Pope Leo XIV on Monday thanked Costa Rican artist Paula Sáenz Soto for donating a pro-life Nativity scene to the Vatican, named “Gaudium” (“Joy”), which features a pregnant Virgin Mary.

“I thank the Costa Rican artist who, along with the message of peace of Christmas, also wanted to make an appeal for protecting life from conception,” the pope said during the audience he granted Dec. 15 to the delegations that prepared this year’s Christmas tree and Nativity scenes that will adorn the Vatican during the Christmas season.

The artwork from the Central American country has been on display since Dec. 15 in the Pope Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican, the large hall where the pope is now holding his Wednesday general audiences so pilgrims don’t have to endure the cold temperatures of the Roman winter in St. Peter’s Square.

In his address, the Holy Father alluded to its composition, mentioning the 28,000 colorful ribbons that symbolize lives saved thanks to the support provided by Catholic organizations to pregnant women in vulnerable situations.

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I've been Catholic for some years now, but when I first became Christian, I was Presbyterian. I enjoyed the particular church I attended, not because it was "Presbyterian" per se, but because of the quality of the people. In particular the pastor and his family were outstanding. I often mention the pastor in my posts on the forum in one way or another.

Unfortunately the Presbyterian Church of Queensland is under a lot of financial stress due to a court ruling as a result of what seemed to be unwise financial decisions by it's aged care business, Prescare. They're facing a $32 million dollar payout to clear the debt as a result, and some church property may have to be sold.


I don't wish them any ill will. There is one Presbyterian pastor I've got no time for, but other than that I hope they can pull through without losing too many parish churches.

That was a good service!

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God came into the cave, yet we have made gods of our own design, gods we bear about with us and seek hour by hour to propitiate. If such description seems to smack of melodrama, the question nonetheless bears investigation.

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Advent is a season of waiting. While our culture urges us to rush toward Christmas, Advent invites us to slow down, to watch, and to wait with faith. Scripture is full of people who waited on God, but one story in particular—found in Matthew 15:21–28—continues to fascinate and challenge us.

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Day 1 — December 16

Hail, and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem in piercing cold.

In that hour, vouchsafe I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayers and grant my petitions through the merits of Jesus Christ and of His most blessed Mother. Amen

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PRAYER

O Shepherd that rulest Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep, come to guide and comfort us.

Our Father....
Hail Mary....
Glory be....

I think of children who are born without a brain, or at least most of it. Most die from it, I know, but some survive. But when they didn't have, let's say, the visual center at the back of their heads, they still saw. I know that the muscle attachment to the eyes is independent of a brain, and is controlled by the cerebral cortex, so the soul is probably in the cerebral cortex anyway, but they should really be blind when they don't have the "visual" center at the back of their heads:






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We see the current deadly mass shooting on Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. What motivated such hatred, how could they kill so many innocent people? What we see, is basically a attack much like the Pogroms of old, to wipe out the Jews.

Antisemitism in the form of persecution and Pogroms were happening way before the Holocaust, and everyone knows what happened in 1492 in Spain, but something else happened that year. In 1492, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castille issue the Alhambra Decree, mandating that all Jews be expelled from the country. History records what happened, "Spanish Jews were forced to renounce their faith or leave their thousand-year homeland behind. Meanwhile, the Spanish economy crumbled as hundreds of thousands prepared for departure, liquidating their assets and scrambling to arrange their affairs."

This had started even earlier back a century before, in 1391, when a wave of anti-Jewish riots swept through Spain, where thousands were killed. Others were forced to accept Christianity, so you can see the problem with the sincerity of these "conversions", so many of these "converts" now became persecuted by the Inquisition. And everyone knows the Roman persecution of the Jews leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, and millions being killed or were exiled or fled for their lives.

So why was there such hatred of the Jews, it cant be explained by the accusation that the Jews were Christ-killers., as anti-Jewish riots swept through Roman Empire as Christians were dying in the Coliseum and spread even in non-Christian areas. So what made them different than the people in the other nations and areas, well the day of worship certainly made them stand out and distinct to say the least.

