Salaam Alaikum, Pakistan

As we in the United States are currently experiencing terrible flooding in our South – South / East and extreme deadly heat in our South – South / West, let us take a moment to think about our fellow humanity suffering equally devastating weather related catastrophes in other parts of the world.
Tonight, as I am thinking of / praying for my fellow Americans in Mississippi, I am doing the same for Pakistan where there are estimates of over 1,100 people having lost their lives and over 20 million are homeless due to rain and flooding.
May God / Allah assist you in your time of need…
Salaam Alaikum for and from the people of America.
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“Real” Americans Believe In The Separation Of Church And State

Silence is the only language God speaks.  Everything else is a bad translation.
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[My message to the members of the “Christian / American Taliban”…    —    kmab]
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
–    Thomas Paine
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As we advance in love, we grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of the soul.
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From:  “The Brothers Karamazov“
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Do Good Works

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
—    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You will know them by what they do.  Thorn bushes do not bear grapes, and briers do not bear figs.
—    Matthew 7:16
From:  “The Bible” (Good News Translation)
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—    E. B. White
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––     Frank Sinatra
[Can one draw comfort from believing in “God” without looking directly for it (God’s comfort)?  I seem to be able to.  Inshallah…    —    KMAB]
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Prayers For Ukraine

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
—    Samuel Johnson
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True Measures

The true measures of a church are not “how many” but “how loving,” not “how relevant” but “how real”.
—     Robert Lewis
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Are You Confused?

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people confuse God with what is not God.
—     Leo Tolstoy
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Christmas Wishes For 2021

First off:  Merry Christmas to all… !!
Second:  Hug everyone at your table and say a prayer of blessings for absent friends and family.
Third:  Please remember in your thoughts all of the first responders and essential workers who are risking their health and the safety of their families to be on the job where we need them.  Police, firefighters, EMTs, health workers, PPE and vaccine manufacturers, supermarket / food-store / essential services staff, transportation (truck drivers and delivery) staff,  our military defending us around the world and our civilian government employees working to keep our water, food and air clean.
Finally:  Please, please, please…
Wash your hands frequently
Wear a mask when out of your home
Practice social distancing (particularly indoors), and,
Get your vaccine / booster shot(s) as soon as you are eligible.
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One must travel, to learn.  Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
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—     Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s
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Hold That Thought

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