t continue, it won’t continue - that’s my hope, especially regarding immigration.
Thankful for the bonus post!! 😍 Happy Thanksgiving Jeff and family!! Happy Thanksgiving C&C fam!! Hope you all have a wonderful day celebrating God’s goodness and all of the things you’re thankful for!!
My husband and I started the day before we got out of bed, talking about all we are thankful for. Then we poured our coffee and up popped a newsletter from Jeff and all the wonderful comments from the C&C family. ❤️🦃🍁🙏🏻
Awww!! Love that!
Amen!! Happy Thanksgiving RunningLogic and the entire C&C family!! Very thankful for you all, Jeff, our Constitution and most of all our Lord! God Bless each and every one of you.
Good morning my dear Caffeinated family.
Let’s be thankful to the LORD for all his blessings and mercies.
As a pilgrim in this beautiful country I came to learn and love what is to become an American and share all kinds of cultures in it. But the most beautiful thing is when all this different cultures become one. American 🇺🇸
We did pray and beg to the All Mighty LORD to give us one more chance (2 Chronicles 7:14) and HE has answered.
We all cannot be enough THANK FULL TO HIM for this opportunity.
We all have an idea of where could we all be right now if HIS HAND has not changed that day the projectile that would ended everything for us and the World. Today let us rejoice and renew that bow.
Thank you LORD and all of you for four beautiful years and many more together here, changing this country and the world in Yashua name. Amen and Amen.
Amen to that!! 🙏
I will second that Amen!!!
So glad to have you here Carlos!!
Amen!
Beautifully said.
I love these bonus posts!
Me too!!! 😍 Always such a wonderful surprise 😊
I'm just seeing it now, on Saturday, two days late! I didn't think there would be a post on Thursday ... So this is Lagniappe and likened to finding that last piece of pie in the fridge that you thought was eaten already ... 😁 May God bless you ALL today and beyond, through December on to Jan 20th! And asking for America to BLESS GOD! 😇🙏🏼🙌🏼🙏🏼😇
Happy Thanksgiving everyone ☺️☺️❤️❤️ BIG digital hugs
Right back at you!! ❤️
Group Hug! ❤️
Jeff, as a long time reader of your first days on FB, I am truly grateful for you! I don’t know how many of us would have made it through these perilous times without your amazing humor and guidance. God bless you and your family and all the C&C family 🦃❤️
This^^^^^
When we experience God’s grace, our perspective is changed, and we are able to recognize the good in the ordinary. We see the good side of the people we meet, and the light in the midst of darkness. We learn to appreciate any kind of person and any circumstance, often being impressed and touched by nearly everything around us. When that happens, we notice God’s love in every situation. We become grateful for everything we enjoy, seeing how undeserving we are.
From J. Kang "Spirituality of Gratitude: The Unexpected Blessings of Thankfulness"
Very true, and thank you for posting this. I love that is says "touched by *nearly* everyone" as opposed to just "everyone". There's moral clarity in that difference.
As one becomes more committed to Christ and studying His word, part of that awakening is an understanding that spiritual warfare is very real. Demons are real. A doctor that performs sex-changes on children for money is demonic. A parent or counselor that tries to push this on a child is demon-possessed at the very least.
As we give thanks for God's grace, we should also give thanks that He dropped the scales from our eyes allowing us to see the world clearly. Without this we would be unable to protect our loved ones from the demons that walk among us.
Poignant. When you see the miracle of life, how can you think it's just evolution? Clearly the hand of God has touched everything.
👍🙏
Happy Thanksgiving from Giddings, TX!
Save us, Lord our God,
and gather us from the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
and glory in your praise.
Psalm 106:47
Amen!!
Yay Texas!! Willis, TX here
I actually know where Giddings is! I lived in Bastrop, TX many years ago, currently in Brownwood. Your town is in a lovely, pastoral part of the state~
We're visiting family here, who, incidentally, moved here from Bastrop. We live in NC.
Wow, what a small world~
The personal direct object of my Thanks is the Lord Jesus Christ. Among the many things I am thankful for is this post reminding me of my rich heritage as an American, the person who wrote this post - Jeff Childers - and all the other posts he’s written. When the Mt Rushmore of COVID COURAGE is proverbially carved, Jeff’s visage will be on it.
I love that image and am thankful you came here to post the words.
Appreciate the effort to put this out on a holiday.
Here is another good one to read: https://open.substack.com/pub/attorneycox/p/a-thanksgiving-wish-2b4?r=2c9g6j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Awhile back I was providing physical rehabilitation for someone. While I don’t typically discuss politics with my patients, it has been a very interesting experience to observe the verbal “dance” that people do when they are trying to figure out your politics. This person didn’t do too much dancing before it became clear that I was working with a kindred spirit. We started exchanging our favorite Websites and substacks and this person sent me yours. I am forever grateful as your humor and wit, and your ability to cut through the cow manure and laser focus on the real issues is a joy. So thankful for you on this Thanksgiving of hope, 2024.
A Psalm of Thanksgiving.
Make a loud shout to Yahweh, all the earth.
Serve Yahweh with gladness;
Come before Him with joyful songs.
Know that Yahweh, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving
And His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him, bless His name.
For Yahweh is good;
His lovingkindness endures forever
And His faithfulness, generation unto generation.
— Psalm 100:1-5
May we always be thankful for our nation and may it again become a nation deserving of such gratefulness.
Make it so, Lord Jesus. We thank you for your mercy and for keeping your hand upon our country from its very foundation.
And to think, Lincoln read these same verses, and believed them.
Thank you, Janice, for serving up the Main Course so skillfully....🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😇😇😇🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Thank you for having the courage to publish a decidedly Christian message today!
Especially when it is so badly needed.
If you don't want to be bloated like a turkey today - remember to light a candle and put your phone away.
Blue light impairs digestion, and red light improves it!
Enjoy peace today, and give THANKS TO GOD.
Thank you Roman, both for the advice and for the final clause.
Three easy Mediterranean tips to beat the bloat:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC6kooSIBAs/?igsh=MTN1ZzFmNXRrYW02cg==
Oy! The first two tips are direct opposite what I've heard for many years. I love how "the rules" change from year to year!!
No fruit or water? I never heard that. 🤔
I definitely caught that reference to the difference between red and blue.
Like!
I had never thought of that:)
I have two on the table ready to be lit! Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍽 🙏🏻🍁
Nice! Can’t go wrong. My wife and I have candles at dinner every night in the winter…very calming I find. Happy Thanksgiving Karen!
We should really step up our game, we eat at the counter every night facing into the lit kitchen, the dining room would be so much nicer. ❤️
I love this tradition, me and my husband will start tonight ❤️
I'm excited for you DeAnna! If you get beeswax candles - even better, as they emit negative ions that help with cleaning our air. Let me know how you enjoy it!
Yes I have those❤️❤️❤️
Happy Thanksgiving Jeff, to you and your family. I am grateful to you for giving us so much hope in this chaotic world right now. Thank you.
We need to remember to take time and be Thankful. Like this attorney: https://open.substack.com/pub/attorneycox/p/a-thanksgiving-wish-2b4?r=2c9g6j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web