Mary had been visited by an angel of God and told that she was going to give birth to the Son of God and that she was to name him “Jesus.” But Mary was a virgin and had not been with a man, so she wondered how this would happen. And the angel told her that the Holy Spirit would come upon her, i.e. that the baby would be conceived of the Holy Spirit and not of man. Therefore, when Jesus was born and he lived on the earth, he did not have a sin nature as we did, and he was fully human and fully God (God incarnate).

Sometime after Mary’s encounter with the angel, she went to the home of Zacharias and Elizabeth, and when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby in her womb leaped for joy. And that baby ended up being John the Baptist who God used to prepare the way of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Elizabeth called Mary blessed because she believed that there would be a fulfillment of what the Lord had said to her through the angel. For Mary considered herself the bondslave of the Lord, and so she submitted to God’s will for her life.


Mary gave all the glory and praise and credit to God and to God alone for what the Lord was doing in her life. She recognized that, even though all generations from that time forward would most certainly count her blessed of God, it was because of the great things that God did for her. So she did not raise herself up above all others. She did not desire to be worshiped. She was humble of heart and mind that God would choose her to give birth to the Son of God. So her soul exalted the Lord, and not herself.

And all of us who have trusted in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives should have the same frame of mind and heart as Mary did in recognizing that God is our source for all the good that he does in and through our lives, and that we should give him all the glory and not take glory for ourselves. If he calls us by his grace to a particular area of ministry or service to him, we should be sure to give him all the glory and praise, and to give him all the credit for what he is doing in and through our lives.

But then Mary went on to talk about God’s mercy upon generation after generation toward those who fear him, as Mary feared God. And to fear God is to be in awe of him and to show him respect, honor, reverence, worship, devotion, and obedience to his commands. It is to take God’s words to heart, to believe them, and to honor them. And we do this when we submit to his Lordship over our lives, and we willingly deny self, die to sin daily, and walk in obedience to his commands, all in the power of God and by his grace.

But those who do not fear the Lord, because they are proud in the thoughts of their heart, he will scatter (dismiss, terminate). For Jesus Christ, in his death on that cross, put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will now die to sin and live to obey our Lord and his commands. So, all who refuse to bow the knee to him, to humble themselves, and to submit to his will, and who choose their own sinful path, instead, even if they profess faith in the name of Jesus, they will not inherit eternal life with God.

For we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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My Soul Exalts The Lord
An Original Work / December 16, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Here is my list of NT texts outside the protestant canon that are inspired. I believe the internal dates, and claims of authorship of all these texts.

The follow internally date to before 70 AD:

Gospel of Nicodemus
History of Joseph the Carpenter
Protoevangelium of James
Didascalia Apostolorum Teaching of the Apostles.
Acts of Barnabas (not epistle of Barnabas or Gospel of Barnabas)
3 Corinthians (letter only)
Didache
Apocalypse of Peter
Revelation of the Magi.
2 Clement

The following have no internal date but I believe they were written pre 70 AD, and are therefore inspired:
Pseudo gospel of Matthew (Jerome said written by Mathew the apostle).
Acts of Peter, and Paul (different than apocryphal acts of the apostles). I believe was written 65/66 AD.

Possible
Infancy gospel of Thomas. Some manuscripts say written by Thomas the Israelite which I assume to be Thomas the apostle.
Gospel of Barthelemew : uses gamatria references wisdom of Solomon which internally is written by Solomon, and also uses gematria. If one is real I assume the other one is too I am just skeptical of gematria. I like both.

All are on audiobook on YouTube.


Daniel 9 gave a series of events to happen, and ended with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and one thing that was going to happen by then was vision, and prophecy would be sealed up aka inspired scripture would stop then so that is why NT texts with internal dates before 70 AD are essentially claiming to be inspired, and some have prophecies of 70 AD associated phenomena in which case they are automatically claiming to be inspired. I'd recommend listening to all of the above on audiobook or they are all on websites as text or annas archive is the free e book website. These texts are incorrectly labelled as pseudepigrapha, and a lot are in the multi volume books called NT apocrypha which contains a lot of books I do not believe were written pre 70 AD.

