No Joys To Seek In The Nether World, so don't be greedy here/+ updates

 "Happy the man whose mouth brings him no grief, who is not stung by remorse for sin.  Happy the man whose conscience does not reproach him, who has not lost hope.

Wealth ill becomes the mean man; and to the miser, of what use is gold?

What he denies himself he collects for others, and in his possessions a stranger will revel.

To whom will he be generous who is stingy with himself and does not enjoy what is his own?

None is more stingy than he who is stingy with himself; he punishes his own miserliness. 

If ever he is generous, it is by mistake; and in the end he displays his greed.  In the miser's opinion his share is too small; he refuses his neighbor and brings ruin on himself.

The miser's eye is rapacious for bread, but on his own table he sets it stale.

My son, use freely whatever you have and enjoy it as best you can; remember that death does no tarry, nor have you been told the grave's appointed time.

Before you die, be good to your friend, and give him a share in what you possess.

Deprive not yourself of present good things, let no choice portion escape you.

Will you not leave your riches to others, and your earnings to be divided by lot?

Give, take and treat yourself well, for in the nether world there are no joys to seek.

All flesh grows old, like a garment; the age-old law is: All must die.

As with the leaves that grow on a vigorous tree: one falls off and another sprouts--So with the generations of flesh and blood:

one dies and another is born.

All man's works will perish in decay, and his handiwork will follow after him."

--Sirach 14:1-19 NAB

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I grabbed one of my many bibles the other day, and quick opened it "randomly" to this report above ^

Anyway... a lot going on on all sides.  I'm always pressing on, despite the slog and ruckus. . . . 

The world is and always has been pressing in in it's own way (especially now with our youngest son having hit the "big time" (music biz stuff, number one song in the "world", "Beautiful Things"....hit in the music biz world which I turned MY back on early on, and have warned of, soul-wise, for him since a child--but each to their own, and, so far, as far as I know, he has not "gone into the basement" (I've warned him: "just don't go into the basement where the dark things happen AND THEY GET IT ON tape" .... cuz then they/he got you hard.... the devil got you, suckered you .... 

Well...  AND meanwhile, ... apparently my danged ol' grandpa's artwork was just featured AGAIN on that tv show "American Pickers" last night... I guess his artwork and stuff is "collectible" so they say.... 

A bit surreal, lol... 

BUT, so, definitely got a heads up re swirling surreal interest about.... And, likewise do appreciate, adhere to that, we are to be in the world but not OF it.....

Meanwhile.... I've just been painting, praying, cooking, thinking, writing, doing workaday world as given and grateful for every living moment!.... taking care of family--the couple boys with some special needs still at home...lovely persevering wife of 40 yrs. plus 2 gettin' old dogs, The Bruce and Dude.

And, of course, I'm well aware of the agitprop and geo-political usual machinations going on....It's all basically Marxist/Globalist/satanic drivel as I long ago predicted it would be.... Yup. 

Nevertheless, as always . . . . . . . staying focused on, and praising above all, GOD ALMIGHTY, amidst the swirling battles, storms, depravations, insinuations and odd surreal worldly appurtenances/annoyances and blessings.... 

bro t

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