For OT ones the most important ones are 1 Enoch, Assumption of Moses, Life of Adam, and Eve, and there are a lot more.

Authorities said one of the women suffered a knife injury, although women managed to barricade themselves in another room, the report states. The woman who was uninjured retrieved a firearm and opened fire on the intruder, fatally striking him. - Woman fatally shoots man she had protective order against after break-in: cops

Please pray for my aunt who was sick recently.

God bless

President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated that he is weighing whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a statement that mirrors similar comments he made earlier this year and during his 2024 presidential campaign.

The potential move to remove marijuana from the list of Schedule I controlled substances and make it a Schedule III drug would make it significantly easier to buy and sell cannabis and make the cannabis industry more profitable.

We all have a past, don’t we? For all of us were born into sin, with sin natures, in the image of Adam, the first man God created, and the first man to sin against God. All of us have sinned and have fallen short of the glory (favor and approval) of God. So, in our flesh, not one of us is approved by God, for not one of us can do anything in ourselves to earn or to deserve our own salvation. In fact, even the faith to believe in Jesus is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God, and it is empowered by God’s Spirit.

So Jesus Christ didn’t give his life up for us on that cross because of our greatness, or because we were so deserving of his love and grace, for we were not, not any of us! Even while we were yet sinners Christ died for the ungodly. But… when he died, he put our sins to death with him so that, by God-ordained faith in him, we will now die to sin and live for God in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living, guided by the Holy Spirit now living within us, and in surrender to God’s perfect will he has for our lives.

And this is not optional. It is not a mere suggestion. We cannot just profess faith in Jesus Christ with our lips and then continue to chart our own course, and to go our own way without regard for God’s will and purpose for our lives in sending Jesus Christ to that cross to die for the sins of the world. And this doesn’t mean that if we believe in Jesus that we will be perfect from then on. For we are still clay in the hands of the Potter (God), hopefully being made by God to be like Jesus, as we cooperate with God’s grace.

However, if our faith in Jesus Christ is from God, and not from human flesh, and so we have been crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, we should no longer be living as slaves to sin, but as servants of righteousness. And this is not to say that we might not ever backslide (see Galatians 6:1; James 5:19-20; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22). But if we have wandered from the faith, we must repent of (turn from) our sin and follow our Lord in obedience from then on.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

And God, who is rich in mercy, might take some of us who had failed him miserably, and he might turn us around, and he might point us in a new direction like he did with Paul (then Saul). For, God had planned for us, from even before we were born, that we would serve him with our lives in obedience to his commands and in taking the message of the gospel to the people of the world, and in ministering to the body of Christ the love of God, the grace of God, and God’s plan and purpose for all of our lives.

And even though we had a period of time in our lives where we failed God miserably, and we went the opposite direction of what he has planned for our lives, still he loved us enough, not only to restore us to a right relationship with him, but to use us to preach (to spread) the truth of the gospel to the people of the world so that many people will follow Jesus with their lives from this moment forward and never look back. And we do none of this for self-glory, but all for the glory and praise of God who rescued us.

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:11-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

Jesus, Rescue Me

Based off of Romans 7:7-25 thru Romans 8:1-39
An Original Work / September 18, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus, rescue me today.
Listen while I bow and pray.
I need Your help to obey You;
Live for You always.
Meet me in my hour of need, Lord,
As I pray to You.
Help me walk in fellowship, Lord,
Living in Your truth.
Jesus, how I long for You to
Change my heart anew.

Father, God, my heart’s desire
Is to live for You this hour
In Your Holy Spirit’s power
Living in me now.
Teach me to walk in Your love, Lord,
Guiding me each day.
Help me to show love and kindness
To the lost, I pray.
Father, teach me to love others
As You love always.

Holy Spirit come in pow’r.
Revive our hearts in this hour.
Change our hearts to be like You, Lord;
Live for You each day.
Help us to forsake our sins, Lord,
As we humbly pray.
Teach us how to live for You, Lord,
Obey You always.
Holy Spirit come in power,
Revive us today.

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All Because of God’s Amazing Grace
An Original Work / December 15, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

PARASHA: “VaYeshev” (and he settled) GENESIS 37:1-40:23


In this study, the focus is on Yosef, who is going to be in the limelight of God. Things seem to be going from bad to worse for this young teenager. It wasn't all his fault, we could say. His father, Jacob, held him high up on a pedestal, “Papa's favorite”. Whenever there is family favoritism among sons and daughters, there is bound to be trouble, especially from the other siblings who are the “less preferred.”

Papa Jacob makes him a "long-sleeved robe." This coat was a symbol of leadership; The Torah doesn’t specify that it was of “many colors,” only that this type of garment was one that had sleeves down to the wrists and that reached the ankles. This is like getting a kid a three-piece suit made of fine silk and then sending him out to the fields where his brothers are wearing overalls and straw hats.

This "coat" would be considered a "Royal Tunic" and must have had the colors of royalty, like blue, scarlet, red, etc... We could also say that this coat symbolized "Messiah the King" and Yosef, a "type of Messiah" who would, in God's perfect timing, save the local world of physical starvation. Now, the brothers are affected by this coat.

It will arouse jealousy. ( I mean, why doesn't Dad make coats for all of us?) These brothers are boiling mad, and to make matters worse, Yosef is given dreams by YHVH, and he doesn't keep them to himself; he shares them. He shares them not to be haughty, but just to let his family know what is happening, or rather, what is “going to happen” in the future. But I don't think that at that time, Yosef understood the meaning of the dreams. These dreams reflect Isaac's blessing on Joseph.

We understand that the dreams include sheaves of wheat that bow down before Yosef’s sheaves of wheat. How might one see this? Here’s an idea. Wheat is made into bread, and Yeshua is the “Bread of Life”. Yosef is a “type or symbol of Messiah.” He saves the known world from physical starvation, and Yeshua saved the whole world from spiritual starvation. Just like Yosef’s brothers bowed down to him in honor, the whole world will “bow down” to Yeshua, who is the “Bread of Life”.

To make a long story short, he gets out to the fields, the brothers strip him of his coat, rip it, dip it in goat's blood, plan to kill him, Judah talks them out of it, and instead, throw him in an empty well, wait until a group of Ishmaelite traders comes by, they sell him to the buyers for 20 pieces of silver, and that is how, they are rid of brother Yosef, “daddy's boy” the dreamer, yet unknowingly, they are playing right into the perfect plan of YHVH, they are “investing” in their own future welfare. One interesting fact about these events is what happened before Yosef found his brothers in Dothan. Genesis 37:15 reads the following:

“A certain man found him wandering in the field, and the man asked him, saying What are you looking for?”

Israel sends Yosef to look for his brothers in Shechem, but when he gets there, he doesn’t find them because they have gone on to Dothan. Josef is now lost, just “wandering,” so the man says that they said, “let’s go to Dothan.” So the man redirects Yosef to find his brothers and continue in Adonai’s perfect plan for his life. Who is this man? No one knows, perhaps he was just a man who happened to be there near Yosef’s brethren and overheard them talking.

God, who looks down from beyond the heavens, from a multi-dimensional universe, sees the end before it happens, and this man was essential to fulfill the words of the Torah and the promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Without this man, Yosef would not have found his brothers in time for them to "sell him into slavery." He never would have made it to Egypt to interpret Pharaoh’s dreams and save the world from starvation. The sons of Israel would not have moved to Egypt, and the prophecy of “Israel being in Egypt” might not have come true. Yet it all DID, because God had that certain man in place at the right time.

Little may we know it, but we probably have been in the “right places” at the “right times” to help people achieve their goals because we have a God in the universe that oversees all things and places people in those places to fulfill his will in them and in others.
But let's go back to the events. How do these events symbolize, compare with Messiah Yeshua? We do not see any blemish on Yosef, as if he is “perfect and righteous” as Yeshua was/is “Tzadik kadosh” (Righteous and Holy). Yosef is the “victim” of his own people (his brothers). Yeshua was given up to the Roman governor by a group of religious leaders.

Joseph was Israel's "beloved son." Yeshua is "The Father's beloved Son"; Joseph was a shepherd with his brothers; Yeshua is the "Good Shepherd." Joseph was hated by his brothers; Yeshua is still "hated" by much of the world. Joseph was sent by his father to see the flocks in the field; Yeshua was sent by the Father to care for his sheep and guide the "lost sheep" back to the fold. Joseph was in prison with two criminals, one was sentenced to death, the other was pardoned. Yeshua was crucified between two criminals, one was unrepentant, and the other was forgiven. Joseph was faced with temptation (Potiphar's wife) and resisted. Yeshua was tempted in the wilderness by HaSatan, and he resisted. Yosef went "down to Egypt" as a slave, saved from being killed. Yeshua went "down to Egypt" and was saved from being killed by Herod. We could probably think of more comparisons and contrasts in the lives of Messiah Yeshua and Yosef Ben Israel.

The brothers stripped Yosef of his coat (The King's tunic), the coat was dipped in goat's blood. Yeshua was stripped of his clothing and was beaten, his flesh “ripped” by a Roman whip, until the blood poured out. (torn and bloodied tunic of the King) The “goat's blood” reminds us of “Yom Kippur” where goats were sacrificed and one was “set free” the blood of the goat reminds us of our sins “covered by the blood” (back then) but now, our sins are “erased” by the blood of “God's chosen LAMB” the “Lamb of God” which taketh away the sins of the world.

Yosef was thrown into a pit, an empty cistern, void of water. Scripture doesn't say, but I imagine that his brothers tied him up with a rope and lowered him into the pit by the rope. A “water well” symbolizes “Life,” but when it is empty, it can symbolize “death”. Just try to climb out of a deep pit with dirt sides without anything, you can't, might as well be dead. Yosef being lowered into the pit can symbolize Yeshua's death, and his descent into “Sheol”; yet when the Midianites came by, the brothers pulled him “out” of the pit, which could symbolize Yeshua's “resurrection unto life”. Before the pit, Yosef was part of his immediate family. After the incident of the pit, he is on his way to a “new life”, with trials, tests, troubles, suffering, and finally, rewards! Doesn't that sound like our life today?

In Chapter 38, the scene switches to “Judah”. We see that Judah is not doing a very wise thing as he goes into a Canaanite woman. He leaves his brethren and has kids with a Canaanite! The first two are evil, and Adonai kills them. Shelah is his third son, and he hesitates to marry him to “Tamar,” yet she poses as a prostitute and deceives Judah into sleeping with her and getting her pregnant. But the question is, why was he looking for a prostitute?

Believers can wander away from God’s will for their lives in such ways, marrying unbelievers, committing adultery or fornication, the list can go on. Adonai still loves us and will continue to reach down to us and redirect us, even though it hurts at times, at times, the chastisements can come in the form of sadness and depression, a loss of love and excitement for the things of the LORD, because we know we are “doing wrong”.

The result of Tamar’s pregnancy was that twins were born, the first one pushed his hand through the womb and the midwife tied a “scarlet thread” on it to say, “this is the first-born” yet the baby pulled back inside and his brother came out, then HE came out in second place…yet…he was in “first place” (if you get my drift).

There is symbolism in these births. A way we can look at this is that the scarlet thread can symbolize Yeshua the Messiah, and his “first coming”, then his “second coming”. The twins were "Peretz" and "Zerach." Peretz means "breaker." Yeshua broke through the barrier of separation between God and man.. He "tore the curtain of the Temple down the middle, which was in the Temple.

"Zerach" can mean "dawning," and the second coming of Messiah Yeshua is the "dawning" of the new Millennial age. Also, perhaps a bit before the "dawning" of the First day of the week, Messiah Yeshua burst forth from the grave, conquering sin and death. From Tamar came Peretz, and from Peretz comes the line of King David, and from David, Mary and Joseph, and "Messiah Yeshua Ben Yosef."

Joseph saved the local world from physical famine and starvation. Yeshua has saved us from Spiritual darkness and starvation. Don't starve yourself of God's WORD. Get into it. As Joseph stored up grain to be made into bread, Yeshua came as the Bread of Life.

Much like the Minnesota Democrats, the Australian Labor Party is engaged in a cynical political ploy to pander to its Muslim bloc of voters, who outnumber Jews 7 to 1.
In September, Albanese flew off to the UN General Assembly and formally recognized Palestine as a state, joining the UK, Canada and France.
As President Trump said at the time, the stunt only emboldened Hamas at a crucial time and threatened to sabotage hostage releases.
Last year, during a Middle East diplomatic trip, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong visited Gaza but refused to visit the sites of the Oct. 7 massacres in Israel.
Australia Immigration Minister Tony Burke, who has been busy organizing visas for Gazans, was just busted having a secret meeting with officials to repatriate “ISIS brides” from Syria, asking them to make sure the media didn’t find out.

Countries around the world need to act.

I am looking for independent living senior apartments. They are kinf og scattered and expensive

How quickly they can find so many people without jobs.

She is having another episode. Please pray for her mental health as well as her physical and spiritual health. We are just at a loss at this point.

Thank you.

Rob Reiner had booked a massage on the day he and his wife died but did not answer the door, prompting the couple's daughter to go into their home where she discovered that they had been knifed to death, sources have told the Daily Mail.

The couple's son, Nick, reportedly had an explosive row with his parents at Conan O'Brien's holiday party hours before, and the 32-year-old has now been arrested and booked for felony murder.

A source has told the Daily Mail that a masseuse came to Reiner's $13.5million home at 2pm Sunday to help him and his wife de-stress. She rang the bell, knocked a number of times, and left when no one answered.

This prompted the couple's daughter Romy, who lives across the road, to go over to her parents' home, where she made the horrifying discovery that they had been slain.

Reiner, Michele and Nick attended Conan O'Brien's holiday party together on Saturday night, where they got into a 'very loud argument' which other guests could hear, TMZ reports.

Reiner and Michele left the party, which was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, shortly after, sources told the outlet. It is not known if Nick left with his parents.

Then on Sunday, the couple allegedly had their throats slit after a heated argument with a relative, understood to be Nick, turned deadly at their LA mansion. Romy, Reiner's youngest child, reportedly told police that a family member 'should be a suspect' because they are 'dangerous'.

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Political violence on the rise: Left wing attacks outnumber those from the right for first time in decades​

Members of ‘far-left’ group arrested after planning to carry out series of bombings across California, FBI claims​

Federal authorities say they thwarted a credible terrorist threat led by a “far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government and anti-capitalist” group that was planning a series of bombings in California on New Year’s Eve.

Four members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, who were connected to the alleged plot, were arrested over the weekend, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X.

“The subjects self-identified as members of a radical offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), an extremist group motivated by pro-Palestinian, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government ideology,” he wrote.

The group was allegedly planning to target five separate locations across the Los Angeles area with homemade explosive devices in what Attorney General Pam Bondi said would have been “a massive and horrific terror plot.” They were also planning to target Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and vehicles, Bondi said.

I am attending the same church I have attended for the past 28 years however things are starting to get more difficult for me.
Before, I had no problem sitting in the pews, now they have become a torture for my back.
Before, I hardly missed a word of my minister's sermon. Now, I am sometimes hard-pressed to follow what preachers say even with a microphone.
Before, I had no problem following the words of hymns on the screen. Now, my eyes start burning trying to read from that same screen.
Before, I enjoyed singing our hymns. Now, my voice breaks and my mouth goes dry and I can no longer carry a tune.

Is this the way it's going to be from now on?
Am I alone in this experience?